Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 239 If three years doesn’t work, then three more years

Wang Mansion, East Broadway Road, Hongkou.

Wang Shouliang got off the carriage in a two-horse carriage at the door, and saw Liang Xinghua, the head of the intelligence department of the escort bureau, walking quickly from the roadside, "Big shopkeeper, something happened."

Wang Shouliang looked at him and started, "It's said inside."

Captain Liang followed his steps and explained in a low voice, "I just received the news that the Longhushan destroyer and Qingchengshan cruiser were ambushed by the Japanese when they were out at sea."

"I thought it was a grain transport ship from Ben to the island country, but I didn't expect that it was ambushed..."

"There were more than 400 brothers on the two big ships, and only a dozen of them escaped in torpedo boats."

"It was captured near Dongji Island. Under the current situation, there is a certain probability that the Japanese fleet headed by Mikasa and Yashima will evacuate after a small victory."

"But there are also more possibilities. There are more fleets lurking near some unknown island in that area. When we kill them, they will ambush us again."

Wang Shouliang had already moved to the Wang Mansion compound. He had just returned from the disaster relief front line, got off the boat and returned to the door when he heard the news.

So exciting.

Wang Shouliang thought for a while, "How many people are there in the torpedo boat death squad that is being compiled and trained daily?"

But in June, the Navy expanded its strength to 6 men and added some more ships.

This is doomed that everyone's trading discussions on the water and the ocean will not be peaceful.

Liang Biaotou said quickly, "700 people, more than 150 torpedo boat formations, 70 of which are in Hong Kong Island, and in Shanghai."

Thus, from the earliest three to four hundred men of the Luo San Artillery Department and the three to four hundred men of the Liangjiazi, an iron-blooded navy was trained time and time again.

The policy of the Sihai Escort Bureau is that you can be a prisoner in a life-or-death situation, and the Escort Bureau will try its best to redeem you, but if you really surrender, you will be treated as a Japanese traitor.

The biggest advantage of Sihai Escort is the torpedo boat death squad! !

Whether it is the two destroyers that sank in April, May or June, or the two warships Longhushan and Qingchengshan this time, if you continue to buy the ship after it sinks, you are helping Ying Lun clear his inventory.

Try to redeem the living prisoners as much as possible, even if you exchange them for one. Don't forget that the navy from all over the world goes to sea and captures merchant ships at every turn. There are also many Japanese captains, merchants, and sailors on those merchant ships.

When he took out the lighter and lit a cigarette, he frowned and said, "More than 400 brothers, how many are captured? Find out as soon as possible and try to redeem the prisoners."

Liang Xinghua nodded, "We have sent people to do their best to investigate, including the spies recruited in the past few months. Several groups of people are contacting the overseas Chinese businessmen in Hongkou, trying to find out information from within them."

On the surface, even if both sides have the same level of gunboats, the same number, and the same number of sailors, in a fight to the death on the sea, the Sihai Escort Bureau will still lose more than 80% of the time.

Then all the welfare benefits of you and all your relatives in the escort agency will be cancelled, and you yourself will become a famous person on the kill list of the escort agency.

Of course, if after being captured, you find an opportunity to drag one or two Japanese to death together, this will also be converted into heroic sacrifice, and you will receive 1000 taels of silver as a pension for those who died in the war, and at least provide your family with a very low-cost rental of a one-bedroom and one-living house and other benefits. exist.

Wang Shouliang is supportive and encouraging. He will never be stingy in giving what is due. Even if the professional quality, ability and skills of Chinese sailors are low at this stage, if he gives enough, he can inspire the wolf nature and fierceness of the Navy.

Destroyers and cruisers with a displacement of three to four thousand tons can be surrendered and taken prisoner during the sinking process.

Last year, in the Battle of Kume Island, there were only 2100 veterans left out of more than 1300 people. From the end of April to June this year, he moved to Shanghai to open a separate helm, and 6 brothers were killed and injured one after another.

After a group of people died, new ones continued to be recruited.

At most, some of the Japanese fleet will die together before being wiped out.

There are various rules and regulations like this.

Wang Shouliang smiled and said, "Check Dongji Island, including the nearby waters, and once you find a Japanese fleet or big ship, give it a try."

Just like the Sihai Escort Bureau, they "collected" and "harmoniously friendly" brought back some island countries' sugar ships, grain ships, iron ore ships, natural rubber ships, etc.

The greatest significance of a team of personnel such as custody and control is to replace them one by one.

He didn't believe in the huge money empire he had built, and he couldn't handle the Japanese navy, which lacked resources and was not yet good at building large ships.

If it doesn't work for one year, then three years, if it doesn't work for three years, then three more years. Before the First World War, the enemy and the Japanese exchanged their opinions, and the navy there would only collapse.

The Japanese would not be able to develop. Before the First World War, they were just the second-rate powers in East Asia that had just emerged. With the help of the dividends from the First World War, they had become the top global power.

