Chapter 299 The Navy is about to make a war letter

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Thunderstorms poured down, and the Yangtze River estuary was filled with mist ().

In the pouring rain, a 4,000-ton Dutch-flagged freighter was the first to break out of the waterway, and behind it two slender black shadows rose and fell with the waves.

After the sailors opened the hatch, Chen Shaokuan climbed up the shell with him in a raincoat, reminded the soldiers to pay attention to the sea, and then grabbed the handrail and walked back. Fierce wind and waves crashed on the deck, and my feet slipped several times to make my way to the stern.

He is not the kind of conservative old Fujian gang, after receiving a year of training in Germany for the new navy and learning to operate submarines, he does not want to take these little guys back to China to protect the sea frontier. No one knows how much of an impact a year in Europe had on him, but just looking at the thousands of books he bought when he returned home, brought back hundreds of photos of various warships, and recorded dozens of notes, you can detect the dream of a great power and a frontier in this young man's heart.

Unfortunately, he was unable to continue his studies like his friend Bingwen and others, whom he had met in Germany, because the call of the motherland had ended his exercises with the German navy and set out on his way home, but soon after the six submarines that had been named Seawolf 1 returned home, there was a strong smell of gunpowder from the north. Twenty years later, China and Japan fought again in the northeast, and this time it was China that attacked, and China was also short of naval strength.

Not to mention the army's successive victories, recovering its homeland, breaking the myth of daily undefeat, and boosting the morale of the people, it is said that it also seized assets worth hundreds of millions of yen, but the main forces of the navy could only stare dryly in the face of this big war, the first fleet held in Shanghai, and the second fleet defended Sanduao.

So recently, many people in China have come forward to accuse the navy of being conservative, but Chen Shaokuan knows that it is because they don't understand. The navy is not an army, and the poor strength of the army can be made up for by relying on terrain, numbers, and tactics, but once the gap between the navy and the rash attack is too large, it will be a food delivery. The powerful Japanese Navy does not even need to dispatch the First Fleet, the Second Fleet alone is enough to completely sweep away the entire Chinese fleet, and this gap is no longer bridged by technology and tactics, so even if there are more sarcasm voices, the Navy must endure it! General Sa said that this is the last seed of the Navy, and if it is buried, it will take at least ten years and ten years to do it again! How many decades in life can be squandered?

Although the main forces can't take risks, it doesn't mean that the navy doesn't have its own means, and the six Seawolf Type 1 submarines are one of the means of the navy. To represent the Navy to challenge the almost unshakable Asian hegemon, and to give them the next war letter!

In fact, even if many people in the navy still disdain to let submarines go, they think that they should send a cruiser to fight to the death mentality, even if a few shells to support the army can tell the world that the navy is not a bad seed. Chen Shaokuan doesn't blame them, because these people don't understand submarines at all, in fact, he doesn't know much about this new type of warship, but he has too much experience compared to his neighbors, at least when he was in Germany, he also held an exercise with the powerful high seas fleet, and he still remembers that when the exercise officer announced that the Nassau was seriously injured by himself, the German captain almost pulled off his beard, and said that it was impossible, saying that the exercise officer received the benefits and almost started a fight.

After staggering to the stern of the boat against the wind and heavy rain, a chute appeared in sight on the left and right, and the chute was a neatly arranged anchor mine, these anchor mines were made by the Jiangnan Factory, although the Jiangnan Factory has rarely been involved in the military industry, but the gun carriage, mechanical sights, car iron wheels, aircraft iron pipe skeleton and other accessories can still be manufactured, not to mention that the mine technology is not complicated, the Jiangnan Factory made it at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Because the submarine cannot carry these big guys, the factory master also invented this simple chute, which can allow the submarine to carry 12 anchor mines weighing one ton at a time, because the submarine is narrow and cannot be used like a warship before the depth is fixed, so these anchor mines are set at a depth when they are in the factory (). Carrying 12 mines at a time is a bit heavy for a submarine of several hundred tons, so the master came up with a simple pontoon to be hung at both ends of the chute for buoyancy counterweight.

Chen Shaokuan tied himself to the railing and carefully checked that all the hooks were firm, and then put down his heart and walked towards the enclosure, but as soon as he arrived at the enclosure, he saw that the mast light of the submarine support ship in front of him that had been converted from a cargo ship suddenly turned on five times!

Enemy!

