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

Chapter 57 A critical moment

The first mate was very happy. They captured an entire German U-boat in one fell swoop. What a great achievement!

The overwhelming wealth just fell on my head.

So naturally he wanted to board the boat and take over.

"Wait!" Lin Chen suddenly called out to him.

"what happened?"

"This seems to be a German Type VII submarine, with a full crew of more than 40 people, but now..." Lin Chen hesitated to speak, but the first mate immediately understood what he meant.

"You guys, keep an eye on them." The first mate ordered in a low voice, and he took out two grenades from behind.

After getting on the boat, several people were assigned to target the lined-up enemies, while he and Lin Chen went straight to the hatch.

The hatch was ajar, and one could clearly hear the sound of someone pulling the bolt from below.

The first mate and Lin Chen looked at each other and pulled the string directly. During the waiting time, the fuse started to emit sparks.
"The Russians are going to throw grenades!"

Someone shouted a warning!

The Soviet soldiers on the boat fired a volley of bullets without mercy.

As the grenade fell into the cabin,

"boom!"

"boom!"

After two shots, Lin Chen immediately rushed down and fired a shot at the German soldiers who were still moving in the smoke.

The first mate also rushed down quickly, and the remaining German troops quickly fled to the weapons room.
While running away, he was still shouting, "Blow up the torpedo, let's die together!"

Lin Chen was so scared by his words that he broke out in a cold sweat. Now it all depended on who was faster.

He nimbly dodged the bullets fired from inside and continued shooting inside. After knocking down two more people, he finally caught up with the last German officer.

It looks like he is the captain.

"You are so despicable. You fired guns and threw grenades!"

"What a joke! You haven't put down your weapons. I think you want to wait for us to come down and then hold us hostage?" Lin Chen immediately saw through the enemy's trick.

In fact, he was also stalling for time because he saw the enemy was already twisting the grenade cap on his waist.

In a flash, Lin Chen could only speak with his dagger, which accurately hit the enemy captain's wrist, and the grenade also slipped from behind him.

Lin Chen took a quick step forward and picked up the grenade that had not yet been pulled.

Then he gave the captain a rifle butt.

It's not that he doesn't want to kill the other party, but at this level, the decision must be made by his superiors, otherwise it will be difficult to explain.

The first mate came in soon and said that other places had been under control. The most important thing was that the cipher machine was found, and there was a lot of valuable information.

The most important thing now is to escort these important prisoners back to the country, and then the U-boat can only be blown up.

Lin Chen took a look at the German submarine and found that it was much stronger than the Soviet K-3. It was leading in almost every aspect. It was a pity to blow it up.

The first mate saw through Lin Chen's thoughts and smiled bitterly. "I just asked their first mate, and it seems that there is a problem with the power unit of their submarine. It can only maintain a speed of 3-4 knots. At this speed, how long will it take us to return to the port? The risk is too great."

Lin Chen also understood that what the first mate said was true. Today they could ambush the U-boat, but tomorrow the Germans might ambush them. With a low speed and without sufficient escort forces, there would be little chance of survival.

"Take him and the other prisoners on board. I'll stay and plant the time bomb," the first mate ordered.

Of course Lin Chen had no reason to refute. He and the soldiers who rushed in from behind picked up the German U-boat captain and other prisoners, and escorted them back in batches in rafts.

But he planned to check it again from beginning to end to see if there was anything valuable that he had missed.

The first mate readily agreed, but told him to hurry up. Lin Chen didn't dare to dawdle, and searched from the stern to the bow, and finally came to the telecommunications room, where he saw a pile of German telegrams, one of which caught his eye.

"The cow is still one hour away from you. Please be prepared to receive it."

Lin Chen's face changed drastically after seeing this. "Cow" is a supply submarine and it will arrive in 1 hour. Doesn't that mean it must be nearby?
He quickly climbed onto the deck and shouted to the first mate who was directing others to transport supplies.

The first mate didn't take it seriously at first, but when he heard the whole story, he realized the seriousness of the problem.

Immediately sent a signal to K-3 with a flashlight.

However, before they had finished firing, he and Lin Chen discovered the trajectories of two torpedoes moving at high speed from a distance.

"Enemy attack!" the first mate shouted at the top of his lungs.

But it was too late.

"boom!"

"boom!"

There were two huge explosions, and the hull of K-3 was torn apart.

The huge shock wave from the explosion caused Lin Chen and the first mate to fall into the sea.

However, Lin Chen had already prepared himself and climbed up in a few steps. He and two other young sailors who had not yet gone down quickly pulled up the first mate and several other people in the sea.

Several people were still in shock as they watched the K-3 slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. Needless to say, the people inside were bound to die.

"First mate, we have to dive quickly, otherwise the enemy's torpedoes will definitely come again!" Lin Chen shouted loudly.

The first mate finally came to his senses. Even though there were only a few survivors and even the Enigma machine was lost, now was not the time to be sad.

"Hurry up and get down, quick, get ready to dive!"

After several people went down into the cabin, they stopped the two guys who were placing the time bomb inside, and then checked the instruments.

Because Lin Chen was the only one who was fluent in German, he looked one by one in the command room. Fortunately, he quickly found the switch for filling the main water tank.

"Dive down quickly! Go down first!"

After the first mate gave the order, several people cooperated very skillfully. Although it was a German submarine, the things inside were all connected. With the help of Lin Chen, water was filled into the submarine and it began to dive slowly.

Because the wreckage of K-3 was still on the sea, the German submarine fired another torpedo, one of which was blocked by the wreckage, and the other was a dud.

The collision with the hull made a crisp sound, which frightened everyone so much that they broke out in cold sweats and kept thanking God and Jesus.

"We have dived to 25 meters."

Lin Chen glanced at the depth gauge.

"It's not enough, it'd better be deeper!" The first mate knew very well that the enemy's submarine sonar was very advanced. If they didn't dive deep enough, torpedoes could still deal with them.

But once they exceed a certain depth, the torpedoes will lose their means of attack, and they will be truly safe.

"It's not good. We seem to be stuck and can't go down." A sailor reported.

"It seems to be a problem with the elevator. We broke it." Lin Chen took a look at the instrument and made a judgment.

It's very funny. At first, he came up with the idea of ​​attacking the elevator of the German submarine, but now this problem has become the key to life.

"Why can't we attack the cow? If it wants to attack us, it will definitely dive to this depth. As long as we can determine its position, we can launch torpedoes to fight back!"

The first mate was sweating profusely, but it seemed that Lin Chen's method was the best option at the moment.

Since I can't escape, I'll just fight!

(End of this chapter)