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A group of 6 military buns surrounded the submarine to watch the excitement, fortunately it did not attract attention at night, otherwise it would definitely attract Japanese aircraft. When the second torpedo was hoisted from the deck, Li Kongrong had already gone down to the bow torpedo compartment to see how much damage was there.www.biquge.info

"It's just cracked." Electric welding was taking place in the cabin, and Chang Xiangqi introduced the inspection situation in the midst of sparks. "Just solder."

"Are you sure it's okay to weld?" Li Kongrong couldn't see the breach and was not at ease. "What if you dive to two hundred meters?"

"Report sir, it's best not to dive below a hundred meters to be on the safe side." Xia Xindao, who played a cameo role as a welder, said, "When you arrive in Manila, it is best to enter the dock once, and then check and weld another layer outside." ”

"Is it okay to shoot torpedoes?" Li Kongrong also said -- The U-38 is fully open to the US Navy, and the Manila submarine base is naturally also open to the U-38, where there are complete dock maintenance facilities, but it is a pity that the US-made torpedoes dare not use them.

"No problem." Chang Xiangqi and Xia Xin spoke in unison, they knew everything about the injuries in the bow torpedo compartment.

The torpedo delivery hole in the roof of the torpedo compartment in the bow of the "Hansheng ......" was open, and the upper deck could see the cabin. Su Jinghu outside suddenly shouted, and he said, "It is said that someone from the navy is looking for you." ”

"The people of the navy...... Looking for me? Li Kongrong smiled. Isn't the navy gone, and besides, Liangguang is not under the control of Fujian, this is the territory of the 4th Fleet of the Guangdong Navy, do you know the people of the 4th Fleet?

With doubts, Li Kongrong went up to the bridge, and under the milky white moonlight, he only saw two soldiers standing on the shore, not tall and thin, but the military hat was a large-brimmed hat of the navy, which was fundamentally different from the 6th Army, but unfortunately he couldn't see it. As if they knew him, one of them saluted when they saw Li Kongrong walking on the bridge: "Xiaguan Li Yuxi has seen Chief Li." ”

"Li Yuxi ......" Li Kongrong habitually returned the salute, but he really couldn't think of who this person was. Fortunately, Li Yuxi guessed that Li Kongrong might forget, and he continued: "In April and May of the previous year, Xia Guan and the chief lived in Chinatown China House in Hamburg, Germany......

As soon as Li Yuxi said Hamburg, Li Kongrong remembered that it was those students of the Electric Thunder School who studied in Germany, and he was caught by him in saying bad things about Chen Shaokuan in the middle of the night, and punished him for running Chinatown in the middle of the night. "I remember." Li Kongrong smiled and asked again, "What are you doing here?" You're not ......."

"Report to the chief, the lower official is in the camp in Guilin......" Li Yuxi gritted his teeth in the memory of Li Kongrong's punishment and ran away, but the young people's thoughts became fast, because they remembered Li Kongrong because of the punishment, and then Li Kongrong's series of actions made them admire, Li Yuxi, who was in charge of laying mines in Qinzhou Bay, heard that the friendly submarine was anchored in the yellow mud pool, so he put on his clothes and ran over.

"Come up and speak." Li Kongrong interrupted him and allowed him and his companions to board the boat. Li Yuxi, who was talking, was obviously stunned, and immediately walked quickly with his companions across the long wooden trestle to the deck, and then climbed onto the bridge along the handle.

"Do you smoke?" The yellow mud pool runs east-west, there are 6 places on the south side, and the sea is a few hundred meters away, because the 6 places are blocked, and the smoking on the bridge cannot be seen on the sea. Li Kongrong handed over the cigarette, and the two immediately smoked.

"You said you were camping in Guilin, this is ......" Li Kongrong looked at the two people, both of whom were very young.

"Report to the chief: Xiao Changjun, the lower official, is also a staff officer in the Guilin Camp Coastal Defense Department." Xiao Changjun saluted tremblingly, and the cigarette on his mouth immediately fell to his feet.

"Take a break." Li Kongrong didn't care about the spirit of his salute, he just wanted to figure out the coastal defense arrangement of Qinzhou Bay. "Are you responsible here? Are there any torpedo boats left? ”

"Report sir, there are no torpedo boats, most of the torpedo boats have been wiped out in Daya Bay." In order to make a name for himself as a descendant of the electric mine school in Daya Bay, Chang Kaishen transported all the remaining torpedo boats from the electric mine school to Daya Bay. As a returnee from studying in Germany, Li Yuxi was arranged to Guangzhou as soon as he returned to China.

"No torpedo boats?" Li Kongrong regretted that he only knew that several Japanese transport ships had been sunk in Daya Bay, but he did not know that his side had lost all of them.

"Yes." Li Yuxi was bitter and unspeakable, and the battle of the torpedo boat Daya Bay of the Electric Mine School was very tragic, and many students died.

"Without torpedo boats, this Qinzhou Bay would be difficult to defend." Li Kongrong only thinks about the present. "Where did the Japanese minesweeper go yesterday?"

