A large amount of river water poured into the cabin, and soon the hull of the ship tilted, and after more than an hour of helpless rescue, the commander of the fleet, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, reluctantly gave the order to abandon the ship.

One by one, the small lifeboats were put down, and the sailors disembarked in a nervous and orderly manner to escape, most of them would not have thought that this such advanced warship would sink in the Huangpu River, and it was sunk by a national army without a navy.

Naturally, they would not have made the decision to fire at Shanghai at this time, and the concession in Shanghai was not just Japan, and at this time they tore their faces with Britain and the United States and other countries, and Hasegawa Kiyoshi could not afford this responsibility.

After giving the order to abandon the ship, Hasegawa Kiyoshi boarded the lifeboat under the escort of the guards around him, he was soaked, the originally majestic general was embarrassed, he was draped in a military blanket, and sat in the lifeboat in a slump, letting the people around him row towards the shore.

The smell of oil and ammunition was still in the air, and some of the battleships that were hit were still crackling and burning, and the flames and billowing smoke turned the originally silent river and military port into hell.

"Your Excellency Commander, the Izumo has completely sunk!" Returning to a destroyer next to him, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, who was unconscious, heard the regrettable news, and his face was full of anger as he recalled the scene that had happened not long ago, and it was a great shame for him and his army that the Shina people, who had never had a navy, attacked their fleet.

However, all this was not over, at dawn, a wave of dive bomber groups attacked, and the rest of the ships hiding in the port of the Huangpu River were bombed intensively, and the few destroyers were hit by * and deep water * one after another, and the water column along the river splashed several meters high.

"Extinguish the fire!" "Rudder!" "Drive away!" …… There was chaos in the fleet, the noise of passwords, explosions, and the roar of machines were constantly intertwined, and the destroyers' anti-aircraft guns searched blindly in the air, and the columns of light made of searchlights swept back and forth.

Commander Hasegawa Kiyoshi had already taken a small boat to the army garrison in Shanghai, and he had also been wounded in the attack just now, and he had been hit by shrapnel in the forehead, and he finally woke up with a bandage.

"How's the loss?" Hasegawa Kiyoshi asked the staff officer beside him with difficulty, and now there are not even many people under him who can be mobilized.

"More than 80% of the main warships of the First Fleet were sunk, the rest of the warships were also seriously damaged, and 3,000 Imperial warriors of the Marine Corps and hundreds of personnel of the Navy died......"

"Yaga!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi bounced excitedly, the wound on his forehead cracked, and the blood stained the bandage red again.

The paramedics next to him immediately stepped forward to nurse him, and when the nurse changed his bandages, he conveyed the next order.

"Report today's situation to the Ministry of the Navy and the General Staff Headquarters, and at the same time order the 8th Sentai Brigade, the 1st * Squadron, the 1st Air Force, the 1st Special Marine Corps of Sasebo Town Guard, and the 2nd Special Marine Corps of Kure Port Town Guard, which are on standby in Sasebo, to rush to Shanghai and prepare for an attack."

When Hasegawa Kiyoshi was nervously deployed, Huang Ke also stayed awake at night. He was in the special conference room of the Songhu Command, less than 30 miles away from the Japanese concession of Hasegawa Kiyosho, listening to the information gathered from all quarters, and the Air Force Minister Xu Shaozhou, the director of the Pre-Cadre Division Yang Yibing, and Shishizai Tsai were all busy, and the Songhu Garrison Command was doomed to sleep this night.

When the air force sent a signal of the success of the operation, Xu Shaozhou immediately reported to Huang Ke: "Commander, the air reconnaissance has just received information that the Izumo has sunk and the First Fleet no longer exists. ”

"Hmmm! What happened to those lads in the Navy? Huang Ke asked with a frown after hearing this.

Xu Shaozhou hesitated for a moment and said, "...... They all gave their lives for their country! ”

Huang Ke paused for a moment, and after a little thought, he said, "Good job! With these people, there will be hope for the rejuvenation of the country. ”

Huang Ke felt a little sad in his heart, he knew that those frogman warriors were sleeping at the bottom of the river, strategically speaking, a dozen frogmen in exchange for the destruction of the Japanese First Fleet was a great result, but from a personal point of view, Huang Ke was difficult to accept. One will be a success! Maybe no one will remember these bones.

Before Huang Ke could calm down his emotions, the phone in front of him rang, and the secretary desk told him that the Minister of the Navy, Chen Shaokuan, had called, and it was on Line 2.

Needless to say, Chen Shaokuan must have come to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and Chen Shaokuan naturally felt uncomfortable when he organized such a large-scale attack and hid it from the Minister of the Navy.

Huang Ke didn't dodge over, picked up the phone and listened to Chen Shaokuan's reprimand. Chen Kuan, who has always been gentle and elegant, burst into a rage this time, and his loud voice could pierce his eardrums through the phone, but Huang Ke didn't say a word, but persuaded him with good words, and Fourteen took the initiative to close the door and let the two commanders quarrel on the phone.

"Commander Huang, what is the difference between your approach and that of a warlord dictator? I think it's better for you to be the commander-in-chief of the three armed services yourself, let Xu Shaozhou, Jiang Zhongzheng, and I all resign, and you replace the Ministry of Defense with the Military Staff, which happens to be Xianyun on the northeast front, so you can simply be the commander-in-chief yourself......"

