Therefore, although the battle was won, the two giant ships that were captured with great difficulty were almost turned into waste in the blink of an eye. How could the officers and soldiers of the two ships accept this? Hu Weidong, on the other hand, was more tolerant and comforted everyone.
He said, "Although it is not easy to repair, it is not impossible, and no matter how bad it is, it can still be used for training. After all, it is a warship for nothing. If you want to feel distressed, the Japanese must feel more distressed than us."
However, everyone knows that although the Japanese have suffered heavy losses, their family's great cause can afford the loss. More importantly, the Japanese have strong shipbuilding and repair capabilities. If they are sunk, they can be rebuilt, and if they are damaged, they can be repaired.
This is something that China cannot do now. However, Hu Weidong's comfort still had some effect. The naval officers and soldiers quickly turned their grief into motivation and devoted themselves to training and combat with higher enthusiasm.
On the day the Japanese fleet withdrew to Weihaiwei, Hu Weidong sent a representative to Weihai and proposed to the Japanese to exchange their captured pilots. It was not easy for the Japanese to train pilots (the police policy was excessive), and the total number of Chinese pilots was too small, which both sides could see.
It was very heavy, so the negotiations went more smoothly than Hu Weidong expected. On the next day, hundreds of Chinese and Soviet pilots were released by the Japanese, and the 15th Army also released more than a hundred Japanese pilots who had been captured previously.
In terms of numbers, China suffers a slight loss, but not to mention that these experienced old pilots, as the seeds of the future People's Air Force, have an important value that far exceeds their combat skills. More importantly, the released Japanese pilots
A considerable number of them had been captured long ago, and twenty or thirty of them had been captured for more than two years. During the Red Army
Under the influence of the Party's long-term political and ideological work, several Japanese pilots have passed the test of the organization and secretly joined the Chinese Red Party. As for the number of pilots who have been affected and are unwilling to fight with China, there are even dozens more.
There are so many of them, after these people are put back, they will be like untimed bombs to the Japanese army!
Of course, the Japanese are not stupid. They will naturally check whether these pilots have become red. However, Hu Weidong, who had already expected this, has never let the Japanese pilots who joined the party disclose their identities, and he also made those pilots take care of them before releasing them.
Don't bring harm to yourself by openly promoting anti-war remarks, as long as they pay attention to hiding it
, it is impossible for the Japanese to be as simple and rude to pilots as they are to the army. Therefore, it is almost impossible to find problems. And Hu Weidong taught these pilots not to refuse to perform missions, but only to let off steam from time to time when performing missions, if there is an opportunity
If you do, you can also trick your "comrades", which will be of great help to the revolutionary cause.
In addition, there is another thing they can do publicly, which is to promote remarks such as "Invading China is of no benefit to the country, Southeast Asia and Australia are the lifeline of the empire." Anyway, some people in the Japanese army have already proposed and promoted it.
If they have similar thoughts, they won’t bring trouble to themselves even if they say so.
Big trouble. Although these pilots cannot enter the senior management, their status is always much higher than that of the top soldiers in the infantry unit. The chances of contacting senior officials are also much greater. Their words can have some impact, but over time, they will not be able to reach the top.
It may not be possible to bring about the changes that Hu Weidong expects in Japan.
There is another thing that should not be publicized in a high-profile manner, but it can be done secretly, and it does not matter much even if it is discovered. That is to explain the prisoner policy of the Red Army to other pilots. Since then, the RI plane has been shot down
Later, there were very few examples of Japanese pilots flying planes and dying together with us. This objectively reduced the losses of the Chinese people, and the Japanese always cherished their pilots and would not say much about it.
The Japanese originally asked the Fifteenth Army to release the captured Prince Chongren, but Hu Weidong's condition was that the Japanese withdraw from Weihaiwei and not set foot in Shandong for half a year, and then he would release him. Naturally, the Japanese would not agree, so at this time
So I gave it up for now. This little
The episode also made the Japanese believe that the Chinese were unable to attack Weihaiwei (otherwise they would not have put forward such conditions), and they relaxed a little bit. However, what they did not expect was that just two days later, the Japanese in the Weihaiwei military port
The military fleet suffered a devastating disaster
Within the range of the M-caliber cannon.
But what the Japanese did so made Hu Weidong, who had to give up the destroyer's night lightning strike plan because of the mine protection nets laid when the enemy ships were anchored, saw a little change. He began to train frogmen long before advancing into Shandong. Although the number was not large, but now
But it came in handy. After their investigation, they found that the mine protection net of the Japanese ship
The depth is fixed at 7 meters, but the draft of the two Nagato-class battleships has reached nearly 10 meters. After learning about it, Hu Weidong immediately had an idea, "As long as the fixed depth of the torpedo is set at the depth of the mine protection net and the Nagato
- level battleship, we can pass through the mine protection net and attack the hulls of these two warships!"
In order to avoid a long night and many dreams, Hu Weidong immediately dispatched all seven destroyers currently available before the sun set that day, and ordered each ship to use the guidance of radar to sneak attack three Japanese battleships in Weihai Weijun Port at night, two of which
A Nagato-class battleship is a priority target.
Taking into account the poor stability of oxygen torpedoes, the captains of the seven destroyers discussed and decided to take the risk to launch fire ten kilometers away from the enemy ship in order to increase the hit rate. It happened that the moon was covered by dark clouds that night, and there was a strong northwest wind.
, the seven destroyers slowed down and sailed cautiously into the Weihai Guard Port against the wind. The Japanese warships inside were not even aware of it.