[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 173: When the operation is in progress (ask for subscription!! ）

At 4 p.m. on July 26, with the sound of a steam whistle, more than 30 Japanese warships sailed upriver from east to west and anchored in the Yangtze River on the outskirts of Yong'an Town.

The Japanese apparently knew that there were troops stationed there, so they launched a heavy artillery bombardment of the positions of the Independent Regiment soon after they anchored. Fortunately, Ma Zheng had already expected that the Japanese army might do this, thinking that the Japanese army had not yet arrived, and he was not worried that the Japanese army would go ashore to seize the position, so he ordered the independent regiment to withdraw from the position early, where there was nothing but a red military flag.

The Japanese did not see the defenders counterattack after more than an hour of heavy bombardment. Apparently anticipating that the defenders might have withdrawn, the attack was halted.

However, the cautious Japanese troops did not go ashore, they knew their strengths and weaknesses very well, the navy was a dragon in the water, and once ashore, it was a turtle.

Ma Zheng, who was hidden not far from the battlefield, observed through the telescope that the size of this Japanese fleet was quite acceptable, except for five or six small gunboats, almost all of the rest were medium-sized ships, led by a huge cruiser, and I don't know what level of warship it was Japan.

After the shelling, the Japanese ships did not move again, and did not even move their places, which made Ma Zheng more convinced of his previous judgment, and the Japanese navy had become extremely lax from top to bottom after no opponent. Such an opponent is the time to let himself create miracles, and it seems that Hades's vision is really possible.

Night fell quickly, and I don't know if it was a beautiful day, but tonight it was drizzling in the entire eastern Hubei region, and a strong wind was blowing on the river, and there was no moonlight in the gloomy weather. The entire surface of the river looked pitch black, and only the flashing lights on the more than 20 Japanese warships on the river were the most dazzling.

In the first half of the night, Ma Zheng's headquarters did not make any moves, and in the second half of the night, the rain did not weaken, but had a tendency to intensify. At the same time, Ma Zheng ordered the independent battalion lurking more than ten kilometers upstream of the Japanese warship to immediately board the ship and be ready to go to the river to take over the warship at any time.

In order to take Wuhan in one fell swoop, the Central China Front of the Japanese Army mobilized more than 100 large and small ships to the Wuhan battlefield, and these warships were under the command of Tanimoto Mataro.

Originally, according to the orders of the Central China Front, his 11th Squadron was not only responsible for cooperating with the offensive operations of the Botian Detachment, but also responsible for the supply and transportation of various units along the line, so every once in a while, the 11th Combat would send a large number of ships to Nanjing and Shanghai in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to transport weapons, equipment and supplies.

This time I just returned to Jiujiang. As soon as half of the cargo was unloaded, he received an order to immediately sail to the Yongan area, and sent troop carriers to Ertaokou in Jiangbei to meet the 47th Wing of the Sixth Division. Since Nitaokou was not far from Yong'an, and it would only take an hour to arrive by water, Mataro Tanimoto rushed to the main battlefield with the main force of the fleet first, and let the troop transports move later.

However, due to the delay of the 47th Wing on the road, more than a dozen troop carriers have been waiting at the second set of mouths and cannot meet the main fleet in time.

It was already deep, and Rear Admiral Tanimoto Mataro, who had just drunk alcohol, asked his subordinates to call the petite and lovely female nurse who had just arrived in the fleet. Then he hugged the little nurse named Oriko and fell asleep peacefully.

The main reason why Tanimoto Mataro dared to be so comfortable was because he did not think that there was any armed force in China that could pose a threat to his fleet. If it was before last year, the Nationalist Government still had a few broken ships that could compete with its fleet. However, after the Battle of Jiangyin, the Nationalist Government was left with only a few small wrecked ships, the largest of which was less than 2,000 tons, and his fleet did not even have the slightest strength to fight back except to escape.

