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    Chapter 358 Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers

    Lushunkou.

    Baiyu Mountain is crowded with people. Tens of thousands of people cover the foothills of the mountain. From a distance, it looks as dark and majestic as a migrating ant colony.  And among them, a white line extending from the foot of the mountain to Wanzhong's Tomb on the top of the mountain is particularly eye-catching!

    The White Line is made up of thousands of young naval cadets in snow-white navy uniforms, holding their hands and heads held high, using their bodies to squeeze through the straight road leading to the foot of the mountain.  Since 1912, the Navy, funded by Yang Qiu, began to expand rapidly. After Yantai Naval Academy (formerly Yantai New Beiyang Naval Academy), it also expanded Shanghai Naval Academy (formerly Nanyang Naval Academy) and Fujian Naval Academy (formerly Fujian Naval Academy).  Shipbuilding School), and also began to build the larger and highest-level Zhoushan Naval University.

    The navy is not like the army. It requires a lot of skills to work together to operate a steel warship, and the requirements for sailors are very high, so it requires decades of accumulation and training.  Fortunately, despite the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, thanks to the efforts of Sa Zhenbing and others, the navy's fire was not completely extinguished like it was in 1949 in the parallel world. Yang Qiu promised Sa Zhenbing to pay the balance to buy back Zhaohe and Ying Rui.  Since the launch of three training cruisers, Phenom and Phenom, it has been strengthening the navy's soft power.  In addition to sending dozens of selected young naval personnel to Germany, including Byung-wen, who loved the navy, and Chen Shiying, a naval selector, nearly 300 more naval personnel were sent to the navies of Britain, the United States, and France since the country was unified in 1913.  College, and sent dozens of people to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Greenwich Naval Academy in the United Kingdom to learn how to build warships. Finally, they began to recruit Chinese people like Bai Yutang who had served in the navies of other countries in the world to enrich the navy.

    The young Deng Haoqian stood among them with his chest raised, his immature cheeks hardened and determined after experiencing the tragic Qingdao War. Opposite him was Lin Baofan, the son of General Lin Zengtai, and next to him was known as the No. 1 naval ship designer in the late Qing Dynasty.  Wei Zirong and Wei Zijing, the sons of Wei Han, and further away are the descendants of General Yang Yonglin, who is known as the Nelson of the East by the British. Although he and they are still students, they have been clearly informed that they will complete primary training in China.  He was sent to Europe and the United States for further study.

    ¡°The people leading the team this time are General Ye Zugui, the current chief of naval logistics, and General Qiu Baoren, who said he would never come back after the Sino-Japanese War of 1899-1899, but now wears the uniform of a rear admiral and serves as the principal of the Shanghai Naval Academy.

    Beiyangthe reclusive ones, the secluded ones, the discouraged ones, all come back today!  If not for anything else, just for the Navy to return to Port Arthur after 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 eyes turned to the sea covered with thin ice.  All I saw was that four brand-new "Seagull" class motor speedboats were leading the way and racing at lightning speed!  Driven by four 280-horsepower aviation gasoline engines, they drilled into the waterway like light arrows, and then pulled out white waves along Laohu Island and around the bay.

    While everyone was still amazed at their speed, 6 newly finalized "Osprey" bi-wing water reconnaissance/torpedo aircraft also suddenly rose from the sea level. At the same time, 4 "Haitongqing" and 16 "Sparrow" were in the distance.  The formed air force also came up. After the two sides formed a wild goose formation over Lushun Bay, they passed over Baiyu Mountain at low altitude.

    People were shocked at that moment!  It is rare for ordinary Chinese to see aircraft, let alone so many war eagles flying in low-altitude formations.  Only then did they realize thatthe country had quietly made such progress!  When people were surprised or even scared, joy and cheers suddenly sounded from the mouths of the naval cadets who stood taller than the trees.

    The whistle whines and the salute roars!  The sails are hunting and the flags are flying!

    While dozens of war hawks turned around and pounced toward the sea, a large ocean-going wooden training sailboat took the lead in exposing its mast.  This is one of the two navy ocean-going training sailboats that Yang Qiu specially ordered from Italy last year. He believes that only naval cadets who have experienced sailing combat can be regarded as true navy people, so he bought two for use by the Naval Academy.

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

    "Dad, look, it's the navy! Beiyangis back!" The young man, who saw so many warships of his own country for the first time, jumped to the front, looked at the large group of reporters with cameras, and hated  They cannot be allowed to film themselves.

    The father, who was once a sailor of the Beiyang Navy, patted the boy's head affectionately, with tears of joy in his eyes: "Bad boy. It's the Republic of China now, and it's not called the Navy, it's the Navy!"

