Accompanying the captain to play with his life is not the first time for the submariners of the Shangyong.

But that's all in training, and most of them are sparring on cargo ships and transport ships. It's the first time for everyone to play this in actual combat.

People say that ten minutes on the stage and ten years of work off the stage, which is suitable for all professions.

In the few minutes of ascending, it seems that the sailors who are concentrating on their respective posts do not feel much - because they are too focused.

The sweat beads on the sonar soldiers' foreheads were dripping to the floor, and the navigation and measurement and control soldiers were even more nervous, staring at the instrument motionlessly.

"100 meters...... 70 meters ......"

Lin Jie's grim face had gradually shown a smile, "Opportunities are reserved for adventurers, but a few words are missing, and they are reserved for prepared adventurers." ”

The Shangyong took advantage of the shadow of a huge ship and the cover of the currents to successfully ascend. "Ascend the periscope!"

Wiping the sweat from his face, Lin Jie gave the most important order after floating. For submariners, the closest to success is also the most dangerous. Until the periscope is raised, they cannot know what is going on on the surface and do not know if they are on the course of other warships.

"Come and see, captain, it's all big ships, we're going to make a fortune......"

It was the observer who shouted, this kid is a money fan, and he can't forget to get rich at any time, and the officers and men of the whole ship have long been accustomed to the virtue of this guy.

Lin Jie walked over quickly, squeezed out the money fan to sit in his place, and took the periscope, "Wow...... Depend on! The situation of the sailors observed in the mirror made Colonel Lin burst into a foul mouth, "Where are we in this mud?" It's full of big guys. ”

"Torpedo tubes No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 ready!" There is not much time to be surprised, and one more second of stay in this position is a little more dangerous.

In fact, as soon as I saw this formation, I understood that the Shangyong successfully lurked in the channel of the British and American fleets, and it happened to be in the core area of the fleet at the time of the rise, so there were so many huge ships around.

Lin Jie saw very clearly that it was a battleship that had just sailed over to repel them, and then it was a flat-deck battleship that was approaching the Shangyong, and it should not be an Essex-class aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons.

Then it should be a Borg escort aircraft carrier, and it is possible to ...... "Damn, luck won't be like this, right?" ”

Lin Jie immediately thought of another possibility - the CV-4 Ranger.

The USS Ranger was the face of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet until the Essex-class entered service, and was the only large aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Fleet.

In the Torch plan for the landing of American troops in Africa, the Ranger led four escort aircraft carriers to carry out a successful attack on the Vichy French navy and shore-based fortifications. The Wildcat carrier-based fighter jets that took off from the Ranger sank Vichy France's destroyer Albatross and two submarines, and destroyed dozens of aircraft of various types parked on the ground.

After the surrender of the Vichy French forces in the Casablanca area, the Ranger returned to Norfolk Harbor for deck modification and installed a C-11 steam catapult made according to British technology, which allowed the Ranger to take off the F-1 Fury and F-2 Banshee, greatly enhancing the combat effectiveness of the CV-4.

In August, the Ranger returned to Scarpa Bay, England, to join the British Home Fleet, preparing to attack German ships in Norwegian waters. But then Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to launch Operation "Bright", and most of the main warships of the Allied powers turned to Gibraltar to join the combined fleet dominated by the C Fleet.

"Hey, is it time for Lao Tzu to run?" Thinking of the opportunity to sink the famous ship Ranger with many honors, Lin Jie felt that his orders were a little out of tune.

In order to increase the hit coefficient, the Shangyong submarine shot three "yellowfin tuna" in one go, and three "skewers bubbled up with water bubbles and fanned straight at the oncoming giant ship."

However, they did not have time to check the results of the battle, and they stayed in place after firing the torpedo, which was undoubtedly an act of seeking death.

The launch of the torpedo means that the submarine has been exposed. The next step is to dive quickly and start the time to escape.

It is indeed cool to launch an attack in the core area of the fleet, but after the coolness, whether they can escape under the threat of powerful anti-submarine forces, everyone including Lin Jie is not sure, maybe the next moment is a depth charge to blast through the wall of the ship and sink to the bottom of the sea.

But today's Shangyong is undoubtedly favored by Lady Luck, and the US destroyer that rushed over quickly dropped several depth charges, but the explosion point was far away from the Shangyong, which desperately dived and fled.

The excellent performance of the AIP submarine has been fully exploited at a critical moment. Lin Jie commanded the Shangyong to sneak in the deep water area for nearly two hours before daring to sneak up to the surface, looking at the empty water around him, the immortal submariners climbed out of the cabin one after another, Lin Jie was still thinking about the effect of the three "yellowfin tuna" after launching, urging the telegraph operator to send electricity to the headquarters.

But to his disappointment, for a long time, he did not wait for a callback, not even a telegram from other submarines - the submarine's long-wave radio station could only be used after it surfaced.

