On May 3, 1910, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the convoy of convoys, which had been running back and forth for several days, arrived in Taiwan again, but this time the flotilla did not enter Kaohsiung Port as planned, but still chose to land with landing craft at Haiwei as it did for the first time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A frigate carrying 36 frogmen is docked outside the mouth of Kaohsiung Harbor.

At noon yesterday, the port of Kaohsiung had officially changed hands, landed and laid down Kaohsiung County, and it took less than half a day for the marines to take a small port, but it took more than a day for a small port, and the number of casualties was really heart-wrenching.

In the early morning of 2 May, just after dawn, two companies of marines launched at a place three kilometers away from Kaohsiung Port, and then swam to the shore near the pier under the cover of night.

Fortunately, the dock facilities were not destroyed, and there were all kinds of materials piled up on the dock, most of which were strategic materials, which were urgently needed by Japan, because of the war, the Japanese were not able to transport these materials away in time, so they could only be confiscated by the Chinese Army.

Unfortunately, despite the tactics of internal and external attack, the machine gun bunkers still brought a lot of casualties to the attacking troops, and the Japanese made full use of the advantages of stacking supplies in the port, and some Japanese soldiers even hid in places you can't imagine, and when a soldier came, they either suddenly opened fire, or threw a grenade, or died with a grenade.

The marines attacking the pier in this battle had a total of three battalions and more than 2,400 troops, while the defending side was mainly based on a squadron stationed at the pier, plus more than 300 remnants brought from the right side of the mine, and a squadron of troops withdrawn from the shore artillery position, about 1,200 men.

With twice the enemy's strength, he finally annihilated the enemy, but he also paid the tragic price of more than 400 killed and more than 700 wounded to take this pier. And this battle has also exposed the problems of the Marine Corps, in terms of individual firepower, they are indeed unmatched, in terms of street fighting ability, they are not bad, but in terms of heavy firepower is their shortcoming, if they can have a cannon in their hands this time, the number of casualties can even be directly halved.

As for the remaining half, no one could do anything about it, and the Japanese army gave full play to their bushido spirit and fought with the attitude of dying with the enemy, and in the face of such an enemy, even the elite troops would suffer heavy losses.

Regarding the latter, there is no way to do this, only to let the troops slowly adapt, and then be careful and careful on the battlefield, the Japanese bushido spirit is an extremely strange spirit, when applied to combat, it will make any country in the world feel afraid.

At this point, the Japanese army even surpassed China, which was known for not being afraid of death. The army, perhaps only after the liberation of China. The army can compare with the Japanese army during World War II.

As for the former question, in fact this question has been raised and authorized a long time ago, and the research institute is working hard to study the shortcomings in this area, but because the progress of scientific research is extremely slow, the Marine Corps is not equipped with such heavy firepower now.

First of all, it must ensure that it is light and suitable for landing operations, and it must also ensure that the difficulty of power is not the slightest. There are two solutions given by Wang Sirui before, one is a recoilless gun, which is suitable for the combat environment of the Marine Corps, and it is also suitable for the army units. The other is an amphibious tank.

The advantage of amphibious tanks is that they can provide fire support to the Marine Corps anytime and anywhere, and the disadvantage is that because of the buoyancy to be guaranteed, the thickness of its armor is almost negligible, according to the current design of the amphibious tank, even if it comes to a 37 infantry gun, it can easily penetrate it, so it is judged to be unqualified, and the minimum requirement is to be able to resist the attack of 37 shells.

Returning to the surface, the thirty-six frogman team descended the ladder to six small boats after reaching the estuary, carrying a large amount of equipment.

When the boat rowed to the place where the Shimamaru sank, the frogmen on board were still wearing equipment, wetsuits, goggles, oxygen tubes, fins, and bayonets, which were their equipment so far.

The waves swayed as the frogman entered the water.

Because it's daytime, the underwater light is okay, but if it's night, you can't get into the water. Li Ming dived down little by little along the deck on the side of the Shimamaru, until he was almost at the bottom, and then he saw that the bottom of the Shimamaru had been blown out of countless holes of different sizes, and some fish were swimming happily along these holes.

I looked inside along the hole, it was dark inside, and I could hardly see anything, and through the faint light of the hole, I could faintly see the inside of the cabin, and I looked around a few holes one by one, and found that it was almost the same situation, and the structure of the Shimamaru was basically determined, that is, it was iron-clad wood, and this kind of ship was not particularly troublesome to deal with.

