It's July 7th. It was on this day that the "Lugou Bridge Incident" occurred that affected the course of modern Chinese history. It was also on this day that the all-out war of resistance broke out.

And on this day in this time and space, the War of Resistance has been going on for several days. And Ouyang Yun, who was fortunate enough to cross over, was sitting on an off-road vehicle at this time, driving on the road to Wuxi.

As for the combat mission arrangement of the Cadet Army, because they were not included in the combat plan at the beginning, Lao Chiang used them as a reserve and let the Cadet Corps renovate in Hangzhou for five days. And just when the officers and men of the cadets began to be bored and grumbling, the combat order issued in the name of the Supreme Military Council finally arrived.

The Japanese Central China Front has more than 300,000 troops, both land and sea, among them, because China's naval strength is relatively weak, there is no big warship that can match the Japanese army, and it completely relies on the shore batteries for defense, so the broad river in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River has completely become the world of the Japanese navy, and at present, the Japanese army has begun to attack the Jiangyin fortress. Once the Jiangyin Fortress, the most balanced fortress in the lower reaches, was overcome, the Japanese army was very likely to come ashore from here, thus forming a siege of Nanjing.

Ouyang Yun informed the four division commanders, the political director, and several senior staff officers of the task when he held a routine marching meeting that night, which immediately aroused a strong reaction from everyone. Among them, He Zhengchuan, the commander of the Third Division, bluntly proposed: The committee's order is not wrong, right? We are infantry, let's go to help defend the Jiangyin fortress? I've heard that the current Jiangyin fortress is bombed by more than a dozen batches of Japanese naval aviation every day. This is to let us be cannon fodder!

The commander of the Fifth Division was Ye Zhao, and he shook his head and continued: This order is indeed debatable, are they afraid that we will go to the front line and steal the limelight from other troops? After all, we are not the Central Army.

Everyone was talking about it, and gradually they deviated from the direction and began to concentrate their fire on the chairman.

Ouyang Yun had different ideas about this order than others, or rather, in view of his deep understanding of the role of the navy, he had long thought about how to fight against the Japanese fleet without a strong navy. He waved his hand to stop everyone and said, "It's just an order, where can there be so many ways." Let me tell you, the Commission's order is still very pertinent. As everyone knows, our cadet army attaches the most importance to air defense operations among all the teams in the country, and there are enough heavy artillery pieces that can be used against the Japanese warships. Let's have a good discussion about the next stage of the operation! ”

During World War II, Japan was no more than one-fortieth of China's land and had a population of only 70 million, but it developed a powerful enough navy. China, on the other hand, has far more population and land area than its opponent, but the size of its navy is pitifully small, and it cannot even fight a serious naval showdown.

The navy is also a weakness of the cadet army. Although the current navy of the Cadet Corps also has a fleet headquarters, it only has a pitiful 26 warships, of which only four are more than 1,000 tons. At such a scale of the fleet, if you want to confront the Japanese Navy with aircraft carriers, it is almost no different from sending you to death. Of course, Ouyang Yun would not be stupid enough to fight the other party. How to use the warships in his hands to the greatest energy efficiency and create trouble for the Japanese Navy was something he was once entangled in. To sum up, he felt that it should be a good choice to vigorously develop high-speed torpedo boats and advanced torpedoes, and then to cast shore guns with a large enough diameter and caliber.

Today, the development of torpedoes has been officially put on the research and development agenda of the Cadet Research and Development Institute, and at the same time, the heart of high-speed torpedo boats: the engine, is also being developed. Ouyang Yun believes that as long as these two treasures can really be developed, although they cannot defeat the Japanese Navy, they can still be used for defense or surprise attacks.

Of course, at this stage, all this is a flower in the water, and what he can do now is how to use the resources in his hands as much as possible to block the combat operations of the Japanese Navy.

Everyone here is a "native" army, and they don't know anything about naval warfare, Ouyang Yun asked them to come up with ideas, and everyone stared at each other, and they were dumbfounded.

After waiting for a while, without waiting for anyone to speak, Ouyang Yun could only shake his head helplessly and say, "That's what I think." In this operation to assist in the defense of Jiangyin Fortress, only a part of our troops can play a role, in fact, only a part of the troops - artillery and air defense forces. We had two heavy artillery brigades and five anti-aircraft regiments with us, and I decided to mix them together. A number of people from other units were selected to organize 10 air defense regiments, each of which was responsible for the air defense operations of a heavy artillery brigade...... The others are not idle, and their task will be to be responsible for building pseudo-positions......"

The so-called pseudo-positions are actually false targets, and the purpose of this is, of course, to protect the real artillery and air defense units.

At the end, he asked everyone, "Do you have anything to add?" ”

Everyone, look at me, I'll look at you, and the last thing is that a director of the political department named Bi Chengmin stood up and said: "Commander, I have an idea - this time in the offensive and defensive battle of Jiangyin Fortress, our snipers can actually play a role. Isn't Huashan near Jiangyin conducive to concealment, we can let snipers use anti-tank guns to snipe at the devils on Japanese ships. ”

"That's a good idea! However, it is also very dangerous, because once the Japanese ships detect it, what awaits the snipers is definitely overwhelming artillery fire. ”

"I think this is also a good thing, so that the attention of the Japanese ship will be distracted."

Everyone discussed it excitedly, and then, He Zhengchuan put forward a bold idea. He was inspired by the kind of giant fireworks used in Renqiu's air defense, and he thought that if the range of the fireworks could be made a little farther, would it be able to hit the sky above the enemy ship, and in this way, it would inevitably cause great damage to the personnel on the enemy ship.

Hearing this thought, Ouyang Yun was happy and blurted out: "What kind of fireworks is this, it is clearly a missile." As soon as the words came out, he was inspired, jumped up and said, "Great, why didn't you think of it in the first place?" Shi Chang, hurry up and send a telegram to Li Tieshu, and ask him to transport a batch of 'Wanfu I' rockets as quickly as possible!" Ha Luha, this time, I'm going to let the little devil taste the taste of roast pig. ”