Chapter 297 Fleet’s Trouble

"Kucha~kucha~" Amidst the sound of the train moving along the way, a bearded man on this train leaned back on a chair and closed his eyes to meditate. ("") Beside this man was a man with two ponytails.

Middle-aged man with mustache.

Inside and outside the carriage, there were more than a dozen stern-looking men wearing Northeastern Army uniforms, vigilantly looking at what was going on around them! Especially if there was anything strange outside the car window.

After a long time, the man who had closed his eyes to meditate suddenly opened his eyes! The carriage seemed to light up a lot under his gaze, and then he saw the man stand up and twist his body! The whole body was covered with blood.

The joints make a "click~click~" sound!

The men standing in the carriage looked at the man with a hint of reverence, but the man twisted his majestic body as if he didn't realize it, and then asked in a deep voice:

“How far is it to Harbin?!”

After hearing the man's question, the middle-aged man standing behind him did not dare to neglect and said in a deep voice to the man: "Commander, we still have about two hours to arrive. Two brothers were a little uncomfortable on the road just now.

I stopped to take him to the hospital, so I was delayed..."

The man nodded when he heard this, then turned around and said in a deep voice to the middle-aged man behind him: "Are our brothers ready? Don't go to Harbin and give me a bunch of shit.

What’s wrong! I won’t have the shame to embarrass you when the time comes!”

After listening to the man's words, the middle-aged man smiled and said: "Commander, don't worry! You have trained your brothers a lot this year. All those bastards have been cleared out. Which one is left?

Aren't you the man with the handle?! I will never embarrass you in front of the young master!"

The man nodded after hearing what the man said, and then said in a deep voice: "Follow me for a walk and see how the brothers are doing. If you feel uncomfortable, you have to go to the hospital. Your life is at stake!"

With that said, the man walked towards the door of the carriage. Then a man respectfully opened the door for the man and followed him vigilantly and respectfully.

"Kucha~kucha~" The train is still driving, heading towards the slow and determined headwind of Harbin City.

At the same time, R.N. Ozolin, commander of the Amur River Fleet of the Soviet Far East Special Group Army, was so angry that he wanted to kill someone!

The warships that the fleet came over this time were four "Lenin" class shallow water heavy artillery ships. This class of ships was built by Tsarist Russia in 1907 and was commissioned in 1910. The ship names were changed to "Lenin".

The four main shallow-water heavy gunships are "Sverdlov", "Red Vostok" and "Sun Yat-sen".

This kind of warship is 70.9 meters long, 12.8 meters wide, and has a draft of 1.41 meters. It has a displacement of 965 tons, four steam boilers that can provide 1,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 11.5 knots, and an endurance of 3,726 nautical miles/8 knots.

Eight 120 mm guns, 2 75 mm anti-aircraft guns, 2 20 mm anti-aircraft guns, and 9 anti-aircraft machine guns installed in 4 twin armored turrets; deck armor 38-76 mm, turret armor 25-76 mm, gun mount armor

51 mm, the command tower has 51 mm armor.

This class of ships was later modified, mainly by replacing the two 120mm twin turrets with 152mm twin turrets to make the firepower stronger!

Next were the three second-level inland river gunboats, namely the "Red Star", the "Red Flag", and the "Proletarian".

These three warships are not simple! This kind of ship has a total length of 54.5 meters, a width of 8.2 meters, and a draft of 1.1 meters. It has a displacement of 244 tons, a horsepower of 250-270 horses, a maximum speed of 10 knots, and an endurance of 1,700 nautical miles/8 knots. It has 2 armaments.

45 times the caliber 120mm gun, 1 122mm army howitzer, 4 7.62mm machine guns; 12.7mm ship side armor and 9.5mm deck armor; the crew is 63 people. Sanctuary

It's not that Ozolin doesn't want to bring his own stronger gunboats, but that certain waterways from Heilongjiang to Songhua River cannot allow large ships to pass at all. Therefore, in order to allow his fleet to arrive at the battlefield more quickly, the Amur River in Harbin

District Fleet Commander Ozolin had no choice but to bring out these faster ships under his command as support.

However, in Ozolin's opinion, these ships are enough, because the navy in the Northeast has been annihilated by them! And Harbin has never had river defense artillery, so its own fleet can run rampant in the Songhua River without any opponents.

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Under these seven warships, there are four armed ships "Labour", "Karl Marx", "Mark Varyankin" and "Pavel Zhuravlev", carrying an Amur River area

The Marine Corps Strengthening Battalion directly under the fleet has 1,200 people ready to log in and fight at any time!

Therefore, Ozolin is confident that he can achieve greater victory in the Battle of Harbin! Pushing his reputation to the highest peak! And forcing the stupid young commander to quickly sign on the Middle East Road!

