The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Chapter 189 The crisis-ridden return

A huge spaceship with a bare shell is equipped with four super-large propellers, just to ensure that it can move forward and backward, dive and float, and a rough rudder is made and installed on the back, and a piece of crude rudder is welded on each side The balance wing ensures that it will not roll and somersault in the water under normal circumstances, and then press tens of thousands of tons of metal into the bottom cabin, add a little water, and the spacecraft can be submerged tens of meters deep in the water, moving forward cautiously like a giant whale.

There is no time for further trial voyages. Anyway, the internal layers of compartments ensure that it will not sink to the bottom under normal conditions. After a short period of adaptation, the spaceship is completely submerged in the water, sneaking under the front du li platform, and letting the huge platform "ride" on the body. It is integrated by linking the mechanical arm and the buffer electromagnetic pillar.

On June 6, Captain Mahan returned from Germany with a mighty fleet and arrived at the platform.

The Germans, who were driven crazy by gold ore, urgently manufactured a batch of large freighters with a standard displacement of 2 tons. The full load can reach about 2 tons, and they can carry nearly 8 tons of cargo for more than 1 nautical miles. It can cross the oceans of the world at a speed of 18 knots. According to the requirements, all ships are equipped with defensive guns. The main gun is a 150mm skc28 naval gun. It is short, but the range and power are not small at all, and it is a product that is currently available, and it is easy to produce.

In addition, a large number of 37mm anti-aircraft guns are installed, and the firepower is not inferior to that of the American version. In addition, because it is under the banner of the Germans, it is relatively safer than Zhu Bin's own.

In order to show respect, the Germans did not send even one person to the fleet. It was Zhu Bin's people who transported a batch of ore to the port, and then unloaded the ship and loaded it back. With such a rotation, the cooperation has been relatively smooth.

Discovering that Zhu Bin was also on the platform, Captain Ma Han was slightly surprised, but he didn't make a fuss. After more than a year of cooperation, he deeply knew that the mystery of this young man was beyond his imagination, and he only needed to do his best. Just enjoy the highest salary and bonus in the same industry with peace of mind.

The fleet was arranged to dock around the platform, and those that needed to be unloaded began to be transported down with a giant tower crane. Captain Ma Han climbed onto the platform, hugged Zhu Bin vigorously, and greeted: "I am so glad to see you here. , Mr. Zhu."

After slapping each other twice, Zhu Bin looked up and down the old captain who had lost a lot of weight, and sighed sincerely: "Thanks to your hard work for the past six months, next, you can enjoy a vacation with peace of mind and take a good rest." one time!"

Ma Han casually waved the pipe Zhu Bin made for him with deep-sea coral, and said with a humorous smile: "An old guy like me is not used to staying on the shore to bask in the sun! Children's lives are more important. Having said that, dear boss, you have been really busy recently!"

The old guy is traveling around the world with his fleet, and it's not so easy to meet them.

Zhu Bin spread his hands helplessly: "Actually, I want to be more relaxed, but as you can see, many things have to be done by myself."

Mahan casually glanced at the oddly shaped two-seater bomber, nodded, and said: "By the way, I'll tell you some bad news. That old guy Ma Yier is dying. I heard that he is already lying in the hospital." , Maybe he will die tomorrow. I went to see him when he passed through New York last time, and he feels that he has no regrets in his life for meeting you."

"Mr. Ma Yier!" Zhu Bin couldn't help sighing. That old guy was the first partner he met after he floated up. To be honest, he helped a lot, but at the same time, his return was generous enough.Although at the beginning of this year his shares were completely acquired by the Morgan consortium, which is the backstage of the GE company -- Ma Yier seemed to leave the shares to his descendants, but he obviously couldn't resist Morgan's pressure, but in the end, the old guy still got it A very generous sum of money, as long as his sons don't waste it, it will be enough for several generations.

Shaking his head, Zhu Bin put aside the slightest feeling, and said, "It's a pity, he is a very good old guy, and we have been working together very happily. Shenchang Foreign Firm can talk better with him."

Captain Mahan frowned and did not comment on this.It's better to mix less things in the upper layer.

Turning around and pointing at the busy ships, he asked, "Mr. Zhu, is there going to be someone on duty here in the future? I see a lot of diesel and supplies."

Zhu Bin nodded: "Yes. In the future, this place will become our group's sea supply point, where we can stay and rest properly for a long time."

