thirty-second
Popsicles were afraid of being exposed to the sun, and soldiers were afraid of being idle.
Boat 011 was being built in the factory. No one saw how far it had been built. More than forty people gathered together. What were they doing? In the evening, the coxswain, the deputy coxswain, the two sergeants and the four military officers finally worked out a daily schedule from morning to night. Without a warship, there was no practical training. The day was all about learning, either business or politics. The first day was full of political studies. What should he learn? Vice-captain Guo Jihou said," I think, captain, you should tell us the story of taking over Lushunkou."
Captain Li Zuo 'an glanced at the vice-captain and said," There's nothing much to talk about. Lushunkou was a good place, but Sitalin still wanted to occupy it. Leader Mao fought hard, and Sitalin agreed to retreat and return it. They retreated, and we took them. We were together for half a year. There's nothing much to say."
"Captain, can you just tell us this part? Everyone will love to hear it." Guan Hemin and Wang Xueen agreed with the vice-captain.
Out of the four officers on the boat, three of them had pushed him, so he couldn't refuse. After thinking for a while, he said,"I can talk about it." However, I'm afraid it's too simple for me to talk about it. If you talk about the history of the navy, the two of us will be in the same class. We'll discuss it in the afternoon." Captain Li stared at the vice-captain.
" Okay, okay, I'll cooperate," the vice-captain agreed readily.
It was still in this small building. Sleeping at night was the dormitory, and meetings during the day were the venue. The soldiers sat on their beds and listened to the co-captain's lecture. He said,"China is a great ocean country. The ocean covered an area of nearly three million square kilometers. The coastline was more than 30,000 kilometers long. In history, China was one of the earliest countries to develop shipbuilding and navigation. During the reign of Qin Shihuang, Xu Fu sought immortality and crossed to Japan. In the Ming Dynasty, the great navigator Zheng He went to the West seven times, 60 years before the discovery of the New World by Colombus.
In the second half of the 18th century, the Qing Dynasty began to decline. After the defeat of the Opium War, the Nanjing Convention reduced China to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country. The failure of the Opium War had awakened some of the wise people in the ruling class of the Celestial Empire. They realized that China was backward in terms of weapons. To resist foreign aggression, they had to learn from the advanced ships and cannons of the West. Hence, the Northern Navy was created. However, in the 1894 - 1895 War, China was defeated. The Northern Navy that Li Hongzhang had painstakingly built up was completely annihilated. The Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the traitorous treaty of Shimanseki, ceding land and paying reparations.
China was a big country, so why couldn't it defeat Japan? There were many reasons. The main reason was that the Qing government was decadent and had no clear strategic thinking. They did not want to win the war and fantasized about international mediation to end the war. After the war started, there was no firm and correct command, and they were forced to fight passively. In the course of the war, there were national heroes like Deng Shichang and Ding Ruchang, as well as scum like Fang Boqian and Wu Jingrong who fled with the white flag. The Qing Dynasty army did not have a unified fighting ideology and will. Could they win?
During the period of the Republic of China, warlords fought among themselves, and the War of Resistance against Japan was mostly land warfare. The navy of the Kuomintangs did not develop much. There was a cruiser, the Chungking, which revolted in Huludao during the Liao-Shen Battle. After the establishment of the new dynasty, Leader Mao proposed to build a strong navy.”For more than a decade, our naval construction and development have indeed been very fast. However, we should be aware that our weapons and equipment are still lagging behind. The main reason is that our warships are old, slow, and small. There is a gap between us and developed countries.
Everyone knows that there are two conditions for a war. First, there must be people who are good at fighting, and second, there must be good weapons. We have the wise command of the leader of the Party Central Committee, Mao, and the loyal and brave officers and soldiers who are good at fighting. This is a reliable guarantee of our victory. However, if we have good weapons, our chances of defeating the enemy will be even greater. This is my understanding of war after being a soldier for a few years. "Today, we gathered together to receive the spaceship 011 because we want to grasp the weapons well.
At this point, the vice-captain suddenly stopped and turned to Captain Li Zuo 'an, saying," It's your turn."
Captain Li cleared his throat, sat up straight, and said," Okay, I'll tell you." He began to tell the story of how he took over Lushunkou from the Soviets as a naval soldier.
"During the 1894 - 1895 War, the Liaodong Peninsula and Dalian were ceded to Japan. Russia wanted to monopolize the northeast of China and colluded with Britain and France to force Japan to return. China paid 30 million taels of silver for the "Reading Liao". Later, Russia forced China to sign a land lease treaty and forcibly occupied Lushun, Dalian and Liaodong Peninsula. The Japanese were very resentful." During the 1894 - 1895 War, Lushun was conquered by us. You're the one with the big nose." In 1904, he launched the Russo-Japanese War and recaptured Lushun Dalian. During the Second World War, Japan surrendered, and the Soviet Union occupied Luda. In 1950, when Mao visited the Soviet Union, he had a battle of wits with Starling in Moscow. Starling then agreed to return Lushun Dalian Datong to China. In 1955, the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Lushun. We've been dealing with the Soviet Navy for half a year. At that time, the Soviet Union had dozens of warships in Lushun, including destroyer, frigate, minesweeper, gunboat, and submarine. The good ones are all gone, leaving us with the frigates and minesweeper, all old warships seized from Japan. We still have to give them a good price. "There's no other way. I don't know how to make it myself. The Americans won't give it to me, but Big Brother will. Old ones are better than nothing."
Captain Li opened a notebook, took out a photo, and said," This is a photo of me and a Soviet soldier. I'm in the middle. What we received from the Kuomintangs is a mess. We can only rely on these old warships to defend the coastal defense and train our troops. However, we are going to build a new boat today. This is a symbol of our country's economic development, scientific and technological progress. A new era of naval construction has begun.”
Captain Li paused for a moment as he glanced around the room with his slender eyes." Thankfully, we're the ones who accepted the new boat. The captain was very excited. The only warrior party member on the boat, Wang Qingzhi, stood up and shouted,"It's an honor to receive the boat. We must complete the mission resolutely."
Everyone followed suit and shouted," It's an honor to receive the boat. We're determined to complete the mission." The sound waves reverberated in the small house. The sailors felt their hearts surging.
On a warship, the captain was the highest ranking officer. For three consecutive days, discussing the speeches of the two captains became the main content of the political study on board.
During the discussion, the two departments of the Mechatronics Department were in the room, while the firearms department was brought out of the building for convenience. The former cannon captain, Yang Yongfa, brought the soldiers to the edge of the East Harbor. There was a large warehouse facing north and south on the dock, and several iron gates for entering and exiting goods were closed. The dock and concrete countertop outside the door were very clean. Some of the soldiers sat on wooden planks, while others sat on cardboard. They gathered together, looking like they were having a meeting.
There was a large pile of wood on the dock behind the house. The class monitor Zhang Wenru brought the people from the rear cannon and sat on a pile of wood to discuss. They chatted idly and discussed seriously. No one said a word. The class monitor said to start from the beginning, who would go first? Bing Lian Cheng spoke, he was the tallest in the class.
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