    "Navy! When I grow up, I also want to be a navy! Just like you, daddy."

    ¡°?Come on, just don't embarrass me.  "My father touched his empty left sleeve and remembered the sacrifice of Dadonggou, and his tears could not stop flowing.

    In the bridge of the Qingdao, the short Sa Zhenbing also had red eyes.  Behind them, Yan Fu, Xie Baozhang, and Cheng Biguang all had tears in their eyes!  In 20 years, black hair turns white and teenagers turn old!  How many old Beiyang men died in depression before this day!  20 years of waiting, 20 years of staggering Today!  Lushun Port once again welcomed the fully-organized Chinese Navy fleet!  !

    " Compared with them, the chief designer who came from Sandu Aoxin Mawei Factory and Beiyang's first-generation ship design expert, Old General Wei Han, who was holding the railing tightly, was even more excited.  Seagull-class speedboats, Osprey seaplanes, Seawolf submarines, and the "Changfeng"-class large destroyer under construction!  After the complete suspension of naval production in the Gengzi Year, the Chinese Navy finally began to regain its vitality.

    Yang Qiu, who was standing in the harbor to greet them, was also paying attention to the new motorboats and seaplanes.  The prototype of this Seagull class is the German LM-class motor speedboat from World War I.  As the cradle of modern speedboats, this speedboat designed and manufactured by the German Luersen Company for the German Navy in 1916 is not as famous as the Italian and British speedboats of the same class, but it is mainly because it appeared late and the German Navy was too restricted after Jutland.  So he chose this model, the originator of modern torpedo boats, and used a miniature camera to copy it from the data recorder and then handed it over to Jiangnan Factory for tracing and re-enlargement of the design according to his requirements.

    Since the Jiangnan order shipyards were all crowded at that time, the final orders were given to the initially restored Laomawei Shipyard, Shanghai Qiuxin Shipyard, Hubei Yangzijiang Machinery Factory, and the smaller Qinzhou Bay Shipyard. The latter three were all domestic  private shipyard (Qinzhou Bay Shipyard is under the name of Miao Yuan), but the workers have all been trained in Jiangnan for a year, especially the last Qinzhou Bay Shipyard, because the shipping distance is long and requires a detour through the Qiongzhou Peninsula, and the railway is not accessible  The difficulty in supplying steel was mainly related to the construction of wooden civilian aircraft and sailboats. However, this time the order was given to train workers. Unfortunately, the aircraft engine was finalized too late, so it did not catch up with the war.

    The modified Seagull class has an additional engine. The slightly enlarged 35-ton round bilge hull is equipped with four 280-horsepower V8 aviation gasoline engines. It can still reach a speed of 30 knots in Level 3 wind and waves, which is comparable to the best technology at present.  British speedboat.  There is a shielded 37mm single-barreled rapid-fire machine gun on the bow of the boat, a 450mm torpedo launcher installed in front of the port side, and two Han-III heavy machine guns behind it.  As an offshore speedboat, it is initially capable of dealing with large warships due to the installation of torpedoes. Therefore, after completing the experiment, the Navy ordered an additional 36 boats to be allocated to the two fleets. Even the Coast Guard, which was newly established under the National Guard, also purchased  48 torpedo-less ships were used for daily patrols.

    The Osprey bi-wing water reconnaissance/torpedo aircraft was completely developed and designed by Chongqing Aircraft Factory based on Haidongqing¡¯s experience. It might be a bit like the famous British Cuckoo torpedo bomber.  Unfortunately, it was also delayed because the engine needed to be supplied to the Gota bomber secretly developed by Haidong Qinghe.

    These, including the secretly developed Gota bomber, were actually a secret plan to recapture Port Arthur. At the beginning, he was even prepared to sacrifice 30,000 men to attack and capture it, but even he did not expect that the Japanese army that rushed into battle was not the same one in the Showa era.  The terrifying "Imperial Army" inherited the rigid and clustered charging tactics of the French army in the Franco-Prussian War, making them like a bunch of targets in the face of tactics and firepower that were stronger than their own

    Yang Qiu did not even doubt that if the Japanese army were placed in the position of the French army at this moment and faced with a German army with firepower ten times stronger than its own, Japan would probably collapse directly.

