"The Right Wing Army of the National Revolutionary Army is encircling and annihilating the Japanese troops who want to land and flank our troops in the Jinshanwei area, and they will at least destroy the two main divisions of the Japanese army and a part of the warships of the 4th Fleet...... "Chang Kaishen's resting office was bright and tidy, and he was extremely energetic in his marshal uniform. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After his routine business, the first person he met with was the German Ambassador to the Republic of China, Dr. Oskar Paul Todmann. The content of the talks was naturally an armistice between China and Japan, but although there was no recognition of the puppet Manchukuo's demand, the Japanese wanted to set up a North China demilitarized zone and expand the Shanghai demilitarized zone in accordance with the current occupation zone, and this was unacceptable to the government.

"Mr. Ambassador, our army is encircling and annihilating the Japanese landing force in the Jinshan area of Shanghai, and our side is expected to destroy the Japanese army......" Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui, who was the translator, glanced at Chang Kaishen, and he couldn't believe the news at all! Two divisions? There were only five and a half divisions in Shanghai and five divisions in North China.

Chang Kaishen didn't care about Wang Chonghui's suspicions, and only nodded heavily when he saw him.

“…… Two divisions of the Japanese army, also ...... A part of the warships of the 4th Fleet of the Japanese Navy will be destroyed. Wang Chonghui stammered the whole sentence, his tongue was a little knotted, if this was true, it would be the first big victory since the start of the war. This would give hope to the Nine-Power Pact Conference that none of the countries wanted to commit military force to restrain Japan, and if China could prove that it could repel the Japanese army, the conference would be very rewarding.

"Is this real?" In the three months since the war began, Ambassador Todman has been very clear about what has happened, and the German military advisers stationed in China have also been helpless against the powerful Japanese army, and the now weak Chinese army is actually trying to annihilate two Japanese divisions; he is very suspicious that this is Chang Kaishen's opening of the river, and the purpose is naturally to bargain over the negotiations -- Germany has pinned great hopes on the Sino-Japanese peace talks, and if the peace talks fail, in addition to the fact that China and Japan will continue to fight, the relations between Germany and China will also be greatly affected.

"Mr. Ambassador, this is happening, if you want, you can visit Jinshanwei in person." Chang Kaishen, dressed in a marshal's dress, was extremely proud, and he finally tasted a hint of the sweetness of victory, although it came too late. "Mr. Ambassador, I don't want to go to war with Japan, but the Japanese army is taking over our land and bombing our cities. Now the demand of the National Government is only to restore the pre-war status. If it were to agree to the establishment of the North China Demilitarized Zone and the expansion of the Shanghai Demilitarized Zone, the Nationalist Government would be overwhelmed by the tide of public opinion. If the Nationalist Government falls, the result will be that the Communists will have the upper hand in China, and they will continue to fight Japan with the support of other countries, is this really the result that Japan and your country want? ”

Todman wanted to say that what the Japanese army was doing now was only to protect overseas Chinese, not to occupy Chinese territory, and that they were protecting overseas Chinese because the Chinese diaspora was constantly being bloodily killed by anti-Japanese elements supported by the government, and that the war in Shanghai was completely caused by the Chinese army's violation of the Songhu Armistice Agreement. However, the origin of the incident and the outcome of the incident obviously do not belong to the same category, and if the Nationalist government really collapses and the communist government comes to power, then Germany's painstaking attack against the Soviet Union will fail, and Japan will be deeply involved in the Chinese battlefield.

"Your Excellency, I will try to persuade the Japanese government to accept the request to return to the pre-war status quo." After careful consideration, Todman had to agree with Chang Kaishen that the collapse of the Nationalist Government would only get worse.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Ambassador." Chang Kaishen finally showed some smiles on his face. As a former Shanghai gangster and a little red guy deflated, he naturally knows the truth of accepting it when he sees it, not to mention that he doesn't want to go to war with Japan at all, but the barbaric Japanese are not docile Chinese citizens after all, not only are they not frightened by his bluffing, but they arouse their ferocity.

"In addition, I also hope that Mr. Ambassador will keep this peace talks confidential, because once public opinion learns that the national government will be in a passive situation, and the peace talks will end without a hitch." Chang Kaishen said the last request, and Tao Deman, who was well aware of China's internal situation, immediately agreed. [note 44]

"Chairman, our army is really in Jinshanwei......" After Tao Deman left, Wang Chonghui, who had endured it for a long time, asked cautiously.

"There is no doubt about the victory, the Supreme Commander has received tangible news!" Chang Kaishen rolled up his sleeves in a chic manner, but he couldn't pull them up, and his face was full of smiles. "This is also the blessing of Qi Shaobao's heroic spirit, and it was the battlefield of the anti-Japanese war more than 500 years ago."

