When Shi Shi Ge Ge saw Xiang Xiao Qiang blowing her nose on her handkerchief, she was not angry, she just smiled and looked at him.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was very embarrassed. When he was hiding in the conference room and crying sadly, Fourteen Gege appeared out of nowhere. He was very unhappy and asked again:
"How did you get in?"
Fourteen Gege shook his head and sighed:
"I've been right here, sorting things out on that table."
Then she pointed to the table behind the map board. The table was blocked by a huge map and couldn't be seen from Xiang Xiaoqiang's direction.
Shishi Gege did not sit on a chair, but leaned on the conference table, facing Xiang Xiaoqiang:
"Tell me, why are you crying so sadly?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang found this sentence extremely awkward. Usually boys would ask this when comforting girls. Now it was completely reversed.
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at her for a moment and said coldly:
"Sad things."
Fourteen Gege seemed to be more interested. He put the documents in his arms on the table and said with a smile:
"What's the matter?...I'll help you with some advice."
Xiang Xiaoqiang said to Xiaoqiang, I can't let you know about this matter, but you still want to help me with advice?... But he found that Shi Shigege was a bit abnormal today. With her arrogant character in the past, she would probably nod at this time, and then directly
gone.
But today's Fourteenth Princess seems to have changed. She no longer acts like a princess to herself, and she is more interested in herself.
Shi Shigege observed Xiang Xiaoqiang's expression and made psychological analysis. She knew that Xiang Xiaoqiang was an infatuated person, and the only thing that could make him so sad was emotional matters. There were only a few women around him, Qiu Qiu, Xiu
Xiu is already his wife, it is unlikely because of them. That is either Zhu Yourong or Zheng Yucong.
...The possibility of Zheng Yucong is not very high. Fourteen Gege intuitively felt that it was not Zheng Yucong. Zheng Yucong didn't feel like this. If Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't get Zheng Yucong, he would probably be furious, and he shouldn't shed such sad tears.
Fourteen Gege sighed and said:
"If...if it's because of Zhu Yourong..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang was startled and looked at her in surprise.
She was holding a collection of poems and shedding a few lines of tears. Can she guess that it was because of Zhu Yourong?
There was some sadness in Shi Shigege's eyes, but this sadness was fleeting, and she regained her calm and rational expression and continued:
"If it's really because of her, I suggest you give it a try. But... you should be making a gamble to get career benefits... the possibility of winning is very small, but once you win,
The benefits are huge... But you'd better not pursue her purely because of feelings. If you pursue her just because you fell in love with her, then you are too stupid. You really love the wrong person. There are so many girls in Daming, you
I chose the girl I least deserve to love."
After saying that, she jumped down from the table and patted Xiang Xiaoqiang on the shoulder:
"That's all I'm saying, you... think about it yourself. I won't say more..."
After speaking, Shi Shigege quickly walked out of the conference room without looking back.
Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at her almost in astonishment. His mind was racing, wondering how the relationship between him and Zhu Yourong could be discovered by Shi Shi Ge Ge. Moreover, Shi Shi Ge Ge still had such an attitude, as if
...as if it had nothing to do with him.
This is not what Xiang Xiaoqiang wants to see.
However, he saw the pile of documents on the conference table, right where Fourteen Gege had been sitting just now.
She didn't even take the documents.
…
Fifteen hours later, on May 8th, at 8 a.m.
The anti-clearance airdrop headquarters was located at the People's Guard headquarters.
In the conference room, Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the officers in the room, suppressed his excitement, watched the pointer of his pocket watch go up to 8:00, and said with a smile:
"It's begun. Everyone, future history books will record that from this moment on, our Ming Dynasty began a strategic offensive against the Manchu Qing Dynasty."
…
Bohai Strait, outside the Miaodao Islands.
This is the widest waterway in the Miaodao Islands. The northern section is Lushun Laotieshan and the southern end is Beichenghuang Island. There are forts built at both locations to block this 40-kilometer-wide waterway.
Directly east of the sea, a line of black smoke faintly appeared. Soon, another line appeared on its left. Then, two more lines appeared.
Two masts were exposed. Soon, two destroyers appeared. Then two more appeared.
A few minutes later, two larger columns of black smoke appeared behind the four destroyers. Under the black smoke, two cruisers with three funnels emerged.
But at this time, neither the Laotieshan Fort nor the Beichenghuangdao Fort noticed the rapidly approaching fleet.
A few minutes later, a broad figure appeared on the sea level. Behind the tall tower, there was only a line of black smoke. In other words, there was only one chimney.
The battleship appears.
Behind the battleship, two aircraft carriers, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, were exposed, with a short tower on one side blowing blue smoke outwards.
Behind the aircraft carrier is a supply ship and a fleet of minesweepers.
