Chapter 358 Yongzhen Mountain River

Lushunkou.

There are crowds of people on Baiyu Mountain, and tens of thousands of people covered the foothills. From a distance, it looks as spectacular as a migrating ants. And among them, a white line extending from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain is particularly eye-catching!

The white line was made by thousands of young naval cadets wearing snow-white naval uniforms, holding their hands and raising their heads, and using their bodies to squeeze the straight road to the foot of the mountain. Since 1912, the navy funded by Yang Qiu has begun to expand rapidly. After Yantai Naval Academy (formerly Yantai New Beiyang Naval Academy), the Shanghai Naval Academy (formerly Nanyang Naval Academy) and the Fujian Naval Academy (formerly Fujian Naval Academy), and the larger and highest-level Zhoushan Naval University was also expanded.

Unlike the army, the navy requires a lot of technology to work together to operate an iron warship, and it requires high requirements for sailors, so it takes decades of accumulation and cultivation. Fortunately, although it was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, with the efforts of Sa Zhenbing and others, the naval fire did not completely extinguish as in 1949 in the parallel world. Yang Qiu has been strengthening the naval soft power since he promised Sa Zhenbing to pay the final payment to buy back Zhaohe, Ying Rui and Feihong, the three training cruisers, which were trained by the cruisers.

In addition to sending dozens of young naval men selected by Bingwen, who liked the Navy, Chen Shiying and other naval candidates to Germany, nearly 300 people were also selected to study at the Naval Academy in Britain, the United States and France after unifying the country in 1913, and selected dozens of people to study and manufacture warships from the MIT and the Greenwich Naval Academy in the United Kingdom. Finally, they began to gather Chinese people like Bai Yutang who had served in the naval forces of other countries in the world to enrich the navy.

The young Deng Haoqian stood among them and raised his chest. After experiencing the fierce battle in Qingdao, his tender cheeks were already hard and firm. Opposite him was Lin Baofan, the son of General Lin Zengtai, and next to him were Wei Zirong and Wei Zijing, the sons of Wei Han, known as the number one in naval ship design in the late Qing Dynasty. Further away, there were descendants of General Yang Yonglin, who was praised by the British as the Oriental Nelson. Although he and they were still students, they were clearly notified that they would be sent to Europe and the United States to study and study after completing primary training in China.

The person who led the team to stand on the slope this time was General Ye Zugui, the current Navy Logistics Chief. After the Sino-Japanese War, he said he would never come back, but now he is wearing the ward of a major general in the Shanghai Army and serves as the principal of the Shanghai Naval Academy.

Beiyang...senior, secluded, secluded, discouraged, all returned today! Nothing else, just for the Navy to return to Lushun in twenty years!

"Look! The warship is our warship!"

While waiting, a loud voice sounded from the foot of the mountain, and tens of thousands of gazes twisted towards the sea covered with thin ice. I saw four brand new "Seagull"-class motorcycles taking the lead! Four 280-horsepower aviation gasoline engines pushed them into the waterway like light arrows, and then pulled out white waves along the Tiger Island around the bay.

While everyone was still surprised by their speed, six newly-formed "Osprey" double-wing water reconnaissance/torpedo aircraft also suddenly rose from below sea level. At the same time, an air force composed of four "Haidongqing" and 16 "sparrows" in the distance also came up. After forming a geese formation over Lushun Bay, the two sides flew over Baiyu Mountain at a low altitude.

At that moment, people were shocked! It was rare for ordinary Chinese to see planes, let alone so many war eagles flying in low-altitude formations. At this moment, they realized that... the country has made such progress! When people were surprised or even scared, joy suddenly sounded along with cheers from the naval cadets standing taller than big trees.

The whistle was sobbing, the salute was roaring! The sails were flying, and the flag was flying!

While dozens of war eagles turned around and rushed towards the sea, a large ocean-going wooden training sailboat was the first to reveal its mast. This was one of the two naval ocean-going training sailboats that Yang Qiu ordered from Italy last year. He believed that only naval cadets who experienced sail fighting could be considered real naval personnel, so he bought two for use by the Naval Academy.

Behind it, the four cruisers, Qingdao, Haichou, Hairong, Haiqi, and four submarines, all 16 warships of the First Fleet originally anchored in Shanghai appeared in the middle of the waterway! When people curiously watched the new naval flag flying with the wind, it also represented the return of the north with the First Fleet. After putting the base in Lushun, Weihai and Qingdao, the crucial Yellow Sea and Bohai finally once again protected the Chinese Navy's naval guns.

