The Type II training boat sailed fifty meters below the surface of the sea and was not very fast, with only three sections. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info There were no new commands, and the control cabin was silent, save for the indistinct sound of motors, the ticking of the ship's bell, and the tedious periodic crackling of the gyrocompass indicator. Li Kongrong stood in the central control room, looking at the ship's bell with a blank face, while the training captain, Major Lehmann-William Bullock, stood beside him and watched whether he was acting in accordance with the norms.

According to the shortened training course, the course of the B group of trainees will soon be over, except for this cruise, only the escape training after the submarine accident is left - according to the instructions of the submarine fleet command, the Chinese naval cadets do not learn submarine formation tactics, nor do they teach those more important combat skills.

"Have you arrived?" Underwater navigation can only rely on the accurate judgment of the navigator, and the current training course is that the submarine dives into the enemy's harbor and then attacks the ships in the harbor. After determining the course before diving, the rest was left to the navigator, Captain Liu Yongren - this was not really a harbor, but an uninhabited bay, so there was no sound of the ship's propellers overhead.

"Hmm!" Captain Liu Yongren glanced at the German next to him, but it didn't help. After a month of course, the German instructor has completely handed over the submarine to the Chinese naval cadets to pilot, unless there is an emergency.

"Float up to periscope depth." Li Kongrong ordered Lieutenant He Shuduo, the helmsman on one side. According to the graduation results, this position was originally Qiu Zhongming and Lin Lianfan, but Qiu Zhongming had another task, so he took it up.

"Yes, up to periscope depth." Captain He Shuduo repeated the order. He turned the steering wheel and pushed the horizontal rudder to float. At the same time, the white light overhead was also replaced with a red light so that Li Kongrong's eyes could adjust to the external light.

With He Shuduo's movements, the pointer reading on the depth gauge dropped, a little closer to the periscope depth engraved on the watch. In this process, everyone can feel that the submarine is floating upward, and the captain Li Kongrong in addition to paying attention to the depth gauge, his eyes have been staring at the level - this is the name he privately choke, in fact, it is the bow and stern draft - a transparent level instrument containing bubbles, the reading in the center is '0', the center to the two ends of the reading, are from '0' to '7', more than '7' small bubbles will hide in the iron sheet at both ends, which means that the bow and stern are seriously unbalanced, and the submarine is very dangerous.

Submarines differ from other warships in that they are very sensitive to bow and stern draft, and among the professors of Major Lyman William Bullock, the bow and stern draft imbalance is a highly emphasized problem. Because once the submarine is out of balance and upside down, the battery in the bilge will be broken, and the sulfuric acid liquid will explode when it encounters hydrogen gas generated by seawater, which is the most direct damage, and the second damage is that the submarine will lose power, and losing power means losing everything.

The fresh water tank should not leak, the high-pressure air pump should not fail, the oxygen board should not be damp (if it is damp, it will catch fire), and the battery should not be wet. In the mouth of Major Lyman-William Bullock, these four things are the gospel that every captain prays for all his life.

After real training on the submarine and simulated training on the wooden model of the submarine base, Lieutenant He Shuduo's steering technique was already skillful, and the small bubbles in the level kept swaying in the positions of '2' and '3', and soon, the submarine rose from a depth of 50 meters to the depth of the periscope, and Li Kongrong pressed the button, and the periscope made a 'buzzing' motor sound and began to rise upward.

With his left eye on the periscope, Li Kongrong first quickly scanned the situation around the submarine with a focal length of 1.5 times to determine the location of the submarine and the coast - whether it was a virtual port in the course or a real bay, the captain should be extremely careful not to let the tide wash the submarine with only 200 tons to the shore and run aground.

"Heading 220 to discover the harbor lighthouse, four thousand three hundred meters away." After a quick glance, Li Kongrong told the navigator the location of the port lighthouse, which was actually a wooden pole erected on the seashore, which was regarded as the port lighthouse.

While Li Kongrong was speaking, the navigator, Captain Liu Yongren, quickly marked on the chart to determine the location of the port where the submarine was located. ”

The navigator had the port charts in his hand, and Li Kongrong had memorized them in his mind earlier. He did not respond to Liu Yongren's words, but began to focus on everything in this virtual port with six times magnification, and at this moment, a blind seagull suddenly flew into his line of sight, the distance was so close, he was preoccupied with attacking the enemy ship, and he immediately trembled in shock.

