Chapter 1209 The Glory Era (Second update, please subscribe)
Occasionally, a few leisurely white clouds float by leisurely, casting mottled shadows, slowly swimming on the surface of the ocean, and the sun shines through the clouds, Thousands of golden rays were shed, coating this vast ocean with a layer of golden brilliance.
Suddenly, the calm sea surface was broken by a column rising from the bottom of the sea. A column-shaped object cut open the sea surface like scissors.
"Reaching the periscope height!"
Since leaving the Truk base five days ago, the "Jiaolong" has maintained a high-speed underwater voyage and has never surfaced during this period.
This round-the-world voyage is not to show off the military power of the Nanyang Navy, but a strategic exercise for the nuclear submarine force to implement long-range maneuvers under actual combat conditions.
Although the Nanyang Navy is currently equipped with three new nuclear-powered submarines, due to strategic security considerations, Nanyang's ballistic missile nuclear submarines will be deployed in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean in the future as a trump card for doomsday counterattacks.
The attack nuclear submarines are the knife-carrying escorts of ballistic missile nuclear submarines, and they also need to be deployed in the Atlantic waters.
Therefore, it is very necessary to implement a strategic maneuver exercise.
During long-distance voyages, submarines must sail underwater and maintain underwater communication uninterrupted. This is also part of the doomsday counterattack.
Although the "Jiaolong" has a displacement of more than 4,000 tons, the space inside the boat is still very narrow. Not only is the space crowded, but after five days at sea, the air in the cabin is filled with various odors, which is the lingering smell of submarines. ——Sweat odor, foot odor, kitchen fumes, all the smells are mixed together, and even the air filter cannot remove all the strange smells.
The quality of air is directly related to the health of personnel. Therefore, this ascent is largely for ventilation. Soon, the cool and fresh air of the North Pacific waters entered the boat.
"Sir, our boat is about to enter the D34 sea area."
Listening to the pilot's report, Qi Guotao just nodded silently, and then said:
"Pay attention. ”
This sea area is the Soviet anti-submarine zone in the North Pacific. Soviet warships are very active and the noise is very messy. It is a cruel challenge for submarine sonar soldiers. They must clearly distinguish whether they are encountering surface ships or underwater nuclear submarines. and avoid the direction in which they sail.
For this reason, they must devote 120,000 efforts to carry out this arduous task - in fact, they entered this sea area deliberately. After all, in the future, they will need to fight with the Soviet Union in this sea area. Military submarine confrontation.
So as soon as it entered this sea area, the "Jiaolong" began to submerge silently. This is what it is good at. With its advanced anechoic tiles and power system, the "Jiaolong" has always been famous for its silence. .
While the "Jiaolong" was sailing carefully underwater, the sonar soldier Jin Yiming on the submarine suddenly discovered something strange. He immediately reported:
"Report, at the 30-degree azimuth of the submarine Target noise appears on ”
Qi Guotao immediately directed the submarine to maneuver to collect more accurate intelligence. Soon, the news came.
"Sir, judging from the sonar, the target is a nuclear submarine, and the target is heading towards me at this time. If we don't turn, the two boats are likely to collide."
At this time, whether to turn or not has become a difficult problem that urgently needs Qi Guotao's decision. If a large-scale turn is made hastily, the turbulence caused will reduce the concealment of the nuclear submarine, and it is likely to expose its own existence, allowing enemy ships to detect it. To the "Jiaolong".
As the captain, Qi Guotao was a veteran who had "sinked" aircraft carriers many times. After some thought, he decided to stand still.
“Continue to keep sailing forward. After one minute, the situation is not right, and then turn around immediately.”
Soon, Qi Guotao won this risky game. A new report came from the sonar soldiers. The crisis was resolved, the Soviet submarine changed direction, and they were safe.
At this time, Qi Guotao breathed a sigh of relief. After narrowly avoiding the Soviet submarine, the "Jiaolong" turned around in the waters south of the Chukotka Peninsula.
In this way, the "Jiaolong" nuclear submarine continued to sail in the Pacific. During this period, they also conducted long-term full-speed navigation tests and extreme depth testing.
Two weeks later, we approached the most severe sea area on the navigation route, the Drake Strait. Although Navy ships have passed through the Drake Passage many times, it is well known that as the widest and also the deepest strait in the world, there are constant storms all year round, and countless ships have capsized here in history. As a result, the Drake Passage has been called the "murderous westerly belt", "storm corridor" and "devil's strait". It is a veritable "corridor of death".
Although submarines can sail underwater without fear of storms, the icebergs scattered here make the hydrological conditions here extremely complex and changeable.
Therefore, after entering the Drake Strait, the "Jiaolong" nuclear submarine has become extremely careful when sailing. According to relevant mission requirements, after passing half of the length of the strait, the submarine must float 8 to 10 meters to ensure the submarine's safety. combat effectiveness and equipment integrity.
On this day, the sea conditions in the Drake Strait were not ideal as in the past, with huge waves, but the "Jiaolong" submarine still successfully surfaced, but in shallow waters, the hull was inevitably hit by the big waves. impact, and after sending a safe radio report, dived again.
