In the U-38 emergency evasion, the first to fall was not a depth charge but a grenade, and the faint explosion did not make everyone feel wrong, and Lin Lianfan, who was wearing headphones, changed drastically on his face, and he listened carefully while exclaiming: "The depth charge ...... into the water."

The depth of the coastal sea is only 30 meters, and the first level of the Japanese Navy's depth charges is 30 meters, and it is really inevitable to escape from the U-38 at the maximum speed of seven knots underwater. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Directions?" Li Kongrong was also covered in sweat, and his white military hat was tightly clenched in his hand. He knew that this was the third time he had annoyed the Japanese, and unlike the previous two times, this time they had more experience in counterattacking and had the conditions to counterattack.

"Directions two-three-zero." Lin Lian said, as soon as his words fell, a deafening explosion was heard on the port side, and then the explosion provoked a violent impact of the seawater, and the entire submarine was shaking.

"How far is it to the mouth of the bay?" Li Kongrong looked at the navigation officer Liu Yongren again, he had to find a safe haven immediately.

"About ten nautical miles." Liu Yongren also changed color because of the shaking, and at this time, the second depth charge exploded again, the position was closer and louder, the submarine was almost knocked over by the seawater, and the compass ruler on the table was about to fall, he held it down with one hand.

Li Kongrong couldn't stand anymore, he had to prop himself on the periscope pillar, and with dissatisfaction, he hurriedly said: "Don't be profound, be exact!" ”

"Sir, when we ascended, we couldn't see the coast clearly when it rained, and now we can only rely on the voyage and the gyrocompass to calculate......" Liu Yongren's face was full of grievances.

"What's the bearing?" Li Kongrong didn't care about his grievances, he just wanted to rush to the mouth of the bay as soon as possible to avoid the raindrops of deep bombs.

"Directions three zero three...... U-38 suffered another deep bomb, this time the explosion was closer, and the lights were extinguished in the shock, so that everyone in the boat exclaimed, including Li Kongrong.

"Panic what! Be quiet!! Li Kongrong shouted with his back against the periscope, and before he finished shouting, he heard someone in front of him shouting: "The bow of the boat is in the water...... The bow is flooded......"

The submarine was still shaking and shaking, and the lights would automatically turn on after a while, but the sound of entering the water was even more disturbing. Boatswain Xue Kuiguang was the first to run over, he should have gone too quickly, and fell when he got out of the control cabin.

"What should I do?" Chief Engineer Su Jinghu's eyebrows were twisted into an inverted figure, "Are you sitting down immediately?" ”

"Can't sit still." Li Kongrong didn't want to stay here for half a second, "The direction is three zero three, and the two are moving forward at full speed." ”

"Azimuth 303......" Su Jinghu repeated the rudder order, and the submarine quickly turned around and sailed towards the mouth of Qinzhou Bay.

At this time, the boats on the sea had already retreated, and at the first place where the torpedo appeared, several Japanese destroyers circled and dropped depth charges, which exploded a large splash. They were determined to blow up and sink the abominable submarine of China. But after the splash, all that came to the surface was seagrass, dead fish, and the mud and sand that accompanied the explosion. The water in the whole sea area became more and more muddy, but the Japanese army had no way to do this, and the setting of the deep bomb was only 30 meters and 60 meters, and with the lethality of the deep bomb, the explosion at a depth of 15 meters was the most suitable, but the deep bomb was the standard, and the sailors could not adjust the fixed depth.

Lee Kongrong's strategy of fleeing to the coast instead of fleeing to the open sea was correct, and after the first few close and close deep bomb attacks, the other deep bombs were dropped in the direction of the open sea - the Japanese thought that the Shina submarine would sail to the deep water of the open sea after firing the torpedo. It's just that something that made Li Kongrong tangled suddenly appeared, the active sonar found a strong echo, and the U-38 finally found the transport ship group that the Japanese had concentrated before, which was mentioned in Du Yuming's second telegram, he said that the front line saw the Japanese ships on the sea clustered together, standing still.

"Sir......" Su Jinghu went to the bow compartment to plug the leak, Lin Xiangguang also went to help, and there were only Gao Guangyou and Li Kongrong in the control cabin. He couldn't figure out why Lin Lianfan was still turning on active sonar, and he didn't understand why he wanted to report the enemy ship echo to Li Kongrong. He felt that the danger was difficult to dodge, and if he really wanted to fire another torpedo, the Japanese destroyer would definitely chase after him again.

Before he could speak, Gao Guangyou shouted to the commander and stopped, but the depth charges that were exploding intensively in the distance reminded him, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and said: "Sir, the torpedo compartment in the bow is flooded, and it is no longer possible to launch torpedoes." ”

"......" Li Kongrong was standing outside the water listening room at this time, and when he heard the words, he immediately glared at him, this kind of contemptuous gaze made Gao Guangyou very uncomfortable, and he muttered and explained: "Sir, I just want to ......"

