Chapter 275: The Clarion Call of World War
On June 23, 1938, the Japanese army attacked Hong Kong, and the British troops stationed in Hong Kong surrendered without a fight.
"Rub! Oh my God, where is the courage of the empire where the sun never sets, more than 10,000 people! Even 10,000 pigs can knock down a few, why did you surrender?" When Boss Yang of Beiping heard the news, he couldn't help but roar angrily.
To tell the truth, the British are too cunning, cunning far beyond his imagination, in fact, the order for the surrender of the British troops in Hong Kong was issued by the British Ministry of Defense, of course, it was issued in secret, but this could not be concealed from the now pervasive JY company, at least hundreds of people in the upper and lower houses of Britain took J's secrets, and it was too simple to know the inside information.
The British knew very well that it was already good that they could stay on the defensive in the Far East, how could they be able to reinforce distant Hong Kong? Neither the Far Eastern Fleet nor the British Army have this ability, so it is better for them to surrender and save their lives than to let these 10,000 British troops die in battle!
Besides, now it will be very pleasant to fight with the Japanese, whether it is the Chinese or the Germans, or even Joseph and their allies on the other side of the Atlantic, such good people do not want to be, isn't it a distant leased land? It's just a land of projectiles, even if it's given to the Japanese temporarily.
Just when Yang Feng was sad and angry about the decline of the empire, Guzhuang Ganlang and Koga Feng accepted the surrender of the commander of the British army in Hong Kong with a proud face, and they did not expect such a good thing.
"British, this is the former overlord of the world!" Kojo looked at the Governor of Hong Kong and the Commander of the British Army in Hong Kong who were taken to the concentration camp, and said to Koga Fengichi with a happy smile.
"There were many overlords in the world, the Netherlands, Spain. Now they have not all become third-rate small countries, but Britain cannot be regarded as third-rate, he must be regarded as second-rate at least. Koga said with a sense of humor.
"So what kind of country is a first-class power?" Guzhuang Ganlang asked very cooperatively.
"Naturally, that's our Great Japanese Empire." Koga said with a smile.
The two looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh wildly.
At this time, an officer ran over: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, Yang Feng of Beiping..."
"Yaga, don't put this name in front of me at this time!" Furujo Ganro angrily interrupted him.
The staff officer was so frightened by him that his little face turned white. Quickly shut his mouth.
Gu Zhuang Gan adjusted his mood, regained his composure, and then said with a gloomy face: "What's wrong with that bastard?"
"He published a book on the British!" The staff officer said.
"Huh?" Guzhuang Ganlang and the two looked at each other.
"The sun never sets on the Empire, the glory of the past, the glory of the past, on this day, on the National Day of the Empire, is lost forever, in a most humiliating way, in the way of surrendering a whole thousand soldiers without firing a single shot. Lost forever.
It was a sad day, when the poor Chinese were using their flesh and blood to resist the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, and the most powerful army, considered the most powerful empire in the world, shamelessly laid down their weapons and abandoned the people they needed to protect.
What awaits the people of Hong Kong, whether Chinese or British, is killing, enslaving, and qiangjian. And Roulin, I'm curious. How many years from now, when His Excellency the Prime Minister and the British generals will say to the scrawny survivors who were rescued from the concentration camps, and the sisters who were dying of the invaders Rolin?
Welcome back to the bosom of your homeland?
Do you still have the face to describe yourself with that word?
Farewell, the former empire. Farewell, the glory of the past, farewell, the blood of the English!"
Boss Yang's letter was read to the entire world through a super-high-power radio station in Beiping, and tomorrow the daily newspaper and its radio stations spared no effort to relay it in Europe and the United States. Humiliate the British with all their might.
Not to mention the British and Japanese, even the Chinese did not expect such a big reaction from this house, and what they didn't know was that this was completely because Boss Yang didn't see the Anglo-Japanese and Hong Kong bloody war and was ashamed and angry.
The more they scolded, the more they scolded, the more they showed that their choice was correct, the British Zhengfu had made up their minds to be a turtle with a shrunken head, anyway, the Japanese did not take the initiative to attack Southeast Asia, and the rest was acceptable.
Soon after the Japanese captured Hong Kong, a merchant ship flying the American flag near Suyan Reef stopped on the sea, and it didn't take long for the dark sea water to slowly surface four submarines, neither side turned on the lights, and quickly found each other with night vision devices, and then the submarine silently approached the merchant ship, four oil pipelines were thrown from both sides at the same time, and at the same time, boxes of supplies were hoisted from the ship, and the whole replenishment process lasted more than half an hour, and then the four submarines sank again, and the merchant ship continued its voyage to the United States.
At the same time, another similar supply ship set sail from Hawaii and will arrive at Scarborough Shoal in half a month, and then provide secondary supplies for the returning submarines.
The four submarines under the water stretched out their snorkels and headed east at a speed of about 10 knots, and the radar antennas on the snorkels and the small underwater sonar were always monitoring the sea and air dozens of kilometers nearby.
