Episode 144 Ah, warship! (1)

At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the two drove the truck and passed Xiuyan County without any danger. Xu Xiangde was already ready to kill again, but in February in Fengtian, it was already darker at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The Japanese sentry at the intersection of Xiuyan County were either military policemen, but ordinary soldiers, and they might still be two new recruits. These two new recruits watched the military card drive over. This actually saved their lives.

After passing Xiuyan County, the two of them found traces of troops walking on the road. The deep snow had been cut through two ditches, and it was obvious that many people were queuing up and wading through the snow. There was a wider snow ditch in the middle, and you could see the tire marks that were crushed very deeply at the bottom of the ditch. This should be a vehicle or artillery in the queue.

Moreover, there was a faint sound of flattery and screaming in front of him.

"I've suffered," Wu Yanbin said nervously, "There is a large Japanese army ahead!"

Xu Xiangde gritted his teeth and said:

"It should be."

"What should I do? Brother Xu, let's go back!"

Xu Xiangde saw from the rearview mirror that the two sentries were still looking at them at the inspection post at the intersection behind him. He said in a deep voice:

"No, I must be exposed when I go back! I understand. We let us go without checking it just now. It was the two soldiers who treated us as part of the queue. Now we suddenly turn back, and they must be suspicious!"

"Then let's kill them!"

"No, the team ahead just passed, and even the horses could be heard. How could they not hear us when we shot? That would be impossible to escape!"

Wu Yanbin was so anxious that his sweat beads as big as beans on his forehead rolled down and said in a low voice:

"Brother Xu, what should I do?"

Xu Xiangde stared at the white snow curtain in front of him, licked his lips and said:

"Strike it and drive it over so openly."

"ah?!"

"I'm gambled for luck... the bigger the troops, the less people meddled with the other people's business. We put it naturally and pretended to be more Japanese."

"ah?!"

...

Sure enough, after only a few dozen meters of driving, the Japanese soldiers walking at the end appeared in the vast snow curtain, and they were still looking back at them. Xu Xiangde and Wu Yanbin looked at each other, took a deep breath, and their expressions were as natural as possible. Xu Xiangde had steadily stepped on the steering wheel and the accelerator at a moderate speed, and drove into the Japanese marching queue in a large manner.

The Japanese soldiers on both sides were wearing thick military coats, carrying bags and bayonets and rifles. When the truck drove by, they looked up, and then they still lowered their heads and marched hard against the heavy snow. The two of them were in the cab, and their hearts were almost jumping out. They knew that the model of their car and the small flags on the front of the car were different from those of the Japanese. If any soldier saw the flaws, it would be over.

After driving for a while in the middle of the road, a team of carriages appeared in front. They were baggage chariots, with canvas high on the carriages, probably transporting some logistics supplies. I don’t know how many carriages there were, but in the heavy snow, only the last few were seen. The road was not wide, and the convoy in the middle of the road was walking very slowly, and the truck was blocked behind the same speed as the infantry.

At this time, the two men's military vehicles attracted the attention of the Japanese soldiers on both sides. The Japanese soldiers looked at the large truck slowly moving around them curiously. Many people noticed the small yellow flag in front of the military vehicle and began to talk. They all saw that this was not the small sun flag on the usual military vehicle, but they didn't know what flag it was and what unit it represented.

Xu Xiangde and Wu Yanbin sat in the cab, only daring to glance at the Japanese soldiers below with their own eyes. The Japanese soldiers below were also looking up at the cab.

Even Xu Xiangde was still very nervous. He is now glad that the cold weather is now. It is because it is so cold outside that a layer of fog condenses on the side glass of the cab. Before, they thought the fog was annoying, which affected the rearview mirror and kept wiping it with gloves. But now, they want to let the fog condense well, and it is best to grow ice flowers outside and turn the transparent glass into frosted glass.

However, the thin effect on the side glass may be just right. The Japanese soldiers below can only barely see that the people inside are wearing military uniforms and wearing large-brimmed hats, and are officers. For those Japanese soldiers, "being an officer" is enough. The Japanese army is the most stringent army in the world. Even if some soldiers think the vehicle model is wrong and the small flag is wrong, as a soldier, he will never dare to stop the superior's car and ask.

What's more, the military vehicle was driving so carelessly in the marching queue, which made no Japanese soldiers on both sides think about "Mingguo".

