Chapter 96 Luck and Shock

The bow of Zhenhai cut the sea and marched in the South China Sea at a full speed of 14 knots. In the boiler room of Zhenhai, the shirtless boiler worker sweated like rain in the boiler room of more than 50 degrees, waving a shovel of fist-sized white coal into the boiler.

"Hurry up!"

At this time, even the officers also took off their military uniforms, where they sweated and added coal to the boilers. After the fleet left Suraka, the ship reported the second order from the Admiralty, and they would sail directly to Suras to ensure that the Marine Corps and Army would take over Taiwan.

In order to be able to reach Surrey within the specified time, what they can do is to drive towards Kaohsiung at a maximum average speed of 14 knots after leaving the port of Surakamis.

In order to maintain the speed, not to mention the officers of the boiler team, the officers of other departments and even the sailors also rushed over to help shovel coal, which was even a test of a fleet's readiness to a certain extent.

"It seems impossible to catch up!"

He measured the wall light of the chart in the captain's room and threw the compass in his hand. He has calculated back and forth several times, and constantly rowing the route, in order to choose the shortest route and sail to Taiwan at the fastest speed, but now no matter how he chooses, he can't ensure that he will arrive in Taiwan within that specific time. It can complete the "X" required by the Admiralty Department, but taking advantage of that day always makes people feel a little unhappy.

"If it's a first ship, we can come in a hurry! It can maintain the maximum speed of 27 knots as the cruising speed. Although it costs a little fuel, it can also be touched when necessary!"

At the time of the speech, there was a trace of longing in Wei Lingkai's words. For the senior management of the Chinese navy, the first ship has always carried a kind of trust, not only the sustenance of creating history, but also the hope of a powerful navy.

"I heard that the construction speed of the first ship is very fast now! It's about to go into the water!"

Now, Wei Lingkai even closes his eyes and sees a one-class ship. The unprecedented large warship may even be a dream for China to regain the seat of a powerful navy.

"Hmm!"

Cheng Biguang nodded. The construction speed of the "A-One Armored Cruiser" is indeed creating a miracle, but behind this miracle is a three-shift overtime work, 24 hours a day. In other countries, the construction is usually within 12 hours a day, 8 hours in the United States, and the United Kingdom 11 hours.

To some extent, he certainly hopes that the speed of ship building as fast as possible, but he also knows that such a pursuit of ship building speed may bring some unexpected consequences. If it is not necessary, all countries will choose to build slowly to pursue quality excellence, not just for speed.

"One ship has 9 12-inch naval guns, plus 8 7.5-inch naval guns, ..., do you remember our drill in the South China Sea!"

"You mean "BROADSIDESFIRING"!"

I was stunned. When the fleet was "idle and idle" in the South China Sea, when it was practicing gunnery, it conducted an experiment according to the advice of the tactical staff. It concentrated 8 10-inch guns and 14 7.5-inch guns on the two ships, and shot at the same target according to the unified shooting elements, which was far more powerful than expected.

It was thanks to the South China Sea artillery drill that the navy made a very unusual position change, and the position of the gunner was raised to the bridge. The gunner tells the shooting target and shooting Zhuyuan on the bridge. The main gun and secondary guns can only follow the instructions of the gunner, and it is forbidden to make their own decisions. The benefits of this are self-evident: more than a dozen main and secondary shells loaded on a ship fly to the same target at the same time, greatly improving the starting hit rate.

However, although the power of concentrated shooting is very powerful, it has encountered some problems, such as the problem of coordinated communication and command between gun positions.

"Our ship is not equipped with so many leaflets and pipes. Although it is powerful, we can't hear the unified order in each gun position during the artillery battle. Therefore, I think if this problem cannot be solved, the gunnery still decides to shoot Zhuyuan by itself. We are only the first training, and the communication problem is not solved, just It is impossible to maximize the power.

"This problem has been solved on "A-One Ship"!"

"What?"

Wei Lingkai's eyes suddenly opened, and he could hardly believe his ears. The previous solution to this problem was to use a military band. This was useless as soon as it started, but the "chicken ribs" of the ammunition handling team were used as shooting messengers.

