The navy can't restrain it', Chen Jiliang's abnormal demeanor, Hu Shi didn't care about it, but Yu Yanji sensitively felt that there was something in the words, and he hurriedly asked: "Commander Chen, what is the navy going to do?" ”

"What does the Navy do? Didn't we make an official note? The Navy will inspect all German merchant ships bound for Japan at its own discretion, and if the prohibited items on them violate the provisions of the London Declaration, then the Navy will confiscate these ships. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Chen Jiliang looked at him and repeated the content of the note again. "Please go back, you two, this matter is already going on, everything is legal."

Chen Jiliang insisted on his position, and then got up and called someone to see off the guests. Hu Shi, who still didn't know what was going to happen, had to get up and leave, but Yu Yanji solemnly warned: "Commander Chen, this move by the Navy will put the country in an unjust situation, and China and Germany will ......."

"There is only half of the country left, Germany does not sell arms to me, and it is still an ally of Japan, so why should we care about Germany's attitude?" Chen Jiliang asked rhetorically, "Please tell Chongqing that I will bear all the responsibility." ”

At the same time as Chen Jiliang saw off the passengers, on the route from Hong Kong to Manila, Li Kongrong, who was standing on the bridge of the U-38, no longer looked at the huge cruise ship, he waved his hand to Gao Guangyou on the deck, "Boom-", while the submarine trembled, the 105mm deck gun spewed out orange flames, and a fifteen-kilogram shell flew out of the gun chamber in the flames and gunsmoke, and shot at the cruise ship three kilometers away.

At dusk, the sound of the cannon was not only deafening, but also the fire of the cannon and the white column of water from the shells were even more eye-catching. The passengers and crew of the cruise ship were stunned by the gun, especially the captain Lauders Peter, who had a good impression of the approaching submarine, he recognized it as a German submarine, but never expected that in an instant it would open fire on itself and change the flag - it was Chinese.

"We are the Chinese Navy, please stop the ship immediately for inspection!" After the cannon was fired, the message from the flag and the specially made radio was read out by the captain, who saw the cannon on the deck and continued to reload.

"The Chinese are really crazy!" Peter put down the binoculars and muttered, he subconsciously wanted to stop the ship, but he couldn't make this decision in the face of such a submarine.

"Mr. Captain?" The first mate, who was standing beside him, looked at him with a very calm gaze. "That's just a submarine......"

"We are the Chinese Navy, stop the ship immediately for inspection!" The distance between the two sides is getting closer, and the flags and broadcasts are repeated. On the deck, Li Kongrong felt that the cruise ship was getting taller and taller, and it was pressing over like a mountain. He scolded, "What a fuck up! Turn on torpedo tubes No. 1 to No. 4 ......"

"Mr. Captain," not only the first mate, but the rest of the crew also looked at the captain, hoping that he would have an idea.

"Left full rudder!" Lauders Peter finally gave the order. "Full speed ahead."

"Left full rudder. Burn the wind! The helmsman and first mate repeated his order, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The maximum speed of the Scharnhott is twenty-three knots, and now the speed is sixteen knots, and the submarine will certainly not be able to catch up with itself.

"Reply to it: we are a German cruise ship, the destination port is Manila, and you have no right to inspect it." The captain commanded again.

"He turned! He turned! Lin Zhun on the bridge of the U-38 was extremely surprised to see the cruise ship turn to the left - before that he had made a bet with Li Kongrong, he bet that the Germans would stop the ship, and Li Kongrong would bet on the German turn.

Lin Zhun exclaimed, but Li Kongrong didn't have time to pay attention to him, he took aim with the telescopic sight that was carried on the bridge, and gave an order calmly and quickly: "The distance is three thousand six hundred, the speed is sixteen knots, and the new head angle is 315." The depth is one meter, the speed of the torpedo is forty knots......, and the number one to the fourth ,—— fire! ”

The deck guns were still firing warnings, and just as the hull was in the midst of the tremor of the guns, four torpedoes suddenly came out of the tube, and they pulled out four white tracks in turn, rushing towards the cruise ship Scharnholt, which was turning and accelerating.

All the actions on the submarine were under the observation of the crew, and when they saw four white lightning trails suddenly appear in front of the submarine, a wail immediately erupted from the cockpit, and Captain Peter felt even more cold in his hands and feet, and he underestimated the determination of the other commander.

"Avoid it right away." The first mate insisted on saving himself, although he knew that the possibility of saving himself at such a close distance was zero.

