Chapter 176 Sandu Australia

There are many mountains and forests on both sides of the mouth of Tokyo Bay.

On December 4th, at midnight, in the mountains and forests near Haikou, dozens of policemen patrolled back and forth in teams. They were faithfully performing their tasks and expelling unrelated people on the mountain. As for who they were, it was beyond their understanding. Occasionally, these policemen would walk into the mountain forest along the mountain road. In the middle, he scanned the dark mountain forest with a flashlight hole.

Hearing the footsteps, Yu Guang saw the beam of light sweeping through the forest. Those alert eyes did not relax and concentrate on going out of the sea. It's just that when he feels someone approaching, lying in this hidden one-person-sized "observation station", he doesn't move at all. Although he knows that even if he moves, no one will find that although the observation station is small, there is no problem accommodating a person.

At this time, he chewed his night with relish and stared at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. At this time, under the reflection of the stars and moon, the sea could faintly see the shadow of the boat on the sea. Suddenly, he suddenly threw away the night in his hand. In fact, it was just a few biscuits. Under the background of the stars and the moon, he saw some vague black outlines on the sea.

He quickly lay down in front of the large binoculars in front of him, holding the mirror of the telescope and looking at the mouth of the sea. After looking at it for a few minutes, he put down his telescope and rested his eyes and continued to observe. That's right!

He saw the black outline of thirty-six ships and recognized that there were battleships and armored cruisers, cruisers and coal carriers among them.

"The combined fleet has been dispatched!"

After turning on the flashlight to identify the names of the warships one by one from the black outline, he muttered in his heart that this was the information he had been waiting for for a long time, but at this time, how could he send this information to China?

In recent days, there have been a lot of police in the mountain patrol.

It seems that we can only wait until the daytime!

Early in the morning of the next day, some young people began to appear on the uninhabited mountain road. These young people ran and exercised on the mountain road. When no one noticed, a person dressed up merged into these people. After more than ten minutes, the sweaty guy went down the mountain, and The policeman at the foot of the mountain just looked at him.

After more than half an hour, a young man in a suit came to the telegraph room of the post office at that time. The young man's face was full of happiness. He walked to the radio station. After he asked for an electronic newspaper, he wrote a short message on the newspaper and gave it to the service desk. A generator inside looked at the receipt address in Singapore, and the recipient was "Miss Jiateng Huimei". Looking at the message, the generator finally understood why this person was so happy.

"Huimei: After being persuaded by Uncle Yamaguchi, my father has promised you and me to get married. Although the date has not been decided, he said that the elders can discuss this matter!"

A little number revealed the happiness of a young man. It was his father who agreed to his marriage with Miss Huimei. There was nothing strange, but the place of receipt was Singapore, so the generator gave a look to the police stationed here. The police came over and took a look at the telegram first. .

"This Miss Huimei is..."

"It's a girl I knew in college!"

When talking, the young man's eyes are full of lovesickness.

"How could she be..."

"Her father opened a trading company there!"

"Oh!"

There was nothing suspicious. The police nodded, agreed to send the telegram, and finally blessed it.

"I wish you happiness!"

"Thank you, I will be happy!"

More than an hour later, another person in the Singapore Telegraph Bureau sent the same telegram again after modifying a few words, but these destinations became China.

Finally, the telegram finally appeared in the combat room of the Sandu-Australian Ocean Fleet Command until 9:35 a.m., and the content of the telegram had already changed.

"At 12 o'clock last night, all the main ships of the joint fleet had left Tokyo Bay, accompanied by a coal ship, and the destination was unknown..."

I'm afraid that the translation of the secret language will only be understood by the matter involved, but the literal translation of the message is what the Zhenyang Fleet needs.

"You can go now!"

After putting down the telegram, the Chief of Staff of the Zhenyang Fleet opened his mouth to ask the commander-in-chief.

"Wait a little longer! We are still waiting now!"

