The Admiralty on the North Zhongshan Road in Rujiangmen seems to have been a little stormy during this period of time -- on August 22, the Electric Mine School, which 'severely damaged' the Japanese landing force in the vicinity of Xiaochuansha and Lion Forest in Shanghai, has unsurprisingly become the darling of the Chinese people and the Supreme Command. Chen Cheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs and www.biquge.info, and a group of people from the Supervision Yuan, entangled with the newspapers and public opinion, went so far as to demand the abolition of the Admiralty or petition the government to let the Electric Mine School take over the Admiralty, for a very simple reason: The Navy would only sink ships and retreat westward, but the Electric Mine School would be able to strike boldly, snipe at the Japanese landing force, and win glory for the party-state. For this reason, Ta Kung Pao also published a special editorial called 'Where is China's navy?!' ’

All the pressure was on the shoulders of the Minister of the Navy, Chen Shaokuan, although the Admiralty had two major arrangements in its hands, but neither of these arrangements could be leaked, especially the arrangement on Jin Shanwei's side. The war situation is becoming more and more like Li Kongrong's judgment: China and Japan are increasing their troops in Shanghai, and in order to get mediation from various countries, Chang Kaishen will only concede to the country. The army was hard to support, and the result of the hard support was that Jinshan Weiyi was landed, and the army was in turmoil. The army collapsed to Nanjing, and then to Wuhan. In this case, the defense line on the side of Jin Shanwei is extremely important. The army calmly retreated, and then entrenched in Nanjing, at least for a period of time; If you say it in a small way, you can help the country. The army escaped alive to wait for Wuhan to regain its strength.

In view of the frequent leaks of secrets by the Military Commission -- on August 26, Chang Kaishen, who was supposed to go to Shanghai with the British ambassador, did not go because of an accident, and what was frightening was that the car was actually blown up by a Japanese plane on the road to Shanghai, and several British embassy personnel, including the British ambassador Sir Xu Gesen, died. Even the leader's itinerary could not be saved, and once Jin Shanwei reported to the Military Commission, the Japanese would definitely know about it.

The Ninghai had the hope of reversing the current situation, but it did not want the situation to be completely different from what he imagined: there were more than 100 foreigners on the Tatsuda Maru, including 79 Americans. At this time, Chang Kaishen, who was suffering from the death of the British ambassador Sir Xu Gesen, and had some hopes for Anglo-American mediation, was immediately furious. He bluntly said on the phone that the navy's actions would definitely cause China to 'destroy the country and extinct the species.'"

In the office of the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Chen Shaokuan, who had never smoked, also had a cigarette in his mouth, but the cigarette was not lit. Compared with his predecessors Yang Shuzhuang and Du Xiqi, he is naturally not a navy minister with an iron will and good at decisiveness, he is more like an intermediate coordinator who does not offend and balances everywhere. This time, I listened to Li Kongrong's words, in addition to worrying that the electric thunder school would replace him, and because his judgment was too terrifying, he used the very small force of the navy to go to Jinshanwei to arrange;

The Ninghai only went to sea, saying that it was a breach of diplomatic relations, but in fact it was a capture of a Japanese mail ship, and the Admiralty could let the Ninghai dock at a third country's port at any time to protect the ship. The arrangement was extremely proper, and they didn't want to make such a thing just by capturing Tatsuda Maru - they didn't expect that the Japanese cruise ship would not stop sailing in the face of the Ninghai, which completely violated the captain's ethics and the practice of all countries in the world.

"When I let Youzhi go, didn't I value his decisiveness and the overall situation." Chen Shaokuan did not light the cigarette, and Lieutenant General Chen Jiliang on the side swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog while speaking, but fortunately, the window was open, and it was windy today, and the smoke was blown out of the window as soon as it was spitted out.

"No matter how good the overall situation is, it may not be clear that there are more than 100 friendly people on the cruise." Chen Shaokuan smiled self-deprecatingly, and put down the cigarette on his mouth. "Once it sinks, not to mention that the aircraft carrier is gone, it will be... Will it ......" Chen Shaokuan couldn't go on, the four words 'destroying the country and exterminating the species' weighed more than 1,000 catties, and he had been completely suppressed.

"Longtian Maru does not stop the ship, and the responsibility for sinking it will naturally be borne by the Japanese side, I really don't know......" Chen Jiliang naturally didn't know what Chang Kaishen was thinking in his heart. What a Japanese cruise ship is, it sinks when it sinks. What I care about is that the Ninghai should be intact, and after this time, I think the Japanese Navy will definitely hunt down the Ninghai all over the ocean, and it must sink her. ”

Chen Jiliang's words pulled Chen Shaokuan from his sorrow to reality, indeed, the Ninghai is the most important, as long as the ship is saved, this capture will be a heroic move in the future, no matter how unhappy Chang Kaishen is, he still has to admit it. The brows finally opened up a little, and Chen Shaokuan said: "Then it's up to Gao Youzhi!" ”

Colonel Gao Xianshen, who was in the eastern Pacific, naturally did not know the high expectations of Navy Minister Chen Shaokuan and First Fleet Commander Chen Jiliang, he just watched the sunset and was a little worried. It's almost five o'clock, and when the hundreds of passengers on the ship get off the ship, they will take over the Tatsuda Maru by themselves, and it will be dark if they don't get it. The Japanese Navy does not need to worry for the time being, but the US Navy must be on the way to come, how can it drive this ship to the South Pole, and how can it hide in that ice and snow?

