At this time, the most dangerous part of the warship was the upper half, because they needed time to withstand the threat of enemy artillery fire.
It was obviously not possible to place the ammunition storage in the upper half of the warship, as that would increase the risk of the warship exploding.
Therefore, most warships would place their ammunition storage near the waterline. Some of the larger ships would be closer to the waterline, while the smaller ships would not have many options.
Especially the Japanese battleships, they were even crazier.
Since they were facing the Chinese who had almost no navy, they had expanded the ammunition storage by quite a bit during the design.
The purpose was naturally to increase the combat time of the warships, because their main enemy was the Chinese army on land. To provide fire support to those country bumpkins, how could they return to the port two or three times a day to resupply?
Therefore, other than the original ammunition warehouse, the Japanese had also stuffed some ammunition into other places.
There was no other reason. Most of the Japanese's resources were used to transport supplies for the army. Since the warships had no opponents, it was not impossible to fill the entire warship with artillery shells.
The explosion of the warship caused a huge commotion that almost alarmed half of Shanghai.
The night in Shanghai was a little quiet, but there would still be some Chinese troops taking advantage of the night to sneak up on them from time to time.
In the past month, this state had become the norm.
However, most of the time, the soldiers on both sides could still have a complete night's rest. On this point, both sides were relatively restrained.
Of course, it was common to set off a fire before dawn and send you an alarm clock in the middle of the night to wake you up and pee. However, these were all small problems.
Late at night, in the command center of the devil's advance party, Matsui Ishigen was looking at a huge map of Shanghai with a frown.
"We have to break through here as soon as possible. We can't let the war drag on indefinitely.”Matsui threw his pipe on the map and cursed angrily.
The orderly beside him was so frightened that he quickly picked up the pipe and cleaned the ashes on it.
Looking at the red smoke, he could not help but curse in his heart. However, he did not have time to take precautions. He could only use his hands to clean up the still burning smoke.
If he destroyed the map because of this bit of smoke, then he would be guilty.
It was very difficult to draw Shanghai, Nanjing, and other places on a map. Even the wealthy Japanese only had four maps in the entire Shanghai. There was one map in the command center on land and three maps on the aircraft carrier at sea. Two of them were backup maps.
"Inform the navy and have them carry out further operations at dawn tomorrow. They will go all the way along the Huangpu River and continuously bombard the enemy's positions. If they can find their ammunition depot and destroy it, that would be even better.”Iwane Matsui continued.
He didn't want to see the navy's face again. They were too much of a bully.
However, it was also the Army's fault. They had arrogantly shouted that they would destroy all of China in three months. In the end, one and a half months had passed, and they had not even occupied half of Shanghai.
The original estimate of 100,000 soldiers had been settled, but now 200,000 soldiers had arrived. The situation was still the same, and there was no change at all.
What are you doing? What are you doing? Was it to show off the Army's incompetence?
Moreover, China's reinforcements were constantly entering Shanghai. If this dragged on for another ten days to half a month, 200,000 Japanese soldiers would probably not be enough.
What should he do? Ask for reinforcements?
He had lost all his face…
Boom…
The violent explosion interrupted Matsui Ishigen's anger. Even the ground trembled in fear and could not help but tremble. The teacup at the corner of the table was also frightened by the tremor and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.
"What happened?" Iwane Matsui immediately asked.
The Japanese would not make any big movements at night. They would not make such a commotion.
"Report, from the sound, it should be an ammunition depot explosion. I guess the imperial army touched the ammunition depot of the Chinese people, right?”
" Yoshihiro, I finally get to hear some good news…" Matsui Ishine suddenly smiled.
Yes, the Imperial Army must have destroyed the enemy's ammunition depot.
Don't ask Matsui why he believed this ridiculous statement, because the Japanese's ammunition depot was not in that direction at all. Therefore, the sound coming from that direction must be the enemy's ammunition depot being destroyed.
But…
That place seems to be under the control of the imperial army, right?
Suddenly, Matsui Iwane had a bad feeling…
"Reporting, General Kawakiyo has sent a telegram requesting that Your Excellency immediately send troops to block and search the two banks of the Huangpu River.”
"Nani?" Iwane Matsui was so shocked that his teeth almost fell out.
Those arrogant guys in the navy actually took the initiative to send a telegram to him for help? Furthermore, they were conducting a blockade and search on both sides of the Huangpu River?
" General, the explosion just now was actually caused by the enemy's attack. The ammunition depot of one of the warships was blown up…" The signalman lowered his head gloomily. The staff officer had just boasted that the enemy's ammunition depot had been blown up.
As soon as he finished speaking, he received a telegram from the navy. It was directly sent by the commander of the navy. Could this f * cking slap in the face wait a little longer? At least let him finish acting cool first…
"The ammunition depot of the warship was blown up?”Matsui Iwane was stunned and his body trembled.""It's them…It must be them…"
" Quick, send an exploration team to capture them immediately. We must eliminate them at all costs…" Matsui Ishine shouted crazily.
The special forces had left a deep impression on him. Due to the conflict between the navy and the navy, Matsui Ishigen did not report this to the navy.
Therefore, if they were to really pursue the matter, he would also have a certain degree of responsibility.
Boom…
Boom…
Immediately after, explosions sounded one after another.
Occasionally, there would be some explosions, but there were more muffled explosions and the sound of cannons fired by warships.
As for who he was fighting? The Japanese on the warship probably didn't even know who their enemy was.
Compared to Matsui Iwane's cursing, Chen Zhihua swiftly put away his equipment and once again descended to the ground with the help of the rope. He calmly retreated along the previously planned retreat route.
He could see that all eight torpedoes had exploded. As for how many of them had hit, he was too lazy to look. After all, the system would calculate it by itself.
Besides, with a warship as a base, Chen Zhihua was no longer flustered. It was not as if a warship could not exchange for the cost of eight torpedoes, right?
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