On the dark and slump sea, waves and clouds surged together. The wind blew through the woods and rolled up the sound of waves.

The Japanese heavy artillery position located on the counter-sloping position on the north side of the former Huajun No. 1 Fortress was silent at this moment. A few days ago, the summer storm had just swept across the main island of Ryukyu. The Japanese heavy artillery, who was about to attack, suddenly became messy and worked hard for a few days like crazy. Finally, they were safely over without much loss. After fighting for a day in the day, these artillery soldiers were exhausted, and they were all exhausted and were about to die of exhaustion and had already rested early.

In the anti-aircraft gun position, there were only a few gunners on duty dozing. The surrounding army checkpoints and patrols were quite attentive. Although everyone knew that the Chinese army had been surrounded and were airtight, the habitual obedience and seriousness of the Japanese soldiers still drove these equally exhausted soldiers to do their best to fulfill their duties.

On the heavy artillery position, the huge steel barrel of Wupeng pierced the sky, next to it was a crane of the hanging shells. In the distant hidden part, the launching medicine bag was covered with layers of rainproof canvas, loaded on a trolley, connecting the various gun positions with guide rails. The giant canvas were neatly shaped and covered with rainproof cloth. The gunners slept like a dead pig in the reinforced artillery station. The continuous fighting really made these most tenacious soldiers unable to resist the invasion of fatigue.

Four kilometers east of the Japanese artillery position.

Under the coastal cliffs, four ghostly ships are anchored on the dark sea surface. They are the latest Shark Four submarines of the Chinese army. This multi-functional submarine with the largest tonnage and the longest range can undertake various tasks such as reconnaissance, mine laying, and breaking. The standard displacement is as high as 640 tons, the maximum water speed is 12 knots and the six knots underwater can carry thirty two voltage mines. But this time, they are carrying fully armed Marines.

On the lookout for the submarine numbered Fish-249, the captain Xue Hailong held the telescope with his hand and watched the rubber boats go away. Finally, he waited for the faint light on the shore, and the tense muscles on his face relaxed a little.

"Send to the Fog Shadow Number, the Crocodile has landed."

This special force set out from the secret cave reservoir of Kaohsiung Military Port, Taiwan four days ago, detoured from the southern line, and took nearly 100 hours of sailing. With the help of submarine support ships, it finally traveled more than 700 nautical miles to the northern part of Ryukyu. Along the way, relying on the warning of airships, it finally escaped the relatively loose early warning line of the Japanese army on the southern line, carrying 240 marines here.

There were six ships when they set off. One of them abandoned the boat due to a failure in the middle of the journey, and the other had a host failure. They were loaded with rescued personnel and returned early by towed by the destroyer who came to support. Only these four ships arrived safely.

The hardships along the way, how many blood and tears, enduring the hellish sufferings such as lack of oxygen, evaporation of diesel and engine oil, excessive carbon dioxide content, stuffiness, dizziness, etc. when hidden underwater, finally arrived at the destination.

Fortunately, in order to attack Fort No. 2, the main force of the Japanese fleet had been transferred to the Nago Bay, which was inevitable for Fort No. 2. The accompanying anti-submarine patrol forces such as destroyers and speedboats also reached the south, and the cordon line in the north also revealed gaps.

Their mission was to destroy the Japanese heavy artillery positions and force them to delay or even give up their general attack plan for the No. 2 Fortress.

In the early morning...twenty.

Chen Jiongming, the battalion commander of the First Battalion of Land War, who was promoted to lieutenant colonel because of Beijing's rebellion, turned on the flashlight, turned off the flashlight, and painted his face around him as if the bottom of a pot, with only two eyes still shining, Zhao Sheng, the company commander of the company, said softly: "Everyone, everyone, for the following table, now... thirty-four minutes, twenty-six minutes, look at me, you can start together, the maximum rate of fire, five minutes of firepower attack, and then go immediately."