Further on both sides, there are two destroyers on each side, like hunting dogs, guarding the periphery of the fleet.
At the rear of the fleet, the last four destroyers also appeared. At this point, a large fleet completely appeared outside the Bohai Strait and appeared under the eyes of the Qing army. Now, whether it is the Laotieshan Observation Observatory or the Beichenghuang Island Observation
Taiwan, as long as someone sweeps his eyes to the east, he can easily spot the fleet in the distance.
However, there was no one on duty at Laotieshan's observatory, and the two soldiers on duty in the fortress of Beichenghuang Island Observatory were playing chess.
A faint sound of motors came into the fortress along the observation window, "buzzing" and sounding like an airplane.
"How did you do it? What is this?"
A soldier held a "cannon" in his hand and was about to hit the opponent's "horse". Suddenly he raised his head and listened outside with his ears tilted, feeling a little confused.
"Hurry up and hit the cannon, hurry up and hit the cannon," another soldier said triumphantly, knocking the opponent's pieces in his hand and saying, "If you don't do the cannon, I will jump on the horse."
"Vaulting horse?...Grandma's."
The first soldier's attention was drawn back to the chessboard, staring at the opponent's "knight" and murmuring with a smile:
"Boy, it's okay...I'll use the cannon to eat your horse, and the cannon will be placed here, and then your cannon can hit me. What a good boy..."
Another soldier knocked the chess piece in his hand and laughed proudly.
…
A four-plane detachment that took off from the Dongjiang Fleet Airport quickly passed by Beichenghuang Island. The gray-yellow sea below shone in the morning sun, but no ship was found.
On the flagship, the battleship Hongwu, a communications staff officer quickly ran to the bridge command room, stood at attention, saluted, and said loudly:
"Commander, Captain, the reconnaissance aircraft unit sent back a signal!"
The fleet commander was still looking ahead with his telescope, without looking back. The captain turned around and ordered:
"read!"
"Yes!" the communications officer read loudly, "Eggplant! Eggplant! Eggplant!"
The captain nodded with satisfaction and waved him down. Then he turned to the commander and asked for instructions:
"Sir, there are no enemy ships in the entire Bohai Strait. Do you think so?"
The fleet commander put down the telescope, nodded, and ordered:
"The order was given, the fleet changed into a straight formation and passed through the Bohai Strait in formation."
"Yes, the fleet will change into a straight formation and pass through the Bohai Strait!"
Several signal lights on the battleship tower began to flash in all directions.
…
In the northern section of Lushun Laotieshan, on the coastal road at the foot of the mountain, a captain was riding his bicycle to deliver documents and accidentally glanced at the sea.
This glance startled him, and he immediately pressed the brake, stood with his legs on the ground, straightened his neck and looked at it with all his strength.
On the sea in the southeast, about 20,000 meters away, there are more than a dozen plumes of black smoke, dragging in all directions. If you look carefully, you can see that there are dozens of warships, large and small.
The captain broke into a cold sweat on his back. He rubbed his eyes and looked carefully...
It’s absolutely true, you read it right.
Although he is not a navy, he is an officer at least. He can probably guess that this is a fleet preparing to pass through the strait. At this moment, it is changing from a defensive formation to a one-line formation, and the speed is very fast, so the black smoke drags for a long time.
And it looks very messy, dragging it in any direction.
He didn't have a telescope and couldn't see in more detail, but he also knew clearly that this was definitely not the Qing fleet. It was very close to Nanming's Dongjiang Fleet. Even if the Qing navy was drunk, they would not dare to form such a large formation.
The fleet is so ostentatious under the eyes of others. The Nanming Dongjiang Fleet alone can rival the entire Qing Navy.
Without saying a word, he jumped on the car, pedaled as hard as he could, and rode towards the nearest highway checkpoint.
Ten minutes later, the entire Laotieshan Fortress sounded the alarm. Immediately afterwards, the alarm telegram was sent to the Beichenghuangdao Fort in the south, interrupting the fierce chess game.
…
Amidst the heartbreaking sirens, the fortifications on both sides were in panic. The usually lazy artillerymen had never seen this scene. The squad leaders were blowing their whistles frantically, and the soldiers were rolling and crawling, some while running.
While putting on pants, some of them were brushing their teeth with foam at their mouths. In the corridor of the dormitory, scoldings of "grandma, brother-in-law" could be heard constantly.
After blowing the muster whistle for several minutes, only about two-thirds of the artillerymen were assembled in the courtyard below the fort.
"Damn it, where are the others?!" the fort commander asked fiercely.
The soldiers below looked at each other and did not dare to speak. Everyone knew that the commander was also asking questions knowingly. Not to mention the soldiers, even the officers often went to the city of Lushun to have fun all night long.
In this way, Lao Tieshan's shore artillery began to operate despite a serious shortage of manpower.