The sun set in the murmur of Lu Bang, and the sea sparkled in the afterglow of the setting sun, but what was more shocking than the golden light was the mighty landing fleet on the sea. Except for the thirteen merchant ships that stayed in Xiamen Port to avoid typhoons or repair ships, the remaining 30,000 tons of capacity were basically ocean-going fishing vessels from Guangdong, and most of these fishing boats had a tonnage of two or three hundred tons, and the number of more than 100 ships seemed to cover the entire sea; This is not the whole picture of the fleet, the distant-water fishing boats are followed by large and small local wooden boats, some of which are diesel engines converted from the Xiamen shipyard, and some of which are fishing boats that local fishermen have voluntarily followed.

In the eyes of the Fujianese, Taiwan has always been a part of Fujian, and the inhabitants of the island and the local people of Fujian are the same ancestral hall, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty ceded Taiwan to the Fujian people, but now the new dynasty has raised troops to recover Taiwan, even if the news is hasty, the fishermen who have boats are still happy that the army has invited them, or they loaded civilian laborers or materials, and followed the landing fleet to fight dogs.

According to the statistics of the landing general logistics office, the tonnage of the entire fleet reached 53,000 tons, and in addition to the 16,000 tons required by 6,500 soldiers at 2.5 tons per soldier, there were 15,000 tons needed to carry 2,000 mules, and the remaining 22,000 tons, 4,000 tons were loaded with 2,500 civilian laborers, and the last 17,000 tons were supplies and war materials.

The transportation capacity is so tight, it is to feed the troops, even including the three days that the soldiers carry with them, they are only prepared for ten days, and the remaining space is fully loaded with ammunition, but this 17,000 tons of ammunition is the consumption of the whole brigade for 20 days of continuous combat. Then these ammunition are clearly insufficient. For this reason, the General Logistics Department replaced all soldiers' rifles and mountain guns with the Japanese military standard. Military machinery such as bullet reloading and black powder suppression were also added to the already tense cargo holds, in case the navy could not prevent the Japanese army from landing. The war was prolonged, and the Marine Division ran out of ammunition.

When the sun was completely gone, the glow disappeared, and in the darkness only the seabirds could be heard chirping, the engines trembling rhythmically, the hull of the ship rising and falling with the waves, and the salty sea breeze pouring in through the open windows, blowing the red light of the cigarettes on the mouth of Lu Bang, who was sitting in the chart room, and the ashes that had burned out were also scattered with the wind, and some of them flew and swirled with the wind. Finally fell into an unknown corner; Others were scattered across his camouflage uniform.

Under the planning of the General Staff Headquarters, the Marine Corps, like the Air Force, is an independent branch of the armed forces, with its own military flags and insignia, and its military uniforms, regular uniforms, and training uniforms are also somewhat different from other branches of the military in color. On the background color of the dark brown epaulettes, the school-level silver shoulder flowers are very eye-catching, and the silver collar badge and the Double Dragon Medal hanging from the neckline. Even the training uniform has the majesty of a military dress.

The fleet sailed at a speed of twelve knots, and every hour of sailing, the chartman drew a chart based on the number jù derived from the radio compass. to contrast the established routes. If a course adjustment is required, they report to the seafaring staff and then radio the pilot ships of each team to correct the course. This method is fine in the daytime. Even if you don't say the flag, after the course of the pilot ship is adjusted. Tailgating boats will also be adjusted, but at night the lights will be controlled. The only thing that can be relied on is the radio broadcasting system. Whether this system is useful in bumpy sailing and in the dark night is only known after using it.

"Sir, the submarine force has a flag, I wish the fleet all the best!" The nautical staff reported.

"Hmm. Where are they? Lu Wan got up and asked. The shore attack firepower that the entire landing operation can rely on is the 88mm deck guns on the submarine, these guns are not naval guns after all, and the power is still too small, but the power is too small compared to the navy, but it is undoubtedly a large-caliber artillery for the Marine Corps, so Lu Wan wants to see these submarines escorting and fighting together.

