Geoje Island, the second largest island on the Korean Peninsula, has been a small offshore island for many years, and it has only recently come into the spotlight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoThe bay of Zhenwan, which covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers enclosed by Geoje Island, has been built over the years and has become one of the most important naval bases in the world.

In the past many years, the Northeast Navy has built a lot of construction in order to close the town bay into an impermeable inner lake, and has laid cement and steel piles on the large and small waterways between the islands and the half, and in the narrow channel area, there are a large number of batteries, even together with the old battleship armored turrets, have also been laid in it.

However, although the water area of Zhenhai Bay is large enough and impregnable, because of the relationship between the fleet scattered in the South Seas and Hawaii, the current Zhenhai Bay seems to be empty, and if it were not for the fact that as many as ten sail or steam training ships are moored in the harbor, I am afraid that it is difficult to believe that this will be the home port of the Northeast Navy -- there is hardly a single capital ship.

The ship is not in port!

When the "Zhengzheng," a training cruiser named after Liu Renliang, the first well-known admiral in Chinese history, sailed into the harbor, most of the alternate officers on board the ship showed a little disappointment in their expressions, and their hopes that they had just finished their voyage were once again disappointed -- the battleship was not in the harbor; in other words, the 6,000-ton training cruiser "Zhengzheng" was now the "hegemon" in the deep-water and wide bay of the bay, but it was only a symbolic "overlord."

After almost a decade of efforts, the sharply inflated Northeast Navy already had a large number of cruisers. At this time, its strength was among the best in the world's navies, and the Beiyang Fleet, which once dominated Northeast Asia, has been reduced to a "second-rate role". At this time, the rapidly expanding Northeast Navy felt that the issue of personnel training had become an issue that it needed to pay attention to. This is because after a large number of warships are put into service, if the quality of the personnel cannot keep up, it will greatly restrict the display of combat effectiveness.

All the time. Both the old Navy Committee and the current Navy General Staff believe that in order to improve the quality of personnel, it is necessary to strictly train officers and men, and the premise of strict training is to have sufficient training ships. For many years, the long-distance training of candidates of the Naval Academy has always been carried out by training ships converted from merchant ships and sailing ships of the training fleet. Over the past 10 years, the Navy has lagged behind the development of the Navy, except for the fact that the hulls of those temporary training ships, most of which have been converted from old ships, which are becoming old and unusable.

However, the navy's own ships already have a very heavy task of combat readiness, and if they are used to train those "rookies," it will inevitably affect the attendance rate of the ships and the fulfillment of combat readiness tasks, and the results may not be good. Thereupon. At the suggestion of the General Staff, the Northeast Navy decided to solve this problem by building a type of ship specifically designed for training. It was in this context that the "Regular" class training ships were built, and in just two years, four were built. Each of them was a large cruiser with a tonnage of more than 6,000 tons, and these four training cruisers were also the only four ships in the Northeast Navy named after naval historical figures.

For the officers and men of the "Zhengzheng", who had just finished an ocean-going training, the disappointment was only a matter of a moment, and although they did not see the main battleship in the harbor, it was for the officers and men who had been at sea for nearly three months. The joy of going ashore quickly replaced some of the disappointment in their hearts.

When the "Regular" training cruiser fired a 50-mm salute and slowly approached the port. A bridge between Geoje Island and Tongyeong. It is also the only mainland entrance to the island, and Ma Guohui received Li Tianyi on the pier. Li Tianyi, who came from the General Staff of the Navy, was not interested in Ma Guohui, he was just a lieutenant in the Navy, and he came here for other purposes.

It took several hours for the carriage to go around the island until it came to a small covered dock with a high wall - because of the weather. Most of the docks in the Northeast are closed docks that are not affected by cold winters or other bad weather, and this small dock is no exception. This small dock, which obviously did not belong to the Navy Shipyard, was inconspicuous, but it was also heavily guarded, Ma Guohui showed his ID and talked to him on the phone, and waited for a while. Only then was he allowed to enter the dockyard.

After the two entered the wall, they first had lunch in a shack-style room. A simple shore meal: rice, fish and greens, and a seaweed soup, this is a standard shore meal, simple and nutritious. Of course, what is more important is that it is cheap enough -- the development of distant-water fishing has enabled the military and the people in Northeast China to enjoy marine aquatic products that are cheap enough.

During the meal, Ma Guohui asked Li Tian a lot of technical questions on the submarine, and Li Tian gave answers one by one, some esoteric principles and complex calculations, and he bluntly admitted that he did not understand, although the naval officer school has now opened a submarine major, but the submarine is still of an experimental nature, and it still cannot sail to the sea. Ma Guohui smiled, as a professional submarine officer, he explained it to him as plainly as possible. Obviously, he is a real expert in submarine technology, and he is even more knowledgeable than Li Tian, and he can't help but be in awe.

"Now, our submarines are all small submarines,"

Putting down the spoon in his hand, Ma Guohui said seriously.

"Since Holland successfully designed the I-type submarine in Incheon, the submarine has become bigger and bigger, although there are still some technical problems, but gradually there is the possibility of developing to a lightning strike ship or even a cruiser, and now the largest submarine has reached more than 500 tons, which is almost equivalent to the standard of a small lightning strike ship! I heard that the shipyard is now designing a larger submarine, if it can reach 1,000 tons, maybe, the submarine will have the possibility of ocean-going operations at that time! ”

After a pause, Ma Guohui took out a handkerchief and wiped his lips.

