Chapter 866 This Shipwreck Has a History
Xiao Peng explained this to Hua Chong in Chinese, so Huang Linze could hear it clearly. He smiled and said, "Everyone says Mr. Xiao is knowledgeable. I used to watch your live broadcasts, and sometimes I thought you had done all the preparations. Just now, Mr. Xiao said that it was indeed true. By the way, Mr. Xiao, according to our investigation, the 'Sprinklein' was probably sunk by a Stuka, and the perpetrator was probably Hans-Ulrich Rudel. This ship is recorded in Rudel's sinking record."
Xiao Peng laughed out loud after hearing this: "This is good news! No matter what is fished out of this ship, we will make money! Khedira, you know? This ship was sunk by Hans Ulrich Rudel!"
"Oh my God!" Khedira's eyes lit up. "Boss, can you get me some souvenirs?"
Xiao Peng smiled and explained to Huang Linze, "My bodyguard Khedira is German. When he heard that Rudel had sunk the ship, he asked me if I could help him get some souvenirs. Look, this ship has already made money!"
Huang Linze translated the words to Pingte, who also laughed and said to Xiao Peng, "Mr. Xiao, this is all thanks to you. Being able to salvage this ship is like a dream! After doing this job, I can rest for a few years! But then again, if I knew the coordinates of this ship according to the original calculations, I wouldn't dare to salvage it, fearing that the British would come out and play dirty again! It's really great to join the Tri-State Alliance now!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Mr. Pingte, don't be too happy yet. Don't forget that I still have 'inspection' work to do this time. I need to inspect your ship! Safety is the most important thing for us in marine salvage. I don't want an accident on that ship to affect our company's reputation!"
"Of course!" Pingte said, "That's as I should! I'm waiting for Mr. Xiao to inspect it. If there are no problems, I'll contact the barge to start the work! You see, my 'Hunter' is an offshore engineering vessel. According to the alliance regulations, we can use a Type II barge..."
"Then I'll check it out first." Xiao Peng explained with a smile: "If there is any problem, I still hope Captain Pingte won't blame me!"
"Of course not!" Pingte said directly. "Although there are many rules to joining the alliance, I agree with this idea. I calculated that if I can salvage a ship every year, even if it's scrap steel, my income will be at least three times higher than before!"
Originally, they would not salvage those scrap steel ships even if they saw them because it was difficult to sell them. But now the Tri-State Salvage Alliance has reached agreements with major steel mills in several EU countries. For the steel mills, even if they do not produce low-base steel, so much steel raw materials are much more cost-effective than using iron ore: after all, there are many fewer processes.
Why do so many ocean exploration companies want to join the Tri-State Salvage Alliance? "Marketing" is also a big problem for ocean exploration companies, and the Tri-State Salvage Alliance solves this problem for them!
You don't have to look for sunken ships or seek sales channels yourself. Although you have to abide by many regulations and fork out a large sum of money, overall you can earn much more than if you were working alone!
Hua Chong took advantage of Xiao Peng's pause to ask curiously, "Boss, who is this Hans Rudel you're talking about? Why is Khedira so excited when he hears his name?"
"Germany's super ace pilot who shot down nine planes!" Xiao Peng said concisely.
Hua Chong looked disgusted after hearing this: "Boss, don't lie! I know some World War II history. There were 107 people in Germany who shot down more than 100 planes! Erich Hartmann alone shot down 345 planes! Barkhorn shot down 301; Günther Krashen shot down 275; Otto Kittel shot down 267... You say someone who shot down nine planes is a super ace pilot? Isn't this an international joke?"
Xiao Peng spread his hands and said, "I haven't finished yet. In addition to shooting down nine planes, he also destroyed 519 tanks, over 800 trucks and armored vehicles, over 150 artillery pieces, and an armored train... Oh, and a battleship, two destroyers, and over 70 transport ships, landing ships, frigates, and so on. Those super ace pilots you just mentioned were all German fighter pilots. Rudel was a bomber pilot."
"WHAT?" Hua Chong was completely stunned. This was a human achievement? It was too impressive, wasn't it?
During World War II, Germany also had "armored heroes", such as Michael Wittmann and Ernst Bachmann; the former destroyed more than 300 armored vehicles and tanks in total, and the latter did not destroy as many as the former but was still more than 200. As a result, this guy named Rudel destroyed more armored vehicles and tanks than the two of them combined?
Even the Tiger tank's strongest ace, Otto Karl Juss, only destroyed 178 tanks...
Xiao Peng continued, "This is just his official record. He also gave away many of his destroyed records. Back then, his friends would ask him for his records when they wanted to take a vacation, so they could get a break bonus. Sometimes, he would even attack anonymously. For a long time, the higher-ups forbade him from attacking for fear that something might happen to him. If you add that data to the total, it would be even more terrifying."
"How did he do it? Area bombing by bomber crew?" Hua Chong asked.
Xiao Peng shook his head. "During World War II, Germany had a thin-skinned bomber called the Stuka dive bomber. It could only carry a small amount of ammunition. Its attack method was to fly over the target and dive directly, using the inertia of falling to drop the bomb accurately, and then pull up to a safe altitude." He gestured as he spoke. "It flew over the target and then dived with its belly facing up. When it was aimed at the target, it dropped explosives or simply strafed with machine guns. At a very low altitude, it pulled up the nose of the plane to draw a circle. This is definitely a fighting method that only a lunatic would use. Rudel's record was so outstanding that he won every medal in Germany at the time. In the end, there was no other way, so the mustache designed a special medal for him, the 'Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Diamonds, Gold Oak Leaves and Swords'. Until the end of the war, he was the only one in Germany to receive this medal."
"Only a madman can achieve such a record." Hua Chong sighed.
Xiao Peng nodded and said, "He was indeed crazy. Because his fighting style was so dangerous, he was shot down 32 times in total, but he always returned safely and returned to the battlefield in a new plane. Later, during combat, an anti-aircraft gun broke his leg, but he replaced it with a prosthetic limb and continued fighting six weeks later. He was a true war maniac, but this wasn't the craziest thing he did."
"Ah? Is there something even crazier?" Hua Chong was completely confused.
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