The answer given by Li Kongrong shocked everyone in the control cabin, and when Liu Yongren wanted to say something, Lin Xiangguang's screams came from the front cabin. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Kongrong immediately strode towards the front cabin, and he, Xue Kuiguang and Gao Guangyou also followed. The officers left, and He Shuduo in front of the valve whispered to Su Jinghu: "Sir, can't we go up again after the Japanese plane is gone?" ”

"Go!" Su Jinghu took a bite at him. "If you want to die, don't pull everyone, go up? Just now, the whole boat almost accompanied the funeral. ”

Su Jinghu scolded and went to the front cabin, He Shuduo shook his head and still didn't understand, Lin Lianfan, who was wearing headphones in the water listening room, poked his head out, "The mine fuse has an insurance time, we hit the mine several times when we rescued Chief Liu just now, fortunately the fuse didn't start, otherwise we would all die......"

As soon as Lin Lianfan said that there was a thunderstorm, a few young people who still wanted to float up to save people suddenly changed color, and He Shuduo almost gave himself a slap, but when he thought that those minelayers on the sea were definitely going to die, a cool breath suddenly rose on the backs of several people.

"How?" In the officer's cabin, Lin Xiangguang was pressed by two sailors, his trousers had been cut, and the military doctor Chen Shunqi was treating his injuries. Probably to get the bullet, Lin Xiangguang shouted while struggling, and the blood flowed onto the deck.

Li Kongrong's appearance did not disturb Chen Shunqi in the slightest, he had to take advantage of the anesthesia to take out the bullet. Liao Shibin, who was only watching from the sidelines, said: "Report to the chief: It was said that the bullet was too deep and hit the bone." ”

"Go, let the chief engineer install a lamp." The officer's living cabin is next door to the captain's quarters, near the bow. Although it is more comfortable than the non-commissioned officer and sailor cabins, it is just as lacking in light. Thinking of the shadowless lamp used in the operating room of the hospital, Li Kongrong felt that he needed to add the lamp, and he was saying "dang" on his side, and the bullet taken out was thrown onto the plate.

"Alright. All right. Lin Xiangguang seemed to have fainted, and Chen Shunqi, who was sweating profusely, looked at Li Kongrong while saying to him.

"Report back to me when you've treated your wounds." Li Kongrong breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't want his second mate to lose a leg. After he finished speaking, he asked Liu Yongren to change his clothes, and then wrote today's diary while drinking coffee in the captain's room, only to let Liu Yongren come again.

"Sit down." Li Kongrong put away the journal and poured Liu Yongren another cup of coffee. "Tell me about Bray."

"Bree ......" changed out of his soaked clothes and held hot coffee, Liu Yongren seemed to be much better, at least he no longer shivered and hiccuped. He said: "Most of the cloth is finished, maybe there will be some gaps in the places where the ships meet?" ”

"How big will the gap be?" Li Kongrong gave him his pen and gave him a piece of paper.

Liu Yongren, who had returned to normal after the "gap ......" had returned to normal, took the pen and drew a square figure with a notch on the paper, each black dot was a mine, and the interval between the black dots was about 50 meters. Because the arrangement at that time was that each ship was responsible for ten mines, for a total of five hundred meters, at the end of the five hundred meters, there was a gap of one or two mines.

"Is one missing or two?" Li Kongrong looked at the schematic diagram and asked, he hoped it was one, and it was best not to exceed two.

"I can't see clearly at night." Liu Yongren said. "The two ships near me reported that they were nine, and the other ships didn't know."

"Okay, I'll let Lin Lian Fan give it a try and see if the sonar can determine the gap between these mines." Li Kongrong had no choice but to give up, even if the mine array was not tightly replenished, he had no way to remedy it, and then he asked: "Is the depth of the mine set at the beginning, or will it be set up when it is replenished?" And how do you activate the fuse? ”

"It was loaded on the ship after it was set to a fixed depth. The fuse is activated before launching into the water, listen to the ...... Say that there is one to two hours of insurance time after the cloth is laid. Liu Yongren knew that Li Kongrong was worried about the mines that sank with the ship, but the depth fixing and fuse activation were only one aspect, and he was afraid that some of the mines that had been laid would be pressed by the sunken ship, so that the mines could not reach the fixed depth position and only floated underwater, and if there was such a situation, it would definitely cost the life of U-38. He said with a straight face: "Sir, I'm worried that the mines laid will be crushed by the sunken ship and float at the bottom of the water, so I ......."

