The Ninghai sailed alone in the South Pacific, far from the main channel. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 For the 351 officers and men of the ship, this is a strange sea area, and even more so a strange journey. When the warship completely left the Philippines behind, the captain of the ship, Colonel Gao Xianshen, announced the order of the Admiralty, which caused a sensation on the ship, and at this moment everyone knew that the final order of the Ninghai was to break diplomatic relations.

On the day the order was announced, the Ninghai met the supply ship Fuqing, a supply ship that had been dispatched a long time ago, and in addition to supplies, ammunition, and supplies, it also had the latest domestic intelligence and a new military flag cockade. The former made the originally inspiring morale sink, and the expressions of the sailors with smiling faces began to become solemn -- once a war broke out in Shanghai and a full-scale war between China and Japan, it would be equivalent to never going back, and the Ninghai would float alone on the ocean, maneuvering with the destroyers of the Japanese Navy of more than 30 knots at a low speed of 20 knots.

And the latter, when the red, white and blue flag of the Kingdom of Siam was hoisted, the sailors on the ship laughed again. Who the fuck came up with this idea! Actually hanging the flag of a small country, what kind of system is this? This country, sandwiched between the British and French colonies, has always looked left and right, and now it has become a dog when it catches up with Japan, and it is precisely because of this that she dares to exclude Chinese -- there are many Fujianese in Siam, the Chinese language school has been closed, and the poll tax of the Chinese has been doubled, and everyone knows this.

The sailors laughed at the sailors, and the captains and officers frequently nodded their heads when they saw the Siamese flag and the Siamese Navy cockade that had been made in a hurry -- the plan was really thorough, and the display of the flag of the Republic of China on the Japanese-made warship Ninghai would certainly attract people's attention, and it would be difficult to fill up the number of Japanese flags indiscriminately, and only by flying the Siamese flag could they get through the customs in confusion. And the most coincidental thing is that at this time, Siam's Yegonghe-class Japanese-made destroyer had just been launched, although the displacement of the Yegonghe was only 1,400 tons, but the appearance of the two ships was extremely similar, even if others could recognize the difference in displacement between the two by 1,000 tons, no one could conclude that this was not a Siamese warship.

The order was announced, and the camouflage was arranged, but the order was delayed. The August sun shone on the warship, and although the speed of 12 knots brought a hint of wind to the ship, the wind was scorching, and the temperature in the cabin was as high as more than 40 degrees, and the steel exposed to the sun was even hotter. During the aimless voyage, Colonel Gao Xianshen spent a long time drinking black tea on the bridge, and he watched the sailors on the deck below—it was a common tradition in the navy that newcomers crossing the equator would always be pulled out by the old man to tease them for a while.

"Did you really go to Antarctica?" Vice Captain Chen Hongtai wiped his sweat and muttered about a place in the ice and snow, although the temperature there made him yearn for this sweaty body, but it was Antarctica after all.

"That's what the command says, who knows." Gao Xianshen smiled faintly, his predecessor was dry, but his back was already soaked, "At least it's better than we are now in Antarctica, and don't worry about running into a Japanese ship." ”

"But what if you run into a Siamese merchant ship?" Chen Hongtai asked, this is what he has been worried about, "The merchant ship reports to the country, and then the Siam Navy checks, hehe......, and then tells the Japanese, then we will be exposed." ”

"No!" Colonel Gao Xianshen was confident, "Let's not say that there are no merchant ships in Siam, even if there is, I am not afraid." The big deal was to directly order him to forbid to disclose that he had seen the ship, because the ship was on a classified mission. I'm afraid of running into the Japanese navy, who know better about the situation of the Siamese navy than the Siamese. ”

"I really don't know what the mystery is!" Chen Hongtai thought about it, but he nodded and began to complain: "It's better to start now, sink one and count one, in the end, is it martyrdom, Mazu bless." ”

"Hehe......" Gao Xianshen laughed again, this time he didn't reply, just watched the farcical Sea King trial on the deck, and watched the law enforcement officer pretend to whip the person being interrogated. It was the man of the 1st Marine Brigade who had been beaten - he had noticed early on that the sailors on the Ninghai were not satisfied, and a platoon of marines had been specially arranged to take the ship, they were armed with long guns and short guns, and if it were not for all Fujianese, he was very worried that these people would come and seize the ship.

"Report! Admiralty Secret Telegram. Colonel Gao Xianshen pondered, and Captain Zheng Wenqi, the official of the telegram, sent the telegram he had been waiting for for a long time.

