The unknown village is only a very small place, except for the weak young man, although the strong leader does not know Chinese, but he understands Chinese characters, he can do simple written conversations with visitors - in this era without Mandarin, even the exchange of scholars in different provinces of the country is mostly written conversations, and the exchange is completed by the borrowing of square characters by both guests.←

In this village not far from Suchuan, there is a police station in the market a few miles away, but last winter, those policemen collected a group of strong men and grain and disappeared for a long time, and then rumors arose, and rumors said that the Japanese were defeated in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and the corpses were killed by the revival army. Now, there are volunteers in most places to fight against the Japanese, and there are volunteers here, but this place is too close to Suchuan, and it is also close to the railway line, and those people are just passing by, and they are not showing their 'base' here, but there is a person in the village who is not full of sex and goes with them, and the brother of the weak boy named Jin Xi is one of them.

After talking with the village head named Park Delu, the relationship between the guests and the host became extremely harmonious during the meal, Bai Ru gave two boxes of canned military meat as a thank you gift for dinner, this kind of mysterious meat that the veterans of the Renaissance Army must get tired of every time they eat makes Park Delu solemnly thank, he took out the snake wine treasured in the village, but Bai Ru and Cheng Ying did not stick to the wine.

It's not too strange for a woman not to drink, but it's strange for a woman to be a sharpshooter among a hundred hundred, and Kim Hee Tai keeps peeking at the sniper rifles that the two put in the corner of the wall, wrapped in muslin, and the unspeakable desire. Bai Ru was good, Cheng Ying, who understood the curiosity of children, saw that he was clever, and asked with a smile, "You also know how to shoot?"

"Yes. But I can't be sure." Teenagers have long known what kind of people the snipers of the Ba'ath Army are. The generals of the Japanese invaders were killed by them, and they were 100% hit. Under his bedside, there are many anti-Japanese posters scattered by this volunteer soldier. Among them, there is a picture of a soldier shooting with a gun, that is the sniper in his heart.

"What about your gun?" Cheng Ying asked again, and the young man's troubled appearance reminded her of her son.

The boy didn't answer this time, and came over with a gun after a while, but when he jumped in, he almost slipped because he didn't stand firmly, which made the room resound with cheerful laughter - after confirming that it was a guest, watching the play, the men, women and children of the village gathered outside Park Derok's house, looking at the two Qing people.

Jin Xi's face was flushed with annoyance, but he still stood up straight in front of the hero in his mind. When Cheng Ying asked him again how to shoot, he made a standard posture of holding a gun, and then the appearance of standing up holding a gun made Cheng Ying see the shadow of the Fuxing Army. Cheng Ying looked at Bai Ru, who had not spoken, in surprise, but listened to her: "Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many Koreans entered the improvised military academy we ran in the northeast, which is the most taboo for the Japanese. If they hadn't been taught, they would have behaved the same way as us."

"Still guns don't work." There is no problem with the posture, and the inaccurate hitting is probably a problem with the gun itself. Cheng Zhen guessed with the boy's singles Murata-style rifle. It could also be an issue with ammunition, maybe it could be changed......"

Cheng Ying said change it, and Bai Ru looked at it. She knew what she was going to do, so she had to say seriously: "According to Article 37 of the military regulations of the Renaissance Army, it is a violation of discipline to modify firearms, especially when technology may be leaked."

Bai Ru is very serious. Cheng Ying's hand with the dagger had to be put down. According to the research of the General Logistics Equipment Technology Research Department, in addition to the ammunition itself affecting the shooting accuracy, the structure of the sniper rifle itself is also a major factor affecting the accuracy. With the help of the seven major methods of quality control, the current barrel of the research department is fixed on the handguard, which is the culprit of the low shooting accuracy. After all, wood fiber, as a natural material, has a very poor consistency. It will form different expansion differences with temperature and humidity, which will inevitably lead to large and irregular stress changes. Strict zhòng destroys the consistency of the barrel vibration.

