Huang Linjie was in the confidential room, anxiously waiting for the confidential officer to complete the final decoding step.
Although the deck under his feet was very stable, Huang Linjie still felt as if he could feel the slight shaking caused by the undercurrent under the sea hitting the hull. He was always like this. When faced with pressure, he would always have some inexplicable hallucinations and become restless.
His partner Bai Yushan Zhao Guokai always laughed at his "poor mental quality" as a captain, and even half-jokingly suggested that he receive psychological counseling many times.
"The female white feather fans in the tutoring center are so beautiful." Zhao Guokai once assured Huang Linjie, "The lordosis and back curling are on point."
Huang Linjie ignored him.
However, Huang Linjie now really feels that he should follow Zhao Guokai's advice and get some counseling after finishing this combat cruise.
He took a big breath and took a deep breath, trying to suppress the anxiety in his heart and calm his racing heart, but it seemed to have no effect. On the contrary, the deeper he took a breath, the faster his heart beat.
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The main culprit that caused Huang Linjie's state was the telegram that the confidential officer was translating. It was still early before the federal navy's daily fixed contact time. The arrival of a telegram meant that something was wrong. And the naval officers were influenced by Lin Youde.
, generally paid much higher attention to the international situation than Yuan Shikai's army. Huang Linjie knew before sailing this week that Europe was probably going to go to war, and Mr. Lin was likely to join one of them.
He had an instinctive premonition that he was about to experience the long-awaited real war.
Three generations of overseas Chinese in Huang Linjie's family have been working hard in the United States since his grandfather's generation. Starting as a stevedore at the dock, he worked hard all the way and finally owned a small grocery store in Boston. However, the small business did not take long to prosper, and Italy
The gang expanded to the neighborhood where the Huang family was located, and the Sicilians became domineering. Even though Huang Linjie's father paid enough protection money, they still tried every means to make things difficult for the Huang family, trying to take away their shop and give it to an Italian family.
In desperation, the Huang family turned to the Boston General Hall of the Zhi Gong Tang for help. Unexpectedly, the Boston General Hall sent a dog-fighting team composed of about ten red sticks. They used submachine guns to sweep the villa of the troubled Italian family into a sieve.
From then on, Huang Linjie was determined to follow Situ Meitang, the boss of Zhigongtang, and Situ Meitang was determined to follow Lin Youde. So Huang Linjie came to Horang Yabo in 1902 and entered the navy with excellent results.
Lecture Hall.
After graduation, Huang Linjie eagerly looked forward to the war. He was almost ready to catch up with the Mexican War. But he was assigned to the third battleship that was still undergoing final outfitting work, and that ship was not ready at all.
He did not participate in the Mexican War, but just transported the Chinese delegation to Honolulu for a meeting near the end of the war.
This made Huang Linjie extremely unhappy.
He longed for war and the opportunity to crush those white-skinned and blue-eyed foreigners. Mr. Lin's theory of national equality and mutual benefit was indeed correct. Huang Linjie raised his hands in agreement, but he still wanted to crush the white-skinned pigs.
, drain their blood, fuck their women.
Of course, it would be good to conquer white women through personal charm like Mr. Lin did, so Huang Linjie can guarantee to treat white women and white men in a humane way...
To put it simply, Huang Linjie is a racist. There are actually quite a few such people in Lin Youde's army, but they are suppressed by Lin Youde's aura of personality worship. He does not show his racism too obviously.
Racists long for war and exchange the blood of foreign races for glory and wealth. The same is true for Huang Linjie.
But now, he was so restless because of the approaching war, which made him feel extremely ashamed.
Just when Huang Linjie made up his mind to go to the psychological counseling center to request counseling and correction after the cruise, the confidential officer said that the telegram decoding was completed. The command center of the bss80 boat.
"Which country's ship should we fire on?"
Zhao Guokai, who had been waiting inside for a long time, asked bluntly.
"Germany." Huang Linjie answered concisely and concisely.
He walked to the chart table, made some gestures with a compass and gave the order to the navigator: "New course 230, increase to first cruising speed."
