Chapter 278: Awa Maru

When there was a mess on the side of the Chuanshan Mountain Tribe, Ao Tang also continued to order: "Since there is already a secretary of the water committee, the treasure of the shipwreck you found must be reported to the secretary of the water committee." Now the top priority of our water tribe is to learn, not to fish for treasure, but there are always special cases for everything, after the treasure is found, the secretary of the water committee will arrange for several water tribes to explore, if it is an ordinary treasure, then ignore it, put it for the time being; If it's a major treasure like the Awa Maru, which has a lot of gold, then you have to do something special. ”

"Yes, I'll report to Secretary Lan Yi immediately."

"Well, the secretary doesn't have to follow the adults."

"Yes, I'll convey this to the Funama Clan as well."

Ao Tang nodded with satisfaction, it seems that Coral is a very good microphone, after thinking about it, he deliberately asked: "The Awa Maru sank in the waters of eastern Fujian, specifically in the waters of Ushishima, did you pass through that area on the way south?" ”

Coral immediately replied, "Lord Dragon, I passed through, it is the only way to go south, and I also saw a few pieces of tattered wreckage, the main body is gone. ”

Ao Tang had read the information on the Awa Maru, and of course knew that the main body had been salvaged by the Navy in the 80s. Speaking of the shipwreck area is not deep, the Awa Maru was torpedoed into several pieces, some sank at 45 meters, and some sank at a depth of 70 meters, but that sea area is the worst section of the Taiwan Strait, the wind is strong, the waves are high, the flow is rapid, and the country's salvage technology is relatively backward, so it seems very difficult, but the Chinese people are not afraid of sacrifice, face the difficulties, and finally the salvage is successful, and a large number of materials are obtained, but there is no most valuable thing.

Ao Tang thought to himself, either he concealed the truth at the time, or he really didn't, and some inferences on the Internet that gold was exploded into powder by the Japanese when they were dying, this is really nonsense. Ao Tang thought that maybe the Japanese themselves were ready to be attacked when transporting this batch of extraordinarily large treasures, or that they were secretly crossing Chencang on the plank road, or that Awa Maru was following some small ship for emergency transfer at that time. If it is the former, Ao Tang is hopeless; If the latter, since the Awa Maru was sunk, how could the ships that were urgently transferred escape?

Oyu asked, "Are there any strange shipwrecks near the Awa Maru's sinking site, or beyond?" For example, submarines, especially miniature submarines. ”

At that time, there were hundreds of miniature submarines in Japan, and although practice proved that these submarines were all cheating goods, what if one of them had been following the Awa Maru, or had it simply hung under the Awa Maru? Perhaps from the very beginning, the most valuable materials such as gold were put on submarines, and the Awa Maru was just a front? However, the miniature submarine itself did not have enough endurance to escape the cover of the Awa Maru, and sooner or later it would also sink.

Thinking about the history of submarine development as seen from Mi Lu, Ao Tang told Coral about the size, size, and shape of the three Japanese miniature submarines of World War II. Coral thought for a moment, then looked around the sea area of Ushijima, and replied, "Report to Lord Ryuwang, there are no three miniature submarines you mentioned. ”

Ao Tang was slightly regretful, but he was not too depressed, after all, he had a steady stream of wealth, and there was no need to make money from the treasure of the Awa Maru, but it was a pity that 40 tons of gold and 12 tons of platinum could become the gold bricks on his feet!

Ao Tang nodded to Sango, turned around and swam away again, this time he didn't take the initiative to stop, but Sango shouted: "Although Lord Dragonlord doesn't have the miniature submarines you mentioned, and he hasn't found any sunken large submarines, there is something much more miniature than miniature submarines. ”

Ao Tang was stunned for something much more miniature than a miniature submarine? What's that? The data he reported to Coral is small enough, for example, the "A" submarine is only 23.9 meters long, 1.85 meters in diameter, and only 44 tons in displacement, which is much smaller than the "A" submarine, so it can't be a torpedo, right? A dud that did not explode? What's the use of that? …,

Ao Tang said some about the torpedo knowledge he learned from Mi Lu, in fact, he himself has practical experience, the last time he encountered the US Navy Virginia-class nuclear submarine Hawaii, he once fired MK48 heavy torpedoes at him, the length is less than 6 meters, directly more than half a meter, not big.

I only heard Coral say: "It's a long, pointy head thing, rusty on the outside, most of it has been buried in the mud of the seabed, a bit like the torpedo you said Lord Ryu, but it's more than a torpedo." ”

Much smaller than a miniature submarine, much larger than a torpedo, what is that? Ao Tang was suddenly stunned, and thought of another weapon of the pit father: returning to the sky!

