"Boom..."

A column of water tens of meters high suddenly appeared beside the battleship [Ise], and some of the naval officers in the bluffing bridge turned pale, and one or two of them even let out an involuntary exclamation.

Gentaro Yamashita in the bridge seemed very calm, at least in front of his subordinates, which made those young naval officers quite admired, but from Gentaro Yamashita's hands holding the binoculars, and the corners of his slightly beating eyes, it could be seen that his heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface..."Strange, how can Chinese's gunnery be so accurate..."

It's no wonder that Gentaro Yamashita is so scornful, so since the outbreak of the naval war, the accuracy of the Chinese Navy's naval guns has almost equaled that of the Japanese army, and considering that the Chinese Navy has begun construction on a large scale less than five years ago, this is an impossible thing.

After all, the navy is not an army, and the army may be able to build a strong army in four or five years, but the navy is a high-tech branch of the armed forces. If it weren't for the fact that the Chinese fleet still showed a lot of rustiness in terms of troop arrangement, I'm afraid that Yamashita Gentaro would have thought that he was dealing with a navy that was on par with the Japanese army... It's not just Gentaro Yamashita who is amazed, but even Sa Zhenbing himself.

However, unlike Gentaro Yamashita, Sa Zhenbing himself was amazed that the naval gun system installed on the warship and named [Heart Moon Fox] would be so easy to use.

Sa Zhenbing, as the Minister of the Navy, certainly knows what the situation of the Navy is now, and it is true that after receiving strong financial support over the years, the Navy has indeed made great progress, especially in terms of equipment.

However, in terms of the personal qualities of naval officers and men, China is still a considerable distance from a traditional naval power such as Britain, Germany, and France.

If Germany and Britain had a hit rate of 3.33% and 2.17% of their large-caliber naval guns in the Battle of Deland, then China in the past... Ahem, almost 1%?

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

The salvo of twelve 380mml/50 naval guns of the flagship [Baxia] interrupted Sa Zhenbing's memories.

In any case, in this naval battle, the fire control system of the [Xinyue Fox] type naval guns did play a great role, and this role almost raised the Chinese Navy by a grade, and also made the Chinese Navy even if the number of capital ships was a little worse than that of the Yue Army, but it could still maintain a state of stalemate with the Yue Army.

"As long as this battle can be won, maybe in my lifetime I will be able to see the rise of the Chinese Navy again..."

After noticing that the 280mm main guns of a [Chaofeng-class] first-class cruiser on the flank hit a second-class cruiser of the Yue Army twice in a row, and finally successfully sent it to the bottom of the sea, the whole Cambridge was cheered with excitement, and even the elderly Sa Zhenbing was excited.

"To win, you have to win..."

―――――――――― in the case of a big fight at sea, there is no idle on land, or in fact, it is because of the hand that strikes first on land, so it will be done at sea.

It's just that compared to the situation at sea, where there has always been a stalemate, and no one can help anyone, the war situation on land was somewhat ugly for the Wehrmacht at the beginning. And after learning about what happened on Sakhalin, Vladivostok was preparing to launch the last attack, and Yin Changheng, who was trying to take Vladivostok once, was even more angry and scolded the Military Intelligence Agency for dereliction of duty... Because in the early days of the war, I actually used tanks... The expeditionary force in the north of Sakhalin did not expect the army to come up with tanks at all, so it was caught off guard by the army and captured three lines of defense in a row, if it were not for the fact that the Wehrmacht itself had trained tanks for defense, and after the capture of the three lines of defense, the tanks of the army were almost broken, the situation is really hard to say..."damn it..."

After the situation gradually stabilized, looking at the three lines of defense that were still in the hands of Yue himself, Lin Tiannan, who commanded a multi-division expeditionary force on Sakhalin Island to fight against the Yue army, also had a blue and white face.

Therefore, the reason why he once fought with the Yue Jun in Shandong, Lin Tiannan can be said to have never taken the Yue Jun in his eyes from the beginning, but now it is like this under carelessness..."What a dog said!! ”

It's just that no matter how angry Lin Tiannan is, the battle will still be fought in the end, and because of the sudden loss of the relationship between the three lines of defense, now Lin Tiannan also needs to reorganize the expeditionary force.

