After anxious waiting, the sky finally dawned. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The 5th Fleet, which had been hovering off the coast of Qinzhou Bay for a long time, began to bombard the landing area in an all-out way, and in the rain, the fortifications, trenches, and barbed wire fences were all covered and submerged by the sudden artillery fire, and sand, broken wood, screaming soldiers, and broken limbs flew up in the explosion. The telephone line on the front line was blown up at the very first moment, but fortunately, the shelling was earth-shattering, and the news quickly spread to the camp in Guilin, at which time Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng and Lin Weicai, chief of staff of the camp, breathed a sigh of relief, and the information was indeed accurate.

With the sound of artillery, while the Japanese Navy dispatched demining boats, the seaplanes of the 3rd Combined Air Force began to take off in the rain, and the planes of the Army's 21st Independent Flying Team and the 90th Flying Brigade also took off one after another. Contrary to the battle plan, more than half of these planes flew to the sea area where the U-38 had sent a clear telegram more than half an hour earlier, and they tried to find the submarine in China, but in the vast sea, there were only endless waves, and the reconnaissance planes found nothing.

Nothing was found by the Japanese planes, but their appearance startled Li Kongrong on the bridge. The submarine is not afraid of anything, but it is afraid of airplanes, and once it is damaged by an airplane and cannot dive, then he has no other way but to die with the Japanese. Between the two options of venturing ahead and immediately going underwater, he had to choose the latter.

Inside the submarine, the alarm bell had just sounded, and after last night's adventure, almost everyone was unimpressed by the plane. When Li Kongrong stepped out of the control cabin, Lin Lian Fan's Wang Guogui and the others were still laughing, he glanced at them and asked, "Is it funny?" ”

"The depth of the water is forty-seven meters. The main water tank discharges 300 liters. "Chief Engineer Su Jinghu just heard the bathymetric report from the hydrolistening room, and immediately ordered to stop diving and maintain the current depth." Do you need to sit on the bottom? He asked.

"No, I don't." At this time, the submarine was still five to six nautical miles away from the mouth of Qinzhou Bay, and in order to arrive earlier, Li Kongrong insisted on sailing for more than 20 minutes after dawn. "Heading due north, the two are moving forward at a slight pace." After he finished the order, he began to teach people a lesson: "It is better to encounter a warship than an airplane, a submarine will always die on the plane, it doesn't matter if the warship is far away, they are blind." ”

The motor was buzzing, and Li Kongrong was a little powerless to continue the lesson, he looked at Jiang Jing and the others, and suddenly thought that they should be transferred away from the U-38 and thrown to the aviation school to fly the plane, no matter how good the piloting skills are, they will be good materials for being the captain of the aircraft carrier in the future. Thinking of this, he said: "I'll go back and write a list, and I'll go back to the United States to the aviation school after this operation." ”

Hearing that Li Kongrong was going to transfer people away, Lin Lianfan immediately cried and lost his face. The U-38 is the only combat ship in the Navy, and to leave the U-38 is to leave the front line of the battlefield. "Sir, we don't want to go back to the United States." Liu Chunxun was the first to beg for mercy.

"Don't want to go back to the United States?" Li Kongrong sneered, "People can't go if they want to, Qiu Zhongming is already in the aviation school." I'm the captain, and I say whoever goes, and those who don't want to go can get on the supply ship. ”

As soon as Qiu Zhongming, Gao Guangyou, Su Jinghu and others were mentioned, they understood Li Kongrong's plan, which was obviously to cultivate these people from the sixth class of aviation. Li Kongrong once said before that in the future, the main force of the navy will no longer be battleships but aircraft carriers, and the captain of an aircraft carrier must be a pilot.

"Report to the sir, I received a special secret telegram forwarding from New York, as well as a clear code call back from Guilin Xingying." Lu Ruping got out of the radio room, which was actually the hydro-sonar room—this room was no more than four square meters, and under the glass window in the corridor was the sonar room, and on the other side of the ship wall was the radio room. The inside was originally crowded, but it became even more crowded after the modification: in addition to the original passive sonar of the U-38, two additional active sonars were installed, one on the bottom of the ship for bathymetry, which is usually not turned on, and the other on the front of the enclosure, which can be used for distance measurement and underwater attacks by borrowing CT equipment from the Radio Research Institute. In addition to the original Degen receiver and the 200-watt Wadgen transmitter, there is also a spare set of American-made marine radio. Whenever they saw through the glass the rows of pure white insulators and unknown electrical appliances on the large wooden planks on the walls of the ship, the crew had a sense of high-tech immediacy.

