"Preparations for launch" were being made when Lieutenant Harry Red, torpedo launcher of the USS Villain, reported to Major Finaklin in the command module on the preparations for torpedo launch. A loud "boom" shook the ground, interrupting his report. At the same time, he threw him up, and his head hit the angle iron of the torpedo carriage more than a meter away from him, and a man who was bright and lively and full of thoughts a second or two before immediately stopped thinking, and the last sound he heard in his life was probably the crackling sound of his own skull shattering and fracture, perhaps he didn't even have time to hear this sound.

The Y-A 533mm heavy torpedo, which is 8.2 meters long and weighs 205 kilograms, relies on its own seeker to find and lock on to the target of the "Evil Man", and when it approaches the "Evil Man" attack nuclear submarine, it makes a final sprint to increase its speed to 55 knots. After a deep kiss on the starboard side of the "Evil Man" nuclear submarine, he directly drilled into the arms of the sixth compartment of the "Evil Man" with a double-hull structure.

The Y-A 533 mm heavy torpedo has a large charge in the head and is extremely destructive to large-tonnage ships. Used in anti-submarine warfare is definitely a thunder deadly. The violent explosion of the Y-A 533-mm heavy torpedo arched the "Evil Man" nuclear submarine upwards as a whole, more than 3 meters high. Above the surface of the sea, a huge mushroom-shaped white wave nearly 5 meters high also appeared. The huge energy released by the Y-A heavy torpedo in an instant caused fatal damage to the 6th compartment of the main engine room and the 5th auxiliary engine room of the "Evil Man" nuclear submarine, completely destroying the mechanical mechanism of the hull of the "Evil Man" nuclear submarine. The main power compartment of the 6th compartment and the propulsion tail compartment of the last 7th compartment slowly sank into the dark, cold, and silent 3,600-meter-deep ocean basin basin on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.

The teardrop-shaped shell of the "Evil Man" and the stern of the largest width on both sides of the sail cover were ruthlessly shaved off by the Y-A 533 mm heavy torpedo, and the partition steel plate between the 5th and 6th auxiliary engine rooms had been completely torn apart, and in an instant, seawater filled all the space in the 5th auxiliary engine room, and the huge water pressure penetrated into the 4th compartment reactor compartment through the deformed waterproof hatch and several cracked welds.

At this time, the "Evil Man" was like a warhead, and the bow was upward, and most of the remaining half of the hull was downward, hanging at 45 degrees in the sea water at a depth of more than 100 meters.

The remaining two-thirds of the crew of the "Evil Man" nuclear submarine, like the dice in the dice box, were violently "shaken" for a while, and they were hit with meat and eight vegetarians, their heads were broken and bleeding, and they were killed and injured.

Lieutenant Commander Ivida, the captain of the "Wicked Man", heard the alarm in his sleep, grabbed a jacket and put it on as he ran to the command cabin, and after listening to a brief briefing by the deputy captain on duty, Major Fenaklin, he regained command of the "Wicked Man". "Close all waterproof doors in each compartment immediately".

"Close all waterproof hatches!" Major Finaklin repeated Lieutenant Colonel Ivida's order aloud.

Ivida turned on the public address system in the boat and ordered loudly: "Sergeants in charge of each cabin, please check the closure of the hatches in your respective cabins immediately!" ”

Submarines have been active underwater for a long time, and the most worrying thing is the leakage of seawater, in order to prevent the leakage of one compartment from affecting the whole body, each compartment is usually sealed between each compartment.

Although the submarine is a product of contemporary high-tech, sophisticated, and cutting-edge science and technology and industrial development. But in terms of the overall mechanism, to put it simply, it is a large cylinder welded together by several sections of sealed large-diameter steel pipes. Each section of sealed large-diameter steel pipe is a cabin, and there are passages on the connecting surface between each section of sealed compartments, and heavy waterproof sealed hatches are installed on these passages for the flow of personnel in each compartment of the entire submarine, and the movement of personnel between each compartment must pass through these round waterproof hatches that are only not much larger than a basin.

