Chapter 35 The Weeping Ship (End of Volume 1)
Since Tang Jian used a temporary special forces team to bomb the Japanese commander-in-chief of the Second Army, the Japanese commander-in-chief Oyama Iwa, the generals of the Japanese army's Second Army quickly adjusted. Lieutenant General Sakuma Zuo Matthew of the former Second Division was temporarily transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Second Army. The Japanese army quickly assembled troops in Weihaiwei and repaired the damaged long-range artillery overnight. The next day, he cooperated with the Japanese joint fleet to bombard the Beiyang Navy's water and land at the same time. The Beiyang Navy fought bravely when he was attacked from both sides and was unyielding, but in the end, due to insufficient supplies and huge gap in strength, the Beiyang Navy died and injured countless times.
After Tang Jian succeeded by chance, the Japanese army's guarding power immediately strengthened. This made Tang Jian admire the Japanese army's rapid action and did not give him another opportunity to take advantage of it.
After all, the current special forces team cannot be completely called a real special forces team. Among the teams, only Tang Jian and Li Gates are real special forces. Although the remaining ten Qing soldiers are also from the army, the quality of the special forces required by Tang Jian is very different, and this gap cannot be compensated by the number of people.
These made Tang Jian very troubled. Faced with the current five steps and ten steps of the Japanese position camp, even Tang Jian could do nothing. He just touched it in a few days ago, and the Japanese army discovered it before the plan was halfway through. In the end, he paid the price of six people. The six personal soldiers who followed him were all killed. Now the remaining are four people who were withdrawn from the fort: Ma Rushan, Chen Erbao, Liu Kunsheng, and He Shan!
But everyone, including Tang Jian and Li Gates, were injured. After all, it was impossible to play assassination in the army of ten thousand people without any damage. The most important thing is that there were six people who died. After they were discovered, they all voluntarily stayed to cover the retreat of Tang Jian and others, and were finally beaten into a sieve by the Japanese army.
Although there were losses, Tang Jian was still a little satisfied. The remaining four people had experienced the baptism of blood and fire, and followed him to roll back and forth among the army of ten thousand people, and wandered around in front of the gates of hell many times. The four people are no longer simply artillery soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, but have a faint smell of special forces.
And these happen to be what Tang Jian needs. After experiencing so many things, Tang Jian found that to have the right to speak in this era, he must have his own strength.
Just like the reason why Li Hongzhang was able to become the person who called the wind and rain in the Qing Dynasty was because he had an army that could adapt to modernization.
And Britain, which can now travel around the world, is because it has the most powerful sea fleet in the world. In this great era, you must have the power to speak, otherwise you can only be able to be mermaid like North Korea, and Tang Jian does not want China to become like this.
Tang Jian suddenly realized that his previous idea was wrong. He thought that with his extraordinary modern technology, he could turn the world and change history.
It was not until now that Tang Jian discovered that history had just taken a small turn and finally returned to his own historical trajectory. Now the Beiyang Navy is surrounded, but the Qing court has been delaying in sending troops to rescue him. Do you really have to wait for the Beiyang Navy to be wiped out?
"Boom" The explosion of artillery shells came again from the sea in the distance. Tang Jian had to interrupt his thoughts and raised his binoculars that he held from the Japanese command center in his hand. The resolution of this telescope was that the Qing army's monoculars could see far and clearly.
At this time, Tang Jian was searched by the Japanese army because of his previous hidden spot. Now he was hiding with the remaining five people on a mountain bag on the north bank. Then with the advantage of the terrain, Tang Jian saw that eleven torpedo boats on the sea formation of the Beiyang Navy actually rushed towards the direction of the bombed barrier of the north entrance.
Soon, the torpedo boats easily rushed out of the Japanese sea blockade with the first round of firepower. Tang Jian cursed inwardly: Isn’t this a death? The Japanese army deliberately let them out of the blockade line at the north entrance. There was no cover from the main ships and destroyers on the vast sea surface. Wouldn’t these torpedo boats rushing out rashly become the sea gun targets of the Japanese light destroyers?
No matter how fast the torpedo boats are, they cannot escape the maritime blockade line composed of several dome destroyers. The rapid-fire cannons on their two strings are simply the best weapon to deal with torpedo boats with slow water fire speed and weak firepower in Beiyang.
As expected, the leading torpedo boats were sieved by the second round of rapid-fire guns of the "Rangsu" and instantly sank into the cold sea water. Other ships fled in all directions under the powerful firepower of the Japanese fleet. It was impossible to return to Weihaiwei, because "Akizushi" had already blocked the huge ship's body at the north entrance.
In the end, under the powerful artillery fire of Japanese ships, the eleven torpedo boats sank and the surrender of surrender were still stranded on the shallows in panic and were dragged away by the Japanese ships who were driven over.
A bunch of stupid hats! Tang Jian cursed secretly, "The torpedo boat is against the destroyer?" Just like a undressed girl is against the robber, the result can be imagined.
Helplessly, Tang Jian is now trapped on the land of Weihaiwei, and the pier is heavily guarded and cannot even fly to the sea. How can he return to the sea to help Brother Chang?
Tang Jian remembered that in history, there was a surrendered faction that forced the navy admiral to surrender. Will Brother Chang be coerced by the surrendered faction? What will happen?
"Young Master, Young Master!" Li Gates held a telescope and looked at the Beiyang Fleet's formation on the distant sea and said, pointing. Tang Jian took Li Gates' telescope and looked in the direction of Li Gates' finger.
After seeing it clearly, Tang Jian cursed and punched hard on the frozen ground under him, creating a deep pit. Tang Jian vaguely saw a small barge slowly leaning towards the unmovable "Dingyuan".