Then there is the problem of the maintenance and fuel of the ship. It takes a lot of time to replace the two steam pipe ruptures, of course, the diesel fuel on the Longtian Pill can be pumped to the Ninghai, but two of the four boilers of the Ninghai are coal-burned, although more diesel fuel was used and less coal was used for counterweight, but coal still had to be consumed under high-speed sailing, and the supply ship could really come on time?

In the eastern Pacific Ocean full of sunset, the Ninghai can be parked on the east side of the behemoth Longtian Maru, the blue sky and white sun flag, the battle flag is still hunting and fluttering on the mast, the two ships are 16,900 tons, and the other is 2,500 tons, the difference in tonnage makes people feel that this is a strong ant subduing a cockroach. On the sea between the two ships, three Ninghai sampans are rowing towards the Tatsuda Maru, and the deputy captain of the ship standing at the front, Colonel Chen Hongtai, will accept the cruise ship on behalf of the Chinese Navy and ask all passengers to leave the ship.

Tatsuda Maru was surprisingly quiet, with only Kimura and a few senior sailors dressed as captains standing on deck, as if to greet Tatsuda Maru's conqueror. It was only in the spotlight that the Ninghai's mast lookout could not be seen, that the second mate, Takahito Sakuma, and the white representative with a rifle, retired Colonel Marco Florenzi of the Italian Navy, carried out the plan.

“…… There was a naval colonel, perhaps the captain, and another was his captain's lieutenant, and the other was a heavily armed sailor, about thirty men, and a sailor leader who led the group. Sakuma explained the situation of the other party's boarding sampan, and his eyes swept over Colonel Florenzi's face - the captain wanted Mr. Bayless of the United States to come forward, but he was too old, and so was Sir Dempsey of England, but fortunately there was no shortage of Americans and Britons among the gunmen. With the fear of white animals in the Ishina, these people will panic as soon as the China people appear, and the cruisers of the China people will also be helpless against Ryuda Maru.

"It's all barbarians!" The gray-bearded Colonel Florenzi drew a cross on his chest, and he remembered the boxers vividly, although the current Chinese did not have braids and wore suits, but barbarism was still barbarism. "We should kill them all."

"No, Colonel, we need hostages, we need to wait until the next day the US Navy comes." The second officer's English is extremely stiff, especially when he is excited, but fortunately, the Italians can roughly understand what he means, hostage! They really need hostages!

The ship's whistle sounded strangely, and the Ninghai was east of the Longtian Maru, and the Chinese naturally boarded the ship from the east. The first to come up were Captain Chen Changtong and ten marines armed with flower traps, and then Captain Chen Hongtai, the deputy captain, and Captain Hou Youchang, the secretary. The glow shone right on their faces, and the Ninghai behind them were all red.

"Contemptible Captain Kimura Hira, welcome aboard." As soon as he saw Colonel Chen Hongtai, Kimura Ping took the crew to bow deeply and greet him, and he couldn't see a little resistance, and after bowing, he smiled again: "Please come to the ship and talk in detail." As long as your ship can release Tatsuda Maru, the company is willing to pay a million yen......"

"No need!" Chen Hongtai changed his previous embarrassing portrait in the engine room, he wore a navy dress with a blue-black background and gold insignia, and he also grabbed a saber in his hand. "On behalf of the Chinese Navy, I accept the Tatsuda Maru, and ask Captain Kimura to inform the passengers to leave the ship immediately, and our ship will tow the Tatsuda Maru to a deeper sea area and sink it."

As soon as Chen Hongtai opened his mouth, he was sunk, and immediately made Kimura, who was full of smiles, stunned, which was the result he had expected before, but he still hoped to bribe the other party with a million yen.

"Your Excellency, if your army is so rude, aren't you afraid of a comprehensive round-up by the Great Japanese Navy?" Kimura didn't speak, and the first mate became arrogant. "The Ninghai is just a low-speed light cruiser, such a warship is not even a destroyer in Japan, Your Excellency really thinks she can escape the retaliation of the Great Japanese Navy?"

"Huh!" Chen Hongtai didn't care about the threat of the Japanese, he smiled and said: "The navy should have died in the ocean. It is an honor for me Chen Hongtai to die in the comprehensive round-up of your navy. ”

Chen Hongtai didn't eat hard and soft, Kimura Ping could only lure him into the cabin at this time, he said: "Your Excellency, Tatsuda Maru is a passenger and cargo ship, and it also carries a lot of valuable goods: automobiles, machine tools, and two million yen of gold exchanged by Yokohama Zhengjin Bank from Bank of America, these valuables must be handed over ......"