It has been less than two weeks since the end of the South China Sea artillery exercise.

"The naval administration department attaches great importance to the results of our exercise, so it gathered a group of technicians to solve the problem. In fact, the solution is very simple!"

Cheng Biguang pointed to something on his desktop.

"Just install the phone!"

"Didn't we test the phone? I couldn't hear the sound on the phone at all when I fired!"

How could Wei Lingkai and others not expect such a simple method? They did think of it and experimented, but they still encountered a problem.

"I guess they got a new type of phone!"

Cheng Biguang smiled, then picked up a thumb-sized wooden symbol of the chart table ship and put it on the chart.

"If, as you and I guessed before, the war between Russia is over and we start a war with Japan, as long as two armored ships and one ship are in service, at least we can have an advantage to some extent! We are twenty-six to thirty-two. Although we are full of risks, we still have a lot of strength. The remaining problem is to see the hit rate and luck. The former is better than the original, and the latter seems to say that my luck has always been good!"

Luck... The two smiled bitterly at the same time, saying that my luck was really good! In just 11 years, he bet his country's fate on two seemingly no chance of winning bets, but in the end, they all won. The last time they won, and this time, they are about to win. What about China's luck?

"I'm so lucky!"

"Chinese people are so lucky!"

With a sigh, Yamaguchi in the courtyard of the Taipei Police Station sighed at the subordinates in front of him. At this time, Yamaguchi's tone was full of jealousy.

"You won the bet, Taiwan belongs to you!"

In the face of more than 300 Taiwanese policemen standing in the atrium, Yamaguchi said seriously, with unwillingness in his tone, and most of the faces of the police officers beside him were sad, as if they were feeling sad for the loss of Taiwan.

China won!

We are Chinese again!

The Taiwanese police, who are still wearing Japanese police uniforms in the hospital, have an uncontrollable impulse in their hearts, accompanied by a wonderful feeling. In my eyes, they are the lowest. In the eyes of their compatriots, they are dog-legged. It is this kind of complex emotion that makes them unable to cheer like others. .

"We're going to leave and work hard!"

Yamaguchi bowed to these Taiwanese who he despised at all.

"From now on, you will be Chinese. We are myself. In the future, um, there may be a chance for China and Japan to unite to fight Westerners in the future!"

These Taiwanese police listened blankly to the director's words. Their mood was far more complicated than anyone else's, because they were... a dog.

But... they are also Chinese!

Watching those who were carrying their luggage and going to Keelung Port to leave by boat, there was no handover at all. Almost all the documents and files in the police station were taken away. After Director Yamaguchi left, the Taiwanese police still stood there, silent for a long time. I don't know who shouted first.

"Long live the Greater Chinese Empire!"

Listening to the shouts from the window, Goto Xinping frowned. These Chinese people shouted long live China before they left.

Although Goto Shinpei is not the governor of Taiwan, in fact, as the chief of civil affairs, Goto is responsible for the actual government affairs of Taiwan. Especially after he returned to Japan last year and served as the chief of staff of the Manchurian army, Goto served as the de facto governor of Taiwan as the chief of civil affairs, responsible for all military and political affairs in Taiwan.

In the past seven years, it was Goto Shinpei who fully implemented the so-called "colonial administrative plan" and even claimed to govern Taiwan according to the principles of biology and develop agriculture, industry, health, education, transportation and police. It was with his "efforts" that Taiwan changed from a "gred" that was about to run out of wealth to a place to earn tens of millions of wealth.

Until last year, under the "governance" of Goteng, Taiwan's finances had been completely independent, and there was no need for the central government to subsidize it. Even some public constructions were more advanced than the mainland. "Are all the places ready? Fully withdraw from Taiwan today!"

"Your Excellency, we haven't prepared enough ships yet!"

Later Teng Xinping's secretary quickly replied.

"The ships left by military and political personnel, teachers and doctors should be enough! Let these people leave first!"

Goto reiterated his order again, which was Gentaro Kodama of Pyongyang.

"If they want to return to Taiwan, then we will leave immediately without hesitation."