Unlike Lin Nantian, who had been scolding and scolding, although the commander of the Sixth Division on the opposite side, Akashi Motojiro, had taken three lines of defense from Lin Tiannan's hands, his face had always been deadly and calm.

"Black skin, bright red blood"

This is how people describe this southern Kyushu force, the 6th Division (Kumamoto) and the 2nd Division (Sendai) are known as the two strongest and most effective units in the army. Its predecessor was Kumamoto Towndai, which was established in 1873, and during the Southwest War, it was surrounded by the forces of the Satsuma clan led by Saigo Takamori in Kumamoto Castle, and it withstood Saigo's tidal attack with a strong will. In 1988, with the reform of the army, Jintai was renamed as a division, and Kumamoto Zhentai became the 6th Division.

As one of the divisions with the strongest combat effectiveness, because of the important surname of this battle, the political axe of the company sent this division to Sakhalin, and also equipped this division with 40 [Mark 4] tanks that had just been purchased from the United Kingdom, and 40 [Taisho 7-year] tanks developed by the company itself.

Although the combat effectiveness of these tanks is like scum compared with the [Type 15 medium tank] and [Type 16 light tank] equipped by the Wehrmacht, especially the [Taisho 7th Tank] tank developed by the Wehrmacht, it is even a little more scummy than the British [Mark 4] tank.

But a tank is a tank after all, even if it is a scumbag in the surname, it is not something that ordinary infantry can contend with, especially when I didn't expect that Yuben would actually put tanks into the battlefield, not to mention the Type 15 tanks that have begun to be equipped in batches, and even the Type 16 light tanks that have been equipped with hundreds of units have not been transported to Vladivostok... It is no wonder that Yin Changheng scolded the Military Intelligence Bureau for dereliction of duty, after all, if it were not for the fact that the Military Intelligence Agency did not obtain detailed information about the army, such a problem would not have occurred at all.

And Akashi Genjiro himself, although he has taken the three lines of defense of the expeditionary force, but... Originally, Akashi's purpose was to drive the expeditionary force back to northern Sakhalin through a large-scale tank battle during the first attack.

Therefore, although the current results are not bad, in the eyes of Akashi Genjiro, it is equivalent to failure.

Especially..."Is this the machine gun that the Shina people are equipped with..."

Looking at the 12.7mm large-caliber Makqin machine gun that is different from the Hatch Kais machine gun equipped by the army, Genjiro Akashi said secretly, not long ago, the tank unit under the command of Genjiro Akashi just reported that the side armor and part of the frontal armor of the [Mark 4] tank purchased from Britain and the self-developed [Taisho 7th Style] tank were shot through by the machine guns of the [***] team, and even the top covers of some tanks were smashed by the machine guns of the [***] team.

Because at the beginning of the tank design, the British [Mark 4] was not mentioned for the time being, and the important surname of the side armor was emphasized in the design of the [Taisho 7th Style], and in the experiment, the Hatch Chase machine gun and the Makqin machine gun equipped by the army really did not have much to do with these two types of tanks...".50 inch caliber, no wonder..."

Thinking of the different caliber of machine guns equipped by the squadron and his own army, Genjiro Akashi finally understood why the tank was penetrated.

Just when Akashi Motojiro secretly sighed, one of his subordinates also came over with a Type 18 submachine gun.

"Your Excellency..."

Genjiro Akashi nodded, then took the submachine gun.

It is said that the Black Dragon Society and other intelligence agencies in China are not wine bags and rice bags after all, and they have long known about the fact that the Wehrmacht has begun to equip submachine guns. It's just that the number of such firearms is still very small, and the Ministry of Defense's degree of secrecy is also very high, and the military department does not attach much importance to this kind of firearm that wastes bullets.

So even a general like Genjiro Akashi saw the Type 18 submachine gun for the first time..."Is this it..."

Genjiro Akashi has also been a soldier for many years, so after just fiddling with it a little, Genjiro Akashi already understands what to do―――――― of course, this is also related to the emphasis on simplicity at the beginning of the design of the Type 18 submachine gun.

After making sure that there were enough ammunition in the submachine gun, Genjiro Akashi led several of his men to a clearing, then took aim at a target and pulled the trigger.