Of course, if there are two or three battleships here, they can even guarantee that they will be able to navigate tonight, and several battleships can pull the Shimamaru that has sunk to the bottom of the sea together to the deep water area and give way to the channel, although it is very likely to disintegrate, but it is still easy to clean up the loose pieces.

But there were no battleships here, and except for one frigate to cooperate with them here, the other frigates, destroyers, and cruisers had to continue to carry out escort duties.

After staying underwater for about half an hour, the situation below has basically been investigated, everyone has their own area, and then after going up, they will summarize and report and come up with a plan.

After getting on the boat, the thirty-six frogmen began to report their situation one by one, and one of them was in charge of keeping records, because he was wearing a diving suit, so he could not see any rank.

Xian Ling is a captain platoon commander, yes, a captain, because of the particularity of the frogman troops, so everyone here is basically all high-rank and low-level, and there are not many frogman troops in total, and there is only one company in the whole army, and their company commander is a lieutenant colonel. The lowest rank of the soldiers under Xian Ling is also a sergeant, and most of them are warrant officers, or second lieutenants.

Returning to the frigate, Xian Ling found Jiang Baili, who had come to inspect the situation in person, and Jiang Baili was standing at the bow of the ship quietly watching the situation of the Shimamaru.

"Report Chief! Our platoon has completed preliminary exploration, and according to the results of the investigation, the overall structure of this cargo ship is made of iron sheets and wood, with a displacement of about 3,000 tons, and there are about dozens of holes at the bottom that have been blown open, which is the way they sink themselves. In addition, before the self-sinking, the ship was fully loaded, so it is speculated that the ship may have been more than 4,000 tons at that time. In addition, the materials scattered on the seabed are somewhat difficult to clean up, which takes a lot of time. Xian Ling handed the statistics sheet to Jiang Baili and reported.

"When will we be able to secure navigation at the earliest?" Jiang Baili asked eagerly.

"Report to the chief, within five days we can ensure the normal navigation of small ships, and within half a month we can ensure that all ships except battleships can go together normally." Xianling reported.

"It's too slow, I don't care what method you use, in short, within a week, all tonnage transport ships must be able to pass through here safely." Jiang Baili frowned, this time was not what he wanted.

"In this case, we can only rush to work overnight and violently clear it." Xian Ling said a little depressed.

Rushing to work overnight, this is the last thing he wants to do, isn't it impossible to go into the water at night? In fact, it is possible to go into the water at night, and there are also lighting equipment, the frogman unit found inspiration through the picture of the Marine Corps carrying a gun, and sealed the lighting equipment, although the lighting effect will be inferior, but it is no problem to ensure that the water is launched in a short time.

The reason why no one wants to go into the water at night is because this equipment is not stable, and the seal is not tight, if it is long, no one dares to guarantee that it will not suddenly enter the water, once the water enters, the people who stay nearby will be finished, and they will be electrocuted directly.

"Tell me about your plan." Jiang Baili asked.

"It's very simple, it's to blow up, we first find a way to put a large number of shells, preferably torpedoes, mines and other powerful weapons, into the cabin in advance, and then the warship will launch a torpedo attack from a distance, causing as much martyrdom as possible, using the explosion to blow the ship into pieces, and then the warship will tow away the slightly larger fragments and throw them into deep water. If the equipment is in place, it should be possible to resume navigation within three days. Xian Ling said.

If you want to do a good job quickly, the best way is to do damage, at this time to salvage a ship, you need to transport the equipment over, and then survey, install, start, simple repair, tow away, etc., a whole set of processes down, the fastest will take half a month, and the destruction is much simpler, three days is enough.

"I remember that there are still a lot of 203 shells in the shore artillery positions on both sides, so they should be used on this, right?" Jiang Baili thought about it, torpedoes and mines are not big road goods, and it is not easy for the navy to replenish recently, and it is necessary to constantly escort the ship, so there is not much time to replenish ammunition, and it is still possible to save money.

"If there are enough of them, it's fine."

"Then do it, what equipment is needed, how many people are needed to cooperate, you make a list for me, and I will immediately order someone to prepare." After getting a definite answer, Jiang Baili was also slightly relieved. (To be continued.) )