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It turned out that the text that Commander Banderas read was a fake text made by Lin Fei, and it was sent to the Spaniards by Wang Yao's hand, and Commander Banderas didn't say anything more, and said to Normanston: "I will report this matter to Governor Sanders as much as possible, you go back and rest." ”
Normanston agreed and took his leave, Commander Banderas walked to the phone, dialed Sanders's phone, and told him the news of the attack by a mysterious enemy ship, Sanders thought for a moment and said, "No matter who the attacker is, the most important thing to hold Manila Bay is to hold the throat of death...... Corregido, you immediately inform the Corregido defenders and strengthen their guard. ”
Commander Banderas agreed, and immediately called the defenders of Corregidor Island, so that Lin Fei's frogman commandos would face even greater difficulties.
After receiving a call from Banderas, the Spanish army strengthened the defense of Corregido Island, and they transferred an infantry battalion of 500 men from Manila to Corregido Island, and the patrol frequency of the Coast Patrol increased from once an hour to once every half an hour, and Lin Fei was completely unaware of this.
At 3 o'clock in the morning on June 3, Lin Fei led the Tianlong Ship and the Yunlong Ship to clean up the battlefield, and to Lin Fei's disappointment, this time he did not capture a single prisoner, only a dead body.
On the Tianlong ship, everyone was elated, but Lin Fei's face was still covered with a layer of gloom, Yu Xier came over and said, "Mr. Gun Chief, why are you sullen?" ”
Lin Fei let out a long sigh and said, "Don't you think what happened last night was very strange? “
Yu Xier was stunned for a moment and asked, "What does 'strange' mean?" ”
Lin Fei said helplessly: "The meaning of strange is strange and unusual. ”
Yu Xier let out an "oh", and then said: "Last night our two new warships sank the Spaniards' gunboats, which is nothing strange. ”
Lin Fei said: "The Pangu ship is just a whaling ship in the eyes of outsiders, why would the Spanish gunboats follow a whaling ship closely? Does this mean that the Spaniards have realized that we have a warship made of whaling ships? ”
Yu Xi'er frowned when he heard this, and said, "Your analysis is really reasonable, then I'm afraid we can't use the Pangu ship as a frogman transport ship anymore." ”
Lin Fei nodded heavily, then walked to the side of the Jade Bird machine, picked up the microphone, and said to Chen Jingui, head of the General Logistics Department on Mindoro Island: "Send me a steam carrier to the No. 1 temporary berth." ”
In order to get better supplies and rest for the fleet, Lin Fei set up several temporary anchorages near the islands and reefs more than 50 kilometers away from Mindoro Island, and numbered them one by one.
At 10 o'clock in the morning of June 3, Lin Fei met the transport ship at the No. 1 temporary mooring, and to Lin Fei's surprise, this ship was the ship that tested the Vulcan cannon, and the Vulcan cannon in the bow had been dismantled at this time, and the transport ship had returned to the appearance of a merchant ship.
Captain Wu Hai shook hands with Lin Fei warmly when he saw Lin Fei, and Lin Fei said apologetically: "Captain Wu, I've delayed your business." ”
Wu Hai said with a smile: "It is my honor for His Majesty to requisition my ship, and other ships in our fleet can't be requisitioned if they want to." This is the credit of Lin Fei's "pen troops", under their propaganda, the entire Chinese empire is proud of being loyal to Lin Fei's majesty, so that Lin Fei can mobilize the maximum resources.
Lin Fei and Wu Hai said a few polite words, and then took Wu Hai to the command room of the Tianlong Ship to arrange the secret infiltration, Liu Daming said first: "Lao Lin, last time the Pangu Ship planned to launch frogmen when it was five kilometers away from the island, I think this time our transport ship should arrive close to some frogmen to launch." ”
Lin Fei shook his head lightly and said, "No, we should put this distance away." ”
Liu Daming said: "The enemy army is already on guard, and the guards must be stricter, so we let the frogmen go into the water at close range, can't we reduce the danger of being discovered?" ”
Lin Fei said: "You only considered the danger of the frogman being discovered by the enemy, but you didn't consider the danger of the transport ship being discovered by the enemy, didn't you realize it?" In fact, transport ships are easier to be detected by the enemy, because they are large in size and use steam engines, so they can be seen without searchlights. ”
When Lin Fei said this, it suddenly occurred to him that the frogmen of his time used special submarines to carry out secret infiltration missions, but unfortunately, I can't build submarines now.
Lin Fei's train of thought broke for a moment, but then he adjusted back, and continued: "Compared to the transport ship, the probability of the frogman being discovered is much smaller, you think, the frogman is swimming underwater, and our frogman is equipped with an oxygen cylinder, which can stay underwater for a long time, and it is difficult for the enemy's ship to find them." ”
Liu Daming was convinced by Lin Fei's words, and nodded again and again, Lin Fei frowned at this time, and said: "I plan to increase the frogman launch distance to eight kilometers, but I don't know if the frogman commando can withstand it?" ”
Tang Yinchun, the captain of the frogman commando team, who had not finished speaking, stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, our frogman commando team's usual training is based on ten kilometers, and eight kilometers is a piece of cake for us..."
