"Heng Shuai, the information has arrived!"

"Good!" Wang Hengyue, who had been waiting for the news, took the information handed over by Yang Fangyun and looked at it carefully for a while: "Tell the Navy Chief Chen Shaokuan that the Japanese Navy will devote all its strength to fight a decisive battle with us, and the specific configuration of its navy is as follows."

It's here, it's finally here!

The time of Armageddon has finally arrived!

When Wang Hengyue put down the telegram, he felt a burst of emotion in his heart. I have been waiting for this decisive battle. Now, when the telegram reaches him, it will be the time of the decisive battle!

In fact, the Japanese Navy was already doomed to lose this decisive battle from the very beginning.

The "new cipher code" of the navy they use is completely controlled by the Chinese side; The Chinese side is also aware of their decisive battle configuration.

When an enemy no longer has any secrets in front of you, what will be the outcome of this duel?

The only thing Wang Hengyue is concerned about is what kind of way the Chinese Navy will win this decisive battle

"Wei Qing".

"Report to the captain, our ship is approaching Masuda!"

"Oh, got one." On Niu Liancheng's face, except for the stupid look, never want to see a second expression, he held half an unfinished apple in his hand in a daze, and said in a daze: "Open one."

April 20, 1937.

Shikoku, Japan, Masuda.

Everything was going on as usual, and the fishermen got up early, ready to go out to sea, and began their day of infinite repetition.

I heard that an enemy agent had entered Shikoku, but the Japanese fishermen didn't think it had much to do with them.

How they should live, and how they live. Fighting a war is a matter for the government, it has nothing to do with itself, and it is also very far away from itself

Recently, there has been a marked increase in the number of troops and the strengthening of the coastal defense. Listening to those who served as soldiers, the Chinese could attack at any time, just like when they fought Kyushu.

Will the Chinese invade? The Japanese on the island of Shikoku muttered a little in their hearts. No way? What kind of battle do you want to fight?

Most people don't quite believe that war is too far away from them after all.

Masuda Shore Defense Commander Taro Kawaguchi was the most nervous one. Those ignorant Japanese fishermen did not know, but as the commander of the shore defense, he knew very well that the war was getting closer and closer to Japan. If war breaks out, this will be the first place to be attacked.

The shore defense forces are not yet fully in place, can these old artillery pieces in their hands withstand the fire of the Chinese alone? Kawaguchi has no conscience at all.

Early in the morning, Kawaguchi Tara appeared at his position early, checking the artillery and asking about the soldiers.

Hopefully, I can get through it smoothly today.

"Your Excellency, what is that?" His subordinate suddenly asked, pointing to the sea in the distance.

Kawaguchi didn't pay much attention, but he looked through the telescope, and when he looked there, there was a black dot in the distance that looked like the shape of a ship.

Then, the black dot gets closer and closer ̈

Gradually, I was able to see clearly that Kawaguchi Taira's expression became serious, and this thing seemed to look like. One seems like one.

"Warship!" Suddenly, Kawaguchi Taira exclaimed loudly: "Warship! Warships of the people of China! Get ready for battle! Get ready for battle! ”

At 7:10 a.m. on April 20, the Chinese Navy battle cruiser "Wei Qing" appeared in Yitian and immediately launched a bombardment of Yitian!

Large-caliber shells fell one after another, igniting bursts of artillery fire in Yitian. …,

The fishermen, who had risen early and were preparing to go to sea, fell one after another under the sudden artillery fire. The entire Masuda was instantly plunged into a sea of fire.

Compared with the "Weiqing", the shore defense artillery fire of Masuda, as Kawaguchi Tailiang feared, was too weak and old.

Their shells could not cause damage to the "Weiqing" and could not even reach the firing range. However, the artillery fire on the "Wei Qing" can ravage here as much as possible and unscrupulously.

Over the past few years, the Japanese Government has devoted most of its energy to the development and construction of the navy, and it is really unable to do anything about the development of the army and the local defense forces, as well as for the Japanese economy.

Most of the coastal defenses are antiques from decades ago, and the Japanese government never seemed to have any idea of any war on its own soil. Even after the Battle of Kyushu began, it was believed that this was the case.

As a matter of fact, what the Japanese Government thinks is not necessarily wrong, and they have put all their energy into a decisive battle at sea, and if the decisive battle at sea is won, then everything will go in the direction envisaged by the Japanese Government. In the event of failure?

