Back in Germany, when Lynhan got his first body, the Sephiroth, was already a half-finished yacht. Since the erosion did not begin from the initial keel laying stage, the fusion of Lin Han Lin Han and Sephiroth took considerable effort, and with the help of the faith of countless believers, it took nearly four months to complete the complete erosion control of the six-hundred-ton yacht.

Lin Han was able to erode the Sephiroth, which was also taking advantage of only half of what he had built, and the amount of faith power consumed for this was huge, making him feel that the gains outweighed the losses. However, at that time, it was also for the experiment, so I was willing to pay so much consumption.

Hannah later conducted a similar experiment in Germany, but she targeted the light cruiser Nuremberg. Hannah, who absorbed the soul of the High Seas Fleet, also encountered strong resistance to the erosion and fusion of the Nuremberg. A completed ship, as long as it does not sink, the unscientific existence of the ship soul cannot be completely eroded at all, and what can be done is only when she is on the ship, her ability will not be suppressed.

After Hannah condensed the core, she conducted another experiment against the Nuremberg. At this time, she already had the daughter of the German Führer, relying on herself to be the embodiment of the "will" of the German people.

The experiment was partially successful, and with the support of the power of faith that had embodied the will of the whole of Germany, Hannah completed the partial erosion of the cruiser Nuremberg and was able to partially control the Nuremberg hull. And carry out a certain amount of "magic modification" of the hull.

So it was a partial success, but after this fusion, when Hannah fused on the Nuremberg, her ability shrank extremely strictly, only three times more than when she was separated from the Deutsche and was on the core alone, and the maximum perception distance was only thirty kilometers, only one-tenth of the fusion with the Deutschland, which can basically be regarded as a "deteriorated" version of the ship soul like Li Huamei or Katyusha. And doing anything on the Nuremberg consumes more than five times the power of faith on the Deutschland, and the "cost performance" is extremely low. It's even worse than the two of them in this regard. At least when Katyusha and Li Huamei acted with superpowers in their own ontology, the loss was not so huge.

Today, Lin Han has become a national hero in China by virtue of his magical performances in the Olympics and fighting competitions. He has condensed the willpower of the entire Chinese nation. Combined with the "crystallization" of this will, Li Huamei. Forcibly fuse yourself with the cruiser Pinghai under you. He also encountered a situation similar to Hannah's ability "deterioration". The standard total weight of the cruiser Pinghai is 2,400 tons, which is almost six times that of the current Sephiroth (the Sephiroth is now only more than 400 tons after the weight reduction), and when it merges with him. Lin Han's ability is only two-thirds left, the maximum sensing distance is only thirty kilometers, and the loss when using his ability is also five times that of the Sephiroth ship. Lin Han's place and the ability of the Pinghai did not shrink as strictly as Hannah's when it fused, because the small tonnage of the Sephiroth itself did not increase his spokes, and it was far from being comparable to the 10,000-ton "Deutschland".

However, Lin Han didn't plan to merge with the Pinghai for a long time, he also wanted to just help deal with all kinds of minor problems on the ship, improve the performance of the power system and strengthen the power of the gun.

After the fusion was completed, Lin Han and Li Huamei began to inspect the small hidden faults in the hull. The previous disembarkers also began to board the ship, coaling the boiler of the Pinghai, boosting the pressure, and then driving the steam engine to idle.

Lin Han and Li Huamei did not carry out the transformation of the keel integration of the Pinghai, mainly because there was no need for this, the main purpose of the keel integration was to enhance the structural strength of the hull while reducing the weight of the riveting to increase the speed of the ship. The Pinghai is just a coastal defense ship with a maximum speed of only 24 knots, and the center of gravity is high, which makes little sense to reduce the weight of the underwater keel and affects the center of gravity of the hull. Moreover, the ship has already been completed, and even if integrated weight reduction is used, it will be a lot of effort to remove the excess riveting materials that have peeled off from the hull. Now that the war is about to start, it is simply impossible to do such a major operation. Although the integration of keels can greatly improve the structural strength of the Pinghai, without increasing the hull protection and weight, this enhancement of structural strength is suspected of being excessive, and it is of little significance in actual combat.