Lin Fei said: "Your training plan was drawn up by me, of course I know very well, but this time you have to face a hard battle when you go ashore......
Tang Yinchun hurriedly said: "Rest assured, we will definitely be able to complete the task given to us by Majesty." ”
Lin Fei saw that Tang Yinchun was full of confidence, so he slapped the table and said, "Okay, I've decided, at 10 o'clock tonight, you will set off, and before 3 o'clock in the morning, destroy the searchlight position on the island." ”
As soon as Qiē was ready, at 10 o'clock in the evening, Tang Yinchun led the frogman commandos to board the transport ship, and quietly sailed towards Corregido Island under the escort of the Tianlong and Yunlong ships, and the Nuwa and Pangu ships also accompanied the fleet.
At 10:35 p.m., the four ships including the Tianlong and Yunlong stopped advancing, and the merchant ship driven by Wu Hai continued to move forward, and at 11:16 p.m., Wu Hai looked at the nautical chart, and there were still eight kilometers away from Correshido Island, so he told Tang Yinchun that he could go into the water.
Tang Yinchun then took his subordinates, jumped into the water, and swam to the distant Koreshido Island, this time the soldiers were equipped with rubber wetsuits and fins, and the swimming speed was much faster, the oxygen cylinder designed and manufactured by Lin Fei could only be used for an hour, this is because the steel produced by Lin Fei now has average performance and cannot withstand too much air pressure, so the frogman commando team did not use the oxygen cylinder as soon as the water started.
After swimming out for about three kilometers, Tang Yinchun saw several huge apertures moving on the sea surface in front of him, which was a searchlight on the coast monitoring the sea. ”
One by one, they all quickly understood the order, and at that moment, from the light in front of them, a small boat suddenly appeared and headed in the direction of the frogman commando, this small boat was a rowing boat, and the Spanish flag fluttering at the stern of the ship stood out in the light.
The Spaniards' patrol boat, Tang Yinchun's heart moved, and he hurriedly shouted: "Dive...", and then used the "water box" tied to the thigh, "water box" is one of the underwater special combat equipment developed by Lin Fei for the frogman commando, frog people need to often sink and float in the water, and even potential underwater immobility, which requires frogmen to often change their weight to control the ups and downs.
The "water box" is a large pipe with a piston, when the piston is pulled, the water will enter the pipe, increasing the weight of the frogman, and the frogman will sink into the water, and if you want to float up, you only need to push down the piston to press the water out.
Tang Yinchun and his subordinates used the water box and dived to a depth of two or three meters underwater, they bit the oxygen tube in their mouths, breathed the oxygen in the oxygen cylinder, and planned to wait for the patrol ship to pass.
The sound of the patrol boat's paddling was getting closer and closer, and the crowd was not alarmed, as they had encountered during the sneak attack on the temporary anchorage of Cebu Island, when they had no oxygen tanks, and the dive was relatively shallow, and they were not detected by the enemy, and this time they would not be detected by the enemy.
Tang Yinchun raised his head and looked at the water, only to see a long black shadow slowly approaching, that black shadow was the hull of the patrol boat, and there were oars around the hull, like a huge centipede crawling on the water.
The patrol boat slowly came to the top of Tang Yinchun and his subordinates, but suddenly stopped.
Tang Yinchun saw the patrol boat stop, and his heart trembled, and he secretly wondered if we were discovered by them? It shouldn't be... It was so dark, and we were two or three meters underwater, and they couldn't see the blisters formed by our exhalation, let alone the people who saw us.
Tang Yinchun gestured to his subordinates while thinking, signaling them not to act rashly, everyone quietly dived into the water, without moving, but at this moment, there was a "poof" sound on the water surface, only to see a black shadow fall into the water, and then a bright light came out of the black shadow, through the bright light Tang Yinchun suddenly found that the black shadow that came down turned out to be a person...
Tang Yinchun's heart was pounding, thinking to himself why did this person jump down? Why do you still have a flashlight in your hand? Have they noticed what we are doing? Tang Yinchun was thinking about it, when he suddenly saw that the flashlight turned to him, and instantly shone on himself.
Tang Yinchun then saw a large ball of bubbles coming out of the man's mouth, which showed that the man was very panicked, he instinctively wanted to scream, but he forgot that he was in the water, so he drank a few large mouthfuls of water and spit out a large ball of bubbles.
The man suddenly floated up after seeing Tang Yinchun, and Tang Yinchun knew that as soon as this person surfaced, he would report the attack of the frogman, and then His Majesty's plan would be a complete failure...
"Kill him...," Tang Yinchun thought to himself, and reached out and took out the LSX-1 underwater rifle.
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