Due to the fortifications of the Japanese army in Shanghai, Zhang Zhizhong could only order the army to charge over and over again, while pinning his hopes on the heavy artillery unit and the air force.

In just two days, due to quality reasons, three of the howitzers of the former Northeast Army were blown up, and the casualties of the Chinese and Japanese armies were rising by thousands every day. But it is not the military that suffers the greatest casualties - it is civilians.

Shanghai had more than 3.5 million people at the time, and the dense population often represented huge casualties in war.

The Chinese and Japanese shelling caused a significant increase in civilian casualties, especially the fire coverage of Japanese naval guns, which often reduced a street to rubble.

After Jiang Cheng returned to the Republic of China with a warehouse of medicines, he arrived at a new teleportation point - Wangjiawan.

Walking out of the yard that was designated as a forbidden place, I saw Jin Shan and a bunch of team members gathered around and didn't know what they were looking at.

Jiang Cheng stepped forward and asked, "What are you guys doing?" ”

Jin Shan and a few team members looked back and saw that it was their own owner, and Jin Shan hurriedly saluted, "Owner, read the newspaper." ”

Jiang Cheng took it, but the title on it had something he was very familiar with-the big world, and after reading it carefully, it was actually the big world that was blown up.

Since the Nationalist Army decided to destroy the Third Fleet first, several large air force groups took turns to take off and concentrate on bombing the Third Fleet, but after one plane was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft guns, it accidentally bombed the big world. As a result, about 1,300 people were killed and injured. The intact corpses were lined up in six rows on the hippodrome road, and the broken corpses were loaded into more than two dozen trucks. Seeing the bloody photos one by one, Jiang Cheng couldn't imagine what the big world he often went to was like.

Jiang Cheng asked excitedly, "Are there any civilian casualties?" ”

Jin Shan came out and nodded and said, "It's very big, because the concession does not allow our people to take refuge, and the war is too urgent, many people have not evacuated, and many people think that this time is the same as 128, and the fight will end after a while, so they are reluctant to leave Shanghai." Lying on the unsheltered streets, a shell falling is often a corpse on the ground. ”

Jiang Cheng looked at the war-torn Puxi from afar and said, "You can endure for two more days, and we will have a way soon." There is also penicillin and sulfonamide in the yard, you send someone to watch it. ”

Jin Shan nodded in understanding.

-- Concession

The best time in Shanghai is at night, where there is any extravagant behavior that human beings can think of. On the high platform of a building, a unique banquet is being held, and countless gentlemen in suits and leather shoes and celebrities in costumes are drinking wine and listening to music. Enjoy everything they've been enjoying.

A young man in his thirties sat on a sofa and looked at the war zone across the Suzhou Creek, and said angrily, "Fight and fight, whether it's over or not, it's all noisy." I can't hear the music clearly. ”

A charming white woman sat down beside him and said, "Darling, don't be angry, what do we have to do with those civilian affairs." We drink bars. ”

The young man laughed and hugged her, and said with his hands up and down, "Okay, what are you doing with those civilians, come." We drink. ”

At this time, a group of people shouted, "How beautiful! That's great. ”

The young man followed their gaze. It turned out that the Japanese battleship was firing a salvo, and the young man took a telescope and whistled and shouted, "Beautiful~~ I'll go, and it fell to the ground, amazing!! It's a lot of fireworks. I don't know who is so unlucky. Ha ha. Come on, come on, we drink and drink. ”

And on a flat land across the river, countless people who have lost their homes are asleep on this flat land, and a little boy with a bare ass gently shakes his mother next to him and says, "Mom." I'm hungry. ”

His mother touched her little liver, where to find food by herself, and she was penniless after the house was bombed. Although there are kind-hearted citizens from time to time, it is just enough to live, where can I eat enough for this half-sized child. I had to comfort, "Sleep, you won't be hungry when you fall asleep." "I'm glad it's summer at this time, and I'm not afraid of the cold.

But before her child could answer, a heavy cannon fell on them, and the child fell into a coma. When the child came to his senses, his mother hugged him tightly, and he broke free for a long time and finally pulled his mother away, but what he saw was a hellish scene. The flames that burned after the explosion made the child clearly see countless broken corpses and broken arms, and his mother's back was also bleeding a large pool of blood, and she could no longer make any sound.

