Chapter 58: Confession

Thirty minutes after U-38 left, the phone in Dai's Mansion rang again, it was an urgent call from Nanning, Li Kongrong and the submarine had left, and Xu Guangying and Xie Daisheng were shot and killed by him. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the taste of being despised and retaliated against made Dai Li angry, and his first thought was to kill Li Kongrong, no matter what way he came from. The military commander has no action personnel in Nanning, and if he really wants to kill this person, he must find another time, and in addition, this person has been at sea, when will he be able to go ashore?

After thinking about it, Dai Li not only did not pity Xu Guangying, but hated it more and more, and if he was bitten instead of fighting a snake, it would not be so easy to do it in the future. Dai Li didn't understand the navy, and didn't know that Longmen Port was the last checkpoint to intercept the U-38, but he was not at a loss, and after calming down, he suddenly remembered the three people who were driven off the submarine reported on the phone, and these three people must know where Li Kongrong fell anchor, and if they find them, they can naturally find Li Kongrong again.

'Vertically in, horizontally out', although this kind of underworld law is barbaric, it is extremely effective, but Li Kongrong selectively ignores this law. On the way back, in addition to arranging for Du Baiqing and the Japanese Navy to repair the codebook, he mainly considered what strategies needed to be adjusted at present: such as the naval aviation to be stationed in China in the middle of next year, such as the recruitment and training of the Marine Corps, and how to rectify the interior. When the submarine returned to Manila, it was five days later, and at this time, Sujing Lake in the body bag was slightly smelly, but fortunately, Manila was far away.

Under the full moon, a U.S. pilot ship off Korech Island sounded its whistle and signaled a light to the sea to the west. At the flicker of the signal lights, the U-38 suddenly floated less than a kilometer away from the ship, startling the American troops on board. It was just that the submarine replied with a perfectly correct light signal, and with a short strange whistle, the pilot ship turned and quickly sailed with the U-38 into Manila Bay, where the commander of the submarine force, Colonel John Wilkes, was waiting.

Since entering Manila Bay, Li Kongrong has been standing on the bridge of the ship and smoking, and in the past few days he has only received a telegram of persuasion from Du Yuming, and there is no other news. It was as if the incident at Jinjitang had never happened, and such a calm made him very uneasy, and he vaguely felt a kind of danger.

"Sir, ...... you listen?" Second Deputy Liu Yongren heard the sound of music playing at the Krabi Military Port, which was the Americans welcoming him.

"Is it all sorted out?" Li Kongrong asked, this is the etiquette before entering the port.

"It's all packed, everyone has changed their clothes, and the inside of the boat is packed." Liu Yongren said, "Do you need to fire a salute?" He asked abruptly, seemingly a little overexcited.

"Of course you can't let it go, you want to tell the world that we have finished the Japanese and dropped anchor here to rest?" Li Kongrong asked reproachfully.

"I don't want to." Liu Yongren smiled apologetically, "I'm just too happy." ”

"Don't be overjoyed, what I said on the boat just now must be remembered, if you can not go to Manila, you can not go, your family can take it here, you must be careful if you really want to go." Li Kongrong threw the cigarette he was holding into the wind, and when he saw that he was about to enter the port, he said again: "You inform the crew to prepare to land, and if you have it, bring up the broom." ”

"Broom?" Liu Yongren was puzzled, but he still faithfully carried out Li Kongrong's order.

The newly-dressed crew carried Su Jinghu up the ladder, and then climbed down the command tower to line up on the fore and aft decks. Li Kongrong was still standing on the bridge, and in everyone's astonishment, he firmly stuck the bald broom firmly on the bridge, and when he was done, he clapped his hands and said to the officers on the bridge: "Americans have never liked modest people. We sank a regular aircraft carrier, two destroyers, more than a dozen troop-transporting merchant ships of the Japanese Navy, ......, which is remarkable! Therefore, we have to plug in the broom according to the tradition of the navy, which is called sweeping thousands of troops. Got it? ”

At this time, the submarine had turned into the port under the command of Liu Yongren, and the high-power searchlights of the port shone on the submarine, and when Li Kongrong said this, the Americans on the pier applauded loudly at the U-38 amid the music, and they fully understood the meaning of Li Kongrong's broom.

"Lee, that's good, you taught the Japanese a hard lesson, I'm really happy for you." As soon as the pier was lowered, Colonel Wilkes rushed to the deck of the submarine and embraced Li Kongrong like an old friend.

