Chapter 176: Sanduao

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The two sides of the Haikou in Tokyo Bay are mountainous and forested.

On December 4th, at midnight, in the mountains and forests near the sea, dozens of policemen patrolled back and forth in teams of two, they were faithfully performing their tasks, expelling irrelevant people on the mountain, etc., as for who they were, it was not what they could understand, occasionally these policemen would walk into the mountains and forests along the mountain road, and scan the dark mountains and forests with flashlight holes.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Yu Guang saw the pillar of light sweeping through the forest, and the pair of alert eyes did not relax the entrance to the sea that he had been focusing on. It's just that when he senses someone approaching, he lies in this hidden "observation post" the size of a person, and he doesn't move at all, even though he knows that even if he moves, no one will notice that this observation post, although small, has no problem accommodating a person.

At this time, he chewed his night with relish, his eyes staring at the mouth of Tokyo Bay, and at this time, under the reflection of the stars and moon, the shadow of the ship on the sea could be faintly seen. Suddenly, he threw away the sky in his hand, which was actually a few biscuits, only to see some vague black outlines appear on the sea against the background of the stars and moon.

He quickly leaned down in front of the large binoculars in front of him, holding the body of the telescope and looking at the sea. After looking at it for a few minutes, he put down his binoculars to rest his eyes and continued to observe. That's right

He saw the black outlines of thirty-six ships and recognized among them battleships and armored cruisers, cruisers and coal carriers.

"The Combined Fleet is on a sortie"

After turning on the flashlight to identify the names of those warships from the black outlines one by one, he muttered in his heart, this is the information he has been waiting for for a long time, but at this time, how can he send this information to the country?

In recent days, there have been a lot of police officers on the mountain patrol.

It seems that we will have to wait until daylight

Early the next morning, on the originally uninhabited mountain road, some young people began to appear, these young people were running and exercising on the mountain road, and when no one noticed, a person in the same dress merged into these people, and after more than ten minutes, this guy who was sweating profusely went down the mountain, and the police at the foot of the mountain just looked at him.

After more than half an hour, in the telegraph room of the post office at that time, a young man in a suit came, and the young man walked to the radio station with a happy smile on his face. One of the generators inside looked at the address of Singapore and the recipient was "Miss Emi Garten". Just looking at the message, the generator finally understood why this person was so happy.

"Emi: After Uncle Yamaguchi's persuasion, my father has promised you and me to marry, although the date has not been decided, his elders can discuss this matter in the future"

The few figures revealed only the happiness of a young man, and it was his father who approved his marriage to this Miss Emi and there was nothing strange about it, but the reason that the recipient was Singapore still made the power generator give a look to the police stationed here, and the police came over and glanced at the telegram first.

"This Miss Emi is ......"

"It's a girl I met in college"

When he spoke, the young man's eyes were full of lovesickness.

"How could she be ......"

"Her father opened a trading house there"

"Oh"

There was nothing suspicious, the policeman nodded, agreed to the telegram, and finally blessed it.

"I wish you all happiness"

"Thank you, you will be happy"

More than an hour later, another person in the Singapore Telegraph Office sent the same telegram again after changing a few words, but the destination was China. …,

In the end, the telegram did not appear in the war room of the Zhenyang Fleet Headquarters in Sanduao until 9:35 a.m., and the content of the telegram had already changed.

"At 12 o'clock last night, all the capital ships of the Combined Fleet had left Tokyo Bay, accompanied by coal carriers, and the destination was unknown......"

I'm afraid that the translation of the cipher language will only be understood by the person involved, but the message after the literal translation is what the Zhenyang fleet needs.

"Let's go."

After the chief of staff of the Zhenyang fleet put down the telegram, he opened his mouth to ask the commander.

"Wait, we're in a hurry."

Liu Guanxiong shook his head and rejected the chief of staff's suggestion.

