Chapter 30: The Lively and Noisy Oriental Ocean (Part II)

Late December 1945, Hainan Island, Yaxian (Sanya), Sanya Port

At this moment, the sea level outside Sanya Port is like a forest of masts, and the ships cover the sea, but the buildings on the shore are empty and silent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the calendar turned to the end of 1945 in the Gregorian calendar, six years had passed since Hainan Island fell to the Japanese army. However, what is more special is that the driving force behind the attack on Hainan Island was not the aggressive Japanese Army, but the seemingly rational Japanese Navy.

-- At the beginning of the war, the Iron Ore Supply of the Japanese Empire came from Korea and Northeast China, but both of these places were controlled by the Army, which meant that the Iron Ore was in the hands of the Army. At that time, the Japanese army and navy were enemies of life and death, and the factory workshops that also produced munitions would never produce for the navy and the army at the same time in the same workshop, but covered two workshops, one with the sign "Production Site Designated by the Minister of the Army" at the door, and the other with the sign "Production Site Designated by the Minister of the Navy" at the other door for production. If the Japanese Navy wants steel, it can only look at the eyes of the Army.

This kind of iron ore distribution can be coordinated through the civilian cabinet in peacetime, and the navy can barely tolerate it. In the wartime, the War Department was dominant, and the iron ore was stubbornly dominated and did not give the navy a profit. And the navy is a big eater of iron, and the amount of steel used by any warship can top a tank brigade of the army. As a result, even several half-built capital ships soon began to run out of materials, and they were in a hurry, and they almost stopped work.

Therefore, two years after the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese navy pondered that it should do it by itself, have enough food and clothing, and find a way to find its own iron from China. Then a group of naval staff officers of the Military Command Department looked at the map and found that Hainan Island was an island with both rice and iron ore, and it seemed very suitable to take it down as a resource production area, so they put forward an ambitious slogan to turn Hainan Island into a "Manchukuo of the Navy"!

Next, in February 1939, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a big move and rushed straight to Hainan Island: at that time, because of the fall of Guangzhou, the logistics supply line was cut off, the regular Kuomintang army on the island had basically been withdrawn, and the navy of the Nationalist Government had already sunk and surrendered on the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, and there were only a few security regiments and the Qiongya Red Army guerrillas in the Wuzhishan base area in the entire Hainan Island (the famous Red Women's Army was in it).

In the face of the large ships and huge guns of the Combined Fleet, such a weak anti-Japanese force on the island naturally could not withstand the footsteps of the Japanese army. In a short period of time, with the exception of Baisha County, which is located inland and far from the coast, all the important harbors and towns of Hainan Island were occupied by the Japanese army, and the sun flag was planted. Bunkers, docks, and ports were also quickly built by the Japanese army. They widened roads and erected iron bridges to accelerate the plundering of Hainan Island's natural resources.

After the occupation of Hainan Island, similar to the situation in Manchuria and North China, the Japanese did nothing good on this tropical island in the southernmost part of China, mainly forcibly conscripting laborers, developing Shilu Iron Mine, Tiandu Iron Mine, and Yinggehai Salt Farm day and night, and plundering the rich natural resources of the local area. Among them, Tiandu iron ore can be directly connected to the port area, but Shilu iron ore is not near the sea or river, and it is very difficult to transport ore.

For this purpose, the Japanese army built a railway from Shiroku to Hachisho Port, and then transported ore from Hachisho Port to the sea. In order to lay the 55-kilometer railway line, the Japanese army requisitioned tens of thousands of laborers from China, North Korea and Taiwan, and it took five months to complete. Then, Hachisho Port was originally a small fishing village with no modern port facilities at all. In order to accommodate ore ships of more than 10,000 tons entering the port to load and unload goods, it must also be expanded into an artificial port. The entire Shilu development, including mines, railways, ports, and power plants, employed as many as 140,000 laborers, and killed and injured tens of thousands.

After the completion of the two mines, the laborers' fate was not over, and they were forced into the mines to do hard labor, requiring each person to pick eight tons of ore per day, and being beaten without food if they failed to complete their tasks. The laborers ate a shortage of sweet potatoes, corn, and pumpkin soup; They live in simple thatched huts; Sleep on the upper and lower two layers of large bunks made of bamboo sheets; They wore torn sacks or grey paper bags. Many Chinese laborers were exhausted or abused to death.

