In contrast to surface warships, submarines spend most of their time waiting. www.biquge.info The sea is narrower than the land, the submarine is narrower than the surface ship, and in this cylindrical sealed container with a width of only four meters, the roar of the diesel engine is never stopped, the peculiar smell of oil fills the nose, and the bumpy and narrow hull of the boat, all of which destroy the will of man. Fortunately, more than thirty 'sailors' were still in the excitement of just getting on board, and the enemy was nearby, which made everyone's nerves tense, so that those who were resting could not sleep in their beds, and those on duty outside often misreported the enemy's situation.

After the U-38 rose to the periscope depth again, Li Kongrong, who had been observing for a long time, finally ordered the submarine to float and recharge. Xue Kuiguang, the boatswain on the side, saw this and said: "I obviously saw the lights, maybe, maybe it was on the island......"

"It's okay to be careful." Li Kongrong remained silent, he could basically conclude that Xue Kuiguang had used the lights on the island to the west as the mast lights on the ship, and this was the third emergency dive this evening. "You're on duty." He said.

After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he waited for Xue Kuiguang and the others to go up, and then asked Su Jinghu in a low voice, "It doesn't have much impact, right?" ”

"It takes more than 20 minutes to dive every time, and I can't recharge it after a few more times." Su Jinghu rested for a while after dinner, his eyes were very bright, but Li Kongrong had not rested since the morning, and he was a little tired.

"Just took over, and the Germans kept bombing, who wouldn't be nervous?" Li Kongrong smiled, and at this time, the sea breeze outside the boat blew in, and the oppressive air inside the boat suddenly refreshed. "It's scary that the Germans are crazy, who doesn't be afraid when they hear about fried fish?"

"So what do we do?" At noon, the Germans dropped depth charges at the mouth of the Kattegat Strait, and even more so in the dark, it was almost endless. To cross this 160-nautical-mile-long strait in their bombs, Su Jinghu had no bottom in his heart.

"Go out when you're charged." Li Kongrong said firmly. "Now the sooner you go, the better."

"You can't hide underwater for a few days, and then ...... when they don't blow up," Su Jinghu said another idea, and Li Kongrong immediately shook his head when he heard this.

"No way. If we don't bomb during the day and bomb at night, we are worried that we will sail underwater during the day and float and recharge at night. If we don't search tonight, it's because we don't have enough troops and we don't have enough preparation, and we won't have this good luck tomorrow night. We must not underestimate the meticulousness of the Germans, as long as we are still in this sea, they will always find out, so to stay here is to wait for death. ”

After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he wanted to tell Su Jinghu the story of the German engineer who drew a lattice on the ground to find something, but he felt that it was too boring, so he continued: "Go out as soon as you charge the battery." It is calculated that the electricity is enough for us to cross the strait and enter the North Sea, which is nothing more than two days under the seabed, which is not too difficult. In the future, when you fight the Japanese, there will be even more difficult situations. ”

"What if you run into a depth charge at night?" Su Jinghu nodded, but was still worried that the Germans would throw bombs everywhere at night.

"Take the merchant shipping route at night." Li Kongrong said, "After all, it is an international waterway, and it is impossible for the Germans to drop bombs on the route from time to time. ”

"Useful?" Su Jinghu walked to the nautical table and looked at the chart above.

"Yongin said it was useful, I don't know." The submarine dropped anchor to recharge, and Liu Yongren went to sleep, which was indeed his idea.

Thinking of taking the merchant ship route at night, Su Jinghu felt that there was some truth after thinking about it, he stopped talking, and only lit a cigarette in the roar of the diesel engine. Li Kongrong is not used to smoking in the boat, he is looking at the ship's bell. It was two o'clock in the morning, and the U-38 had been sending a telegram to the resupply merchant ships at this time last night. Thinking of yesterday, he felt that the action was still hasty, and many things could have been done better. For example, if the U-38 transmitter was to be brought to Danzig on a supply merchant ship, it would definitely be able to deceive Dönitz; For example, if a supply merchant ship can tow the U-38 underwater, it can swagger out of the Skagerrak Strait......

As with all major operations, every time a better thing was thought of as an afterthought, he shook his head and shook off these thoughts, telling himself that he had done a good job now, that at least he had made it to the North Sea in two days, and that he would be sailing into the North Sea in two days, and then returning home to fight. Thinking of this, Li Kongrong became excited, and before the aircraft carrier was launched, he would drive the U-38 to smash the Japanese and sink their merchant ships, which would be an unforgettable 'happy time'.

