Chapter 64: Extraneous Branches
The command of the Navy would never have imagined that such a madman would appear at home, who actually stole a nuclear boat directly from the Soviet Navy.
This submarine is a hot potato for any country, because the diplomatic and political turmoil that followed after the incident was exposed, as well as the ensuing retaliation by the Soviet army, are all circumstances that must be taken into account.
But Mr. Chen believes that Beijing's top brass will eventually choose to accept the submarine.
After all, there are too many top-secret technologies on it, China's first nuclear submarine was only commissioned in 1974, and it has only been five years now. Many key technologies, such as underwater weapon launch technology, have not been fully mastered.
Among China's three-in-one three-dimensional nuclear strike force, only strategic intercontinental missiles can carry the main beam, and the deep-sea killer of strategic missile nuclear submarines is still in the research and development stage, and there is still no time for it to become an army. However, long-range strategic bombers are still a shadowless thing, and due to problems such as national strength and funding, the state does not even have the spare power for research and development.
This Alpha-class nuclear submarine can solve most of the problems of China's nuclear boat technology, as long as it is simply disassembled and imitated. Ten years later, China's nuclear submarine manufacturing technology can be upgraded to the same level as the United States and the Soviet Union.
Not to mention anything else, in the face of such a huge temptation, the command of the Navy is absolutely irresistible.
It's as if vampires can't resist blood.
They may weigh the pros and cons, but it's just a formality, and in the end they will still choose to take over the submarine. If anyone dares to raise a voice of opposition, the commander of the Navy will be the first to kill him!
Now that I think about it, Chen Xu made a very wise decision to purge the Soviet intelligence network that was coiled in the country, and the Soviet intelligence system in China was uprooted, which minimized the possibility of leakage.
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As for the Coastal Castle, secrecy will begin soon.
Except for Alan, Claire, and the old butler, the rest of the mercenaries in the castle are potential threats, and they will all be disposed of, and the family will receive a generous pension.
As for the mercenaries in the underground ports and the sailors captured on the nuclear boats, they will go to China with the boats.
These Soviet sailors would be interrogated, after which they would be imprisoned for the first time until the Red Empire disappeared in the nineties.
As for the fifteen mercenaries such as Eagle Hooknose, they will also stay in China and will not be allowed to leave, but their families in the United States will be paid a lot of money, and their families can also come to live or visit in China.
These mercenaries came out to fight private wars and sell their lives, all in order to earn enough money for their families. If Chen Xu is willing to give enough money at once, they don't mind retiring in China.
"Hey! Boss, I took down the painting you wanted, and found a piece of plastic sheeting to help you wrap it. When Chen Xu and Alan were discussing how to deal with the aftermath, the bearded mercenary from before actually walked down from the castle, and he brought down the priceless oil painting on the wall according to Chen Xu's previous instructions.
Alan was stunned at first, he looked at the bearded man and didn't know what to say.
Chen Xu shrugged, took the oil painting and smiled at the narrator's hooked nose: "It seems that you have to go to China with one more companion!" ”
The hook nose smiled without saying a word.
The bearded monk was confused, and he didn't know that he had been closed in the ghost gate, but his attention was all attracted by the two big black fish next to him, and he sniffed and said, "Wow...... This is a submarine! Can I go up and have a look? ”
"You can go in, but you can't touch the button on the console inside, if it's a launch button, you'll ruin the entire port." Hooknose kindly reminded him that this bearded man didn't look very smart, and he would definitely be messing around inside the submarine.
Seeing the bearded man happily climb into the conning tower, Alan turned around and left: "I have to go up there and make arrangements, lest anyone come down again, your submarine can't fit so many people!" ”
"Let Fauber come down there, I need to interrogate these Soviet sailors and figure out the route of this submarine to return home!" Chen Xu shouted loudly.
"I see, Ah Fu will come down soon." Alan made an OK gesture without looking back.
"Big man, are you angry enough?" Chen Xu watched Alan leave, then walked in front of Zhong Siyang, and looked at Beria lying on the dock, his chest rose and fell slightly, and he was already out of breath and out of breath.
"How can it be enough! He killed my father, and I wanted to eat him alive. Zhong Siyang raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and said viciously.
"There is no point in torturing him like this, it will only increase the anger in your heart, and end him! We still have important things to do, and we can't afford to waste time on him. Chen Xu took out the revolver from the holster on his waist, turned a circle in his hand and handed over the handle of the gun.
The hatred is endless, if it doesn't stop at once, Chen Xu is afraid that Zhong Siyang's torture of Belial like a cat and mouse will lead him astray, so it is better to help him end all this.
Like Allen, he saw it very openly, after he was sure that Beria was already a dead end, he had already let go of his hatred and concentrated on helping Chen Xu deal with the things on the submarine.
Zhong Siyang took the revolver, his palm kept rubbing the body of the gun, and he was reluctant to make a decision.
