He saw a large British warship parked not far away, and the bad water in his stomach came up, and hurriedly ordered the small-caliber guns of a transport ship to fire at the British warship Although the caliber of the guns on the transport ship was small, they were close to the British warship, and this cannon shot out and smashed right on the deck of the British destroyer in the front, and on the spot the dozen or so British sailors who were standing on the deck watching the excitement were blown up to the ground, killing and wounding a large number of people, and lying on the deck with a blur of flesh and blood The commander of the British fleet, who was watching the bustle, saw that his warship had been beaten, and he thought that the guns of the PLA fishing boats and gunboats that rushed over on the opposite side fired first, and immediately ignored the lesson of the last time they had just suffered a loss on the mouth of the Yangtze River, relying on the strength of the boats and the strength of the people, and looked down on the fat men in front of them, these small warships and broken fishing boats, thinking that this time he had finally seized the opportunity, and he was worried that he could not find an excuse to get angry, this is on the East China Sea, but not on the Yangtze River, if he is beaten in the open sea, if he does not return fire, So what is the face of our British Empire Suddenly, a loud thunderous noise rang out one after another, and large-caliber shells roared out of the barrels of the ship's guns, and smashed into the water near the Jiangfang warship where Deputy Commander Li was lying slowly.
As soon as the British fleet opened fire, the colonel of the Kuomintang Secret Bureau on the transport ship thought that he had succeeded in his treacherous plan, and said to his subordinates triumphantly: "Haha, this is very lively, the Turkish Republic and the foreign devils are fighting, we just took the opportunity to get out, and quickly evacuate to the south at full speed."
Seeing that the Kuomintang transport ship was about to run away, how could the fat man, a money fan, let them go, thinking that Lao Tzu was placed in the south, which caused the foreign devil warship to bombard us, if you were escaped by your turtle sons this time, how would Lao Tzu still mix in this area in the future The fat man immediately ordered the surrounding gunboats and fishing boats to catch up, intercept the enemy transport ships that were preparing to escape, and if they could not be captured, they would be sunk on the spot, and they must not be allowed to take out the miscellaneous things, and would rather sink them in the East China Sea than let the Kuomintang transport these materials to Taiwan for future expenses.
When Deputy Commander Li saw that the British heavy cruiser was bombarded, he was a little panicked, and hurriedly telegraphed to ask the fat man what to do, and the fat man gritted his teeth and ordered Deputy Commander Li: "What can I do, I will be responsible for the accident."
With the fat man's words, Deputy Commander Li was a lot bolder, and immediately ordered several river defense ships in front of him to concentrate their firepower on a nearby British destroyer to fire back, although the river defense ships are small in size and not large in tonnage, but their advantage is that there are many gun positions and a fast rate of fire, and when Deputy Commander Li's artillery bombardment order was given, there were bursts of thunderous artillery bombardment, and the four river defense fleets surrounded a British destroyer and continuously opened artillery bombardment.
The rest of the surrounding gunboats and armed fishing boats also used the small cannons and machine guns on the ships to fire at the surrounding British warships, which was lively at this time, the cannon sound on the sea surface of the East China Sea burst out, the flames soared into the sky, and the smoke was everywhere, and the unfortunate British destroyer was beaten by the four river defense ships of Deputy Commander Li for a while, and the deck was full of holes, and the flames were all over the ship, and the smoke covered the entire hull, and more than half of the hundreds of British sailors on board were killed and wounded, and the part below the waterline of the hull was pierced by the armor-piercing shells of the river defense ships, and the turbulent sea water poured in at once.
The hull of the ship suddenly lost its balance, and it was raised high, and it looked like it was about to sink The commander of the British fleet did not expect that those small boats would be desperate, he thought that as long as the large-caliber guns on his heavy cruisers fired, those broken ships would flee from the wind, but he did not want to fight, the broken fishing boats not only did not run, but surrounded in groups, and the commander on the opposite side seemed to be an expert, knowing that although the caliber of his warships and guns was large, but there were shooting dead ends, he took three or two small boats as a group, and swarmed towards the fleet in all directions, which made the sailors of the British fleet scramble.
I don't know where to shoot and intercept it, because they are surrounded by gunboats and armed fishing boats, and the speed is extremely fast, the targets are scattered, and the cannon is not a blocking gun, it can be aimed accurately and carefully, so it is fighting, the British commander found that something is wrong with the situation, and if he continues to fight, his fleet is afraid that he will suffer, and the destroyer at the front has been beaten by four small warships of the river defense, and the bow is cocked, it seems that it cannot be saved, or retreat quickly and retreat to the East China Sea, these are powerful, We can't afford to mess with it.
At this moment, a flotilla appeared on the sea to the north, and the radar crew of the British fleet hurriedly reported to the commander: "On the northeast sea twelve nautical miles away, an unknown flotilla has been found, without any identification marks, and the flotilla is mostly composed of fishing boats and small gunboats, and it is estimated that the fleet of the Communist army has rushed to reinforce it."
