When it was almost dawn, Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi, who had risen early, came to the bridge, and the captain of the Yura, who had arrived before him, Tomosa Ichiro Osa, and the officer of the bridge, immediately bowed to him—the commander of the 4th Sentai of the 8th Fleet at this time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"What's out of the ordinary?" Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi had a nightmare last night when he saw dozens of Shina planes attacking his fleet at Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean. It was almost five o'clock when he woke up, and although the 8th Fleet was in the entire 4th Fleet, he still didn't feel at ease to come up and take a look.

"Your Excellency, there is nothing out of the ordinary." Tosei Sashi Lang Dasa replied, and he immediately glanced at the dark west and said, "The people of Shina are asleep, and when they wake up again, they will definitely be surprised by the daring surprise attack of the imperial army!" ”

"Worry about the Shina Navy!" Seeing that his subordinates were so optimistic, Nan Yunzhong suddenly said in his consciousness, he always felt that there was something abnormal today.

"Yes, Your Excellency!" Tomosari, Ichichiro, and a cadre of the Sailor replied with a smile. Nanyun Zhong also felt a little funny as soon as he finished speaking, not to mention the flagship Ashigara of the 4th Fleet, even the Blowing Snow and Ruozhu of the Destroyer Fleet could also sink the abominable Ninghai without a trace. Thinking of Ning Nan Nanyunzhong's hatred of the Zhi Na people in his heart, the thought came up again: the empire is really good to the Zhi Na people, according to their naval military expenses, help them build warships and help them build the navy, but the Zhi Na people are brutal and ignorant, and they don't understand that the empire is protecting the Zhi Na, and the empire is the enemy everywhere......

- The Shina warship that 'sank' Tatsuda Maru was actually made in Japan! This caused great protests throughout Japan. Of course, this is conclusive evidence of the ingratitude of the Shina people, but the naval authorities and Harima Shipyard were also besieged by the angry people, especially Harima Shipyard, whose director was almost assassinated. Although the person who brokered the deal in the Navy has resigned, the people's dissatisfaction with the Navy is far from being resolved, and perhaps only by sinking the Ninghai can they be satisfied.

Sinking Ninghai seemed like an impossible task. During the period when the navy relaxed its search, the Ninghai reappeared in the eastern Pacific the day before yesterday, 'sinking' an imperial oil tanker and a cargo ship, and all the crew members were brutally killed. The voice of 'naval incompetence' was immediately shouted again in the newspapers.

"Your Excellency, the sun is out!" I don't know how long I meditated, but the voice of Captain Tomomo Narosa Ichiro Osaku woke up Nagumo Tadaichi. "Look, it looks like the flag of the Great Japanese Navy!"

Tomonari Saichiro pointed to the east excitedly, his face was full of excitement, and he almost shouted for the board. When Rear Admiral Nagumo turned his head to look over, he really found that today's morning glow was indeed very much like the Rising Sun Banner of the Imperial Navy, which was full of radiance and illuminated everything in heaven and earth.

The huge fleet in the East China Sea cut through the waves, avoiding the main channel and heading for Hangzhou Bay, with destroyers of the 1st and 4th Mine Squadrons guarding the perimeter, and military and command flags flying high on the fleet's flagship, the Ashigara. Vice Admiral Toyoda, the commander of the fleet, also saw the morning glow in the east, which resembled the flag of the Great Japanese Navy, but he did not care about this so-called auspicious omen, but because of the battle discussed by the chief of staff, Rear Admiral Kobayashi Hitoshi - the Shina fleet was sunk except for the Ninghai, which broke diplomatic relations, but the navy was to provide artillery support on the other side before the army artillery was deployed.

"Your Excellency, the mine team should be able to complete this kind of artillery support." The Chief of Staff, Major General Hitoshi Kobayashi, concluded. "The Chinese army built a fort in the direction of Zhapu, and they thought that we would land in Zhapu. Jinshanwei only had the defenders of that division, and the landing force made a successful surprise attack and was soon able to occupy the beachhead. ”

"Has there been any change in the last two days?" Toyota's deputy military commander is a roe deer, but he is also a veteran who has been trained in many aspects, and this landing is related to the international situation - the purpose of the 10th Army's landing is to end the battle in Shanghai as soon as possible and avoid interference by other countries. He did not know that the commander of the 10th Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, landed not to end the war in Shanghai, but to expand it.

"Aviation reconnaissance shows that the Chinese army is building fortifications day and night." "At night, the reconnaissance aircraft can see the lights on the ground, and they will turn on again after the attack is extinguished. However, it is not always in one place where the lights are lit. ”

"You should be a person from China who is testing the sky with the lights to see if there are Imperial planes." The lieutenant general was a little worried.

"Yes, the Army Air Corps also has such suspicions, but nothing can be seen in the night sky, and we don't know what exactly the people of China are hiding." Hitoshi Kobayashi. "But there is good news in the past few days, yesterday was a major festival in Jinshan County, the defenders of Jinshanwei are drinking, and the banquet will not end until tomorrow afternoon."

