Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 198 Cruiser Successfully Acquired

Swimsuits made from sharkskin are excellent at keeping you warm; wearing one makes swimming in water that's a few degrees Celsius feel just as good as swimming in water that's over ten degrees Celsius.

It raised the body's core temperature, preventing it from freezing to death in the sea.

After dark, Wang Gensheng immediately led the frogman special forces team to put on sharkskin swimsuits and then approached the Congqing ship, which was more than ten kilometers away from the coast, under the drag of the cruise torpedo.

That's right, Wang Gensheng is going to target the marines on the Congqing.

Of course, this time is different from the last time when they seized multiple ships. Last time, when they had multiple ships, Wang and his crew had no water propulsion facilities at all, not even speedboats or anything like that.

Therefore, the distance of more than ten kilometers took the frogman special forces team more than two hours to swim. When they reached the ship, apart from Wang Gensheng and Duan Peng, the rest of the frogman special forces team members were exhausted.

But this time it's different. It would be foolish not to use cruise torpedoes as a power source!
So they deployed ten cruise torpedoes, and each cruise torpedo launched a rope, so the frogman special forces didn't have to swim themselves, they could just hold onto the rope and be carried forward by the cruise torpedoes.

Even when towing more than ten people, the cruise torpedo can still reach speeds of forty to fifty kilometers per hour.

Therefore, even though the distance from the Qinghao to the coast was more than ten kilometers, it only took more than ten minutes to reach the destination thanks to the torpedoes.

Perhaps due to the flooding of the Qing, the deck of the Qing is now less than three meters above the sea.

So it was very easy for them to climb onto the deck using the hook rope.

"who?"

Clearly, Wang Gensheng's action of leading the frogman special forces team onto the deck successfully aroused the vigilance of the Congqing ship.

Wang Gensheng didn't hide anything and immediately shouted:

"We are the liberation army. If you don't want to die, put down your guns and surrender!"

Unfortunately, Wang Gensheng was met with a gunshot.

However, Wang Gensheng was wearing full armor weighing tens of kilograms, which could not be easily penetrated by an ordinary rifle.

Of course, considering that the Qinghao will still need to be piloted in the future, after all, those who can serve as marines on warships are all quite skilled, either able to operate cannons or repair ships, so it would be a great pity to kill it.

So Wang Gensheng didn't fire back. Instead, under the sentry's surprised gaze, he went up and kicked him to the ground with a big kick, then said to him:
"Didn't you hear me tell you to surrender? If it weren't for the fact that you're also from Korea, I would have shot you dead already. What are you standing there for? Hurry up and tell everyone on the ship to lay down their weapons and surrender!"

With Wang Gensheng's fearlessness even against bullets, the soldier who had been kicked down immediately got up, turned around, and informed the officers on the Congqing.

Soon, the Qing was taken over by Wang Gensheng, and it was Captain Deng Zhaoxiang who led all 500 officers and men on board to surrender.

The reason they surrendered so easily after so long was mainly because Captain Deng Zhaoxiang had already made contact with intelligence personnel.

They also strongly disliked Lao Jing's instigation of a civil war. It should be noted that in the beginning, in order to be able to operate the Congqing, Lao Jing sent three hundred people to Yingguo to learn how to operate warships.

After all, operating a warship is a highly technical job, and without proper training, one could even sink the warship.

However, Deng Zhaoxiang and the other three hundred people suffered discrimination and grievances while studying in Yingguo, so naturally they did not want the old foxes to fight an internal war, but rather to live in peace and improve the country's overall strength to be united against external forces.

That's why Wang Gensheng surrendered after boarding the ship with his men. The reason he didn't lead the entire crew in a mutiny until 1949 was mainly because, with the victories of the three major campaigns, more and more people on board were pessimistic about the old ship, making it easier for the captain to persuade them to mutiny.

Without the victory in the three major battles, it would have been impossible for the captain to revolt, even if he wanted to. After all, although Deng Zhaoxiang was the captain, he still had many supporters.

If Deng Zhaoxiang had tried to launch an uprising before the three major battles, he might have been arrested by the officers and soldiers on the ship to claim credit!

But now things are different. After Wang Gensheng attacked and successfully boarded the Congqing, the officers and soldiers on board the Congqing would die if they did not choose to surrender.

It was precisely because of this that when Captain Deng Zhaoxiang gave up resistance at this point, the other officers and soldiers on board naturally did not want to resist anymore.

Upon seeing Captain Deng, Wang Gensheng immediately asked:
"How is it? How bad is the damage to the Qinghao?"

Upon hearing Wang Gensheng's question, Deng Zhaoxiang frowned and said:

"Currently, only the engine room is flooded, causing the entire ship to lose power. Other compartments are not flooded. However, the water in the engine room must be drained as soon as possible. The steam turbine cannot be submerged in water for a long time, otherwise, if the rust becomes too deep, the entire steam turbine will be rendered unusable! And the entire steam turbine is the most valuable piece of equipment on the entire warship."

Wang Gensheng nodded in understanding, and immediately said:
"A warship will be coming to tow it away soon. Just cooperate and we'll get it towed away! Don't worry, we'll definitely pump out the water from the ship in a short time!"

However, Deng Zhaoxiang shook his head and said:
"The hole in the hull is too big. It would be best if there were a dry dock. Only in a dry dock can it be repaired. However, most of the dry docks in the country are currently in the hands of Lao Jing. It is difficult for us to find a dry dock for repairs. In addition, we also have to guard against Lao Jing's planes bombing."

Upon hearing this, Wang Gensheng smiled mysteriously and said:

"Don't worry about that! Our shipyard will definitely not be discovered by the old fishermen, and even if they are, they won't be able to bomb it."

Wang Gensheng's words surprised Deng Zhaoxiang, because he couldn't imagine what kind of dock could be bombed by the old man.

However, since Wang Gensheng did not elaborate, we naturally did not ask any further questions.

Wang Gensheng waited on the ship for more than two hours before the warship finally arrived.

Once they arrived, they immediately connected the ship with steel cables and started to move the cruiser, which had a full load displacement of over 7,000 tons.

Of course, although it is not fully loaded at the moment, it still weighs about 6,000 tons.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible for a ship of a thousand tons to pull a warship that is five or six times its own weight at full speed.

Even with the horsepower turned up to the maximum, its speed is only thirty kilometers per hour.

It is nearly half the speed that it can reach at full speed of fifty or sixty kilometers per hour.

Fortunately, Tashan is not too far from the port, only 180 kilometers away, which takes about six hours to drive there.

Just as dawn was breaking, they finally managed to tow the Congqing to the dock.

However, when Deng Zhaoxiang saw the dock, he was immediately shocked and his eyes widened, because the dock was simply too amazing.

(End of this chapter)