Zhao Sheng nodded and made a gesture. A group of soldiers followed him and disappeared silently in the forest.

Chen Jiong has arrived at the pre-determined battle position. This is a clearing in the forest. The airship has taken photos before. Although it is unclear, the positional relationship with the Japanese heavy artillery positions has been calculated. What he has to do is to adjust the eight eighty-one millimeter mortars brought based on the pre-calculated shooting elements to achieve the most accurate and dense firepower coverage.

There were eight mortars and five hundred shells. The shells were all detonating bullets with special injections, and the picy acid ** in the warhead were also added with additional combustion aids such as rubber and aluminum.

The same is true for Zhao Sheng.

The Marines began to compact the foundation silently and skillfully, set up the base plate and tripod, install the cannon barrel, adjust the watch ruler, install the cannonballs, and everything was in order.

…Fifty.

In the direction of Fort No. 2, a violent and continuous explosion suddenly came, and the rumbling sound of cannons seemed to shake the world and cut through the silent night sky.

Chen Jiongming knew that the troops of the No. 2 Fortress began to launch restrained attacks as agreed, especially dispatching almost all the fortress heavy artillery to mobilize the Japanese troops to attract their attention, and create the most favorable situation for the team's raid.

An alarm sounded quickly on the Japanese artillery position, and the dazed Japanese artillery ran out with bare shirtless. These fierce samurai were no longer caring about anything else. The officers waved their sabers and shouted that since the Chinese dared to challenge His Majesty the Emperor's army at night, we would use the cannon to tell them what the real Yamato soul is.

The headquarters' phone number has arrived and ordered them to immediately start fighting back and suppress the Chinese artillery and smash the enemy's breakthrough.

After some agitation, the well-trained Japanese gunners had recovered their calmness and calmness, and fatigue and sleepiness were temporarily left behind. The ammunition players pushed the ammunition truck to the station as quickly as possible. The gunners lifted the cannon's rainproof canvas, rotated the handle, checked the loading room, gun barrel, gun bolt, and ammunition players installed fuses on the warhead, filled the launching medicine bag, and hoisted the shells. Each gun group successively stated that it was ready.

Major General Toyoshima Yozo, the commander of the Japanese artillery cluster, nodded majesticly, waved his hand down with white gloves, and clusters of flashes suddenly appeared. The flames at the muzzle were lit up as if huge torches were lit in the dark night. The Major General watched these giant bullets with high-curved ballistics cross the mountains and flew to the south, and his heart was full of pride.

Artillery is the god of war in the new era

The busy Japanese artillery had pulled the bolts and cleaned the pharmacy room. The ammunition hand had put the relay on the guide rails on the hanger, and everything was in order.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a sound of a complete sound came from the Major General's ears. He subconsciously looked up and saw that the dense explosion had filled his entire sight. Countless shells that came from nowhere exploded in the air, on the ground, on the stack of drug packs, on the ammunition truck, on the gun position

Countless explosion flashes suddenly illuminated the backscene positions in this valley like daytime. In the explosion flames, the flames rolled wherever the splashed flames went, and the broken limbs and arms were flying in the night sky. The major general had not yet figured out what was going on. A 280-mm heavy bomb that was pushed by the explosion and flew around him, blowing his place into a huge pit, and all the members of the command post were dead.

The Japanese heavy artillery position fell into a hysterical frenzy.

Not only the power of the incoming shells, but also the strange charges that splashed everywhere, causing a raging fire but could not be extinguished, but even more terrifying, these explosions and fires ignited the launching medicine packs densely placed next to the artillery position (large-caliber shells and launching medicine must be packaged separately, otherwise they cannot be loaded. In addition, the range can be adjusted by adjusting the number of launching medicine packs). The explosion further detonated the giant bullet warheads that had been installed with fuses. The violent explosion, high temperature, and fire finally triggered a more terrifying explosion: the neatly placed shell fuses were detonated first, and the neatly placed warheads finally began a big explosion under the high temperature and flames. For a moment, the warheads flew around, and everywhere they went, the ground was cracked and the entire heavy artillery position was trapped in a doomsday nightmare.