Liu Guanxiong shook his head and refused the chief of staff's suggestion.

"Yes, if the action is too early, the joint fleet may be scared back. At that time, I really don't know what variables will come out!"

As a trainee staff officer of the Zhenyang Fleet, Su Yueyang said with the intention of nothing.

"Leap up, let's make another deduction!"

Liu Guanxiong, who is a little worried, wants to use the last military chess deduction to make himself calmer.

"Yes! Sir!"

Su Yueyang walked to the chart table. At this time, no one else would disturb them. This was the last military chess deduction.

"After the naval battle of the South China Sea, two capital ships, one armored cruiser and one protective cruiser were lost. It is unlikely that the combined fleet, which is greatly damaged, will choose to enter the South China Sea with the Luzon Strait, so there is no need for us to prepare a big banquet for them here!"

With a baton in the Luzon Strait, Su Yueyang was full of regret. From the South China Sea to the Luzon Strait, he fully borrowed the battle plan formulated by Zhenzhi Akiyama for the Battle of the Sea of Ma.

Originally, according to his idea, he prepared a five-stage attack for the combined fleet. If the opposite period between the First Fleet and the Combined Fleet is set to X, the content of these five attacks is:

1. X said that during the day, he first fought for the battleships to defeat the Second Fleet within two hours of the Combined Fleet.

This is the most critical step in the five attacks. At this time, the ammunition of the joint fleet is almost exhausted, and the long-range artillery battle with it is carried out to further consume its ammunition.

2. On the night, relying on the destroyers deployed by the Xisha Islands, X began to launch a torpedo night attack on the joint fleet.

3. X+1 daytime, the daytime fleet artillery battle was carried out on the sea south of Dongsha. This time, the purpose was also to consume the combined fleet.

4. On the night of X+1, a small torpedo boat deployed on an uninhabited island in the Luzon Strait carried out a torpedo night attack on the joint fleet trying to cross the Luzon Strait.

5. X+2 continued the daytime battle near the Luzon Strait during the daytime, and this time it was a real fleet decisive battle. The previous decisive battle and night attack were to consume the ammunition of the combined fleet's capital ships, making it unable to replenish coal. At the same time, the strength of the weakened joint fleet was finally the last decisive battle in the Luzon Strait, in Kaohsiung. The Zhenyang First Fleet, which is filled with ammunition and coal, can attack the joint fleet with all its strength in the most advantageous state.

As for the sixth attack, in Su Yueyang's plan, there is no sixth attack at all. Less than an hour after the start of the third naval artillery battle, the capital ships of the combined fleet will run out of ammunition, and then it will be a one-sided battle.

But the problem is that if the route of the Luzon Strait is not adopted, the possibility of forcing it to retreat through the Luzon Strait is almost zero, so the battle plan must be modified.

"According to the current intelligence analysis, in order to ensure security, the Japanese army is likely to choose the southern route. At this time, the wartime sea also changed from the sea near the West Sea led by our army to the sea near Nansha, which was selected by the Japanese side, which has a negative impact on the fleet. Due to the long distance, there is a Japanese spies, if they cut off the telegram for a long time, are likely to arouse the vigilance of the Japanese side. In order to avoid this situation, we need to adjust the overall plan. At the same time, we will transfer the destroyer fleet to the north and the torpedo boat troops to the south, relying on the first night attack to carry out a night, so as to seek to sink and sink the enemy ship to the maximum extent. X+1 said The second artillery battle in the daytime is a decisive battle at sea.

"This means,"

"It means that we need to bear more losses!"

A sentence came out of Su Yueyang's mouth. Although the five attacks in the original plan were full of risks, they were not as big as this one. The five attacks were changed to three attacks, but the goal of the campaign was the same. The total anniperation at least severely damaged the joint fleet, but this means that the navy needs to bear more losses.

