Chapter 693: The Engine Room Is Leaking!
From the upload of the post, in less than an hour, the replies reached more than 100,000, and the major websites on the Internet have reprinted it, and the news was hyped for a while.
The commander of the Seventh Fleet of country M looked at the computer in front of him, first his chest continued to rise and fall with anger, and he couldn't wait to smash the computer in front of him with one punch, and then his anger disappeared, but his face became more and more serious. Now he can be sure that his AWACS aircraft and two F-22s were not engulfed by prehistoric monsters, let alone run to Mars, and of course they were not wiped out by the so-called mysterious "Queen" freighter, they were easily wiped out by this mysterious submarine!
The fact that this kind of submarine can intercept missiles by 100 percent shows that its submarine-to-air detection capability has reached a very strong level, and if it is equipped with strategic nuclear missiles, this mysterious submarine is completely capable of posing a fatal threat to the aircraft carrier formation battle group. Its strategic deterrent role is no less than that of nuclear weapons.
The commander knew that this was not the time for him to be angry and depressed, and he had to report the matter to PACOM. Whether they know the news from the internet or not.
The command of the Pacific Fleet was indeed aware of this news and reported it to the Pentagon as soon as possible. They need the Pentagon's intelligence services to make a proper judgment on the accuracy of this information.
The Pentagon quickly replied that the news was likely to be true, and there were all kinds of indications that this mysterious nuclear submarine was the latest secret weapon developed by China, and ordered the Pacific Fleet to do everything possible to dig this submarine out of the Pacific Ocean!
The command of the Pacific Fleet gave the order to the command of the Seventh Fleet. His Excellency the Commander of the Seventh Fleet did not care about looking for the "Queen" that might have entered the waters of the "Gates of Hell" at this moment, and they focused all their search efforts on the mysterious existence of the nuclear submarine.
Compared to the mysterious and submarine, the "Queen" freighter is simply insignificant. This time, the Seventh Fleet did not make a fuss like the search for the "Queen", but the entire aircraft carrier fleet took action. All the AWACS planes belonging to the fleet were dispatched to conduct a 24-hour uninterrupted search in the area where the mysterious submarine is likely to appear.
At the same time, several large military bases of country M in the Asia-Pacific region have also entered a state of first-class combat readiness for fear of being attacked by a sudden missile attack.
For a while, the whole South Pacific was in turmoil, and the situation suddenly became tense. However, these alleviated the huge military pressure faced by the Piqué Kingdom from the side, and gave the "Queen" a chance to fish in troubled waters and escape smoothly.
All this Zhao Changshu didn't know. While the entire Internet is discussing the mysterious submarine and the tension in the Pacific, he is leading the whole ship to fight to the death against the boundless wind and waves.
After discovering the nuclear submarine, Zhao Changshu was also keenly aware that this was their best chance to escape, and that nuclear submarine would definitely attract the attention of the entire Pacific Fleet, so that the "Queen" would fade out of the eyes of the Pacific Fleet!
So after that battle, Zhao Lance ordered the Queen to move at full speed towards the "Hell's Gate" sea, and finally they plunged headlong into the mysterious Hell's Gate sea.
Zhao Changlan did not dare to go deep into this sea area, but planned to pass through the periphery of this mysterious area, but even so, he also saw the power of this sea area!
This is where the warm and cold currents of the Pacific Ocean meet, and the undercurrents surge, forming whirlpools on the surface of the ocean, and once the ship enters these whirlpools, it is difficult to break out of them, and eventually they will be drowned at the bottom of the sea. At the same time, due to the influence of the ocean undercurrents and the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon, the weather here is also unpredictable, hurricanes, torrential rains are almost commonplace, and the strong magnetic field present at the bottom of the sea, all of which make the sea area mysterious.
On the first day the Queen entered the Gates of Hell, the day the Seventh Fleet's fighter squadron first reached the skies over the area, they encountered a raging storm.
The raging sea breeze set off monstrous waves of more than ten meters, smashing on the "Queen" like white peaks, beating the 10,000-ton freighter like a lonely boat on the river, as if it would be overturned by the waves at any time.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, thunder rumbled, and golden lightning stretched from the clouds to the ocean like golden dragons with teeth and claws. A thunderclap seemed to explode right next to everyone's ears, buzzing the eardrums of the Poison Dragon brothers!
At this moment, the Poison Dragon Brothers finally realized the terrifying power of nature!
Since approaching this mysterious sea, the magnetic compass on the freighter has completely failed. The "Queen" is an autopilot, and under normal circumstances, as long as the course is adjusted, you don't need to care about it all the time, as long as you correct the course when the time comes.
