More than 70 troop-carrying merchant ships sailed in seven columns to Qinzhou, the northernmost point of the Beibu Gulf, while escorting destroyer cruisers patrolled the outside of the fleet. www.biquge.info Even if each of the twelve torpedoes hits, only twelve merchant ships can be sunk. Li Kongrong was not willing to do this, what he wanted was chaos, and only by causing chaos in the fleet could he obtain greater results.

After the first torpedo was launched, the report that the second torpedo had been prepared reached the bridge, but he did not immediately order the launch, only when the black merchant ship on the left suddenly exploded, blowing up a black column of water, he read out the set parameters of the new target, but this time the depth was only two meters, he needed a bigger splash, a more violent explosion.

More than 70 merchant ships carried more than 20,000 people from the first batch of landing troops of the 5th Division and the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, and these merchant ships were all small ships of about 1,000 tons, which could be sunk by a single torpedo. The dull explosion stirred up a huge column of water, and the merchant ship that hit it immediately slowed down and sank, and the soldiers on board were in a mess, and then the second torpedo hit another merchant ship of its adjacent fleet, because the depth was shallower, and the column of water stirred up by the explosion stood on the surface of the sea like a pillar falling from the sky, and then fell heavily and made a bigger splash.

Two merchant ships were hit and slowed down, and the entire fleet knew that it had encountered the Shina submarine. Because the navy had explained that it would maintain a formation in any situation if it was not chaotic, although these merchant ships were chaotic inside, their course speed remained the same. And the destroyers on the outside had to fire flares and began to sail into the flotilla in search of submarines.

“…… Torpedo speed forty-five, firing angle: five degrees. Launch Four! Seeing that the sky suddenly dawned, Li Kongrong once again gave the order to fire, and then shouted behind him: "20 guns ready!" ”

'Boom! The third torpedo explosion finally blew up the expected fire, which appeared to be an ammunition ship, and the first explosion was followed by a series of explosions of its own, and finally the entire merchant ship caught fire and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea. In addition to the sound of explosions, Li Kongrong, who was not far away, could still hear the screams of the Japanese in the flames, but these screams often disappeared in a flash.

The tragedy was imminent, and the fourth torpedo exploded at this time, and after the splash, another troop transport merchant ship was torpedoed, and then quickly capsized and sank, and the soldiers on board scattered across the sea, all shouting for help. Seeing these scenes, the formation of the fleet finally could not be maintained, and at the same time that a destroyer discovered the U-38, the fleet suddenly began to be chaotic, and they fled to all directions like a bombing nest, and as soon as the fleet was in chaos, Li Kongrong ordered the U-38 to turn, and the speed of the submarine at 18 knots far exceeded that of the merchant ships, and it turned into another semi-chaotic fleet.

“…… The depth was two meters, the torpedo speed was forty, and the fifth was launched. Li Kongrong turned to look behind him and ordered the fifth torpedo to be fired. By this time, more than 70 merchant ships were in disarray. The distance of a few hundred meters made him not worry about losing at all, but worried that the torpedo tube was too close and the insurance was not released.

'Boom! The fifth torpedo exploded in his fear. However, the good fortune of the U-38 came to an end, the flares restarted, the roar of the cannon pierced the eardrums, and in the confusion a destroyer finally found a firing position and fired a shot at the U-38, but this shot was missed—the U38 was sandwiched between the merchant ships, and the gunners were obviously concerned about the troop carriers in front of and behind the submarine.

"Left full rudder! Twin back, double back! The 140mm shell splashed Li Kongrong's face. He gave the order to turn back from the microphone and ordered the 20 guns behind him: "Fire now!" Fire!! ”

Under the light of the flares, the screaming soldiers in the water, the chaotic and disorderly ship masses, the anxious destroyers, and the already raging and angry waves formed a graveyard that violently swallowed countless Japanese soldiers. Since it was discovered by the Japanese ship, it doesn't matter whether it is exposed or not, it just opens fire and bombards it directly, this is Li Kongrong's idea. It's just that it takes time for the front and rear deck guns to deploy, and in case the submariner can't get back to the cabin immediately, he ordered the 20 guns to fire, and it was on the Winter Garden platform behind the bridge. However, Lin Xiangguang, the second officer commanding the 20th artillery, was so stunned by the current situation that he did not hear Li Kongrong's order at all.

"Bang!" Another 140mm shell fell in front of the submarine, but after this shell, the submarine was blocked by a merchant ship on the left. After giving the order to fire the sixth torpedo, seeing that the 20 guns behind him still did not fire, Li Kongrong rushed over and shouted: "Don't fire yet?!" Fire! Fire! In his excitement, he pushed away the gunner, pulled on the gunner, and slammed the trigger on the merchant ship on the left.

