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The 28th Army landed on Taiwan Island on April 4. The 16nd Division was the first to go ashore among the three divisions. After packing up at noon, they had lunch after entering the camp and went to bed to rest.

At 16:7 p.m. on the 82th, all the 82nd Division got up, set off from Zhuoshui River in Yunlin County, and marched upward along the road beside the stream.Along the banks of the Zhuoshui River, there was a gravel road at first, and then the road turned into a country dirt road. At two o'clock in the morning, the guide took the [-]nd Division away from the dirt road by the stream and went up the mountain.

82师和60师一样，轻装进山。全师出击的是三个步兵团、侦察连、迫击炮营和火箭炮营。迫击炮营近200人背着12门82毫米迫击炮和炮弹，火箭炮营300人背了6门散件状态的108毫米火箭炮。

The task of the 60th Division was to cross the Central Mountain Range to reach the east coast. The task of the 82nd Division was different. After entering the Central Mountain Range, they turned north and made a covert detour to the north of Taichung City. The 82nd Division set off first, and behind them was the 28th Division of the 84th Army, but it set off one day later than the 82nd Division.

"I thought I would go all the way up the mountain, but in the first 5 hours I walked all the way, which is really fast."

The three regiments of the 82nd Division marched in three routes. When the 245th regiment left the dirt road and entered the mountain, the head of the regiment glanced at the map and found that in the past 5 and a half hours, the 245th regiment had marched 30 kilometers. It was a stride on a good road. Walk at an ideal speed, and all stop in the middle to rest and drink water twice.

"The end point of our planned march today is here," the regiment staff officer took out a map and lit it with a flashlight. "That is to say, from 5:[-] am to [-]:[-] am, we only need to march another [-] kilometers to reach the camping area."

"We stopped at four o'clock in the morning, and slept in camp at five o'clock, and slept all day." The group leader said, "There are no planes overhead, so what are you hiding when you come out at night?"

"The former finger confessed that although there is no bombing and strafing fleet overhead, it cannot be ruled out that one or two reconnaissance planes flew by. If you want to covertly move to the designated location, you must not alert any enemy troops."

Although they were climbing the mountain, at 3:30 in the morning, the regiment leader and staff officers opened the map again to confirm that they had arrived at the scheduled camping site.However, it was still far away from dawn. The regiment leader used a long-range walkie-talkie to contact the other two regiments of the 82nd Division, and then contacted the headquarters of the 28th Army to temporarily change the marching plan. Nearly 2000 people moved forward for another 2 kilometers.

"Look, what is that?"

"A big lake."

"We climbed the mountain all night. There is a lake at such a high place?"

At 04:30 in the morning, the commanders and fighters of the 245th regiment stopped, camouflaged, ate dry food, sat and rested. In the gradually brightening mountains, they saw a huge mountain lake about one kilometer away.There is a small island in the middle of the lake, which roughly divides the lake into two parts, one of which is roughly round, and the other is a thin strip.

The guide also saw it, and turned back to the soldiers and said, "Yes, this is Sun Moon Lake, the largest lake on Taiwan Island."

"It's so beautiful... Hey, why don't we walk by the lake? The place looks flat, so it should be easy to walk."

"The lake is not only flat, but also has a road. You can see the road when it gets brighter later." The guide said, "But no, it will alarm other people. Sun Moon Lake is a reservoir, and there is a power plant in the south. There are many workers, workers. There are two villages where I live, and there may be Japanese people in the power plant.”

"A reservoir? I thought it was a natural lake."

"It's a semi-natural lake. It was originally a lake. After the Japanese built the hydropower plant, in order to increase the power generation, they diverted part of the water from the Zhuoshui River into Sun Moon Lake, making its area bigger."

By the Sun Moon Lake, the commanders and fighters of the 82nd Division slept wrapped in their clothes.Tonight, they will use the same covert approach to leave Sun Moon Lake, go around the mountains outside Nantou County, reach the junction of Taichung and Miaoli County, and then - descend the mountain.

