Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

At this time, a soldier came to report: British Ambassador Scott Knoll was begging to see with a dozen foreign journalists. Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan said to the soldier, "Go and invite the reporter from the Kanto News today to the reception hall."

When Tang Fan came back, Lin Yuan walked into the living room. In the middle of the living room sat the British ambassador Noel. He stood up first and said, "I heard that your Qing army fired and sank fifteen of our merchant ships at noon today. We want to see See what's going on!"

Lin Yuan quickly laughed and said, "It's all a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding. We mistook your merchant ship for a Russian troop carrier."

Tang Fan thought to himself: "What's wrong with Lin Yuan? What exactly is he trying to do?"

Nuoer was so angry that his face was livid, and he said angrily: "Your Qing government must compensate us for our losses."

Lin Yuan pretended to be terrified and said, "That's for sure. We also rescued a few crew members. In this case, you can take them back first."

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, someone came over to guide Nuo Er, and Nuo Er angrily followed them out. Lin Yuan looked at the dozen or so foreign journalists in the room and said, "Everyone come with us too."

Lin Yuan led the crowd to the outside of the room where the prisoners of war were held. Lin Yuan opened the door of the room and said to the people inside: "You can go."

The first person to come out was the person who had just talked to Lin Yuan. He got up and walked out. The accidental attack on the merchant ship of the British Empire was explosive news.

The people inside went out one by one, Lin Yuan stood at the door and watched, when he reached the fifth person, a dozen soldiers came from a distance, they were carrying a big wooden box, Lin Yuan saw them, he hurriedly said Noel said: "Mr. Ambassador, we have temporarily kept the belongings of these people, and now we will return them together."

Lin Yuan then said to the man, "Come here and check if there is anything missing." After saying that, he called a dozen soldiers to put down the box, and the reporters gathered around and watched intently. Lin Yuan opened the box himself, and when the lid was opened, everyone Everyone exclaimed!

In the box, there are a dozen brand new rifles and a dozen boxes of ammunition!

Lin Yuan said to the reporters: "Does anyone know what kind of guns these are?"

A reporter came forward and said, "This is the standard weapon of the Russian Army, the Mosin Nagant rifle."

Before the words were finished, everyone was in an uproar, and Lin Yuan asked Nuoer: "Why do your citizens enter our country with rifles?"

Noel didn't know what was going on, his face turned red and white, and the man said: "These are not our things."

Lin Yuan smiled mockingly, and said, "Is it yours? I'll have to ask again to find out." Lin Yuan turned his head, called a prisoner of war, and asked in English, "Is this yours?"

How many Russian soldiers knew English? When they heard Lin Yuan’s English question, they were all at a loss. They didn’t know how to answer. Lin Yuan switched to Russian and asked again. At this time, several prisoners nodded .The reporters below all understood at this time that these people were all Russian soldiers. They were pretending to be British and wanted to sneak into China!Noel also understood, he felt that he was being played with like a fool, his face was livid with anger, his voice trembled and he couldn't speak.

At this time, Lin Yuan said apologetically: "Mr. Noel, I'm really sorry. It turns out that this group of people were impersonated by Russians. I didn't investigate clearly. I hope you forgive me."

Noel shook his head helplessly, turned around and left, but the group of reporters became excited. The Russian army pretended to be the British to attack China. Asked that, Lin Yuan pointed at Tang Fan and said, "If you have any questions, feel free to ask him."

It turned out that Lin Yuan called Tang Fan here because he wanted him to help him fend off the reporters. Lin Yuan took this opportunity to slip out of the crowd. It was not until evening that Tang Fan got away from the crowd of reporters and asked Lin Yuan: "How did you come up with this method?" Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I never thought that Russian prisoners of war would pretend to be British, so after they said that, I thought of this method. I was worried that they could speak English. So I asked them in English what they would like to have for dinner in the prisoner-of-war camp, and seeing that they didn’t respond, I determined that they didn’t know English at all, so I carried out the plan with confidence.”

Two days later, on the night of December 29, Lin Yuan received a report from the sentry ship: the Japanese and Russian fleets had returned, and this time there were more than a dozen small ships in the fleet.

Lin Yuan immediately summoned Luo Rongguang and others. Luo Rongguang first asked: "There are more than a dozen small ships in the Japanese and Russian fleets. I don't know what they are?"

Lin Yuan said: "Don't ask, it must be a minesweeper, and they must start minesweeping."

Luo Rongguang said hesitantly, "Then how should we fight?"

Lin Yuan said: "It seems that the Japanese-Russian coalition forces still want to carry out the front-to-back attack strategy, so we must block the enemy's minesweepers and prevent them from opening up the channel."

Lin Yuan took out a chart and hung it on the wall, pointed to the chart and said, "The waters about five kilometers away from the coast are relatively shallow, and the draft is generally about [-] to [-] meters, so the enemy's battleships and cruisers cannot enter here at all. , the only thing they can come in is a small destroyer."

"However, the opponent's large ships will not be watching. They will definitely shoot at our forts. According to the situation of our forts, the few forts closest to the coast will be attacked by enemy cruisers and battleships. In this way The intensity of the attack was very high, so I ordered the defenders in these forts to withdraw temporarily."

Luo Rongguang nodded, and the staff officer next to him immediately wrote down this sentence in his notebook, and Lin Yuan continued: "The farthest mine is about three kilometers away from the river mouth, but the Russian army didn't know this, so their minesweeping boats went all the way. The minesweeping will start when they enter the estuary, and their speed will slow down at this time, so we can attack them calmly." "The destroyers accompanying the cover behind the minesweepers are limited by the shooting angle, so when they just entered the estuary At that time, we could not be hit at all, so our way of fighting is to concentrate our firepower and destroy their minesweepers before the enemy enters the minefield, and the destroyers behind will go away in despair!"

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he looked at his watch and said: "The enemy will definitely choose to start mine clearance in the afternoon when the sun is the most abundant. This is the time when the visibility is the best. Everyone still has more than ten hours of preparation time. Hurry up and prepare. "

After Lin Yuan arranged the defensive matters, he didn't feel the slightest ease. When making a defensive battle plan, he had to deploy targeted defenses according to the opponent's offensive plan, so as to achieve the best results. The reason why he formulates such a plan is entirely based on his command quality, that is, his understanding of the enemy's equipment and the battlefield situation, and pre-judging the possible actions of the opponent.

"No prediction can be [-]% accurate." Lin Yuan remembered this sentence. At this moment, the sound of "booming" artillery came from a distance, and the Japanese and Russian fleets attacked.