    In my thoughts, the Qingdao armored cruiser took the lead in docking.  The former Austro-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth armored cruiser has a standard displacement of 4,030 tons, a maximum speed of 20 knots, and is equipped with 8 150 mm naval guns, 2 70 mm secondary guns, and 14 50 mm rapid-fire guns. It has become the new favorite of the navy.  But maybe it will be replaced soon, because the Navy sent divers to conduct actual measurements and found that the Japanese armored cruiser Tsukuba sunk in Qingdao was of repair value, so it spent a month using the large salvage equipment left by Germany in Qingdao to take the lead in salvaging it out of the water.  After entering the Qingdao dock, Wei Han personally presided over the detailed inspection and repair work.

    The navy, which may be able to get a 10,000-ton cruiser by the end of the year, is in great spirits. Sa Zhenbing and his naval officers saluted Yang Qiu as soon as they got off the ship. The thin old general with full hair and temples seemed to be back in Greenwich, England.  In the age of training at the Naval Academy, he said excitedly: "Navy Sa Zhenbing and the entire First Fleet salute the Commander-in-Chief, and will not hesitate to die if called upon!"

    Tang Shaoyi, who came to greet and attend the monument erection ceremony, frowned, but Feng Huafu beside him seemed not to hear such obvious words of allegiance.  Because for them soldiers, Yang Qiu's personal military ability and strategic vision have completely convinced them.  Didn¡¯t you see that the famous generals of China for thousands of years didn¡¯t raise their arms and call for the whole country and the army to work together!  This is the tradition of the army. You said bad habits?Regardless of feudalism, the choice of a soldier is very simple. The future of following a famous general is far greater than that of a mediocre general. Even soldiers know that famous generals can make more people survive until the end of the war.

    So no matter what the navy was like before, since Yang Qiu divided the navy into two fleets and combined the Haichen ship, the latest three training cruisers Zhaohe, Yingrui, and Feihong, and the two self-built large destroyers Yongjian and Yongji, all  After being incorporated into the Second Fleet and beginning to appoint non-Fujian naval officers, the largest invisible warlord group in the parallel world was gradually disintegrated.  Sa Zhenbing and others also knew what he was thinking, so the new students recruited from various places in recent years were no longer mainly from Fujian, but were selected from the coastal provinces, and even Chinese students with higher knowledge from Southeast Asia and overseas.

    After the recapture of Port Arthur fulfilled the biggest wish of these people, almost everyone in 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 these words, both the navy and the army were in the palm of his hand.  But he still had to do the superficial work. He smiled back and said: "General Sa made a mistake. He is not serving me, but serving the country! The navy must protect this blue land for our Chinese nation! Don't give in even an inch!"

    "Haha I'm old, and I can't even speak clearly anymore." Sa Zhenbing laughed, deliberately asked aside: "Commander-in-Chief, hasn't the United States responded yet?"

    This old man¡¯s face turned unhappy, no wonder he became an evergreen in the navy.

    This question also made the naval generals behind him prick up their ears. Even Chen Shaokuan, a junior, held his breath and concentrated.  Two large cruisers!  Nine 305/L50 naval guns. If obtained, the navy can completely change its current situation of being small, old and dilapidated, and keep pace with the development of the world's navies.  When Yang Qiu smiled slightly and turned to look at Mr. Cai, the latter said: "Mr. Sa. You don't want the Prime Minister and Vice President to blow the northwest wind here, do you?"

    As soon as they saw his appearance, everyone knew that he had some eyebrows, and Sa Zhenbing's old face suddenly blossomed: "Yes, yes, let's do big things first. Hey Shaochuan, are you here? Hua Fu  Hey, Anguo, you have come from Wuchang." Tang Shaoyi, Feng Guozhang and Xiao Anguo, who were smiling and chatting next to them, had black lines on their heads.

    Yue Peng and Zhang Zuolin held back the corners of their mouths, this old navy ruffian!  After removing the big stone from my heart and restoring my xinxing, it became even more difficult to deal with.

    ??While everyone was talking and laughing, they walked up the mountain along the passage opened by the naval cadets.  Originally, the monument ceremony was not open to the public, but at Yang Qiu's insistence, the people of Lushun were almost invited to watch the ceremony. Even many people from Jinzhou, Dalian and even Fengtian came, and senior officers from the Northeast Theater were also present. It can be said that  Most of China's big shots gathered here, so one can imagine the difficulty of security work just after the war.

    Therefore, in addition to the navy, the army also sent the strongest force, the guards also stared wide-eyed, and the agents of the Intelligence Department did not dare to let up on their personal protection.  Fortunately, as Japan had just withdrawn, new minions had not penetrated in, and with the joint efforts of several departments, the journey was uneventful. Only ordinary citizens who saw so many important officials for the first time were excited and a little restless.  .

