The weather at sea was not as good as Liu Yongren had estimated, the sky was overcast before sunset, and the sea breeze suddenly rose above 20 knots, and the waves were more than two meters high. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThis kind of wind and waves is not a big problem for the U-38, which was designed with the violent weather in the Atlantic Ocean in mind, it is nothing more than a little bump in the boat, but what worries Li Kongrong is the clouds, the cirrocumulus clouds that were originally dyed by the sunset into golden fish scales quickly turned into low stratus clouds, the stratus clouds are not only wide but also thick, the last ray of light was completely blocked by it, and the sky in the west was dim. The weather was like this, and the route of the Japanese army was also unpredictable, until twelve o'clock in the evening, the lookout post on the bridge did not find any trace of the Mukden Maru, and some were only the lonely lights of the night ships passing by.

From the bridge to the command cabin, Li Kongrong looked at Lin Lianfan in the water listening room at first sight, Lin Lianfan also knew that the first thing the captain asked was himself, whenever he heard footsteps, he always looked at Li Kongrong with headphones and shook his head, signaling that he didn't hear anything underwater. Lin Lianfan was like this, and Liu Yongren was lying on the chart and not looking up for an hour or two. Because of the fear that the Japanese ships would take the 'Z' shaped route, the U-38 itself also took the 'Z' shaped route in case it missed the Mukden Maru fleet, so the nautical chart drawing became extremely cumbersome.

"Heading to three hundred and sixty. Set. "It's distressing to not find the enemy, and after a few tosses, Li Kongrong doesn't want to look for it again.

"Sail to 360, set, set." In the surprise of Liu Yongren and others, the helmsman corrected the course of the submarine.

"Sir, as long as we ......" Liu Yongren was relenting, he didn't want to give up this attack.

"The sea is always about luck, and we can't miss it when we look for it. Since Mazu is helping the traitor, then we can only let him go. Li Kongrong interrupted him, and then he complained about himself. It's also my fault, there are good things that don't need to be used, but now it's okay, the blind cat can't hit the big mouse. ”

"Sir, are we going too far?" Lin Xiangguang said his guess. "We sailed at a speed of eighteen knots, and the Fengtian Pill was twelve knots just now, and this kind of merchant ship that was launched more than ten years ago could not sail at a speed of fifteen or sixteen knots at most. Besides, it has been more than ten years since it was launched, and even if the Japanese maintain it well, the speed will not be faster than 15 knots. There was at least a four-knot difference between us, and although we were sailing in a 'Z' shape, it didn't mean we were necessarily behind the fleet. ”

Drawing the route map is Liu Yongren's business, he doesn't think Lin Xiangguang's analysis is reasonable, Lin Xiangguang said after speaking: "This is impossible, at least according to the route map." Unless the Japanese ships deliberately lowered their speed, it would be impossible for us to be in front of the Mukden Maru. However, if you slow down, you will have a lag in arriving at the port, and since the Japanese knew that there were submarines, they should have known that it was also dangerous to enter the port after dark. I think the Japanese should have deviated from the course so that they could avoid being hit and avoid our pursuit. ”

"The deviated course?" Li Kongrong thought about this possibility. "If it deviates, where does it go?"

"I'm calculating." Liu Yongren said, "The time to Qingdao Port must be before dark, and if you deviate from the channel, you can only go east and not west. If you go east......"

Liu Yongren began to calculate silently again, and Li Kongrong waited for a while, but he didn't reply at all. "You're going to inform me." In desperation, he threw down such a sentence and got on the ship again.

"Captain on the bridge." The command was passed from the hatch to the bridge, and the three officers on it, Xue Kuiguang, immediately gave way to his position.

"Is there a situation?" The waves crashed against the bow of the boat, splashing and scattering. Knowing that there was no hope, Li Kongrong also asked.

"Report sir, I didn't find it." Xue Kui said. "The Japanese must have done something tricky."

"The sea is vast, the sky is dark, and those six small boats are really not found if you are unlucky." At night, the patrol also uses telescopes, but it is useless to use telescopes, the moon is obscured by clouds, and nothing can be seen. "If only there was a radar." Li Kongrong complained again. He wanted to install radar on the U-38 for a long time, but the U-38 is now docked at a US military base, and the magnetron cannot be leaked. Let the British give the magnetron to the Americans.

