Just as the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, under the cover of a series of "super-science fantasy weapons" such as Kirov airships, Apocalypse Tanks and Mobile Suit Gundams, marched majestically across the Suzhou Creek and stepped into the Shanghai Concession, the fleets of the great powers anchored on the Huangpu River were also being devastated.

-- After the Opium War, with the decline of the Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country to the outside world, the gunboats of the imperialist powers began to appear in China's waters, practiced their "gunboat diplomacy," set up bases in China, and stationed them for a long time, eventually forming the so-called "fleet in China."

In order to adapt to the characteristics of China's waters, especially the Yangtze River basin, where there are many shallow reefs and vast areas, these gunboats of the great powers operating in China often need to be specially designed and built, and even form a unique type of ship in the history of the navy -- because they are not really ocean-going fleets, but ships specially designed to sail on inland waterways, which look flat and fat, have shallow drafts, have a very flat bottom, are flexible and easy to maintain, have high horsepower, light and flexible, low freeboard, long endurance, and perfect living facilities. Mobile Consulate" to use the common features.

What's more, in the fleets of the great powers stationed in China at that time, a considerable number of shallow gunboats even had to be disassembled into parts and transported to China for reassembly, because these small ships, which were only a few hundred tons or dozens of tons, could only sail in the calm Yangtze River, and could not withstand the stormy waves that crossed half the world.

Among them, in the British Navy at that time, there was even a "Royal Yangtze River Fleet", which was based in Hankou and Shanghai for most of the Republic of China, and regarded the entire Yangtze River as its own back garden. Pursuing the British Empire's "gunboat policy" - in the eyes of the Chinese at the time, these gunboats were like evil invaders from alien planets, invading their familiar homeland. Bringing endless death, humiliation, and destruction: the Wanxian Massacre during the Great Revolution, the Nanjing Massacre, and the "Purple Quartz" incident during the Liberation War were all masterpieces of the British Empire's "gunboat diplomacy".

All in all, the most dazzling sight on the Bund riverside in Shanghai during the Republic of China was the towering chimneys and icy turrets on these foreign warships -- in that era of the jungle, these small gunboats were powerful weapons for the great powers to show off their force and intimidate the Chinese people. After the outbreak of the anti-imperialist patriotic movement in any place. These gunboats will rush to suppress it as soon as possible, mercilessly pouring artillery fire on the heads of the Chinese!

From the late Qing Dynasty to the entire Republic of China era, the fleet flying the rice flag and the star-striped flag has always had complete freedom of action on the Yangtze River. When the calendar flipped to 1934. The British Empire's gunboats had effectively controlled the waterways of the Yangtze River basin for decades and would continue to roam the Yangtze River for a long time.

However, in this distorted time and space, these shallow-water gunboats flying foreign flags. But it came to an end more than ten years ahead of schedule.

“…… Whoa-whoa-......whoa-whoa-who Boom-""...... Whoa—"

Bright tail flames of strings of rockets. Piercing the gloomy sky with a tooth-aching shrill whistling sound, it landed accurately on the decks of American, British, and French gunboats, and the sound of a loud explosion stirred up the murky waters of the Huangpu River, drenching the sailors to a soak. The raging flames sparked on several other ships, burning the sailors of various countries who were caught off guard and had to jump into the river and swim to escape.

And the killers in the air, several helicopter gunships sprayed with sickles and hammer insignia, are like knights hunting wild deer. Unhurriedly circled over these ships, and from time to time fired a burst fire from machine guns. chiseled a row of holes in their bulkheads, which were not protected by armor; Or use rockets to set fire up a large bright fireball on the deck and play a brutal game of "barbecue the living......

-- When the Red Tenth Army launched a general attack on the concession, the gunboats of the fleets of various countries stationed in China anchored on the Huangpu River were not in a state of readiness for war, and many of the ship's personnel were still on vacation ashore, and even the people on board did not think of lighting the engines in advance...... As a result, due to the suddenness of the incident, about half of the ships were forcibly robbed by the Red Army soldiers before they had time to light a fire offshore, and became trophies; The other half of the ships finally lifted anchor in time and sailed into the river, and as soon as they took a breath, they violently lifted their gun jackets, ready to launch a retaliatory counterattack.

Unfortunately, before they could turn their guns on the Red Army on the riverbank, several helicopter gunships flew in and beat these small gunboats to the brink with fierce air strikes - although the gunship firepower was designed to blow up tanks and armored vehicles, and the "damage output" was slightly weaker for a battleship of several hundred tons, this terrifying rhythm of waiting for death was even more unbearable than being sunk by a torpedo!

