Chapter 232 Anti-submarine exercises
This telegram was sent by Yu Maoren in Shanghai, who was in serious trouble, because Wang Yaqiao, who had been hunted down by the bald man with a reward of one million, was now with him.
Originally, Wang Yaqiao should have been protected by Li Zongren in Guangxi at this time, but the establishment of the Pingjin Special Economic Zone made him quite excited, and he personally ran to Beiping after the most reluctance, trying to contact to see if there was a possibility of jointly opposing Chiang.
Of course, the capitalists in Beiping have little interest in such a great cause, what should they do if the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in the south and northeast go south? Although it is also a good deal to win the world, it is unnecessary to risk losing your hometown, haven't you seen the lesson of Zhang Xiaomaozi? Now in Shaanxi, I eat loess, and I am hungry and full.
The No. 1 killer in Asia, who failed to lobby, had to be very disappointed and ready to sneak back to Guangxi, but unfortunately he was targeted by his brother's people in Beiping, and he couldn't fight until he got to Shanghai after fighting wits and courage all the way, but fortunately, Liu Haining didn't want him to die in Shanghai because of this, so he asked Yu Maoren to protect him first, and now this guy is hiding in the military camp of Yang Feng in Shanghai.
This is a problem for Yang Feng, so he rushed to kill Shirakawa Yoshinori to Lao Wang, and he didn't want to watch him being killed by the bald guy, but if he was saved, it would be very bad for the bald guy to lose face, and now is the time for the relationship between the two sides to be harmonious.
"You said that you have provoked too many enemies, although it is understandable to kill Vice Minister Tang, a model of Sino-Japanese friendship for three generations, and Dean Wang, who failed to succeed in Yange City, but it is very bad for you to persistently kill Chairman Jiang, as well as Uncle Guo, and even the British, you want to kill. The cost of saving you is really a lot! Boss Yang said to himself.
Although the cost is indeed not small, Yang Feng still decided to pull him along, now that he has done it, he has to do it to the end, otherwise it will be very troublesome for the crazy people under him to worry about him, and it is estimated that Liu Haining is also worried about this. That's why Yu Maoren protected him.
"Send a telegram back to Lao Yu, protect him first and then find an opportunity to send him to Hong Kong, which is also considered to be benevolent." This goods immediately said to Li Guotang.
In fact, the establishment of the Pingjin Special Economic Zone has attracted a lot of power from all parties, which is also the main reason why Boss Yang came out to watch the Olympics during this time, he is not interested in hooking up with these people, in the final analysis, this is a product of mutual compromise, and the bald guy also has a bit of a broken jar, but if he does too much, he challenges his bottom line. The bald guy has a little temper tantrum and is very troublesome himself.
After a week's voyage, the Marauders finally entered the East China Sea, but instead of heading straight to Shanghai, they sailed north to Dagukou, where the number of Japanese warships on the sea increased, and one by one, like hungry wolves who saw fat meat but had nowhere to eat, looked at the Marauder with a salivating gaze.
Yang Feng's relationship with the Japanese navy was now extremely bad, especially in Shanghai. His security team was in constant conflict with the Japanese Marines, although neither of them used weapons. But from time to time, news of Japanese marines drowning drunk in the Huangpu River still spread.
"Boss, there's a submarine underwater!" Li Guotang hurriedly ran in, now there are also special sonarists on the Marauder, using the passive sonar that Yang Feng got from modern times, like the submarine of this era, there is no hope of ambushing in front of the Marauder.
Yang Feng hurriedly ran into the sonar room with him. Two sonarists with headphones are listening intently to the sound coming from underwater.
"Are you sure it's a submarine?" Yang Feng asked urgently.
The two sonarists nodded at the same time, and then quickly pointed him to the location on the chart.
"What does this guy want to do? You don't really want to ambush us in front of U.S. warships, do you? Boss Yang looked at the chart with a puzzled look and said.
