[98] It turned out to be the Xianning

At the end of January, the temperature in the northern part of the Yangtze River estuary in the East China Sea was very low, and the temperature in the morning was only 2-5 degrees. This situation is much more difficult than the dry cold in the north.

None of the gunners on the deck wanted to wear more, and the boys felt that even one more was a burden, and under this sea fog, it would soon get wet when they put on a padded jacket, although they were new sailors, but they were all old artillerymen, and the early training also proved to them that the shelling at sea needed to adjust the gun position at all times, and under the high-speed shaking of the naval guns, people could sweat in a few minutes. The gunners were wearing only homespun underwear and a yellow military uniform over it. 608 was moving at a high speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, and the sea breeze brought by the ships whistled and rushed towards them, pouring into the clothes of the gunners, and the sea fog soon stained the soldiers' single clothes from the inside out, and everyone felt cold to the marrow.

On the gun emplacement of the 57mm gun in the front of the submarine hunter, Fug, a veteran artilleryman of the new sailor, leaned on the steel plate surrounding the gun emplacement, and held the crank gun plate tightly with both hands, and his palms were already slippery.

"Captain First Gun, this time it's not a fishing boat, is it?" Fugg asked.

"I don't think it's like it's almost at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it shouldn't be a fishing boat. The captain said at a meeting last night that Lao Chiang had blocked the mouth of the Yangtze River, and even the north side of the estuary, as long as the fishermen were discovered, even the boat and its people were arrested. Wang Qingyun, the commander of the first gun, said dizzily as he walked on the storm. At this moment, he is forcibly pressing the dizziness that is constantly spreading in his brain, in order to be a qualified naval artillery commander, he is grinding himself and the artillery of the first gun position every day, just to be able to operate the cannon in place faster according to the data, and practice hard over and over again. In addition to training, they also ran up and down the ship, wiping the deck, wiping their weapons, and they didn't even dare to eat more, for fear that if they were not careful, they would vomit in the dark.

The gunners on each gun position were quietly waiting for orders in the violent turbulence, they leaned against the cold steel plate of the gun, grasped the cold crank of the gun, and blew the cold and damp biting sea breeze, and the violent sea breeze blew many people with red eyes and tears. But everyone still tried to keep their eyes wide and desperately stared at the sea. The anger that has been held back for a long time, the enthusiasm to serve the motherland and the excitement of the first battle are pressed under the chest, pressed in the chest, and it is hot and hot.

The closer it was to noon, the thinner the gray sea fog became, and the veil covering Donghai's face was being lifted.

Finally, ten minutes later, "Report, target found, right ahead, right there!" Observer Du Shi's voice was significantly raised, staring intently at the sea, and pointing forward with his right hand.

"Straight ahead is 1 degree to the right."

"I saw it too! Right there. ”

Following the direction indicated by Du Shi, soon everyone on the observation platform saw the small black dot that was unidentified.

Captain Han Tingfeng and Deputy Captain You Guanghua stared at the direction indicated by the observer Du Shi and found the target, Han Tingfeng quickly made a decision: "You continue to observe until the identity of the other party is determined." Guanghua and I went down. ”

Deputy Captain You Guanghua explained: "Everyone looked carefully and reported immediately if they saw it clearly. ”

After speaking, he followed Han Tingfeng and immediately went down to the bridge.

Captain Han Tingfeng went down to the command room and stood by the slipway, and the reports from the radar room kept changing over and over again, "The radar shows that the target speed is 5 nautical miles, the direction is 181, and our side is 18.5 kilometers away from the target...... Radar shows target velocity ......"

Soon, Han Tingfeng got the sound he wanted the most, and the sound of the observers confirming one after another sounded from the loudspeaker in the bridge,

"Report! It's the gunboats of the Kuomintang! It's the gunboats of the Kuomintang! The other side is heading for our ship. ”

Han Zhoufeng was very excited and immediately picked up the walkie from the slipway:

"I'm Captain Han Tingfeng, and now I order, the whole ship is in combat state, and all personnel are ready to fight! The observers continued to observe and report on the type of ship and firepower configuration of the opposing ship.

Chief Engineer, continue to keep the engine at high speed, first mate, left rudder 50, give me a circle behind the enemy, they should not have discovered us yet.

The correspondent, immediately radio contact, informed 610 and 802 that we had discovered the enemy ships, ordered them to turn on the radar immediately, 802 turned around and went 50 nautical miles north to stand by, 610 immediately rushed to support, and also used the transmitter to send a report to the Qingdao base to report the location of the enemy ships we had found.

First mate, I said hurry up! Get me around the back, quick! All gun emplacements are ready, waiting for my orders! ”

With the rapid rotation of the rudder wheel in the first mate's hand, the 608 boat suddenly changed direction and plunged straight into the rear of the enemy ship.

What kind of ships are these two ships patrolling the coastal channel north of the Yangtze River estuary?

The name of a ship is Xianning, which was originally the Italian Navy's mineship "Lepanto" in China, which "sank" in Shanghai before Mussolini's surrender in 1944, but actually found a shoal and threw down the ship.

Italy means that Lao Tzu can't do it, and that can't be cheaper for you Chinese* pigs, and this ship will be handed over to Japan, which is still resisting in the Axis powers, to continue to disgust you allies.

In 1946, after the surrender of the Japanese army in China, the ship was received by the Kuomintang as a surrender ship in the Chinese theater. In fact, the Japanese military headquarters stationed in China originally planned to sink all the ships in the Chinese theater, but later I thought, will I still have the life to return to Japan after the sinking? What if the poor and crazy Chinese accept their surrender and kill themselves in anger? So I had to hand over the boat obediently.

In this way, a total of 322 Japanese ships of various sizes in China fell into the hands of Chang Kaishen, some of the ships were converted and sold to civilian use, and the rest continued to serve, and the bald man used these ships to block the coastline of New China, occupy the islands, plunder fishermen and fishing boats to go to Taiwan. Most of these ships were shallow-water gunboats and patrol boats, and the Xianning was one of the 10 largest gunboats, and nine of the 10 largest shallow-water gunboats surrendered to the PLA in two large-scale uprisings in April and November 1949, and most of them were later bombed and sunk by Kuomintang planes in retaliation.

According to Jihua, the Kuomintang plans to block the southbound shipping channel with mines, and completely block the road for the supply ships of the People's Liberation Army going south. Considering that the PLA does not have large warships, but only a few old shallow-water gunboats that can be counted on one hand, the task of the Xianning is to lay mines on the shallow-water routes along the coast.

The Xianning didn't come out alone, and it also brought a little brother in the back, what about the gods? It is 10 small gunboats with a displacement of about 50 tons, patrolling along the coast in a line, and the Xianning, with its large tonnage, takes a small gunboat to lay mines from west to east in the channel away from the coast, and goes farther and farther, and has left the other nine small gunboats for more than 20 kilometers, and is preparing to join the small gunboats on the northwest coast.