Lin Han and Li Huamei made improvements to the Pinghai, first, to improve the structural strength of the ship's steam pipes, and then to implement the integration of steam pipelines.

In addition to some of the key parts of the steam pipeline, which are easy to wear and tear and need to be replaced frequently, most of the steam pipelines of the Pinghai use integrated technology to fuse the interface into a complete whole, so that the steam pressure force of the whole set of pipes can be greatly enhanced, and it can travel at a speed close to the maximum steam pressure for a long time, and the ability to continue to do high-speed combat is enhanced.

After the Tohoku Incident, the Japanese cut off the supply of spare parts to the Pinghai, including a third steam engine and supporting boiler pipes that the ship lacked. Lin Han, who had been working on the idea of Pinghai for a long time, expressed his willingness to provide a better power system to the Nanjing Nationalist Government through the German Krupp Company, and he got the order. In terms of price, and Iris. Under the instruction of Lin Han, the Krupp company that Tifa has been cooperating with, has offered a "good price" to provide high-quality small water tube boilers at a favorable price, and the steam pipes are also made in Germany, and the performance is much better than that of Japanese products (the level of Japanese boilers in World War II was very bad, and the performance is generally more than 20 percent lower than that of Britain, the United States and Germany), which can provide higher air pressure, and cooperate with the integration of pipelines, which can fully play the advantages of the boiler.

Historically, because the Japanese were stuck in the neck, only two steam engines were installed in the design of the Pinghai, which was two fewer than the scheduled ones, but in this plane, because the Germans made up for the lack of the Pinghai in time, the ship was able to install all the steam engines according to the requirements of the drawings in the design.

In addition, when the three twin 140-mm naval guns of the Pinghai were refueling and replenishing ammunition, the shipyard shipwrights transported a batch of refined metal ore powders such as chromium, fierce, tungsten, molybdenum, and nickel according to Li Huamei's instructions, and placed them next to the three batteries and the Japanese-made steam engine. After Lin Han and Li Huamei merged with the warship, the three batteries began to "absorb" these metal ore powders. Incorporated into the material of the barrel.

In this era, the metallurgical technology of the Japanese was much behind that of Britain, the United States, and Germany, and the bore pressure of the artillery was much lower, and the life of the barrel was also insufficient. While absorbing these metal materials that are conducive to improving the strength of the barrel of the gun, Lin and Han removed the fine air impurities in the barrel and improved the sorting of fine metal particles in the barrel to improve the overall pressure resistance and wear resistance of the gun.

As for the two Nissan steam engines, due to the slight gap in their performance with German goods, after absorbing the metal powder prepared by Lin Han, they also carried out a certain process of "magic modification" to level the performance gap with the German steam engine.

As for the three propellers used by the Pinghai. Due to the fact that the Japanese are stuck in the neck on critical equipment. was also forced to place an order from Germany, and Lin Han paid tens of thousands of dollars to make up the difference. The company "Tifa" had the luxury of selling a five-leaf streamlined propeller for loading on board a ship - for a cruiser designed for a speed of only 24 knots. The five-leaf streamlined spiral pulp is too extravagant.

Although there are Germans who make up for the powertrain that was stuck in the neck by the Japanese. But Germany is a long way from China. In addition, Lin Hanyi ordered people to delay the delivery, so the Pinghai was delayed for more than a year before it was completed. And at his instigation, the power system was manipulated by the underground party. In May, when the ship was launched for sea trials, it was also faulty and was returned to the dock for major debugging. When the Nanjing Nationalist Government wanted to borrow a ship to escape after the defeat of the war, the ship's power system was so tormented that it could not move for half a minute.

