Chapter 47: Crisis
Li Guang had already found out that the situation was not good, and this time the destroyer's voice was going straight to the Pixiu. The enemy must have discovered the location of the submarine, Li Guang adjusted the angle of the submarine, and the warship of the little devil followed suit.
At this time, beads of sweat were rolling on Li Guang's head, although he was not desperate, but an irrepressible fear had already emerged in his heart.
Li Guang considers himself an adventurous person, such as liking to travel, like to drive fast cars, and recently he is even fond of flying airplanes, and even competed to be the first captain after the Pixiu was launched.
The first two attacks were smooth sailing, but when death really came, he realized that his heart was no stronger than others. Not even as good as those warriors who sleep peacefully on their bunks.
During the crisis, Li Guang had a whimsical idea and asked the deputy squad leader of the torpedo squad: "Can you calculate how much time it takes for a depth charge to fall to a depth of 100 meters?" ”
"Without a formula, I can only make an approximation. ”
Soon the column seed report, about thirty-five seconds.
Li Guang secretly thought to himself, the speed of the submarine at six knots is about three meters per second, which means that thirty-five seconds is enough time for the submarine to run more than 100 meters. Theoretically, it is possible for the submarine to dodge depth charges, but in reality, the devil is not stupid and will definitely release the advance amount, and the submarine also needs to turn and take time. So whether you can dodge depth charges depends on luck.
In addition, it is impossible for the little devil to drop only one depth charge at a time, in fact, this method is extremely slim to avoid the depth charge. But at this time, Li Guang had no other way to think of but to try.
At this time, Ji Kelian reported again, and another destroyer appeared on the surface of the sea, less than eight nautical miles away.
Eight nautical miles, Li Guang can't take care of it for the time being. The destroyer pursuing behind him was already less than a thousand meters. We must get through the difficulties in front of us.
If you follow the speed of the destroyer, it will only take a few minutes to get to the front of the Pixiu. Just as Li Guang was waiting for a turn at any moment, Ji Keliang reported that a destroyer was outflanking the Pixiu on the right flank.
nnd, Li Guang scolded secretly, the little devil wanted to attack back and forth. No wonder after ten minutes, the destroyers behind have not yet caught up with Pixiu.
Since the little devil is ready to outflank, then Li Guang will not stupidly run into it. The Pixiu immediately turned again.
After this turn, Li Guang found that the Pixiu was surrounded.
The speed of the destroyer was indeed fast enough, and one destroyer drew an arc and was able to turn back and forth to catch up with the adjustment of the Pixiu, while the destroyer behind followed him not far or close. For a time, the Pixiu was in an unprecedented predicament.
The situation was even more depressing than being hit by a shell just now. Li Guang clenched his hands, his nails were already buttoned into his flesh, he held back his fear and nervousness, and repeatedly warned himself to calm down.
Again, the Pixiu was intercepted by the destroyer in front, and Li Guang immediately gave the order, at full speed, to turn 45 degrees to the right, and break through.
In tens of seconds, the motor power reached its maximum. Driven by two 1,000-kilowatt motors, Pixiu let out a muffled roar.
Only then did the destroyer really detect the sound of the Pixiu, which had previously relied on active sonar to scan it.
In the muffled roar, the Pixiu increased its speed to the maximum in the short distance of one thousand meters, sixteen.5 knots. For submarines, this is an astonishing speed, and previously submarines of various countries in the world were limited by tonnage and the quality of batteries, and simply could not reach such a high speed.
After the Pixiu adjusted its direction, it missed the destroyer that intercepted the Pixiu, and even if it turned around again, it would have to catch up five or six nautical miles before it could intercept it again. And the destroyer "Ariake", which followed Pixiu, could reach a high speed of 35 knots, and its horsepower was large enough. However, the Ariake uses a gas turbine, and it takes time to increase the power.
The Pixiu uses a motor and can increase the speed to 16.5 knots in three or four minutes, but the Ariaki takes at least 10 minutes to increase the speed from 6 to 16.5 knots.
Li Guang had such an idea, and according to his previous experience, the Pixiu could basically get out of danger within two nautical miles.
In fact, Li Guang didn't know that the active sonar on the Ariake could only detect two thousand meters at most, that is, more than one nautical mile.
In just ten minutes, this is the key to whether the Pixiu can get out of danger.
Three minutes later, Tikerian reported that the destroyer that was tailing the flotilla was approaching the battlefield.
Five minutes later, Tikerian again reported that the destroyers following the flotilla had changed direction again and had the possibility of intercepting the Pixiu.
The Pixiu was accelerating at full speed at this time, and it was not suitable for changing directions. Li Guang was a little puzzled, how did the opponent judge the direction of the Pixiu?
You know, the Pixiu is now more than two nautical miles away from the three destroyers. A wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, and Li Guang forgot one point. The Pixiu is now moving at full speed, and the noise is naturally not as small as it was at six knots, plus the submarine was shot in the tail, there was an irregular hole, and the sound was even louder.
