Huang Zhongying walked over. Standing silently by the crane, standing side by side with the unsociable Qi Jin 'Bo', looking at the sailors with expressionless faces, perhaps with the captain and commander on the side to supervise, the sailors who originally seemed a little lazy immediately became sharp, and completed the recovery of the 'Jiao' boat in a few clicks, and then fixed the 'Jiao' boat with a rope under the command of Qi Jin' 'Bo'.

"Commander Huang, it's different with you, no one dares to be lazy, in my opinion, this military discipline needs to be further strengthened."

After finishing the recovery of the boat, Qi Jin Bo walked up to Huang Zhongying and made a big suggestion.

Huang Zhongying smiled faintly and said, "Staff Officer Qi, you are right, this military discipline needs to be further strengthened. However, you should not keep a straight face all day long, the lack of affinity will also affect work efficiency. ”

This was not polite, Qi Jin 'Bo' was slightly stunned, and he didn't wait for him to understand what Huang Zhongying meant. I heard a burst of artillery from the direction of Shanhaiguan, this was a platoon of artillery, and it rang out twenty-one times in a row.

Huang Zhongying walked to the side of the ship and looked at Shanhaiguan, and after a long time, when the gunfire stopped, he said quietly: "It seems that the president's ceremony for the 105th Infantry Division has begun." ”

Qi Jin 'Bo' also walked to the side of the ship, sighed, and said: "If I had to choose, I would rather be transferred to the army unit and at least have a battle to fight, rather than follow the warship all day long." ”

Huang Zhongying glanced at Qi Jin' and said: "Staff Officer Qi, what you said is not right, our navy is not idle, some time ago, piracy along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong was rampant, and the center and the Admiralty intended to send a fleet to clear out the pirates, we will soon have a battle, although it is not comparable to the artillery battle with foreign warships, but we can also use this opportunity to train our soldiers." When you came here, didn't you just say that the Admiralty now wants us to practice our ability to play 'hide' at sea, and fight pirates, isn't this just 'hide' and hide? ”

"That's just as well." Qi Jin 'Bo' didn't say anything more, muttered a few words, and left alone. Go to the staff room and shout at those staff officers.

Huang Zhongying is still standing on the side of the ship, looking at the Shanhaiguan in the distance, although his expression is calm, but this heart is 'agitated' to move, just now Qi Jin' waves did make him a little touched, compared to the army, the current Chinese naval forces seem to have been deliberately forgotten, no wonder the Navy Chief Tang Xiangming has an opinion on the center, three days and two runs to the presidential palace, with the president to make mushrooms, and the president is obviously also a Tai Chi master, always let this Chief Tang have nothing to say.

Just as Huang Zhongying was looking at Shanhaiguan in a trance, an adjutant walked up behind him.

"Report to the commander, the telegram that President Shanhaiguan just took is a special coded telegram, and it needs to be translated by the commander himself."

Although the center is "stingy" with the navy, almost every large ship of the navy is now equipped with the latest radio stations, which can easily communicate with the shore and between ships at a certain distance.

Huang Zhongying took the draft of the telegram. After a few glances, he hurried back to the captain's room, took out the code book from the safe, quickly translated the code telegram, and then called the adjutant and gave him the order.

"Immediately invite all the staff officers to come over, and all the staff officers on duty in the staff room will also come over."

A moment later, Qi Jin 'Bo' led several staff officers on duty to the captain's room, and Huang Zhongying 'handed over' the translated central telegram to several people for them to circulate.

"To North Korea?" Qi Jin Bo was very surprised, handed the telegram to another staff officer, and then glanced at Huang Zhongying.

Huang Zhongying looked serious and corrected: "Officer Qi, it is 'secretly going to the southern region of North Korea', that is to say, we can't go to North Korea openly, we have to secretly 'touch' and 'touch' North Korea, and before going to North Korea, we must first go to Qinhuangdao to pick up a group of people." ”

Qi Jin 'Bo' nodded thoughtfully, wrinkled his eyebrows and pondered for a moment, and then said: "The current North Korea is under the guardianship of Japan, and since the assassination of Ito Hirobumi, there are rumors that Japan is about to formally annex Korea into Japanese territory. ”

"That's why I called you here. You are the operational staff officer of the fleet, and it is your forte to formulate a combat plan, and what we are about to carry out is actually a special operational plan, and it depends on the ability of you and your subordinates. ”

Huang Zhongying took back the telegram, lit it with a match, and put it in the ashtray on the table to burn it to ashes.

"This is a top-secret operation, only everyone present is qualified to know the details of this operation, no matter what, no 'expose' secrets are allowed, and those who violate the order will be subject to military law!"

……

Although Qi Jin's popularity is not good, and his temper is not very good, he still has some ability, but in half an hour, he led the staff group to formulate a detailed action plan, and solemnly named it "Cuttlefish Plan", if everything goes well, this will be the first special military mission carried out by the Chinese naval forces.

When the plan of action was formulated, the Second Detachment of the Chinese Navy immediately turned its ship, but instead of sailing directly south to Qinhuangdao, it first sailed north, and after making a circle, it turned around and headed south towards Qinhuangdao. They arrived at their destination in the evening of the same day and anchored in shallow waters far from the port.