"New course 230, increase to the first cruising speed." The navigator repeated the captain's words while turning the steering wheel that looked like a car steering wheel. The hull of the SS80 was slightly tilted, and the powerful electric motor propelled the submarine in 50 meters of water.
Draw a beautiful arc in the middle.
Zhao Guokai looked at the chart and said with a smile: "Go straight to the anchorage of the German Far East Fleet? This is quite bold."
"Humph, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get the tiger's cubs."
"But, Mr. Hunter, your hands are shaking, it's very obvious."
Huang Linjie lowered his head and discovered that his right hand was shaking like a convulsion. He didn't even notice it unless Zhao Guokai reminded him!
He made a fist with his right hand and tried his best to suppress the trembling. At the same time, he said: "I am so excited. The time to fight the enemy bravely has finally arrived."
Before he finished speaking, the sonar officer shouted from the sonar cabin connected to the command module with a small door: "The sound of the propeller at three o'clock, the double blades, and the voiceprint sounded like the German Far East Fleet battleship Dashabi."
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"Uh," the sonar officer hesitated, "I must be a warship..."
He chose the safer option.
Huang Linjie cursed and started to check the chart.
Zhao Guokai suggested: "Let's raise the periscope to confirm?"
"No," Huang Linjie shook his head, "Do you remember the German naval patrol schedule provided by the Intelligence Department before we set off? If this is a German battleship, it is definitely not a routine patrol. They were also dispatched due to emergencies.
Lord Lin's troops must have started to take action, they are going to put out the fire. If that is the case, the Shenji carried on the battleship must have taken off to be on guard. If the periscope is raised, it will be discovered, and it is not night now."
In this era, the Goddess with specialized eyesight was regarded as the best means of anti-submarine warfare, and the new Shenji armor allowed the Goddess to stay in the sky for a long time without worrying about mental fatigue, so Lin Youde played submarine warfare
After everyone knew about it, all countries established anti-submarine systems against large ships, mainly based on Shenji.
It's just that the countries don't know. The acoustic laboratory established by Lin Youde and Shan Ye Yinnan has long since improved and strengthened the sonar capabilities. With the miniaturized magic calculation, the submarine force of the Chinese Federation Navy has already possessed the most basic and simple sonar attack capabilities.
By the way, this Yamaha Tonan is the founder of the Yamaha Group in the last time and space, Japan's most outstanding musical instrument maker and acoustic expert at the end of the 19th century. Later, the popular virtual idol Hatsune Miku relied on Yamaha's vocal synthesis technology.
Get the "original voice".
Huang Linjie prepares for a sonar attack.
Zhao Guokai asked worriedly: "What if this is a British battleship?"
"It's okay," Huang Linjie said with an indifferent expression, "This is the activity area of the German Far East Fleet. If Mr. Lin decides to go to war with Germany, then Britain must have declared war on Germany. The British warship sank in the activity area of the warring country's fleet, Germany.
It must have been shot by the Germans."
Zhao Guokai thought for a while and said: "That's right. Mr. Lin will start a war with Britain sooner or later anyway."
As a white feather fan, Zhao Guokai's thoughts are actually more radical than Huang Linjie. He is a graduate of Lin Youde's white feather fan workshop. He is deeply influenced by Lin Youde's ideas and is fanatical to the point of being extreme. Not only does he believe that the various ethnic groups that Lin Youde is now advocating
The idea of equality and love is an excuse for public opinion to prepare for future hegemony. It further misinterprets Lin Youde's ideas and believes that Lin Youde wants to establish a "great unity" in the world under the dominance of Han culture. The so-called "seeking common ground while reserving differences" means to keep "differences"
Enter the museum to achieve the goal of seeking common ground.
Huang Linjie neither agreed nor objected to his partner's idea. Instead, he focused on the command.
At this time, he suddenly discovered that his hands had stopped shaking. His heart was beating extremely steadily and strongly.
"Activate the active sonar," he said.
After a while, the divine calculation installed in the command module began to operate, and the punching machine spit out a long piece of paper recording the speed and heading data of the target ship.