However, with the full-scale outbreak of the Pacific War, the situation on Hainan Island has taken a new turn, and groups of American and British prisoners of war have been pulled from the Philippines, Malaya, and Australia to the mines, while the original Chinese laborers have been taken to Australia one after another, as if they have exchanged jobs with each other.

At the same time, as the higher quality Australian iron ore and South Pacific nickel ore were successively controlled by the Japanese army, the importance of these two iron ore mines on Hainan Island and the Yingge Sea Salt Farm in the eyes of Tokyo's wartime base camp was greatly reduced. In the face of harassment by the anti-Japanese guerrillas in Qiongya, the Japanese troops defending the island became more and more sluggish, and at first they organized to go to the countryside from time to time to clean up, but later they only guarded a few county towns along the coast, abandoning the vast rural areas and land lines of communication.

Later, the Japanese "Hainan Garrison" moved from Haikou to Yaxian, continued to shrink their forces, and lost several towns such as Haikou to the management of the puppet army.

Last year, in order to further transfer troops from Hainan Island and reduce unnecessary consumption, the Japanese "Hainan Garrison Office" even abandoned the Shiroku Iron Mine and the Hachisho Port, which had been built with huge manpower and material resources, as well as the Yingge Sea Salt Farm further south, one after another -- because the Shilu Iron Mine was deep inland, and in the areas along the mine and railway, the sabotage and harassment activities of the Red Army's anti-Japanese guerrillas were very frequent, such as cutting railroad tracks, cutting electric wires, and ambushing, and so on, constantly causing losses to the Japanese in all kinds of manpower and material resources. Compared with the iron ore mines in western Australia with higher quality and better security environment (surrounded by no man's land), continuing to maintain mining production on Shilu side of Hainan Island has outweighed the losses.

However, because of its proximity to the coast, the ore in Sanya can be easily transported directly to the port, the transportation and mining costs are relatively low, and it is relatively easy to defend against the harassment and destruction of the guerrillas, so it relied on the free labor of a large number of American and British prisoners of war until the end of the fourth or fifth year.

In short, with the stubborn fighting of the guerrillas and the retreat of the Japanese army in great strides, on the eve of the Tokyo nuclear bombing in October this year, more than 80 percent of the entire Hainan Island, except for Yaxian in the southernmost part and Haikou in the north, has been controlled by the Qiongya anti-Japanese democratic government led by Commander Feng Baiju.

As for the remaining "party-state forces behind enemy lines" on Hainan Island, that is, the remnants of the original security regiments and some "airborne commissioners" who smuggled in later, they had already been completely swept away by the Qiongya Column after repeated fierce battles after the Kuomintang and the Communist Party tore their faces for the second time.

When the news of the Tokyo nuclear bombing and Chairman Chiang's "return of the capital to Nanjing" came, Commander Feng Baiju took advantage of the fact that the puppet army on Hainan Island was confused, demoralized, and panicked, and that the national government had not yet received "surrendered" reinforcements to launch a counteroffensive against Haikou and recover the largest city on Hainan Island in one fell swoop. The last remnants of the island's puppet army either surrendered or fled to Hong Kong and Guangzhou in fishing boats.

So far, since the Red Flag was raised in 1927, the Qiongya Red Army led by Commander Feng Baiju has fought arduous and fierce battles for more than 10 years, and has successfully established such a red base area of considerable scale under the difficult predicament of being surrounded by strong enemies, fighting on isolated islands, surrounded by seas, far from the central government, difficult in foreign aid, and backward in weapons.

By the end of 1945, the entire Qiongya Red Base Area had gradually grown from a mere 300 troops in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to a territory spanning more than 10 counties, with a mass population of 2 million, more than 10,000 armed militiamen, and more than 5,000 regular Red Army soldiers. With the exception of the southernmost coastal area of Yaxian, almost the entire island of Hainan has been recovered by the Red Army.

However, although the situation of the Qiongya Column is so gratifying, Feng Baiju has no plans to gnaw on Yaxian, the last hard bone on Hainan Island, for the time being. After all, the weaponry and combat effectiveness of the genuine Japanese army in Yaxian County are not comparable to those miscellaneous puppet armies in Haikou.

