The war broke out two months ago, the Soviet-German secret treaty was signed, and the German attack on Poland ......, these were all warned by Li Kongrong, and Prime Minister Chamberlain did not pay attention to this information at first, but the trend of the situation after the war had to remind him of this mysterious intelligence agent spy; The German submarine offensive in the past two months has terrified all the British people, not only the cruise ships, merchant ships and destroyers, but the sinking of the Ark Royal on 14 September, the sinking of the aircraft carrier Brave on 17 September, the sinking of the Royal Oak on 14 October, and the sinking of Nelson on 30 October discouraged all the subjects of the British Empire, as well as the Admiralty, the First Sea Lord, and an admiral who died as a result. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Poland was solved by Germany at this time, where will the German tank wheels go next? Chamberlain desperately needed more accurate information about Germany's future direction. At the same time, he also needs the German U-boat in the hands of 007. Whether it was leased or bought, he wanted to get the entire submarine back to Britain so that the Admiralty could find out its weaknesses, and the British Empire could not sink like this.

Li Kongrong, who was in the Gulf of Tonkin North, naturally did not know that the situation facing the British Empire was so severe, and his biggest surprise in World War II was that Churchill died at the hands of a German submarine, and what he didn't know was the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which originally escaped by chance after encountering the sister ship U-39 of U-38 because of its torpedo that did not explode, and at the same time the escort destroyer also sank the U-39, and now the situation is fundamentally reversed: the Ark Royal was sunk by those two torpedoes, and U-39 escaped because of the chaos- Everything went haywire, even if it was just a proposal to Dönitz to improve the submarine torpedo.

"Sir, two telegrams have been received. All from Hong Kong. Lu Ruping took a long telegram and reported to Li Kongrong, and he only now knew what the clear code telegram that Li Kongrong asked him to send to Hong Kong yesterday was doing.

"Good." Li Kongrong took these two telegrams, and intuitively felt that it was very good to have a large group of people behind him to support him.

"The tide and the depth of the water are ......" Li Kongrong looked at the hydrological data on the telegram, and saw the last Xiao Oh and sighed: "There is also intelligence!" ”

It was indeed intelligence from the Japanese 5th Fleet, which came from the reconnaissance of the seaplanes of the Royal Navy's Asian Fleet. The intelligence mentioned that the Japanese Army was rushing to Sanya to assemble, and the naval escort fleet had been assembled. The flagship was the heavy cruiser Chokai, with eight destroyers, two seaplane carriers, and dozens of troop passenger carriers.

"No aircraft carriers?" Li Kongrong searched for a long time in the telegram but could not find the word "aircraft carrier". Could it be that they made a mistake in their own judgment, the Japanese were able to complete the Nanning operation with a few seaplane carriers.

At lunchtime, Gao Guangyou sat next to Li Kongrong, who read the first telegram and handed it to him before reading the next telegram. If the previous telegram was a catalogue of goods, then this one is a quotation. The telegram was sent in the name of Admiral Sinclair, director of MI6, who made no polite gesture in the telegram, but directly emphasized that he urgently needed Li Kongrong to provide German information in the current situation, and claimed that he had sent Colonel Russell, who was in charge of naval intelligence, to Hong Kong in order to meet as soon as possible.

"Brother Hansheng, how many people will Japan send this time?" Gao Guangyou asked, he saw dozens of troop transports on it, and naturally remembered the great victory of Jinshanwei, that time the navy killed tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers.

"Aircraft carrier first!" Li Kongrong had a headache, but he had not given up hope, and today was only October 8, and in his memory, the Japanese army launched an attack in the middle of the month. "What's the weather like outside?" After Liu Yongren finished studying the tidal currents, Li Kongrong asked Lin Xiangguang.

"Heavy rain, wind speed over level four." Lin Xiangguang reported. Since the day before yesterday, the weather has been unfavorable, and the wind and waves on the sea are getting stronger and stronger. It wasn't good weather for surface ships, but the storm made him feel safe.

"Go and ask the water listening room, is there any movement?" Li Kongrong put away the telegram and said to Gao Guangyou, who was sitting on the side of the aisle.

"There's no special movement." Diagonally opposite the captain's room is the radio and hydrophone room. At Li Kongrong's request, there were also three shifts there, with the purpose of listening to the sound of the propellers of warships and fleets of more than 10,000 tons.

"No. 8, No. 8 ......" Li Kongrong muttered to himself about the day, and on the other side he calculated the oxygen consumption - the U-38 anchored off the coast of Yulin Port, and there could be no reef here, so the submarine had to consume its own oxygen during the day, and only at night could it quietly float up and use a snorkel to breathe. In this way, you will consume 145 or 5 hours of oxygen a day, and if you continue like this, you will run out of oxygen for up to 10 days.

