Chapter 1212 Song of the Prosperous Age (Second update, please subscribe)
When the icebreaker "Dongfang Shuo" was sailing towards the Southern Ocean, in the 200-meter deep sea south of the Cape of Good Hope, a submarine was sailing silently and at a constant speed. . This is the "Jiaolong" nuclear submarine, and now it is about to enter the Indian Ocean and head towards the mainland.
“Yes, it’s a Soviet cruiser!”
“One cruiser, three destroyers, and two cargo ships!”
Sonar soldier’s report, Qi Guotao frowned. Encountering the Soviet fleet at the Cape of Good Hope was a very unusual event in itself. Therefore, in order to avoid being discovered, they carefully sailed at a silent speed and a constant speed.
If he were not performing a mission, Qi Guotao actually even wanted to try to launch an "attack" on the Soviet fleet. After all, such an opportunity was very rare.
Furthermore, he is extremely confident in the performance of his submarine.
“There must be more submarines!”
Soon, the sonar soldier confirmed Qi Guotao’s guess that there were two more submarines below the fleet.
“When did the Russians enter the Indian Ocean?”
What Qi Guotao didn't know at this time was that after Ethiopia's successful military coup, it quickly signed a "Treaty of Friendship" with the Soviet Union. In the past few months, the Soviet Union not only provided military assistance to Ethiopia, but also dispatched a large number of military advisers. In addition, it also reached an "Agricultural Cooperation Agreement" with it to help Ethiopia realize agricultural modernization. While a large number of Soviet agricultural advisers were stationed, at the invitation of Ethiopia, the Soviet Union established a naval base in Eritrea.
This small fleet was the first Soviet fleet to enter Eritrea. In order to avoid irritating Britain, France and other countries, the Soviet Union decided to let its fleet go through the Cape of Good Hope instead of the Suez Canal and enter the Red Sea.
The encounter between the two sides lasted for more than ten hours, and soon they were heading in different directions.
After getting up the next day, Qi Guotao looked through the crew members' information. After seeing that crew member Wang Rulin's 32nd birthday was today, he silently wrote it down.
“Well, today is the day.”
Afterwards, Qi Guotao made a special trip to the kitchen and asked them to prepare a cake.
The long underwater voyage not only tests the performance of the submarine, but also tests the sailors. Due to the frequent maneuvers of surfacing and submerging, the sailors on the submarine began to show boredom, and the doctors on the boat began to show boredom. It was carefully discovered that the sailors' moods became irritable, their physical fitness decreased, their appetite deteriorated, and serious violence even occurred among some soldiers. The soldiers' psychological boredom and relaxation will bring unpredictable crises to the unknown voyage.
So Qi Guotao immediately reported the situation back, which received great attention from the Naval Ocean Command. He immediately ordered the implementation of effective measures to mobilize the sailors' combat enthusiasm and adjust the frequency of combat duty. He also invested more in the sailors. Humanistic care.
For example, celebrating a sailor's birthday through a submarine's wireless broadcast, or praising soldiers who have performed well, or gently admonishing soldiers who are lazy. As a result, the atmosphere on the nuclear submarine became active again. The soldiers seemed to have found the joy of life again. The original monotonous and repetitive life gradually became richer, which relaxed the tense mood of the sailors.
For the "Jiaolong", it is now getting closer to the mainland a little bit every day. After entering the warm Indian Ocean, home is ahead! In a few days, they will enter the Sunda Strait, return to Nanyang from there, return to their long-lost home, and complete this global voyage.
Since sailing out of the Truk base, they have never surfaced again and have been sailing under the sea. However, this also means that they produce a large amount of domestic waste every day, and the disposal of this domestic waste is a problem that must be dealt with. Unlike ordinary submarines, which must first put garbage into special garbage bags and use a knife to poke holes to release the air, the "Jiaolong" submarine's garbage disposal device is more complicated, with garbage compactors, reels, etc. on board. The compressor first compresses the garbage into shape, then puts the formed garbage into the perforated metal sheet garbage can rolled by the reel machine, and finally discharges it out of the boat through the residue throwing device. Either way, lead should be added to the garbage to ensure that it can "sink into the sea".
However, every time the garbage is discharged, for the officers and soldiers of the "Jiaolong" submarine, it is an attack operation. They will point at the imaginary enemy and launch torpedoes to release the garbage.
At 18:00 in the afternoon, Wang Rulin, who was in the torpedo cabin, directed the sailors to load "torpedoes" and prepare for attack as usual.
"Launch!"
With a command, the "torpedo" was launched from the launch tube and sank to the cold seabed.
At this moment, the captain's voice was heard on the radio.
"Sergeant Wang Rulin, please come to the command cabin immediately."
After hearing the order, Wang Rulin immediately handed over the work to his assistant, and then quickly passed through the submarine's cabin and headed towards the command cabin Walking away, different from when every corner was filled with supplies when we first set off, the cabin of the boat was no longer so crowded. When we first set off, even the bed was filled with supplies.
Just when Wang Rulin arrived at the command module, he heard the captain's voice.
“Floating to 32 meters!”
"Float to 32 meters!"
"The water depth is 32 meters!"
While the submarine remained at a diving depth of 32 meters, Qi Guotao turned to look at Wang Rulin and smiled. "Sergeant Major, happy birthday!"