Moreover, after the Japanese army invaded and occupied Yaxian, it continued to build on a large scale, setting up the fourth base of the South China Navy in the port of Sanya, and the 13th South China Air Base in Huangliu in the west of Yaxian, and the entire Yaxian County was built into a military fortress of the Japanese Navy, with a destroyer squadron and a torpedo boat squadron stationed on a permanent basis, plus more than 50 combat aircraft, as well as nearly 100 transport ships, supply ships, and other small ships. For the Qiongya Column, which was extremely lacking in heavy artillery and technical weapons and had extremely thin firepower, it was basically an impossible task to conquer such a fortressed port with complete land, sea and air forces from the land. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Japanese marines in Sanya Port had taken an unusually negative attitude in recent years, basically no longer dispatched to sweep the countryside, and only sat in the county seat, Tiandu Iron Mine, and port fortresses, the Qiongya Column would not have had as easy it is to crisscross the entire island.

At the same time, it was necessary to guard against the Kuomintang troops crossing the sea from the north: the puppet armies of Guangzhou, Qinzhou, and the Leizhou Peninsula had now all "changed their skins" one after another. Although those "high-ranking officials of the state government" who had parachuted in were now busy "taking over the enemy's property," no one could say for sure when Chairman Chiang, who had just been driven out of Nanjing again, would remember this group of red brains on Hainan Island and then order someone to organize a new attack.

Therefore, even after the liberation of Haikou, Commander Feng Baiju was not carried away by the joy of victory, and recklessly ran the newly pulled up team into the strong fortress of the Japanese, but was mentally prepared to continue the long-term confrontation with the Japanese navy in Sanya Port.

However, in the last few days of the Gregorian calendar of this year, Commander Feng Baiju found that he had suddenly received a gift package from heaven.

“…… What did you say? Are all the Japanese devils in Yaxian gone? Even the devil navy in Sanya Bay is retreating? Are you sure you read that right? ”

With an expression of disbelief, Feng Baiju, who had just returned to the base area from Haikou in triumph, asked the scouts who came to report the situation.

After receiving an affirmative answer from the other party and being told that the reconnaissance sentries on the front line had taken over the county seat of Yaxian County and seized a large number of equipment and materials and many intact factories and workshops, Feng Baiju suddenly couldn't hold back any longer, and hurriedly pulled a company plus a guard squad and rushed to Sanya.

-- Although what the Japanese army has done since its invasion of Hainan Island can be described as extremely cruel and tyrannical, causing the people of all nationalities on Hainan Island to shed blood and tears. But it also has to be admitted that it was the invasion and development of the Japanese that gave Hainan Island, which had been backward for a long time, a little industrial base.

At present, the arsenal of the anti-Japanese government on Hainan Island relied on the industrial equipment that had not had time to be destroyed after the Japanese army abandoned the Shilu Iron Mine and the port of Hachisho, as well as a few Taiwanese engineers who had defected to Chengcheng, and tried to piece together and repair supplies. In this way, it still made the traffic officers of the New Fourth Army who crossed the sea and dived in envy: there is a power grid and a railway in the factory area of the Qiongya Column Arsenal! How many base areas in the country can do this?

Therefore, as soon as he heard that there was another opportunity to "pick up the ocean" in Yaxian, Feng Baiju couldn't help jumping three feet high, and his feet ran as if he had wings.

All the way to Yaxian County, I saw that the Japanese troops stationed in the county town had indeed slipped away without a trace, and even the shops and Japanese language schools opened by Japanese expatriates had all been emptied. The local pseudo-police either disarmed honestly and waited for disposal, or took off their uniforms and hid at home. Only a few old men with missing teeth and leaking wind from the local maintenance association stood guard at the gate of the city, "warmly welcome" the leader of the Qiongya column into the city......

However, Commander Feng Baiju had just walked into the puppet county government of Yaxian County, and before he had time to count the spoils captured by the guerrillas, he received another great piece of good news: the Japanese devils in the Sanya Military Port had also run out! And all kinds of materials and equipment left behind are piled up! As a result, Feng Baiju only had time to instruct the guerrillas not to destroy anything they did not understand--In Haikou, some clumsy fighters smashed the captured long-range radio station and spare electronic components, which made several intellectuals in the base area feel distressed for a long time, and they hurriedly set off for Sanya again.

