"Anyway, it's a good start." Lan Jianshu looked at the sea in the distance and took a deep breath of the sea breeze, "Our Chinese Navy still has a chance to catch up." ”

"But now there is endless fighting at home and abroad, and the country has no time to develop with peace of mind," Li He clenched his fists and said, "You don't see, Guangdong has now become the world of revolutionaries again." ”

As senior generals of the Chinese Navy, Lan Jianshu and Li He have always been very concerned about the situation in Guangdong, which is close to Fujian.

"In the past, there were many sympathetic revolutionaries in the navy, but now that the true colors of the rebellious party have been exposed, I am afraid that no one will be willing to believe their false propaganda anymore." Lan Jianshu sneered and said, "I really don't want to die!" ”

"It's just a pity that this new ship has not been in service for a long time, and my sailors still need time to run in with it, otherwise, I really want to drive over and bomb the fuck now!" Li He smashed his fist on the armor plate of the bridge, making a "bang" sound, attracting strange glances from several officers.

"Yes! No more, even if there are two or three more such warships, we can take Guangzhou back now! Lan Jianshu said.

"This Mawei shipyard made Yang Hanzhi get up so quickly." Li He looked at the smoke rising from the Luo Xing Pagoda in the distance and the huge chimney in the shipyard area, and sighed, "I really can't think of how he did it." ”

"Yes! It's just like a trick, when the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau was placed under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, because of the lack of funds, it only relied on the sale of scrap iron and old machines for a few years, but in the hands of his Yang Han, it was very different in a few months, and it was really money that could be channeled. Lan Jianshu smiled bitterly and said, "Just like he told us before, the problems that money can solve are not problems." But where did his money come from? ”

"He said that it was an overseas donation, so why should we dig deeper?" Li He smiled and said, "As long as he can make more and better warships for our Chinese Navy, you and I don't care where his money comes from." ”

At this time, the sun that was gradually setting had already dyed the sky red, and seeing that the sun was about to sink below the horizon, Lan Jianshu nodded thoughtfully.

"If you, Yang Hanzhi, are just for our China to have a big navy, of course I have nothing to say, and I will continue to support you to the end! But if you have other purposes, then don't blame me......"

The last sentence, Lan Jianshu didn't say it in the end.

The Yellow Sea, the sea surface of Dadonggou.

"We've sailed into the Great Eastern Ditch, Captain."

"I'll see." After listening to the words of Deputy Captain Li Jinlin, Major Xiao Yonglin, who had already been promoted to the post of the "Exocet 9" submarine of the Chinese Navy, suppressed his excitement, took over the periscope, and carefully observed the sea surface.

Dadonggou!

From September 17, 1894, when the smoke of gunfire rose from this sea area accompanied by the rumbling sound of cannons, the bloody battle at sea here became an eternal pain in the hearts of all Chinese.

Since that day, this sea area has been firmly engraved in the hearts of the Chinese.

Since that day, in the memory of the Chinese, this sea area has become a century-old shame for the Chinese nation.

Like the special meaning of the tables "Waterloo" in English and "Tsushima" in Russian, from that day on, Dadonggou was no longer a place name in the Chinese dictionary.

At this time, the sky above the sea was shrouded in a large number of rolling dark clouds, as if returning to that year, that day, the moment when the cannon shook the sky.

"Float!" Xiao Yonglin gave the order in a deep voice.

The co-captain repeated the order loudly, and the crew immediately began to get busy, and with the surging waves, the "Exocet 9" submarine surfaced.

On the surface of the sea with dark clouds rolling, the "Exocet 9" submarine slowly sailed into this sea area of special significance at a speed of 10 knots, and Xiao Yonglin and several subordinates went to the control tower and looked at this calm sea with solemn eyes.

"Telegraph to Base Command! Our boat has sailed into the waters of Dadonggou! ”

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Xiao Yonglin ordered in a deep voice.

"Telegraph to Base Command! Our boat has sailed into the waters of Dadonggou! ”

Standing on the bridge, the same slightly frowning and solemn gaze of the deputy captain Li Jinlin, after a few seconds of silence, repeated the order to his subordinates who were also solemn beside him.