Li Kongrong, who was at the mouth of the Norred River, imagined beating the Japanese, but Dönitz, who was only a few dozen kilometers away from him, wondered where the U-38 would hide.

From acquaintance to acquaintance, no one could have imagined that two people who also admired submarine warfare would be hostile to each other. And the Admiralty gave the order to sink the U-38 in the afternoon, and Dönitz felt that it was a pity to sink it, but the Navy was not up to him, he could only find a way to find the U-38 before the destroyer fleet sank it.

"Where will Lee be?" On the frigate, Dönitz looked at the chart in front of him and touched his chin.

"Sir, they should be moving slowly along the coast, if they're going to enter the North Sea." Captain Lieber, the former captain of the U-38, reminded him that he had been detained by the gendarmes in the morning, but Dönitz had taken him out.

"Positionally, U-38 should be in the Skagerrak Strait. If I were him, I would try to get as close to the Norwegian coast as north as possible, and then move a little towards the entrance of the channel. "But this is only in the first half of the night, and in the second half of the night I will find a bay to recharge my batteries during the day, and then I will rise again at night, and sail half the time and half the time to recharge, and if it goes well, I will be able to cross the blockade in two days." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Gort's hand slid over the northern side of the Skagerrak Strait, where he believed the U-38 boat had passed before the Navy blockaded the narrow Kattegat Strait. Indeed, if it were not for the lifting of the battery, the U-38 would have listened really in the position he said it would.

"But they're dropping bombs here." Dönitz's hand pointed to the Kattegat Strait, which is only 30 nautical miles wide, and forms an Arabic numeral '7' with the Skagerrak Strait, which is Kattegat vertically and Skagerrak horizontally, and at the far left end of the horizontal section is the North Sea, and further north of the North Sea is the Atlantic Ocean.

"That's ......," Lieutenant Colonel Goth shrugged, but it was actually the Air Force that reported the discovery of a submarine in the Kattegat Strait, and the Air Force pilots swore that the Navy had to believe it—if it didn't, the consequences would be catastrophic.

"It seems that it is more difficult to find them during the day." Dönitz pondered the Chief of Staff's words and nodded. If he were flying the U-38, he would have chosen to sail underwater during the day and surface and recharge at night.

"Sir, we should equip all ships with enough searchlights and then look along both sides of the strait at night. Even if they can't be found, they can't float up to recharge. Lieutenant Colonel Gort. With the U-38's battery capacity, it only takes two charges to sail out of the Skagerrak Strait and into the North Sea. ”

"I would suggest it to the command of the Navy." Dönitz agreed with him.

"The Second Fleet is also proposed to participate in the search, and perhaps their new sonar will be able to detect the U-38." Lieutenant Colonel Goth suggested again.

The long black eventually faded. Before the morning sun lit up the strait, the generators stopped working, and all four batteries were fully charged. After ordering the submarine to sail out of this multi-island sea area carefully, Li Kongrong began to lecture the entire crew:

"I'm Captain Li Hansheng, and the next thing the submarine will be underwater through the Skagrak Strait to the North Sea. The voyage is 160 nautical miles and is estimated to take 40 hours. I ask you not to panic no matter what difficulties you encounter, let alone give up your post. Remember, the thirty-three crew members of the ship have lived and died together, and any misconduct by you will bring disaster to the others.

The Japanese army is attacking our country, Nanjing has long been lost, Wuhan has long been lost, Xiamen has long been lost, Fuzhou is in danger, and Chongqing is in danger. Previously, we had been thinking about launching a submarine and then driving it back to fight in China. Now that we have achieved this goal, the submarine is not only new, but also larger, and performs better than the submarine we still have in the dock. This submarine was not easy to come by, and we must not only cherish it, but also bring it back to China to avenge the brothers who died in the navy and the suffering compatriots.

Brothers, we have rewritten the history of the Chinese Navy without submarines, and we will continue to write the history of the Chinese Navy's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Grit your teeth and overcome all difficulties, I encourage you together! Complete. ”

Li Kongrong's speech was extremely brief, and as soon as he finished speaking, he ordered: "Sail to 285, set it; The duo moved slowly,"

"Voyage 285, set. Set. The servos responded immediately, followed by the bell of the engine room: a bell jingled, the bells on both sides coincided, the electric motor moved at a speed of four knots, and the cabin was filled with the hum of an electric motor.

"The child has a name?" Li Kongrong returned to the captain's room after giving the order, he leaned against the bulkhead, and looked closely at the photos of his wife and daughter, his eyes soft. Lin Zhun got up at this time, and when he saw Li Kongrong looking at the photo, he couldn't help but ask.