Xu Xiangde saw that the baggage carriage in front was walking so slowly, and felt that this was not a solution. First, time was tight, so he had to arrive at Zhuanghe before dark, and second, he was wearing a carriage in front, and was stuck behind by the carriage in front, and there was nothing to say, and it would make people suspicious over time.

The Japanese soldiers on the last carriage in front were also looking back at the military carriage frequently, looking a little uneasy.

Xu Xiangde made up his mind and honked the horn.

Wu Yanbin was shocked:

"Brother Xu, you..."

Xu Xiangde honked twice again, showing an extremely impatient look, and then asked in a low voice:

“Do you speak Japanese?”

"No."

"Damn it, even me is worse than that. I will say a few more words."

"Oh, a few words, Brother Xu, I will do it."

"Okay, what do you mean by 'Hurry'?"

Wu Yanbin thought for a while and said:

“It seems to be ‘Hayaku’.”

"Sure?"

"Confirm...."

"Grandma," Xu Xiangde cursed, "Don't bring 'just', you'd better be sure. Otherwise we'll be sure of the explanation here."

As he said that, he took off the big brimmed hat from his head, rolled open the window, stretched out half of his head, and shouted while honking:

"Hyaku!Hyaku!"

This trick is indeed common. The Japanese soldiers on the baggage truck in front quickly turned around, bowed their heads in fear and fear, and said a few words loudly, probably apologizing and explanation.

Xu Xiangde knew it in his heart, and took the risk of stretching out his arm, waved his arms to the Japanese infantrymen on the roadside, and ordered:

"Hey, Hayaku! Hayaku!"

The Japanese soldiers marching beside the road did not dare to complain, and immediately avoided them and gave up a road that could barely pass through to the car.

"Yo Xi!"

Xu Xiangde shrank his head in, shook the glass, let out a long breath, slowly turned the steering wheel, increased the accelerator, and allowed the military vehicles to cross the baggage carriage convoy in the middle of the road and advanced at a faster speed.

While driving, he honked the horn and urged the Japanese infantry in front to make way out. The infantry queues in front were really making way for the way. At most, no one dared to stop this strange model and a strange military vehicle with a strange flag and interrogate it.

Wu Yanbin was also very glad that there was so much snow in the sky, and the small flags in front of the car were half wrapped around the ice and snow. Most Japanese soldiers could not tell which flag it was, and they were not sure which unit it belonged to. If it was sunny and there was a little wind, and the two small Ming flags were waving in the wind, they would have been stopped long ago.

...

He drove dozens of baggage carriages. There were no cars at a distance, only the marching queues on both sides. Xu Xiangde felt a little relieved, drove the car to the center of the road, and accelerated his driving.

But after driving for only a few kilometers, I found that there were another vehicle in the middle of the road ahead.

This time it was a car, and not only a car, but also a cannon was dragged behind the car. Those cannons were not big, only half a person tall, wrapped in a cannon suit, and they could not see the diameter or model.

"Architecture unit." Xu Xiangde said, "This should be a large unit, and the baggage queue alone has been about ten kilometers. Now there are artillery troops. This may be a division. The Japanese army called a division. If it is really a division, the queue will be long and it will not be able to handle dozens of kilometers."

Wu Yanbin guessed:

"The Japanese army was probably advancing to southern Liaoning?"

Xu Xiangde nodded:

"It's possible. Maybe Zhuanghe has become a front line. Xiaowu, I'll stop here. You hurry up and go to the back to get the radio station. Let's contact the fleet. Maybe Zhuanghe can't go."

"Stop here?" Wu Yanbin was startled and looked back, "There are Japanese soldiers in front and behind. We were wearing Ming military uniforms, and we were exposed as soon as we got off the car!"

Xu Xiangde also looked back and said:

"It's okay, move quickly. It's just right here. The artillery in front is still dozens of meters, and the infantry behind is also dozens of meters. The snow is so heavy... You move quickly, you should be fine."

"Then...there's no time in the cab."

"Put the machine gun in the back compartment. There are large troops in front and behind. It's really discovered that it's useless to hold the machine gun."

As he said that, Xu Xiangde stopped the car and leaned against the roadside. Wu Yanbin gritted his teeth, pushed open the car door, jumped out of the car with a light machine gun, ran to the rear compartment, and got into the car. He was extremely nervous, and watched the Japanese infantry behind him get closer and closer, quickly put down the machine gun, lifted the radio, jumped out quickly, and ran back to the cab.

“Drive quickly.”

He leaned against his seat panting and said. Xu Xiangde didn't have to say anything, and immediately stepped on the accelerator and continued to move forward.