"yes, if you act too early, you might scare the Combined Fleet back, and by then, I really don't know what variables will happen."

Su Yueyang, who is a trainee staff officer of the Zhenyang fleet, said with a sense of humor.

"Yueyang, let's do it again"

Liu Guanxiong, who was a little worried, wanted to use the last wargame deduction to make himself calmer.

"It's sir"

Su Yueyang walked to the chart table with a sound, and no one else would disturb them at this time, this was the last wargame deduction.

"After the naval battle in the South China Sea, the loss of two capital ships, an armored cruiser, and a protective cruiser, the greatly damaged combined fleet is unlikely to choose to enter the South China Sea through the Luzon Strait, so there is no need for the feast we have prepared for them here."

The baton of the Luzon Strait, Su Yueyang was full of pity, from the South China Sea to the Luzon Strait, he fully borrowed from the battle plan of the Battle of Tsushima formulated by Akiyama Shinyuki.

Originally, according to his assumption, he prepared a five-stage attack for the Combined Fleet, and if the date of the First Fleet and the Combined Fleet was set to X, the content of these five attacks would be:

1. During the day on the 1st day, the first battle of battleships was fought within two hours of the defeat of the Second Fleet by the Combined Fleet.

This was the most critical step of the five attacks, as the Combined Fleet was close to running out of ammunition and engaged in long-range artillery battles with it, further depleting its ammunition.

On the night of 2.X, relying on the destroyers deployed in the Paracel Islands, they began to launch a night torpedo attack on the Combined Fleet.

3. During the day on X+1, the daytime fleet artillery battle was conducted again in the sea south of Dongsha, this time with the same purpose of attritioning the combined fleet.

On the night of 4.X+1, small torpedo boats deployed on uninhabited islands in the Luzon Strait carried out a night torpedo attack on the Combined Fleet trying to cross the Luzon Strait.

5. X+2 daytime, the daytime battle continued near the Luzon Strait, and this time it was a real decisive battle of the fleet, the previous decisive battle, the night attack was to consume the ammunition of the main ship of the combined fleet, so that it could not replenish coal, and at the same time weakened the strength of the combined fleet, and finally in the last decisive battle in the Luzon Strait, after replenishing ammunition and coal in Kaohsiung, the Zhenyang First Fleet could attack the combined fleet in the most advantageous state.

As for the sixth attack, in Su Yueyang's plan, there was no sixth attack at all, and after the third naval artillery battle began, in less than an hour, the capital ships of the combined fleet would run out of ammunition, and then it would be a one-sided battle.

The problem, however, is that if Japan does not adopt the Luzon Strait route, the possibility of forcing it to retreat through the Luzon Strait is almost zero, so the battle plan must be revised.

"According to the analysis of the intelligence currently available, in order to ensure safety, the Japanese army is very likely to choose the southern route, at this time, the belligerent sea has also changed from the naval battle in the waters near the West China Sea dominated by our army to the sea near Nansha chosen by the Japanese side, which has had an adverse impact on the fleet, because the distance is too long, and there are Japanese spies in Kaohsiung Port, if the telegram is cut off for a long time, it is very likely to arouse the vigilance of the Japanese side, in order to avoid this situation, so we need to adjust the overall plan, and at the same time transfer the destroyer fleet to the north and the torpedo boat force to the south. Relying on the first night to carry out a night attack, in order to sink and sink the enemy ships to the maximum, the second artillery battle during the day on X+1 was a decisive battle at sea. ”…,

"This means,"

"Means we need to take more losses"

A sentence came out of Su Yueyang's mouth, although the five attacks in the original plan were full of risks, but they were by no means as risky as this one, changing five attacks into three attacks, and the goal of the campaign was the same, the total annihilation would at least severely damage the Japanese Combined Fleet, but this meant that the navy needed to bear more losses.

