New Warlords 1909

But soon.The point storm of export tax.Soon there was silence.Because of the secret agents who have never shown their faces in public.Take action in the autonomous region.Many Japanese businessmen were arrested.Some property was confiscated.property is temporarily sealed.What is confiscated is espionage in the autonomous region.And those who aid in the civil war.The ones that were sealed up were those with minor crimes.All trials are strictly in accordance with the law.Except for a small number of espionage cases involving secrets.Most are tried in public.Let the initial chaos in the Autonomous Region.Soon to subside.

Just when major newspapers were commenting on espionage cases in the autonomous region.maritime.Sea wolves are breaking through the waves.Watch all prey vigilantly.

"Alarm. Merchant fleet found!" W-0 boat bridge conning tower.The second duty watch officer yelled at the submarine.

The entire submarine sprang into action.The captain immediately climbed up to the conning tower.Pick up the binoculars and watch.Sure enough, it was a merchant fleet.There are five merchant ships.The largest merchant ship probably weighed tens of thousands of tons.The smallest merchant ship.There are three thousand tons.Hanging national flag.Impressively Japanese nationality.

"Big prey!" W-0 chief Pan Hong said excitedly.As a transfer from the Jagged Military Academy to the Naval Academy.And he was selected as the interim captain of the submarine before he graduated, so eager for a victory.To determine his captain and rank!The last [-] naval battle.Because his submarine was far away, he didn't get any results.Since the sea hunting operation started.This is the first time large game has been spotted here.But he also understood.Submarines practice wolf pack action.a submarine.Obviously, it can't eat such a large prey.

"Immediately telegraph the other wolves. Quickly approach me!" Pan Hong ordered quickly.

"Yes!"

"All gunners in position. Torpedoes ready. Get into combat position immediately!" A second order came closer.

All sailors move quickly.The sailors in the torpedo bay hoisted the mines into the launch tubes shouting, and the deck gunners did it quickly.Load and load.Spare shells were also brought out.Always be ready.The engine starts to rev up.Under the command of the captain, sail to the best standby attack position.

Although Hua Fei issued a sea blockade order, there were real problems with his navy.It does not block the entire East China Sea.Monitor merchant ships bound for Japan.In order to make the only few submarines play the biggest role.Hua Fei set the first hunting place in the busy northern sea of ​​the Taiwan Strait.And the target is mainly aimed at Japanese businessmen.And not a merchant ship bound for Japan because it is here.He couldn't tell the difference at all.

narrow Taiwan Strait.The average width is just over 100 nautical miles.Among them, the waterway is only a few tens of nautical miles.Eight submarines are deployed here.Each boat only needs to monitor the sea surface of less than ten nautical miles.Once the prey is found.Then at least two boats rushed to support at the fastest speed.

After the W-0 telegram has just been sent out.He quickly received a call back from the friendly army.They, too, had just spotted their prey heading toward their location at high speed.

Due to the slow speed of the submarine, the highest cruise speed on the surface of the water does not exceed ten knots.So after spotting the ship.They adopt a predetermined tactic to keep sailing with merchant ships.Delay contact time with merchant ships.Wait for other submarines to come to support.Then encircle the entire merchant fleet

Inside the bridge cockpit of a merchant ship.The presence of submarines ahead was also detected.It just makes them wonder.The submarine kept sailing in the same direction as them.Only a small number of Japanese merchant ships had been captured before.And the captain of the merchant ship also knew Hua Fei's sea closure decree.So he ordered to turn to the island of Taiwan.Increase sailing speed.At the same time, a telegram was sent to Taiwan Island.Call for naval assistance.

Pan Hong saw it.Secret channel is not good.Immediately send a telegram to the other wolves.At the same time, they turned to fire warning shots at the merchant ships.Order them to stop the ship.

Bang bang bang!