But everything changed because of what happened tonight. The fleet's propellers were entangled in large fishing nets! They were forced to stop, and several warships even almost collided with each other!

Forced to stop, the commander of the fleet, Ozolin, naturally almost ordered the fleet to bombard the river bank! But he knew that doing so would not help, so he had to strictly order the fleet to drag the trapped warship to the shallow water of the shore.

Clean the fishing nets above.

"Comrade Ozolin, there is nothing we can do about this. After all, it is normal to encounter fishing nets on the river. Many fishermen will discard some abandoned fishing nets on the river..."

N. Onufriev, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Far East Group who came with the fleet, smiled at Ozolin and said: "As the commander of the fleet, you may know these things better than me. What we have to do now is

Rush to Harbin as soon as possible to relieve the enemy's siege on Comrade Rokossovsky..."

After hearing Onufriev's words, Ozolin could only sigh helplessly. He said solemnly to Onufriev: "Comrade Onufriev, if this situation continues, we will

It will definitely be slowed down."

As he spoke, Ozolin looked at the endlessly flowing Songhua River and said in a deep voice to Onufriev: "According to the news from the commander-in-chief, it seems that the situation on the army's front line is not good! Rokossovsky

The comrades have now lost their own tanks and artillery units, and the aviation group that supported them has also lost contact! The aviation group directly under the fleet went there several times, but was forced to withdraw due to the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower..."

Onufriev heard Ozolin nodded in understanding. He knew that the Amur River Fleet Air Force only had fourteen fighters, and they were all old items from the First World War left over from Russia.

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If the opponent has anti-aircraft firepower, then the fleet's flying team will only be defeated. Compared with this R1 biplane fighter, it is too old-fashioned and has no anti-aircraft firepower! Once it encounters an anti-aircraft gun, this aircraft will be a living target.

!The only way to survive is to be blown up by the volley.

"So, Comrade Ozolin, what is the news from the flying brigade?! What is Comrade Rokossovsky's current situation?!" Onufriev asked Ozolin in a deep voice:

"If he is annihilated, then we also need to prepare in advance! We cannot be caught off guard by the enemy!"

Ozolin smiled faintly when he heard Onufriev's words, and said softly: "What happened this time was just that Comrade Rokossovsky was too careless. You and I have both seen the combat effectiveness of the Northeastern Army.

They are worse than the White Bandits. I really don’t understand what kind of mentality their young commander has in starting a war with us."

Onufriev couldn't help but smile knowingly after hearing Ozolin's words. In the Battle of Tongjiang, the Northeast Navy suffered more than 500 casualties (including Marine Corps), 4 warships were sunk, and 1 was seriously injured. "

The gunboat "Haijun" (45 tons) was captured by the Soviet army and renamed "Pobieda". 17 officers and 350 soldiers including battalion commander Meng Zhaolin and below were killed in the battle.

In the subsequent Battle of Fujin, nearly 300 Chinese soldiers were killed and thousands were captured, while the Soviet army only died 3 people and wounded 11 people. This kind of battle could not help but make these two Soviet generals understand.

That smile is really not worth a cent!

Just as the two Soviet generals gradually relaxed, the battleship dragged to the shallow water area suddenly exploded! A loud "Boom!!!" was heard! The battleship violently exploded.

was blown open, leaving a huge hole!

In this night, we could see the sound of wailing coming from the battleship! The front end of the entire battleship seemed to have been cut open with a huge ax and cracked!

The river water poured into the battleship in an instant, and it was visible to the naked eye that the battleship quickly began to sink! Fortunately, this was a shallow water area, so there were almost no casualties except for some injured soldiers who fell into the water.

"Boom!!!" But then, the battleship exploded here! Most of the wailing soldiers lost their voices immediately, and the warship responsible for pushing the battleship was also affected by the explosion! The soldiers on the battleship screamed.

Washed off the ship by a huge shock wave!

The flying iron nails, iron willows, etc. of the exploding warship also injured many soldiers who were close to the warship! The entire Songhua River was filled with blood mist, and countless Soviet soldiers fell into the river! Blood stained

The surface of the river turned red!

Onufryev and Ozolin were immediately stunned by this scene! Then Onufriev woke up first and saw the commander of the Second Infantry Division of the Soviet Far East Special Group Army angrily yelling: "Everyone

The infantry will disembark and search!! All suspicious persons will be arrested! Any resistance will be immediately annihilated!"

An adjutant standing next to Onufriev heard the words and responded loudly: "Yes!!" Then he went down and asked the orderer to use his light to issue the order to the armed merchant ships accompanying the ship!

After receiving the order, the armed merchant ship roared towards the shore, and the more than 1,200 marines disembarked! They began to search the area.
Chapter completed!