152 Race against the clock

The drone has been monitoring the movement of the enemy around Shanghai, and as Major General Ying Zuo complained to Wang Jingwei, there is a shortage of troops in Shanghai. There were at least 1,500 soldiers, in the direction that Lin Xiuxuan lured them, and they could see the rear of the enemy's pursuit team, as well as the radio side car with an ugly antenna, which was a high-end technical equipment for the Japanese army, and they thought that they could closely follow the opponent with this secret weapon, of course, without this thing, Lin's electronic deception would not be easy to do. It can be seen that after the last pursuit, the enemy did not learn any lessons, and simply hit the south wall without looking back.

The drone deliberately made a detour to the southwest of the enemy, again leading the enemy to Taihu Lake. Using a pod, it began to simulate the signal modulation signatures of the previously recorded active radio stations lurking in Shanghai, repeatedly using false call signs and fictitious content to mobilize the enemy.

Of course, Qin Xiaosu was not idle during this time, and he easily deciphered several sets of codes of Chongqing Radio, including the complex encryption code used by the agents lurking in Shanghai to report intelligence, and the relatively simple password used for the mobilization of the national army in the Taihu Lake area.

In addition to eavesdropping on the movement of the national army in Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu and Jiangxi, these passwords are actually useless, and they do not appear in the part related to the mention of the special team in the national army radio, which is indeed a bit disappointing to Lin Xiuxuan, who seems to be far less sensitive than Hu Yuexin, or they have other channels to report this part of the news.

No. 419 can well simulate the relatively backward British AM radio used by the Loyal National Salvation Army, as well as simple encryption. In addition, it is necessary to imitate the non-standard use habits of these radio stations, sometimes they use passwords, sometimes send reports in clear code; Qin Xiaosu didn't know if the Japanese army had the ability to decipher these codes, but even if they didn't, it was enough for the enemy to measure the direction of the station.

The inevitable negative effect is that it may bring some trouble to the Taihu guerrillas, of course, the main forces of the loyal salvation army are not currently in the guerrilla area.

From a few days ago, 419 noticed that the Kuomintang guerrillas in Taihu Lake had begun to move towards the Liyang and Jintan areas in southern Jiangsu, and judging from the intercepted telegrams of the Nationalist army, they were preparing to move closer to the 62nd Division of the Leng Xin Division of the Nationalist Army there, waiting for an opportunity to engage in friction with the New Fourth Army in the anti-Japanese base areas in southern Jiangsu. According to historical records, this friction did not work out in the end (if history has not changed), and the center of activity of the New Fourth Army gradually shifted to northern Jiangsu.

From the 8th hour after 419 launched the electronic spoofing, the national army radio stations lurking around Shanghai gradually began to stop transmitting, presumably because they received a large number of strange communications on the communication channel informing the location of their troops, so they began to notice the problem (partly because the battery ran out after the blackout), and may be forced to change the codebook. There is no doubt that the ripples of historical interference have spread, and on the bright side, they have completely disrupted the deployment of the Kuomintang's recalcitrant army, and thwarted its plan to attack Jurong.

On the contrary, the underground party radio stations hiding in the concession only reduced the number of telegrams, but they made contact once or twice a day, and judging from the content of the communications and measurements, the head office had already left Shanghai and temporarily took refuge in the area of Yangcheng Lake, which was adjacent to the Jiangnan headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Liyang, and was surrounded by rivers and rivers, which was indeed suitable for a while, and in fact, it was also very close to the area where the boatswain parked his boat.

On Lin Xiuxuan's side, since Wang Jingwei and Chen Gongbo left, the alert level of the puppet army was suddenly reduced tenfold, and he began to move his heart and eyes, considering whether he should go back early.

Of course, the start of the factory is the first priority, and secondly, he also wants to contact Ma Xiaodi as soon as possible and hand over the rescued people to the underground party, he knows that the underground party is also in a hurry, otherwise Ma Xiaodi would not have ventured to the factory yesterday. However, depending on the situation, it is too early for him to go back himself. It must be taken into account that he has a portrait in the hands of the Japanese, immediately passing through the enemy's heavily guarded area, which is obviously very inappropriate, and now his action team is either hiding in the puppet government building or far away from Jiangsu, and it seems that only Shuping's production team and the Meteor can be dispatched.

The Meteor, which is more than 1,000 tons, is almost a burden compared with the small anti-smuggling boat flying the flag of Wang Puppet Customs. Considering that Shanghai is a city that never sleeps, it is difficult for such a large ship to let go of its hands and feet and move freely on the Huangpu River, and every voyage has a huge risk of being noticed, but it happened that there was a power outage today, the river was pitch black, and the Japanese warships along the river moved downstream (air raid exercises), and only a searchlight of probability theory on the opposite bank swept back and forth across the river.

