The Han River, a major river on the Korean Peninsula and the fourth largest river in Korea, is formed by the confluence of the Namhan River, which originates in Taebaeksan Mountain, and the North Hangang River, which originates in Mt. Kumgang, flows through Seoul and empties into the Yellow Sea at Ganghwa Bay. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since ancient times, the Han River has been an important transportation waterway for trade with China, with many tidal flats and wharves along the coast, especially in Ganghwa Bay, the estuary of the Han River.

On the night of the 26th, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, the sea breeze was gusting, and the dense reeds on the shore of Ganghwa Bay at the mouth of the Han River in North Korea were swaying under the cool sea breeze, making a swishing sound, and the rhythm of the waves echoed each other, like a faint music with the sound of killing, playing on the calm coast for a long time.

Deep in the reeds, a dinghy was quietly docked on a small sandbar.

In the reeds on the sandbar, more than twenty young men in blue-gray uniforms and large-brimmed hats, carrying wooden box sheathed shell guns on their backs, sat back to back, dozing quietly.

Although the sea breeze brings coolness from time to time, the dense reeds are still very hot, and there are many mosquitoes "buzzing" in the ears.

This small boat is the Surprise, and the more than 20 young people are also the soldiers of Xu Tong's reconnaissance platoon in the Qinchuan Salt Regiment.

Qin Chuan dozed off in the cabin for a while, and when he had something in his heart, he couldn't sleep anymore and walked out of the cabin alone.

Qin Chuan stood on the deck, letting the slightly salty sea breeze blow, and felt much clearer.

The sound of Qin Chuan's movement woke up Gao Ying and the two guards who were napping against the bulkhead on the front and rear decks of the dinghy.

This time when he came to North Korea, Qin Chuan only brought Gao Ying and two guards.

Qin Chuan waved his hand to stop Gao Ying and the two guards who wanted to get up, motioned for them to continue to rest, and got off the dinghy alone, sat on the side of the sandbank, and silently remembered what was on his mind.

It turned out that the morning before yesterday, after Qin Chuan unexpectedly and suddenly used a torpedo to blow up the cruiser Qiujinzhou, he was busy ordering the flag-waving, and the flotilla, which was stunned by this sudden situation, immediately lifted anchor and sailed northwest.

At this time, Qin Chuan found that the small iron mast on the dinghy had been stopped and discounted by the large-caliber Hatch Chase rapid-fire cannon on Qiujin Island, which shocked several soldiers who were playing the flag to look at each other. If Fang had just been hit by a Hatch Chase rapid-fire gun, it is estimated that no one in the dinghy would have been spared.

Without a mast, the flag signal could not be hung out, and several soldiers had to take out the signal flag to transmit the signal. Fortunately, the distance between the two sides was not far, and they could see it clearly, and the fleet led by the Saint-Louis reacted to it, and they hurriedly pulled out the anchor and set sail, speeding north at full speed.

When the flotilla pulled anchor, the sound of cannons also sounded in the distance, and everyone in the flotilla could see that the Gao Sheng, which had been forced to stop by the Japanese ships, was already billowing smoke. Needless to say, this is the wave that sank the Gao Sheng.

The Gao Sheng was a British merchant ship, and the Japanese could brazenly open fire and sink it without any scruples, which made these foreign merchant fleets led by the St. Louis even more frightened.

When the fleet sailed near the Surprise, the Qing officers and soldiers on the Saint-Louis and Caojiang, who knew that they had escaped, were on their respective decks, and under the leadership of their respective officers on the two ships, they gave a thousand salutes to Qin Chuan, who was standing on the deck majestically. Even, all boats sounded their whistles to express their gratitude to Qin Chuan.

Seeing the fleet leave far away, Qin Chuan did not command the surprise to sail away, and also refused Xu Tong, who was gearing up, to drive the dinghy close to Qiujinzhou, which had only a small mast left, that had sunk, and shoot the hundreds of Japanese sailors who were struggling in the sea.

Looking at the increasingly clear and huge hull of the Naniwa cruiser that was approaching quickly, Xu Tong said hatefully: "Commander, let's sink Qiujin Continent This is a battle between the two armies, but the Japanese can't say anything about the merchant ship Gao Sheng, and there is no need to say any mercy to these Japanese, they should all be shot and thrown into the sea to feed the fish." ”

Qin Chuan put down the binoculars in his hand and pointed to the sea to the west: "Whether the Japanese bombed and sank the Gao Sheng, it doesn't matter now, you see, the Nautilus is coming, he will rescue Gao Jishan and them." ”

Qin Chuan tapped the Japanese sailors who were struggling in the sea with his jaw again: "It's not that I don't want to kill this group of bastards, but we can't kill them now, they are of more use to us if they are alive." ”

"What? Is it useful for us that they are alive? ”

Qin Chuan's words couldn't make Xu Tong understand.

Qin Chuan smiled slightly: "Do you think, if we kill these Japanese, and the waves rush over to see us, they won't have red eyes, although they can't catch up with us, what if they want to launch a mad frenzy to chase our fleet?" ”

"There are more than a thousand of us on board the St. Louis and Caojiang. We have these sailors now, and we can't ignore the speed of the waves, he has to save people first, and when these hundreds of sailors are rescued, it will be almost two hours, and the fleet will have already gone far by then. Even if the Japanese still had to chase after them, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to catch up with a fleet of ships that had been running for hours on this vast sea. ”

Xu Tong, who had already understood, couldn't help but pat his forehead and said excitedly: "Commander, you still think about it thoughtfully, so you really have to keep these bastards." ”

Even if Naniwa came to the rescue, Qin Chuan didn't let the Strange leave immediately, but just let the Strange go farther away, keeping it four thousand meters away from the Naniwa, at this distance, with the artillery aiming means on the Naniwa, it was very difficult to hit such a small target as the Strange.