Although according to the provisions of the Joint Communique, the two sides have a 25-day reception time, Taro Kodama, the governor of Taiwan in Pyongyang, directly shot this telegram to Goto Shinpei. The reason why he shot this telegram has his own plan. In Kodyu's opinion, this is just a few months of truce, so it has to be used. The rapid and comprehensive evacuation left the Chinese with a chaotic Taiwan, laying a solid foundation for Japan's "recontainment" of Taiwan in the near future.

"Matsumoto, remember my decision! What we want to leave the Chinese people is a chaotic Taiwan, not a intact Taiwan. If it is a intact Taiwan, then the Chinese people can soon use our legacy in Taiwan to establish a stable rule. Is this by no means what we hope?

According to Kodama Gentaro's plan and Goto Shinpei's withdrawal plan, the sudden withdrawal of all military and political personnel will be a disaster blow to Taiwan. The Japanese army, Japanese political axe officials, doctors, teachers, engineers, technicians, and even Japanese businessmen will be within a few days. All will be withdrawn from Taiwan, and everything that can be swept away at the time of evacuation will be swept away.

The political axe documents that can be taken away will be taken away. The political axe documents that cannot be taken away can be burned directly. The office furniture can be sold or destroyed. Even the doctors in the hospital must take away the drugs and medical equipment when they evacuate. What can't be taken away can't be destroyed. When the army withdraws, it is not only smashed. The window glass of the barracks and even smashed the tiles on the roof with bamboo poles, and all the political axe departments were damaged.

And all this was carried out in the protest of China's political axe.

"They can cause us trouble in North Korea, so we can cause them more trouble in Taiwan. We must destroy the machines in power plants and water plants, understand? If all this is implemented, then the Taiwanese... in a few days, they will miss the era of Japanese rule!"

Goto Shinpei said confidently that he could not understand the Taiwanese. After a short period of excitement, in the face of sudden chaos, they would definitely miss the orderly governance.

But Goto seems to have forgotten a little. This is Taiwan, China's Taiwan! And Taiwanese are also Chinese!

"I! It's Chinese!"

In the public school in Kaohsiung, in the face of Mr. Harumoto's questioning, Lin Fengqing stood up and said almost word by word.

While he was talking, most of the students who saluted the Meiji Emperor stared at him with surprised and surprised eyes, staring at the classmate who refused to salute the Meiji Emperor.

For the Taiwanese, when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, they once lost their way, and even many people who insisted on resisting once felt that they had lost the object of spiritual loyalty, Qing! It no longer exists! China? What country is the Chinese Empire?

This is the country of the Han people!

The loud answer made this Taiwanese, who was actually composed of the remnants of the anti-Qing Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, finally find a long-lost and subtle emotion. In fact, since Zheng Keshuang fell to the Qing Dynasty, for more than 200 years, the Taiwanese have not surrendered their faces for more than 200 years. It was not until the First Sino-Japanese War ceded Taiwan that the Taiwanese choose again. Loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, and this is just a kind of helpless confusion.

"This is the Japanese school!"

When the teacher with the ruler walked towards Lin Fengqing, he said loudly that his face would be full of ferociousness and unwillingness.

"Taiwan! I have returned to China!"

Lin Fengqing raised her head and looked at Mr. Tanaka in front of her with a contemptuous look.

"China defeated you, so Taiwan returned!"

A trace of pride flowed from the young man's immature face. In exchange for his words, his classmates looked at him worriedly while secretly cheering.

"Fack!"

The raised ruler wanted to beat the student's Tanaka with a heavy sigh, and the raised ruler has not been able to fall.

He knew that today, the [***] team came today. Maybe in a few hours, he turned his head and looked at the students around him. Although these young teenagers all had their own names, they were the so-called "model students". That's why they entered the public school, but the reason why they entered the public school, I'm afraid It's just to survive!

For thousands of years, Chinese people have been living a strong life, regardless of prosperity and adversity. They were once respectful when they saluted the emperor, but their faces showed a trace of stubbornness and indomitableness.

Yes!

Taiwan is going to return to China! This is no longer the territory of Japan!

Tanaka, who was relieved, turned around, walked to the blackboard, and wrote two words on the blackboard with chalk.

"Asia!"

Then he turned to look at the students and said in a heavy tone.

