Jagged Warlord

Kenichi Oshima didn't sleep all night. Although he knew the fate of his solitary army, it would be a failure in the end, but for the honor of the soldier, he had no choice but to fight the battle well!With the sound of the cannon, all the troubles and anguish before the war disappeared.What Oshima Kenichi has in his heart at the moment is just the purest warlike psychology of a soldier. The army of the Empire of Japan has the highest combat effectiveness in Asia, and it has not yet reached the time when the squadron can easily take advantage of it!

The artillery fire of the Wehrmacht and the SS was almost concentrated on the infantry forts and trenches on Xiaozhan Mountain, and the heavy howitzers blasted terrible gaps in the position.With the flash of artillery fire, he could see that the deer village in front of the position was lifted up layer by layer. The artillery shells were like a rolling cumulonimbus cloud, gradually spreading the rain of death bullets forward.

Occasionally, an overweight shell fell, and the ground was blown up like a volcanic eruption, and the soil was blown up to half the sky.Under such shells, the machine gun fort made of steel and concrete was like paper, and any trace of its existence in this world was immediately erased.From time to time, shells fell on the fort, and the sound of heavy knocking made everyone inside shaken.

The electric lights in the bunker flickered on and off, reflecting panic on everyone's faces. Since the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], the Japanese have been accustomed to fighting with the wind.Behemoths such as the Qing Empire, the Russian Empire, and the German Empire are all flying flesh and blood in front of Little Japan, which makes the Japanese feel a little bit smug.The artillery power of the squadron is unexpectedly strong!

After a night of fierce fighting, the Chinese Army successfully suppressed all the Japanese troops to a corner of Qingdao.However, Kenichi Oshima was not very nervous. In his opinion, after all, the Chinese lacked surface ships and could not block Qingdao's sea traffic and Jiaozhou Bay. As long as the local fleet and reinforcements arrived, these Chinese people would cry.

The reinforcements entrusting Kenichi Oshima's hopes included the Japanese Navy's 2nd Fleet and the Army's No. 19 and [-] Divisions.

The Second Fleet includes: Zhoufang, Iwami, Tango, Okishima, and Mijima of the 2nd Squadron

The Iwate, Yakumo, and Tokiwa of the 4th team.

Chitose, Akitsusu, and Chiyoda of the 6th Squadron.

2nd Mine Squadron - Tone

Destroyer 9th, Destroyer 12th, Destroyer 13th.

Affiliated - Takachiho, Matsue, Wakamiya Maru, Kanto Maru, Hachiman Maru and 2 sea-sweeping teams and survey teams.

Among them, the Wakamiya Maru was moored in Jiaozhou Bay before, which is the large-scale Sino-Japanese military conflict caused by the pilot of the ship accidentally bombing the transport team of the National Defense Forces during training.In fact, neither China nor Japan wanted to expand the war, so although the war was earth-shattering, the foreign ministries of both sides did not say that it was a war, but stated that it was just an ordinary military conflict.

The Japanese fleet departing from Hiroshima has arrived in the waters near Jeju Island of the Khanate. The sea is very calm, and the huge Japanese First Fleet is slowly driving on the sea.In the cabin, the cheerful singing of the Japanese sailors echoed in the dining room, and in the passage of the warship, a number of sailors were queuing up to take a bath.

A group of officers was there singing:

The waves of the floating world try their best to pass by

Today is the day you officially take the first step in the journey of life

Parents let your life bloom

There are also turtles and cranes, which represent longevity, side by side.

The smile is full of wine of joy and congratulations

The course of life is sometimes calm and sometimes stormy

love young men who will steer for you

Even a small tree that will fly away when blown by the wind

The branches can still prosper and the leaves can still prosper

Happy to take the first step in your life

wine for congratulations

This day is a rare fine weather, the sea is as calm as a mirror, and the battlecruiser Suho, the flagship of the Second Fleet, is like a floating hill on the sea. String of white speech bubbles.

The flag of the Second Fleet was hoisted on the Japanese ship Iwate. The captain, Rear Admiral Yasuzo Toizaki, stood on the bridge and looked at the vast sea. A long knife with a luxuriously decorated handle.The chrysanthemum family emblem on the scabbard shows the extraordinary identity of the owner of the knife. In Japan, only the royal family can use the chrysanthemum family emblem.This old man is Prince Fushimi, one of the leaders of the Japanese navy.He is the Admiral of the Japanese Marshal and the Chief of the Japanese Military Command before the Pacific War, and he is listed as the general backstage of the Fleet faction along with Togo Heihachiro.

During the battle of the Yellow Sea during the Russo-Japanese War, he was the captain of the third major unit of the rear artillery commander of the Mikasa. He suffered three broken ribs and refused the medical treatment of the military doctor after being injured. Major Kanji Kato, the head of surgery, carried him down by force.In this way he became a hero.After that, he successively served as the deputy captain of the Naniwa and the Nisshin, and went to study in the UK in 1907. After returning to China, he successively served as the captain of the Takachie and the Ibuki, the commander of the rear general of the Yokosu Yoko Township, the president of the Naval University, the commander of the second battle group, and the commander of the No. Second Fleet Vice Admiral Commander, Military Councilor.

The fleet with Iwate as the flagship has four battleships with a displacement of more than [-] tons, namely Shufang, Iwami, Tango, Okishima and Mijima, which can be regarded as strong.However, even the Japanese are not familiar with these warships. In comparison, the Russians should find them very familiar.