As an officer of the Chinese Navy, he certainly knows what this sea area means to the Chinese Navy.

On that day more than twenty years ago, the Beiyang Fleet suffered a crushing defeat in this sea area. Today, at the bottom of this sea area, the wreckage of the four Beiyang Navy warships that sank in that battle, "Zhiyuan", "Jingyuan", "Chaoyong", and "Yangwei", are still lying quietly in the mud and sand on the bottom of this sea area.

This sea is the place where the loyal souls of those naval officers and men rest.

As the earliest submarine officer of the Chinese Navy, Xiao Yonglin, who once drove a pocket submarine to sink the ship in the Battle of Caofeidian and made great achievements, has since been fascinated by the new weapon of submarines.

From the moment he participated in the underwater offensive battle that was enough to wash away the shame of the Chinese Navy, he knew that his life would be indissoluble with submarines.

In that battle, he and his three comrades-in-arms piloted the small pocket submarine like a toy, and inflicted unprecedented damage on the invincible battleship.

And now, the "Exocet"-class submarine under his feet, in terms of surname, tonnage, and weaponry, is many times stronger than the "Weaver Girl" class pocket submarine.

The "Exocet" class submarine is the latest submarine manufactured by Jiangnan Shipyard, with a surface displacement of 692 tons and an underwater displacement of 886 tons, and the power plant adopts advanced diesel motor dual power, equipped with a new diesel engine (power of 1850 horsepower) and electric motor (power of 1200 horsepower) imported from the United States, The surface speed can reach 12.5 knots, the underwater speed is 8.5 knots, the endurance is 8,500 nautical miles at the surface speed of 8 knots, the underwater speed is 76 nautical miles at 5 knots, the maximum diving depth can reach 45 meters, the armament is 4 533 mm torpedo tubes, carrying 6 torpedoes, equipped with a 75 mm deck gun, and the deck gun has 300 rounds of ammunition. The crew consisted of 4 officers and 30 soldiers.

Compared with the German Navy's U-boat submarines, which made the Entente talk about "boats," China's "Exocet" class submarines still have a certain gap in terms of their surnames, but for the Chinese Navy, the "Exocet" class submarines are undoubtedly products that transcend the times.

This class represents the highest technical level of China's shipbuilding industry, and its main design source is the young man in charge of the country's industry.

At this time, Yang Shuoming, who had just gotten off the airship and got into the car, also received a telegram from the Wusongkou Naval Base in Shanghai that the "Exocet 9" submarine had sailed into Dadonggou.

In Shanghai, which is far from the other end of Dadonggou, Yang Shuoming held the telegram in his hand tightly, sitting in the car, he looked at the sea outside the window, his face looked very solemn, Xi Xue, who was sitting next to him, looked at Yang Shuoming's eyes with strong grief and murderous intent, and couldn't help but be startled.

"The graves of sailors are always without flowers...... Yang Shuoming said to himself.

Listening to his words, Xi Xue understood what he remembered, and a desolate look flashed in her eyes.

At this time, Yang Shuoming's ears seemed to sound the rumbling cannon sound again, and the scene of those brave and fearless naval officers and men fighting desperately and bloodily with Yue Kou seemed to appear in front of him.

As the actual architect of the Chinese Navy's submarine force, letting China's first-class main battle submarine enter Dadonggou is a long-cherished wish of Yang Shuoming himself.

Because for him, the place of Dadonggou has a special significance.

In his time, in the eyes of most Chinese, Dadonggou represented the century-old national humiliation of the Chinese nation, and the Beiyang Fleet, once known as the "First Fleet in Asia," was completely destroyed in Weihaiwei, causing countless "indignant youths" and "patriots" in later generations to grit their teeth with hatred for the officers and men of this fleet. While scolding the Manchu court for its incompetence, he also deducted all kinds of charges on the innocent officers and soldiers who fought for the country and the nation until the last moment!

The names of "corruption," "incompetence in combat," "low quality," "greed for life and fear of death," and so on, were overwhelmingly pressed on these officers and men who fought bravely and never ceased to die in that naval battle that had a bearing on China's future national fortunes, regardless of the most obvious facts and the most basic common sense!