"Over there." The staff officer pointed out the window in one direction, and in the formation of several low and narrow submarines, taking advantage of the last remaining light in the west, the signalman of a submarine was waving the flag. In the telescope, Lu Wan only saw half a sentence of the flag, and the submarine was confused in the night, and then the white waves splashed, and they seemed to have dived to the bottom of the sea.

Putting down the binoculars, Lu Wan glanced at the sky where the moon was still missing, and said, "Is the wind and waves bigger than expected at night?" ”

"Hmmm! The meteorological department predicted that it was a level 5, which was a precursor to a typhoon, and we had a few days to fight after we landed on the island, and then we had to wait for the typhoon to pass. Chen Ziming, chief of staff of the brigade headquarters, said that he was the second graduate of the Yantai Naval Academy, but he was not a Min man, he only felt that his future in the navy was hopeless, and after graduation, he applied for the Baoding Army School, and later became a staff officer of the Marine Corps after several turns.

Hearing that the wind and waves will be level five, Lu Wan hurriedly said: "Can those sailboats stand it?" ”

"The sailboat has been selected and should be fine. It's just that those sailboats are a little dangerous, but they are all old fishermen, and they have encountered bigger winds and waves. Speaking of this, Chen Ziming smiled, "Don't look at them falling behind, maybe they will land before us." ”

"Dock first?" Lu Bang said that Chen Ziming said that the sailboats are estimated to go faster in the wind and waves, but he is not so optimistic, only worried, "These ships don't want to arrive early, but I hope they don't mess up the ship formation." ”

The night was getting darker, and by ten o'clock in the evening, the wind and waves on the sea were getting stronger and stronger, and the big ships were better, and the sailboats and sailboats at the back of the fleet began to drift in the wind and waves. In order to keep the soldiers in place, there were no people sitting on the boat, but it was full of ammunition, although the ammunition was heavy, but the boat was still very bumpy, although the sail canopy was only pulled up three sections, but it was still blown up by the sea breeze, and the mast of the ship was also trembling, and the sail dragged the hull of the ship to tilt. As Chen Ziming said, riding on the strong wind, the speed of the sailboat became faster than that of the steamer, and fortunately, these ships adjusted their positions and moved to the side of the fleet, so that they did not collide with the entire fleet.

In the dark night, the wind and waves became bigger and bigger, and in order to keep secrets, the evil consequences of the sea training and the lake training were manifested at this time, and more than half of the more than 6,000 people in the brigade vomited, but the local recruited migrant workers were very calm. The soldiers vomited wildly, but fortunately the ship was stable in the wind and waves, and the helmsmen tried their best to keep the course. Do not confuse the fleet, and try to avoid collisions with each other. Others are busy. Lu Wan, who couldn't sleep, was in high spirits, isn't the situation that the ancients said about riding the long wind and breaking thousands of miles of waves?

The waves are like mountains, and the rain is pouring down. It was only at four o'clock in the morning that the wind and waves gradually subsided. As soon as the noise from the outside world weakened, the louder the staff room next door became.

"What! Female inside! Why did the boat get lost, didn't it follow? Did you see the Dragon King, or did you get separated? The voice next door shouted, and after a while, Chen Ziming walked over from next door and said, "The situation is not good, those sailboats are lost!" ”

"Is it a sail, or a sailboat?" There are more than 100 sailing ships: organic sailboats and pure sailboats. The tonnage is three or four thousand tons, and it is loaded with ammunition, and if it really sinks, then the ammunition will be greatly reduced.

"It's all gone." Chen Ziming said, "It seems that we can only wait for dawn, and if it is still there, I will naturally rush to fight the dog." If you really see the Dragon King, you will have to wait for the second batch of supplies to come ashore. ”

The fleet is 50,000 tons. After transporting the people, they will return to the ship immediately, and they will not arrive again until the next night. Thinking of this, Lu Wan closed his eyes and said, "Then leave it to fate." After going ashore, in addition to collecting munitions, people also had to collect nitrate from all over the place. We can't be too optimistic, we have to think about the worst-case scenario. ”

"Understood!" Chen Ziming nodded. The Marine Corps is inherently surrounded, especially the Chinese navy, which the Japanese can solve with a single heavy cruise. And those submarines, he really didn't dare to bet all his treasures on them.