Japan is a paranoid country, and at the end of World War II, it formed the so-called "kamikaze squads" and used suicide attacks in exchange for the results of the war. The well-known kamikaze is a suicide plane that directly drives the plane to hit a US warship, and another kamikaze that is less mentioned is the "Huitian" suicide torpedo.

This torpedo is very large, with a total length of 14.75 meters, a diameter of 1 meter, and carries 1550 kilograms of explosives.

The Japanese named this torpedo "Huitian" in the hope of relying on this kind of thing to turn the overall situation around, but they were doomed to failure, and the results of the Huitian torpedo were few.

Ao Tang's heart moved, and he immediately became short of breath, this time the torpedo should not be filled with the gold of the Awa Maru, right? 40 tons of gold, 12 tons of platinum, don't look at the tonnage, in fact, the volume is not large, 1 cubic meter of gold is 19.32 tons, 40 tons is 2 cubic meters, plus platinum and some other important treasures, it is also 3 cubic meters. Of course, in order to be transported in this way, the gold and platinum must be fused into a certain shape, and the torpedo must also be modified appropriately, such as eliminating the explosives department.

Even the Awa Maru had to be modified to give it the ability to hang a torpedo back to the sky. After the Awa Maru was attacked, the Huiten torpedo escaped, and its maximum range was 78 kilometers, but after loading a large amount of heavy metal, it is estimated that it could not even drive 7 kilometers. And for various reasons, the Japanese side also lost relevant information, so it did not go to search.

Of course, this is only the most ideal inference of Ao Tang, maybe not even a 1% possibility, but what if it is? Ao Tang remembered the direction of the coral and turned around and returned to the Lumen coast, just before dawn. As soon as he returned to the hotel to take a shower and go to bed, Xia Xiaodong came to the door, and he couldn't wait to eat and drink.

"Yesterday I was invited by our boss, today I came to us to go to a better Black Swan Hotel, a little far, but our boss is active in the egret, and I will never meet again when I go to the Black Swan Hotel."

Ao Tang laughed, he refused to have something to do last night, but he was fine during the day, after all, he couldn't go to steal the Dragon King Temple during the day, and his main work during the day was to hurry, step on points, eat, and sleep, and the moon was dark and the wind was high at night, which was the time to steal treasures.

I also ordered those dishes, but today at noon, I ate a lot more heartily, and the wine was only slightly drunk, Xia Xiaodong said that he would take him to visit the scenic spots of Lumen in the afternoon. Although Ao Tang is not interested in shopping, Xia Xiaodong is his own person after all, and he will not shirk his good intentions, and immediately appreciated the wind and sea, green mountains and green waters of Lumen, and said with a smile: "This city is really good, it is not big and prosperous, and it is a good place to settle." Brother Xiaodong, let's stop here this time, I'll bother you next time. ”

"Hey, don't, play a few more days."

Ao Tang did not hesitate to make an excuse: "I am a student, how can I skip class and rush back overnight, and I can still catch up with tomorrow afternoon's class." ”

Xia Xiaodong suddenly couldn't keep it, his studies were important, if he knew that Ao Tang was a habitual offender who skipped school and exams, he really didn't know what he would think? …,

"You have to eat dinner, you don't drink alcohol, you have to drive long distances, you must be careful when driving at night."

After dinner, Ao Tang waved his hand to the west under the wave of Xia Xiaodong and Zhou Wei, and as soon as he got out of their sight, he immediately turned around and went north, going straight to Mindong City, the capital of southern Fujian Province, and then transferred to a coastal district and county under Mindong City.

Ao Tang found a seaside hotel, opened a parking lot, took advantage of the night to go straight to the beach, and soon arrived at the sinking point. Looking at the remaining part of the wreckage of the Awa Maru, he sneered and shook his head, the vast majority of the 2,008 people who died on this ship were invaders, including the top commander of the Japanese army in Burma and the chief of the secret force in Southeast Asia. At most, a few babies are innocent, such as a baby girl born on the ship on the night of the attack, but the parents of the baby girl, as Japanese accomplices in the colonies, even if not soldiers, are also innocent.

Leaving behind the fragmentary wreckage of the Awa Maru, which was already worthless, Ao Tang went straight to the torpedo, about four kilometers or five kilometers away, and sure enough, he found the suicide torpedo.

Almost half of this torpedo has been wrapped in silt, and there are some miscellaneous underwater creatures inhabiting it, and this section is deeper than the Awa Maru, reaching 80 meters, which is the largest depth in the entire Taiwan Strait, and the sea surface is also high and dangerous, no wonder no one has ever found it, if it is not a coral extending from forty or fifty meters away, I am afraid it is difficult to find.