"Capture the Nippon Yusen Tatsuda Maru?!" It was ordered on telegram. He was thinking about what kind of ship the Tatsuda Maru was, and the clerk, Captain Hou Youchang, reported the information.

The third of the Asama Maru class of passenger and cargo ships, the Tatsuda Maru was built by the Nagasaki Shipyard in Japan, launched in 1929 and commissioned in 1930. The ship is 178 meters long, 22 meters wide, and has a displacement of 16,900 tons. Its main engine has a horsepower of 20,000 horses, a maximum speed of 21 knots, and can carry 839 passengers and a crew of 330. After the completion of the ship, it was owned by Nippon Yusen Shipping Company, and together with Chichibu Maru and Asama Maru, it specialized in the Yokohama-North America route.

The information about the Tatsuda Maru introduced by Captain Hou Youchang is completely the content that can be publicly inquired in the newspaper -- after the Asama Maru was launched, he set a voyage record from Yokohama to San Francisco, and the decoration on the Asama Maru completely refers to the European cruise ship, and even the decoration on the ship is all purchased from Europe and the United States, so it is called "a foreign ship built by Japanese shipbuilding" by the Japanese, and after the ship is operated, it is also called "the queen of the Pacific" because of the incomparable luxury of the interior.

In Colonel Gao Xianshen's concept, breaking diplomatic relations is the act of sinking enemy ships and cutting off the enemy's sea routes, but now the order given to him by the Admiralty obviously violates this principle, the purpose of the Ninghai is only to capture the Tatsuda Maru, and 'if your ship does not reveal its whereabouts, you should sink other Japanese merchant ships to cover up the fact that the Tatsuda Maru was captured...... this is not a diplomatic break operation at all, this is more like piracy. What does Chen Shaokuan want to do?

What is Chen Shaokuan thinking? Of course, only Li Kongrong, the naval attache stationed in Germany, knew best, because he wrote the entire draft of the plan. What is a Asama-class merchant ship? Having read the history of the Pacific War, he certainly knew that this was the product of little Japan's opportunistic tricks -- all three ships had received subsidies from the Japanese Navy for the purpose of making it easier to transform them into aircraft carriers in wartime, so they had made a reservation in design. However, none of these three ships could be transformed into aircraft carriers during the war, and the reason for this is that Li Kongrong believes that the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier construction concept was not mature when these three ships were built, and it was only after the Canglong and Yunlong were launched that the design of this kind of merchant ship that could be converted into aircraft carriers became reasonable.

The three merchant ships of the Nitta class that were built later, the Nitta Maru, the Hachiman Maru, and the Kasuga Maru, were transformed into the Okika, the Great Eagle, and the Cloud Eagle during the later Pacific War. It's just that its standard displacement is still only about 17,000 tons, the length of the ship is only 180 meters, and there are only a pitiful 27 aircraft on board. To tell the truth, this kind of aircraft carrier Li Kongrong is not eye-catching, but the problem is that he is completely clear about what conditions he has, and it would be good to have this kind of aircraft carrier. It's just that the aircraft carrier with such conditions will never be given to him - the Xintian-class merchant ships were not launched until around 1940, and now they don't even have keels.

It was now 1937, and it was impossible to wait three years for the sake of the Nitta Maru, and the Japanese would finally know that one of the warships of the Chinese Navy had sailed away from the mainland before the war, and once they began to round up the Ninghai, the capture plan could no longer be carried out. After that, only by waiting for the submarine to be dispatched could there be another gain, but at that time, the Japanese Yusen ship was already a frightened bird, and it was difficult to capture it by submarines alone, so the worst result of the matter was that the navy only had one aircraft carrier training ship that was not very suitable.

When Colonel Gao Xianshen received the order in the South Pacific, Li Kongrong of the West Berlin Hospital also received the notice, but he was still very weak, and the German cargo almost repeated the tragedy of the later Dongfeng cargo. Fortunately, the Germans in the city at that time were not fast, and although the brakes were late, the driver at least did not step on the accelerator, which allowed him to save his life.

The first feeling he felt when he regained consciousness was that his mind was empty, it was like arriving at the bus, he was the only one left in the carriage, and there was no longer the same feeling of oppression and numbness as before, he could clearly feel every part of his body. From this, he judged that Lieutenant Colonel Li Kongrong had already hung up! Because of this, when he opened his eyes, even if he was about to shed tears in pain, he was smiling - from now on, he was the master of this body, and he did not want to wake up in the middle of the night, nor should he coax Lieutenant Colonel Li Kongrong to take sleeping pills and fall asleep; He can do whatever he wants, and he can go wherever he wants; He didn't have to worry that he would die inexplicably, and he didn't have to worry that his Pepe would be possessed by Lieutenant Colonel Lee......