"I'm worried, too." Li Kongrong also took this into account, fortunately, the U-38 after the dive is no longer in the minefield, and the method that can be used now is nothing more than relying on active sonar to detect little by little. Suppressing this thought, Li Kongrong asked another important matter: "Are you clear about the minelaying situation in Qinzhou Bay, can you enter safely tomorrow night?" ”

"Clear. They gave me a map of minefields. Liu Yongren said, "Actually, there are no mines near the coast, there are army fortifications on the shore, and we can enter without them firing." ”

"That's good." After asking about the two things he cared about, Li Kongrong finally said. "You go and rest first, the Japanese will come at dawn."

"Yes, sir." Liu Yongren got up and saluted properly before leaving, and did not mention the rescue of the sea minelaying team.

When it was daylight, most of the sailors who had gone out to sea to lay mines last night returned to land, and they did not swim back, but were sent back by the waves. These corpses were all over the sandy beach with various postures, and above them, a Type 96 water reconnaissance plane flew low, it probably wanted to open fire, but seeing that it was only a group of corpses, the pilot gave up this plan again, the nose of the plane raised slightly, and fluttered its wings neatly.

At this time, the beach has long been washed by the waves overnight, and the traces of yesterday's artillery fire have long been gone, only the town of Qisha on the north side of the beach can see the large and small craters left by yesterday's shelling, and after a night of reinforcement, the thin fortifications on the north side of the town have been raised with several layers of soil.

"It's miserable!" Chao Wei, the commander of the 524th Regiment, who put down the binoculars, looked at the corpses of the minelayers on the beach and sighed again: Ten minelayers went out last night, and not even ten people came back alive.

"Tuanzao, why do I always feel like a Hokkien guy?" Xiong Zhongwu, commander of the second battalion, knew today's combat mission -- to hold the key pass from Qisha to Longmen Port and ensure that his warships could safely enter Qinzhou Bay tomorrow night. Suppressed by naval guns and aircraft, this is not an easy task.

"Almost." Chao Wei also felt as if he had been fooled before, but since Mr. Bai of Guilin Xingying had issued an order to defend himself, he had no complaints. Besides, where is not to fight the Japanese, no matter how small Qisha is, it is also a place in Guangxi. He took out the camel cigarette that Li Kongrong gave him last night, handed one to Xiong Zhongwu, and then said with a smile: "At least people still give us cigarettes, what did Chairman Jiang give us?" He won't stop until he consumes us all. ”

Camel cigarettes sell for eight cents a pack in the United States, which is considered a good cigarette. Chao Wei only left five, the rest were sent down, today when the troops had breakfast, each person was given five cigarettes, the soldiers were immediately happy, some people knew that this kind of American cigarettes were given by the navy, and also said that as long as they could hold the position, one person and one pack of cigarettes tomorrow morning, the whole regiment was happy for a while.

The mellow high-grade smoke made Xiong Zhongwu forget his complaint for a while, but the smoke was only half-lit, and the observation post on the top of the mountain reported that the Japanese were coming. He stepped out of the bunker and saw that the blue sky was full of Japanese planes, and these planes flew closer and closer, three in a row, three in a row, like a dark cloud. He scolded the street, threw away the cigarette and flashed into the bunker with Chao Wei. As if at the same time, the terrible sound of bombs falling sounded, and in the deafening explosion, the whole world trembled.

Xiong Zhongwu saw the Japanese planes, but he did not see the Japanese landing ship group approaching Qisha Beach in a dense manner. Unlike yesterday, today they are bound to win, and the devilish submarine of China, according to the torpedoes it has fired these days, it should have run out of torpedoes, and even if it didn't, there was not much left. With depth charges impossible to replenish and no better way to search for the enemy, the Navy and Army agreed that they would rather sink a few transport ships than land as soon as possible to reduce losses on land. As a result, except for the transfer of four destroyers from Haikou to the 5th Fleet, the lineup of the Japanese Navy did not change much.

At 7:30 a.m., while a minesweeping team was dispatched to clear the coastal mines, except for the four newly transferred destroyers equipped with 36 deep bombs, the remaining six destroyers and three light cruisers began to intensively shell Qisha. Although they were prepared to be sunk by the Shina submarine, the nine Japanese ships that were shelled still maneuvered at high speed while shelling, for fear of being hit by a sudden torpedo. The Japanese are afraid of submarines like tigers, but the U-38 is on an adventurous journey - a thorough search for the minefield laid last night.

"Fifth degree left, set." Li Kongrong gave the rudder order. He was covered in sweat, and since four o'clock in the morning, the U-38 has been marking the location of each mine around the minefield with active sonar. This is not an easy job, the size of the mines is not large, and the active sonar must be close enough to find them, but if they are close, it is likely that other mines will appear elsewhere. The work was so dangerous that it should not have been done, but if it was not done, it would not be possible to use the minefield to avoid the enemy, so it took more than three hours for the U-38 to finally mark 187 mines.