As for the fact that the aquarium didn't notice this Huitian torpedo when searching for the wreck in the past, Ao Tang can also understand that the ocean is so vast, finding a wreck on the bottom of the sea is like finding a needle, it is impossible for every one of them to help Ao Tang fish it out, the previous aquarium has brought him countless treasures, of course he will not ask for all the blame.

With a slap of the red dragon's claws, a large number of underwater creatures living on the surface of the Huitian torpedo vibrated and surged towards the coral line, and the moment they approached the coral line, countless tentacles of coral cops immediately stretched out on the coral line, piercing, draining, and digesting.

As far as the thought goes, an undercurrent is born in the sea, constantly washing the torpedo back to the sky, just like washing the car in a car wash on the street, and after a while, the torpedo is clean, revealing a black and thick one.

Ao Tang muttered: "What if it's not a treasure inside, but a real Huitian torpedo, which is loaded with 1,550 kilograms of explosives, wouldn't it be bad if I cracked it violently?" ”

Ao Tang snorted, thinking that even if it was explosives, it should be greatly reduced after sinking at the bottom of the sea for decades, the dragon claw directly grabbed it, pulled it out, and held it, and immediately laughed, this weight far exceeded the weight that the Huitian torpedo should have, and the volume was the same, it was undoubtedly a great increase in density!

Thinking that the cockpit of the Huitian torpedo was in the middle, Ao Tang swung it down with a claw, this kind of suicide weapon was lightweight, and the iron sheet was very thin, and it was suddenly torn open, revealing the cockpit inside. Seeing that the seawater was about to pour in, Ao Tang raised his other paw, and the surrounding seawater flowed in the opposite direction, and a small waterless area appeared on the bottom of the sea.

Ao Tang looked at the driver's corpse in disgust, scolded the Japanese devil, tore off two pieces of iron, clamped the corpse, threw it far away, transferred the water flow and washed it several times, and drained the water used for the washing, turned into a humanoid state and drilled into the torpedo, only the arm kept the dragon claw, and when it touched the impassable place, it was directly torn apart with the dragon claw, revealing the structure before and after.

In the rear is the proper layout of the Huitian torpedo, which is the power and propulsion device; And the explosion part in front of it, which was supposed to be filled with explosives, was two large pieces of heavy metal smelted into a cylindrical shape, one golden and one white.

Ao Tang visually measured the golden cylinder, with a radius of almost 0.4 meters, a height of 4.2 meters, and a density of 19.3 gold, it was 40 tons! And the white one, with the same radius and a height of 1.1 meters, if it is 12 tons of platinum, then this platinum should refer to platinum! …,

Took away two large pieces of metal cylinders, and stuffed five small boxes in front of him, Ao Tang opened one of them, and immediately frowned, it was a skull, he was not interested in appreciating any skulls, it was very uncomfortable to look at it, but of course Ao Tang knew that this should be the five "Peking Man skulls" that were missing in the legend, which were peerless treasures for anthropological research!

Ao Tang muttered, "What's so fun about this skull?" Throw them at the National Museum another day, and it should be my free gift to the country. ”

Ao Tang looked at the five skull boxes, and then looked at the gold cylinder that weighed 40 tons, the aquarium blue whale weighed as much as 300 tons, and it was definitely easy and happy to transport 40 tons of gold and 12 tons of platinum, but once the skull box was handed over to the aquarium for transportation, it would inevitably be soaked in seawater, and only he could carry it himself to maintain it from being contaminated by seawater.

"Sango, give Lan Yi an order to summon the Aquarium to come and transport the two metal cylinders. Well, it will take about ten hours to wait for them to come, and you pay attention to the corals, and of course, it will be fine. ”

Even if a diving enthusiast happens to run here and find it, by the time they come and gather the salvage boats to rush over, the aquarists have already arrived.

Ao Tang hugged the five small boxes together and said to Lan Jia: "I won't go to the National Museum anymore, just leave it to the Mindong City Museum, and after we finish it, we will go to Chuanshan to send ...... Well, you don't have to send it, anyway, the phone case and tablet case are waterproof for 300 meters, and it's only 80 meters here. That way we don't have to go to Bunyama, and when we get rid of the skull, we can head straight to the Atlantic, and it's even more important to look for the hawksbill turtles. ”

Lan Jia immediately said: "Lord Dragon King is really kind-hearted, we and the other water tribes are all grateful to Dade, Lord Tortoiseshell, if they know, they must be grateful." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. [This text is provided by @earthly, drama]