Episode 20 Into the Strait

Fourteen Gege saw Xiang Xiaoqiang blow her handkerchief and blew her nose, and she was not annoyed, but just smiled.

Xiang Xiaoqiang was very embarrassed, and when he was hiding in the conference room and crying sadly, Fourteen Gege came out of nowhere. He was very unhappy and asked again:

"How did you get in?"

Fourteen Gege shook his head and sighed:

"I've always been here, just tidying things up at that table."

Then she pointed to the table behind the mappad. The table was blocked by a huge map, and it was really not visible from the direction of Xiaoqiang.

Fourteen Gege didn't sit on a chair, but leaned on the conference table, facing Xiang Xiaoqiang:

"Tell me, what makes you cry so sadly?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang heard this sentence extremely awkwardly, and usually boys only ask this when they comfort girls. Now the whole thing is reversed.

Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at her for a moment, and said coldly:

"Sad thing."

Fourteen Gege seemed to be more interested, put the paper in his arms on the table, and smiled:

"What's the matter? …… I'll help you come up with ideas. ”

Said to Xiaoqiangxin, I just can't let you know about this matter, and help me with ideas? …… However, he found that today's fourteen grids were a bit unusual. With her arrogant personality in the past, most of them would nod at this time and leave directly.

But today's fourteen grids seem to have changed. I don't talk to myself anymore, and I'm more interested in myself.

Fourteen Gege observed Xiang Xiaoqiang's expression and analyzed psychologically. She knew that Xiang Xiaoqiang was a seed of infatuation, and what could make him so sad could only be emotional. There are only a few women around him, and Qiu Yu and Xiuxiu are already his wives, so it is unlikely that it is because of them. That's either Zhu Yourong or Zheng Yuxuan.

…… Zheng Yuxuan is also unlikely. Fourteen Gege intuitively felt that it was not Zheng Yuxuan. Zheng Yuxuan doesn't feel like this. If Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't get Zheng Yuxuan, he would probably be furious, and he shouldn't cry so sadly.

Fourteen Gege sighed and said:

"What if...... If it's because of Zhu Yourong......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was taken aback and looked at her in surprise.

She held a book of poems and shed a few lines of tears, she could guess that it was because of Zhu Yourong?

Fourteen Gege's eyes were a little gloomy, but this gloom was fleeting, and she regained her calm and rational look, and continued:

"If it's really because of her, I'd suggest you give it a try. But...... You should gamble for the benefit of your career...... The probability of winning is slim, but once it does, the stakes are enormous...... But you're better not out of pure feelings. If you only pursue her because you are in love with her, then you are too stupid, you really love the wrong person. There are so many girls in Quan Daming, you picked a girl who should not be loved the most to love. ”

After speaking, she jumped down from the table and patted Xiaoqiang on the shoulder:

"I'll just say this, you...... Think for yourself. I won't say more......"

After speaking, Fourteen Gege did not look back and walked out of the conference room quickly.

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at her almost in astonishment. His mind was spinning rapidly, and he didn't know how the relationship between himself and Zhu Yourong could be discovered by Fourteen Gege. Moreover, Fourteen Gege still has such an attitude, as if it ...... It's like it's none of your business.

This is not what Xiang Xiaoqiang wants to see.

However, he saw the stack of papers on the conference table. It's where Fourteen Gege sat just now.

She didn't even take the papers.

……

Fifteen hours later, May 8, 8 a.m.

The headquarters of the airdrop is located in the headquarters of the People's Guard.

In the conference room, Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the officers in the whole room, pressed his excitement, looked at the hands of the pocket watch and walked to 8:00, and said with a smile:

"Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, it will be recorded in the history books of the future: From this moment on, our Ming Dynasty began to be in a strategic offensive against the Manchus. ”

……

Bohai Strait, outside the Miaodao Islands.

This is the widest waterway in the Miaodao Islands, the northern section is Lushun Laotie Mountain, and the southern end is Beichenghuang Island. Forts were built in both places to block the 40-kilometre-wide waterway.

Directly east, a trail of black smoke appeared faintly at sea level. Soon, to the left of it, another one appeared. Immediately after that, two more appeared.

Two masts were exposed. Soon, the figure of two destroyers appeared. And then two more appeared.

A few minutes later, behind the four destroyers, two larger black smoke appeared. Underneath the black smoke, two cruisers with three chimneys came out.

But at this time, neither the old Tieshan Fort nor the Beichenghuangdao Fort found that this fleet was rapidly approaching.

A few minutes later, a wide figure appeared above the sea level, and behind the towering tower, there was only a trail of black smoke. That is, there is only one chimney.

The battleship appeared.

Behind the battleship, two aircraft carriers, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, were exposed, and the dwarf towers on one side spewed green smoke outward.

Behind the aircraft carrier, there is a supply ship and a group of minesweepers.