Seeing this originally planned signal, Chen Shaokuan shouted with all his might: "The enemy ship is ready to dive!" ”

The vast majority of the submariners were recruited from the South Seas, Europe and the United States, and their personal quality was higher than that of the domestic sailors, and after a year of German-style rigorous training, they also faintly had the meaning of elite soldiers, so when he gave the order, the boat immediately became busy, and the sailors in the torpedo compartment immediately rushed to their posts, and the snorkel was quickly withdrawn and the water injection valve was quickly twisted open. Before closing the watertight hatch, Chen Shaokuan looked at the No. 2 boat behind him again, and was relieved to see that they also began to dive.

A few minutes later, the two waves disappeared beneath the waves, and after leaving the strong wind and torrential rain, the submarine was much quieter.

"Lift the periscope to keep course, steady at 6 knots speed torpedo compartment ready to go!"

After Chen Shaokuan gave the order accurately, the first mate activated the button and raised the periscope, due to the problem of sealing, the periscope seemed to rain lightly around after it was raised, and it was afraid that people who were on the submarine for the first time would feel scared, but for the submariners who had been training for several months, it was a joke to call this a "bath."

The rain was very heavy, the visibility on the sea was very bad, and although the forward support ships still kept using anti-collision code words to warn the enemy ships of their tracks, Chen Shaokuan still spent a lot of effort to find the single-chimney cruiser flying the Japanese naval flag. Chiyoda, a third-class cruiser, and after seeing countless photos, he immediately had information about this old cruiser in his mind. There are 10 single-mounted 120 mm/L40 naval guns, 14 47 mm Habekais rapid-fire guns, and three 356 mm torpedo tubes.

Now that the wind and rain are strong, do you want to sink it?

Chen Shaokuan gritted his teeth, it was really humiliating for the navy to be blocked by an old-fashioned cruiser, so he wanted to simply knock it out, but he thought of the more important task of minelaying in the Yellow Sea, and finally chose to give up, after all, this is not far from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there will be many ships coming and going every day.

The Chiyoda didn't notice the small black dot underwater, and focused all its attention on the support ship in front, and when it became clear that it was a Dutch cargo ship, it deliberately followed the long distance, until the support ship turned around and began to go south, and then returned to the sea, if the captain of the Chiyoda knew that it was because of his negligence that the tragedy that happened a few days later, I don't know if he would go crazy.

"Raise the snorkel, speed 10 knots, northeast."

At the beginning of the Navy's "War Book Operation", Yang Qiu also arrived in Haicheng.

After the Northeast Theater Command arrived at the front line, the telephone bell in the war room rang almost incessantly, and the successive victories made the confidence of the staff officers and officers suddenly increase a lot, and they walked with vigor, several high radio antennas were erected, and gasoline generators were also running non-stop.

Since the introduction of the US battlefield telephone system at a sky-high price, the army's command and combat methods have also undergone great changes, and the distant Jiulian City and Andong Dagushan must still use radio for the time being, and the close-range Yingkou and Xiuyan wired telephones have connected almost every regiment. The former is mainly responsible for battlefield communications, while the latter is responsible for battlefield mine clearance, obstacle clearance, bridge building, and other work, and when necessary, they also have to undertake the combat mission of bombing pillboxes and completing strong fortifications; however, there are not many engineering and technical personnel in the country, and the combat engineers are far from being compared with later generations, and only a few main forces have one or two battalions.

Not far from the command post, with the help of seven or eight tractors, the field airfield was being rapidly built, and trains from afar from the country were constantly transporting troops and all kinds of equipment, which also showed that after completing the first stage of rapid occupation of the strategic points on the outskirts of Kwantung Prefecture, another vicious battle had begun to brew with the rapid increase of Japanese troops.

Sa Zhenbing, who accompanied him, went to the Dagushan Fortress and said that he wanted to see if the structure was damaged, but in fact, he wanted to remember the Beiyang heroes who sacrificed on this land 20 years ago. Feng Guozhang was chatting with Zhang Zuolin, and Song Ziqing turned around after arriving in Xuzhou because he needed to go back to Nanjing.

Cai Gongshi took out a small bottle from his bag, scooped out the black powder with a spoon, rushed into the boiling water and brought it to Yang Qiu, Yue Peng thought it was some kind of medicine when he saw this, and said with concern: "Commander-in-chief, where are you uncomfortable?" ”

Yang Qiu smiled, ignoring him as a little white, Cai Gongshi felt funny and introduced what instant coffee is. This is actually one of Yang Qiu's plans to make money, Chen Yutang went to South America to open a pharmaceutical factory after making "ice" under his guidance, Yang Qiu also asked Miao Luo to find a few capable children in the family to help, after the "special medicine" began to bring wealth like a snowball, he felt that since he went to South America, he always had to get a few more votes, so he came up with instant coffee for those young people to get, this is a sample they recently asked someone to bring back, it is already very good in terms of taste, so Yang Qiu has allocated funds for them to order equipment, And let them take in a few local coffee plantation owners as shareholders so that they can better manage the relationship.

