"The sun shines, reflecting the shattered waves of bay, and the scenery is just intoxicating. However, the black smoke rising from the distance of the land and the sound of shell explosions from time to time made the scenery of the bay look a little more cruel. In addition, with the Chinese infantry and artillery on the coast who were waiting to board the ship, the beautiful scenery was actually a bit murderous. Standing on the open-air bridge beside the freighter's bridge, Rao Guoliang held up a telescope and looked carefully in the direction of the black smoke rising in the inland direction. Although he could not see anything, he could imagine the intensity of the battle there. To be honest, he admired the army's will to fight. Although compared with the army, he still insisted that the navy's submarine soldiers were the best and bravest of all branches of the army.

As a submarine commander, Rao Guoliang knew very well what the "nickname of the submarine is. The nickname "underwater coffin" was named after the exaggerated failure rate of early submarines. Submarines are not as good as surface ships. Once there is a failure, the submarine often has the same end, that is, it is to sink, and the submarine crews have no chance of escape at all.

In his career as a submarine commander in the past few years, Rao Guoliang has also encountered several submarine accidents. It was only because of his timely control that he escaped danger many times and was able to participate in this great war.

It must be admitted that the psychological quality of submarine soldiers is much higher than that of other troops. Otherwise, in a completely closed underwater environment, if they fail to understand it, they will not even be able to drive a submarine.

As a member of the submarine soldier, Rao Guoliang's psychological quality is obviously very strong. This can be seen from one detail: two days ago, he just completed the preliminary "trial" procedure in the military court and replaced other officers. Maybe he had been depressed. Not to mention going to the front line, I'm afraid he wouldn't even eat. However, Rao Guoliang is now coming to the front line with a spirit and is responsible for commanding a 500-ton ship to transport arms and supplies to the front line. Who can say that Rao Guoliang's psychological quality is not strong?

In fact, the truth is that Rao Guoliang came out of the military court and happened to meet Cai A, who came to the office of the Army Department. Cai Feng asked about the situation and asked him to go back to the front line without saying a word to "make meritorious service". At that time, the captain of a transport ship was found to have stolen arms and supplies by the military police, so he was arrested. The transport ship was short of a qualified captain, so Rao Guoliang was transferred to the transport fleet by Cai Feng.

But after all, Rao Guoliang did not think that he was commanding the transport ship this time to "make meritorious service". If he wanted to make meritorious service, the near-shore defensive submarine he commanded him to sink the Japanese Navy's "Asami" armored cruiser, although his submarine was also lost in Port Lushun because of his greed for merit. But if we convert, it is basically a good deal to replace a submarine with an armored cruiser. However, in the eyes of the "black-faced" of the military court, Rao Guoliang is still a sinister. He must explain why his submarine was lost.

This is not clear, at least it is unclear now. As long as the submarine is not fished up, the military court will not be able to judge whether Rao Guoliang made any mistakes in the command process. Moreover, even if the submarine is fished up after the war, it may be difficult to figure out how the loss was, because the submarine had been blown up by Zheng Leizi with torpedoes.

But at this time, Zheng Leizi was unwilling to go to court to testify under the pretext of the tense war on the front line, so Rao Guoliang's crime of "neglecting his duties" now has to continue to be banned, and everything will be discussed after the war.

However, Rao Guoliang was not very worried that the military court would severely punish him. After all, the credit for sinking the Japanese armored cruiser was there, and the Air Force's reconnaissance and crew testimony also confirmed this, and his command really had nothing to blame. As for the so-called "greed for merit." This is simply a joke. To be greedy for merit, Zheng Leizi was also greedy for merit, so he ran into Lushun Port for an ambush. However, Zheng Leizi's luck was better than Rao Guoliang. Therefore, the military court was unlikely to convict Rao Guoliang. Now the only thing he was worried about was whether the Navy would have prejudice against him because of this matter and transferred him from the submarine force.

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Rao Guoliang did not want to leave the submarine force. He would rather command ocean submarines to travel to the Pacific Ocean like Zhang Guangyang. If his ideal was shattered due to the loss of submarines, he would probably argue with the Admiralty.

"Guangyang, Guangyang, what sea are you in now? Your record is everywhere in the newspapers. You are the spiritual idol of the Chinese submarine force, but your classmates can only drive cargo ships here. Oh, this is the difference.

Holding a telescope and standing on the open-air bridge looking at the land battlefield, what Rao Guoliang thought was still the dream of his ocean-going submarine commander.

"Captain, everyone has boarded the boat. Can you pressurize the boiler?"

A crew member hurried to the front deck and asked Rao Guoliang with his head raised.

Rao Guoliang has not fully adapted to the title of "captain", so he did not realize that he was calling him.