"Inform the passengers that we will be torpedoed and that we need to abandon ship immediately." Four torpedoes were unavoidable, and the captain already felt that the Scharnholt had been sunk. He then pushed the helmsman away and steered it himself, trying to delay the sinking of the ship.

Training torpedoes from Germany happily sailed on the other side of the globe, but unfortunately they had no way to determine their trajectory and could only rush towards a huge cruise ship in one fan. The distance of the torpedo was so close that even if the captain tried his best to avoid it, two torpedoes hit the port side, and with two muffled sounds, the torpedoes exploded into two huge splashes, and the whole boat exclaimed.

"Stop the boat." The captain had to give the order to stop the ship and order the lifeboat to be lowered and abandon the ship, and he also ordered the radio to immediately send out an SOS signal to call for nearby ships to come to the rescue.

"Don't move! Don't move......" Suddenly, the cockpit door was violently kicked open, and the heavily armed Wang Zhongliang rushed in with a bunch of Goryeo sticks, and he was a step too late. "Stop the ship now!"

"Gentlemen, you're late, and the ship is about to sink." Peter was amazed at these men, but he didn't care, the ship was about to sink.

"Signal right away and take control of the cockpit." Wang Zhongliang saw that the bell stopped at zero, and the people in the cabin did not resist, so he asked Zhang Junhe, who was beside him, to send a report to the outside world. They were using fireworks, and the twilight was already deep.

"Report: SOS telegram received from a merchant ship," Lu Ruping, who overheard the radio, immediately reported.

"They're late!" Liang Xuzhao said regretfully, he was talking about the North Koreans on the ship.

"Don't worry about it, get ready to board the ship right away." Li Kongrong looked at the sky and felt that the time was right.

The lifeboats kept being thrown off the cruise ship, and the passengers were huddled on the deck in a hurry, and everyone thought the ship was sinking. Only the heavily armed action team on the cruise ship rushed into the cockpit, engine room, radio room, and weapons room according to the pre-plan, and Wang Zhongliang, who led the team, did not forget to lower the rope ladder so that the sailors on the submarine could board the ship.

Jiang Jing, who was armed with a gun, was the first to board the deck of the cruise ship, followed by Lin Zhun and Li Kongrong. There was no politeness, Li Kongrong asked as soon as he came up, "Are they all under control?" ”

"It's all under control." Since Wang Zhongliang can study at the Central Military Academy and is naturally fluent in Chinese, he looked at Li Kongrong in front of him with great curiosity, of course, he didn't know that the Chinese Navy Colonel in front of him was the back-the-scenes patron of the South Korean Provisional Government.

"I want to see the captain." Li Kongrong walked to the bow as he spoke, he first had to control the situation on the ship, and then he had to find the people sent by the Admiralty. When he arrived at the cockpit, Ouyang Ji, who was also dressed in the uniform of a naval colonel, was already there.

"Salute!" Seeing Li Kongrong appear in the cockpit, the naval officers around Ouyang Ji all saluted him.

"Is it under control?" Li Kongrong returned the salute to these people. At this time, with the addition of Koreans and more than 20 people from the submarine, there were already more than 80 people on the cruise ship.

"It's all under control." Ouyang Ji nodded, he had just received a return from the engine room. "But the passengers were still flustered."

"I lodge a grave protest against your piracy." The captain, who had already sensed something, expressed his anger angrily, he felt that he had been deceived by the cunning Chinese.

"Our navy has submitted to your country twenty-four hours ago a solemn declaration that, in view of the recognition by the German Foreign Office that our country and Japan are not actually belligerents, our navy will inspect all German merchant ships bound for Japan at its own discretion. You refuse to inspect it, and from this moment on, I will be able to confiscate the ship in accordance with the terms of capture in the London Declaration. Li Kongrong glared at the German and said loudly, he was in Chinese, and Lin Zhun was in charge of translating into German.

"This ship has been confiscated, and if you resist, I will kill you!" Li Kongrong finally warned.

"Nope! No, no, no. Someone in the crowd said no, "Sir, we're not going to Japan, we're going to Manila." ”

"Nope." Li Kongrong also said no, "Your Führer Hitler has already ordered the army to attack Poland, and World War II has begun." Twenty-four hours, or ......," Li Kongrong looked at the captain who suddenly looked strange, and said with a smile: "Oh, it seems that you have received a telegram from China that the war is about to start, very good." Shall you go to Japan right away, Captain? ”

The news of the war was more shocking than the announcement of the confiscation of the cruise ship, and the crew looked at the captain.

