Lin Xiuxuan frowned and pondered the feasibility of the overall plan. He knew that Shuping had completed his autopilot, of course, it was not a very complicated thing, but it was possible to operate the steering wheel in both directions and left and right, and it was not a problem to maneuver the steering wheel, plus the UAV high-altitude surveillance correction, it was completely possible to hit the target, that is, if you captured a transport ship, you could sail by remote control. But is it feasible to ram a lightly converted salvage ship with such a remote-controlled boat. Even if the other side stops in place and can't move, but the opponent's artillery is not vegetarian, of course, he doesn't know whether the enemy has dismantled the main guns in the process of modifying the salvage ship, if only some anti-aircraft guns are retained, that kind of firepower is not to be feared, but the plan cannot be based on assumptions. So we have to try to attract American submarines to it, with the help of their *, or at least show it.

The Guantong department reported that it was difficult to determine the target orientation of the towed sonar, but it was found that the No. 172 submarine seemed to be parked, which showed where it was squatting and waiting. Only by waiting for 419 to turn to the South China Sea can it rely on bow sonar to determine its position.

Lin Xiuxuan suggested releasing drones to pinpoint enemy transports approaching 419. Look at the one that is more suitable to start, there are not many good players left in his special team, and they can only start with smaller ships. The political commissar suggested attacking the returning enemy cargo ships, so that the course would be the same, and it would be easier to deal with enemy identification and calls.

Below the Agano, the first salvage team members are still slowly searching in Kasuga Maru. Compared to the last time, it is much calmer and calmer. They walked slowly through a cabin, not doing anything to the huge dismantling parts that Makino had given up. Makino wanted to find some small waterproof boxes, which were in this area of his memory.

The diver walked slowly, and the light swept through the littered cabin, only to see a corner of something leaking out of the mud on the ground, which looked yellow. The diving eye walked up and moved it carefully, and found that it was a yellow plastic box. They lifted it hard and found that it didn't weigh much. The text on it is blurry and illegible, but it seems to be one of the things Makino wants. Makino said that important things are not necessarily big, but they are packaged in yellow.

They lifted the box and rushed back, and according to the plan, they had to return before a third of the oxygen was consumed. This is the first batch of objects recovered this year. Whether it's a super* that Makino brought down that can blow up a city, I don't know yet.

On 419, the combat meeting continued. The Guantong station gave information on the location of several ships on the nearby route, and Qin Xiaosu's listening department provided some intercepted enemy communications. Vessel No. 1143 returned from Malaya, and according to intelligence analysis, the standard crew size of such a bulk carrier was between 29 and 35; Another cargo ship, No. 4412, returned from Yangon with a crew of between 19 and 25 people. In terms of speed, the 4412 is a French cargo ship requisitioned after the war, using a diesel engine to reach a speed of 11 knots, even if it is fully loaded with cargo, the speed is not inferior to another empty ship.

Lin Xiuxuan believes that the first ship to return may be larger, but there are two drawbacks, one is the large number of crew, and the other is the old hull and slow speed. He suggested hijacking the one bound for Thailand, apparently for the 15th Army and possibly carrying weapons. Cheng Dayang agreed in principle, and he also felt that it might be more advantageous to sail faster.

The plan has been decided, and Lin Xiuxuan began to deploy. The first group consisted of him and Lu Qingshan, who were responsible for boarding the ship to control the wheelhouse and cabin. The second group consisted of Gao Zhicheng, Qin Xiaosu and the boatswain, who were then in charge of the deck and cabins. The third group, consisting of Shu Ping and his men, was responsible for the installation of automatic/remote control pilots, as well as an automatic lighting system.

Choose the time for night, when most of the crew is asleep. This would only take out a few people on duty on the bridge first, and maybe one or two lookouts on deck, and then control the whole ship.

419 quickly sent the ship, originally called the Lübi Matna, which belonged to the French freighter between Da Nang and Guangzhou, and was now renamed the Jingchuan Maru, which, according to the information gathered, had a tonnage of 1,200 tons, and may have been converted into small anti-aircraft weapons after the Japanese took over. It was determined that the ship was loaded with tungsten ore or other materials looted from Burma.

Late at night. 419 quietly caught up with the enemy ship. The boarders boarded two dinghys and headed for the target. The drone had already taken off to overlook the target, and found that there were observation posts left on the left and right sides, although there was only one person each, but the enemy's alert was still sufficient, and there was another person near the top searchlight, who was dozing off and the searchlight was also off. Obviously, the Allied submarines have become more and more active in recent months, and they have begun to put Japanese ships on night duty, but not everyone is very attentive.

The enemy, in order to prevent submarine attacks, did not use lighting at all. This makes their lookout posts useless. However, in order to be in good measure, Lin decided to approach the enemy ship from the rear. Judging from the enemy's lookout shifts, they pay more attention to the sides, and of course there is the bridge staring at the front, but behind it is a blind spot for observation. Apparently to guard against submarines, probably because they felt that the submarine was unlikely to be launched from behind*, so there were no people left behind, of course, this was only captured by the drone from a high altitude through a thermal imager, and there may also be a leak.