However, if the barrel is unfastened, so that it is only connected to the receiver through the thread at the tail of the guò, and there is no obvious gap between the handguard and the handguard, and no direct contact is made, then the consistency of the barrel will become very high, and the shooting accuracy will also begin to become regular on long-distance targets. As a result, the rifles of the sniper unit all used this setup, which came to be known as the 'floating barrel', which led to a significant increase in the shooter's hit rate. And the most commendable thing is that this increase in accuracy is just a matter of freeing the barrel from the handguard, and it doesn't cost much at all and makes too many changes.

Cheng Ying was in the army this time under Bai Ru's explanation to know the reason for the floating barrel, thinking that in order to make the boy hit accurately, he wanted to release the barrel of this Murata rifle like a sniper rifle, but this is against military regulations, the reason why the Japanese army fell steadily in the sniper battle in Liaodong, save zài training, special ammunition, and floating barrel for many reasons, although there are many factors, but the change of floating barrel is the most convenient, a dagger, ten minutes can solve this problem.

After dinner, the two asked the village for a house in a good location, and instead of sleeping in it, they went up to the roof. It's already twenty-two, the moon is getting more and more curved, and the crescent moon in the night sky is not clear with some blood red, although Cheng Ying is on duty in the second half of the night, she didn't fall asleep, she lay on her back on the roof, looked at the moon blankly, and suddenly said: "Why do people always have to be wary of each other, even if they are husband and wife?" Can't people live together equally, freely, and peacefully?"

During this time together, Bai Ru and Cheng Ying had a lot of conversations, from the bottom of her heart, in Bai Ru's opinion, she is a kind woman, although she has a lot of grievances because of separation, but she is still a good person, and at the same time she is also a strong person, when the wives of other officials in Shenyang went to the hospital, she picked up a gun. But such a kind and strong person always has some unrealistic thoughts, and it is very easy to trust others, especially children.

"There are always bad people in the world." Bai Ru can't say anything big, only.[,! Well, she answered, but her mind was not here when she spoke, and in the breeze, she seemed to hear a few erratic gunshots, so far away, so thin, that she could not hear them at all if she was not careful.

When Bai Ru was alert, under the same moonlit sky, Eitaro Shimohira on the Japanese ship Izumo armored cruiser was also listening intently to the sounds of various places on the sea. But he couldn't hear anything other than the vibration of the engines and the 'whoop' of the ship breaking through the waves. At this time, he had already crossed the Great Eastern Ditch. It's already very close to Lushun.

In the face of the blockade strategy of the Shina submarine, the base camp formulated a night assault plan according to the method of Sato Tetsutaro Osa, that is, to use some faster but older troops to escort a group of high-ranking merchant ships carrying war materials and supplies to the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin at night. Tetsutaro Sato, who expected that the Shina submarine would have to act alone, inadvertently thought of the escort system implemented by the British to fight against German submarines a few years later, and in his plan, if the fleet was large enough, fast enough, and dark enough, the assault fleet would still be able to complete the plan with only a small amount of losses.

Tetsutaro Sato's idea was good, but in the eyes of other staff officers, the so-called single-boat operation of the Shina submarine was simply wishful thinking. Even if the fleet arrives safely at Taigu Pass at night while the people are unprepared, it will definitely be seen by the Chinese airship during the day, and the Chinese Navy will definitely mobilize all submarines to round up this fleet. If it's in Dagukou, it's okay, you can establish a certain range of anti-submarine nets here, but what if you go out of Dagukou? When the fleet returns, will it be possible to drag this anti-submarine net back?

Tetsutaro Sato was speechless at his staff's questioning, in fact, in his opinion, it was the only way to transport supplies to Tianjin under the blockade of the Shina submarine. If you want to lose a ship without losses, it's simply impossible. Sato's plan was supposed to be nullified, but after hearing that the Shina government announced that it was going to enter Korea and help the Koreans restore the country, the base camp and the cabinet. Even those behind the cabinet could only agree to this risky plan, and the navy would send a group of merchant ships to escort a group of merchant ships to Dagukou. But unlike the original plan, this is not just about transporting supplies to Tianjin. Another requirement of the base camp is to have the fleet transport a part of the troops of the Naoli Army.