"Let's move the place first." Li Kongrong, who has mastered hydrological and current data, found that his current position was not ideal, and since the water in the northeast of Yulin Outer Harbor was relatively deep, the submarine could still move a little northeast. "Mirror Lake, anchor."

The position of the U-38 at this time was on the outside of the Yulin port, which led to the next Sanya port through the outer port of Yulin Port, where the water depth was more than 30 meters, and the submarine was less than one nautical mile away from this route. If they move to the inner side of the course, close to Yinggebi, there are really Japanese warships coming, and they will turn one after another into the harbor under the torpedo tubes of the U-38, which is in the inner circle, and there are more torpedo firing planes than on the outside.

"Anchor." Su Jinghu made an anchor action on the console, and with the rotation of the motor, the entire submarine could hear the windlass running, and the anchor chain rolled into the bow with a clatter.

"Heading to 054, the two are moving forward at a slight pace." Li Kongrong then gave the order. After lifting the anchor, the bow was a little unbalanced, and he hurriedly said: "Pay attention to the balance of the bow and stern." Pay attention to the sonographic examination. ”

After sailing more than 20,000 nautical miles, the crew is very skillful. At the same time as the bow turned to the new course 054, the motor buzzed slightly, and the submarine cautiously sailed towards the warbler on the inside of the course. Twenty minutes later, Li Kongrong, who had a premonition of the position, said again: "Sail to two, three, four, prepare to dive and sink." ”

"Sail two, three, four, prepare to dive." The order was repeated, and Chief Engineer Su Jinghu also ordered the officer who controlled the high-pressure air pump: "The main water tank discharges two hundred liters. ”

"The main tank discharges two hundred litres." The high-pressure air pumps were twisted open, and a series of bubbles appeared on the surface of the sea, but no one noticed them in the storm, and soon, after a hundred and eighty degree turn, the submarine slowly sank.

"Mirror Lake, how deep is it?" The hull swayed gently after hitting the ground, and now that the submarine was on course, any captain entering the harbor from the east would have to make a big turn in front of her.

"Thirty-four meters." Su Jinghu read the depth on the table. "It seems that the British intelligence was as accurate as the Telavi in Lübeck."

"Do you remember the Travi River? I almost forgot, yes, and the German raw sausages. "After the submarine sank, the crew quieted down, those who played cards continued to play cards, those who slept continued to sleep, and everyone knew that they would have to wait here for a long time.

"Of course I do." Su Jinghu leaned against the hull of the boat and spoke, "I have never done this kind of thing in my life, and now I feel scared when I think about it." I kept thinking, what if something went wrong with the machine? ”

Su Jinghu frowned as he spoke, as if he was still in the dockyard of the Lübeck shipyard. Li Kongrong wanted to hand him a cigarette, but now that the watertight door was sealed and smoking was not allowed inside, he had to put the cigarette back again.

"Soldiers, there will always be times when you don't know the bottom of your heart." Li Kongrong almost forgot about the Travi River, but he was worried about the anti-submarine nets in the Skagerrak Strait. "But now the second step of the aircraft carrier program has been completed, and both cruise ships are docked at U.S. shipyards — and the Oregon shipyards we acquired can also be retrofitted with aircraft carriers."

Li Kongrong whispered the news from the United States, his eyes were shining, for him the aircraft carrier was the last step away, if the plan was correct, he could lead the fleet to a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier mobile force in 42. Five against six is nothing to be afraid of, plus the United States is likely to be eight against six, and with its own advantage in early warning aircraft and range, this battle is not difficult to fight at all - he has been thinking about how to deal with the change in the course of history for a few days: if the early closure of the Yunnan-Burma Highway makes Chongqing unsustainable.

If Japan's mobile forces are defeated, the island-hopping strategy can be launched in advance. Of course, the landing ships and transport ships were not ready at this time, but it was still feasible to organize an attack of 50,000 or 60,000 men in the Pacific Ocean. Whether it's Guam or Marianas, as long as there is an airfield for the B-29 to be mass-produced in advance, Japan will have a general trend.

What he wants to try to correct here is that the main target of the B-29's early bombing was not the city, but the laying of mines. For a continental country, such as Germany, the main targets of bombing are naturally industrial, transportation, electric power and other facilities, but for an island country like Japan, where all resources come from overseas, the most important thing for B-29 bombers to do is to lay mines in ports throughout Japan. Historically, the U.S. Navy also broke diplomatic relations in the western Pacific, but it was not until the occupation of the Philippines that Japan's overseas resource transportation was completely cut off, and Japanese industry basically stopped. What Li Mei did after that was only to blow up these stalled industries with bombs, which was considered a repetitive mission.