    After reaching the top of the mountain and seeing Wanzhong¡¯s tomb, everyone¡¯s faces became serious.  20 years ago, the Japanese army carried out a brutal massacre here after attacking Lushun!  Four days and three nights!  Everyone from gray-haired old men to babies were killed.  Every family suffered, flesh and blood was everywhere, streets and lanes were filled with rivers of blood, and the beautiful Port Arthur turned into a blood-stained hell on earth. More than 20,000 innocent compatriots died tragically under the knife of the Japanese army, and more than 10,000 Beiyang soldiers were buried alive collectively!

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

    The soul of Wan Zhong is in Wan Zhong¡¯s tomb!

    They are the victims of the country¡¯s weakness, they are the victims of blood, tears and humiliation!  For soldiers, it is a heart-wrenching defeat and a hot slap in the face!

    A paper wreath was placed in front of the tombstone by the guards. Tang Shaoyi and Yang Qiu stood side by side and hundreds of officials bowed in silence.  Tens of thousands of pairs of eyes began to turn red, and the crowd was silent. Who among them didn't have brothers and sisters buried inside?  Who doesn¡¯t have relatives and friends spilling blood in the streets?  In the past 20 years, except for the Manchu and Qing government sending people to pay homage once during the construction period, this is the first time that state officials have collectively paid homage to loyal souls.

    After getting up, Yang Qiu nodded to Yue Peng.

    The soldiers began to place piles of crudely made urns into the large pit that had been dug nearby.  Tens of thousands of boxes containing the ashes of Japanese soldiers were piled into a hill and then covered with earth by workers.  No one will show mercy, no one cares about the stones smashing the box and spilling the pale white ashes, only shovelfuls of dirt filled with anger and deliberately aroused hatred!

    After the pit was quickly filled with soil, the workers shouted slogans and used hemp rope to slowly move a 10-meter-high obelisk with the list of soldiers who died in this battle to the center of the pit.  The four words "Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers" on the front of the obelisk are painted in black.The large lettering on the bottom faces the sea.

    "Mountains and rivers will forever be the town."

    ¡°What a forever-lasting mountain and river!¡±

    The crowd¡¯s eyes were reddened by these four characters again, and every mouth was chanting these four characters.

    After Tang Shaoyi first expressed his gratitude to the loyal ministers and soldiers on behalf of the government, Yang Qiucai walked to the podium set up and slowly raised his arms.  The entire White Jade Mountain was filled with darkness and thousands of meters of people were attracted by these arms.

    "Twenty years agowe were defeated. Although I and many of the sacrificed soldiers who were engraved on this obelisk were just born at that time, shame is shame! The loyal souls in Wanzhong's tomb belong to the soldiers.  Shame! It¡¯s because we failed to fulfill our responsibility to protect the country and the people! I¡¯m not afraid to say it out loud. If soldiers don¡¯t dare to face the shame and don¡¯t want to take revenge! Are we going to let ordinary citizens use their flesh and blood to resist the enemy¡¯s bayonets and bullets?¡±

    The loud voice spread along the sea breeze to every corner: "Before today, some people advised me not to build this monument because they thought it would not hinder the solution of Sino-Japanese hatred, but what I want to say is our generation  People will never forget that period of shame until they die! Those bowls of blood and tears! We have endured it silently for 20 years, and how many people have turned their hair gray because of it! Finally we are back, and tens of thousands of soldiers have used their lives and blood to make beauty beautiful  Lushun returned to the embrace of the motherland!

    Today, the obelisk stands here!  In the future, it will always be here, and no one can shake it!  Becausethis is no longer a country that can be bullied by others!  The era of humiliation is over!  The Chinese nation has straightened its backbone from now on!  Here, in front of you!  I do this in my own name, in the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces, and in the name of millions of soldiers of the National Defense Forces!  We swear to the heroic spirits of the martyrs of our Chinese nation who have defended the country and the people for thousands of years!  "

    "Soldiers will never dieMountains and rivers will last forever!"

    "Soldiers will never die! Mountains and rivers will last forever!"

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

    After blurting out these eight striking words, the whole Baiyu Mountain was boiling!  Deng Haoqian, like everyone else, flushed his cheeks and squeezed out all the strength in his chest to shout four times!  The crowd was boiling. Facing the surge of soldiers who were getting out of the way, they walked towards the Yongzhen Mountain and River Monument. Everyone stepped hard on the soil, then gently touched the obelisk, looking at the four big characters "Yongzhen Mountain and River", and felt in their chests  The flames were blazing.

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    Once again, it is intensely sublimated from Lushun Baiyu Mountain.  Under the deliberate propaganda of telegrams, newspapers and government notices, the whole country cheered!

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