Although only one of the three destroyers of the Fifth Fleet has active sonar, the other two are still equipped with passive sonar. Although the quality of the passive sonar of the army is not very good, it is still possible to detect two nautical miles when the angle is right.
As a matter of fact, it was only the captain's instinct that the destroyer "Lufeng" was following the navy and turned around at the first time. If the level of naval training of the little devil is the second in 39 years, no country's navy really dares to say that it is the first, especially the level of night warfare, far surpassing the United States, and even far surpassing the United Kingdom, the first naval power.
On the destroyer Rokaze, the captain of the ship, Kanda Shaosa, made a decision to change direction at the moment when the two destroyers all lost the whereabouts of the Pixiu. Even if this guy is lucky, Li Guang is unlucky. Kanda Shaozomon's can also be in the direction of the breakthrough of the Pixiu.
The speed of the destroyer Roefeng was already around thirty-five knots, and steering did not affect its speed too much. After turning, it was more than a thousand meters in front of the Pixiu in just three minutes.
It was only at this time that Li Guang realized that he had made a mistake. He should have slowed down immediately within two nautical miles of the two destroyers behind him to minimize the noise of the submarines.
In this case, even if the army has three destroyers, it will be difficult to find the Pixiu, and at that time, the Pixiu can be interspersed between the three warships.
The slightest mistake on the battlefield has to pay a terrible price. At this time, the Pixiu was already at full speed, and its habitual surname was extremely large, and it was impossible to turn at a large angle, and even if it adjusted its direction, it would be difficult to get out of the threat of the Lufeng depth charge.
At this time, there is only gambling. The Pixiu could only adjust its direction slightly, hoping to avoid the Lufeng's depth charges.
Tikryan reports, front left, depth charges. The sound of depth charges like water at this distance is very clear, just a few tens of seconds.
It is said that this devil is ruthless enough, and he has released twelve depth charges in a row. Pull out a line of bomb defense from the left front of the Pixiu to the right flank.
The Pixiu could only turn left at this time, because the sound of the propeller of the destroyer Lufeng was obvious, and it was directly in front of the Pixiu, heading to the right.
The moment the depth charge entered the water, Li Guang's heart immediately lifted. In fact, at this time, not only Li Guang, but all the brothers raised their hearts, pricked up their ears, and stared at the pressure-resistant shell above the submarine.
At this time, the deputy torpedo long column was still holding a stopwatch to calculate the time.
When the number of columns reached fifteen seconds, the submarine first shook violently, followed by several muffled noises in a row.
Li Guang only felt that a kind of over-electric vibration passed from the back heel through the legs, and the spine spread to the back of the head, and he was dizzy in front of him, and he endured an indescribable nausea and did not fall.
There was a depth charge, apparently exploding just above the submarine. After Li Guang came to his senses, he realized that the little devil's depth charge fuse adjustment was too shallow.
Depth charges are so powerful that if they explode within five meters of a submarine, the submarine will almost certainly be scrapped. If it explodes within 20 meters, the submarine will probably be damaged by the shock, and the people on the submarine will be stunned.
Bombs are actually more powerful in the water than on land. On land, if at a distance of five meters, a depth charge explodes near the submarine, at most damaging the submarine's shell tank. Twenty meters won't even damage the shell. But in water, the conductive substance due to the energy of the explosion is water, not air. Water is almost incompressible, and the power of a depth charge explosion is transmitted directly to the submarine, rather than in air, which can buffer many of the forces of the explosion.
Although I don't know how many explosives were loaded in the depth charges dropped by the Japanese army just now. Based on the shock he had just received, Li Guang judged that the bombing point was at least 50 meters away from the Pixiu.
Pixiu, who escaped a catastrophe, did not dare to pause at all, and broke through with all his might.
After the test of life and death, Li Guang's heart was clear at this time. Ji Keliang kept reporting the location of the warship, and Li Guang was also making silent calculations.
A few minutes later, the closest destroyer to the Pixiu was also two nautical miles. Li Guang immediately ordered to adjust the direction and slow down to six knots.
This time, there was no mistake in Li Guang's command, and coincidentally, the Pixiu had just turned into a silent voyage, and at this moment, a huge explosion was heard on the sea not far away.
The explosion gave the commander of the warship the illusion that the submarine had exploded. Then they all began to look around the explosion point to see the results of the battle.
In fact, it was only the explosion of a torpedo that Pixiu had previously missed. When Li Guang was making torpedoes, he was worried that once the fuse of his torpedo failed, the opponent would capture and discover the secret of the battery, so he added a one-hour timed fuse to the torpedo. By mistake, this torpedo exploded at this time, and the explosion point was only more than 300 meters away from the Pixiu, which directly made the little devil make a mistake in judgment.
The Pixiu sailed silently for more than three hours, at first there was the sound of destroyers passing on the upper sea, and then there was no more sound of destroyers' propellers, and only then did it finally get out of the encirclement of the destroyer.
But this does not mean that there is no danger at all, and when the periscope peeks out of the sea, everyone hears the sound of planes flying in the air.
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