The two lifeboats of the "Artekik" had only rowed close to the area where the two anti-submarine ships had sunk for more than half an hour, but they had only picked up three frozen bodies - the second had sunk only ten minutes earlier, but the surviving crew had already jumped out of the fiery purgatory, which could explode at any moment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

A wooden lifeboat and all the rubber boats on the anti-submarine ship were already in tatters before the crew fled, and to get out of the sea of fire was to enter the sea like an ice cellar, and the icy waters of the Baltic Sea killed all those who jumped into the sea in half an hour!

The two German crew members captured by the C-1, if it weren't for Marinesko's decision to capture the prisoners and get some intelligence, would have been two of the countless wrongs caused by countless shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea over the millennium at most.

The lifeboats had a week's worth of backup drinking water and food, and the frustrated German crews, at the command of the captain, approached each other and waited for rescue in the icy sea breeze: telegrams had already been sent after the start of the artillery battle, and the patrol planes were almost there. If this would have rowed away, it would have taken more effort, although the currents and the direction of the wind were conducive to their rowing to the Latvian coast 40 nautical miles away: there was a simple compass pointing with the boat, but at a distance of tens of nautical miles, the wind and currents could easily cause the lifeboat to deviate from the expected direction by tens of kilometers, and it was not necessary to drift to the Red Army-controlled area.

The German anti-submarine patrol plane, which had arrived from Klaipeda more than 200 kilometers away, arrived after nearly an hour of diving on the C-1 -- the battle ended too quickly, and the planes were not always on standby, which was an emergency in the war. Loading, all kinds of preparations before takeoff, the Germans were already very fast: two anti-submarine ships against one submarine, who would have thought that it would be fully reimbursed in ten minutes!?

It was a twin-engine He 115 torpedo bomber/reconnaissance plane, capable of taking off and landing at sea - when the plane arrived at the combat area, it saw only two lone lifeboats and a small number of ship fragments floating on the surface, not even the shadow of a submarine.

The sea conditions were not bad, and the He 115 boldly landed near the lifeboat, got a general idea of the situation, and stuffed a wounded man into the plane - it didn't have many people on it, and the high-speed torpedo boat that came to the rescue was already on the way, so the crew continued to wait.

The plane sent a message to the command and left, leaving two lifeboats and dozens of crew members to continue to wait in the cold wind.

In fact, the C-1 torpedo boat would have been a few nautical miles away, but the Germans could not have found it. Underwater, the crew was busy repairing valves and pipes damaged during the bombing, Galil's operation was still ongoing, and Captain Kalinovs had stitched up several of his large blood vessels and was sorting out torn muscles and ligaments.

In the command module, Marinesko and Anton have agreed that they will float up after dark, return to the port of Tallinn, and arrive tomorrow, the wounded will need to be systematically treated in hospitals, and the submarine, which has only a third of the battery group, will need to be repaired.

The two captives had recovered their strength and were sitting on the floor, but they were clearly depressed - having been prisoners, and with their usual distorted views of Soviet Russia, they could not have recovered in any spirits, even if they had just escaped death, and there could be no joy of escaping death.

Because the captain and co-captain had been too busy to bother with the captives, the boatswain Taran and Ganev kept their eyes on the two Germans: not only were they not allowed to move, but they were not allowed to talk to each other.

Already the sailors had checked the personal belongings of the clothes taken from the captives and handed over the Germans' papers to Marinesco, who knew a little German, and Marinesco, who had finished his business, decided to interrogate.

"Take the soldiers to the first torpedo compartment, torture it, don't have a problem." Marinesko decided to interrogate them separately.

Taran and Ganev pulled the German soldier, "Don't worry, Captain, we'll keep an eye on him." ”

The submarine was too small, and the third compartment was under operation, so it could only be escorted to the front - with those wolf-like sailors, plus people could be chained to the iron pillars of the bulkhead, don't try to make a name for yourself.

Now it was the officer's turn, and his credentials showed him to be a lieutenant in the navy—a blond-haired, blue-eyed representative of the standard Aryan in the eyes of Nazi ethnographers, and handsome.

"Open the handcuffs."

The keys were in the hands of the navigator Yeliseyev, who handcuffed the captives, and the captain decided to reason first. As soon as the captive opened the handcuffs, he stood in a standard upright posture, although the clothes he wore casually made him look a little indecent, but Marinesco had to admit that the military posture of the prisoner in front of him was very good, and he had a bit of a sense of being a prisoner.

