Chapter 1181 On the Ice Sea

The bone-bone-broken cold wind blows from the northwest direction, and the sea is rolling, and the cold water rushes up to the deck, wearing thick warm clothes, and raincoats all over her body, and warm rain boots on her feet. The sailors on the deck are trembling in the cold wind, insisting on completing their work. All the sailors standing on the deck are holding flashlights and searching the dark sea. (Niuwen Novel~ Read novels online)

This is a "cutefish" class submarine with hull number q59. Captain Zhang Haihuan is standing on the deck at this moment, directing the sailors to search the sea. They are performing a maritime search and rescue mission. The rescued is a "shark" class submarine from the Far Eastern Republic. Just an hour ago, the Q59 submarine, which was sailing in this area, received an order from the base headquarters. According to the information disclosed in the order, a "shark" of the Far Eastern Republic

The "class training submarine sent a distress signal in the waters of this area, but this distress signal did not last long. The Naval Base of the Far Eastern Republic soon lost contact with the training submarine and sought help from the Chinese Navy and requested coordinated rescue. The Q59 was the closest warship to the waters of the incident. So the Chinese Navy's base in Vladivostok immediately sent a telegram to the submarine No. q59 and ordered Zhang Haihuan to command the submarine to go to the waters of the incident to investigate and rescue.

After sailing for an hour, Zhang Haihuan commanded the Q59 submarine to the waters where the incident occurred, but after searching for half an hour, nothing was found on the sea surface. It is hard to say what accident happened to the submarine in the Far Eastern Republic, whether it was a shipwreck or a beach? According to the situation where the telegram could not be contacted, Zhang Haihuan prefers the former. The training submarine in the Far Eastern Republic is likely to have crashed and sunk, and all the officers and soldiers are likely to have sunk along with the boat, just in this cold and howling ice sea.

This is not a near sea in the Far East, but it is actually a North Pacific Ocean. Geographically, south of the Kamchatka Peninsula, south of the Kuril Islands, the Kuril Islands are like a necklace, extending from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Hokkaido. Both Japan and the Far Eastern Republic claimed sovereignty over the archipelago. During the Russian period, all islands in the archipelago were occupied by Japan. However, at the "Asian Liberation Front" reorganization meeting that ended not long ago, the Far Eastern Republic strongly demanded that Japan return the original Russian islands of the Kuril Islands. Although there was no agreement in the end, the two sides agreed to use this sea area as a "common sea area". Anyone can send warships to patrol here, but the Kuril Islands themselves are still occupied by Japan. In fact, the Japanese Navy has built several secret bases in the South Kuril Islands, which is an absolute forbidden area, and even the Chinese Navy ships are forbidden to approach.

In the waters near the archipelago, there are reefs and shallows, which will pose a danger to the navigation of ships and submarines. However, the sea where the training submarine in the Far Eastern Republic sends a distress signal does not have reefs and shoals, and it is unlikely that any natural object will be hit in this sea area. Therefore, Zhang Haihuan's first reaction was that the training submarine in the Far Eastern Republic may have had a mechanical failure or ammunition problem, resulting in sunk. However, this requires direct evidence, such as the decorations and oil stains inside the submarine floating on the sea, the corpse of the crew, or the lifebuoy with the submarine number written on it.

But I found nothing. After searching in this sea area for half an hour, I found nothing. The submarine q59 could only continue to search until dawn. Now, it was already two o'clock in the morning when Vladivostok time.

If the training submarine in the Far Eastern Republic crashed and sank, it would be almost impossible to search for survivors. In such cold sea water, once a person falls into the water, it will be frozen in just a few minutes, and the loss of temperature will quickly take away people's lives. Now, it is the winter in the northern hemisphere to be described by the concept of Chinese solar terms, which is the season in the mid-nine winter.

At this time, the Q59 submarine was still advancing at a speed of nine knots in this evil wave. The violent bumps of the hull made all the officers and soldiers tremble. In order to prevent anyone from falling into the sea and being swept away by the cold waves, Zhang Haihuan specially ordered two very thick ropes to be pulled up on the front and rear decks of the submarine. All those working on the deck held flashlights in one hand and ropes in the other hand, and ropes were tied around their waists, trembling under the waves.

The "Squidfish" class submarine is very different from the previous submarines. In order to pursue faster underwater speeds, this class submarine completely changed the layout and structure of the previous submarines. From the appearance, it looks like a torpedo that has been magnified several times, and is no longer like a traditional submarine. The bow is no longer a fly-scissor type, but an elliptical type. To be precise, the entire submarine looks like a cigar. This novel design brings a high underwater speed to this class submarine, but at the same time, the deck becomes more difficult to stand, and the stability when sailing on the sea surface is also reduced.

