It was a small dry and hot port under British rule. Several local stores had few shipments, as the usual supply ships had not arrived for months. While wandering the streets, Yang Mingjun met a friendly and sturdy native who told him that he was a member of the island's Empress Guard.

The Empress had moved out of the palace and moved all the local people to the depths of the island, where she and the Centro-Centria grew food and vegetables for herself and the Centro. She vacated her palace (a large house made of magnificent white stone) and all the houses in the town to the troops.

Her guard said he was glad to see the Chinese come here because there was no army here before, and they were afraid of the planes coming to bomb them. Now I feel safe, with troops and planes protecting the island. He said that people from many countries had come to the island before, including Germans, French, British, New Zealanders and Chinese, but he liked the Chinese the most because they always smiled and joked about people.

The only things you can buy on the island are straw mats, handbags made of straw and tablecloths. There wasn't much left, and the Army vanguard bought most of it. Normally the price of these products is 25 to 50 cents, but now that business is booming, the local merchants have completely set the new price, and they always shout, "One dollar, two dollars, three dollars." ”

For the first time, the crew of the "Tiger Hill" had the opportunity to have a pastime, but it was disgruntled that the hotel counters and shelves had long since run out. They ran around with confidence, but ended up using coconut water and oranges instead. Some people's vacations are spent on a gallop on rented horses.

After visiting the town, Yang Mingjun saw a beautiful new ship in the harbor, which was a large merchant ship flying the Dutch flag. This brought back fond memories of the elegant Hague and Amsterdam when Yang Mingjun went on a mission to the Netherlands, where Yang Mingjun spent some time and made friends with the Dutch. For the sake of friendship, Yang Mingjun went to visit the captain and, if possible, begged, bought, borrowed or stolen some Scotch whisky.

Yang Mingyun was led onto the boat and received a moral? A welcome from Captain Van Lait. He was an optimistic, stocky old sailor who, like many in his country, spoke fluent English. Yang Mingjun and him hit it off at first sight. He was entertaining another Dutch captain, Gilles (whose ship was also in port).

Both Yang Mingjun and Giles toasted him with Captain Van Leith's premium Dutch gin and were invited to stay for dinner. The captain was surrounded by a few young Chinese men with cannons. These young men also dined at the same table with the captain, and Yang Mingyun and his young men had a good time that night.

That meal also reminded Yang Mingjun of the Netherlands. The delicious Dutch cooking techniques, both hearty and formal, are famous for the country's wine and rice. Each dish is accompanied by a suitable wine, and when served with cold food and champagne, only one toast remains: "Cheers to the Allies!" ”

It was a very happy night for the captain. He received a letter that had been chasing him across the ocean for fifteen months. The letter said that his son was married in the Netherlands. The letter was written by his daughter-in-law, and it began with the words: "Dear Daddy", which made him very happy.

He smiled and said, "I really didn't expect that this little girl who I used to watch her running around with two pigtails in her used to marry my son and now become my daughter." They were waiting for me to go home, but now that the war is like this, who knows when I will be able to return to Holland. They got married, and I'm so happy. ”

When Yang Mingyun and everyone quietly left the port, except for 10 seriously injured people who were too seriously injured to be sent away, all the personnel of the "Tiger Hill" were on the road. Lieutenant Commander Lin Zun insisted that only those who were dying should be left behind. He repeatedly told the doctors, "I want to take everyone who can go home." The best medicine you can give them is to get them home. ”

Yang Mingyun and several of them had made a bet with a book, insisting that they would stop at this small port for a few months to cover up their losses. Now it's cashed in, and it's willing to do so in the bottom of my heart.

