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After bombing the Sasebo Naval Base, Nagasaki Port, and the Yawata Iron Works, Luo Ronghuan, Xiang Ying, Ye Ting, and Cai Zhong commanded various units of the Shandong Military Region to launch an August offensive against the Japanese army and cooperate with the Soviet forces in the Far East. Finally, when 50 motorized ironclad wooden ships were completed, Liu Yimin, who was anxious, ordered to start the operation. Because she was also afraid that the Japanese army would cross the Trans-Khingan Mountains into the Urals, in that case, Germany and Japan would most likely join the city of Moscow.

All the cadres of the Shandong unit of the Eighth Route Army who had worked and lived in Shanghai were transferred to the southbound troops, and even the first was transferred, and the task was to serve as guides for the troops to enter Shanghai.

This time, Liu Yimin used all the ships that could be used, including the six patrol boats and four motorboats captured during the first capture of Jinan, which were carried out of the warehouse of the logistics base and transported to the Shijiu.

Several things also happened in the middle: one thing was that the crew of the "Tongxing Steamer" of Qingdao Yutai Shipping Company disarmed the puppet police escorting the ship on the way back to Qingdao from Taiwan and entered the Shijiu Institute with a boatload of rice; The second incident was that the nine crew members of the large Japanese steamship "Ryukai Maru" killed a Japanese soldier who was escorting the ship after leaving Qingdao, and arrived at Shijiu with 50,000 pieces of military cloth; The third thing was that one of the Chinese crew members of the Japanese steamer "Hualong" declared an uprising, and also drove the ship to Shijiusu, and entered the base area.

Historically, these three events took place in 1943 and 1944, and now history has changed, the Eighth Route Army captured Qingdao twice, the underground party in Qingdao was greatly strengthened, and the work of the labor movement in the transportation industry and other departments began to bear fruit. If this momentum continues, perhaps within two years, all 62 civilian steamships in Qingdao will sail to the base area.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army had 12 warships, 13 steamships, six patrol boats, four motorboats, and 50 motorized ironclad wooden sailing ships to form a fleet of considerable size. Moreover, the method adopted by the Eighth Route Army was to tow wooden boats and wooden rows behind the ships, and warships and steamships were all used as power boats.

Six patrol boats and four motorboats were not incorporated into the transport fleet, but carried an advance team composed of the No. 1 Special Operations Squadron and the No. 1 Sniper Squadron with plaster flags on their ships, and as the spearhead of the southbound troops, they set off first to carry out secret missions.

As soon as it was dark on 16 September, torches and headlights were lit on the harbor of Shijiusuo, and the units of the first column and the cavalry column of the southbound detachment boarded the ships as regiments and battalions. Heavy equipment boarded the ship through the original trestle bridges and several trestle bridges repaired by the Eighth Route Army, and the infantry and cavalry units boarded the ship directly in shallow water.

Luo Ronghuan, Xiang Ying, Ye Ting, and Li Yu, who rushed to see them off, said goodbye to Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong on the beach.

Luo Ronghuan looked at the vast night, looked at the troops who quietly boarded the ship in the night, his eyes were wet, and he said to Liu Yimin: "Commander, since I came to work in the Seventh Army Corps, the two of us have never been separated from each other in a major campaign operation, and this is the first time. The sea is rough and all accidents can happen. You must be cautious and do not take risks. It doesn't matter whether Shanghai can be captured or not, there will be opportunities in the future, and ensuring the safety of the troops going south is the most important thing.

This is the most elite unit of our army! ”

Liu Yimin laughed: "Political commissar, why are you more verbose than Lin Yueqin?" Rest assured, the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet is far away in Vladivostok and the mainland, the main force of the Third Fleet used by the Japanese army for the invasion of China is in the south and southeast coasts of China, and the main force of the Fourth Fleet has also been transferred to the northeast. From Qingdao to Shanghai there was no main fleet of the Japanese army. Greater Shanghai is already beckoning to us! Don't say anything, be ready to receive supplies, this time, I want to make the Japanese invasion of Central China poor as pants! ”

Luo Ronghuan was amused and laughed, and even said that Liu Yimin was too bad. When the little devil met Liu Yimin, he was considered to have fallen for eight lifetimes!

At 12 o'clock in the night, when the troops finished boarding, Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong shook hands with Luo Ronghuan, Xiang Ying, Ye Ting, and Li Yu, saluted goodbye, and turned around and walked towards the fleet.

The voices of Luo Ronghuan, Ye Ting, and Xiang Ying echoed in the night sky: "Victory!" A victorious start! A victorious start! ”

After Liu Yimin boarded the ship, he immediately ordered the fleet. Suddenly, the whistle sounded, and the fleet slowly sailed away from the stone mortar and headed for the sea.

Sailing on the sea at night is a very charming thing.

It was the first time for Cai Zhong to sail on a steamer at night on the sea, and his eyes were not enough to call him when he sat on the boat, so he kept looking at the night view of the sea.

