Night hung quietly in the sky, and the entire land fell into silence. The same was true for Shantou's ports and docks. Many workers and soldiers who made a living on the docks were also trapped in dreams, with only a few sentinels.
Standing at the sentry post and staring ahead, none of them expected that a fleet was slowly approaching them less than twenty kilometers away.
On the battleship Hyuga, the fleet commander, Lieutenant General Takasu Shiro, was standing in the command post on the bridge. Looking at the dark night sky in front of him, he said to Kobayashi Kazuo expressionlessly: "Kobayashi-kun, now is the time for your battleship to show its power.
When the time comes, you must not let me down!"
Kobayashi Kazuo smiled evilly and said: "Commander, please rest assured that although the army suffered a defeat at the hands of the Chinese, it does not mean that our navy will do the same. I will use our cannons to teach those Chinese people a lesson and let them know that although they
Our army has made some progress, but they will never be our opponent, because a country without a navy will never be able to compete with others!"
"Yoshi!" Takasu Shiro nodded gently: "Then I will get rid of you."
"Hai!"
After Kazuo Kobayashi bowed, he immediately shouted an order to the staff beside him: "Order all units to pay attention. The six main guns will start loading shells, and the shelling will begin in five minutes!"
"Hai!"
As soon as the staff officers behind them heard the captain's order, they all grabbed the phones next to them and issued orders to various departments.
"Reduce the speed and move forward at five knots!"
"Attention turrets one to six, load the shells!"
There are more than 2,000 soldiers on a battleship, and as few as more than 1,000. It is a very cumbersome thing to coordinate so many sailors. However, under the coordination of Kobayashi Kazuo and the officers, the soldiers of the entire battleship
Like a well-operated machine, it quickly entered combat mode, and within four minutes, a report of preparation was received.
"Yoshi, notify the surrounding ships to start bombarding in one minute!"
"Understood, prepare for bombardment!"
A minute later, the Hyuga battleship was like a giant beast floating on the sea. A ball of fire suddenly appeared from one of its gun muzzles, and then a loud thunder-like sound sounded on the sea. A shell fired at seven times per second.
Flying into the distance at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour.
After the Hyuga battleship fired its artillery shells, the Ise battleship and several heavy cruisers and light cruisers next to it also started shelling. Soon, orange-red flames suddenly appeared on the sea, reflecting the originally dark night sky.
red...
"Ring ring ring..."
The rapid ringing of the phone rang in Suri's room, awakening the sleeping Suri from her sleep.
"Who is he? He doesn't let anyone sleep in the middle of the night."
Su Rui, who woke up from his sleep, sat up angrily. He grabbed the microphone from the table next to him impatiently and said angrily, "Hey... what happened?"
"Mr. Su, the garrison in Shantou just came to report that they were bombarded by the Japanese fleet at 3:24 in the morning. Now the entire dock has been completely blown up, and most of the supplies in the port have been blown up. Now the Japanese fleet has
Retreat. Commander Zhang of the garrison in the port is organizing manpower to rescue the wounded and supplies."
"What? The Shantou port was bombarded by the Japanese army?" Suri's pajamas were quickly thrown out of the sky, and his whole body sat up, waking up the beautiful woman next to him.
At this time, Yang Peile, who was awakened, came over, hugged her husband's back, pressed her soft but hard part tightly against her husband's back and asked softly: "Zhongxin, what happened?"
Su Rui took a long breath and said: "The Shantou garrison came to report that they had just been shelled by the Japanese fleet. The port was almost completely destroyed. The defenders and some workers in the port suffered heavy losses in the shelling. The loss of materials is still being counted.
"
When Yang Peile heard this, he immediately became nervous and asked quickly: "Then...is it important? Do you want to go over and handle it in person?"
"No need." Su Rui shook his head: "The Japanese fleet has fled, and I am of no use in the past. But I am worried that this is just the beginning. The Japanese will never be willing to just bomb one port and then retreat."
Early the next morning, Su Rui rushed to the group army headquarters and began to inquire about the shelling incident that occurred last night. Liang Zhi stood aside and reported to him the results that had just been calculated.
"During last night's bombardment, the Japanese used at least two battleships, two heavy cruisers and a light cruiser to bombard our port. This bombardment caused a major blow to our port, and most of the facilities in the port were seriously damaged.