Liang Xinghua nodded. Seeing that Wang Shouliang had no further instructions, he quickly turned around to do something.

The next moment, as Wang Shouliang continued walking into the main villa, he waved to Xu Si and said, "Go down and recruit 1500 watermen and bodyguards in Shanghai."

"We lost hundreds of brothers this time, and we need to make up for the loss."

"I feel that in order to redeem the batches of captains and sailors under our control, the commanders of the Mikasa and Yashima must try to capture as many living people as possible."

Xu Si nodded.

When Wang Shouliang looked at Xu Si's leaving back, he wanted to add something, but finally suppressed the thought. In fact, he wanted to say that even if he changed people, he could cut off the two thumbs of all the Japanese.

But he did this. Maybe the ransomed Longhushan and Qingchengshan prisoners this time can come back intact. What about next time? The next time a Sihai Escort agent and escort are captured, the end won't be much better.

In an era when disaster victims and refugees are everywhere, every time Sihai Escort Bureau and Zhujiang Enterprise recruit workers, it is equivalent to doing charity.

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Twenty days later.

One fleet went out to sea from Shanghai, and another fleet came up from Fujian Province. The two sides gathered in the coastal waters of Taizhou. Wang Shouliang's Sihai only raised the flag and set off.

When the fleet arrived all the way to Dachen Island, Sihai sent out a semaphore again, and all the ships anchored near Dachen Island to change their shells!

When Wang Shouliang walked out of the command tower, observer Joseph looked confused and confused, "Wang, change the shells? What shells to change?"

Kevin was surprised, "What new artillery shells have you prepared?"

Wang Shouliang lit a cigar and smiled, "Picric acid shells are a surprise I prepared for the Japanese fleet. Of course, the Japanese also gave me the same surprise when they accepted the challenge this time."

"Their combined fleet of Mikasa, Yashima, and Hatsase have also been replaced with picric acid. Otherwise, with the urine of the Japanese, they may not have such a tacit understanding with me to engage in a willing sea battle. "

It started with the destruction of the Asahi fleet in December last year.

The Sihai Escort Bureau under Wang Shouliang did not respect martial ethics. It "collected" grain ships and sugar ships departing from the other side of the river, and then collected oil ships, armored steel, rubber, and even Mauser M1898 rifles coming from Malacca. and manufacturing process production lines.

Those were all strategic materials that the Japanese bought from Europe and prepared vigorously from South Asia and South Africa. Iron ore ships leaving the Yangtze River were also arrested one after another. All we can say is that if they don't have a big fight at the beginning of the film, if things continue to develop, they will just sit and wait to die.

Throughout the island country, the biggest competitor at this stage is the furry bear! Rather than an outrageous escort agency run by a Hong Kong Islander? !

The furry bear is not only coveting the three northeastern provinces, but also interfering with the peninsula! !

Without the strategic materials of the Nanyang Islands, without the money and food over there, without the iron ore, will we lose the peninsula again? ? That's a far cry from development.

Just withdraw from the stage of great powers and become a colony.

The situation has developed to this point. The Japanese have only two choices. One is to launch all the remaining five large ships with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons in the Sixty-Sixth Fleet and use 100% of the national power to kill Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort Bureau. .

Of course they are willing to choose this way... most hope and like this.

But Wang Shouliang is not blind. He only has two warships with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. The chance of winning two against five is definitely too small and he will not fight.

In addition, there is another reason. If the Japanese abandon the Sixth Fleet and the Asahi Fleet and all go to sea...will they be attacked by Mao Xiong in Tokyo? Bombing Tokyo?

The relationship between them and the bear is there, and the relationship between the ghost bear and the ghost bear is about to break out, but the time has not been determined yet, and they dare not let Tokyo become an empty city at will.

Taking all these considerations into account, they had to fight Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort Agency again, and they had to win. They sent three large ships to form a fleet, and there was a certain probability that they could lure the Sihai Escort Agency into a naval battle similar to last year's Kume Island.

This is the way to go! If you don't leave, you're waiting to die.

The biggest weapon of the Japs now is the picric acid shell. The explosive power of this thing far exceeds the shells used by the great powers. Otherwise, the original trajectory would not have allowed the Tsushima naval battle to achieve miraculous results.

Evenly matched warships were armed, with a total tonnage similar to that of various warships. Only three torpedo boats were lost, and the battle loss ratio was even more terrifying than that of the Sino-Japanese War, sinking and capturing nearly 30 large ships.

In addition to the strong combat power of the torpedo commandos, picric acid also plays a major role!

Therefore, this time the Japanese and the Shikai Escorts once again attacked voluntarily, which was somewhat similar to last year's Kumejima naval battle... that is, the Japanese felt that they only had three Fuji and Shikishima-class ships, and two Wang Shouliang.

But the Japanese artillerymen are more accurate and more powerful, and the picric acid shells are many times more powerful. Just like last year, the Sihai hit four or five shells, while the Asahi only hit one.

Ordinary artillery shells cannot tear through the defense of armored steel, but bitter acid can!

