Chapter 229: The decisive battle against Hankow
However, it is not very difficult for the army to train, as long as it has the backbone strength, it can be trained into an army in a short time.
At this time, the People's Army did not lack soldiers, and after the land was allocated, the peasants were grateful to the People's Army, and they were grateful, so it became an honorable thing to be a soldier.
At this time, it was the commander of the Fourth Army - Zhu Fei who was on the riverside.
He used his binoculars to carefully observe the approaching British gunboats.
Wait for them to slowly come into range.
"Sooner or later, we will have our own fleet!" Zhu Fei said firmly.
At this time, in the shipyard of Jiujiang, technicians from the world of national arts were instructing the workers to build small gunboats, and the inland industry at this time was almost blank, and many of these few workers were drawn from Wang Yong's shipyard in Shanghai.
In China, where there is a low-tech world, it seems that people with basic worker qualities are grabbed by a large handful, but today they are very scarce.
This made Wang Yong feel the importance of basic education.
But in any case, for the fledgling industry, it is barely enough, after all, he has millions of believers in the world of dance and dance and the world of national arts, and these transfers are enough to solve the problem of lack of skilled workers.
"Fire!" He ordered firmly.
More than a dozen cannons flew towards the small gunboat with long fiery snakes.
Wesley heard only a flash of fire in the distance, followed by a deafening sound that exploded around him.
The next moment, in the midst of severe pain, he didn't know anything.
These British gunboats, like paper boats in front of the cannons, swirled on the river and then sank.
And the Japanese fleet, which followed closely, even sent destroyers. The commander of the fleet was Kinoshita, who, seeing the British fleet in such a miserable state, shouted, "Turn around! โ
The destroyer's strings creaked, and the entire hull even trembled and passed sharply to the other side.
But in the Nanyang Republic, with well-trained gunners, it was still very easy to deal with such a large target.
With the dull but solid sound of cannons, bright red flames rushed out of the cannon holes, and the battlefield was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and the huge smoke and dust brought by the recoil.
Kinoshita only felt the destroyer shake violently, and the front end of the destroyer was blown black and badly damaged.
There was a slash on his forehead in the steel hull, and blood flowed out of his face, like a demon.
But the blood, the smell of gunpowder, made him sober up again and again, and even felt a long-lost sense of excitement.
"What our soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire have never feared is the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood! What we fear is the loss of glory! In front of the Qing Navy and Army, which were several times larger than ours, the pigs of our Great Japanese Empire made them collapse for thousands of miles! In front of the impregnable pillboxes of Tsarist Russia, we charged one after another, so that they completely collapsed! Our navy of the Great Japanese Empire must not be knocked down here, rush! Shoot at them! โ
His sonorous roar made the Japanese navy, which had been confused for a while, suddenly come back to its senses, no longer dodged, and rushed straight towards the batteries by the river, allowing thousands of shells to explode on the river, on the boats, and even on their bodies.
They sang the Imperial Japanese Navy anthem: "ๅฎใใๆปใใใ้ป้(ใใใใญ)ใฎๆตฎใในใๅใ้ ผใฟใชใๆตฎใในใใใฎๅๆฅใฎๆฌใฎ็ๅฝ(ใฟใใซ)ใฎๅๆน(ใใ)ใๅฎใในใ...... (The defense and offense rely on this black steel castle, and the divisions floating on the sea will defend the Imperial warships in all directions, and open fire!) Towards a kingdom that hates the rising sun! The soot swayed like a dragon on the sea, and the roar of the cannonballs overshadowed the thunder in the storm, opening up thousands of miles of waves, and the prestige of the imperial country was in all directions) ......"
Zhu Fei, who was standing on the shore and commanding, was a little shocked at this time, and those Japanese fleets did not flinch, stepping on the wreckage of British gunboats and fearlessly marching towards the river.
This army was different from the ones he had encountered before. He understood for a moment that the imperialist army they were about to face would not be a native chicken like the Qing army, but an army with the same spirit of sacrifice.
But as a fierce man who is carrying the revolution, of course he will not be frightened by the posture of these desperate Saburo of the Japanese.
He is still firmly on the front line and commanding.
And the People's Army, especially those believers from the Nanyang Republic, faced with the approaching warships and the closer and closer shells, were like emotionless machines, just calmly cooperating to load the shells, and then calculate the launch, as if the explosion that was close at hand had nothing to do with them.
Even if some of his comrades fell, they were even blown into stumps.
But at that moment of death, even a trace of panic flashed on his face.
These near-inhuman performances have greatly inspired other KPA members who have endured only a few one-sided wars.
They blushed, struggled to carry the shells, calculated the angles and distances, plugged their ears and fired them fiercely.
"Boom, boom!"
On the river and on the shore, artillery roared.
The more and more they die, the more they remain, the deeper the hatred and a passion and burning blood that seems to never be extinguished.
Keep an eye on the approaching Japanese warships and bombard them desperately.
After all, it's just a small-tonnage ship.
The Japanese soldiers on the ship sank into the water with a reluctant grunt.
Some of them grabbed the life-saving equipment early and swam towards the river.
But the soldiers on the shore had already turned around, and they were holding rifles and shooting at the Japanese soldiers who were sinking and floating a little away, and blood flowers appeared on the river, and in the sound of the river that suddenly quieted down, they looked very inconspicuous, floated, and disappeared.
And Sa Zhenbing, who ordered the fleet to stop from the beginning of the shelling, watched all this silently, and finally he ordered the Yangtze River fleet to raise the white flag.
The water battle in Hankou shook the whole country.
Annihilated the Yangtze River Fleet of the British and Japanese, while the Yangtze River Fleet of the Qing Kingdom surrendered to the People's Army.
Yuan Shikai, who was in high spirits and went south, was a little hesitant at this time, his breath couldn't help but stagnate, and he solved the British and Japanese fleets that came to intervene at one time, proving that this rebel army was not only bold, but also had sufficient heavy firepower.
What is the source of their munitions? Make it yourself?
No way, they haven't occupied the largest Hanyang Arsenal yet.
Could it be a foreign power? The United States and Germany that do not speak out?
A chill rose up his spine.
I want power, not to die in Wuchang as a dog for Cixi!
Yuan Shikai's face was full of confusion, pinched his teeth, and slammed the table, and the tea on the table rolled to the ground.
The train is still heading south......
However, this achievement of the People's Army has greatly encouraged the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad, and proved that at least in the interior, the People's Army is capable, and we Han people are capable of repelling anyone's interference and attack!
As a result, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangdong, Shanxi, and the corresponding People's Army uprisings were everywhere, and it seemed that the decisive battle with the Beiyang Army was not so important.
"Go back to Guangdong immediately!" After Sun Wen heard the news, he immediately put on his hat and said to Huang Xing.
"Here's the opportunity, we have to act now!" Huang Xing's beard was shaking excitedly.
"We must return to China immediately and start an uprising, otherwise we will not even have a place in the future government."