Chapter 407: The River Flow

(...In the history of naval warfare in the world, which country has regarded relying on manpower to pull mines to hit enemy ships as a conventional tactic? No, there is no in the world, only China, the Chinese Navy can do this!... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The night is melting, and the summer steeps the smell of the river into the air. When you sit on the boat, you can smell the unique fishy sweetness, which is a bit like blood.

"Oh wow!" A soldier suddenly lay on the side of the small wooden boat and vomited...

"What's going on? Are you sick?...Don't be too nervous..." The squad leader and the navy water diverter rushed over immediately.

"Why do you look like seasick?" The navy water digger looked at the soldier who had just temporarily transferred from the 187th Division in confusion. Under the moonlight, it was still visible that his face was green and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

"I said, Heizi, if you are sick, say it earlier. If you don't come, no one will say you are timid; but now..." The squad leader gritted his teeth: "Still hold on, you can only hold on; if the fight starts later, you have to fight, do you understand? If you can't kill all the Japanese, we will have no way out!"

The water diversion officer touched the soldier's head with his hand and gave him a pulse: "It's really like seasickness. Why aren't your soldiers all have good water properties? They are still seasick?"

"Of course, this is more important than that? Don't think that your navy is good at water. If you dive, you may not necessarily swim quickly..." The Army squad leader replied.

"Squad leader, stop talking, I...I can't do anything about water..." "Heizi" spoke.

What? Can't water?! Everyone on the boat was stunned!

"What are you doing if you can't do water!? Embarrassing!" The squad leader was so angry that he wanted to kick "Heizai" into the water...

"Didn't you say to recruit soldiers with good water quality? Why are even land ducks coming?" The navy water digger was so amused and crying.

"Didn't you say you want to jump onto the enemy's boat to fight? It's not a big problem if you don't know how to water..." "Heizi" forced himself to stop vomiting, but he clearly swallowed the gulp of something surging back into his stomach, and it was obvious that he was dizzy and embarrassed.

"Bad! What are you trying to do? The boats are burnt out, the only possibility that you can go back alive is swimming! Your mother is too old to be long..." The squad leader whispered and cursed.

"Brother! Even if you can fight on the deck, no one will help you when you go back in the diving; you must know that you are a brother who is harmful to you. Others may take you for a while and you will not be able to return to the shore!" The water digger grabbed Heizi: "Do you want your brothers to leave you to the enemy for a lifetime or what?"

"No...no..." "Heizi" said with a panic look on his face: "That is... the recruits' supplementary battalion was set aside a few days off before the start of the departing. Our neighbors who served in the street came back and said they didn't want to go back because they were afraid of going to the battlefield. That's why I made a name for myself... I want to kill the Japanese!"

What!? In addition to not being able to do water, he has not even trained for recruits? God! How did this brother come to the army?

"Some people don't want to go to the battlefield, so they spend money to pay; each of the recruitment department and the recruit training battalion commanders can get a sum at our house, so he can go home and stay." "Heizi" said: "This is very common in the Guangdong army. There are always one or two people who are fond of the twenty or thirty people... But I didn't come for the money, I was for the fight against the Japanese..."

"Heizi" has a very ordinary story: an ordinary foreign businessman came home and saw a scene that made him feel heartbroken. His home was hit by a Japanese bomb. The family that hid at home and did not go out were all buried in the ruins! He was stunned on the spot, his hands and feet were cold and numb, and he didn't know how to do anything. He watched a group of neighbors and fire brigade police dug out the ruins, watched the clump of gray hair appear in the mud and sand, and the corpse that had not yet been stagnant yet was pulled out... The last one was found

His wife, whose belly had just begun to rise after half a year, was pressed under the big bed, and she was crushed to death. When she dug it out, she was bleeding from her eyes and lower body... In this way, he volunteered to take others to the front line. Although he had never practiced before, he saw many soldiers in Guangzhou and knew the pace. He practiced his gun very seriously and passed the new recruits assessment at the Wuhan Soldier Station. When Heizai knew that there was a big battle to recruit soldiers with good water qualities as suicide squads, he signed up because he didn't think about coming back alive.

"... When I arrived in Wuhan, I followed the officials from Nanjing that my brothers were shot and killed by the Japanese who were catching up in the water with guns like ducks. With me, I won't, everyone will dive into the water and go back again. I won't leave. I will fight the Japanese..." The last sentence of "Heizi" was said, and everyone was silent; because of the mood, and because they had cut into the Japanese fleet!

