69novels Chapter 280 The Japanese Naval Intelligence Agency Takes Action Again
Chapter 280 The Japanese Naval Intelligence Agency Takes Action Again
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[Current troop strength]: First Army (commanded by Shen Li, five German-equipped infantry divisions, two armored divisions, and the First Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade), Second Army (commanded by He Maofeng, independent motorized infantry division, the Twelfth Division, the Second Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade, an independent armored brigade, etc., and two Central Army reorganized independent mixed brigades), and naval and air force construction units (First Submarine Flotilla).
[System Prompt]: The first batch of U-VII class medium submarines, completely built independently by Mawei Shipyard, has been completed. The Chinese-made underwater wolf pack awaits launching and testing.
Night fell, and the sea breeze howled.
The surface of the Minjiang River at Mawei was shrouded in a thick, cold black fog, and the icy waves crashed against the towering reinforced concrete breakwater of the Mawei Shipyard, producing a dull, thunderous metallic clang.
On the dark river, a wooden boat disguised as a shrimp fishing boat from southern Fujian, with tattered fishing nets hanging from it, was drifting silently with the tide toward the sluice gate outside the dock.
Inside the ship's hold, only a dim kerosene lamp flickered, emitting a deathly smell of ink and engine oil.
"Team leader, the patrol boat of the Chinese coastal defense patrol team just passed by. The next patrol will be at least twenty minutes from now."
A Japanese agent, dressed in a black, form-fitting diving suit and clutching a steel dagger, lowered his voice and reported to his superior in the darkness.
His face was covered in black anti-light grease, making him look particularly sinister and ferocious under the oil lamp.
These agents were all "underwater special attack teams" secretly trained by the Japanese Navy's intelligence agency at the Sasebo and Yokosuka naval bases, specializing in spying on and sabotaging enemy port fortresses.
For this operation, they took advantage of the darkness and the tides to avoid being strafed by the Chishi Reef Lighthouse outside Mawei Harbor, and even used high-strength steel shears imported from Germany to cut through the triple underwater wire mesh surrounding the breakwater.
In the center of the lower deck sat a middle-aged man with a sinister look in his eyes, like a vicious wolf. He was none other than Hideo Inoue, the head of the Tianjin Special Agent Agency's Fuzhou branch of the Japanese Navy's intelligence agency.
He stared intently at the dark, steel outline of the Mawei Shipyard in the distance, especially the row of huge, top-secret steel gates stretching across the river, his eyes flashing with a mad and cruel ambition.
"Although the Chinese Chen family army has achieved some land victories in Xuzhou and southern Shandong, the Imperial Navy of the Great Japanese Empire is absolutely incomparable to those stupid idiots in the army."
"According to intelligence sent back by our informants who were infiltrated around Mawei, Chen Zijun has built a top-secret underground shipyard inside the Mawei Shipyard."
"They employed a large number of German shipbuilding technicians who had lost their jobs due to the Great Depression in Europe, and attempted to use the steel produced in Ma'anshan to secretly build underwater weapons that could threaten the Imperial Third Fleet."
"Tonight, our task is to place these 500 kilograms of German-made high explosives on the sluice gate support shaft of the dock."
"Once the explosives detonate, a tidal wave several meters high will instantly destroy the entire dock gate, and the surging river water will completely tear all the unfinished hulls, precision manufacturing equipment, and design blueprints inside the dock to shreds!"
Inoue Hideo touched the explosive box beside him, which was marked with the words "Imperial Japanese Army Ministry" in red paint, and a cruel, cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth:
"The Chinese want to build a navy? I'll drown them all in their cradle tonight!"
Twenty minutes later, under the cover of night, the shrimp boat quietly moored beside the sluice gate rails on the east side of the Mawei Shipyard.
More than twenty agile Japanese Special Higher Police agents, like a group of silent owls, swiftly climbed the slippery, cold steel frame of the gate.
Their movements were exceptionally skilled and nimble, clearly the result of rigorous special infiltration training. In just three minutes, they secured packets of high explosives and radio detonators to the bearings and hydraulic rods of the sluice gate.
"Alright, hurry up! Five minutes left, pull the detonator wire and retreat!"
Hideo Inoue squatted on the steel rails at the top of the gate, urging on against the cold, humid sea breeze, his eyes gleaming with the ecstatic joy of about to accomplish a monumental feat.
In fact, as early as when they infiltrated the breakwater, they had already noticed that the shipyard's searchlights and patrols seemed somewhat "lax" that night.
At the time, Hideo Inoue secretly mocked the Chinese warlords for ultimately lacking any sense of coastal defense. No matter how well they fought on land, they were just deaf and blind in the wind blowing at the mouth of the Minjiang River.
However, before his ecstasy could fully spread, a crisp, cold sound of a machine gun cocking suddenly came from the darkness below the sluice gate.
"Click".
The sound of metal clashing was crystal clear to every agent in the howling sea breeze.
Inoue Hideo's body stiffened instantly, and the hairs on his body stood on end in that instant!
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
In an instant, dozens of high-powered searchlight beams hidden in the shipyard’s bunkers suddenly tore through the black fog, illuminating the entire dam gate as if it were daytime!
The blinding light made it impossible for the Japanese agents to open their eyes; they screamed in terror and instinctively tried to shield their eyes from the light.
However, when they looked around through their fingers, their hearts sank into an endless abyss.
The concrete bunkers, towering watchtowers, and thick breakwaters around the sluice gate were now covered with countless dark gun barrels.
This is a typical German-style bunker complex, with crossfire covering the entire dam without any blind spots.
Chen's army did not let their guard down at all in Mawei. They deliberately spread their net, waiting for these ignorant Japanese rats to walk right into it.
"Open fire! Leave no one alive!"
Behind the searchlight, Shen Li's bloody and brutal orders exploded through the loudspeaker.
"Da da da da da da—!"
The iconic, terrifying roar of the MG34 general-purpose machine gun, as if tearing through tattered rags, resounded throughout the entire Minjiang Estuary in an instant!
Countless crimson tracer bullets crisscrossed in mid-air, weaving an impenetrable metal net of death that instantly turned the Japanese spies on the sluice gate into a cloud of blood.
The 7.92mm heavy-point bullet struck the hard steel frame of the sluice gate, creating a dazzling shower of sparks and a piercing metallic whistling sound.
Under this close-range and high-altitude crossfire, the so-called elite Japanese troops didn't even have a chance to touch their guns and fight back. They were riddled with bullet holes like bags of mud, screaming as they fell from the steel sluice gate dozens of meters high into the churning black river below.
"Baka! An ambush! Retreat! Retreat!"