Chapter Ninety-Nine: Submarine 6

Lin Huiping had been worried that the box of matches he had pulled down last night would alarm the Germans, but when he climbed the embankment again, he saw a different scene: the dockyard was brightly lit. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info The other people who had just landed had to lie on the ground and look at each other when they saw this, yesterday Lin Huiping had been saying that the dock was dark and scary and couldn't see anything, but now it's good, I saw everything.

"What's going on?" Li Kongrong asked Lin Huiping a few times, they had been in the shipyard for a long time, maybe they knew what they were doing.

"It's supposed to be working overtime." King. Rong Ying guessed, "Maybe the gears haven't been changed yet." ”

"Overtime?" Li Kongrong was immediately dumbfounded, do you want to swim back and come back tomorrow.

"The gears have to be shipped from other places, when they will be loaded." Lin Huiping interjected,

"How long?" Li Kongrong looked at the lights in the dock, and then looked back at Lin Huiping.

"I don't know. We don't know when they started the work. Lin Huiping looked at his watch again and said: "Now at 7:53, according to the rules of the shipyard, even if you work overtime, it will not exceed 11 o'clock." ”

"Waiting here for three hours?" Li Kongrong glanced around and felt that it was unimaginable to wait all the time.

"I can touch the dock door first and see how to open the gate." Lin Huiping pointed to the light on the other side of the dock and said.

"Is it possible that the city is empty?" Su Jinghu, who was lying next to Li Kongrong, suddenly reminded. "Did Huiping move something last night to make the Germans think there was a thief?"

"I didn't move anything, I just couldn't find the box of matches." Lin Huiping began to sweat on his back, and he looked up and looked around the dock again, but he didn't see anything.

Why there are lights in the dockyard, everyone has their own guess. After waiting anxiously for about half an hour, Lin Huiping finally crawled to the dock door, he entered the dock door, and Li Kongrong and Su Jinghu took Liu Yongren and Jiang Jing to go around the two sides of the dock respectively, the closer they got to the dock, the brighter the lights became, but the more quiet the dock felt, and no human voices could be heard at all.

It's really a hell, Li Kongrong scolded in his heart. The submarine was in front of him, and he realized that it was not the Type 7 he had originally thought, but rather an IX or X submarine, as its hull was 10 meters longer than the Type 7. From the point of view of time, it is only 1939, and it seems that the X-type submarines will not enter service until after the start of the war, so the only thing left is the Type IXA submarines. U-37, U-38, U-39......, U44, anyway, as long as it's an IXA submarine, it's possible.

Type 7 submarines have a displacement of more than 700 tons, and Type IX submarines have a displacement of more than 1,000 tons. However, the bigger the submarine, the slower the dive, the more experienced the Type 7C submarine can make it dive in 27 seconds, but the Type 9 submarine will be 10 seconds slower. Don't underestimate these ten seconds, if you really encounter an enemy situation, these ten seconds can completely decide life and death. Another trouble is that because it is longer, the longitudinal balance is more difficult to control when diving and floating, and if you are not careful, you will have an upside-down onion.

The submarine that he had been thinking about for a long time was right in front of him, and Li Kongrong's eyes were full of fire. But the information about the Type IX submarine came to his mind, and after thinking about the disadvantages, he began to think about the advantages of the Type IXA again: the first one was a range of more than 10,000 nautical miles, while the Type 7A only had 7,000 nautical miles, but also firepower, the Type 7A could only carry eleven torpedoes, and the number of Type IXA doubled to 22, the Type 7A was an 88mm deck gun with 220 rounds of ammunition, and the Type IXA was a 105mm deck gun with 180 rounds of ammunition......

After thinking about the specific performance of the Type IX submarine several times, Li Kongrong finally couldn't help but take a few steps forward, hiding under the crane by the dock, and Su Jinghu on the opposite side saw him like this, and hurriedly waved his hand, afraid that he would not hear it and used the echo reflector to send a signal, which was used by mountain soldiers for communication, but the dock was too bright, and Li Kongrong didn't notice the light at all. He was listening to the sound of the dock with all his attention, but as before, he couldn't hear anything.

Finally, he didn't feel abnormal, he beckoned Liu Yongren to carefully walk up to the deck along the wooden plank on the submarine, and listened carefully to the submarine enclosure, he finally climbed the command tower, and then got in.

Everyone saw Li Kongrong drill into the command tower, and then Liu Yongren. Just when Su Jinghu was a few worried, Liu Yongren drilled out of the command tower and waved, and after a while, Su Jinghu also climbed into the command tower.

"What's going on?" Su Jinghu was soaking wet, and he didn't know if it was the water stains that hadn't dried or the cold sweat that had been shocked.

