At a quarter past eleven, after a long whistle, Kong Xiangxi left Berlin. Li Kongrong was startled several times by the whistle at the train station, but fortunately there were no accidents. After saying goodbye to Chen Shaokuan, Cheng Tianfang and others, he went directly back to the naval dormitory, today's duty officer is Qiu Zhongming, he saw that it was Li Kongrong who appeared and immediately laughed - the students were saying that Major Li would return to China today, and he didn't want to come back at night, which really made him unexpectedly happy.

"What are you doing these days?" Li Kongrong got out of the car and chatted with him.

"I'm learning German." Qiu Zhongming said, "But don't go after a while, didn't you say that there would be people coming from China?" ”

As soon as he heard Qiu Zhongming say that people from China were coming, Li Kongrong remembered this incident. Although the contract for the construction of submarines has not yet been signed, in order to train as soon as possible, the six officers studying in Italy have already received orders to come over. As soon as these six people come, plus another person from China, then they can hire their own German teacher and take classes here.

"When will they arrive?" Li Kongrong suddenly asked, and after asking, he found that Qiu Zhongming definitely didn't know.

Sure enough, Qiu Zhongming shook his head, and then he asked, "Sir, will you ...... in the future Do you live here? ”

"Of course you live here." Li Kongrong was about to go upstairs, and after speaking, he understood what Qiu Zhongming meant, and he smiled again: "I will tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes, sir!" Qiu Zhongming was overjoyed. After Lin Zhun came, he no longer treated everyone equally, and completely favored the other Fujian students, and Lang Jiancheng was a good man, completely ignoring the previous health rotation table, and the chores were all borne by a few of their students from other provinces in the end.

Li Kongrong didn't understand that Qiu Zhongming and several students from other provinces were in a 'dire straits', and what he was thinking about now was how to spend the $50,000. In fact, he regretted writing 50,000 yuan at that time - the main reason is that he asked for too much, and now the dollar is worth it, and Chen Shaokuan, the minister of the navy, will spend only 100,000 dollars in Europe, and 50,000 yuan is basically equal to 2.5 million yuan in later generations. However, this is not an electronic document, if you change it, the whole page will be written, but it took him a lot of effort to write the words neatly, so in the end, he just waited for Kong Xiangxi to bargain, and he didn't want Kong Xiangxi to approve it as soon as he said 50,000 yuan.

It's easy to get things done with money, but the question is where to start? Think about the shipwreck first, and if not, see if you can go to Spain once. At the same time, treasure hunting tools should be prepared in advance: the first is scuba, which can be made in advance, and the second is a magnetic needle, which is used to detect steel on the seabed, and galleons also have iron nails; Finally, there is a 'mailbox', where the water in the upper layer of the sea is clear, but the lower layer is extremely turbid, and the upper layer of water must be pumped down, otherwise the diver will not be able to see clearly. In addition to the tools, and then the map of the sea area, this can only ask the embassy in the United States for help, Kong Xiangxi in addition to the check also gave him a signed instruction, the above sentence is Zou Zou, to the effect that the embassies should do their best to assist.

The shipwreck is like this, the first thing penicillin does is to find international students first, because only European embassies know the situation of the students in their own countries, so they can let them ...... students of biological engineering from various countries, Li Kongrong suddenly thought that this major must not be in this era, so he had to change to students majoring in medicine, biology, chemistry and other majors. Thinking of this, he felt that he should let these people fill out a resume first, and the most important thing is to clarify their research direction, otherwise it would be in vain to come to Germany. Touching around and around, he didn't stop all night, and when the sky turned white, he sighed: He didn't sleep all night, and Major Li was miserable.

*

The afternoon sun shines directly on the port area of the Neustadt submarine base, although it is already on the Baltic Sea side, in northern Germany, but the temperature in midsummer is not much lower than in Berlin, but fortunately, there is a breeze blowing on the sea, which makes people feel a little better.

Lieutenant General Bastian, who was in charge of the reception, politely walked in the front, Chen Shaokuan followed closely, Chen Shaokuan was on one side of Li Kongrong, he was also the interpreter at this time - Lieutenant General Bastian spoke English, but some terms were still used to speaking German, although Li Kongrong was not very fluent in interpretation, but he understood the specific meaning, Lin Xianxin and Zhou Yingcong fell last. Even if it doesn't come out until three o'clock after the break, the sun still can't stand it.

"That's the submarine...... Vice Admiral Bastian pointed ahead. As soon as Li Kongrong looked at the location, he knew that this place was not a common mooring, and it seemed that the Germans had deliberately parked the submarine here, and it was really 'embarrassing' for them to be so hot.