Although the submarine's diesel engine provided strong power for advancement, the submarine's navigation speed was really not fast in the current harsh sea conditions. Originally, searchlights were also set up on the submarine command tower to search the sea surface, but the waves were rolling, and it was difficult to see clearly what was on the sea surface, so Zhang Haihuan had to call volunteers to observe on the deck.

"Captain, look at what I found there."

Someone shouted at Zhang Haihuan. Zhang Haihuan turned his head and looked at him. He saw a sailor pointing at the sea surface on the side of the submarine. At this time, a big wave surged, and the floating objects on the sea surface also rushed upwards. Several flashlight beams poked over, and Zhang Haihuan immediately judged what that thing was.

"It's a lifebuoy that's been taken over"

Zhang Haihuan issued an order. A sailor picked up a long pole and poked over the lifebuoy that was rushing towards him. He beat him several times and finally used the iron hook on the top of the long pole to catch the lifebuoy.

Zhang Haihuan took the lifebuoy and looked carefully. The lifebuoy was written in Russian and had a number, which was the number of the Navy training submarine of the Far Eastern Republic that sent a distress signal.

It seems that Zhang Haihuan's guess is correct. An accident occurred in the submarine of the Far Eastern Republic. Otherwise, the lifebuoy on the submarine would not have floated on the cold sea for no reason. Under such circumstances, it would be difficult to find a survivor.

"The sea conditions are getting worse and worse. Everyone returns to the submarine and search mission to end here and wait for dawn to talk about it."

Zhang Haihuan sighed and immediately issued an order to return to the submarine. Now the waves on the sea are getting bigger and bigger, and it is indeed very dangerous to continue to stay on the submarine deck. There is no need to take such a great risk for a submarine in another country that has been basically confirmed to sink.

A few minutes later, when the last hatch was locked, Zhang Haihuan let out a long sigh and stood in the not-so-warm command cabin. He quickly took off his raincoat. Only then did he realize that there were also large traces of water on the military uniform. Fortunately, the warm clothes inside were still dry, so he just needed to take off his military uniform.

After taking off his military uniform, Zhang Haihuan issued an order to the telegraph officer, reporting the news of the discovery of the lifebuoy of the submarine training in the Far Eastern Republic to the naval base, and reporting the current climate of this sea area to the base, requesting to modify the order, and continue to search for the wreckage of the wrecked submarine after dawn.

A few minutes later, the Q59 submarine received a call back, and the base approved Zhang Haihuan's request and agreed that they could first evacuate to the northern waters in better sea conditions if they deemed necessary.

Zhang Haihuan did not intend to retreat to the northern waters. He was preparing to dive. Before diving, he had to take back the long-range warning radar on the command tower enclosure. Every time the submarine floated, a radar must be set up. This is stipulated in the combat regulations. As an ace captain, Zhang Haihuan has always abide by the combat regulations.

However, before Zhang Haihuan issued an order, the radar soldiers operating the radar suddenly reported an emergency.

"Captain, radar discovered fleets of unknown nationality"

"Fleet? Confirm it's a fleet?"

Zhang Haihuan was very surprised that the North Pacific route was harsh in winter and the sea conditions were not good. Generally speaking, there would be no merchant ships in this area of ​​the sea during this season, let alone a fleet.

"It may be the naval fleet, which is very fast, unlike civilian ships." The radar soldiers corrected his judgment.

"Naval Fleet? Which country's? United States? Japan?"

Zhang Haihuan continued to speculate that he had not received any news that the Chinese Navy Fleet or the Far Eastern Republic naval fleet was sailing in this area, so his intuition told him that the unidentified fleet that appeared on the radar was probably the American or Japanese naval fleet.

"How far is our ship now? What's the location?"

Zhang Haihuan walked to the radar display and took a closer look.

"The opponent's fleet is located in the south, twenty nautical miles away from our ship, with directions xxx, xxx, and heading east."

The report of the radar soldier is consistent with Zhang Haihuan's judgment, and the dense reflected signals on the radar display also surprised Zhang Haihuan. He initially judged that the other party was a large fleet and was likely to have several aircraft carriers.

"Captain, do you want to lean up and take a look?" An intern officer made a suggestion.

