Chapter 370 The threat of 12,000 tons of crude oil
I have to say that only a mind like Yang Feng could come up with such a cruel and vicious trick, just like when he used 500 tons of antimony to bomb Fort Wordsworth, he was full of kingly demeanor...
The French Navy's Far East Fleet and nearly 30,000 defenders in Cam Ranh Bay had no idea that they were about to face the choice of honor or purgatory. In fact, Delcasay in Singapore was looking forward to a victory that would shatter the dragon's teeth.
Zhang Quan is bargaining!
In distant Europe, the French are still living in various terrifying rumors about the arrival of the Chinese Navy's American Fleet. The French Navy has mobilized all available battleships to search the vast Atlantic Ocean, and has even studied with the United Kingdom whether it can lease a few battleships for emergency response.
After a while, although the British politely rejected them, the Royal Navy fleet also dispersed, and finally helped the French discover the Chinese fleet, but at this time they were only a thousand nautical miles away from France.
This news further exacerbated the panic in France.
At this time, Emperor Yang's plan to burn Cam Ranh Bay was officially put into action. Nie Shicheng's troops quickly captured the northern end of Cam Ranh Peninsula, which was originally the periphery of the French defense line and was outside the range of the main guns of the battleships in the Gulf.
His strength was just raising his hand, and then four inland river oil tankers transferred from China that specialized in running the Yangtze River route loaded 12,000 tons of crude oil from the Shandong oil field and slowly came over. It was hard to see what was going on at night like this.
, there was no need to put up a smoke screen, but Emperor Yang and his generals still missed an important issue. It was the pungent stench of crude oil. This issue was immediately discovered by Nie Shicheng, who was leading a group of officers to produce oil.
After discovering this, he immediately notified the fleet at sea by radio, and then sent it to Beijing. However, the operation had already begun, so even if it was discovered, it would be useless. Besides, what would happen even if the French knew about it?
The French did discover it. Just when crude oil began to pour into the inner bay of Cam Ranh Bay, General Joffre, who was patrolling the defense line, was the first to discover the problem.
"What's the smell?" the brigade commander, who had escaped from the Bajiang defense line, asked with a frown and twitching his nose. "Check immediately what the smell is." Although he didn't associate it with crude oil, as a cautious person
General Xiafei still ordered instinctively.
At the urging of the company commander, several French soldiers reluctantly left their positions, carrying lanterns and walking eastward in the dark night. One of them muttered casually: "Damn, I
Why does it smell like the oil refinery near my house?"
"What did you say?" Xiafei was stunned and immediately stopped him.
"Report to General, this smells a bit like crude oil from a refinery, but it seems much stronger than there." The soldier immediately saluted and replied.
"Crude oil? Crude oil?!" There was a buzz in Xiafei's head, and cold sweat broke out all of a sudden. He pushed the soldier in front of him away and shouted at the company commander: "Hurry up and get through to your battalion headquarters."
I have to say that Xiafei's reaction was very fast. He immediately thought of the fire attack, but unfortunately it was already too late, because a large amount of crude oil had been poured into Cam Ranh Bay. And because it was late at night, plus all kinds of normal
There was a delay, and when the news reached the Cam Ranh Bay Defense Command, and then the duty staff woke up the commander, General Pierre, from his sleep and told him, the vanguard of the oil slick had already arrived at the battleship's berth.
"Crude oil? Are you kidding me? How could crude oil appear in Cam Ranh Bay? Could it be that it came out of the ground?" General Pierre said casually before he woke up from his sleep.
"Your Excellency General, General Xiafei said that the Chinese poured it in on purpose, and then lit it on fire to burn us all to death." The staff officer said with a white face.
"Bastards. Stop them!" General Pierre suddenly woke up. Then he let out a meaningless roar. With his roar, all the French troops in the entire Cam Ranh Bay defense circle were alerted.
The navy and the army all rushed to the seaside, and the warships also put down small boats one after another. When they found that they had been immersed in a sea of oil, they were all dumbfounded. How to deal with this?
In fact, Xiafei had already started taking action at this time. He urgently mobilized all his troops and rushed to the shore. He used the engineering shovel in his hand to dig out the sand crazily, trying to build a dam across the waterway to prevent the crude oil from continuing to flow downstream. Of course,
This is destined to be meaningless. The rainwater seeping from the mountains and forests upstream is flowing rapidly in the waterway. How can their engineering shovels stop the flood that is hundreds of meters wide?
