"Okay!" Wang Hengyue, who had been waiting for the news, took the information from Yang Fangyun and read it carefully for a while: "Tell Navy Chief Chen Shaokuan that the Japanese Navy will devote all its efforts to fight with me. The specific configuration of its navy
as follows......"
It’s here, it’s finally here!
The time for the decisive battle has finally arrived!
When Wang Hengyue put down the telegram, he felt a burst of emotion in his heart. He had been waiting hard for this decisive battle. Now, when the telegram was delivered to his hand, it was the decisive battle!
In fact, the Japanese navy was destined to lose this decisive battle from the beginning.
The navy's "new secret code" they use is fully controlled by China; their decisive battle configuration is also known to China.
When an enemy has no secrets left in front of you, what will be the outcome of this duel?
The only thing Wang Hengyue is paying attention to is how the Chinese navy will win this decisive battle...
...
"Weiqing".
"Report Captain, our ship is approaching Masuda!"
"Oh, I see..." Apart from the silly look on Niu Liancheng's face, he would never expect to see another expression again. He was holding half of the unfinished chicken in his hand blankly.
Apple said blankly: "Fire..."
April 20, 1937.
Masuda, Shikoku, Japan.
Everything was going on as usual, the fishermen got up early and prepared to go out to sea to catch fish and start their endless cycle of repeating the day.
I heard that an enemy's agent force entered Shikoku, but the Japanese fishermen thought it had nothing to do with them.
How should they live? How should they live? Fighting is a matter of the government and has nothing to do with them. It is also very far away from them...
Recently, the number of troops here has obviously increased, and the coastal defense force has also been strengthened. According to those soldiers, the Chinese may invade at any time, just like when they attacked Kyushu Island.
Will the Chinese invade? The Japanese on Shikoku Island are murmuring in their hearts. No way? What kind of war are they going to fight?
Most people don't quite believe it. After all, war is too far away from them...
Masuda Coast Defense Commander Kawaguchi Taro is in the most nervous mood. Those ignorant Japanese fishermen don't know, but as the commander of the coast defense, he knows very well that the war is getting closer to Japan. Once the war breaks out, what will happen here?
It was the first place to be attacked.
The coastal defense force is not fully in place yet. Can it withstand the Chinese artillery fire just by relying on these old artillery in hand? Kawaguchi Tai has no conscience at all.
Early in the morning, Kawaguchi Taro appeared at his position early in the morning, checking the artillery and asking about the situation of the soldiers.
I hope you can go through it smoothly today...
"Your Majesty Commander, what is that?" his subordinate suddenly asked, pointing to the sea in the distance.
Kawaguchi Taro didn't pay too much attention, so he used the telescope and looked there. There was a black spot in the distance, which looked like the shape of a ship. Then, the black spot got closer and closer...
Gradually he could see clearly, and Kawaguchi Taro's expression became serious. This thing seemed to look like... it seemed like...
"Warship!" Suddenly, Kawaguchi Taro shouted loudly: "Warship! Chinese warship! Get ready to fight! Get ready to fight!"
At 7:10 a.m. on April 20, the Chinese Navy battlecruiser "Weiqing" appeared in Yitian and immediately launched a bombardment of Yitian!
Large-caliber artillery shells fell one after another, setting off bursts of artillery fire in Masuda.
The fishermen who had gotten up early and were preparing to go out to sea fell one after another under the sudden attack of artillery fire. The entire Masuda was instantly plunged into a sea of fire.
Compared with the "Weiqing", Masuda's shore defense artillery fire, just as Kawaguchi Taro worried, was too weak and too old.
Their artillery shells cannot cause damage to the "Weiqing" and cannot even hit within the range. However, the artillery fire on the "Weiqing" can ravage this place unscrupulously.
Over the years, the Japanese government has put most of its energy into the development and construction of the navy. It is really unable to cope with the development of the army and local defense forces, as well as the Japanese economy.
Most of the coastal defense facilities are still antiques from decades ago. The Japanese government seems to have never thought that any war would happen on its own homeland. Even after the Battle of Kyushu Island began, it still thought this was the case.
In fact, the Japanese government may not be wrong in what they think. They put all their energy into the decisive battle at sea. If the decisive battle at sea is won, everything will go in the direction envisioned by the Japanese government. Once it fails?
The Japanese government has never thought about the word "failure"...
And now retribution has finally arrived.
