Chapter 212

"Order the fleet to turn! Withdraw from the battlefield!" Tatsuo Matsumura had long seen that something was wrong. This is not a matter of one or two giant cannons. This is a matter of more than fifteen large-caliber artillery.

.Like Qingdao, there are only a few

A fortress with more than 200 caliber artillery pieces is already a tiger's butt that cannot be touched. Now in Wusong, they will encounter more powerful artillery fire, and these artillery fire is quite accurate. If they don't retreat, they might really

To be left behind.

As the order was issued, the Japanese fleet began to turn and make snaking movements to avoid artillery fire. It was very difficult to hit a moving warship. Cannons are not missiles, and a fierce battle of one or two hours might be enough.

One or two unlucky guys appear.

"The destroyers come forward and cast smoke to cover the retreat!" Tatsuo Matsumura issued the order again, and soon the smoke screen cast by the destroyers covered the sea.

Ernst Brahm in the fortress headquarters saw this formation and shouted: "The Japanese fleet is going to run away, order a battery with 150 cannons to fire and hit their small warships." Use large-caliber guns to hit the destroyers.

It's a bit inappropriate. Cannonballs are very expensive, so the cannon can only continue to chase the Japanese giant ship.

But luck is hard to say, especially after being linked to Italy, luck is even more unpredictable. The Kasuga cruiser was produced by the Ansaldo Shipyard in Italy in 1902 and entered service in 1904. In May 1904, it was

The Yoshino collided, causing the Yoshino to sink.

This was an unlucky battleship. In this battle, it continued its unlucky streak. Just as it was about to withdraw from the battlefield, a shell that chased the Japanese battleship accidentally landed on the main gun of the Kasuga.

The .305 shell landed on this light cruiser with a displacement of 7,628 tons, and still hit the forward main gun turret.

With a bang, the front main battery turret of the Kasuga flew up instantly. The violent explosion simultaneously detonated the nearest ammunition compartment of the main gun. The more than 7,000-ton Kasuga was like a normal person hit by a giant fist.

, that feeling was that the entire battleship was shaking violently, and it was the kind of tearing explosion.

This shot actually fired a small mushroom cloud. Then what I saw was the Kasuga surrounded by flames. At the critical moment, the destroyer came up and released a lot of smoke. Although the number of 150 guns was large, the sight of the shot was affected.

The effect is very poor. I can only fight based on my feeling. The sound of bang bang bang is very loud, but the effect is very bad.

Half an hour later, the smoke cleared, and the Japanese fleet was already 20,000 meters away on the sea, leaving behind a Kasuga cruiser, which was slowly struggling to escape from the sea at a snail's speed. In fact,

Matsumura Tatsuo ordered to abandon the ship, but the Japanese navy, which was trained by the British, Kasuga captain Ide refused.

They abandoned the battleship and resolutely lived and died with the battleship. Therefore, except for more than 30 wounded soldiers on the Kasuga who boarded the small boat and boarded a nearby destroyer, everyone else stayed on the battleship. The fire had not been completely extinguished.

Thick smoke exposed the Kasuga to the sea, and now the battleship was the only target.

Colonel Ide commanded his battleship and made evasive maneuvers with difficulty, but his speed was too slow. That shot not only destroyed the front main gun, but also caused the battleship's power system to malfunction. After all efforts,

The battleship could only keep crawling at a speed of about five or six knots. Most merchant ships could run faster than it, and the Kasuga's speed was constantly decreasing.

For a light cruiser, slow speed is equivalent to exposing its fatal weakness to the enemy. However, Colonel Ide's choice is still to persist. As long as the battleship still has a chance to save it, he cannot give up easily. What the Kasuga has to do now , that is, insisting on leaving this sea area, escaping from the effective range of the fortress's artillery, and letting other warships drag it away. This is the only way to survive.

But this only way out is now full of thorns. The large-caliber artillery on the shore has stopped firing, but twenty 150-caliber artillery is shooting at this unlucky warship as if it were target practice. Interestingly, The Kasuga's luck was unexpectedly good. For half an hour, it was not hit by a single shot. It escaped out of range.

The top officials, Li Xiehe, Shen Honglie, Ernst, and Burlem, were all dumbfounded. How could such a thing happen? They were about to escape the 150-gun range. Ernst , when Bo Laim was about to order the 240 cannons that had completed cooling to fire, and must leave the battleship behind, an accident happened.

This unexpected event cannot be seen in the fortress, but Kasuga on the sea can see clearly that two torpedoes are approaching at a speed of more than 20 meters per second. 800 meters below the sea surface near Kasuga , Captain Meng Zixiong of the submersible No. 03 submarine said with a triumphant smile: "I have two torpedoes left, and I am worried that I will not have the chance to use them."

