"What's going on?" Rear Admiral Keno Kurita, commander of the 4th Mine Combat Squadron, could only see the empty sea through the telescope, but the destroyer on the other side opened fire, and he immediately became nervous - although the detailed report of the Navy's battle in Qinzhou Bay was not released to the public, the specific situation of the Shina submarine was still reported internally, and the escort Kurita Keno was quite worried this time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Report, the telegraph lookout spotted the submarine periscope and gave the order to open fire." The chief of staff looked at the flag from the electric destroyer and said, but when he saw the second half, he said: "It may be a false alarm." ”

"False positives?" Kurita didn't know why, if it was just a false positive, then why did he fire the gun.

"What's going on?" Because it was protected by Japanese warships, the gunfire of the destroyer on the port side was the first to be heard. The passengers in the lower cabin were panicked from the moment they were defended by the Japanese warships, and the new government officials in the first class were relieved, but when they heard the sound of the cannons, their hearts also rose to their throats, but some people who did not know how to pretend to understand deceived themselves: "Don't worry, when a warship meets a warship, it will fire a salute." ”

"Salute?" The big and small leaders looked at each other, and there were no other warships on the sea.

"What's going on?" It had been more than seven hours since he set sail, and Wang Jingwei was taking a nap after lunch, when he was awakened by the sound of cannons.

"I don't know." Zhou Fohai was called over by him, and Zhou Fohai was responsible for the safety of Wang Jingwei on this trip, but his subordinates were Li Shiqun No. 76 and the like, and they were useless at sea. "Some say it's a salute."

"Will the salute only go off twice?" Wang Jingwei was puzzled, he felt that there must be something strange in it, but it was difficult to ask about the Japanese.

In the Liang Hongzhi cabin on the next floor of the "...... of Brothers", Chen Qun, who woke up and had a full meal, came over and knocked on the door.

"Brother Renhe?" Liang Hongzhi, who was reciting poems, opened the hatch, although the two were fellow villagers, but the trees were scattered, and the relationship was no longer as harmonious as at the beginning of the establishment of the Restoration government.

"Didn't the brothers hear the cannon?" Chen Qun walked into Liang Hongzhi's cabin, and the window on one side was against the port side, and standing here, he could clearly see the electric destroyer that had just fired its guns. Of course, Chen Qun didn't know which Japanese warship had fired the cannon just now, and he wanted to look at both sides to rest assured. However, at this time, the destroyer had just returned to the escort position, and he suddenly felt that the warship was suspicious.

"Cannons? I didn't hear that. Liang Hongzhi was composing poetry with his heart just now, and he didn't pay attention to the sound of artillery at all, but Chen Qun was different, he was the director of the Nanjing Police Department before he surrendered to Japan, and now he is also in charge of the police of the Restoration government, and he is extremely alert to the sound of gunfire.

"There must be a problem." Chen Qun sat down by himself, "Maybe it's Li Hansheng's submarine." ”

"Diving... Submarine! As soon as he said about the submarine, Liang Hongzhi panicked. He is also a native of Changle, Fujian, and is also a fellow villager with Chen Jiliang, Li Hansheng and others. There are few people in the navy who usually come and go, and he naturally knows some about Chen Jiliang and Li Hansheng. He chased after Chen Qun and asked, "Didn't you say that the submarine was in Hong Kong?" How did you get to Shanghai? ”

"Hong Kong and Shanghai are not far away, so the submarine can sail back from Germany, the voyage is certainly not short, and it is not uncommon to come to Shanghai." Chen Qun sat on the chair and the old god was there, not at all like the respectful appearance he had for Liang Hongzhi before. His eyes rolled and rolled, and he scolded Say's milk while smoking, and then said: "Brothers, if it is really Li Hansheng's submarine, our people's lives will hang by a thread." Heng once said that the Japanese could not do anything about him, and it is said that he killed several Japanese warships in Qinzhou Bay. ”

Heng Zeng is Xu Jianting, and he is also a native of Changle, Fujian, but he did not fit in with the Central Navy and was kicked out of the Navy before the Anti-Japanese War. He is now the director of the Water Patrol Department of the Ministry of Pacification, and he is in charge of most of the ships of the new government, and the news of Qinzhou Bay is heard from him.

"Then we ......" Hearing that his fate was hanging by a thread, Liang Hongzhi's face was like dirt, and he said extremely uneasily: "Let's get off the boat." ”

"The brothers laughed, how can they get off the boat when they get on the boat." Chen Qun's strength and intelligence are naturally higher than Liang Hongzhi, but unfortunately his reputation is not as good as Liang Hongzhi, when Liang Hongzhi became the secretary of the Beiyang State Council, he was only Sun Yat-sen's personal secretary. "Just kidding, if Li Hansheng really wants to sink this ship, you will become the biggest winner."

