"The sun is shining, reflecting the small waves of the bay, and the scenery is beautiful and just drunk. It's just that the black smoke rising from the distance on the land and the sound of shell explosions from time to time make the scenery of this bay look a little more cruel, and with the Chinese infantry and artillery on the shore who are loaded with guns and waiting to board the ship, this beautiful scenery has a bit of murderous atmosphere.

Standing on the open-air bridge next to the bridge of the freighter, Rao Guoliang held the binoculars and carefully looked in the direction of the black smoke rising from the inland direction, although he could not see anything, but he could imagine the intensity of the battle there, to be honest, he admired the army's will to fight, although compared with the army, he still insisted that the navy's submariners were the best and bravest of all the services and arms.

As a submarine commander. Rao Guoliang is well aware of the submarine's "nickname." The nickname "underwater coffin" derives its name from the exaggerated failure rate of early submarines. And submarines are not as good as surface ships, once there is a breakdown, the submarine is often a fate, that is, sinking, and the crew of the submarine has little chance of escaping.

In the past few years of his career as a submarine commander, Rao Guoliang has also encountered several submarine accidents, and it is only because he was brought under control in time that he was able to save the day many times and was able to participate in this great war.

It must be admitted that the psychological quality of submariners is much higher than that of other branches of the armed forces, otherwise, in that completely enclosed underwater environment, once the mind is broken, let alone combat, I am afraid that they will not even be able to drive submarines.

As a member of the submariners, Rao Guoliang's psychological quality is obviously very strong, and this can be seen from one detail: Two days ago, he had just completed the preliminary "court-martial" procedure at the military court and replaced other officers. Maybe it's wilted a long time ago, let alone going to the front line again, I'm afraid I won't even be able to eat well, but Rao Guoliang is now coming to the front line in high spirits, and is responsible for commanding a 500-ton ship to transport arms and materials for the front line, who can say that his psychological quality is not strong?

In fact, the truth is that Rao Guoliang came out of the military court, and happened to meet Cai Su, who was in the office of the War Department, Cai Feng asked about the situation, and without saying a word, he asked him to go back to the front line to "make meritorious contributions", at that time, the captain of a transport ship was found by the military police to steal arms and materials, so he was arrested, and the transport ship lacked a qualified captain, so Rao Guoliang was ordered by Cai Feng to transfer to the transport fleet.

However, then again, Rao Guoliang did not think that he was "making meritorious service by committing crimes" by commanding the transport ship this time, and if he wanted to make meritorious service, the sinking of the Japanese Navy's armored cruiser "Asami" by the submarine he commanded at the beginning of the day was already considered a meritorious service, although his submarine was also lost in Port Arthur because of greed for merit. But if you convert it, the deal of exchanging a submarine for an armored cruiser is basically a good deal, but in the eyes of the "black faces" in the military court, Rao Guoliang is still guilty, and he must explain why his submarine was lost.

As long as the submarine was not fished up, the military court would not be able to judge whether Rao Guoliang had made a mistake in the command process, and even if the submarine was picked up after the war, it would be difficult to figure out how it was lost, because the submarine had already been torpedoed by Zheng Leizi.

It's just this time. Zheng Leizi was reluctant to testify in court under the pretext of the tense war on the front line, so. Rao Guoliang's "dereliction of duty." The charges have to be hung up now, and everything will be said after the war.

However, Rao Guoliang was not too worried that the military tribunal would punish him severely, after all, the credit for sinking the Japanese armored cruiser was there, and the reconnaissance of the Air Force and the testimony of the crew also confirmed this, and his command really had nothing to blame, as for the so-called "greed for merit." "This is a joke, if you want to talk about greed, that Zheng Leizi is just as greedy for merit, so he also ran into Port Arthur to ambush, but Zheng Leizi's luck is better than Rao Guoliang's, so it is unlikely that the military court will convict Rao Guoliang, and now his only concern is whether the Admiralty will be prejudiced against him because of this matter and transfer him out of the submarine unit.

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Rao Guoliang did not want to leave the submarine unit. He prefers to command ocean-going submarines to sail the Pacific Ocean like Zhang Guangyang, and if his ideal is shattered because of submarine losses, he will probably reason with the Admiralty.

"Guangyang, Guangyang, what sea area are you in now? Now the newspapers are full of your achievements, you are the spiritual idol of the Chinese submarine force, but your classmates can only drive cargo ships here, alas, this is the difference

Holding a telescope and standing on the open-air bridge looking at the land battlefield, what Rao Guoliang was thinking about was still the dream of his ocean-going submarine commander.

"Captain, everyone is on board, can you pressurize the boiler?"

A crew member hurried to the foredeck and raised his head to ask Rao Guoliang.

Rao Guoliang has not fully adapted to the title of "captain" yet, so he didn't react until the crew member repeated the question, which was calling him.

