Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Liu Kun looked at his subordinates and asked, "What do you want to say?"

The subordinates said: "My lord, I heard that Lin Yuan is deeply popular among the people, and my lord has an old relationship with Lin Yuan, why don't you take the troops from Zhenjiang to join Lin Yuan..."

Liu Kun shouted angrily: "Shut up, if you dare to bring up this matter again, watch your head!"

Kodama Gentaro found Noren and agreed to borrow a merchant ship to march secretly. The next day, in the early morning of October [-], a regiment of Japanese soldiers landed secretly in Hangzhou Bay. The Qing army wore military uniforms, did not interact with others on the road, ate only the rice balls they carried with them, never disembarked, and rushed to Jiangyin quickly through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Jiangyin Canal.

But Lin Yuan didn't know all this at all. First of all, it was because Britain and Japan had changed their telegraph ciphers. The deciphering of telegram ciphers required a certain amount of telegrams as a basis. Otherwise, no matter how high the deciphering level was, it would be impossible to decipher them. Afterwards, not many telegrams were sent, so Lin Yuan did not have enough telegrams to support deciphering, and he was unable to learn the news of Japan's dispatch of troops from the intercepted telegrams.

Secondly, because Lin Yuan's intelligence in Hangzhou did not detect this news, because there are too many ships entering and leaving Hangzhou Bay, it is impossible to identify the people on each ship, and a force of about 3000 people will not cause trouble. The spies were very concerned. In this way, Kodama Gentaro deployed this wing to Xiapo without the outside world knowing.

Kodama Gentaro looked at the terrain, pointed to Mizuki Nagata, the captain of the Luoxia Township in front of Xiapo, and said, "Send a squadron to hide in the dense forest on the left side of the road in Luoxia Town."

Mizuki Nagata asked, "General, why are we hiding an army there?"

Kodama Gentaro smiled and said: "When the ambush here starts, the troops there can attack them from behind Lin Yuan's troops. At that time, we will form a front and back attack, and the Lin Yuan troops will not be able to look at each other from head to tail." Mizuki Nagata sighed repeatedly and sent a squadron to set up an ambush.

Lin Yuan didn't know about these situations at all. In order to facilitate operations and deal with various countries, Lin Yuan arranged the headquarters on Chongming Island. On October [-], after completing all preparations, he ordered the troops to march towards the Jiangyin Fortress. Chen Fei So he led the amphibious combat brigade to set off.

The reason why Jiangyin's terrain is dangerous is that the Yangtze River suddenly widens here, which means that the flow speed of the river suddenly slows down. If a ship enters the upstream from the estuary, what he has to face is a sudden increase in the flow speed. There were no small obstacles.

After the Opium War, the Qing government lost the right to defend the estuary of the Yangtze River, so they worked hard to manage the Jiangyin fortress, thinking that the barriers to the south of the Yangtze River were built with solid rocks. The landing ship bombarded the past with heavy artillery, and the rocks were vulnerable to the powerful artillery fire of the Lin Yuan landing ship, and the forts were all blown up soon.

The Qing court never thought that Lin Yuan's troops would come in from the mouth of the Yangtze River, so the defenders of the Jiangyin Fortress were not elite soldiers, and the defenders were greedy for life and fear of death. They would flee with people as soon as the gunfire rang out, so Fade Chen didn't With little effort, the Jiangfang Fortress was taken down.

Fade Chen left the 33rd Regiment of the Amphibious Brigade to guard the Jiangfang Fortress, while the 31st Regiment and the 32nd Regiment marched east and west to Jiangyin City. Fade Chen personally followed the 31st Regiment on the Eastern Front. What they didn't know was that they were about to enter the Japanese army's fortress. Ambush circle.

The Jiangyin area is not only a military fortress, but also a densely populated agricultural area. After landing, all you can see are rice fields. The road between the rice fields is very narrow, and only one amphibious tank can pass by. Seeing this situation, the staff officer beside Fade Chen said : "Master, isn't this road too narrow?"

Chen Fei asked: "Is there anything wrong?"

The staff officer said: "If we walk on this road, we must form a single file. Our speed is about 20 kilometers per hour, so the distance between our two cars must be more than 300 meters, so that our team More than [-] amphibious armored vehicles will be lined up in a ten-kilometer long line, which will bring great difficulties to our command and coordination."

Fade Chen pointed to the paddy fields on both sides of the road and said, "You mean: let's drive the amphibious vehicle off the road and walk in the paddy fields?"

The staff officer said: "This is the only feasible way."

Fade Chen said with a smile: "There is no need for that. The fighting power of the Qing army is very weak. We will not encounter obstacles when we march. It is better not to damage the crops of the people."

The staff officer said: "But our queue is too long."

Chen Fei said: "Let's slow down the chariot and let the infantry get out of the vehicle. The weather is too hot and the infantry is uncomfortable in the vehicle. In this way, we can shorten the distance between the vehicles and the queue will not be very long. "

The staff officer agreed to come down and ordered the infantry to get off the vehicles. The troops marched along the road between the rice fields, and marched to the vicinity of Luoxia Town, about ten kilometers away from Jiangyin City. thing?"

The soldier in the vehicle in front said: "Report to the commander, the amphibious vehicle in front is stuck in the mud."

Fade Chen looked at his watch and said, "Go and push the amphibious vehicle out. I'll give you 15 minutes. If you can't push it out, the vehicles behind will go around the rice fields on both sides and continue walking."

Fade Chen's subordinates went to the side of the amphibious chariot, trying to push the amphibious chariot out of the muddy water, but the amphibious chariot was very heavy and could not be moved by manpower at all, so Fade Chen said to his subordinates: " Let the car behind drive through the rice field on the side, go to the front of the chariot, and then pull the amphibious chariot out of the mud from the front."

An amphibious chariot then drove down the rice field from the side of the road, and then bypassed the chariot that was stuck in the mud ahead. Fade Chen saw that a lot of crops had been crushed, so he pointed to Luoxia Town in front of him and said to the staff: "Send Let our scouts go over, find the fellow villagers in the town, and ask who owns this paddy field, and we will compensate you according to the price."

The staff officer beside Fade Chen said: "Teacher, why are we so impatient? Isn't it the same to look for it in the town?"

Fade Chen shook his head and smiled, "That would make us insincere. The key to fighting here is not to destroy the enemy, but to win the hearts of the people."

The staff officer nodded, so he sent a chariot from the reconnaissance company to Luoxia Town to investigate first, and the others rested in place, waiting for the amphibious chariot stuck in the mud to come out. The gunfire!

Fade Chen was sitting on the roof of the car, enjoying the cool wind blowing from the paddy field. Hearing the gunshot, he thought immediately: "The direction of Luoxia Town! Could it be that the scouts encountered the enemy? Is there a Qing army stationed in Luoxia Town? It shouldn't be Ah!" Thinking of this, Fade Chen jumped out of the car, pulled out the pistol on his waist and asked, "What's going on? Use the radio to contact the reconnaissance company immediately!"

The staff officer said: "Could it be that the gun went off?" Before the words finished, there was another gunshot, this time the gunfire was more intensive, and it was not the sound of the bq-95 automatic rifle, followed by a dull explosion , Fade Chen said: "It's definitely getting on fire with the enemy, everyone gets on the bus, and the target is Luoxia Town!"