Cheng Dayang thought to himself, if there are still living people on the ship, even if the captain does not issue an order to abandon the ship, he should be able to see some fame, right? However, he turned the magnification to the maximum, and could not see any living person on the deck. The ship was gradually engulfed in smoke and flames, and he gradually felt the bottom of his heart.

The old warship began to explode in all directions, smoke coming out of every gap, and the mast at the back of the bridge fell in the firelight, crushing the seaplanes. Then the 152-mm secondary gun turrets on both sides exploded one after another, and there was still no sign of abandoning the ship.

Cheng Dayang moved his field of vision, and he could see two shallow underwater traces in the distance, which were slowly approaching Izumo, which were the 2* he had just launched, and it would take at least a few minutes to arrive. On the other side, two enemy ships began to turn. He began to regret it a little, and he thought that maybe it would be enough to launch one.

On the Nagara, which is closest to Izumo, Naoi Osa looked at the flagship's inexplicable explosion, which even caused a fire, and some people reported two explosions, but it was impossible to tell what kind of blow Izumo had suffered, and it didn't look like it was *, the ship had no signs of tilting or flooding at all, but the first class and above had been engulfed in flames. Smoke was also spewing from a row of portholes on the waterline, and in a bad situation. He urged the standard-bearer to send a signal, but watched Izumo's second mast fall. However, no communication was received from Izumo, whether it was a light flag or a radio.

The third violent explosion occurred near the keel, this time it provoked a huge surge, this time it can be confirmed as a * attack, the explosion lifted the whole broken ship, and when it fell, there was a second explosion, and that was the second * arrived.

There is a saying within the Japanese Navy that the quality of ships made by British shipyards is better than that made in the country, of course, this kind of caustic comment is more for the Kongo-class and subsequent ships, but this Izumo is also a model of old and strong, two * did not break its keel, but opened a huge opening, and the sea water quickly poured into the warship.

Within 4 minutes before the Nagara accelerated to the front, only the tail turret and part of the superstructure of the so-called unsinkable ship remained on the sea.

Cheng Dayang and Lin Xiuxuan witnessed that there were no survivors on the sea, and the Changliang gradually came out of the clouds in a circle, without putting down the lifeboat or throwing down the lifebuoy, and not a single body could be seen floating up, which is usually the result if everyone died in the hull.

"Hey, this time it's a bit more disturbing to history, and 700 of them were killed at once." Lin Xiuxuan sighed, he hadn't spoken before, he just looked at the screen nervously, worried that someone would survive, and now the stone finally fell to the ground.

"Don't pretend to be merciful and say cool things, if you really want those devils to survive, I see that you have a different face." Cheng Dayang sneered and shook his head, of course he could also understand Lin's thoughts, if he really wanted to survive, 419 would inevitably fall into long-term tracking and surveillance, and if the enemy's radio station no longer mentioned the life and death of those three, it would inevitably make the whole thing endless.

"Congratulations on the completion of more than half of our mission. I believe that the most difficult moment is behind me. ”

The commissar took the lead in applauding, and the rest of the command cabin clapped their hands together.

"Next, our task is only how to find a way back, and I think we will take it easy."

"Yes, we'll turn around now...... It's okay to leave the devil to cry and mourn by himself, and when the location of the Kasuga Pill is determined, we will try to buy equipment, Shanghai still has the last 3 and a half months of isolated island period, and we should still be in time. ”

"The sonar detected that the Devil Xiyun turned around and went to Shandong, and it ran very quickly."

"Whatever, let's get out of the battlefield and head south first, and find a place to recover the drone."

"The search radar found a low-speed approaching aircraft in the southwest, with a speed of only 200 kilometers per hour, probably a bomber."

"We are not in a hurry, wait for it to be missed, and we are scheduled to carry out the recycling in 3 hours."

The 419 command trio immediately made a decision, 419 turned around and headed southeast, recovery was a hassle after all, and they had to avoid the main channel. After completing together, 419 went directly to the site of the day's crossing, conducted a seabed exploration, first found the location of the Kasuga Maru's sinking, and then made a plan for salvage or diving.

2 hours after the sinking of the Izumo. A four-engine Kawanishi seaplane slowly flew 150 kilometers south of the sinking site of the Izumo, and the pilot accidentally saw a little flash of light on the eastern clouds, which seemed to be some kind of flying machine, but he didn't care.

The plane received a secret mission, taking off from the sea of Da Nang in the morning and flying directly to the mainland, but 10 minutes earlier, it suddenly received a new order to land on the sea of Qingdao instead, and the telegram did not mention the reason for the temporary change of mission.

Wearing a short-sleeved shirt, Keiji Suzuki, who had just been woken up by freezing, walked to the cockpit in a huff, and after he woke up, he suddenly noticed that the plane's course had changed, and he turned northwest to Chinese mainland, and the naval pilot did not seem to think of bothering to explain the reason to him.

"Hey, why did you change course, we didn't fly straight to Tokyo?"

