Underwater diving at a depth of 100 meters is an extremely dangerous job. Unknown light, complex underwater current environment, and strong water pressure are all important factors that cause accidents. Even in 2o14, with the assistance of a large number of advanced modern diving equipment, there are still many major accidents that endanger the lives of divers every year in the world.

Lin Han, who has almost no experience in deep-water operations, is also in trouble when carrying out salvage operations at a depth of 110 meters. His heroic body, only more than 100 meters away from the "body", has extremely strong physical ability, and is far better than ordinary people in resisting the high pressure underwater. However, due to the complex underwater hydrological environment and the lack of experience in underwater operations, Lin Han was still forced to use the virtual teleportation ability many times, leaving his equipment and fleeing back to the ship without his diving suit. The main dangers he encountered were: the snorkel was swept away by the turbulent current, and the diving suit was cut by sharp protrusions in the wreckage of the warship. Fortunately, he is a non-human being, and if he were an ordinary diver, he would have died many times since he encountered so many underwater crises.

HSBC's gold was stored in a separate cargo hold in the back half of the Carlisle. When Lin Han planted the explosives, the front half of the Carlisle was blown to pieces, but fortunately, the second half of the ammunition depot was not affected, and the rear half of the hull was not badly damaged. And the compartment where the gold was stored was basically intact because it was close to the stern, and all the gold was placed in that compartment without pulling a piece.

After more than three hours and repeated dives, Lin Han finally opened the door to the cabin where the gold was stored. By one o'clock in the afternoon, the first gold was salvaged out of the water. The next time is the work of Lin Hantong lifting platform and repeatedly carrying gold nuggets and gold bars.

In the evening, when the sunset fell on the sea, all thirty-five tons of gold (the number was changed to thirty-five tons, and the British transported this time were thirty-five tons) had been salvaged.

Along with the gold, there were other things. More than eighty Lee-Enfield rifles, dozens of 152-millimeter and 76-millimeter shells soaked in seawater -- all salvaged from the ammunition depot in the back half. The Lee-Enfield rifle was of little use to the Germans, but it was a very popular gun when used to aid the Communists in the Soviet area, so Lin Han also pry open the door of the weapons storage compartment and took them out.

It was already dark, and after Lin Han returned to the Sephiroth, he rested for a while before continuing to launch. There are too many good things on the shipwreck of the Carlisle, and the British have not yet sunk the Carlyle, and he wants to take advantage of this rare gap to catch more good things. For the average diver, diving at night with zero visibility is a suicidal act, but for Lin Han, there is no difference between day and night.

For an entire night, Lin Han went back and forth between the wreck and the Sephiroth. On the sunken Carlisle, in addition to gold, there are actually many things of great value.

During the salvage process, Lin Han felt the existence of the faint ship soul on the wreckage of the Carlisle, but the ship soul was too weak, and it could even be said to be "as thin as spider silk", he vaguely felt it, but if he finally couldn't confirm its location, he had to give up afterwards.

Lin Han consumed the power of faith to scan repeatedly, and in the broken and deformed wireless telegraph room, he found a somewhat damaged cipher machine and a soaked codebook, and found the captain's safe in the captain's room.

The Carlisle belonged to the Cairo-class light cruiser, an old ship built at the end of World War I, and due to the naval holiday, its armament retained only the original design of five 152 mm guns and two 76 mm high-level dual-purpose guns. Due to the fact that it was a time of peace, and because of the shortage of military spending after World War I, the Carlyle, an old ship of World War I, did not undergo large-scale air defense modifications at this time, and the weapons on the ship remained in the same state as it was during World War I.

The main gun of the Carlisle, the 152 mm naval gun, this thing is expensive equipment, but because it is too cumbersome and the target is too big, Lin Han can only regretfully give up. However, the hundreds of shells and projectile packs in the rear ammunition depot are also worth a lot of money. As soon as the so-called cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold. For a 152 mm shell, a shell is about $5o (for example, the price of German-made weapons in World War II is $12ooo per 75 guns {1935 price} $25 to $3o per shell). The German-made 88 anti-aircraft gun costs 35ooo dollars per shell, and up to 5o dollars per shell. German-made 15o heavy guns cost 35ooo to 42ooo dollars per shell, and 5o dollars per shell). The 76-mm shells could not be abandoned, due to their monolithic packaging, they were well preserved, and only part of the shells were damp. It took a whole night, including the 152 guns' projectile pack, and Lin Han fished out all the ammunition that could be fished out in the ammunition depot. Along with the shells, two 76mm/45x high-level dual-purpose guns were salvaged from the Carlisle, one of which was largely intact while the other was badly damaged. The damaged gun was removed from the ship and the intact parts were used as spare parts for another gun, and the remaining damaged parts were thrown back into the sea.

