After all, the Nagara was a light patrol of more than 5,000 tons, and if its body of more than 160 meters long had not hit the vital point, it would not have caused it to sink. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After the violent explosion, the bow of this Japanese warship, which was originally showing off its might on the sea, was flattened for more than 10 meters, and the remaining part was also broken and the steel plate was rolled out, but the watertight door of the whole ship was closed, and it not only did not sink, but it continued to sail in the original course in order to escape from this torpedo-infested dangerous sea area.

The Nagara was like this, and the other two light cruisers and six destroyers scattered like frightened birds, forgetting all of Takasu Shiro's encouraging words last night. On the contrary, the four Bailu-class destroyers of the 24th Destroyer Group of the Escort Regiment immediately sailed to the torpedo site to search for the enemy, and the deep bombs in the stern of the ships also began to be dropped. However, this kind of Bailu destroyer can only carry 32 deep bombs, in order not to be tied up like before, this time only the flagship Sea Breeze is guessing the position of the sparse projectile projectile, and the other three destroyers are maneuvering at high speed in order to find clues about the submarine.

Under Takasushiro's orders, the escaped light cruisers and destroyers resumed shelling the coast a little further east, and with the rumbling of cannons, white water mushrooms exploded on the surface of the sea, but the enemy was still nowhere to be seen. Just as the Sea Breeze was about to stop dropping bombs and prepare to give up the search, the lookout finally saw something like a periscope sticking out of the water. It could be seen that the enemy was also very alert, and when the captain of the ship, Kenjiro Tokita, put this thing into the binoculars, it sank with a splash.

"Yo Xi!" With the pride characteristic of Kamakura Man, Tokita slapped his thigh hard, and then ordered the Sea Breeze to sail quickly to the place where the periscope sank, believing that as long as it was too fast and did not need depth charges, the sharp bow of the Sea Breeze alone could sink the Shina submarine.

The propellers on the sea surface were loud, but the U-38 under the water was making an emergency dive, and more than 20 crew members rushed to the bow at full speed to speed up the dive, while Li Kongrong held the periscope with one hand and shouted: "Pay attention to the collision!" Watch out for collisions!! ”

Of course, he was not worried that the Japanese ship would hit him, but he was afraid that the enemy ship would sink quickly after hitting a mine and damage the submarine. With the close cooperation of the whole boat, the U-38 was able to reach the bottom of the sea in just one minute. His prediction was completely correct, and the crew had not yet recovered from the ecstasy of fleeing for their lives and the turmoil of sitting and sinking, when they heard two earth-shattering loud noises overhead, and the pursuing enemy ship was hit by a mine.

"Well fried! Well fried! The torpedo compartment in the bow was jubilant, and the corners of Li Kongrong's mouth were also smiling lightly - risking the risk of being hit to lure the enemy, and finally had the first harvest of the day.

"Nani! How can it be? "On the bridge of the Torikai, Vice Admiral Takasu Shiro, who had been watching the 24th Destroyer Squadron to seek the enemy, clearly saw the Sea Breeze playing the flag of discovering the enemy, but in the blink of an eye, this 1,600-ton cutting-edge destroyer was hit by the enemy's torpedo, and it was one shot on the left and right strings, could it be that there is another submarine in the vicinity?

"Your Excellency, it should be a mine." Chief of Staff Yamaguchi Tashi was also extremely surprised, but fortunately, he kept holding a telescope and watched the 24th Destroyer Squadron seek the enemy. He found that the explosion had been without warning, and that there had never been a lightning trail at all. "The other destroyers must be warned to stay away from that area immediately, the people of China are deliberately luring the Sea Breeze into the minefield."

Yamaguchi Tawen said while pointing to the sea breeze that had struck the mine, now the destroyer has made an emergency stop, although the sailors on the ship are panicked, but they still plug the leak according to the usual training, the other three destroyers did not dare to come forward to rescue because they were afraid of the submarine, they all retreated to the position of the ship group, and maneuvered at high speed between the ship group and the minefield.

"Didn't sink?!" Li Kongrong, who was at the bottom of the sea, couldn't hear the sound of the ship's bones breaking for a long time, and he was very disappointed. The first torpedo did hit the target, but no Japanese ship sank, and now the Japanese ship has been hit by two mines, but it still does not sink.

"Where is the enemy ship in the middle of the mine?" Li Kongrong, who was unwilling to have no results, asked the water listening room, and he was ready to replenish the gun.

"Report sir, in the position of 170. Probably, the mine charge is too small, it is said to be less than a hundred kilograms. Lin Lianfan and Liu Yongren also communicated, and it was obvious that he was not optimistic about the lethality of the minelaying team's mines.

