On the blue sea, a huge fleet is moving rapidly, after setting off from Nagasaki, along the way, both the sea fleet and the troop carriers are quite careful, transporting the sixth division, not the British, French and American transport fleets, but the Japanese transport fleet, although there are warships to escort, but no one dares to guarantee, especially in the Yellow Sea, encountered the northwest airship.

In fact, since the departure of the Sixth Division, the northwest has not stopped their reconnaissance work, the first to discover them, in fact, is not an airship, but an airplane, the weather conditions are not too good in the past two days, there are clouds covering, and the northwest plane has been able to fly to 13,000 meters, above such a high altitude, the underground people see just a small dot, in this era for the height of the aircraft under the premise that there is no concept, it is difficult to find out that this is an airplane, maybe think it is some kind of bird or something.

With the help of the high altitude and high speed of the aircraft, coupled with the route of the Japanese, it was fixed, and it was obvious that the nearest one was chosen, but it was much more careful, and all kinds of frigates were maintained on the side, and the defense was very tight.

Now that the Japanese fleet was discovered, it was possible to use a relay method to monitor it, and at the first moment, an airship fell on the head of the Japanese battleship.

Umezawa Michiji looked at the airship in the sky, and felt helpless in his heart, he couldn't reach it, as a senior officer, he still had a relatively deep understanding of airships, especially under the reminder of Britain and France, he knew very well how lethal it would be when a dense airship appeared, a stone thrown from a height of several kilometers was not much weaker than a large-caliber artillery shell, not to mention an aerial bomb that was fully loaded with explosives.

Fortunately. The airship that came was not large, it was just an ordinary small airship about ten meters long. It's more annoying to follow all the time, but it doesn't have much lethality to the fleet. The commander of the Combined Fleet also discovered the traces of the airship, and immediately let the Combined Fleet form a protective camp, more than 30 large and small ships, to protect the transport ship in the middle, and there were also a large number of destroyers patrolling left and right.

In fact, these people were right, and by the time the airship arrived, at least 12 submarines had already come from all sides. For British, French, and American cargo ships, the northwest can't deal with them casually, but the Japanese cargo ships or warships, it's no problem to move, they also want to create a miracle before Zào, and completely intercept the Japanese warships in the ocean, which is different from the coast of Qingdao, and can also rush to the shore. Most of them could go ashore and almost hit the northwest hard, but now, the nearest land. There are still more than 400 kilometers, in which case, as long as the transport ship is sunk. The soldiers on the ship did not have the slightest chance of survival. Unless he can swim hundreds of kilometers and swim to the shore. It's almost very slim and impossible.

However, after the formation of the protective camp, the submarine almost watched the huge fleet, did not dare to approach, on the opposite frigate, it is obvious that there are a large number of depth charge droppers, the Japanese are really generous, almost able to load depth charges on the ship, are full of depth charges, a several thousand tons of cruisers, but loaded at least 20 groups of depth charges of different sizes, in this era, anti-submarine missiles and torpedoes have not yet appeared in the era, to deal with submarines, can only rely on depth charges, The submarines in the northwest have surpassed this era, reaching the middle and late stages of World War I, and even after World War I, but in the face of depth charges, they still dare not be safe, this thing really has to be intensive, the threat to submarines is quite large, and submarines do not dare to approach lightly.

The northwest has put a lot of energy into the navy, and the submarine is not a force to attack, and after understanding the situation, the submarine commander did not order the submarine to attack directly, but followed from a distance.

The submarine force spent a few days looking for opportunities, but the Japanese fleet strengthened its vigilance even if it slowed down its speed, and occasionally had the opportunity to pass by, and the danger was too great, and in the end, the Sixth Division finally arrived near Qingdao.

Britain and France in the last war, deserted and fled, but they named the landing site, as well as the location and sphere of influence of the batteries in the northwest, the large army still stayed in the open sea, the straight-line distance from Qingdao was more than 70 kilometers, the least naval guns could not reach, the fastest torpedo boat went in and turned around, the location of the Mitsumi Mitsutomi Department was quite obvious, these two ships were in the periphery of the naval guns that came out of the British and French circles before, found the place of Mitsutomi Mitsutomi, this place is too easy to find, and I saw it near the sea, Among the positions built by a large number of ships, there are almost 2 square kilometers, dense positions and personnel.

Umezawa Michiji breathed a sigh of relief, and the commander of the combined fleet also breathed a sigh of relief, during this time, the spies of the Japanese staff had been looking for traces of Kamio Mitsutomi, but unfortunately they did not enter the interior of Qingdao, and seeing that they were still there, they did not seem to have suffered too many losses, and immediately decided to land.