The Kasuga's bad luck finally reached the extreme. One torpedo unceremoniously penetrated into the tail of the ship, and another penetrated into the front. At the moment when Colonel Ide tried very hard to avoid failure, he silently closed his eyes. Eyes. He and his subordinates seemed very calm, rather than thinking about the exaggerated performances of some movie actors. Many times, when our enemies look at war from their own standpoint, they think they are just. Yes. Fighting to the death for the survival space of the motherland with a small territory. Under this premise, the enemy can also treat death as if it were home.

A gorgeous spark bloomed on the sea!

Matsumura Tatsuo closed his eyes in pain, and the failure occurred at the last moment. In fact, the Japanese fleet is still within the range of the 305 cannon, but now the 10,000-ton giant ship looks like a small ship. With the help of If you want to hit the target with existing aiming equipment, you are basically wasting ammunition.

"Your Excellency, Commander, this is not your fault. This is a mistake of the intelligence department. The intelligence department was not even aware of the existence of the 305 and 240 cannons." Jiro Takeuchi tried to comfort Matsumura, but the effect was limited, and Matsumura still felt deeply guilty. If If he hadn't insisted, he could have just used the discovery of the enemy's powerful shore artillery fire as an excuse to avoid provoking a battle. Then, with ten courages from a submarine, no one would dare to attack a fleet in broad daylight.

This was a completely failed retaliatory action. According to previous intelligence, the maximum caliber artillery of the Wusongkou Fortress was only 150. This kind of artillery could barely scratch the itch of a battle patrol. The Japanese government once again paid the price for their rashness. Throughout history , Japan has repeatedly shown its rash side when it comes to issues with China. Unfortunately, the Republic of China government was too weak in another time and space. Until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the country was still in a state of fragmentation. An inch of rivers and mountains An inch of blood, this is a true portrayal of the frontal battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. Who would have thought that seven months before the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, the nominal leader of the country was held hostage by two local warlords, and Qi Qi colluded with the anti-Japanese armed forces. things to do.

The tragedy in another time and space is difficult to stage in this time and space. Although the country was already riddled with holes in the late Qing Dynasty, in the early years of the Republic of China, its vitality was still there. In this time and space, there are leaders with forward-looking vision who lead the country.

He took a seemingly unreasonable path, but this path turned out to be feasible. Everything Fang Jianxiong did was actually driven by one purpose, which was to preserve and integrate the vitality of the nation to the greatest extent. At the same time, through the so-called

They acted traitorously and used all means to strengthen the country's armed forces. Finally, at the end of September 1914, the war between China and Japan entered a period of suspension.

On September 30, through the mediation of the consuls of Britain, France, Russia and the United States, China and Japan successively issued statements to temporarily stop the war. Both sides formed their own groups to prepare for negotiations. So where should the negotiations be held? This issue gave rise to disputes.

The Japanese government advocated that the negotiation venue be located in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan! When Ijuin put forward this condition, Sun Baoqi burst into flames on the spot and angrily shouted: "This is not the year of Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, and the Republic of China is not the Qing Dynasty."

Zhu Erdian and others hurriedly reconciled the situation, and the Republic of China government proposed that the negotiation venue be in Baoding. Japanese Minister Ijuin firmly refused to agree. In the end, the ministers of the four countries intervened and decided to place the negotiation venue at the American Consulate in Tianjin.

In fact, the British Minister Zhu Erdian was also unhappy with this final result. In this way, the Americans played a greater role in the peace negotiation process, at least in the eyes of the outside world. Otherwise, why not elsewhere?

National consulate?

Even with this result, the Republic of China government did not agree to it at first, but finally accepted the condition after some internal consultations. The two sides agreed that the date for formal negotiations would be October 5.

During this period, both sides did not relax their military preparations. The Japanese Navy's southward fleet was strengthened, adding four more than 10,000-ton warships, and continued to cruise outside Wusongkou. A Japanese branch stationed in Taiwan

The fleet also lingered at the mouth of the Minjiang River. At the same time, on October 1, three divisions of the Japanese Army began to land at Dagukou.

The actions of the Japanese army were promptly discovered and reported by the aviation force of the Republic of China government. The Republic of China government promptly informed all countries and took targeted measures. On October 2, three Class A divisions of the Northeast Military Region troops marched along the South Manchuria Railway.

Heading south, the Japanese strongholds were eliminated one after another along the way. In one day, the vanguard troops arrived outside Gaiping City. The Japanese army responded quickly, immediately shrinking the defense line, abandoning Gaiping, and retreated to the Wanjialing line.

In response to the retreat of the Japanese army, the National Defense Forces of the Republic of China did not take advantage of the situation and continue southward along the South Manchuria Railway with large forces. Instead, they took the lead outside Gaiping City. The main force was still at Dashiqiao, which was the starting point of a branch of the South Manchuria Railway.

You can go southwest from here to Yingkou. Once the Japanese army lands at Yingkou, they can quickly outflank our troops heading south.

Judging from the reactions of both China and Japan, the Chinese team was more restrained.
Chapter completed!