Chapter 25 Shortening
With Wei Ru and Zhi Bingyuan, they kept talking late at night, and dinner was simply eaten in the room, and when they returned to the naval base, thinking of Zhi Bingyuan's suggestion and the No. 1 battle plan in history, Li Kongrong didn't sleep much all night. He has been thinking about www.biquge.info question about the aircraft carrier task force, and where should she use it.
Pearl Harbor was indispensable, and it was only in the interval between the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planes, that is, in the interval when the first wave of attack planes had not returned and the second wave of attack planes had already launched. Of course, this is the best situation, and it is impossible for Nagumo not to send reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter and search for US aircraft carriers around the mobile unit, and if they can not be discovered by Japanese reconnaissance planes, the best time to attack is Pearl Harbor from 07:45 to 09:30 local time. According to the history of warfare, at this time, almost all of the planes of the six aircraft carriers of the mobile force were dispatched, and only 23 of the 120 Zero fighters remained; considering that the Japanese aircraft carriers had insufficient anti-aircraft firepower at this time, if they could assemble 150 to 200 carrier-based aircraft to attack in two waves, they would certainly be able to inflict heavy damage on the Nagumo mobile troops.
According to Li Kongrong's often entrenched assumption in his mind, the aircraft carrier is equipped with a catapult and does not care about it after takeoff -- in order to load the carrier-based aircraft to the maximum extent, the landing of the carrier-based aircraft is not considered, and even the problem of the carrier-based aircraft returning home is not considered (so that the attack can be carried out at a longer distance to avoid being discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance planes The fleet), the carrier-based aircraft that have finished the attack will concentrate on the designated sea area to parachute, and the search and rescue after Nagumo's retreat may reach the capacity of 200 aircraft.
If Nagumo were to be inflicted a heavy blow at Pearl Harbor and the mobile force was forced to flee, the 350 attack planes that could not find an aircraft carrier without a parachute would be completely destroyed at Pearl Harbor. How will the war develop after that, and will Nagumo assist Wake Island? Not necessarily; Will Nagumo go out to fight in the Indian Ocean, not necessarily. If the mobile fleet does not sweep the Indian Ocean and only clings to its old nest - let the Doolittle air raid be staged in advance, so that the Japanese can only focus on the rice livestock in the east and ignore the rotten country in the west for the time being, then they will turn to the waters of the East Indies, strike at the Japanese navy in the South Seas, and then reverse the outcome of the Battle of Surabaya, which can naturally contain the Japanese troops attacking Burma, so that the Yangon and Yunnan-Burma roads may have a chance to be preserved.
After that, the development of US aid arms was intermittently imported into the country, and the firepower was weak and vulnerable. The army units can get trucks, gasoline, shells, artillery, etc., etc., in the face of the Japanese army's No. 1 operation, their combat effectiveness must be much stronger than history, maybe Hengyang will be held in the end, and then the bloody Japanese industry will end early, and the war will end early.
- One night's work, Li Kongrong was in yy, he recalled the history of the war, sketched the details, and then found out the problem. For example, how to get an aircraft carrier fleet of 200 carrier-based aircraft? How much money do you need? In the face of the Japanese Zero fighter, how can you get a fighter that can match it?
Li Kongrong, who had only slept for half an hour in the morning, had blood-red eyes, and when Lin Zhun saw him like this, he said with concern: "...... are you, the submarine is here today, so happy?" ”
"You're not yet." Li Kongrong didn't have a good airway, Lin Zhun's eyes were bloodshot, and he didn't sleep well.
"Looking forward to the stars and the moon, the submarine is finally here today, can I sleep?" Lin Zhun smiled, smeared butter on the toast with his hand, sandwiched vegetable ham slices, and then gnawed on it in a big gulp.
"It's the Major, right?" Li Kongrong didn't eat as much as Lin Zhun. He didn't know very well what kind of person this Heinrich Lehmann-William Blok was, and naturally he didn't know that this Major Leinrich-William Blok was actually the protagonist of the later German movie "Attack from the Bottom of the Sea", the captain of the U-96, Heinrich Lehmann. He didn't delve into this, and besides, if someone called Hans or Heinrich in Germany, he shouted Hans and Heinrich on the street, and half the street would turn back.