After a few cannon shots.Not only did those boats not slow down.Instead, it speeds up _,.Pan Hong was furious.Immediately issue an attack order.As merchant ships are turning.Expose the entire large side in front of the submarine's torpedo tubes.The distance is very close.Following Pan Hong's order.A torpedo hit the target accurately.

boom!Although it is a large merchant ship with tens of thousands of tons.But the hull of a merchant ship is far less thick than that of a warship.Even a battleship of more than 2 tons.It also cannot withstand the second torpedo bombing.What's more, a merchant ship that is far less than a battleship.

Get hit by this torpedo.The entire merchant ship broke into two pieces immediately.quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.The huge explosion frightened the other four merchant ships instantly.Because they found it from the telescope.Not only did a submarine on the side launch a torpedo that hit the fleet's largest merchant ship, the Honmaru.ahead.Two more submarines appeared.And also fired a warning.

See the remaining four merchant ships grounded.And played the semaphore of surrender.Only then did Pan Hongshi order to approach slowly.Several Sea Serpent commandos on the submarine.Take a rubber boat.Row to the merchant ship.Board the merchant ship.

soon.Five submarines rushed to 2 submarines 3. 1 Type 2 submarines.There are up to five Sea Serpents on each submarine.Board the Merchant Ship to take control of the entire Merchant Ship.

Witness the success of the Sea Serpent commando.Pan Hongshi heaved a sigh of relief.Although a 5.00-ton merchant ship was sunk this time, four merchant ships were successfully captured.They could only be successfully escorted back to Shanghai.According to the provisions of.Their submarines will be rewarded with a bonus of anywhere from [-]% to [-]% of the value of the supplies on board.

Serving as a soldier eats food.Honor is indeed indispensable.But economic stimulus.It's even more motivating.An important way to improve combat effectiveness is not that Hua Fei doesn't know how to use other methods to stimulate the combat effectiveness of soldiers.But he felt.These venerable soldiers'| fought bloody battles.loot.It is the fruit of their labor.They have a right to use.

rule the army.Not only strict discipline is required.Human consideration is also required.

174 Deep Strike

The Japanese merchant fleet did not come from Southeast Asia, but from far away.

What is loaded on the ship is not raw materials, but various latest machinery and equipment, including some research and teaching instruments, most of which are purchased from the ally, the United Kingdom.

When they first left Hong Kong from England, they heard that their country had declared war on Germany, and on the way they heard that they were at war with a warlord in China.This newly rising warlord in China even threatened to block the East China Sea and cut off all sea routes leading to Japan.This news undoubtedly seemed very ridiculous to the merchant marine.Except for the Imperial Japanese Navy, there is really no other company in the Far East that can block the entire East China Sea.

Although they later received news that several small merchant ships had been captured in the East China Sea, the merchant fleet did not care.They did not believe in the small navy of the Chinese warlords, and dared to attack them.Because of fears that the public would panic and the defeat in the September [-] naval battle, the Japanese cabinet still kept a high degree of concealment from the public.

So seeing Hua Fei's submarine force, you can imagine the surprise of the fleet.What shocked them the most was that the submarine did not agree with each other and sank the largest merchant ship in the fleet with a torpedo.

"Report to the captain, the captain sent an order to my boat and 201, 202, [-] to escort the fleet back to Hong Kong. He and the rest of the ships stayed behind to intercept the rescue warships coming from Taiwan!"

The captain was Deng Ci who made great achievements in the 204 naval battle. After the war, Deng Ci was awarded the first-class Sea Wolf Medal by Hua Fei himself.The entire W-[-] was awarded the collective first-class combat merit.This is the first first-class sea wolf medal since the establishment of the navy.Deng Ci took it for granted that he became the captain of the submarine force.

"Yes, order the whole ship to return!" Although Pan Hong wanted to stay and stop the Japanese navy who came to rescue Taiwan, he still quickly obeyed the order.

Important positions such as the command bridge and the telegraph room of the four merchant ships are monitored by members of the Sea Serpent Commando.The four submarines followed the merchant ship, sometimes surfacing and sometimes entering a submerged state.Three of the four submarines were Type II W-class submarines with deck guns.The existence of deck guns greatly deterred other ideas of merchant sailors.