At this time, the DPRK and the local forces were extremely empty, taking North Korea as an example. In addition to the two reserve divisions that replaced the standing divisions, there were only the 5th and 8th regular divisions that were withdrawn from Ji'an, but this can be said to be two regular divisions, but in fact, the strength is one division and one wing, relying on these three divisions, even if soldiers are transferred from the country to North Korea, they can't hold it, and the real way to ensure the security of North Korea is to transfer the troops of Zhili back. The more troops are repatriated, the smaller the losses suffered in Naoli, and the safer Korea and the mainland will be.

In the eyes of those behind the cabinet, it is acceptable to lose Taiwan and the northern part of Korea under today's situation, but it is absolutely unacceptable to let the Chinese army come to Busan and look at the mainland across Tsushima. The only way to salvage the situation now is to hold the front in Korea, and then wait for the end of Europe, when Britain, France, and Russia will be on the side of Japan and contain China, which is Japan's last hope to preserve its interests. In order to achieve this goal, the Emperor has summoned the Minister of the Navy and instructed the Navy to do whatever it takes to lose all of its old ships.

The warships of the Japanese Navy are the private property of the emperor, and each warship has a chrysanthemum family coat of arms of the imperial family.

Shimohira Eitaro Osa stood on the bridge, he had to be vigilant every once in a while to probe around, and at another time, he stood on the bridge and meditated on why the situation had come to such a situation: was the red deer of the 6th Army too incompetent, and for several months, he couldn't defeat the Shina Army under the attack of the sun? Or is the Chinese army really reborn - in order to flank the country from the east and west, the Duguo people have taught them the latest tactics, which makes the 6th Army not build an inch? And the navy, how many submarines did the independent country sell to China? Also, why didn't other people, including the Buddha Kingdom, use submarines on such a large scale as China, did the people of China really wake up?

Shimohira Eitaro Osa thought about these messy questions, looked at the boundless night in front of him, and suddenly thought of the earth-shaking changes in the past few years, Xinhai when he thought that the Yang family was just a troubled and extremely ignorant careerist, this careerist actually didn't want to Westernize China, but tried in vain to use the ancient ideas of China to govern the country. He wondered at the time, didn't this stupid person know that all civilization was built by Westerners nowadays? Although China had a splendid civilization in a thousand years, it was a thousand years ago, when Europe had not experienced the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. But now, a fully modernized Europe is something that East Asian civilization cannot resist.

The Sundew War is the best example of this. Japan defeated Lucia, not Eastern civilization defeated Western civilization. It was the more Westernized peoples of the East who defeated the less thoroughly Westernized Lucian peoples. If China retreats to ancient times, it will only revert to a primitive society if it uses the ideas of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the ideas of the more ancient Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

A few years ago, I thought about it today, and suddenly I felt that there was a scarlet laugh, it was a China that did not advocate Westernization, but advocated revival, defeated the empire that had been fully Westernized, at least 6 times the country has defeated the empire, if the empire did not have a navy, then the rest of this war is a matter of negotiation, land cession, and reparations.

Why is this happening? Shimohira Eitaro Osa can't figure out this problem, according to the previous explanation, this problem is unsolvable, and China is a country that respects the ancient tradition of China than the Qing Kingdom. There are still some signs of Westernization in the Qing Kingdom, but I heard that in today's China, the clothing and behavior of officials are becoming more and more conservative, and there is even news that even coffee and red wine are forbidden to buy and drink in the government of China. [,！ Only tea and herbal tea.

In the midst of the uproar of the waves, before Shimohira Dazuo's question was finished, the first mate came over and reported: "Your Excellency, we have already crossed Beihuangcheng Island."