The Meteor did not hang any flags and has been moored at the berth of the Sixteen Shop warehouse, but it is actually only a few kilometers away from the shipyard in a straight line, bypassing Lujiazui. There are many ships in this area, but it is easy to hide. Originally, the port authority of the concession authorities regularly inspected the ships on the berths, but because of the sudden power outage, there was a great chaos in the concession, and no one cared about this big ship without a flag, no flag, and no registration for the time being.

After the bombing of the Yangshupu shipyard, the whole of Shanghai was completely in chaos, except for the large hotels with their own generators, which were still brightly lit, all basic facilities were suspended, trams and street lights were never restored, and the Japanese blockade of all the bridges over the Suzhou Creek caused a shortage of agricultural products; Even the race, which had been a fixture for the day, was terminated.

In the event of a power outage, the newspapers were printed in the early hours of the next day, and in this troubled era, the printing houses in the concession usually had backup power in case of emergencies.

Shu Ping also followed Lin's meaning, and when he couldn't see people's faces clearly in the evening (there were no street lights), he went around looking for a few newsstands and bought a few major newspapers to collect information.

The propaganda war in the concession has begun, and the editors-in-chief have rolled up their sleeves one after another to personally go down to fight for the guidance of public opinion. Instead, the overwhelming attention of foreign news agencies focused on the diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan, and there was no big coverage of the largest power outage ever in Shanghai, as well as the fire at the Japanese headquarters.

For the newspapers controlled by Wang's puppet, this news battle was extremely difficult, because the explosion accurately hit the Japanese military headquarters, and changed the rough style of the previous Chongqing side: every attack may not kill the Japanese, but it will inevitably kill and injure a civilian. So it's hard to make a big fuss about injuring innocent people by mistake; So in the morning issue of July 27, all kinds of patriotic newspapers cheered the victory, and the limelight overshadowed them, and only then did they think of a breakthrough point and prepare to make a fuss about the blackout.

The evening issue on the day of the new declaration published a signed article by Chen Gongbo on the front page: "Only a Rogue Government Will Attack a Power Plant."

The article points out that people who originally had illusions about Chongqing should immediately sober up and not think that they are still drinking the water of a river, and that they are still their own people on the other side of the river. The Yangshupu power plant had no military use, and it was clear that it was supplying electricity to the peaceful hospitals, schools, and factories on both sides of the Suzhou Creek, but the Chongqing government sent agents to blow up the power plant without need, with the sole purpose of showing that it still existed and could still exert coercion on the people here......

Shu Ping was bored, so he took pictures of these newspapers with his camera and uploaded them to the drone, he knew that there was no intelligence value, but Team Leader Lin was squatting in a hole in the ground, and he might need these things to relieve his boredom. Taking advantage of the shutdown, he revisited the plan and made a new design for the thermal neutron shield after the fuel rods were raised, which could greatly reduce the man-hours of machining some minor metal parts in the original plan, and now he is waiting to return to the factory to complete the idea.

On the night of July 27, the drone observed that the conveyor belt carrying coal at the Yangshupu power plant began to turn, and the chimney began to smoke again, which was a precursor to the restoration of power. Shu Ping suggested to Lin that he take advantage of the darkness on the river and then drive the boat back, and he would be responsible for intelligence gathering and parts production. Lin hesitated and agreed to his suggestion.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, the Meteor quietly left the berth like a ghost, and Shu Ping himself took the helm, and in the darkness, sailed to the shipyard not far away.

In this era, sailing on the river must be brightly lit and the whistle must be constantly sounded to avoid collisions, in fact, there are still many Chinese wooden ships that are knocked over by foreign freighters and warships on the Huangpu River every year. However, the Meteor does not need to worry about this, his night vision equipment and temporarily installed navigation radar allow it to drive as usual in the dark.

Several black canopy wooden boats on the river took advantage of the dark night to smuggle big smoke, until they heard the rumbling sound of the engine, they saw a big boat approaching, and they were so frightened that they quickly turned around. Shu steered steadily and did not pay attention to them. He calculated the period of the rotating searchlight on the 60-meter-high fire tower in Pudong sweeping across the river, and operated the huge cargo ship to deftly avoid the searchlight, and finally bypassed Lujiazui and returned to the shipyard, blowing up the Japanese headquarters in only 48 hours.

The factory was empty, Shu Ping and his people re-entered the workshop, ready to start, half an hour, the power was suddenly restored, they immediately began to produce the last shielding part, because it was too late to process some more secondary, more special shape of the lead plate, this era can not find radiation protection grade resin materials, he is ready to produce a batch of cement containing borax and special alkaline earth metal, used to close some less important positions, he calculated several times, enough to prevent the main shield leakage of trace fast neutrons, The plasticity of cement makes it far easier than metalworking. This probably compensates for the 48 hours wasted in this rescue plan.