It was too slow and too long. Yang Mingyun was walking home, and before arriving, he had nothing to do except eat or sleep. Naturally, the topic turned to the war, to the future development of the war, and to discuss his own equipment, tactics, personnel, and ideas. This time, Yang Mingyun was too addicted to fighting, and he also fought with Yue himself, and also competed with their "Gale" plane, and saw a nuclear explosion. Yang Mingjun knew that even in such an unfavorable situation of fighting on two fronts, China could defeat the enemy. At first, Yang Mingyun saw and heard the news, all about fighting against the army and air force against the Soviet Union. He didn't know much about the heroic battles of the Navy in the Pacific, but now he saw it with his own eyes and realized that the intensity of the fighting here was not much worse than that of the Soviet battlefield.

He has always wondered that the domestic media would ignore the battle at sea. He knew that his famous father might have the answers he wanted to know, but Yang Mingjun didn't want to see him yet.

Yang Mingyun finally returned to the port of Shanghai, and as soon as the ship entered the port, he saw a huge aircraft carrier moored at the pier at first sight.

It was an aircraft carrier he had never seen before, much larger than any aircraft carrier he had seen before. Yang Mingyun looked at the sea giant carefully and saw the two-character ship name "Xuanyuan" written on the side side.

"Good ship!" A sailor of the aircraft carrier "Tiger Hill" could not help but exclaim loudly. More people began to shout at the giant ship, whistling.

Yang Mingyun looked at this giant aircraft carrier with a displacement of nearly 100,000 tons, and he was also very excited.

Suddenly, he felt as if someone was watching him, and he jerked back to look at a tall building on the shore.

"What's wrong?" One of the sailors, noticing his unusual movements, asked casually.

"Nothing." Yang Mingyun shook his head, and the fierce gaze in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

In a small room in that building, Zhong Shanwen jerked herself behind a thick curtain.

The falcon-like gaze of the man on the ship she saw in the telescope just now really startled her.

She steadied herself and peeked to see that the transport ship had already sailed away.

Zhong Shanwen raised the binoculars again and looked at the giant aircraft carrier, and her heart was once again full of horror.

What does it mean that so many aircraft carriers have suddenly appeared in the ports along the coast of China?

Don't...... Zhong Shanwen left the window, quickly put on her clothes, packed her things and rushed out of the door with a gust of wind.

With the Chinese army's capture of Moscow as a turning point, in mid-June, the situation between China and China suddenly became sinister.

The Chinese Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also become more and more closely monitored by Chinese spies in China. Despite this, Tokyo has issued a secret order to intensify the collection of information.

Soon, Zhong Shanwen came to live in a small building near Dalian Port.

Looking out from the small building, Dalian Port is close at hand. Later, Zhong Shanwen's figure frequently appeared here. Over time, her black notebook pressed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday...... The number of Chinese ships anchored in the port of Dalian was recorded in order, and this statistics were gradually perfected.

At that time, Chung was also concentrating on investigating the militarily important coastal water obstacles, currents, and coastal slopes. Her good swimming played a big role. Chung has been a fond of swimming since she was a child. When he was in the fifth and sixth grades of primary school, he swam with the young people in the village, and won the championship in the near and far swimming competitions.

Morita, who came back from the ship, handed Zhong Shanwen a thing, saying that it was given by Yanagawa, and it turned out to be a paper twist made of paper.

When I twisted the paper, I saw that it was densely covered with very small pencil words. These are the ninety-seven questions for Chung Shanwen. Yanagawa asked Morita to turn Zhong Shanwen to answer the question in the paper twist before the ship left tomorrow.

He was asked to answer the following questions based on what he had learned:

1. The total number of ships berthed.

2. The number and name of different types of ships.

3. Mooring places for battleships and aircraft carriers.

4. The mooring or mooring of the battleship.

5. Dynamics of battleships and aircraft carriers (entry and exit, etc.).

6. The time it takes for a battleship to get from the berthing to the outside of the port.

7. What day of the week do you infer that the most ships are moored?

8. Was the battleship equipped with mine protection nets when it was moored?

9. The number of days and location of the battleship docked.

10. Guidian called battleships side-by-side, is this a special case or is this often the case?

11. Are there large aircraft patrolling at dawn and dusk? If so, how many?

12. Aviation bases and permanent forces in the Dalian Port Islands.

13. When an aircraft carrier enters or leaves the port, does the carrier-based aircraft take off outside the port?

14. The number of army aircraft in Arthur.

15. Are there any blocked balloons near Dalian Port?

16. Is there a fleet berthing other than the port of Dalian?

17. Is there any precedent for temporary berthing in the main channel?

18. How often do sailors come ashore?

19. Are there any signs of an increase in the Army's defense strength?

20. The construction status of the underground fuel depot.

21. There are many oil tanks on the ground near the port, are they filled with oil?

22. The fleet is often dispatched, where to go? In what direction? Do?

23. If there are abnormal signs of fuel and food on board, report it immediately.

24. Where is the possible landing in front of the enemy?

25. Report the activities of the submarine as much as possible.

26. Is there an anti-submarine net at the mouth of the bay? If so, provide a quick update of its details.

27. Aircraft intensification towards the Philippines, Port Truk and the Central Pacific.

28. Anomalies in anti-espionage, etc.

That night, Chung Shanwen answered 97 questions in an all-night based on the intelligence information she had painstakingly collected over the past seven months.

Q: What day of the week do you infer that the most ships are moored?

Answer: Weekly.

Q: Are there large aircraft patrolling at dawn and dusk? If so, how many?

A: 20 at dawn and dusk. (Chung expected this kind of question, and in order to see the departure and return of the patrol airship with her own eyes, she stood on the lawn at dawn and dusk to observe.) Q: Is there an anti-submarine net at the mouth of the bay? If so, provide a quick update of its details.

A: Probably yes. However, the type and others are unknown. (There is an anti-submarine net at the entrance of the channel of Dalian Port.) Zhong Shanwen considered the importance of this information in advance, and on many occasions dressed in crumpled clothes, dressed as a washerwoman, and resolutely sneaked into the bay. But it never quite achieved its goal. The next morning, Chung handed the answer sheet to Morita. Morita wrapped it around his waist, patted his belly with his hand and said, "I must hand it over with my own hands!" ”

At this time, the Ishihara cabinet was running wildly along the road of war, and the Military Command Department was also united in making a final desperate effort to prepare for a decisive battle with China. From the ninety-seven questions mentioned earlier, Zhong Shanwen clearly glimpsed the scaly claws of this domestic situation.

Not long after Zhong Shanwen replied to the 97 questions, the mobile unit of the Navy, which shouldered the heavy task of the decisive battle, had already begun preparations for a surprise attack.

Deciding when to start the war is the most important issue. It is necessary to choose the time when the ships in Dalian port gather the most to deal a fatal blow to the Chinese fleet.

A secret telegram from Tokyo instructed the spy in the port of Dalian: "In view of the present situation, it is extremely important that battleships, aircraft carriers, and cruisers anchor in the port of Dalian. Therefore, it is hoped that these situations will be reported on a daily basis as much as possible in the future. In addition, it is also hoped that the battleship will be equipped with mine protection nets. ”

This increase in the number of requests for reporting is enough to suggest that the time for war is imminent, and the target of attack is the port of Dalian.

Zhong Shanwen sensed the "restlessness" of the Military Command Department from this instruction, so she drove more frequently, fished, and went on a trip than before.

It was a quiet Saturday, and neither the roar of planes from the port of Dalian could be heard, nor any other sound could be heard. Zhong Shanwen finished the morning "reconnaissance" and reported to Tokyo, had lunch very late, and then dragged her tired body to lie on the bed in the dormitory. After sleeping for a while, he jumped up all of a sudden, and then went to reconnoiter the situation at dusk in Dalian Port. I saw that the ships of the Chinese fleet were quietly floating on the sea like summer all year round.

"How are four aircraft carriers and seventeen heavy cruisers missing?" She had seen it stop there with her own eyes in the morning. It's weird. Zhong Shanwen muttered, and a sense of foreboding rose in her heart.