When the submarine is underwater, the waterproof hatch must be closed. In case of an accident with the submarine, the adjacent compartment will not affect the other compartments, and the entire submarine will still be able to ensure sufficient buoyancy without sinking to the bottom of the sea. If the waterproof hatches between the submarine's compartments are not closed, or if they are not closed tightly, then once the seawater pours into all the compartments, it will be a catastrophe for the submarine. Everyone understands this truth, but in fact, it is a very troublesome thing to pass these waterproof hatches, first knock a few times when "opening the door", give a signal to the other cabin, and let the people close to the waterproof door dodge away, so as not to be injured by the crank on the door when opening the waterproof door, and then gently pull the handle on the door, first let the waterproof door embed a gap, so that the difference in temperature and air pressure caused by the different working environments between the cabins can be balanced, and then it can be slowly opened through. Because it is really troublesome to do this, everyone usually strictly adheres to the "in case of emergency" system of "when the submarine is underwater", for the sake of convenience. This is especially true between cabins, where there is a lot of traffic.

When the "Bad Man" was facing the crisis of torpedo threat, after the ship's boss, Lieutenant Commander Ivida, took over the command of the submarine, the first thing that came to mind was naturally this loophole in the management of peacetime. The whole boat is required to first close all the waterproof hatches of each compartment to prevent it from being hit by a torpedo and causing the total destruction of its own nuclear submarine. His decision was certainly correct, but it still could not be saved, and the "evil man" was doomed to perdition, because the power of the Y-A 533-mm heavy torpedo was indeed too great for a submarine, and no submarine could withstand such a heavy blow in the water.

After the main power compartment of the 6th compartment and the tail compartment of the propulsion of the 7th compartment were blown away, the "Villain" nuclear submarine lost its power and operational capabilities. Only the sonar compartment in the bow of the upper half, the torpedo launch compartment and the command compartment communicating with the submarine bridge control tower, as well as the reactor compartment remained.

In the densely piped reactor compartment, the reactor cooling system failed, and the scorching steam "hissed" out of the ruptured pipes, and the reactor compartment was filled with suffocating and scorching water vapor, and people could not see anything but steam, and the temperature of the entire fourth compartment was already as high as more than 60 degrees, which was hotter than a sauna in a steam bath.

Chief Engineer Hayes shut down the reactor with the last bit of clarity in his mind. The strong escape ** caused him to instinctively crawl along the sloping floor towards the passage leading to the command module above.

It's here! In the fog, he touched the handle on the waterproof door leading to the command module, he ignored the heat on the handwheel on the waterproof door, he twisted it round and round, and finally opened a gap, he didn't care about opening the door slowly, he longed to leave the reactor chamber burning with hellfire immediately.

At this time, it was Hayes, who couldn't drive it fast if he wanted to, because the gas positive pressure in the fourth reactor compartment was too great. Perhaps it was because Hayes lost consciousness in his badly burned hand, or perhaps because he had lost the last bit of strength to support his body's weight, and the moment he opened the waterproof door, he slid down the 45-degree slope of the floor and fell back into the 90-degree angle below the fifth partition.

But the scorching steam in the reactor chamber poured from the waterproof door that Hayes had opened to the command module. Send this kind of warmth that can steam people to the "leaders" in the command cabin.

When the Y-A 533-mm heavy torpedo exploded, the face of the captain of the "Evil Man" Lieutenant Colonel Ivida hit the periscope heavily, and although his nose was bruised and his face was swollen and bleeding profusely, he still hugged the periscope and did not suffer any fatal serious injuries. When the violent concussion passed, he wore a white U.S. Navy military dress on his upper body, a large blue linen pants underneath, and was barefoot, holding the periscope rod like a monkey climbing a pole.

