Chapter 165: The Idea of the "Hades" (Ask for Subscription!) ）

Faced with Xue Yue's sudden question, Chen Cheng was silent, he knew very well the weight of Xue Yue's question!

Originally, there was no need for this meeting, but now the purpose of holding it is not because of the battle itself, but for Ma Zheng to see. After all, as a novice in the Battle of Wuhan, even if the Nationalist Government planned to use the Duqi Division as cannon fodder, it had to give Ma Zheng's troops enough respect in form.

Therefore, what was said at today's meeting was all arranged, including Xue Yue's previous self-volunteer, asking the First Corps under his command to reinforce Jiujiang.

But now the question asked by Xue Yue is no longer among the questions that are "predetermined" in advance, which really makes Chen Cheng on the stage embarrassed.

However, who Chen Cheng was, he was a well-known military strategist and fierce general within the Kuomintang, and he only paused for a moment and said: "I don't say that everyone knows the current strength of our navy, and it is simply impossible to compete with the Japanese army for sea supremacy on the sea, so our navy can only see the high ground with the Japanese army in the inland river." However, our ships on the Yangtze River were no match for the Japanese army, and in desperation, we had no choice but to blockade the entire Yangtze River."

"Feng Jiang?"

"That's right, it's Fengjiang! Before the Battle of Wuhan, according to the order of the chairman of the National People's Committee, Admiral Chen of the Navy, together with the troops of the 9th and 5th Theaters, built more than a dozen fortress batteries between Madang and Hankou, and set up a Jiangfang Fortress Command, with Xie Gangzhe as the commander. The Fortress Command will subordinate warships, gunboats, and marines into three corps. The first corps: stationed in Tianjia Town and Gedian in the upper reaches of the Jiujiang River; The Second Corps: garrisoned Madang Fortress; The 3rd Corps: Garrisoned at Hukou Fortress. Chen Cheng explained.

Then Chen Cheng said: "A few days ago, Chen Shaokuan, commander-in-chief of the navy, took a warship and went straight down the river from Wuhan to the front line to direct the navy's operations. An unusually fierce water battle with the Japanese army was fought on the Yangtze River, and the battle lasted until dusk. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and immediately withdrew from the battle, and Admiral Chen Shaokuan led the main force of the navy to return from Anqing. He ordered the ship's artillery fire to destroy all the buoys in the middle of the river and on the shore one by one. When he came to Jiujiang, he ordered to lay mines in the waters below Jiujiang and seal the river. ”

"According to a telegram sent by the Navy Bureau. Navy ships have already laid more than a thousand mines on the river in the direction of Jiujiang. So far, this section of the Yangtze River is full of mines, there are thousands of dangers, and the waterway is obstructed. ”

After Chen Cheng finished speaking, the conference room was dull. All of you here are high-ranking generals of the Nationalist Government, and there may be a difference in their ability to fight wars, but they still have this knowledge. Everyone knows that although the closure of the river can delay the Japanese attack to a certain extent, the harm to China is also huge.

You must know that most of the railways in the country were cut off by the Japanese army. More than half of the transportation along the Yangtze River is maintained by the Yangtze River, and if the blockade of the Yangtze River is used as a military means, then it will restrict and harm China no less than that of the Japanese army, and it can be said that this is a lose-lose style of play.

However, for the weak Chinese Navy, it can only use this ostrich tactics to deal with the strong Japanese Navy. In fact, the closure of the river is still very effective, at least it has played a lot of positive roles at the moment.

If the river is not blocked, the powerful 3rd Fleet of the Japanese Navy will go against the current and will soon be able to hit Wuhan. But now the river is closed. The enemy's powerful naval fleet was useless and had to be held back. I feel unusually annoyed.

If the Japanese army wants to continue advancing, one way is to send a large number of troops down the river to "touch the mines," and the other way is to send ships to carry out the mines. But either one is more time-consuming and laborious, and it has a great impact on the current war situation.

Ma Zheng knows about the closure of the river, and he knows it better than the vast majority of people here. This is not the first time that the Chinese Navy has closed the river, and it is the first time that the Chinese Navy has closed the river. Even Ma Zheng, an officer from the army, felt a pang of palpitations and unspeakable pain.

On July 7, 1937, the gunfire on the Lugou Bridge outside Beiping City fired the first shot of the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese Patriotic War. In the months following the outbreak of the war, the Japanese army advanced steadily, and the situation in North China was precarious. The Nationalist Government in Nanking foresaw that the flames of war would soon spread to the south. Almost on the same day that the Japanese army began to attack Shanghai, the "**** War Guidance Plan" formulated under the guidance of the German advisory group was issued.

