Chapter 584 Don't take risks for me

Washington, a suburb.

"Yes, please listen to me, the French political axe has already."

On the weekend, President Wilson did not choose to stay in the White House, but came to the suburban farm to enjoy the holiday. Months of heavy pressure had made him a little breathless. At this time, he needed to relax with his family.

Wrapped in a nightgown and holding the phone, President Wilson passed the Senate Speaker while looking at the landing clock in the corner and shook his head with a wry smile, because the phone had lasted for nearly 40 minutes. Maybe no one wanted to face the intercom for so long.

Just as Wilson was thinking about how to end his vacation as soon as possible, the door was suddenly knocked open, and the new Secretary of State Robert Lansing rushed in.

"Mr. President."

Before Robert finished speaking, out of politeness, Wilson reached out to stop him, pointed to the phone in his hand, indicating that he was answering an important call. The President." Seeing that Wilson ignored him, Robert immediately grabbed the microphone and hung up the phone. Robert, you are."

"Mr. President, New York was shelled an hour ago!"

It's inexplicably strange what's wrong with Robert today. Wilson didn't react for a moment and asked in a daze, "Where was shelled?"

"New York!"

Robert gritted his teeth and said, "The Statue of Liberty has been destroyed, Wall Street has been affected, everyone is spreading in New York, and the Brooklyn Industrial Zone of Long Island is almost completely destroyed!"

"What!"

"This is impossible!"

"Robert, today is not April Fool's Day!" Wilson's eyes widened, shook his head and smiled, as if he thought it was a joke. How could New York be shelled?

"Mr. President, I don't want to joke with the lives of thousands of people!"

Looking at Robert's serious face, President Wilson's face suddenly changed greatly. He had never seen his partners so serious during the election. Suddenly, he realized that there was a real attack. Suddenly, he felt as if his chest had been hammered and suddenly fell on the sofa: "Is it them?"

"I think yes, no one in the Atlantic can have so many heavy guns except that fleet." Robert nodded.

"God, this is impossible, impossible!"

Wilson shook his head, and his anger and annoyance, which had been suppressed for months, completely broke out. He waved his arms and shouted hysterically, "It's impossible. Didn't you tell me yesterday that the fleet should be ready to enter Germany near Norway and Iceland?" Why did you arrive in New York overnight?!"

"I don't know." Robert shook his head: "But it really appeared. Just an hour ago, it shelled the statue of the goddess, sank two patrol ships, and even destroyed half of Manhattan and Wall Street!"

"God!" Wilson held his head in his arms. He could almost imagine what would happen next. The stock market crashed, the industry stalled, countless Americans would evacuate from the East Coast, and the whole heavy industry would be completely paralyzed!

"Catch them, catch them!"

"Tell William Benson that I don't care what he uses to kill them!"

Looking at Wilson, who roared like a wounded beast, Robert Lansing could hardly believe that this was the usually polite president of the United States, but he didn't say anything, because he almost fainted when he got the news just now.

"Go and get ready, I need to get to New York immediately!"

"Immediately!"

President Wilson stared at his red eyes, dragged down his nightgown and fell to the ground fiercely. His behavior scared the children who had just got up to shrink into a ball, but he didn't have time to consider the impact of this behavior on the children, and he had to rush to New York immediately.

An hour later, a airship slowly landed on the farm. Before the airship could stop, President Wilson got in and kept urging the pilot to leave as soon as possible.

As the airship slowly took off, President Wilson relaxed his nerves a little. He sat in a chair by the porthole, looking at the blue sea dozens of kilometers away, and sat quietly as if he were dead.

But he didn't know that while the airship was flying north, it had troubled him for nearly two months. He wanted to destroy it every day. The fleet that had just shelled New York was moving south quickly.

On the deck, calm has been restored. The body and blood were washed clean by the sea. A pair of vigilant eyes glanced around, and a pair of fists claped.

More than 20 planes that did not even carry weapons in a hurry threatened the 31st Fleet. It took less than ten minutes for the powerful anti-aircraft artillery to solve them. What really caused the damage was the damn cruise ship! Two shells caused the death and injury of seven people, including the eldest prince, three of whom were injured as interns!