Originally, whether in the old and new plans, for the second fleet dominated by the old ships, the strategy of breaking the arm of the strong man will be implemented. The sacrifice of the second fleet will be exchanged for the possibility of defeating the joint fleet, and the destroyer fleet and the torpedo fleet will be sacrificed to achieve the purpose of weakening the strength of the enemy fleet. The purpose is to break the arm or the finger. It's to make it easier for the First Fleet to win, but what about now? Relaxingness no longer exists, and what awaits the Chinese navy will still be a real naval test.

"When will the enemy fleet depart?"

"Three days later, three days later, the enemy fleet will leave the port and reach the sea off Kaohsiung. As long as you don't get close, no one can find that the enemy fleet is not the Zhenyang fleet!"

The so-called tempting enemy fleet is actually a "fleet" transformed from a training ship, which is nothing more than a turret made of iron rings and a turret made of thin steel plates. From a distance, no one can tell whether it is a warship or a merchant ship. Although it is a little imaginary, the real intention of the bait fleet is to tell me the Zhenyang ship. The team is in Kaohsiung, not in the South China Sea.

"It's about to go!"

With a heavy sigh, Liu Guanxiong looked at Su Yueyang, and then went to the window to stare at the six capital ships of the Zhenyang Fleet. After this battle, I really don't know how many of the six capital ships and ten cruisers moored here at this time will be left. This is the last essence of the Chinese navy.

A narrow-gauge train spewing white smoke slowed down in front of the mountain in Sandu'ao Island until the train was completely close to the heavy iron gate of the warehouse at the foot of the mountain. In the tunnel-type warehouse, hundreds of officers and soldiers were constantly marking boxes with "305mm hat-piercing bullets" with slings, scooters and carts. It was all English bullet boxes sent to the cart, and then two or three people pushed a cart to the outside of the cave. The heavy cartridge box was lifted into the train by a crane on the side of the narrow-gauge railway, and an attack shell was loaded into the train, and then sent to the dock by the train.

"It's the last day!"

Everyone understands what the last replenishment of ammunition means, which means that the fleet is about to leave the base and go to the unknown sea for a naval battle related to the fate of the empire.

On the dock, the coal hoist is constantly importing high-quality anthracite into the ships and burning heavy oil. This "non-sinkable warship" that proves the indomitable heart of the Chinese navy to the world with life and will in the naval battle of the South China Sea is connected to the oil pipeline, and a continuous flow of heavy oil is being imported into the tank of the ship. Compared with coal-fired warships, the advantages of fuel-fired warships have been fully demonstrated at this time.

In the Sandu Australian Naval Shipyard, thousands of workers in the naval shipyard looked at the "Jingyuan" with pride. They understood that they had done it no matter what. A month ago, after the end of the naval battle in the South China Sea, the hard-stricken "Jingyuan" barely staggered to Sandu Australia. Maintenance and renovation.

In order to repair the Jingyuan in the shortest time, the navy transferred 3,000 of the best shipbuilders and the best technicians from Shanghai and Ma'anshan, and even used warships to transport them from Shanghai to Sanduao, just because the speed of the warships was faster.

"The national transportation will be decided by Jingyuan whether to sail or not!"

One of the simplest slogans shocked the minds of all shipbuilders. In a month, every inch of the Jingyuan lying in the dock was full of hard-working shipbuilders. 4,300 shipbuilders were divided into four shifts and worked at night. The cracked cracks were repaired and fell off in three days. The armored steel plate was reinstalled, and the lost perchment equipment was quickly replaced and repaired. Finally, under the night repair of the shipbuilders, the hard-stricken Jingyuan was reborn.

"The national transportation will be decided by Jingyuan whether to sail or not!"

In the history of the world navy, there is a warship that can bear this mission, but Jingyuan does bear this mission. without Jingyuan, Zhiyuan is a lame fighter. Only when Jingyuan and Zhiyuan sail at the same time, the only "war cruiser fleet" in the world can play its greatest role. In the future naval battle, it will use its high speed and long endurance to chase the enemy fleet, and tear up the enemy ship with a 343mm cannon from afar. If there is only one Zhiyuan, Zhiyuan may be the second Jingyuan to suffer heavy order. Because of this, Jingyuan has become the one that determines the national transportation. Warship.

