After Miao Feng gave the order, Lu Han walked to the middle, and when he saw these familiar soldiers, his calm and calm eyes also became a little warm, and he shouted out the cry in his heart word by word, "Brothers, tonight's war is destined to create an era...... We Chinese 5,000 years of pride, not by begging and protesting, but by iron and blood to witness the departure......"

"Receive equipment according to the group and prepare to go" Miao Feng waved his hand and ordered loudly.

Back on the 501 ship, Lu Han was still quietly looking at the merchant ship Tianfang that was about to blur in the distance, Chen Ying also came up, and asked thoughtfully: "Cousin Geng, it should be very smooth."

"It's all athletes in our army......" Lu Han stared into the distance and muttered to himself.

In the era when the spotlight was not popular, night sailing was limited to the vast sea, and now it was 10 o'clock in the evening, and naturally there would be no ships outside the port of Hue, because of the pain of the last Qin Kai rainy night raid, coupled with the recent escalation of the war between the two countries, after nightfall, the French anchored a merchant ship in the middle of the channel, lighting a few dim oil lamps.

In the darkness in the distance, the "Tianfang" slowly revealed its figure, Miao Feng observed that the port in the distance was at least 3 kilometers away from the current location, the terrain of the port had already been cooked in his mind, after entering the main channel, he still needed to swim nearly two kilometers to arrive, of course, more importantly, it was necessary to quietly enter the village

At the sound of the order, each squad quickly slid into the water, the first, third, and seventh teams all pushed an oblong device, half a person in length, the tail of the piston drive powered by compressed air, the technicians of the Mawei Artillery Bureau cleverly made a switch device, which can be activated when needed, and can turn off the tail power when not needed, which can provide two knots of speed for continuous navigation.

This is the SL-1 heavy underwater bomb improved by the Mawei Artillery Bureau according to the principle of the white-headed torpedo, which is loaded with 80 kg of TNT explosives and can blast through more than 250mm of forged steel armor at close range.

The other teams were pushing a compressed-air-powered, streamlined box containing six small underwater bombs of the SL-III type, with an effective combat area filled with 15 kilograms of TNT explosives.

The bomb was fine-tuned by a clever piston device to match the surrounding water, so that the bomb could be easily carried underwater by frogman soldiers for a long stealth journey, and in just 10 minutes, the teams were hidden in the dark water.

The "Celestial Scale" immediately turned its bow and disappeared into the darkness, in addition to transporting the frogman combat team, he also had the task of taking on the elite of these sailors, and he had to be careful throughout the process to avoid any possibility of being discovered by the enemy.

The frogman group of the 8th team takes the first group as the peak, and the other 7 groups swim forward quickly after the embellished mode, and the oxygen cylinder capacity of the current equipped frogman squad is enough for two hours of underwater operations, but, in fact, as a qualified frogman commander, in dozens of actual combat training, they have long summed up a set of combat essentials, and they use air tubes to breathe during the early approach, and only when they really enter the combat range, they use the equipped oxygen cylinders.

At present, the biggest advantage of the frogman combat team is that the enemy does not have the relevant consciousness at all, and it is almost impossible to illuminate a large area at night, so the victory of this battle is inevitable, but it is only about 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, but even the largest port of Saigon in Vietnam, Cochin, has long been silent in the dark night.

Liu Shao, the leader of the first group, sneaked alone at the forefront at this time, and the two-kilometer journey, with the speed of these well-trained frogman soldiers, was only a matter of more than 20 minutes, and soon, he approached the merchant ship moored in the channel, floating in the water, and he took out his telescope to carefully observe the French ship 200 meters away.

Today's moonlight is still bright, but in the middle of the night, the visible distance will not exceed 100 meters, so Liu Shao is very calm to observe in this position, with absolute safety, sure enough, as expected in advance, this French merchant ship is stored as a night sentry, and there are two small boats in the stern for small-scale patrols, and two small-caliber Haqikes machine guns are installed in the bow and stern.

After observing for 10 minutes, Liu Shao had identified two obvious observation posts and two hidden posts, and it was clear that the French had strengthened their vigilance a lot after the last attack, and the ship was stuck in the fairway, and any movement on the water would attract their attention. ,

Soon, with a gesture, Liu Shao, who was in the forward, made the decision to dive, and after a few blisters appeared on the water, the entire team disappeared into the channel, and when it reappeared, the water splashed and had reached the inner side of the channel.

In the merchant ships anchored in the shipping lane, French Lieutenant Clen was gossiping with a few of his men, coming from far away Europe to Saigon, known as the Paris of the Far East, but the reality may not be as expected, the first thing they feel is the least accustomed to this tropical climate, not to mention that it is the height of summer......

