Glorious Mission 1937

()Chapter 150 [-]: The Chinese Navy is struggling to move forward (seeking subscription, monthly ticket, and all kinds!!!)

In fact, what Li Yunchang and others don't know is that because the 61st Army's capture of Tianjin was too sudden this time, a large number of large ships that had just landed had no time to move and all became prisoners of the cavalry group. Three of them had just arrived from Shanghai. The [-]-ton freighter that came over was loaded with weapons and equipment. A full ship was tens of thousands of tons in terms of weight.In addition, the warehouses on the coast of Tianjin are full of all kinds of weapons and equipment, full of more than a dozen large warehouses.

When he just received the report from the cavalry group, Chen Feng was really happy in his heart, but after seeing the weapons and equipment of these ships, Chen Feng's joy completely disappeared, because apart from the few items in the warehouse, they were not bad. In addition, the remaining ships were not equipped with the standard equipment of the Japanese army, but the weapons and equipment captured from the captured Nationalist Army captured from the southern battlefield.

For nainai, the three 77-ton super freighters are all filled with obsolete junk, and there are no less than ten models of rifles alone, such as the old German Mauser, the old Maozi's water Lianzhu, and the British [-]-style rifle , and there are even domestically made Hanyang made, old sleeves, and Zhongguan.

Not to mention comparing it with the AK assault rifle that the 61st Army is about to mass-produce, even if it is not even a star and a half worse than the Mauser K61 that the 98st Army is currently equipped with, so Chen Feng doesn't like it at all, even if it is pulled back, it is useless.In addition to occupying the warehouse, it is also occupying the warehouse, so Chen Feng decided to give it to the Eighth Route Army, which can be regarded as a favor.

For Chen Feng, it was just a favor, but for the Eighth Route Army, it was a timely gift.It's another winter, and this winter is the most difficult. Every winter, the army will lose a lot of non-combat personnel due to insufficient material reserves.This winter is even more so. Li Yunchang returned to Yan'an for a meeting some time ago. At the meeting, the chiefs had a headache about the troops' winter supplies. Up to now, the troops' winter supplies have basically been exhausted, but only two-thirds of the winter has passed.At least one and a half months of cold season.Even the always optimistic chairman frowned and said that this year is sad!

The New Fourth Army is okay. After all, the winter in southern Anhui is not very cold, and the soldiers have passed the payment.But the Eighth Route Army is located on the Shanxi plateau, and the temperature in winter sometimes reaches minus 40 degrees.And even under such harsh natural conditions.Many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army still wore single clothes and straw sandals.This cold winter will really freeze people to death.Even if it doesn't freeze to death, it will leave various diseases, such as frostbite, rheumatoid arthritis and so on.With this batch of supplies, how many fewer troops can die.No wonder Li Yunchang and others were so excited.

In order not to arouse the misunderstanding and suspicion of the national government and deepen the conflict between them, Chen Feng asked all the people sent by the Communist Party to Tianjin to wear the standard military uniform of the 61st Army.At the same time, let the 9th Cavalry Regiment assist them in their actions.

Not long after sending Li Yunchang and others away, Ma Cao hurried in and reported that he had just received a telegram from the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs of the Nationalist Government, saying that a team of 150 naval soldiers led by Admiral Chen Shaokuan, commander of the Navy, had boarded the plane and took off in Wuhan. The 4th Brigade of Air Force Destroyers is flying to Tianjin under the escort of the 61st Army. It is hoped that the [-]st Army will strengthen the security near the airport to prevent it from being intercepted by the Japanese Air Force.

Chen Feng did not expect that the Kuomintang government attached so much importance to these warships that they even sent the navy commander Chen Shaokuan here.To say that in the national government, the one who knows the navy the most and is determined to build China's coastal defense is none other than General Chen Shaokuan, and the rest are not worth mentioning.

Chen Shaokuan was not very well-known in the army circle, and he was far behind Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Yan Xishan, Chen Cheng, Xue Yue, and Zhu De at the same time, but he was second to none in the navy circle.Chen Shaokuan, courtesy name Houfu, was born in Lulei Township, Minhou County, Fujian Province in 1889, and his ancestors were handicraftsmen.His father, Chen Yili, was originally a sailor in the navy and was later promoted to a sergeant in charge of the cabin.

He was admitted to the Nanyang Naval Academy in 1905. He studied hard and practiced hard during the school. When he graduated, he had a wealth of navigation knowledge and mastered considerable navigation skills.Not long after he joined the ship, he returned home due to his mother's funeral in a certain year. He took the "Jingqing" ship (the first officer of the ship at the time) from Shanghai Airlines.According to naval practice, if a ship has not entered or exited a certain port for three years, a pilot may be invited to lead the ship when entering the port. The "Jingqing" ship has not arrived at Fuzhou Port for many years, and the terrain of the Minjiang Estuary to Mawei channel is complicated. According to the rules, the ship can be guided by someone when it arrives near Matsu Island or Chuanshi.But Chen drove it himself and arrived at Mawei safely.A captain officer led a ship into the port for the first time, but he did not ask anyone to lead the ship and arrived at the destination safely. This move caused a sensation in the naval circles at that time.

