On the dark sea, an ocean-going submarine was chopping the waves.
Accompanied by the harsh sound of the diesel engine, the long and narrow submarine advanced archingly on the sea surface. Two white waves were split by the bow and long ripples were dragged by the stern.
The night sky was gloomy, and there was almost no light between the sea and the sky. It was already five o'clock, but the long winter night was still deathly dark.
On the control tower, four people wearing thick waterproof coats each held large telescopes and looked in four different directions. The submarine under their feet was heaving together, and the four people stood firm without even moving their arms.
one time.
If it were during the day, you would have to observe at least six directions. But now it is a dark night and you can't see very far. Four people are enough.
Under the hatch at my feet, a girl's voice shouted:
"Please come to the bridge!"
"permit!"
A crew member emerged from the hatch at his feet, breathing white, and reported to the captain:
"Captain, we have arrived at the designated location! Now two nautical miles to the north is the Qingdao Mountain Fort, and three nautical miles to the east is the entrance to Jiaozhou Bay!"
Captain Wu Haiqiong, the captain of the boat, stared at the north with a huge naval telescope. This woman in her thirties had a stern face, without any waves on her face. She had a thick scarf wrapped around her neck, her lips were tightly closed, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.
, at first glance, she looks like the kind of big sister who is used to seeing wind and waves.
She stared motionlessly to the north and ordered:
"Twin engine stop."
"Yes," the crew member shouted toward the hatch, "Stop both engines!"
Soon, everything within a radius of several hundred meters became quiet, leaving only the sound of the undulating waves and the faint sound of wind in the air.
The submarine slowly slowed down and moved forward with its inertia, and the white mark on the tail gradually faded.
There is a cute dolphin painted on the dark gray control tower. This shows that this submarine belongs to the ocean-going submarine force of the Ming Dynasty and is different from the river reconnaissance submarine like the "Grasshopper".
There are three white numbers "624" painted under the dolphin.
In the Ming Dynasty Navy, battleship numbers started with 1, followed by battlecruisers with 2, aircraft carriers with 3, cruisers with 4, destroyers with 5, and submarines with 6.
The Grasshopper has a displacement of more than 300 tons and a crew of 12, while this ocean-going submarine has a displacement of 1,120 tons and a crew of more than 70 people. Pocket reconnaissance submarines in the Ming Dynasty are generally named after "flowers, birds, fish and insects", while ocean-going submarines are named after ancient Chinese names.
Named after the famous sword.
This 624 boat is named "Gongbu".
Wu Haiqiong put down the telescope and said:
"Very good, let's stay here for now and immediately send a message home to say we have arrived. Gather all the officers to the central command module. I have an important order to announce."
The crewman looked at her in surprise:
"yes."
…
Yesterday, the Ming Dynasty launched a national war mobilization. Several submarines from the East China Sea Fleet Submarine Base rushed out to sea and headed north. They were ordered to cruise in the northern waters, each looking for and following the Beiqing cargo ship. Once they received the order to start the war, they would launch an attack.
However, when the Gongbu patrolled the waters south of the Shandong Peninsula, it received a coded message that only the captain could read, and the code was the highest level.
Unlike captains like Qiu Qiu, ocean-going captains like Wu Haiqiong almost always have a calm, reserved, and unfazed character. She didn't know who she was asked to pick up, she only knew the time, location and number of people.
.But that doesn’t matter. Whether it’s a combat mission or this kind of mission, she will treat it as a training mission and complete it to the letter.
Ten minutes later, the Gongbu slowly dived to a depth of twelve meters underwater, stretched out its periscope, and sailed quietly toward the entrance of Jiaozhou Bay.
Jiaozhou Bay is a large bay recessed inland on the southern side of the Shandong Peninsula. It covers an area of more than 500 square kilometers. It has a narrow mouth and a wide belly, like a big-bellied bottle. A small piece of land is recessed to the east of the entrance.
About one square kilometer is the Qingdao Military Port.
Qingdao Port, like Port Arthur, is one of the best ports in northern China and one of the few ports in the north that meets the high requirements for military ports.