But at this moment, Zhao Changshu directly gave up the automatic function of the helm handle, and personally steered the helm, holding the helm tightly with both powerful hands, staring at the boundless wind and waves in front of him, and trying to turn the bow of the ship in the direction of the wind and waves. Under such huge wind and waves, if the side of the ship encounters waves, I am afraid that a wave can overturn the "Queen" and completely sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
After the magnetic compass failed, he could only rely on the electric compass to indicate the direction of navigation, but Zhao Changshu didn't even glance at the electric compass, at this time he didn't care about sailing in the established direction, but just constantly corrected the direction of the bow so that the bow always faced the direction of the waves. As for where the ship was going to go, Zhao Changshu couldn't care about it.
But Zhao Changshu believes that he will definitely be able to take everyone out of this sea area!
In the last moments of the previous battle, Zhao Changshu affected everyone's mood because of the momentary negativity, and almost wiped everyone under the missiles of enemy aircraft, this time, Zhao Changshu must not make such a mistake again.
Therefore, although the "Queen" at this moment was caught in the storm, Zhao Changlan's expression and movements were unusually steady, and there was no panic to be seen.
Zhao Changlan's composure affected the mood of all the people, and everyone guarded their posts and worked together to fight against the harsh natural environment.
Just when Zhao Changshu was at the helm wholeheartedly, the internal phone on the integrated control console suddenly rang sharply.
The first mate, who had been standing beside Zhao Changshu, grabbed the phone and asked, "Hey, hey, what's going on? What? The engine room is flooded?
The first mate is a middle-aged man in his fifties, a retired navy, with more than 20 years of sailing experience, and usually acts calmly and capably, but after hearing that the engine room was flooded, he couldn't help but curse loudly.
The first mate didn't have time to be verbose, so he immediately put down the phone and said to Zhao Changshu: "Captain, it's not good! A crack was found in the engine room, and water has entered!"
After Zhao Changshu heard the news, his heart also cramped suddenly, the engine room is one of the most important engine rooms on the freighter, and it is the power core of the entire freighter.
"You come to the helm, I'll take a look!" Zhao Changshu shouted at the first mate, the wind and waves and thunder outside were too loud, even if they were in the closed cockpit, they had to speak loudly so that the other party could hear clearly.
The first mate quickly took over the helm handle in Zhao Changgun's hand and continued to adjust the direction of the bow of the ship, while Zhao Changshu pushed open the door of the control room and ran out.
The cockpit was just above the living quarters, and when Zhao Changshu passed by the living quarters, he called out all the people who were not on duty and asked them to go to the engine room to drain the water together.
When Zhao Changshu rushed to the engine room with people, the water in the engine room was already more than 30 centimeters, and a gap more than one meter long and less than a millimeter wide appeared on the engine compartment wall.
The drainage system in the engine room is already working, draining the water from the engine room into the Pacific Ocean, and then merging into the endless wind and waves.
When the chief engineer saw Zhao Changshu coming and brought several mobile drainage machines, he was a little relieved and shouted at him: "I want a welding machine!"
Zhao Changshu immediately asked people to bring a multi-functional electric welding machine, turned on the power supply, and the built-in fan of the electric welding machine began to rotate rapidly, and there was a buzzing sound.
The chief engineer personally went into battle, and he didn't care about putting on long insulating gloves, goggles and insulating shoes, so he pulled the welding torch and put the welding rod directly on the crack.
The red sparks splashed into the white seawater and quickly extinguished, and bursts of white smoke rose from the sizzling sound.
Welding with water places high demands on welding technology, especially when the pressure of seawater is high. Fortunately, when the chief engineer served in the navy before, he was a technical soldier, and his welding professional level was quite high, and under his welding, the long cracks in the bulkhead were gradually shrinking.
Zhao Changshu and everyone looked at the chief engineer who was skilled in welding and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that the engine room is saved, if the crack is allowed to crack, the consequences are unimaginable.
As the cracks in the water were continuously closed by the chief engineer, the water in the engine room was also continuously reduced under the work of the drainage system, and the brothers used various tools to push the water to the entrance of the pumping machine to speed up the drainage time.
Ten minutes later, the crack was finally patched. The chief engineer turned off the welding machine, wiped the sweat on his face and said to Zhao Changshu: "Captain, there is no way to go on like this, our freighter will not be able to withstand such wind and waves at all! The bulkhead will crack sooner or later! We must leave this sea area immediately." ”
Zhao Changlan's brows twisted into a pimple, and he said hurriedly: "We can't go back." In such a storm, the rudder of the cargo ** range reverses course, which is likely to cause the ship to capsize!"
The chief engineer is also a veteran of sailing, and he knows that Zhao Changshu is telling the truth, but if it goes on like this, what awaits them is the fate of sinking!
"Then what should we do?" said the chief engineer, constantly rubbing a pair of big hands, really helpless in the face of the situation in front of him.
Zhao Changshu was silent for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Leave the duty officer in the engine room, and the rest will follow me to the deck!"
The chief engineer was stunned when he heard Zhao Changgun's order, and subconsciously asked, "What are you doing on deck at this time?"
The wind and waves outside are so strong that there is no way to stand on the deck, and a single wave can wash people into the sea! Isn't Zhao Changshu letting everyone go on the deck to send people to death?