"Send someone to keep an eye on them, and don't let them send letters to the outside world." Li Kongrong smiled and stopped talking nonsense with these people.

The chaos on the cruise ship was intensifying, some jumped into the sea for fear of not being able to escape, and a few actually climbed onto the deck of the submarine. Li Kongrong didn't pay attention to these, he was just worried that the people brought by Ouyang Ji would not be able to control the new gadget such as electric drive, but fortunately, this worry was solved in less than ten minutes, and everything was reported from the engine room.

"Has the radio been removed?" Li Kongrong asked the people around him, Wang Zhongliang's people were responsible for this matter.

"Report, it's taken down." Wang Zhongliang reported that Lin Xiangguang, who was following the matter, also said, "It was dismantled and being hoisted on the submarine." ”

"When you hang it down, you will sail." Li Kongrong looked at the time, and he found that it had taken more than forty minutes from the time the cannon was fired.

"Brother Hansheng, what about the passengers who have already disembarked?" Ouyang Ji watched so many people jump into the sea and didn't know what to do. The current situation is that if you pretend to be a shipwreck, then you have to continue to let the passengers off the ship, but this is the shipping lane, and soon the nearby merchant ships will come to the rescue, but if the ship leaves, these passengers will be abandoned at sea, and they will reveal to people that the ship is not sinking.

"I'll take care of the rest." Li Kongrong also felt that things were a little tricky, "You inform the passengers again that the situation has been brought under control, and the cruise ship will be imminent." ”

"Tell them we're the Chinese Navy?" Ouyang Ji nodded and asked another question.

"Well, you can tell them and keep them safe." A lot of the passengers on the list were white, but of course there were some Japanese as well. Thinking that the remaining 400 or so passengers might riot, Li Kongrong told Wang Zhongliang again: "You must pay attention to the fact that in the event of a riot, you must kill chickens and monkeys, and take the Japanese under the knife, and don't be afraid of killing people." ”

"Yes, Colonel." At the mention of the Japanese, Wang Zhongliang's face fell.

"Be sure to get to your destination!" Li Kongrong finally said to Ouyang Ji and left the cockpit with a salute. By this time, the cruise ship's radio had been hoisted to the U-38 deck, and when he stepped onto the deck with the people, the Scharnholt engine started again and slowly sailed away from this short stay in the sea, while the passengers and crew of the lifeboat looked at each other, they had no idea what was going on. Some passengers also stood on the lifeboats and yelled at the cruise ship that had abandoned them.

"What should I do?" A few passengers climbed up on the deck of the submarine, and Gao Guangyou didn't know how to deal with it.

"Sir, we should get these people on the submarine and continue to send SOS signals so that everyone will think that the cruise ship has sunk." Liang Xuzhao suggested that this is no longer part of the plan.

"Yes, but keep an eye on your surroundings." Li Kongrong looked at the lifeboats floating on the sea, the sky was already very dark, and the white lifeboats loomed on the sea. "But come up, where do you think you should send them?" He asked.

"Just get there...... "Back to the Dongsha Islands, to the Luzon Peninsula, these dozens of passengers are really difficult to accommodate." Sir, we should claim that we are sailing to Manila, but it is better to send them to the islands in the Bass Strait. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are the Chinese Navy, we will send you to Manila, please board the ship immediately." The radio on the submarine sounded again, and the people on the lifeboats were still watching, but when they heard that the submarine was heading for Manila, most of the boats rowed over, and of course some people were reluctant to board the boat, and the Japanese on several lifeboats wanted to stay away from the submarine instead.

"Sink if you don't get on board." Time was pressing, and the radio continued to send SOS signals for advice, and Li Kongrong did not want to stay here for long. "Pull them up."

His order was broadcast in English, and the people who had already been on deck were suddenly shocked, not understanding whether the submarine was an angel or a demon, but after all, they were all civilians, and they stood on the deck in an orderly manner even if they were uneasy, while the Japanese lifeboats could not outrun the submarine, and they were quickly pulled onto the deck by sailors.

"Look, there's a Japanese woman ......," Li Kongrong heard a crew member say.

"Attention! Comply with international law. Li Kongrong immediately reminded, and he then ordered Liang Xuzhao: "Women, children, and the elderly can enter the boat to rest, except for the Japanese." To tell them why we did this, and especially to tell them that the captain of the Scharnhott refused to stop the ship for inspection, and that we were only forced to do so. ”

"Yes, sir." The submarine began to sail southeast at normal speed, and after it left, only a dozen empty lifeboats were left floating in the chaotic sea. (To be continued.) )