The destruction. The dock workers in the port lost more than 300 people, and the defenders also suffered more than 200 casualties. Fortunately, because the port was still under construction and no supplies were stored, the losses in supplies were not large.
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At this point, Liang Zhi's voice stopped, and Su Rui looked at Liang Zhi and asked: "It seems that you can see that this shelling by the Japanese is probably just the beginning, and they will definitely continue in the next two."
Attacking."
Liang Zhi nodded: "Yes, what I'm afraid of is that they will bombard all the ports along our Guangdong coast. Then, our ports in Guangdong will be paralyzed."
Su Rui also frowned. Liang Zhi was worried the same as him. What he was most worried about now was that the Japanese fleet would keep circling the ports around Guangdong. They would shoot your port today and send another one tomorrow.
No one can stand it when the plane still has a bomb. After all, current radar technology is not very mature yet, and it is difficult to detect targets on the sea. Even if there is radar, water far away cannot quench the thirst for close proximity.
You can't put a detection radar in every port, right? You said you would send planes to search for it, but where are you going to find it in the vast sea? People will just hit it and run away. By the time you arrive, the day lily will probably be cold.
Thinking of this, Su Rui couldn't help but cursed fiercely: "Fuck, it's so fucking frustrating if we don't have our own navy. Any cat or dog can poop on our heads!"
Seeing Suri's frown, a combat staff officer on the side couldn't help but tentatively said: "Sir, how about we send out the newly captured destroyers to find the whereabouts of the Japanese fleet? As long as we can find their location, we will
Send planes to blow the fuck up."
"Nonsense!" Liang Zhi said angrily: "The sailors on those three destroyers are all piloted by our captured Japanese sailors. When they reach the vast sea, that is their world. If they cause trouble, we will have to do it."
We are dumbfounded, what will we do if they drive battleships into the Japanese fleet? Three destroyers are not enough to fill the enemy's teeth."
After listening to Liang Zhi's words, Su Rui frowned even more tightly. Now he felt firsthand China's weakness. This weakness was not only reflected in equipment, but more importantly, in talent reserves.
Supposedly, with the golden finger of mutated computers, Suri should be able to quickly arm a huge navy, but why has Suri never cashed in the battleships? In the end, there is still no talent to make trouble.
If Suri now cashes in on an aircraft carrier, sailors must be needed to operate an aircraft carrier, and these sailors must have certain professional knowledge. You can't let an illiterate person work in the engine room. There are also various positions.
There are simply too many educated sailors needed. This cannot be done by one or two sailors. It would take a thousand or even two or three thousand sailors to work together to move this big thing. With an aircraft carrier, you can
It still needs to be equipped with cruisers, destroyers, and supply ships, as well as the equipment and talents to provide maintenance supplies for these warships? There are too many professional talents needed to support these warships. Now Su Ruili has snatched three ships.
Destroyers can't even find enough sailors to pilot them, let alone large aircraft carriers and other warships.
Therefore, whether a country is strong or not depends not only on its accumulation of wealth and industrial base, but most importantly on its reserve of talents. Only with enough talents can a country be called a strong country.
After thinking for a long time, Su Rui said: "Ziran, I guess this Japanese warship is coming to the Guangzhou port after all. The reason why they didn't attack the Guangzhou port yesterday is because they didn't understand our port.
We are not afraid of inadvertently damaging American cargo ships in the port and triggering reactions from the Americans. I think they will take action against Guangzhou in a few days after they have figured out the reality of our port."
"I think so too." Liang Zhi also had a trace of sadness on his face, "Now there is not even a decent coastal defense gun in the Guangzhou port. If the Japanese attack at night, we will be in vain.
Take a beating. The Guangzhou port is the lifeline connecting supplies to China from the United States and the United Kingdom. If it is lost, the consequences will be disastrous."
"Yes, I know." Su Rui's face became serious: "The Japanese were sure that we did not have a navy, and it was inconvenient to send out planes at night, so they unscrupulously bombarded our various ports, destroying us along the way.
Every port in the country was blown up, so that Americans’ aid supplies to China could not be unloaded at the port. Their calculations were really shrewd!”
Liang Zhi said with a sullen face: "Who says it's not the case, but now even if we know the Japanese conspiracy, we still have nothing to do with them!"
"It's impossible?" Su Rui sneered: "Who said it's impossible? Although we don't have a navy, our air force is not for nothing. This time I want to show the Japanese that we can still fight even at night.