The boy was stupid for a long time, and kept shaking and shouting, "Mommy, Mommy." Finally, knowing that his mother could no longer open his eyes, he cried loudly, and several Chinese who heard the sound took a few photos of him before preparing to leave. A young man said with some distress, "Why don't we save him, he will die here alone." ”

A bearded man held a camera and smiled, "Don't be stupid, this is the battlefield, can you save it?" Let's go, we'll be miserable if the damn artillery fire hits us. We're going to give this photo to the reporters for money. These damn foreign devils, if they don't dare to come, let us take pictures, but the pay is really high, let's go. ”

The young man looked hesitantly at the boy who was crying in a corpse, gritted his teeth and said, "It's all to blame little Japan, you can't blame me." With that, he trotted away.

Jiang Cheng on the other side waited for the time to come and immediately traveled back to the Black Iron Island, which was already full of new weapons at this time.

Looking at the more than five meters high mine in front of him, Jiang Cheng was secretly overjoyed, this time a little bit can make the damn naval gun stop talking, this Tianlin's efficiency is still quite good.

While Jiang Cheng was patiently waiting to return to the Republic of China, the Third Fleet had already ushered in an attack.

The night of August 16

An Qibang slowly sailed out of the Jiangyin blockade line with two torpedo boats.

An Qibang stood up and looked at the blue sky and white sun flags raised by the two warships, frowned and said, "This is not good, we stepped forward like this, and the devil's naval guns were sent to the Dragon King a few miles away." ”

The sailor next to him touched his head and said, "Captain An, I've heard the storyteller tell the story of crossing the river in white, otherwise—"

An Qibang excitedly patted the sailor's head and said, "Good boy, if you can, this time you will be the first skill." ”

Ankibang immediately disguised the two torpedo boats as fishing boats, and slowly approached the Third Fleet.

Since China did not have warships that could fight in the First Battle, the Japanese Third Fleet did not worry about an attack from the sea at all, and the warships of various countries also watched and studied around the Third Fleet. This is a rare time to discuss the tactics of warships to support the army.

Ankibang let another ship support behind, and slowly approached the Izumo, but due to the dark sky and the large number of foreign ships, the Izumo was completely unaware of Ankibang's presence.

But there were a large number of Japanese ships around the Izumo, and An Qibang watched the time pass slowly, and his heart was anxious.

Suddenly, a searchlight struck his speedboat. There was a loud burst of Japanese, followed by a few more secondary guns that began to turn.

An Qibang said angrily, "Damn, it's still discovered, and the torpedo is fired immediately." ”

Two torpedoes rushed out with a thud.

An Qibang saw that the secondary cannon was already aimed at him. Hurriedly shouted, "Abandon the ship!" ”

The other sailors had already been prepared, and immediately jumped into the water as soon as they heard the order, this was close to the beachhead, and these water warriors were still somewhat confident in swimming to the shore.

A few shells hit the torpedo boat accurately, but it was too late, and the two torpedoes were speeding towards the Izumo's big target.

Since the Izumo was at anchor at this time and could not leave at all, countless Japanese sailors secretly shouted for Asunasu's blessing, while staring at the two torpedoes, the anti-aircraft machine guns and secondary guns that reacted around them were crazy and fired at the two torpedoes.

But all in vain. One torpedo hit the stern of the Izumo with precision, and the fire immediately burst into flames, but the other hit the auxiliary vehicle and hit the boat that rushed to block the arrows. In an instant, the dinghy was torn to countless pieces.

An Kibang, who was in the water, shouted yes, expecting to see the Izumo sink, but the fire only burned for a while before it gradually went out. The Izumo was only slightly injured.

An Qibang scolded angrily, "Who bought this torpedo, it's the same as firecrackers." "But I saw the Japanese soldiers who came to search. I didn't dare to stay for a long time, so I had to dive away with hatred.

