"I'm a reporter for the London Post, may I ask Deputy Chief Cao, do you have any more evidence?" Another foreign reporter stood up and asked, "The picture you are showing now, although very close to the photograph, is not a real photograph except for the fact that the person who made it is highly skilled, so it is difficult to take the picture it provides as real evidence." ”

"Of course there is real evidence." A hint of anger flashed on Cao Rulin's face, "These warships have now been abandoned by the Japanese army in Caofeidian, if you are interested in witnessing the achievements of our Chinese Navy, you might as well go and see for yourself." He looked at several American reporters sitting next to the British reporters, "As far as I know, the US Navy has already sent the cruiser 'Brooklyn' to Caofeidian to inspect the battle situation. ”

Hearing Cao Rulin say this, the originally noisy scene suddenly quieted down, and the foreign reporter did not speak again, but turned on the spotlight and took a close-up of Cao Rulin.

Within a few days, the news of the Chinese Navy's victory in Caofeidian spread all over the world.

Shandong, Zhucheng, the 6th hún brigade headquarters of the Jiangxi Army.

"The navy defeated the Japanese army at Caofeidian, and the Japanese navy has withdrawn from the sea of Tianjin." Xu Yuanjin handed a newspaper to Yang Shuoming and said with a smile, "It should be the two things you got that worked." However, the battle was not draped. ”

"They're doing a good job, much better than I thought." Yang Shuoming took the newspaper and glanced at it quickly, and the "supercomputer eye" immediately began to display the analysis data and gave an imaginary map of possible battle deductions.

Thinking of the scene when the Japanese fleet was attacked by drifting mines on a night of dense fog and mistakenly thought that the Chinese Navy's torpedo boats were attacking and shelled each other, a sneer appeared on the corner of Yang Shuoming's mouth.

"The usefulness of this mine is really amazing" Yang Shuoming's gaze stayed on the large photo in the newspaper, "It's really unexpected that it can play this effect."

"These big ships did not completely sink into the sea, and the Japanese threw them all away." Xu Yuanjin didn't hear the meaning of Yang Shuoming's words, his interest was completely attracted by the Japanese battleships in the photo, which were overturned, sunk or broken, "This doesn't quite fit their unstoppable xìng style." ”

"It's not that they don't want it, it's that it's useless to ask for it." Yang Shuoming smiled and said.

"How?" Xu Yuanjin, who doesn't know much about the navy and ships, asked.

"These warships were all blown up by mines and suffered internal injuries, even if the Japanese could get them back to Japan, that is, to return to the furnace to make steel." Yang Shuoming said.

"You see, these two photos should show the same warship, which was bombed twice in a row, and after the first time it was blown up by a submarine, it looked okay, but in fact, because it was exploded at close range, its keel has been seriously damaged." Yang Shuoming pointed to the photo of the battleship "Settsu" and said, "Even if it can still move after this, the Japanese will immediately drive it out of Caofeidian and return to China, and in the process of sailing at sea, the resonance generated by the machinery will break its dragon bones." It's a pity that the Japanese couldn't drive it away, you look at this photo, it shows that it made the drifting mine explode again, and the result was completely scrapped. ”

"I remember when we tried to explode a mine in the river, I didn't realize that this mine was so powerful." Xu Yuanjin remembered the scene in Ganxi, looked at Yang Shuoming and said, "I thought that you were purely wasting money by doing this thing, but I didn't expect that this thing could blow up such a big ship like this grandma." ”

"Mines look inconspicuous, but for warships, they are much more powerful than artillery." Yang Shuoming smiled and taught Xu Yuanjin a lesson: "The best way to blast a warship is to explode close to the hull, using the fluid impact principle of explosives, a torpedo or mine can sink a large warship." The reason is actually very simple, because the density of water is more than 3,000 times that of air, and the impact of seawater strongly compressed by the explosion of explosives is much more lethal than that of air. In fact, many warships are like this, in artillery battles, the superstructure is basically flattened, and it can be towed back for repair, but once it is hit by a torpedo or mine, the consequence is directly turned into scrap metal. That's the power of underwater blasting. ”

"I see, if these large warships are hit by shells or bombs a few times, it is actually a skin injury, but if the underwater part is destroyed, it is an internal injury or disability." Xu Yuanjin smiled, "Is this the reason?" ”,

"That's right." Yang Shuoming pointed to another photo and said, "Look at this battleship called 'Hanoi', it was destroyed like this for the first time, and it should have been hit by the time bombs of two submarines." ”

"This one is broken into three pieces, and it should be hit by more than one drifting thunder." Xu Yuanjin pointed to the battleship "Satsuma" broken into three parts on another photo and said, "It seems that it was also bombed in two parts, right?" ”

"Yes, it should have been seriously injured after being hit by the first explosion, the keel was already damaged, and it was hit again not long after, and it was broken into three pieces at once." Yang Shuoming nodded and said.

