The emergence of unstable factors at sea is a huge problem!

After inspecting the corpses of the dead soldiers and listening to the statements of his own soldiers, Kenichi Tanabe, the captain of the little devil Anton Garrison Brigade, highly praised Ma Yongfu's courageous spirit in bravely chasing and killing the enemy, and praised Ma Yongfu as "a real samurai and a good friend of the Imperial Japanese Army!" ”

"Taijun, I have personally led the team out to reconnoiter for a month, and I have already received a piece of news." Ma Yongfu bowed down and said: "The Pingdingshan revenge team back then still didn't give up on Andong County and the Yamato Bridge (Yalu River Bridge). It is said that they are preparing to launch an attack from the water and directly destroy the transport capacity of the Yamato Bridge. ”

"The reason why the lowly duty has been tracking for more than a month is to find this revenge team and then completely annihilate it. However, the humble position has turned around the entire Xiuyan area, but there is no trace of them. I didn't expect that lawbreakers suddenly appeared on the sea today, and I think that we should pay enough attention to it! ”

"Yo Xi, Ma San'er has a lot of credit!" Tanabe Kenichi was taken aback when he heard Ma Yongfu's words, but his face was still calm: "This information is very good, mine must strengthen the surface patrol." The Yamato Bridge is very important, and Massanne will strengthen the seaside patrol in the future. ”

Ma Yongfu bowed lower: "Taijun, many of my subordinates grew up in the sea, can you trouble Taijun to train them and then equip a surface patrol?" In this way, once the criminals are found, we can carry out a land and water attack and wipe out the criminals! ”

Tanabe Jian nodded: "Well, your construction is my good consideration, you go back and hurry up and prepare, and submit a plan for the work!" ”

A month later, on July 8, 1936, Ma Yongfu suddenly received an order from Kenichi Tanabe, asking him to immediately rush to the headquarters of the Sixth Garrison Brigade to attend a military meeting.

Two days later, Ma Yongfu returned to Xiuyan, and rushed to the Wudaogang secret camp that night to report the incident to Zhang Yushu and Chen Dazhu.

"Regiment leader, deputy regiment commander, your trick is really clever!" Ma Yongfu said straight to the point: "Guess what? After Tanabe Kenichi reported the news of the revenge team, the Kwantung Army headquarters suddenly became very nervous. After a month of intense operation, now the Suncheon and Qinren ships have been transferred! ”

At the same time, the little devil originally planned to strengthen the two small patrol boats for the puppet Manchukuo Coast Guard, the Baimei and Sakura, which were placed in Anton. In this way, a patrol brigade was specially formed on the Yalu River in Andong County. The captain of the group is called Yamato Right, and he is a Nakasa, and he is now the captain of the Qinren ship. ”

"The current situation is that, after Kenichi Tanabe's strong insistence, Yamato allocated the Hakume patrol boat to me on the right. Now it is necessary to select 20 sailors and go to Anton for training. What should the two heads of the regiment do? ”

Zhang Yushu glanced at Chen Dazhu, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, the personnel have already found it for you, you can bring it over." Remember, a small patrol boat is useless for us, our goal is the Qinren ship, the Suncheon ship. However, things have to be done step by step, and there can be no rush. ”

It turned out that Bai Shujie ordered Shi Liancheng's two special operations platoons to secretly escort supplies to Tianhua Mountain, and at the same time sent the trained sailors, along with those who had defected from Soviet Russia, to Xiuyan.

However, these people can only function on the water, and it is purely Lang fee to put them on the mountain. So after Bai Shujie asked Shi Liancheng to form the First Division of the Flying Dragon, he couldn't be idle.

Therefore, he sent a telegram to Chen Jie in South Manchuria, ordering him to constantly send small troops, under the banner of "Pingdingshan Revenge Team", to constantly create incidents on the Yalu River and the Yellow Sea. At the same time, rumors were also being released to prepare to attack Anton from the water, the main purpose of which was to blow up the bridge over the Yalu River.