These battleships were "meeting gifts" given to the Japanese by the Russian Tsar during the Russo-Japanese War. The Zhoufang was the Victory of the Russian Far East Fleet, and the Iwami was the only ship in the Baltic Fleet that was not sunk. The Rodino-class battleship Eagle, the Tango is the Poltava of the Far Eastern Fleet, and the Okishima is the Admiral Aprak of the Third Pacific Fleet that Nebogatov brought to the Tsushima Strait to surrender Xin, and Jiandao is Admiral Xeniavan.These old battleships, which are generally more than ten years old, or even more than 20 years old, would have been sent to iron factories to be smelted into molten steel if they were placed in naval powers such as the United Kingdom and the United States, but they are still regarded as treasures in the Japanese combined fleet.

Kuraga

With a loud sound, Prince Fushimi pulled out the family-heirloom sword, which glowed with orchids in the sun, and the cloud pattern formed by the carbon element after thousands of years of tempering carried a palpitating beauty.Prince Fushimi stood up and slashed twice in the air. Then, Prince Fushimi murmured as if talking to himself: "Although China is poor and weak, its advantage lies in its vast territory and large population. Every inch of a man's shirt lengthened can keep all the British textile factories busy for a year. In the eyes of the Western powers, a population of forty to fifty million means endless purchasing power and countless money. China is a big country, and it is Japan's incomparable huge advantages are also the biggest reason why Western powers have always attached importance to China and despised Japan. Once this country is unified, they will achieve an unimaginable leap in industry and military. In East Asia, there can only be one powerful country. Existence, or Japan, or China, has been like this for the past 5000 years. The empire must step on the corpses of the Chinese people in order to embark on the road to power. If the Chinese people win the final victory, it is the empire Luchen. time."

Major General Toizaki Yasuzo is a relatively pure soldier, who knows almost nothing about politics and international politics, so he can only listen respectfully.

"Reporting to the commander, the forward Qiujinzhou has sent a telegram, saying that a Chinese warship has been spotted."

The Akitsushima is a dome cruiser, designed by the United Kingdom, started construction at the Yokosuka Naval Shipyard in Japan in March 1890, launched on July 3, 1892, and completed on March 7, 6.The normal displacement is 1894 tons, the length of the ship is 3 meters, the width is 31 meters, and the draft is 3150 meters. The main engine is 91.8 horizontal 13.1-cylinder 5.3-expansion reciprocating steam engines, 2 coal-fired boilers, two-shaft propulsion, the power of the main engine is 3 horsepower, and the speed is 3 knots. , the armored deck is 4 mm thick, the gun mantlet is 8400 mm thick, the standard coal load is 19 tons, the maximum coal load is 38 tons, and the establishment is 115 people. 490 800mm 304-caliber Armstrong rapid-fire guns, 152 40mm 4-caliber Armstrong rapid-fire guns, 120 40mm heavy-duty Hotchkiss rapid-fire guns, 6 47mm 8-barrel Nordenfield cannons, 8mm 5 torpedo tubes. The "Qiujinzhou" ship participated in the Battle of Toshima, the Battle of the Yellow Sea and the Battle of Weihaiwei. Classified as a cruiser of the second class on March 4, 360. On August 4, 1898, it was listed as a second-class coastal defense ship.Captain Hikonojo Uemura, Major Commander of the Navy.

Major General Yasuzo Torizaki took the telegram and looked at it, and immediately frowned, "How is that possible." He then handed the telegram to Prince Fushimi.

Prince Fushimi was also surprised when he read the telegram. He said to the telegraph soldier: "How is it possible? Didn't the Queen Elizabeth go silent five years ago? Call back to Major Hikonomo Uemura and ask him to confirm again."

The cruiser Queen Elizabeth was named after the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Princess Sissi), and its full name was "Catherine Queen Elizabeth" armored cruiser. It was completed and launched on September 1890, 9 in the port of Pula on the Adriatic Sea in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After 1892, the main mission of the "Queen Elizabeth" was to protect the commercial interests of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in various countries in the world and engage in foreign affairs activities. In 1900, he joined the ranks of the Eastern Expeditions of the Western powers. On August 1913, 8, the cruiser "Queen Elizabeth" sailed to China again, and as a symbol of the naval power of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Far East, it was stationed in the sea off Dagukou, Tianjin for a long time.

At noon on August 1914, 8, the Japanese government declared war on Germany, and the defense of Qingdao began.As an ally of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire sent the cruiser "Elizabeth" to support the firepower of the German land fort. The four 23mm naval guns, two 4mm secondary guns and some 150mm rapid-fire guns on the ship were removed and installed separately. On the highlands on the west side of Zhongjiawa (located in the north of today's Haixin Overpass) and Dabaodao Mountain (now Guanxiang Mountain) behind the German central fortress, some officers and soldiers also landed to join the ground artillery operations.The ship still used the remaining artillery to fight against the Japanese army. During the war, it was always active in the waters of Jiaozhou Bay. Together with the German gunboats, it continued to go north and cooperated with the German land forts to bombard the Japanese positions, delaying the advance of the Japanese army. On November 2, 70, the ship sank in the waters of the main channel between Tuan Island and Huangdao.

Of course, the Japanese, whose naval technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, cannot imagine how miserable the Chinese naval personnel, whose naval technology is extremely backward.In order to learn from the shipbuilding experience of other countries, Li Mohan had to spend a lot of money to secretly salvage several warships sunk in Chinese waters for the technicians to study and observe. The Queen Elizabeth was one of them.

Soon after, Major Hikonojo Uemura called back. He insisted that what he saw must be the Queen Elizabeth, and he judged that the ship was heading for Jiaozhou Bay.

"Follow." Prince Fushimi ordered.