Chapter 674: Landing Craft
. "Look, how the mothers out there hate the war, because the war has taken their husbands and sons, and as a father I understand their feelings, but as a leader I have to order their husbands and sons to go to war." Su Tong's Memoirs Volume 2 Chapter 28 γJapanγ TokyoIn Tokyo in February of last year, the streets and alleys should have been crowded with people who went out to enjoy the snow, but in the past two years, there have been relatively few people who have gone out to enjoy the snow scene, and the current Tokyo has not recovered from the bombing of Tokyo in the previous two years. The indiscriminate bombing and fire of the Huaxia Air Force not only claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Tokyo citizens, but also burned down one-third of Tokyo.
Taro Nakamura and Sakai Kurayi walked on a street in Tokyo, and looked at the originally bustling street but now became so deserted, and I also felt a sigh of emotion in my heart.
Sakai Kurayi on the side complained a little sullenly, "Nakamura-kun, the streets are really deserted, not as lively as before, even some people are some fanatical madmen, why do you say they like to fight so much?" β
Looking at the few people holding small flags who occasionally walked by on the street, all hysterically shouting some fanatical slogans, Nakamura Taro sighed secretly in his heart, the country has now fallen into a feverish, anxious mood, and reason has been cut off like a blind intestine by the people.
"Nakamura-kun, why don't you ignore people when they ask you?" Sakai Kura took her boyfriend's hand and pursed her mouth.
"They're celebrating the Navy's victory, so naturally they want to celebrate." Nakamura came back to his senses and quickly comforted his girlfriend beside him.
"Are they celebrating the Navy's successful attack on Pearl Harbor? But it's been more than a month since this happened, why haven't they stopped? Besides, we have been fighting with the people of China for so long, can't they live a few days of peace? Sakai asked curiously, his round eyes wide.
Nakamura Taro stopped and stared at Sakai Kurayimasa and said, "Kurayi, you must not be so contemptuous of the Chinese people in the future, you must know that respecting others is equal to respecting yourself, do you understand?" "Oh!" Seeing that her boyfriend was angry, a hint of panic flashed in Sakai Kurayi's eyes, and she lowered her head timidly as if she had done something wrong, and then secretly glanced at her boyfriend and said with some grievances: "The classmates all call them that, even the teachers say so, and the classmates all say that those Chinese people are a group of inferior peoples, and sooner or later, the imperial ** team will fight back to North Korea, Manchuria and even the whole of China again." That's what they all say, Nakamura-kun, am I wrong? Nakamura stopped, took Sakai Kurayi's hand, looked at his girlfriend's pretty face lovingly, shook his head, and said, "Kurayi, your teachers and classmates are too deeply influenced by those crazy militarists. What is an inferior nation? The Chinese people are an inferior nation, so what kind of nation are we? Yes, Chinese people have such and such shortcomings, such as their good infighting, good face, good enjoyment, etc., these habits are not good. But on the other hand, what about us ourselves? We are better than them to go there, we were driven out of the Huaxia Da 6 and still have the dream of going back to Manchuria all day long, now that China has achieved reunification in the true sense, they still do not give up this unrealistic dream! It's not that I look down on those idiots in the military department, they didn't even succeed in fighting Huaxia, but on the contrary, they didn't even do their best to provoke the Americans, although they took advantage of the Americans' inattention to bite the Americans, but when the Americans reacted, what awaited us was only destruction. Cangyi, you look, if it is two years at the fastest, or three years at the slow, the whole day will be buried for these careerists! β
Nakamura's voice became louder and louder, so frightened that Sakai Kurayi quickly covered his mouth with his small hand, looked around and pleaded in a low voice: "Nakamura-kun, please don't say it!" You're in trouble if someone hears about it! β
Taro Nakamura turned his head to look around, and then "Hmph1... After a sigh, he lowered his voice and said: "Cangyi, I will be serving in the military in a few days, you have to take good care of your body and take care of grandma for me." "What!" Sakai Kura, who heard the news at first glance, couldn't help but feel embarrassed, she didn't care about being reserved, grabbed Nakamura's sleeve and asked eagerly, "Nakamura-kun, is it true?" You're graduating from college in one semester, how could they conscript you into the army? β
Looking at the girl's red eyes, Taro Nakamura couldn't help but smile bitterly: "No way, there is going to be a war, this time the empire is going to send troops to occupy the Pacific Ocean and sweep Southeast Asia, and it is necessary to recruit a large number of 6th Army to compete with the Americans for various islands in the South Seas, and the 6th Army is also going to be expanded. Sakai Kura looked at Nakamura in a daze, tears finally flowed, she had only heard about the war from the newspapers, and she had also seen off the soldiers who had gone on the expedition with her female classmates, and she had also been moved by the soldiers who had gone on the expedition, thinking that they were fighting for the interests of the empire. But when the object of the expedition was replaced by her beloved boyfriend, she felt terrified, and she might never see the lover in front of her in the future.
