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Chapter 1209: The Glorious Era (Second update, please subscribe)

Occasionally, a few leisurely white clouds float by, casting mottled shadows, and slowly wandering on the surface of the ocean. The sunlight shines through the clouds, casting thousands of golden rays, coating this vast ocean with a layer of golden glow.

Suddenly, the calm sea surface was broken by a cylinder rising from the bottom of the sea, and a column-shaped object cut the sea surface like a pair of scissors.

"Reach periscope height!"

Since leaving the Truk base five days ago, the Jiaolong has been sailing at high speed underwater and has never surfaced.

This round-the-world voyage was not intended to show off the military strength of the Nanyang Navy, but rather a strategic exercise for the nuclear submarine force to carry out long-range maneuvers under actual combat conditions.

Although the Nanyang Navy is currently equipped with only three new nuclear-powered submarines, for strategic security considerations, Nanyang's ballistic missile nuclear submarines will be deployed in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean in the future as a trump card for doomsday counterattacks.

Attack nuclear submarines are the sword-wielding escorts of ballistic missile nuclear submarines, and they also need to be deployed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a strategic maneuver exercise.

During long-distance voyages, submarines must sail underwater and maintain uninterrupted underwater communication. This is also part of the doomsday counterattack.

Although the displacement of the Jiaolong exceeds 4000 tons, the space inside the submarine is still very narrow. Not only is the space crowded, but after five days at sea, the air in the cabin is filled with various odors. This is the lingering smell of the submarine - sweat, foot odor, kitchen fumes, all the smells are mixed together, and even the air filter can hardly remove all the strange smells.

The quality of air is directly related to the health of the crew. Therefore, this ascent is largely for ventilation. Soon, the cool and fresh air from the North Pacific Ocean entered the boat.

"Sir, our boat is about to enter the D34 sea area."

Listening to the navigator's report, Qi Guotao just nodded silently, and then said:
"Pay attention."

This sea area is the Soviet anti-submarine zone in the North Pacific. Soviet warships are very active and the noise is very chaotic, which is a cruel challenge for submarine sonar soldiers. They must clearly distinguish whether they are encountering surface ships or underwater nuclear submarines, and avoid the direction in which they are sailing.

To this end, they had to put in their utmost effort to carry out this difficult task - in fact, they entered this sea area on purpose, after all, in the future they would need to fight against Soviet submarines in this sea area.

So as soon as it entered this sea area, the "Jiaolong" began silent diving, which is exactly what it is good at. Relying on advanced sound-absorbing tiles and power systems, the "Jiaolong" has always been known for its silence.

As the Jiaolong was sailing carefully underwater, Jin Yiming, a sonar operator on the submarine, suddenly discovered something unusual and immediately reported:
"Report, target noise appears at 30 degrees azimuth of the submarine."

Qi Guotao immediately commanded the submarine to maneuver to collect more accurate intelligence, and soon the news came.

"Sir, according to the sonar, the target is a nuclear submarine, and it is heading straight towards us. If we don't turn, the two submarines are likely to collide."

At this time, whether to turn or not became a difficult problem that Qi Guotao urgently needed to make a decision. If a large turn was made rashly, the rapids caused would reduce the concealment of the nuclear submarine, which would likely expose its own existence and allow enemy boats to detect the "Jiaolong".

As the captain of the boat, Qi Guotao was an old veteran who had "sunk" aircraft carriers many times. After a little thought, he decided to stay put.

"Keep sailing forward. If the situation becomes wrong after one minute, turn immediately."

Soon, Qi Guotao won this risky game. The sonar soldier sent a new report, the crisis was resolved, the Soviet submarine changed direction, and they were safe.

Only then did Qi Guotao breathe a sigh of relief. After safely avoiding the Soviet submarine, the Jiaolong turned in the waters south of the Chukotka Peninsula.

In this way, the "Jiaolong" nuclear submarine continued to sail in the Pacific Ocean, during which they also conducted long-term full-speed navigation tests and extreme diving depth tests.

Two weeks later, they approached the Drake Passage, the worst sea area on the route. Although the navy's ships have passed through the Drake Passage many times, it is well known that as the widest and deepest strait in the world, there are constant storms all year round, and countless ships have capsized here in history. Therefore, the Drake Passage is called the "murderous westerly belt", "storm corridor", "devil's strait", and is a veritable "corridor of death".

Although submarines can sail underwater without fear of storms, the icebergs everywhere make the hydrological conditions here extremely complex and changeable.

Therefore, after entering the Drake Passage, the Jiaolong nuclear submarine became extremely cautious when sailing. According to relevant mission requirements, after passing half of the length of the strait, the submarine must surface 8 to 10 meters to ensure the submarine's combat effectiveness and equipment integrity.

On this day, the sea conditions in the Drake Passage were not ideal as in the past, with huge waves, but the Jiaolong submarine still successfully surfaced. However, in the shallow waters, the hull was inevitably affected by the huge waves. After sending a safety radio report, it dived again.