After venting the evil fire, Chen Shaokuan's tone softened a lot, in fact, Huang Ke didn't want to inform him, but there were too many traitors who came in, and the consequences of this operation were incalculable, so it was for his good not to involve him.

Chen Shaokuan naturally understood the mystery, but he didn't even know about such a major military action, and he was furious at no one.

"Brother Houfu is angry, it was my fault that I didn't know about this matter to you in advance, but this was not my intention. I'll see how to make up for the next big basket, so I'll fly back to Nanjing later, and let's meet and talk. ”

When Huang Ke returned to Nanjing on a special plane, the main force of the Japanese First Fleet had already exploded in the attack on Shanghai. Shanghai is the largest metropolis in the Far East, and it is also a gathering place for Britain and the United States, so this incident has caused a lot of public opinion shock in the international community, and those foreigners in the concession were shocked after witnessing the flames that soared into the sky last night, and even the British and American military attaches who had experienced World War I felt incredible, but they did not expect the Chinese Air Force to launch such a large-scale attack.

The whole country was shocked by the Japanese side, and a huge anti-China and insulting campaign broke out throughout the country. On the part of the government, the main battle faction has the upper hand, the Army General Staff has dispatched troops from the mainland and Taiwan to help Shanghai, the Navy Ministry has dispatched troops to prepare for an attack on Shanghai, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has even issued a statement calling for dialogue and declaration of war, and the clouds of war have hung over China and Japan.

In the first conference hall of the Ministry of National Defense, Huang Ke was wearing an army general's uniform, talking about something to the map in front of him and Chen Shaokuan, who was also wearing the white military uniform of an admiral, and a group of senior staff officers with the rank of general were talking about something in the room.

After a while, Jiang Zhongzheng, who was dressed in military uniform, walked in, handed his hat to the guards beside him, and walked straight over.

When he arrived next to Huang and Chen, he touched his capable bald head and said, "Brother Xinghua, what kind of fame are you doing?" Now there are calls everywhere asking me what happened, and I'm confused. ”

Huang Ke smiled and said: "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that the Japanese spies have developed into our central organization, so this is the decision." I think this is a hornet's nest, so I called everyone together to discuss countermeasures, haha. ”

This blow temporarily eliminated the pressure of the Japanese army on the Shanghai side, which was in line with Brother Baili's suggestion. It's just that if the Japanese army continues to increase its troops, the situation will be unfavorable to us. Jiang Zhongzheng was talking about the current situation with a Fenghua accent.

After hearing this, Huang Ke waved his hand and said: "Brother Zhongzheng's words are wrong, China and Japan have been fighting fiercely for several days in the northeast, but neither country has declared war. Only by having a military superiority can you take the initiative at the negotiating table. I have ordered more troops to be sent to the Songhu area, but I am afraid that the Japanese will not increase their troops, and as long as they increase their troops, they will not return. ”

"Brother Xinghua!" Jiang Zhongzheng said with a slight compliment.

Huang Ke smiled slightly: "Let's go, I'll go to Chairman Wang to explain things clearly." ”

"Xinghua doesn't have to go, didn't I come? You pierced the sky, who am I not looking for you? It was Wang Jingwei who spoke, who had just convened a cabinet meeting and decided to request the intervention of the League of Nations through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to suspend the offensive militarily.

Huang Ke agreed, he didn't plan to continue the attack, and he didn't have the strength to continue the attack.

"Brother Zhaoming coincides with me this time, such a situation is rare, right?" Huang Kepi said to Wang Jingwei with a smile.

Wang Jingwei also replied coldly.

Huang Ke noticed that Wang Jingwei was standing next to a clerk with glasses and a separate head. He walked up to the clerk, looked at what he had copied, and said, "Yes, good article!" ”

The clerk with glasses stood up and said, "Commander Huang Miao, now it's a million splendid articles that are not as good as a Mauser." ”

Huang Ke smiled meaningfully.

As expected, the marines in the Japanese concession also launched an attack on Zhabei and other places on the same day, but at this time, hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops were already stationed in the Songhu area, and Xu Shaozhou was personally in Shanghai.

A few days later, the Japanese Ninth Division, which had rushed to the aid of the mainland, also joined the battle, but in the face of hundreds of thousands of well-equipped and well-trained Chinese troops, the scope of activity of the Ninth Division was only the Japanese concession, and the battle was at a stalemate, and Japan could not advance half a step.

Britain and the United States and other countries did not want Shanghai to rise again, and under the operation of Wang Jingwei and other heads of government, the League of Nations once again intervened to mediate negotiations between the two sides. At this time, the Northeast Battlefield also took a turn in favor of our side, and the Chinese and Japanese armies, which had formed a state of confrontation in the Shenyang area, fought fiercely, and the Japanese Kwantung Army was defeated and Shenyang was recovered.

At the same time, Liu Jian's troops besieging Lushun had launched a general attack on Lushun, and the two sides were once in a bloody fierce battle, but with the southward movement of Xue Boling's First Mechanized Army, the battlefield situation also tilted, and when most of the Kwantung Army was annihilated and Lushun was not protected, Tokyo began to agree to negotiate an armistice.

(Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!) ）