The sky is getting brighter. The torrential rain has also stopped, and the wind has become lighter. The waves returned to their previous languid form, gently lapping the side of the ship. In the morning light, the whole fleet sailed due east, but it was much wider than yesterday. Standing on the bridge of the freighter, in addition to the bright light of the lighthouse in Tagou Harbour, it seems that you can also see the coast in a daze. After repeated calculations of the charts, the brigade headquarters finally issued an order to prepare for battle, and the assault fleet began to form a formation, and with the order of the officers and non-commissioned officers on board, the soldiers who had languished all night began to cheer up and check their equipment to prepare for the next battle.

Dagou Port is not too big, after the Japanese occupation in order to meet the needs of business, Xin Chou began to expand, originally scheduled to be completed in the second year of Shenwu, but because of the political needs, Shenwu was completed in the first year. After the expansion, the channel of Dagou Port was expanded to 1009 meters, the water depth in the port was 7 to 9 meters, and the maximum passage of 3,000-ton cargo ships was passed, and in addition to seven ship docks, there were also five mooring pontoons, which was just enough to dock the thirteen large cargo ships of the fleet.

However, the entrance to the port was extremely narrow, only 100 and 9 meters between the mountain behind the flag and the bow of the sentry ship, because it was worried that there were hidden shore defense artillery on both sides of the harbor, the second brigade's battle plan was to rush directly and quickly into the port with the strength of one battalion, and the other battalion forcibly landed on Shoushan on the north side of the port, and only after the Japanese army was cleared and the whole fleet entered the port to unload. When the sky was bright, in accordance with the established battle plan, more than 30 specially built landing fishing boats rushed all the way to Dagou Harbor and all the way to Nanshou Mountain.

After a night of storms, Jiro Ohara, the lookout stationed at the lighthouse on Mt. Qihou, was still sleepy-eyed, and the work on the lighthouse was extremely boring, and it was easy to get drowsy every day facing the sea and the ships coming and going. In particular, this Qihou Mountain Lighthouse City was built by Qing people for more than 20 years, in order to save money, this square lighthouse in addition to the fixed light, the remaining corners are extremely narrow, so that Ohara Jiro has to curse the Qing slaves every time he looks.

After the wind and waves, the sea surface was flat, and I didn't find anything wrong with Jiro Ohara after a hasty look, but the smoke in the distance was very eye-catching, was it fog? Ohara looked at it for a long time and didn't see what it was. But just as he put down the binoculars, the black dots flying in the sky surprised him, those bird-like things flew closer and closer, but the strange thing was that they flew above the smoke and began to hover at a low altitude, at this time Ohara realized that something was wrong, he was about to put down the binoculars and rub his sleepy eyes, when a dozen red flag clippers suddenly rushed out of the smoke, these boats drove so fast that he thought of the destroyers of the navy.

Thinking of the Navy's Ohara Jiro, he was shocked, and he finally felt that something was wrong with these ships - in addition to sailing quickly in the early morning, the bow of these ships was hung with the Shina military flag, he had seen this mark from the newspaper, and he remembered the appearance of Hai Dongqing on the fire red flag. Feeling that the warship was still two kilometers away, in a panic, Jiro Ohara grabbed the phone and shouted for a long time but found that it couldn't work, while cursing and trying, and finally felt that the phone had been deliberately destroyed, he was so excited that he was busy picking up the starting pistol and firing a signal flare at the port.

The lighthouse on Qihou Hill suddenly fired a signal flare into the harbor, and the marine police were very surprised to see the flare. Could it be that a ship was shipwrecked outside the harbor? Suspiciously, the seabirds flying in the air suddenly began to dive towards the water police department. The mournful whistling sound finally tore through the silence of the early morning in the port of beating dogs. All eyes are no longer on flares, but on what is in the air.

"Bang... Boom ......" forty kilograms of bombs accurately hit the Dog Water Police Department. In the violent explosion, the sleeping and awake Japanese policemen were killed in the air wave and shrapnel; After one plane dived, another plane followed, and the roar was terrible, and in the continuous explosions, the sound of the Maxim machine gun on the plane began to sound, and the chain with tracer bullets whipped the panicked Japanese policemen on the ground like arquebuses.