"New York, special message?" Li Kongrong took the secret telegram with some suspicion, Lu Ruping and the second mate Lin Xiangguang had already decoded the first two layers of passwords, and the third layer must be decoded by him himself, and the code book was in the cabinet in the bow of his ship. He took it and said, "What did Guilin say over there?" ”

"Guilin Bai's deputy chief and chief Chen sent a telegram back and said: 'Our unit has long been waiting for each other, hoping that your ships will kill more enemy soldiers and delay and disrupt the enemy's landing.'" Lu Ruping was a little excited when he read out the message. For these young people who have just graduated from the Maritime Academy, Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng were both the objects of their previous admiration, and now they can actually electrify in person, which is really exciting.

"Cut!" Li Kongrong didn't take this telegram seriously, he said: "What can a submarine do, this is the landing of tens of thousands of people, and it is in the daytime. Associate Captain ......"

"Yes!" Gao Guangyou looked shocked and immediately agreed.

"Now I'll leave it to you in command. The Japanese were shelling just now, and it is estimated that they still have to clear mines, so we rushed over and probably landed just in time for them. Now all we have to do is get closer. Li Kongrong wants to go back to the captain's room to decode, and he still wants to rest for a while and think about how to fight later.

Unlike the stressful and urgent captain's cabin, the cozy captain's cabin is like a neat haven. Li Kongrong took out the code book and began to decode, these passwords are all numbers, four or four in groups, he was stunned at the beginning of the message, and then quickly finished the entire message. 'The assassination of Xu was committed by Chongqing', in the telegram, this sentence is the most glaring.

After reading the telegram, Li Kongrong couldn't believe it at first, but when he recalled Chang Kaishen's past as a military commander, he felt that it was not impossible, and his motives were also very sufficient—several negotiations between the Navy and the representatives of the Ministry of Military Affairs broke up unhappily, the Xinzhong Defense Company was not a Chinese company, and the US law was very different from that at home, and assassination was actually the best way to destroy the Navy and rebuild it. In this way, Japan can be framed, and the navy can be recovered. It's just that, how could Chang Kaishen be so decisive? This person is indeed accustomed to hooligan tricks, but it is not without a bottom line until it is absolutely necessary. Before he starts, he often gives the other party a few steps, such as going abroad, such as going to the field with electricity, the navy does not even have an aircraft carrier, why is he so ruthless this time?

Li Kongrong was shocked and just pondered, but he didn't have much anger in his heart. The main reason why he is not angry is that he does not have much affection for Chen Jiliang and the Fujian Navy. He is not from Fujian, let alone from southern Fujian, but in order to build a fleet, he has to take the Fujian system as the foundation, and unity can unite people, otherwise the fleet will not work.

If this matter is really done at the behest of Peanut, and it is verified, there will be no room for relaxation between the Navy and Chongqing, and the matter of sending pilots back to China next year is likely to be in vain, if Susan does not get Sumitomo Metal's aluminum alloy formula or sample, then ......

The battle in Qinzhou Bay was in full swing, and Chongqing, which was not bombed by Japanese planes in winter, was foggy. In the Huangshan Mansion, Chang Kaishen, who received the telegram from Guilin, was overjoyed, but he couldn't be happy at all when he thought about the things he was dealing with. The assassination of the military commander was really bold, and the location was actually chosen at Rockefeller Center on Fifth Avenue in New York, and he also shot in front of dozens of reporters, but fortunately, the killer pretended to be Japanese, otherwise the friendly countries would be shocked, and many efforts of the national government in the United States would be ruined.

But the trouble doesn't stop there, according to the news from the ambassador to the United States, Hu Shih, Situ Meitang of the Zhigong Court is investigating the background of the assassin, and he has really discovered something. Therefore, he had to invite Lin Sen, chairman of the Nationalist Government, in the hope that he would go to the United States, first, to take Chen Jiliang's body to Chongqing for a state funeral, and second, in case of the East Window incident, he would also come forward to suppress and persuade him. For this reason, after Lin Sen came, he saw two speeches after being polite.

Chairman Lin Sen, a native of Minhou, Fujian, was one of the first members of the League, and since then he has followed Sun Yat-sen, who joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party by his fingerprint after the failure of the Second Revolution, and was one of the members of the Xishan Conference faction in cooperation with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. In the Nanjing Nationalist Government, the position of chairman of the Nationalist Government did not need to hold any responsibility, but was only the nominal leader of the country, so it needed to be held by an old veteran, Chiang Kai-shek was originally intended to be the right officer, and because of the efforts of Chen Mingshu and others, it was only held by Lin Sen, and it has been held until now.

Lin Sen is a native of Minhou, Fujian, and there are many Minhou people in the navy, and Lin Yuanquan, the captain of the Yingrui ship, who instigated more than 20 captains to oppose Chen, is his nephew, but he rarely interacts with the people of the Admiralty who understand his role.

"President, this is ......" Lin Sen quickly read the two speeches, and he still didn't quite understand the meaning of Chiang Kai-shek's invitation to come.

"What does the Chairman think of the rhetoric of these two men?" Chang Kaishen didn't answer the rhetorical question, and stared at Lin Sen.