As a result, the situation of the Sanya fortress was, as the scouts said, completely abandoned by the Japanese army. The Japanese and the Japanese who had been stationed there had all boarded the ships and left, and the locals were sent home. Only more than 1,000 Taiwanese soldiers, translators, laborers, traders, prostitutes ♀, and engineers who were unwilling to evacuate, as well as the "Takasago Volunteer Brigade" composed of 300 Taiwanese aborigines, remained in the fortress of the military port and waited for surrender and resettlement.

Looking at the sturdy turret that used to be regarded as an impregnable wall by the guerrillas, but now it has been planted with a red flag without firing a single shot, Feng Baiju is very emotional.

Next, in the headquarters building of the Sanya Garrison Office, Feng Baiju met a trembling Hong Kong maid again, speaking Cantonese that was not easy to understand (the difference between Cantonese and Hainan dialects is not small), and presented a "letter from the Japanese Taijun to the Chinese Red Army".

Feng Baiju stretched out his hand to take the letterhead and looked at it, and found that the letter was very elegant, and the edges around it were actually decorated with gold patterns, and in the middle he wrote with a brush:

“…… Since the 14th year of the Showa era, I have occupied your land for six years and caused a lot of trouble, so please forgive me. Now that I'm about to leave, I don't expect to come back to your land in this life. The day after tomorrow, they will say goodbye forever. All past grievances, please laugh at each other!

In addition, there are still a number of Taiwanese who are unwilling to evacuate and want to return to their hometowns, and there are also a number of Mi Ying prisoners of war in the mining area, so I hope you will be properly resettled.

-- Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, Rear Admiral Kamishige Toku"

Looking at the understatement on this letter, Commander Feng Baiju couldn't help but feel the urge to tear the letter apart: "...... Troublesome?! Eight years of anti-Japanese war, so many blood debts, in the eyes of you little devils, it is just a small trouble! ooxx (all kinds of foul language)"

But after thinking about it carefully, he put the letter away again, and was going to take it back to everyone to see.

After a while, the various units reported on the takeover and seizure of the situation, which quickly diluted the resentment that had accumulated in Commander Feng Baiju's heart -- the harvest of "picking up foreign land" this time was really too rich! In addition to burning the classified documents before the evacuation, the Japanese left almost the entire military port and the attached industrial facilities intact: docks, power plants, waterworks, hospitals, ship repair yards, oil depots, coal bunkers, anti-aircraft gun positions, barracks, office buildings, radio stations, and other base facilities. Even a few heavy guns on the coastal fortress were unharmed and undamaged. The units seized five trucks, three tractors, and four small locomotives pulling ore from Tiandu to the wharf at various locations in the port area. On the pier were a few gunboats, torpedo boats, and a long sailboat made of fiberboard, as well as more small hand-paddled sampans.

Then, the situation of the warehouses is also very gratifying: only the oil depot in the entire Sanya military port is basically emptied. There were also very few rice, salted fish, and canned food in the food store, but the coal bunkers were almost full, and the arsenal also had a lot of guns and ammunition in stock, including more than 8,000 rifles and nearly 100 machine guns. In addition, there are some miscellaneous and scattered materials, mainly labor tools and building materials such as reinforced concrete.

Next, there are a lot of good things hidden in those Taiwanese who surrendered, and before the Japanese army retreated, it seemed that it was very rare to have a human touch, and yesterday evening in the form of the ocean and the real thing, they were given a large amount of severance pay. Fierce debates broke out among the guerrillas over whether or not to confiscate the belongings of these Taiwanese and canned food, candy, clothes, and other items. In the end, Feng Baiju made a final decision: the prisoner policy must be strictly adhered to and their private belongings must be protected!

After a while, the seizure report from Yaxian was also sent, and as in the case of the Sanya Military Port, the grain from Yaxian was also relatively small, and it seemed that the Japanese had been carried onto the ship as much as possible. At present, more than 5,000 guns of various types, seven automobiles, 35 mortars, 12 mountain artillery, and countless bullets and shells have been seized. There are also three old biplanes and two jeeps parked at the airfield west of the county. The canneries, cement factories, textile factories, brick and tile factories, power stations, waterworks, freezers, cement fish drying and paper mills run by Japanese expatriates and military dependents were also intact, and there was even a small experimental iron factory that had been out of use for a long time. Although these kinds of chaotic industrial equipment are only the standard configuration of small and remote towns in Western countries, they can be called an extremely advanced industrial center in China, which is poor and weak!

