Chapter 151: Rescue
At dinner the French passed the word that they needed to ask for advice on what to do with the ship's weapons and ammunition. The French procrastination tricks are no worse than the Chinese, and they are even more shameless, and they are obviously greedy for this batch of munitions, but Li Guang, who is in the cabin, does not even have a pistol, and has no tricks at all. The law [***] official didn't even see Li Guang's face, and it is estimated that he still has some self-knowledge of his shameless behavior. But this made Li Guang think for a long time, and the negotiation plan was nowhere to be used.
Li Guang comforted himself secretly, but the anger in his heart was difficult to suppress, and his brain was spinning in circles, trying to find an idea to take revenge on the French.
The prisoner under the stairs was not happy, Li Guang's psychology was much stronger after the battlefield beating, and while thinking about countermeasures with Hu Bofeng, he was worried about Huang Zhonghua.
Among the hidden forces of the Maritime Resistance Army, Huang Zhonghua is a major, and his military rank is higher than that of Quan Yonghai, the submarine commander. Li Guang was imprisoned, and the responsibility for commanding the operation fell to Huang Zhonghua.
On the sea, Huang Zhonghua was even more anxious than Li Guang. Li Guangke was the top general of the Naval Resistance Army, and now he is under house arrest by the French army. Huang Zhonghua and Quan Yonghai will not be afraid of fighting, but in the face of such a thorny problem, Huang Zhonghua is really a little helpless.
The main force of the French fleet sailed at high speed and disappeared into the vast sea in a short time. Three destroyers escorted the two merchant ships of the Maritime Resistance Army to continue crawling. Huang Zhonghua was a little uncertain about whether to follow the French fleet or kill the French destroyers.
The situation at hand was quite similar to the encounter with a British warship in the Atlantic. Huang Zhonghua believed that if he ambushed the three French destroyers at night, he would be quite sure. But the question is whether the French will be unfavorable to Li Guang once the destroyer is ambushed.
Huang Zhonghua thought about it for a while, and finally made up his mind, he decided to sneak attack the French destroyer at night and exchange the French soldiers on the French destroyer for Li Guang.
At two o'clock in the morning, three submarines were prepared for an ambush in advance on the course. But at the last moment of the attack, Quan Yonghai gave up the sneak attack.
The French are not good at war, and they are a lot more careful. Quan Yonghai had no way to sneak attack, not because he was worried that the sneak attack would not succeed, but because the three French destroyers were actually pointing their guns at two merchant ships while sailing.
You must know that there are nearly 1,000 brothers from the Maritime Resistance Army on the two merchant ships. Everyone knows what is going on in the merchant ships, and all the brothers are sitting on the powder pile. Even if Quan Yonghai's sneak attack was foolproof, it was difficult to guarantee that the French army would not fight back when they were dying. Two merchant ships were about to be hit by a shot, and they were immediately shattered. Hoping that the French artillery would not hit the merchant ships, it was too slim, and the distance between the battleships and the merchant ships was not even 500 meters, Quan Yonghai did not dare to gamble with the surnames of thousands of brothers, so he had to quietly withdraw from the offensive position.
Huang Zhonghua could only be dumbfounded after learning the news, saying that the French would not be able to do anything but romance, and the rumors were untrue, and a little trick made Huang Zhonghua tie his hands.
In Cape Verde, after resting for a month, Brother Ren Tianyang and his brother Ren Tianyang recovered quite well after fully enjoying the African scenery and beautiful women. The illness of these submarine officers and men, to put it bluntly, is that they spend too much time on the submarine.
After a month of sun exposure in Africa, the skin disease is almost better, as for the diet, it has returned to normal early, and symptoms such as insomnia are even more trivial for these young men, and they all disappeared in less than half a month.
There's no way, the body's recovery can't be slow. In addition to the natural conditions and material life, the spiritual life is also very rich, and even the life between a man and a woman is quite wonderful with a few brothers. Under the multiple wonders, the speed of the body's recovery is like flying. In short, Rajli's work as a Jewish beauty contributed to the physical recovery of the warriors.
When it comes to changes, the biggest change in submariners is that after this illness, the whole army has become bald. The action of shaving his head was first initiated by the handsome guy Tikryan who loves stinky beauty the most. During this half-year-long voyage, Ji Kelian hated his long hair full of artist's flavor.
After the end of this trip to the Atlantic, all the officers and men of the submarine formed a habit.