-- The Japanese Command in Shanghai R was about to go crazy, and he felt sorry for his fellow navy. It's a friend again, let Chen Shaokuan not act rashly, and he didn't bother to beat him, but now it's good that he actually took the initiative to do it.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi looked at the black smoke that could be seen in the distance, and said angrily, "Revenge, I must take revenge!" Damn Chen Shaokuan, I want your navy to be wiped out. ”

As he spoke, he asked the staff officer next to him, "How is the situation at Jiangyin Fortress?" Is it clear? ”

The staff officer next to him replied, "The investigation is clear, the China Navy blocked Jiangyin with a large number of sunken ships, and at the same time laid a large number of mines, and the staff believes that our navy cannot force a breakthrough." ”

Hasegawa nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, okay, no wonder you dare to sneak attack us, it turned out that you thought you were in a turtle shell, and we couldn't hit it, right?" Joke! How could our Imperial Navy be held back by such a little trick? If you want to fight, I will fight you! Contact the air force and the "Kaga", give me an air attack on the Shina Navy, and use our bombs to send all these ships that should have entered the museum to the bottom of the river!! ”

-- Jiangyin Fortress

There was a crisp sound, and the guards outside the door shrank their heads, only to hear Chen Shaokuan's angry roar inside, "I asked you to investigate the situation, you are good, you actually did it with the Japanese, do you think you are very capable, even the commission sent a telegram to praise you, how about you come to be my position?" Come on, come on, you come and sit. ”

It was An Qibang who was scolded and bloody, and An Qibang defended, "But it's a pity that we don't catch such a good fighter." ”

At this time, Chen Shaokuan heard a buzzing sound, Chen Shaokuan hurriedly walked to the window to take a look, patted the window and shouted, "Look at the good things you have done, you have recruited all the Japanese to our Jiangyin, do you really think that our people can fight with the Japanese fleet?" ”

An Qibang said angrily: "Then you can't sit on the wall and watch, right? We're a navy! We have reached the Yangtze River, where else can we retreat? Is it to Wuhan? Dongting Lake? Or the Three Gorges? Commander, when the war is over, will our navy still have the face to face the Jiangdong fathers? ”

Chen Shaokuan sat down, covered his face and cried, "We are the navy!" It's the Navy! It's the navy galloping across the sea, we are actually in the Yangtze River now, and we have all hid in the Yangtze River!! ”

An Qibang saw that Chen Shaokuan was actually crying, and immediately panicked, "Commander, it's all my fault, I don't know how thick the sky is." I'll go to confinement immediately, don't cry. ”

Chen Shaokuan stood up violently, his eyes became extremely resolute, and he shouted outside, "Record the order!" ”

A staff officer walked in and opened his notebook to prepare the record.

Chen Shaokuan looked at the sky outside the window that had been handed over and said, "Tell all the naval officers, behind us is the Yangtze River, behind Jiangyin is Nanjing, the Japanese are majestic, we have no way to retreat, I order, the whole army enters the combat position, and the enemy planes will attack it." When the Kou warship comes to attack, it will be blocked, in a word-the navy will not die! Jiangyin is not lost! ”

The staff officer saluted with An Qibang and shouted: "The navy is not dead!" Jiangyin is not lost! ”

When the two walked out of the room, Chen Shaokuan sat on the chair as if he had lost his strength, looked at the naval expansion plan that he had worked hard for many years in the drawer, listened to the sound of explosions and killings outside the window, and slowly left tears, "My navy seeds, our Chinese navy seeds!" ”

Jiang Cheng returned to the Republic of China with torpedoes and diving equipment. After hearing the news of the surprise attack on the Izumo by torpedo boats, I couldn't help but wonder: "Could it be that these Japanese troops actually didn't lay down the mine protection net?" ”

"No," replied Pashun, "not really, even now. The Japanese army did not put down the lightning protection net, it seems that it is really unscrupulous. ”

Jiang Cheng clapped his hands and shouted, "Okay, good, this is the best, since ancient times, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated." Immediately recall Li Qian and Wang Yong. Pick a few of the smartest team members, want to be water-based, and do you want my boat ready? ”

Ba Shun nodded and said, "Don't worry, we have prepared more than a dozen fishing boats. It's all our people, and you can rest assured that security and confidentiality issues can be assured. ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Strive to put the mine into the water tonight, you can arrange it." ”

It was afternoon. Wang Yong and Li Qian both arrived at Wangjiawan. Jiang Cheng asked, "How is the war?" ”

Wang Yong said with a look of contempt, "I don't know what they think, they are still attacking, it's been a few days, the casualties are quite large, and the progress is not big, so it's better to let me command." ”