"Me?" Liang Hongzhi pointed to his nose, his favorite thing to hear was 'become the biggest winner', he suppressed his horror and sat down and asked: "Brother Renhe, I will die if the ship sinks, how can I become the biggest winner?" ”

"The sinking of the ship is nothing more than drowning. If you can jump out with a piece of wood before the ship sinks, you'll survive. Can ......" Chen Qun pointed to the top of his head and gestured to Wang Jingwei. "If he doesn't happen, won't this government still be your chairman? What is the biggest winner if this is not the biggest winner? When the time comes, don't forget that I am. ”

"Huh?" Liang Hongzhi couldn't help but be moved when he heard Chen Qun's words, but he stood up and looked at the sea water outside the window, and then heard the sea breeze banging against the porthole, and felt chills all over his body.

"Haha." Chen Qun smiled, and then said a little viciously: "Say's milk! These bastards regard themselves as uncles one by one, and I, the Minister of the Interior, can't do it, and I can't wait for this ship to sink and drown the bastards in this boat. ”

Chen Qun expressed his heart directly, Liang Hongzhi looked at him carefully, and said puzzledly: "It's not that you ...... with them."

"I'm a with them!" Chen Qun's face became more and more gloomy, "Last night's news, saying that I Chen Laoba talked about Li Hansheng was too disrespectful to the Japanese, and the post of Minister of the Interior was concurrently held by Zhou Fohai. ”

"Huh?" The Restoration government looked down on Chen Qun and Ren Yuandao by Wang Jingwei, and Liang Hongzhi thought that Chen Qun had kept his position, and he didn't want his position to be kept. "How can you talk about Li Hansheng?"

"Li Hansheng can fish out of the sea for gold, silver and jewelry, and he is my fellow villager, why can't I talk about it at the family banquet? Not only that, but now he has a falling out with Chang Kaishen, and I also invited him to come to Nanjing to be the Minister of the Navy. Chen Qun was angry when he mentioned this matter, he only said that he only said that among the Fujian people, it seems that Li Hansheng has the ability to do so, and he didn't want this to be spread out. This made the Japanese advisers in the government very unhappy, and Wang Jingwei and others took the opportunity to remove his Minister of the Interior.

"Oops." When Liang Hongzhi heard what happened, the bitterness in his heart also rose, "Wang Jingwei, hey, a gentleman does not avoid the beauty of people, and does not say anything about the evil of people. Forget it. ”

"Brothers...... "All the different brothers" Chen Qun snuffed out the half-smoked cigarette, and he leaned into Liang Hongzhi's ear and said: "If it was really Li Hansheng's submarine just now, then he would definitely follow us to Qingdao and find an opportunity to sink us on the way." Heng once said that the German submarines all took advantage of the moon to hit the British merchant ships at night, so those ships were forbidden to turn on their lights at night, and if we really wanted to strictly prohibit the lights tonight, we would ......"

Chen Qun spoke for several minutes, and Liang Hongzhi's face turned white, red, and blue. Before Chen Qun finished speaking, he gasped and shook his head like a rattle, "How can we do this kind of thing?" How can we ...... such a thing?"

"If you can't, I'll come. But tonight you stay in my cabin, I'll stay here. Chen Qun stared at him with some disdain.

"Shall I go to your cabin? Are you in my cabin? Liang Hongzhi was hit by Chen Qun's IQ was negative, and he spoke like a fool.

"yes. Don't you dare, don't you dare, then I'll come. In the middle of the night, when no one is around, we secretly change cabins, and no one will know. Chen Qun patiently persuaded: "We don't want to sleep tonight, and once we are hit by thunder, we will jump into the sea." ”

"I don't dare. I don't dare. Liang Hongzhi shuddered, waved his hand again and again, and said he didn't dare.

"What dare not. Don't you dare, Li Hansheng won't be able to find us? Today is the thirteenth day of the lunar month, and the moonlight is very bright. It was a breeze for him to follow the moonlight to find us. We drowned in the sea without preparation. "Chen Qun is worthy of being a policeman, and under the temptation of following the good steps, Liang Hongzhi will be suspicious." Brothers, we are only saving ourselves, not killing ourselves. But if we live......" Chen Qun pointed to the top of his head again, and his voice was a little quieter, "They are dead, do you think this new government will still be established?" Nanjing is still your executive premier, you have to take a step forward, you can be the acting chairman if you don't become the chairman. ”

*

"Float, sonic inspection at thirty meters." The U-38 boat, which had fled the scene quickly, was worried that the Japanese ship had dropped a depth charge and that it had been moving on the sea for a long time, so Li Kongrong ordered the submarine to float. Because he was worried that the Japanese would turn off the engine and float at sea, he had to ask Lin Lianfan to conduct a sonic inspection.

"No situation!" The active sonar has been turned on, and Lin Lianfan listened for a while and said that everything was normal.

