"Gaz~~~" The strange sound of steel twisting made the crew of the Orca submarine swallow their saliva. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Everyone looked up at the bulkheads around the submarine with a look of fear in their eyes. He prayed earnestly that his submarine would survive the stormy onslaught.

After hitting the target four torpedoes, the killer whale, which stabbed the hornet's nest, then lived completely under the dense attack of depth charges.

The destroyers of the U.S. leading fleet, except for the one that went to rescue the North Carolina, were all red-eyed and frantically dropping depth charges in the possible waters. The bomb dropping is dense enough to make the strong pressure-resistant material of the hull of the Killer Whale, which has quietly dived into the deep sea, constantly make a trembling sound.

"It's not going to be crushed, is it?" The first mate of the Orca asked worriedly.

At this time, the Killer Whale submarine had already dived to the maximum depth it was designed to dive, and was quietly hovering in the middle of the sea waiting for the Americans overhead to leave. Although it was confirmed that at least four torpedoes had been hit, it was clear that this was not the time to celebrate this brilliant feat. No one wants to die in such an iron coffin.

"Pressure-resistant shells are the best materials." Fang Renxu raised his hand and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead. At this time, all the machines that could be shut down in the entire submarine had been shut down, leaving only sonar detection equipment and life support systems.

All lights in the entire submarine have been extinguished, and only a crimson warning light is emitting a faint glow from each compartment. The air was hot and stuffy, the atmosphere was oppressive, and the sailors who were in an extremely nervous mood were almost stripped naked.

"Boom!" In the distance, the violent explosion of depth charges was heard again, and the huge pressure of the water rushed and squeezed the hull of the submarine with a gurgling sound.

"It's fine." Fang Renxu smiled and comforted: "We dive very deep, and the performance is advanced, it is impossible for them to find us." And they can't stay here for long, and there's a good chance we'll get away with it. When we get back to base, I'll invite everyone to eat and drink. ”

"Drinking is a must." The first mate smiled in the dim cabin and said, "We have made such a great feat, the wine cellar of the headquarters will definitely drink it casually." After a pause, he continued, "Sonar monitors at least four hits. Even if it is a North Carolina-level skin, it is estimated that it will not escape this time. I guess I'll have to lie in the dock for at least half a year if it's not sinkable. If it sinks, it's a big deal. ”

"Hey, hey." Fang Renxu narrowed his eyes, "If you really sink a North Carolina, Lao Tzu will make a lot of money even if he dies this time." There are only a few dozen people on one of our submarines, how many are there in one battleship? Nearly two thousand! Whether we live or die, we have made a lot of money! ”

Just when Fang Renxu and them were hiding at the bottom of the sea and enduring the endless baptism of depth charges, the sea was already in chaos.

Because the attack was so sudden, the battleship North Carolina had been sailing at a speed of fifteen knots. When you get an alert and want to avoid it, it's too late.

This is a large battleship weighing tens of thousands of tons, not a one-man sailing ship. If you want to accelerate and decelerate, where will it be so easy to turn around? And the speed of the torpedo was so fast that the North Carolina was hit in succession without even having time to react.

"Pipe loss! Tube loss! Colonel Raymond ignored the wound on his forehead caused by the impact, and after getting up from the ground, he roared frantically and ordered everyone to start rescuing his ship.

Four violent explosions in a row caused everyone on the ship to fall to the ground, and even the battleship was almost blown out of the water under such a heavy blow.

Because of the set launch depth, the torpedoes fired by the Orca avoided the main armor belt below the waterline and hit the bilge. The bilge of the North Carolina class is a three-story structure with a tight watertight seal. Coupled with high-strength military armor up to 175 mm thick, it is extremely strong.

It's just that no matter how reinforced the armor is, no matter how fine the anti-sinking compartment is, there is no guarantee that the battleship will not sink. The science and technology of the Ming Navy is very powerful, which is reflected in all aspects. The ship-type torpedoes equipped by the Ming Navy were very powerful, and the huge explosion shook the tight structure of the battleship and damaged the keel of the battleship, because the hit part was too low.

Many of the bilge's watertight doors did not work as well as they should. Because of the violent impact force, many watertight doors were damaged and could not be closed at all. Many brave members of the management team rushed to the bottom of the cabin only to find that many doors could not be closed at all, and they could only watch as the raging sea water flooded one cabin after another.

