Therefore, although the battle was won, the two giant ships that were captured with great difficulty were almost all wasted in the blink of an eye, so how could the officers and men of the two ships accept it? However, Hu Weidong thought about it more openly, and comforted everyone, "Although it is not easy to repair, it is not that there is no way at all, and no matter how bad it is, it can be used for training, anyway, it is a warship for nothing, if you want to say that you are distressed, the devil must be more distressed than us."

However, everyone knows that although the devils have suffered great losses, they can afford to lose a lot of money for their great cause, and more importantly, the devils have a strong ability to build and repair ships, and they can be rebuilt if they are sunk and repaired if they are damaged, which is something that China cannot do now. However, Hu Weidong's comfort still had some effect, and the officers and men of the navy quickly turned their grief into motivation and threw themselves into training and combat with greater enthusiasm

On the day when the Japanese fleet withdrew to Weihaiwei, Hu Weidong sent a representative to Weihai and proposed to the devils to exchange the pilots of the other side who had been captured, and it was not easy to train the pilots of the devils (the policy of elite soldiers was too much), and the total number of Chinese pilots was too small, and both sides took it very seriously, so the negotiations were smoother than Hu Weidong expected, and the next day hundreds of Chinese and Soviet pilots were released by the devils, and the 15th Army also released more than 100 Japanese pilots captured before.

In terms of numbers, the Chinese side suffered a little loss, but not to mention that these experienced veteran pilots, as the seeds of the future people's air force, have an important value far beyond their combat skills, and more importantly, a considerable number of those Japanese pilots released have long been captured, and twenty or thirty of them have been captured for more than two years. Under the influence of the Red Party's long-term political and ideological work, several Japanese pilots have passed the organizational test and secretly joined the Chinese Red Party.

Of course, devils are not stupid either. Naturally, they would check whether these pilots had turned red, but Hu Weidong, who had long expected this, never let the Japanese pilots who had joined the party reveal their identities, and before they were released, they also made those pilots cherish a lot. Don't do the harm of yourself by openly propagating anti-war rhetoric, as long as they pay attention to concealment, the devil cannot be as simple and rude to the pilots as he is to the army. So it's almost impossible to find the problem. Hu Weidong even taught these pilots not to refuse to carry out their tasks, but only to release water from time to time when they were carrying out their tasks, and if they had the opportunity, they could also pit their "comrades-in-arms", which was a great help to the revolutionary cause

In addition, there is another thing they can do publicly, and that is to preach such things as "invading China is not beneficial to the country, and Southeast Asia and Australia are the lifeblood of the empire." Anyway, there have been people in the Japanese army who have put forward and promoted similar ideas, and they will not cause themselves big trouble if they say so. And although these pilots cannot enter the upper echelons, their status is always much higher than those of the big men of the infantry units. The chances of coming into contact with high-ranking officials are much greater, and their words can have a little impact, and the accumulation of time does not necessarily mean that the changes that Hu Weidong expects in Japan will not be able to occur

There is another thing that should not be publicized in a high-profile manner, but it can be done secretly, and even if it is discovered, it doesn't matter much. That was to explain to the other pilots the policy of capture by the Red Party. Since then, there have been very few examples of devil pilots flying planes and dying with us after the Japanese plane was shot down, which objectively reduced the losses of the Chinese military and civilians, and the devils have always treasured their pilots, and they will not say much about this.

The devil originally asked the 15th Army to release the captured Prince Chongren, but Hu Weidong's condition was that the devil quit Weihaiwei. And if he doesn't set foot in Shandong for half a year, and then he releases people, it is naturally impossible for the devil to agree, so he will give up for the time being. This episode also made the devils think that the Chinese were not capable of attacking Weihaiwei (otherwise they would not have put forward such conditions), and somewhat relaxed their vigilance, but to their surprise, only two days later, the Japanese fleet in Weihaiwei Harbor was destroyed

Because he had just suffered a big loss, the devil who knew his mistakes and could change them changed the queue of each ship when he was berthed, so that the two Nagato-class battleships with rough skin and thick flesh were lined up at the outermost, so that if the enemy ships wanted to rely on the advantage of range to sneak attack, it would not work, either attack the Nagato-class battleships, but the result would not cause any damage, or they would close the distance, which put them within the range of the 410-caliber guns of the Nagato-class battleships.

But the devil did this, but Hu Weidong, who had to abandon the destroyer's night lightning strike because of the lightning net laid when the enemy ship was berthed, saw a little turnaround, and he began to train frogmen long before advancing into Shandong, although there were not many of them, but now they came in handy. After their investigation, they found that the depth of the Japanese ship's mine protection net was fixed at 7 meters, while the draft of the two Nagato-class battleships reached nearly 10 meters. When Hu Weidong learned about it, he immediately had an idea, "As long as the depth of the torpedo is set between the depth of the lightning protection net and the draft of the Nagato-class battleship, you can attack the hulls of these two warships through the lightning protection net!" ”

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, not long after the sun set that day, Hu Weidong immediately sent out all the seven destroyers that were currently available, and ordered each ship to use the guidance of radar to sneak attack the three Japanese battleships in Weihaiwei Harbor at night, and two of the Nagato-class battleships were the priority targets

Considering that the stability of the oxygen torpedo was not good, the captains of the seven destroyers, after deliberation, decided to risk advancing to a distance of 10 kilometers from the enemy ships to launch in order to improve the hit rate

It can't be said that the devils are careless, because they have laid some mines outside the harbor, and if the enemy ships enter the harbor and sneak attack, they will not only suffer a dark loss, but the sound of the explosion will also immediately warn the devils. But after all, the devil didn't want to completely block the channel, so there was still a not narrow passage left in the mine array, and the frogmen sent by Hu Weidong also figured out the location of the mines while measuring the depth of the enemy's mine protection net, so that the seven destroyers could be unimpeded......)

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