After dinner at the restaurant, Chung hurried back to her lodgings and immediately began drafting a telegram to Tokyo.

"The ships berthed in Dalian Harbor on the 19th were as follows: four battleships, six light cruisers, five diving carriers, and twenty destroyers. In addition, the light patrol 4 and destroyer 2 have been docked. Aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers have all left the port and are not berthed in the harbor. There were no signs of conducting aerial reconnaissance by the fleet aviation. ”

Chung's last report was telegram No. 367, which was encrypted at around 9 o'clock. Even the energetic Zhong Shanwen felt Lian Yue's fatigue. After drinking two or three cups of coffee in one go, she went for a walk on the lawn in the courtyard of the consulate as usual before going to bed.

Not a single roar of airplanes could be heard in the air. It was a quiet weekend night, and the entire port of Dalian was no different than usual. Zhong Shanwen calmly lay down on the bed.

It's dawn.

Zhong Shanwen, who was exhausted from yesterday's "heavy labor", slept lazily in the morning. When I got out of bed, it was half past seven. As he was having breakfast, he suddenly heard a deafening and terrible sound, followed by explosions and cannon...... "It seems to be a large-scale exercise!" ”

Zhong Shanwen ran outside to look into the sky, only to see thick smoke billowing over Dalian Port, and the mark of "sun" was clearly visible on the wings of the plane passing through the faint morning mist.

"This plane! It's time to fight! Zhong Shanwen hurried through the courtyard to the office building and reported to Consul General Morita. At this moment, Morita walked out.

"Mr. Tian (Morita's Chinese name is Tian Ye), a fight has started!"

"Hmmm! ……”

The two looked up at the sky and expressed their solidarity with the plane. Because of his excitement, Morita grabbed Zhong Shanwen's right hand tightly, and tears immediately welled up in his eyes...... Zhong Shanwen's eyes were full of irrepressible tears, as if she felt that until this moment, the heartstrings that had been tense slowly relaxed, and an indescribable emotion of mixed joy and sorrow came to her heart.

Somehow, she thought of her husband Fukui again, and that strong longing couldn't help but make her feel lost again.

June 25, 1945, Pacific Ocean.

The vastness of the Pacific Ocean, which can accommodate all the continents and islands on the planet, is more than enough. The Pacific Ocean, also known as the Great Ocean, the South China Sea, or the South Sea. The name Pacific Ocean was given by the Portuguese navigator Magellan. In order to open up new routes, Magellan spent months adrift in the Atlantic, bumping into the east coast of the Americas like a wasp trapped in a glass window. A new route was finally found, and in front of him was a vast free sea, with clear skies and beautiful winds. Hence the name of the Pacific Ocean. As a result, this charming name has been passed down from generation to generation. Whenever people dream of escaping absurd realities and brutal wars, it is often said, "There is a paradise in the Pacific......"

However, who knows how many such islands have been destroyed by bombs? On the shore covered with yellow sand, how many people have witnessed the most thrilling scenes of the Second World War.

At dawn, the Chinese aircraft carrier Xuanyuan, escorted by four heavy cruisers and 12 destroyers, traveled over the Pacific Ocean about 200 nautical miles west of the port of Dalian. The fleet advanced at a speed of 25 knots. Under the clouds, the sea breeze is mild and refreshing, and the sea surface is slightly wavy.

The "Xuanyuan" has always maintained a state of readiness for battle, and the officers and men of the Chinese Navy have been vigilant all night and are ready to take immediate action at any time. Because the submarine may be nearby. The exterior of the warship was painted dark gray, the linoleum laid on the deck was peeled off, and the paint on the bulkheads was scraped off. All wood and flammable materials were removed, and the portholes were welded; Lights are strictly controlled at night. installation of magnetics on the hull; The cast iron pipes were replaced with tough wrought iron pipes. For several months, the entire crew insisted on night vigilance, shooting, and various rescue training.

(To be continued)