I asked you to escape, but you became a soldier in World War II

Chapter 56 Encountering an Enemy Ship
The days that followed were extremely boring.

The few color magazines on the boat had long been torn apart by everyone, and the few illustrations that were of particular interest were stained with some unknown stuff, which made it impossible to arouse any interest in them.

The recruits have already told all the jokes they can, and every day is filled with mechanical busyness.

This is mainly because the weather is too bad, but the submarine still has to sail on the surface. Every time the navigator goes to the lookout to observe, a lot of sea water will rush in. Although it brings a lot of fresh air, it is more fishy and salty sea water. Sometimes even a few small fish and shrimps will fly in, which shows how bad the sea conditions are.

"The weather is so bad that it is unlikely that German warships will attack. We can't see anything." The first mate kindly reminded.

"Dive to periscope depth! It might be better underwater." The captain gave the order, because according to the nautical chart, they had arrived at the escort patrol area.

The first mate quickly conveyed the order and all the sailors started to operate together.

After a while, the depth gauge pointed to 15 meters.

The periscope was raised, the captain put on a raincoat, and began a tense 360-degree search.

But the waves were so big that I couldn't even look at them.
"Pay attention to the level of the boat, head down 2 degrees, tail up 2 degrees. Dive depth and rise 2 meters."

First mate Cheryusoko quickly repeated the captain's order. After some operations, Captain Malofeev put away the periscope in frustration.
"Nothing. It's too difficult to detect the enemy in this kind of weather."

"Direction 220, a low-speed propeller is passing!"

Suddenly, the sonar operator reported in a low voice.

Captain Malofeev suddenly became excited. "What's the distance?"

The sonar operator listened as hard as he could. "About 5 nautical miles. It seems, it seems to be heading towards us."

"Only one?"

"Yes, only one!"

Captain Malofeyev looked at everyone and said, "One ship, it definitely can't be a merchant ship aiding the Soviet Union. The ships coming here are all fleets, and there are escort ships. This ship is either a German warship or a passenger ship!"

In wartime, attacking an ordinary passenger ship would cause public outrage, and it is obvious that such a target does not have much value.

The speed of a lone warship is often not low, because the economic speed of a warship is much higher than that of a merchant ship.

But he thought about it and decided not to give up.
"Everyone on combat duty. Engines shut down!"

The first mate took one look at him and immediately activated the red light for combat readiness.

In such circumstances, noise control must be carried out on the boat, and no one is allowed to talk privately or make any noise.

"The target is 2 nautical miles away from us, in the direction of 185."

The sonar operator was still broadcasting nervously.

"Captain, this seems to be a submarine."

The sonar operator analyzed again.

"What?" Now it was everyone's turn to be dumbfounded. Most of the German U-boats operated in groups. If they were alone, there were only two explanations: this submarine was damaged and urgently needed to return to the designated location to reunite with their "cow (sea supply submarine)", or this submarine had a secret mission.

But no matter what the reason, they had to attack! "Captain, why can't we force it to surrender?" Suddenly, a strange voice came from the side.
Seeing that it was Lin Chen who was helping in the sonar room, Political Commissar Chalkin was very dissatisfied. Who are you to interrupt without respect? He was about to start scolding him,
"How can we make it surrender? If the German submarine dives, it will be difficult for us to hit it, and we don't have depth charges." The captain was in a good mood. Although he refuted, there was still some educational flavor in his tone. After all, they were all brothers in name.

The captain's words caused everyone to laugh.

Lin Chen was not afraid at all. Instead, he said again, "If we suddenly surface and use the deck gun to hit the elevator of the German submarine, then it will become a decisive battle between surface ships. I think we have a great chance of winning!"

"But what if it misses?" the first mate asked.

"Then we won't suffer any loss. At most, we will miss out on sinking a submarine. But if we succeed, the Enigma machine on it will be too important. Even if the enemy knows about it and destroys it, it will still be of great significance."

What Lin Chen said is indeed very reasonable.

It would be great if we could seize a cipher machine. If we can't or the enemy has modified it, we can also deal a huge blow to the German army's communications. Moreover, a broken Enigma cipher machine has extremely high research value.

"Okay, sonar operator, keep an eye on it. We will ambush along its route, surface suddenly when we are close, and then destroy its bow elevator with the 45mm deck gun, forcing it to surrender. Everyone must act quickly."

The captain arranged the combat plan, so naturally no one else would object.

Time passed by minute by minute, and finally, the U-boat had arrived only 3 meters away from K-100. If no action was taken, it might be lost.

"Action! Surface!"

Following the captain's order, the submarine surfaced quickly, and elite gunners came out one after another and began to aim directly with the deck guns regardless of the bad weather outside!
"put!"

The first attempt actually missed the target, mainly because the waves were too big. It was extremely difficult to hit the target in this kind of weather.

The enemy also discovered the submarine here and quickly prepared to dive. Malofeyev was extremely anxious.

The first mate grabbed the shell, reloaded it, and aimed directly at its tail elevator again with his naked eyes.

"boom!"

This time the tail rudder was hit accurately, and the German submarine was unable to dive again.

"Good job! Get closer at full speed, prepare the deck guns, and send a signal to make them surrender, or we will destroy them!"

The captain shouted with joy.
Seeing that it was hopeless to dive, the German U-boat rushed onto the deck and tried to attack the K-3 directly with a torpedo.

The captain was certainly not stupid. He kept a very close distance from the German submarine and was in a blind spot, making it impossible for the German torpedoes to be effective.

The Soviet artillery fire soon hit the sides of the U-boat again, and a 100mm shell even directly hit the enemy's deck gun, causing huge casualties and completely eliminating the German army's idea of ​​continuing resistance.

The German submarine was forced to hoist the white flag.

The Soviet army did not dare to be careless at all. Fortunately, the weather was much better now, so Malofeev ordered all the German troops to go to the deck and line up. He asked the first mate Cheryusoko to take a small team and slowly approach in a raft.

Of course, the black muzzle of the deck gun here was always aimed at the enemy U-boat.

Lin Chen volunteered to join the team. At first, Cheryusoko asked the captain for his opinion. The captain was not very happy about it, but after hearing Lin Chen introduce that he could speak German, he agreed.

There has to be a translator, right?
As the raft slowly approached, Lin Chen began to shout loudly, asking them to raise their hands and throw away their weapons!
Then, as the fixed line was thrown out from the kayak, the situation seemed to be settled.

(End of this chapter)