(On Chinese New Year's Eve, I wish everyone who reads the book a happy Year of the Monkey, good health, and family reunion!) ）

When a few people came to the river, the sky was already dark, the east wind was blowing on the river, the waves were crashing on the riverbank, and the sound of rushing water was heard from time to time.

Fourteen Tsai looked around, then looked at his watch and nodded at Yang Yibing. After Yang Yibing understood, he took out a flashlight from his bag and turned it around.

After a while, I heard the sound of motors, and I saw only five or six small "fishing boats" moving quickly towards this side. Although it is a small boat, it is extremely fast, and the propeller stirs up waves in the water, making a crackling sound on the surface of the river.

The six boats were lined up in an arrow-shaped formation, and when they got closer, everyone could see clearly that there was a fine man standing on the front boat, although he was wearing a hat, but the sharp force on his body could see that he was not just supporting the boat.

Seeing people coming from the shore, the man from the first boat docked the boat and ran over before the boat could stabilize, and what was surprising was that he ran over on the rocking boat as if he were walking on the ground.

"Commander, Navy Captain Xie Zhikuan has reported for duty, and he is ready!" The man took off his hat, and a resolute and emaciated face was revealed. Immediately afterward, several boats also arrived, and a dozen equally emaciated and capable men jumped from the boats. Unlike the men who wore hats outside, the men inside were all wearing black tight-fitting clothes, and they were all carrying a small bottle and jar behind them.

After the men went ashore, they immediately formed a line, and a dozen or so elite men with small heads immediately lined up in a line, and they formed a neat line in a whispered command.

Huang Ke's eyes swept over these capable men, and wherever his gaze swept, the man puffed up his chest, and a row of capable men had resolute faces on their faces. These are the frogman units in the newly formed navy, and they, together with the submarine force, are a plan of Huang Ke to develop the navy.

Their mission this time was to blow up the Izumo and disrupt the deployment of the Japanese fleet, and only a small number of air forces cooperated with them in this operation.

The reason for this plan was that the Izumo was too much of a threat to Shanghai, and the 10,000-ton ironclad cruiser had great firepower, and the two twin Armstrong 203 mm 45 times diameter guns and the 14 single Armstrong 152 mm 40 times diameter rapid-fire guns on board alone could turn the Songhu area into a sea of fire, not to mention the other ships of the First Dispatch Fleet.

At this time, the Izumo docked on the river not far from Shanghai. They relied on the strength of their ships and guns to unscrupulously navigate China's territorial waters and inland waterways, which had already made the blood of countless Chinese soldiers boil.

Aircraft bombing and artillery shelling were excluded, and frogman boat raids were on the agenda. The frogman attack has the characteristics of strong concealment and strong raid, but it is relatively dangerous, because the carefully selected dozen frogman warriors are likely to all die at the bottom of the river, and the small clippers they drive can be regarded as small * boats, in addition to their own equipment, the cabins of these small boats are full of *, which means that they are going to suicidally ram the Izumo and other Japanese ships.

In order to avoid accidental damage to other countries' warships, it is required that the small boat should approach the target as quickly as possible, not to mention the complicated situation on the battlefield, even if it escapes from the ship, it is difficult to survive.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Ke insisted on coming to the scene to personally send these heroes.

Thinking of this, Huang Ke sighed with emotion in his heart, how many people came back to fight in ancient times? There is a high probability that these young lives will be buried at the bottom of the river forever, and no one will know about them.

"Well done! You're all good! Huang Ke's voice was a little choked, he looked at these people, and secretly remembered these young faces in his heart. The major named Xie Zhikuan in the lead smiled slightly, as if this was not a life-and-death action, but a place to go on vacation.

"Commander, when we come back, please go to Luokou Town to drink fish soup, my father said that you haven't been back for many years." Xie Zhikuan put the hat on his arm and said with a smile.

Huang Ke couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you know Xie Asi?" ”

"Yes, Commander, he's my grandfather." Xie Zhikuan's face showed a smile, Huang Ke remembered that when he first arrived in this land, it was Xie Asi and some simple fishermen who helped him to have today's situation, but since the army in Guangzhou, he has never returned to that small fishing village, Huang Ke doesn't know how those people are doing.

Huang Ke patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay! When you come back, you all go to Luokou, and I will personally set up a celebration wine for you! ”

As he spoke, Huang Ke raised his right hand slightly and saluted these warriors.

When the time for departure came, Xie Zhikuan waved his hand, and the warriors in close-fitting diving suits returned to their respective boats, and then they started their engines, and the boats roared, and all the boats turned off their lights and disappeared into the night at a speed of 40 knots after forming a formation on the river.