Further on either side, two destroyers each, like hounds, vigilant on the perimeter of the fleet.

In the rear of the fleet, the last four destroyers also appeared. At this point, a large fleet completely appeared outside the Bohai Strait, under the noses of the Qing army. Now, whether it is the Old Iron Mountain Observatory or the Beichenghuang Island Observatory, as long as someone sweeps their eyes to the east, they can easily spot the fleet in the distance.

However, there was no one on duty at the observatory in Lao Tieshan, and the two soldiers on duty in the fortress of the observatory on Beichenghuang Island were playing chess.

A faint sound of a motor came down the observation window into the fortress, "buzzing" and sounding like an airplane.

"What the hell, what's that?"

A soldier with a "cannon" in his hand was about to smash it on the opponent's "horse" when he suddenly raised his head and listened to the outside with his ears sideways, a little puzzled.

"Hurry up and shoot the cannon," said the other soldier triumphantly as he knocked his hand and ate the other's son, "if you don't shoot the cannon, I'll jump off the horse." ”

"Vault? ……***。 ”

The attention of the first soldier was again drawn back to the chessboard, staring at the opponent's "horse" and muttering:

"Boy, yes...... I ate your horse with a cannon, and the cannon is here, and then your cannon will hit me. What a boy......"

Another soldier knocked on the chess piece in his hand and laughed triumphantly.

……

A four-plane detachment that took off from the Dongjiang Fleet airfield quickly skimmed over Beichenghuang Island, and the gray-yellow sea below shimmered in the morning sun, but not a single ship was found.

The team leader pulled on his mask and said:

"Eggplant. Eggplant. Eggplant. …… Repeat: eggplant. Eggplant. Eggplant. …… Complete. ”

On the flagship battleship Hongwu, a communications staff officer quickly ran to the bridge command room, stood up and saluted, and said loudly:

"Commander, captain, the reconnaissance aircraft detachment sends a signal back!"

The fleet commander was still looking ahead with his binoculars and not looking back. The captain turned around and ordered:

"Read!"

"Yes!" The communications staff officer said aloud, "Eggplant! Eggplant! Eggplant! ”

The captain nodded in satisfaction and waved him down. Then he turned to the commander and asked:

"My lord, there are no enemy ships in the entire Bohai Strait. You see? ”

The fleet commander put down his binoculars, nodded, and ordered:

"Order, the fleet will be changed to a line formation and march through the Bohai Strait."

"Yes, the fleet was changed to a line formation and marched through the Bohai Strait!"

Several signal lights on the battleship's tower began to flash in all directions.

……

On the coastal road at the foot of the mountain in the northern section of Lushun Laotie Mountain, a captain was riding a bicycle to deliver documents and accidentally glanced at the sea.

This glance startled him, and he immediately pinched the brakes, stood on the ground with his legs straight, and looked at it with all his neck straight.

On the southeast sea, about 20,000 meters away, there are more than a dozen puffs of black smoke, which are dragging in all directions. If you look closely, there are almost dozens of warships, large and small.

The captain broke out in a cold sweat on his back. He rubbed his eyes and looked closely......

That's right, that's right.

Although he was not a navy, he was an officer, and he probably guessed that this was a fleet preparing to pass through the strait, and at the moment it was changing from a defense formation to a straight formation, and it was very fast, so the black smoke dragged on for a long time, and it looked very messy, and it was dragging in either direction.

He didn't have a telescope and couldn't see in more detail, but he also knew clearly that this was by no means the fleet of the Great Qing Dynasty. This place is close to the Dongjiang Fleet of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and even if the Qing Navy is drunk, it does not dare to form such a large fleet and swagger so much under the noses of others. The Nanming Dongjiang Fleet alone is comparable to the entire Qing Navy.

Without saying a word, he hopped into his car, pedaled as hard as he could, and rode towards the nearest highway post.

Ten minutes later, the entire Old Iron Mountain Fortress sounded the alarm. Immediately afterwards, a telegram from the alarm was sent to the Beichenghuangdao Fort in the south, interrupting the fierce battle of chess.

……

In the heart-rending siren, there was a panic in the fortifications on both sides, the usually lazy artillerymen had never seen this scene, the squad leaders were blowing their whistles frantically, and the soldiers were running and crawling, some were wearing pants while running, and some were brushing their teeth and foaming. In the corridor of the dormitory, the scolding of "grandma and brother-in-law" was endless.

It took several minutes to blow the assembly whistle, and it was only in the courtyard below the battery that about two-thirds of the artillery was assembled.

", what about the others?!" The battery commander asked viciously.

The soldiers below looked at each other and did not dare to speak. Everyone knows, and the commander is also knowingly asking. Not to mention being a soldier, don't even the commanders often go to Lushun City to have fun all night.

In this way, the shore artillery of Lao Tieshan, in the case of a serious shortage of manpower, began to operate.