The Japanese destroyers on the sea dropped depth charges that could never blow up submarines while scooping up Japanese soldiers who had fallen into the water, but the waves on the surface of the sea were turbulent, and those who fell into the water often disappeared after a few waves, and there was nothing else on the sea except the waves. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the 21st Army, who insisted on setting sail for landing operations as soon as possible, was not on the transport ship, nor was the commander of the 5th Division, and the two had rushed to the nearest command post in Haikou a few days ago.

When they stepped on the land, these old devils were invincible, and they had been vomiting for a day because of the wind and waves, and now they had encountered a deep-sea killer like a submarine, and the faces of the three of them who had forced themselves to calm down also changed - they sank five troop carriers, an ammunition and baggage ship, and a troop carrier collided with a destroyer, and in less than thirty minutes, half of the wing was gone. Nakamura Masao, who was a little sober, put down his binoculars and found Captain Kouda Goro of Chokai, and he said anxiously: "Your Excellency, can't you sink the submarine of the Shina people?" ”

The flotilla was attacked, but the Bird Sea did not rush into the transport fleet to seek the enemy's rescue, and even had a tendency to hide to the side. At this time, the sea of birds has sailed far past the fleet, and is in a zigzag shape at high speed. After listening to the question of the rear admiral, Gu Uda Goro said seriously: "Your Excellency, the world's first Royal Navy has no way to take the submarine of the independent country. ”

"But the soldiers of the Imperial Kingdom ......, hey!" Nakamura slammed his fist on the steel plate in anger, and the Navy's answer really made him unable to ask. He had to bow again and said, "Your Excellency, will the submarine of China still come?" ”

"With the speed of the submarine, it will not come, but he may have been hiding in Qinzhou Bay to attack the imperial ships." Seeing that Nakamura was not asking about the sinking of the Shina submarine, his expression was a little more sincere, and after bowing and saluting back, he said: "Your Excellency, we should be glad that the Shina Navy only has one submarine, and the transportation after landing should be kept as much as possible during the day, and the Shina submarine will not be able to attack during the day." ”

"Daytime?" Nakamura Masao thought of sailing at night this time, and after being a little relieved, he bowed again and said, "Thank you, Your Excellency, I will please." ”

Disappointed but not desperate, Nakamura Masao left the governor's office of the Torikai, but after he left, Furuta Goro pondered, he looked at the dark sea outside and said to himself, "Where will Li Hansheng be?" ”

"There are high-speed propellers on the sea, three, zero three, zero four-zero positions." Inside the U-38 submarine, the hydrolistening room reported to Li Kongrong the movements on the sea. At this time, the U-38 had already left the position where the Japanese transport group had just been slaughtered, and the depth charges overhead were no longer exploding, but four hours had passed, and it would soon be dawn.

"Float up to periscope depth." Li Kongrong just took a nap. In the few hours he took a nap, the submarine had been heading north, but unfortunately, the further north the water became, the shallower it became, and now the depth of the submarine was about sixty meters, and there was no safe depth.

"Float up to periscope depth." Gao Guangyou repeated Li Kongrong's order. Whenever Li Kongrong entered the captain's offensive position on the upper deck of the control cabin, he would stand by the ladder and repeat the command to the control cabin.

The lights in the boat soon turned red, and the periscope rose to its maximum height in the humming of the motors. Maybe it was close to dawn, and it was much darker than before, and he didn't see anything. "Float!" Li Kongrong retracted the periscope and went down the ladder to the control cabin.

"Float." Su Jinghu ordered his subordinates, "The bow of the boat is discharged two hundred liters." The first rudder is fifteen and the tail rudder is ten. ”

"Fifteen at the head and ten at the tail." The horizontal helmsman shouted, controlling the submarine to glide upwards. After half a sound, with a little weightlessness, the hull shook violently, and the submarine floated to the surface again.

"Recharge?" Su Jinghu looked back at Li Kongrong and asked.

"No, we're going to sail at full speed." Li Kongrong shook his head, he was putting on a raincoat and preparing to bridge the ship immediately. "How far is Qinzhou Bay?"

"Report sir, there's still twenty-four nautical miles." Liu Yongren replied that he had just marked the location of the submarine on the voyage.

"Go as far as you can." Li Kongrong asked Gao Guangyou to go to the bridge first, and thought for a moment before replying. "Full speed ahead!"

"Start the console and go full speed ahead!" Su Jinghu shouted and pulled down the bell to drive at full speed.

The time was already five and three o'clock, and it would be dawn at half past six at the latest, and the sun would rise at six fifty-eight o'clock. Even if it is at full speed for 45 minutes, it can only go 12 nautical miles, and the remaining 12 nautical miles can only go underwater, which takes three hours, which is equivalent to saying that the U-38 will not be able to catch up with the landing battle.