"This is a single-hull submarine with a displacement of 250 tons, an underwater displacement of 325 tons, a length of 42.7 meters, a width of 4.08 meters, and a medium height of 3.9 meters; Maximum dive depth of 100 meters......"

Vice Admiral Bastian gave a presentation on the submarine. Hearing him say that the diving depth was only 100 meters, Li Kongrong immediately laughed. The depth of the Type II submarine was actually 150 meters, but he ate 50 meters for the sake of secrecy.

After introducing the Type II.A, Vice Admiral Bastian began to introduce the Type B, which also dived to a depth of only 100 meters. When introducing the Type B, the eyes of the people were fixed on the outermost Type VII submarine. Listening to Vice Admiral Bastian's introduction, this should be a VII.A submarine - the German ghost, all submarines do not mention the model, so as not to let the Chinese know more information.

"The data isn't quite right." Zhou Yingcong said in a low voice, and then looked at Li Kongrong.

"Of course it's not, it's you, you don't hide it?" Li Kongrong asked with a smile, and immediately made a few people nod. "You can go and look at the depth gauge when you get up later, I guess it's definitely covered, or it's changed, but if you look closely, you can see some traces. There is also the wrong number of torpedoes, it is said that this submarine should have 14 mines, but now there are only 10. Li Kongrong guessed the German methods, and finally saw the newly painted bow and the tower wall of the conning tower, and immediately smiled: "You see, the number has been deliberately erased, and they probably don't like that we know the submarine model." ”

"Hmm." Zhou Yingcong and Lin Xianxi glanced at each other and nodded slightly. Before, they felt that they had suffered a bit of a loss by buying those two training boats with backward performance, but now they refuse to sell them, and their performance is greatly reduced after ordering.

"Shao Sheng, this is the most advanced submarine in the world?" Chen Shaokuan had been on a British submarine during the Battle of Jutland in the last war, and he only felt that the German submarine was like a katana cut in the water, with its front end as sharp as a blade, and on the back of the knife were towering conning towers, artillery, and two cables in front and rear.

"Yes." Li Kongrong nodded affirmatively, "Germany's machinery has an advantage, and it has accumulated rich experience in building boats in the last war, as long as it is a normal cargo, the submarines built will definitely be better than other countries." ”

Watching the submarine from the shore was just a look, but fortunately, the Germans immediately arranged to visit the boat. However, it was disappointing that they arranged the most onshore Type II.A. Li Kongrong immediately said: "Your Excellency, Vice Admiral, we are concerned about a 600-ton submarine, so I hope you can allow us to participate in that submarine." ”

The Chinese are always extremely difficult, and Lieutenant General Bastian shrugged his shoulders and said relaxedly: "That will have to wait for a while, I must inform them to clean up immediately before they can welcome the guests." After that, he arranged for the adjutant to inform the submarine.

Ten minutes later, Li Kongrong and others boarded the boat, and under the welcome of the captain, the group finally entered the hull along the ladder. The inside of the submarine is actually very clean, and cleaning is just a pretext, at least Li Kongrong does not feel that the submarine is not clean, but there is some diesel smell between breaths, and there is nothing wrong with anything else.

Chen Shaokuan also came down, he swept the command cabin with all the valves and pipes exposed, and finally his eyes stayed on the periscope - twenty years ago, he was only an intern on a British submarine, but he had never touched anything on board. "It's a periscope." He said inexplicably.

"Yes, Minister." Li Kongrong replied, "This is the control room, in front of which is the captain's room, the officers' living quarters, the galleys, the warrant officers, junior sergeants, and sailors' living quarters, and the front is the bow torpedo compartment; Behind is the power room, in which the diesel engine and electric motor are located, and at the rear is the living quarters of the sailors and the torpedo compartment at the stern. This type of submarine generally has four officers, six to seven sergeant majors, and thirty-four to thirty-eight soldiers, and the space is still relatively cramped. ”

Under the leadership of Vice Admiral Bastian, the group first went to the bow of the boat, and sure enough, the kitchen was between the officer's living quarters and the warrant officer's living quarters. Lin Xianxi paid attention to the location of the galley, and Zhou Yingcong silently counted the torpedoes in the torpedo compartment at the bow, although the submarine torpedoes were not full, but he felt that with the stern, there were indeed more than ten.

After visiting the bow of the boat, we will continue to visit the stern. The two Man diesel engines lay quietly in the power compartment motionless, but the smell of diesel was extremely choking, but Li Kongrong ignored the smell of oil and looked around for the nameplate of the diesel engine, fortunately the Germans did not erase this thing, and he saw that the power written on it was 1,700 kilowatts.