"Yes." Lin Zhun nodded, "So you must greet you at the dock and let him salute you." ”
"Let's see how people are doing first." Li Kongrong didn't care about this kind of superficial thing, even if he was a general, he had to rely on this Major Lyman-William Bullock to teach submarine skills, not to mention that he was only a colonel.
Breakfast ended in a hurry, and when it was close to noon, the second lieutenant in charge of liaison at the base informed the Chinese training boat that it was about to arrive.
It was a Type 2 submarine that came, and as on the last visit, the number on the sides of the enclosure and bow was obscured by gray paint, and the exact number was not visible. There was no band when they entered the port, but the crew was still standing on the deck, and there were only a few operators in the cabin. Captain Heinrich Lehmann-William Bullock, a twenty-six-year-old captain, wears a captain's white military cap and a beard that is supposed to be shaved to reveal an iron-blue chin. While looking at the dock and commanding the engine and helmsman in the cabin, he looked at the Chinese naval cadets waiting in line on the shore, especially Li Kongrong, who was wearing a colonel's uniform, for a while.
Perhaps to show his hand in front of the Chinese Navy, Major Lyman-William Bullock was easy to be normal when he docked, he sailed the U-boat to the appropriate distance from the outer gear of the berth, and then turned to the outboard double approach, firmly controlled the speed of the bow deflection downwind, with the help of the wind to make the submarine move sideways towards the pier, and when the bow gently approached the pier, he threw out the first cable, the first inverted cable, and then dropped anchor.
'Your mother! Li Kongrong cursed secretly in his heart. Leaving the dock is an important course for ship piloting, he has to toss for half a day when he docks at the dock in Stasui, and then he is laughed at by the German shipowner and the Germans on the shore, now the wind is so strong, this guy's movements are as smooth as a cloud, which makes Li Kongrong's teeth itch, what does he mean by this?
"Welcome, Mr. Major." Standing on the outermost side, Brigon Lin first saluted Lehmann-William Bullock, and then the Germans saluted Li Kongrong: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Colonel. ”
"I am honored to meet you, Mr. Major." Li Kongrong looked at the German captain who was suspected of giving him 'dismounting', this person was a major at the age of twenty-six, which was really too young. He was dressed in a light gray leather coat with a blue tweed naval officer's uniform and a sweater, and the smile on his face was particularly amiable, his eyes were squinted, and a dimple appeared when he smiled.
"No, it's my pleasure." Lyman William Bullock looked at Li Kongrong carefully: a rare high nose, bloodshot eyes were very bright, and his eyes were smiling and thoughtful. "You have made the Japanese Navy suffer, and everyone is talking about you."
"Really?" Li Kongrong squinted and laughed, he felt that this Lyman seemed to be a relatively easy person to deal with. "I heard that the Japanese were going to hang me and avenge their people."
When Li Kongrong said about the attitude of the Japanese, Lyman-William Bullock cleverly did not borrow, and he said: "Your Excellency Commander asked me to say hello to you on his behalf, and he is sorry that the matter has been delayed, and he said that he likes the model ship you gave him very much. ”
Dönitz promised to send a training boat the day after tomorrow at the latest, but the training boat did not arrive until a week later. Today, the training boat finally arrived, along with Dönitz's apology.
"We're friends, and it's too much to say sorry." Li Kongrong smiled, and after he finished speaking, he said, "Can I visit the submarine?" ”
"Of course!" There was no guard in the Germans' smiles, which seemed to indirectly confirm Li Kongrong's previous speculation that the Germans had to take some necessary secrecy measures before sending the training boat, so as not to be seen by Li Kongrong as the diesel engine nameplate was like last time.
The submarine had dropped anchor and tied its cables, and Li Kongrong did not shake when he went up the small iron ladder, only the 'thump' of leather boots on the deck. Led by Lyman William Bullock, he climbed the enclosure, entered the conning tower, and then followed the ladder to the interior of the ship. The Germans who entered the submarine first had already turned on the lights, and although the diesel engine inside the cramped submarine was not working, it still smelled of diesel fuel, and the boat was very quiet, only the squeak of the electric compass.
"This is the console of the submarine," Lyman William Bullock said, introducing the submarine. With two 'snaps', he opened the handle of the periscope, "This is the periscope of the submarine." ”
"I can...... Try? "The last time I came to visit, the Germans were not invited, Chen Shaokuan and others did not touch anything, and now this training boat is for their own use, and Li Kongrong finally put forward this request.