"Dad, look, it's the navy! Beiyang... is back!" The first time I saw so many half-boys from my own country's warship jumping and rushing to the front, looking at a large group of reporters holding cameras, wishing they could take pictures of themselves.

My father, who was once a Beiyang naval sailor, patted the boy's head intimately, with tears of joy flashing in his eyes: "Boy. Now it's the Republic of China, and it's not called a navy, it's the navy!"

"Navy! When I grow up, I will be a navy! Just like you, Daddy."

"Go, don't lose my face." My father touched his empty left sleeve, remembering the robe of Dadonggou's sacrifice, and tears couldn't stop flowing.

Inside the Qingdao Bridge, the short Sa Zhenbing was also red in his eyes. Yan Fu, Xie Baozhang, Cheng Biguang and others behind him were all moist! 20 years of black hair turned white and the boy became old! How many old Beiyang died of depression before this day! 20 years of waiting, 20 years of staggering... Today! The established Chinese naval fleet has once again ushered in the Port of Lushun again!!

Compared to them, the chief designer who came from Sandu Australian and New Zealand Mawei Factory with the railings tightly, the first generation ship design expert in Beiyang, and the veteran General Wei Han was even more excited. Seagull-class speedboats, Osprey seaplanes, Seawolf submarines, and the large "Changfeng" class destroyer under construction! After the navy was completely suspended in the year of the Gengzi, the Chinese Navy finally began to regain vitality.

Yang Qiu, who was standing in the harbor, was also paying attention to new motorboats and seaplanes. The prototype of this Seagull-class is the German LM-class motorboat. As the cradle of modern speedboats, the German Luelsen Company designed and manufactured for the German Navy in 1916 was not as famous as the same speedboats as the Italian and British speedboats, but it was mainly because it appeared late and the German Navy was too restricted after Jutland. So he chose the originator of this modern torpedo boat, re-shooted it from the data machine with a miniature camera, handed it over to the Jiangnan Factory to traverse and enlarge the design according to his requirements.

Since the order docks in Jiangnan were crowded at that time, the orders were finally handed over to the four initially restored Lao Mawei Shipyard and Shanghai Qiuxin Shipyard, the Yangtze River Machinery Factory in Hubei, and the smaller Qinzhou Bay Shipyard. The latter three were private shipyards in China (Qinzhou Bay Shipyard is classified under Miao Yuan’s name). However, the workers had been trained in Jiangnan for a year, especially the last Qinzhou Bay Shipyard. Because the sea transportation distance was far away, it was necessary to detour the Qiongzhou Peninsula. In addition, the railway was not connected to the supply of steel, and the main reason was to build wooden civil sailboats. However, this time the order was given to train workers. Unfortunately, the aircraft engine was set too late, so it did not catch up with the war.

The modified Seagull class added an engine. The slightly amplified 35-ton round hull combined with 4 280-horsepower v8 aerospace gasoline engines can still reach a speed of 30 knots under third-class wind and waves, which is comparable to the best-in-class British speedboat. A 37mm single-tube rapid-fire machine gun with a shield on the bow of the boat, a 450-mm torpedo launcher was installed in the front of the port side, and two Han-3 heavy machine guns were also behind. As an offshore speedboat, because torpedoes were installed initially with the ability to deal with large warships, the Navy ordered additional 36 ships after completing the experiment, and even the Coast Guard, which had just established a subsidiary of the National Guard, bought 48 torpedo-free models for daily patrol.

The Osprey Bi-wing Water Reconnaissance/torpedo aircraft was completely developed and designed by the Chongqing Aircraft Factory based on Haidongqing's experience. If you really want to refer to it, it may be a bit like the famous British cuckoo torpedo bomber. Unfortunately, it was also delayed because the engine needed to supply Haidongqing and the secretly developed Gota bomber.

These, including the secretly developed Gota bombers, were actually secretly launched to recover Lushun. He was even prepared to sacrifice 30,000 yuan to capture it, but even he did not expect that the Japanese army that rushed to fight was not the terrifying "Imperial Army" of the Showa era. They followed the French army's rigid and clustered charge tactics in the French war, making them look like a bunch of flesh targets in the face of their tactics and firepower......

Yang Qiu didn't even doubt that if the Japanese army was placed at the French position at this moment, facing the German army with a firepower of ten times stronger than him, Japan might collapse directly.