"Engine, fifteen meters periscope depth." Li Kongrong ordered again, and the periscope buzzed up with the drive of the motor. After the upper end poked out of the water, he quickly made a round, and the Japanese were indeed gone. "Float. Start the host. Heading 360, the two men are moving forward at full speed. ”

"Float up, head to 360." In the midst of the repetition of the command, he came to the chart table.

"If the Bonten Pill still moves at a speed of twelve knots, we will be able to catch up with her in no time. However, with five Japanese ships escorting the escort, it is difficult to attack during the day, and can only attack at night. Liu Yongren had already thought of a backup plan. He pointed to the location of the sea off Qidong and said: "It's three o'clock and a quarter of an hour, and it will be dark in three hours, if there is no accident and we will pursue them at full speed, we will probably be able to catch up with them in this position, and the time will be about eight o'clock in the evening." ”

"Nope." Li Kongrong objected, "We must attack in the second half of the night, otherwise it will be easy for the Japanese to rescue people." "The diesel engine has been started, and there is a noise in the command cabin. He pointed to a sea area farther away, "It's better to attack at three o'clock in the middle of the night." What's the weather like today? ”

"The air pressure is normal, there are no storms." Liu Yongren said that meteorology is also his responsibility. "But it will be cloudy, and if it is the second half of the night, there are no lights on the cruise ship, and the night lights are off, we will most likely not find the target."

"Do you think there were lights on the ship in the middle of the night?" Li Kongrong asked with a smile. "If I were Japanese, I would sail at night with my lights out."

Li Kongrong was right, just after night, most of the lights on the Mukden Pill were turned off under the captain's order, and the doors and windows were all blocked, leaving only a few lights in the inner corridor. This is the case in the second and third classes, and the first class is in a better situation because it is a VIP, but the waiters on the ship also carefully inspected each cabin, and after closing the curtains themselves, they solemnly warned that they should not be opened at night, and informed that all the lights would be turned off after dinner.

"This is for everyone's safety, in case the Chongqing agents sabotage." Kagesa did not release information about the suspected discovery of the Shina submarine. He believed that the navy was nervous this time, and that the navy had parted ways with the Chongqing government, and that it was impossible for them to serve Chongqing. Of course, this was only a superficial understanding, and deep down Kagesa Yoshiaki felt that being suspicious of a Shina submarine would hinder the majesty of the Japanese Empire, and informing these friendly people would not only be useless, but also cause unnecessary panic.

But Wang Jingwei knew about this, Ling Xiao was from the navy, and as soon as the electric destroyer opened fire, he realized that there was a submarine nearby, and he quickly reported to Wang Jingwei, and also reminded Chairman Wang to pay great attention to safety. It's just that the Japanese don't say it, and Wang Jingwei can't say it either. After Ying Zuo Zhenzhao finished speaking, he immediately raised his glass and said to everyone present: "Gentlemen, Chongqing elements have always acted without morality, and they will not care about the deaths and injuries of innocent people. Be careful with the 10,000-year-old ship, in view of the fact that it will arrive in Qingdao tomorrow, I think it is better to cancel tonight's ball. ”

Although the Mukden Pill is not luxurious, it is fully equipped with a ballroom and a restaurant. In order to welcome these friendly people, the Japanese side originally arranged a dance party on the cruise ship this evening, but now that Wang Jingwei said that it was canceled, a pervert like Luo Junqiang was inevitably a little disappointed. But Ying Zuo Zhenzhao supported this, and he said: "Since Mr. Wang thinks that the ball should be canceled, then the ball should be canceled." ”

"Yes, it's better to cancel, it's better to cancel." The Japanese also said that it was canceled, so naturally it was all canceled.

Chen Qun, who was sitting at another table, snickered in his heart when he saw this, and in his smile, he looked at Liang Hongzhi, who was sitting at the same table as Wang Jingwei, only to see that he was drooping his head, and he was not happy at all. For some reason, Chen Qun's gaze was suddenly captured by Ying Zuo Zhenzhao, and he also turned his head to look at Liang Hongzhi, and asked at the same time, "Dean Liang, why are you unhappy?" ”

"Ahh Liang Hongzhi thought about Chen Qun's poisonous plan and his own life, where did he get happy, he has been crying and mourning since the afternoon. Kagesa Zhenzhao was immediately startled when he asked him, he didn't hear what Kagesa was asking, and thought that he was talking about canceling the ball: "It's good to cancel the ball, it's good to cancel it." Shangshu Youyun: Playing with people is moral, playthings are demoralizing, and hugging and hugging is what kind of system. ”

"Haha......" Liang Hongzhi answered the question, he was lustful and opposed to everyone dancing, and the people at the table immediately laughed. Chen Qun looked at Zhou Fohai, Luo Junqiang, and Mei Siping, who were smiling brightly, and their eyes narrowed into a slit, he wanted to bring Li Hansheng here tonight no matter what, if the ship sank, see how long they could laugh.