I don't dare to say that these two products alone can bring back at least tens of millions of dollars in net income in the next four years, so recently he also selected more than 20 officers from the National Guard who are about to retire through An Guoliang to send them there, first, to make the business bigger, and second, to take care of anything else.

"After Terauchi Masashi arrived in Lushun, the chaos of the initial Japanese army had begun to be reversed. Due to the previous defeat, the Japanese army has made internal adjustments, and it is now known that the divisions and regiments on the front line have resumed the wartime two-brigade and four-wing establishment, and more reserves have begun to be mobilized in the country. Judging from the current situation, the total number of Japanese troops in Lushun and Jinju has exceeded 30,000, and more than 10,000 in the direction of Baekma Mountain in Sinuiju, and it is expected that the numbers in these two places will reach 40,000 and 30,000 in ten days! And that's not even counting the South Manchurian and Korean puppet armies that cooperated with them. ”

The introduction of the military situation was Li Zongren, a second-year student at the National Defense University from Guangxi, who had begun to receive training, and his current job was to sort out so much information every day and report it, and at the same time to assist the General Staff in formulating operational plans, and Bai Chongxi, who had also come with him, directly joined the operational analysis room. He continued: "At present, there are eight Japanese warships gathered in Lushun, Dalian and the Bohai Sea, all of which are from the Japanese Second Fleet, and the First Fleet has not yet shown signs of leaving. The Japanese Navy is now accelerating the delivery of troops here, and yesterday there was intelligence that about four ships loaded with munitions arrived in Arthur, including at least 24 150 heavy guns and 2 240 heavy guns ()! Coupled with the artillery carried by the Arthur fortress group and the Japanese divisions, the General Staff believed that the total number of artillery pieces of the Japanese army may have reached about 260, so it hoped to remind the brigades on the front line to be fully prepared. In addition, the Ministry of Intelligence has monitored that the recent meetings of the Japanese command in Lushun have been very frequent, and it is very likely that a major counteroffensive is being deployed. ”

There is no surprise that the Japanese army will counterattack Yang Qiu, but he is not too worried, because from the confrontation during this time, the Japanese army's tactical thinking is still very backward. Its tactics were derived from the tactics of extensive infantry maneuver advocated by the French army twenty years earlier. The core of this tactic is to strengthen the firepower of the main offensive area, destroy the enemy's defense and morale through effective firepower, kill and wound the enemy in large numbers, and launch a group charge under the cover of fire, so as to quickly break through the enemy's defense line and shake the enemy's overall defense, and then use cavalry to quickly pursue after the infantry breaks through.

Obviously, the Japanese army still clinged to the experience of the Russo-Japanese War, believing that any defense could be broken through in the face of effective and intensive artillery fire, which is why so many heavy artillery pieces were shipped. It is a pity that this tactical thinking still had a market in the initial stage of the First World War, but it was doomed to be eliminated after a few months, because its biggest drawback was that it ignored the importance of encirclement, and willingly pinned the victory of the battle on the central breakthrough. Now the Japanese army squad is obviously inferior to itself, and the quality of artillery is also much behind, and the only thing that can be relied on is probably only the experience of large-scale warfare, if it is replaced by someone else, it is not a joke, but in his previous life, he has seen larger-scale battles and combat examples, and he will know the pain when he collides with the defense-in-depth system that is being deployed on the front line according to his own plan.

"After the meeting with the Russian Far Eastern Governor-General the day before yesterday, Japan was greatly shaken, and the navy has stepped up patrols on South Sakhalin. France and Britain were very nervous about our propagation that they would join hands with Russia to take South Sakhalin and partition Korea. Cai Ye was also in a rare mood and said with a smile: "The president also sent a telegram in the morning, Britain and France have asked us to rein in our military operations so as not to cause greater regional tension." ”

"Convergence? Hum! Yang Qiu snorted coldly: "Now they can still threaten us, but the world will be different in ten days!" ”

Almost no one in the audience could understand his words, only Cai Ye and Yue Peng, who was most familiar with him, seemed to have thought of something, and just about to ask Lei Meng rushed in, and after whispering a few words, Yang Qiu suddenly rose, and the corners of his mouth suddenly pulled out an arc.

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