Lao Jiu sat on the gun position, his nose kept twitching, and the anger in his chest had reached its peak. If he had not helped to hit the torpedoes, but aimed at the suddenly cracked black hole first, maybe none of this would have happened!

He turned his head slightly and looked at the captain who stood like a stone statue for several hours on the bridge not far away. He couldn't help but blame himself a little more. He wished to run to the cabin immediately and tear up the rescued sailors in front of the machine gun.

"Xiuyan, we have left the combat radius of the U.S. shore-based aircraft. In addition, this is the confession of the watermen captured on the cruise ship." Chen Shaokuan walked behind Li Xiuyan. He had temporarily taken over the fleet command, because he knew the relationship between Li Xiuyan and the royal family and how much pressure he was under at this time.

Seeing that Li Xiuyan did not reach out to make a confession, Chen Shaokuan had to pat him on the shoulder and continued, "It's not an American, it's Britain!"

Li Xiuyan's body moved slightly and slowly turned his head. His two sharp and terrible eyes were even shocked when he entered the naval school with him. After a pause, he continued: "Newport, British cruise ship, 12,000 tons, maximum speed of 18 knots, was lowered in 1904, half a year ago. It was requisitioned by the British navy, equipped with four torpedo launchers and four 5-inch naval guns, and specially disguised as an attack ship. Usually, it has been sailing disorderly in the Atlantic Ocean, using itself as bait to seduce German submarines to attack. After the German submarines approached, it suddenly opened the gun door or launched torpedoes.

Using this method, they have sunk three German submarines in a row before. This time they did not come to New York on a mission, but to go to Bermuda to search for German submarines after coal.

Chen Shaokuan stuffed the confession into his hand, looked at Li Xiuyan with red eyes, held the railing, turned his head, turned to the sea in the distance, and took a breath: "Xiuyan, it's not your fault. No matter who meets it, it will not arouse vigilance, because it is a cruise ship itself!"

Chen Shaokuan is right. As the most important and largest seaport in the Atlantic Ocean, there are as many as 100 ships entering and leaving New York every day, so the fleet set a principle before the operation, that is, leaving immediately after the shelling, do not do any unnecessary entanglement, and avoid The coastline is at least 40 kilometers to prevent small ships from sneaking.

And the shelling mission had been completed at that time. In order to ensure safety on the way home, the Tumenjiang radar had also been turned off. At that time, most of the people were focused on the coastline, so they found that the other side was only 20,000 meters. In addition, the 31st Fleet was moving south quickly at that time, while Newport was slowly moving north, in order to do everything. It is the right choice to leave the most dangerous coastline early and pass between the side of this cruise ship and the coast.

Although the ship was at the most exciting moment at that time, the sailors had just completed the feat. No one would pay attention to a cruise ship and a cruise ship sailing alone. At that time, the fleet actually had preventive work, otherwise the naval gun would not have reacted so quickly, and five kilometers were reserved. Reaction time, even if you encounter a protective cruiser at this distance, you are sure to sink the other party before being injured, not to mention a slow cruise ship.

But no one expected that the 25-car fleet and 15-car cruise ship would have an accident in just a minute or two!

Pinching the confession and looking at Chen Shaokuan's back, Li Xiuyan squirmed his lips twice. Before he could speak, he was suddenly interrupted by a sound of footsteps: "Captain, the reconnaissance plane found a large cruise ship 40 nautical miles away. Ask."

"Command Tumen Jiang to sink it!" Before the staff officer finished speaking, Li Xiuyan had already ordered viciously.

"Wait a minute."

Before the staff officer answered, Chen Shaokuan immediately interrupted and waved his hand to let the staff avoid it first. Then he turned his head to look at Li Xiuyan, who had looked at him fiercely, and only said one sentence: "Xiuyan, we are soldiers, not butchers!"

