Chapter 11 Traveling through Shanghai
The Wharf on the banks of the Huangpu River and the south bank of Suzhou Creek have accumulated a large number of spectators. China said that the two countries were at war on Chinese soil, and the British and American concessions, which were only a few kilometers away, had no sense of crisis, and tens of thousands of people were watching a movie here, pointing fingers at the battle between the two armies.
There were quite a few reporters in the middle, holding up their cameras, crackling and recording the battlefield. There are even some foreigners who actually stand there to take pictures with the battlefield as the background.
Unlike these elated foreign devils, there were many Chinese people in the crowd, and they cheered when the Chinese army fought well, and sighed when it was bad. At this moment, the country and the nation are connected by blood.
Shanghai at this time was far from the scale of later generations, and the urban area was only about one-tenth of that of later generations.
The Huangpu River flows into the Yangtze River from south to north, and the main urban area of Shanghai is on the west bank of the Huangpu River, and Pudong east of the Huangpu River is still mostly wilderness.
The Suzhou Creek flows into the Huangpu River from west to east, dividing Shanghai's public concession into two parts. North of the Suzhou Creek is now a military-controlled area, while south of the Suzhou Creek is a British-American-controlled concession.
Li Guang really couldn't stay on the ship any longer, and the workers cleaning the steamer were working while discussing the battle between China and China, and looking at the direction of the battlefield from time to time.
This kind of battlefield live broadcast can only be seen on the battlefield in China. Even the Uruguayans did not care about this war. There was no sense of crisis, as if they were the masters of this world, and neither side dared to offend them. These whites also don't know where the sense of superiority comes from.
At the moment, the scale of the battle was not large, the gunfire was not very intense, and the battle area was only limited to a small area. Li Guang couldn't figure out why the Chinese army didn't go all out, it was only a skirmish, and it was obvious that it didn't use all its strength to strike.
Alfred, who had been in absurd affairs all night, returned to the ship and shouted: "The British and American ministers have sent a note to China and the two countries demanding that European and American ships can pass on the Huangpu River, and that the belligerents must ensure the safety of European and American ships. ”
When Li Guang heard this, he was furious. Isn't this another attempt to limit the artillery fire on the Chinese side? It is said that the army has warships on the Huangpu River, and if the Chinese army wants to ensure the safety of British and American ships, how can they fight back?
Li Guang was depressed and took Zheng Xuechang to Suzhou Creek for a walk. It can be closer to the battlefield here, listening to the crackling gunfire in the distance, Li Guang can't help but pick up a gun to participate in the battle.
The south bank of Suzhou is already crowded at this time. The crowd watching the battle became even larger, and there were not only men in foreign devils, but even many women dressed in fancy clothes watching the battle with parasols.
Li Guang and Zheng Xuechang were expressionless about this, Li Guang still had one more thing to do today.
Originally, Li Guang believed that if you want to organize a submarine force, you must have mechanical and electrical professionals, but Zheng Xuechang proposed that there is also one of the most critical majors - mathematics.
In submarine warfare, if a torpedo wants to hit a moving warship, it must calculate the position of the opponent's speed, the chord angle, etc., otherwise the torpedo is blind. As a person in the electronic age, Li Guang actually knew that if a torpedo wanted to hit the target, it needed to be calculated. But he intentionally or unintentionally ignored this point, calculating a velocity angle or something was indeed too simple on later computers. After being reminded by Zheng Xuechang, Li Guang also realized that he might really have to be a college student to calculate these things by hand.
Li Guang is quite familiar with Shanghai, but it is the Shanghai of later generations. He attended school here for four years, and now the two are on their way to his alma mater.
Li Guang hopes to recruit suitable people at his alma mater. After all, this century-old famous school with magnolia as the school flower is famous in the entire southeast of China, and although it is not as large as the scale of later generations, it should be able to recruit a few suitable talents.
Li Guang knows a lot about the history of his alma mater. At this time, the university already had four colleges, liberal arts, science, law, and business, with a total of 16 majors.
Among them, the Faculty of Science has majors in mathematics, chemistry and mechanics, and physics, which are all talents that he urgently needs.
Although these students do not have much practical experience, they do not have much advantage over the people they recruit in Uruguay. But Li Guang did not recruit technicians for the factory, but on the submarine, was a soldier, and had to recruit Chinese.
At this time, the battle had already begun, and the location of the alma mater was within the war zone, although there was no gunfire in Jiangwan, where the school was located, but I didn't know what the specific situation was, and Li Guang couldn't even ask a few passers-by to get the gist.
Li Guang didn't even know why he was so bold, the route he and Zheng Xuechang traveled was only a kilometer from the closest place to the battlefield, and even occasionally saw flames coming from machine gun fire. The warring parties seemed to have a tacit understanding and did not shoot at the south bank of the Suzhou Creek.
This morning, neither the Chinese army nor the Chinese fighters were dispatched, and neither side seemed to have made up their minds about a big war, but only exchanged fire on the ground.
At this time, he did not have the arrogance after the start of the world war, and did not dare to offend the old world powers such as the United States, Britain and France. At this time, China's political axe still counted on the United States, Britain and France to uphold justice, and even restrained the troops from shooting and firing on the south bank of the Suzhou River.
After walking for a few hours, Li Guang found that he was lost, he was familiar with the high-rise Shanghai in later generations, and in this era, he could hardly recognize a building except the Bund. When the war was in chaos, it was difficult to even find a person, and as a result, the two of them tossed for four or five hours and traveled dozens of miles before they reached the side of the battlefield.
Shanghai in this era did not occupy a large area. In later generations, it was an area lined with high-rise buildings, and now most of it is still paddy fields, and there is even quite a lot of wasteland.
On the way, the Chinese army checked several times, but fortunately, Zheng Xuechang had a naval officer certificate and passed smoothly. When I arrived at my alma mater, it had become a field hospital.
There are not a few students who shuttle back and forth on campus, male students are like the usual Zhongshan student clothes in movies, and female students are also dressed in blue shirts and black skirts, and there are not a few who are beautiful and moving.
Not far from entering the school gate, several students were singing and fundraising, and a beautiful female voice came: "Students, everyone get up and shoulder the rise and fall of the world......"
The singing voice is mellow, very professional singer's taste, and slightly not high-pitched. The level of several boys in the soundtrack is not bad. However, Li Guang only glanced at it a few times, and felt that the girl who sang was very beautiful, and her appearance was quite similar to a famous star in later generations that Li Guang liked. But Li Guang didn't want to watch all this, he just wanted to find the school's steward now.
If he doesn't go through the school, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince students, not to mention that it will be difficult to recruit suitable people, and he will even be regarded as a sincere and benevolent trafficker, or even as a spy, which will be in great trouble.
I finally asked where the Faculty of Science was, but I didn't find the leader of the school, and it was said that I was called to a meeting by the military, but no one knew when I would return.
Li Guang's recruitment plan was in trouble for a while.
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