New York is still lit up late at night, and just after Halloween, even Chinatown is tainted with some ghosts. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn a courtyard on East Broadway, Chen Jiliang, who is still bowing his head on the bookcase, is looking at the blueprints of the Ninghai, the first modified aircraft carrier. Compared with the 198-meter-long German cruise ship, the biggest problem of the Tatsuda Maru is that the length is not enough, and the length, that is, the length of the deck, is an important factor restricting the number of ships, so the length of the hull is extremely necessary.

Lengthening is the focus of the aircraft carrier renovation work, but with the winning bid for the carrier-based aircraft - the fighter winning bidder is undoubtedly Grumman, and the NA-55 prototype of North American Aircraft Corporation is also quite good, but after all, North American companies lack experience in the manufacture of naval carrier-based aircraft, and are inferior to Grumman's F5F in stall and other details; The torpedo dive bomber project was on par with the little-known Fleetings company, but the Fleetings prototype had a poorly designed cooling system, a very high cockpit temperature, and poor stall performance.

Grumman and Douglas were selected for the carrier-based aircraft, but the prototypes of these two still had to be changed, especially the attack aircraft (Li Kongrong thought that the name of the torpedo dive bomber was too long, and finally named it an attack aircraft at the meeting) The fuselage was too high, and after communicating with the Douglas company, the aircraft carrier design institute set an upper limit of no more than 4.5 meters after folding, and at the same time, the original 4.5 meter hangar will also be increased to 4.65 meters.

The increase in the height of the hangar will inevitably affect the balance of the center of gravity of the entire aircraft carrier, and the design of the training aircraft carrier Tongji also made the naval designers discover the shortcomings of the original design, so the initial design of the Ninghai aircraft carrier needs to be revised a lot.

Under the command light, the new design sketch is extremely concise, the tall bridge is designed in the shape of wings to reduce the effect of air currents on aircraft take-off and landing, and to balance, on the other side of the bridge are three thirteen-meter-long, sixteen-meter-wide outboard lifts, which take off and land at a speed of 60 meters a minute, and it takes only five seconds to ascend from the first hangar to the flight deck. Eight twin 88m anti-aircraft guns were arranged on both sides of the bridge, and the others were arranged around the warship, with a total of 30 40mm Eritra anti-aircraft guns and 60 licensed replica Sispano 20mm guns, and their main targets were Japanese ship-attack fighters who launched torpedo attacks at low altitudes......

Chen Jiliang looked at the design drawings on the table, and what he didn't expect was that Lin Xianxin actually came. "Why are you here?"

"Hansheng has won a great victory!" Lin Xianxin didn't smile, and immediately slapped the telegram on the design drawing. "The intelligence service called and said that they had just sunk a Japanese aircraft carrier."

"Really?" Chen Jiliang was shocked and couldn't close his mouth, he picked up the telegram and quickly scanned it, and said, "Which one is this?" ”

"I don't know." All Lin Xianxi knew was this forwarded telegram, which confirmed that a Japanese aircraft carrier had been sunk off the coast of Sanya, and because the bottom of the ship was facing up, it was impossible to identify which one. He speculated: "The bottom of the ship is facing up, so it must have been torpedoed on one side and overturned in the water." ”

"Yes, it should be." Chen Jiliang nodded and read the telegram again. "The sea off Sanya is not deep, but there is no way to salvage such a capsizing. The Japanese will definitely be annoyed and angry when they are hit hard by this, and I wonder if Hansheng will be able to get out of the way? ”

"He's going to get away with it." Lin Xianxin has an inexplicable confidence in Li Kongrong. "Now that we see the bottom of the ship, the sinking is real, and I mean to report the news immediately, so that we are not so passive."

Two months ago, Chongqing finally abolished the navy, reorganized it into a branch under the army, and the Marine Corps was also canceled. In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also treated naval personnel in the United States coldly, and the Ministry of Military Affairs ordered Chen Jiliang to immediately leave for China. In this case, the sinking of an aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy would enhance the prestige of the Navy and deal with the theory of naval uselessness propagated by Chongqing. In addition, from Situ Meitang, Lin Xianxin also heard a news: Chongqing wants to 'move' himself and Chen Jiliang.

"Hold a press conference?" Chen Jiliang asked. "But we don't even know the name of the aircraft carrier yet."

"We will call the reporter now and inform the reporter that the press conference will be held in the afternoon, and then Hansheng and they should be out of trouble." Lin Xianxin smiled. He was so optimistic about the U-38 that if Li Kongrong and others could hear this, the 45 crew members of the U-38 would definitely shout to him, 'Accept your good words.'

From 10:48 a.m. to escape from the torpedo launch site, except for the first 40 minutes, the propellers on the U-38's head did not stop at all, and the depth charges in the ears rang for several hours—not because the Japanese gave up, but because the 5th Fleet and the 11th Destroyer Fleet, which escorted the Soryu, used up all the depth charges. For the Japanese Navy, they had no opponents except for the Soviet Volunteer Air Force. It's in the air, and the real thing to worry about on the sea is just the reef.