As soon as he said that this was the blessing of Qi Shaobao's heroic spirit, Wang Chonghui believed it a little. It's just that Qi Shaobao's heroic spirit also had a nap, and the first torpedo fired from the Ding torpedo launch station on Dajinshan Island actually exploded there because it was too close to the shallow water area of Turtle Mountain. This caused the islanders to slap their thighs, and the other torpedo, although several destroyers tried to protect their flagships with their own mines, but their 3.2-meter draft and 5.5-meter torpedoes were separated by 2.3 meters, and the torpedo passed through the bottom of these destroyers, and rushed straight to the slow, unturnable foot. Seeing that it was about to hit the target, a Kasuga Maru transport ship, which had been blown up by artillery fire and mines, suddenly turned sideways, and the draft of the merchant ship was obviously higher than that of the warship, and with a loud "boom", the torpedo hit the bow of the Kasuga Maru, and the Japanese troops on the deck immediately flew into the sea.

"Be a brother!" Captain Liang Xuzhao's clenched fists clenched again, and after punching his thigh, he finally let go completely, he was really disappointed.

"One more shot!" Lieutenant Chen Feixiong also knew that the two torpedoes had missed, and now the boom had just hoisted one torpedo, and the sailors had already stuffed it into the fish ****. Liang Xuzhao was disappointed, but he was unwilling.

"Good. Then hit another one! Liang Xuzhao also felt unwilling, he didn't want to wait for the six torpedo tubes to be loaded before launching, now is the most important thing to seize the opportunity. Ready? He saw the fish **** hatch closed, so he asked in a deep voice.

"Torpedo tube No. 1 ready!" Under the stone chamber, Lieutenant Chen Feixiong reported loudly.

"Launch!" Liang Xuzhao waved his hand, and with a 'bang', the historically controversial torpedo jumped out of the torpedo tube and rushed towards the staggering Ashishan. Almost at the same time, a torpedo was fired from Torpedo Station A, and the two white trails were far apart at first, but the closer they got to the Ashigara, one chasing the other, and after passing through two destroyers in succession, they all approached the Ashigara, which was gradually stalling.

"Shoot! Shoot!! On the Ashigara, which lost power, the captain Takeda Moriji Osa roared again, although there was only one torpedo, but the Ashigara had already been hit by two bullets, and if it wanted to escape, it could only be dragged out of this area by other warships. But the people of China will not give up, they will definitely continue to fire torpedoes at the foot handle, and the previous torpedo startled him into a cold sweat. Now that the torpedo came again, he was lying on the microphone and shouting that the starboard guns were firing at the torpedo.

The starboard guns of the Ashigara fired at the white trail that was getting closer and closer to the sea, and several of the destroyers guarding him also fired at the thunder trail, and for a time the guns on the sea were loud. Seeing that the torpedo was getting closer and closer, the foot handle that had lost power and could not turn was in a catastrophe, and I didn't want to 'boom', the water column and fire that rushed to the sky rose from the bottom of the sea, and the sailors actually hit it! The sailors of the nearby warship immediately shouted that they were on board. But before they could shout a few times, there was a loud 'boom' on the side of the Ashigara, and the latter late torpedo hit its amidships, and the two 25mm guns on the side of the ship were immediately blown away. The position of this mine is very close to the position of the first mine, and the new injury and the old injury occur together, and the hull that was already balanced by reverse water injection is sharply **** again.

"Your Excellency, please leave the ship!" Captain Takeda Moriji Osa, who received the report from his subordinates, had a painful face, and he bowed deeply and begged Fleet Commander Vice Takeshi Toyoda to leave the ship. In fact, if you don't listen to the reports of various departments on the ship, you can see that after suffering three heavy torpedoes in a row, the Ashigara, the newest cruiser of the Great Japanese Navy, is about to sink.

The order had been given to evacuate the sea area beforehand, and the main guns on the shore had long since stopped bombarding the transports on the sea, but aimed at the cruisers and destroyers of the 4th Fleet. Excluding those that sank and withdrew immediately due to injuries, the 4th Fleet, which sailed into Hangzhou Bay yesterday, was left with only five cruisers, Ashigara, Tatsuda, Yura, Kinu, and Kawauchi, as well as 14 destroyers, including Fuyuki, Shirayuki, Shiroro, Shiyu, and Shentong, and most of them were wounded. The foot handle sank again, and the entire 4th Fleet lost more than half of its combat strength.

The battlefield is naturally not a place for hesitation, and Vice Admiral Toyota, who has long wanted to withdraw from this sea area, immediately replaced the flagship under artillery fire.