Chapter 57, Romanian cargo ship captured

South China Sea, 200 kilometers north of Zhongsha Islands.

On the 23rd hour after the United States announced that the naval blockade against China came into effect, the US Navy conducted its first maritime interception.

Now all the allies of the United States are obeying the command of the maritime blockade order, especially the major shipping countries, which have repeatedly issued official announcements on the radio throughout the Western Pacific region, telling their own freighters to turn around and return to China.If there is a freighter that has not been notified, the U.S. Navy will notify it on the spot-the carrier-based aircraft launched by the aircraft carrier are patrolling the open sea, and if they find a freighter on the sea that is suspected to be bound for China, they will use the radio call to return it while circling.If you still don't obey, there must be US warships within tens of nautical miles nearby, and they can arrive in two or three hours to force the cargo ship to stop.

The main shipping port in southern China is Guangzhou. The situation in Guangzhou is a little more complicated because Hong Kong and Macau are almost at the same coordinate point.However, the United Kingdom cooperated very well with the U.S. naval blockade order. All cargo ships destined for Hong Kong were sorted out by the British colonial authorities in Hong Kong and handed over to the U.S. Navy for screening.When the U.S. Navy finds a cargo ship bound for the Pearl River Estuary at sea, it only needs to compare the data of the United Kingdom and find that it is released according to the identification characteristics. If it finds that it is not bound for Hong Kong or Macau, it will be ordered to return.

The Romanian freighter "Babadag" loaded with 6500 tons of steel, departed from the Black Sea a month ago, entered the South China Sea via the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean, and the Strait of Malacca, and its destination was Guangzhou.

Neither the Soviet Union nor Eastern European countries responded to the U.S. naval blockade order, that is, they did not agree to this action at the government level, but they did not publicly oppose it for the time being.

As for whether you will really dare not send transport ships to China in the future, you have to try it first.

The high-risk and controversial matter of bravely entering the blockade area naturally cannot be allowed to step on the spot by Soviet cargo ships.The "Babadag", which was just about to sail into China, was used by the Soviet Union to test the quality of the US naval blockade.

In the early morning of April 4, the "Babadag" passed the Zhongsha Islands, and by 17:8 a.m. it had traveled another 200 kilometers to the north.After passing the Zhongsha Islands, the "Babadag" basically only needs to sail due north to reach Guangzhou Bay.

There was the hum of an engine in the sky.Captain Gregory looked up, and saw a single-engine plane flying towards him at low altitude.As the plane approached, the U.S. Navy insignia was faintly visible on board.

"Hey, where did that American plane come from?" Gregory asked. "Can anyone tell me what kind of plane it is?"

"This is an A-1 attack aircraft, most likely from an aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy." Political Commissar Marcoud said, "Guys, we have been spotted. But we can't back down. The superior ordered us to sail to Guangzhou."

The A-1 attack plane overhead flew back in a circle, at a lower altitude.When turning one and a half times, A-1 flew by 200 meters high and 300 meters away from the port side of the "Babadag".Then the ship received a radio call.Marku picked up the earphone, listened to the radio call of the U.S. aircraft for a while, and then said to the captain with a serious expression: "The U.S. aircraft is persuading us to turn back. This is impossible. Keep going."

The "Babadag" maintained its original speed and course, ignoring the radio calls from the US aircraft. The A-1 attack plane has been circling above the head of the "Babadag". This action lasted for 40 minutes, and then the A-1 returned, probably because it ran out of fuel.But at the same time that the A-1 was out of sight, two more planes flew in from a distance. The captain's crew on the Babadag heard the roar of jet engines.

"This is also an aircraft on the US aircraft carrier, two F9Fs." Marcoud said, "This is a fighter jet, and they are continuing to monitor us."

F9F circled the head of the "Babadag" for 20 minutes.Then, the crew saw the mast of the destroyer approaching to the north-east.