At the same time, the Japanese anti-aircraft gun positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions on the top of the mountain were also attacked by artillery fire. The anti-aircraft gun positions and anti-aircraft machine guns were overturned by violent explosions. The surviving shooter screamed and rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames that seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. A personal fire man screamed and struggled in the sea of ​​fire, and the rain of bullets that came from somewhere seemed to have made up his mind to completely destroy everything here, and was still tilting the deadly firepower with a high-curve trajectory.

The Japanese infantry patrol outside looked at the terrifying everything, until the officers leading the team screamed hysterically, and as if crazy as if they were going crazy, they took them aimlessly to search for the enemy's artillery in the dense forest. The bone-broken fear of the artillery soldiers who had already submerged the officers. They knew that they had no choice but to apologize.

At this moment, four dark figures suddenly appeared from afar in the night sky. These four airships arrived over the No. 2 Fortress a day ago, as if they were just artillery school firing missions. At the moment when the Japanese army's air defense firepower was weakest, they finally revealed their original purpose.

These terrifying floating monsters first visited the already messy Japanese air defense position, bombing indiscriminately, and then rushed to the Japanese heavy artillery position. Twenty-five kilograms of incendiary bombs poured on this Shura hell like hail, as if they had made up their minds and didn't want to let go of any dead corner.

The carriages, baggage, school balloon parking stations and ammunition depots of the Japanese heavy artillery and fortress artillery were all shrouded in the sea of ​​fire, and the explosion of smoke pillars was hundreds of meters high.

Above the mountains, a Japanese army lieutenant looked at all this with tears in his face, and the saber in his hand fell to the ground. He took out his pistol in despair and pointed it at his temple with a shot.

In the jungle, two teams of fierce soldiers with dark bodies were carrying all their equipment and even shell shells, and they were walking quickly. The residual heat of those shells and cannon barrels was still burning their skin through the thick insulation layer of the backpack.

Twenty minutes later, the northeast coast.

Chen Jiongming and Zhao Sheng looked at each other, nodded, and each called the troops to board the rubber boat. Soon, small boats rowed off the coast.

There are many people alone.

Another perfect battle.

Chen Jiongming looked back at the night sky as gorgeous as a fireworks party in the distance, and his heart felt burning.

On the submarine Shark-49.

Captain Xue Hailong quietly looked at the sea in the distance, thinking in his mind.

After such a big fuss, the Japanese ships around them will definitely start searching wildly, because this inexplicable fire may have come from the sea.

But Xue Hailong was not worried too much. The four submarines were backed by a densely-wooded stone cliff, about 600 meters away from the sea. The explosion flashed in the distance, and due to the existence of the low cliffs and jungles, it could not project obvious reflections on the low submarine. This was another dark night without light. The dark clouds covered the moon. The submarine's diesel engine was not turned off, but could set sail at any time. The waves of sea waves rolled up by the wind and the sound of gunfire from afar covered the sound of the turbine.

The well-trained Marines had arrived at the side of the ship one by one, and the inflatable rubber boat was folded and sent in. Xue Hailong breathed a sigh of relief and was about to turn around and leave. The lookout beside him suddenly shouted in a low voice: "One or two, searchlight...Destroyer two, three or five or four!"

Xue Hailong's heart suddenly grabbed tightly. He hurriedly looked at his friend's submarine, waving his arms a few times at the opposite side, and pulled the lookout into the cabin without looking back. The lookout closed the hatch cover and locked it.

Xue Hailong had already started to yell as soon as he entered the cabin: "The water filling depth of the main water cabinet is 2, the direction is 23 o, and accelerate to the second battle speed."