Besides, Nie Shicheng on the opposite side would not allow them to do this. When he discovered the pungent stench of crude oil, this veteran who had been fighting for a lifetime was already prepared to deal with such an unexpected event. Just when Xiafei began to block the
When the crude oil was coming, the Chinese ** team opposite his defense area immediately began to attack. The French army was caught off guard and almost broke through the position.
crude.
Downstream, it can be one or two kilometers wide!
Using the searchlight on the battleship, General Pierre looked at the black crude oil rushing in from upstream. The light reflected a strange luster, like the scales of a black mamba snake. At this time, he almost felt like he was going crazy.
, cursing the guy who came up with this poisonous plan over and over again in his heart.
All the warships of the Far East Fleet that were originally parked at the berth began to light fires and weigh anchors, preparing to escape from this sea of oil. They knew very well that once the crude oil was ignited, what awaited them would not be as simple as a sea of fire. In fact, once the crude oil was ignited,
, it is extremely easy to cause a detonation, and the entire Cam Ranh Bay will be leveled at that time.
Yang Feng, who stayed up late at night waiting to hear the good news, suddenly thought of this.
"Quickly, notify Nie Shicheng and order him to immediately retreat with his troops, at least two kilometers." This guy suddenly pushed away the twin sisters lying on his shoulders and said to the attendants waiting on the side.
After Nie Shicheng, who was fighting with the French army, received the order, although he did not understand what detonation meant, since it was the emperor's imperial edict, he must abide by it. At this time, because he did not dare to use artillery, the attack did not go very smoothly.
He quickly ordered the troops to withdraw from the battle and retreat two kilometers. Xiafei opposite him was also at a loss, but since the Chinese had retreated, he had better hurry up and block the oil!
In fact, it doesn't make much sense to decide whether to block it or not. In the desperate eyes of the French, the vanguard of the oil pollution belt has reached the south shore of Cam Ranh Bay, but the four oil tankers at sea are still pouring crude oil into the waterway.
, poor Joffre led his men to fight hard against this terrible enemy in the mud, crude oil, and currents. In the downstream bay, all French troops were mobilized and tried every means to prevent the continued influx of crude oil.
However, even in modern times, this job would drive countries crazy, not to mention that on such an unexpected night, the French actually waited until dawn. Except for Xiafei who could come up with some countermeasures that had some practical significance, the rest
People were just running around there, and there were even some French soldiers rowing small boats on the sea to scoop buckets of water, and the smarter ones used wooden boards to push them, but they couldn't build an isolation zone of more than a thousand meters anyway, let alone
Crude oil from the sea continues to pour in.
Twelve thousand tons, how can it be emptied so easily?
Even Xiafei was actually struggling. His efforts had no effect. The crude oil was poured in with the floods from the mountains. How could his group of soldiers with engineering shovels stop it? Besides, even if it was blocked here,
Anyway, as long as the water flow passes, the crude oil on the water flow will also pass. It will not have much effect until dawn, and the crude oil in Cam Ranh Bay is full.
The Far East Fleet couldn't escape either, because the Chinese Navy's fleet was waiting outside, especially those two perfect battleships, with their black muzzles pointing at the narrow passage between the inner and outer bays. These can attack from a distance of seventeen kilometers.
The huge cannons can easily massacre the Far East Fleet outside the range of the coastal defense artillery. However, the French warships crowded in the narrow torpedo channel do not even have room to maneuver and avoid. When these warships were discovered at dawn, the Far East Fleet
So I wisely retreated to the inner bay which was covered by a thick layer of crude oil.
"Your Majesty General, you have one hour to make a choice, surrender or hold on. If you choose to surrender, then order the defenders on the outer defense line to go out and surrender their weapons to our army. The defenders inside the fortress will go out of the fortress and line up to wait for our soldiers.
Go and receive it. As for all the warships of the Far East Fleet, under the supervision of our military personnel, they will fly the white flag, fire all the torpedoes, put the cannon covers on the guns, and then sail out of Cam Ranh Bay and surrender to our fleet." Half an hour later, a Chinese military officer said.
After being taken to the French army's headquarters, he said arrogantly.
"Of course, if you choose to continue fighting, we will fire incendiary bombs into the bay in an hour." He then said.)