"I know that you hate the rule of Taiwan, but here I hope you can remember that we are not only the difference between me and the Chinese, but also please remember that we are all Asians, yellow-skinned and black-eyed East Asians, and the civilization of East Asia was created by the ancestors of your country. In modern times, both the Japanese and Qing countries were invaded by the Westerners. We awakened, so we defeated the Qing Kingdom and got Taiwan. However, in our original intention, we hope that our neighbors will be strong. It is impossible to rely on the Japanese to resist the invasion of Westerners in East Asia. It is too small! I hope in the future..."

After a moment of meditation, Tanaka continued to say.

"Let's have a chance to resist Westerners together! Remember, you are Asians!"

"I'm Chinese!"

This time, the loud answer came out of the mouths of thirty-six students at the same time, loud and neat.

The answers of the students made Tanaka's heart a burst of sadness. For ten years, the rule of Japan in Taiwan has only repression, and it is precisely this kind of repression that makes it impossible for the Taiwanese to...

"Classmates, go to the dock! The [***] team is coming soon!"

Ten years! The Taiwanese who haven't seen the [***] team for ten years are all crowded on the Kaohsiung wharf. They already know that the "guards" will enter Taiwan by ship in Kaohsiung Port, and then there will be troops to Taipei by train in Kaohsiung. When Kaohsiung Port is crowded on the dock, more than one million Taiwanese, from the streets and alleys, from rural cities, on both sides of the railway, waiting for the "national dynasty" The arrival of the army.

On May 19, for Taiwanese, I'm afraid they will never forget it for the rest of their lives. On this day, they once again changed from "slaves" to human beings, and from third-class citizens under their own rule to Chinese people.

There are still many people, tens of thousands of people, came early from far away from northern Taiwan, by train, or long trekking to Kaohsiung and port, just to wait for the moment of this historical surname.

After leaving the school, Lin Fengqing, who was dressed in a Japanese school uniform, rushed to the dock with her classmates. Along the street, he saw that it was like a trick. The street was full of blue, yellow and red tricolors. The gentry stood on the terrace of the county office and shouted "Long live the Greater Chinese Empire" with a heartfelt voice to the people gathered all over the street. With bursts of shouts, the people on the roadside were just mixed feelings and shed tears.

Although it was only a dozen days, Kaohsiung, like other places, first set up a welcome committee in private, responsible for preparing the celebration and team to welcome the Guards. After many days of private preparation, I bought enough firecrackers, made welcome flags, built beautiful pavilions on the dock, and bought a large number of braised meat, drinks and snacks. Everything was ready.

The notice came again: the guards arrived at the port an hour later. The crowded dock was full of people, on the dock, on the balcony of the small building near the dock, and even on the roof.

People who were sweating with the scorching heat of the sun turned their toes and looked at the sea level from time to time.

"Why haven't you come yet!"

Holding an disproportionate national flag sewn by her mother in her hand, Lin Fengqing stared at the sea with big eyes. On the dock grid, the Japanese military representatives who were ordered to hand over to the Chinese representatives were also arranged on the dock to salute the [***] team.

May in Kaohsiung is no cooler than that of Hainan Island. On the streets and docks, there are a sea of people. The sweat and body temperature of the human body are mixed, and people are squeezed into a meat wall with their backs. In the meat wall, people still stand on tiptoe and stretch their necks to look; parents let their children cross their legs and ride on their shoulders, eager and nervous.

"Damn it!"

Colonel Komatsu, who was responsible for the handover with the Chinese representative, looked at the sweaty soldiers and looked at the sea reflecting the sun.

"Why haven't you come yet!"

The Japanese army was ordered to welcome them neatly on the dock. Even if they were unwilling, the uniforms of the hundreds of Japanese soldiers on the dock were still straight, and the manners and expressions of the soldiers were still solemn. When they welcomed the arrival of the [***] team, on another trestle in the distance, thousands of the last Japanese soldiers who retreated were retreating along the way.

"Coming, coming... Look!"

Finally, in an excited shout, the people waiting on the dock saw a column of smoke, which was the troops coming from the sea and set foot on Taiwan's land again ten years later! On May 19, the long-awaited [***] team really arrived.