Zhang Haihuan thought about it carefully, he hesitated because he suddenly thought of the sunken Far Eastern Republic training submarine. He just thought that the wrecked submarine might have sunk due to mechanical failure or ammunition self-destruction. But now, when he discovered this large fleet of unknown nationality, Zhang Haihuan suddenly had a new speculation, that is, the submarine of the Far Eastern Republic did not sink because of its own reasons, but was sunk by warship attacks.

Because generally speaking, if the surface fleet takes a large move, it usually does not rush forward together, but will arrange some warning ships in front, back and left and right of the main fleet. These warning ships will generally sail in waters far away from the main fleet. If the fleet is performing an attack mission, when encountering an unidentified submarine, the warning ship will usually launch an active attack immediately, sink the target, or drive it to the sea outside the defense line to avoid exposing the whereabouts of the main fleet.

Considering the current tension in the Pacific, Zhang Haihuan's analysis should be natural. The unlucky Far Eastern Republic training submarine appeared in the sea area where it shouldn't have appeared, and was attacked by an unknown national warship and then sank. The attack might have been so fierce that the crashed submarine had no time to report what happened. It only sent a few short distress signals and coordinates. Of course, the Far Eastern Republic may have reservations about intelligence communication.

Of course, this is just Zhang Haihuan's speculation. Whether it is a fact is not confirmed at present, but one thing is clear. If this speculation is correct, then the current situation of Q59 is actually very dangerous. No one can guarantee that the fleet of unknown nationality will not regard this Chinese Navy submarine as a potential threat.

Two fists cannot beat four-handed hands. Although the Q59 is currently the most advanced submarine in the world, it is now facing a whole naval fleet. The most taboo thing in naval combat is to attack the strong with weak. Therefore, after hesitating for a while, Zhang Haihuan made an important decision to avoid getting too close to the other party. But at the same time, he also wanted to see which country the fleet of the unknown nationality was. Intuition told him that the fleet was most likely a Japanese fleet because its navigation direction was in the east.

After careful calculations, Zhang Haihuan finally chose an ideal route. He planned to go around the front of the fleet and wait for the trip. However, this plan was not easy to implement. It not only required that Q59 must sail at the highest speed, but also required that the fleet's navigation speed slow down. Otherwise, Q59 would not be able to surpass that fleet in any case.

Fortunately, the sea surface is getting stronger and stronger. For warships sailing on the sea surface, it is impossible to maintain high-speed navigation under such sea conditions. The Q59 is different. It is a submarine, and it is a new type of submarine with a speed faster than the surface. In this way, the Q59 can completely submerge underwater and sail at full speed.

Zhang Haihuan immediately issued an order. The q59 submarine quickly put away the radar, began to submerge, and quickly sailed eastward at the highest speed. During underwater navigation, if the battery is solely driven to navigate, the high-speed state will not last long. Therefore, the q59 submarine is actually sailing in a snorkel state. Due to the limited length of the snorkel, the submarine cannot dive too deeply. This will of course make the submarine close to the sea surface and be affected by waves, but compared with the water surface navigation, the current navigation depth can still ensure a higher speed.

Zhang Haihuan quickly found a lurking point on the chart. It was a very small island and reef, which was not as large as a submarine. However, because there were reefs nearby, it was an ideal ambush place for submarines. If you lurk there, you don’t have to worry about being attacked by surface ships. Coincidentally, the island and reef were near the route of the unknown fleet of nationality, only a few nautical miles away from the expected route.

After four hours of difficult trek, the Q59 submarine finally arrived at the ambush site first and lurked smoothly in the reef area of ​​the island and reef. The boat dived underwater, sat on the reef, only exposed the periscope on the sea surface, and then patiently waited for the target to appear. In fact, Zhang Haihuan was also betting that he bet that the fleet would not change its course.

It is said that the base should have reported this emergency situation by sending a telegram to the base, but Zhang Haihuan did not do so. He wanted to keep the radio silent so as not to alert the enemy.

When a faint light appeared in the east, the fleet that Zhang Haihuan had been waiting for for a long time finally appeared on the sea level. What made Zhang Haihuan happy was that the sea surface was not foggy. This season, the North Pacific waters are usually foggy.

First of all, the aircraft carriers that caught Zhang Haihuan's attention and those battleships, then, he finally confirmed the identity of the other party. It was a Japanese naval fleet. The entire fleet was so huge that it was surprising that it took an hour to pass through this sea area.

After the fleet left, Zhang Haihuan lifted the combat alarm and commanded the submarine to quickly leave the dangerous sea area. It was only an hour later that the submarine was ordered to float up, and then sent a top-secret telegram to the base.
Chapter completed!