"Pressurize and head to the berthing area

Rao Guoliang nodded, then glanced at the deck, and saw that it was already full of army soldiers, some of whom were wearing boat caps and attracted Rao Guoliang's attention, judging from the epaulettes, they should be officers and soldiers of the special operations force,... The mouth is strange. I don't know why the Special Operations Forces Office participated in the many landings

Coincidentally, Zhu Daniu, the commander of the special operations force, was also on Rao Guoliang's ship, and Rao Guoliang rushed to the deck to ask, and only then did he figure out what the branch thought would be here.

Originally, the special operations unit was stationed in Liaoyang, and it was only after the end of the Gaiping Campaign that it was ordered to transfer to the south, and it was originally planned to take part in the battle in the central Liaoning region, but the former enemy command only used this unit as a reserve force and never transferred it to the front line, and the officers and men of the special operations unit never fought a single battle from the beginning of the war to the end of the campaign; from top to bottom, everyone was holding their breath, and Zhu Daniu could not help but send a telegram to the commander-in-chief, repeatedly asking for battle; in the end, it was the landing operation behind the enemy line planned by Ji Yushuang that the special operations unit went to the battlefield.

Compared with other army units, the officers and men of the special operations unit are obviously better able to adapt to the turbulence of the sea; when this 500-ton freighter, which was requisitioned from a civilian shipping company, sailed to the berthing area, only the officers and men of the special operations unit were able to stand firm on the deck, and the officers and men of the other units could only sit on the deck and endure the pain of seasickness.

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Seasickness is not the most painful, waiting is the most painful, because there is no suitable port in the Jinzhou Bay area, all the troops involved in the landing operation can only use single-plank boats to board the transport ship, which affects the degree of boarding, so when Rao Guoliang's ship has been filled with personnel and equipment, other transport ships are still loading personnel and materials slowly on the shore.

Taking advantage of the waiting time, Rao Guoliang carefully inspected the ship's machinery and steering gear, this ship is a very old ship, it is an old ship purchased by a Chinese businessman from the British foreign company when the central government encouraged private shipping companies to exhibit, it has been adrift at sea for more than ten years, the maintenance condition is very poor, coupled with the high utilization rate, now the freighter is already in tatters, and the machines on the ship often fail, which is very inconvenient in the transportation of military supplies. Not to mention the current military offensive mission.

By the time Rao returned to the deck from the bilge, the last transport ship on the shore had already left the shore and was heading towards the berthing area, but the torpedo boat unit and gunboat unit in charge of escort duty still had no signal to set sail, and it seemed that they planned to wait until it was dark before touching it at night.

Rao Guoliang's fleet received an order at noon to go south from Yingkou to Jinzhou Bay, and when the convoy began to load personnel and equipment in the afternoon, the air force conducted several aerial reconnaissance of the Japanese troops in the area south of Fort Kiba and selected the best landing site.

Once the landing operation is carried out, the Chinese Army's task force will be alone behind the Japanese front line and in front of the Japanese rear bases, and the Navy's task force will also be responsible for providing logistical support to the army task force, and it is certain that this battle will not be easy. The Japanese army will definitely launch a frantic counterattack, including Rao Guoliang and Zhu Daniu, all officers are ready for a fierce battle.

As night fell, a few long whistles sounded, and the gunboats leading the way lit up their sailing lights and sailed along with the other warships, including even a submarine in surface navigation, while the convoy followed the warships and sailed south in the dark, all of which turned on their searchlights and searched the surface for any suspicious targets.

After all, this is the Bohai Sea, and the possibility of Japanese troops running into the Bohai Sea is very low, and the reefs near the shore pose a greater threat to the task force, and in order to avoid running on the reefs, the fleet can only sail on routes far from the coast.

Along the way, they did not encounter any enemy ships, but they did see two British gunboats passing by, but they also slipped away as if they had seen ghosts, and did not follow the Chinese fleet.

In fact, it was not necessary to sail too far, Fort Kiba was more than ten miles south of the Golden State Bay, and by half past eight in the evening, all the ships of the task force had anchored in the sea area of the selected landing site, but the boilers were still pressurized so that they could be close to the shore at any time to launch cobalt.

The gunboats and torpedo boats in charge of escorting the convoy first approached the shore to carry out reconnaissance in close proximity, and after confirming that there was no enemy on the assembly side, they directed the docking according to the tonnage of the transport ship and approached the shore as close as possible to shorten the landing time.

Rao Guoliang's ship was not of much tonnage, so he anchored in the mudflats not far from the coast, and then lowered the knowledge board and the dinghy, loaded the infantry and landed.

Rao Guoliang personally escorted Zhu Funiu to land, and when he stepped on the muddy land, Zhu Daniu patted Rao Guoliang on the shoulder.

"Brother, go back to the ship and take a concubine, you don't need to fight on land."

"To be honest, I really want to go to Lushun with you."

Rao Guoliang smiled and said to Zhu Daniu, "Take care." Then he got on the plane and returned to the steamer.

Despite the best efforts of all the men, the landing lasted more than an hour, and by the time the last steamer had lifted up the cobalt and left the shore, the sound of artillery could be heard in the inland area.

Now that the battle has begun, this amazing force will use their loyalty and courage to add a little more heroism to the battle.