"Dada..."

After the entire magazine was empty, he was surprised to see that Genjiro Akashi, who had become a tattered target in front of him.

"This weapon..."

Although he has only just started to use this weapon, Akashi Genjiro has already discovered the importance of this weapon, and of course this is also related to the fact that Akashi Genjiro is not an ordinary young soldier.

Speaking of Akashi Genjiro, he is also quite famous in the book.

No, it shouldn't be said that it is within the book, it should be said that it is quite famous even in later generations.

Because... More than 10 years ago, the one who gave Lenin 1 million yuan was Genjiro Akashi... In 1904 he met Lenin in Neiva and offered to support Lenin's socialist movement with funds. Lenin initially refused to accept it on the grounds of betrayal of the motherland, so Akashi said, "As a Tatar (Lenin's maternal line is Mongol), the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty, which is known as a national prison, is the greatest patriotism." Lenin then entrusted Trotsky with the money to finance his activities and carry out a series of subversive activities.

In 1904, the Minister of the Interior of Tsarist Russia, Vyacheslav? Feng? The assassination of Pleway and the "Weekly Massacre" in Petersburg on January 22, 1905, in which 4,600 petitioning workers were killed and wounded. His shadow can be found in the June 3rd coup d'état in which the battleship Potemkin mutinied, and these are the Russian Revolution of 1905, which later came to be known as the general exercise of the 1917 revolution.

In addition, it also set up an intelligence and communication network, plotted against the Russian [***] officials, instigated the reading movement of the three small Baltic countries, met with Finnish reading leaders, obstructed the transportation of troops, secretly smuggled weapons to anti-imperialist Russian organizations, worked closely with the British political axe, and guided European public opinion to be friendly (with the help of Utsunomiya Taro, the military attache stationed in the United Kingdom), and so on.

Akashi had experience in colonial rule as a supporter of dissidents and opposition forces in Russia and as commander of the military police in Korea. In addition, he had studied in Germany and had been baptized by European civilization, so he should be more enlightened among the senior generals. It is said that at the time of the merger of Korea, more than 100,000 people in Seoul demonstrated and protested, and Akashi's subordinates suggested that the army be dispatched to suppress it, and Akashi instructed to disperse it with high-pressure water cannons.

Because of this, if it were to replace the other officers of the Yumoto Shaozhuang faction whose brains were burned out, I am afraid that they would disdain this kind of "bullet waste" weapon, and then emphasize the power of the Yumoto bushido.

However, it is precisely because Akashi Genjiro is not an ordinary young Zhuang faction officer that he can better understand that it is difficult for a weapon like a submachine gun to be recognized in this book.

Of course, this is not just because of the people who have burned out their brains, but also because the industry is too weak. Although since the outbreak of the European War, the industry has also made great progress, but at this time, the annual output of the steel industry is only 800,000, and the financial ability is not very good..."Alas..."Looking at the Type 18 submachine gun in his hand, although the workmanship is not exquisite, but at least it is not too bad, Akashi Genjiro let out a long sigh. "How can China change so much in four years?"

―――――――――― near the Sakhalin Sea, the navies of China and the two countries fought fiercely for three consecutive days, and in the end, apart from the loss of some of the cruisers of the first and second ranks and some destroyers, most of the remaining dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, which were the main forces, were only damaged to varying degrees of severity.

Although the Chinese side thought that with the power of the 380mml/50 naval guns, it should sink one or two capital ships, but the Chinese side also felt that the Chinese dreadnoughts and battle cruisers were too much to beat... In any case, it is still a state of invincibility in the Sakhalin Sea, and it seems that it is not easy to distinguish the winner from the loser.

And on Sakhalin, Lin Tiannan also began to launch a counterattack after gaining a foothold.

The first to open the way is the heavy artillery group equipped by the expeditionary force, and Akashi Genjiro ordered the heavy artillery group of the army to return fire at the same time, and also used the [Mark 4 type] tank and the temporary bunker in the [Taisho 7th year] tank that could not be moved at all―――――― although these tanks just had a problem with the engine, it was not impossible to repair it, but there was no repair shop on Sakhalin Island for Akashi Genjiro to use, plus Lin Tiannan, who was eager for revenge, was also in a hurry. Genjiro Akashi had no choice but to use these expensive tanks... It's just that after losing the tank, the army is still inferior to the expeditionary force in terms of firepower after all, especially when the expeditionary force is equipped with a certain number of submachine guns, so within three days, Lin Tiannan has recaptured two lost positions, of course, it can't be said that Lin Tiannan recaptured, it should be said that Akashi Genjiro took the initiative to give up.

