Cheng Dayang immediately raised the periscope and did a 360° circumference search, and saw that the yellow lifeboat was about 1 km away, and it seemed that the plan was more than half successful. He waited for the anti-aircraft warning radar search report, and then ordered 419 to float up and send a surface team to salvage it. At present, 419 is in the eye of the typhoon, and no ships and aircraft dare to approach here.

The political commissar led the boat team to row the small rubber island to find the upside-down lifeboat on the sea. Pull it closer with a hook, then flip it over, and the yellow cylinders are still hanging underwater, no more than no less, eight in all. The crowd scooped it up with all their hands, and of course cut off the chain under the buoy left by the Japanese nearby, allowing the buoy to float away on its own. Although the Japanese may have made relatively accurate radio cross-location measurements, the accuracy of positioning on the sea surface is estimated to be able to determine a zone with a radius of several kilometers. The next time I find here, it will still cost some weeks.

Next, Shu Ping had to spend some time continuing to complete his pressurized chamber modification, and then use the spectrum to determine whether the cylinder was helium, although it seemed a bit redundant, because the bottle clearly stated: American Gas Company produced liquid helium in 1940, but Shu Ping still felt that it should be tested according to the regulations. As for when 419 will start its own salvage operation, we can only wait for his progress here.

Makino took a seaplane and rushed to Tokyo Bay non-stop, and Kishi Nobusuke had already sent a car to the port to pick him up and take him to his mansion. On the way, he heard the newsboy shouting that Fumiro Konoe had announced the dissolution of the cabinet, and he himself submitted a meeting of ministers to nominate Hideki Tojo, who ousted him, as the next prime minister. Months of hard work seem to have been in vain, and instead of being broken, the course of history has been brought forward.

When Makino arrived at Kishi's house, he was almost spread on the couch, and his negative reaction was much more exaggerated than Kishi had expected. Even from the point of view of people who know roughly the fate of Japan in the future through the people such as Kagesa Yoshiaki or Kishi Nobusuke, Tojo's coming to power is not a big problem, because in the end there is still a way to restrict the start of a war, or even if a war starts, there is still a chance of victory. However, their understanding of the fate of Japan after the war is still too pale, especially since the accounts of these travelers are not the same. Asano said that 70 years later, the Japanese army's combat power is still ranked second in the world, and it can wipe out the Chinese navy in a short time; Makino's depiction is much more pessimistic, and the Japan he describes is completely overwhelmed by China. As a result, these listeners, who are willing to listen, also feel that there is a sense of disagreement, as if there are two very different futures. The same situation existed on the issue of starting a war, and Asano seemed to be optimistic about starting a war, believing that Japan had lost the war and had only missed some opportunities; He violated the agreement reached with Asano not to reveal the history of the war in depth, and talked with Onishi about the Battle of Midway and the key five minutes that would choke the Japanese in later generations, and Onishi was stunned for a moment. Of course, all of these people can feel from the words of the two that Makino's thinking is more mature and steady, while Asano's attitude towards history is frivolous and superficial.

Makino held his head in his hands in the living room of the Kishi family, and after a long pause, he noticed that Kishi Nobu and Hasegawa were by his side, but Asano was not there.

"Where's this Asano?"

"That's the case, these days when you went to sea, the navy's Onishi Daizo sent someone to pick him up, saying that a few of us are too important, and we must guard against all kinds of accidents, so it's better to separate." Fumihiko Hasegawa, who was a few words, said.

"If he likes to go, he can go. Hasegawa, I'm going to leave the rest to you, you're an expert in geology. He said and turned to Nobusuke Kishi, "Mr. Kishi, we have found the approximate location of Manchurian Oil, and the accuracy is very high, and it should be much easier to explore according to this location." ”

"Okay......" Kishi Nobusuke nodded.

Professor Chaoyong provided a Siemens acoustic sonde that could be used for well logging. It should work," Hasegawa interjected, "but...... The depth of the wells there is great; These days I asked Mr. Kishi to investigate, Japan's current drilling capacity, less than 800 meters. Even if the oil field is detected, I am afraid that it will not be able to produce oil in the short term......"

"I'm afraid I'll have to let Mr. Kishi find a way to do this. I think there will be a turnaround. ”

Makino once again threw the problem at Nobusuke Kishi, who was embarrassed to walk twice in front of the two, he had been the Minister of Commerce and Industry, and was familiar with Japan's industrial potential and various shortcomings, and if he couldn't say it, it would be really desperate.

"I thought about it...... That's right...... Deep well exploration in California is this thing, which can drill oil wells below 2,000 meters, and Japan introduced these technologies ten years ago for exploration in Hokkaido and Sakhalin, but because the oil layer could not be found, the equipment has been idle in the warehouse of the 'Imperial Oil Company', and I can think of a way to move these equipment to Manchuria. However, with these devices alone, it is certainly not possible to form large-scale production. ”

"At least the oil can be pumped out, and once the reserves are determined, a large number of imitations should not be a problem. We should give it a try. ”

Makino rekindled the flame of hope, and his life force seemed to come entirely from the hope of stopping the war, but he had come to the deep insight that no matter what he did, there was always an invisible resistance.