When the British commander heard this, he was even more frightened, thinking that these fishing boats in front of him had already tossed him enough, and if there was another fleet, he would still be able to withstand it, so stop fighting and withdraw quickly Zhou Wu received the news that the fat man was going to fight against the foreign devil fleet on the sea surface of the East China Sea, and he was worried that this stunned young man would come out of chaos and cause international disputes, and it would not end well, so he quickly telegraphed and ordered Huang Shuisheng to immediately set off from the dock in Nantong and rush to reinforcements, Zhou Wu's order to Huang Shuisheng was: "Reinforcement the fat man's fleet, if you find that you have started fighting, you don't need to ask for instructions, you can directly participate in the battle, and repel all the enemies besieging the fat man's fleet, Rescue our fleet and protect the infantry of the 1st Division who will not be able to fight in the water" After Huang Shuisheng received the order, he found that he was quite a distance away from the sea surface of the fat man, if the entire fleet rushed over, I am afraid that it would be too late, and the fat man and they would probably be beaten by those foreign devil fleets with strong ships and guns.
Huang Shuisheng was worried that the fat man would suffer a loss, so he first brought a group of light gunboats to hurry over, and most of the fleet was handed over to his deputy division commander to lead the team to follow up, and they rushed over to help reinforce the fat man first.
In order to arrive as soon as possible, Huang Shuisheng ordered the gunboat to rush over at full speed, and rushed desperately towards the accident area along the coastline, and soon the reconnaissance gunboat in front found a large number of fleets, and immediately reported to Huang Shuisheng: "Division commander, a large number of unknown ships were found in front, and there were fires and thick smoke rising, and it seemed that they were engaged in battle" "Ah, it must be Lao Liu They fought with the foreign devil warship, the fleet immediately dispersed, and the group was the unit, catching up to attack the foreign devil warship" Huang Shuisheng hurriedly made a judgment, in the three months after the end of the Huaihai Campaign, he took the brothers of the water division to practice the water battle formation day and night, and now this kind of combat method of taking the group as a unit and besieging the enemy in all directions is a tactic that Huang Shuisheng has long had when he was a water bandit in Gaoyou Lake, which is especially suitable for besieging the enemy's fleet, A combat group is composed of three or four armed fishing boats, respectively responsible for observation, cover, attack and other combat missions, each armed fishing boat is arranged with four or five sailor brothers, the bow of the ship is mounted with a 60 mortar and two heavy machine guns, at the beginning of the battle, the leader of the reconnaissance ship directs the ship to advance and retreat to shoot, because the hull is small, very light and flexible, the enemy's large warship due to the problem of the angle of fire and the minimum range of the ship's guns, once the armed fishing boats rushing over by these swarms rushed to within a thousand meters, Basically, there is no cure, and the enemy warships can only be beaten in vain except to turn around and flee.
This method of water warfare was later called "wolf pack tactics" by some experts, meaning that these armed fishing boats were like wolves on the grassland, and once they found their targets, they swarmed and flocked to them, and no powerful fleet was able to parry them in front of these wolves.
Fortunately, the commander of the British fleet had a flexible brain, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he hurriedly ordered the fleet to quickly turn around and retreat to the south, and even the destroyer that had begun to sink after being pierced by Deputy Commander Li's Jiang Defense ship with armor-piercing shells pierced the waterline and had begun to sink, and hurriedly turned around and ran to the south, leaving behind the British sailors who were floating on the sea and scolded, and soon all these unlucky British sailors were captured by Deputy Commander Li's subordinates, who had caught up, and became the first batch of foreign prisoners captured by the People's Liberation Army since the Liberation War.
When Huang Shuisheng and their armed fishing boats arrived here, the British fleet had already run away without a trace, and the colonel of the Secret Bureau on the Kuomintang transport ship, who was still proudly watching the excitement just now, was suddenly dumbfounded, he never thought that this British guy could not help beating so much, he couldn't even stop the broken boat, and ran away, so he panicked, and hurriedly ordered the transport ship to follow the British ship to the south at full speed, but their transport ship was full of gold and property, and the draft was deep, where could it outrun the British warship, it hadn't started yet, He was immediately intercepted by Deputy Commander Li's Jiang Defense Ship, and looking at the PLA ships surrounding him from all directions, the colonel of the Secret Bureau gritted his teeth and ordered his subordinates to activate the self-destruction device on the ship, and all the personnel abandoned the ship and jumped into the sea.
But those of his subordinates were afraid of death, and they were unwilling to abandon the ship and jump into the sea, thinking that jumping into the sea in the East China Sea here would be tantamount to suicide, and that these gold and property were transported from Shanghai, and were given to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party alike, so why should we risk our own lives for these things Those subordinates refused to carry out the order to bomb the ship, and the colonel of the secret service saw that there was no way, and the general situation was gone, so he had to let his subordinates stick out a big white coat outside the ship, and shouted to the fat man through the big horn on the ship: "Brothers, stop fighting, we surrender" t1706231537: