Chapter 34: Decision
"Good!" Xiao Bo nodded slowly, and he asked again: "If you are arrested?" ”
"If you are caught, then bite the poison pill. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" The young man's immature face showed a hint of determination. "Let the Japanese die without proof."
"Good." Xiao Bo nodded again, he patted the young man on the shoulder, "Remember that the party-state is in danger, and the government is also trying to win the support of the Americans, and the assassination in front of many reporters in New York will cause the anger of the Americans." I hope you can understand the ultimate purpose of this operation and understand the painstaking efforts of the above. ”
"Yes. Sir, rest assured. The young man had put life and death aside, and he said with some passion, "I still remember the original oath: 'Voluntarily join the military command, regardless of personal gains and losses, honor and status, and be ready to be arrested and sacrificed at any time.'" If you are arrested, under the threat and inducement of the enemy, you will not betray the organization and give your life and everything to the leader. Resolutely fight for the realization of the Three People's Principles to the end, and vow to be an unsung hero! ’”
"Good." Xiao Bo was really relieved this time, he stretched out his hand and said, "Goodbye, comrade!" ”
"Goodbye!" The young man shook hands with him excitedly, and then went away without looking back.
Since one o'clock in the afternoon, in the hall arranged on the first floor of Rockefeller Center in New York, Navy personnel going to the United States have been setting up the scene of the press conference -- in addition to screens, carpets, tables and chairs, there are also models of Chinese Navy's warships in the past and some old photos. After half an hour, reporters came one after another, and these people had heard about the sinking of the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier, but this was hearsay, and most of the reporters in New York came when they learned that the Chinese Navy had held a press conference to announce the incident.
Not long after sitting down and drinking tea, I only heard a shout from the Chinese gathered outside the revolving door, and a group of Chinese people gathered around two generals in naval uniforms, this is Chen Jiliang and Lin Xianxi. There were a lot of reporters on the scene, and more overseas Chinese poured in, and under the flashing lights, Chen Jiliang, Lin Xianxi, and other talents walked onto the rostrum in the crowd.
"General Chen, may I ask if the sinking of the aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy is really a thing...... a reporter asked loudly, but he was not the only one who asked questions, other reporters were also asking. In the midst of the noise, Chen Jiliang stood on the podium.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Chen Jiliang said, pressing his hands down to signal everyone to be quiet. "At about 11 o'clock yesterday morning, that is, at about 9 o'clock in the evening of November 7, New York time, the submarine U-38 of our Navy, under the command of Colonel Li Hansheng, sank the aircraft carrier Soryu of the Imperial Japanese Navy outside the Yulin Port in Sanya, Hainan......"
Chen Jiliang spoke Chinese, and his adjutant Yan Chuanjing translated his Chinese into English. Because there were quite a few overseas Chinese present, when he said that he would "sink the aircraft carrier Soryu of the Imperial Japanese Navy," the overseas Chinese immediately applauded and applauded loudly.
......, according to reliable eyewitnesses, the aircraft carrier Canglong was slowing down and preparing to enter Yulin Harbor, and at least three of the four torpedoes fired by the U-38 hit its starboard vital part, causing the aircraft carrier to explode internally, tear the hull, and the unblockable breach poured into the seawater to cause it to first irretrievably capsize, and then quickly capsize. In just one hour after being hit, the aircraft carrier, which had participated in all the battles of aggression against China, carried more than 50 planes and had a full load displacement of 20,000 tons, sank upside down outside Yulin Port.
Ladies and gentlemen, since the Anti-Japanese War, the navy has always inflicted maximum casualties on the Japanese army, and after the sinking of the Ninghai last year, some people preached the theory that the navy was useless; After the U-38 sailed out of the Baltic Sea, some people condemned the navy for sabotaging the war of resistance and swimming without attacking. Here, on behalf of the Navy, I solemnly state that the Navy has never had any intention of 'sabotaging the War of Resistance and Fighting without Attacking'. The sinking of the aircraft carrier Soryu is proof of this, and once the fleet is rebuilt, the navy will fight to the death with the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific! ”
"Well said, down with the Japanese cubs!" Before the reporters at the scene could react, the overseas Chinese present applauded wildly. Just as Chen Jiliang was about to ask everyone to be quiet again, a reporter wearing a hat sitting in the front row suddenly stood up, and he just wanted to ask the reporter by name to ask a question, but the reporter threw off his hat, pulled out his gun and shouted: "Eight ga, eight pressures."
'Smack... When everyone was stunned, the assassin's first two shots were Lin Xianxi, who was sitting on one side, and then Chen Jiliang, who was still standing dumbfounded....... Four gunshots rang out, and when Situ Binghe, who had the fastest reaction, was about to lead someone to pounce, the assassin turned and opened fire as he scurried, knocking out the two Chinese who had pounced.
The press conference was chaotic, and the sudden sound of gunfire made everyone in the bustling Rockefeller Center scream and run. The Assassin threw away the scarf on his head before he rushed into the crowd, but when he got out of the crowd and was about to run out of the revolving door, he was suddenly stunned - an army major wearing a blue sky and white sun cockade stood in front of the revolving door, taking advantage of the Assassin's sudden start, he 'snapped' two shots, and the officer did not hesitate to kill the armed assassin.
"You are ......" Situ Binghe, who chased after him, couldn't help but ask when he saw the blue sky and white sun on this person's cockade.
"I'm Major Xiao Bo, the military attache in the United States, and I happened to come to the press conference, and I saw him holding a Japanese pistol, and I heard the gunman ......, General Chen, are they okay?" Xiao Bo put away his pistol and explained why he had fired. After he finished speaking, he clenched his fists and said: "This time, brother, I killed someone, and I will ask you to help testify in court at that time." ”
"Quick, doctor. Fast! Sent to the hospital. In the distance of the hall, Yan Chuanjing and others carried Chen Jiliang and Lin Xianxi, who were half covered in blood, and were in a hurry to send them to the hospital. Seeing this, Situ Binghe only hugged Xiao Bo, remembered his appearance and turned away.
"One-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three......"
In the Gulf of Tonkin with the tide, with a wheezing horn sounded on the deck of the U-38, under the wooden tripod, the winch was pulling out the Mark VIII torpedoes in the storage tank little by little, at this time the boatswain Xue Kuiguang was the commander-in-chief, and Su Jinghu was on the side to help, he shouted to pay attention to his step.
As a few days ago, the entire South China Sea was still stormy and about to enter Qinzhou Bay, and the U-38 had to take advantage of the night to drop anchor in the sea off the port of Haiphong to remove the torpedoes in the storage tank. Because of the tide, the sound of the trumpet could not be transmitted too far, but what worried Li Kongrong was that it was about to dawn, but only four torpedoes were drawn, two in the bow and two in the stern.
"How long is it going to be daylight?" He asked again, though he knew the time of sunrise.
"Sir, the sunrise is six thirty-five, and we'd better end it at six o'clock, and dive before a quarter past six." Liu Yongren also rarely stood on the bridge in a raincoat. This is the Gulf of Tonkin, and you don't have to measure the angle of the sun every day to correct your course, as you do across the Pacific Ocean.
"There's still an hour and a half." Lin Xiangguang looked at his watch, "I should be able to take out another one." ”
"How's the shell?" Li Kongrong asked. "How many hairs are there for the small ones?" Li Kongrong remembered that there were 110 rounds of 105mm shells, but he did not remember the number of 37mm and 20mm shells.
"There are more than 2,500 shells for 37 guns, and 8,100 rounds for 20 guns." Lin Xiangguang said about the ammunition on the boat. Li Kongrong didn't think about it, but he only felt startled when he thought about it, although the submarine was small, but the firepower was very fierce. An army may not be able to have so many shells, and if the ammunition of the whole ship is really exhausted, the corpses of the Japanese are estimated to be able to slow down Longmen Port.
"Tell them to speed up and get two more, and one more will kill one more boatload of brutes." Li Kongrong told Lin Xiangguang on the deck. After he finished speaking, he went down to the boat, and at this time the torpedo was being taken from the deck, and the boat was cleaning while the gap in ventilation was taking advantage of the gap.
According to the truth, the design of German submarines is extremely exquisite, and many of those submarine movies in later generations are nonsense, such as the two MAN nine-cylinder diesel engines in the power compartment, not only can you see the piston connecting rod of the diesel engine in the movie, but the diesel engine is full of oil, but the real situation is that the two diesel engines have a square blue-gray cover, and the pipelines on the cover are also arranged very neatly, not only can you not see the reciprocating piston connecting rod during operation (the cabin is crowded, and the moving parts of the machine cannot be exposed for the safety of the crew), If you keep it clean every day, it will be difficult to see the oil stains.
Under the bright lights, these two blue-gray diesel engines crouch quietly in the boat like sleeping beasts, and at the top of them are large and small gauges of different colors with dial rings. Inside, there was the motor room, and then the aft torpedo room, which was also very neat, with two walls of red painted logs, a hanging bed, and a black steel floor with nuts underneath, all spotlessly cleaned.
Of course, the cleanest and most comfortable place in the whole boat is the captain's room, which is also painted red with wooden furniture, blue sheets, white pillows, exquisite writing desks, and spacious lockers.