"You, immediately let the shore report the attitude of the Lei Ri ship, as well as the respective positions of the Japanese ship on the sea." Li Kongrong said to Lu Ruping, and then ordered the submarine to float to a depth of 20 meters and approach in the direction of 170. Because just now, the U-38 was sticking out a periscope on the outer edge of the minefield to lure the enemy, and when it dived forward, it naturally rushed into the minefield, so the submarine slowly retreated in the minefield.

The motor is humming, and the active sonar is constantly emitting sound waves so that the submarine does not touch a mine that may float at a depth of 10 to 20 meters on the ocean floor. Unlike rushing in quickly, the process of exiting was slow and anxious, but at the edge of the minefield marked in the morning, a shrill voice suddenly sounded: quack! Quack!!

"What sound?!" "Stop!" Li Kongrong and Su Jinghu shouted at the same time, the difference is that Li Kongrong shouted 'what sound, stop', while Su Jinghu shouted 'stop'.

The two pillars on the boat were so panicked, and the others were even more uneasy and creepy, but fortunately, after the emergency stop, the sound seemed to be quieter, just 'creaking' was no longer 'crunch', and there was only a slight sound after a complete stop.

Everyone forgot to breathe, and it was a long time before Su Jinghu said, "Maybe it's ...... It could be the sound of a mine tether grazing against the hull. ”

"Mine mooring?" Li Kongrong also breathed a sigh of relief, his heart almost jumped out of his chest - he had thought of a thousand ways to die, but he had never thought of being killed by mines laid by friendly forces. "We ...... Can we get over like this? His forehead was dripping with sweat, but he still forcibly thought about the environment of the submarine at this time, and finally asked the question of concern.

"Don't be afraid if there's a sound." Su Jinghu didn't know how to answer, he had never encountered this situation at all.

"Let's take a look at which part of the hull is ringing. If it's in the front cabin, then we go backwards, and if it's in the back cabin, then we move forward. Gao Guangyou's face turned pale, and he wanted to speak just now but lost his voice.

"Control cabin, control cabin ......" The microphone, which rarely makes a sound, suddenly came out, and it was the sound of the front and rear compartments at the same time - Li Kongrong was frightened by the 'crunch' sound and sweated, and the crew in the front and rear cabins was even more so.

"This is the control pod, what's the matter?" Li Kongrong suppressed his uneasiness and replied to the microphone very calmly.

"I didn't ...... Nothing more. Hearing Li Kongrong's calm voice, the microphone fell silent again.

"It's nothing." Li Kongrong simply explained the current situation. "It's that we're crammed into a few mine moorings, and the creaking sound just now is the sound of mine moorings scraping the hull, please be quiet, we'll be out soon."

"Understood, sir!" Silence quickly returned to the microphone. Li Kongrong turned around and said: "I thought about it for a while, although the U-38 is different from the Type 7 submarine, there is no protruding saddle on both sides, but the perpendicular line on the side of the board is much wider than the perpendicular line on the deck, and the mooring line is only scratched on the broadside, and there are other places on the deck that are easy to hook the mooring line, so we can continue to move forward." ”

"Go on?" Su Jinghu held the handle of the bell while thinking about Li Kongrong's meaning, and he finally figured it out, and pulled the bell without hesitation, and the submarine immediately moved forward at a slight speed.

The 'quack-squeak' sound returned, and although it was not loud, it pierced everyone's eardrums. Li Kongrong listened patiently for a while, only hoping that this sound would disappear soon, but it obviously took more than half a minute to sail through a hull at a speed of four knots per hour and two meters per second, even if it had already been driven for a while. In the end, the 'quack-squeak' sound sounded for more than 20 seconds before it completely disappeared.

"Sathane!" Sure to pass through the scary water mine rope, Li Kongrong scolded loudly. Before he could laugh at himself, Lin Lianfan reported: "Sir, the enemy ship is at the position of 190, 1,600 meters away from us. ”

"What's the speed?" Li Kongrong asked, and he decided to get himself and his crew back from the Japanese in a frightened way.

"The speed is zero." Lin Lianfan and Lu Ruping spoke in unison - Lu Ruping received a telegram from the shore. "Sir, the position of the ship group remains the same on the sea, the position of the flagship remains the same, the Japanese ship that was shelled just now is still in the east, and the other three destroyers who dropped the deep bomb are in the south, and the flagship's flag says that this is a minefield and all ships should avoid it."

In Lu Ruping's simple description, the situation on the sea surface was different from that when Li Kongrong made a hasty observation just now, but it was obvious that the Japanese ship after the mine was isolated in the minefield, and no warship rushed up to send it to death.

"There wasn't a ship that came to the rescue?" Li Kongrong roughly imagined the situation on the sea and thought about how to expand the results of the battle.

"Yes. The regiment and three other destroyers had already lowered the dinghy, presumably trying to pick up the enemy ship's occupants in the dinghy. Lu Ruping continued to talk about the situation on the shore, which was obviously not a telegram, but what Mingyu Communication had learned - the submarine was less than ten nautical miles from the coast, and it was at a distance from Mingyu Communication. As for whether the Japanese eavesdropped, it depends on whether they can understand Hokkien or not.