When he finished speaking, the cabin was filled with congratulations. The sudden congratulations made Wang Rulin stunned at first, and then his face was immediately filled with joy. Excited expression.
"Thank you, thank you captain, thank you guys!"
Then the cake was brought over. Although the cake was not big and only lit with a small candle, Wang Rulin was still so excited that he couldn't control himself. At this time, Qi Guotao held his hand and said:
"Congratulations, everything we have done is a birthday gift for you, hurry up and blow out the candles!"
Fire can be used on submarines, and the Navy even allows smoking on submarines, but you must abide by the corresponding rules and regulations. In the past, there were special smoking areas on submarines. If you were addicted to smoking, you could go to the smoking room with air purification equipment. This was to maintain the combat effectiveness of the crew.
What surprised Wang Rulin the most was that he also received a gift - extra call time with his wife and children. Through communication satellite transfer, he listened to his wife and children's voice. When Wang Rulin heard the voice, he felt the concern of his comrades, which really excited him.
On this day, Wang Rulin celebrated his 32nd birthday at a diving depth of 32 meters.
Some of the small souvenirs he received from Huantian that day were all homemade gadgets by his comrades, and Wang Rulin had been carefully keeping them. From then on, this day became a day that he would remember for the rest of his life. Many years later, when he recalled the situation in a reporter's interview, he could not help but be excited, with a happy smile on his face.
On this day, the "Jiaolong" silently snorkeled, heading towards home, from sunset to sunrise.
Thousands of miles away in Nanyang, this is just an extremely ordinary day.
For many people, this day is ordinary.
As the sun rises, they will start a new day of life, living an ordinary life as always.
As usual, Qian Haiyue did not wash up immediately after getting up. Instead, he turned off the air conditioner and opened the window. The breeze blew into the room through the screen.
What comes into view is the standard Nanyang-style community hut, which is similar to the wooden house without any features. These early houses even deliberately simplified the structure, not to mention the attic, and even the windows. Downsized a lot to reduce costs, houses like this in Nanyang are called "generational national residences".
Feeling the gentle breeze, an idea came to his mind.
“This is the prosperous age mentioned in history books!”
In the peaceful and prosperous times, for Qian Haiyue, who had experienced war and displacement, whether it was his personal experience or the shocking wars, massacres, and atrocities when writing history books, he had a profound understanding of these four words.
I also understand why the ancients sighed, "It is better to be a peace dog than a rebel." Only those who have experienced war know the preciousness of peace. Looking at the similar houses outside the window, There are flat turfs in front and back of the house, and some flowers and plants are planted near the walls, most of which are mosquito repellent chrysanthemums and wild mint, which are used to repel mosquitoes.
Although society kills mosquitoes every week, mosquitoes have always been Nanyang’s biggest enemy.
Smelling the faint smell of mint in the air, thinking of this, the corners of Qian Haiyue's mouth raised, with a helpless smile on his face. This is the difference between peaceful times and troubled times. Only in peaceful times, people It's the mosquitoes that matter.
But Qian Haiyue didn’t know that, in fact, from the first day he returned to North Borneo, mosquitoes have been Nanyang’s biggest enemy. Unlike other areas, mosquitoes can spread malaria, and malaria It is fatal to some extent and affects 40% of the global population. There are more than 300 million patients, tens of millions of people are infected in Southeast Asia every year, and millions of people die.
Because he was well aware of the harm of malaria to tropical development, Li Yian put mosquito control at the forefront of all his work from the first day he arrived in Southeast Asia. Even among the first batch of factories established in North Borneo, two A gauze factory specializes in the production of screen doors and screen windows. In addition to installing screen doors and screen windows for all rooms, it also relies on spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes. The first batch of products put into production by KJT Chemical Industry in Nanyang is DDT, even in parks. , Mosquito repellent crops such as repellent chrysanthemum and wild mint also account for a certain proportion.
It is precisely because of this series of work that the incidence of malaria in Nanyang has been effectively controlled. There is a simple number. In cities and reclamation areas dominated by immigrants, the incidence of malaria is One in 50,000 people, while in tribal reservations where indigenous people live, the incidence rate is as high as 30%. After DDT began to be used in tribal areas in 1952, the number of new malaria patients nationwide dropped to 27 by last year.
And urban areas have even eradicated the disease.
Because of this, the construction of Nanyang could be realized smoothly without being affected by tropical diseases.
Of course, for Qian Haiyue, who only came to Nanyang in 1949, he did not know the real reason behind all this. He was more emotional about the difference between prosperous times and troubled times. While feeling emotional, Qian Haiyue Yue's eyes fell on the neighbor's house opposite. Although it was not the National Day month, the national flag was still hanging under the corridor. In the community, many families did this. They hung the national flag under the corridor to show their love for Nanyang.
This sense of belonging comes from the heart. I don’t know when. Even Qian Haiyue would use “we Nanyang” or “we Nanyang people” when referring to Nanyang. This is a kind of feeling that comes from within. Expression of external emotions.
After sighing like this for a while, Qian Haiyue left the bedroom and went to the bathroom to wash up. Then after breakfast in the restaurant, he walked out of the house as usual. When he opened the door, the same thing happened in the corridor in front of the door. A national flag was also flown.
The double-star flag flutters slightly in the morning...
(End of this chapter)