The air raid on the port side, the Japanese military camp and the railway police station in the city were also ravaged by dive bombers, and they fell asleep. The Japanese soldiers, who had never suffered an air attack, were stunned and did not know whether this was a fantasy or a nightmare, and by the time they came back to their senses and looked for cover, there were very few people left who could move.

There were only 15 dive bombers, but not a single 45-kilogram bomb was wasted, and by the time these planes finished dropping their bombs, the entire Japanese and police units that were fighting dogs were already half-disabled. Although the bomb was dropped, the plane still hovered at low altitude, monitoring a suspicious target in the harbor. As soon as the fishing boats that had already sailed into the harbor docked, the soldiers of the assault battalion rushed out in order to seize all the key points in the harbor, and the Japanese policemen who had been disrupted by the bombers had not yet had time to raise their hands and surrender. was killed by soldiers.

Within half an hour, the entire port of Dagou had been controlled by the assault battalion, and the soldiers in the assault battalion went deep inland. When it came to clean up the Japanese army, thirteen freighters began to dock. Without waiting for the command of the General Staff, the migrant workers on the fishing boat jumped out of the boat. Swam to the shore and stripped off his coat and began to unload the boat, and in the harbor, there were also a group of people holding yellow dragon flags led by soldiers.

"This is ......" Lu Wan, who was still immersed in the amazement of the bomber, couldn't remember the name of the liaison of the local underground organization for a while, and couldn't help but ask the chief of staff beside him.

"The surname of the volunteers is Luo, and the underground organization seems to be... It seems that the surname is Yu ......" Chen Ziming is clear about the volunteers, but the local anti-Japanese organizations are a little unclear.

"Oh." Communication is not what Lu Wan is good at, but he is now the commander of the Second Brigade, and he always has to be gentle with the heroes who lurk and respond. But just as he was tidying up his clothes and saluting solemnly. A black and thin man walking in the front suddenly knelt down more than 20 meters away, and actually cried loudly, "Master Wang! Your Majesty! Master Wang! Your Majesty, ......"

The person in front knelt, and the coarse cloth men who followed also knelt down, and some people who couldn't cry howled, only those volunteers in strong uniforms were very embarrassed by this, they were the subordinates of Major General Li Erhu, and they usually practiced the rules of the Fuxing Army, but although these team members had received military training, the etiquette in the army was not explained in detail, so from the captain to the team members, they didn't understand whether to kneel in this meeting.

The Japanese garrison in Dagou is only a brigade, and this brigade is subordinate to Taiwan's Second Wing, and the wing is not stationed in Dagou but in Tainan, where is the wing headquarters. In fact, the reason for the occupation of the dog was that the Japanese army here had few troops and was easy to go ashore, so they occupied the port so that all kinds of supplies could be unloaded as quickly as possible.

In the entire landing plan, speed is the key factor that determines the success or failure of the operation, especially since Tainan is 45 kilometers north of Dagou, so the 2nd Brigade cannot stay in Dagou for a long time, and must quickly move north before the Japanese army in Tainan is not aware of it, and the longer the time is delayed, the more fully prepared the Japanese army will be.

When the group of people on the ground were crying, the political commissar of the brigade headquarters had already stepped forward to dissuade them, "The army is about to go north, please hurry up, if you delay here for a long time, then Taiwan will be restored ......."

The political commissar said this, and the black and thin man kneeling on the ground got up from the ground with a spirit, and his attitude was also a meaning, and now the army has just landed on the shore, and it is not yet known how the war will be, if it is really delayed here for too long and affects the great cause of resuming Taiwan, then he will be a sinner. "Yu Qingfang, a grass citizen, has seen a handsome!" Three steps and two cloths ran to him, and he half-knelt down again.

Lu Wan was about to answer, but Chen Ziming next to him stopped him, and he preemptively said: "Hmm! Yu Qingfang, right, our marshal and the prime minister already know about you. If this resumption of Taiwan is successful, you will have a great achievement, and the reward will not be a problem, and then the first army will immediately go north, and the accompanying baggage will be unloaded and loaded immediately, if you can find some people......"