"I haven't heard you say you studied navy, but how do you know that?" Xu Yuanjin asked.

"I've never eaten pork, but I've seen pig runs." Yang Shuoming smiled and replied vaguely.

Of course, he couldn't tell Xu Yuanjin that his knowledge came from the memories of later generations.

Yang Shuoming, who doesn't know much about the history of the war, remembers that he once came to an article in a military magazine, about an American mine that was cleaning up a scrapped anchor mine during World War I, and as a result, the mine exploded, and more than a dozen American sailors on the minesweeper did not wear cushion boots and cushion suits as required because they were careless, and as a result, when the minesweeper was dozens of meters away from the mine, they were shocked by the impact of the minesweeper and bled out

Another telling thing is the explosion in the Strait of Hormuz. The US destroyer USS Kidd, a 10,000-ton "Aegis" destroyer, was hit at close range on the surface by a small boat with more than one ton of explosives, causing dozens of casualties and thus decommissioning the advanced warship that had been built at great expense. Afterwards, some people said that if this was underwater, the "Kidd" would have been directly broken into two and sunk

And the famous saying about mines, "one by one", made Yang Shuoming play to the fullest in this era.

"The Japanese Navy has suffered such heavy losses, if we attack Qingdao, we don't have to worry about the back road for the time being." Xu Yuanjin turned the topic to the current battle situation, "Wu Ziyu has not completely defeated Jinan, the convoy can't come back, and I'm afraid that our attack on Qingdao will be delayed again." ”

Although the newly formed "ironclad chaste" helped him, Wu Peifu still suffered a lot of setbacks when attacking Jinan, and although most of Jinan was already in hand, the Japanese army was still stubbornly resisting, which not only caused great casualties to his third division, but also dragged him down.

"I'm afraid this can't be delayed any longer. Whether he Wu Ziyu comes or not, I will fight on time in Qingdao. Yang Shuoming put down the newspaper and his eyes fell on the map, "We can't give the Japanese more time." ”

For Yang Shuoming, the plan of attacking Qingdao quickly has reached the point where it must be implemented.

Due to the rapid changes in the battlefield situation, the whole war situation has now undergone gratifying changes, and if we can take advantage of this opportunity to expand the results of the battle, take Qingdao as soon as possible, and expel the Japanese troops from Shandong, the war is likely to end in an extremely favorable situation for China.

For the Qingdao operation, Yang Shuoming, with the help of the "supercomputer eye", has drawn up a fairly complete battle plan, and has been recognized by other generals.

Yang Shuoming's plan was to gather troops in Changyi on the northern line and Juxian on the southern line after recovering Jinan and relieving his worries, with Jimo as the base for the northern line and Zhucheng as the base for the southern line, and encircling Qingdao in the north and south. First of all, taking advantage of the weakness of the Japanese army's extreme contempt for the squadron, Yòu broke the Japanese army in Qingdao out of the Qingdao fortress defense system, and then put the main force of the Japanese army into the lake and water network between Gaomi and Anqiu, and then quickly cut off the rear route of the Japanese army to prevent the Japanese army from retreating to Jiaozhou. Due to the lack of defensive terrain in the Hushan area in the Jiaodong area, Yang Shuoming's plan was to have the troops attack the Japanese army in small batches and directions in the form of small detachments. At the same time, Changyi on the northern line and Juxian on the southern line were used as bait, and the Japanese army was deeply penetrated, so that it could be separated from contact with the reinforcements at sea, and then gathered and annihilated.

At the same time of annihilating the Japanese army, Yang Shuoming planned to secretly infiltrate Qingdao with an elite special forces, because the Japanese army hurriedly took over the Qingdao fortress, all aspects were not familiar, and the infiltrated troops would launch an attack and sabotage inside Qingdao, so that the Qingdao Japanese army fell into chaos. The attacking force then quickly attacked and took over the defense of Qingdao.

After the capture of Qingdao, the squadron used the original fortifications of the German army to defend against Japanese naval attacks. At the same time, a mobile unit was deployed on the Jimo-Longkou line to defend against the Japanese landing troops on the periphery, and to seek opportunities to attack the storage points of the Japanese landing materials in Maoshan and other places, to contain the Japanese army's landing in Jiaozhou Bay and Maoshan, and to cut off the Japanese army's sea supply through minelaying and other means to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Qingdao.

In this way, the Japanese army will not be able to retake Qingdao. The loss of Qingdao will greatly damage the morale of the Japanese army, shake the confidence of the Japanese to carry on this war of aggression with great cost, and force the Japanese government, which is worried about the intervention of foreign powers, to consider ending the war through peace talks.

"Yes, the longer it drags on, the worse it will be for us." Xu Yuanjin said, "But fortunately, the navy has won such a big victory, and the Japanese will send reinforcements, and it will be later." ”