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"I am the US Navy warship Theodore Chandler. According to the maritime blockade order, all ships carrying cargo are prohibited from sailing to China. Please turn around and return immediately, please turn back and return immediately!"

With a "boom", a shell exploded more than 100 meters in front of the cargo ship, which was a warning shot.

“西奥多·钱德勒”号以30多节的航速，迅速追上了最高航速14节的“巴巴达格”号。现在“西奥多·钱德勒”号和“巴巴达格”号并排航行，相互距离不到300米。“西奥多·钱德勒”号的三座127毫米双联装主炮塔瞄着“巴巴达格”号的水线，40毫米和20毫米机关炮也由水兵操纵着瞄准货船的不同部位。

On the "Babadag", more than a dozen crew members were holding Bobosha, and another crew member was carrying Deggarev, and confronted a [-]-ton destroyer with a submachine gun and a light machine gun.

Seeing that the Romanians did not listen to their persuasion, the "Theodore Chandler" speeded up, trying to get ahead of the "Babadag" to keep the cargo ship from turning.

Gregory kept the ship on course, ignoring threats from the American destroyers.

The "Babadag" was loaded with more than [-] tons of cargo, and the ship was loaded with steel...

Sure enough, the "Theodore Chandler" knew that it was at a disadvantage when [-] tons collided with [-] tons. Seeing that the Romanian ship was unmoved at all, it had to turn sharply before the impact, and the two ships reopened and sailed side by side.

Gregory and the crew won the first round, but their cheers didn't last long before a cannon shot from the "Theodore Chandler".

This was not a warning shot forward of the bow, but a 40mm Bofors gun mounted on the bridge of the "Theodore Chandler" fired directly at the stern of the cargo ship.

"Bang bang! Bang bang!" At a distance of more than 200 meters, the gunner carefully shot the tail of the cargo ship with short bursts, and the impact points were concentrated on the waterline.

There are no seamen on duty at the stern of the cargo ship, where there are not many positions that require people to be on duty.However, there is a control transmission mechanism for steering gear near the waterline at the stern of the cargo ship.

The 40mm guns on the "Theodore Chandler" fired very accurately. The shells drilled into the hull one by one. shock.In the end, the steering system of the "Babadag" was broken.His own ship was broken, but the key was that the U.S. Navy really dared to fire. The captain knew that he would not be able to make it through this time, so he obediently stopped the ship.

After the captain threw up his hands in surrender, the Theodore Chandler towed the Babadag, turned the bow of the ship, and pulled it toward the Philippines.Next to the two ships was the destroyer "Richard Anderson" that rushed to the scene of the incident. The U.S. Navy was going to tow the Romanian cargo ship to the port of Manila for temporary detention.

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"America is arrogant?... Let him be arrogant for a few days, and let them return the list one by one in the future!"

Although the place where the "Babadag" was abducted was 600 kilometers away from Guangzhou, the cargo ship used the radio to call for help before it was controlled by the United States, and recorded what happened to it and sent it out.China was the first to know about the kidnapping of the freighter, and the Soviet Union and Romania only learned about it through China's forwarding.So the first to jump up is China.

After Nie Shuai got angry, he said again, "Prime Minister, we shouldn't be transporting much by sea now, right?"

"Some trade with Eastern European countries is carried by sea, because sea freight from Eastern Europe to China is cheaper than railway freight." The prime minister said, "We still have some sea trade with other countries, and now we can only temporarily stop it."

"For the trade in Eastern Europe, the cargo ships are probably going to return first. In the future, if you take the railway, the freight will be more expensive." Nie Shuai said.

"The Soviet Union and Romania should make representations and protests. But the United States may not pay attention to the Soviet Union's protests."

Nie Shuai: "Let them block it. No matter how hard it is to block it, we can take Taiwan down. They can't prevent the demise of the Kuomintang reactionaries."