In his mind, the Qingdao armored cruiser was the first to get on the dock. The original Austro-Hungarian Queen Elizabeth armored cruiser, equipped with standard displacement of 4,030 tons, maximum speed of 20 knots, equipped with 8 150mm naval guns, 2 70mm secondary guns, and 14 50mm rapid-fire guns, has become the new favorite of the navy. But it may be replaced soon, because the navy sent divers to conduct actual testing and found that the Japanese Tsukuba armored cruiser that sinks in Qingdao has the value of repair, so it took a month to use the large salvage equipment left by Qingdao Germany to take the lead in salvaging it into Qingdao dock, and Wei Han personally presided over the detailed inspection and repair work.

Perhaps the naval spirit will be obtained by the end of the year. Sa Zhenbing and his naval officers took their naval officers to salute Yang Qiu in one go. The thin and thin general with hair seemed to have returned to the era of being trained at the Greenwich Naval School in the UK. He said excitedly: "The Navy Sa Zhenbing and the First Fleet salute the Commander-in-Chief, and will never refuse to send him to death if he is sent!"

Tang Shaoyi, who came to welcome and attend the monument ceremony, frowned, but Feng Huafu beside him did not seem to hear such obvious words of loyalty. Because for these soldiers, Yang Qiu's personal military ability and strategic vision have completely convinced them. Haven't you seen the famous generals in China for thousands of years who have not raised their arms and called the whole country to unite! This is the tradition of the army. Whether you say bad habits or feudalism, the choice of soldiers is very simple. Following a famous general's future is far greater than that of mediocre talents. Even soldiers know that famous generals can make more people live until the end of the war.

So no matter how the navy was before, since Yang Qiu divided the navy into two fleets and transferred the Haichen ships, the latest three training cruisers, Zhaohe, Yingrui, Feihong, and Yongji, and two self-built large destroyers, into the second fleet, and began to appoint naval officers from non-Fujian, the largest invisible warlord group in the parallel world was gradually disintegrated. Sa Zhenbing and others also knew his thoughts, so in recent years, the new students recruited in various places are no longer mainly Fujian, but selected materials from the children of Chinese with higher knowledge in coastal provinces, and even from Nanyang and overseas.

After regaining Lushun this time, the greatest wish in their hearts, almost all the navy was attentive and actively cooperated with him from the inside out.

Yang Qiu also knew that Sa Zhenbing was expressing his loyalty to him on behalf of the Navy. With this sentence, it would be like both the navy and the army were held in the palm of their hands. But the kung fu still had to be done on the surface, and he smiled and said, "General Sa missed his tongue, not for me, but for the country! The Navy must protect this blue land for our Chinese nation! No inch or a breath must be given back!"

"Haha... I'm old, I can't even speak smoothly." Sa Zhenbing blew and asked deliberately, "Commander-in-Chief, has the United States not responded yet?"

This old man's face became faster, no wonder he could become an evergreen in the navy.

This question also made the naval generals behind him prick up their ears, and even Chen Shaokuan, the backwards, held his breath and concentrated. Two large cruisers! 9 305/l50 guns, if you get it, you can completely change the current small, old and broken situation, keeping up with the development of the world navy. Yang Qiu smiled slightly and turned his head to look at Mr. Cai, who said, "Old Sa. Don't you want the Prime Minister and Vice President to blow the northwest wind here?"

When everyone saw his appearance, they knew that there was a little bit of a look. Sa Zhenbing's old face suddenly bloomed: "Yes, let's do big things first. Hey... Shaochuan, are you here too? Huafu... Yo, Anguo, you are all coming from Wuchang." Tang Shaoyi, Feng Guozhang and Xiao Anguo were chatting with a smile.

Yue Peng and Zhang Zuolin held their mouths hard, this old navy ruffian! After moving the big stone in his heart to restore his character, it became even more difficult.

Everyone walked up the mountain along the passage opened by the naval cadets. Originally, the monument ceremony was not planned to be opened to the public, but the people in Lushun who were insisting on Yang Qiu were almost invited to watch the ceremony. Even Dalian, Jinzhou and even Fengtian came, and senior officers from the Northeast War Zone were gathered together. It can be said that most of the Chinese great figures gathered here. The difficulty of security work can be imagined when the war had just ended.

Therefore, in addition to the navy, the army also sent the strongest forces, the guards widened their eyes, and the agents of the intelligence department dared not relax. Fortunately, as Japan had just withdrawn, new minions had not yet penetrated, and the joint efforts of several departments had been calm along the way. Only ordinary citizens who saw so many senior officials for the first time were excited and a little restless.