The black hull gradually began to hide in the sea water, leaving only the watchtower. As it gradually moved away from the coastline, the watchtower gradually submerged into the water. The 840-ton submarine only left the periscope floating on the water and slowly rotated.

Xue Hailong breathed a sigh of relief.

The other three submarines also set sail in time with the submarine. The entire formation will meet with the Fog Shadow at the designated location according to the established plan, and then return to Keelung Military Port. The two Japanese destroyers that suddenly appeared were still sweeping searchlights aimlessly, and obviously did not find the Chinese submarine force.

A critical moment

If the Japanese searchlights are locked and discovered by the submarines, the dense gun firepower is enough for them to drink a pot of these unarmored submarines. Once damaged, with their fourteen-knot surface speed, they cannot escape at all. They can only break the net or surrender. Even if they are not discovered by the searchlights, if the distance is too close, the depth of the water here cannot be dived deep, and the sound of the turbine will be discovered by the Japanese, it will be very troublesome.

The biggest problem is that the submarine combat power of the Chinese Empire must not be exposed. This is a major situation that concerns the success or failure of the national war.

"Fifteen meters deep, turn to 29 o, the second battle is speedy, and the end."

After issuing the order, Xue Hailong felt soft all over. The hard work and worrying for several days have made him frivolous and dizzy. The deputy captain next to him smiled: "Old Xue, go and have a good rest, I'll do it."

"When it's safe, the news came out," Xue Hailong grinned, "The Japanese cuisine tastes good, and I've finished it."

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At the same time, Mikasa.

Prince Sakai Fushimiya and Yoshiichi Tanaka were speechless.

"What's going on with the navy?" Inoue Mitsuko, the commander of the 12th Division who rushed to the Southern Army Command, asked fiercely, "Where did these people come from? Did the Chinese army in the south sneak cross the blockade line by boat?"

"The navy's blockade is very tight. It must be that your army was not good for the Chinese army's blockade in the No. 2 Fortress, which allowed their troops to infiltrate." The chief of staff of the Joint Fleet Soo Shimamura retorted, "These shells have high ballistics, obviously not naval guns, but Chinese mortars. There are airships, and the anti-aircraft gun positions belong to your army. How did your patrols and air defense do it?"

"Enough." Prince Shizuai Fushimiya roared, "Don't argue anymore. This time, both the army and the navy have to apologize, we are both sinners of the empire."

He turned to the commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet, Togo Heihachiro, who had been silent: "Commander-in-chief of Togo, our headquarters will give a serious review on this battle. Please cooperate with the Navy."

Hirahachiro Togo nodded: "What the Prince and General said is very much, and the Navy will also carefully review it."

He looked at the pale-faced Akiyama Manoya and Shimamura Soo, then looked at Inoue Hiroshi, and a group of fire-defying Army and Navy staff members, and calmly poured each of them a cup of coffee: "Okay, everyone. Have some coffee."

"Your Excellency" an army adviser couldn't help but roar, "When is it now?"

"What else do you want to do? The cannon has been destroyed." Hirahachiro Togo looked at him calmly, "We have done everything we can do, but things have happened. The war has to continue, and it depends on us. What we have to do now is drink a cup of coffee and calm our minds down."

He patted the soldiers on the shoulders one by one: "Okay, it's just that the Chinese caught us off guard and lost some artillery. The joint fleet is still there, and the divisions are also there. The battle is just a delay. This time we suffered a loss, and the next time we will be retrieved from the Chinese."

Tanaka Yoshino nodded: "The Chief Togo is very saying. Everyone, cheer up. Although there are no heavy artillery, we still have loyal and brave imperial athletes and our joint fleet. We support them with naval guns, and with our Yamato Soul, there is no fortress that cannot be captured."

When the army officers heard this, their faces calmed down a lot.

Akiyama Matsuyuki took the coffee and took a sip. Shimamura Suo, who was next to him, patted his shoulder lightly. Akiyama Matsuyuki understood and the two walked out of the commander's tower and went down to the deck.

