The winter sun is shining on the Wusongkou River, the river water is slightly cold, and the steamboats entering and leaving the Huangpu River always have to whistle a long whistle before turning, and then pull black smoke, panting and sailing through the busiest fork in China. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Fengtenmaru set sail very early, but what is strange is that after she turned the fork, she kept slowing down, and the speed even dropped to less than five knots, and the average passenger didn't care about the speed of the ship, but today's first-class passengers had already become frightened because of the assassination of the military commander, and they found that the cruise ship suddenly slowed down and began to feel uneasy, if it weren't for the Japanese on the same ship, they would definitely have to find the captain for questioning.

"This voyage was escorted by the Imperial Japanese Navy." Seeing that someone outside was sending a message to Zhou Fohai beside Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai kept looking out of the window, Ying Zuo Zhenzhao knew what they were worried about, and he said lightly while he was drinking tea.

"Oh, really...... Thank you so much, it's really hard for the Imperial Navy. Zhou Fohai, who looked out the window, also saw the Japanese warships speeding in the distance, and immediately bowed his head to Kagezo Zhenzhao.

"It is the duty of the Imperial Japanese Army to protect China's friendly people with Japan." Kagesa put down the teacup. He has repeatedly thought about the way to arrange Wang Jingwei to go to Qingdao, planes and trains are not suitable, and cruise ships are the most appropriate. But the cruise ship also has the risk of cruise, although the China submarine is only active in the South China Sea, and the Chinese Navy and Chongqing are already incompatible, but Kage Satsu Zhenzhao still did not dare to be careless, so this trip specially asked the base camp to send a naval escort - he is the army after all, and it is not clear that the duel between the Navy and the China submarine in Qinzhou Bay ended in failure.

Zhou Fohai lowered his head, and Ying Zuo Zhenzhao's eyes looked out the window, where the Imperial Navy's Nake light cruiser was coming quickly, followed by the four destroyers of the Imperial Navy's 6th Destroyer Group: Xiao, Lei, Lightning, and Xiang. The Nake is a light cruiser with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons and a length of more than 160 meters, and the Dawn, Thunder, Lightning, and Ringing is a snow-blowing destroyer with a displacement of nearly 2,000 tons. As soon as these five warships came up, they sandwiched the Mukden Maru in the middle, and the three destroyers that opened the way in front, the Light Patrol Nako, and the Den Signal were shielded on both sides of the Mukden Maru. For a while, the ordinary passengers of the second, third, and fourth classes were uneasy, but the delegates of the first class could not help but applaud.

"This is the real warship." Knowing that these warships were here to escort the ship, Ren Yuandao, the minister of appeasement, walked out of the cabin and went to the top deck to watch. He was able to become the head of the appeasement department of the new government because he collected some of the officers and soldiers of the Dianlei School back then, and he relied on these officers and soldiers to gather the stragglers in the Taihu Lake area. But how can those ships of the Electric Thunder School be compared to real naval warships.

"Minister Ren also likes warships." The wind is cold in winter, but Ren Yuandao is not the only one on the top deck, and Ling Xiao, the former vice admiral who went north with the ship, also stood on the deck and looked at the Japanese warships.

"It turned out to be ......" Ren Yuandao had seen Ling Xiao in Nanjing, but he was Wang Jingwei's person, so he didn't remember his words very well.

"Little brother Zhuanghua." Ling Xiao is older than Ren Yuandao and has a high military rank, but Ren Yuandao is a minister, and he has not yet had a real position after joining Wang.

"Oh, Brother Zhuanghua." Ren Yuandao has been sophisticated for a long time, and no one can be offended on the surface, even if it is very likely to rob Ling Xiao of his military power. "Japanese warships are bigger than ours, and they are mighty when they look at them, and they really deserve to be a maritime power on a par with the British Empire."

"This is only a light cruiser, if it is a battleship of tens of thousands of tons," Ling Xiao unconsciously said of the Japanese battleship Nagato, "It's much bigger than this, floating on the sea is like a mountain, and when the cannon opens, the ground shakes the mountain." We don't have such a big warship, but the aircraft carrier built by Chen Jiliang and those people in the United States is 10,000 tons or 20,000 tons, and the ship is also very large. ”

Ling Xiao had served as a naval attache in the United States before he joined Wang, of course, he and any faction could not pee in the same pot, and the Fujian faction also despised him as a person, and Chen Shaokuan famously said early on that people like him were not welcome to the Central Navy. Ren Yuandao didn't know these details, he heard Ling Xiao talk about Chen Jiliang, and his heart moved, and asked, "Brother Zhuanghua also knows about Chen Jiliang's fleet in the United States?" I heard that he was assassinated by the Chongqing military commander, is this really the case? ”

"That's for sure." Ling Xiao's face twitched, "The Fujian department wants to rebuild the navy by itself, and of course Chongqing will not agree." But it's okay in this way, the Central Navy and Chongqing have completely turned their faces, and the military flag is no longer hung in the blue sky and the white sun. ”

"And what flag do they raise?" Ren Yuandao paid little attention to this overseas navy, and the purpose of the establishment of the Chinese Volunteer Navy was to defeat Japan, and there was little news of the Chinese Volunteer Navy in the newspapers of the occupied areas, so Ren Yuandao had this question.

