Burning Ocean

Burning Ocean

by Tan Qionghui

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During the Opium War, the British navy invaded Guangzhou, and the first naval battle occurred between China and Britain. An officer named Shen Tianbei died heroically in the war. One hundred years later, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. During the battle to defend the Jiangyin Fortress in Nanjing, the main fleet of the Kuomintang Navy was completely destroyed by the Japanese Navy. The Kuomintang Navy existed in name only. In order to rebuild the navy, the Nationalist government sent a group of elites to study abroad. The Greenwich Naval Academy in the United Kingdom has set up a "China Class" specifically for this purpose, and Shen Tianbei's great-grandson Shen Hang is among them. During his internship, Shen Hang participated in the "Normandy Landing" campaign and established a deep friendship with British naval soldiers. In April 1949, the Kuomintang and Communist armies faced off on both sides of the Yangtze River. The British warship "Amethyst" broke into the Yangtze River to provoke, and the Kuomintang and Communist armies attacked simultaneously. Shen Hang met his British comrades again on this warship battlefield...

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