This sentence made Li Xiuyan's body shocked. He looked at Chen Shaokuan, who was looking at him. After his chest heaved for a long time, he grasped the railing and pinched his finger bones.

The navy is proud. A real fleet will never attack cruise ships for no reason without the other party threatening itself. Even in the attack war, Germany has been surrounded on all sides. After the Lusitaniyah incident, it was also stipulated not to attack cruise ships sailing alone.

This is an unprescribed rule. Although war is cruel and cold and unreasonable, it actually has its own rules. An army that plays with killing will eventually be killed and eaten up.

Therefore, it is clearly written in the Xinhua military regulations that when dealing with non-military targets, it is not allowed to continue to attack or slaughter if it is determined that there is no threat.

Although this military rule has been repeatedly trampled on by some bad habits, most of those incidents occur in remote or hidden areas that will not be found. Chen Shaokuan is not a kind-hearted person. If this is not off the coast of the United States, if there is even a small gunboat around the other party, he will not hesitate to sink.

But this is the East Coast of the United States and the Atlantic Ocean. The shelling of New York must have spread all over the United States. I believe that countless ships are rushing to the Atlantic Ocean from the coastline of the United States, so now the most important thing for the fleet is to escape, not to attack a worthless one in retaliation. The cruise ship wasted, but put more than 3,000 admirals in danger!

This is irresponsible!

Even if the soldiers are willing to take risks, it is useless to attack this cruise ship, because the shelling of New York can be regarded as a counterattack to the United States, but if the cruise ship is shelled offshore afterwards, causing a large number of ordinary people's deaths and injuries, it will certainly put Xinhua at the forefront of the storm, not to mention that the country itself has one million White people from all over the world have joined Xinhua nationality, many of whom have also made significant contributions to Xinhua.

It makes sense to kill enemy soldiers in the war, shelling incidental casualties in New York, and sinking cargo ships carrying military supplies, but if you kill innocent people indiscriminately knowing that there is no danger, and it is their former compatriots, the impact will be very bad.

There is another biggest problem that Chen Shaokuan did not say that if the news of the massacre of this cruise ship is leaked, then Li Xiuyan's military career will be dangerous. You know, Lefei's shelling Banda Aceh was refrigerated for so long. Now the yellow people joining the white war itself is already walking the tightrope. If it really causes bad Due to the international influence, I'm afraid that the emperor can't keep him, so he can only watch this talented young naval officer be abandoned.

"Captain, the eldest prince is awake." Just as the two fell into silence, the staff officer came over again.

Hearing the news, Li Xiuyan did not delay for a minute. He quickly pushed away the staff and ran to the infirmary. When Chen Shaokuan caught up with him, he had stopped the medical officer at the door of the medical room to ask.

"The wound has been cleaned up, and only a shrapnel on the thigh is too deep. At present, our conditions are insufficient. Forcible removal may hurt the meridians, so we can only temporarily stitch and stay in it after returning to China." The medical officer looked at Chen Shaokuan, who followed closely, and continued, "The eldest prince's physical quality is very good. OK, and we also found the same blood type on the ship, so there is basically no threat to life, but.

After a while, the medical officer gritted his teeth and said, "There is another deep wound on his left cheek. The rupture is inevitable, and there is bleeding in the left ear, and the eardrum is also torn. It should be caused by the explosion shock wave. In the future, there may be a problem with the hearing of this ear, but it is not a big problem."

Hearing that there was no threat to their lives, the two of them were relieved and took care of the medical officer for a few words before opening the door of the infirmary.

The medical room was full of young interns who boarded the ship from Lushun and stayed here for hours. After seeing them, everyone quickly got up and saluted.

The three beds were tightly pressed together, and the corners were full of blood-stained sheets. The inner **, his feet and right arms were fixed by sticks, and his whole body was wrapped in thick gauze. After seeing the two, Li Zhen turned his neck slightly, cracked the bloody corners of his mouth, and winked at Li Xiuyan and Chen Shaokuan.

"I'm fine."

The hoarse voice echoed in the infirmary: "Please tell my father for me that I'm fine. Don't take risks for me."

(to be continued)