Originally, whether it was in the old or new plans, for the Second Fleet, which was dominated by old ships, the strategy of breaking the arm of a strong man was implemented, the sacrifice of the Second Fleet was exchanged for the possibility of defeating the Combined Fleet, and the destroyer fleet and torpedo boat fleet were sacrificed to achieve the purpose of weakening the strength of the enemy fleet. Ease is gone, and what awaits the Chinese Navy will be a real test of naval warfare.

"When will the decoy fleet depart?"

"Three days later, in three days, the decoy fleet will leave port and reach the sea off Kaohsiung, as long as it does not come close, no one can find out that the decoy fleet is not the Zhenyang fleet"

The so-called decoy fleet is actually a "fleet" remodeled from training ships, which is nothing more than a cigarette pipe made of iron coils and a turret made of thin steel plates, and from a distance, no one can tell whether it is a warship or a merchant ship, although it is a little imaginary that the real intention of the decoy fleet is to tell the Japanese that the Zhenyang fleet is in Kaohsiung, not in the South China Sea.

"Coming soon"

With a heavy sigh, Liu Guanxiong looked at Su Yueyang, and then walked to the window and stared at the six capital ships of the Zhenyang fleet, after this battle, I really don't know how many of the six capital ships and ten cruisers that are parked here at this time, this is the last essence of the Chinese Navy.

A narrow-gauge train spewing white smoke slowly slowed down in front of the mountain in the middle of Sanduao Island until the train was completely close to the heavy iron gate of the warehouse below the mountain, and in the tunnel-like warehouse, hundreds of officers and soldiers were constantly using slings, pulleys, and carts to send boxes of "305 mm armor-piercing shells" or English bullet boxes to the cart, and then two or three people pushed a cart and pushed it towards the outside of the cave. The heavy boxes were hoisted onto the train by a crane on the side of the narrow-gauge railway, and a bomb was loaded onto the train, which was then taken to the docks.

"It's the last day"

Everyone understands what it means to replenish ammunition for the last time, which means that the fleet is about to leave the base and head to the unknown seas for a naval battle that will affect the fortunes of the empire.

On the wharf, the coal lifter is constantly importing high-quality anthracite into the ships, the Jingyuan, which burns heavy oil, the "unsinkable battleship" that proved to the world the indomitable heart of the Chinese Navy with its life and will in the naval battle of the South China Sea, is connected to the oil pipe, and a steady stream of heavy oil is entering the hull oil tank.

However, in the Sanduao Naval Shipyard, thousands of workers of the Naval Shipyard looked at the "Jingyuan" with pride on their faces, and they understood that no matter what, they had done it; a month ago, after the end of the naval battle in the South China Sea, the battered "Jingyuan" barely staggered to Sanduao to be docked for overhaul and transformation.

In order to rush to repair the "Jingyuan" in the shortest possible time, the navy dispatched 3,000 of the best shipbuilders and technicians from Shanghai and Ma'anshan, and even transported them from Shanghai to Sanduao by warship, just because the warships were faster.

"The national fortune will be determined by whether Jingyuan sails or not"

The simplest slogan shook the hearts of all shipbuilders, in a month-long period, every inch of the Jingyuan lying in the dock was full of shipbuilders working hard, 4,300 shipbuilders were divided into four shifts, day and night to work, the cracks that were cracked were repaired within three days, the detached armor steel plates were reinstalled, the lost perching equipment was quickly replaced, repaired, and finally under the day and night rush repairs of the shipbuilders, the "Jingyuan" that suffered heavy losses was reborn. …,

"The national fortune will be determined by whether Jingyuan sails or not"

In the history of the world's navy, there is a warship that can undertake this mission, but Jingyuan's did undertake this mission, without Jingyuan, Zhiyuan is a lame fighter, only when Jingyuan and Zhiyuan set sail at the same time, the only "battle cruiser" in this world can exert its greatest power, in the future naval battle, use its high speed, long-range endurance, pursue the enemy fleet, far away with 343 mm cannons, tear the enemy ship to pieces, if only one Zhiyuan, Zhiyuan may be the second Jingyuan to suffer a heavy order, and it is precisely because of this that Jingyuan has become a warship that determines the fortunes of the country.

