Chapter 535: The Yellow Sea Fleet That Dropped the Chain

There is a port on Temple Street, but it is not a seaport, but a river port on the Heilongjiang River. Not to mention the cold winter, it is a good ice rink even in spring, and only in summer and autumn can it accommodate boats. So Guo Xinga wondered where these convoys of unknown origin got their supplies.

"Report!" Goxinga and Acton were still wondering each other, and Asano Munehide had completed the screening of the captives and came to report the results of his interrogation.

"Asano-kun is here, how is it? Where did those people come from? "Goko'a has been good to Asano recently, after all, people are really selling their lives.

"Report to the Great General that the interrogation of the captives has been completed. They were all Japanese, fishermen from Matsumaeban, who were hired by some white people at high prices to deliver supplies to the Russian army in Temple Street. According to their confessions, this is not the first time they have done this, they have sent it several times before, and this is the first time they have been discovered. Asano understood his compatriots very well, the Japanese were too poor, and these samurai could come to Manchuria as mercenaries, and the fishermen would naturally be able to earn some extra money.

"Acton, we have a leak in the containment of the river!" Guoxing'a doesn't do anything about encircling three ques now, and is besieged on all sides, but it seems that the siege is not careful.

"The river in the direction of the port has been frozen, and it has not been taken seriously, it seems that it is really careless, I will immediately arrange for someone to strengthen the defense of that area." Acton didn't expect it, but fortunately, the consequences were not very serious.

"Asano-kun, where did these fishermen get their supplies, and how did they get them?" Although there was a leak in his own defense line, Guo Xinga still wondered how these Japanese got things over, after all, according to the local natural environment, there was almost no way to transport supplies.

"According to them, the white men who hired them would drive their transports to the near the ice along the coast and unload them on the ice. They then used plows converted from small boats to manually haul the supplies from the ice. Asano inquired and understood.

"It's 80 kilometers from the mouth of the sea, and with the ice near the sea, it's hundreds of kilometers! That's how they dragged things all the way by manpower? "Guo Xinga couldn't believe it when he imagined the difficult scene of a group of people dragging several tons of supplies on the cold ice.

"Matsumae is very hard, and the local fishermen are very poor, so naturally they are more able to endure hardship." Asano feels that not having enough to eat is a kind of motivation that can make people burst out with many potentials that are usually unimaginable.

"The ice is unevenly thick, and the ice near Haikou is even more eroded by the sea, which may disintegrate and shatter at any time, so they dare to do it?" Even though all of these poor Japanese had the physical strength of livestock, Goxinga still did not believe that they could not be afraid, and there was no ice as thick as the inland river along the coast, and there was a possibility of falling into the water at any time.

"The white people gave a high price, and for the sake of a small family, these people will fight!" Asano is also playing with his life for food, and the fishermen actually do things that have a higher safety factor than Asano.

"Those whites are Russians?" The Japanese are hard-working, and Guo Xinga no longer cares, he wants to know the help of these materials.

"The fishermen only know that they are white, and they don't know their nationality!" Asano also asked, but these stupid fishermen really don't know anything.

"The materials are mainly rice, medicine and cloth originating in Japan, but there is also a certain amount of ammunition, and the ammunition should be made in Britain." Acton was able to analyze who the opponent was from the goods.

"Ask Bian Changdi, what happened, didn't they block the sea frontier a long time ago? How could there be a transport ship sneaking in? "Guo Xinga has at least figured out one thing, these things are coming from the sea, and naturally there is something wrong with the navy.

"General, after the Russian fleet on Sakhalin Island was frozen in the harbor, the North Sea Fleet detachment also returned to Vladivostok to rest. Because Vladivostok is also frozen in ice, the day before yesterday you agreed to General Bian Changdi's request to allow the North Sea Detachment to temporarily go to Port Arthur to rest and recuperate. Guo Xing'a forgot what he had just done, and Xing Cong, as a staff officer, could only come out to remind him.

"Ahh So who is now in charge of carrying out the task of interdiction at sea? "Guo Xinga really forgot to be clean.

"It was Ding Shengping's Yellow Sea Fleet, and they brought icebreakers this time, and even brought the 3rd Brigade of the Marine Corps to prepare for a landing operation on Sakhalin." Xing Cong knew that Guo Xing'a, who was in charge of everything, had forgotten even the plan he had made a month earlier to seize Sakhalin.

"We can't ignore the landing operation! Send a telegram to Ding Shengping, ask him to clean up the nearby seas, and drive out all these Brits who are secretly transporting supplies! "Guo Xing'a didn't take this matter too seriously, after all, it was just a small hole in the defense line, but two days later, it was a big deal.

After Xing Cong sent a telegram to Ding Shengping's Yellow Sea Fleet, he did not receive a reply from Ding Shengping for a long time. At first, everyone only thought that the signal on Ding Shengping's side was not good, and it would be good to call a few more times, but after calling for three days, Ding Shengping's side still didn't have any response. At this time, even Guoxing Ah was in a hurry, and the Yellow Sea Fleet lost contact. Goxinga urgently ordered the North Sea Detachment to send troops to search for traces of the Yellow Sea Fleet, but still found nothing, and the Yellow Sea Fleet was not only lost, but also missing.

The main ships of the Yellow Sea Fleet consisted of eight cruisers and 16 destroyers, all of which were the latest warships of North Manchuria, and there were more than 30 ships in addition to the supply ships and troop transports accompanying the voyage. It is unbelievable that such a large fleet should disappear without making a sound. If all the ships were sunk in the event of a storm capsizing, at least some wreckage and corpses should be found, and the fleet still carries more than 7,000 marines, so they can't all be eaten by fish. But the North Sea Fleet found even British merchant ships, and did not find a trace of the Yellow Sea Fleet. The Yellow Sea Fleet seemed to have crossed, and there was no shadow at all.

Guo Xing'a, the front-line commander of Temple Street, was anxious and his mouth was full of bubbles, and Ding Shengping, the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet, had the heart to commit suicide. It is true that the Yellow Sea Fleet encountered strong winds and waves in the North Sea, but not a single ship sank, and the entire fleet was in good condition. However, he ran into more trouble, as the antennas on all eight cruisers with radios were destroyed, the compasses and orientation instruments on each ship were broken, and the Yellow Sea Fleet, which had been derailed from its course by the wind and waves, was lost.

Even if he was attacked by the special operations brigade, it would not have been so completely destroyed by the orientation and communication equipment of the Yellow Sea Fleet, but a storm did it so magically, and Ding Shengping really poured blood mold for eight lifetimes. This made Ding Shengping, who had always wanted to make meritorious contributions to his crimes after the first battle off the coast of Dalian, especially wanted to commit suicide. Now let alone landing on Sakhalin, they will not even be able to find their home port. There was no reference on the endless sea, and the fog in the sky also blocked the fleet's vision, and they couldn't even look at the positioning of the stars, so Ding Shengping could only find the direction and keep driving, hoping to try his luck. Ding Shengping thought they were sailing to the southwest, but in fact they were sailing northeast.