It was not until it sailed out of the strait that it suddenly broke away from the cautious alert state it had maintained when sailing independently and accelerated to leave the area.

Just two days after the Jiaolong nuclear submarine passed through the Drake Passage, the submarine surfaced to the periscope depth again. When the navigator sent the message "Our submarine has entered the waters of the Falkland Islands", Qi Guotao saw the Falkland Islands for the first time through the periscope.

"Look, there is our West Falkland Island!"

"West Falkland Island" is a leased territory of Nanyang. A few years ago, in order to explore space, Nanyang negotiated with the United Kingdom and leased several pieces of land from the United Kingdom. Among them, West Falkland Island is the largest, with an area of ​​more than 4000 square kilometers, located in the South Atlantic.

For a moment, the entire submarine was filled with jubilation. For people far away from their homeland, this was the closest they had ever been to their homeland! Perhaps "West Falkland Island" was a leased territory in the South Pacific, but...what was the difference between it and their homeland?

After all, there are already more than 4,000 Tangshan people on the island, which is several times more than the British residents on East Forland. When the 99-year lease expires, the population of the two islands will definitely be dominated by Tangshan people.

At that time, as the British declared, "handing over the lives and property of the Falkland Islanders to Argentina's rule and management against their will is by no means an end to the colonial status, but the establishment of a new colony."

Nanyang can also "respect the wishes of the Falkland Islanders."

Just as the officers and soldiers on the Jiaolong nuclear submarine took turns looking at the southernmost land of the South China Sea through the periscope, suddenly the sonar soldier reported:

"There's a ship coming out of the port, a large vessel."

Is it a British merchant ship or a Nanyang merchant ship?

With some expectation, Qi Guotao turned the periscope towards the direction where the ship was coming. After about half an hour, he finally saw the approaching ship clearly.

"Yes, it's our ship!"

Qi Guotao turned and said to the crew.

"It's the Dongfang Shuo icebreaker. It should have just sailed out of West Falkland Island."

However, the lease of West Falkland Island by South Pacific has caused tensions with Argentina. But for the sake of human spaceflight, some sacrifices must be made, and sacrificing relations with Argentina is acceptable.

In the past few years, in order to develop the space industry, the Nanyang Aerospace Administration not only built an observation station on the island, but also built an airport and expanded the island's port. As soon as the port was built, West Falkland Island became the home port for Nanyang's Antarctic scientific expeditions.

The Dongfangshuo was an icebreaker specially imported from Finland for scientific research in Antarctica. It is a diesel-electric icebreaker with 22000 shaft horsepower. Because it is impossible to build such a professional icebreaker in the South China Sea, the Finns were commissioned to build this polar icebreaker, and Finland's icebreaker technology is outstanding worldwide.

On the sea, the "Dongfang Shuo" icebreaker braved the wind and waves and headed towards the South Pole, with the Nanmen double-star flag flying on its mast.

And below the sea, in the command cabin of the Jiaolong nuclear submarine, Qi Guotao was staring at the national flag. This was the national flag of Nanyang!
The land of Nanyang, the ships of Nanyang, the flag of Nanyang!

Just as Qi Guotao and others were feeling deeply moved, on the "Dongfang Shuo" icebreaker sailing on the sea, Captain Zhao Guozhu raised the telescope in his hand and looked around the surrounding sea. The sea was calm and it was a rare good weather.

Sun Songtao said: "Captain, it's a good day today!"

As a member of the scientific expedition team on board, he was very curious about this icebreaker, so not long after departure, he went to the bridge to talk to the captain.

Nodding, Zhao Guozhu said:

"But I hope we can keep going until we reach our destination."

Then he asked:
"Dr. Sun, do you know why our ship is called the Dongfang Shuo?"

"Because he was the first Tang person to reach the North Pole for exploration."

Sun Songtao smiled and said:
"According to the records in the Preface to Records of the Ten Continents in the Sea written by Dongfang Shuo, it is mentioned that Dongfang Shuo once followed his master to the "Midnight Hill" and the "Chunyang Tomb".

The "Hill of Dark Night" refers to the "polar night" phenomenon in the Arctic Circle; the "Tomb of Pure Yang" refers to the six consecutive months of daylight in the Arctic, namely the "polar day" phenomenon.

Therefore, Dongfang Shuo was the first person among the Tang people to reach the polar regions, and so the polar research ship was named after him. "

This is a very official answer, and it is also the official reason why the polar research ship is named this way, Zhao Guozhu said after nodding.

"So, the Tang people have the longest history of polar exploration."

"Yeah, but..."

Sun Songtao smiled and said:
“No matter how long it lasts, it is the glory of our ancestors. Now we have to create the glory of our era and make our descendants proud of us!”

After saying this, he cast his gaze into the distance. What he said is exactly what this generation believes, that they will live up to the times and leave a better world for future generations.

The captain, who was smoking a cigar, glanced at the young man in front of him. A strange look flashed across his seemingly resolute face. Obviously, this young man knew how big Nanyang was!
(End of this chapter)