"They are holding the iron-blooded eighteen-star flag of the Xinhai year." Ling Xiao smiled. Their meaning is obvious, that is, they do not recognize the Zhengzhi of the Nationalist Government, and believe that the blue sky and white sun flag is only the party flag of the Kuomintang Party, not the national flag of the Republic of China. Only after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression will they be loyal to the government by convening a parliament and formulating a constitution. They are naturally unhappy about Chongqing in this way, but it is not unreasonable. ”

Ling Xiao actually talked about the victory of the Anti-Japanese War on a whim, and before Ren Yuandao noticed it, he quickly added: "But they are purely foolish, with a few aircraft carriers and one submarine, they can defeat the Japanese Navy?" It's a dream. Coaxing overseas Chinese laymen is almost the same, and those who really understand the navy will only laugh at this. ”

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Outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, the top deck of the Fengtian Pill was boasting, and on the route 60 nautical miles away, the U-38 was waiting for its prey to come to the door. Li Kongrong had already made up his mind to kill Wang Jingwei - it is true that Wang's puppet government had fought with the Japanese occupation forces in many respects, and had also kept one side safe during the war, and established a ruling order with the help of the Japanese, but this was only beneficial to the occupied areas, not to the whole war. If order is not established in the occupied areas, then it will inevitably contain more Japanese troops in the Chinese battlefield and will not be able to achieve its goal of governing China with China; If the occupied area is really a ghost area, with ten rooms and nine empty rooms, then it will not only not be able to provide Japan with the resources needed for the war, but will consume the materials that Japan urgently needs, otherwise the Japanese army will have to withdraw from this area.

Wang Jingwei represents the interests of the people in the occupied areas to a certain extent, while the navy only represents its own interests, and this interest is to win the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression for now; After the collapse of the Japanese Navy and the surrender of the government, the interest of the Navy was to replace the role of the Japanese Navy in East Asia to some extent, and to assist Britain and the United States in stabilizing the post-war world order. In this way, the navy can truly survive, and overseas Chinese can live better than in the original history. This is the conclusion that Li Kongrong reached with logic in the past few hours.

It's ruthless, but it's very reasonable, without the slightest bit of the Kuomintang-style culture. For example, they did not think that they could change China's history by themselves, nor did they think that the navy could dominate East Asia with its leading technology and historical foreknowledge by defecting to the mainland regime, and still less did they have an inexplicable sense of pride in striving for the interests of the nation and the country. No, only the survival of the Navy and how to grab as much post-war benefits as possible for themselves in this war.

This is what the Navy really cares about, but everyone is embarrassed to say it. At a deeper level, Fujian is not Hunan, nor is it Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Lianghu and Jiangsu and Zhejiang have a strong plot of the family and the country, which is just a pragmatic retreat, a successful and a bad thing. Although there are many scholars in Fujian, but the service to the imperial court is much lighter than the above two places, what is the country, where is the world, this is just the things that the scholars are concerned about, the people really care about oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, future generations, and those who can get ahead, only care about the gold and silver buried under the bed. This is the standard businessman, and he Li Kongrong may be able to teach them bravery, but he may not be able to make them give up the pursuit of money.

'It's all about the past, counting the romantic characters, or the best money. Li Kongrong, who had figured out these questions, wrote this sentence in his logbook. This means that he had previously envisioned that Europe would end later than the Asian theater and recover Northeast Outer Mongolia, all of which he had abandoned. But after writing this sentence, he thought of the plan he had painstakingly drawn up to assist the various battlefields in the country, as well as Zhong Qiangong, who had already gone to Suiyuan to liaise. Although the domestic battlefield consumed Japan's war potential, this kind of consumption did not help the navy much, and as long as the shipping routes were cut off and supplies could not reach Japan, no matter how great the war potential could be brought into play.

The contradiction between logic and emotion, the conflict between reality and ideals. Thinking of this, Li Kongrong didn't think about it anymore, taking one step at a time was his strategy, and now he was going to kill Wang Jingwei.

"Chief Engineer, ascend to periscope depth." Because it was in the shipping lane, an American freighter happened to pass by, and the submarine had to dive to a safe depth to avoid being hit. Now that the freighter is far away, the hydrohearing room said that there are no merchant ships nearby for the time being, and Li Kongrong asked the chief engineer to float to the depth of the submarine mirror to observe the sea surface.