All this joy made him ecstatic, except that, even if he had become a real man, the doctors thought he would still have to lie in the hospital bed for three months. In addition, the situation is not optimistic: Chang Qiangu finally launched the Battle of Songhu because he wanted to take advantage of a small advantage (eat the Japanese marines), and for Japan, the second middle school, Matsui Ishine and others' 'one strike theory' finally gained support, and the war has evolved into a full-scale war.

In his opinion, if Chang Kaishen was a resolute and resolute person, even if he launched the Battle of Songhu in order to take advantage of a small advantage, and then escalated the Sino-Japanese war into a full-scale war in advance, he would reluctantly support this party-state leader. However, Chang Kaishen, who launched the Battle of Songhu, did not really want to fight to the death with the Japanese, but always pinned the hope of an armistice on the mediation of the League of Nations, so the result of the first two ends of the rat was a great rout, a massacre, and a big breakdown!

Such a leader made him utterly despised! Or rather: any leader who thinks he is the smartest in the world and everyone else is the stupidest in the world is despised by him. The best outcome of following such a person is to help him carry countless pots, and the worst result is 'you know too much' - a wise leader always has many little tricks, little tricks, little secrets that he does not want to be known, which are used on others now, and are likely to be used on himself tomorrow.

In the ward, the wedding photos of him and Xu Peipei were carefully sandwiched by Kong Lingyi in a glass photo frame, and in the vase behind the photo frame was a bouquet of carnations as passionate as fire. There is nothing to regret when a man dies in battle, but if it is like the countries that died in the great rout of the Songhu Society. The army is the same as the martyrs, it is not worth it, he is a man with a wife and children.

In the general situation of a full-scale war between China and Japan, never following, never believing, and never obeying Chang Kaishen was Li Kongrong's first decision; And the situation in the small environment in which he lived was also deteriorating -- according to Lin Zhun's introduction, after Germany learned of the Sino-Japanese war, Kong Xiangxi was given a cold reception to Germany this time, and he went to Czech Skoda to buy arms after two days in Berlin. The only thing he did in Germany was to cancel all those long-term arms orders, as Li Kongrong had previously suggested, and most of the money was used to purchase ammunition and explosives.

As for the Navy's submarine order of 56 million marks (the other 6 million marks are torpedoes and mines), he also cut it to 20 million marks, leaving two Type 7 ocean-going submarines. Obviously, although the two had a dispute that time, Kong Haha still gave Li Kongrong and the Admiralty some face -- and later Li Kongrong learned that he was wrong to blame Kong Haha, and the reason why the two submarines were kept was because the shipyard had already laid the first keel under his urging and public relations, and the ocean-going submarine was the highest priority.

Li Kongrong is already satisfied with being able to keep these two submarines, and the problem now is training and handing over the ships. Although the Sino-Japanese war did not affect the Sino-German submarine contract, the follow-up work was still extremely difficult. Shipbuilding is not a one-shot deal, for weak and small countries, after signing the contract, paying the payment, and the ship has been built, it is still not delivered. One of the reasons why the Turks were unhappy in the First World War and finally fell to the Allies was that Britain withheld the Seven Turret relics for no reason.

How to get these two submarines out of the hands of the Germans was a big problem for Li Kongrong to face, and this problem seemed to be more difficult than the previous one, how to strengthen the navy. The Ninghai is only an outpost for the rebuilding of the navy, and the real revival of the navy and the rebuilding of the fleet still depends on these two ocean-going submarines.

The total number of officers and men who lost their ships exceeded 25,000, and even if other factions were not counted, there were more than 10,000 in the Fujian faction alone. It's all about money and opportunity (a lot of times it's not like you can sell a boat if you want to).

The question of funding was only decided on the Spanish shipwreck, which was about 10 million dollars. It seems like a lot, but think about the cost of 70 million US dollars (excluding planes and pilots) of the Essex class, the main aircraft carrier of World War II, and it is estimated that this 10 million US dollars will not even be able to buy a new destroyer.

In addition, beware of Kong Xiangxi, he has sent someone to the Spanish archives to check the shipwreck information, although the archive has 50 million jerky and difficult to understand Spanish documents, but he still has the possibility of finding the eyewitness letter who saw the sinking of the Lady Atoka, with this letter can determine the approximate location of the shipwreck, even if they can't find the wreck, it will interfere with their own search.

How do you make a fortune?! Li Kongrong, who was unable to speak with tears in pain at the corners of his eyes and gauze wrapped around his head, began to think to himself.