"General......

Seeing that the sadness on Yang Shuoming's face was getting heavier and heavier, Xi Xue wanted to say something, but when the words came to her mouth, she didn't know how to say it.

Regarding Yang Shuoming's sadness, although as a woman, she also knows where it comes from.

In the naval battle at Dadonggou during the Jiawu period, all Chinese who heard it were inexplicably sad and indignant, and heartbroken.

Because in this day and age, there are not so many shameless rumors for ulterior motives that have been put on the heads of those heroes who sleep at the bottom of the sea.

However, in the later generations when information was developed, there were so many people who ignored historical facts, deliberately distorted history, and used the so-called "mainstream view of history" that completely reversed black and white, and misled people from generation to generation in schools!

Even the enemy of the Beiyang Navy himself has the evaluation that "the enemy ship fought to the death, and should be blinded to the bottom of the sea", and the descendants who defended with their lives as heroes did not hesitate to chew and repeat those shameless lies over and over again to slander their ancestors!

How can the heroes who sleep at the bottom of the sea be blind!

"Someday, I'm going to vindicate these heroes!"

At that time, Yang Shuoming made a solemn oath in his heart.

And as soon as he thought of the heart-wrenching past he experienced in later generations, Yang Shuoming's heart was sad and indignant.

At this time, Yang Shuoming seemed to be back in middle school history class.

When the teacher tirelessly talked about "the officers and men of the Beiyang Navy drying their clothes on the barrels of the main guns," his words rang in his ears again when he questioned the history teacher.

"Teacher, do you know what is the caliber of the main gun of the 'Dingyuan' ship? And what is the height from the deck? ”

"How can a man risk falling to his death and climb onto the slippery barrel to dry his clothes?"

And the result of such questioning of authority is to punish the station and find the parents.

But he was stubborn and refused to admit his mistakes.

"I'm not wrong! Why should I admit my mistake!? ”

"Whether it is the notes of the reporters accompanying the army at that time, or the memoirs of foreign employees who served in the Beiyang Navy at that time, they all spoke highly of the performance of the officers and men of the Beiyang Navy in the Battle of Dadonggou!"

"Teacher, do you know the person Ma Jifen?"

"I'll tell you who he is, teacher, who was the second officer of the guns of the ironclad ship 'Zhenyuan' and a lieutenant in the United States Navy. This foreigner once fought valiantly in the Battle of Dadonggou and was seriously wounded! After the end of the war, after returning to China, he wrote books and speeches, gave speeches everywhere, spared no effort to recount the heroic combat deeds of the officers and men of the Beiyang Navy, and called for the defeated Beiyang Navy to be given the respect it deserved! to reverse the prejudice of the people of the Beiyang Navy at that time! Teacher! ”

"Teacher, do you know? He committed suicide on the second anniversary of the suicide and martyrdom of his former boss and comrades-in-arms Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun, and Yang Yonglin! In order to defend and alert our fellow citizens with his death! ”

In the end, the teacher could not debate with him, but chose another way to enlighten him.

“…… I know that you are a good learner, your grades have always been good, and you have a wide range of extracurricular knowledge, but you must know that when you take the test, what you know cannot be taken as the right answer! I also admit that what you said makes sense, but what I teach you is the mainstream view of history! It's the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period! Do you understand? If you want to be admitted to a key high school or university, you have to answer the questions according to what I teach, understand? ”

"I'm telling you this for your own good! I don't want to see you be misled by these 'non-mainstream ideas' and delay your studies and ruin your future! ”

In the face of the teacher's warm and caring admonition, he was silent for the first time.

But in his heart, he has always been indignant for those heroes who sleep in the sea.

Because of his experience as a teenager, he paid more attention to the Beiyang Navy.

After the Internet, he had the opportunity to get in touch with more knowledge and a deeper understanding of that history.

And as he learned more about history, his antipathy to the lies that pervaded him became stronger and stronger.

"General, are you alright?" Xi Xue looked at him with some concern and asked softly.