Sipping tea, a few GIs chatted about the short Vietnamese women that were everywhere in Saigon and the anecdotes of the expeditionary force, such as the recent looting of a large amount of silver and antiques by the 7th Brigade from Tuyen Quang, and the Qing soldiers who dared to resist the French army on the day of the 3rd Brigade massacre in Shanxi, who were obviously very disappointed that they could not participate in the fighting on the front line, because only by participating in the war could they have greater benefits

To put it bluntly, the French Expeditionary Force is a group of European mercenaries, and they did not go to the front line to fight, which means that they have lost the opportunity to obtain value-added benefits, and the French domestic economy is becoming increasingly poor, although the twelfth global economic crisis has just emerged, but the fragile French economy has already suffered from it, and the two consecutive cabinets have resigned because of the economic recession.

There is no doubt that the outbreak of a war, especially against a weak country in the East and its backward overlord, can not only obtain a lot of war dividends, but also greatly promote the development of the domestic arms industry and heavy industry.

Moreover, the plundered funds and materials can also fill the pockets and markets of the French people more quickly, obtain higher profits for the French consortium and the big capitalists, and always offset the growing gap between France and its neighbor Germany.

A few French people cursed someone who would not let them go to the battlefield, and at this time there was a knock on the door outside, and after a while, a Vietnamese native soldier walked in with a nervous expression, reporting something in half-baked French, and Lieutenant Karen, who had just arrived for less than a month, naturally did not understand the broken French of this native soldier of the East, and waved his hand to let the native soldier out, not bothering to listen to what he said

A soldier next to him heard something and said, "Captain, this native, he said that he saw a large splash in the distant channel at the stern of the boat, and suspected that it was a small boat."

"A boat?" Lieutenant Karen glared at the soldier and said in a disdainful tone, "You think a small boat can row in front of us?" Could it be that the dark sentry in front of the ship was seen by the blind ship by this sentry in the stern? With a wave of his hand, tell the soldier to get out of here

Miao Feng naturally didn't know about this episode, otherwise his training session would inevitably have one more content, perhaps it was the pressure water flower that the Chinese were good at in later generations

The harbor was pitch black, except for the lights from the distant moored boats, it was almost difficult to distinguish the type of ships in the distance, even if it was close, it was quite difficult to lie in the water to see the ship's side number clearly, under the night light, only the scenery could be seen thirty meters away, and the entire harbor was full of huge ships.

However, Lu Han had already explained this, and the intelligence group had already planted an eyeliner here, and a British merchant ship moored in the harbor would guide their target, and the most obvious sign of the British merchant ship that guided their target was the lantern hanging on the bow, stern and middle mast.

Soon, the frogman team found the big ship in the middle of the harbor, and Miao Feng got the news that waiting here would lead them into the berths of the many ships, and it was only ...... Now it seems that BFIPU did not send anyone to contact them

However, Miao Feng was not short of patience at all, looking at the moon above his head was slowly moving, and a group of frogman soldiers were hiding in the shadows in front of the big merchant ship, quietly waiting, every link of this attack was obviously very important, looking for targets among the nearly two hundred ships moored in this port, it was obviously not a good idea to find them by themselves......

Soon, there was movement on the British ship, and a group of French people who were muttering birds appeared in their mouths, and Miao Feng couldn't tell the identity of the other party from too far away, but it was basically French, and some of them were excited and yelling, and even a little hysterical...... He immediately judged the situation,

It's a bunch of drunks, but does that have anything to do with their mission?

Lin Pei walked ahead of this group of Frenchmen...... No, his name is Lin Pei for a long time, his current name is Ruan Shan, and he is a worker in this floating bar on the dock, and his specific job is to pick up and drop off the guests who come to the ship's bar for fun, pick them up from the various boats, and send them back to the ship.

His other identity is an ordinary Vietnamese Chinese aspiring youth, an intelligence officer sent by the intelligence team to Zigong, through guò contact with these drunken soldiers to obtain those sensitive information, he received the task today is to transport those drunk or mostly drunk soldiers back and forth between the merchant ship bar and the area where the French fleet is stationed, to carry out orders, no reason, he did not even think to ask.

With the help of a few workers, he sent more than a dozen drunken French soldiers to the boat, and the steam boat drove up leisurely, and slowly drove to the other side, and the oil lamp hung on the mast made Miao Feng, who was far behind, not worried that he would not be able to keep up, and soon, after turning the boat, the two Frenchmen docked on a huge ship.

The hull of this ship is huge, and it looks a little extraordinary, after the two Frenchmen got on the ship, the ship immediately made a little commotion, and soon ended the dispute, Miao Feng leaned up and looked at the battleship carefully, this is obviously a battleship, it can be clearly distinguished from the shell, after all, the hull of this battleship is steel armor.

He waved his hand and made a gesture, and the third team immediately stayed to prepare for the disposal of the battleship, while the others continued to follow the small boat in front of the year, and after the French guests on the ship were gone, the frogman team had basically touched the specific location of the French battleship, and the critical moment had arrived...... With a slight allocation, dozens of frogmen disappeared into the darkness.

Liu Shao took 4 crew members to carefully dive and push the SL-I heavy underwater bomb, the target they selected was also an ironclad battleship, but under the dark night sky, it was impossible to distinguish the model of this battleship, this place was definitely the core area of the French fleet, around him, at least more than four ironclad battleships or armored cruisers were seen

He hid in the position of the front collision angle of a battleship, and chose at least 10 seconds before picking the target that seemed to be larger, the entire frogman team, a total of three heavy underwater bombs, absolutely had to carefully select the target, and soon his first team dragged this underwater bomb that condensed the essence of horsetail industrial technology to the middle of the bottom of this battleship.