As for which country the underwater submarine belongs to, there is no need to study this, except for Japanese submarines in this sea area. Basically, there will be no one else.
"It's hard to say, it's understandable to rush to the friendship between us and them." Li Guotang said.
"With torpedoes? That's too arrogant! Yang Feng said.
"No, with mines." Li Guotang pointed to the chart and said, according to the current route of the Marauder, it must pass through several reefs in front of it, if the Japanese submarine calculates the direction of the sea flow in this sea area, and then sits on the bottom of the sea and waits, until the Marauder enters the ambush range, directly throw a drifting mine, even if it can't kill Yang Feng, it is enough to sink the Marauder and avenge the poor Izumo.
Moreover, it is relatively easy to shirk responsibility for this thing, even if it is blown up by mistake and it hits a US warship, it can be explained. Maybe it's a remnant of the war! It can only be regarded as a very unfortunate accident, this kind of accident is not uncommon, I did not see the mines left over from the Russo-Japanese War in Liaodong Bay have sunk several ships, and it is still a dead sea there.
"How vicious the intentions are, it's simply outrageous!" Boss Yang said indignantly that he had forgotten how he threw mines at the Japanese!
"It's not a big deal, it's just going around in circles, and you're playing with us at the speed of the submarine!" Li Guotang said indifferently.
"Do you think the U.S. warship knows that there is a submarine in front of the road?" Yang Feng looked at his two bodyguards with ill will and said.
"Isn't it okay? They escorted us all the way! Li Guotang immediately understood what this thing wanted to do.
"That's right, we can't trick people, but you said that if they don't know what to do, let's encourage them to conduct an anti-submarine training and throw a depth charge into the sea or something, they shouldn't refuse, right?" Yang Feng touched his chin and said.
"Well, I don't think they would have refused if it had been Miss Margaret's request." Li Guotang looked at the little goblin next to him seriously.
The two American cruisers really haven't found an underwater submarine, although they also have sonar, but the performance is impossible to compare with the sonar used by Yang Feng, and this submarine may have been diving at a low speed to avoid detection, and even now it has quietly sunk underwater.
So when Boss Yang said that Miss Margaret was very much looking forward to seeing them show off at sea, the captains of the two cruisers agreed without hesitation.
They were fattened by Yang Feng along the way, not to mention that the other two captains only gave a reward of 10,000 US dollars each, and now they are just bored and want to see them do a small exercise. It's a trifle.
However, Boss Yang has a unique taste, he doesn't want to see the exciting scene when the battleship's main guns are fired, but is very interested in how they attack the submarine.
"Let's assume now that there's a submarine lurking in this area, and then your mission is to destroy it." On the cruiser Detroit in a dinghy, Yang Feng pointed to the chart and said expectantly.
"No problem!" The captain of the USS Detroit shrugged. The two cruisers immediately began to speed forward, rushing forward at thirty knots, but the Marauder did not follow them, but also accelerated to thirty-seven knots, bypassing the potentially dangerous channel.
Yang Feng took the goblin and stood in the captain's room of the Detroit with great interest, holding a large telescope for sightseeing and staring closely at the location of the submarine.
The water in this sea area is not very deep, that is, tens of meters. There was enough for the submarine to stick out of the periscope, so he was not worried about danger, and it was impossible for the Japanese to find out that the Marauder had left the formation and continued to release mines to attack the American cruisers, but they probably would not be willing to expose it, and the biggest possibility was to continue to hide honestly under the water.
In fact, this guess was very correct, on the Japanese Navy I-3 submarine underwater, Captain Matsuo Shaosa discovered through the periscope that the Marauder had bypassed the ambush area. Immediately ordered to stop the mine-laying that was about to begin, and at the same time urgently put away the periscope. Although the purpose of ambushing Yang Feng is no longer possible, it is not bad to take this opportunity to spy on the American cruiser.
While the I-3 was lying quietly underwater, the sonar crew listened intently to the noise of the two cruisers as they sailed at high speed, the USS Detroit and the USS Raleigh on the surface were also ready to drop depth charges, and one after another barrel bombs were pushed onto the catapult.
