Recognize the empty pitch black film. I can't see the moon, I can't see the stars, and the sea is also pitch black, at this time. It was impossible to tell where the sea was and where the sky was, only when a lightning bolt occasionally flashed on the sea antenna in the distance. can barely distinguish between the sea and the sky.

It's on this inky black sea. A Chinese Navy's near-shore defense submarine is in a surface navigation state.

This is the sixth of the "Seawolf-class" submarines, named "Seal", and the captain Zheng Guohua.

In the commander of the submarine forces of the Navy. Zheng Guohua's temper is the most irritable, and it is because of this. He got a nickname, and "Zheng Leizi" was also because of his short temper, and his popularity was very bad. He was almost thrown out of the submarine unit because of this stinky temper, and if it weren't for his very good torpedo shooting skills, he wouldn't have been able to be the captain.

But it is precisely because of Zheng Guohua's short temper. He could not be the commander of an ocean-going submarine, he could only command an inshore submarine, and his sailors did not respect him, but revered him.

Now, the grumpy submarine commander is standing on top of the conning tower enclosure of the "Seal", using a telescope to search the dark sea.

But I couldn't see anything, and the sky in the Lushun area was always gloomy these days, and it was night. Nothing can be seen, except with a searchlight, but now the submarine is not very far from the coast of Arthur, if you use a searchlight. It is very likely that the target will be exposed, and once it is subjected to suppressive fire from the coastal batteries, it will have to escape.

In fact, even during the day, there was nothing to attack, and since the retreat of those Japanese light warships in the mooring ground outside Arthur, the submarines lurking outside Port Arthur had nothing to do. Some of the submarines were ordered to move to the port of Dalian, not far to the north, and lurked there to attack the Japanese merchant ships retreating from the port of Dalian, or those Japanese merchant ships that rushed to Dalian to transport munitions. Other submarines that remained outside Port Arthur continued to lurk in the shallow waters near the port, waiting for their prey to come.

But there was no prey, and the Admiralty originally planned to ambush the main forces of the Japanese Combined Fleet when they arrived at Arthur, but the Japanese Combined Fleet never approached Lushun, but went to the direction of Dagushan to cover the landing of Japanese Army reinforcements.

Zheng Guohua also went to Dagushan the day before yesterday for a safari, but his luck was not as good as that of his colleagues, and the "seal" cruised in the waters of Dagushan for a day. But nothing came of it. Later, the Admiralty sent a telegram informing them of the movements of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and it turned out that the fleet had returned east to escort the second batch of Japanese landing troops, but the distance was too far for the near-shore submarines to follow up and ambush them.

This afternoon, Zheng Guohua had just commanded the "Seal" to resupply in Dengzhou, and then rushed back to Lushun without stopping; when he returned to the outer mooring ground outside Port Arthur, it was already late at night, and the crew was exhausted. But they didn't dare to be lazy, they all knew the captain's temper.

Fighting continuously, all are exhausted. Zheng Guohua is the same, but he has not slackened because of this, he is well aware of his task. That is, the blockade of Port Arthur could not cause the Japanese warships in the port to leave, nor could the Japanese warships outside the port break through into the waters near the port to cover the warships in the harbor to break through.

Although the air raid by the Air Force at Lushun caused great losses to the Japanese naval detachment, there were still some Japanese warships moored in the harbor, and they could not be allowed to break out.

Under these circumstances, if the commander of the Japanese fleet planned to break through from the military port, he could only choose to act at night, because during the day, the submarines of the Chinese Navy could easily detect the movements of the Japanese fleet and attack it. And at night, especially in such conditions without moonlight, it was not easy for the Japanese fleet to break through.

Since the light is not enough, it is impossible to see the target with the naked eye. Then you can only rely on hearing, and in order to avoid interference, Zheng Guohua even ordered to use not diesel engines when navigating on the water, but electric motors. But so far, nothing has been heard, except for the sea breeze, the rest of the sound is the sound of waves crashing, and then the sound of artillery bombardment from time to time, which is the Chinese Navy surface ships located in the southwest waters of Arthur are carrying out harassing shelling, in order to avoid accidental injury in the dark, the submarine unit and the surface ship unit have strictly divided their respective combat zones, but even if the Japanese fleet breaks through Port Arthur, the Chinese naval surface ship force will not come to support, the reason is very simple, that fleet is all light ships, It was not possible to enter into a head-on confrontation with the Japanese fleet, and it was necessary to preserve strength. The only thing that could stop the Japanese fleet from breaking through was the submarine force and, of course, the mines that were densely packed in the shipping lanes.

Zheng Guohua put down the binoculars, entered the submarine command cabin along the gangway, and looked at the navigation clock, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening.

Everyone in the submarine is very sleepy, and Zheng Guohua is no exception, but it is not yet time to change shifts. These sailors on duty had to stay at their posts.

Zheng Guohua picked up the logbook, hurriedly wrote down a few strokes, and then went down the gangway to the command tower shell, and continued to search the sea with a telescope. This time, he was accompanied by a midshipman officer in the search for the target.

In wireless telegraphic contact with other submarine commanders just now, Zheng Guohua learned that at about nine o'clock in the evening, the whistle sounded in Port Arthur, and the movement of the Japanese fleet was strange, and he guessed that the Japanese fleet might take action, but now it seems that there is silence in Port Arthur, and he is a little undecided.