The 20 guns on the U-38 were actually anti-aircraft guns, with a rate of fire of 280 rounds per minute and a range of 4,900 meters. Under the pull of the trigger, mixed with green tracer bullets, the 20mm fire chain hit the wheelhouse of the merchant ship directly. This merchant ship was suddenly hit and had to turn its rudder to the left, and to Li Kongrong's surprise, the merchant ship that suddenly turned actually collided with the Japanese destroyer that was hurrying to sail.

"Sir, dive urgently. Sir, dive urgently...... "Li Kongrong raised the 20 shells and fired the shells, and the submarine was temporarily commanded by Gao Guangyou, and he saw danger at this time: another destroyer was approaching from the front with its searchlights on.

"Go back to the cabin right away!" Li Kongrong also saw the destroyer with the searchlight in front of him, and the destroyers around him also determined the location of the submarine by the light of the 20 guns firing, and it was too late to dive any more.

"Dive!" The rapid electric bell echoed in the submarine's cabin, the diesel engine was immediately turned off, and the entire crew rushed to the bow, and the moment the watertight door was closed, the submarine rushed into the sea like a flying fish, and disappeared without a trace on the sea.

"him. Little Japan! Li Kongrong was still reminiscing about the tremor when the 20th gun fired, and he was even happier that the merchant ship and the destroyer collided. However, when he came back to his senses, he found that the entire control module was staring at him, with admiration and shock. He smiled humbly: "It's too reckless, isn't it?" ”

Before they could reply, the water listening room shouted, "Depth charges! ”

"Dive down to a hundred meters!" Lee Kong Rong did not care about the Japanese depth charges. These Japanese waste materials have to be set below 90 meters on the two-type deep bomb and 200 meters on the three-type deep bomb. What is the second form and what is the third style? According to the year, it is 42 or 43 years, and now the maximum depth of the Japanese deep bomb is only 60 meters, and even if the damage radius is added, it will not be able to hurt a submarine at a depth of 100 meters. The submarine has been diving since it entered the sea, and at this time the depth was already 65 meters, and at the same time as the first depth bomb exploded, the submarine dived below 80 meters, approaching a safe depth of 100 meters.

"Didn't someone just go to work? Jiang Jing! Li Kongrong smiled and said again. Go, load those six torpedoes! ”

"Yes, sir!" Jiang Jing and Wang Guogui laughed, and immediately rushed to the torpedo compartment in front and behind after saluting.

"What's next?" Depth charges kept exploding overhead, and the submarine was also constantly shaking, and Gao Guangyou also learned from Su Jinghu that the Japanese army's depth charges could not blow up the submarine, and finally put his mind at ease.

"I'll fight again before dawn, but this time it's not as easy as it was just now." Li Kongrong said, he also made gestures to let the kitchen have supper. "The closer you get to Qinzhou Bay, the shallower the water, and although you can't dodge the depth charges, how many depth charges did the Japanese bring? Let's talk about offshore ......"

"Sir, coffee." The coffee has already been heated, and there is also a supper ready for supper: Fuzhou rice cake and stir-fried ginkgo seeds.

“…… The Japanese are also equipped with active sonar, but the offshore sea conditions are extremely complicated, and there are a lot of noises, not to mention the sonar of today, even the sonar of a few decades will not be able to find a deliberately quiet submarine. "Li Kongrong recalls the sonar of the Japanese, and they are all imported from abroad and copied at home without exception." The most advanced sonar of the Japanese is called 'Type 3 Active Sonar', which is designed with reference to the German S-type sonar, which uses two bands of 13kHz and Hz, with a detection distance of 2000 meters at 12 knots and 1200 meters at 14 knots, with a directivity of 30 degrees and a distance error of 100 meters. This kind of sonar uses dual bands, which is very advantageous for complex sea conditions, but unfortunately the Japanese Navy is accustomed to calling this new type of sonar 'fault three'. ”

Li Kongrong introduced a sonar launched by the Japanese Navy in 43 years, and said with a smile: "The name of the three faulty types is already very faulty, and there are more faults in actual use." Of course, this sonar is not yet equipped by the Japanese, and now it should be the 93-type active sonar shining above our heads, this sonar is worse than the active sonar we are equipped with, of course, there are also reasons why our underwater speed is relatively low. ”

Li Kongrong was introducing the sonar of the Japanese Navy, but his eyes were staring at the hot fried ginkgo rice cake specially made in the kitchen, and he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva: "Let's eat it first, and then talk about it after eating." ”

Li Kongrong only talked about Gao Guangyou and Lin Xiangguang, and he desperately remembered that Su Jinghu didn't attach importance to these things. As soon as Li Kongrong said to eat, he grabbed a bowl for himself first, and then ate it in a big gulp. Li Kongrong was not polite, and in less than five minutes, a large plate of hot fried ginkgo seeds swept away, revealing only the bottom of the plate that was as smooth as new.