"You're laid off." Li Kongrong's tone was cold, "Get out!" ”

"Sir......" Gao Guangyou's face instantly turned red under the light, but Li Kongrong didn't want to look at him anymore. Torpedo tube No. 5 ready! ”

Everyone in the control cabin looked at their captain in amazement, firing torpedoes in the rain of depth charges, this can no longer be said to be reckless, this is simply sending people to death. The cabin immediately fell silent, but there was no response from the aft torpedo compartment for half a while, and the annoyed Li Kongrong said again: "The No. 5 torpedo tube is ready!" ”

"Five...... The torpedo tubes are ready. Finally, a voice responded, and only the quiet was the hum of the motor and the crackling of the compass in the control cabin, which was a small sound that everyone could hear clearly.

"Left full rudder." Li Kongrong ordered again, his voice higher than ever. "The two of them are moving forward at a slight speed."

"Left full rudder." The helmsman repeated the captain's commands, as if there was only one voice in the world.

"Distance?" Li Kongrong's eyes looked at the water listening room again.

"A thousand meters, sir." Lin Lian said, he didn't notice the abnormality of the control cabin at all, and he didn't know that Gao Guangyou left the control cabin in shame. "We're moving towards our goal, getting closer."

"What is the safe distance of the torpedo?" Li Kongrong asked again, this time it was Liu Yongren.

"Three... Three hundred yards. Liu Yongren was stunned for a moment before he said. It seems to be. He added uneasily, after all, he was only a navigator officer.

"Then fire the torpedo from 300 meters away." Li Kongrong is not reckless, he is just a little annoyed - Gao Guangyou can disagree, but don't show cowardice, he hates cowardice. At this time, although the submarine was ravaged by deep bombs, he wanted to tell the Japanese with actions: Get out of China's waters!

"Quick! Block that place......" When Su Jinghu rushed to the bow torpedo compartment, Xue Kuiguang was already in command to plug the leak. The water pressure at a depth of 30 meters was not great, and the water waves caused by the explosion of the deep bomb slammed on the side of the bow, and the rivets that should have been tightened were loose. This is not a big deal after all, and the situation was basically under control when Xue Kuiguang arrived.

"Why are you here?" Seeing this, Su Jinghu wanted to return to the control cabin, but he didn't expect Gao Guangyou to come over. Lin Xiangguang was already here, and Gao Guangyou came back to make him a little puzzled, could it be that Li Kongrong was left alone in the control cabin.

"I said that the torpedo compartment in the bow was flooded and could not be torpedoed, and he told me to get out." Gao Guangyou smiled bitterly, and naturally downplayed his problem.

"What does he want to do?" Su Jinghu was surprised, and then he understood, "He still wants to shoot torpedoes?" ”

"Yes, the active sonar of the hydrolistening room has found the target again, and he is ready to launch the torpedo from the torpedo compartment at the stern." Gao Guangyou said. "I'm worried that the Japanese ships will take the opportunity to find them, and now that we are in shallow waters, it is really not worth such a risk."

"He's it!" Although he felt that Li Kongrong was completely different from the Li Kongrong of the previous sea school in Germany, Su Jinghu still felt that he knew him, and he said as he walked: "Don't forget that he is the captain of the boat, he said that if he wants to fight, he will fight." ”

Su Jinghu soon arrived at the control cabin, Li Kongrong was still standing at the door of the listening room and listening to Lin Lianfan's report on the distance between the submarine and the target, and when he saw Su Jinghu coming, he immediately asked, "How is the front cabin?" ”

"It's not serious, it's under control." Sujing Lake Road. "What are you...... And to shoot torpedoes? ”

"Yes. Active sonar found the target, and I was ready to launch a torpedo at a distance of three hundred meters. This is the shortest distance, and the lightning trail is difficult to expose. After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he said: "We have been around the target for a while, there is more than one ship there, it seems that the devils have concentrated all the merchant ships, just like Du Guangting said in the telegram, clustered together, no wonder the sea is quiet." Li Kongrong thought that he was facing a Japanese transport group, and he asked again: "Can the two torpedoes in the bow be fired?" ”

"Can't...... I can launch it. Su Jinghu was a little distracted, and the answers he gave were contradictory.

"Can it be?" Li Kongrong was very dissatisfied, he urgently needed torpedoes now, the more the better.