After giving up the first two lines of defense, Genjiro Akashi retracted all his forces to the strongest first line of defense built by Lin Tiannan at the beginning, and in the face of this defense line that he built at the beginning, Lin Tiannan, who had no tanks in his hand to use, also scratched his head.

Fortunately, Lin Tiannan has enough heavy artillery in his hands, and Sa Zhenbing and Yamashita Gentaro on the sea do not look like they can decide the winner in a short time, plus the battle in Vladivostok has ended, so Lin Tiannan has time to solve the army on Sakhalin Island... Of course, it would be better if Sa Zhenbing on the sea could be solved earlier, so that Yin Changheng in Vladivostok would also be able to transport reinforcements to Sakhalin―――――― and now it is not impossible to transport, but if the main force of the army on the sea is not defeated, it will be a cup if it is discovered...―――――――――― In the presidential palace in Yanjing, Yan Guang has also been listening to the report on the battle of Sakhalin.

When they heard that on the sea, Sa Zhenbing and the main fleet of the army were at a standstill, almost all the military and political officials were pleasantly surprised by the outstanding performance of the navy, including Yan Guang himself.

And when they heard that the army actually lost three lines of defense in his hands, in addition to blaming the intelligence bureau for the intelligence error, the generals of the army also scolded Lin Tiannan for being really useless.

Fortunately, in three days, Lin Tiannan had already retrieved the two lost lines of defense, which made the army look a lot better.

But..."President, according to the information just sent back by the Military Intelligence Agency, the political axe is discussing whether to send the remaining fleet to attack our merchant ships, and the attitude of Britain and the United States and other countries is very suspicious at present, and it seems that there is some inclination towards this, in this case, we must be on guard..."

At the meeting, Song Dinghan, as the Minister of Finance, said so, and his face was full of worry.

It is no wonder that he is so worried, after all, this is the most important period of development for China, and both exports and imports are important boosters for development. If this tactic is adopted at this time, it will be a great obstacle to China's development.

Hearing Song Dinghan's words, the faces of the people present in the conference room were also gloomy.

Of course, this does not mean that there is no navy in the country now, after all, whether it is smuggling or anti-narcotics or something, it depends on the navy, so there are still a considerable number of navies in the country.

There are dozens of destroyers, cruisers of the first and second ranks, large and small.

However, such a small number cannot be compared with Yu himself, not to mention that there are many battleships and armored cruisers in the country now. Although these ships were only scum in front of the [Baxia-class] battleships and the [Jairus-class] battleships, for this reason the Sakhalin naval battle book did not even send them into battle.

But even so, they are not a force to be taken lightly.

Especially at present, when the main forces of the Chinese navy have already made expeditions to Sakhalin, although the national defense air force in the ports of major cities can ensure the safety of cities and ports, if I attack merchant ships―――――― the planes of the air force will not be able to fly hundreds of kilometers away to protect their merchant ships.

What's more, there is no positioning system or anything now, even if the combat radius can really reach hundreds of kilometers, you can't find a merchant ship that has been attacked... Therefore, after hearing Song Dinghan's words, there was also a lot of discussion in the conference room... However, a trace of inexplicable ......... flashed across Yan Guang's face Grin?

"Attacking merchant ships," Yan Guang smiled. Broken belligerents? ”

The so-called breaking of the war refers to attacking the enemy's transportation lines or something, and it will be a trouble if I really do this, after all, the materials to Vladivostok are all by sea, and it will be too troublesome if we go by land, but..."Since they do this, then it would be good if we did it too..."

"Huh?"

Hearing Yan Guang say this, almost everyone present was stunned.

"We do that too?"

Of course they want to, but the question is, do they have the strength?

Among the people present, there were only a few people who laughed inexplicably like Yan Guang.

"Submarines..."

(To be continued)