Sure enough, after arriving at the scene, the embarrassed and angry Nanisu immediately put down all the boats on the ship and went all out to search and rescue the Japanese sailors who had fallen into the water, only after learning the news that Akitsu Island was sunk by the strangely shaped yacht in the distance, he used the ship's guns to bombard the surprise several cannons in a hurry.

Although he knew that it was impossible for the naval guns of Nanisu to hit his small target, Qin Chuan still ordered the surprise to cruise in the distance.

It wasn't until two o'clock in the afternoon that Yoshino, who was only a few knots slower than the Surprise, also rushed back, that Qin Chuan ordered the Surprise to quickly leave the battlefield eastward.

The vicinity of Seoul has long been completely occupied by the Japanese army, and the Qing troops who landed are all on the line of Chenghuan and Asan south of Seoul. It wasn't until it was completely dark that I quietly sailed to the edge of the Han River estuary, which is now in the reeds.

Since the completion of the Surprise, Qin Chuan has consciously asked Xu Tong to take his platoon to change into civilian clothes and come to North Korea regularly once a month, so that Xu Tong and them can adapt to the boat; The second is to let Xu Tong quietly establish a secret contact channel with Aldington for use in special circumstances.

Xu Tong knew the secret location that Aldington was hiding, and as soon as the surprise number was hidden, Xu Tong led two squads of soldiers to go ashore to find Aldington under the cover of night.

Qin Chuan reached out and took out a box of pure yang brand cigarettes, took out one and put it in his mouth, lit a match, and just took a puff, he felt a "buzzing" sound in his ears, and then something fell lightly on his cheek, slapped his right palm, and hit his face with a "snap", and when he reached out to look, it was a long-legged mosquito.

Gao Ying lightly jumped off the boat and handed a small glass bottle in his hand to Qin Chuan.

"Commander, this wind oil essence is very effective, you can also wipe it."

This wind oil essence is not only a good medicine for repelling mosquitoes and itching in summer, but also has the function of treating headaches and colds, how could Qin Chuan forget this good thing, this is also newly developed in Cao Maoxiang Pharmaceutical Company, and the people of the reconnaissance company have a bottle in their hands, which is to prevent mosquito bites at night.

It's just that although there are a lot of mosquitoes in the reeds, Qin Chuan has never rubbed this wind oil essence, and the reason is very simple.

When Qin Chuan was in the special operations brigade before the crossing, the instructor absolutely forbade the application of these smelly things, and some skin care products were also prohibited, because for opponents with a keen sense of smell, these things were likely to expose their location and lose their precious lives.

Qin Chuan took the wind oil essence, hesitated for a while, and decided to rub some.

Until now, not to mention that I haven't seen a single Japanese soldier, not even a ghost.

Besides, as far as Qin Chuan knows, the Japanese army at this time, the spirit of bushido was far less resolute than that of later generations, and the fighting spirit was not as strong as in the future, and the fighting consciousness was even more lackluster. Even in the subconscious of these Japanese soldiers, there is a weak thinking of a small country and a widow. It was only after the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War that the evil thinking in my heart that I got carried away and thought that Lao Tzu was the best in the world swelled up to the extreme.

Qin Chuan believed that even if there was really that Japanese soldier with a sensitive nose like a dog, he would never be aware of the danger when he smelled the smell of wind oil essence.

Qin Chuan unscrewed the cork, and dripped out a few drops of wind oil essence in the palm of his hand, those few drops of light green liquid in the warmth of the palm, a strange fragrance suddenly spread, Qin Chuan smeared the palm of his hand on the itchy part of his right cheek for a while, and the pungent and cool feeling suddenly made the itch unharmed.

"Goo, goo, goo"

A few crisp and rhythmic frog chirpings sounded outside the reeds, and knowing that it was Xu Tong who had gone out to look for Aldington to come back, Qin Chuan couldn't help but stand up.

With the frog roaring, the twenty or so soldiers of the dozing reconnaissance platoon all woke up vigilantly, and although they were still sitting on the ground, they all quietly drew out the shell guns on their waists and quietly opened the nose of the plane.

After a while, with the sound of a rope in the reeds, a long series of black shadows led more than a dozen horses in the shallow water in the reeds, and went straight to the sandbank.

The horses in the procession were hunched on their backs with two heavy wooden boxes with seals, although the horses were haltered, it could be judged from the sound of the horses panting that the contents of these wooden boxes carried by these horses were very heavy, and the wooden boxes carried by more than a dozen horses together were estimated to weigh more than ten tons. Looking at the long black shadow behind him, Qin Chuan secretly complained in his heart.

It's easy to say that these things are loaded with the Surprise Number, but in addition to the reconnaissance platoon and so many people who have popped up out of nowhere, not to mention the overload, the key is that the Surprise cannot be loaded at all, even if the Surprise is small, the deck is full of people, and it still can't accommodate so many people.

With so many things and people on board, with the horsepower of the Surprise engine, the speed can be compared to that of the Caojiang and burns high incense.

If you encounter a Japanese ship on the unobstructed sea, you won't be able to run if you want to...... (To be continued.) )