653 Blocking warships
In ordinary mines, the explosives are exploded in four directions, and in this type of mines, the design of directional energy is used, and the direction of the explosion of the explosives is precisely designed to the direction of the water surface, so that the explosion energy is more concentrated, and soon, the shock wave tears through the hull of the Blackbird.
The Blackbird is not a warship after all, its shell does not use special steel, and the hull does not have a mine-resistant structure, so it is vulnerable to the powerful shock wave of the mine, and suddenly a huge crack appears, followed by the relentless influx of seawater, and before the people on board can react to what is going on, the ship has begun to capsize, and the captain then gives the order to abandon the ship.
Behind the Blackbird is the same model as the Blackbird, the Heart of the Ocean is also difficult to sink the fate, the captain then ordered to abandon the ship, Lin Yuan saw the sinking of the two ships, and immediately issued an order to Chen Fei: divers to dispatch.
In order to avoid being discovered, the two tugboats have been cruising in the sea area east of the explosion waters, six or seven hundred meters away from the explosion site, that is to say, Chen Fei and the divers had to rush to the explosion waters with more than 700 meters of iron chains, but Chen Fei and the others brought advanced equipment this time - individual underwater propulsion.
This kind of thruster is also known as "underwater motorcycle", in fact, the principle is very simple, an electric motor, connected to the propeller behind, when used, people grab it, and then it takes people to move forward, with the help of underwater thrusters, Chen Fei took a few divers, a distance of 700 meters, it only took five minutes.
After Chen Fei arrived at the water, he shouted in his heart: "Not good! "It turned out that the mine exploded, and the hull sank and raised a large amount of sediment, which stirred in the water, making it dark underwater, and Chen Fei could only see objects within ten meters when they turned on the searchlight on their heads.
Chen Fei then contacted Lin Yuan through the communicator and said: "I have some obstacles here, the visibility under the water is very poor, and it may take us some time to find the location of the container." ”
Lin Yuan said: "Okay, there are no ships coming and going on the channel now, so you have plenty of time." ”
Chen Fei and the others groped their way underwater with the faint light of the searchlight, and their heads were the people who had fallen into the water, and the boat was equipped with life jackets, so they all floated on the water, and they desperately put their heads out of the water, and no one noticed the underwater situation.
Chen Fei took a look at the way the transport ship sank, the starboard side of the ship entered the water, so the starboard side sank to the bottom of the water, the port side was facing the water, and the whole ship was in a rollover position, Chen Fei checked the status of the container again, and found that the container was not damaged, if the container was loaded in the hull, it would be troublesome, in that case, the deck must be cut, but for the convenience of container loading and unloading, the containers are placed on the deck, so that the deck and hull do not need to be opened, and the container can be transported away.
Chen Fei led people to fix the hook on the hook of the container, there were a total of ten containers on each ship, each with a load of 1,000 tons, Chen Fei led people to hang the first fourteen, but when hanging the last six, difficulties appeared.
Chen Fei contacted Lin Yuan and said: "There was a problem with the back six containers, when the hull exploded, the container and the hull collided, and under the huge force, the metal of the container and the hull were deformed, resulting in the container and the hull being connected together, if they were not cut by a cutting machine, the tug could not be towed." ”
Lin Yuan then said: "Okay, you immediately use the underwater cutter to cut the hull." ”
Chen Fei said: "Yes, but it takes a long time, you have to make sure that we are not discovered by other ships, the depth of the iron chain we carry is set at nine meters, if there are large ships passing by, our iron chain may be discovered." ”
Lin Yuan asked, "Okay, how much time do you need?" ”
Chen Fei asked the cutter operator through the radio intercom system in the diving mask: "How much time do we need?" ”
The operator replied, "We need at least half an hour." ”
Chen Fei then said to Lin Yuan: "We need at least half an hour." ”
Lin Yuan said: "Don't worry, there are no ships passing nearby, and you have plenty of time." ”
As soon as Lin Yuan turned off the communicator, a soldier beside him said, "Captain, there is a situation!" ”
Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
The warrior pointed to the northwest with his hand and said, "There's a ship there, heading towards us." ”
Lin Yuan hurriedly raised the binoculars, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat when he saw a two-masted and low-freeboard battleship majestically approaching the waters of the mine explosion, which was the British Navy's Majesty-class battleship-the Majesty.
Lin Yuan looked at the approaching majestic ship, and knew that they must have heard the explosion before rushing over, although they would not touch the underwater iron cable when they were on the route, but it was not necessary to enter the explosion waters, and what was even more dangerous was that the draft of the majestic ship was eight meters, and the divers worked at a distance of ten meters underwater, only two meters apart, and the wake formed by the ship could easily cause damage to the divers!
Lin Yuan immediately decided: the mission was canceled, although the British would definitely send ships to salvage the sunken ores later, but the value of those ores could not be compared with divers after all, and there would be no if there was no one, so Lin Yuan took out the communicator and wanted to contact Chen Fei to tell him that the operation was canceled and that he would return to the tugboat immediately.
But he didn't expect that the communicator couldn't be connected, Lin Yuan quickly figured out the reason, it must be the electric spark generated by the cutting machine when it was working that interfered with the communication, Lin Yuan locked his eyebrows and thought about countermeasures, and a soldier on the side said: "Captain, hurry up and give an order, the British warship is coming." ”
Lin Yuan suddenly had an idea, and said to the people on the ship: "Let's go to the front of the warship and block them!" ”
The captain, a timid businessman, was surprised and said, "Will this work?" What if the British opened fire on us? ”
Lin Yuanha smiled and said, "They don't dare, they definitely don't dare." ”
The captain still shook his head, and Lin Yuan said, "In this way, I will add another thousand pounds to you!" ”
As soon as the captain heard this, he immediately drove at full speed and sailed towards the British warship, and when the distance was only more than 500 meters, Lin Yuan gave an order, hung out the flag of sea rescue, and told the British that we were going to the waters in front to save people, and the crew quickly hung out the signal flag, and Lin Yuan ordered to slow down the ship and slowly approach the British warship.
The captain hurriedly asked, "Aren't we going to turn?" ”
Lin Yuan shook his head and smiled: "Now is not the time. ”
At this time, the sound of the horn came from the British warship opposite, two long and one short, Lin Yuan said with a smile: "This is a common ship communication signal at sea, they want to overtake us from the starboard side, we immediately turn the rudder in the direction of the starboard side and turn the bow of the ship." ”
The captain asked in fear: "They are going to overtake from the starboard side, we are going to turn from the starboard side, what if they hit us?" ”
Lin Yuan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, no matter how we say that we are also going to save people's boats, they won't hit us." Use the horn and the horn at once, make a short sound, and then use the horn to make a flash to tell them that we are turning to the right. ”
This is the international method of communication, and the British warship slowed down when it saw Lin Yuan's ship turning to the right.