At this time, Beria suddenly woke up, he opened his eyes and glanced at Chen Xu, and suddenly grinned: "You actually want to drive the submarine back to China, hahaha...... Trust me, you're going to die soon. ”
Chen Xu squatted down and whispered to Beria's ear: "You mean to say that in the captain's separate cabin, there is a satellite locator, right?" That locator was just under the captain's bed, and by removing the screws on one side of the bed, it would automatically send a position signal to the Soviet Naval Intelligence Center whenever the submarine surfaced. ”
In fact, the Soviets had long been prepared for this problem, they were afraid that the Americans would steal their submarines one day, so in the late seventies, they installed a locator on all Soviet nuclear submarines to protect the submarines from being stolen by the Americans.
Once the submarine deviates from the predetermined course at sea and there is no timely explanation, the Soviet side will quickly send forces to investigate, and even sink it, in short, the Americans will not be able to get the submarine.
"How do you know? It's confidential...... Oh my! Have your Chinese intelligence services penetrated so deeply! Beria raised his head with difficulty, the matter of the locator did not even know about the captain of the submarine, only the top brass of the Navy knew about it, not to mention that the position of the locator on each nuclear submarine was different. And Chen Xu was able to easily tell the location of the locator on this Alpha-class nuclear submarine, in Beria's opinion, there was a traitor in the top echelons of the Soviet Navy!
"That's not something you have to worry about, you should die quickly!" After speaking, Chen Xu gave Zhong Siyang a look and signaled him not to hesitate anymore.
Zhong Siyang breathed heavily, his nose kept contracting, and after hesitating for a moment, after finally revealing determination in his eyes, he aimed the muzzle of the gun at Beria's heart and shot decisively!
Beria struggled for a moment, his eyes showing despair and reluctance, and then he collapsed. This Soviet man, who made Chen Xu hate so much, died like this, and a big stone that pressed on his heart was finally removed.
As soon as the enemy who killed his father died, Zhong Siyang's stiff shoulders were obviously relaxed, and his face was full of exhaustion. Chen Xu took the revolver in his hand and comforted: "The matter of killing my father is over, it's time to put it aside, I want to explain some important things to you now!" ”
Chen Xu put his arm around Zhong Siyang's shoulders and dragged him to the end of the dock, and there was no one around. He whispered to Zhong Siyang what to do after returning to China by plane, and at the same time strictly ordered that no one except the commander of the Navy could ask about this matter.
Zhong Siyang kept nodding to show that he understood, but when Chen Xu asked him to repeat it, he stammered again. Chen Xu had to repeat it slowly several times until the big man could tell the task completely.
Zhong Siyang was still silently recalling the task assigned by Chen Xu, the old housekeeper happened to come down from above, and after a brief exchange with Chen Xu, he left the dock with a sailor and brought him into a stone house in the underground port for interrogation.
Soon the screams and begs of the sailors were heard in the house, and it was a long time before the old steward brought the sailor out and placed him far away to prevent the sailors from colluding with him, and then brought the second sailor in.
And so on, after more than an hour of interrogation, the old butler wiped his hands and walked out of the stone house, and said indifferently: "The return route of the submarine is already clear, they are going to go north along the African side of the Atlantic, and then cross the Arctic Ocean back to the Soviet Union." ”
"Fauber, thank you!" Chen Xu shook hands with the old butler with relief, the route of the return voyage is too important, if the route of the submarine back is correct, it will be able to paralyze the Soviet Navy for a period of time and make them believe that the submarine is safe.
After all, when the submarine is on an ocean-going voyage, it is necessary to maintain radio silence most of the time, and if the nuclear submarine has nothing serious, it will not communicate with the base, so as not to leak the whereabouts due to the interception of information by the enemy.
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Then it was a long wait, Chen Xu and others could only continue to replenish the submarine with fresh water and sanitary inspections, and clean up the dirty things inside as much as possible, after all, this boat drove thousands of miles from the Soviet Union to South America, and it was very dirty inside, especially the smell in the toilet, and people could not enter at all.
Thinking that he would live in such a cramped and confined submarine for dozens of days, all the mercenaries actively cleaned up the garbage inside,
Especially in the toilet, it was two mercenaries who scraped with knives for more than an hour to barely scrape the stains off the toilet wall, and finally rinsed it with boiling water again and again, so that there was barely no unpleasant smell.
As for the sweat-soaked mattresses and clothes inside the submarine, they were all thrown out and some clean replacements were found from the castle.
Chen Xu was burning the garbage that had been cleaned up from the submarine on the dock, when he suddenly heard several faint gunshots coming in from outside the underground port.
The gunshots were almost inaudible amid the noise of the waves crashing against the cliff wall, but Chen Xu's nerves had always been tense, and this subtle gunshot immediately caught his attention.
"Oops! Could it be that someone found out about this situation? Chen Xu's face sank, and he secretly said in his heart that it was not good.