The U-38 pursued the Japanese convoy with the rumbling of two MAN nine-cylinder diesel engines, and the Japanese troops, who had spent two hours regrouping their fleet, had just arrived off the coast of Qinzhou. According to the plan, the Japanese were to start shelling after dawn, but the U-38's halfway volley disrupted the original plan. Lieutenant Admiral Toshiyoshi Ando, who learned that the regiment had been attacked, consulted with Takasu Shiro and decided to speed up the landing process and increase the artillery preparations for the landing, so as to shorten the two-day landing plan to one day. So at 5:48 a.m., the Japanese destroyers on the sea began shelling the site of the first shelling.

Garrisoned here was the 170th Division of the 16th Group Army of the Gui Department, and the first round of shelling woke up the soldiers who were still sleeping with their heads covered -- under the command of Bai Chongxi of the Guilin camp, nearly 100,000 troops, including the 88th Army, had gathered in Nanning, especially in the Qinfang Sea Area, but the Japanese landing was not on November 14 and 15, as planned, but on the 17th later. Everyone thought that the Japanese army was not coming, and they didn't think that the shells would come before dawn. After the initial panic, the news of the Japanese artillery bombardment reached the headquarters of the 170th Division from Guantouling in Beihai, and then immediately reported to the headquarters of the 16th Group Army, and finally transmitted to the camp in Guilin along the local telephone line in Guangxi.

Bai Chongxi, the director of the camp who was called by the adjutant, picked up the phone and said the first thing he said: "The Japanese are coming?" ”

"Yes, Brother Jiansheng, the Japanese are here." The commander of the 16th Army, Lieutenant General Xia Wei, was panting, only feeling a fever all over his body, and he said anxiously. "Now it's firing artillery, hitting the North Sea, and the artillery fire is fierce!"

"Hit the North Sea? Heavy artillery fire?! Bai Chongxi on the other end of the phone was taken aback, the intelligence and situation judged that it was a landing in Qinfang, how could he shell Beihai and still have fierce artillery fire?

"Yes. The North Sea was being shelled, and the front line said that the artillery fire was fierce, and that someone had already seen the Japanese ship. Xia Wei relayed the report of the 170th Division, and he himself was not at ease: "Brother Jiansheng, is there a mistake?" ”

"Order the front line to continue scouting!" Bai Chongxi was also puzzled in his heart, and he hung up the phone after saying this. For the factions in various places, it is also said that the Japanese are enemies, and Chang Kaishen is even more enemy. The Japanese are very far away from Guangxi, and before the 77 Incident, they also assisted the Gui family to reorganize the army, and Chang Kaishen, the people of the family fought to the death in 18 years, and then Chang Kaishen has always wanted to defeat the Gui family, but he has been unable to achieve his goal in many ways, is it possible that Chang Kaishen is deceiving this time?

"The Japanese called?" Bai Chongxi was thinking hard, and Chen Cheng, who was specially stationed in Guilin, heard the news and rushed over. He had just gotten up and had not washed his face.

"Yes." Bai Chongxi let go of the doubts in his heart, turned around and pointed to the map on the wall. "It's just...... The front line said that the Japanese army is now shelling Beihai, and the artillery fire is very fierce, not the Qinfang area that we originally predicted. ”

"Shelling the North Sea? Heavy artillery fire? "Chen Cheng was sent to Guilin by Chang Kaishen, saying that he was helping, but it was actually a kind of surveillance. There is news that the Japanese army is operating the Gui system, so Chang Kaishen is very uneasy. "Aren't they landing in the Chinfout? Has the direction of Qinfang been inquired? ”

"Not yet. However, it is impossible for the Japanese army to land rashly, and they have already suffered several losses. Before landing, artillery will be fired, and then mines will be cleared. Bai Chongxi said, "It is also possible that they are feintting, even if it is not a feint, it doesn't matter, the 88th Army has arrived in Nanning yesterday, if the Japanese army does not increase its troops, this battle will be fought." ”

The information was almost one-way transparent, and the number of the first landing force of the Japanese army had long been confirmed by the military commanders, so the Supreme Command adjusted the previous winter offensive operation plan and was determined to hold Nanning. While the first batch of troops was delaying the Japanese army, the follow-up troops of the 4th theater of operations were to rush to Nanning within a month.

Qinzhou Bay is the northernmost part of the Beibu Gulf, with Qinfang on its left and Beihai on its right. If Japan lands from Qinfang, it will be about 30 kilometers away from Qinzhou and about 120 kilometers away from Nanning after going ashore; And if you land from Beihai, you will have to go through Qinzhou to reach Nanning. But this road is far away, and they must newly occupy Hepu, about 30 kilometers north of Beihai, and then travel more than 60 kilometers west to reach Qinzhou, which is a long way.