Zhao Guokai tore off the paper tape and complained while checking it: "I heard that new boats are starting to use monitors to display these data...but we still have to endure this primitive equipment. Enemy ship heading..."
While Zhao Guokai was reading, Huang Linjie used skillful movements to do paper work on the chart. Soon, he put down the compass and logarithmic ruler and issued a new order: "New heading 145, maximum combat speed."
"New heading 145, maximum combat speed."
"Change the lights."
The weapons control officer immediately reached out and pulled down the light control switch, so the lights in the entire submarine turned light red.
This was a unique battle report for submarines, so the submariners who had been gagging in their bunks just now rushed out of the cabin and ran towards their fighting positions.
No one spoke, and the soft and neat footsteps and the mechanical sound of the submarine merged into the quietest war song in the world.
"The course is in place and the maximum combat speed has been reached." The navigator reported looking at the instrument panel in front of him.
Huang Linjie stared intently at the pocket watch in his hand, calculating the time for the submarine to arrive at the attack position.
For a moment, the entire command cabin fell into silence, with only the nervous breathing of everyone.
Finally, Huang Linjie closed his pocket watch.
"Second round of active sonar surveys."
The second data came out soon. Based on this set of data, Huang Linjie personally instructed torpedoes to hit Zhuyuan.
"Torpedo cabin, settings completed! The torpedo tubes have been filled with water."
"Shoot!"
The torpedo firing process is quite smooth. Helangyabo's underwater torpedo firing technology has been verified through repeated experiments and actual combat, and is reliable, safe and efficient.
One minute later, the torpedo room reported that all bombs had been fired.
"Emergency dive." Huang Linjie ordered. Although Helang Yabo's electric torpedo has no tail track and is not easy to be discovered by the goddess in the air, it is not a bad thing to be more careful. The hull of the SS80 boat is facing towards
Leaning forward, he plunged fiercely into the deep sea.
The weapons control officer stared closely at the torpedo hit countdown timer.
"Ten seconds before the hit." He said, "Nine, eight, seven..."
A dull explosion came from outside the class. It sounded like someone splitting a watermelon with the back of a broad-backed knife.
Huang Linjie and Zhao Guokai looked at each other.
"Sonar room, what's going on?"
"I don't know. The vortex and air generated by the emergency dive greatly reduced the sensitivity of the sonar. We only heard the sound of explosions."
At this time, the second sound came, this time like someone hitting the drum head with a ball.
"At least we hit two shots." Zhao Guokai said in an optimistic tone, "Although we don't know what we hit."
Before they finished speaking, the deck beneath their feet began to shake violently.
"We're under attack!" the weapons control officer yelled.
Then the navigator shouted over him with a louder voice: "No, we are on the bottom."
Huang Linjie rubbed the big bag on his head that had been left behind by the close contact with the retracted periscope, and glanced at the water depth marked on the chart.
At this time, thunder countless times louder than the two muffled blasts exploded above their heads, and the resonance caused by the sound waves caused the lighting in the boat to flicker.
"Sonar room?"
Although he had no hope, Huang Linjie still asked.
"Don't ask us. The water is in chaos now. The sound waves of the explosion hit the seabed terrain and formed complex echoes. We can't hear anything. We are no different from deaf people now."
Huang Linjie sighed.
It seems that after this cruise, he will not only go to see a psychiatrist, but also find himself a more reliable sonar chief.
Zhao Guokai speculated with some interest: "Could this noise be the ammunition depot exploding?"
"I've never heard that torpedoes can blow up ammunition depots." Huang Linjie rolled his eyes at Zhao Guokai.
Zhao Guokai replied disapprovingly: "Maybe it broke the oil pipeline, or caused a short circuit in the circuit and caused a fire? Or simply knocked down the fused shell? It's not like you don't know how powerful our torpedo explosions are.
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Huang Linjie curled his lips and thought that was right.
So he ordered the intern cartographer who had been on standby in the command room: "Write down the coordinates in the navigation log. We have sunk a battleship of unknown nationality." (To be continued...)