Lieutenant Colonel Ivida's face was swollen and deformed due to a fractured nose bone, his eyes were almost slit, and his nose was bleeding continuously. But Lieutenant Colonel Ivida still shouted as loud as he could, "Float! Float up! ”

This time no one repeated the order. The body of the deputy captain, Major Finaklin, no, to be exact, was thrown like a dead dog under the stairs leading to the bridge in the command cabin, his body curled up in a rare phenomenon in ordinary life, the whole head rotated 180 degrees, looking strange, the skin of his face was blue-yellow, staring at a pair of frightened eyes, and a black-red blood stain hung from the corner of his mouth. Obviously, the cervical vertebrae were broken in the impact just now, and although there was no large amount of blood, it was still visually terrifying.

The captain, Lieutenant Commander Ivida, wanted to float up, so that even if the submarine was badly damaged, at least some people would escape. But will the "Evil Man" be able to float?

It must not be able to float.

Although the "Evil Man" that lost power and only half of it was left without sinking, it could not float, and if it lost power, it could not input high-pressure gas into the main water tank and the regulating water tank in order to squeeze out the seawater in the water tank, and the water in the tank could not be squeezed out.

The submarine "Villain" lost its power source, the submarine air regeneration device could not work, the air regeneration device could not work, and the people on the submarine lost the air they relied on to survive. What does it look like if a person loses air? This is a problem that anyone on earth knows.

"The broadside passive search sonar base array shows that the signal emitted by the engine radiating from the attack target engine and the underwater acoustic equipment disappears," the NH201 submarine sonar room reported to Captain Zhao Hailong: "A set of sounds made by mechanical strikes were received, and we guessed that it may be early American Morse code"

"American Morse code?" Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Hailong heard that it might be an early American Morse code, which aroused his great interest. When he first joined the army, he was a cultural instructor of the 343rd Regiment of the 115th Division of the 39th Army, and when he returned to China in 1951, he was exposed to American Morse code.

American Morse code is a very simple code, but it is very easy to use. It is a number of dots and strokes that represent numbers. Numbers correspond to words, and with dots, strokes, and pauses in between, each character and punctuation mark can be sent out with each other's reading power. This code can be transmitted by a steady, intermittent radio signal, or by a mechanical sound or visual signal, such as the flash of a signal light.

Zhao Hailong pressed the headset on his right ear, pulled the keyboard of the computer into his arms and said, "Play the recording for me." ”

"Bell-bell-bell" Zhao Hailong followed the sound of bells, bells, bells coming from the headset, and he typed a string of punctuation marks in the computer.

After that, while thinking about it, he typed out word by word under these punctuation marks, "We are the USS Villain, everyone pay attention, this is our last cry before we fall silent forever!" sos！ ”

"Ha, ha" Zhao Hailong looked at the American Morse code translated by himself on the computer screen and smiled, and said to himself: "You can't live if you do your own evil!" ”

He thought for a moment, quickly typed on the keyboard, drafted a telegram on the computer, and sent it to the communications room: "Our boat sank a U.S. bonito-class nuclear submarine at 26 degrees 10 minutes and 25 seconds north latitude and 137 degrees 29 minutes 17 seconds east longitude. Now the submarine has sent a distress signal, is it rescued? Indicate the next step to be taken. "Since the submarine was on a mission when the communication was silent, his message was written very short.

Subsequently, the submarine "NH201" unleashed a long floating cable with a towed floating communication antenna with a small floating antenna at the end. The submarine communication room uses an instantaneous power station, and it was sent in only 0.05 seconds, Zhao Hailong's 50-word request report.

The submarine "NH201" set the communication in a silent reception state, dragged a long towed floating communication antenna, and quickly left.

5 minutes later, a call back was received from the aircraft carrier fleet "MZD": "Return to the defense circle and carry out an underwater anti-submarine mission on the inner line." ”

"Riding a whale on the waves of the sea, the dragon in the sea is sharp, the blood is loyal to the enemy, and the mission is in mind to cast national security." Accompanied by the passionate singing of the "Song of the Divers" by the commanders and fighters of the "NH201" submarine, the "NH201" submarine surfaced after returning to the defense circle

(To be continued)