Yang Shuoming finally came back to his senses, he smiled bitterly, and asked Xi Xue, "Does Xi Xue know about the Beiyang Navy?" ”

"Know." Xi Xue smiled slightly and said, "When I was in Yunjiban before, I had a sister who was from Anhui, and she was the hometown of Lord Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Navy Division. ”

"Oh?" Yang Shuoming couldn't help but be stunned when he heard her words, "Does she know about Admiral Ding's hometown?" ”

"Yes, I remember she said that her home is not far from Langzhong Village, Gaolin Township, Lord Ding's hometown, and she went to play with her friends when she was a child, and saw a large tombstone in the barren grass on the hillside behind the village. She didn't know that she was scared at the time, she just thought that the words engraved on the stone tablet were beautiful. Later, the lord told him that those were the graves of the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy who defected to Lord Ding. ”

Listening to Xi Xue's narration, Yang Shuoming's face showed a look of concentration.

She went there many times later, and the old man in the village told her that these graves were all joint graves of husband and wife, and she was very envious that the husband and wife could stay together after they died, and she looked at the tombstone carefully, learned to recognize the words on it, and looked at it, and she suddenly found that the death of a man on each tombstone was the eighteenth day of August in the first year of the first year, and the cause of death was written in a bloody battle, and the death of each woman was two months later. She was very strange, so she asked the old man what was going on, and the old man said that it was because the news reached his hometown two months after the death of the men who had defected to Lord Ding in the village, and their widows all chose to commit suicide on the same day and went with their husbands. ”

Although the tone of Xi Xue's narration was as flat as ever, as if she was telling a small story from the past, it sounded like a thunderstorm on the ground to Yang Shuoming's ears at this time!

"I didn't know there was such a thing yet...... Yang Shuoming's fists had turned white because of the hard clenching.

These things have been covered up by the so-called "mainstream view of history" forged by lies in later generations, and people have no way of knowing! Thinking of those shocking tombstones that made people can't help but burst into tears, as well as the injustices suffered by those Beiyang Navy officers and men who had been detained for a hundred years, Yang Shuoming felt as if his heart was bleeding.

There is no navy after the North Seas! It does not refer to the warships of the Navy, but to the defeat of the Beiyang, those sea souls that have passed, and the national self-confidence and pride that have disappeared!

If there is anything that can recover those sea souls who went to the sea, it is to rebuild the navy, rebuild the Beiyang, and finally wash away the shame of the snow and the first day with a real victory!

At this moment, the "Flying Fish 9" quietly sailed into the waters of Dadonggou, and Xiao Yonglin, after careful proofreading, commanded the "Flying Fish 9" to anchor on the battlefield that year.

On the Chinese submarine floating on the sea, the ceremony of commemorating the martyrs of the Beiyang Navy officially began.

Xiao Yonglin opened the sacrificial text drafted by Yang Shuoming himself, and read it aloud:

"In the first year of Guangxu in the former Qing Dynasty, it was said that Kou invaded my territory and killed my people, and my Beiyang Navy rose up to fight, although the ship was not fast, and the artillery was slow, but the whole army, the soldiers used their lives, there was no retreat, they killed the enemy bravely, and there was no turning back. Although unfortunately defeated, although he died, and the voice of the navy was Waiver, so he immediately served the country! May the loyal soul of my Beiyang Navy rest in heaven! ”

Xiao Yonglin's voice fell. The deck guns on the "Exocet 9" were fired, and the rumbling sound of the guns resounded through the sea and air. At this moment, the officers and men of the Chinese Navy express their high respect to the ancestors of the Beiyang Navy who are buried at the bottom of the sea in this way.

In the midst of the rumbling of cannons, at the bow of the boat, two sailors carried a wreath with the five-color national flag and the flag of the Tsuyomoto Navy captured in the last naval battle, and in the solemn sound of the cannon, the wreath was thrown into the sea from the bow of the ship.

For more than 20 years, this is the first time that the Chinese Navy has paid tribute to the officers and men of the Beiyang Navy who sacrificed their lives for the country in the First Sino-Japanese War.

(To be continued)