"Hansheng, we've come full circle." Su Jinghu looked at the magnetic compass and specially reminded Li Kongrong that the submarine had circled around the thunderstorm.

"yes, in a circle." Li Kongrong wiped his sweat. Only one hundred and eighty-seven mines were found in a circle, and the remaining sixty-three were either placed in a deeper position or sank to the bottom of the sea.

"Sir, the Japanese are shelling, when are we going to attack the ship regiment?" Gao Guangyou asked. According to the telegram sent by the Shore Observation Post, nine Japanese ships were shelling Qisha a mile in front of the minefield, and the transport group was surrounded and protected by the flagship, a Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser, and four destroyers behind the nine Japanese ships that were constantly firing their guns. There were only six torpedoes on the submarine, and in order to achieve the maximum killing effect, it was natural to sink the transport.

"No, no." Sinking the transport ship was Li Kongrong's own attack strategy, but he didn't want to do it today. "Send a report to Qisha, and ask them to pay close attention to the position of the Kaohsiung-class heavy patrol, the flagship of the Japanese army, and we will take him today."

"Re-patrol?" Gao Guangyou was surprised, and so were the others. It's not that the heavy patrol can't be used as a target, but it is not easy to find a high-speed maneuverable heavy patrol among countless warships and merchant ships, after all, the propeller sound of the warship is roughly the same, but the size is different.

"Can you find this Heavy Cruiser?" Li Kongrong looked at Lin Lianfan in the water listening room, this was his business.

"Sir, I'm ...... I do not know. Li Kongrong looked at Lin Lianfan, and the others also looked at him, this fledgling sea school student, his forehead suddenly sweated, and he spit out a sentence of 'I don't know'.

"Send a report first, if it doesn't work, then let's take those destroyers with guns first." Li Kongrong also knew that this was indeed difficult, but with only six torpedoes in his hand, he had to capture the thief and capture the king first, and if he could sink the flagship, it would have some delaying effect on the landing operation.

The U-38 on the bottom of the sea sent a message through a floating antenna, and as it was yesterday, as soon as the telegram was sent, the high-frequency radio direction finder on the Chokai monitored the general position of the radio, but unlike yesterday, the main telegraph officer Sanno did not dare to strongly suggest that the commander send a destroyer to search for the enemy, and he just reported the general location sent by the radio and withdrew, and all actions had to wait for Vice Admiral Takasu Shiro, commander of the 5th Fleet, to decide.

"Yamaguchi-kun, are you saying that the Shina submarine is a trap?" On the bridge, Shiro Takasu, who carries a saber at his waist and wears white gloves, is completely a famous general. Yesterday he was still in Haikou, but Yang Lu lost, and today he had to personally command.

"Yes, Your Excellency." Yamaguchi stayed awake all night, and his eyes were bloodshot. "The commander of China was very cunning, and after the silence of the whole fleet yesterday, he sent out a radio to lure us to start the engine to search for the enemy, and then sank the Spring Breeze ......"

"But the submarine is hidden below the surface of the sea, and the radio waves cannot penetrate the seawater, how does he emit radio waves?" Takasu Shiro said that when Yamaguchi Tashi reported that the sea was full of enemy search boats, no one saw the antenna of the Shina submarine.

"Maybe it's ......" Yamaguchi hesitated for a moment, and finally said bitterly in confusion: "It should be that some sailors are not very serious when searching for the enemy, and they didn't see the antenna stretched out by the submarine." ”

"Yamaguchi-kun is our brave general, the people of Shina only have one submarine, we have to fight ......" Takasu Shiro talked to many people, he found that everyone was quite afraid of the Shina submarine, especially the army, and his idea was that he should cheer up and sink this submarine, but before he finished his encouraging words, the watchman's shout came from the microphone: "Torpedo found!" Torpedo ...... found ahead"

"Torpedo?!" Takasu Shiro was only surprised, but Yamaguchi jumped up when he heard it. On the blue sea, a snow-white thunder trail came from west to east unscrupulously, and its target was not the ship group, but the Nagara that was shelling in front of the ship group. The 5,000-ton light cruiser was maneuvering and firing at a speed of 24 knots. Although each warship was equipped with lookouts, no one found the periscope of the Shina submarine, and by the time the lookouts spotted the torpedo, it was too late—the torpedo hit the Nagara and blew up a ball of fire that rose above the bridge, after which the light cruiser's bow disappeared. (To be continued.) )