On the third watch of the night, dozens of villagers secretly gathered in the south of the village, as well as a few women and children, in a hurry, all carrying a very small package, after counting the number of people, quickly disappeared into the night.

This scene was staged sporadically in North China, Northwest China, and the Central Plains, and groups of ragged people gathered at the four locations designated by the Democratic Alliance Army.

It will take some time for the northern immigrants to come to Jiaozhi, and Wang Feng can't wait that long, so after handing over everything to Zhao Liewen and Lin Fengxiang, he took the Ninth Army, some Black Eagle Special Combat Team soldiers and the Women's Special Army out of Zhennan Pass.

Ding Daquan returned to Nanjing a few months earlier, and he will, at Wang Feng's request, expand the Black Eagle Special Combat Team and prepare for the establishment of an engineering brigade.

In Guangdong, Wang Feng ordered Chen Yucheng's Tenth Army to enter Shaoguan with Li Shixian's Ninth Army, and under the command of Li Xiucheng, the commander of the group, the troops continued to move north in two routes, without setting any time limit, and cooperated with the Second Army to attack Jiangxi, focusing on stability.

All the way to the outer line, the Tenth Army marched to Nanchang through Ganzhou and Ji'an, and the other route led by Li Xiucheng led the Ninth Army to take the inner line, and marched to Nanchang through Ruijin, Fuzhou and Yingtan.

The Fourth Army has only two armies, and it has not been a long time since it was formed, and its equipment has not been completely updated, but why is he the main attack on Jiangxi? Because the backbone of this group army came from the Taiping Army, almost all of which were based on Yang Xiuqing's old troops, and some of the personnel were the Hunan Army that followed Zhao Liewen and Zeng Guoquan into Guangdong, it is not difficult to see that. Wang Feng's strategic intention was first and foremost to recruit the Taiping army of Jiangxi in the original two lakes, and even had the intention of surrendering the Hunan army.

On the face of it. Although Yang Xiuqing and Wei Changhui have a bitter enmity, a large number of middle and low-level soldiers, including some high-level generals. There is no resentment between each other, it's just that everyone is the same thing, each for its own master, this kind of hatred is obviously driven and used by people with intentions, and it is also a dazed hatred, not to mention that Yang Wei and the two have become a thing of the past, the so-called people die and the lights go out, no matter how big the hatred should be put down.

Wang Feng did not follow, he will go to Anqing. Accompanying the Second Group Army to attack Jiujiang and coordinating with the Fourth Army to annihilate the Hunan forces in Jiangxi, whether or not to take advantage of the victory to advance into Lianghu needs to be decided according to the actual results.

Before the battle against Jiujiang, Wang Feng still needs to go to Xiangshan, the three domestically produced frigates have been built, and he will personally preside over the launching ceremony.

Xiangshan Bay is more than 60 kilometers deep, and it is impossible for the East China Sea Fleet to use all of it, and the base is located in a saltwater lake on the south side of the bay. There is a waterway about one kilometer wide connected to the harbor, and artillery is erected on both sides of the waterway to guard the safety of the base, about twenty kilometers from the mouth of the East China Sea.

The families of the soldiers were arranged in Xiangshan County, two kilometers south of the base. Living with local fishermen, a special steel mill appeared in the county due to the needs of the base. Specializing in the production of alloy steel and ship steel, there are many mechanical processing industries and hardware industry. For example, screws and nuts, welding and metal smelting and other metal deep processing related industries.

Among them, the welding technology was forged welding, which was the mainstream in the world at that time, that is, the technology of continuously forging the metal in a red-hot state to make it join. Under the prompting of Wang Feng, it has been gradually eliminated, replaced by a large number of carbon arc welding using carbon electrodes, and the necessary conditions for the promotion of acetylene welding, the research of gas cutting torches has also made a major breakthrough, and rosin resin flux composed of rosin, resin, active agents containing halides, additives and organic solvents has been successfully developed as early as last year, and the update and development of this series of welding technology is to fully prepare for the future construction of ironclad warships.

You know, ironclad battleships and welding technology are inseparable, the difficulty of building ironclad battleships in addition to engine power, another is how to splice pieces of steel together, the rest of the technology is even simpler than building wooden warships, at least the keel does not need to be selected, the steel can be welded to make the keel.

And the current engine technology is maturing, gradually increasing the power is not a problem, as long as a breakthrough in welding is made, the construction of ironclad battleships will be officially put on the agenda.

In addition to these shipbuilding-related industries, other industries in the county town are clothing, food, housing and transportation that provide services for the base, and all non-military personnel and non-related construction personnel are strictly prohibited from entering the military port, even the county magistrate of Xiangshan County Government is not allowed.

Today's Xiangshan County, all the foreigners have withdrawn, leaving only some Japanese women and their children, although Wang Feng said in advance when he gave the Japanese women to the foreigners, and when he left, he would take the Japanese women and children away, but the foreigners promised to be happy at that time, and they really wanted to leave, and they turned their faces and refused to admit it.

The Xiangshan County Government and the relevant departments of the fleet could not bear to wipe out the Japanese women and the children of mixed Japanese and Western descent, after all, they were indeed very innocent, they were arrested and given away, and endured all kinds of unaccustomed service for two years, and finally they were abandoned, and they could not live by killing their conscience, so they could only arrange a livelihood for them in Xiangshan County, maybe they would meet a kind Chinese man and start a new life.

Wang Feng and the others boarded a ship in Hong Kong on May 5 and arrived at the port of Xiangshan on May 10, and the four Sardinian frigates left at the beginning of this year.

As soon as the fleet crossed the narrow waterway, it saw three gray medium-sized warships lined up in the dock not far away, still steam-sail hybrids, with long colored flags from the top of the bridge to the bow and stern of the ships, and the bow of the ships were painted with the numbers 504, 505 and 506 respectively.

The first number 1 represents a battleship or cruiser, the first number 2 represents a conventional submarine, the first number 3 represents a nuclear submarine, the first number 4 represents a destroyer, the first number 5 represents a frigate, the first number 67 represents a torpedo boat, a frigate boat and a gunboat missile boat and other small boats, the first number 8 represents a minesweeper, minelayer, supply ship and other support ships, the first number 9 represents a landing ship, and the aircraft carrier is identified with a two-digit number, starting with zero, In addition, some special-purpose ships, such as integrated supply ships, ocean-going salvage ships, and hospital ships, are composed of the first letter of the English alphabet and two digits.

Of course, compared with the comprehensive numbering, the current number of ships in the Navy of the Democratic Alliance is pitiful, and the vast number of naval soldiers cannot understand submarines, aircraft carriers, missile boats, and other ships, but this does not prevent them from being prepared in advance.

"It's so powerful!" Looking at the three gray battleships, Yang Shuijiao couldn't help but admire.

The ships participating in the Battle of Guangzhou, except for some armed merchant ships and a frigate, including General Li Guangbi, were all assigned to the South China Sea Fleet, and Yang Shuijiao, Wang Feng and others took the 501 frigate is the one that was not assigned to it, which came from the British army four years ago, which was not the most advanced technology at that time, and it was even more backward four years later.

These three frigates, the number of guns has been reduced, the barrels are thinner and longer, the hull is also significantly thinner, very streamlined, the silver-gray paint changed the dark black that was popular in European and American warships at that time, similar to the background color of the sea, and it is more soft in the vision. (To be continued......)

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