Rotate the switch on one side, more than a dozen claw-shaped fixtures pop out, and soon the bomb was firmly fixed on the mottled steel panel at the bottom of the boat, Liu Shao pushed the piston device on one side of the bomb to discharge the seawater inside, and with the buoyancy of the bomb given by the seawater, the bomb was firmly pressed against the bottom of the boat.

He pushed left and right, felt the firmness of the fixture, and then gave a thumbs up to his comrades around him, although through the masks, the excited expressions on the faces of several people were still unobstructed, and his unique combat unit was finally going to step onto the stage of history with such an amazing big move.

Miao Feng waited quietly in the shadow of a big ship, the first one to come out in front of him was Wang Han, the leader of the second group, their team was responsible for laying SL-III medium bombs, obviously, the time required to lay these bombs was much shorter, Wang Han came out and only made two simple actions, reporting that the laying was completed, and the estimated firing time of the clockwork timer used was 30 minutes.

In just six or seven minutes, the soldiers appeared around one by one, Miao Feng counted his men one by one, and soon the whole team was assembled, but the soldiers were not finished easily, but they were very nervous and excited, they were all waiting for another order.

Miao Feng looked back and forth at several squads, pointed to Liu Shao of the first squad and made a gesture, everyone stared at the members of the first squad with envy, the last surveillance task of the first attack behind enemy lines fell into the hands of the first team, which was the most critical part of the combat mission, and of course it was also a very challenging part.

In the previous training, although the use of non-explosive simulated bombs, but as a timing device to fire the explosion still appeared several times unstable, if this happens, it is necessary for frogman soldiers to intervene manually, this is obviously a very dangerous job, but for these elite soldiers who regard danger as a challenge, winning in danger is the true nature of a strong army. ,

Moreover, after each bomb attack, two or three reserved bombs will be reserved as a last resort means of attack; according to the situation envisaged in previous exercises, once the attack is successful and the huge impact is caused, the fire on the scene will undoubtedly greatly facilitate the search for more valuable targets, and giving a fatal blow to a high-value target is an irresistible temptation.

Today, this task falls into the hands of a small group

Liu Shao and his men immediately hid in the middle of several merchant ships 300 meters away from the target, and Miao Feng immediately began to return at full speed, to quickly evacuate the port in the remaining 20 minutes or so, this is a complete body work, full speed underwater sprint

Time passed minute by minute, this short period of more than 20 minutes, for Liu Shao unforgettable, he stared at the huge shadow formed by the enemy fleet in the darkness in the distance, as a member of the Nanyang Naval Division, they have been instilled with the fact that countless times, although the Nanyang Naval Division has proud combat power, but the current limited industrial capacity of Mawei is difficult to compete head-on with the European powers that have developed for hundreds of years.

In the era of ironclad ships, combat no longer only relied on human will and wisdom, but also needed a strong industrial backing

Therefore, when Lu Han asked him if he was interested in joining this elite frogman army, in addition to being shocked by Lord Qin's incomparably advanced ideas, he also felt that this was the only way to make the greatest personal contribution to the Nanyang Naval Division, and he immediately chose this new combat journey without hesitation, although this was destined to no longer be with his beloved giant ship cannon in the future, and he would no longer be able to show his true colors lightly, what he pursued was only that fatal gentle knife

There is no clock, judging the time can only rely on his own silent memory and observation of the stars, Liu Shao stared into the distance in the dark, the excitement and surging heart in front of him was as calm as water at this time, and his thoughts were only very sharp thoughts - the French, it is really miserable, the second in the world...... Actually, it's too two

The reason for this is that the French have so many choices, why do they want to go against our Lord Qin and our Nanyang sailors, the French do have a lot of ships, but they can withstand so many miraculous strokes of Lord Qin, he has even secretly calculated that if he didn't blow up the French ships this time, he would be able to come a second, third, and fourth time...... He really couldn't think of any way for the French to resist this army hidden underwater

The four subordinates huddled behind Liu Shao, and their eyes out of the water looked excitedly into the distance, and finally ...... A red light flashed on the water in the distance, and even a few of them from three hundred meters away felt the violent shock transmitted by the water waves, and then they heard the dull sound of an underwater explosion

In the darkness, the shadow of the first huge battleship jumped violently, and the underwater bomb detonated in the middle of the battleship easily pierced the steel plate that was not too thick at the bottom of the ship, after all, the focus of armor protection was on the waterline, not on the bottom of the ship

The only thing that does not need to be protected is the bottom plate of the four walls and the tightly protected ammunition depot at the top of the ship's bilge, and now, after the blasting easily lifts the bottom plate, the huge kinetic energy and extremely high explosion temperature ignite all kinds of things in the explosives depot at once, and in an instant, the flames from the bilge to the deck make the whole sky light up.