In the early morning of the eighteenth, Ji Keliang woke up from a sweet dream. The news came from the Pixiu No. 2, which was lurking in the open sea, that Li Guang had been captured by the French army, and that the two merchant ships were being monitored by the French [***] ships and could not be attacked.
Ji Keliang has always been calm, but this time it was different, Li Guang was arrested, and the lives and deaths of thousands of brothers were in the hands of the French army, and the situation was serious.
Without a word, Ji Keliang immediately beckoned all the soldiers who were recuperating to get up immediately. At this time, all Ji Keliang could think of was to get on the submarine and find an opportunity to rescue Li Guang.
Due to the need for secrecy, the Maritime Resistance Forces purchased a small sailing ship in Cape Verde, and relied on this small boat to keep in touch with the Pixiu 2 submarine in peacetime.
Ji Keliang and Ren Tianyang, who was awakened, discussed a few words, and took more than 20 people to board the ship and rushed to the hiding place of Pixiu No. 2. The boat was too small for dozens of sick brothers to ferry at once.
Just as Tikryan was embarking and leaving the port, a huge ship sailed into the port of Middlee Road in Cape Verde. The small ship of Tikryan, who could not help the wind, almost passed by the French battleship.
At the moment when they passed by, the observer Yan Lihao shouted: "Commander." ”
I saw that on one of the portholes of the giant ship, Li Guang was looking out. After being detained in the warehouse all night, Li Guang couldn't sleep well at all, so he opened the small porthole early in the morning to breathe in the air.
The giant ship and the small boat passed by, just a few tens of seconds, and the distance of fifty or sixty meters could see the face of the person clearly, Yan Lihao was really keen.
With the direction of Yan Lihao's finger, not only Ji Keliang saw it clearly, but also many fighters saw it clearly. However, Li Guang, who was in a daze outside the window, didn't see Ji Keliang and his party.
Although he did not know why the French warships entered the port of Mindelo. To say that this is a French colony, French warships naturally come as they want, but Li Guang is on board. Huang Zhonghua provided information that Li Guang was detained by a fleet.
In any case, it is good news that Li Guang is found. After a little thought, Tikrian decided not to leave, he found a place to dock, and the boat continued to the submarine.
There are seven or eight people on duty on the Pixiu submarine, plus these more than 10 fighters, which is completely capable of ensuring the submarine's operations. (The crew on the submarine is in accordance with the double match, and the lack of more than half of the crew does not affect the short-term operation)
After Ji Kelian went ashore, he immediately found Ren Tianyang, and the two assigned men to monitor the French warship. Rajli took a few girls and volunteered to take on the task.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the two got the news. The French battleship was moored in a ship repair yard for repairs, and the problem with this battleship was not serious, it was just a problem with the boiler. It is expected that the repair work will be completed in one day. By tomorrow morning, the battleship will be able to sail to the military port of Dakar.
Good news, that's great news. The battleship was a giant at sea, and when it arrived in the harbor, it was a dead fish, and the Pixiu 2 could be killed with only a few torpedoes. Ji Keliang and Ren Tianyang were officers who participated in the sneak attack on the Chilean military port, and they were familiar with this kind of sneak attack. In fact, the conditions for a sneak attack here are much better than a sneak attack on a Chilean military port.
During the sneak attack on the Chilean military port, the two were unfamiliar with the port situation. Here, the two of them rested for a month, and the situation was clear. It was not a military port, but a civilian port, but during the war, the French placed an old armored cruiser and two small destroyers with a displacement of 600 tons. The French navy was on low alert in Africa, far from the battlefield, and the officers and men on board had gone to the party most evenings to drink and have fun, and now these ships were docked on the docks, sleeping.
At noon, Ji Keliang and Ren Tianyang successfully boarded the Pixiu No. 2 submarine. Huang Zhonghua, who has been informed, has a negative attitude towards the attack.
Huang Zhonghua's reasoning is that it is difficult for a torpedo to sink a battleship under normal circumstances, but who can say clearly about such a thing as an explosion, if Li Guang has an accident, it will be a big trouble.
His idea was to send men to attack the battleship, which was the safest. Huang Zhonghua had already broken away from the fleet at this moment and began to rush towards the port of Mingdelu at full speed.