"The main tank discharged three hundred liters and floated up to periscope depth." Chen Ergong, the new chief engineer, gave the order, although it was not his first voyage after taking over as chief engineer, but his performance was still a little chaotic.

"Keep it deep." Li Kongrong was on the periscope, the sea was calm, but the suspension of the submarine was not stable, which was very unfavorable to his observation. "Keep it deep! Chief Engineer. He shouted again.

"Yes, sir." Chen Ergong glanced at the depth gauge and ordered again: "Discharge a hundred liters." ”

The main water tank discharged another hundred liters, and of course the submarine immediately raised a few feet, and Li Kongrong, who was observing, had to turn his head to look at Chen Ergong in his body. "Did you calculate the trim?" He asked.

"Counted, sir. I calculate every day. Chen Ergong touched a handful of sweat.

"Are you raising the submarine so high now, looking for a fight?" Li Kongrong was angry. He wanted a level, not a few feet of ballast water that could be discharged like Chen Ergong did.

"Yes, sir. I'll fix it right away. Chen Ergong continued to touch the sweat. At this time, Lin Xiangguang looked at Li Kongrong, his eyes were full of helplessness. It seems to say again: I know why the last cruise was not successful, it was all the chief engineer's trouble.

"Sir, find the high-speed propeller!" Lin Lian Fan in the water listening room poked his head out and reported loudly that he was the old man he had left behind.

"How many?" Li Kongrong chuckled in his heart, and he finally came with a low cry.

"At least two!" Lin Lian Fan was still listening carefully, and he just said two ships and corrected them: "No, three, at least three." ”

"So much?!" Li Kongrong thought that the Japanese army would definitely have escort warships, but he did not expect that there would be more than three, according to the establishment of the Japanese Navy, this should be a destroyer, maybe there is also a light patrol.

In the ocean, if the conditions are right, sound can travel very far. Lin Lianfan heard the sound of high-speed propellers very early, but it was more than half an hour later that Li Kongrong saw the Japanese destroyers surrounding the Mukden Pill and the light cruisers he expected from the periscope. Due to the speed of the Mukden Maru, the current speed of the fleet is about twelve knots.

"Chief Engineer, keep it level!" Li Kongrong was staring at the Fengtian Pill coming from afar, looking at her two towering red chimneys and the tall masts on both sides of the chimneys, but the waves on the sea covered the periscope again.

"Yes, sir." Chen Ergong responded loudly. But before he could move, Li Kongrong's order came again, he first pulled the bell, and then shouted: "The whole boat is in a combat position!" The two men retreated, heading for 310. ”

"The whole boat is in combat position, and the two are back! Heading 310. The lights of the command cabin changed instantly, and at this time, the diesel main engine had been shut down, and the battery was driving the submarine to retreat in the direction of 310.

"Torpedo tubes No. 1 and No. 2 ready." Orders were given one after another, and none of the crew dared to speak, for fear of disturbing the captain's orders.

"The first and second torpedo tubes are ready." The return of the bow torpedo compartment came.

"Open the torpedo compartment tubes. The target distance is 4,400, the azimuth is 220, the course is 090, the speed is 12 knots......, the torpedo is 5 meters deep, and the speed is 45 knots......" Li Kongrong silently read the firing parameters, which were then entered into the torpedo firing commander. Just as he was considering whether the torpedo fired at a distance of more than 4,000 meters could be hit, a flash of light appeared on the port side of a destroyer, and with a 'boom', the Japanese ship opened fire, and the direction was exactly his own position.

'Boom! The 127mm shells landed on the sea, and in addition to making a louder roar, it also exploded a large column of water.

"Turn off the torpedo tubes and dive! Dive now! Li Kongrong quickly put away the periscope and ordered U-38 to dive. The right side of the engine is full rudder, and the two are at full speed. ”

"Full rudder on the right, full speed on both sides." The order was repeated, and again the explosion of shells sounded overhead, and the sound of high-speed propellers was getting closer, and the Japanese were overhead. At this time, the necks of most of the crew members in the submarine were raised, although separated by the steel bulkhead and the sea water more than ten meters deep, everyone still maintained this posture, hoping to see or hear something.

Li Kongrong, who put down the periscope, walked to the door of the water listening room, and he said, "Are there depth charges?" ”

"Nope." Lin Lianfan said softly, and after he finished answering, he pointed to the top of his head, "It's on it." ”

"Bad luck!" Li Kongrong scolded in a low voice, although he knew that the Japanese Navy's 'moon and moon, fire, water, wood, gold' training, the lookout man drank cod liver oil every day, and he could see the stars clearly during the day, but he still felt that it was an unlucky thing to be discovered.

"What to do, sir?" Liu Yongren looked at Li Kongrong at the door of the water listening room and asked.

"What can I do? Keep up. Li Kongrong took off his white German captain's hat and brushed his wet hair.