In China in this era, even in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which are known as the most developed, there is no guarantee that there are telephone poles in every county!

Therefore, after receiving the enemy property left over from the Japanese Navy, the Qiongya Column was almost equivalent to obtaining a miniature super-small Manchukuo!

“…… Commander! Now that there are so many good things in the base area, we are even more generous than the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army back then! However, why did the little devil be so kind this time and leave so many things for us? Didn't even destroy the heavy artillery on the battery when you left? Aren't the little devils afraid that after we take over these heavy guns, we will immediately load up the shells and hit their ships? ”

The little soldier who came to report asked a little puzzled while happily reporting the columns of data on the list.

“…… Probably because they really don't plan to come back! Besides, looking at so many ironclad ships, where do we dare to fire guns casually? ”

Feng Baiju looked down at the Japanese fleet on the sea in the distance with a telescope, and sighed in a low voice, "...... If we really want to fire artillery to hit it, I'm afraid that before we have time to sink a ship, we will invite an overwhelming amount of retaliatory artillery fire, and smash all these good things that we have captured! Hurry up and give the order! As long as the Japanese do not attempt to re-land, all troops are not allowed to fire at the sea, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law! ”

-- From the balcony on the top floor of the military port headquarters building where the two men were at this time, overlooking the vast and vast sea ahead, I saw a jaw-dropping fleet moored on the sunny sea, with the masts of the Rising Sun Flag and various signal flags, extending outward from a distance of several hundred meters from the coast, and the farthest part of the sea horizon had exceeded the visual limit, like a huge forest on the sea.

In the center of these ships, surrounded by the stars and the moon, are four huge battleships with similar appearances, extremely powerful and domineering, each battleship except for a slight difference in livery, the basic pattern is completely the same. The bow is decorated with a golden chrysanthemum pattern on the front of the ship, the muzzle is covered with a golden chrysanthemum pattern, a low and thick triple huge turret, the superstructure is a full ten stories high, and the secondary guns on both sides are numerous, which looks full of pride in the world.

And the legendary achievements of these four Yamato-class battleships are indeed worthy of such momentum...... Even in a remote place like Hainan Island, through the radio and the occasional captured Japanese newspaper, Commander Feng Baiju had heard of the name of the Yamato-class battleship that made the Allies feel like a nightmare.

-- When he learned through various indirect channels that the Japanese Yamato-class battleships had won another naval battle and sank a certain warship of the British and French, Feng Baiju only sighed in his heart, or complained that the Yankees' navy really did not fight. But now that he has witnessed these four super giant ships like castles, no, towering bodies like mountains, Feng Baiju has truly felt for the first time how hideous and terrifying these four Yamato-class battleships are, how oppressive they are to all beings, and how shocking they are...... You can't help but feel the urge to fall in love with it......

The Yamato-class battleships were surrounded by more than a dozen carriers and heavy cruisers of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, in addition to an even larger number of light cruisers, destroyers, and floating submarines and various auxiliary ships, plus countless merchant ships, which were arranged in layers and staggered manners, filling almost the entire surface of the sea in sight. The sheer number of them may have exceeded the imagination of the commanders and fighters of the Qiongya Column on the shore.

In short, when Feng Baiju first saw this scene, he was really dumbfounded, his mind was blank, and he came back to his senses after a few minutes.

And all kinds of indescribable thoughts made him feel a lot of emotion, and he thought a lot, a lot of future prospects in his heart......

A moment later, in the conference room of the headquarters building of the Hainan Garrison Office in Sanya Port, Commander Feng Baiju pointed to the huge fleet moored outside the window, and said aloud to the front-line commanders and fighters who had gathered for a meeting, "...... Comrades, what a modern and powerful navy should look like, you all saw it today. Although we do not have such a powerful navy now, even if we wait for the victory of the revolution, we probably will not have a large fleet of the size we see today for a long time to come. However, the motherland's long coastline and vast territorial waters still need our protection. We must no longer allow the warships of the imperialist powers to run rampant in our ports and coasts! Now, now that we have liberated the whole of Hainan Island and received a small inheritance of the Japanese Navy in Sanya, it is time to put them to good use! Even though there are only a few small gunboats that the Japanese have left behind, we must get to grips with them as quickly as possible to defend against possible sea-crossing attacks by the imperialists and Kuomintang reactionaries in the future......"