After seeing Wan Zhong’s tomb at the top of the mountain, everyone’s faces became serious. 20 years ago, after the Japanese attacked Lushun, they carried out an inhumane massacre here! Four days and three nights! From the white-haired old men to the babies, they were killed. Every family suffered, with flesh and blood everywhere, and blood flowed into rivers. The beautiful Lushun turned into a blood-stained hell on earth. More than 20,000 innocent compatriots died tragically under the Japanese butcher knife, and more than 10,000 Beiyang soldiers were buried alive!

There are only 36 survivors! That's not because they are lucky, but because the Japanese army needs them to bury their bodies.

Ten thousand loyal souls in the tomb of Wanzhong!

They are victims of the weakness of the country, blood and tears, and humiliation! For soldiers, it is even more heart-wrenching failure and a scorching slap!

The paper-made wreath was placed in front of the tombstone by the guards. Tang Shaoyi and Yang Qiu stood side by side with hundreds of officials bowed together and observed a silence. Tens of thousands of pairs of eyes began to rosy, and the crowd was silent. Who among them had no brothers and sisters buried in it? Who had no relatives and friends and blood sprinkled on the long street? In the past 20 years, except for the Qing government sent people to worship once during the construction, this was the first time that national officials collectively worshiped their loyal souls.

After getting up, Yang Qiu nodded to Yue Peng.

The soldiers began to put piles of shoddy urns into the large pit that had been dug long ago next to them. Tens of thousands of boxes containing Japanese ashes were piled into hills, and then covered by workers shoveling soil. No one would have pity, no one cared about the stones breaking the box and spilling the pale white ashes, only one shovel of soil with anger and the deliberate hatred!

After the pit was quickly filled, the workers shouted slogans and used hemp rope to transfer a piece of obelisk that was engraved with a list of soldiers who died in this battle to the center of the pit. The four large liters on the front of the obelisk, "Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers", were drawn with black paint, facing the sea.

"Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers."

"What a mountain river in Yongzhen!"

The crowd was once again excited by these four big words, and they were chanting these four words in each mouth.

After Tang Shaoyi first expressed his gratitude to the loyal ministers on behalf of the government, Yang Qiu walked to the set-up podium and slowly raised his arms. The crowd that covered the entire Baiyu Mountain, which stretched for thousands of meters, was attracted by these arms.

"Twenty years ago... we were defeated. Although I and many sacrificed soldiers carved on this obelisk were just born at that time, shame is shame! The loyal souls in Wanzhong's tomb are shame for soldiers! It is because we have not fulfilled our responsibility to protect the country and the people! I am not afraid to say it out loud. If soldiers dare not face the shame directly and do not want to avenge them! Should ordinary citizens use their flesh and blood to resist the enemy's bayonets?"

A loud voice spread throughout every corner along the sea breeze: "Before today, some people advised me not to build this stone tablet because they felt that this would not hinder the resolution of China-Japan hatred, but what I want to say is... Our generation will never forget that shame until death! That bowl of blood and tears! We have endured it silently for 20 years, and many people have turned their hair white for it! Finally... we are back, and tens of thousands of soldiers use their lives and blood to bring the beautiful Lushun back to the embrace of the motherland!

Today, the obelisk stands here! In the future, it will always be here, no one can shake it! Because... this is no longer a country that can be oppressed! The era of humiliation has passed! The Chinese nation has straightened its backbone from now on! Here, in front of you! I swear to the martyrs who have defended the country and protected the people for thousands of years, in my personal name, in the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces, and in the name of millions of land and sea soldiers of the National Defense Forces!”

"Soldiers are not dead... Shanhe Yongzhen!"

"Soldiers will not die! Shanhe will never die!"

"Long live the National Defense Force! Long live Commander Yang! Long live the Republic of China!"

After the eight words that were loud and loud, the entire Baiyu Mountain was boiling! Deng Haogan, like everyone else, blushed his cheeks and squeezed out all the strength in his chest and shouted in four voices! The crowd was boiling. Facing the soldiers who were leaving the road to rush towards the Yongzhen Mountain and River Monument, everyone stepped on the soil with their feet, then gently stroked the obelisk, looking at the four big words "Yongzhen Mountain and River" with a blazing flame in his chest.

People’s spirit!

Once again, it was strongly sublimated from Baiyu Mountain in Lushun. With the deliberately arranged telegrams, newspapers and government notices, the whole country raised its arms!

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