Zhenhaiwan, because the main fleet is stationed in the South Seas, at this time Zhenhaiwan seems to be a little "depressed", but in the naval base, the existence of tens of thousands of naval officers and soldiers still makes this Northeast Navy base camp very lively. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAs for the sailors who have finished their ocean-going training, they are even more excited.

While the sailors were excitedly thinking about leaving Geoje Island, some of the young naval cadet officers were still in the officer's barracks, thinking that compared to the sailors, these cadet officers were undoubtedly thinking about another thing - after the last ocean training, it meant that they would soon be assigned to the ship, which warship would be boarded?

It's a problem, one that will always attract everyone's attention.

"Any news?"

Yao Xuanguo asked the companions who were standing in the middle of the courtyard.

"Not at all!"

The companions shook their heads, and no one knew that they would serve on that warship until the assigned order was given.

"Really, let's just go and captain the torpedo?"

Yao Xuanguo, who was a little upset, couldn't help but complain, in the Yongzong Island Naval Officer Academy, his academic performance was average, naturally it was impossible to get a sword from the commander like the top ten, let alone become an attendant of the Governor's Palace, and the smooth sailing of that kind of life path had nothing to do with him.

"Are you going to make a mess of people? We were trained to fight at sea, on warships. Not driving a small sampan! ”

Small sampan ...... This is the opinion of the big guys on torpedo boats, those torpedo boats of several tens of tons and even with wooden hulls, which are really not a good role. Although the Admiralty boasted of it as "a sharp arrow to the enemy." But for every cadet. They would love to be on a warship with advanced technology and equipment, rather than a torpedo boat that doesn't even have a toilet and is impossible to carry out ocean-going operations.

What's more, torpedo boats are a nightmare for naval officers, once they are assigned to at least torpedo boats, it means that their naval life will come to an end, and they will never have the opportunity to become the captain of a combat ship again. Even the captain of a cruiser, their life will stop at the captain of a lightning strike, and even this is the best case.

"But no matter what, torpedo boats, which are also weapons of the navy, always need someone to pilot,"

A companion said helplessly.

There will always be people who will be content with the status quo, and there will always be people who have some self-knowledge. If not, where did the torpedo boat captains come from?

"I really can't. Let's go for it! ”

"How?"

The rhetorical question of others made Yao Xuanguo stunned for a moment, and then. He was silent again, and he could no longer remember the warm, whimsical proposals that had been uttered one after the other and then refuted during the voyage. After a long and tiring debate, the result was a simple decision – there were no shortcuts.

"Why don't you go to any warship to find out the situation, is there all the location staffed? If not, we can apply directly. ”

Isn't it a simple decision to make a seemingly inconspicuous proposal that leaves everyone's mouth open in surprise?

"Where are we going?"

So the big guys argued again, and finally decided to go to the unit that they had done well in their previous internships there.

A quarter of an hour later, Yao Xuanguo and three other classmates walked into the office of Major Xiao Yuanhang, chief of staff of a gunboat detachment.

"Sir," Li Xinren was the first to speak.

"We graduated from school this year. Internship...... Perhaps, when we were in school, we did not learn the best, but, sir, please believe that we love the sea, love the navy, and are no less passionate about the navy than anyone else......"

"We prefer to fight on warships,"

Someone else interjected and said.

Then in the office, there was a pause. Since the formation of the Navy, this is the first time that someone has come to "ask for an official" in this way.

"To be honest, I don't understand what you mean. What do you want me to do? ”

Xiao Yuanhang looked at everyone in front of him one by one with his eyes that seemed a little tired, and asked softly.

At a young age the young people began to explain their situation, rushing to talk to each other. The puzzled look on Xiao Yuanhang's face gradually turned into a smile with a specific meaning. It seems that the problem that was bothering him was solved.

Suddenly, he slammed the folder on the table loudly and stood up.

"That's great! You've come just in time! I was about to ask for a new officer. What are your names? ”

"Lieutenant Li Xinren."

"Cadet Second Lieutenant Yi Lingdong ......"

"Trainee Second Lieutenant Yao Xuanguo......"

"Cadet Ensign......

Xiao Yuanhang wrote down their names on a page of his calendar and promised them that they would soon be on the warship.

This is true, in fact, but only one day, they were called to the general staff, and then their superiors announced the appointment of them as assistant captains of the submarine.

"What is a submarine?"

How is it a boat again?

Almost immediately, Yao Xuanguo felt that they seemed to be "pitted" by Xiao Yuanhang, and it could even be said that they were bitter for the pit! Instead of leaving the "boat", they were sent to serve in another "boat" with an unknown name.

"Believing that your passion for the sea will make up for everything, you must understand that from now on you will be the pioneers of a new profession in the Navy! Believe me, there you will have no regrets in your life! ”

At the officer's expectation, the group of four hurried to the shores of the base, and now they were no longer midship-officers, but assistant captains, following a principle of acceptance of new equipment - they would master the handling of the new warships with the assistance of shipyard technicians.

It's just that when the group arrived at the port, Yao Xuanguo's submarine was at sea, and he had to stay with another classmate. I walked with Yi Lingdong. His submarine was about to go out on a cruise, so they immediately began to prepare for the voyage.

When he got closer, Yao Xuanguo noticed. Moored on the bare deck of the submarine by the trestle. There is only one steel conning tower. There was a rapid-fire gun in front, and the caliber of the gun was not large, it should be only about three inches.

What kind of warship is this?

Finally, when he saw this "boat", Governor Yao Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, because this boat was bigger than he imagined, not the kind of small boat of dozens of tons, but two or three hundred tons.

Luckily, it's a big guy!

The captain of Yilingdong is Ma Xingwu. Although he has no military rank, as a technician in the shipyard, he is the most knowledgeable person on the boat, and he will also be Yi Lingdong's teacher.