Looking at these distant backs, Huang Ke's raised right hand was reluctant to let go for a long time.

The boat was speeding through the foggy river, and by this time the officers and men of the Izumo had begun to rest, and most of the sailors were sleeping in hammocks, except for a few on duty.

The river is so calm that they can see the night view of Shanghai Beach on the other side very clearly. Fleet commander Hasegawa Kiyoshi said to his subordinates: "Shanghai is really a beautiful city, I really can't bear to let this city be destroyed by artillery fire, but the people of China are stubbornly resisting, have you heard of Yamaki Jun, the imperial army was defeated in Manchuria, and even Lushun was surrounded by the people of China!" ”

"Yes, those stupid guys in the Army are always going to do bad things, and they're fighting just too badly." Yamaki's staff officer said indignantly, sarcastically saying a few words to his army colleagues from time to time.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi didn't follow his words, he changed the subject and said, "I heard that the military commander of Shina is a guy named Huang Ke, have you heard of this person?" ”

Yamaki shook his head.

"I've looked through this guy's information, the Sixth Division was destroyed in his hands, before this he also attacked the Japanese expatriates in Guangzhou, and even the armed attacks of the Shanghai gangsters were all done by him, I heard some diplomatic colleagues say that this person speaks arrogantly, extremely difficult to deal with, what a headache guy!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi frowned and didn't say.

"Yaxi, the best language to treat this kind of person is cannon!" Yamaki said slowly.

Tata Tower! Suddenly, a series of twin rapid-fire guns came, and Hasegawa Kiyoshi's sensitivity immediately reacted, and before he could shout, an officer came in and reported: "Report to the commander, some suspicious planes have been found on the outer river, and the destroyer on guard has opened fire." ”

Hasegawa Kiyoshi nodded, and said to Yamaki next to him with a smile: "It seems that the people of China want to attack us with this method?" Don't they know about the air defense of our fleet? Ha ha! ”

"In their words, it's a poor donkey!" Yamaki laughed too. For them, it would be too much to underestimate the fact that several sorties of planes wanted to attack the Izumo and the first dispatch formation when their career was bad at night, not to mention the firepower of the Izumo, even the destroyer air defense on the periphery could force these planes to reach a low enough altitude, and in that case, it would be difficult for the planes to hit in a poor field of vision, not to mention that there were warships from the United States and Britain and other countries nearby.

When Hasegawa Kiyomasa was about to smile proudly, the hull of the 10,000-ton cruiser suddenly shook violently, and two deep-water* exploded next to the "Izumo", and at the same time, twenty-five bombers from the Kasahashi airfield had already flown over their heads, and when the bombing was carried out, the Izumo immediately opened anti-aircraft fire, and searchlights continued to strafe back and forth in the air.

The entire First Dispatch Fleet opened fire on all the large and small airpower, forming a tight network of firepower at an altitude of several hundred meters, and the bombers did not dare to bomb rashly, so they had to constantly circle overhead.

At this moment, several small boats mixed in, and during the air raid, many of the ships were not seriously damaged, but they also ignited a raging fire, and some of the small boats were tasked with extinguishing the fire, and no one noticed that six small clippers had mixed in.

"Brothers, in the middle is the Izumo, and hit it with full horsepower!" Xie Zhikuan shouted loudly at the other ships with a walkie-talkie, and the six ships rushed up at the fastest speed. Their move attracted the attention of others, and the Japanese naval officers immediately judged the anomalies of the ships.

They hurriedly opened fire to intercept, but at such a close distance, they could only use anti-aircraft guns and other weapons to intercept, and the dense fire of several destroyers quickly hit the two ships, but this also detonated the * and * on the ship at the same time, and the two ships exploded with a bang, and the nearest destroyer was also affected, igniting a raging fire. And the explosion of these two small boats also affected the other two small boats, and four "daring ships" were reimbursed at once.

"Lose his mother! The third child, there are only two of us left, and we will kill little Japan! ”

"I didn't say it, I didn't plan to go back alive anyway!"

Seeing that there were only two death ships left, the commander Xie Zhikuan spat out, he firmly grasped the rudder, aimed at the Izumo and drove over, and another small boat beside him also rushed over at full speed, and the piercing motor sounded.

The sea was pitch black, the Izumo and the destroyers could only sweep the searchlights and shoot, Xie Zhikuan drove the boat to change the course left and right, the cannonballs hit the river and splashed the water column, Xie Zhikuan's boat was also shot, but he still insisted on driving forward.

Three thousand meters! A thousand meters! Five hundred meters! …… With a bang, the two daredevils crashed into the Izumo, and the huge impact caused an explosion, and the Izumo burst into flames, and one side of the ship had already begun to enter the water.