Who would have thought that the Chinese submarine would come back after capturing a German cruise ship to the United States? Who would have thought that the navy had already taken the lead in this n operation? The empty mother Soryu sank, and the middle two were so angry that the depth charges were thrown out and exploded indiscriminately, and by the time Lieutenant General Takasu Shiro was about to stop them, the bombs had already been dropped.

Now that the depth charges are gone, all the ships that can kill the submarine are naturally patrolling the sea surface according to the area, waiting for the submarine to run out of power and oxygen and surface. Under the command of Rear Admiral Tabun Yamaguchi, the outgoing Chief of Staff of the 5th Ship Commander, patrolled the torpedo firing point at a radius of up to 100 nautical miles over time, with searchlight flares prepared for use at night.

100 nautical miles is the limit of the submarine's underwater range, but the U-38, with its doubled battery pack, is outside this range. However, there was still trouble, under the frantic depth charge attack of the Japanese ships, the panicked boatswain made a mistake when going to the toilet, and he was sprayed in the face after flushing. Fortunately, the submarine did not dive deep enough to cause an accident, but after this time, the toilet could no longer be used, and everyone could only use buckets, and 45 people ate and drank Lazar a day, and within a few hours the air in the boat became extremely unpleasant, and Li Kongrong had to issue a breathing tank to purify the air by relying on the chemical alkali inside.

The propellers are close and far away, and most of the people except the people on duty go back to bed to rest to reduce oxygen consumption. Su Jinghu was reading a novel, while Li Kongrong was sitting in the captain's room to record in detail all the process of today's battle and the whole process of being charged with depth charges.

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10:46 a.m.: Targeting the aircraft carrier Canglong, launch torpedoes No. 1, 3, 2, and 4 in turn;

10:47 a.m.: In order to achieve the sinking effect, turn 180 degrees as originally planned, and fire torpedoes No. 5 and 6 again;

10:49 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.: Four explosions were heard in the direction of the target, and it was speculated that torpedoes No. 1-4 hit three and No. 5-6 hit one, the exact location of the hits is unknown, but it is believed that the Soryu has been sunk......

11:53 a.m.: Depth charges explode near the submarine, and the enclosure of the submarine is suspected to have been hit by shrapnel from the explosion, but there is no damage inside the submarine;

12:48 p.m.: Captain Xue Kuiguang makes a mistake flushing the toilet and the toilet is unusable, and then the breathing tank is used;

……’

"Captain, it's time for dinner." Time passed quickly, and after the depth charges ceased to explode, the submarine slowly but firmly advanced towards the Paracel Islands, 90 nautical miles away, at a speed of four knots. The crew was quiet at this point, and most of them ignored the propellers that kept coming and going overhead, thinking that they had escaped.

"Put it down." The kitchen added a meal today, and the dishes were sumptuous. Li Kongrong put away the logbook.

"Sir." Gao Guangyou rushed over, and according to the usual practice, he, Su Jinghu, and Lin Xiangguang were qualified to eat at the same table with the captain.

"Sit down. Have you inspected and how is it going? Li Kongrong put the log back in its place, and without the depth charge, the submarine would not be in danger of sinking, but he was still worried about the power situation.

"I've checked, and the rest is okay, but there is only half of the electricity left, and it is estimated that it will be enough to choke on the North Reef." Su Jinghu was the first to report on the submarine.

"Well, how much worse?" Li Kongrong nodded in agreement. In the first two hours, the submarine wasted a lot of power, otherwise it would have made it to the North Reef of the Paracel Islands, the first refuge point, where the U-38 had been lurking when it came. After occupying Hainan at the beginning of the year, the Japanese dug up guano on large and small islands in the South China Sea, and the Xisha Islands were the first to be dug up.

"Fifteen to twenty nautical miles away. We might have to drive on the water for one to three hours, or charge for three hours. Su Jinghu said the solution. One hour means that the submarine is completely floating, the main engine is fully open for one hour, three hours is to travel in the state of the snorkel, about six knots per hour, and finally charged, five hours can be fully charged by half, three hours is enough for the submarine to the North Reef, the disadvantage is that the washing navigation is slow, and oxygen is consumed.

"What's the weather like at sea?" After Li Kongrong meditated, he asked Gao Guangyou and Lin Xiangguang that he wanted to know the weather to weigh these plans.

"The sea is still windy and rough, and it is not safe to navigate with a snorkel, so it will be better to recharge." Gao Guangyou suggested, and Lin Xiangguang also nodded, "The sea conditions are favorable to us, as long as the battery is fully charged, escape is not a problem." ”

"So we float up after eating and drinking coffee?" Li Kongrong said that the three of them all laughed. The six hours just now seemed to be six days and six nights, and even if the sea was stormy, they were willing to float to the surface of the sea to blow the wind.