He took Yi Lingdong and Yao Xuanguo around the upper deck of the boat, and hurriedly explained to them the structure of the ship, the weapons and technical equipment on board.

"Our submarines,"

Ma Xingwu looked at the two officers in front of him, stood in front of the command tower and said,

"The mission is very submarine, that is, in wartime we will sail on the sea, like cruisers. But our basic task is to search for and destroy enemy warships and merchant ships, but that's it. Our attack was different, although we also used torpedoes as our main weapon, but not from the surface, but from underwater, and our submarines were equipped with refined underwater hydrophones, through which the position of enemy ships could be determined, aiming under the surface with periscopes. That's why it's called a "submarine" ......"

What Ma Xingwu said was definitely a new thing for Yao Xuanguo and Yi Lingdong. Submarines, even in the world, are now just a new toy for the Navy, but they are only a boys' toy, expensive and of little practical value. Even the naval academy did not bother to create this course, but it was used as a secret weapon, and since two years ago, with the practical application of the Holland submarine, after continuous sea trials, a new type of large submarine with a certain ocean-going capability has finally been built.

"Attack from underwater?"

Yao Xuanguo looked at Yi Lingdong, and he was also looking at him with surprised eyes, and both of them read each other's doubts from each other's eyes.

Yao Xuanguo thought silently in his heart:

"If it's true, I don't know, what life inside a submarine will be like?"

And then, everything is very simple, and when it comes to weapons and the structure of the submarine, they quickly understand the construction, the combination of parts, the parts and the performance of the submarine, and in fact many things on a warship are interrelated. However, in some ways, they are always surprised, such as radio, which they did not understand.

"Radio, this is a new telegraph that just passed the tests of the Admiralty in October last year, and if it weren't for the peculiarities of the submarine, we wouldn't have gotten it at all! With radio, we can keep in touch with the base and the fleet at sea without lights or flags, just send a telegram, of course! ”

New inventions are always emerging, but there are many inventions, because of their particularity, and not familiar to people, just like a radio station, although it has been invented by several engineers of Northeastern University on the basis of the introduction of patents at the beginning of last year, but it was not announced at the first time, but was controlled by the Military Command Department in the name of "national defense needs", and provided a lot of manpower and material resources for research, finally, in October last year, the radio station for the first time realized the transmission of telegrams across 1,000 kilometers, And the signal is relatively stable.

Radio stations were immediately adopted by the Navy, not because the Army did not use them, but because they were too cumbersome - the equipment weighed hundreds of kilograms, but despite this, the Army developed radio cars, and they were ready to solve the problem of transporting radio stations by vehicle.

When they entered the cabin, they breathed in the turbid air in the orange-lit cabin, and there were all kinds of dials with hands attached to them—dials that they had never even seen before, and they were only dazzled. Ma Xingwu didn't notice their embarrassment, but we went to the command cabin, and they felt even more uncomfortable all the way. On the roof of the cabin, bulkheads were intertwined with an unimaginable number of pipes of various calibers and sizes. It's not like a warship, it's a fish's belly! Although the pipes of various systems were all painted in various colors, Yao Xuanguo couldn't tell what kind of pipes those pipes were.

In short, it was far more complicated than he imagined.

"How so? One thing you have to remember is that a submarine is an extremely complex weapon, and your task is to learn to command a submarine in the next six months, and as for these ......"

Ma Xingwu pointed to the sergeants in the boat, this is obviously a fact, as the captain of the ship, they don't need to know everything.

"There will be professional sergeants to master and learn, and your duty is to command!"

Just then, a corporal approached.

"I'm back in Hong Kong on the 9th!"

Boat No. 9 was the submarine that Yao Xuanguo was about to serve, and a few hours later, the four of them sat on the embankment, looking at the water splashing on the granite embankment under their feet, exchanging their impressions with each other.

"Can this be considered a warship?"

Li Xinren said suspiciously.

"Maybe he has two torpedo tubes, but on this kind of ship, he can't fight a naval battle in a dignified manner, so he can only hide below the surface of the water and sneak attack the enemy. Even, its endurance is very limited, and it is simply impossible to reach the ocean to fight! I wonder if they couldn't find anyone to let us be captains. It's nothing more than a novice who needs to take responsibility! ”

Not really!

No wonder they were told to keep it secret as soon as they came up, and they were simply used as test subjects, and no matter whether the experiment succeeded or failed, there was no harm to the presiding officer - a sentence of using the wrong person solved the problem, but what about them? Their future in the Navy is over!

Thinking of these, Yao Xuanguo simply felt that he was suffering an insult, but on the other hand, he defended the submarine: "No, although the submarine is small, it is a real warship. On board the boat are all operational departments: pilotage, artillery, torpedoes, communications, electrical; And one more thing, you forgot, submarine warfare...... We don't know how submarines are supposed to fight, we don't know, the whole world doesn't know, and we can even say that even if we are driving a submarine at sea to aim at a combat ship and sink it, others will mistakenly think that it was the explosion of the ammunition depot, of course, as long as we hide ourselves! ”

This is precisely the biggest characteristic of the submarine that Yao Xuanguo saw -- concealment. Hearing these calm words, the other three were all stunned. But Yao Xuanguo still used his imagination and continued.

"It can be said that for us, there is no better place to go, although this is confidential, but this also needs to be kept secret, perhaps, one day, we will be like Jing Ke, quietly approaching the enemy, ambushing on the route, and then give them the most fatal blow."

When Yao Xuanguo's words fell, he looked up and saw a training ship slowly sailing into the harbor, and said softly.

"By that time everyone will be impressed with us, no, with submarines!" (To be continued.) )