The Republic of Heroes

The major general was none other than Zhang Liangzuo, commander of the submarine brigade who captured Japanese Army Minister Shirakawa Yoshinori alive before.

The Suidong Navy also had its glory days. The battle of the Suidong ship in the sea off Temple Street silenced the entire Japanese navy. Later, under the pressure of all parties, the Suidong ship was stranded in the sea off Temple Street and was never salvaged. , and the development direction of the Suidong Navy has also turned to another road that is far different from the giant ship cannon under Wu Xiaoliang's careful planning.In his speech on the day when the Suidong Submarine Brigade was formally established, he proposed the wolf pack tactics, which were still in their infancy.

Wu Xiaoliang knew that Suidong was located in the Northeast where resources were scarce, with the powerful Soviet Union in the north, Zhang Zuolin, a domestic warlord in the west, and the covetous Japan in the east. The geopolitics was extremely harsh. Originally, it was even more difficult to develop the navy, but in this situation Under such circumstances, it is almost an impossible task to develop large cannons.

So he turned his attention to another tactic that was famous in his previous life. The power of this tactic lies in the fact that hordes of submarines hide in the vast Pacific Ocean like wolves, threatening the enemy at any time. The sea supply line of China, especially an island country like Japan, once the sea supply line is cut off or threatened, it will have a very serious impact on its domestic industrial production and the navy and army stationed abroad.

Therefore, large-scale manufacturing of submarines with relatively low prices and relatively low hardware technical requirements is almost an excellent solution tailored for Suidong.Later, what Wu Xiaoliang didn't expect was that he was forced to leave the country, and since then he has been ups and downs in the business world. This journey lasted for ten years, and the task of vigorously developing naval submarines was handed over to Fang Qidao, who was then the governor of Suidong.

Of course, Wu Xiaoliang has not stopped supporting the Suidong Wolf Pack Project for ten years. He has spared no effort in seeking blueprints, engineers, various technical support and financial support.After he took up the post of chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, out of consideration for Shandong's coastal defense, he specially transferred a submarine brigade to Shandong, and at the same time built a secret military port near Dongying to park these submarines.

Just at the beginning of the outbreak of the Songhu Battle, Wu Xiaoliang officially ordered the submarine brigade to go to the Songhu Battlefield, waiting for an opportunity to attack and harass Japanese warships.This battle was the first actual battle of the submarine force since its establishment ten years ago, and the first battle was about to shock the world. I believe that after the news came out, the Chinese Navy would definitely become famous, and it was unprecedented that they captured the Japanese Army Minister.

But if you want to receive these honors alive in the future instead of enjoying the honor after death, you must get rid of these troublesome and persistent destroyers above your head.But using a submarine to attack a destroyer is as unreliable as an antelope attacking a hunter, and there are still three hunters with guns in their hands.

Zhang Liangzuo is not in a hurry, he has a lot of patience. In the previous training subjects, they have simulated the situation of being found and trapped by enemy ships. The only way is to turn off the fire and sit on the bottom of the sea, and wait for the destroyer above to leave the sea area after losing its target. Leave again.

But today's objective environment is worse than that of the training that day. The bottom of the river is no more than the bottom of the sea, only eleven or two meters away from sleep. The submarine is still too close to sleep when it sinks at the bottom of the river, and the chance of being discovered by Japanese destroyers is still very high.And because a large amount of sand and sand are deposited on the bottom of the river at the estuary, it is hard to say that the sand and sand intrusion into the gaps of the submarine components will not cause malfunctions over time.If they can't start at that time, they will really be trapped at the bottom of the river.

But in any case, sitting at the bottom of the river is their only choice at present.

Suddenly, a hurried and deliberately lowered voice came from the microphone.

"It's not good, the Japanese army will drop depth charges again."

Everyone's hearts tightened, which meant that the Japanese destroyers had lost patience and began to throw bombs into the water at random with a mentality of luck.Zhang Liangzuo continued to tilt his head to listen to the movement above his head. The sound of depth charges entering the water could be heard faintly. After dozens of seconds, dull explosions sounded one after another, and they were getting closer.

On the sea, the Japanese destroyer searched and advanced at a full speed of nearly 25 knots. The tail rail was filled with barrel depth charges, and they slid into the water one after another.The sailors chanted and adjusted the pressure spring between the detonator and the fuze.

"Water depth setting thirty feet..."

This depth is as deep as the bottom of the river. It seems that the Japanese sailors have begun to suspect that the Chinese submarine stayed at the depth of the river bottom to avoid the end, or they were not sure that there was a submarine at all, but they were tempted out of desperation.

The Japanese sailors clumsily put the depth charges on the rails, pulled the wrench, and the barrel-shaped bombs fell into the water along the rails and slowly sank to the bottom of the river.When the set depth is reached, the water pressure compresses the spring to trigger the fuze, and then a series of explosions!

The sound of the explosion was getting closer and closer. Both Zhang Liangzuo and the ordinary sailors on the submarine were extremely nervous. They could even feel the impact of the explosion shaking the submarine belt.What's worse is that the explosion is getting closer and seems to be coming straight for them!

The atmosphere in the command room of the submarine was so tense and depressed that it was about to explode. Zhang Liangzuo, who was always calm and composed, was also holding the iron handrail, and his palms were soaked in sweat.There was another explosion, and the hull of the boat shook violently suddenly, and several sailors fell to the ground when they couldn't stand still.

Zhang Liangzuo judged that the explosion point of the depth charges was less than ten meters away from the hull of the boat, and if it was any closer, he would have to resign himself to fate.As soon as this thought flashed through, there was another violent explosion, and then the hull of the boat trembled unprecedentedly, and a sailor who had just stood up was thrown directly onto the wall of the boat full of pipelines.

The explosion was within easy reach, and the walls of the boat could no longer withstand such violent shocks. The welds were cracked, and the river water squeezed into the interior of the submarine along the gaps.The pipeline in the submarine was seriously deformed, the steam leaked and made a strange hissing sound, and the river water sprayed down, and the command room was suddenly in a mess.

Zhang Liangzuo didn't care about the silence in the water any longer, he rushed to the sound tube and shouted: "Close the valve quickly, every cabin will report the battle damage situation immediately!"

Soon a series of hasty and nervous answers came from the microphone.

"The torpedo cabin is flooded, it can be repaired, it's over!"

"The midship airtight cabin is flooded, it can be repaired, it's over!"

"Water has entered the tail, the gap is more than [-] centimeters wide, and the water has gone up to the waist...Quick...quickly close the airtight hatch..."

The thunder-like sound exploded again, and Zhang Liangzuo clearly heard the ear-piercing sound from the sudden deformation of the hull, and the river water sprayed down was more like rain. This explosion undoubtedly made the submarine worse.