"Dive to a depth of thirty meters." With some lingering palpitations, Li Kongrong ordered the submarine to dive. After that, he commanded: "Course 180 zero, set!" ”

"Yes, course 180, set!" The helmsman, He Shuduo, responded loudly.

"Half-speed ahead." Li Kongrong rang the bell, the bell rang in a low voice, and after a while, the engine room rang in response: "Advance at half speed." ”

Urgently staring at the ship's bell, anticipating that the submarine had sailed to the predetermined position, Li Kongrong ordered again: "Float to periscope depth." ”

He Shuduo pushed the rudder up again, of course, this time the submarine still did not find a suitable position, and there was no angle to launch the torpedo. On the third ascent to the periscope depth, Li Kongrong finally ordered the No. 1 to No. 2 torpedo tubes to open the torpedo hatch......

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"It's much better than last time." After exiting the bay at the end of the attack, Major Lyman William Bullock, who had been watching Lee Kongrong's operation, began to sum up. He is very clear about Li Kongrong, a novice captain who was born in an engine, and has eliminated a lot of weaknesses in steering and driving, this is a bold and cautious captain, who thinks carefully about things, acts resolutely, and is quick to get started with underwater ships such as submarines. In fact, this is also the advantage of a blank sheet of paper, on the other hand, Lin Zhun has always been unable to change the habit of commanding submarines on surface ships. In addition, he seems to prefer to surface shelling rather than firing torpedoes, and Li Kongrong prefers to launch torpedoes at periscope depth, of course, this is not cowardice, but cautious, because he especially likes to get into enemy ports, and a timid person would never dare to make such a move.

"But why do you have to dive to the limit every time you dive?" The major has seen Li Kongrong often order the submarine to dive to 80 meters, and this is already the draft limit on the depth gauge of the Type II submarine, and every time it sinks to this depth, the hull is a prickly sound.

"Aren't you trying to dodge depth charges?" Li Kongrong looked at him with a smile, "I hope that the submarine can dive deeper, so that it can dodge the enemy's depth charges, doesn't it mean that the enemy's bombs are at a depth of eighty meters?" ”

"With today's technology, it's impossible. The depth of the depth charge will be adjusted at any time, and the set depth is not necessarily above 80 meters. The major shook his head and said, he did not know that the Type VII submarine dived to a depth of more than two hundred meters. Lee, after returning to Hong Kong this time, most of your classes are over. “

Lyman William Bullock said this in a very light tone, but this made Li Kongrong's expression look ugly, and he said: "Heinrich, are you going back soon?" ”

In the end, a young man who was only twenty-six years old, except for the school and the navy, Major Lyman-William Bullock did not have much experience, and naturally he was not very good at concealing it, he nodded and said: "Yes, we received orders before we went to sea, and we were ready to return to Kiel at any time. ”

Although he knew that this day would come sooner or later, Li Kongrong still said angrily: "We said that it would take five months, and now the other group has not completed the course!" ”

"I'm sorry, Lee, I don't know about these things, I have to follow orders from the Admiralty." The major had a regretful expression, and in the past two months of getting along, he had an extremely harmonious relationship with the Chinese naval cadets, and he was originally an optimistic person.

"Damn it! This must be the work of the Japanese again! "It's not good to say bad things about the Nazis to your face, Li Kongrong has no choice but to curse the Japanese viciously." Heinrich, can we stay at sea for an extra week this time? ”

The major was stunned for a moment before he knew what Li Kongrong meant, he thought about it, nodded and said, "If this is the case, then the submarine escape training will be delayed, and we lack the necessary supplies." ”

"No, we don't need escape training, I mean we don't need to actually train in a submarine to escape, just simulate it on shore." Li Kongrong looked at him with bright eyes, and while the two still had some friendship, he was ready to stay at sea for a few more days. "Supplies are not a problem either, we can ask merchant ships along the way to buy them, or go directly to the port to buy them. I'll be sure to thank you when I get back. ”

Li Kongrong fooled Major Lyman-William Bullock at sea to agree to the postponement of the submarine's return, and in the Neustadt base, Lin Zhun, who received the telegram from the training boat, handed the telegram to Lin Xianxi, who had just arrived, with a bitter face, "Hansheng is nervous again, he still has to stay at sea for a while, and he doesn't know when he will come back." ”

Looking at the clear-code telegram forwarded by the submarine base, Lin Xianxin was not displeased, he said: "Those Germans are willing to accompany him crazy? ”

"How could you not want to?" Lin Zhun smiled bitterly, "The Germans on the boat were all bought by his small favors, except for what they clearly can't tell us, the Germans know everything and say everything." ”

"Where did he get the money?" Lin Xianxin asked that this is the question he has been thinking about since he left Switzerland. Corruption is absolutely impossible, not because there is no money to be greedy for, but compared to his expenses, the money he is greedy for is really a drop in the bucket. As for the recovery of the buckle when the submarine was purchased, it is also unlikely, and the contract was negotiated by several people at that time.

