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Text Chapter 109: Highlights of the Aftermath

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    The Americans suffered such a big loss, and they were all dumb and silent and stopped retaliating. The British and French navies, who had also suffered a big loss, had no confidence. Under Yang Zhen's suggestion, the central government launched a retaliation for the captured British and French navies.  The ship and crew still adopted a fairly lenient policy.

    Although the ship cannot be returned to the two countries, part of the cost has been paid. It can be regarded as purchased by the People's Liberation Army. All captured crew members will be released unconditionally, and the losses caused by the two countries to the People's Liberation Army and Nanjing during the battle will be taken.  A method of non-responsibility has been adopted.

    After this battle, the Western media not only lamented that China had a powerful navy and a powerful air force overnight, but also lamented that the days of setting up a few cannons on China's coastline and forcing China to bow were gone forever.  Now, the Chinese people have truly stood up.

    The fierce battle between the People's Liberation Army Navy and the U.S. Army outside Wusongkou, which was unprecedented in the history of the Chinese navy, also led to another result. This naval battle not only completely eliminated the Americans' intention to intervene in the Chinese Civil War, but also allowed the people trapped in Shanghai to  The Kuomintang troops were stunned and completely lost their confidence to continue fighting.

    In their eyes, the People's Liberation Army even dared to fight so hard against the Americans who were so powerful that they could not defeat them, and they also achieved such fruitful results. So what else in the world did they not dare to do? They were already trapped in Shanghai, and they were all counting on  When necessary, the 120,000 Kuomintang defenders, who retreated by sea with the cover of the U.S. Navy, eventually surrendered.

    As for except for a small number of ships that evacuated Xiamen and Guangzhou southward, and the Kuomintang Navy's largest cruiser Chongqing and the destroyer Lingfu, which uprising on the sea surface in Zhoushan before the Battle of Crossing the River was launched, all the ships were destroyed as early as the launch of the Battle of Crossing the River.  The main force of the Kuomintang Navy and Air Force, which went south and was trapped in Shanghai, completely lost its determination to break out. On the day the Army surrendered, it also hoisted the white flag.

    The huge U.S. Navy has been beaten so miserably. Looking at the two most powerful warships in its hands, they are only the US-made escort destroyers Taikang and Taiping with a full load displacement of more than a thousand tons. They are the largest warships.  They are made in the United States and are the largest warships used by the United States to aid the Kuomintang regime. They are four American-made county-class tank landing ships.

    Although this kind of warship is equipped with two twin-mounted 40mm anti-aircraft guns and four single-barreled 20mm machine guns, its firepower is not weak and its tonnage is large enough. But if you let this kind of landing ship transport tanks land, it will have to compete with the equipment.  Aren't you making an international joke when you use a complete set of destroyers and frigates to fight naval battles? You're not professional.

    The remaining mechanized landing ships US and Lian infantry landing ships are also landing ships. Among the remaining warships, the slightly larger warships were originally affiliated with the Japanese fleet stationed in China, because after the surrender, they were stationed in  In Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai, they had not had time to evacuate the country, so they escaped during Yang Zhen's clean-up operation and were received by the Kuomintang Navy on the spot. A former Japanese navy gunboat and two coastal defense ships.

    The largest number is the U.S. military aid Yongzi gunboat, which is the original U.S. military's Admirable-class minesweeper. Although there are more than ten ships, their firepower is far inferior. The rest are even scuttled or destroyed by the Kuomintang navy in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.  The remaining old ships were sunk by the Japanese and then resurrected by the Japanese. The rest were American-made infantry landing craft, gunboats and other ships that either had extremely weak combat effectiveness or had no combat effectiveness at all.

    Under such circumstances, facing the People's Liberation Army Navy that was seizing the advantage after a great victory, although the Kuomintang Navy in Shanghai had gathered their best, they were timid before they fought. After receiving the order from the People's Liberation Army Navy to disarm,  After the announcement, the Kuomintang navy, feeling that it could no longer fight and had no hope of breaking through, obeyed the order and surrendered.

    In fact, the strength of the Kuomintang navy is not much weaker than that of the People's Liberation Army Navy, which has mothballed a large number of ships. The United States assisted more ships, and the British assisted more. Although the number of large ships was only one British-made light cruiser, and its arrival time was  It was very late, and the time to form combat effectiveness was even later.

    By the time this batch of U.S. reinforcement warships were actually put into use, the Kuomintang had already lost its momentum on the battlefield, but the number of small and medium-sized ships was really quite large. However, facing the People's Liberation Army Navy, which had at least a partial advantage, this batch of warships finally  Still stuck in the port most of the time.

    In fact, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, with the assistance of the United States and Britain, the strength of the Kuomintang Navy was still not weak. If it weren't for Yang Zhen's tricks, he obtained a large number of ships from the Soviet Union and Japan through deception and robbery.  There are even a few cruiser ships. With the assistance of the Americans, the Kuomintang navy is currently strong enough to rank first in Asia.

    In order to retaliate against Yang Zhen for transferring two Japanese former battleships and aircraft carriers to the Soviets, the Americans gave eight 1,200-ton escort cruisers in one goThere were twenty-seven destroyers, 600-ton minesweepers, twenty-eight hunting submarines that were later converted into gunboats by the Kuomintang Navy, and one hundred and twenty-eight landing ships and landing craft of various sizes.

    Later, it acquiesced to the Kuomintang Navy, which was eager to expand its fleet to compete with the People's Liberation Army Navy. In the form of foreign exchange cash, it purchased two more light frigates, four minesweepers, and more than a dozen mechanized ships from the Americans in the name of scrapping ships at low prices.  and an infantry landing ship and a number of other ships.