Qinhuangdao, located not far south of Shanhaiguan, is a small fishing village by the Bohai Bay, after the rise of foreign affairs at the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the Kaiping coal mine to transfer coal, Qinhuangdao gradually prospered, in 1901 was officially opened up by the Qing court as a treaty port, there is a customs here, is one of the main foreign trade ports in Zhili, although the status is far less than Tianjin. However, the port conditions here are relatively good, but the facilities are outdated, so it is impossible to moor large ships.

Then, under the cover of night, the "Haiqi" sent two "Jiao" boats to the north shore of Qinhuangdao, where they anchored in a deserted shoal.

The leader of the group of naval officers was Qi Jin 'Bo', who dressed as a merchant, entered the city in batches with his companions, and then hurried to a humble inn in the west of the city to assemble.

Arriving at the inn and matching the code, the person who came to meet the naval officer revealed his identity.

"My name is Tian Jinfu, with the rank of colonel."

"My name is Qi Jin 'Bo', with the rank of colonel."

Coincidentally, not only do the two have the word "Jin" in their names, but they also have the rank of colonel.

The two sides introduced their companions to each other in the guest rooms, and then quickly left the inn, went out of the city, and hurried to a small fishing village in the north of the city, where not only dozens of two-wheeled carts were parked, but also hundreds of young people dressed as fishermen were waiting, among whom men accounted for the vast majority, and the 'women' were only dotted out, no more than twenty.

However, none of these "fishermen" can speak Chinese, and a few can speak, but they are not very sharp, but some of them can understand Chinese characters.

"They are all North Koreans, and one of the tasks of your second fleet sneaking into the southern part of Korea this time is to get them ashore safely, as for the goods on those vehicles. It's all arms, and some leaflets. ”

Tian Jinfu simply introduced the task, and Qi Jin' 'Bo' and others did not ask, this is a secret operation, there is no need to know too many details, the task of the Navy is already very clear, and the rest depends on the "cuttlefish plan" formulated by Qi Jin 'Bo'.

With these hundreds of North Koreans, Qi Jin'bo and the naval officers embarked on the return journey, and Tian Jinfu also sent them to the beach all the way, watching the two 'communication' boats send all the North Koreans onto the warship, and assisting the sailors to use the same 'communication' tools to carry those arms and materials onto the warship.

Unable to rely on port facilities, the work was very arduous until the early hours of the morning, when it was basically completed, after which Tian Jinfu shook hands with the naval officers and left the beach with the convoy, while the naval fleet in the night also quietly lifted anchor and sailed eastward in the dreary darkness before dawn.

Sitting in the captain's room, Hwang Jong-ying, commander of the Second Fleet, had a 'exchange' with the leaders of these Koreans who boarded the warship, and the implementation of the "cuttlefish plan" requires people who are familiar with the southern coastal areas of North Korea to be staff officers, and the leaders of these Koreans are also very competent for this job.

After careful study, Hwang Jong-young finally decided to land on the shores of Ganghwa Bay, which is close to Seoul, where the Koreans intended to launch an anti-Japanese uprising, and where there are many fishing boats, and the anti-Japanese sentiment of the boat owners is very high, which is suitable for the use of fishing boats to transfer the arms and supplies brought ashore.

Of course, you can't swagger past the day, Huang Zhongying still decided to act at night.

The Second Fleet did not sail straight to Korea, but first went to Yantai, where it was replenished with high-quality anthracite coal, and then went straight into the ocean, went out of the Bohai Sea, and sailed south for half a day, and then took advantage of the cover of night to implement light control, and the whole fleet dispersed to the north, and the next day it met in the designated sea area, and then sailed to the southern coast of Korea.

In order to prevent encountering foreign ships, the Second Fleet could only choose an unfamiliar route, and for the sake of prudence, it was not until the fifth day that it found a suitable landing site in Jianghua Bay, so the fleet immediately took advantage of the night to approach the coast, and used the middle of the night to transfer all the personnel and munitions loaded by the fleet ashore, and then, without the slightest hesitation, immediately went straight south at the highest fleet speed before dawn. After daybreak, the fleet was far away from the Korean coast, and then continued to sail at cruising speed, and in the afternoon of the same day, turned westward and headed for Qingdao.

During the implementation of the entire "cuttlefish plan", fleet commander Huang Zhongying has been a little nervous, after all, this is not a trivial matter, once the whereabouts of the fleet are discovered by Japanese patrol ships during the operation, then this is a foreign "exchange" storm "waves", although that President Zhao Da does not care at all about what "foreign exchange" wind and "waves", but, as the commander of the second fleet, Huang Zhongying must be responsible for the future of this fleet, China's naval strength is only so little, it really cannot withstand any losses.

One of the immediate consequences of the very successful "Cuttlefish Project" was the first special operations mission carried out by the Chinese Navy, and one of the immediate consequences of this operation was the outbreak of the Korean armed uprising against Japan shortly thereafter, and this war in a foreign land will certainly have a far-reaching impact on the situation in Northeast China and the entire Northeast Asian region.

Huang Zhongying didn't expect this, but Zhao Bei expected that as the mastermind behind the scenes, this "Far East madman" once again left his footprints in history.