"Have you crossed Beihuangcheng Island? Oh, this is already the Bohai Inland Sea." Osa was a little happy. But he didn't have long to be happy, when a destroyer on the side suddenly became brightly lit, and several voices shouted wildly: "Mine on the water!" Water Thunder! "

As soon as they heard that there was a mine on the water, the merchant fleet was immediately thrown into chaos. The captain who had repeatedly told him before was like crazy at this time, and they all wanted to sail in a zigzag, but because merchant ships were not warships after all. Some boats go to the left and some to the right. For a while, if they are struck by lightning on the water, they are at risk of sinking their own people.

"Quick! Turn on the lights and signals right away. All ships follow the movement of the flagship." Shimohira Eitaro Osa made the most correct decision on the spot, but he could only keep the ships from hitting each other and could not resist torpedo attacks from submarines at all. Just when the Izumo's pilot lights were on, there was a muffled sound after a violent flash on the sea, a merchant ship was hit by a torpedo, and after the explosion, the merchant ship began to burn, and then the flames led to the ammunition on board, and after another more dazzling fire and loud noise, the entire merchant ship was blown to pieces, and in ten seconds, the 4,000-ton merchant ship had disappeared from the sea except for a high splash.

A merchant ship was sunk, and more merchant ships fell into panic, but for a submarine attack, panic was useless, immediately after the previous merchant ship, another destroyer was torpedoed, although it was a warship, but a few hundred tons of destroyers could not resist the bombardment of a torpedo at all, the destroyer tilted on the sea in less than half a minute, and the lights on the ship illuminated this chaotic and panicked fleet, and also shone into the heart of Shimohira Eitaro Osa.

"Keep the formation sailing! Fast! Keep sailing in formation, with merchant ships in the middle and warships on all sides, turn on the searchlights! Turn on the searchlights! "Big Zola had a long neck and a katana in his hand, and he now somewhat regretted that he had not sent enough sailors to take over those merchant ships that the fleet was so chaotic in the midst of a submarine attack.

Because of the Izumo's order, the accompanying warships regained their composure, they lined up in two columns, protected the merchant ships in the middle, the searchlights were turned on, the sea was dark, and everyone was holding their breath, when a sharp cry suddenly came from one of the warships: "Submarine! Submarine! Over there, submarines! "

Immediately afterward, the secondary guns of the warship immediately roared, and other adjacent warships also fired in the indescribable direction, and for a while, the cannon sound on the sea continued, and the fire was overflowing. Shimohira Dasa watched the sailors shoot indiscriminately, and he stopped just half a word to stop it, for the extremely panicked fleet, maybe this cannon sound can make everyone regain some courage.

The sound of guns on the warship was stopped by the captain after more than 10 minutes, saving ammunition is a fine tradition of the Japanese Navy, in order to dispel fear, and at the same time to expel the submarine to fire a few guns on the surface of the sea, it is fine, but it has been firing for more than 10 minutes, and the shells will be exhausted again. After a reprimand, all the guns on the fleet stopped, and all that remained on the sea was the staggered searchlight column and the dark sea.

Twenty minutes later, the General Staff of the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Bei Shoutong, who was not on duty today, was suddenly shouted by Xu Jingxi, and when he thought something big was happening, Xu Jingxi said excitedly: "Come in!" Come in! They're in! "

Bei Shoutong opened his sleepy eyes, and when he heard that it was Xu Jingxi, a madman. When he fell down again, he closed his eyes and asked, "What came in?" Did the Japanese go into an ambush?"

"It's not!" Xu Jingxi is not afraid of disturbing people's dreams at all. He said: "I said that the navy has come in, and the Japanese navy has entered the Bohai Sea."

"What!" This time Bei Shoutong jumped. He was taken aback and said, "Are the Japanese crazy?"