However, after the Red Army took control of the shipyard last night, the shipyard workers rushed to repair it overnight and repaired the power system of the Pinghai. Although it has not yet been launched for a full-speed test, Lin Han estimates that after his own "magic modification", the Pinghai is very likely to rush to 25 knots, which is one section faster than its sister ship, the pure Nissan Dinghai.

When Lin Han and Li Huamei were working hard to integrate and transform the cruiser Pinghai. At the headquarters of the Red Army in Wuhan, Hubei Province, a high-level emergency meeting was also in full swing.

Since the news from the two intelligence lines of the Soviet Union and Germany proved that the Japanese had secretly dispatched troops late last night and started a secret operation of armed intervention, the time was calculated to pass, and at most by tomorrow afternoon, the Japanese Third Fleet from Taiwan would be at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The boat ride from Nagasaki to Shanghai takes only three days at most.

The time has come to the worst of the day.

After receiving this information, several leaders of the Red Army held an emergency meeting and discussed it for more than an hour, and at noon, Zhang Yu finally made a decision.

Chairman Li Runshi was the first to speak: "Comrades, the situation has reached the most critical moment, and those imperialist countries have torn off the veil of hypocrisy and are ready to directly intervene in the Chinese revolution. I propose to solve the Shanghai problem according to the third set of solutions that we have prepared before! ”

"I agree!"

"I agree!"

"No comments!"

Soon the two front-line commanders who had entered Shanghai, the two future marshals of the Republic, received urgent military orders from their superiors.

"Implement the third set of action plans and strive to win the concession within 36 hours!"

The specific time for the attack on Shanghai was set at 2 p.m.

The greatest threat to the Red Army in the capture of the Shanghai Concession was the warships of various countries anchored and cruising around the Huangpu River and Wusongkou. At present, on the Huangpu River, on the dock of the public concession, there are only two US shallow gunboats, and as for the warships of other countries, they have all withdrawn to the Wusongkou outside the Huangpu River to assemble.

The waterway of the Huangpu River was too narrow, and when the Red Army deliberately set up false artillery positions on both sides of the Huangpu River, the British and Japanese fleets, knowing that the fragile shallow-water gunboats could not resist the heavy artillery on the shore, withdrew their ships in advance to Wusongkou, which was more convenient for maneuvering and larger.

As for the fact that the Americans have no fear, it was that when the Red Army entered Shanghai last night, they were already secretly negotiating with the responsible persons in the US concession, and the attitude of the Chinese Communists toward the United States was much more relaxed than the hardline attitude toward Japan and Britain, and the Chinese Communists have always sent a signal of "friendship" to the President of Ghana through their relations with the United States.

In fact, the mentality of the United States is very complicated.

On the one hand, they were pleased to see that the traditional power of the British in the Yangtze River valley in China had been crushed with the great march of the Red Army. On the other hand, they were worried that the expansion of the Bolshevik red forces in China would affect US interests in China.

in the past year. Relations between the United States and the Southern Red Army were not good because of the ideological and domestic anti-Bolshevik voices, but with the military victory of the Southern Red Army in 1934 and the right to trade on the Yangtze River, the Red Army began to import large quantities of American petroleum and chemical products, and the American business community saw the emergence of a new and more powerful market in South China.

From November 1934 to May 1935, in just six months, the trade volume between the two sides exceeded 20 million US dollars. The United States became the second largest importer of the Red Army in the South after Germany. Although 20 million does not seem like much. But sensitive American capitalists smell the business opportunities.

Linhan's trip to the United States in February and March this year was nothing for the President of Ghana. However, the American business community realized that it could take advantage of the void created by the destruction of British power to occupy the foreign trade market in South China. With the collusion of Lin Han, the US government and the business community set up agencies in Wuhan and Shanghai to establish contacts with the CCP.