From the bow to the stern, and from the stern back to the captain's room, Li Kongrong was bored and had to light a cigarette and think about what tactics should be adopted in Qinzhou Bay, and which ship should he target against? Thinking about it, there is only one ship that he feels is valuable, and that is the Shenzhou Pill built by the Japanese Army. This ship sank when Jin Shanwei was in the year before last, but many of the ships that Jin Shanwei sank were eventually fished up by the Japanese. It was not picked up, and two years was enough time for the Japanese Army to build a new one. It's just that, because of the sinking of the Canglong, will the Japanese change the landing plan in Qinzhou Bay? If it changes, where will they land?
The time to think always passed quickly, and after an hour and a half, the crew on the deck called it a day and returned to the cabin, and the submarine lifted anchor and set sail under the command of Lin Xiangguang. Su Jinghu sweated profusely and came over to report: "I took out six." The main thing is that I am inexperienced, otherwise I would have taken it out a long time ago. ”
"Then we'll have twelve torpedoes." Li Kongrong nodded with satisfaction. The last time a torpedo was loaded and unloaded at a shipyard in Maine, and it was loaded by a shipyard worker, and for the sake of secrecy, an additional sum of money was also given to the worker, which was the first time he had loaded a torpedo.
"Yes. If you're lucky, you'll be able to sink a few more. Su Jinghu smiled. He felt that Li Kongrong's desire to sink the Japanese warship was very strong, and his actions were extremely bold.
"No, we're going to exchange a thunderbolt for a boat." Li Kongrong was more radical than he thought. "The destroyers who came close to the shore and fired at the harbor were all destroyers, and according to intelligence, only two heavy cruisers came, and about three light cruisers. At that time, there will be more troop transport merchant ships on the sea, just like the ships of Jinshanwei, there will be thousands of people on one ship. ”
"What to do with a destroyer throwing depth charges?" Su Jinghu can imagine the kind of landing scene, but it is quite taboo about depth charges.
"Just find a place where the water is deep." Li Kongrong extinguished the cigarette. "As you will find out later, the depth charges currently armed by the Japanese are only 60 meters deep, and the only way they can deal with us is to force us to rise to the surface. The ambush is best in a water depth of more than ninety meters, preferably at night......"
U-38 spent only one day at the North Reef of the Paracels before heading west to the coast of Vietnam, and then following the coast, risking its way up to Qinzhou Bay even during the day. The experience of the first battle made it clear to everyone that on a moonless night, the destroyers were simply blind, and it was difficult for them to spot submarines with a lower profile, especially with snorkels, where only a tube was exposed to the surface. The speed of a warship is greater than that of a submarine, but the speed of a submarine is certainly greater than that of a merchant ship. Like wolf pack tactics, the U-38 could hunt down merchant ships at night and leave before dawn.
Li Kongrong, who had made up his mind, fell asleep after breakfast, and in Yulin Port, more than 200 kilometers away, the army was very dissatisfied with the navy, which had not yet set sail after several days of searching. Early that morning, Vice Admiral Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the Army's South China Front and commander of the 21st Army, went to the headquarters of the Navy's 5th Fleet. After a simple politeness, Ando Toshiyoshi said: "Your Excellency, this operation has been known to the Chongqing Army, and if you don't set sail immediately, this operation can only be canceled." ”
"Your Excellency Ando, if Chongqing knows about this operation, that submarine will also be waiting for our fleet off the coast of Qinzhou, and the consequences of being ambushed are unpredictable." Takasu Shiro had a smile on his face, the Soryu air carrier had sunk outside the port of Yulin, and he had already been reprimanded by the Admiralty. But this is only the Canglong, if the submarine ambushes the troop carrier group and the fleet escort is unfavorable, I am afraid it will be another battle between land and sea -- a few months ago, the army clamored for an alliance with the independent country and the Iraqi country, and the navy opposed this, and the relationship between the two sides was extremely tense, and it is difficult to predict that the unfavorable matter of the naval escort will come out again.
"Your Excellency, the 5th Fleet has more than a dozen warships, why should you be afraid of a small submarine?" The chief of staff of the 21st Army, Major General Yuyi Tsuchihashi, rushed to speak, his demeanor was arrogant, and he was very contemptuous of the Navy's demeanor.
"No matter how fierce a lion is, he is afraid of lice on his body, not to mention that the submarine hides at the bottom of the sea." Yamaguchi, chief of staff of the fleet, immediately replied, "If the army can accept the consequences of the submarine sinking the troop carrier regiment, the navy agrees to sail." ”
"Yaga! Is this what the Navy says?! Tsuchihashi was so furious that he almost drew his sword.
"Tsuchihashi-kun......" Toshikichi Ando stopped him, and he said, "It seems that we have to wait for the decision of the base camp." (To be continued.) )