On the ship, you can vaguely see several foreign officers and several Qing officials, including several other warship pilots on it. One of them was Tang Jian, who was the one who replaced Lin Taizeng and temporarily became the "Zhenyuan" pilot. Judging from the formation of several people, it seemed that Yang Yonglin was reluctantly pointed at by several other foreign officers with guns.
Oh no, Tang Jian seems to have known what will happen. The two ships of "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" gathered together to the flagship, and Deng Shichang would definitely be on the flagship "Dingyuan". Those foreigners definitely didn't go to Deng Shichang for tea. There was only one possibility:
Mutiny!
It must be those foreigners who saw that the Beiyang Navy had no hope of breaking through, and joined forces with several Eight Banners Manchu officials who were afraid of life and death to mix up with the navy, who were coerced to surrender.
Tang Jian's teeth were gritting tightly, as if he was about to bleed. He knew that with Deng Shichang's personality, he would definitely rather die than surrender in this situation.
Suddenly, Chen Erbao touched the place where he was waiting: "Sir General, a small team of Japanese patrols are coming to this side."
Tang Jian was secretly complaining in his heart that in order to better observe the movements of the Beiyang Navy on the shore, he and a few people hid on the northernmost side of the North Gang Fort. Although this place is easy to hide, once it is discovered, the Japanese army's base camp in the south and the cold sea water in the north. Now a small team of Japanese troops patrolled over, Tang Jian and the eight men had absolutely no place to hide.
Tang Jian gritted his teeth and said, "Several people are lying here, waiting for the small team of Japanese troops to come over and greet me hard. After all the bullets are fired, they will change into the clothes of ordinary people. How many people can run away!"
Li Gates felt a stern in his heart. It seemed that the young master had fought this time. In broad daylight, eight people ambushed a dozen Japanese squad, and they were close to the fort stationed by the Japanese army. If the Japanese army discovered that these people were no longer cannon fodder. But now there is no other way. Waiting for the Japanese army to search and find them, no one of them could escape!
There was no time to hesitate. A few days ago, my team of people kept attacking the Japanese camp at night. They must have discovered that. Now they were constantly sending patrol teams to search around in broad daylight, and they also realized their existence.
Time flies, Tang Jian quickly assigned several ambush positions for several people. Everyone's palms were covered in sweat, and they quietly waited for the arrival of the Japanese army.
Soon, a Japanese major commander led a dozen Japanese troops to patrol here. The Japanese major looked relaxed and said in his heart that he had to patrol the north bank in this winter. His team had only finished patrolling in the morning. The commander asked to patrol it now. He said that a small group of Qing troops had been lurking around the camp. Haha, the commander was really too timid. How could those Chinese soldiers dare to stay here next to the heavily guarded camp? He was already scared and urinated."
The Japanese Grandmaster was thinking proudly, and suddenly a gunshot sounded. The Grandmaster didn't know what was going on. He only felt a little cool in his eyebrows and his consciousness began to blur. He only heard the dense gunshots, and he fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
The battle ended a few minutes later. Everyone quickly took off their clothes and ran westward. As long as they crossed the Japanese camp, they would be fine. Suddenly, Chen Erbao called out: "General, be careful!"
Tang Jian turned around and looked at the fort not far away. On the fort not far away, several Japanese artillery soldiers were trying hard to adjust their muzzles and pointing their black muzzles at the people running quickly.
Tang Jian was secretly shocked: Krupp steel cannon. At the same time, he cursed in his heart, this little Japanese is too unkind. Damn, a Krupp steel cannon will hit us people?
With a loud "boom", Tang Jian was shocked. It was not the sound of the Krupp's giant cannon. Turning around, he saw strong black smoke coming out of the waterline of "Dingyuan". At this time, the hull of "Dingyuan" exploded a huge gap, and the cold sea water poured into the gap of "Dingyuan". Dingyuan" was sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Tang Jian stayed there for a moment, and "Dingyuan" sank. Brother Chang? Tang Jian's head was "bang" blank at this time.
Li Gates ran and suddenly found that Tang Jian was missing. When he turned his head, Tang Jian was stunned. Li Gates was extremely anxious because he saw that several Japanese gunners on the fort had pointed their guns at them.
Chen Erbao, who was closest to Tang Jian, shouted: "Be careful!" He flew on Tang Jian regardless of everything.
With a loud "boom", Li Gates saw Krupp's steel cannon fire rushing out a tongue of flames. The soil beside Tang Jian suddenly exploded violently and rolled. Li Gates felt that the eyes were dark, and a huge explosion air wave knocked him out of the air and flew up.
But Tang Jian didn't know his life and death in the smoke of gunpowder.
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On February 12, 1995, American foreign official Haowei drafted a surrender letter, and entrusted the new naval admiral Deng Shichang to send Gui Bing to the Japanese flagship. On the 14th, Niu Changfeng signed the "Weihai Surrender Agreement" with Yuheng Ito, stipulating that the ships, Liugong Island Fortress and all the weapons and materials on the island would be handed over to the Japanese army. On the 17th, the Japanese army landed on Liugong Island, the Weihaiwei Naval Base fell, and the Beiyang Fleet was wiped out.
ps: Today's second update, the three thousand-word chapter, the first volume officially ends, and the story in the second volume will be even more exciting, because Tang Jian began to slowly form his own military power to see how Tang Jian was surrounded by the great powers and chasing the Far East, creating a powerful navy that truly belongs to China!
Haha, let’s not talk about it, and if you talk about it, you will reveal the plot!
Chapter completed!