Searched the surface of the sea for more than two hours. It wasn't until almost two o'clock in the morning that Zheng Guohua ended the search, returned to the cabin, ordered a shift change, and instructed the engineer to start the diesel engine and charge the battery before returning to the cramped captain's cabin. One head to the bed

Zheng Guohua slept in bed for less than two hours when he was woken up by the officer on duty, and at this time, he was dreaming that he was directing a submarine through the thunderstorm area, and his ears were full of "boom, boom" thunder.

"Captain! Captain! The Japanese fleet is dispatched! ”

Zheng Guohua's eyes were not fully open when he bounced up from the bed, he stretched out his hand, subconsciously touched the clothes at the head of the bed, touched it but felt empty, and then reached out and touched his shoulder, then he remembered that he didn't take off his clothes before going to bed just now, so he rubbed his eyes, put on his military hat, and followed the midshipman named to wake him out of the captain's cabin and boarded the conning tower enclosure.

After climbing to the top of the enclosure of the control tower, Zheng Guohua realized that the reason why he dreamed of thunder just now was rolling. There was a reason for this, because the Japanese warship ran into a mine and exploded. That's exactly what it is. As a result, the midshipman was able to see the whereabouts of the Japanese fleet at the first time, and although the torpedo explosion had stopped, the sea was glittering with fire. The entire hull of the ship is burning on the surface of the sea.

It was a Japanese supply ship that ran into the torpedo. Zheng Guohua guessed that it was likely to be a wooden-hulled merchant ship, otherwise, the hull would not have burned, and the torpedo was likely to have detonated the oil tank.

With the help of the flaming hull. Zheng Guohua easily used his telescope to see the huge shadows of several Japanese warships, which were heading out of the mooring yard from the main channel of the military port, and the degree was very fast. However, the lights on the warships are controlled. Even the searchlights weren't on, and if it weren't for one of the supply ships being hit by a mine, they wouldn't have exposed their target so easily.

"Lean in. Let's go over and fight! ”

Zheng Guohua gave an order in a deep voice, but the midshipman of the navy reminded him.

"Captain, not far ahead is the minefield we have laid, there are cobalt mines everywhere, if we get too close, we may also be hit by mines."

"I know in my heart, you go to the torpedo compartment to command; The depth of the torpedo was set at two meters. In addition, other submarines were notified by radio and told to come and reinforce them. ”

Zheng Guohua waved his hand calmly, then raised his binoculars and continued to observe the Japanese breakout fleet, identifying at least two warships. One was the "Akitsuzu" and the other was the "Chiyoda", both of which were light cruisers. Moreover, they were old warships that had participated in the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War in the Yellow Sea Battle, and now, those two old light cruisers were heading towards the outer mooring ground to the east, and they were accompanied by several merchant ships, which were obviously acting as the vanguard of the entire breakout fleet, and were specially used to cover mines.

Sure enough, the merchant ship that was walking in front of the "Akitsu Prefecture" was soon connected to a cobalt mine. However, the merchant ship did not take any measures to control the damage, and continued to rush forward. Soon after, another cobalt mine was eaten. The ship began to slow down, and at the same time, the "Chiyoda", which was walking in the direction of the side and rear, also suffered two anchor mines in a row, but like the merchant ship, it still staggered on the sea, continuing to mine the main fleet behind it.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Guohua understood that this was a desperate action of the commander of the Japanese fleet. Far from being a tentative move, the submarine "SEAL" had to immediately occupy a favorable position and carry out a torpedo attack on the Japanese fleet.

Perhaps realizing that the target had been exposed, the Japanese fleet finally lifted the control of the lights, the beams of searchlights swept across the sea, and some of the naval guns began to shoot aimlessly, as if to embolden themselves.

Seeing the searchlight of the Japanese fleet, Zheng Guohua hurriedly entered the cabin along the gangway, and ordered all hatches to be closed, and at the same time ordered the submarine to be lowered to periscope depth.

"Attention, get ready to fight!"

Monitoring the course of the Japanese fleet through the eyepieces of the periscope, Zheng Guohua commanded the submarine "SEAL" to quickly occupy a favorable position.

Zheng's Huahua looked at it again with a periscope, and then gave the order to shoot.

"Two thunders shot five seconds apart! Torpedo tube loading torpedo, azimuth, angle of turn! Torpedo tube loading torpedo No. 2, azimuth, turn! "Ready, shoot!"

"Snort"

"Shhhh Under the control of the gyroscopes, they pounced on the target according to the course set by Zheng Guohua and hit the target twenty seconds later.

"Reload the torpedo again! Fifteen seconds between the two thunders! Torpedo tube No. 1 loading torpedo, azimuth. Turnaround corners! Torpedo tube loading No. 2 torpedo, azimuth. Turnaround! ,, Ready, Shoot! ”

Zheng Guohua calmly commanded the torpedo men to reload the torpedoes, and then shot the two torpedoes in one go. Two more torpedoes followed, and the continuous attack did not end until all six spare torpedoes of the submarine were fired.

At this time, looking through the periscope, the sea was already a mess.

Zheng Guohua was very satisfied, although there was hardly much light on the sea, but he still killed two Japanese warships, one of which was a heavy cruiser, as long as other submarines could arrive in time to reinforce it, then the Japanese detachment in Arthur would probably be wiped out here.

For the Japanese fleet, this sea area was dangerous.

Although he was surprised by the stupid actions of the Japanese fleet commander, Zheng Guohua was well aware. The more mistakes Japan makes, the closer China will be to victory, judging by the current situation of the war. The outcome of this war seems to be becoming clearer and clearer.