After a while of the sea breeze, Lin Yongchang put on his military hat, entered the bridge, and asked Qiao Hu, the chief of staff of the fleet, "How long will it take for the fleet to enter the Ryukyu island chain?"

In the small command tower, the staff officers were busy, Qiao Hu raised his eyes from the map and said: "There are still four hours, it is expected that the sky will darken after entering the Ryukyu Sea for one hour, and after two hours through the Ryukyu Sea into the East China Sea, and in thirty hours it will reach the waters of Huangpu City." "

"How's the intelligence in the direction of Huangpu City?" he asked, turning to the staff officer in charge of liaison intelligence.

The staff officer said: "Report to the commander, the Japanese Third Fleet is docking at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and nearly 100 carrier-based aircraft on the Fengxiang and Kaga are bombing Huangpu City and Jinling!"

"Bombing Jinling?" Qi Jinghai, the captain of the Zhenyuan, a man in his thirties, sighed: "Jinling has been bombed, and the chairman of the committee can still carry it without officially starting a war, and he is also a person with great patience." "

His words were full of irony, and Qiao Hu also smiled.

Lin Yongchang shook his head and looked at where the colonel under his command was chatting nonsense.

At present, only Lin Yongchang, commander of the North Sea Fleet, has been given the rank of rear admiral, Qiao Hu, chief of staff of the fleet, and the captains of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan are all senior colonels, while the captains of the two heavy cruisers are lieutenant colonels, and the captains of the two light cruisers and the aircraft carrier are major colonels.

The lowest speed of the entire fleet was the aircraft carrier Yang Wei, with a maximum speed of only 20 knots, followed by the battleship Zhenyuan, which had a speed of only 24 knots, so the entire fleet sailed north at a constant speed of 15 knots during the voyage to keep the fleet lined up to the maximum extent.

At the same time, it was also to restrain the speed to enter the Ryukyu Sea when it was almost dark and avoid encountering the Japanese patrol fleet in the Ryukyu Sea.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet officially entered the waters of the Ryukyus, crossing the sea area of more than 200 kilometers between Okinawa and Miyakojima!

Continue north!

After all, Luzon is a colony of the United States, and the Pacific Fleet of the United States has seven or eight battleships, and the fleet that can dispatch more than two battleships in East Asia can only be the fleet of the United States.

But if you look closely, you will find that the first two battleships, one is a prestige-class cruiser of the United Kingdom, and the other is a Bavarian-class battleship that has been changed so much that it is impossible to recognize, and only two heavy cruisers are the New Orleans-class heavy cruisers of the United States.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky gradually darkened, which made all the officers of the North Sea Fleet breathe a sigh of relief, and after the sky darkened, Lin Yongchang issued an order to turn off the lights, and all the warships turned off their lights, leaving only an anti-collision light at the stern of each warship to keep each warship at a distance.

It was also ordered to increase the speed to 17 knots, to advance at the fastest cruising speed without damaging the boilers.

After one night, the next morning, when Lin Yongchang woke up, the North Sea Fleet had reached the sea off Zhejiang, less than 300 kilometers from Taizhou and about 350 kilometers from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Lin Yongchang looked at the north and clenched his fists.

This newly formed Red Guard Fleet is about to face its first actual battle! And their opponent will be the Japanese Third Fleet!

However, whether it was Lin Yongchang or other officers, they were full of confidence! Even if all the Japanese combined fleets came over! They also had the determination to fight to the death!

This will be the cry of the new generation of navy people headed by Lin Yongchang!

Unlike the old Beiyang Naval Division and the Republic of China Navy, this is a vigorous fleet, a fleet eager to fight the Yamato Imperial Navy!

In the south, the North Sea Fleet was approaching Huangpu City, ready for battle at any time, while in the north, the 60,000 Zhenbei Army attacked Jinzhou, and after two days of fighting, finally forced the Japanese Fifth Division entrenched in Jinzhou City into Dalian and successfully captured Jinzhou!

The Zhenbei Army pushed the battle line into the port of Dalian, and the two armies began a new round of fierce fighting in the urban area of Dalian!

The Japanese Fifth Division withdrew into the urban area of Dalian, and the artillery units directly under the brigade and the Fifth Wing of the field artillery set up their positions in the mountains of the western suburbs of Dalian, and directly launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the Zhenbei Army in disregard of the residential areas of the city.

The artillery unit and bomber brigade of the Zhenbei Army could not find the Japanese artillery position in the mountains in a short time, so they could only rely on the heavy tank units to constantly break into the city and brave the Japanese artillery to forcibly attack and seize Dalian!

At the same time, the war in Huangpu City has also entered a new round of fierce battles.

The attack on Miaohang was destroyed, and the two divisions were defeated, which caused the morale of the Japanese army to drop a lot, and the soldiers of the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army also felt that the Japanese army was not so terrible, so unwarlike, not only the Zhenbei Army in the north could win the Japanese army! We could also win the Japanese army!

The two armies thwarted the attack of two divisions and 40,000 men of the Japanese army, and Chairman Chiang held this good news in his hand to hype up the 'heavy damage to the Japanese army', which boosted the morale of the whole country at the same time, and also let everyone know that not only the Zhenbei Army in the north could fight, but also the South Vietnam of Chairman Chiang!

The people of Huangpu City cheered and supported the two armies even more.

General Shirakawa Yoshinori, commander-in-chief of the Huangpu City Dispatch Army, was reprimanded by the domestic base camp for the failure of the Miaoxing attack.

I have to say that since the war in the three eastern provinces shocked the base camp, the base camp, which did not have many troops, could not bear the hidden war anymore, and they also questioned the defeat of the war, after all, they have now lost a full five divisions and 120,000 elites in the three eastern provinces!

Now the war in the northeast is still being suppressed in China, but as the consulates of the United States, the Slavic Union and other countries in the three eastern provinces continue to report the war and changes in the three eastern provinces, the base camp also knows that it will not be able to hold it for long, and it must come up with a battle report that is enough to offset the defeat of the five divisions!

Huangpu City is obviously a good choice, as long as these two armies are defeated, enter the belly of Central China, and directly advance westward to threaten Jinling, they can force the Jinling government to surrender! Sign an unequal treaty! Then put an end to this war, which cost countless funds!

This is the decision of the top of the base camp, it cannot be delayed any longer, under the great economic crisis, the war will only bankrupt the country if it continues to be fought!

Shirakawa Yoshinori, who was urgently reprimanded by the base camp, also understood this truth, and he learned the lesson of the defeat on the frontal battlefield, and decided to log in from the Liuhe River on the flank and attack the Songhu defenders from both sides.

On the morning of February 6, 1932, the Japanese Ninth Division began a frontal attack on the Songhu defensive line.

The 11th Division of the Japanese Army entered the mouth of the Yangtze River under the cover of the Third Fleet, and suddenly landed ashore from Yanglinkou and Qiyakou of the Liuhe River.

Songhu Defense Line Crisis! Huangpu City Crisis!

PS: Ask for flowers!

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