"Yesterday we just swept to the mouth of the bay, and we made up some of it in the first half of the night." Li Yuxi said. "Fortunately, the Japanese ship did not continue to fire at night, otherwise there would be no way to make up for it."

The Japanese ship retreated at night, which was frightened by the U-38. Li Kongrong flashed this thought and suddenly thought of another idea, he said: "How many mines are there?" Can the minefield be laid out? ”

"There are still hundreds of mines, which is not enough for Nanning to replenish at any time." Li Yuxi didn't know what Li Kongrong was going to do, so he had to answer truthfully. "If the minefield is too far ahead, I'm afraid it won't work if it's bypassed."

"It's going to work." Li Kongrong smiled, "You set up a dense minefield, and I will lead the Japanese ships inside." Sinking is the credit of your minelaying team, how? ”

Using the minefield as a nest can not only lure the Japanese warship to collide, but also cover the U-38 -- the Japanese ship is not overhead, and even if it throws a deep bomb, it will only be a few tens of meters, and as long as the diameter of the minefield is greater than 100 meters, the deep bomb will not fall on the head of the submarine, and the artillery shell, in order to pursue the effect of a water-in-water bullet, the Japanese Navy will quickly explode even if it is an armor-piercing shell, and it will not hurt the submarine at 30 meters under the sea at all.

"Great!" Li Yuxi and Xiao Changjun were overjoyed when they heard this, they didn't care about whose merit it was, but they cared about being able to sink the Japanese ship. "Please show me, sir, how should I lay mines?"

"Liu Yongren ......" Li Kongrong shouted Liu Yongren into the cabin, but there was no response at half-sound. He had no choice but to throw away the cigarette butt and said, "There are still seven hours before dawn, let's talk." With that, he climbed down the ladder.

Seeing that Li Kongrong not only invited himself to board the boat, but also invited himself into the cabin, Li Yuxi and the two felt that their brains were warm up and light, and they did not climb down, as if they were floating down. At this time, only Wang Guogui was staying in the control cabin, and when the two of them came, they saw that the cabin was full of instrument valves, and they forgot what they were doing when they came down.

"Report to the chief......" Liu Yongren ran over from the front cabin, with a note on his face, he was embarrassed in front of Li Kongrong, but when he saw the sign of the electric thunder school on the uniforms of Li Yuxi and the two, he was immediately puzzled.

"These two are Captain Li and Captain Xiao of the Qinzhou Bray Team." Li Kongrong casually introduced. "I want them to lay a diameter in the ...... six nautical miles offshore"

"Sir, we have ten boats," seeing Li Kongrong turn around to ask for his opinion, Li Yuxi immediately said, "Each boat can carry more than twenty mines." Two hundred and fifty mines, together with the original minefields, can be laid into a two-nautical-mile minefield. ”

"Two nautical miles." Li Kongrong nodded, "Now it's time to determine where to place it." ”

Of course, Liu Yongren knew the role of arranging minefields, and after unfolding the chart, he said: "Sir, there are three positions, the first is south of the mouth of Qinzhou Bay, as long as the Japanese army wants to enter Qinzhou Bay, they must pass through here; The second is south of Qisha, when I came, I noticed that the minefield on the front of Qisha seems to be very thin, and the Japanese army is likely to board from here tomorrow6, so as to bypass the mine-dense area at the mouth of the bay; And then there is the ...... south of Fangchenggang"

"It's in the sand." Li Kongrong pointed to the middle of the three positions. Qisha is Qinzhou Bay to the east and Fangcheng Bay to the west, which is the salient of the big 6 to the ocean, and taking it here is a threat to both bays.

Li Kongrong made a decision, but Li Yuxi and Xiao Changjun had a difficult face, seeing this, Li Kongrong said: "What, there is a problem?" ”

"Sir, the order given to us by the Coastal Defense Department is to guard Qinzhou Bay......" Xiao Changjun opened his mouth, he and Li Yuxi originally thought that Li Kongrong was going to lay mines at the mouth of Qinzhou Bay, that is, the first position. If they had placed the mines in Qisha, which were supposed to be replenished to the gap in the thunderfield in Qinzhou Bay, the two would definitely be dealt with by military law if the Japanese troops landed in Qinzhou Bay tomorrow.

"Sir, it can be arranged in the sea outside Qisha, but it's just ......" Li Yuxi looked at Li Kongrong, his eyes hesitant and complicated. It's just that once the Japanese army invades Qinzhou Bay, please ask the commander to promise to take us in,...... We're going to be shot when we go back. ”

At first, he said that he was Bray, but now he said that he was taken in, and Liu Yongren immediately felt a little contempt. Li Kongrong also felt troublesome at this time, but since he had this idea, he didn't want to give up. "Okay, I can take you in, but I can't put you on the submarine, and your family, I will also have someone to help you settle in a safe place."

"Okay." Li Yuxi nodded, but Xiao Changjun didn't speak.