"Not yet." Su Jinghu told the truth about the situation in the bow torpedo compartment. "The No. 4 torpedo tube entered the water, and when the torpedo tube was opened, it had to be rushed open, and the No. 3 tube was not leaking, but it was not very reliable, and it was only safe after the test when it floated at night. Chinese... Sheng, do we still have to fight? What should I do if I am found after the fight? ”

"After the fight, I will hide at the mouth of Qinzhou Bay, but now there is a better way, which is to hide in the trench." During the period when the U-38 was probing around the transport ship group, the bottom bathymetric sonar was also turned on under the order of Li Kongrong. The bottom of the sea was uneven, and a trench was found during the period, which made him think of a way to avoid bombs - since the Japanese Navy's depth charges had to fall to the bottom of the sea before exploding because the depth was too large, why not drive the submarine into the trench and sit down? Just as soldiers hide in trenches during land warfare, submarines can also hide in natural trenches on the bottom of the sea, so that the lethality of depth charges will be greatly reduced.

"Trench?" Su Jinghu didn't quite understand the meaning of Li Kongrong's trench to avoid bombs.

"Yes. I just found one, with a depth of more than ten meters and a width of about fifty or sixty meters, and I have memorized the direction. After firing the torpedo, we sat and sank in this trench. Li Kongrong said with a smile, he found submarine warfare more and more interesting.

"Okay." Su Jinghu saw that he was confident, so he had to accompany him to gamble. "It's less than half of the battery, you have to save electricity."

"I understand." Li Kongrong smoothed the captain's hat that was clutched in his hand at this time, and then put it on solemnly. "Turn on the torpedo tube No. 5!" He ordered, and the sound reached the aft torpedo compartment.

"Torpedo tube No. 5 has been opened." The stern of the boat will return in a moment.

Attacking again, everyone in the control cabin began to get nervous, but Gao Guangyou was lying on his bunk, ignoring the orders from the control cabin. Just now, Li Kongrong told him in front of everyone to 'get out!' This ruthless approach made every cell in his body hot.

Are you really timid? He had been thinking about it, and he didn't realize that he was not, he just didn't want to risk the lives of more than forty of his colleagues on the boat. Now they are full of Japanese ships, and if they fire a torpedo, they will pounce on them, and then a crisis worse than just now will be repeated. Li Kongrong himself said that the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was a long war, and since this was the case, it was better to temporarily tolerate sinking more Japanese ships in the future than to risk sinking one or two Japanese transport ships at the risk of being sunk. Why can't this be done?

As soon as man thinks, God laughs. Gao Guangyou fell into the whirlpool of reason and could not extricate himself, he did not notice the difference between himself and Li Kongrong: not the difference in thinking and standpoint, nor the difference in perception and experience of submarine warfare. The real difference between the two is that he takes self-preservation as his first goal, while Li Kongrong takes killing the enemy as his first goal.

"Torpedo No. 5 fired!" The order to open fire loomed. At this time, Li Kongrong vetoed the plan to retreat to the mouth of Qinzhou Bay, and instead opened fire near the trench. There is a hidden danger in the bow torpedo compartment and it cannot be fired, so two torpedoes in the stern of the boat are fired, first No. 5 and then No. 6.

Because the transport ship group was stationary, the U-38 was launched two kilometers away after taking the correct bearing. At this time, in order to facilitate the patrol of the destroyers and drop depth charges, all the boats on the sea had withdrawn, and the torpedoes sailed for a long time before the Japanese soldiers on the transporter ship discovered the mine tracks. Since the sinking of the Sky Mother Soryu, the Shina submarine has become the most terrifying existence in the hearts of these people, especially just now, the destroyer protecting itself was actually sunk by a torpedo, and the tragic situation of sinking made everyone tremble, and now goodbye to the torpedo attack, the soldiers on the ship, regardless of whether they are targets or not, are all desperate to jump into the water in panic.

The two torpedoes spewed bubbles into the tail one after the other, and headed straight for the transport ship. Probably to deliberately cause panic, the two torpedoes were very slow, and the distance of more than 2,000 meters was a full three or four minutes, and during these three or four minutes, the soldiers who jumped out of the boat filled the sea, and they rowed desperately outward, hoping to get away from the merchant ship that was about to be shot and sunk. In a panic, the first torpedo hit the merchant ship, and the violent explosion exploded into flames and splashes, and then the second torpedo hit another merchant ship, because the ship was small, this old merchant ship of only a few hundred tons was blown in two on the spot.

Standing on the bridge of the Bird Sea, Yamaguchi Tashi was speechless, and the sinking of the Chunfeng just now made him angry, but now he was full of shame - three destroyers, two light cruisers, and one heavy cruiser could not deal with a Shina submarine. He even felt that the sea had turned upside down before his eyes—not on the surface of the sea, but on the surface of the submarine in China; It was not the enemy ship itself that was searching, but the Shina submarine that was searching for prey. In this world that turns the world upside down, all he has is weakness and helplessness.

"Your Excellency......" Captain Gu Uda Goro was a little numb to the attack on the Shina submarine, and he wanted to suggest that the Torikai withdraw from this dangerous sea area, but when the words came to his lips, he held back.

"Let's save people first." Yamaguchi looked at the panicked and helpless soldiers who had fallen into the water, and his tone was unfamiliar as if it was another self. (To be continued.) )