"How long will it take to get close to an enemy ship?" A solution suddenly flashed in Li Kongrong's mind.

"Probably ......" This is the business of navigation officer Liu Yongren, and after determining the distance of the enemy ship again, he said: "Sir, the enemy ship is more than 1,500 meters away from me, and it takes more than 700 seconds to get close at the speed of four knots, but we can launch torpedoes in advance." ”

"No, we have limited torpedoes, and the most important thing to do is to undermine the confidence of the Japanese," Li Kongrong said slowly with a smile. "So we should float up and give the Japanese a blow in full view!"

It's insane! Li Kongrong said this sentence with a smile, which made everyone in the control cabin stunned.

'Float up...... It is by no means an easy task to deal a blow to the Japanese in front of everyone', and the whole ship will have to be explained here. But Li Kongrong's style is also clear to everyone, opposition is cowardice, and Gao Guangyou has tried it once.

"We ...... We...... We ......" everyone's eyes finally fell on Su Jinghu, Su Jinghu kept opening his mouth, but there was only 'us us', he finally changed his tone and said, "What should the Japanese do if they open fire?" ”

"Aren't all Japanese ships in the east and south? We can just float to the west of the enemy ship. Li Kongrong is confident.

"Yes...... But the enemy ships have guns, and there are torpedo tubes......" Su Jinghu said with difficulty, and he was worried that the U-38 would sink in the Beibu Gulf because of Li Kongrong's recklessness.

"Just get within a hundred meters." Li Kongrong said with a smile, "Our bridge is low, and the Japanese want to fight but they don't have a depression angle, so they can't hit it at all." ”

"Sir, the torpedo must be 300 meters away to release the insurance, and we can't sink the enemy ship within 100 meters." Liu Yongren seized Li Kongrong's loophole at the right time to remind him, but he only reminded him and didn't dare to say anything else.

"Then ......" is indeed too radical so I want to miss it, Li Kongrong smiled embarrassedly, and he finally said: "Okay, sink it three hundred meters away first, and then float up and approach." You don't want to take two Japanese prisoners and bring them to trial? ”

"Sir, as soon as the Japanese ship sinks, there will be no barrier to the east? The Japanese ships that are shelling the coast are likely to turn their guns and fire at us, and there are three other Japanese ships that may also open fire, and there are also Japanese ships on the edge of a minefield, and if one is not good, we are likely to hit a mine, and there are ...... planes." Li Kongrong said that it was a rhetoric, but Liu Yongren could find a lot of reasons to oppose it.

"It is impossible for the Japanese ship to sink immediately after being hit by a mine." Li Kongrong insisted, "Moreover, after being hit by a torpedo, the sea should be full of sailors fleeing for their lives, and the Japanese ships will really fire their guns regardless of accidental damage?" I don't think so. As for the mines, we floated straight up and could not touch them at all. Is there a bomb on the plane ^"

Li Kongrong, the Japanese Navy's festival, did not approve, and he deliberately said this just to float up and play a thrill. After he finished speaking, he saw that Su Jinghu and Liu Yongren were silent, and then said: "Diving is forty seconds, the Japanese want to hit us within forty seconds, the probability is very, very small, you don't have to worry, I won't force you to go up and capture the prisoner, everything depends on voluntariness." ”

Li Kongrong proposed his own plan to capture prisoners, and the submarine slowly moved towards the Japanese ships on the edge of the minefield. When he had made his decision, he called the boatswain Xue Kuiguang and asked him to find a few volunteers. Xue Kuiguang was very interested in this kind of thing, and after a while, he brought four trainees who came on board the boat, all of them were trainees of the Mawei Sea School, three in the seventh class and one in the eighth class. By this time, Li Kongrong had already returned to the captain's room and took out his weapons: six Chicago typewriters. He carried one on his shoulder, gave another one to Xue Kuiguang, and finally handed it to the four crew members. Looking at the immature face in front of him, he asked, "Will it be used?" ”

"Yes." Chen Zaihe of the eighth class of the voyage took over one first, he is the son of Colonel Chen Hongtai, the captain of the Ninghai, and the revenge of killing his father must be avenged, this reason made Xue Kuiguang choose him among many volunteers.

"It's good to be able to use it." Li Kongrong nodded, "Don't think about anything when you go up, move quickly." The Japanese caught those who were close and shot those who were far away, especially to suppress the resistance fire on the ship. Chen Zai and you are responsible for loading the boatswain, and you two are responsible for dealing with the planes. ”

said that it was voluntary, but Li Kongrong still deliberately arranged Chen Zaihe in a safer position: he helped load 20 guns on the platform of Dongyuan, but he didn't want Chen Zaihe to shake his head: "Sir, I don't want to load, I want to kill the Japanese." (To be continued.) )