"Sir......" Li Kongrong was thinking about Churchill's absence, when the British would hand over the magnetron to the Americans, when there was a shout from the bilge. Please come down for a moment. ”

"If I were the commander of the Japanese ship, I would take such a course." Liu Yongren pointed to the route map, and the Japanese ships above did not go north to Qingdao, but first went east to Japan. "The fleet was limited to arriving at the port of Qingdao before dark, and when it had followed the Japanese route for 100 nautical miles, it turned north, and sailed about 320 nautical miles to reach Qingdao before dark. In this way, the northbound channel is completely avoided, and no matter how much we look near the main channel or even the main channel, we can't find the Bontenmaru. ”

"How far are we from them?" Li Kongrong was stunned for a while before asking.

"About ......" Liu Yongren measured it with a ruler and said, "We are in front of them, but the distance between the two sides is more than seventy nautical miles." If we set the course to 140 now," he looked at the clock again, "we will meet them at about six o'clock." However," Liu Yongren gave Li Kongrong a special look, and he emphasized, "If we guess wrong, we will never have a chance again." ”

"Sail to 140, set." Li Kongrong patted him on the shoulder and said nothing.

"Sail to 140, set." The command to turn echoed in the command cabin, and Li Kongrong once again went up to the bridge, and he wanted to find the Japanese with his eyes wide open.

*

No. 174, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Chongqing, was originally the residence of the East Sichuan Normal School, but after the relocation of the state government office, institutions at all levels in Chongqing have made way for the central departments. The Eastern Sichuan Normal School, which was established in 1906, also had to be moved, and the Survey and Statistics Bureau of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese National Committee took over.

Today, the old school building is brightly lit, and Director Xu Enzeng asked all the personnel of 'Xing Dongshan (that is, the homonym for the action station) to stay and work overtime, the purpose of which is not only to wait for the results of the operation in Shanghai, but also to check and evaluate the meaning of the naval intelligence agency -- Zheng Pingru made a detour to Chongqing after evacuating Shanghai, and in addition to notifying the Central Bureau of Statistics in Hong Kong to support the assassination operation, she also carried with her a handwritten letter to Xu Enzeng, deputy director of the Central Bureau of Statistics, from her life-saving benefactor. At the suggestion of Yang Wei, the person in charge of Xing Dongshan, Zheng Pingru, who had just arrived in Guilin, opened the letter and sent the contents of the letter to the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Statistics in Chongqing by telegram. As Yang expected, there was really a huge discovery in the letter, not to mention the others, and the signature 'Li Hansheng' was quite surprising.

When will the navy also have an intelligence department is the first question that Xu En once thought of after reading the telegram, the South Korean Provisional Government has an intelligence department, but this intelligence department was established in cooperation with the military command. What is the relationship between the Naval Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Service of the Provisional Government of South Korea? What is their relationship with the military commanders? What is the purpose of their establishment? Yes to deal with Chongqing, or to deal with Japan, or both?

All kinds of problems came to Xu Enzeng's mind, but these were secondary, and the key was that in the letter, Li Kongrong hoped that the Central Committee could cooperate with the navy to spy on Japanese intelligence, and this was the big problem. Cooperation, these iron-blooded eighteen anti-thieves will definitely make the chairman unhappy; If you don't cooperate, with the increase in the area of the occupied country, the Central Command, which has greatly reduced its power, will definitely be replaced by the military commander, and once this happens, your position will be unstable - since marrying that female communist bandit, the chairman of the committee will no longer look at himself squarely.

"Mr. Xu, judging from the current information, the naval intelligence department may have something to do with the attendant room." Yang Wei, the person in charge of Xing Dongshan, claimed to be an expert on the Soviet Union in the bureau, he himself had stayed in the Soviet Union, understood Russian, and when Zhang Guotao He Wei and others surrendered, he not only talked to them but also studied the Communist Party's strategy and line with these people, so he was commended twice by Chang Kaishen, but this person was modest, and as soon as he had achievements, he attributed them to Xu Enzeng, saying that this was 'Mr. Xu's good leadership' or 'the achievements of Mr. Xu'. Talented but not proud, thinking about what the leader thinks, anxious about what the leader is anxious about, such a person is a party and state cadre wherever he is.

"The chamber?" Xu En once thought about the words on the telegram, and felt a little regretful. Now the dispatchers and translators in Guilin and Chongqing know the secrets of this letter.

"Yes. The younger generation believed that the navy was related to military intelligence against Japan, and that this information was transmitted through the intelligence service of the North Koreans. "The information Yang Wei got was incomplete, but he dared to guess." In his previous intra-party speech, the chairman of the NPC National Committee said, "The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is about to enter the most arduous stage, and this hardship is first embodied ......in intelligence work."