"I don't know." Lin Zhun shook his head naturally, "Everyone knows that his money can't be spent. Is it a house in Shanghai? It's not that his house was mortgaged when he went abroad last year, and now the house price in Shanghai has plummeted......"

"Probably not." Lin Zhun only looked at Li Kongrong's expenses in front of the naval cadets, but Lin Xianxi, who had been to Switzerland, cared about the funding of the institute, which was the big deal. "Let's talk about the students, what's the reason for the shortened course?"

"This is the method that Hansheng came up with with me for insurance. He takes a short-term course, I take a long-term course, and if the Germans stop the course halfway, he can teach me a course that this group has not studied after two months. If we finish learning, then teach them something they haven't learned......" Lin Zhun said the original method, quite complacent. "Now I hear that the Battle of Xuzhou is taking place in China, and Japan has asked Germany several times to stop selling arms to us......

The Battle of Xuzhou was delayed by about a month because of the late fall of Nanjing. In the Battle of Songhu, the whole world was aware of the role of German military advisers in the battle, and the Japanese were very angry about this. The refusal to accept Chinese military personnel, the interruption of the Sino-German arms trade, and the recall of military advisers in China have always been the main points of Japan's negotiations with Germany, and Li Kongrong and Lin Zhun, who have been concerned about the Sino-German situation from time to time, have been extremely concerned about these issues.

"I've been abroad for a long time, and I'm afraid that the war at home is not as clear as you read the newspapers in Germany." Lin Xianxin said. "However, I saw that Ambassador Cheng was much thinner than last year, and he was also very unoptimistic about the situation between China and Germany, and said that there was basically no possibility of our submarines being delivered, unless an armistice agreement was signed between China and Japan to stop the war. Zunzhi, let me ask you, does Shao Sheng have some ideas? ”

"Thoughts?" Lin Zhun's expression froze, and he said unnaturally: "What do you think?" ”

"It's just stealing the submarine and going back." Lin Xianxin looked at Lin Zhun, "You probably don't want to coax me." ”

"I ......" from the initial unpleasant to the eye, to the current pleasing and convincing, Lin Zhun still abides by his original promise to Li Kongrong, but obviously Lin Xianxin will ask this must have received some rumors, and he immediately thought of Wang Zhiguang. If you want to report to the ministry, he has to be.

"It's a bit of an idea, but that's just a thought." Lin Zhun said with a smile, intending to perfunctory the past, "This kind of idea is not to mention Hansheng, I have also thought about it." Now the domestic ......"

"It's not about you, it's about Shao Sheng. What the hell does he want? The Minister already knows about this matter, and I am here to deal with it. The navy is not a pirate, China and Germany still have diplomatic relations, if he steals a submarine, then won't all countries in the world despise us? Lin Xianxin said in an official tone, he planned to scare Lin Zhun first.

"Uncle, are we going back to China like this?" Lin Xianxin played an official tone, and Lin Zhun only had family affection. "Hansheng didn't want the 20 million marks and our hard work in the past year to go to waste, so he had such a plan. The country is a battle of life and death. The army has suffered frequent defeats, and the people have been enslaved and killed by the invaders from time to time, we are soldiers, how can the soldiers sit idly by?! ”

"Since you are a soldier, you must have military discipline!" Lin Xianxi said solemnly. "All actions must obey military orders."

"Uncle Mo, I don't want to go back and lay mines!" Lin Zhun said that Lin Xianxin couldn't do it, so he only held his head high and didn't admit defeat.

"You're ......, me!" Lin Xianxin couldn't do anything about Lin Zhun, he sighed and said: "What if you steal a submarine from the Germans, what if you can't steal it?" He ......"

"Hansheng has made a thorough plan and found a good helper." As soon as Lin Zhun said helper, Lin Xianxin chuckled in his heart, he felt that his earlier judgment was correct, this Li Kongrong was really mixed up with the British Secret Intelligence Bureau. He really wanted to ask Li Kongrong about it now, but he was still at sea, so he could only wait patiently for him to come back. (To be continued.) )