The bombing and killing of a large number of Japanese people is indeed relieving, but if he moves from the position of the enemy of Japan to the position of the attacker, Li Kongrong does not find it so interesting. Later in history, killing and burning civilians did not help Japan surrender - the Japanese warlords did not care whether civilians lived or died, unless the bombing could kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese at one time, millions of them ten times, and half of the Japanese after four hundred times, but this was impossible before the advent of the atomic bomb.

Therefore, the Japanese targets for bombing must be carefully selected, the focus should not be on Japanese cities or industries, the task of the bombers in the early stage should be to lay mines to block Japan, and when the blockade is completed, the bombers will do something else, such as throwing defoliant or rice field incendiary bombs on a large area.

'Smack...... Smack......'

After sinking, the submarine was silent, and the only sound in the control cabin was the 'snapping' sound of the electric compass. Li Kongrong is obsessed with the aircraft carrier fleet and thinks about the future Pacific strategy, but Su Jinghu can't say anything about the aircraft carrier, although they will definitely serve on the aircraft carrier in the future, but that will be later. Although everyone has been together in Germany for a long time, no one understands Li Kongrong's world.

"Sir, there's a propeller approaching." The water listener reported softly and gestured to Li Kongrong to come over.

Li Kongrong was not surprised by this, in the sea off Yulin Port, there were ships passing by all the time. "What's out of the ordinary?" He asked.

"Lots of boats. Many, much more. Lu Ruping said, he picked up the headphones and put them in Li Kongrong's ear, the sound of the propeller in the hydrophone was deafening, this is definitely the arrival of the fleet or fleet.

"Quick. Float to periscope depth. Li Kongrong ordered, and he quickly stood in the position of the hatch.

"Discharge three hundred liters and float up to periscope depth." Su Jinghu also reacted quickly, at this time the sea was stormy, and sticking out the periscope in a stationary state would not cause a white track, so he was not too worried about being discovered by the Japanese.

The sea was indeed stormy, and the submarine felt a violent surge as soon as it surfaced, and everyone hurriedly grabbed the fixed objects around them. Li Kongrong grabbed the telescope, and at this time he was no longer in the control cabin, but the captain above the control cabin attacked the command cabin. The lights here are red, and the first thing you see in the periscope is the raging sea, and then the waves and the raindrops above them. Sitting on the periscope chair with a quick turn of the motor, Li Kongrongfang, who did not find danger, pressed the button to adjust the magnification, and magnified it six times to observe the fleet approaching from the east.

In the wind and rain, three gray Japanese destroyers pulled black smoke on the sea in the distance, and sailed quickly in the shape of a 'pin'. In view of the rich variety of destroyers in the Japanese Navy, Li Kongrong still did not remember how many destroyers there were in the Japanese Navy, and he only saw the three Japanese destroyers stirring up huge waves on the bow and the Navy's Rising Sun Flag waving on the mast.

Behind them were two light cruisers with taller bridges. It is not the common S-shaped bow, but a spoon-shaped bow, and the chimney is not a curved type in the Japanese style, but an upright type common to warships of various countries, which should be the design of Japanese ships before they formed a unique style, and it should be those light cruisers built in Japan after World War I. When Li Kongrong was judging that this would be the light cruiser of that class, two targets in the distance, one large and one small, almost made him shout: the heavy cruiser on the left could be ignored, but the aircraft carrier on the right was directly imprinted into his mind, making his body stiffen.

The open bow, the stubby bridge, the curved chimney, the grave-like mast and antenna ...... all the unique features of a Japanese aircraft carrier are gathered on this carrier that pours thick black smoke into the sea and breaks through the waves. Seeing clearly that the bridge of the aircraft carrier was arranged on the right side, Li Kongrong muttered to himself: 'Is it Kaga or Soryu?' Is it Kaga or Soryu? He asked this sentence twice before he remembered to prepare the torpedo compartment immediately, and he immediately said in a loud voice: "Combat position, torpedo tubes 1 to 4 are ready." ”

The fleet was already very close, even without hydrophones Gao Guangyou, Su Jinghu and others could hear the sound of propellers mixed on the sea, but Li Kongrong in the attack cabin above was quiet, which made them very puzzled, but fortunately, the order was finally given, and Gao Guangyou immediately repeated the order: "Combat position, torpedo tubes 1 to 4 are ready." (To be continued.) )