"Nakamura-kun, don't go, don't leave me." Sakai Kurayi hugged Taro Nakamura on the street like this, and the bean-sized tears fell one by one on the dust on the ground, smashing small holes.
Nakamura stroked Sakai Kurayi's show and said sadly, "It's useless, Kurayi." People in this country have gone crazy, all of us have been swept up in it, and no one has been spared, you know? I heard that just the other day our crazy Tojo 6 Prime Minister sent his own son into the army, how do you think a civilian like me can escape? β
"I don't care, I don't care!" Sakai Kurayi hugged his lover's body tightly and shook his head desperately, "I'm going to tell my dad that you should graduate early and then work in my grandfather's company, I must not watch you go to the battlefield and die!" β
"Cangyi, you stupid girl." After listening to Sakai Kurayi's somewhat childish words, Nakamura smiled bitterly, although his girlfriend's father served as a quartermaster in the 6th Military Province, but he had no ability to protect himself in the face of this mighty tide of war.
After a long groan, Taro Nakamura grabbed Sakai Kurayi's shoulders and looked directly into her eyes and said, "Kurayi, you listen carefully and there is no room for negotiation in this matter of my military service, and no one can change this fact, but if you really want me to return to Japan alive, you will listen carefully to me and do what I say, can you understand?" β
Sakai Kura nodded desperately with tears in her eyes, now she was already in turmoil, as long as she could get her lover back safely, she would do anything.
"Since my military service cannot be changed, I must at least go to a safe place. When your father comes home tonight, you will beg him to move me and transfer me to the garrison in Taiwan, and maybe I will come back alive to see you!" β
"Taiwan?" Cang Yi looked at Nakamura with wide crying eyes and asked suspiciously, "Why?" I heard that this time the military headquarters is going to send a group of elite troops to occupy the Nanyang Islands, why don't you join those permanent divisions? That might be safer. β
"No, you must not join those permanent first-class divisions." Nakamura shook his head, "You don't understand what the tasks of those first-class divisions are usually undertaken, and they can't go to the Nanyang Islands, which will definitely be a place where the empire and the United States will fight in the future, and I can already smell the smell of corpses there." β
"Then why did you go to Taiwan? Could it be that the Chinese people will not attack there? β
Nakamura glanced up at the gray mΓ©ngmΓ©ng sky, "No, you don't understand. As long as I can go to Taiwan, I have a great chance to return to Japan, you must wait for me to come back to the factory With the United States declaring war on Japan and the Chinese army in Soviet Russia suspended the attack on Soviet Russia, the work of recovering Taiwan was put on Su Tong's work schedule. Under Su Tong's instructions, the staff officers of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of the Navy also reopened the plan that had been sealed in the archives and began to get busy again.
It seems that the military port in Xiamen, Fujian Province, has been flooded with warships and six large ships from all directions overnight, and several ports in Xiamen have been filled with dense warships.
Along with the warships, there were countless troops, including the air force wearing blue uniforms, the navy wearing white uniforms, and more than 100,000 troops of the 6th Naval Squadron wearing marine uniforms, turning the coastal city of Xiamen into a huge military camp almost overnight.
"Our navy is going to recover Taiwan, and we are going to recover the treasure island!" For a time, almost all of Fujian's coast was boiling, and the navy department recruited experienced fishermen everywhere, although they could not operate warships and would not go into battle to kill the enemy, but they had lived here for generations and were familiar with the nearby sea conditions, and every elderly fisherman was almost a living dictionary.
"It's boarding 6 boats again, and they all want to board 6 boats, let me tell you, Lao Tzu wants to board 6 boats in his dreams!" A loud voice came from the office.
Outside Chen Shaokuan's office, dozens of naval officers waiting outside the office looked at each other and smiled bitterly when they heard this, these days the people in the navy department have almost broken the threshold of Chen Shaokuan's office, and almost all of them, without exception, have reached out to Jiang Li, the minister of the navy, to board the six boats, which makes Chen Shaokuan very annoyed.
With a "snap", the sound of hanging up the phone sounded in the office, and after a while, Chen Shaokuan, who was with a tiger face, walked out of the office with his hands behind his back, and the officers in the hall hurriedly dispersed when they saw this.
Chen Shaokuan walked to the hall and shouted: "Come on, prepare the car, I want to go to the presidential palace."
"Fu Gong, say that you will dissipate your anger first!" In Su Tong's office, Su Tong picked up the purple sand teapot and poured a cup of tea for Chen Shaokuan, and asked with a smile, "How is it, Fu Gong." Those admiralty boys are annoying you enough these days? β
"Hmph, one or two of those boys are reaching out to me for boats. To board 6 boats, to ask for frigates!
They think I'm the Monkey King, and I can conjure up a handful of cold hair. Chen Shao snorted and scolded: "Our navy has such a total of family funds, and I have taken out all that I can take, but they still don't think they come to me every day to make trouble, so I haven't slept a peaceful sleep these days." β
"Yes, over the years, our shipyards have only cared about building aircraft carriers, destroyers, and cruisers, and there is no time to build the kind of boarding 6 boats that are not needed on weekdays.