"Du!"

In the whistle, the 4,500-ton training ship "Jiping" slowly entered Kaohsiung Port, and bursts of cheers and shouts suddenly sounded from the port.

"Coming... Coming! It's the Chinese army!"

"It's the army of the mainland!"

Looking at the warships that were putting down the gangway, some white-haired old men supported their trembling bodies and slowly knelt down on crutches, and the pavilion welcomed by the roadside was set up an incense case and sandalwood according to the honor guard that the Chinese people welcomed the imperial edict and the imperial envoy more than a decade ago. More people kept walking towards this majestic warship, and tears flowed down people's faces at this moment.

"It's down, it's down, look! It's the [***] team! It's our army!"

Finally, in the expectation of everyone, the first row of the middle [***] team got off the boat.

Lin Fengqing and all the villagers in Kaohsiung and southern Taiwan finally saw the army of the motherland. The soldiers disembarkated along the gangway, wearing white large-brimmed military hats on their heads, navy blue military uniforms, and white armed belts around their waists. The white copper belts of the armed belts reflected the sun from time to time, and the sun sprinkled on their bodies. The snowy bayonet is shining in the sun, and under the straight military uniform are solemn faces.

When they stepped on the land of Taiwan, with a command, the sound of neat military boots sounded, and the soldiers set up a column on the dock. In the impression of the Taiwanese, the clothes of mainland soldiers should be that kind of shabby, and now they see these powerful soldiers, and then look at those sweats. The Japanese dwarf in navy blue military uniform suddenly felt proud.

The military band that got off the ship began to play a march, beating the military drums and beating the military music soldiers. When leading the soldiers in formal clothes to line up in the port, the dock was full of teenagers chasing the Chinese army with the loud sound of military boots.

"Long live the Chinese Empire!"

In the shouts of people, the Marines' chests are straighter, and their faces are full of pride and pride. It seems that the hard work of years of training is not worth mentioning at this moment.

When the powerful sound of military boots sounded on the land of Kaohsiung, the sound of footsteps made people feel the ground under their feet, the air around them, and even their internal organs trembled with the sound of footsteps.

The first batch of road warriors, including the military band, were only 700, but these seven hundred were dressed in neatly hot navy blue military dresses. The white leather dress reflected the unique light of bright leather. In front of the white large-brimmed military hat, the black brim made of the Séluge plastic reflects the sun, and the medal on the chest is in the sun. It's dazzling.

In order to leave as a deep impression as possible on the Taiwan of the [***] team that has not been in China for a long time, the first batch of troops landing in Taiwan will never affect the image of the guards due to seasickness, and the Marines took out the bottom of the box, the new military dress, the new nickel-plated bayonet, and white copper. Nickel-plated dress armed belt, all of which is to leave a deep and even indelible impression on Taiwanese.

"This...is this the [***] team?"

And this scene not only stunned the Taiwanese who welcomed them on the dock, but also made the Japanese soldiers and myself open their eyes in surprise, and their eyes were full of incredible color.

This... Is this the "one-handed rifle, one-handed cigarette gun, thin and dirty Chinese soldiers" mentioned in the newspapers?

"Cax!"

The laughter suddenly sounded. The sudden laughter stunned Lin Fengqing. He was not tall enough to squeeze into the crowd. He didn't know what everyone was laughing at at all. When he finally squeezed through the crowd and saw the scene in front of him through a gap, he couldn't help laughing.

On the dock, between the two armies, a tall middle [***] officer and the Japanese officer stood there bowing and saluting something. The very short Japanese officer stood in front of the middle [***] official, even not as tall as his shoulders, so that when he spoke, he even needed Looking up at the other party, this scene is like an adult scolding a child.

"He... They must be carefully selected!"

Looking at it from afar, looking at the tall middle-aged [***] officer and the officer Uchida Jiro couldn't help saying sourly in his heart, but look at the two teams on the pier, one team is powerful and tall, the other is short and even... This will be full of astringent Uchida, after a long time. It's hard to spit out a sentence.

"Well, it's just a person with well-developed limbs and a simple mind!"

(to be continued)