In fact, Ma Yongfu's series of actions are all carried out around this order. However, what he didn't know was that in the east of Andong County, Chen Jie had launched four "surprise attacks" in a row, defeating the three "river defense patrols" of Kenichi Tanabe, and posing as if he was going to attack at any time.

Ma Yongfu "reported the enemy situation" according to the plan, which happened to coincide with the information that Kenichi Tanabe had in his possession, so he was taken seriously. At the same time, he believes that Ma Yongfu is truly "a trustworthy friend who does things for the Japanese Empire!" ”

There is no way to do this, the last time Zhao Sanbao raided the county seat of Andong, the damage caused was too strict, and the little devil felt that it was impossible to bear it again.

Kenichi Tanabe's predecessor, Eiao Ueda, was urgently encouraged because of the "Ando incident". Therefore, Kenichi Tanabe did not allow this kind of consequence to happen, so he tried his best to get a patrol boat for Ma Yongfu.

The Hakume and Sakura patrol boats were built by the little devils last year (1935). Because the sentry card was ended, and the long-haired man was at odds, it was originally sent to Harbin to strengthen the Heilongjiang pseudo-coast guard. But compared with the Yalu River Bridge, this side is more needed.

The patrol boats of Baimei and Sakura have a displacement of 30 tons, a length of 25 meters, a width of 3.65 meters, a draft of 1.6 meters, a main engine power of 120 horsepower, a speed of 13.2 knots, 3 crooked machine guns, and a fixed number of 18 people.

The "Shuntian Ship" mentioned by Zhang Yushu was started on May 31, 1934 and completed in October of the same year. This type of ship was designed on the basis of the "Atami" class gunboats of the Little Devil, and there are two ships of the same type, namely the "Suncheon" and the "Yangmin".

This type of ship is 55 meters long, 8.8 meters wide, 2.4 meters draft, displacement 270 tons, main engine power 1000 horsepower, speed 13 knots, endurance 3000 nautical miles / 10 knots, maximum fuel reserve of 28 tons of heavy oil, crew 82 people. Considering that it will be fighting in the cold regions of the north, this type of ship also has a certain ice-breaking ability.

It is equipped with one twin 120 mm high-level dual-purpose gun, which is arranged in the bow of the ship as the main gun. A firing platform was set up on the top of the main mast, equipped with three twin 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and one 150-mm curved gun at the rear of the ship.

The aft deck of the "Suncheon" class also carried 2 assault boats for landing operations. In addition, this type of ship is also equipped with one 60-centimeter searchlight, one Type 14 2-meter anti-aircraft gun rangefinder, and one Type 14 1.5-meter rangefinder.

The Qinren ship was completed and delivered in August 1935, with a displacement of 290 tons, a length of 55 meters, a width of 8 meters, and was equipped with two twin 120mm high-level dual-purpose guns, one single-barreled 120mm high-level dual-purpose gun, 5 light machine guns, 20 rifles, and 5 pistols.

Each ship is equipped with 4 non-commissioned officers, 3 quasi-local officers, 33 sailors, 8 military dependents, 21 instructor staff, and 11 instructor staff, a total of 88 officers.

Compared with the crew of other ships of the river defense fleet, the Shuntian and Qinren ships have strong firepower, and they are not at ease to be used by outsiders, so the crews are all little devils.

Both the Suncheon and the Jinren are new guys, and they are both practical as inland river ships and littoral ships.

Of course, the current Bai Shujie is not ready to seize these two patrol ships, because he has no port, let alone a patrol river.

However, these guys have been placed in Heilongjiang, and Bai Shujie can only watch it, so he must come up with some conspiracies and tricks to let the little devils transport them from the north to the south by themselves, and they will be closer to their sphere of influence.

Within your own attack range, when you feel that the time is ripe, you can launch a surprise attack to take out these two ships.