The goblins screamed cooperatively, spurring the young sailors with exaggerated performances. This thing is now used to wearing bikinis, and its sexy figure makes sailors hate that there is really a submarine under the water now, and then blow it up directly in front of their goddess.
The thirty-section high-speed cruiser quickly passed through the channel that was not too wide, and Boss Yang was completely relieved at this moment.
"Lads. Blow up that dead fish under the water, and tonight I'll treat you to caviar, authentic Russian goods! The cargo waved its arms and shouted at the busy sailors on deck.
At this moment, these sailors were more energetic, and soon approached the target sea area, and the two cruisers quickly outflanked one on the left and one on the right.
"Anti-submarine exercises?" He looked at the first mate with a puzzled expression, if he hadn't put away the periscope, he might have found that the two cruisers were already preparing to launch depth charges, and it was still too late to urgently float at that time, but unfortunately after putting away the periscope, he didn't know anything about it, and he completely lost the opportunity.
With the orders of the respective captains of the two cruisers, the catapults in the stern of the ship quickly threw out one depth charge after another, and the sound of the bombs falling into the water made Captain Matsuo stunned for a moment, and then exclaimed as if he had been stepped on his tail: "Depth charges, float quickly!" ”
It's a pity that this was a little late, and besides, the Yi 3 was sitting on the bottom of the sea, even if it took time to drain the water, the bombs that had fallen into the water were detonated almost instantly, mainly because those American sailors, in order to let their goddess enjoy the spectacular scene, so the detonation depth of all depth charges was set to the shallowest level.
More than 200 kilograms of bombs exploded one after another in the water, and the huge water pressure impact, like a sledgehammer weighing several hundred tons, smashed into the hull of the I-3, and the Japanese submarine has always been not high in terms of strength, which can be seen from its maximum depth of only a few tens of meters.
The explosion of the first depth charge caused by the impact of the water pressure that riveted the riveted hull and the sea water poured in like a fountain, and the submarine that was floating up the drain immediately lost its chance to float, and the other depth charges that exploded immediately tore at its poor body like a pack of wolves that pounced on its prey.
"Start the propellers!" Matsuo shouted hoarsely, and as soon as he heard a part that had been crushed by the water and smashed on his head, His Excellency the captain fell to the periscope without a sound, and then the surging sea water flooded the command room.
"Hey! The sound is not right! We seem to have won the lottery. The sonar crew aboard the Detroit suddenly exclaimed.
"What?" The captain was almost stunned.
"Stop the drill!" He immediately ordered, but unfortunately it was too late at this time, and the two cruisers threw at least twenty depth charges at this time, let alone Yi 3. Even if you change U571, it will be scrapped at this time.
"What's the matter, Your Excellency, Captain!" Boss Yang, who was full of spring breeze, walked into the captain's room and asked innocently.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Yang, our exercises have to be stopped, because there may really be a submarine underwater." The captain said.
"Huh? It can't be true, right? If there were submarines. Will it hurt? Yang Feng asked pretendedly.
"It won't hurt, but it will sink!" The captain said with certainty.
The two cruisers stopped their exercises, and then began to search the sea, but there was no need to search, and by this time part of the garbage of the I-3 had already appeared on the sea, as well as the shocking oil stain.
"Mr. Yang, I think we really sank a submarine." The captain of the USS Detroit said with a sad face.
"No, Your Excellency, you didn't do anything. We didn't see anything. Boss Yang said lightly.
The captain of the USS Detroit was stunned for a moment, but then understood what he meant.
"You're right, we didn't do anything." He immediately said with a wicked grin.
The captains of the two cruisers quickly agreed that no matter what country the submarine belonged to and how it sank, it had nothing to do with them, and the two guys left the scene as fast as they could.
They left, but the Japanese Admiralty blew up the nest. I-3 inexplicably lost contact while on a mission to ambush the Marauder. Immediately after that, the seaplane that took off from a nearby cruiser found a large floating oil stain in the ambush area, and the submarine sank needless to say.