Li Qian rolled her eyes and said, "Let you go to the bull, I'm afraid you will die faster, not only the army, but also the people are also killed, Zhang Xiaolin has surrendered to the enemy, Mr. Du and Boss Huang's people are killing them everywhere outside, I heard that Dai Li's people have also been added, and there are intelligence agencies that are originally Japanese, and the underground world is already a mess." ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "As long as the Japanese warships are defeated by us, the attack of the Nationalist Army will be much smoother, you come with me." ”

Saying that, Jiang Cheng led the two to the courtyard, Wang Yong looked at the thick and big mine, and couldn't help but mutter, "My mother, what a big bomb is this?" This thing goes up, what can't be fried? ”

Indeed, storm mines are more than five meters long, which is really scary.

Li Qian said excitedly, "Owner, are we going to use this to blow up the devil's warship?" ”

He circled around the mine a few times and said, "It's a pity that it's too big, I'm afraid I can't drag it." ”

Wang Yong knocked on his chest and said, "Isn't this me?" Let me. Saying that, this wild cow actually pushed it up, and saw that the mine actually started to move, which scared Jiang Cheng, this thing weighs half a ton, this wild cow is really a wild cow.

Jiang Cheng hurriedly stopped, "Stop, stop, I know that you are powerful, I don't want you to pull this mine, you will naturally know when the time comes." ”

Bashun also came in at this time and said, "Boss, everything is ready, and you can transport things to the ship." ”

Jiang Cheng looked at the mine and asked, "What have you prepared to transport?" ”

It was the first time Ba Shun saw the appearance of a mine, swallowed his saliva and said, "We don't dare to be too loud, so we use ox carts, but it seems that this thing is so big, it's not easy to think about it without attracting attention." ”

Jiang Cheng looked at the mine and thought about the scene of using an ox cart to pull it, it was better to use a truck, so he said, "Forget it, call a few trucks to transport it, cover it with wooden slats, and sprinkle it with ashes, just say that it is transported ashes." By the way, which of the three of you is the best in water? ”

The three of them glanced at each other, Li Qian and Ba Shun stood up at the same time, and Wang Yong looked at the ground in embarrassment.

Jiang Cheng looked at Li Qian and said, "Ba Shun, you take a few brothers, put on the diving equipment I brought, wait by the Huangpu River, and wait until you get our signal, and immediately go into the water to confirm whether the devil's warship has a mine protection net." ”

Ba Shun nodded and said, "Don't worry, it's up to me this time." ”

Li Qian was dissatisfied, "Dongjia, my water nature is also good, why don't you let me go?" ”

Jiang Cheng comforted, "You have read books, you have a good brain, and there are more important things for you to do." Obey orders. ”

Li Qian had no choice but to retreat.

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Cheng took a group of people and several trucks to a beach in the dim sky, and could see more than a dozen fishing boats on the beach, and it took everyone half a day to move the mines to the fishing boats.

Since the mine is five meters long, if the water is not deep enough, it is easy to go down and get up. Jiang Cheng and the others drove all the way to the open sea, Jiang Cheng first looked at the manual while groping around with the torpedo, thank God, there is the existence of Gallagher, or his own level of English, even if he waits for 38 years, he may not be able to turn these things up and running.

Li Qian and Wang Yong looked at Jiang Cheng's drumming curiously, and finally a mine went into the water, Jiang Cheng took out the control console again, checked it, and found that the mine was indeed moving rapidly according to the command of the control console, so he was relieved. ”

Both of them were stunned by such a scene. Wang Yong said, "My good boy, no wonder the owner said that he didn't want us to drag it, this big guy would actually go by himself?" And go so fast! ”

Jiang Cheng didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said to Li Qian, "You take a few brothers to follow me to learn how to operate, you only have an hour to study, understand?" Also, don't ask, just do it! ”

Li Qian immediately saluted and said, "Understood!" ”

Then one by one, the mines were gradually launched, and by the time they were all launched, it was already past 11 o'clock in the evening.

After Jiang Cheng finished the thunder, he immediately used a flashlight to cover the red cloth and send a signal to the shore, and then one after another red light was transmitted quickly, and when Ba Shun saw the red light, he smiled and said, "It's finally here, little ones, let's go!" After speaking, he led several team members to slowly walk into the Huangpu River. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for your support, it's finally going to be cool again.