At this time, the newly rejuvenated Jingyuan hardly saw many traces of heavy damage, and although the outer armor steel plate of the conning tower and turret had been coated with a new layer of paint, the bullet marks left by the shells were still clearly visible, and for the Jingyuan, this was almost his medal of honor, it was the only warship of the Chinese Navy that had experienced a naval battle and won the victory and survived, and in the future naval battle, no one would doubt that the Jingyuan could add a few more trophies to its own trophies.

For the Jingyuan, people's emotions are always complicated, just like the officers and soldiers who served on the Jingyuan, in the past, the navy was proud to serve in Zhiyuan, and now, anyone is proud to be able to serve on the Jingyuan, this is a glorious warship.

"That's Jingyuan"

On the traffic boat, the sailors holding the duffel bags, pressing their military caps, looked at the Jingyuan battlecruiser that was getting closer and closer, and everyone's eyes scattered a glorious gaze, this is Jingyuan, this is the battleship that symbolizes the spirit and will, honor and glory of the Chinese Navy, and at this time, they are about to set foot on this glorious battleship, become one of them, and sail this battleship to the ocean and sail to victory

At this time, the Jingyuan in the sunset reflection of the hull exudes a kind of fantasy gold, the battleship quietly moored in the berth field, under the reflection of the sunset, it is like a steel god of war from ancient times, it seems that any warship in front of him, will be ashamed of itself.

"Li He, this, this is the Jingyuan"

"That's right, this is Jingyuan"

"Screw me, I didn't dream, I actually went to serve on the Jingyuan"

"And we have to go to war with Jingyuan"

The chief engineer who piloted the transport boat seemed to be no stranger to all this, and it was an honor to serve on the Jingyuan, which had been tested by the fire of war, won His Majesty's commendation, and was recommended by the people.

"The world's No. 1 warship, what a disaster"

The sailors on the traffic boat looked up at the huge battleship, and each of them looked a little dull, and the golden angry dragon micro-chapter at the bow of the ship shone in the setting sun, scattering golden light, and in an instant, everyone's hearts swelled with an unprecedented sense of mission.

"Wrap on the shoulder"

At the sound of a command, when the traffic boat approached the ramp of the Shijingyuan, the sailors hurriedly carried the white canvas duffel bag on their shoulders.

"Da, da......"

As in the past training, carrying his duffel bag, Li He rushed along the steel gangway towards the deck of the Jingyuan as fast as he could, while the boatswain standing on the side of the ship roared loudly.

"Hurry, hurry, it's too slow, hurry, you're sinning"

There was no hint of joke in the roar, there was just a fierce roar, and finally boarded the Jingyuan with a reprimand, standing on its deck, Li He and the group of recruits who had just been replenished beside him hurriedly put down their duffel bags and saluted the boatswain.

"Salute the officers only when the flag is raised, and at any other time there is no need to salute the officers and non-commissioned officers, and every second of the battle is related to the survival of the battleship......"

As soon as they boarded the ship, their first lesson on the Jingyuan came to their faces.

After re-lining up again, Li He and Ji Herong and the others beside him looked at the huge triple turret, their eyes were full of incredulity, in their opinion, there may not be that battleship in this world that can withstand Jingyuan's shot.

At this moment, an officer walked in front of the queue of replenishing sailors, and Li He, who had the highest rank among the replenishment sailors, hurriedly ran over.

"Salute"

"After the ceremony, Navy Corporal Li He salutes the commander"

Nodding his head, Yang Shuzhuang looked at the dozens of sailors standing in line in front of him, this was the last batch of reinforcements, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Congratulations, we are about to go to sea to fight" ......,