In December 1915, Chen Qimei, a member of the Southern Revolutionary Party, planned to seize the Beiyang warship in Shanghai. He had Yang Hu, Sun Xiangfu and others cooperate with Wang Mouli, the first officer of the "Zhaohe" ship, and forcibly seized the "Zhaohe" stationed in Gaochang Temple. "warship.It happened to be a Monday holiday, and none of the officers below Li Dingxin, commander-in-chief of the Navy, was in the headquarters. The lieutenant of Major Du, Chen Shaokuan, was in the headquarters. Hearing the news, he rushed to the flag station and sent an order to "Hai Chen" and "Ying Rui" who were in Hong Kong with semaphore The two ships fired artillery and ordered the "sampans to dispatch the army" to recapture the "Zhaohe" warship.Afterwards, Beiyang Navy Minister Liu Guanxiong punished Li Dingxin, commander-in-chief, and Xu Zhenpeng, commander of the training fleet, for negligence. Huang Mingqiu, the captain of "Zhaohe", was dismissed and imprisoned. long.

In 1918, when the First World War entered the decisive stage, Chen Shaokuan, as a military attache of the embassy in the UK, accompanied the British Admiral Commander Jalico on the flagship to participate in the famous Battle of Groling against the German Navy. He stuck to his post, Follow orders, get British naval authority and common sense.After the war, he was awarded the European War Medal by the Queen of England.After the war, Chen returned to China as the captain of "Tongji" and was later promoted to the commander of the Second Fleet. He also served as the chief of staff of Du Xigui (Commander-in-Chief of the Navy).In the era of Beiyang Zheng Fu, it can be regarded as the sky is straight up.

In 1927, Chen Shaokuan led the Second Fleet to join the National Revolutionary Army, and intercepted the Beiyang warlord Sun Chuanfang's troops across the river in Longtan, shattering Sun's plan to counterattack Nanjing, and quickly established the capital of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing.Then he participated in the first Western Expedition, led ships to attack Tang Shengzhi, occupied Yuezhou, and established the situation in Hunan. In 1929, he led the Second Fleet to participate in the second Western Expedition to attack Li Zongren.Due to his repeated military exploits, Chen became the Deputy Secretary of the Navy Department from the Commander of the Second Fleet, and then became the Minister of the Navy Department.

In 1932, he was promoted to Admiral of the Ministry of the Navy and served as a member of the National Defense Committee of the Nationalist Government and an executive member of the Kuomintang Central Committee.In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, due to the establishment of the "Naval University" and the hiring of Japanese naval experts to teach "advanced military science" and "international sea law" respectively, it caused dissatisfaction with 23 captains including "Yingrui" captain Lin Yuanquan, and jointly sued Chen Shao Wide "kiss ri".Chen Shaokuan was "investigated and dealt with", so he resigned angrily.After that, Wang Jingwei went to Shanghai several times to "consolate and stay".Lin Yuanquan and others were "transferred" respectively, and Chen Shaokuan returned to the Ministry to take care of the matter.

In April 1937, Chen Shaokuan, as the deputy head of the national government delegation, went to England to attend the coronation ceremony of King George VI of the United Kingdom, and then transferred to Germany to inspect the navy.On July 4 of the same year, the Anti-Japanese War broke out in China. Chen Shaokuan immediately returned to China to organize the "Jiangyin Blockade Line" to block the waterways of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and defend China's rear.

It can be said that Chen Shaokuan was born in the navy, grew up in the navy, and dedicated the first half of his life to the navy.

Originally, the Kuomintang government did not intend to let Chen Shaokuan, an important official like Chen Shaokuan, go to Tianjin to receive warships, but when Admiral Chen learned that the Japanese army had seized three Japanese armored ships and a large number of transport ships in Tianjin After that, I was very pleasantly surprised and immediately applied to the Military Commission to take over those warships in person. <Qing sent three consecutive telegrams to the Wuhan camp requesting to go north, but the old man had no choice but to agree to let Chen Shaokuan be the general person in charge of receiving the Japanese ships this time.

In fact, Chen Shaokuan had his own reasons and had to come.Although he is the supreme commander of the navy now, the navy's family property is about to go bankrupt. If there are no ships to supplement it, the Chinese navy will really become an empty shell.Since the Revolution of 1912, apart from accepting the legacy of the Qing court, the Navy did not add a single new ship during the 1928 years from 16 to 1928. By 3, when the Nationalist government unified the country in name, the total tonnage of Chinese naval ships Only [-] tons, less than the tonnage of a foreign large combat ship.

The total tonnage of the navy of a country in Nuo Da is only 3 tons. It is really embarrassing to say it. You must know that the displacement of a Fuso-class battleship in the Japanese military area at that time reached more than 3 tons. The combined tonnage of all ships in the navy is not as good as a large ship of the Japanese army.

In view of this, after the first western expedition, Chen Shaokuan used all the 50 silver dollars of Hunan Xinzhuo tariff payment for shipbuilding.He first ordered a 500-ton "Xianning" gunboat from Jiangnan Shipyard, which was the first time a gunboat was built since the Republic of China.Not long after the establishment of the Ministry of the Navy, Chen Shaokuan proposed to the National Government a shipbuilding plan of 60 tons, and cited Mr. Sun Yat-sen’s long-term plan for building a seaport and military port in the national strategy, and proposed that Japan be the imaginary enemy, and requested the National Government to prepare within 15 years. More than 20 billion yuan was allocated for the construction of the navy.

After the plan was sent out, there was no news.At that time, the treasury of the national government was empty, and the main taxes, duties and salt taxes had been mortgaged to the imperialist countries. (to be continued...)