This night is destined to make countless people unable to sleep.

However, when the dawn broke in the east, the entire Far East was like a huge machine, and suddenly rumbled around the center of the vortex of Shandong. On the Yellow Sea, nearly 100 RI warships cut through the waves and pointed at Shandong; On land, 100,000 male divisions from the six western provinces were ready for battle; In the sky, dozens of reconnaissance planes whizzed through the sky.

Běi Jing and Tokyo, both spilling saliva at each other accusing each other of their faults, while holding their breath and waiting for the outbreak of war. In contrast, the attitudes of the people in both countries are somewhat polar.

In Rihon, countless people poured into the streets, waving small flags in their hands, just like the Obon Lantern Festival. Whenever a soldier appeared, the crowd would chant in unison, "Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" Schoolchildren paraded through the streets in uniform in neat formations, singing songs as they went: "China, braids, defeated the battle, ran away, hid in the mountains and did not dare to come out." ”

Many fu women had cloth and needles in their hands, and begged the passing women to help sew a stitch: "Please, please sew a stitch on this!" This thousand-person stitch was sent to the front line as a talisman for soldiers! The young students held the military flag with the words "Martial Luck for a Long Time" written on it, and asked the people to sign it, ready to give it to the officers and soldiers who went to the conscription.

In Tokyo, thousands of people spontaneously came to the Imperial Palace, knelt on the ground, and bowed to the Imperial Palace.

Compared with the fanaticism of the Chinese people, the Chinese people are obviously much calmer, except for the occasional students who take to the streets to shout slogans, everyone basically goes on to live as usual. It's just that when I'm free, I talk about this issue: "I heard that President Sun Da is going to fight with the Orientals, and I don't know which one will win!" ”

"You treasure weapon, you don't know anything, and you're still talking nonsense here! The one surnamed Sun is the president? It's obviously the Prime Minister! Originally, there was a president surnamed Sun. But he was sent abroad early. Besides, will Premier Sun lose? He has planes and tanks, and they are all very fierce, and the Orientals can win the battle? "The other one was noticeably more knowledgeable.

"That's it, I heard that Premier Sun's planes and tanks are overbearing. Little ri's book wins a fight! ”

"He's a baby, and he's, don't pay attention to him!" People around him expressed their support

The person who spoke first was obviously not convinced: "Wasn't the Beiyang Navy Master of the Qing Dynasty also very fierce?" As a result, it's not that it can't be covered? was beaten to the point of reparations and land cuts, and in the end, even the country was gone! ”

"You're talking about the Qing Dynasty, and now it's the Republic of China. What is the old yellow calendar? Besides, didn't Premier Sun oust the Qing Emperor Lao Er and beat the Beiyang Army to the ground? I don't know what to do and I have to stretch up, it's really a melon skin! If you have time, don't always think about sleeping and playing tricks, go to the teahouse and listen to the radio! ”

The people around burst into laughter.

In the midst of laughter, someone sighed: "If we can stop fighting, it's still great, and it's still our common people who will suffer when we fight!" This inappropriate sentence resonated with everyone, and even the one who often went to the teahouse to listen to the radio borrowed a phrase he heard not long ago, "The ancients" and sighed: "It's instigation." The people are suffering, and the people are suffering! ”

But no matter what ordinary people wanted, the war still came at its own pace.

Fortunately, today's goddess of luck is obviously more favored by the Chinese side, and less than four hours after the reconnaissance plane was dispatched, the traces of the three fleets of the Rihonben after the division of troops were searched by the Chinese Air Force, which completely frustrated the dream of Michiji Umezawa to delay for a day. For the rest of the day, every move of the RI army was completely under the control of the Chinese side.

The lead ship of the Second Fleet, the cruiser Tokiwa, 1st class. The displacement is 9,700 tons and the speed is 21.5 knots, the Chitose cruiser is 4,760 tons and the speed is 22.5 tons, and the cruiser Akitsuzu is 3,159 tons and the speed is 19 knots. The other ships were also speeding at more than 16 knots, so they were already approaching the Bohai Strait, where the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea meet, at noon.

As we all know, the Bohai Sea is China's inland sea, and once it forcibly crosses the Bohai Strait, it is equivalent to the Beijing and Tianjin area, China's political center, completely opening its arms. Because of this. The First Fleet of the Navy stationed a detachment in the Miaodao Islands in the Bohai Strait, including the cruiser Hairong with a displacement of 2,950 tons, the gunboat Yongfeng with a displacement of 780 tons (that is, the famous "Zhongshan Ship" later), and the gunboat Wufeng with a displacement of 220 tons. After hearing the news from the Air Force, he was immediately ordered to send troops to intercept it.

