The helmsman nodded, and thought to himself, "The navigator is still very knowledgeable, and I have never heard of any of the things he said." The helmsman no longer doubted, and began to take the helm with peace of mind, following the Zhongrui ship forward.

After Lin Yuan learned that the "queue insertion" was successful, he immediately ordered the Zhongrui ship to sail in the northeast direction and lure the icebreaker out of the Russian fleet.

But at this time, there is a problem, that is, when the Zhongrui ship and the Russian ship are staggered, the icebreaker behind will see two lights, which is not like the beginning, the two lights will only last for a short time at the beginning, and soon the Zhongrui ship will be able to block the lights of the Russian ship, so the people on the icebreaker will think that they are wrong.

However, if it deviates, the two lights will be present at the same time for a long time, and the direction of travel is completely different, one follows the original course, and the other deviates to the northeast, so that the icebreaker will not only not follow the Zhongrui, but will also be suspicious. Lin Yuan had been prepared for this question for a long time, he sent Chen Fei to the Zhongrui ship in advance, and asked him: "Are you sure that you can extinguish the lights of that Russian ship?" ”

Chen Fei said with a smile: "The target on the sea is indeed difficult to hit, mainly because the sea Lang has ups and downs, so the shooter also sways up and down, but it doesn't matter, for an excellent shooter, this can be corrected, what I'm worried about is that if I hit their boat with a gun, won't the people on board be suspicious?" They must have thought that an enemy was approaching! ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "In the vast sea, if an enemy ship pulls you into a distance of a hundred meters, will it only knock out one of your lights?" ”

Chen Fei smiled: "You are right, the enemy really wouldn't have thought that we did it. ”

Lin Yuan said: "So, you can fight with confidence." ”

Chen Fei took the Type 88 sniper rifle, climbed the mast, and then aimed at the light, the wind on the sea was blowing, Chen Fei thought to himself: "It's not good, this wind is too big, it is very likely that it will not be hit!" ”

Chen Fei still adjusted his aiming point and fired a shot, but the sound of the gunfire was hidden in the loud sound of the ship moving, and Chen Fei himself didn't even hear it.

However, this shot did not hit, the bullet disappeared into the fog, Chen Fei couldn't see the trajectory clearly, he thought to himself: "This time it's hard to fight, it would be good if you used tracer bullets, at least it can indicate the trajectory, unlike now, there is no way to correct the aiming point." ”

Chen Fei was afraid that switching to tracer bullets would arouse the enemy's detection, but he thought about Lin Yuan's words and thought, "** Zi won't think of our plan!" That's when I made up my mind.

So Chen Fei loaded a tracer bullet into the chamber of the gun, aimed at the light and fired a shot, the bullet drew a strange arc in the wind, brushed the light, Chen Fei calculated in his heart, and then adjusted the aiming point, and shot over, a green arc in the fog hit the light, and the light was extinguished in the darkness in an instant.

The lights on the Russian warship were in charge of the signalman, the signalman saw that the pilot light suddenly went out, he did not expect that there would be Chinese approaching, and then fired, he first thought that there was a problem with the circuit, he hurried to the control room, but the people in the control room said that there was no problem.

When the signalman climbed the mast and saw the lamp, he couldn't help but be surprised, there was a round hole in the glass cover of the lamp, the glass on the side of the hole had been shattered, the filament inside had been broken, and there was also a round hole in the lamp shell behind it, as if it had been pierced by a bullet.

The signal soldier hurriedly reported to the officer on duty, and the officer on duty thought the same as Lin Yuan said, and he said: "It can't be that the Chinese's ship is approaching us, if it's the Chinese's ship, why do they only hit our pilot light?" There must have been a seabird crashing into our boat. ”

The signalman shook his head and said, "Seabirds? How could a seabird crash into this? How could it be like this! ”

The officer on duty lazily said: "Everything is possible on the sea, maybe a new species, a seabird in the shape of a bullet!" Okay, let's go and change the lights. ”

So in the Russian ship, this matter was ignored, and the Zhongrui began to confidently and boldly lead the icebreaker to the northeast.

The icebreaker was unaware of all this, and it continued to follow the Zhongrui ship, but as it walked, the chief sailor noticed that something was wrong, because Makarov had ordered the fleet to go to the Japanese Sasebo military port to anchor temporarily, so the navigation departments on each ship had drawn up a navigation plan according to Sasebo for the destination, but the captain found that the ship in front had deviated slightly from the course.

On the sea, it is common for warships to deviate slightly from their course, and it would be nice to correct them back, but the navigator was surprised to find that the warships in front of him did not have the slightest intention of correcting their course, and they were getting more and more deviated.

The navigator was full of suspicion and said to the helmsman: "Why do you say that the warship in front of you is going further and further?" ”

The greater the ship's turn, the greater the rudder angle that needs to be turned, and the helmsman also felt the rudder angle increase vigorously, but he saw that the navigator didn't speak, so he didn't say anything, and at this time he saw the navigator bring up this matter, and he also said: "Yes, I have long been aware of it, why did the ship in front of it deviate?" ”

The navigator said, "Could it be that there is something wrong with the magnetic compass on our ship?" ”

The helmsman said, "Would you like to go to the deck and make corrections?" ”

In the navigation of this era, there are two main means to identify the direction, one is the magnetic compass, the other is the astronomical navigation, and the gyroscope in this era of error is still very large, so it has not been widely used in navigation, and the magnetic compass because of the installation error, slight changes in the geomagnetic field and so on, many times there are errors, the way to correct the error is astronomical navigation.

Astronomical navigation, in ancient China, called "across the ocean", there are also called "across the ocean", the principle is the same, first measure the height of the star on the ship, so that you can know the latitude where the ship is located, and then according to the time to know the position of the star projection on the earth, after mathematical calculations, the position of the ship is deduced.

However, astronomical navigation can only be used when the weather is clear and you can see the stars, so the navigator said helplessly: "There is such a big fog outside, you can't even see the sky, how can you correct the magnetic compass?" ”

The helmsman then said, "Why don't we send a signal to the ship ahead?" ”

The Navigator said, "Good idea! So he called the signal soldier and asked him to send a signal to the ship in front, in this era of no wireless communication, maritime communication only relies on optical means, to put it simply, it is the flag and lights, the flag language can not be used in the meteorological environment such as fog, rain and snow, so the navies of various countries have developed light communication schemes, that is, to use different flashes to characterize different information.

The signal soldier picked up the signal light, climbed the mast, controlled the light to go on and off, and sent out a message like "Your ship has deviated from the course, please correct", the people on the Zhongrui saw the signal on the icebreaker, but they didn't know the communication plan of the Russian army, so they didn't know what the light signal of the road meant.

Deng Shichang on the Zhongrui ship was a little panicked when he heard the report, and he thought to himself: "How should we answer?" If you answer incorrectly, isn't the enemy seeing the flaw? In this way, the plan will fail! Deng Shichang didn't dare to make a decision, so he reported it to Lin Yuan.

When Lin Yuan heard this, he immediately said, "Don't pay attention to him, just don't see it!" Don't send any signals! ”