On the morning of May 3rd, the whole of Shanghai suddenly boiled. Starting from Wusongkou all the way upstream, countless people looked at the scene in front of them in shock, followed by a roar like thunder.
Starting from Wusongkou and going straight upstream to Hongqiao, a huge fleet was heading upstream towards the center of Shanghai. The central channel of the Huangpu River was completely cleared, and countless cargo ships and fishing boats were rushing to avoid it!
"The Chinese navy...the Chinese battleships...the battleships have entered Wusongkou...the battleships have entered the Huangpu River...Long live!"
The teahouse immediately went crazy. A group of bosses forgot about the depression of not having a new newspaper to read. They were covered in golden light and seemed to have been injected with enough chicken blood. People went crazy.
When I opened the window, someone was almost squeezed out. People shouted long live roars at the warships on the Huangpu River. The Chinese warships suddenly entered the Huangpu River without warning. This was definitely something big going on!
"Telescope... bring my telescope... what kind of warship is it... I can't see the end at a glance... how many ships..."
The warships on the Huangpu River formed a silver dragon. The Chinese warships sprayed silver as the main tone. All the warships shone under the reflection of the sun!
At the front, three small 100-ton gunboats formed a zigzag pattern to clear the way for the warships behind. The piercing water ripples spread to both sides like wild goose wings.
Two hundred meters behind the three gunboats, a huge warship that no one dared to stare at slowly pressed forward at the lowest cruising speed.
"Yanshan...our Yanshan...the 6,800-ton Yanshan battleship...long live!"
The boss who put down the telescope burst into tears on the spot, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."The sequence of the word "山"...the word "山"...the battleship..."
The Chinese Navy sequence standard uses mountains, wind, and water as the naming and classification standards. The main strategic mission of the battleship is the decisive battle at sea, and it assumes the role of firepower output and human shield.
Pay attention to heavy artillery and heavy armor. A ship is like an unsinkable mountain on the sea. Even if it carries thousands of artillery, it will still remain standing!
As long as it is a battleship, it can be named after the Chinese character "山". The first ship is the Yanshan, which was sent from Prussia for commissioning the year before last. It is a typical Zhiyuan-class battleship.
The wide hull occupies almost half of the waterway of the Huangpu River. Two 210-mm main guns are arranged front and rear on the central axis. At this moment, even the gun jackets have been taken off, and the black muzzle has even the rain cover removed, cruising the Huangpu River with murderous intent!
"Taihang... The second ship is Taihang... the 7,000-ton Taihang... four front and rear dual-mounted main guns... 22 secondary guns..."
"Kunshan...is the Kunshan...the 6,700-ton Kunshan..."
"There are three ships of the Eight Great King Kongs of the Navy...three ships...what's behind them? Damn it..."
The three battleships were shocking enough, and the fourth battleship behind was much smaller. But as soon as this heavyweight battleship appeared, everyone went crazy.
"Zhiyuan... Burning incense today... Zhiyuan has been pulled out... Long live the flagship... the first ship of our navy... the eternal flagship!"
The Zhiyuan, which returned from the Prussian shipyard for overhaul, returned to the Chinese people. Although there was no legal requirement for it to be the flagship, in the hearts of navy people and the Chinese people, it was the flagship forever, the first ship of Chinese meritorious service!
The 3,000-ton Zhiyuan is like a little brother compared to the more than 7,000-ton battleships, but the aura it displays overwhelms all the new battleships from raising their heads!
If nothing else, just keep the residual blood flag on the Zhiyuan forever. This is a treatment that no one dares to underestimate!
The heads of state and many generals and heroes dyed the flags with their own blood. The Zhiyuan collected one as a flag of death!
After seeing the Zhiyuan, the people along the river knelt down instead of cheering. This battleship, a gathering of heroes in the dust, is almost a symbol of the Chinese maritime spirit and strategic enterprising spirit!
This is a totem, the totem of a nation!
Xiang Ying was on top at the moment, looking at the people kneeling and worshiping along the river, and some even burning incense and praying, no matter how hard-blooded a warrior he was, he couldn't hold back and burst into tears!
He couldn't help shouting in his heart, "Master! Master... It's not me who is practicing militarism... It's militarism that resides in the hearts of millions of people!"
"We Han people have been bullied for too long...for too long...two hundred years of suppression and brutality...can't we get a rise in militarism?"
"Why can't we use cannons to reason with the world? I don't believe it, I just don't believe it!"
"Fire a salute...repay the salute to all the people!"
Boom...boom...the sound of artillery suddenly rumbled on the Huangpu River, and blank bombs began to explode!
Immediately afterwards, a shrill siren sounded in the foreign concession, and the frightened British and French garrisons rushed to the streets with loaded ammunition to guard all intersections in the concession.
At the street entrances directly facing the Huangpu River, the legs of the foreign Japanese soldiers were shaking like chaff. Not everyone could withstand the intimidation of the 7,000-ton battleship!
This is the most advanced warship currently in the human navy. Although the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States have it, they have just been installed. Many soldiers in these colonies have never seen the real thing!
The heavy battleship they saw at first sight was actually Chinese, and it was actually Chinese. This kind of shock shocked everyone's souls.
The range of those black cannons can cover all the concessions. As long as the Chinese fire today, none of the foreign forces in Shanghai will survive.
The British, French and Russian officials waited for the embassy officials and rushed to the streets to try their best to calm people's hearts, "Don't worry... the Chinese won't fire... they fired blank bombs... it was a salute..."
"We are not at war with the Chinese... They have no excuse to go to war with us... Please don't be afraid..."
The foreign immigrants, ladies and gentlemen, and the Indians were all so frightened that they lost the ability to speak. They just stared blankly at the warships slowly moving upstream on the river, pressing up like a mountain.
There are now a total of eight Chinese battleships in service, of which the Zhiyuan is not included because the Zhiyuan is only a cruiser class, but its achievements are so great that people are accustomed to ranking it among the ranks of battleships. After all, when the Zhiyuan was first launched, , its armor thickness and firepower are at the battleship level compared with other foreign warships.
Therefore, the Zhiyuan is not included in any type, and there are a total of eight other Shanzi-level battleships in service, known as the Eight King Kongs!
Following the Zhiyuan is the cruiser!
The Monsoon that Xiao Letian took away was the most advanced, but the one that Xiang Ying pulled out this time was not weak either. The Hurricane, Lanfeng, Morrowind, Cold Wind... a total of four cruisers were behind!
Although it is a cruiser, its specifications are not low, with a displacement of about three to four thousand tons. It is a terrifying force in this world!
Eight main warships plus ten other small auxiliary warships, a total of eighteen warships lined up to occupy the main channel of the Huangpu River. The fleet slowly approached the Shanghai County Government Office, which was the most prosperous area.
The British couldn't stand it anymore. The ministers and military attachés rushed to the dock on horseback. They wanted to ask the Chinese in person what they wanted to do!
At this moment, the late newspaper finally appeared. It was not the multi-page publication of the past, but a single number!
"Out of line...out of line...the Chinese declared military control over the security of the Yangtze River Basin...to protect the property safety of Chinese citizens..."
"Martial control is under military control...military control is under military control..."
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