The 76mm/45x diameter naval gun was a bit bulky, but as long as you added wheels, found a blacksmith shop, and built a simple gun carriage hoe, it was an excellent cannon. Whether it is used to fight a bunker or a city wall, it is an extremely powerful weapon. The cannon was sent to the Jiangxi Soviet District fifteen days later, and was used from 1932 until the liberation of the whole country. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was sent to the Military Museum, but this infantry cannon was obviously transformed from a naval gun, and its origin has always been a difficult problem for later historians.

Then, Lin Han did not hesitate to consume the power of faith, and pumped out the seawater from all the damp 76mm shells and repaired them. Close to three hundred 76-mm shells plus a 76-mm naval gun were enough for the Red Army to last a long time. As for the damp batch of 152-mm shells and projectile packs, Lin Han did not deal with them. Although they were soaked in water and could not be used without artillery, they were given to the Red Army, and the Red Army, which was accustomed to living a hard life, would make good use of them.

As for the more than 80 Lee Enfield rifles that were salvaged from the ship, in order to replenish the ammunition, Lin Han specially ordered 100,000 bullets from the British in Shanghai, and in order to cover the act of ordering British rifle bullets in large quantities, the personnel who came forward to trade with the British at that time also ordered an additional 20 Lee Enfield rifles as "cover". In addition, in order to prevent the "accidental" birth of raw guns falling into the hands of the British, Lin Han used his ability to erase the number on the body of the Li Enfield rifles that were fished up from the bottom of the sea.

Francis, a German profiteer who participated in the order, wrote down the transaction in his post-war memoirs.

The representative of the British comprador "kindly" asked: 20 rifles, 100,000 bullets? Are you sure it's not ten thousand?

Francis replied, "I prefer to shoot guns"

For a long time after the Anti-Japanese War, these more than 100 Lee Enfield rifles were considered the best rifles in the Red Army until they received the aid of the German version of the 6.5 caliber SKS rifles. And the first Soviet Red Army formed a company of sharp knives with German storm assault tactics. The rifles of the Red Army soldiers in the company were all from this batch of Lienfield rifles.

After completing the salvage operation, the Sephiroth took advantage of the darkness to return to Shanghai. Instead of docking at the port of Shanghai, he docked at a small port in a nearby fishing village. In the past six months, Lin Han's layout personnel in China spent only a very small amount of money, relying on the identity of foreigners to easily build a private small wharf in a small fishing village near Shanghai, and after spending a little money to buy off the officials who managed this area, it became a distribution center for smuggling all kinds of materials into China. This situation was not unique to the Lin Han family, and Japanese merchants in this era also used similar tactics to smuggle goods into China in a frenzied way to avoid customs duties.

On that small wharf, all the cannons, guns, and shells salvaged from the Carlyle were transferred to the Yangtze River flotilla, except for the gold, cipher machines, and safes, and a few days later were transported to the Soviet zone along with other supplies.

And Lin Han, who did this crazy vote at sea, did not stay in Shanghai for long. Here, after distributing the dividends to the seventeen German sailors who had taken part in the operation, they were immediately put on a ship bound for Germany and sent them home. Although he promised them in advance that they would be rewarded with a handful of gold bars that they could grab with one hand, in fact they were paid in dollars converted into international gold prices. The main reason is that this case is too big, and gold is too sensitive. This group of people made a small fortune this time, and it was too sensitive and dangerous to stay in the Far East, so it was better to leave early in order to prevent extraneous branches.

The Sephiroth sailed out of China with a new crew of sailors in Shanghai, resupply and 35 tons of gold in its belly as ballast, and its first destination was the Tsushima Strait, where the Russian Second Pacific Fleet was destroyed.

ps: Dad was seriously ill yesterday and went to the hospital to hang the bottle, which made me anxious and couldn't update. There are old and young, and the time to write becomes very small.

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