"Drinking? Yo West! "Vice Admiral Toyoda suddenly wanted to drink a glass of sake, and at the same time imagined in his mind a bunch of drunken and staggered appearances, which is really good!

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"Ahh Don't you, Mom! Outside the Jinshan Acropolis, the Hunan dialect shouted, and Lieutenant General Chen Jiliang, who was dressed in civilian clothes, immediately jumped when he heard the sound, and he stepped on someone. These hat-wearing Hunan soldiers did not sleep in the trenches, but on the side of the road covered with frost.

"Bad luck!" Chen Jiliang subconsciously apologized, but the exit felt wrong, and said in Shanghainese: "Don't get up!" Don't get up! ”

He was nervous here, and the soldier who was stepped on moved his head and stopped talking, as if he had woken up at all. "This ......" The trench crossed the main road in and out of Jinshanwei, and the trenches were all covered with straw soldiers. Chen Jiliang couldn't figure out why they didn't sleep in the trenches, wasn't it safer?

Seeing this, Lieutenant Colonel Zeng Guosheng, who accompanied him out of the city, said: "Miscellaneous teachers are bitter! Winter clothes are not available. At night, I can only sleep with straw and squeeze into a pile, and I can't sleep at all when it is too wet in the trench, so I can only sleep on it. Fortunately, as soon as the straw was covered, the Japanese planes didn't know what was underneath, and they thought that Jinshan was such a bright straw. ”

As soon as Zeng Guosheng said that they didn't have winter clothes, Chen Jiliang saw that the military uniforms on the soldiers in the straw cracks were indeed thin. The cold wind blows in the early morning, and the leaves of the plane trees on the roadside have all gone, except for a cluster of maple trees in the distance, whose leaves are fiery red, as if they still want to retain the colors of autumn. The anti-Japanese army is booming, not to mention winter clothes, even guns are not enough. But the battle was fought by these soldiers who were not fed and clothed. Carefully avoiding the soldiers who slept on the ground, until he walked to the shore and got on the boat, Chen Jiliang did not speak. When the ship docked and was about to go to the island, he said, "Turn around, I'll take a look." ”

The three islands of Jinshan are located on the east side of the Jinshanwei sea area, basically arranged in a straight line, the nearest offshore is Xiaojinshan Island, only 4.2 kilometers, followed by Dajinshan Island, 6.3 kilometers, and the farthest is Turtle Mountain, 7.3 kilometers. The three islands are the largest in area.

There are 0.3 square kilometers, the whole island is diamond-shaped, the longest point is nearly one kilometer, the widest point is 500 meters, and the height of the main peak is 100.5 meters.

At that time, as soon as he saw the Jinshanwei battle plan, Chen Jiliang thought that it was necessary to set up an artillery observation point on Dajinshan Island to correct the firing effect of the land batteries -- the Japanese had air supremacy, but the aircraft could calibrate the guns, and their own side could only observe on land, and although the Jinshan Acropolis was a good observation point, the Japanese naval guns would definitely bombard the city wall, and Dajinshan Island was a rock-based island, which was harder than the city wall, and it was best to set up an observation post here to observe the artillery landing point and provide corrective data. Originally, the navy did not want to talk about repairing the forts, even the money for laying mines was not enough, but fortunately, a lot of money was seized on the Longtian Maru, and the more than 800 tons of copper material that could be sold immediately (the United States is a major copper exporter) was worth more than 400,000 national dollars.

"There are a total of four artillery observation posts on the island," Major Ye Keyu, a Pinghai ship in the same boat, is also dressed as a fisherman, and he is the person in charge of the entire Dajinshan Island. "It is the best lookout in the whole army, and once the Japanese ships approach and start an artillery battle with our battery, this can provide the most accurate artillery correction parameters to the front-line battery."

"Is it a wired phone or a radio?" Chen Jiliang pursued the details. For the sake of secrecy, he came in civilian clothes only the day before yesterday, and now he is inspecting various places after his arrival to cheer up the officers and sailors.

"There's a phone and there's a radio." Major Ye Keyu said. "It is also equipped with signal flares, a total of four colors, representing the left and right, front and back, and one shot represents a deviation of 100 meters."

"Flares?" The fishing boat had already docked, and Chen Jiliang, who had landed on the shore, said: "The signal flare will be discovered by the Japanese army." Once discovered, it will be dangerous here, is there enough troops arranged? ”

"I've seen the commander in my humble position!" Captain Liang Xuzhao, the captain of the Hu Peng, stood on the shore with his chest upright, also dressed as a fisherman, if it weren't for the regulations that did not allow him to salute, he would have led everyone to salute Chen Jiliang.