    After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang Navy received a number of warships from the Chinese fleet of the Japanese invaders. Although most of the warships were inland river gunboats, minesweepers, transport boats and other small warships that the Japanese army hastily produced during the war, most of them could not be launched.  In the distant sea, activities can only occur within the Yangtze River.

    However, one inland river gunboat, three coastal defense ships, and four gunboats can be regarded as very combat-effective ships. Although most of these ships are dilapidated due to long-term use, the Kuomintang Navy still selected some of them that can still be used.  , replenished his own navy.

    Among this batch of ships, the largest inland river gunboat has a full load displacement of more than 1,300 tons. It is equipped with a double-mounted and a single-mounted 120mm high-level dual-purpose gun, a 25mm anti-aircraft gun and  Each has a 13mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and its combat effectiveness is still very strong, almost as good as the light destroyer Yang Zhen obtained from Japan.

    Moreover, the Americans who were quite dissatisfied with the Kuomintang Navy, which had been idle for most of the time since their return to China because of insufficient number and tonnage of ships and weaker firepower than the People's Liberation Army Navy, also passed the bill.  , prepared to hand over a light cruiser and six fleet destroyers to the Kuomintang Navy to strengthen the strength of the Kuomintang Navy in the confrontation with the People's Liberation Army Navy. However, they gave up because the implementation was too late and the Kuomintang had lost its momentum.

    These ships of the Kuomintang Navy, in addition to some of the ships currently deployed in Xiamen and Guangzhou, and in addition to the ships that have been scrapped one after another due to the inability to repair, and the ships that have been lost in accidents, plus the three Taipei ships that have rebelled one after another.  ZZ destroyer and six YongZi frigates. Although the ships currently staying in Shanghai are the main force of the Kuomintang Navy and there are many in number, there are not many that are truly combat effective.

    You cannot expect a navy with various landing ships, infantry landing craft, small gunboats, and auxiliary ships that have no naval combat capabilities to compete with a navy equipped with a large number of destroyers and frigates, with air cover above and submarines below.  The fleet battle, especially this fleet has just defeated the strong, defeated the U.S. Navy fleet that was invincible in the eyes of the Kuomintang Navy.

    The Kuomintang navy, frightened by the battle outside Wusongkou, did not dare to fight, and could not run away, so it was reasonable for the Kuomintang navy to raise the white flag. The surrender of the Kuomintang navy in Shanghai meant that the Kuomintang was fighting in the war of resistance.  After the end, the main force of the navy that had worked so hard was completely destroyed, and the huge capital invested by the Americans in the Kuomintang was all in vain.

    In fact, as early as after the full-scale civil war broke out, although the People's Liberation Army's navy also went south to fight, it was actually a naval fleet belonging to the Northeast Military Region. Under Yang Zhen's instructions, it took advantage of its large tonnage and large number of combat ships.  Blockade the Kuomintang navy within the port as much as possible.

    As long as it does not force its way out of the port and interfere with the People's Liberation Army's liberation operations of coastal islands, do not sink it. Otherwise, the Kuomintang navy could still survive until the People's Liberation Army's full-scale crossing of the river and the start of the Battle of Shanghai. Only because of the surrender, the entire army was destroyed, and it would have been long ago.  The People's Liberation Army Navy, which had been invited to fight many times, was wiped out.

    In order to cut off the Kuomintang's escape routes to the outer islands, completely annihilate them in mainland China, and protect the security of the strategic supply line from Northeast China to North China, the central government even decided to use one-third of the existing navy's strength to completely annihilate the Kuomintang navy.  They destroyed all the major islands along the coast south of the Yangtze River and captured the major islands along the south coast of the Yangtze River to prevent future troubles. Only under Yang Zhen's persuasion did they instead resort to siege of major Kuomintang naval ports such as Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, and Guangzhou.

    Such a decision was made because the number of ships in the hands of the Kuomintang Navy by Prime Minister Yang Zhen is not small, especially the large number of various American-made landing ships and landing craft, and of course a large number of various types of ships trained by the American and British navies.  We will provide professional and technical personnel in this field to retain more vitality for the development of the New China Navy.

    Moreover, under the situation where the Kuomintang Navy adopts the tactics of hiding and avoiding battles and protecting ships most of the time, once it is solved by force, it is easy to destroy the infrastructure of these ports, which is also not conducive to the future development of the Chinese Navy.  , will also cause considerable waste of funds and affect the overall progress of the navy's deployment south of the Yangtze River.

    Now that the Shanghai fleet, which has gathered the main force of the Kuomintang navy, has surrendered, there has been concern that a force that should be part of the national defense construction of New China in the future hasIn the design, the navy, which played a great role, was ruined in the flames of the civil war because the Chinese were killing each other. Especially the talents in it, which were wasted in vain, Yang Zhen's worries were finally relieved.

    The Kuomintang navy in Shanghai surrendered, and the remaining Kuomintang naval forces that were cut off in Chongqing on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as the remaining Kuomintang naval forces in Xiamen and Guangzhou in the south, basically had little strength. All ports along the coast south of the Yangtze River had been  Under the blockade of the People's Liberation Army Navy, there is no need to worry too much about the future outcome of these warships.

    Even if the remaining 20 warships are also trapped in Xiamen and Guangzhou, as well as the seven Yongzi gunboats and 22 gunboats that are divided in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, they will not affect the overall situation even if they refuse to surrender. Even if they are all sunk  , and it won¡¯t have much impact.

    Especially the less than thirty ships that are currently trapped in Chongqing and are also in danger. They have no way to go to heaven. Even if they want to escape, they cannot break through the blockade of the PLA's shore artillery, warships and aircraft in the Yangtze River. Apart from surrendering, they have no choice but to surrender.  There is no other way to go.
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