Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of the South China Sea II
On September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany. It marked the formation of the confrontation between the two major powers of the Allies and the Axis powers. But for China, there is no real change in surname, and it is still isolated. If there is one thing that has changed, it is that the Americans have imposed a moral embargo on the company, and even scrap steel will no longer be sold to the company. But there is no embargo on oil. In fact, scrap steel is still being sold, but it is all American ships.
The Pixiu carried 68 Hainan guerrilla fighters and quietly marched towards Hainan Island.
Hainan Island is located in the southern part of China's Leizhou Peninsula. From a flat point of view, Hainan Island is like a pear, lying horizontally on the vast expanse of the South China Sea. The long axis of Hainan Island is about 300 kilometers long in the northeast and southwest directions, and the short axis in the northwest and southeast directions is about 180 kilometers long and covers an area of 33,900 square kilometers.
Hainan Island has a standard tropical rainforest climate. The terrain is flat in the north and mountainous in the south. At present, the rule of the army is mainly in the northern coastal area of Hainan, but the navy is in Sanya, where there is the most important military port, Yulin Port.
Li Guang put forward several requirements for Su Qing, the first is to train the fighters in the battle and strengthen the team. To survive is to win.
Second, try to do guerrilla warfare around the Shilu and Tiandu iron ore mines to prevent Yuben from transporting iron ore back to the mainland. The two iron mines on Hainan Island are of excellent quality and are rare rich ores. If you can destroy your own mining equipment, or find out the frequency of the cargo ships used by the army to transport iron ore, it will be the greatest support for the Pixiu.
There are too few submarines in the Maritime Resistance Army, and if there is no intelligence, it is too inefficient to search for merchant ships on their own.
Before leaving, Li Guangke gave Su Qing quite a lot of "information", such as the fact that there was a communist guerrilla force on the island, and the leader was called Feng Baiju. There may also be a detachment of women. Its main range of activities should be in Wuzhi Mountain and other areas. Su Qing was required to fight in Hainan and must have good relations with the masses. In addition, he also plagiarized a certain great man's 16-character principle for guerrilla warfare: "When the enemy advances, I retreat, when the enemy is stationed, I disturb, when the enemy is tired, I fight, and when the enemy retreats, I pursue." For the sake of this eldest brother, Li Guangke really poured out all the knowledge about guerrilla warfare in his stomach.
The guerrilla warfare that Li Guang mentioned was novel enough for Su Qing, but it really made sense when you thought about it. Just these sixteen-character guidelines made Su Qing stunned for a moment, and the five bodies of admiration fell to the ground. (The latter sentence is Li Guangyy)
The landing site of the Hainan guerrillas of the Maritime Resistance Army was the northeast of Sanya, later Haitang Bay, which belonged to the southeast coast of Hainan. This location was determined by Li Guang with the help of the experience of later generations of travelers. It was easy to land here, and as soon as the troops landed on the shore, they could lurk into the mountains, making it relatively easy to evacuate.
On the night of September 6, the Pixiu approached the coast smoothly, but the situation that Su Qing saw was quite different from what Li Guang said. Li Guang thought that there was no ring road in this era, but he knew that in order to strengthen the control of Hainan Island, the little devil had just occupied Hainan Island and began to build roads. Although the eastern highway of Hainan Island has not yet been built, Haitang Bay is less than one kilometer away from the coast.
However, the other thing Li Guang said is quite correct, as long as you land on the road, you only need to cross the road to reach the vast mountains.
The guerrilla force led by Su Qing was not very numerous, only sixty-eight people, but it carried a lot of weapons and ammunition. It weighs a full five or six tons.
The Pixiu is huge, it is impossible to lean against the shore, and the rubber boat needs dozens of rounds to send all the materials and personnel ashore, which takes at least three hours, and it is definitely a great threat to the Pixiu that leaks offshore.
On a summer night, Hainan Island is stuffy and hot. The town of Haitang Bay, not far from the docking point of the Pixiu, was dead silent. In this dead silence, the town hall at the north end of the town is a different scene.
There's a squad of Japanese soldiers stationed here. The team leader Murakajiro was already drunk at this time, and the rice wine in Hainan was so sweet that people could overdrink it unconsciously. Murakami is just a small second lieutenant in Zaoben, and he is nothing in the eyes of the officials or in front of the people. But in Hainan, in this town, Murakami Jiro is simply a soil emperor, bringing great suffering to the people of Hainan.
In this small township office, there are more than a dozen women imprisoned, including Han, Li and Miao**.
These devils forced the people to build roads during the day, and at night they drank and insulted these women. On this dreary night, hundreds of young men and hundreds of hateful eyes in the dense forest not far from the township office stared at the township office.
This is a spontaneous anti-Japanese contingent formed by the people of Hainan, these people are all people in the vicinity, and at the moment of the great enemy, they have abandoned the ethnic barrier and come together. They all have a common enemy - little devils.
He said that since he occupied Hainan, he has done all kinds of evil in burning, killing, looting, and plundering.
Lin Gucheng, the leader of this group of Chinese, is a well-known teacher in the neighborhood. This person has no power or power, but he has an excellent reputation in the surrounding villages.
It is said that in the forest village where he is located, he killed more than ten people and robbed five or six women in less than half a year. And many more people are dying of exhaustion on road construction sites.
Blood is not unique to martial artists, and the blood of literati is even stronger. Lin Gucheng traveled all over the surrounding villages, persuaded large households to give food and guns, and recruited more than 100 young people. Today was their first military operation, and this spontaneous guerrilla force of the people had set their sights on this township office.
Lin Gucheng has never fought, and he hasn't even killed a chicken in normal times. But now a scholar has embarked on the battlefield of life and death. The strength of the devils nearby, Lin Gucheng is very clear.
There were forty devils in the township office, and another thirty devils were stationed in a small town more than ten miles away.
Lin Gucheng didn't know that the Hainan guerrillas of the Maritime Resistance Army had landed tonight, and Su Qing didn't know that Lin Gucheng was going to attack the camp of the Yue Army.
By mistake, Lin Gucheng's attack almost made Su Qing's landing operation fail.
At twelve o'clock in the night, all the personnel on Su Qing's side had already gone ashore and were transporting ammunition and materials one by one. Su Qing was quite careful, and arranged two light machine guns on the top of the hill next to the road.
Due to the slippery rocks, the heavy machine gun could not be transported to the top of the mountain. Moreover, there are only 68 people, and it is absolutely not an easy task to transport a few tons of materials to the mountains and forests two or three miles away by manpower. Therefore, the vigilance force is insufficient.
The brethren on the Pixiu were not slow, and just after twelve o'clock, ninety percent of the cargo had been transported from the submarine to the shore, and only two German-made infantry guns were too heavy to remain in the submarine's gun positions.
These two infantry guns, which were too large, did not fit into the submarine, but were tied to gun emplacements.
It took a long time before the fighters loaded an infantry gun onto a rubber boat.
Ren Tianyang on the Pixiu, seeing that it was going well, estimated that it would be completed in another half an hour. At this time, there was a gunshot in the distance.
Ren Tianyang's heart, which had just been put down, was lifted again.
Immediately ordered the gunners to be on alert. The gunners on the Pixiu moved quickly, and they were ready for battle in only a minute or two.
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