At the end of July 1936, Ma Yongfu, the commander of the Xiuyan garrison, finally came to his senses, because he could stand on his "own patrol boat" and walk around the sea. In order to prepare for typhoons, the Dayang River at the entrance of the Dragon King Temple was also specially dredged. In this way, it is much more convenient and safer to enter and exit the sea every day.

At the beginning, the little devil Hai sent two "inspectors". Unexpectedly, on the third day of the patrol, two fishing boats were found 10 kilometers away from Zhuanghe County, and a violent exchange of fire broke out.

Later, the cavalry company of "Commander Ma" seized the fighter plane and carried out a flanking attack from the land, and finally won a complete victory. Not only did they "defeat the bandits," but they also seized two dilapidated wooden boats and a Liao 13 rifle, and smashed a seaside den of the "anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements"!

The bloodstains on the broken wooden boat indicate that at least two of the bandits were injured in this battle, and whether they were killed or not is unknown!

Win the first battle!

Captain Kenichi Tanabe was very excited, and personally came forward to reward the heroic "Commander Ma" with a crooked machine gun and 2,000 rounds of ammunition.

With successful combat experience, the "inspectors" of the two little devils thought that "Commander Ma" was a qualified warrior, and there was no need to let himself drink the northwest wind here, so he went home.

The small patrol boat Baimei officially entered the establishment of the "Xiuyan Garrison Command" and fully undertook the task of guarding and patrolling from the mouth of the Yalu River to the front line of Zhuanghe County.

This series of small actions is just a small episode, which belongs to a part of Bai Shujie's strategic layout.

After receiving the telegram sent back by Chen Dazhu and Zhang Yushu, Bai Shujie drew a circle with a red pen on his combat map, and then called back: "Stabilize the results and stabilize the Quartet; Concealed training, convergence of the edge; Hoard supplies and prepare for war. ”

The reason for this rush was because another person came in. It was not an outsider, it was Zhao Dayong, the commander of the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment.

"Lao Zhao, please take a seat, let's make a long story short." Bai Shujie poured a glass of boiling water for Zhao Dayong: "I asked you to train for this long time, how many technical soldiers of the heavy artillery unit are there now?" ”

Zhao Dayong nodded and said, "At the beginning, according to your order, the training of technical troops was carried out according to the five heavy artillery regiments. Now, in addition to the one heavy artillery regiment that has already entered the formation, and this teaching regiment of mine, three heavy artillery regiments can be formed at the same time. ”

Bai Shujie handed Zhao Dayong a cigarette: "I need three artillery regiments this time, and I don't need 150mm heavy artillery." But I need the Type 91 105mm Field Artillery Regiment, the Type 92 105mm Field Cannon Regiment, the Type 88 75mm Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, plus a baggage regiment, to build a heavy artillery division. You calculate how much equipment you need. ”

Zhao Dayong pondered for a while before saying: "Since there are special anti-aircraft artillery regiments and baggage regiments, then the Type 91 105 Field Artillery Regiment can be equipped with three artillery battalions and 72 cannons; The Type 92 105 field cannon is more than three tons, and it is better to have 48 guns in three battalions of one regiment. ”

"The Type 88 75 anti-aircraft gun is very heavy, a cannon is two and a half tons, and it must be towed by a truck to maneuver. So my opinion is that four companies of a battalion are equipped with 12 guns, and the whole regiment is equipped with 36 guns. ”

"If you consider it purely from the perspective of prevention and control, it is best to use the Type 92 twin anti-aircraft heavy machine gun and the twin Makqin. If you use a truck, it's not as good as a twin aviation machine gun of a little devil. ”

Bai Shujie nodded: "You are right, but I am going to equip the air defense machine gun to the field division, and the heavy artillery regiment is indispensable as a strategic deterrent." You just set one up for me, but you have to keep it secret, and you can find Zhao Jinxi for specific things. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.