From the time before the Red Army's offensive began at the end of May, secret contacts between the two sides had continued.

It's a math problem that's very well calculated.

On the issue of concessions. The U.S. government is not as stubborn as Britain and Japan. Secret negotiations between the two sides began quietly as early as May. And the Red Army after entering Shanghai. It also made clear to the Americans at the first time that as long as the US troops and warships stationed in Shanghai did not show hostile behavior to the Red Army, the Red Army agreed to resolve the issue of US interests in China through negotiations.

Imperialist countries have never been monolithic. Selling teammates and pit teammates is often done. Since the American concession in Shanghai merged with the British in the last century to form the public concession. If the Red Army wanted to enter the concession, it would not be easy to separate the interests of the two. But to the profit-oriented Americans, no matter how great their interests are in the public concession, is it as great as the profits from doing business with the whole of South China? That little interest in the Shanghai Concession was not necessary for the Americans.

On the thirteenth day after the Red Army entered Shanghai, the U.S. agency in the Public Concession had summoned American expatriates from all parts of the Public Concession to temporarily move to an area close to the pier or to board the passenger ship to take them off. It's a pity that the current president of the United States is a relatively short-sighted Nance. Garner, not Roosevelt, would have been more positive in the matter.

The President of Ghana has long been aware of the dirtiness of the British and Japanese in private, and as a Monroe Member, he maintains a so-called "happy to hear" attitude on this matter. The Red Army and the Anglo-Japanese war in Shanghai seemed to him to be as fierce as possible. Whatever the outcome, it seems to him to be in the interests of the United States of America. After yesterday's emergency radio contact with the top brass of the Red Army, coupled with the ulterior motives and temptations of the British, the President of Ghana and his group realized that it was impossible for the Shanghai Concession to escape the flames of war, and he had already ordered the local garrison to help evacuate the overseas Chinese this afternoon.

The only thing that surprised the President of Ghana was that he thought that the Red Army's attack on the Shanghai Concession would be a few days later, but he did not expect that on the afternoon of the second day after entering Shanghai, the Red Army would settle the Shanghai issue by force.

As for the British and Japanese concessions, the negotiations between Britain and Japan and the Red Army put forward "unreasonable demands" such as asking them to hand over the high-ranking officials of the artillery party who had fled into the concessions, and demanded that Britain and Japan first hand over these people to "show their sincerity" before discussing the topic of whether or not the Red Army could enter the concession.

Of course, the British and Japanese sides refused to agree to delay time in order to delay time, and the Red Army was also happy to use this to delay time together, and the two sides started talking at the negotiating table.

While the two sides were engaged in false negotiations without any sincerity, a total of 60 heavy cannon howitzers of 150 mm caliber had already been quietly transported into the artillery positions around Shanghai at this time, and the locations were all concentrated in the direction of the Baoshan area near Wusongkou.

The German 150mm series howitzers in World War II had the worst performance in the entire German artillery system of World War II. Even in 1945, when World War II entered the closing stage, the performance of the improved version of the 150-mm series howitzer developed by the German army could not catch up with the performance of the 152-mm series howitzer developed by the Soviet Union before World War II. -- In World War II, Germany's level of six-inch artillery manufacturing can be said to be extremely rotten and smelly, and both naval guns and army guns are qualified to compete for the worst title in World War II.

The model of this batch of heavy howitzers is SFH13, and its actual identity is the howitzer equipped by the German army during World War I. It is a cannon that is more than seventeen years old. Even its successor, the FH18 heavy howitzer, which is under development, can be crowned with a terrible title compared to the six-inch gun of its class.

Hannah, who knew the history of the 150mm grenades in active service, hated the 150mm grenades in active service in Germany, and after 1932, both she and the mustache desperately sold them to China to clear the stock (there were about 700 in the country at that time). Through bribery and lower prices, the Germans defeated their French rivals and within two years sold a full hundred doors to the Nationalist government in Nanjing, while the Red Army secretly sold fifty doors.