It was not until it left the strait that it suddenly broke away from the cautious state of alert when sailing independently and accelerated to leave this sea area.
Just two days after the "Jiaolong" nuclear submarine passed through the Drake Strait, the submarine once again surfaced to the periscope depth. When the pilot sent the message "Our boat has entered the waters of the Falkland Islands", Through the periscope, Qi Guotao saw the Falkland Islands from the periscope for the first time.
“Look, that’s our West Falkland Island!”
"West Falkland Island" is a leased land of Nanyang. A few years ago, through negotiations with the United Kingdom, Nanyang leased multiple pieces of land from the United Kingdom in order to explore space. Among them, West Falkland Island has the largest area, with an area of more than 4,000 square kilometers. Island, located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
For a time, the entire submarine was filled with joy. For people who are far away from the country, this is the closest they have ever been to the country! Perhaps "West Falkland Island" is a leased territory in Nanyang, but... what is the difference between it and the country?
After all, there are now more than 4,000 Tangshan people on the island, several times more than the British residents of East Fulan Island. When the ninety-nine-year lease expires At that time, Tangshan people must have made up the vast majority of the population on the two islands.
At that time, as the British declared, "Sending their lives and property to the rule of Argentina against the will of the Falkland Islanders will by no means end the colonial status, but establish a new colony."
Nanyang can also "respect the wishes of the Falkland Islanders".
The officers and soldiers on the "Jiaolong" nuclear submarine took turns looking through the periscope at Nanyang, the southernmost land of the earth. Suddenly the sonar soldier reported:
"There is a ship coming from the port. It's a large ship sailing out."
Is it a British merchant ship or a Nanyang merchant ship?
With some expectation, Qi Guotao turned the periscope in the direction of the ship. After almost half an hour, he finally saw the incoming ship clearly.
"Yes, it's our ship!"
Qi Guotao turned to the crew and said.
"It's the "Dongfang Shuo" icebreaker. It should have just sailed out of West Falkland Island."
However, Nanyang's lease of "West Falkland Island" caused tensions in relations with Argentina . But for the sake of human space career, sacrifices must be made, and it is acceptable to sacrifice the relationship with Argentina.
In the past few years, in order to develop the space industry, the Nanyang Aeronautics and Space Administration has not only built an observation station on the island, but also built an airport and expanded the island’s port. The port here has just been built , West Falkland Island has become the home port for Antarctic scientific expeditions in the South Ocean.
The "Dongfang Shuo" is an icebreaker specially imported from Finland for scientific expeditions in Antarctica. This is a diesel-electric icebreaker with 22,000 shaft horsepower. Because Nanyang cannot build such professional icebreakers. Therefore, the Finns were commissioned to build this polar icebreaker, and Finland’s icebreaker technology is outstanding in the world.
On the sea, the icebreaker "Dongfang Shuo" rides the wind and waves and heads towards the Antarctic. The double-star flag of the South Gate is flying on the mast of the ship.
Under the sea, in the command cabin of the "Jiaolong" nuclear submarine, Qi Guotao just stared at the national flag. This is the national flag of Nanyang!
The land of Nanyang, the ships of Nanyang, and the flag of Nanyang!
While Qi Guotao and others were filled with emotion, on the icebreaker "Dongfang Shuo" sailing at sea, the captain Zhao Guozhu raised his telescope and looked around the surrounding sea. The sea was calm and the waves were calm, which was a rare good weather.
Sun Songtao said: "Captain, it's a good weather today!"
As a member of the ship's scientific expedition team, he was still very curious about this icebreaker, so not long after setting off, he went to the bridge to find the icebreaker. The captain spoke up.
Nodding, Zhao Guozhu said:
"But we can keep it until the destination."
Then he asked again:
"Dr. Sun, do you know why our ship is called "Dongfang Shuo"?"
"Because he was the first Tang Dynasty person to reach the North Pole for investigation."
Sun Songtao smiled. :
"According to the records in "The Preface to the Ten Continents in the Sea" written by Dongfang Shuo, it is mentioned that Dongfang Shuo once accompanied his master to the "Hill of Dark Night" and the "Lomb of Chunyang".< br>
The "Hill of Dark Night" refers to the "polar night" phenomenon in the Arctic Circle; the "Ling of Pure Yang" refers to the six consecutive months of daylight in the Arctic, that is, the "polar day" phenomenon.
Therefore, Dongfang Shuo was the first person among us Tang Dynasty people to reach the Pole. Therefore, the polar research ship was named after "Dongfang Shuo". "
This is a very official answer, and it is also the reason why the official named the polar expedition ship. After nodding, Zhao Guozhu said.
"In this way, the polar expedition belongs to me. has the longest history. "
"Yes, but..."
Sun Songtao smiled:
"No matter how old it is, it is still the glory of our ancestors. Now we are going to create the glory of our era so that our descendants will be proud of us!"
After saying that, he turned his gaze Throwing it into the distance. What he said is exactly what people of this generation believe. They believe that they will be worthy of the times and leave a better world to future generations.
The captain, who was holding a cigar, glanced at the young man in front of him. Something strange flashed across his seemingly determined face. Obviously, this young man knew how big Nanyang was!
(End of this chapter)