"You're welcome, you've worked hard!" Chen Jiliang glanced at Liang Xuzhao, this is a member of the Liang family in Sanxi, Jiangtian, Changle, his grandfather's generation Liang Chen was the pipe gun of the Ji'an gunboat, and was martyred in the Battle of Majiang; Of course, there are not very glorious things, on the Jiyuan that escaped from the battle on the first day, Liang Zuquan is the chief manager of the Jiyuan. Although Liang Xuzhao was well-rooted, he was able to go to Dajinshan Island because of his own ability -- seeing that the three torpedo boats of the Lake Falcon, the Lake Eagle, and the Lake Osprey were missing, he keenly felt that the Navy was going to fight against the landing, and the Admiralty also felt that a batch of shore-based torpedoes should be installed on Dajinshan Island, so he agreed to Liang Xuzhao's request.

After Chen Jiliang and Liang Xuzhao finished answering questions, Major Ye Keyu said: "Dajinshan Island is like a battleship, the rocks on the island are hard, and it is difficult to dig fortifications, and the current fortifications can only accommodate one battalion. ”

"Just look at it!" Chen Jiliang had also read about the situation of the fortifications on Dajinshan Island from his previous report, but he was not at ease if he had not seen it in person. Following a rough mountain road, half an hour later he came to the first torpedo launch point.

Walk past several heavy machine gun bunkers and into low, damp caves, which are the torpedo firing points that Captain Liang Xuzhao is responsible for. Walking down the small hole, I turned a few turns in the dim light of the horse lamp, and then went down a long flight of stairs, and the eyes were open - this yurt-like cave was connected to the sea on one side of the low side, and the sea water poured in from a narrow mouth half a meter high and six meters long, and slapped against the torpedo tubes and the stone wall on the side of the launch room. Above the stone wall was a platform with eighteen torpedoes carefully held on an iron frame, and for this purpose there was a small iron boom on the platform, which was used to hang torpedoes.

This was no longer an eighteen-inch torpedo, but a twenty-one-inch torpedo newly purchased from Germany; As for the torpedo tubes, in order to prevent the Germans from revealing information about their purchases to the Japanese, they were ordered separately from the United Kingdom and the United States. There are four torpedo firing points, 28 torpedo tubes, and 84 mines on reserve. Only a very small number of these torpedoes were Japanese-made Type 6 torpedoes ordered for purchase in Ninghai and Pinghai that year, and most of them were German-made T1 torpedoes. This torpedo has a range of 14,000 kilometers at 30 knots and 8,000 meters at 40 knots, with a charge of 320 kilograms. Considering that Dajinshan Island is located east of the center of the entire landing site, the torpedoes fired here (14,000 meters/30 knots) can basically block the entire landing site.

After cordially shaking hands with the sailors and carefully inspecting the defense facilities, tunnels, and water and grain storage at the launch site, Chen Jiliang left satisfied. The rocks on the island are so hard that even large-caliber naval guns can hardly break through the cleverly purchased torpedo chambers. The only way for the Japanese army was to send soldiers to land, but the entire island was under the cover of shore artillery, and as long as the coastal batteries were still there, the Japanese would not be able to take the island, at most they would shell all parts of the island.

In the morning, we will see four torpedo firing points, and in the afternoon, we will go up to the top of the mountain to inspect the artillery observation post. Stone chambers were still dug under the rocks, and in order to prevent shrapnel, the four lookouts were set up exactly like the command towers, and the machine gun bunkers of the Marine Corps were located all under the observation posts. Because they are high on the island, these bunkers are designed to be more hidden.

"If only the observation post and the torpedo launch point could be linked." Visiting the layout of the entire island, Chen Jiliang said a word on the way back at night. "So that everyone can support each other."

"The rocks on the mountain are too hard, and we don't dare to dig in a big way, so we can only do this for three months." Zeng Guosheng has been in charge of Jinshanwei and naturally knows the situation of the fortifications on Dajinshan Island.

"yes." Chen Jiliang just sighed. Now there are mine arrays under Jinshanwei, torpedo arrays on the water, and shore artillery in the air, and the defense can be said to be impregnable. As long as the Japanese dare to come, they will definitely pretend to be bleeding. "Gongbei has worked hard in the past few months!" Chen Jiliang said again.

"It's not hard to fulfill your duties." Zeng Guosheng whispered, with some depression. "I just want this battle to show the morale of the navy."

Zeng Guosheng's thoughtsChen Jiliang knew that he was one of the few officers who strongly opposed the shipwreck in Jiangyin and demanded that the fleet go out of Wusongkou for a decisive battle with the Japanese navy. The Japanese once said: 'In the event of a war, only Li Shijia had the courage to lead a ship to sea'[note 42], and now it seems that Zeng Guosheng was also one of the few generals who dared to lead a ship to sea.

"It's not about morale, it's about shame!" In the dark, Chen Jiliang pondered for a moment, and then said in a voice like a golden stone.