"That's because they're too incompetent, especially anti-submarine." Li Kongrong responded enthusiastically. He knew that Americans were pragmatists, and they welcomed themselves, but more than that, they wanted to gain experience in submarine warfare against Japan.

"Can you share your experience of teaching the Japanese this time?" Colonel Wilkes was not at all polite, and came up to ask for experience.

"The Japanese are completely vulnerable in the anti-submarine sphere, you know, their depth charges can only reach sixty meters." Lee Kongrong threw out the first experience, which made Wilkes' eyes light up. "Really?"

"Of course, I'll take the battle report as proof." Li Kongrong said with a smile, and he suddenly heard someone shouting 'Dad'. Looking back, a familiar figure on the dock stood there waving at him. "I'm sorry, my friend......" he said absentmindedly, jumping over the pier in three steps and two steps, rushing in front of the shadow. It's just that the shadow seems to have a protective shield, and he stopped abruptly at a distance of one meter, looking at Xu Peipei and the child in her arms in a daze. It was impossible to see clearly under the moonlight, and the child watched a person rushing over, and immediately hid in his mother's arms, leaving only the back of his head.

"Yes......" Li Kongrong wanted to speak and stopped, holding his hand but not knowing where to put it.

"Call Dad, why don't you call it?" Xu Peipei smiled and spoke to her daughter, but the child's head was buried deeper and deeper in her arms.

"I'll hug it." Li Kongrong, who made up his mind, finally hugged his daughter over, whether she wanted it or not. And the child was still buried in his head, and he could only kiss her on the head a few times.

"Why are you here?" Li Kongrong's posture of holding the child was extremely stiff and difficult, like holding a torpedo that had been in contact with the insurance. Xu Peipei couldn't help but laugh when she saw him like this. Xu Xiaoxin on the side replied: "Mrs. Wilkes asked us to come, and the wives of other officers also came." ”

"Other officers?" Li Kongrong looked over, and there were indeed many people on the dock, many of them hugged the crew who got off the boat, and they all spoke Hokkien dialect. "Jinghu is dead, is his wife here?"

"Is Mr. Su dead......" Xu Peipei was taken aback, of course she knew who Su Jinghu was. His wife is here. ”

Xu Peipei didn't say that it was okay, but after speaking, there was a howl and cry on the dock. Li Kongrong was anxious, and walked over as quickly as the wind in his arms, which was a well-decorated woman with two children. He said: "Sister-in-law, I'm Shao Sheng, the matter of Jinghu ......"

The appearance of "Brother Shaosheng......" Li Kongrong made Mrs. Su cry even more, this woman in her thirties took Li Kongrong as a pillar and pulled her to cry, and the child next to her also sobbed faintly.

"Sister Su, please mourn." Xu Peipei came over, and Lin Xiangguang and Chen Yigong's wives all came to convince them.

"Sister-in-law, Jinghu was killed, and I have avenged him. More than 40 people in the whole ship and several thousand people in the whole fleet regarded him as a brother. He's a brother, he's not a brother, brothers, all have a ......," Li Kongrong shouted loudly, and when the crew walked in, he said loudly: "Salute!" ”

In an instant, more than forty people saluted Mrs. Su, and the crying stopped for a while, and then began to cry bitterly. At this time, the family members of the officers on the dock also came over and comforted Mrs. Su.

"Let me hug it." Xu Peipei saw that the man was really holding the child, and was worried that he would scare the child by speaking loudly, so she stretched out her hand to take the child back, but she didn't want the child to shake her head vigorously, and leaned hard against the man.

"Sister, I haven't hugged it for a few years, and now I should hug it." Xu Xiaoxin accosted beside her, clearly standing on her brother-in-law's side.

"Lee, I think......," Colonel Wilkes walked up anxiously again, "when will I see the battle report?" ”

"Tonight." Li Kongrong said: "I have asked Captain Liu to prepare one, you can ask him for it." ”

"Thank you, God." The American was so excited to get the detailed report of the battle, that is, what was recorded in the logbook, that he thought that Li Kongrong might have something to hide.

"John, I said we are allies, and one day we will fight side by side against the Japanese Navy." Li Kongrong patted Wilkes, thinking that he would disappear immediately, and now the time belonged to him, his wife and the child, but when he returned to Xu Peipei's apartment, the child had already fallen asleep on his shoulder.

