The light-controlled destroyer Blowing Snow sailed south in the darkness of night.

In the stern of the destroyer was strapped a sailboat. The ten people of the Kwantung Army who carried out the mission this time were all on it.

After a day's time, the speed at which the two ships were moving in opposite directions should not be too far from the Princess Anne, which was heading all the way north. The ten well-rested men were ready to move before the arrival of the Princess Anne.

With the faint starlight, Xiaobao and Uejo Hohiro were inspecting a ten-meter-long rope ladder on the ship. There are two large iron hooks at the head of the rope ladder. This was used to hook the side of the ship when approaching the Princess Anne. The operatives can then climb up the rope ladder onto the passenger ferry.

There is also a ten-meter-long bamboo pole connected by two bamboos.

Xiaobao tied an iron hook on the rope ladder to the head of the bamboo pole. When a passenger ship approaches, it is relied upon to hook the iron hook to the side of the ship.

"It's hard to keep a sailboat and a passenger ship at the same speed." Hohiro Kamijo said. If you can't maintain the same speed, it will be difficult for people on the sailboat to climb up the rope ladder.

"I'll be the first to go up, if they stop the steamer. When the ship stops, you take someone to climb up. Xiaobao said. With that, he began to check his belt again to prevent the two pistols stuck in the rope ladder from falling off. Everyone on board was still using the same weapons, and they didn't change them.

The operation was prepared hastily and, above all, with impunity. The Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army thinks that as long as I don't wear a military uniform, I will flatly deny whatever you say when the time comes.

There is a world of difference between the feeling of being on a 2,000-ton destroyer and on this small wooden sailing ship. The sailboat rises and falls with the waves, holding the boat tall for a while, giving you the feeling of being on top of a mountain. After a while, he smashed down hard, and sat on the sailboat and looked around at the waves like mountains rushing towards the sailboat.

None of the people on the ship had ever experienced such a scene, clinging to anything they could hold on to in the dark.

Xiaobao felt a person grab his arm. When I looked back, it turned out to be Kobayashi Xun. Her face was even whiter in the darkness.

Xiaobao patted her leg and told her not to be nervous.

"Ten nautical miles, fifteen degrees on the port side, there is a light!" The soldiers, who were observing from the mast of the destroyer, suddenly shouted loudly.

"It's probably Princess Anne. Decelerate, turn the rudder thirty degrees to the right. Command the men on the sailboat to untie the rope and adjust the direction to meet it. Yamashita Zheno, who was in the destroyer's cockpit, ordered.

The rope tied to the destroyer was untied. Now rely entirely on the power of the sailboat to get closer to the Princess Anne. And the destroyer Blowing Snow had to hide far away in the dark. Only when these men have finished their operations and are on the ship can the snow trumpet approach them and pick them up.

Suddenly, suddenly, the stern engine on the sailboat had been started. Uejo redirected the ship with a long wooden rudder to redirect the ship towards the Princess Anne.

At a distance of ten nautical miles, the two ships were moving in opposite directions, and it seemed that they were moving very fast. Half an hour later, the people on the sailboat saw a mountain in the south that seemed to be full of sparkling gems moving towards their place. That's the lights on the Princess Anne.

"The hook should be hung in the middle of the ship's side, where the distance from the water is lowest." Hohiro Kamijo said.

Several people, including Xiaobao, squatted next to the bamboo pole, just waiting for the ship to approach, and everyone lifted the bamboo pole together to hang the iron hook on the side of the ship.

The closer the ship got to it, the more empty the hearts of several people became. The speed of the ship was not slow, and it was not easy to hook up the hook in one go. If not, then this operation will be a complete failure.

From a distance, the Princess Anne was like a mountain crashing into the on-board sailboat!

Uejo had already turned off the engine, but only operated the rudder handle to keep the sailboat from being knocked over by the ship.

"Lift the bamboo pole first!" Xiaobao shouted. Four or five people together lifted the bamboo pole nearly ten meters long. The bamboo poles, which are spliced together by two bamboo poles, keep shaking in the air, and they are not stable at all on the swaying sailboat.

The Princess Anne pushed away the waves and came head-on. Because of the waves, one side of the sailboat closer to the ship was much higher than the other.

"Hang it up!" Xiaobao shouted. But there are still intermittent in the wind and waves.

The bamboo pole was lifted by four men above the side of the ship, and as the ship moved forward, the iron hook suddenly hooked onto the side of the ship. The huge drag dragged four people out of the sailboat, and three of them fell into the sea with a plop. Only Xiaobao climbed up with both hands holding the bamboo pole.

The men on the sailboat rushed to rescue the three men who had fallen into the sea.

Uejo shouted at Xiaobao, "Stern, stern." The cockpit is in the stern! ”

Xiao Lin Xun squatted on the deck, staring blankly at the monkey-like figure struggling to climb up along the bamboo pole and rope ladder.

It only took a dozen seconds for Xiaobao to climb to the end of the bamboo pole, and he hooked the side of the ship with both hands and turned over to cross the deck of the Princess Anne.

The first thing Xiao Bao did when he stood on the deck was to bend down and reach out, and he pulled up another iron hook from the rope ladder and hung it on the side of the ship. In this way the rope ladder is deployed, and when the steamer stops, it is easy for others to climb.

Xiao Bao pulled out a pistol from his waist with his right hand and ran towards the position of the cockpit at the bow of the boat.

Xiaobao opened the hatch with his left hand, raised his gun to the ceiling with his right hand, slammed it twice, and shouted, "Pirate!" Smash the kiln! ”

There was chaos in the cockpit.

Captain White had gone back to the captain's room to rest. Only the first mate Fouché and the helmsman were in the cockpit. In the middle of the night, a man suddenly barged in and left a gun indiscriminately.

"All backwards!" Xiaobao shouted as he closed the hatch. Then he used his pistol to force the four or five men into a corner.

Xiaobao's heart is burning now. The boat had to be stopped immediately.

He grabbed one of the people from the crowd and put a gun to his head and shouted, "Death to you! Dead Uncle! ”

This is an English sentence that Xiaobao learned with Jo Hohiro when he was sailing. He wanted the man to stop the boat right away.

"Hurry up and die! If you don't die, I'll shoot! Xiaobao roared.

Everyone present looked at Xiaobao in horror and inexplicability, shouting and screaming with a gun in his hand.

The chief engineer, who was held to his head with a pistol by Xiaobao, almost collapsed on the ground.

"OK, OK" The first mate suddenly walked out with his hands held high.

He finally figured out what Xiaobao wanted them to do. He always maintained the posture of facing Xiaobao, retreated to the driver's platform, and slowly pulled down the lever.

Although the lever looked like it was pulling down slowly, Xiaobao still felt that the ship was coming to a rapid stop. He was a little unsteady on his feet.

It would be nice to stop, and when the rest of the people got on board, he wouldn't be alone.