…
Gendarmerie company commander Zhou Decai had just passed Weifang and couldn't bear it any longer. He was so sleepy that he went to bed. Now, like the other gendarmes, he was fast asleep.
Xiang Xiaoqiang climbed over the coal bunker and climbed into the locomotive cab. He ordered Li Changgui to increase the speed from 30 kilometers per hour to 50 kilometers per hour. Finally, before dawn at about four o'clock, he entered Jiaozhou Station. To the east of Jiaozhou Bay is Qingdao, and to the west is Qingdao.
The Jiaozhou-Jiaoji Railway branches into two branches when it reaches the northern part of Jiaozhou Bay, leading to Qingdao and Jiaozhou respectively. The eastern one will eventually lead to the Qingdao Military Port at the entrance of Jiaozhou Bay, and the western one will also lead to dozens of kilometers south of Jiaozhou.
Huangdao Pier.
The train slowed down slightly, then flew past Jiaozhou Station and continued south along the coast of Jiaozhou Bay, getting closer and closer to the seaside.
Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at his watch and then at the night sky outside, becoming restless. He had to control the train before the first white fish belly appeared in the east, and then lead people to walk to the predetermined location on the beach to wait for the submarine. If it gets bright, it would be very difficult.
It's dangerous.
Seeing that the time was almost up, he took out his whistle and blew it to the back. This was a signal to the team members to take control of the train.
The train was whirring and moving slowly. Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the map with the help of the weak red light in the cab, and then squinted his eyes to look outside. Now there was the sea dozens of meters away to the left of the railway, and the moist smell of the sea hit his face from time to time.
Come. On the Jiaozhou Bay in the distance, there was a red light moving slowly. He had seen it through the telescope. It was a destroyer patrolling the sea at night.
Li Changgui no longer adds coal to the stove. He is also holding the handle, leaning forward and looking out, holding a cigarette in his mouth and squinting his eyes. He has run this line many times, and he is very familiar with it and can completely trust him.
Xiaoqiang looked at his expert look and thought happily, thanks to such a railway veteran this time.
"That's almost it. It's right here," Li Changgui said. "This is the designated place."
He turned the control lever hard several times, and the train puffed out a burst of white air and slowly stopped.
Xiang Xiaoqiang asked him to stay here, grabbed the submachine gun, jumped out of the car, and ran to the back.
Stomachache stuck his head out from the door of the last carriage and shouted softly:
"Captain, it's done!"
…
Nine commandos with submachine guns and ten female submarine soldiers with box guns easily restrained more than a hundred Qing soldiers in their sleep.
Xiang Xiaoqiang told Xiaoqiang not to let Fourteenth Princess attend. Now she and Xiaowu are still in the luxury box, accompanied by two female soldiers. Fourteenth Princess hugged Xiaowu and looked at the two commandos in a disappointed manner.
This carriage carries rifles.
These two female soldiers were part surveillance and part companion. Fourteen Gege was not feeling well at this time, and everyone could see it. After all, they were disarming the soldiers of her motherland in front of her.
…
In the last two carriages, under the surveillance of a machine gun and several submachine guns, these Qing soldiers were being tightly tied to their seats with backpack straps and belts. Then they were blindfolded by experienced stomachaches.
, the mouth is gagged. According to Tumache, this can prevent them from untying each other.
Zhou Decai was tied up like a rice dumpling, his face turned pale with anger, and he was breathing heavily.
Xiang Xiaoqiang stood at the entrance of the carriage and spoke to them:
"I have a machine gun here. I planned to kill you all. But now you have saved your life. Do you know why? It's Fourteen Gege. She said that if I kill you, she will not follow us.
, just die here. Alas, I have no choice but to let you go. You should be lucky that you have such a good princess. She is going to the Ming Dynasty with us now, but you all saw it, and the traitor usurped the throne.
, killed her father and brother, and wanted to kill her, so she had no choice but to go out and hide. Who else would not hide? Anyway, remember, your little life was saved by you fourteen people. You will scold her in the newspapers tomorrow.