At this time, the temporary combat command of the Japanese army in North Korea also received a distress signal from the merchant ship, but the combat command did not immediately send warships south.First, this is the critical period for transporting a large number of army escorts, so there must be no mistakes.Secondly, on the surface of the East China Sea, Hua Fei's navy laid minefields one after another, making them more dangerous the further they went to the southern waters.

The headquarters ordered the warships stationed in Taiwan to rush to rescue.Just ignore it.Compared to several merchant ships.Escort the army into Shandong.And finally win.It is the decisive influence of this battlefield.The Chinese did not take this opportunity to block them.Instead, go capture a few merchant ships.How stupid.

Submarines against merchant ships.Several destroyers and gunboats stationed in Taiwan.It's not Deng's opponent.After sinking a gunboat.The rescue team quickly withdrew to Keelung.No matter what the rescue mission is.If it wasn't for the submarine being too slow.Can't keep up.I'm afraid they are all wiped out.Not too much.

When Hua Fei received the news that the merchant ship had been captured.Especially when you see the list of supplies on the merchant ship.Immediately ecstatic.these machines.scientific research equipment.But they were all things he could not have wished for.An accidental hunt was not thought of.What a bountiful harvest.Don't say anything now.Those important scientific research instruments.All allocated to Academy of Sciences and Industrial Research Office.Those machinery and equipment and cargo ships.public auction.All proceeds were used for military expenses.Four sea ships.Very smoothly, it was won by Deep Blue Shipping under Hua Fei's name.

Thirty thousand Japanese army reinforcements arrived in Shandong.Plus more than 4 Japanese troops before.The total strength of the Japanese army in land warfare in Shandong has reached more than 7.And the Second Army of the Huafei National Defense Forces.The total strength of the Third Army is roughly the same.

October 29.The Japanese Army launched its first offensive after entering Shandong.A total of 18 people from the No. 5000 Division led by Kamio Mitsuomi stormed Jiaozhou.There were more than [-] Japanese troops in Jimo.At the same time launched an attack on Qingdao.In addition, there were [-] Japanese reinforcements in Pingdu.Also Bingfafang.The target is directed at the Second Army of the Wehrmacht Army.

The Qingdao German Navy had a battle with the Japanese Navy a few days ago.Several ships left by the German Far East Fleet.Accidentally made a big victory.A torpedo destroyer with a displacement of only 700 tons.Sunk the second-class Japanese coastal defense ship.The cruiser Jitakachiho with a displacement of more than [-] tons. (PSS this event is a historical fact)

More than 270 people including the captain of the Takachiho were killed in battle, and only 13 survived.The Japanese navy was furious and organized its forces to annihilate the German navy.The German governor Melvadek knew that the navy could not fight the Japanese army. After getting in touch with Hua Fei, the port of Qingdao was covered with mines overnight.Including the cruiser Empress Elizabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and gunboats such as Jager, Tucker, Lux, Ilkis, and Gollmoran all went south and entered Shanghai Port to avoid the Japanese attack.

During this period, two more submarines were launched, and they joined the combat troops directly without trial voyage.Because the deck guns of Type II submarines are often more deterrent than torpedoes when capturing merchant ships, and because torpedoes are expensive, deck guns are more cost-effective, so Type I submarines returned to port in rotation and urgently installed deck guns.

These days, the Huafeidi Seawolf troops have won many victories in the Taiwan Strait, sinking more than 20 Japanese merchant ships, totaling more than 37 tons.20 merchant ships were captured, with a total of 1000 tons, and the auction value of related materials reached 37 million Singapore dollars.However, the value of these 4000 merchant ships is far higher than the value of the goods. According to preliminary estimates, the scale is no less than [-] million Singapore dollars.

After this blow to Japan's shipping, the domestic market was greatly affected, which is one of the reasons why the Japanese army launched a general offensive in advance on the Shandong battlefield.On the other hand, a large number of Japanese merchant ships circled the Bashi Strait. At the same time, the Japanese Navy fleet began to go south, and the Seventh Squadron stationed in Keelung to strengthen the monitoring of the Taiwan Strait.The Eighth Fleet patrolled the waterway from the Taiwan Strait to Japan and provided mobile support at any time.