Lin Han, who is a fan of World War II and shares a qiē with Hannah, is of course very reluctant to accept this batch of "rotten goods". But no matter how bad the German 150-mm gun is, it is also 150-mm after all. There was no other seller in the world other than Germany willing to sell to the Red Army - on the Russian side, Stalin was also reluctant to sell his excellent 152mm guns (Maozi's 152mm guns were excellent artillery in World War II, and the classic 152 guns were still in development).

At Lin Han's strong request, plus he paid for it himself. Either to the artillery party or to the Red Army for this batch of 150-mm guns. All of them have been replaced with new alloy gun mounts. The weight was greatly reduced, and at the same time, the 160 barrels were also removed and placed on the Deyi for a similar "magic change" to its main gun, and the large radiance improved its bore pressure resistance. Enabling the barrel to withstand higher chamber pressure and larger cartridges, the range was increased from the original nine kilometers to 12 kilometers, and its overall performance was barely visible.

In Lin Han's view, there was not much difference between selling these guns to the artillery party and selling them to the Red Army, and the guns bought by the Nanjing Nationalist Government with foreign debts were soon lost to the Red Army one after another during the war and a large number of them were captured.

Although these old guns left over from World War I were replaced with brand new gun mounts, the total weight was still as high as five tons, which was very troublesome in mobile warfare and did not meet the operational requirements of the Red Army's mobile warfare.

The Red Army bought 50 guns, 30 of which were placed along the coast of Fujian as shore guns to defend against Japanese attacks. The remainder was assigned to the Red Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, which played an important role in the attack on Hefei and Xuzhou.

On the side of the artillery party, Song Ziwen regarded all these artillery pieces as treasures, a small part was placed in the Jiangyin Fort for blockading the Yangtze River, thirty guns were placed here in Shanghai, and the rest were assigned to his three treasures tax police division and Chen Cheng's 18th Army, after the war in early June, these artillery pieces all became trophies of the Red Army.

The British and Japanese Yangtze River fleets withdrew from the Huangpu River in a hurry precisely because they knew that Song Ziwen had such a batch of heavy artillery in Shanghai that could inflict great damage on the river gunboats. As a matter of fact, after receiving that this batch of heavy artillery easily fell into the hands of the Red Army last night, both Commander Maiden, commander of the British fleet, and Ko Kiyokawa, commander of the Japanese fleet in China, both of them invariably scolded their mothers -- anyone with such a pig teammate as the artillery party and government would be depressed and scolded his mother.

Due to the heavy maneuverability of the SFH13 and the poor road conditions in China, this batch of artillery was used as fixed artillery or for positional warfare in China, both the Red and White armies. Due to the economic center of China, Shanghai has better road conditions. A month before the outbreak of the war, the Lin Hantong Guò Leather Bag Company imported a large number of high-quality German trucks in Shanghai - the same type of trucks that had been transporting gold in the Northeast three years earlier. With the help of railway maneuvers and trucks, the Red Army took control of the situation on the ground after the previous night's attack on Shanghai. From the morning, the 150-mm heavy guns that had been urgently transported from various places and captured in Shanghai were arranged in the direction of Wusongkou in Baoshan as planned, and after a busy morning, three artillery positions were finally arranged in Baoshan District at 12 o'clock that day.

The location of the artillery is as high as six kilometers away from Wusongkou, and because of the terrain obstruction, the foreign warships that are cruising and anchoring on the river are completely undetectable.

In addition, the Red Army placed several forward artillery observation posts along the coast in order to provide landing point correction for 150-mm heavy artillery in the rear during artillery battles. (To be continued......)

PS: It's about to enter the high (crab) tide stage,

There will be another one after twelve o'clock, and the next chapter is almost 2,000 words ready. When I think of the so-called last large-scale shallow water gunboat battle in human history, I want to to myself