There was a big wolf dog sitting in the middle, and the radio station could not be put down, so he could only hold it on his legs. Wu Yanbin put the radio station on his legs, pulled out the antenna, and started calling the Dongjiang Fleet.

...

At this time, the Dongjiang Fleet was also contacting them and answered immediately. According to the latest information, the Japanese army had sent a division yesterday afternoon and marched towards southern Liaoning. It is estimated that Xiuyan County had passed by noon today. What they encountered now should be. Nanjing analyzed that the target of this division is most likely to be Lushun, and the purpose is to capture the Qing army warships in the Lushun military port.

Although Fengtian had been assigned to the Ming Dynasty, the two sides had never reached a conclusion on the ownership of the existing fleet in the Qing army's Lushun Port - two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and eight destroyers - during negotiations. Both Japan and the Ming Dynasty wanted these warships.

According to Japan, I worked hard to capture Fengtian Province, but I had to hand it over to you Mingguo with both hands. The entire Fengtian Province has been given to you, so why can't I leave a few warships myself?

However, the Ming Dynasty said that since the entire Fengtian has been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, everything in Fengtian is naturally from the Ming Dynasty, and naturally includes warships.

The Japanese navy was already stronger than the Ming navy, so the Ming Dynasty was very reluctant to get these three cruisers. Japan also knew that although the Ming navy was weaker than itself, it was not much weaker. Now, every time the Ming navy added a warship, even cruisers and destroyers, it would widen the tonnage gap between the two sides. The Ming Dynasty occupied Shandong and had already obtained three heavy patrols and one light patrol in the two military ports in Qingdao and Weihai. But that was in Shandong, and the Japanese army could not get involved, so they could only sigh at the ship. Lushun was in Fengtian, and the Japanese army used troops in Fengtian, and Japan was no longer willing to get the Ming Dynasty's warships.

Now the Japanese Navy has firmly controlled the Yellow Sea and completely blocked the routes of the Northern and Qing Navy. Now the Qing warships in Lushun have been blocked in the port, and it is impossible to drive back to Tianjin. Now there are only two destinations for the Lushun warships: either fall into the hands of Japan or fall into the hands of Nanming.

In fact, Japan is not in a hurry. Anyway, the sea has been blocked tightly, and Fengtian is its military range, so it will be a matter of time to fight south of Liao. Japan has regarded the three cruisers and eight destroyers in Lushun Port as their mouths.

However, the Ming Dynasty was extremely anxious these days and kept sending people to do work for the upper class figures of the Lushun fleet, understanding them with reason, moving them with emotion, and rewarding them with wishes. They tried every means to persuade the Lushun fleet to go south to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the top figures of the Qing military Lushun fleet had their own ideas. They wanted to wait for a price and deal with the Ming and Japanese countries to see who had increased the price. If you want to talk about the price, it must be the high price of the Ming Dynasty. Because the sea has been blocked by Japan, it is not easy for the Lushun fleet to surrender to the Nanming, and they have to risk burying themselves in the sea. On the contrary, it is easy to surrender to Japan.

...

However, for Xu and Wu who were fleeing, these were not what they cared about. They only care about how to go back and whether they could go back.

The Dongjiang Fleet told them that it is unknown how the situation is near Zhuanghe now and whether it has become a battlefield. They can only recommend that they move forward quickly and pay close attention to the road leading to the sea along the way. Once there is a road, drive in, find out the place name, and then tell the fleet that the fleet will send a ship to pick it up.

Wu Yanbin turned off the radio station and leaned tiredly on the backrest. He sighed, slowly raised his hand, and stroked the big wolf dog. The big wolf dog seemed to understand their thoughts, and also looked at Wu Yanbin with a melancholy face, licked his lips, and whined twice.

Xu Xiangde said:

"I can't say that in code words. Moreover, the code words agreed in advance do not set the situation where we marched into the Japanese army. I guess the Dongjiang fleet meant that we were asked to leave this queue quickly, and the sudden change happened. Now we see soldiers, at most, some subordinate officers, and we haven't seen senior officers yet. But we will definitely see them. After driving for a while, we will always encounter their division headquarters. The senior officers in the division headquarters are not confused, they will definitely call us down to investigate."

Wu Yanbin became nervous again, expanded the map, and soon found another path. However, this path was heading towards the northwest inland direction and was further away from the coast. But now there is nothing to do.

"God bless... I hope we can leave this Japanese army before passing through their division headquarters."
Chapter completed!