"Oh, that's good news." Mahan nodded, and didn't ask any further questions.

The spaceship is about to leave, but the ore salvage still needs to continue. Zhu Bin doesn't plan to let go of not only ore, but also more seabed resources, so a large enough sea base is needed.Without the spaceship, there would be a lot of inconvenience, and the platform would be discovered sooner or later, so it is obviously inappropriate to leave it unattended for a long time.Counting the days, the large water patrol aircraft modified by Wang Zhu and others will be released in a few months, and it is also possible to fly directly to change shifts at that time.

There are really a lot of things that need to be unloaded from the 12 freighters that came this time.

The first is two "Abyss Crawlers" with a self-weight of 150 tons. After several tower cranes combined their efforts to carefully unload them onto the platform, Wall-E installed the intelligent processing core and body control unit to ensure that it can complete the design on the seabed according to the program. According to the given work, the alloy standard boxes are hung on the hanging giant claws and pulled to the platform.

In order to ensure that it can withstand the huge pressure of 2300 meters deep water, the outer shell and two mechanical arms are all made of titanium alloy. The middle can accommodate 3 people to operate in a posture, but now it can only be operated by no one and remote control.A thick cable and superconducting cable are tied to the buttocks. After the debugging is completed, it sinks into the deep sea to replace the spacecraft's mechanical arm to continue working.

The second is a bunch of modular houses. A six-storey lattice building is built on a simple platform, allowing a class of people to live in it. Various physical exercises, entertainment and game facilities are as complete as possible, air-conditioning, lighting All that was missing, plus a mini-submarine that could dive into the water if necessary.

Two large diesel generators used to replace the energy of the spacecraft are installed on the middle platform to provide all the power required by the giant tower cranes and robotic arms. Correspondingly, in the huge vertical legs under the platform, thousands of tons of diesel If it continues to be filled, it may increase to tens of thousands of tons of various oils in the future to ensure the supply of daily use and other ships.

Finally, there is the weapon defense system.

Without the spacecraft below, as the fleet changes lanes more and more frequently, the secret here will be revealed sooner or later.Even without the help of satellite navigation, experienced navigators can find it, not to mention a very abrupt platform in the middle of the vast ocean, the plane has long legs, and it may be discovered someday.Therefore, there must be defense forces.

A total of 20 150mm single-mounted turrets, 20 105mml65 twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns, and more 20mm Oerlikon twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns, and 4 4-mounted 533mm torpedo launch tubes were purchased from the Germans. , built four tall and raised fortresses on all sides of the wide platform, stuffed inside, like hedgehogs, densely pointing to the sky.

All the turret casings are reinforced with 500mm carburized steel armor, and the round casing processed by the robotic arm can even allow the shells to slide away or fly away.The giant tower crane on the middle platform was dismantled, leaving only the main steel structure of hundreds of meters behind, and seven or eight dish antennas like pot lids were installed from top to bottom, and the widest rotating antenna at the top was enough to search around Five hundred kilometers of radius waters.

The Germans only made the metal main body, and the key functional modules were all picked up from the garbage dump of the spacecraft, including several sets of remote microwave communication modules, and a separate antenna was maintained to point to the west.

All the control is centralized in one intelligent unit, which can be remotely controlled and supervised through microwave communication. The people who live on it don’t really need to care about big things.

The entire installation and transformation required more than ten days or even more. Zhu Bin could not just wait. He first flew back to Shanghai.Immediately after all the equipment was unloaded, the two vacated ships were filled with ores and metals, dragging a platform and sailing away towards the Hawaiian Islands.

Serena returned to the spaceship and controlled the spaceship to start slowly. The huge propeller pushed away the sea water, driving the heavy hull and platform to maintain a constant synchronous speed, and followed the fleet to advance at 18 knots.Wall-E was in a hurry to plug the leaks at the back at any time. The dilapidated spaceship was tossed with cracks everywhere. It was already blocked, but after the dive, the pressure increased, and many cracks appeared, making it extremely busy.

Two days later, the fleet arrived in Hawaii, rested and replenished, and continued to sail on the third day. According to Zhu Bin's request, this time they did not go to the waters of Japan, but turned back to Guam via Wake Island.As usual, the two US destroyers opened the way, unhurriedly moving forward along the deep sea route.

We arrived in Guam smoothly in [-] days, the weather was calm and the expected trouble did not happen.