October 2nd. On No. 419, Shu Ping completed the improvement of the pressurized chamber, and he calculated the reserves of helium, which, if properly distributed and effectively recovered, could be used for 10 hours of decompression for six people. In other words, it can be used for a group of 2 people to go out of the cabin 3 times.

Cheng Dayang and Lin Xiuxuan decided to select Xu Chong and Lu Qingshan from the special team for their first diving operation. This time they will change into heavy inner-loop dry suits; The duration of the movement is determined by the oxygen carried, and is limited to approximately 2 hours. They will also carry underwater acoustic communication equipment, and conduct unobstructed voice communication with the command module within 1 kilometer through a transducer on the sail cover. The purpose of the search to enter Kasugamaru was determined to be threefold: first, to find the overall plan of the Japanese crossing; The second is the list of supplies on board, and the third is the information on the technology itself, which is the key to 419's return to the future.

Originally, there was a senior diver on 419 who was more suitable for this operation than Lu Qingshan, but considering that there must be a person who could read written Japanese, he was still chosen, and if you consider the diving operation that the Japanese were extremely rough to the point 2 days ago, they actually entered the Kasuga Maru, and it seems that the water depth of 200 meters is not a big problem.

The two wore metal wetsuits, which resembled armor and reduced the area where water pressure was exerted. They drilled into the decompression chamber and then began to fill the water according to the procedure. At the same time, the ballast tanks of No. 419 began to fill with water, and finally sat at 200 meters, on the hard seabed, with the bow facing the Kasuga Maru, about 60 meters away.

The rescue pod slowly opened, and the two diving eyes slowly climbed out along the metal ladder. They also carried a pair of soft ladders, which were used to tie to the front class to facilitate getting on and off the submarine.

The real problem with diving at such a depth is the unbearable pain of ordinary people, and the pain of 20 atmospheres exerted on those parts that the wetsuit cannot protect is a great test of human will.

They carried lighting equipment and climbed down the ladder to get off the submarine. Cheng Dayang reminded them to pay attention to the right side through the transducer, and according to the sonar positioning, 2 Japanese divers died here.

Sure enough, the lights swept over, and two divers who had collapsed at the bottom of the sea could be seen. The round copper wetsuits were still neatly dressed, and two days ago, they were slowly suffocating in this canning box. They approached the two corpses. Xu Chong picked up the basket of items discarded by the enemy before he died, and found a laptop inside, apparently the curiosity of the Japanese led them to scoop up this worthless thing that had gone into the water, as well as some plastic paper, which he flipped through. are some blueprints of firearms. It seems that before Kasugamaru set off, he made all preparations for possible situations and waterproofed some important documents.

In front of it is the huge Kasuga Maru. You can see the diving rope left by the Japanese at the opening of the boat. Lin Xiuxuan asked to follow these tracks, and he changed his plan slightly, trying to figure out where the focus of the Japanese was after their first launch.

Xu Chong was in front, slowly following the diving rope, and after entering the wreck, they lost communication with 419. They walked past the huge machinery and weapons, and it took them 20 minutes to reach the second floor of Class A, from which they could see the hatch on one side wide open, and when they walked in, they saw the words "Geographic Literature Database" pasted on the hatch; They slowly walked past the rows of filing cabinets, showing no signs of destruction, and finally stopped in front of an open cabinet. Xu Chong reached in and took it out, and there were still some books in it that had not been taken away. After identification, all of them are Chinese geography books. Judging from the items scattered on the bottom of the sea by the dead diver just now, it is not the part of them that they are concerned about, that is, there should have been a dive before them. And took things away. Of course, the good news is that judging by the size of the Japanese collection baskets, there are not too many to take away.

They left the second chamber and approached the third data room, which had an open door, which was also lined with neat rows of safes. The classification is quite detailed. Lu Qingshan walked closer and carefully discerned the small classification labels attached to the safe. From small arms to anti-aircraft weapons, barreled artillery, radar, ships,*, sonar, *rockets...... Everything, as you can imagine, is a collection of documents and drawings of all kinds of modern weapons (due to their size, the design drawings are unlikely to be detailed, and may be archived separately in the form of electronic documents). When they walked to the second row, they found a row of cabinets with "biological weapons" and "nuclear weapons" written on them, and it seemed that Kasuga Maru was not wronged at all.

They inspected the cabinets that had been opened in turn, mainly warships, artillery, and *. It seems that the Japanese came down in such a hurry that they did not assign the divers the priority of the task, but let them pick the important ones themselves, so these divers chose these things according to their own vision.

Lu Qingshan has the bottom in his heart, after he goes back, he will make a suggestion to Lin Xiuxuan as soon as possible, in the next dive, be sure to destroy the documents in several important cabins, thinking that the Japanese can't salvage those big objects, but it is a scourge to keep these materials. Anyway, the divers who have been here have died at the bottom of the sea, and no one knows what it was like anymore.