In addition, although China has large-caliber coastal defense guns specially designed to deal with warships, they are all located in major fortresses. Moreover, since the beginning of the war, almost all the large fortresses along the Yangtze River have been captured by the Imperial Japanese Army. And those heavy artillery pieces that are specially designed to combat large ships have either been captured or have long been blown up, and it is simply impossible to leave anything behind.

It is precisely because of this that Tanimoto Mataro dared to drink and have fun during the battle time so unscrupulously.

With such a commander taking the lead, one can imagine what the other soldiers of the Eleventh Sentai are. In addition, tonight is full of wind and rain, and the warship is shaking with huge winds. As a result, even the necessary guards were mostly hidden inside the warships, and the decks were empty.

However, what these naval officers and men did not expect was that while they were drinking and sleeping, shadow men dressed in colored and tight bodies were slowly approaching their fleet.

Soon, black figures quickly appeared on the side of the fleet's ships, and climbed up the ship along the ropes hanging from the ship.

The Japanese ships were large and small, but they were mainly medium-sized ships. According to the regulations, there were at least 100 Japanese sailors on the medium-sized ships, and there were a few people on the small gunboats, but there were more than a dozen. Therefore, Ma Zheng judged in advance that the total number of Japanese sailors on these 30 or so large and small ships should be no less than 1,000.

In view of the fact that the special combat team did not have many troops, only more than 300 people, Ma Zheng asked Tie Niu to divide the troops before the troops set off, and the combat group went to the warship, and the gunboat was settled first, so as not to make mistakes at the time.

The idea of using 300 men to snatch all the capital ships of the 11th Sentai of the Japanese Third Fleet was extremely crazy. Not only did the Japanese army think of it, but even Ma Zheng himself felt incredible, if it weren't for the unintentional YY of his former good brother Hades, he might not have thought of it.

But Ma Zheng now feels that the odds of winning are still very high, after all, there is a mental calculation or no intention, the right time, place and all favorable factors are accounted for, and the possibility of failure is not great. Besides, even if the plan fails, it can blow up some warships, which will seriously deal a blow to the strength and arrogance of the Japanese navy.

Ma Zheng is still extremely confident in the special combat team he has trained single-handedly, and he does not think that in this era, the troops of any country can compete with his special combat team at the tactical level. At present, Germany is the world's largest army, and neither can the United States, which ranks first in the world in terms of economy, nor can Japan, which is only a second-rate power in terms of economy and military.

Although according to the previous situation with the Japanese army, the Japanese army also has its own special forces, or is exploring how to form a formed special combat team. However, because its tactics and training methods are not very mature, its combat effectiveness is far inferior to the Thor special combat team trained by Ma Zheng himself.

What's more, even if the Japanese army has a special combat team, it is an army business, and it has nothing to do with the navy, and it is impossible to put an elite special combat team on a naval warship. In the absence of an opponent of the same level, Ma Zheng believed that the special combat team would surprise him.

As the commander-in-chief of this operation, Tie Niu's heart was indeed a little nervous at first, because they had no previous experience in this operation. But when he sank into the water, he quickly calmed down.

When he swam under the light cruiser "Tenryu", the flagship of the Japanese army, he was not even the slightest nervous in his heart, and even there was no slightest wave in his heart.

At this moment, what came to Tie Niu's mind was every word that Ma Zheng had said to them, and when he accepted this mission, Ma Zheng had also talked to him, and made it clear that the plan to seize the Japanese ship this time was extremely dangerous, and one careless person was likely to be wiped out.

More importantly, once the plan to capture the Japanese warships failed, then they had to blow up all the Japanese ships on the river at all costs. Although Ma Zheng allowed them to fail, after all, this mission was extraordinary.

Tie Niu knew that Ma Zheng had feelings for the special combat team, which was like his child, the elite of the Anti-Japanese War created by him, and one of the most valuable assets of the Eighth Route Army. If it wasn't a last resort, he would never let them take this risk, and he didn't want to reimburse this elite here. (To be continued.) )