Su Tong also sighed with some emotion, although the country has also vigorously developed the navy in the past two years, and the shipyards have also started to build warships day and night, but only the inconspicuous small ships such as the 6 ships have been built very little, and now they are dumbfounded when they want to recover Taiwan. Without boarding the six boats, the six armies and the six combat units of the navy that were deliberately waiting for them would not have been able to set foot on the soil of Taiwan, and without the six boats, there would have been no way to transport the six boats that had piled up to the past.
Su Tong looked at Chen Shaozhen with a smile and said, "Fu Gong, the construction plan of the navy was formulated by your naval department during the class, why didn't you have a plan to build a large boarding 6 boat at that time?" β
Chen Shaokuan's old face was red, the navy's ship-building plan was indeed formulated by him and the officers of the Admiralty, at that time they only saw the incomparable power of aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers and other large warships, but they only disdained which daytime board 6 boats that were almost useless, including Chen Shaokuan, many naval officers always stubbornly believed that the large-scale construction of 6 ships was just a waste of resources, and now they suddenly decided to recover Taiwan and start a war, everyone was surprised to find that there was no shortage of combat ships in their fleet. The only thing missing is the inconspicuous boarding 6 boats on weekdays. Only then were they so anxious that they looked for boats everywhere as if they were burning houses.
"Fugong, I didn't say you, your temporary cramming really needs to be changed. The Navy is a branch of the military that pays attention to precision coordination, and it is not possible to do without any kind of ship, I warned you of this problem at the beginning, but you just didn't listen, and now you are blind? Su Tong's smiling expression made Chen Shaokuan's face hot at this time.
Chen Shaokuan sighed helplessly, "It's too late to regret it now, the only plan now is to requisition civilian boats, requisition all the fishing boats along the coast, and transport as many troops as they can." β
Su Tong shook his head: "No, the nearest strait from Fujian to Taiwan is more than 120 kilometers, and there are also interceptions by Japan's own planes and warships along the way. β
"Then what do you want me to do, it's better to send them over in a fishing boat than to let them swim over?"
Chen Kuan said angrily that at this time, he no longer had the temper in front of his subordinates, and he didn't dare to shout like he was in his office in the face of the increasingly powerful president.
"Okay, don't worry, I've got everything ready for you." Seeing Chen Shaokuan's haggard appearance, Su Tong couldn't bear to tease this old man who was worried about the construction of the navy anymore, he walked to his desk, took out a stack of lists from the drawer, and handed it to Chen Shaokuan.
Chen Shaokuan, who was still a little suspicious, looked at the list of results, and JΔ« was so moved that he almost removed the tea in his hand.
The trembling voice showed his mood at this time: "Is the president going to give me the 6 boats?" β
"Yes, there are a total of 268 6-ton boats, of which 6,02-ton "Zhoushan" boats are 6 boats, 57 are 5-ton "Wasp-class" 6 boats, and the rest are 120-ton small 6 boats, these 6 boats are enough for you to send the 6th Army to Taiwan? Su Tong said with a chuckle.
"Enough is enough, enough of these!" Chen Shaokuan calculated in his heart that the "Zhoushan-class" boarding 6 boats could transport about one infantry regiment's soldiers and supplies at a time, while the "Wasp-class" boarding 6 boats were about one battalion of personnel and supplies, plus nearly two small boarding 6 boats, then it was possible to send the troops of two divisions ashore at one time, and such a force was enough to establish a solid beachhead in the early stage of the campaign.
"That's good, if there is no problem, tomorrow the Ma army will send someone to bring you something. You are ready to organize manpower to receive in Huludao! Su Tong sipped. Said slowly after tea.
Looking at the list in his hand, Chen Shaokuan was overjoyed and had a trace of doubt in his heart, now shipyards across the country are building warships, where did these presidents get these 6 boats, why did he not know any news in advance as the commander of the navy? Looking at Su Tong who was slowly drinking tea, Chen Shaokuan's heart was flooded.
However, after all, Chen Shaokuan has reached the age of unhuo, and he has been crawling and rolling for decades in the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, and after thinking about it, he dispelled the idea of asking the bottom of the matter.
He also knows that as a superior person, he always holds some hole cards in his hand that others don't know. As a subordinate, sometimes it's better to be a little confused, and if you have to get to the bottom of everything, it will inevitably attract the taboo of the superior.
Or Zheng Banqiao said it well, wow, "it's rare to be confused", this sentence will never be outdated.
And this President Su always has some unexpected moves, most of the warships in the Navy now are from where he doesn't know where to get them, there used to be some people with great curiosity who wanted to find out the origin of these warships, but the final result was that they disappeared mysteriously without exception, he Chen Shaokuan can't have other things, can't he even make a lot of money?!γ