"I took a nickname, and don't get a household registration, I don't have a big name yet." Li Kongrong put away the photo, he suddenly missed his wife and daughter very much after the lecture, so he took out the photo and looked at it carefully. Facing Lin Zhun, he was about to suppress this thought, but he didn't want to play the record in the radio room, he was the descendant of the dragon sung by Xu Peipei.

"Hehe, when you weren't in the dormitory for half a year, we listened to my sister-in-law's songs every day." Lin Zhun explained. He said and laughed: "Hansheng is really a good eye, my sister-in-law is beautiful and beautiful, and a song is even more impressive." I also heard that Shuchun, the adjutant of Chief Chen at that time, also wanted to curry favor with her, but Brother Han Sheng quickly cut through the mess and got things done in one night......"

After all, Lin Zhun is a navy too. The sub-party knows a lot of news. His wife is not very fond of being talked about by others, but when he said that he 'did things in one night', he felt a little proud. His principle is: it's useless to like a woman, it's really hard work to fall in love with her and give birth to a baby. This is like fighting a war, if you can't attack it, you will naturally be inferior, if you can't defend it, you will be inferior, and if you attack it, you will be inferior.

Thinking of this, Li Kongrong couldn't help but laugh, he didn't want to look too idiot, so he suppressed his smile and said: "Zhou Shuchun's kid, there is one in the family, but he is still stealing outside, which is very unkind." ”

Li Kongrong's contradictory words made Lin Zhun smack his tongue, as if he didn't have a wife when he chased Xu Peipei, but Lin Zhun didn't dig deeper, he continued to ask: "Brother Han Sheng, you say, what military rules did you say we violated in this matter?" ”

"Mil-spec?" Li Kongrong didn't have the concept of military regulations, but Lin Huiping, who had just gotten up, filled in the problem, and he stretched out his hand and said: "According to the Criminal Law of the Republic of China Navy, we first committed the crime of treason, followed by the crime of unauthorized power, the crime of plunder, the crime of escape, and the crime of violating orders. By the way, our three superintendents and Hansheng also have a crime of humiliation, anyway, they have committed all the crimes convicted above, and they should be shot several times. ”

"We're not treasonous?! Didn't we drive the submarine back to fight the Japanese? "The crime was expected for a long time, but Lin Zhun didn't think he was treasonous.

"Article 28 of Chapter I of the Naval Penal Code stipulates that 'any person who, in addition to those listed in the preceding two articles, or by other means, gives benefits to an enemy State and causes military damage to that country, shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment'. If we undermine diplomatic relations and benefit Japan and our country, we are treason. "It's surprising that Lin Huiping can actually recite the Navy's criminal law.

"But we're fighting the Japanese, huh?" Lin Zhun's voice was a little quieter, and he had to admit that what Lin Huiping said made some sense.

"But we haven't fought yet, have we?" Lin Huiping smiled, "As long as the losses we bring to the enemy country exceed the losses caused to our country by this move, it is not treason." ”

"The losses to the enemy country are greater than the losses caused to our country by this move?" Lin Zhun repeated it word by word, and he woke up and said, "Isn't this just repaying for sin with merit?" ”

"It's not just about reproach, but also about the mood of our Standing Chairman." Li Kongrong said with a smile, "But with his bad feelings for the Fujian navy, I think this treason is inevitable." ”

Li Kongrong's judgment once again made Lin Zhun look solemn, but then everyone was not interested in discussing, and Su Jinghu called Li Kongrong over.

"Sir, there are several warships on it......" Lu Ruping, who was wearing hydrophone headphones, opened his mouth and exhaled cool air, he pointed to it, and then handed the headphones to Li Kongrong. In fact, he could hear it without handing over Li Kongrong, there were at least two warships overhead, their engines were spinning extremely fast, and the sound pierced the eardrums of everyone in the boat.

"Do they throw bombs?" Su Jinghu pressed one hand on the valve of the main water tank, he planned to continue to dive down to avoid the German depth charges.

"Location?" Li Kongrong made a silent gesture, and then asked Liu Yongren, the navigation officer.

"Just out of Lela Island, there are still 23 nautical miles from the main channel...... Liu Yongren gestured on the chart.

"Do you want to speed up?" Su Jinghu asked in a low voice.

"No, sit on the bottom. Let them pass. Li Kongrong ordered, he was worried about the sonar of the Germans. (To be continued.) )