"Only sound can be transmitted in the seawater, and the radio, even if it is a long wave, can only penetrate no more than fifteen meters into the seawater, so the Germans are now building a long-wave radio station. Long-wave radio stations are good, but they can send messages slowly. It was enough just to use this against the British, or against the Japanese. Do you know what the real threat of the Japanese is? ”

After eating and satisfied, Li Kongrong started the topic again at this time. However, Su Jinghu returned to the control cabin, and only Gao Guangyou and Lin Xiangguang remained in the captain's room. Gao Guangyou said, "The commander said before that Japan's weakness is its strongest point, that is, the Japanese Navy. ”

"What do you think?" Li Kongrong looked at Lin Xiangguang, he was stunned on the bridge just now, but Li Kongrong did not criticize directly, he believed that people always have to adapt, so he asked him as if nothing had happened.

Lin Xiangguang was a little surprised by Li Kongrong's gentle face, he thought about it before saying, "It's the navy." The navy is the lifeblood of Japan. ”

"That's not true." Li Kongrong shook his head at the two of them, "Japan is not building such a navy to show off its might or fight wars, nor is it simply to defend the Japanese mainland. In addition to preventing the enemy from landing in Japan, another important purpose of the Japanese Navy is to protect Japan's maritime lifeline. This country with a population of more than 70 million has a territory of only 370,000 square kilometers, which is smaller than Yunnan.

From rice to iron ore to bauxite and oil, except for coal – not coking coal, just fuel coal – all have to be imported from overseas. Japan now has more than 2,000 merchant ships and more than 5 million merchant ships, and its shipbuilding capacity is about 1 million tons per year, and it may exceed 1.5 million tons in extreme years, but this is the peak, and it will soon come down after reaching this goal. In addition, if we were launched later, as long as we destroyed more than 3,000 Japanese merchant ships, Japan would fall into a desperate situation.

Shoot a man before a horse, capture a thief before capture the king. We will only help in the war on the mainland, but our goal will always be Japan itself. As long as the Japanese mainland is occupied and the emperor surrenders, those armies on the mainland will surrender. Speaking of this, Li Kongrong smiled again, "Why use your home as a battlefield? Wouldn't it be better to use the Japanese home as a battlefield? ”

"Sir, but we're building an aircraft carrier?" Gao Guangyou felt that what Li Kongrong said was indeed reasonable, but when he thought that the navy was building an aircraft carrier fleet, he felt very confused, and felt that there seemed to be a contradiction in it.

"Yes, we are building aircraft carriers, but who said that planes can't break diplomatic relations?" Li Kongrong asked rhetorically: "Those who are good keepers are hidden under the nine earths; The good attacker moves above the nine earths. The efficiency of aircraft breaking diplomatic relations is definitely higher than that of submarines, and the Japanese have nothing to defend against, even if they go close to the continental line. It's not that submarines are useless, submarines are still useful, but it's a pity that American submarines are often 1,000 tons or 2,000 tons, and the asking price of a new type is more than an aircraft carrier, so it's better to build an aircraft carrier than to buy a submarine. Don't look at us now hiding on the bottom of the sea like rats, one day a submarine can sail on the bottom of the sea for dozens of days without going up, and a surface ship can be sunk with sonar alone. ”

"Is there really such a submarine?" U-38 was already very advanced in the eyes of Gao Guangyou and Lin Xiangguang, but I didn't expect that there would be more advanced.

"Yes. Germany is working on an underwater engine, which has not succeeded for the time being, and will definitely succeed when it can. Li Kongrong said about the German hydrogen peroxide engine, but he was thinking about nuclear power. Hahn and Meitner have been terminated - he doesn't think that killing scientists can prevent the discovery of nuclear fission, but it will definitely lag behind, so it is natural for the Swiss institute to carry out nuclear physics research, but unfortunately he does not dare to let go of his hands and feet, and even personally guide, this is for fear that the Swiss will find out, and then for fear that someone will leak the secrets of the institute itself.

"Sir, the current situation in New York, is it possible to ...... between us and Chongqing?" When Li Kongrongsi was assessing physics research, Lin Xiangguang asked a question that everyone was concerned about: Without the presiding over of a navy veteran like Chen Jiliang and Lin Xianxi, where would the navy go?

"Chongqing?" Li Kongrong read these two words without emotion. "What can Chongqing give us? Chongqing will only suppress the navy, let us give up resources to the army and air force, and then ask us to return to China to play with gunboats and mines. If he can really win the battle, it would be fine, can he? When will he be able to live?! (To be continued.) )