Yang Feng, who sent the iron ore distribution map to the Japanese, didn't know how Todman sent it, anyway, half a month later, a box of gold was delivered to him, and then came the news that the Anglo-Japanese peace talks had made significant progress.

Just when these two guys were dirty, a big battle was also launched on the Qiantang River, and the bald guy's second counteroffensive in eastern Zhejiang officially kicked off, for this counteroffensive he mobilized more than 30 troops, plus more than 150 aircraft, it can be said that he vowed to take his hometown back from the Japanese.

The battle still began with an air battle, the high-power radar set up on Tianmu Mountain guided the main force of the air force to launch an air attack on the Japanese Qiantang River defense line, and the forty one-type and sixty ninety-seven planes at Ningbo Airport took off to meet the battle, and the Japanese army that lacked the zero type was immediately beaten back to the prototype, although the one type also had the power of a battle, but it was still beaten violently by thirty twin demons and sixty copies of it.

In the end, the air battle ended with the loss of 50 planes by the Japanese army and 15 by the Chinese air force, and after the threat of the Japanese army aviation in the theater of operations was cleared, more than 200 chaotic planes, including Martin and Hawk, and even the Soviet Volunteer Aid Team and the Chinese contingent of the British Royal Air Force, used napalm and high-explosive bombs to rolin the Japanese defense line for more than half an hour, making the bank of the Qiantang River look like burning wasteland.

The air raid was not over yet, followed by large-caliber heavy artillery bombardment, 130 cannons, 105 cannons. 150 howitzers, 105 howitzers, and even 152 howitzers. Hundreds of heavy artillery poured large-caliber shells on the opposite bank at the expense of blood, because Yang Feng promised that he could buy arms with fiat currency, and now the bald guy was not long gone.

The scene of the earth shaking and shaking made the US military observer Major General Stilwell who came to observe stunned.

"Your Excellency, the progress of your army is simply astonishing, you must know that when I was in China, your artillery also used seven-five-millimeter light howitzers as large-caliber heavy artillery, and the use of shells was very economical. But now I see a firepower that even the U.S. military can't match. He did not hesitate to praise Chen Cheng, the commander-in-chief of this campaign.

"General, you will soon see the time when the aggressor can bring us to our knees by erecting a few cannons on the Chinese coastline. Gone are the days. Chen Cheng waved his hand very heroically and said.

Stilwell smiled and shrugged.

But the next scene has nothing to do with modernization, with countless wooden sailing boats, small fishing boats, and river patrol boats carrying tens of thousands of soldiers. There is a long queue of more than ten kilometers. Under the cover of intensive artillery fire, one after another rushed out of the mouth of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and rushed to the opposite bank without hesitation.

Immediately after that, the remnants of the Japanese fire points on the opposite bank began to fire one after another, and the planes hovering in the sky immediately discovered these fire points, and then the artillery group on the north bank began to clear one by one, but even the troops who crossed the river still suffered heavy casualties.

Attacking from the mouth of the canal was the only way for the Chinese army to cross the river, and the main firepower of the Japanese army on the south bank had long been aimed at the mouth of the river in the form of preset coordinates. Now it's just a matter of hiding inside the fortifications and shooting, so even at this density of fire. A significant part of the force was still preserved.

The scene below will be very spectacular from the air, the whole area at the mouth of the canal is a fiery red, the attacking fleet is here little by little, floating corpses and ship wreckage down the river, and the opposite Japanese position, also submerged in a few kilometers wide fire belt, from time to time you can see a dark fort shattered bones, the two sides are like two high-speed rotating grinding wheels, squeezing to death, grinding each other's bodies little by little, grinding the flesh and blood of the river.

In the distance, dozens of Japanese river gunboats were engaged in the same desperate struggle with the cannon groups on the shore, and their goal was to rush into the Qiantang River to block the Chinese troops crossing the river, and more than a dozen such gunboats had already been sunk in the course of the Qiantang River.

Seeing that the ships full of soldiers were torn apart by the artillery fire on the opposite bank, Chen Cheng frowned and ordered the artillery to use special shells, so soon on the Japanese positions on the opposite bank, a cloud of pale yellow mustard gas rose, and the strength of the Japanese counterattack was much smaller all of a sudden.

Chen Cheng nodded with satisfaction.

The Japanese army in eastern Zhejiang now actually has only five divisions left, but it needs to block the attack of 300,000 Chinese troops on the two fronts of the long Qiantang River and Quzhou, and the troops are seriously scattered, and there are only two divisions on the Qiantang River defense line.