From a distance, seeing the Japanese Vice Admiral's flag being transferred from the Ashigara to the Yura, the naval headquarters, the batteries, and the Dajinshan Island Observation Post were jubilant, and it must have been the Ashigara that had been hit by three mines to sink. Foot handle, one of the four heavy cruisers of the Miao Senior Class, with a standard displacement of more than 11,000 tons, was about to sink, and they could not have imagined such a result.

"Ashijo!" On the small blackboard on the wall of the headquarters, the flagship footboard of the first ship in the first row was drawn by the staff officer. "Report to the commander, our troops have sunk one large enemy cruiser, three light cruisers, five destroyers, six offshore gunboats (sea sweepers), and one medium cruiser is trapped in a minefield."

"And another one trapped in a minefield?" Only then did Chen Jiliang notice that there was indeed a cruiser flying the Japanese flag on the sea. This is one of the Nagara-class cruisers, and it is the first Natori to be mid-mine before. "Sink it!" Chen Jiliang originally wanted the other party to surrender, but there were Japanese planes overhead, and surrender would be ......, thinking of this, he suddenly changed his mind and said, "No, don't sink it, let the front battery be replaced with anti-aircraft shells, clean the deck first, and strive to trap it until night." ”

As soon as Chen Jiliang said this, the staff officers all looked at him, and he could not deny it. In fact, he didn't know what he could do until he was sleepy at night, and it would be a problem if his subordinates showed mercy to the cruiser and ran away. What he really wanted in his heart was to hope that he could capture this ship, but this hope was very small, he said that he said that he was a navy, but he only had one 400-ton or three 100-ton torpedo boats in his hands, and these ships could not run fast, and all he could do was to camouflage defense near the shore, as opposed to fixed torpedo tubes.

"Just give it the order!" Chen Jiliang thought about it again, but he still felt that he should keep some hope, and as for the Japanese sinking this ship, it would be another matter.

"High-explosive shells?" Colonel Fang Ying, the captain of the Pinghai ship of the No. 2 battery, was a little confused. Before the 4th Fleet retreated, he and the No. 1 battery were all fighting the Japanese ships that were about to retreat, but they forgot the name and number trapped in the minefield, and now the 4th Fleet is gradually withdrawing from the shelling area, and everyone is trying to eat this piece of meat on the plate, but the command says that it will stay until night.

"Yes, sir. That's what the command ordered. Major Liu Fu, the gunner, affirmed.

"Then change to high-explosive shells!" Fang Ying didn't want to capture the name, what he thought was that he didn't have many armor-piercing shells - this was still the 500 rounds that Li Shijia had worked hard to curry favor with at the beginning, and this shell was actually not equipped with a three-year 140mm gun, this was an eleven-year 140mm gun, but because they were all Japanese-made naval guns, they could also be used with the same caliber.

...... the Shina torpedo crit, the three shots of the Ashigara in a row, and the withdrawal of his own fleet from the theater of operations, all of these Natori captain Nakahara Yoshimasa Nakasa looked at him, and now it was probably his turn. Nakahara Yoshimasa was thinking, and before he could finish thinking about it, the shells fired from the shore batteries came, and fifteen shells formed a straddle fire at the Natori who was trapped in the minefield, and one of the high-explosive shells exploded on the side of the bridge, and Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, who had been standing on it, and several staff officers died on the spot. After the sixth salvo, a large fire broke out on the right side of the Natori's hull, but at this time the shelling on the shore stopped, and only some small-caliber guns were bombarding the land forces.

Zhongyuan Zhengyi immediately ordered all departments to put out the fire, he didn't understand the intentions of the defenders of China, it was a high-explosive bomb before, but if you want to sink the name, you should use an armor-piercing shell, just this six kilometers away, the 38-kilogram armor-piercing shell of the 140mm main gun will definitely be able to penetrate the gunside armor of the name, why do they want to hit a high-explosive shell? Is there no armor-piercing bullet? Thinking of this, Nakahara Masashi felt that it was wrong, even if there were no armor-piercing shells, he should not cease fire after his ship caught fire, could it be that the people of China wanted to surrender by themselves?!

As soon as the word 'surrender' flashed into his mind, the justice of the Central Plains immediately denied it. Great Japan was unwilling to surrender even a cruise ship, and the ship was stopped just because of diplomatic pressure from rice animals, let alone a cruiser? Natori didn't stop here for fear of death, he knew that there were two high tides a day in this area, and if his ship could support the high tide at two o'clock in the afternoon, Natori would be able to get out of trouble without danger. It's just that Zhongyuan Masayoshi subconsciously glanced at Dajinshan Island, which frequently fires torpedoes not far away, is this possible? (To be continued.) )