On the 20th day, the fleet crossed the Ryukyu Islands and entered the East China Sea.

On the night of July 7th, in the waters on the east side 30 kilometers away from Naha Port, the mighty fleet slid across the sea with a low roar, and most of the two American destroyers leading the way were lazily incapacitated, or had fallen asleep , or put together a bunch of nonsense, without noticing that on the sea not far behind them, two huge guys slowly followed.

"Ri's own submarine!" In the spaceship, Serena's dark blue eyes flashed a flash of light, she suddenly stood up from the pilot's seat, waved a holographic screen, and immediately showed that less than a kilometer away, two A huge submarine with a parallel spacing of less than 500 meters.

The database was called up immediately, and it turned out to be a Japanese "Yi-style" that had been sunk once. I don't know when it started, but these two guys followed the fleet. It seems that they are quite unkind!

Zhu Bin was woken up from his sleep, and when he read the telegram, he was furious and shouted angrily, "He's such a leg! Is it endless?! Serena, as long as the devil dares to attack, whoever he is, Kill them all!"

After thinking for a while, he sent an order: "Try not to let the other people in front know, quietly kill them and pull them down."

"Understood." After Serena's short reply, the spacecraft shook slightly, fell off from the platform, and sank about 50 meters underwater. Six huge mechanical arms stretched out silently, lying across the water, four The giant propeller turns slowly, maintaining a speed of less than 10 knots.

On the top of the submarine bridge on the left, Major Nagai Mitsuru, the captain of the Japanese submarine "I-1", looked through the binoculars at the flickering lights ahead, with a ferocious smile on the corner of his mouth, and muttered in a low voice. : "Hey! The Chinese people don't seem to have any defenses! Then, let me sink here!"

He lowered his head and shouted at the sound transmission tube: "Are the torpedo launch tubes 1 to 4 ready?!"

The gunnery officer below replied loudly: "Torpedo tubes 1-4 are ready!"

Nagai Mitsuru stared at the freighter on the left side of the towing platform and shouted: "Torpedo No. [-], launch she! Torpedo No. [-], launch she!"

"all"!Two strings of churning foam emerged from the dark opening on the side of the submarine, and two thick torpedoes reopened the water and galloped towards the freighter not far away!

A piercing alarm sounded in the spaceship, Serena closed it coldly, and then saw the two mechanical arms on the left side of the spaceship flip upwards, and a ten-meter-long giant hand opened, aiming at the galloping The two torpedoes suddenly burst into two intense ultrasonic blasts!

"Bang bang!" The invisible energy that can easily smash hundreds of tons of rocks accurately hit two torpedoes, smashing them to pieces on the spot, and the solid shell surrendered in less than a second, turning into a mess Parts are scattered directly to the ocean floor.

"...five, four, three... huh?! What's going on!" Nagai Man was precisely grasping the countdown with his eyes closed, waiting for the moment when the explosion would happen, but he counted to the end and there was no movement!

"Damn it! Is it a damn misfiring again?! Those guys who produce weapons should be damned!" It's not a matter of a day or two that the torpedoes are unreliable. I didn't expect to encounter two at a time today. What a bad luck!

Slapping the submarine hard, Nagai gritted his teeth and shouted: "Torpedo No. [-] and No. [-], launch!"

"Hi!" The command was passed on, and a few seconds later, the two launch tubes on the other side spewed out rich bubbles again, and the two torpedoes rushed out quickly, but after waiting for a full minute, there was still no movement!

"Baga! Isn't there a reliable torpedo?! These damned guys!"

Nagai Man was outraged, how could such a thing happen? !Such a probability is simply an insult to the dignity and glory of the Imperial Navy. Using such weapons to fight in battle is no different from sending them to death!It's outrageous!

The deputy captain below carefully suggested: "Major! It's better to use naval guns directly!"

Nagai Mitsuru scolded: "Idiot! Do you want all the ghosts and animals in the United States to find us?! Those merchant ships on the opposite side are all equipped with 150mm heavy artillery. We can't bear so much artillery bombardment. Continue to load torpedoes!"

"Hi!" After being bored, he went down in despair.

This delay was almost another 3 minutes, and it was reported below that all four torpedoes had been loaded. Nagai Mitsuru was about to give the order to launch, when he suddenly felt that the submarine had been hit by something, and there was a violent shake, followed by a sound A sharp and ear-piercing howl came from below, and then there was a horrified howl in the submarine as if seeing a ghost!