"It's really heavy, I really don't know how you were born in the first place." The child was finally picked up by Xu Peipei, and Li Kongrong felt that his left arm seemed to be unconscious. His words made Xu Peipei's eyes suddenly red, and seeing his wife's expression change greatly, Li Kongrong immediately hugged her and the child in his arms and said, "I have really suffered you in the past few years." ”

"I didn't ......" Xu Peipei wanted to hold back her tears, but she still cried after all. Giving birth to a child is not hard, the key is that her father doesn't recognize it, and her husband doesn't recognize it, she has been completely isolated in the past few years, and she is supported by love.

"Get married." Li Kongrong whispered in her ear. "We're getting married."

"What?" Xu Peipei looked up in disbelief, her face full of tears. "You don't mean ......"

"No matter, let's get married." Li Kongrong raised his head and let out a long breath.

"No, you still have so much more to do." Xu Peipei wiped her tears, wanting to break free from her husband's embrace, and after letting go of the child, she seemed to be a fine person, and only said, "I'll help you take a hot bath." ”

"Don't go." Li Kongrong dragged the woman back again, "What, don't you want to marry me?" You are all my people, I will get married when I say marriage, and no one else cares. Besides, how can I take you out after I don't get married? How do you introduce it when you take it out? It's not impossible for a fiancΓ©e, but how can the child explain it? ”

Li Kongrong said with annoyance, he regretted that he had let Xu Peipei go to Christianity in the first place. Christians in this day are still very conservative, and it is not impossible to have children out of wedlock, but their moral character must be seriously questioned. And he will have to deal with the big names of Americans in the future - most of the British and American social occasions are a man and a woman, and those who are not married must have their own female companions, Xu Peipei will either not appear by his side and change to someone else, or he will get married, and then introduce me to people in a grand manner that this is my wife.

Xu Peipei, who was leaning on the man's arms, couldn't help crying again, at this time she felt that she was the happiest person in the world, but in the fourth office of the Guilin Office more than a thousand kilometers away, Chen Shuizhang, an eighth-term student of the Shanghai Academy, felt that she was the most unlucky person in the world. At this time, the water-stained cowhide whip was struck on his body, and he would scream with each blow, and then wail: "I have already said it, why are you still beating me? Why are you still hitting me? ”

"Hit, keep fighting!" Yang Jirong of the Guilin Office of the Military Command roared gloomily on the side, not answering at all why he was still beating people. It was only when Chen Shuizhang was smoked out of breath that he called someone to bring cold water to wake Chen Shuizhang up.

"I've already said it, why ......" Chen Shuizhang, who was stimulated by the cold water, regained some senses, he still muttered his own questions, and tears flowed out. In the goodness of his heart, he didn't want to shoot Xu Guangying with blood for blood, but this action was immediately discovered by the classmate who fired the shot, and then he was thrown off the boat. After that, Chief Hou took them to Nanning and handed them over to the military commander, Gao Guangyou, an officer, was naturally courteous all the way, and he and another student entered the torture room.

Good people are mostly cowardly, they hate violence and worship peace. However, what he hated was actually what he was afraid of, and he quickly gave in completely under the leather whip of the military commander, and answered whatever he asked, but within a few hours of recruitment, people continued to whip him hard, and he felt greatly wronged.

"Do you know why I hit you?" Yang Jirong said, "Because what you said is not right with what the next door said, he is much tougher than you, and he broke three whips before confessing." ”

"What I said is true! What I'm saying is true! Chen Shuizhang shouted like a chicken blood, "The submarine is stationed in Krabi, it's true, it's true." ”

"But the one next door said it was at the Subic Bay base!" Yang Jirong said viciously, "Keep fighting!" Mom, dare not tell the truth! ”

"He's a fake, he's a fake." Hearing that he was going to fight, Chen Shuizhang used all his strength to stand up, but he still couldn't stand up, so he could only kneel on the ground. "Subic doesn't have submarines, Li Kongrong is very familiar with the American colonel, he will definitely go to Cavite, and if he doesn't go to the Americans, he will invite him to go."

Chen Shuizhang's strength to eat milk has been used, and he just wants not to be beaten. And when he spoke, Yang Jirong was paying close attention to his expression - in fact, the next door also recruited Cavite, but these two soft bones were recruited as soon as they touched the whip, and he was very uneasy about such a simple confession.

"Since what I said is true, then I won't smoke it today." Yang Jirong said with a smile, and then his tone was cold, and he threatened: "However, if Cavite can't find anyone, then it's not as simple as smoking you." ”

"They must be there, they must be there!" Chen Shuizhang's face was red and white, he was really frightened, and he continued to repeat his confession: "There is a Fushun restaurant outside that base, and everyone on the boat loves to eat there. (To be continued.) )