"That's it, but this one ......" Lin Sen pointed to the one with an extremely rebellious tone, and said heavily: "Occupying Taiwan is called autonomy, but it is actually a separation, and it is preparing for a civil war, and its heart should be punished." ”

"This is a speech by Lin Xiangxin, former director of the Navy's Ordnance Department, within the Navy, and the other is by Chen Jiliang, commander of the fleet." Chang Kaishen finally unraveled the mystery, "Someone within the navy sent their speech to the embassy, and the embassy was transferred to Chongqing. ”

As if to give Lin Sen time to imagine acceptance, Chang Kaishen paused for a while before saying, "Since the Republic of China, the navy has been controlled by the Fujian system, they exclude dissidents, regard the fleet as a private thing, smuggle, sell drugs, resell arms, steal and sell materials and fuel, there is no profit. Although I had an unpleasant affair with the navy back then, for the sake of the revolution and the future of the country, I still ignored the past suspicions and appointed Chen Shaokuan, who sabotaged the Zhaohe uprising, as the minister of the navy. It's just that...... Even with military spending, the navy will not be able to change its bad habits, which will bring shame to the former prime minister. ”

Chang Kaishen's tone was heavy, and what he said about "disgraced the former prime minister" refers to the smuggling case of the light cruiser Yat-sen: on September 15, 36, Xiamen Customs pursued a smuggling boat, and found twenty-three packets of fifty-pound sugar on the boat, and after a short exchange of fire, among the personnel captured by the customs, there was actually a sailor on the Yat-sen, and the sailor confessed that there were a total of 400 packs of smuggled sugar, all of which were bought from Hong Kong.

Four hundred bags of fifty catties of sugar weighed ten tons, and the sailors alone could never have moved on the Yixian ship unknowingly, although the matter was finally settled, but those who knew the details of the navy knew that this was the entire warship smuggling - it happened to be the Liangguang Incident, and the Yixian ship was ordered to go south to interfere in the incident, and returned from Guangzhou via Hong Kong.

The navy thought about money, but Chang Kaishen attached great importance to spirit and honor, and when he learned about it, he was furious, thinking that it was a blasphemy of the former prime minister's name, and at first he wanted to order the navy to change the name of the ship, but he was persuaded to give up. At this time, when the old matter was brought up again, his resentment spontaneously arose. He continued: "After learning this news, I have been asking people to persuade Chen Lin and the others to obey the orders of the government, but these two people have turned a deaf ear, and for the sake of the war of resistance and the country, Zhongzheng has to ......."

Lin Sen had a premonition as soon as he saw the two speeches, and now seeing Chang Kaishen admitting it, his whole body became excited, just when he wanted to say that Chen Jiliang and other heroes of the Anti-Japanese War could not be treated like this, Chang Kaishen said again: "Brother Ji Liang's death is completely a misunderstanding, if the chairman doesn't believe me, I can immediately ask Yunong to return those warrants for verification." ”

"Was it a misunderstanding?" It took a long time for Lin Sen to ask in a low voice.

"It's a misunderstanding." Chang Kaishen nodded. "Since I admit this, there is nothing to hide, now that the War of Resistance is important, Lin Xiangxin is stubborn, preparing for a civil war, vainly trying to stand on his own, and has to make an example. Brother Ji Liang, I never wanted to put him to death, I just hoped that he could return to China as soon as possible. ”

"Hey!" Lin Sen was speechless, so he had to sigh. He is a person from the late Qing Dynasty, and he also carried out assassination during the revolution, and he is not taboo about this kind of action, but it is a pity that Chen Jiliang was killed by mistake.

"Chairman, I have asked people to thoroughly investigate this matter, Brother Ji Liang is for the country and the people, he should be given a state funeral, and his family should also be generously compensated, and on the day of the funeral, I will personally carry the coffin for him. Unauthorized action will also be severely punished. Chang Kaishen's words were not only remorseful, but also sad, and his words of personally carrying the coffin finally moved Lin Sen. He said: "The president wants to ......"

"I would like to ask the President to go to the United States once." Chang Kaishen said, "First, I came to meet with the US president and dignitaries to ask for assistance, but this is more symbolic; The second is to ask the chairman to bring Ji Liang's body back to Chongqing for a state funeral; The third is that I would like to ask the chairman to have a good talk with the people of the Navy, the Admiralty can be restored, but the War of Resistance is difficult, and this matter can only be after the War of Resistance, and the existing deployment can be first organized as the Navy Department, but the pilots and aircraft should be assigned to the Air Force.

Finally, the foreign exchange currently in the hands of the navy, the Ministry of Finance can take over by borrowing, and it will definitely be returned after the war -- it is not that I covet the money in the hands of the navy, but in fact the financial situation is extremely tight, and the foreign exchange will soon run out, and if there is no more borrowing, the national currency will lose its credit, and this matter involves the life and death of the country, and the chairman must not shirk it. (To be continued.) )