The journey from Scarborough Shoal to Kagoshima took less than three days, and on the evening of the third day, you could already see Kagoshima from the periscope, a huge chemical base with towering chimneys that burn day and night, ocean-going merchant ships in the port waiting to load various plastic products to be shipped to Europe and the United States, and the same oil tankers bring in a shipload of crude oil imported from the United States to support the normal operation of this chemical base.
Looking at Kagoshima at sunset, Zhao Tong's face showed a faint smile, the four submarines did not have any communication, they spread out in four directions and started their respective hunts, for safety they are strictly forbidden to attack targets during the day, anyway, there are high-performance night vision devices, and there are no restrictions on them at night.
Zhao Tong's No. 1 submarine slowly sailed to the channel almost fifty kilometers away from Kagoshima, and then sat directly on the bottom of the sea, the passive sonar on the boat carefully listened to the sound of the passing propellers, and then according to experience, it was the ship that made these sounds. If it is judged to be a large merchant ship, then the submarine will rise to the surface and stick out the periscope to observe.
Until midnight, the sonar officer on duty suddenly reported the discovery of a suspected large merchant ship, Zhao Tong's eyes immediately lit up, the small shark water tank was quickly drained, and then slowly floated to the periscope level. Carefully sticking out the periscope, he soon found a large merchant ship more than 100 meters long on the sea, and quickly determined the identity of the ship against all the Japanese tanker atlases provided by JY Company.
"Get close to the target and get ready to attack!" Zhao Tong ordered in a low voice.
The small shark's propeller turned rapidly, and its body, which was not much larger than a whale, slowly moved forward, and soon it was within the attack range of the MK8 torpedo equipped on the boat, and the tanker several kilometers away could see more clearly, and even the Japanese flag reflected in the ship's lights could be seen clearly.
"Closer to within a kilometer." Zhao Tong ordered.
The baby shark moved forward again. Approaching all the way up to a distance of five hundred meters, at such a distance there was almost no possibility of the torpedo deviating from the target.
"Torpedo No. 1 ready!"
With Zhao Tong's order, the No. 1 torpedo was immediately ready for launch.
Immediately after that, Zhao Tong aimed at the target according to the calculated launch angle.
"Launch!" He commanded in a low voice.
At the bow of the small shark, a heavy torpedo rushed out, and the propeller behind it rotated at high speed, pushing this underwater killer of 533 mm caliber to go straight to the target along the course that was inclined to the top, and the night covered the eye-catching track of the steam gas torpedo. The tanker in motion did not notice it in the slightest.
At a distance of five hundred meters, for a torpedo with a speed close to forty knots. It's only twenty or thirty seconds, and the slow-moving merchant ship has traveled less than two hundred meters during this time, and it doesn't need to calculate the angle and course, and it can accurately hit the target just by estimating the amount of advance, just when Zhao Tong pinched the stopwatch to calculate the time. In the waterline of the tanker in the periscope, the fire suddenly exploded, followed by a dull sound, and the impact of water pressure made the submarine shake suddenly.
"Retreat!" Zhao Tong reluctantly looked at the raging fire on the sea, and quickly gave the order to retreat. The baby shark immediately started to accelerate away from the sea.
The news that a 10,000-ton oil tanker with a displacement of 10,000 tons was attacked and sunk off the coast of Kagoshima made Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, the Japanese Minister of the Navy in Tokyo, directly stunned.
"Damn the British, these sinister ghosts!" His Excellency Minet soon understood what this meant, and it was no wonder that the British had ceded Hong Kong so quickly, and they were still holding back their hands! These guys want to strangle the empire little by little, first retreat all the main forces to Southeast Asia, protect their naval bases in the Far East, and then use Southeast Asia as a base to play large-scale submarine strangulation against Japan, just like the Germans did against them in World War I.
"This must not be allowed to continue!" His Excellency Minee roared in his office, he knew what it would mean to Japan if the British sank all the oil tankers, both economically and militarily, it could be said to be a fatal blow, and now the Japanese economy is completely supported by the plastic industry, without crude oil it will make a fart plastic, without crude oil the huge combined fleet will become an ornament, without the crude oil empire will be over.
Just as he roared, another unfortunate news arrived, another tanker sailing on another course had been sunk by a submarine.
The Emperor of Japan urgently convened a cabinet meeting.
"Your Majesty, now we have no choice, the British have sounded the clarion call for war, and we have no choice but to fight." At the meeting, the Minister of the Navy, Mitsumasa Yonechi, or the Minister of War, Yamasugi Moto, reached a rare agreement that war, the seizure of Southeast Asia by force, the capture of India, and the complete expulsion of the British from Asia.
"Your Majesty, the British have completely declined, they do not have the ability or courage to fight a large-scale war with us in Asia, the German chariot has driven into Austria, their war horn has sounded, the next target is the Czech Republic, and the next target is Bohemia, they are encroaching on the European continent step by step, in Spain, the Soviets and Germans are supporting their allies to test their weapons, but the British are close at hand but do not dare to intervene, this is a country that has lost its courage and honor, As long as our army attacks, they will have no choice but to surrender and flee!" Shan Shanyuan said proudly. (To be continued......)
PS: Let's take these for the time being, I'm too busy with work these days, and I will make up for what I owe this month.