"There's no one in there." Liu Yongren said. The lights inside the submarine had been turned on, and Li Kongrong was standing at the entrance of the passage, he looked up at Su Jinghu: "Kill you!" There is no one inside, you go and call Chen Ergong and check the submarine immediately. ”

"Go right away." After Su Jinghu agreed, he stretched out his hand to the outside of the command tower and motioned for the others to come over.

The people outside climbed the command tower one by one, but they didn't expect things to go so smoothly, even the most worried Wang. Rong Ying was also ecstatic. Lin Huiping, who had checked the dock gate, finally climbed into the command tower, and compared to the outside of the boat, the inside of the boat was the place to speak.

"I've had a lot of luck so far." Li Kongrong said quietly and cautiously, with an irrepressible smile on his face. "Now let's discuss how to get out, can the floodgates be opened?" He was the first to ask Lin Huiping.

"Yes." The dock door is the electrical room, and the switch to open the gate is there. "But there's no guarantee that there won't be a sound."

"Clean everything in the dock door, don't open it all at once, open a crack to let water seep in, okay?" Li Kongrong said that he considered it himself, and this idea coincided with Lin Huiping.

"That's what I thought, but the wooden frames outside the boat that hold up the hull are not easy to do." From the very beginning, Lin Huiping noticed that the wood that was propped up between the dock wall and the hull every few meters, these woods and cables were the same to prevent the submarine from capsizing, but the cables could be cut, and the wood could only be unloaded one by one.

"Let's release the water first, let the submarine float." In the case of wooden supports, if the submarine insists on floating, the uneven force of the lower wood is likely to support the submarine. "The draft of this type of submarine is four meters seven, and when we close the gate when it is four meters seven, the movement of prying off these logs in the water will be smaller."

"Okay!" After getting along for a long time, Li Kongrong spit out the number that others no longer doubted, and Lin Huiping promised to take Wang with him. Rong Ying climbed out of the ladder. As soon as he left, Su Jinghu, who had already roughly inspected the submarine, came over, and he couldn't see any smile on his face, so he came over and asked, "Where is Huiping?" ”

"What's wrong?" Li Kongrong's heart sank suddenly when he saw his face like this.

Sure enough, Su Jinghu opened his mouth with bad news: "Everything else is fine, but the battery is not enough, we have to find a way to charge it." ”

"Then pull a wire from the dock door and come in to charge?" Seeing that there was just no power, Li Kongrong breathed a sigh of relief.

"But we didn't have wires with us." Su Jinghu checked the backpack he brought just now, and there were no wires in it.

"I'll take someone to find it." Li Kongrong agreed, and then he asked again: "Is there enough oil and fresh water?" ”

"It's enough, it's all right to Svalbard." Svalbard was the final hiding place for the submarines, where they would escape the Germans' angry pursuit before leaving for home.

The night at the LΓΌbeck shipyard was peaceful, but the repair dock was busy, as Lin Huiping closed the gate motor, the wide dock door slowly opened, along the gap at the gate, the water of the Telavi River began to seep into the entire dock, at first, you can still hear the sound of the river pouring into the dock, but as the water level rises, the sound of the water becomes smaller and smaller.

It is a rare pleasure to watch the river slowly, overflow the bottom of the dock and drown in the submarine, which means that the submarine is about to go to sea, but the enjoyment time is very short, and the river water will overflow the 4.7 meters that Li Kongrong said in less than half an hour. Lin Huiping, who received the order, closed the gate again, and Xu Zhenqi and Xia Xin began to cut the cables tied to the hull of the boat and pry open the supporting wood. The cable is easy to cut, but the wood is still not easy to pry, Xu Zhenqi, who barely pry two, had to climb into the command tower and said to Su Jinghu in the boat: "The wood is too tight, you have to float up." ”

The boat was charging at this time, and Su Jinghu listened to Xu Zhenqi's report and said, "The cables are all cut?" ”

"It's all cut." Xu Zhenqi didn't understand what Su Jinghu meant.

"Cut it, cut it." Su Jinghu did not study this problem in detail, this dock can be used by merchant ships of more than 2,000 tons, and it will not hit the dock wall without anchoring or cable. "You let the floodgates open again, and when the water level is level, all the gates will be opened."

"Understood." Xu Zhenqi got the order, climbed out of the command tower again, and let the dock door continue to release water. Fifteen minutes later, the water level of the dock was level with the river outside, and the supporting wood could not hold the floating submarine, and finally all fell into the water, and the gate was opened.

"Ready to undock?" Li Kongrong, who rushed back to the submarine, was sweating strangely on his forehead - he was a little worried that his piloting skills were not up to par.

