4.43 On the Huangpu River (5)

On the morning of August 20, many Shanghai citizens living on the banks of the Huangpu River saw such a scene, a huge warship, the back half of the body completely sunk into the river, and the bow of the ship was high on the river, the huge turret pointed weakly at the sky, and the hull was slowly sinking......

The Chinese Navy has disappeared on this surface of the water for too long, and this sinking warship can only be the ship of little devils!

The sudden sound of gunfire last night is indeed coming from the river when I think about it, that is to say, the Chinese army launched a surprise attack on the Japanese fleet last night!

The results were very remarkable, the sinking ironclad giant ship had a displacement of at least several thousand tons, and citizens who read newspapers every day quickly recognized it as the flagship of the Japanese--- Izumo!

Batch after batch of reporters rushed to the riverside to take pictures, all the newspapers this morning all jumped tickets, and all the machines of the printing house were waiting there, and these newspapers without exception received a notice from the 9th Army and the Navy last night that the Japanese flagship Izumo had been sunk by our army!

The front pages of the newspapers were empty, waiting for the reporters to bring back reports and photos!

Even the foreign newspapers in the concession area also sent a large number of personnel, and with the cover of these foreigners' meat shields, the Chinese reporters became even more emboldened, and some even rented a small boat by the river and rowed towards the center of the river with a few foreign big noses, just to capture some exclusive photos!

The Japanese fleet on the river did not seem to have lost its ferocity in the past, the sailors on the ship did not shoot away the reporters' boats, but just let a gunboat come at high speed, creating some artificial waves next to the boat, a reporter in order to find a better angle, leaned out too far, did not stand firm when the waves came, and fell into the water with a camera, he raised his fist in the river and cursed the Japanese gunboats, and the golden hair of the reporter who lost his hat turned out to be a friendly person.......

With the passage of time, more and more people gathered on the shore, especially near the public concession and the French concession, it was simply crowded, and the small traders who did early business also quickly seized this sudden business opportunity, they sent the bamboo basket or picks to the river bank early, and the citizens who saw the rise of the fire smelled the fragrance before thinking of being hungry, and the citizens who watched the devil warship sinking into the river were happy, and they were extraordinarily generous, and they squeezed over to pay for it. Those who have a quick brain immediately run back, planning to come back in a hurry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, the newsboys who stretched their necks finally got their newspapers today, and the little guys who usually hesitated for half a day in order to ask for more than ten or less copies were crazy to put the freshly printed newspaper into the cloth bag today.

As soon as the newsboys turned out of the corner in front of the newspaper office, they were blocked by the people who rushed up, and handed over the big tickets one by one, and they didn't care to look for the head and grabbed the newspaper and read it greedily, and the few newsboys who ran in front of them had not crossed half the street, and all the newspapers were robbed, and the little ones stuffed the money they collected into the cloth bag, turned around and ran away, and then dropped the cloth bag stuffed with banknotes at the door of the warehouse of the newspaper hall, and shouted loudly: "Quick! Give me the newspaper! Buy as much money as you want here! Fast! Fast! Give me the newspaper! ”

"The Chinese Army and Navy join forces to sink the Japanese flagship Izumo! 》

The huge, eye-catching title stimulates people's nerves, and everyone wants a sneak peek!

Shanghai citizens personally felt the situation of Luoyang paper in this morning, and a thin newspaper could make two Shanghai men who have always spoken quietly and stingy fight!

The newspaper that had just been read here was immediately snatched away by seven or eight outstretched hands, and the hand that was holding the newspaper just now was stuffed with seven or eight crumpled bills, which were several times more than the previous cost of buying a newspaper.

In this way, there were still people who were desperately protecting the newspaper in their hands, shouting while dodging in the crowd: "I want to take it home to show my father, old and young masters, raise your noble hand!" ”

All sorts of exaggerated gossip circulated among the populace at a frantic pace:

"You know what? The navy and General Zhang sank the flagship of the Japanese, and there were so many little devils floating on the Huangpu River? Crying dad and calling mother's ......"

"Last night, our navy and artillery beat the fleet of the little devils, and the little devils are all running away!"

"The third aunt next door said that the corpse of the little devil blocked the Huangpu River, and the 99th Division sent a lot of soldiers to clean up the river!"

In contrast to the elation of the Chinese, the Japanese generals of the 3rd Fleet, who were transferred to the new flagship, were as depressed as their dead fathers!

After the telegram of the sinking of the Izumo was sent back to Tokyo, Lieutenant General Hasegawa was immediately relieved of his duties, and the Japanese army in Shanghai was ordered to stand by for reinforcements, and the 3rd and 11th divisions of the Japanese army floating on the sea also received a death order from the Ministry of War to rush to Shanghai.

The air in Tokyo is filled with anxiety and restlessness!

Of course, the news of the Izumo is an absolute blockade for the people of the island, and even the families of the officers and men who died on the ship will not get the slightest news!

The military department began to urgently discuss the plan for a second increase in troops to Shanghai, and the two factions that advocated the North China battlefield as the center of gravity and the expansion of the Shanghai war centered on East China were at loggerheads, and the emperor's eyes were getting colder and colder when he looked at Lu Xiang, Sugiyama Moto, and the pressure exerted by the cabinet on the military was also increasing!

At around 11 a.m., a support ship carrying out a rescue operation near the Izumo made another loud noise, and then broke into two and quickly sank to the bottom of the river, and Vice Admiral Hasegawa finally knew the means of attack of the Chinese army!

Mine!

The Chinese actually launched a mine attack on the Japanese flagship under heavy ship protection!

Having understood the Chinese army's means of attack, Lieutenant General Hasegawa began to replay in his mind little by little what had happened last night.

At first, a mysterious black ship appeared, and everything later showed that this black ship carried a large number of explosives, and the early appearance of the black ship was to attract the attention of the Japanese ship, so it should have deliberately exposed its tracks.

If the Japanese army hadn't received the information about the Jiangyin fortress in advance, they would have sunk the black ship without hesitation, but this damn information reached Vice Admiral Hasegawa at just the right time.

With the foreshadowing of intelligence, especially after knowing the news that the Chinese Navy would appear, the dangerous black ship was preconceived by the Japanese army as a smokescreen.

Huang Haoran also counted the leakage of intelligence as a means to deal with the Japanese army!

The artillery raid and the appearance of the torpedo boat in the back were "strong evidence" created for the Japanese army, and in the face of the great threat of the torpedo boat, the real protagonist of the black boat was completely left behind by the Japanese naval officers and men, who decided that the appearance of the black boat was just to cover the approach of the torpedo boat.

As a result, they let the real wolf into their own exclusion zone!

The first thing the black ship did when it broke into the Japanese fleet was to release mines and water ghosts, and then the blatant raid was actually to cover the movement in the water, and the Izumo could have sunk the black ship before it collided, but due to the panic of dodging the torpedo boats before, the gunners of the Izumo did not react correctly!

Seeing that the black ship entered the dead end of the gun's shooting, the destroyer next to the Izumo could only rush up, and at this moment underwater, the real danger was also close to the Izumo!

As a result, the Izumo was sunk by mines, and the destroyer that crashed into the black ship became a windfall for the Chinese.

And now the auxiliary ship that has been sunk by the remaining mines has made Huang Haoran's plan extraordinarily successful, and Vice Admiral Hasegawa admitted that he was completely defeated by Huang Haoran, the mourner of Rear Admiral Okawa! The person who can come up with such a surprise plan must be a genius conspirator!

The Japanese navy lost badly in front of this conspirator, both on land and on water!

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