Even if there were no people in all directions, the landing also chose a separate way, more than 30 ships, each ship went alone, protected by two destroyers on the perimeter, it can be said that it was cautious to the extreme, and found a suitable place around the ship mountain of the Kamio Mitsutomi Division, and the first Japanese troops who took assault boats began to land, and made a series of preparations, such as a simple, only about 50 square floating docks, which were prepared for heavy equipment to go ashore.

The position of the Northwest Army, how could Japan not know such a big movement, even in the command headquarters, they were notified by airships and submarines early, the Japanese still sent the Sixth Division to Qingdao, for this, the command has different opinions, in fact, the location of the landing, the surrounding shore fire resistance is barely enough, but these shore fire prevention forces, not all 15-inch guns, they can be regarded as the auxiliary shore fire protection force in the northwest, even if it is a salvo, it will not have much lethality, anyway, after going ashore, it can't run away, Why bother to disturb them, and if they run away, where will they go to surround him?

A division and 30 ships landed in an orderly manner, and it took almost the whole day to come up, and it was not until almost most of the heavy equipment was unloaded that Michiji Umezawa came up.

When Mitsuki Kamio got off the ship in the Sixth Division, he wanted to contact him, but unfortunately Michiji Umezawa never came up, and finally, Michiji Umezawa saw Mitsutomi Kamio, and Mitsutomi Kamio's first words were: "You shouldn't come." ”

"Why, isn't it difficult!" Umezawa Michiji is more familiar with Kamio Mitsutomi, the 18th Division and the 6th Division are both the best among the permanent divisions, and the two are often compared together, and they don't admit defeat to each other.

"It's not an ordinary difficulty, you look around, there are walls everywhere!" Under the guidance of Mitsutomi Kamio, Michiji Umezawa looked around, and also took a breath of cold air, 5 kilometers away from the unclear vision just now, now standing on the land, you can clearly see a large number of defensive positions, it is really like an iron wall, it is difficult to attack it.

"Why don't you leave!" The only thought that sprouted in Umezawa Michiji's heart was this, although as far as the belief of the military was concerned, it was not suitable to withdraw before the fight, but the protection around him really made him desperate.

Since it was not easy to let them come up, how could Cai Ye let them withdraw lightly, on both sides of Jiaozhou Bay, the small almost 8-inch artillery roadbed batteries began to fire, and directly blocked almost half of the roadway, and when the cannon sounded, including these transport ships and battleships, only the Sixth Division was left behind, and they even had a ship's supplies that had not yet been sent ashore.

Umezawa Michiji looked at Kamio Mitsutomi with a wry smile, he found Kamio Mitsutomi, but the Sixth Division was trapped by 22,000 people, and the total number exceeded 50,000, fortunately, this time the supplies carried were enough, enough for them to eat 50,000 people for 2 months, plus the Sixth Division, which carried enough heavy weapons, especially heavy artillery and machine guns, which greatly enhanced the protection, if you defend it, there should be no problem.

If it comes, it will be safe, Umezawa Michiji simply communicated with Kamio Mitsutomi and separated the position, Kamio Mitsutomi has been guarding for so long, and the arrival of reinforcements has made the morale of Kamio Mitsutomi a great victory, and the sixth division has been floating on the sea for several days, so it will take a break for the time being, and tomorrow it will be assigning tasks, as for those battleships, they temporarily retreated to the open sea, and at night, after contacting each other with small traffic boats, they knew the current situation of Kamio Mitsutomi, especially after some first-hand information about Qingdao, They immediately turned around, and they would not retreat directly to Japan, but went to Tianjin.

From Qingdao to Tianjin, the distance on the sea is almost more than 600 kilometers, and after a day and night, they almost reached the sea off Tianjin, and only then did they finally breathe a sigh of relief, as if they had passed through the Grim Reaper, settled down a little, and after stopping at the concession military port, they reported the situation in Qingdao to the Japanese base camp.

In the Japanese base camp, after getting the first-hand information of Qingdao, the army also looked at each other, no one thought that Qingdao was like this, obviously, the northwest dug a hole for them, originally only the Kamio Mitsutomi Division, and now, the Sixth Division has been trapped in more than 50,000 elite Japanese soldiers, just surrounded by regiments, and they can't break through at all, what should I do now.

At this time, the top level of the army and the navy, at the critical moment, all agreed on the same opinion, trapped and trapped, anyway, in a short time, it is unlikely to have a problem, so they simply broke the kettle, accelerated the march of the remaining army, let the 400,000 troops arrive in China as soon as possible, and under the cooperation of the inside and outside, break Qingdao, defeat the Northwest Army, and finally save the 50,000 people, by the way, take Jiaozhou Bay and Shandong. (To be continued......)