"Hansheng, next...... Is it back to Manila? "Had a lovely dinner and the atmosphere was nice. Accompanied by music, when the coffee was about to be drunk, Gao Guangyou asked with some hesitation - before Li Kongrong went to Hong Kong, the submarine left Mandarin Duck Island and went to the Krabi Naval Base in Manila. Admiral Thomas Hart, commander of the Asian Fleet, met with Lee Kong-wing, while Commander John Wilkes, commander of the submarine force, accompanied U.S. naval engineers aboard to conduct a comprehensive test of the U-38. They were interested in everything on the submarine, especially the snorkel. As a result, the U.S. Navy not only obtained all the technical parameters of Germany's latest ocean-going submarine (the U-38's depth of more than 200 meters was secretly discovered during a comprehensive test, and Li Kongrong exclaimed that the German stick was cunning and invincible), but also purchased a set of submarine snorkels of the New China Defense Company to go back for testing.

There are many Fujianese Chinese in Manila, and their eating habits are the same as those in China, so the crew will miss it for half a month. In the opinion of some of Gao Guangyou, since he had sunk a large Japanese aircraft carrier and had been at sea for nearly a month, he should go ashore to rest, and the Americans welcomed the U-38 secretly anchored at the Krabi naval base, which they called a friendly visit.

"The battle isn't over yet." Li Kongrong put down the coffee cup and shook his head gently. "Regardless of whether the aircraft carrier sinks or not, the Japanese army will land in Qinzhou and then occupy Nanning to cut off our foreign trade route."

Unexpectedly, Li Kongrong didn't want to return to Hong Kong, and Gao Guangyou and Lin Xiangguang were slightly disappointed. Li Kongrong continued: "Country. What is the biggest problem with the military? It's a lack of mobility. Lack of mobility means insufficient troops, and if there are insufficient troops, they will be easily defeated by the Japanese army. The purpose of the submarine appearing in Qinzhou Bay was to delay the landing of the Japanese army and interfere with the logistics and supply of the Japanese army. ”

"Sir, doesn't the government know that the Japanese army is going to land in Qinzhou Bay?" Lin Xiangguang suddenly asked. "If they knew, would they be able to assemble troops in Qinzhou Bay in advance? The 4th Fleet and the Electric Mine School can also secretly lay mines in Qinzhou Bay? ”

"Ray should be clothed." Li Kongrong slowed down for a while before answering. The news that the Japanese army would land in Qinzhou Bay in the middle of this month was relayed to Chang Kaishen by Susan Esposi last month. This woman has been in Japan, and in addition to monitoring the progress of magnetron technology at the Japanese Naval Electronics Research Institute, Igarashi Aluminum has now been added to the task.

"It's just ......, I heard another news." Li Kongrong's expression was a little complicated, "It was said that Bai Jiansheng, deputy chief of general staff, wanted to transfer the Gui army back to Guangxi for garrison, but the government did not agree. ”

"Disagree?!" The three people sitting here are not fools, and with the revocation of the navy stimulus, Su Jinghu sarcastically said: "If you don't transfer the Gui Army to defend Guangxi, will the Standing Committee Chairman transfer the world's first army to guard it?" ”

When Su Jinghu said this, Li Kongrong could only smile bitterly, he didn't know whether it was true that Chang Kaishen did not agree with Gui Jun's return to Guangxi, but judging from his consistent style, he was very likely to use some methods to cause this situation. Shanxi, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong, Hebei, these places have local armies, that is, where there are warlords. Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi were directly occupied by the Japanese, while Liangguang, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan were transferred out of the province because of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the security of the province was guarded by guest troops.

Hunan is the most obvious example, in 36 the Hunan army was transferred out of the province to garrison Zhejiang, and after the Battle of Songhu, the Hunan army was placed in the third theater of operations, not the ninth theater. As a result, there was a bizarre situation in which Hunan people defended other provinces and people from other provinces defended Hunan. Is it bad to have a local guard guard? It's like Finland versus the Soviet Union, the right time, the right place and the right people. No matter how detailed the pre-war map mapping of the Japanese is, can they be more detailed than the natives who were born and lived for decades? No matter how strong their fighting spirit is, can they be stronger than the Hunan mules who defend their fathers, wives and children?

But this situation will never appear, and the Hunan army will return to Hunan, and the end will be that the local forces in Hunan, which have been suppressed with great difficulty, will take the opportunity to rise up and confront the central government in the future. The Japanese occupation was temporary, and for the long-term peace and stability of the party-state, the Hunan army must be transferred out, and even after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the local army must also be transferred outward - if the Dian army is not sent to Vietnam to surrender, how can Du Yuming arrest Long Yun? How did the party-state take over Yungui? And there are policies and countermeasures, and he is as smart as the Gui system, so he collected miscellaneous cards in the Anti-Japanese War, and fought more and more, and in the end, Li Zongren also became the vice president of the Republic of China. (To be continued.) )