-- At this time when they were finally slaughtered, the foreigners who were once arrogant finally felt the horror of the vast number of Chinese people in the Yangtze River valley who had been dominated and slaughtered by them before, and the shame of being beaten and unable to fight back......

“…… Oh my God, you weishenme don't fire yet, take down these damn flying machines! ”

The Royal Navy's shallow water gunboat Falcon, John Falcon. Lesrie. The chief engineer of Attis Scott got out of the hatch in a fit of rage, "...... The ship's side is cracked everywhere, and the engine room has been seeping water in many places! If you continue like this, you will have to turn off the fire in five minutes at most! ”

He shouted almost in despair, but the sailor's answer made the chief engineer even more desperate.

“…… No, sir! The elevation angles of all weapons are not enough! Our battleships did not have anti-aircraft machine guns, and even less anti-aircraft guns! ”

-- Because the gunboats of the fleets of various countries stationed in China are basically small river boats of several hundred tons or even dozens of tons, and most of them were built relatively early, and some of them are antique coal-fired boilers that were commissioned before World War I...... At that time, the airplane had just been invented, and naturally it was impossible to think of installing shipborne anti-aircraft weapons.

In fact, even those shallow water gunboats built after World War I will not have air defense capabilities unless they are modernized, because the main purpose of these shallow gunboats stationed in China is to serve as "armed police" on the water, searching for bandits, arresting smugglers, suppressing mass xenophobia movements, and intimidating anti-British along the Yangtze River, rather than going to war with other powers...... To put it simply, it is specially used against the Chinese, and naturally there is no need for any air defense weapons, as long as it can be bombarded against civilian ships on the river and civilian houses in the port.

As for seeing the increasing power of aircraft, they began to change their main guns to anti-aircraft guns, which will not happen until the eve of World War II.

As a result, under the attack of the armed helicopters of the traversers, these gunboats of the great powers, which had galloped the Yangtze River, bombarded the people, and caused countless tragedies, looked so desperate and helpless in the face of the tongues of fire falling from the sky......

Although some sailors took out rifles and pistols from the cabins and desperately stood on the deck to shoot in the air, forming a weak anti-aircraft fire net. But the problem is that modern helicopter gunships are the kind of biplanes made of wood and canvas during the First World War, but use a variety of new protective armor such as ceramic materials and composite materials, known as "flying armored soldiers", and their survivability is quite strong, even 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns can't be exploded, let alone a few of their broken guns...... Therefore, the gunship easily crushed the resistance of the gunboats from the sky, turning them into seepage hornet's nests one by one, or detonating the ammunition depot and turning it into a large ball of fire......

Seeing that the battle situation was already one-sided and completely desperate, several gunboats that had not lost power for the time being opened up one after another to swim or flee downstream, but soon found that they had no way to escape -- the channel leading to the lower reaches of the Huangpu River was now blocked by the wreckage of the Japanese Third Fleet, and there were "artificial reefs" full of masts, which would collide and sink if they were not careful.

Even if the first mate or captain at the helm was a veteran and had luckily crossed that section of the "reef river," Wusongkou at the end of the Huangpu River had already been controlled by the Red Army, and shore artillery positions and remote-controlled bomb boats had already been arranged, and they couldn't wait to "open......

If you go upstream, you can only enter the waterway of the Wusong River and hide in Taihu Lake. And this waterway has not been dredged for a long time during the Republic of China, and it is seriously silted, usually only canopy boats and rafts come and go, and any ship with a draft of more than one meter will be stranded if it drives in, and the assault boat troops of the Red Army have long been holding RPGs and waiting there. More importantly, the slow speed of the river gunboats could not escape the air pursuit of the helicopter gunships......

As a result, several stranded or damaged gunboats, in complete desperation, finally raised the white flag aggrievedly and surrendered to the "lowly" yellow monkeys in their eyes...... However, she was ignored by Miss Lori Cai Rong, who was sitting on a helicopter and was in charge of supervising the battle!

“…… Kuku! O abominable imperialist aggressor! You don't have to feel guilty about your atrocities, and you don't have to make any kind of reparation or repentance! The Chinese people only need to see your wailing and destruction! Keep firing!!! ”

With the cruel order of Miss Cai Rong, who was full of the aura of middle and second disease, like an aria, the Russian pilot on the helicopter skillfully lowered the nose of the plane, flew directly above the shallow water gunboat of the Falcon, and pressed the button to drop the 500-kilogram aerial bomb.

Then, the gunboat, which was already wounded, was suddenly overwhelmed by earth-shattering explosions and fires...... (To be continued......)