"Dazuo, I just received the latest order from the Second Fleet on the Chinese side, asking us to land in Qingdao Port instead, and there is another task, which may be delayed for a day, but the order does not mention anything else." The navigator replied while reorienting himself using the radio navigation messages along the coast.

"What's going on? Didn't know there were important members on the plane? ”

"Dazuo, do you need to talk to the ground again?"

"No, I want to see what the hell is going on, is there anything more important than the mission of our Southern Agency?"

Suzuki dropped the sentence and went back.

The large seaplane was forced to change course and at noon, it flew near Qingdao. When the plane landed, Suzuki noticed that two reconnaissance planes from the nearby army airfield took off one after another, flying out into the sea, and the planes were still hanging small *, obviously not a simple reconnaissance mission, the small gunboats of the 2nd Fleet were sent outside the port to patrol around, all the anti-aircraft guns on the shore were stripped of their armor, and the personnel were on alert, and the situation seemed to be very wrong.

He recognized those 98 direct cooperative reconnaissance planes to the sea as belonging to the 18th Division Reconnaissance Squadron directly under the 3rd Flight Group, which meant that near the airport, he might be able to find acquaintances to inquire about what was going on.

After the plane stopped at the naval port, his important guests were reluctant to get off the plane, so Suzuki got down by himself and went straight to Cangkou Airport, where he found Captain Yoshimura, who was familiar with the 6th Aeronautical Intelligence Squadron, and inquired about the situation. Yoshimura tells him that the Izumo was ambushed by a submarine of unknown nationality in the open sea in the morning, and it seems to have sunk. But Yoshimura didn't know what the bomber was trying to do, and he didn't know if it had anything to do with Izumo.

Suzuki also made a direct call to the staff headquarters of the 12th Army stationed in Jinan, and learned that it was not the army that transferred his plane, but Onishi Takijiro Osa, who was in Shanghai, and urgently coordinated with the navy to let the plane temporarily park here and wait for the destroyer Yugumo to arrive at the port to pick up dignitaries. At this point, Suzuki had nothing to say, because this seaplane was also borrowed from the Navy (the Army did not have planes capable of flying directly from Vietnam to the mainland), so naturally the needs of the Navy were the priority.

After all, Suzuki was born to calm his anger, but he was able to sniff out a trace of weirdness from such a tortuous change. He has been planning various conspiracies in Thailand lately, but he still knows a little about what is happening here in China, including the confusing Chongqing military command operation, and even the bombing of the 13th Army headquarters, and he has a premonition that his plane was urgently requisitioned, which may have something to do with these things, even the sinking of Izumo.

He waited in the harbor until this evening, and finally saw a destroyer approaching in the distance, and then a harbor motorboat, taking a few people from the warship, came this way. He found that he still knew a guy in civilian clothes sitting on the bow of the boat, it turned out to be Kage Zo Zhenzhao, but he hadn't seen him for 2 years, Kage Sa seemed to be 10 years older, and he looked tired, completely different from his previous shrewd and capable appearance, did he meet a tough opponent recently?

Within the Japanese intelligence community, Mei Ji, who was working against Wang Puppet, did not have a geographical intersection with the later South Korean organs, which specialized in Southeast Asia, but because they were both engaged in counter-terrorism work, there were also some personnel exchanges. In fact, 1 As early as the end of 938, in the operation to save Wang Jingwei in Hanoi, Suzuki and Kagesa had a period of cooperation experience, so Suzuki knew Kagesa's style very well, what could grind Kagesa into this unlucky virtue?

Looking at the guys hiding behind Kagesa, they are not soldiers, and you can see that they are wrapped in blankets on the outside, and they are wearing prisoners' clothes inside, but they are not handcuffed. One by one, their eyes were dull and silent.

A tired Shadow arrived at the seaplane door, only to find that someone had pulled him up from inside, and when he looked up to see that it was an acquaintance, he barely managed to squeeze out an ugly smile.

"Suzuki-kun, I didn't expect it to be you? They only told that there was a seaplane coming from Da Nang. ”

"General, I didn't expect you to take this plane, it seems that the journey will not be too lonely."

The two bent over and shook hands in the cramped cabin, and Kagesa noticed that there were ten other people in the cabin, but those people seemed reluctant to greet strangers, and they all pretended to be asleep with their heads down. So the two of them borrowed a step and went to the side of the plane to talk near the machine gun, fortunately, the four-engine plane was large enough to provide space for the two spies to talk privately.

"I heard that there are four more places on the plane, and I have three people here who need to be sent to Japan urgently."

As Kagesa spoke, several people behind him had already climbed onto the plane and sat across from Suzuki's guests on the other side. But one of them sat down and didn't stop, and kept looking around nervously, and there were words in his mouth:

“…… We're finished, the headquarters was blown up into the sky, and Izumo sank...... The plane will explode...... The plane will explode...... I don't want 100 million yen...... I don't want jihad anymore...... I want to go home. ”

"General, this ......"

"Oh, this Asano is a little delirious, but don't worry, he's not the kind of guy who will mess around and beat people."

Kagesa prevaricated casually, and Suzuki's curiosity was further piqued.