At this time, the new Jingyuan can hardly see many traces of heavy losses, and although the armored steel plate outside the conning tower and turret have been coated with a new layer of paint, the bullet marks left by the shell hit are still clearly visible. For Jingyuan, this is almost his medal of honor, which is the only one in the Chinese navy. A warship that has experienced naval battles and won and survived, and in the future naval battles, no one will doubt that Jingyuan can add a few more trophys to its own loot.

For Jingyuan, people's emotions are always complicated, just like the officers and soldiers serving on Jingyuan. In the past, the navy was proud to serve in Zhiyuan, but now, anyone is proud to be able to serve on Jingyuan. This is a glorious warship.

"That's Jingyuan!"

On the traffic boat, the sailors holding the luggage bags pressed their hats and looked at the approaching battlecruiser Jingyuan. Everyone's eyes scattered with glorious eyes. This is Jingyuan, which is the warship that symbolizes the spirit and will, honor and glory of the Chinese navy. At this time, they are about to step on Get on this glorious warship, become a general among them, and drive this warship to the ocean and to victory!

At this time, the body of Jingyuan emits a kind of fantastic gold in the reflection of the sunset. The warship is quietly moored in the mooring field. Under the reflection of the sunset, it is like a steel god of war from ancient times. It seems that any warship in front of him will be embarrassed.

"Li He, this is Jingyuan!"

"Yes, this is Jingyuan!"

"Screw me, I didn't dream. I actually served on the Jingyuan!"

"And we are going to war with Jingyuan!"

The captain of the engine who drives the traffic boat seems to be no wonder about all this. Jingyuan, every Chinese navy officer and soldier is eager to serve on Jingyuan. It is an honor to serve on this warship that has withstood the test of war and has been praised by His Majesty and recommended by the people.

"The world's first warship, it's a lot!"

The traffic boat deliberately circled along the ship's side to the bow. The sailors on the traffic boat looked up at the huge warship and everyone's eyes looked a little dull. The golden angry dragon at the bow flashed in the sunset, scattering golden light. In an instant, everyone's hearts surged with unprecedented waves. Sense of life.

"Wrap your shoulders!"

With a command, when the traffic boat approached the gangway of the Jingyuan, the sailors quickly carried the white canvas luggage on their shoulders.

"D, D..."

As in the past training, carrying a luggage bag, Li He rushed to the deck of Jingyuan along the steel gangway at the fastest speed, while the captain who was about to stand on the side of the ship roared loudly.

"Hurry up, hurry up, it's too slow, hurry up, you are committing a crime!"

There was no joke in the roar, but only a fierce roar. Finally, he boarded the Jingyuan and stood on its deck. Li He and the newly replenished recruits beside him hurriedly put down their luggage bags and lined up to salute the sailor.

"Only salute the officers when the flag is raised, and there is no need to salute the officers and non-commissioned officers at any other time. Every second in the battle is related to the survival of the warship..."

As soon as they got on the ship, their first class on the Jingyuan rushed to their faces.

After re-aring again, Li He and Ji Herong and others next to them looked at the huge triple turret, and their eyes were full of incredible color. In their opinion, there may be no warship in the world that can resist Jingyuan's shot.

At this moment, an officer walked to the queue of the replenishing sailors, and Li He, who had the highest rank among the replenishing sailors, hurriedly ran over.

"Psalute!"

"At the end of the ceremony, Admiral Li He pays tribute to the officer!"

Nod, Yang Shuzhuang looked at the dozens of sailors standing in line in front of him. This was the last batch of supplementary soldiers, and a smile squeezed out on his face.

"Congratulations, we are about to go to sea to fight!"

(to be continued)