"The battery will have to be recharged for about an hour before it can be undocked." Su Jinghu only operated the much smaller No. 2 submarine, and he could not judge how far this new submarine could go by relying entirely on electricity.

"No, an hour is too long." When Li Kongrong came in, he saw that all the cables had been untied, and the improvised wooden bridges leaning on both sides of the dock had also been moved to one side. As long as someone comes by, you can see the problem at a glance. "How much is the battery charged?"

"Almost half." Su Jinghu replied, "I don't know how far this type of submarine can go on batteries, if it runs out of power just after reaching the estuary, it will be stuck at the estuary." ”

"No matter what type of submarine it is, half of the power can drive out of the estuary." Li Kongrong can no longer remember the underwater distance of the Type 9A submarine, but it will obviously be more than thirty kilometers, and Sujing Lake is completely due to caution. "Right now." He commanded.

"Understood." Seeing Li Kongrong's insistence, Su Jinghu gritted his teeth before agreeing, and then he suddenly realized: "Quickly open the electric compass." ”

Inside the submarine there is a magnetic compass and an electric compass, the magnetic compass is ready to use, but the electric compass needs to be turned on for six hours before it can be used. According to the plan, the electrocompass was to be opened as soon as he boarded the boat, but Su Jinghu was nervous and only checked the electrocompass and forgot to open it.

Li Kongrong gave the order and went up to the command tower, he had to pay close attention to the distance between the submarine and the dock wall, carefully give the order through the microphone, and didn't care about Su Jinghu's last sentence of 'open the electric compass'. He is now recalling the key points to pay attention to when operating the boat, and the most fearful thing is to hit the dock wall when he is out of the dock.

The submarine floated quietly in the dock, and Li Kongrong took a deep breath before saying to the microphone: "Prepare to undock." Command: Twin Pole retreat slightly, prepare for the double anchor. ”

The duo retreated slightly. Prepare a double anchor. "The voice came to the command platform, and Su Jinghu directly pulled the bell, and pointed his finger to 'step back'.

"The two of them retreated slightly." Chen Ergong in the engine room only hesitated for a second before repeating the order to Xia Xin, and then pulled the bell back to the clock.

"Yes!" Su Jinghu got a loud response, and then said to the commander tower: "Shuangqi retreated slightly. ”

Li Kongrong heard Su Jinghu's return, and waited for ten seconds to see that the submarine was slowly retreating, and then he suppressed his voice and said to the microphone: "Yes." ”

The micro-speed inverter was about two knots, and even if it was only two submarines, it came back to life, and its slender body trembled a little under the drive of the motor, and in this tremor it was slowly exiting the dock. Everything went well, but when the submarine was about to turn into the river when it was nearly half undocked, Li Kongrong, who was in a state of confusion, suddenly found that he couldn't figure out whether it should be five degrees to the left or five degrees to the right.

"Two stops." Li Kongrong's face was hot and sweaty like raindrops, he thought of all kinds of difficulties in this operation, but he never thought that he would not know how to turn.

"Calm down, calm down." He rubbed his face vigorously, but couldn't help but laugh. After laughing, he realized that he was really 'worried' - whether it was the left or right fifth, the submarine could hit the right and go down the river, the difference was only that the bow was facing forward or the stern was facing forward. It wasn't a problem, the water was wide before the Trawe River went out to sea, and he could turn as much as he wanted. Taking a deep breath again, Li Kongrong called Ling for the second time: "Shuangling retreats slightly, and the left helm is five." ”

The command tower suddenly stopped to make everyone in the boat baffled, they thought that Li Kongrong, who was in the command tower, had discovered the situation, but fortunately, after a while, Li Kongrong began to call again, and the submarine retreated slightly, and finally turned into the Telavi River with difficulty.

"The duo slowly retreated." After the submarine turned around, Li Kongrong realized that it was really 'too worried', and the submarine was now facing forward.

"Hehe......" Hearing the order to retreat, Su Jinghu at the command platform found a problem, and he laughed before he could pass the word to the engine room. He really didn't expect that the submarine did not drive out of the Travi River, but poured out of the Travi River. But don't you think about yourself as the same? After checking the gyrocompass, I didn't know how to start.

"The duo slowly retreated." He couldn't help but laugh as he conveyed the order to the engine room.

Su Jinghu found a 'problem', and Chen Ergong and Xia Xin in the engine room also found a problem, but Chen Ergong, who was more serious than Su Jinghu, was expressionless, and he saw Xia Xin, who was operating the motor, eating and laughing, and reprimanded unhappily: "What are you laughing at!" There is a reason for retreating. ”

"Yes, sir!" Xia Xin had to respond, but Chen Ergong made him feel even more funny, and he finally couldn't hold back and laughed. (To be continued.) )