"I'll give you five minutes, and you'll go to the toilet and discuss." After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he looked at the ship bell, "There are only more than six hours until dawn." ”

Li Yuxi and Xiao Changjun really wanted to discuss it, and Liu Yongren took them to the toilet and came back and said, "Sir, do you really want to take them in?" They're ......."

"There were only two of them." Li Kongrong said, "We have not only five aircraft carriers, but also seaplane aircraft carriers, high tankers, supply ships, and ship groups in the future." Besides, in my judgment, the reason why the Japanese retreated was that they wanted to attack Qisha early tomorrow morning, because the minefield here was thin, and yesterday the Japanese minesweeping team must have understood the truth before retreating. Qinzhou Bay and Fangcheng Bay, the mines are very dense, even if the Qinzhou Bay sweeps the mines during the day, it will be filled by the defenders at night, and only Qisha can be fought as soon as it comes tomorrow. ”

Li Kongrong explained his judgment, and the more he spoke, the more he felt correct. The moon is bright tonight, it is impossible to rain tomorrow morning, and as soon as the morning dawns, there will be a large number of planes hanging bombs looking for them, and the 6th Army on the shore will be completely suppressed by the Japanese naval guns.

"Sir, we've discussed it." In less than five minutes, Li Yuxi and Xiao Changjun came out of the toilet.

"Did you really discuss it?" Li Kongrong looked at Xiao Changjun.

"Yes, sir, it's been discussed, it's better to be a sailor than to lay mines." Xiao Changjun said. After he said that, he began to offer treasures: "Isn't there a shortage of torpedoes, there is a batch of torpedoes in Nanning, and the last two torpedo boats were supposed to be transported, but they were bombed by Japanese planes halfway. ”

"What torpedo?" Li Kongrong was very surprised, he seemed to remember that the torpedoes imported by the navy had been wiped out in Jinshanweiquan.

"It was imported a month before the Anti-Japanese War." Li Yuxi said, "Two hundred and forty 21-inch German torpedoes, after the school was disbanded, it was taken over by the Ministry of Military Affairs, and some of them were used in Guangzhou, and the rest were transferred to Nanning. I don't know ...... above."

"I just don't know if the above is willing to give it or not, right?" Li Kongrong asked with a smile.

"Yes." Li Yuxi nodded. "I'll give it a try, Captain Deng of the Mine Team and Director Xu of the Coastal Defense Department should agree."

"Captain Deng? Director Xu? Li Kongrong didn't know who Li Yuxi was talking about.

"It's Lieutenant Colonel Deng Zhaoxiang and Major General Xu Zushan." Li Yuxi said, "They are all ......"

Deng Zhaoxiang is a native of Guangdong, although the qualifications and skills are enough, but he is not ambitious in the Fujian system, Xu Zushan broke away from the Fujian system more than ten years ago and went ashore. The fact that Chang Kaishen would be appointed as the director of the Guangxi Coastal Defense Division instead of the Guangdong Navy was probably a measure taken by Chang Kaishen to preserve the naval force of the Electric Mine School, which was a descendant of the navy -- in order to rebuild the navy, Li Kongrong had a comprehensive understanding of the people and things related to the navy, and Deng Zhaoxiang was one of them.

"General Xu was in the navy, that was a long time ago. When you go back, you can report and apply for torpedoes, and I will also find someone to go to Director Xu to talk about the project. Li Kongrong thought for a while before saying. Okay, let's do it right away, Captain Liu will go with you. ”

"Yes, sir." The three of them shouted and exited the control module. After they left, Li Kongrong was not idle, and he immediately asked Chao Wei to come down. Chao Wei, who had never been on a warship in his life, had long wanted to board the boat to visit, but he was embarrassed to take the initiative to ask if he was not invited, and now Li Kongrong invited him to the boat, and he came happily with people.

"I really didn't expect that there would be such a warship." Li Yuhui, the commander of the first battalion, was amazed by everything in the submarine cabin, and he was also very envious of the captain's room, which was even more upscale than the most upscale hotel he had ever stayed in.

"It's a pity that there is only one." Li Kongrong smiled bitterly. "If there are three, they will definitely beat the Japanese to the point of howling wolves."

Li Kongrong invited a few people to sit down as he spoke, and the kitchen also brought red wine and supper. After a supper, a few people called themselves brothers, and lit cigarettes again, Li Kongrong said: "Please come up to discuss how to fight tomorrow, my judgment is that the Japanese army is very likely to land 6 Qisha." ”

"Straight to me?" Chaowei drank a lot of wine, but his brain was very clear.

"Yes, quite possibly. They must have been bombarded by naval guns before they landed on the 6, and then the dinghy had landed. I only have six torpedoes, and the Japanese may not account for the losses of six ships, so I would like to ask the commander of the Chao regiment to hold on for a day, especially to the side of the mouth of Qinzhou Bay. Hold on to this day, there will be torpedoes from Nanning, and then I can go into the bay to replenish the torpedoes, and with enough torpedoes, I will be able to repel the Japanese. ”8