The motorized rubber boat quietly followed, and the sound of the diesel engine of the enemy ship completely drowned out the movement. At a distance of 200 meters, the drone alerted that a second enemy was coming from behind on the starboard side. Since the moonlight was good, Lin Xiuxuan decided to move to the left, bypassing the range that the enemy might see. The enemy took a few steps, looked behind him, and then went back. The motorboat returned to the direction of the ship at 6 o'clock and approached quickly.

Lin fired a metal hook at the stern of the ship with a crossbow, but due to the rubber wrapping on the outside, it did not make much movement, and the drone observation did not alarm the enemy. He tied the dinghy to the stern of the boat, and quickly climbed the rope net. As he climbed over the railing, he felt a little out of breath, and he found that he had gained quite a bit of weight after not leaving the submarine for a mission recently.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Qingshan easily got on the boat, and the two of them advanced from the left side of the board separately, because the enemy was very weak, so they decided to act separately, and did not give priority to destroying the communication antenna on the top of the ship, it was really unnecessary.

In the state of Lin's night vision device, he saw that the Japanese soldiers on the lookout were lying on the side of the ship in a daze. knocked it down with a single shot, and Lu Qingshan's report over there also succeeded. He continued to move forward, according to the drone's instructions, found the gangway, and soon reached the outside of the cockpit, where the Japanese could be heard complaining about this and that, and he mentioned that the navy had cut the civilian requisition ship subsidy in half. I can't do it for the time being, so I have to wait for Lu Qingshan to quietly go to the top of the boat and kill the guy who was dozing off by the searchlight. After waiting for 20 seconds, Lu reported that he had succeeded. He walked to the hatch and found it locked from the inside, and he looked through the porthole to see that there were only two crew members on duty, one babbling and the other sitting silently.

He knocked the door.

"Who?" An impatient voice inside asked, and then the hatch opened, and a man poked his head out, his carelessness causing a shot in the head and the body rolling down. Lin rushed into the cabin and strafed his last target from the bridge. This guy was hit by seven or eight bullets, and he fell down without saying a word.

The second group of personnel had already come up at this time, and Lin Xiuxuan found the deck plan of each floor in the wheelhouse, assigned tasks according to the general situation, and then acted separately. The task was simple: to kill all the Japanese on board. Lu Qingshan found the power distribution equipment and first cut off the power to the whole ship to ensure that there was no lighting in the cabin, so that the entire operation would be carried out in a dark environment favorable to the special team. The group was not yet able to turn off the main engine and stop the ship, and had to take control of the engine room, where there must still be someone on duty. So the ships are still advancing in advance three.

He and Lu Qingshan went to the higher cabin, and the rest of them went below. The captain slept to death, and without any resistance, he was killed in his sleep. There were a few twists and turns in the operation in the cabin below, but the enemy situation was still resolved within ten minutes, and several alert enemies found something wrong and fled to a cabin, where they were blinded by flares and killed together. Gao Zhicheng took control of the engine room, and then stopped the ship.

Someone found a rope ladder, threw it from the rear, and waited for the submarine to come to the side, Shuping's group could not wait for the rope to come up, they had to climb the ladder. At the same time, others went to the cargo hold to inspect and found a large number of pyrotechnics, including artillery shells and mines*. Lin Xiuxuan guessed that these British-caliber shells were captured by the Burmese 15th Army and may have been used against Australia's attack, so

As soon as Shu Ping got on the boat, he began to transform the ship's driving system, of course, the same autopilot, he needed to face much less difficulty than Makino, he only needed to control the steering wheel left or right, the control of the power was much more troublesome, so he decided not to control, let the ship move at a cruising speed of three forwards, at a constant speed. In addition, it is necessary to carry out some remote control of the upper light communication system, so that it has the ability to remotely transmit light signals, just in case.

By dawn, everything was ready. Shu Ping hooked the car to full speed, and then the engineer on standby restarted the power, so that the boat gradually regained speed and rudder efficiency, and he told 419 to start remote steering of the ship. The command launched from the drone acts on the remote control pilot, and the steering wheel of the bridge begins to rotate automatically. Shu Ping watched the ship slowly turn 180 degrees, obviously the plan was feasible, and then the group evacuated from the rear.

From this moment on, 419 took over the Japanese cargo ship, in addition to manipulating the steering system, but also installed a remote control * in the cargo compartment * stack, this ship has more than a thousand tons, it will certainly not be able to ram and sink the light cruiser, but if it is coordinated with the explosion, the situation must be completely different.

The sonar of 419 continued to listen to the movements of the American submarine, and found that it was still cruising at low speed, and it may float on the surface to recharge, and the ambush area he chose was very oily and watery on the surface, and the transportation of the Japanese Empire to the South Seas had to pass through the strait, but during this period, the Japanese army was still very strong in this area. There are not only anti-submarine aircraft on the roadbed, which regularly patrol to find those submarines that are charging, but also patrol ships from time to time. Of course, it was evident that the captain was more aggressive than the other captains dangling in the Bass Strait.