Li Kongrong stopped, and the others also stopped. Seeing that the Chinese were looking at the nameplate of the diesel engine, Vice Admiral Bastian was a little strange, but immediately understood what they meant: to understand the power of the ship. This is something he deliberately didn't introduce just now. He glanced at the captain with some reproach, and the captain only shrugged his shoulders, and ten minutes he was only enough for him to change the depth gauge and put away the cipher machine.

"Your Excellency, did you say that this ship can travel eighteen miles?" Li Kongrong asked, "But her power seems to be a little insufficient." ”

"These questions can only be answered by Captain Firscher." Lieutenant General Bastian laughed and said that he now hated this Chinese a little,

"Captain Filscher, how fast can your ship go?" Li Kongrong smiled and looked at the captain.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Major, but it's a military secret." The stiff-faced Germans refused.

"Then it seems that he should not be able to run eighteen miles, which is slower than the French submarines, and their speed is generally more than eighteen knots," Li Kongrong said nonsense.

"German ships will never be slower than French ships." Captain Filscher resented, and he almost regarded Li Kongrong as a Frenchman.

"I see, thank you!" Li Kongrong smiled lightly. That's when the captain felt like he had slipped out. I don't want the other party's next sentence to be more scary. Li Kongrong sighed: "I feel very excited to imagine more than a dozen submarines attacking together at night in the future. ”

More than a dozen submarines attacked at night, which was the wolf pack tactics that the German Navy was rehearsing, and I couldn't imagine that the Chinese even knew this, and Vice Admiral Bastian's face suddenly became difficult to look at - from the beginning of the meeting of the Ministry of Defense, he felt that the Chinese seemed to know very well the performance of German submarines and the situation of the submarine fleet, otherwise how could they buy those two training boats as soon as they opened their mouths.

Lieutenant General Bastian was not yet able to finish it, and Li Kongrong continued: "I especially admire General Dennitz, and I really wish I had the opportunity to invite him to dinner. ”

This time Lieutenant General Bastian felt better, because Li Kongrong had said the wrong rank, and Dönitz was now only a colonel. "Mr. Major, I will convey your greetings to him, and I think he will gladly accept the invitation if he is free. By the way, forgot to say, he is only a colonel now. ”

"Is he here?" Li Kongrong's heart was hot, and he felt that it was a good opportunity to have dinner with Dönitz.

"No, he's in Kiel." Lieutenant General Bastian said. "How did you meet him?"

"I went to Kiel last month," said Lee Kongrong, "and I had some arguments with a couple of officers in the bar, and then ...... it seemed that Colonel Dönitz was working it all out, and I was talking about dealing with the escort system." ”

Li Kongrong was standing next to the diesel engine at this time and talking to Vice Admiral Bastian, Chen Shaokuan and the others had returned after visiting the aft torpedo compartment, so the two no longer talked, but Vice Admiral Bastian kept looking at him, he was not very sure whether the submarine officer on Kiel's side was really drunk and spit out the truth, if that was the case, it would be terrible.

"You'll be good friends, I'm sure, Major." On the way back to the control room, Lieutenant General Bastian muttered something in German. He felt that it would not hurt to let Dönitz talk to this man, at least to know how much he knew about German submarines.

It's hot and humid inside the submarine, and it's scorching hot on the deck. Chen Shaokuan walked on it on his own, until he reached the knife-sharp bow of the boat, and then walked back again. "You really should buy a bigger submarine." He stood under the command tower and said to Lin Xianxin - Lin Xianxin has never given up the idea of buying a dinghy.

"But it's too expensive. It's all one on top of two. Lin Xianxin touched the shell of the conning tower with his hand, and was immediately burned by the temperature above, but his hand was still pressed there, and he didn't want to let go at all.

"It's really ...... Do you really want to build a brief base in Sanduao? The Germans don't understand Chinese, and they are surrounded by their own people, so Chen Shaokuan immediately talked about the secret. After Lin Xianxin was reminded by Li Kongrong, he only felt that it was a good idea to set up a simple supply base in Sanduao, so that the small submarine could survive.

"Absolutely." Lin Xianxin pointed to the II.A submarine parked on the side, "The length of this submarine is only forty-two meters, and the range Shaosheng said is 1,600 nautical miles, which is enough." Now it seems that our money can only buy five large submarines at most, but the small ones can have ten, and this is all one fleet. If you really want to be taken to the nest, then rely on camouflaged merchant ships to replenish, and the voyage of 1,600 nautical miles is enough to protect the ship. ”