"Of course." Lyman-William Bullock nodded disapprovingly, the use of a periscope was not a big deal in his opinion, and as far as he knew, Li Kongrong was one of the two captains appointed by the Chinese Navy.
With the humming of the motor, the periscope was pulled up, and Li Kongrong crouched on the periscope, and saw a familiar horizon with his left eye—an image with a crosshair, and above and to the right of the circular vision, there were two scale marks with scales to mark the height and length, which was completely different from the hunting submarines he had played before. By pressing the pitch change button on the handlebar, the magnification of the field of view changes between 1.5x and 6x, and the entrance to the harbor not far away also becomes larger and smaller.
"It's clear!" Li Kongrong complimented, he wanted to look at it for a while, but Lin Zhun was behind him, and he had to let him see this thing too.
"German goods are the best!" Lyman-William Bullock was a little surprised that Li Kongrong knew how to adjust the variable distance for the first time he used the telescope, but he didn't want to ask about this kind of thing, so he only wrote it down in his heart. Next to the console is the captain's room with a curtain, and opposite is the radio and sonar room, which are specially arranged around the captain to make it easier for the captain to command.
Walking through the captain's room, then the non-commissioned officer's room, then the galley, and then an iron door was opened, and the smell of diesel was stronger inside, this was the engine room. Only eight officers had entered the submarine, Li Kongrong looked back at Su Jinghu and said with a smile: "In the future, these big guys will be handed over to you." ”
Su Jinghu was in contact with steam engines before, and diesel engines were also contacted later, but after all, they were not submarine diesel engines. Now seeing these two big guys, he is a little confused, but Li Kongrong threw the words at this time, and his face became even more solemn: "I'll do my best!" ”
"If you can't do your best, you have to do it all!" Of course, Li Kongrong knew why he was not confident. "If you don't understand, just ask. As long as you can master the technology as soon as possible, you can ask for it. ”
Walking past the engine room, and then behind is the aft torpedo compartment, which is very narrow, and several people turned back to the captain's room without looking closely. "Mr. Major, how is our course arranged?" Wanting to stay inside the submarine for a while, Li Kongrong immediately provoked the topic.
"The submarine is small, and the number of people on board is limited, so ......" Major Lyman-William Bullock offered to sit down, and there was a table next to the bed in the captain's room, and although it could not fit everyone, others could sit on the bed. We had to send some people to various factories for internships, torpedo crews to torpedo factories, diesel captains to diesel engine factories, and motor chiefs to motor factories ......, so that there would be about thirty people left, and these people would be divided into two groups, and the normal training would be one group for one day, and the interval between training at sea would have to be extended......"
"Mr. Major, my hope is to complete all the training sessions in the shortest possible time." Li Kongrong put forward his own proposal.
"As short as possible?" Lyman William Bullock was a little surprised, in fact, the training time of a normal submariner is six months. Considering that these Chinese had already learned the theoretical foundations of submarines at the Flensburg Merchant Marine School, the course was shortened to five months.
"Yes." Li Kongrong said, telling the result of his discussion with Lin Zhun the day before yesterday. "I want my group to finish all the lessons in two months, and Major Lin's group to follow the normal schedule."
"Why?" The Germans looked at Li Kongrong and then at Lin Zhun and did not understand what tricks the Chinese played.
"Because I can't wait to finish all the courses and then go back to my home country to fight the Japanese Navy." Li Kongrong said seriously. "Can you agree to my request?"
"Mr. Colonel, this can be done, but I don't recommend it." Lehmann-William Bullock said. "I think it's irresponsible."
"No, Mr. Major, it is the behavior of the person in charge to shorten the course." Li Kongrong said. "My homeland is being invaded, my compatriots are being slaughtered, every day in Germany I want to die, but I can't die, the command of the Navy gave me an order to complete the submarine course before I could return home."
"Mr. Major, do you love Germany?" After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he asked again.
"Of course, sir." Lyman William Bullock seems to understand something.
"Imagine if you were in China or the United States, Germany was being invaded by France, and your compatriots were bullied and slaughtered by French soldiers, you would understand how I felt." Li Kongrong stirred the nerves of the Germans, "In order to prevent the shortening of the course from causing omissions, Major Lin's group will not learn the shortened course, but will still learn the whole course, what I don't understand, he can add." (To be continued.) )