Ji Keliang and Ren Tianyang looked at each other, these two will definitely be promoted to the rank according to their military merits, and they will be majors immediately. But before returning to the Stone Statue Island, the two were still captains for the time being. The military discipline of the Maritime Resistance Army is strict, and Huang Zhonghua is the highest military rank at this time, and his opinion is an order. The two had no choice but to continue to inquire about the news while thinking about the possible surname of the ship.
Last year, when the German battleship Count Speer was repairing at the Oolong shipyard, Li Guang once used his brains to rob the pocket battleship. For this reason, it was also planned for a long time, and Ren Tianyang was present at that time.
However, the ship-grabbing plan was based on the theme of the army, especially the special squad of the Maritime Resistance Army. Now that the navy is in charge, Ji Keliang and Ren Tianyang are not very sure, after all, there is a huge gap between the training content of the navy and the army.
Aside from the difference in training, there are not many other problems. Not to mention that there were already some guns on the submarine, and Huang Zhonghua on the destroyer Pickup was even more abundant in guns and ammunition.
In Dunkirk, the naval resistance army harvested a lot of rifles and machine guns, and one of the infantry weapons that Li Guang was most interested in was the French submachine gun. However, the French did not pay enough attention to submachine guns, did not have much equipment, and collected less than 2,000 submachine guns. Huang Zhonghua liked this kind of lightweight weapon, and at that time he had hundreds of them on the pickup number.
As for other grenades and other weapons, they are fully equipped.
The two of them calculated, and the only worry was how many French troops would be left on the battleship Strasbourg at night. You must know that there are at least a thousand people on a battleship. The number of troops that the Naval Resistance Army can raise is unlikely to exceed one hundred and fifty people in total, including Pixiu II.
As for the other three French warships in the harbor, Ren Tianyang and Ji Keliang were absolutely sure that they would be killed in time.
In anxious waiting, three o'clock in the afternoon. The Pixiu and the Pickup meet in the open sea. The plan of the two is quite close to what Huang Zhonghua thinks. Huang Zhonghua's mind didn't stop along the way, he also mentioned a few precautions, and the three of them made a plan and began to select troops.
The battleship Strasbourg, if it should have been a battlecruiser by British standards, was quite good in armament and armor, as well as in speed. The French built this battleship to deal with the German pocket battleship, the Count Speer and its sister ships.
It is for this reason that most of the armor of this battleship can withstand 280mm naval guns, but it cannot withstand the 330mm guns equipped with itself. The battleship was designed with the principle of being able to withstand the damage of its own guns, and the Strasbourg, although not thinly armored, was difficult to do, so although the French themselves included this battleship in the battleship, the outside world thought that it should be classified as a battlecruiser.
The displacement of the battleship Strasbourg was similar to that of the Chilean battleship captured by the Maritime Resistance Army, but the armor was thicker and the displacement was larger. Don't look at the number of main guns is only eight, and the caliber is only 330mm, which is two fewer than the Chilean battleships, and the caliber is slightly smaller.
However, its advantages are obvious, one armor is not weak or even stronger, the speed can reach thirty-one knots, and the range of the main gun is farther and more accurate. If the two battleships were to face each other, it should be said that the combat effectiveness far exceeded that of the Chilean battleship Admiral Latorre.
The battleship Admiral Latorre, although upgraded, is still difficult to compare with this battleship that was launched in the thirties. The gap is not only in the main indicators, but also in the software. One of the most obvious flaws was that the Admiral Latore-class battleships were not equipped with water reconnaissance aircraft. This was simply a fatal flaw in World War II, you must know that even heavy cruisers and even armed merchant ships were equipped with water reconnaissance aircraft on the European battlefield.
Of course, although the French battleship was more advanced than the battleship Admiral Latorre, it still had huge shortcomings compared to many British and Italian battleships.
This battleship only has two quadruple turrets in the bow and only secondary guns in the stern, which is quite different in terms of firepower compared to a warship of the same displacement.
Strange to say, the French designed tanks, armor first, firepower second, and mobility third. But the design of the battleship was such that maneuver first, armor second, and firepower third. Could it be that the French, who only know romance, don't know what equilibrium is?
Huang Zhonghua did not know the establishment of this battleship of the French army, but he was well aware of the establishment of the Admiral Latore-class battleship. The establishment of the Admiral Latorre-class battleships was one thousand and one hundred people. Since the displacement of the two warships is comparable in appearance, Huang Zhonghua also formulated a battle plan according to this figure.
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