Lin Jie knew that the two sides had already started a war at this time. If there are no accidents, the first wave of carrier-based aircraft attack groups on this side should have begun attacking the US fleet more than an hour ago.

"Could it be that we missed the show?" The salinity of the Mediterranean Sea is as high as thirty-five percent, and even the sea breeze is super salty, Colonel Lin, who was a little uncomfortable in his throat, snorted a few times, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, "Nima, those boys don't reply to the telegram, they must be diving, if they don't get it right, they are all mixed on the battlefield!" The command did not reply to the telegram, so it should have been busy coordinating the command, and it was useless...... Damn, it must be like this! ”

Lin Jie suddenly threw the cigarette in his hand into the sea, "Don't talk nonsense, hurry, we have to go back, maybe we can still get some soup to drink!" ”

The captain's anxious tone made the hearts of the sailors who were busy smoking and relaxing also tighten, and they hurriedly took the last puff, and then bounced the cigarette butts away and jumped back into the cabin.

As the sealed hatch closed, the Shangyong dived again, turning around and heading for the area where the ambush had just been set up.

This time, Lin Jie guessed that there was no hunting. The telecommunications staff officers of the headquarters were indeed busy on all fours, and for his telegram that was similar to chatting and farting, they casually threw it aside, and they didn't send it to Commander Guan, and they were scolded!

This is a beautiful misunderstanding. In fact, Guan Cang is now looking for Lin Jie, a large aircraft carrier in the US special task force began to catch fire and smoke before the first wave of attack aircraft arrived, which not only slowed down the speed of the US fleet, but also greatly weakened the strength of the US military after the start of the war.

Because it was a head-on attack, only one of the three "yellowfin tuna" that fan-shaped attacked hit the left front chord of the giant ship.

One was enough, and the good "Skewer" torpedo only needed this one to knock a large hole in the front left chord of the Ranger and ignite a fire on the foredeck.

That's right, the Shangyong, who had already started diving again, didn't know that they were "really gone", as their captain said...... As luck would have it, it really hit the former flagship of the Atlantic Fleet, the CV-4 Ranger.

The large hole in the left chord forced the crew to open the water valve on the right side, and the sealed compartment on the right side was also injected with seawater to allow the carrier to maintain balance.

The top-heavy state and the fire on the foredeck made the Ranger, which was barely able to take off jet carrier-based aircraft because the deck was too short, lose all its combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, there was no problem with the power system, and the Ranger with its head filled with water could still move on its own at a speed of less than ten knots.

The sudden attack made Ingersoll, the flagship Yorktown, feel bad, although the Han army's submarine sneaked up on the Ranger was just an accident. No one expected that this lucky submarine could guess the course of the task force. But since this submarine dared to attack, the main fleet of the Han army must be not far away. In addition, Linglong reconnaissance planes frequently appeared in the waters near the Maltese Islands, and the PBY Catalina reconnaissance planes on this side never found any trace of the main fleet of the Han army.

"It's not a good sign, the enemy can find us, and we don't even know where the enemy is!"

The commander of the Atlantic Fleet was full of resentment against his reconnaissance planes, and in modern naval warfare, it was extremely dangerous to find no trace of the enemy, so Ingersoll immediately ordered the task force to sail at full speed to the Libyan port of Homs, where there was a British aircraft carrier task force.

As for the wounded Ranger, the CV-4, which had lost its combat effectiveness, had to be returned to the port of Valletta, on the island of Malta. Ingersoll arranged for a minelayer and a destroyer to tow the Ranger to speed it out of the battlefield.

The fear of an unknown enemy made the US task force not even search carefully for the hateful Han submarine, but just dropped a few depth charges at random.

This is also the reason why the Shangyong was able to escape easily.

However, such a toss and turn completely achieved the goal of Guan Canghai ordering the submarine force to drag down the US fleet. Although the other submarines were not able to get close enough to launch an attack again, the task force, which had already lost one of its main carriers, had to carefully strengthen its anti-submarine surveillance, and several destroyers with protruding and separated flanks even lowered towed sonars, which significantly reduced the speed of the entire fleet.

A battle often has such and such episodes, and the significance of Lin's bold and bold actions is not only to damage an aircraft carrier, but also to buy time for the attack aircraft group, and in disguise increase the attack time of the "Eagle" and "Brute Dragon" in a limited range.

Admiral Ingersoll, the commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, who is still deeply regretting the wounded Ranger, has not yet realized: the Ranger? And that's just the beginning!

His experience was destined to be worse than what happened to his fellow classmate, Pacific Fleet Commander Nimitz, in Hawaii.

Just twenty minutes after the U.S. fleet began to turn, Ingersoll finally received a telegram from the PBY reconnaissance plane, and the two Catalinas almost always sent an early warning message before they were shot down: Spot the group!