This plan clearly instructed: "At the same time as the Songhu side carries out the war, it is to block the Wusong Pass, destroy the enemy ships in the Wusong Pass, and absolutely control its passage to the west of Jiangyin, and use a part of the battle to cooperate with the various fortresses and land forces." ”

However, every page of China's backward and beaten history in modern times has almost the bitter taste of seawater, and how can the weak Chinese navy prevent the Japanese navy from entering the Yangtze River? But even if it is weak, the Chinese Navy will never back down! The specific tactics of blocking the Japanese army from entering the river were finally introduced at this time under the decision of the top command of the navy. However, the method chosen is one of the most expensive and clumsy shipwrecks to close the river.

On 28 July, at the Supreme National Defense Conference in Nanjing, ****** decided to control the enemy's planes before the Japanese army attacked the Yangtze River valley, block the Yangtze River shipping route, and cut off the return route of the 13 ships of the Japanese 11th Sentai in Jiujiang, Wuhan, Yichang, and Chongqing in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, as a bargaining chip for negotiations with Japan. And to prevent the Japanese army from going up the river again. Chen Jiliang, a representative of the navy, proposed and approved the immediate implementation of the action of sealing the river from the sunken ship, and decided to implement the closure of the river on August 12.

Who expected the situation to change abruptly. Huang Jun, the chief secretary of the Executive Yuan, who served as the chief secretary of the Executive Yuan, had already been lured into the water by the Japanese female spy Nanzao Yunzi, who was lurking as a waiter in Tangshan Hot Spring in Nanjing under the pseudonym Liao Yaquan. That night, he was about to pass on top-secret information to the Japanese spy officers who contacted him.

Over the next two days, Japanese ships in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River hurriedly sailed down. At the wharves in Hankou, Jiujiang, Shashi and other places, Japanese overseas Chinese flocked to it. The secrecy of this operation was done quite well, and by the time the Admiralty of the Republic of China woke up to the fact that the Japanese had retreated, the best opportunity for a volley had passed.

Although the Japanese fleet fled, the Battle of Songhu had already begun, and in order to ensure that the Japanese Navy would not enter the Yangtze River channel to flank the rear of the Chinese/army participating in the Battle of Songhu, the shipwreck closure was not canceled.

The first batch of self-sinking warships were the oldest "Tongji" training ship, the "Datong" and "Ziqiang" light cruisers, the "Desheng" and "Weisheng" water engine carriers, the "Wusheng" survey boats, and the "Chen" and "Su" torpedo boats. In addition, the navy also solicited 20 steamers from China Merchants and various civilian steamship companies to sink themselves at the same time to form the Jiangyin lock line.

The Admiralty also asked the Executive Yuan to instruct the governments of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Hubei provinces to urgently requisition 185 civilian boats and salt ships, which were loaded with stones and sunk into the gaps in the blockade line. A total of 309,400 cubic meters of stones were used for these civilian ships, and a total of 43 old warships and merchant ships were sunk in Jiangyin's shipwreck sealing operation, with a total tonnage of more than 63,800 tons.

While feeling sorry for the sailors who sank into the rolling Yangtze River with their ships one after another, Ma Zheng also felt sorry for the fact that China was forced by the Oriental Japanese to cut off the main stream of life with human lives to resist the enemy's attack. The sorrow of the country, the sorrow of the nation!

Thinking of this, while Ma Zheng mourned for the Chinese Navy and the Chinese nation, he also secretly made up his mind that if he had the opportunity, he would definitely teach those arrogant and invincible Japanese Navy a good lesson.

At the same time, Ma Zheng's mind remembered a hypothesis he had made with the group of soldiers and ruffians when he was training in the special combat team, when his superiors asked them to watch a documentary about the Jiangyin naval battle. After reading it, everyone was extremely uncomfortable, the battle of Jiangyin, the resistance of the Chinese navy, can not be described as heroic, can not be described as hard, so that the Japanese army suffered considerable losses, but also for a period of time to ensure the smooth flow of the Yangtze River waterway.

However, the navy was defeated, and the defeat was so miserable: it was not able to prevent the landing of the Japanese troops on the Chinese coastal ports and the attack on Kyoto and Nanjing along the Yangtze River, and it suffered heavy losses that it was unbearable to read.

At that time, the "Hades," a special combat team member who was born in a coastal fisherman's family, once said that if there was a special combat team at that time, especially if there was an elite team like their Thor special combat team, it would be completely possible to carry out the battle of seizing ships through special operations. After all, warships are to be docked on the water at night, and there are very few patrolling troops, so as long as the tactics are used properly, it is entirely possible to send special combat units to suddenly swim from the middle of the river to the warships, and then seize the ships, and at the very least, they can sink the Japanese warships with mines.

Now that he has returned to this era and is fortunate to participate in a large-scale battle such as the Battle of Wuhan, if he has the opportunity, he can practice the idea of the "Hades" back then. (To be continued.) )

PS: PS is nearly 2800 words, of which 300 words are free, which can be regarded as offsetting some of the informational things in the chapter!