The Marauder was unarmed, and the Japanese knew this very well, so the only ones who could do this were the two American cruisers that escorted him. But even if they understood that the Detroit and Raleigh had sunk the I-3, the Japanese could only knock out their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, and they had no evidence at all to prove that the Americans had done it, and they could not even admit that the I-3 had sunk, and this grievance and grief quickly spread among the officers and men.
The grief and indignation of the Japanese has nothing to do with Yang Feng. The sinking of a Japanese submarine kept him in a happy mood for the rest of the voyage, and soon the three ships reached the Bohai Sea, and after Yang Feng's torpedo boat formation was about to meet him at the mouth of Dagu, the Detroit and the Raleigh bid farewell to Yang Feng and turned around and sailed to Shanghai.
It's not that Yang Feng doesn't want to entertain them, the 8,000-ton Omaha class can't enter the Dagu mouth, and after they arrive in Shanghai, Yu Maoren will be responsible for thanking them.
The Marauder arrived at the mouth of Dagu surrounded by more than a dozen speedboats, and then the salute sounded on the Dagu Fort, in order to welcome the returning Olympic heroes, more than 100,000 Pingjin citizens have been waiting here, on the fort, on the wharf, and even on the coastal avenue, there are cheering crowds everywhere, fluttering flags, deafening firecrackers, and noisy gongs and drums, turning this original fortress into a sea of joy.
The Marauder slowly docked on the pier on the north shore, and Yuan Liang, the newly elected chairman of the Pingjin Special Economic Zone, personally welcomed the returning Olympic heroes on behalf of the people of Pingjin.
Although he is not from Beiping, he has lived here for three years, so he meets the minimum residence condition of three years, in fact, this article was mainly used to take care of Yang Feng.
In addition, when he comes to be the chairman of the Pingjin Special Economic Zone, he can also take care of the face of the bald guy, after all, he was the mayor of Beiping appointed by Nanjing, which greatly dilutes the separatist nature of the Pingjin Special Economic Zone.
As for his talent, not to mention this, everyone can see the rapid changes in Peking during his tenure.
Under the leadership of Yang Feng, led by Liu Changchun, the athletes participating in the Olympic Games walked down the ramp in turn, and then under the lens of countless reporters, Yuan Liang personally presented flowers, and then shook hands one by one.
Just when there was a commotion at the mouth of Dagu, he had already driven his small van and returned to Beiping under the escort of the military vehicle that came to pick him up.
Now the Pingjin Special Economic Zone is fully on track, and even the parliament building has been completed, which is completely modeled after the Great Hall of the People, but of course much smaller.
The mayors of Beiping and Tianjin, as well as the heads of the counties under their jurisdiction, have all been appointed, but these local officials are not elected locally, but are directly appointed by the SAR government.
"How's it going in Shanghai?" In the speaker's office, Yang Feng asked his father-in-law, now Liu Haining is focused on the council, and even the affairs of his factories are all handed over to those managers.
"It's not easy to do, Nanjing is very closely watched, Lao Yu can't find a chance at all, and now Wang Yaqiao is still trapped in the barracks, and the British seem to be a little dissatisfied with us, you also know that this guy assassinated Lyton.
Although the public concession has not yet broken into our barracks to arrest people, we have now begun to focus on the inspection of our people entering the rental area.
Speaking of which, I did a little inconsiderate about this matter, I knew that Lu Dao was like this, it was better to let him fall into the hands of Nanjing. Liu Haining sighed and said.
"That's not a good thing, his subordinates have to suspect that we sold him, these guys don't want to die, now it's nothing more than to cause some dissatisfaction, no one will turn against us because of this, but if he is remembered by any of his subordinates, we will risk our lives."
In this case, don't worry about this matter, I'll figure it out, I don't believe that even one person can't get rid of it. Yang Feng said. (To be continued......)