Unfortunately, the Chinese ships are too weak, and even the most advanced cruiser Hairong has become a small point in the take-off and landing flagship of the Second Fleet. I can only fight my life to circle back and forth in the RI warship to block, and at the same time loudly declared: "This is the territorial waters of the Republic of China, it is strictly forbidden for any foreign ** ship to enter, please exit immediately, otherwise you will bear all the consequences!" ”

Through the sound of the loudspeaker, the commander of the fleet, Kato Dingyoshi, heard it clearly, not to mention that the interpreter explained it carefully in his ear. But he didn't move, and said coldly: "Among these ships, except for the Hairong, which has a speed of more than 20 knots, the other gunboats such as Yongfeng and Wufeng are only twelve or thirteen knots, and they can't catch up with our army at all. We pretended not to understand the Chinese and ordered the Chitose to force the Hairong away, and the other ships took advantage of their speed advantage to quickly pass through the Bohai Strait and get rid of the tail of the China fleet. It's already one o'clock at noon, and there are still more than 20 nautical miles to go before the landing in Longkou Bay, and I don't want to make a landing at night and let the Red Deer at the War Department find a reason to blame our navy! ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard an awkward pidgin from the loudspeaker: "ここでは中国領海である!" への外軍隊のBan! Kato Dingji felt like he had been slapped in the face, and his old face suddenly blushed slightly: "Order the Chitose to force the Hairong to get away, and the other ships will break through as soon as possible, don't care what the person says!" ”

With Kato Dingyoshi's order, the warships of Rimoto no longer had any scruples, and with their own tonnage advantages, they rushed straight towards the Chinese small gunboats one by one with full horsepower, among which the Yongfeng gunboat, which had just been purchased from Rimoto, was the first to bear the brunt.

The Yongfeng ship is a steel-and-wood structure warship ordered by the Minister of the Navy Zaixun and the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division Sa Zhenbing from Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipbuilding in the second year of the former Qing Dynasty (1910), with a cost of 680,000 silver dollars. However, before it could be completed, the Qing zhèng fu collapsed with a bang. After the completion and launch of the warship in 1912, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Zhèng Fu paid off the balance of the shipbuilding, and the warship was incorporated into the First Fleet of the Chinese Navy in early 1913.

Although the displacement of the Yongfeng ship was less than 1,000 tons, it was not outstanding in the naval contingent that paid attention to the heavy guns of giant ships at that time, but among the gunboats of the same type in the East and West at that time, its Xing ability was relatively advanced and its firepower was also stronger. Perhaps it was precisely because it was made in Riben that the Riben Navy knew its advantages and disadvantages well, so it became the preferred target for attacks by the Riben fleet.

Under the fierce onslaught of the cruiser Tokiwa, the Yongfeng ship, which had only half the speed and less than one-tenth of its displacement, could not avoid it, and the port side was hit squarely, and soon began to capsize. But the cruiser Tokiwa ignored it and sailed away with the large and small ships of the fleet.

First, it can't catch up with the Riben fleet, and secondly, it is to catch up with the pebble and hit the stone, plus it is important to save people, after all, there are more than 100 crew members on the Yongfeng ship, so the Hairong ship can only actively rescue the Yongfeng ship, and at the same time quickly send a telegram to the Admiralty and the Shandong Frontier Command to report the original situation, and ask for instructions on how to deal with the current situation.

Sun Yuanqi was furious after receiving the telegram: I just don't want to take the initiative to provoke trouble, does Xiaori really think that I am afraid of you? If I don't give you a little bit of power, you don't know that Lord Ma has three eyes! He immediately asked Shen Xiangyun: "Qiu Zhai, can you now determine where the Second Fleet of the RI Army will land?" ”

Shen Xiangyun replied after looking at the map a few times: "It is not yet certain where the RI fleet will land, but in terms of terrain and landform, the RI army has only two choices, either in Longkou Bay or in Taiping Bay, because other places are close to the mouth of the Yellow River, and a large amount of sediment is deposited, resulting in shallow seawater, thicker sediment, and wide tidal flats. Only Longkou Bay and Taiping Bay have high-quality ports, which are most suitable for giant ships to dock and large-scale infantry landing! ”

Sun Yuanqi frowned and said, "Then when will the landing site be determined?" ”

Shen Xiangyun gestured: "Longkou Bay is only forty kilometers away from the Miaodao Islands, and with the speed of the Ri main fleet, it will be possible to determine where to land in half an hour at most." It is said that 'a gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late', only half an hour, adults should be able to wait? ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "Then wait for half an hour!" However, all the bombers at the Rongcheng and Qingdao airfields were now ordered to be reloaded, and they would take off as soon as the landing sites were determined. I'm going to give my little riben a taste of what it's like to be an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'! ”

Shen Xiangyun said: "My lord is very right, since the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, RI has bullied us for twenty years, and it is time for us to take revenge!" When it comes to the navy, we may be inferior to Sèri; But when it comes to the army and air force, we should be impressed! This time, I will definitely let the Oriental devils return! ”

Sun Yuanqi sneered: "It's not just as simple as letting them go home, I'm going to let it spit out with the profits!" ”

In the previous time and space, the Zhongshan incident in March 1926 became the beginning of Chiang Kai-shek's opposition to the policy of the United Russian Communist Party, the usurpation of leadership, and the first rupture of the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation. In this time and space, the Zhongshan ship (Yongfeng ship) incident once again wrote a strong stroke. But what will history say about this event?!。