Yu Qingfang was praised by Chen Ziming like this, and then I heard that the prime minister of the current dynasty knew that his bones had already floated to the sky. The anti-Japanese god stick who was hanged by the Japanese army a year later for launching an uprising immediately shouted: "Please command, my lord, the grass people will not give up!" ”

The local anti-Japanese organization was fooled by Chen Ziming to unload the ship in a few words, and the captain of the volunteer team was dragged by the staff officers to talk about the attack in detail.

"You are aggression!" A gentleman in a top hat and armed with a civilized stick said angrily in English, "In the name of the Consul of Great Britain, I order you people to quit beating dogs!" ”

Lu Wan can understand some English, but even if he knows the general meaning of the other party's words, he still finds a messenger and asks the foreigner to say it again.

"Sir, this is war!" Originally, Taiwan's consulates had been moved to Taipei, and the sudden appearance of the British consul was very strange, but Lu Wan was still perfunctory, and then he ignored the foreigner and went to the train station.

Lu Wan ignored his perfunctory words, and the British were only so angry that they fainted. This person was not a British consul, but the owner of a local British businessman's foreign firm. Early in the morning, there was a violent explosion, and when he got up, he found that there were many planes flying in the sky. The British, who understood the signs on the plane, wanted to intimidate them according to their previous impressions of the Qing people, but they didn't want to be deflated.

The train station was near the port, and several locomotives were arrested by the volunteers during the bombing, and several Japanese drivers who tried to get on the trains and drive away were either killed or captured by them. The Japanese driver did not dare to use it, and the accompanying Chinese driver lit the boiler after a simple overhaul, and when Lu Bang got on the train, the locomotive was already white smoke, and he was ready to drive at any time.

"Can I go?" As soon as Lu Wan got into the car, he asked, the real combat target of the Second Brigade is the Japanese and Taiwan Second Wing in Tainan, and the whole brigade can rest in peace after this wing is eliminated.

"Still waiting for the shells." Chen Ziming said. "It's a wing over there, and if there are not enough shells, the attack will not be smooth."

"You don't have to have too many shells," Lu said, pointing to the plane in the distance. "Is there a local airport under construction?"

"Here we go. The bulldozers and rollers brought in will be unloaded in a while. As long as the place is flat, the airport can be built in half a day. Chen Ziming said. Fortunately, after the capture of the port, the things of clearing and suppressing, unloading ships, reassuring the people, and building airports were very complicated, and the landing was not as simple as sending troops ashore.

"It seems that there is no difference between fighting with planes and fighting without planes." Lu Wan said. From the time he was still at sea, he witnessed the feat of those planes, which is an airplane, this is simply an air fireman. "When they hit Tainan, did they still come?"

"Isn't this the three-dimensional war that the prime minister said?" Chen Ziming also said. In the past, when the plane used training bombs, it did not have the momentum it has now. "According to the plan, they will come back, they will go back now to replenish the bombs, if only the planes could be bigger and bring more ammunition."

"More? How much do you want? Lu Wan smiled, "If there are more battles, we don't want to fight, they blow up indiscriminately, and we can go and collect the corpses." After he said this, he thought of something and asked, "Hey, I don't see it right." Where did this plane come from? If they fly from Xiamen, they should also fly west, but I just saw them going south, but is there an island in the south? ”

Lu Wan asked Chen Ziming was stunned, he only looked at the plane to help the battle was very cool, he didn't understand where the plane came from, and he didn't remember where they went, now seeing Lu Wan asked, he pointed to the map and said: "It will take us two and a half hours to get to Tainan, and the plane will also come to help the war in two and a half hours, and the round trip will take an hour each......" He was suddenly stunned when he said this, he knew the speed of the plane more than 100 kilometers per hour, but in addition to the north, the radius of more than 100 kilometers is the sea, is the plane landing on the sea?

The chief of staff was stupid, but after Lu Wan lit a cigarette, he was very sure: "The new weapon must be a new weapon that we don't know!" (To be continued......)