Just don’t yell at each other when the time comes. Okay, brothers, we’ll see each other again later. It’s best if we don’t meet on the battlefield!”
With a wave of his hand, the team members all jumped off the train and locked the compartment door. The boiler at the front of the train was still burning, and the heating was sufficient to prevent them from freezing.
Fourteen Gege came down wearing a coat, approached Xiang Xiaoqiang, and whispered:
"I heard it all. I'm... very touched... You don't have to say these words for me."
Xiang Xiaoqiang put the gun on his shoulder:
"I didn't mean to tell you. I just wanted to say these words. It makes me feel better to say them."
…
In the darkness, the waves were beating against the rocks. Xiang Xiaoqiang stood on the rocks, taking a deep breath of the cold, salty air, feeling clear-headed and comfortable. More than twenty people behind him stood in the darkness, looking at the sea.
Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at his watch and saw that there were still five minutes left before the allotted time. What were you going to do in these five minutes? Oh, let’s expose the gap between Qiu Qiu and Shi Shi Gege!
"Qiu Qiu, you know," he said loudly without looking back, facing the sea, "Miao Cuihua is in the Army Hospital in Pukou now. The Fourteenth Princess did not order her to be shot. She just said that because she was unhappy with you.
"
Qiu Qiu was startled, then opened his mouth and looked at the fourteen grids. He overturned the five-flavor bottle in his heart and felt an indescribable taste.
It is said that when this little girl was escorted to the box of the Fourteenth Princess, she recognized at a glance that the person in front of her was the princess who caught her and interrogated her. When she was in Pukou, she even called Tuojin to instigate her to be frivolous!
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet each other, not to mention that Fourteenth Gege is a fallen Phoenix, so there is no need to be afraid. In addition, she openly provoked and said that she had killed Miao Cuihua, which only added fuel to the fire.
Just before Xiang Xiaoqiang sneaked into the box, Qiu Qiu took advantage of the large number of people and bullied Shi Shigege.
…
In the darkness, Fourteen Grid's eyes were shining brightly, looking at Qiu Qiu.
Qiu Qiu slowly came to her side, stretched out his head to look at the bruises on her face, then lowered his head, lightly kicked the stones with his toes, sighed, and said hesitantly:
"Does it still hurt?...Go back...go back to the submarine and I'll give you some medicine."
Shi Shigege glanced at Xiang Xiaoqiang's back, looked at Qiu Qiu with a smile, and patted her on the back:
"Okay."
…
"Okay, time's up!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang stood on the reef, took out his flashlight, and fired a few flashes into the dark Jiaozhou Bay. Five minutes later, there were a few more flashes.
Everyone waited nervously for more than ten minutes, and a rubber raft loomed in the darkness in the distance, with several oars paddling the water.
As we got closer, a girl’s voice on the raft called over:
"The sea is full of water!"
Qiu Qiu immediately shouted:
"A horse with four legs!"
The girl on the boat shouted again:
"How many legs does the grasshopper have?"
Qiu Qiu shouted:
"Now I don't have any legs!"
…
Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this funny code word.
The rubber raft carried everyone to the submarine in two trips.
On the Gongbu floating in Jiaozhou Bay, the crew was busy deflating the raft and loading it into the boat.
Captain Wu Haiqiong looked at the dark blue color that had appeared in the east and ordered in a deep voice:
"Everyone evacuates the bridge."
"Yes, everyone evacuates the bridge."
She was the last one to go down to the command cabin and ordered:
"Dive down to periscope depth."
"Yes, dive to periscope depth."
The engineer officer gave step-by-step orders in an orderly manner.
Under the dim red light inside the boat, Wu Haiqiong looked at the two dozen "guests" with excited faces in front of him and said with a smile:
"Haha, welcome to the Ming Dynasty submarine 'Gongbu'. I am Captain Wu Haiqiong, the captain of the Gongbu."
Qiu Qiu and his ten subordinates stood at attention and saluted, and said loudly:
"Sir! I am Lieutenant Qiu Qiu, the captain of the Grasshopper!"