In the past 20 days or so, the two sides had inquired about each other's intelligence, tried to make a fight, where to start filming, and so on.

The results of prisoner exchanges between the two sides these days are also good.

In early September, more than 200 escort agents and escorts captured by the Longhushan destroyer and Qingchengshan cruiser were all exchanged, and more than 200 captains, capitalists and sailors were returned to the other side.

The current Shikai Escort fleet is led by two Shikishima-class battleships, three Zhenyuan-class auxiliary ships, ten destroyers and cruisers with a displacement of 200 to 700 tons as escorts, a batch of -ton cargo ships loaded with more than torpedo boats, and more than torpedo boats charging Death warrior.

It’s Sihai’s card! !

This battle does not require total annihilation, just destroy more than half of the combined fleets of Mikasa, Hatsuse and Yashima.

In the next one or two years, when the Four Seas Escort Bureau will move across the East China Sea and South China Sea and march towards the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, the most the Japanese will have left is to fight to the death with the Mao Xiong.

In the entire ghost-bear war, there is a high probability that they will stab each other and bleed to death together.

In the Battle of Tsushima, one of the battles of the Ghost Bear War, the death of Mao Xiong was so outrageous. The biggest reason was the arrogance and arrogance of the command system and the poor cooperation of the combined fleet. Some commanders died in various strange ways, and the command system was rigid and inflexible. wait.

That is the problem of the collapse of the old empire.

When the fleet was gathered and moored, teams of sailors and sailors drove small boats between 10,000-ton cargo ships and large ships, replacing the picric acid shells.

On the deck of the Sihai, a dozen figures, led by two young men, were all waiting with excitement and shame...

Wang Shouliang didn't let them wait too long. He picked up a bowl of wine and signaled the guards to pour wine for these dozen people. With the sea breeze blowing, Wang Shouliang raised his glass and said, "I won't say too many words. Now, 豼We still have a chance to regret it."

"Quit from the death squad and participate in this battle as an ordinary escort or junior escort."

"This glass of wine should be practiced for you under gunfire."

A certain young man's face was blood red. He held a bowl in his left hand and saluted with his right hand. "Don't worry, Mr. Boss. I escaped with my life by chance, but I betrayed the trust of more than 200 brothers. Last time I was able to drive a torpedo boat and sink a destroyer with my comrades."

"I have also been famous for nearly a year. This time in the Death Soldiers, I, Lao He, am still the first to charge!"

"Life or death depends on God's will. I just hope that once I die in battle, the big shopkeeper can protect my wife and children."

Another young man standing parallel to him a few steps away also raised his glass and saluted, "Big shopkeeper, so do I!"

These two are the former Longhushan destroyer and Qingchengshan cruiser escort chiefs He Dahai and Yu Sanqi. The sailors of the Sihai Escort Bureau go to sea again and again to do work. If they can successfully "acquire" merchant ships, it is natural that you are good, I am good, everyone is good, and we will make a fortune together.

Including the promotion of some junior members.

You made a huge mistake, causing the battleship to be sunk or captured. Of course, you will also be punished. Two destroyers and a cruiser were sunk, although you got back more than 200 brothers in exchange.

But the one who dies is really dead.

When He Dahai and Yu Sanqi escaped in a torpedo boat, they went straight to the end. They were all promoted from the captain of an ironclad ship to the captain of an ironclad ship. Their salary and salary were downgraded, and it was clearly stipulated that for non-significant contributions, five stars No promotion for years.

The wealth they earned in the previous year, the houses they bought, gold and silver, etc., are still theirs.

But we must also spend a sum of money to compensate the families of our comrades who died in the battle, with clear rewards and punishments!

Not counting the 9 escorts and escorts recruited in Shanghai in early September, the entire Sihai Escort Bureau's water force only has a full complement of more than 1500 people.

When the other survivors of the last war behind them also saluted together, expressing their intention to embark on the road of death squads again, Wang Shouliang smiled and said, "Okay, cheers!!"

"After drinking this bowl of wine, you can transfer to the torpedo boat carrier and risk your life again! I also hope to see everyone come back alive!"

Both sides used picric acid shells, and the battle was likely to be brutal.

The artillery strength of Sihai Escort Bureau is still weak.

Of course, Wang Shouliang would try his best to increase the winning rate of his escort agency, and he also prepared a mine attack for the Japanese.

This requires laying mines in a certain sea area in advance before fighting the Japanese, then faking defeat during the battle and pretending to escape to lead the Japanese fleet into the minefield.

Coincidentally, the first time modern naval mines were widely used in a major war was the Battle of the Ghost Bear two years after the original trajectory.

All in all, Wang Shouliang planned to use all the leading advantages of the Japs in the battle between ghosts and bears to give the Sihai Escort Agency a pleasant experience in advance.

Another surprise he gave the Japanese was a submarine! Order assistance from North America! ! Including submarine pilots are also North American aid!

(End of this chapter)