At this time, the Japanese army also began to use the same mustard gas to fight back, but they forgot that the Chinese army was on the river at this time, and these poison gas bombs using bump fuses fell into the river, and it was difficult to have any more explosive effects, at most they caused a small splash, and in this way, under the cover of poison gas, soon a sailboat full of soldiers rushed to the south bank.

With the first ship, there was the second, as more and more Chinese soldiers landed on the shore, the breakthrough was rapidly expanding, more ships rushed across the river, and thousands of soldiers poured onto the south bank, by this time the overall situation of the battle had been decided, and Chen Cheng's face also returned to a reserved smile.

"General, I think it won't be long before I can invite you to drink in Ningbo City." He said to Stilwell with a smug expression.

"Your Excellency, then we will toast to your victory then." Stilwell smiled and said, looking at the dissipating poisonous gas, he smiled even more deeply.

The news of the breakthrough of the Qiantang River reached Nanjing, and the bald guy immediately couldn't wait to hold a press conference to announce the good news to the outside world, you must know that Zhedong is an eternal shame in his heart, even his hometown was robbed by the Japanese, and his ex-wife was arrested by the Japanese, which is a great shame, and now he can finally straighten his waist to all the people who laugh at him behind his back.

Of course, breaking through the Qiantang River does not mean the victory of the battle in eastern Zhejiang, and it is probably impossible to reach his hometown in a few months, and it is difficult to say whether the Japanese will tolerate him to retake eastern Zhejiang! It would not be impossible for the Japanese army to continue to increase its troops from home and drive him back to the north bank of the Qiantang River.

Just when the main force of the Zhongyang Army was fighting a fierce battle with the Japanese army in eastern Zhejiang, Yang Feng was studying how to expand his submarine force, but he wanted to use a moderate strangulation war to force the Japanese to grab the Tyumen oil fields, so that six small submarines would inevitably be too few, and this kind of submarine was too small, and its combat effectiveness was seriously limited, but if a larger submarine was built, then it was necessary to build a concealed submarine base.

He now has a headache about where to choose this base, within his control, there are not many places with mountains on the coastline, the long coastline of Yanweiqing is full of mountains, and there are harbors suitable for submarine mooring, but the problem is that this concealment cannot be solved, even if it is a hole at the foot of the mountain, it is difficult to ensure secrecy, the Japanese are too familiar with this area, maybe the Chinese are not familiar with them, whether it is Qingdao or Weihai coast, it is as familiar as their own home.

Moreover, they have a lot of spies in Shandong, and these spies may have been lurking in China for decades, and it is impossible to find out, and to be honest, it is difficult to say whether these spies have been cleaned up after 80 years. As long as he engages in some abnormal projects along the coast of Shandong, he will definitely be targeted by them, and a protracted and large project like digging a hole will never be hidden from someone with a heart.

Besides, a submarine base is not just as simple as digging holes, at least roads must be built, and a large amount of materials must be transported, which makes it even more difficult to be secretive.

What if it's still on Yangma Island?

And it's like a floating dock, go back and get a scrapped 200,000, or even 300,000-ton oil tanker, and then transform the inside, hollow out all the inside and make it a pure empty shell, drag it to Yangma Island and let it sit and sink on the seaside, of course, it must sit and sink at a suitable depth, and then cut the bulkhead out of the passage underwater, and then the submarine will enter and exit under the water.

Such a large oil tanker must be at least two or three hundred meters long, fifty or sixty meters wide, and even twenty or thirty meters high.

But the problem is that there are no such big oil tankers in this era, not even 50,000 tons, so where did you get it from, this doesn't seem to be easy to explain, but it's not a big deal, it's not easy to explain, who can do anything about themselves, let them guess by themselves.

It's really not possible to get a 100,000-ton ship, so it is estimated that it will not be a problem to accommodate six Ming-class ships.

Yang Feng has already decided to go back to the Ming level, the key to this thing is to get it, the navy has sealed a lot of it, it is nothing more than to replace some untimely things for himself, it is best to cover the silencer tiles, so that in this era, it is completely guaranteed to become a black hole in the ocean.

However, in this way, the number of his own crew is seriously insufficient, you must know that this kind of submarine is not a small shark, you can get a dozen people to serve at will, and it is estimated that you can add up all the crew under your command to make up enough for a submarine.

There is no other way to do this, but to solve it step by step, fortunately, he is not in a hurry, and now Xiaoxi has not done it! It is estimated that even if they provoke again, the Japanese will not dare to challenge three powerful opponents at the same time. (To be continued......)