"Japanese people are crazy, but they just think they're not crazy." Xu Jingxi laughed: "The submarine U-52 reported that fifteen nautical miles south of Arthur, he encountered a Japanese naval fleet, in which in addition to a large number of merchant ships, there were more than a dozen Japanese naval ships. The torpedo he fired sank a merchant ship and a Japanese warship, and now the Japanese fleet was sailing in formation, about seventeen knots, because they were sailing in a zigzag. It's hard for him to grab the angle of the shot."

"A dozen Japanese warships?!" Bei Shoutong is completely awake now, although it is now encircled and annihilated against the Japanese army, but the convergence and adjustment of various plans still make him tired enough, who made him the chief of the General Staff.

"Yes. The Japanese army used searchlights to destroy submarines, so he didn't recognize any warships in the reflection, but just looking at the outlines of these warships, they should be large ships of 10,000 tons, and U-52 roughly estimates that there are at least five 10,000-ton ships." Xu Jingxi said. I was thinking after I got the message. According to the gentleman's meaning, didn't he say that the Japanese navy should be opened to the net and make it try to maintain pressure on the Americans, and now these warships have entered the Bohai Sea. Do we fight or not? If you want to fight, then how? Sink them all?"

The war is a continuation of the government, and the General Staff has many plans that are perfect. But because it doesn't meet the needs of the government, it is changed again and again. Look at it from a vertical and horizontal perspective. We must fight against Japan, but we cannot defeat it. Especially the navy, if you can not fight, you will not fight, if you can not hurt, you will not be injured, rabbits and dead dogs will cook, and birds will hide the game of bows thousands of years ago Chinese will. However, now that the Japanese are so cheap, they ran into the Bohai Sea to send their heads, and if they don't fight, they will be accused by the people of the whole country of the navy's incompetence, so Xu Jingxi was very hesitant to take the telegram from the navy office.

Pei Shoutong could fully understand Xu Jingxi's concerns, but he didn't say much, lit a cigarette and took a few puffs and said, "Please ask Mr. for this matter. Now that the Japanese have entered the Bohai Sea, they probably went straight to Tianjin, didn't they say a few days ago that the Japanese were clearing mines and laying anti-submarine nets at Dagukou. [,！ Since they're here, they can't go. Sir is in charge, he will know what to do?"

Pei Shoutong's mention yì Xu Jingxi fully agreed, and the two drafted a telegram to Anton. However, at this time, Yang Rui had no time to pay attention to this telegram.

In the war room of the 7th Army, in addition to Yang Rui, only the commander Li Shutong and the chief of staff Cao Zude were present, and the breeze blowing in outside the tent blew the oil lamp swaying, and Yang Rui's brows were tightly locked under the shadow of the lamp.

"Does Japan know what they're doing?" After listening to Cao Zude's introduction, Yang Rui was silent for a long time before he said heavily.

"I don't know." Uncle Li wiped a handful of sweat while answering. He has regretted it thousands of times in his heart, if he had told Zhou Kuaileg the truth instead of keeping it secret to the end, then there would be no such thing as now, but there is no regret medicine in the world.

"Sir, my wife and Lieutenant Colonel Bai are both snipers, and now the Japanese are biting that village, it is estimated that they sniped and killed them, and the Japanese want to retaliate." Feeling Li Shutong's embarrassment, Cao Zude said his immature guess. According to the investigation after the fact, he guessed quite right.

"How's Zhou's legs?" Yang Rui knew that her woman was a scourge, she shouldn't be called Cheng Ying, she should be called Cheng Wu, or Cheng Wushui.

"Japan occupies a geographical advantage, after all, Commander Zhou's side is light infantry, there is no heavy artillery, it is difficult to break through in a short time. In fact, Commander Zhou's disposition is very correct, his wife and Lieutenant Colonel Bai are in the valley, the Japanese are at the mouth of the valley, he is outside the valley, if he really wants his side to attack, then the Japanese will not be allowed to retreat into the valley, if this is the case, then the situation will be ......" Cao Zude said.

"Then wait until dawn." Yang Rui lit a cigarette, but he snuffed it out without smoking him." Contact the Air Force, and ask them to get me a plane." (To be continued!)