Looking at it, Cai Zhong couldn't help but say to Liu Yimin Commander, do you say that there is a dragon king at the bottom of the sea? ”

Liu Yimin was also intoxicated by the night view of the sea, and said softly when he heard the words: "We are the Dragon King, can't you feel it?" ”

Cai Zhong's eyes looked straight at Liu Yimin, and he saw that in the vast night, Liu Yimin's majestic figure was leaning on the side of the ship, like a pillar, and his eyes became brighter and brighter in the dark night, like stars.

Cai Zhong said again: "When we win in the future, the two of us will take some time, take our wives and children, go to sea by boat, and visit all Europe, Africa, and America to see what those places are like." ”

Liu Yimin replied: "Then you have to do diplomacy." Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't have this opportunity. ”

While the two of them were talking, He Xinghua, who was accompanying the team, came to report and received a telegram from the Central Committee and the General Headquarters, asking about the size of the wind and waves at sea, whether the troops on the wooden platoon were greatly affected, and whether they were safe or not?

Liu Yimin ordered He Xinghua to call back the Central Committee and the General Headquarters, and everything was normal. It will enter a state of radio silence and report after the capture of Shanghai.

It was not Liu Yimin who served as the commander-in-chief of the sea march, but Zhou Zhijian, vice president of the Naval Academy and deputy commander of the coastal defense detachment, who already had experience in commanding the fleet. Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong then set up their headquarters on Zhou Zijian's flagship.

Zhou Zijian, during his operation with the merchant fleet in Qingdao, found the textbooks of the naval school and began to study on his own. With such a large fleet sailing at night, Zhou Zijian instructed the crew to conduct deductions in advance, relying on signal light communication to keep the formation of the fleet in chaos and sail safely.

Due to the long distance, warships and steamers were carrying a long fleet of wooden boats and wooden platoons, and the speed could not be increased, so they could only travel day and night.

During the day, the view from the sea is even more beautiful. Flocks of seagulls flew from the sky, chirping around the fleet, embellishing the scene of the sea and the sky vividly.

Tang Xingying and Zhao Xiaoman, who were moving with the fleet, excitedly took off their military uniforms and put on skirts, letting Huang Wei take pictures and leave a beautiful picture.

The Japanese army could not have imagined that there was a fleet of ships of the Eighth Route Army rushing towards Shanghai in the vast sea, and during the day, there were occasional Japanese reconnaissance planes passing by, and when they saw the Eighth Route Army wearing Japanese military uniforms waving the sun flag and waving the flag, the Japanese pilots stopped paying attention.

You must know that the Chinese navy basically did not exist as early as the Battle of Songhu, especially after the end of the southeast coastal offensive, the Japanese army controlled the long Chinese coastline from Dalian to Hainan and Shenzhen. At this time, there was a squadron of ships to camouflage the Japanese army going south, it was incredible, not to mention that the pilot of the devil reconnaissance plane could not think of it, even the rebirth of Amaterasu Okami probably could not be imagined.

On the morning of September 18, when the Japanese army started the Second Battle of Changsha, Wu Jiguang, the head of the Shanghai Intelligence Section, received a secret telegram from his hometown.

The Shanghai Intelligence Section is a continuation of the Special Branch, and its mission after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War was changed to the strategic intelligence reconnaissance of the Japanese army. The reason why he undertook such an important task was because there were two Japanese ** members trained by Wang Xuewen, a professor at Shanghai Tongwen College and one of the leaders of the Shanghai underground party, Nakanishi Gong and Nishiri Ryufu. Both of them had studied at the Shanghai Tongwen College and were developed into the party by Wang Xuewen.

After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ryuo Nishiri, who worked as a reporter at the Japanese United News Agency in Shanghai, became an adviser to the Central China Dispatch Army Command and entered the high-level of the Japanese army. With these two people, the task of the Shanghai Intelligence Section became to reconnoiter the strategic intelligence of the Japanese army.

After reading the telegram, Wu Jiguang immediately secretly contacted Cheng Hesheng, the leader of the special investigation squad set up in the investigation room of the Manchurian Railway Office, and asked him to bring out all the members of the special investigation squad to meet urgently and carry out the task.

After the meeting, Wu Jiguang said to Cheng Hesheng and several party members: "Please take an oath that I guarantee the confidentiality of the conservative party, and if you violate it, you will be willing to be disciplined!" ”

Several people all raised their fists and solemnly swore an oath: "I promise the secrets of the Conservative Party, and if there is any violation, I am willing to be disciplined!" ”

After several people took the oath, Wu Jiguang said: "Hometown emergency, General Liu Yimin, the legendary hero of our army and the invincible general of the anti-Japanese resistance, is leading the elite troops to march to Shanghai, and Shanghai will be captured tonight

This is simply great news, Cheng Hesheng and the others all widened their eyes, their mouths grew into a 0-shape, and they almost cheered.

Wu Jiguang continued: "Our task is to go to the docks and dock the main fleet!" ”

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