The Japanese government has never thought of the word "failure".

And now the retribution has finally arrived.

The "Wei Qing" seemed to be willing to smash all the shells and raze Yitian to the ground. It constantly combed every inch of Yitian with cannonballs, and constantly used cannonballs to wreak havoc on all the targets it could reach.

Masuda is wailing, and the Japanese are wailing one.

The unsuspecting Japanese fell under artillery fire, and the fishing boats that were preparing to go to sea were devastated.

There is nothing more terrible than this, there is no one.

A small fishing boat had just gone to sea, and when the shelling of the "Wei Qing" began, it desperately avoided it, struggling to avoid the shelling range.

Eventually, however, a shell landed near it. If it is not too much damage for a warship, but it is too destructive for a fishing boat.

The huge column of water fell, knocked the boat over, and then the waves flew and everything was gone

Kawaguchi Taira was stunned to see all this in front of him, but he couldn't do anything. These damn old guns, those damn navy!

At this time, he did not blame the Chinese warships, but vented all his anger on the Japanese government and the navy that had stolen the defense funds.

If more money had been allocated to improve coastal defense facilities, and if more attention had been paid to coastal defense forces, perhaps this would not have been the case.

But it's too late to say anything.

The sound of the cannon suddenly stopped, and the satisfied "Wei Qing" stopped firing cannons, but continued to anchor on the sea for a while, as if reviewing its achievements.

Then, its whistle whistled like a majestic whistle, and slowly left the raging battlefield.

This is the "Masuda Incident"!

In this sudden shelling, 21 houses were destroyed and 17 fishing boats were sunk, and 147 Japanese soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded, and the losses were extremely heavy.

There was no indication beforehand that the Chinese would drive the warship to Yitian, but it all happened

In the aftermath, it was the Chinese government that was the first to respond, and less than an hour after the Yitian incident, at 8 a.m. on April 20, the Chinese government held an emergency press release

At the press conference, the Prime Minister of the Republic of China, Wang Qinglu, told all journalists: ...,

"On April 20, the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Republic of China Navy'Wei Qing, when performing the normal sea patrol mission, was shelled by the Japanese Yitian artillery. While expressing regret, we also strongly condemn the arrogant and deliberate provocation of the Tokyo government of Japan! ”

"Mr. Prime Minister, may I ask, 'Wei Qing, why did the ship appear in the waters of Masuda, Japan?'" A journalist asked this poignant question.

And Wang Qinglu has long been prepared for this question:

"It is well known that the Government of the Republic of China recognizes the 'Democratic Republic of Japan, not the Government of Tokyo, Japan. This time, our "Wei Qing" patrolled to the surface of the Yasuda Sea, in order to fulfill the military cooperation agreement signed with the Democratic Republic of Japan. In this incident, our side lost about 207,000 Chinese dollars, and while condemning it, our side demanded that the Japanese side must compensate for the losses.

That's it, that's it.

If you want to find an excuse, any inexplicable reason - will become an excuse.

In fact, everyone knows very well in their hearts that the government of the Republic of China is just trying to find an excuse to fight a war.

Now, they've done it.

The Tokyo government has been forced to a point where there is no way back, and if the Tokyo government chooses to tolerate it after the "Masuda Incident," then this government will soon collapse.

What's more, the Tokyo government in Japan is also ready for a decisive battle.

"The war is about to begin." When Wang Qinglu held a press conference, Wang Hengyue was sitting in the Strategic Intelligence Bureau, holding Yang Fangyun's teapot in his hand and looking left and right, as if any Sino-Japanese decisive battle was not as important as this teapot.

"It's all ready." Yang Fangyun replied calmly.

"yes, it's ready." Wang Hengyue finally put down the teapot in his hand and smiled; "Fang Yun, to tell you something from the heart, since I was an overseer in Sichuan, I have been thinking, if one day I have great power in my hands, I must find a way to fight a decisive battle with Japan, a decisive battle that is enough to destroy Japan, do you know what this is for?"

Yang Fangyun shook his head, he really didn't know, everyone knew that the president hated Japan, but no one knew what it was for.

The president never told any of them.

Wang Hengyue smiled again and said, "You will never know why this is!" ”