However, before Commander Feng Baiju, who was in high spirits, spoke impassionedly to his comrades about the importance of building the navy and coastal defense, the platoon commander who had been ordered to go to the Tiandu Iron Mine to take over the prisoner of war camp hurried to interrupt the meeting and tell him very bad news.

-- As a matter of fact, the Tiandu Iron Mine itself is very intact, the equipment in the mining area has not been damaged in any way, and there is no ambush there by the Japanese or the puppet army, and the Taiwanese guards who are waiting to surrender are very peaceful, and the American and British prisoners of war are also very peaceful, and there is no trouble because of the retreat of the Japanese army.

The only problem was that the number of prisoners of war was so large that the partisan fighters who took over did not know what to do.

“…… How much?! 50,000 ?!! Hearing this number, Feng Baiju suddenly felt that he was almost dizzy, "...... Damn little Japan, leaving so many foreign uncles, do you want them to eat our little family money alive? ”

-- Although he was in a remote place like Hainan Island and was not well informed, Feng Baiju also vaguely knew that the anti-fascist alliance was now close to breaking down, and that the capitalist camp represented by the United States and Britain had a rather delicate relationship with himself as a Chinese Bolshevik. Now that the Americans have openly supported Chairman Chiang's platform, sent a large amount of aid to the Kuomintang reactionaries, and supported the bald butcher's "great cause of suppressing bandits," it is difficult to say whether they will directly participate in the war and completely stand on the opposite side of the party and the Red Army. Therefore, until the central authorities have received clear instructions, these American and British prisoners of war on Hainan Island absolutely cannot be released -- besides, even if these foreigners are released, they will have nowhere to go at the moment but to disturb public order.

However, if he really wanted to keep them in the prisoner of war camp, Feng Baiju really couldn't afford to support them: at present, the population of the entire Hainan Island was only a little more than 2 million, and the people had always been quite poor, and the financial situation of the anti-Japanese government was already tight just by supporting less than 10,000 full-time cadres and soldiers in the base areas. If you want to continue to eat these more than 50,000 foreign devils in vain, the Qiongya anti-Japanese government will have to be eaten to bankruptcy.

Of course, these foreign devils did not just eat and do nothing, but the problem was that when the Japanese were managing the Tiandu iron ore mine, they could transport the excavated iron ore overseas, and then bring rice and miscellaneous grains from Vietnam and Thailand to feed these prisoners of war. However, after the Qiongya Column took over the Tiandu Iron Mine after the lonely enemy, the surrounding area was still in a blockade situation for the time being, and what was the use of continuing to mine so much iron ore? I just want to make iron and farm tools, and there is not so much coal on the island! The little coal stored in the seizure has to save power generation! Do you have to burn charcoal?

However, no matter how difficult it is, this big burden must be carried, and these American and British prisoners of war must not be executed en masse and fed to the sharks, right?

After silently calculating the amount of food captured, Commander Feng Baiju was stunned to find that this little thing was not enough for 50,000 prisoners of war to eat for three days!

“…… Commander, when those foreign devils and prisoners of war saw us, they called out, saying that the Japanese had not given them food since yesterday morning, and only distributed some biscuits and salted fish to them before leaving. ”

The platoon commander who came to report the situation said with a bitter face, "...... The comrades searched over there, and there was nothing to eat in the entire prisoner of war camp except for radishes and taro grown in a vegetable field, and it seemed that it had been removed by a few local overseers who had escaped along with the nearby cottage Li people......"

“…… Belch...... It is the discipline of the army to treat prisoners preferentially, and they must not be allowed to starve to death like this...... Carry out all the remaining rice in the warehouse of the devils in the military port! Let's cook some rice porridge for these foreigners first! Remember to put more water and cook it a little thinner, but don't eat it all in a few meals......"

Feng Baiju stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, and said distressedly, "...... Then send a telegram to the central authorities, and be sure to explain the difficulties we are facing......"