This is a small behind-the-scenes scene of the death squad in the second navy. Under the leadership of two torpedo boats, they pretended to be Japanese transport fleets and sneaked into the Japanese fleet in black. When the attack began, they would run to the Japanese ships for suicide attacks. Some pretended to be the attacked ship as long as it was sunk and arrived on the enemy ships that rescued with explosives. Some put two mines into the water and then hit the enemy ships with the last mine... No one told them that the shock wave generated by a mine could kill people in the water hundreds of meters away! It was said that people with good water carrying properties would have a chance to go back, but is there really a chance? Yes, less than one in ten thousand!

"Boom!" A loud bang suddenly came from a faraway place, and a ball of fire rushed straight into the sky! It was a mine set up by a team in front of the enemy fleet that exploded, and the battle began!

Far away, almost six or seven kilometers away, there were constant explosions. Almost the mines that had just arrived in the water less than fifty meters in the Japanese fleet dispersed under the impact of the river and rushed towards the Japanese fleet! There was no way to avoid it. When the Japanese thought it was accidentally touching the mine, four ships had been bombed, and a small traffic motorboat was blown up by a big explosion and disintegrated in the air above the top of the waves!

The Japanese ships behind them were calm. They just drove back but their formation was not messy at all... They were not messy, and the two Chinese Navy suicide squads that had sneaked into the fleet took action; the Chinese torpedo boats that had sneaked into the Japanese fleet began to attack the enemy at a distance of dozens of meters!

"Hit! Hit! Hit!..." Every torpedo hit, and the captain didn't have to listen to the reward. The explosion was right in front of him. The huge waves caused by the explosion could even roll the officers and soldiers on the deck of the torpedo boat into the river!

The dead soldiers in the water tried their best to turn on the torpedo on their ships and pushed them into the water, but everyone did not forget to hang the last one on the bow of the ship and crashed into the nearby warship!

"I will die!" The heroic shouts that had been shouted in the army all over the country resounded across the river. This time it was shouted by the officers and soldiers of the navy. The shouts were so loud that they could still hear clearly in the constant explosions!

"Boom!" As the huge fireball rose, the first wooden boat with mines hit a Japanese cruiser; at the most brilliant moment, you can see the shadow of the small wooden boat suddenly becomes extremely dazzling, and then it is destroyed in the dazzling light!

The torpedo, a wooden boat with mines hanging on the bow of the boat, was pushed at will and mines floating everywhere in the river... The crazy attack of the Chinese Navy's suicide squad reached the highest point in an instant, and the entire area of ​​nearly ten kilometers long water was full of explosions and flames. The surface of the river has become a burning hell!

The Japanese ships could not figure out where the attack came from. They could not determine whether they were hit by the floating mines or other attacks. The giant ships that were targeted were already shot... It must be that there were enemies attacking within the fleet! The Japanese finally woke up, but it was too late. They could only transfer a large number of naval soldiers to the deck to control close-fire weapons. No matter how many ships were seen, they would open fire! The first thing they were to bear was countless Japanese transport wooden ships that wanted to rely on warships to protect the crisis. Countless wooden ships were directly dismembered by machine guns and heavy machine guns!

"Boom!" The mines near the water exploded again. The Japanese warship that turned around hit the mines themselves. The huge explosion caused the originally injured destroyer to sank suddenly, causing the officers and soldiers of the Chinese and Japanese armies who were floating on the water surface in this area to stop swimming... This is one of the countless scenes that happened simultaneously on this boiling river surface!

"...We choose people with good water properties because they want to cast mines and swim back..." Some warriors heard the words of their superiors in their ears after falling into the water. They believed in their water properties, but how many of them really understood that this was not possible? When the huge shock wave attacked the body, they were already unconscious, and their internal organs were shattered...

It was messy, it was messy! Various Japanese ships collided with each other in the river, encountered mines downstream, and were attacked by Chinese torpedo boats... Within two hours after the attack began, all large Japanese ships were eaten by mines or torpedoes, and some warships actually ate three or four mines, which were completely uncontrollable and were sank rapidly!

This time, the ships of the Japanese Third Fleet were entered into the Yangtze River waterway. The ships were relatively large, including cruisers and high-speed destroyers. When these large ships sank one after another, this section of the Yangtze River waterway was locked...

"Hang a mine and charge!" The Chinese Navy on the last torpedo boat was red-eyed. They were not exposed, but when they saw all the brothers hanging a mine and hit the enemy ship, they became crazy, and they didn't want to live or die, or at that time suicide became the strongest subconscious!

"Boom!..." The torpedo boat mounted on the mines hit a cruiser as he wished, and the huge momentum and explosion cut off the cruiser in half on the spot!

At four o'clock in the morning, it was the darkest time before dawn. Every warship on the river was torched and the river was shining red. Apart from the whistling sound of the river wind and the sound of the fire burning, there was no sound of help on the water surface...

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Chapter completed!