Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 775
Now that there was an emergency, Qian Xiaobao was worried about the people on the whaling ship, fearing that they would panic, so he returned with the cotton ship.

And Zhang Fawu ordered the people on the island to climb to the top of the mountain with two machine guns, and open fire when the enemy approached, at least to attract the enemy's firepower.

The Chengshanjiao area is the tip of the Shandong Peninsula. The underwater reefs are densely covered here, and the current is very strong. Ships with a displacement of more than a thousand tons dare not approach at all. The enemy is likely to come from Qingdao Port and sail along the coastline. gunboat.

Such a gunboat does not have strong firepower, and its speed will not be too fast.

Qian Xiaobao followed the cotton sailboat back to the whaling ship. Masayoshi Kawaguchi was in the wheelhouse, seven or eight people hoisted cotton behind, and Ryuji Sasaki was still watching the distance from the observation position of the mast.

Da Shangang has already pulled out the crooked machine gun, and he is lying on the deck and aiming the machine gun.

Qian Xiaobao turned to the back and said to a few people who were unloading cotton: "Don't worry, the warship won't be able to get through for a while!"

These people on the whaling ship were all recruited by Second Lieutenant Abe from the navy. They had experienced more urgent situations than this before, so no one showed panic.

Qian Xiaobao went back to the cabin and took out all four rifles, then stood on the deck and looked into the distance.

The machine guns on Crouching Tiger Island are still firing, but the ship that was sailing close to Crouching Tiger Island has deviated from its original navigation and sailed around Crouching Tiger Island, but the heavy machine guns on the ship are still shooting at Crouching Tiger Island.

"Gunboat!" Ryuji Sasaki shouted from the mast.

Japan built a large number of small gunboats of more than [-] tons, most of which were used on the Chinese battlefield.Among the three detachments of the Navy, the Second Detachment based in Wuhan and the First Detachment based in Qingdao have many such gunboats.

Obviously, the gunboat that came tonight was captured by the Japanese navy in Qingdao Port by the national army.

A lighting lamp slowly rose into the sky, bursting out a dazzling white light in the sky, clearly illuminating the range of several kilometers.

The whaling ship three or four miles away and the two sailboats next to it were immediately discovered by the people on the gunboat, and the gunboat went straight to the whaling ship regardless of the entanglement of the shooting on Crouching Tiger Stone Island.

"Don't panic! Keep loading the ship!" Qian Xiaobao shouted.

It will take a few minutes to reach the effective range of the heavy machine gun on the gunboat, and it can still be loaded on the ship during this time.

Taking advantage of the light, the people on the sailboat desperately put the last few bales of cotton in the net bag, and the whaling ship's boom was raised and slowly put the net bag containing the baled cotton on board.

The two sailboats headed towards Sea Donkey Island one after another. At this time, they could only escape to Sea Donkey Island to take refuge. Although the boat was destroyed, people could keep it.If they fled to the sea, neither the man nor the ship would be able to keep them under the chase of the gunboat.

Even so, it was unlikely that the two sailboats would have escaped to Sea Donkey Island before the gunboats arrived.

The flares gradually went out, and the sea became dark again.

"Turn the rudder and drive towards the gunboat!" Qian Xiaobao suddenly shouted.

Everyone on the whaling ship was stunned. It was a good time to escape. The whaling ship had seventeen or eight knots at full speed, which was much faster than the gunboat with only eleven knots. When the next flare came up, they were hunting whales. The ship was already out of range of the heavy machine guns.

However, Chairman Takashima's words were orders. Masaoyoshi Kawaguchi said hi and turned to face the direction of the gunboat he saw just now and gradually accelerated.

Ryuji Sasaki looked forward nervously on the mast. They were all people who had practiced hard at night battles. They had excellent eyesight, but they lost to the radar of the US Navy.

Qian Xiaobao pulled the bolt and knelt on one leg and raised the rifle to point forward, and three more people held up the rifles like Qian Xiaobao.

"Aim at the shooting position on the gunboat!" Qian Xiaobao said.

In front of the gunboat is a heavy machine gun and a mortar.

boom!
Another flare pierced through the darkness and slowly rose into the night sky.

It also completely exposed the position of the gunship.

Kawaguchi adjusted the direction of the whaling ship and rushed towards the gunboat at full speed.

"Fire as soon as the flare explodes!" Qian Xiaobao ordered.

When the flare exploded a few seconds later, four 700 rifles and a crooked handle fired at a target six to seven hundred meters away.

At the moment when the flare was illuminated, a large ship with hundreds of tons appeared in front of the gunboat a mile away!

Before the people on the gunboat could react, the bullets had already been fired head-on.

Under the illumination of the flares, the five people barely aimed and pulled the trigger directly to hit the bow of the gunboat.

"Turn, go east!" Qian Xiaobao shouted.

Now that the whaling ship was heading south at full speed, Kawaguchi began to turn the rudder and turn east.

To the east is the depths of the sea, and gunboats with poor wind and wave resistance dare not chase after them.

When the whaling ship just turned sideways, gunshots finally rang out from the gunboat, which was beaten so hard that it couldn't lift its head. It turned out that there was a light machine gun at the rear of the gunboat.

A few bullets puffed into the cotton bag.

Qian Xiaobao and the others hurriedly turned their guns to shoot, while the whaling ship was heading east at a ninety-degree angle to the gunboat sailing north.

When the gunboat turned its bow, the second flare went out again.

Ten seconds later, the third flare illuminated the sea again, but the whaling ship was already 1000 meters away.

The heavy machine guns on the gunboat fired in vain for a while, and finally the whaling ship disappeared in the sea illuminated by flares.

Zhang Fawu saw this scene on the sea donkey island. With the whaling ship attracting the gunboat's attention, the people on the two sailboats would have enough time to return safely to the sea donkey island.

There are more than 100 people on the island now, and there are at most 30 to [-] people on the gunboat. They dare not leave the gunboat to go to the island and exchange fire with them.This is still a liberated area and they dare not stay too long.

Sure enough, the gunboat turned around and rushed to Sea Donkey Island after seeing that the pursuit of the whaling ship was hopeless.

They used heavy machine guns to shoot at the four large sailboats on the shore of Hailu Island from 300 meters away until they smashed the sailboats into a pile of broken wood and then turned back to Qingdao Port.

"Check the cotton bales, don't catch fire!" Qian Xiaobao shouted.

Several bullets were shot into the cotton bag just now. If the cotton is ignited, it will be very troublesome. You can't use seawater to put out the fire, right?
Ryuji Sasaki and the others looked for bullet holes in the cotton bales, and took out the burnt black cotton in the bullet holes to prevent the cotton from smoldering.

Qian Xiaobao kept checking next to the cotton pile, and he was completely relieved until he found no smoke or fire after three or four hours.

Da Shangang came over and said, "That gunboat seems to be targeting us."

"It can't be that there is a problem with our people. There may be hundreds of people on their side who know about this, and since they have been trading for such a long time, it is likely that there is a problem among them." Qian Xiaobao replied.

"Tell them, after they go back, each person will be given another [-] yen!" Qian Xiaobao continued.

(End of this chapter)