Chen Hongtai is an example of a naval officer, not afraid of death for the sake of profit, Kimura can only think of a way from the capture rules. Sure enough, hearing that there were so many things on the ship, Chen Hongtai immediately felt a little moved. Why the Admiralty captured the cruise ship Ninghai is not known, and it can obtain funds from the capture to maintain the follow-up operation, which is known to everyone without an order from the Admiralty.

"Sir, the captain said that you can't enter the cabin, and you must beware of the Japanese cheating." The clerk, Captain Hou Youchang, saw that Chen Hongtai was a little moved, and immediately advised him that he was using Hokkien dialect, and Kimura Ping, who was fluent in Chinese, could not understand it at all. "We just need him to provide the goods documents and then sign for the receipt."

Nodding slightly, Chen Hongtai said, "Captain Kimura, let's hand over here." Please inform passengers and crew to leave the ship immediately. Chen Hongtai also felt that something was wrong, and he also felt that there was no need to go to the cabin to hand over the passengers.

The Chinese were not fooled, and Kimura was extremely disappointed. However, he didn't know who whispered a few words in his ear behind him, and he immediately said: "Your Excellency, as the captain of the Tatsuda Maru, you can't give such a cruel order, so please go to the bridge in person, there is a broadcast there, please personally inform the passengers and crew to abandon the ship." ”

After Kimura finished speaking, he found a place on the deck and sat down, pretending to be sad. He really grasped Chen Hongtai's weakness - the Ninghai did not have an external broadcast, and it was impossible to sink the Longtian Maru before the passengers left the ship, so in order not to personally go to the cabin to inform the passengers to leave, it was the best way to go to the bridge.

"Flag the ship!" Colonel Chen Hongtai gave an order to the signal soldiers who came with him.

"What? To the bridge? Seeing the flag sent by Chen Hongtai on the deck of Longtian Maru, Colonel Gao Xianshen felt that something was wrong.

"Yes, sir." Captain Lin Renji said. "The Japanese captain refused to cooperate!"

"If you want me to say, you should give him a few shots!" Major Gan Lijing, the gunner, who felt that he had made a great contribution, said, "Kill the damn!" ”

"You think he's you?" Gao Xianshen glared at Gan Lijing. He knew that Chen Hongtai was a person who paid great attention to honor, and no matter how bad the Japanese captain was, he was still a civilian, and he would not be able to give him a few shots. "Go in one, go around in front of it. Show me the artillery, if there's anything wrong, just blast me! The colonel ordered.

The Ninghai slowly moved forward, the guns on the port side were always aimed at the Tatsuda Maru, and the lookout on the mast also stared at the nearly 180-meter-long giant ship with wide eyes, intending to notify the guns to fire as soon as there was a disturbance. However, the cruise ship was quiet, and under the leadership of several Japanese, Colonel Chen Hongtai and his party soon boarded the bridge.

The Japanese on the bridge looked at the group of soldiers with steel guns and were extremely nervous, with the assistance of one of the Japanese, Chen Hongtai turned on the radio, he coughed lightly twice, and then pointed into the microphone and said in English: "Passengers, I take over the ...... on behalf of the Chinese Navy."

Colonel Chen Hongtai's first sentence was not finished, 'Horn', the gun went off! He fell to his chest in disbelief - it was the same second officer who had been polite and had helped him turn on the radio.

The sound of gunfire was equal to a signal, and the two hatches at the back of the bridge quickly opened, and a bunch of white men with Japanese-style golden hook rifles rushed out, almost with the lofty slogan of "capturing the Chinese alive".

Sure enough, there is a fraud! The 1st Company Commander Chen Chang didn't say a word to the captain and 'da-da-da' strafing with the flower mechanism, the combat effectiveness of the marines is indeed not very good, but no matter how bad it is, it can beat this group of reckless rabble, not to mention that their weapons have been specially adjusted before departure, and the flower mechanism and shell guns account for the majority, and there are also grenades. 'Boom! Rumble! A few grenades exploded, not to mention those who rushed out, and those who did not scream to surrender or flee for their lives.

"Fuck me!" Chen Chang, who was in control of the situation, scolded the captain, and then looked at Hou Youchang, who fell to the ground and couldn't stand by Chen Hongtai's side, and asked loudly, "What's wrong?" ”

The Japanese who fired the shot had already been killed, but Colonel Chen Hongtai, who was caught off guard, was also dead. Captain Hou Youchang, the clerk, shook his head helplessly when he heard this, and did not answer.

"Kill the! Catch that captain, Lao Tzu wants him to be buried with him! "Captain Chen Changtong kicked down a white man who surrendered with a gun, and got up to arrest the Japanese, he wanted to pay for it with blood!