The plan to hunt in the single waters of the Taiwan Strait is already unreliable, and the Seventh Squadron stationed in Keelung has blocked the sea route in the Taiwan Strait, and many merchant ships in the autonomous region are also not allowed to pass through.Many goods can only be exported by foreign merchant ships, and the transportation cost has greatly increased.Fortunately, countries such as Britain and France are in short supply of supplies, so the impact on exports is limited.

Fang, Jeju, Qingdao and other frontlines launched a comprehensive defensive battle.A battle report once upon a time

Later, every day, you can see newsboys on the street shouting everywhere, extra numbers, extra numbers fighting, the offensive and defensive sides are tied, and the losses are heavy.

In addition, the Qingdao artillery battle lasted for three days and three nights, and the results of the battle are unknown.

On the other hand, the Jeju Third Army made a bold attack late at night and wiped out a battalion of the No. 20 Fourth Regiment of the Japanese Army.

On the other hand, the Sixth Division of the Second Army went deep into the enemy's rear and assaulted Pingdu.He was blocked by the main force of the Japanese army outside Pingdu and suffered heavy losses. The rest of the troops withdrew to Fang.

……

A battle report, there are joys and sorrows, and the battle situation is in a stalemate.The Japanese attack was very violent, and the pressure on the defenders was enormous.Fortunately, under the protection of trenches, barbed wire, and heavy machine guns, the Japanese army's charges were successfully defended again and again.

After several wars, the Japanese army lost more than half of their territory, so they had to slow down their offensive and start planning again.However, under the fierce artillery fire and tenacious attacks of the Japanese army, the loss of the defenders of the National Defense Forces was as high as more than 5000.Especially in the First Battle of the Sixth Division's assault on Pingdu, the direct loss of troops was as high as [-].

The assault on the Battle of Pingdu was an order from the General Staff Operations Department.Winning Pingdu will make the Japanese army on the battlefield in Shandong suffer from the enemy, cut off their supply lines, and thus completely end the battle.Therefore, when the battle situation was favorable to the National Defense Forces, the staff made a bold decision to attack.However, they did not expect the tenacity of the Japanese army, and underestimated the combat effectiveness of the new army, the Second Army.

As a brand-new army, they have been trained strictly on weekdays when defending positions, and their combat effectiveness can barely be maintained.But letting them rush to attack the city from a long distance, and encountering Japanese sniper attacks, it is already unexpected good news that the entire army was not wiped out.

Although the war can greatly stimulate the military production and economy of the autonomous region, the consumption caused by the war is indeed huge, which quickly surprised Hua Fei.In order to attack Shandong, Japan allocated a special military expenditure of 300 million yen.For the battle in Shandong, Hua Fei not only used up all the military expenditures for this year, but also advanced all the military expenditures for next year in advance.Through the parliament, a temporary emergency military expenditure of 1000 million Singapore dollars was allocated, plus 1000 million war bonds issued successively.Even under such circumstances, Hua Fei quickly rushed to the financial crisis.

If it wasn't for the materials captured by the submarine force successively, 1000 million Singapore dollars would have been auctioned, and nearly 37 large sea-going ships out of the 1000 captured Japanese merchant ships would have been auctioned by Deep Blue Shipping for [-] million new dollars at one time.I'm afraid that Hua Fei will submit another bill to the parliament to apply for special military expenses.So this is an important reason why although Hua Fei knew it was not very good, he still did not object to the General Staff's plan to assault Pingdu in the end.He felt that he needed to take risks, but the result told him again that this war against Japan might really not end soon.

At this time, the whole of China seemed to be quiet for an instant.Strikes, demonstrations, disputes, and land grabs all died down.Everyone's eyes and gazes were all on the Shandong battlefield.

When every battle report and every piece of battlefield news spread across the land of China through the Jagged Military News, all the experts, including the warlords from all over the country, were all stunned.This... is this really a battle in China?Is this really a squadron battle?