The boiler compartment in the bilge was flooded, causing the USS North Carolina to stall sharply and the ship's power supply was cut off, leaving it to work on backup power. And where can the backup power supply support the operation of a large warship? Not to mention that the warship is still in urgent need of damage management.

The ships of the escort approached one after another, and the ships of the leading fleet rushed over, except for two destroyers that accompanied the Washington in the rear. Soon, several battleships approached and threw cables to power the USS North Carolina, while also beginning to receive the wounded. And the other ships all ran to the damn submarine for revenge.

Captain Raymond and the crew of the USS North Carolina did their best. However, the bilge was filled with seawater and there was no power to carry out the damage operation, which directly caused the battleship with a full load displacement of 46,000 tons to gradually tilt to one side.

"Bastard!" With no power, Captain Raymond could only watch his ship tilt gradually, but could not do anything about it. He couldn't even fill the other side of the ship with water to keep the ship balanced, and the whole ship was out of power! And if you want to repair it, you can only go down to the bilge that is already covered with seawater!

When the North Carolina leaned more than fifteen degrees to the left and leaned faster and faster. Captain Raymond had to give the order to abandon the ship in grief. The fact that the battleship, which had been knocked out by a few torpedoes, was inexplicably sunk was a big blow to the morale of the American fleet.

When the order to abandon ship was given, Colonel Raymond gave a letter to his orderlies to take away, and he himself chose to sink with the ship to the duties of a captain.

In fact, this flotilla was Task Force 59 under the command of Vice Admiral Fletcher. This is one of the large fleets that is ready to be used for a decisive battle with the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy. They set out from San Francisco to join their allies in the predetermined seas, but they did not expect to run into such a brave submarine on this stormy night.

After the news came that the North Carolina had been abandoned due to failed salvage, Vice Admiral Fletcher almost pulled out his gun and ran outside the bridge to shoot at the sea. The North Carolina is a new ship that has not been in active service for half a year, and it sank without firing a shot? The U.S. Navy, even if it is a big business, cannot afford this kind of loss.

"Commander, what do we do now?" Fletcher's chief of staff, the chief of staff, asked aloud. The weather conditions are very bad right now, and everyone is confused about the environment and the situation at the moment. No one knows how many bloodthirsty deep-sea submarines are hidden under this dark sea, and the huge fleet is greatly threatened.

"Leave the 3rd Destroyer Search Team to salvage the crew of the USS North Carolina overboard, search for the attacking Daming submarine. The rest of the flotilla strictly carried out anti-submarine formations and left here. "Fletcher had already lost a battleship, and he didn't want to suffer any more losses. However, the development of nothing can go completely according to the will of man.

The size of Task Force 59 is very large. The North Carolina sister ships are nothing more than advance lead ships. Behind them was a huge fleet of six large fleet carriers, more than a dozen light and heavy cruisers, and dozens of destroyers. The flotillas straddled the sea more than ten nautical miles long and divided into multiple fleets.

The communications technology of this era was far from being able to give a commander full command of all his ships in adverse weather conditions, let alone the size of the fleet. In the confusion of the attack, the course and formation of the various fleets were somewhat flustered. By the time they readjusted and set off again, the formation was already very chaotic.

The group of destroyers that had been besieging the Orca received a new order to continue as the lead of the fleet after dropping hundreds of depth charges. These destroyers left this sea area with reluctance, and handed over the task of attacking the Daming Navy submarine to the third destroyer search team that rushed over at high speed.

The Third Destroyer Search Squadron consisted of only four destroyers, and after two destroyers were dispatched to salvage and rescue the crew of the USS North Carolina, the remaining two destroyers continued to drop depth charges into the sea.

As has been said before, the communication capabilities of this era were very poor, and the weather was so bad that there was a very noticeable deviation in communication between the ships. The destroyers of the previous lead fleet attacked in a decent position, although they did not actually attack the Orca, but the attack range did not deviate.

But when the third destroyer search team came over, it was different. They didn't know anything about the situation here, the location of the attack was far away, and there were only two destroyers attacking.

Perhaps the Americans felt that the attacking Daming submarine had either been sunk, or that the submarine had escaped early. The Americans, who were too busy to leave the seas, could no longer bother to hunt down the Orca.

It's just that many times things you feel like you're going to give up are likely to be reversed in an earth-shattering way! (To be continued.) )