Shimamura Suo looked at Yuntian Port in the distance and sighed: "We are passive in the Battle of Okinawa."

Akiyama Matsu nodded.

"It may not make much sense to continue to entangle in Yuntian Port." Shimamura Suo said, "If the Chinese people can sit and watch Fortress No. 1 be destroyed, they may not care about Fortress No. 2. This time they destroyed our heavy artillery and our battles are difficult."

"Looking at the army's appearance, it seems like it is ready to attack." Akiyama Masao frowned slightly, "The battle at Fortress No. 1 is too tragic. I'm afraid this time..."

"These Changzhou Malus are not trying to use a victory to cover up this time's shame and humiliation with a victory. Unfortunately, I can guess that the base camp will definitely approve it. Those people..." Shimamura Suo smiled bitterly, "But it's not that pessimistic. After all, the heavy artillery has caused heavy losses to the Chinese people's artillery in the past two days. Speaking of which, this time, supporting heavy artillery depends on the fleet."

"It's a pity that the elevation angle of our naval guns is not enough," Akiyama Matsuyuki said with a frown, "" he is still a little helpless to the Chinese artillery."

"That's a fight. You can't watch those red deer fight with human flesh, right?" Shimamura Suo looked at Akiyama Matsuyuki and smiled slightly, "Akiyama, don't look at me like this. I don't have any natural hatred towards the army. Like us, they are fighting for the empire after all."

"In order to make these Malusano Changzhou sacrifice some Yamato athletes, our joint fleet must do it." Shimamura Soo waved his fist and grabbed Akiyama Matsuyuki's shoulder and shook it hard a few times. "Akiyama, cheer up and wait for us to launch a general attack. Maybe the Chinese fleet will come after that time, and we can send them to the bottom of the sea. The protagonist of this war is only our joint fleet."

Akiyama Masao looked at the veteran and nodded vigorously.

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On July 7, the headquarters of the Chinese Empire released a battle report. The defenders of the second fortress of the Ryukyu Yuntiangang fought tenaciously, raiding the Japanese heavy artillery positions in the midst of the encirclement, and completely wiped out the fifth Japanese army heavy artillery corps, achieving a complete victory. The whole country was jubilant and suppressed for a long time took to the streets again, burning the Japanese flag and the emperor's dummies in groups. In the public rental land in Shanghai, Japanese expatriates closed their doors, like rats crossing the street. Many people met arrogant Chinese youth and had to call themselves Koreans in order to get away with it.

On the same day, the Japanese Imperial Camp released a war report. The brave imperial army defeated the attempt of the Chinese army fortress defenders on the night before, and the Chinese army that occupied Okinawa was destroyed only day and night.

On July 8, the captain of the Third Battalion of the 46th Regiment of the 12th Infantry Division, who was responsible for protecting the heavy artillery positions, Major Junjiro Kimizu committed suicide by separatism. Below the captain of the 46th Regiment, forty-six officers withdrew from the army and transferred to the reserve service.

On July 8, the Japanese-Russian joint fleet and land artillery began to violently bombard the Yuntiangang Haigong Fortress, destroying many places. Two Japanese and Russian destroyers were sunk, and the light cruiser "Kingang" was severely damaged. The 50th Matsumoto, the 59th Utsunomiya United, the 24th Fukuoka, and the 48th Kurumi United, a total of more than 10,000 people launched a general attack.

By July 10, the Japanese army occupied the southern line of Yusaki and the northern line of Yusaki gradually surrounded the inner circle defense line of the Chinese army with Triangle Mountain and Yaetsu as the core at the astonishing cost of more than 3,200 casualties.

On the same day, the 15th Division of the Japanese Army landed in Kadena, northwest of Shuri, Ryukyu Island...

Century Empire Chapter 61 Dark Night Fire Rain (Text)
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