"Name, rank, age, position" Marinesko is the captain of the ship, and this question has to be asked by him, although it needs to be translated by Anton's half-baked German: Comrade Captain asked this question from movies and novels, and the submarine force commander training school does not have an interrogation class.

It's a layman, it's all literary and artistic works! -- All these basic information are clearly written on the military officer's card, and the questions are really layman's, and there is no need for the slightest offensive effect.

"Baron Ferdo von Wielks, Lieutenant of the Third Reich, 26 years old, deputy captain of the A7 anti-submarine escort ship of the Baltic Anti-Submarine Third Division."

After listening to Anton's translation, Marinesko glanced at the German baron, the Junker nobleman, who maintained his usual pride even as a captive: Marinesko knew that the German had a "von" in the middle of the name should be a nobleman, but he didn't expect that this Weikes would have to say the title.

"What task?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Captain, but I can only tell you my name, age, rank, and position. If I hadn't forgotten to throw away my papers, I would have answered only the name and rank. Weix looked resolute.

Marinesco was not angry, and said unhurriedly: "I have two people who will still have surgery in the back, and I think my men will be happy to throw you and your people back into the sea tonight." I'd also like to make it clear that while I don't want to dirty my submarine, my men will be happy to move around. From my personal point of view, I still hope that you will be honest in answering my questions, and in the future I will also want you to be honest, because the comrades of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be happy to greet a German officer with the title of nobility. I'll ask you again, just once! What task is being performed? What kind of cargo is on a cargo ship? ”

Marinesko was only a little curious, and to be honest, even if it was this captive who confessed important military information, the C-1 could not do anything: even if he could know the information of the German route, he could not report it for a while, and there was nothing he could do about it underwater.

It is the rule that prisoners should be interrogated after they have been captured, and they cannot wait until they arrive at the port to be handed over to the special departments: the comrades of the intelligence department and the internal affairs department will say: "Did you not ask anything?!" ”

You must know that when people are just captured, especially after experiencing the torment of life and death, their psychological endurance is very fragile. Anton also knew some German, which was well known in the command of the Baltic submarine forces, because there were not many such people: it would be forgivable if no one knew German.

Truth be told, Marinesko was a little curious about what he had sunk on board: the waterline showed that the ship was fully loaded.

Weix obviously struggled fiercely for a while, and his expression finally withered, and he became less proud: "Escorting the "Artekik" to Königsberg, the departure place is the port of Oulu in Finland, and the cargo ship is loaded with non-ferrous metal ore, the specific quantity and situation I do not know, only the captain of the cargo ship knows, and it is not under our control. ”

Although it is not known what exactly the ore is, after the translation, Marinesko was still happy, because he knew how much Germany would need non-ferrous metals, and for the USSR, sinking this ship was even worth more than sinking a German munitions ship!

"Do you know the voyage time of the subsequent cargo ship?"

"I don't know, but there is another ship of ours in Oulu that is loading ore, and the exact time is known only to our command, not even the captains of the ships. The time and route of our departure were announced from command only a few hours before the departure. ”

……

Wix poured beans in a bamboo tube generally answered all of Marinesco's questions, although many of them were: I don't know, I don't know. But in any case, Marinesco was already satisfied with such a result in polite manners.

Navy, still relatively gentlemanly. But after returning to Hong Kong, Marinesko could not guarantee what kind of treatment this rather cooperative German officer would have: the comrades of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not as foolish as himself, nor were they so polite: they could even tell from their demeanor and eyes whether the interrogator was telling the truth, and some of the methods of interrogation made Marinesko feel creepy!

Valuable captives are in the hands of the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and don't want to get out without squeezing out the value.

Anton and the other officers couldn't think of anything else, and the next step was to interrogate the second rank private named Lentz to see if what his lieutenant was telling was true.

Before he could be taken away, the German officer said, "Mr. Captain, I admire your courage and skill in today's battle, but if luck had not been on your side, you would have been in the opposite position." ”

Marinesko didn't reply, but he knew in his heart that he was lucky that he was in good luck today—if it weren't for the two German ships turning when they were rising, the C-1 would have been laid to rest at the bottom of the sea.

(Busy until 11 o'clock in the evening before it is empty, tomorrow sky is more updated, at least two more.) Hehe, it should be said that there will be two more today. (To be continued.) )