"However, now we are in this kind of embarrassment, our submarines are not big, but they cannot go to the sea, and it seems to be a bit wasteful to say that they are not small, and they are used for coastal defense. Last year, I drove a Type 4 submarine into the Seto Inland Sea to simulate a torpedo attack and a minelaying attack, and the results were very good, but the performance of our submarine still has a big shortcoming, and if we rely on submarines for minelaying. We need at least a thousand-ton submarine to be able to carry out this task, well, in addition to this, it is necessary to develop new types of mines, which I called for in the journal of the Navy. But that's still not enough, because submarines still have shortcomings of one kind or another......"

Ma Guohui shrugged his shoulders rather helplessly, despite the rapid development of submarine technology in the Northeast Navy over the past few years. But there are still too many shortcomings, and it is precisely because of this that the navy will be stingy with investment in submarines, and the scale of the submarine force has always been very limited.

"Actually, all the warships in the world are in ports or bases most of the time, and I think a way to eliminate them in ports will undoubtedly help us win future naval battles."

Li Tianyi nodded immediately. In fact, that's exactly why he came to town bay. Just half a year ago, a report by Ma Guohui was submitted to the General Staff of the Navy, and it was that report that brought him here.

After the meal, Ma Guohui led Li Tianyi into the mysterious dock. The inside is brightly lit, and the welding arc is dazzling. The sound of riveting guns and electric drills is so sharp that it makes people feel uncomfortable. Many mechanics were working nervously, paying no attention to visitors, and they had to carefully give way to others.

Li Tian recognized at a glance that there were sixteen pocket submarines that Ma Guohui had been talking about for a long time in the dry dock. They looked so small and delicate that Li Tianyi couldn't help but say.

"It's like a child's toy."

Not really. It was only about 20 meters long and about two meters wide, and its small hull was not even as conspicuous as the torpedo boats - the torpedo boats, which were powered by multiple diesel engines and were smaller than them, as they were called "Dark Arrows".

"Don't underestimate it."

Ma Guohui patted him on the shoulder. His Chinese has a Cantonese accent, he is Cantonese, and he is not fluent in Chinese.

"If all goes well, trust me, he can even do more than you think!"

Of the sixteen pocket submarines, half of the keels have been installed, three are laying wires and pipelines, and two are largely finished.

Li Tianyi took the rattan helmet with a headlamp from a mechanic and eagerly slipped into the cramped compartment of the completed submarine, looking around, painting and touching, and sometimes sniffing with his nose. I stayed for more than an hour.

After he came out, Ma Guohui asked him with a smile:

"How? Brother. ”

"It's really too small!"

Li Tianyi's words are not an exaggeration, this is a pocket submarine, 26.2 meters long and 2.1 meters wide, not so much like a submarine as a two-pointed loom shuttle. Although it is small, it has most of the structure and equipment that a submarine should have. It consists of a single-layer, pressure-resistant hull equipped with a diesel engine for surface navigation and an electric motor for submersible navigation. The batteries are placed in two groups side by side on either side of the hull. It has a reduced bridge, and in front of the bridge, a tall periscope is erected, which is also custom-made.

Li Tianyi's words made Ma Guohui say with a smile:

"If it weren't small, would you call him a pocket submarine? It has a displacement of 59.7 tons and a crew of 5 people ......"

It is precisely because of the small size that he is called a pocket submarine.

"I've read your report. It's not easy to cram 5 people into this dinghy, no wonder you can't be taller than 1.6 meters...... I'm just the right height. ”

Li Tianyi's smile looked embarrassed, and the right height was the key to his organization of this unit.

"Well, because it's small enough, it can only carry two 450mm torpedoes."

"Enough. As long as these two such torpedoes can explode on the keel of the battleship, they will not sink, and they will be enough to drink a pot! ”

This is precisely the reason why the General Staff of the Navy agreed to Ma Guohui's plan -- the cost-effectiveness ratio is high enough, and more importantly, it is aimed at a problem that the General Staff is desperate to solve -- that it can infiltrate into the port and carry out attacks in the port. If successful, the Navy will no longer need to worry about the threat from the Pacific Fleet - it will only need to launch an infiltration attack on it as soon as war is declared!

"However, it is not easy to sink enemy ships in the harbor,"

Ma Guohui's words made Li Tian smile, and his hand pointed outward, pointing to Zhenwan and said.

"Then just keep training, always have to try, right?"

"Indeed!"

Nodding, Ma Guohui did not deny this, as a submarine officer, he naturally knew that although the submarine is limited by technical problems and its use is subject to many restrictions, if it can be trained as much as possible, it should be able to make up for the lack of technology to some extent, but this means that the crew needs to make more efforts.

"Still, Engineer Li, I have one more question!"

Looking at Li Tianyi, the naval engineer in charge of the Ship Administration Office that designed the pocket submarine, Ma Guohui asked with some doubts.

"What is the range of such a small submarine? If you carry out the kind of special attack mission you call it, where will they attack from? You can't sail out of the bay of the town! ”

As a submarine commander, Ma Guohui naturally knows that the reason why the current submarine force is limited in use is that in addition to the poor means of observation, it can only be observed through a periscope, and the biggest deficiency is probably the small tonnage and short range, and compared with those submarines, smaller pocket submarines, the range is obviously shorter, and how to use this kind of short-legged boat, I am afraid it is still a problem that needs to be solved urgently.

"It's very simple, design a transport ship, for example, it can be transported by merchant ships, if nothing else, two merchant ships of about 5,000 tons can not only carry sixteen pocket submarines and the personnel on board, but also maintain the combat effectiveness of the submarine!"

As a submarine expert, Li Tianyi naturally has already given some careful thought to this problem and has already had a solution to it.

"However, I personally prefer to use a suitable warship to carry it, after all, the speed of the warship is faster, but considering the camouflage and other issues, I personally think that using a merchant ship should be the best way!"

After a pause, Li Tianyi said with a smile.

"Okay, we don't need to think about it now, you just need to put this army together! You know, a lot of people are watching you! (To be continued.) )