"Order Hepu to strengthen its vigilance to prevent the Japanese army from sneaking ashore." Bai Chongxi stared at the map, and finally nodded at the location of Hepu under Chen Cheng's nod.

"Yes." The staff officer on one side immediately ran out of the door to inform the front, but as he was going out, he was hit by a staff officer who ran in. Bai Chongxi said unhappily: "Hurry up, what kind of system!" ”

"Report!" It was Bai Chongxi's personal staff officer Wu Zutang who hit the person, his eyes were staring directly at the telegram in his hand, and when he saw Bai Chongxi's displeasure, he saluted and said, "Yes...... Be... It's ......"

"What is it?" Wu Zutang stammered, not to mention Chen Cheng, who was not familiar with him, frowned, and Bai Chongxi, who knew the roots, also had a headache when he looked at it.

"It's the Navy!" Wu Zutang suddenly stopped stuttering when he was in a hurry, but his words about the navy made Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng frown again, the navy has been dismantled and split, where is there any navy.

Bai Chongxi snatched the telegram and found that it did not look up, only to see that it read: "This is the U-38 submarine, which encountered a Japanese landing ship group at 1 a.m. 45 nautical miles north of Qinzhou Bay, and about 70 troop transports have been sunk. I am afraid that I will attack again at night, and I will land all the days and days, and watch all the units of the garrison be on guard. Li Hansheng. Shino. ”

"It's Li Hansheng?!" Bai Chongxi was shocked after reading it. He had heard of this name more than once, and he had been paying attention to this person since Jin Shanwei, but it was only in the first few months that he discovered that this person was not only a wise general, but also a fierce general - he could actually rob a submarine of the German Navy, and then drive back to intercept German cruise ships and sink Japanese aircraft carriers.

"The telegram was sent in clear code?" Bai Chongxi, who was surprised, looked at the upper right corner of the telegram again and found that there was no secret level.

"Yes. The telegram was sent in clear code, and the webmaster said that the other party had high power and the signal was very clear. Wu Zutang said - the reason why the signal is clear is that the army does not understand the navy, the radio communication distance of any ship is thousands of nautical miles, and Guilin is not 300 nautical miles away from Qinzhou Bay, of course the signal is clear.

"Brother rhetoric, I didn't expect that we would have the opportunity to cooperate with the navy, it's really rare, it's rare." Bai Chongxi smiled and said two rare things in a row, and then handed the telegram to Chen Cheng. He immediately ordered: "Call back to the U-38 ship immediately: our unit has already been waiting for each other, and I hope that your ship will kill more enemy soldiers and delay and disrupt the enemy's landing." Speaking of which, Bai Chongxi glanced at Chen Cheng and said, "Just sign my name and that of Chief Chen." ”

"Yes." Wu Zutang got Bai Chongxi's order and rushed out again, but fortunately he didn't hit anyone this time.

"This Li Hansheng is really brave." Chen Cheng sighed after reading the telegram. The telegram said that he had sunk seven transport ships, but he did not think that he was falsely reporting the results of the battle, after all, it was a clear telegram, and the Japanese army would also receive it. Moreover, he knew that the radio could be located, Chongqing caught the spy like this, and the Japanese ship was on the near side, and he dared to send a power to expose his position, which was indeed bold enough.

"People are submarines, so you can hide underwater." Bai Chongxi said with a smile. "If he really sank seven Japanese troop carriers, then the Japanese would definitely not dare to spend the night at sea, and they would definitely land during the day, it seems that this Hepu ......"

Bai Chongxi was worried that the Japanese army would really land in Hepu, but in Haikou, the commander of the 21st Army, Ando Toshiyoshi, who also received the U-38 telegram, was furious. The submarine not only killed more than half of the Japanese troops, but also transmitted vital information to the defenders of China.

"The Navy is so incompetent!" Toshikichi Ando roared, getting angry at the Shina submarine and getting angry with the navy.

"Your Excellency, the Navy has informed that additional ships will be sent from within the country." Chief of Staff Tsuchihashi has long been ruthless with the navy, but now it is not possible to do without the navy, and the only feasible thing is to land as soon as possible. "I suggest that the feint attack be stopped immediately and that Qinzhou be attacked immediately as planned."

"That's all there is to it." Ando nodded helplessly, he made up his mind that after this battle, he must sue the navy to the base camp - the navy that costs hundreds of millions of dollars can't deal with a small submarine, how will the army fight in the future?

The sky gradually brightened, but it was useless, the sea was stormy, and the 170th Division stationed in Beihai could not see how many Japanese ships there were on the sea. And they don't know what it's called a whole country of heavy artillery fire. There were few teams in the military capital who knew about the heavy artillery fire, and now, there were only two Japanese destroyers shelling on the surface of the North Sea. (To be continued.) )