In his speech, the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee read it repeatedly from top to bottom, and memorized every word by heart. Yang Wei didn't mention it, but as soon as he mentioned Xu Enzeng, he stood up, "That's right! At that time, I thought it was strange for the chairman of the committee to give top priority to intelligence work, but I had never said such a thing before, and I thought that the chairman was dissatisfied with our intelligence work. ”

"Mr. Xu, I think this is related to the Hong Kong assassination case." Yang Wei saw that the leader paid attention to it, and his smile was immediately full. "The military commander's information may have come from naval intelligence and passed on through the North Koreans, but when they assassinated Lee Han-sung, the situation changed. And the order to assassinate Li Hansheng can only come from the chairman of the committee, and those people in the navy have long ignored the central government and want to be unique. In this way, the chairman's speech and the recent actions of the military commanders can be justified. ”

"Well, that makes sense, that makes sense. You continue. Xu Enzeng sat down again, but the whole person looked extremely excited.

"The military command has no naval intelligence, and the navy has also lost its military command, at least the plan that Li Hansheng said in the letter has not been implemented. No matter how much counterfeit money there is, it has to be spent to be useful. Under the control of the Japanese, it was impossible to transport the ship overseas, and the ship had to be inspected by the Japanese as soon as it went to sea. Only when the purchased materials are transported into the Kuomintang can the printed money be valuable. Yang Wei continued to analyze the background and purpose of Li Hansheng's move, feeling that the logic was completely self-consistent, and he was quite complacent about his cleverness.

"I also heard that this Li Hansheng has a close relationship with Dean Kong, as well as Miss Kong, when the Navy acquired Xinzhong Company, it was under the sign of Dean Kong, and his old wife, the famous singer Xu Xiaoman, didn't he live in Kong's house and went to the city to visit the department store with Miss Kong and Miss Kong Er? This counterfeit money plan may also involve Dean Kong. Dean Kong is not Minister Song, there are tax police under Minister Song, and there is not a single soldier under President Kong. This may ......"

Yang Wei didn't dare to continue as he spoke. Intuitively, he thinks that the relationship between Kong Xiangxi and Li Hansheng is not so simple, the navy can rise so quickly, and set up companies and aircraft carriers in the United States, how can it be possible without the support of President Kong? Since Minister Song can build a tax police corps comparable to the Central Army, how can President Kong not build a Chinese volunteer navy behind his back?

"Well said, well said." Although Yang Wei didn't say it explicitly, Xu Enzeng still read out what he didn't mean. This meaning gives one more consideration - if you cooperate with Li Hansheng of the Navy, it is to cooperate with President Kong, and to cooperate with President Kong, that is, to go against Minister Song, and the Central Union should be careful and careful when taking counterfeit banknotes to cash out materials in the Guotong area.

"Dialing one, do you think it's better for us to cooperate or not to cooperate?" Xu Enzeng pondered for a moment, but still asked about cooperation.

"Mr. Xu, the juniors think that of course they should cooperate. This move is not harmful to the party-state, to the nation, and to the country. The military and our Central Unification are of great benefit. Yang Wei had already thought about this issue in his heart, so he resolutely supported cooperation as soon as he opened his mouth.

"What should I do if the chairman and Minister Song are angry?" Xu Enzeng asked.

"We will never admit to cooperating with Li Hansheng." Yang Weidao. "The people who learned about it ......" he made a shooting motion.

"Zheng Pingru too?" Xu En once asked that he, the director of the bureau, had also heard of this woman's name.

"Whether she has read the letter or not, it is best to ......" Yang Wei seems to be Sven, but he is not under the military wearer.

"It's not good. Our comrades did not die at the hands of the Japanese spies, but ...... "Xu Enzeng mainly thought that this woman was beautiful and lovely, and it would be a pity to kill her."

"The chairman has declared the navy a rebel, and she will definitely be left behind. If the matter is investigated by the military commander and reported to the chairman, the chairman of the committee will be angry and we will have to suspend our cooperation with the navy, and then we will have to "work hard in intelligence work." Yang Wei persuaded.

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you." Xu En had thought of the anger of the chairman of the committee, and then thought that the counterfeit money provided by the navy would cash out the massive amount of goods in the occupied area, so he had to nod his head. After deciding Zheng Pingru's fate, he continued: "I think it is better for me to go to the meeting in Hong Kong at the end of the month. You come with me. It's up to you to arrange this matter, and you must not let the news out. ”

"Yes, the juniors must do it without leakage." Yang Wei took himself to Hong Kong to see Li Hansheng, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Yang Wei was overjoyed, but Xu Enzeng, who wanted to stop these things, looked at the office clock, the time had passed six o'clock, and it would be dawn in a while, why hadn't there been news from Shanghai, didn't the stabbing Wang succeed?