The "Weiqing" seemed to want to smash all the cannonballs, and it was willing to raze Yitian to the ground. It kept combing every inch of Yitian with cannonballs, and wreaked havoc on all targets that could be reached.
.
Masuda is wailing, the Japanese are wailing...
The unsuspecting Japanese fell under the gunfire one after another, and the fishing boats that were about to go out to sea suffered a devastating blow in an instant...
There is nothing more terrible than this, nothing...
A small fishing boat had just gone out to sea. When the bombardment of the "Wei Qing" started, it tried its best to avoid and struggled to avoid the bombardment range of the artillery fire.
However, finally a cannonball fell near it. For a warship, this cannonball would not cause much damage, but for a fishing boat, it would be too destructive.
The huge water column fell, overturning the boat, and then the waves flew up, and everything disappeared...
Kawaguchi Taro stared at everything in front of him in stunned silence, but he could do nothing. These damn old cannons, those damn navy!
At this time, he actually did not blame the Chinese warship, but vented all his anger on the Japanese government and the navy that had robbed national defense funds.
If more money could be allocated to improve coastal defense facilities, and if more attention could be paid to coastal defense capabilities, the result might not be like this.
But now it's too late to say anything...
The sound of cannons suddenly stopped, and the satisfied "Weiqing" stopped firing, but continued to anchor on the sea for a while, as if reviewing its achievements.
Then, its whistle sounded like a demonstration, and it slowly left the raging, ugly battlefield.
This is the "Masuda Incident"!
In this sudden bombardment, 21 houses were destroyed in Masuda, Japan, 17 fishing boats were sunk, and 147 Japanese Masuda soldiers and civilians were killed or injured. The losses were extremely heavy.
There was no sign beforehand that the Chinese would bring warships to Yitian, but everything just happened...
After the incident, the Chinese government was the first to respond. Less than an hour after the "Yitian Incident" occurred, that is, at 8 a.m. on April 20, the Chinese government held an emergency press conference.
At a press conference, Wang Qinglu, Prime Minister of the Republic of China, told all reporters:
"On April 20, 2016, the Republic of China Navy's 'Weiqing' was bombarded by Japanese Masuda artillery while performing normal maritime patrol missions. Our 'Weiqing' was forced to fight back despite repeated warnings being ineffective.
, causing a certain degree of casualties to Masuda, but our "Weiqing" had no losses. While we express our regret, we also strongly condemn this arrogant and deliberately provocative behavior of the Tokyo government of Japan!"
"Mr. Prime Minister, why did the Wei Qing appear in the waters of Masuda, Japan?" A reporter asked this sharp question.
Wang Qinglu was already prepared for this question:
"As we all know, the government of the Republic of China recognizes the 'Democratic Republic of Japan', not the Tokyo government of Japan. This time our 'Weiqing' patrolled to the surface of Masuda to fulfill the military cooperation agreement signed with the 'Democratic Republic of Japan'...
...In this incident, we lost approximately 27,000 Chinese yuan. While we condemn it, we demand that Japan must compensate for the losses..."
That's it, that's it.
If you want to find an excuse, any inexplicable reason will become an excuse. In fact, everyone knows very well that the Republic of China government just wants to find an excuse to fight a war.
Now, they've done it.
The Japanese government in Tokyo has been forced to a point of no return. If the Japanese government in Tokyo still chooses to tolerate it after the "Masuda Incident", then this government will soon collapse.
What's more, the Tokyo government of Japan is also ready for a decisive battle.
"The war is about to begin." While Wang Qinglu was holding a press conference, Wang Hengyue was sitting in the Strategic Intelligence Bureau, holding Yang Fangyun's teapot in his hand and looking around, as if any decisive battle between China and Japan was not as important as this teapot.
"Everything is ready." Yang Fangyun replied calmly.
"Yes, I'm ready." Wang Hengyue finally put down the teapot in his hand and smiled; "Fang Yun, to tell you the truth, ever since I was the warlord in Sichuan, I have been thinking about it, if one day I hold the teapot in my hand
If you have obtained great power, you must find every way to have a decisive battle with Japan, a decisive battle that can destroy Japan. Do you know what this is for?"
Yang Fangyun shook his head. He really didn't know. Everyone knew that the president hated Japan, but no one knew why.
The President never told any of them.
Wang Hengyue smiled again and said, "You will never know why!"