“Press up, head to the parking area

Rao Guoliang nodded, then looked at the deck and saw that there were already full of army soldiers. Some of them wearing boat caps caught Rao Guoliang's attention. Judging from the epaulette, they should be the officers and soldiers of the special operations force,... they were very strange. I don't know why the Special Operations Force Office participated in the login to Xingcan.

Coincidentally, Zhu Daniu, the commander of the special operations force, was also on Rao Guoliang's ship. Rao Guoliang rushed to the deck and asked, and then he understood what the branch thought would be here.

Originally, the special forces were stationed in Liaoyang and were ordered to be transferred to the south after the Battle of Gaiping. They originally planned to participate in the battle in the Liaozhong area, but the front-line command only used this force as a reserve force and never transferred to the front line. The officers and soldiers of the special forces never fought a battle from the beginning of the war to the end of the battle. From top to bottom, everyone was holding their breath. Zhu Daniu couldn't help but send a telegram to the Commander-in-Ship Hall and repeatedly asked for battle. In the end, the landing battle planned by Ji Yushuang made the special forces go to the battlefield.

Compared with other army units, the officers and soldiers of the special forces are obviously more able to adapt to the bumps at sea. When the 500-ton cargo ship requisitioned from a civil shipping company sailed to the parking area, only the officers and soldiers of the special forces can stand firm on the deck, while the officers and soldiers of other troops can only sit on the deck and endure the pain of seasickness.

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Seasickness is not the most painful, and waiting is the most painful. Since there is no suitable port in the Jinzhou Bay area, all the troops participating in the landing operation can only use single-board boats to board the transport ship, which affects the boarding rate. Therefore, when Rao Guoliang's ship was full of personnel and equipment, other transport ships were still slowly loading personnel and supplies on the shore.

Taking advantage of the waiting period, Rao Guoliang carefully checked the ship's machines and servo. This ship is an old ship that was a very old one. It was an old ship purchased by a Chinese merchant from a British foreign company when the central government encouraged private shipping companies to show. It has been drifting at sea for more than ten years. Its maintenance condition is very poor. In addition, the high utilization rate, the cargo ship is now in ruins. The machines on the ship often fail, which seems very inconvenient in the transportation of military supplies, let alone the current military offensive mission.

By the time Rao Guoliang returned to the deck from the bottom cabin, the last transport ship on the shore had already left the coast and was heading towards the mooring area. However, the torpedo speedboat troops and gunboat troops responsible for the escort mission still did not signal to set sail. It seemed that they were planning to wait until it was dark before touching them at night.

Ji Yushuang's plan to implement landing operations behind enemy lines was determined in the morning. Rao Guoliang and his fleet received an order from Yingkou to Jinzhou Bay at noon. When the transport fleet began to load personnel and equipment in the afternoon, the Air Force conducted several aerial reconnaissances on the Japanese army south of Muchang Fort and selected the best landing site. In order to divert the Japanese army's attention, the Air Force also launched an air assault and bombed Dalian and Lushun.

Once the landing operation is implemented, this task force of the Chinese Army will fight alone in the rear of the Japanese front line and in the front of the Japanese rear base, and this navy's task force will also be responsible for providing logistical support to this army task force. It is certain that this battle will not be easy. The Japanese army will definitely launch a crazy counterattack, including Rao Guoliang and Zhu Daniu, all officers are ready to welcome a fierce battle.

After nightfall, several long whistles sounded, and the gunboats leading the way lit up their navigation lights, and they walked in line with other warships, including a submarine sailing on the surface. As for the transport fleet, they followed the warships and sailed south in the dark. All ships turned on their searchlights and searched for any suspicious targets on the sea.

After all, this is the Bohai Sea. The possibility of Japanese troops running in the Bohai Sea is very low. The reefs on the nearshore pose a greater threat to the task force. In order to avoid hitting the reefs, the fleet can only sail on routes farther from the coast.

We did not encounter any enemy ships along the way, but we saw two passing British gunboats, but they also slipped away like they saw ghosts and did not follow the Chinese fleet.

In fact, it doesn't have to sail too far. Muchang Fort is more than ten miles south of Jinzhou Bay. By 8:30 pm, all the ships of the task force had already anchored in the selected landing ground, but the boiler was still pressurized so that it could get close to the shore at any time.

The gunboats and torpedo speedboats responsible for escorting first approach the shore and conduct close reconnaissance. After confirming that there are no enemies in Jibian, they will command the dock according to the size of the transport ship, and try to get close to the shore as close as possible to shorten the landing time.

Rao Guoliang's ship was not too big tonnage, and he would not anchor in the mudflat area not far from the coast, then put down the Zhipan and the boat, and loaded the infantry to land.
Chapter completed!