The chief of staff of the American nuclear submarine "San Juan" laughed and said: "Haha, it's really funny. A conventional submarine actually set a trap for our American nuclear submarines, and they don't know that we know everything about the terrain here? ......, haha, let this trap be their own grave today, right? It's really funny humor. ”

The captain standing next to him also smiled happily, and after drinking the coffee in his hand, he ordered loudly: "Keep the course unchanged, urgently dive a hundred meters, and the speed is eight knots." Torpedo No. 5 ready to ......"

At 260 meters, the 031 submarine did not let the propeller rotate again, and the mechanical moving parts of the submarine were running softly at an idle rate, and if it were not for the possibility of sudden acceleration of the submarine, they would have caused the submarine's power mechanism to simply shut down. With the help of an undercurrent on the seabed, the submarine is slowly drifting towards the south, that is, the equator, at a speed of about two knots, and slowly approaches the underwater slope not far ahead.

Except for the officers and men in the sonar room, who were nervously probing the sound of the "San Juan" nuclear submarine behind, the other officers and men were almost silently waiting. No one here made a sound, not even heavy breathing.

When the 031 submarine reached the area where they were going to set up an ambush, they took advantage of the acoustic cline to temporarily isolate the acoustic contact with the San Juan submarine and sank to the bottom of a slightly calmer hillside that they had previously explored, only to wait for the other side to catch up.

However, after waiting for more than two hours, no new information came from the sonar room, and several people in the submarine command tower looked at me and I looked at you, and their eyes were silently asking: "What's the matter?" Why didn't they catch up? Have they lost it? ”

After a long while, Jiang Haitao couldn't help but ask Ma Yanshu, "How is the situation?" ”

It looked like Ma Yanshu should have obtained more information, and he should know more. Ma Yanshu didn't blame his boss, who told him to sit in front of the submarine control tower, he replied: "I don't know." But I believe that the other side will not stop there, at least come and see what the situation is, unless they are not sent by the United States to find us. ”

The deputy captain asked Ma Yanshu: "Chief of Staff, if it hadn't come to us, would it have given up tracking and gone to the waters of the border between India and Pakistan?" ”

Ma Yanshu didn't have such a good temper with the deputy captain, and said, "How do I know? ......, I think that's what they came to us. It's just that they suddenly can't hear us, so they don't dare to rush here. Are you a little patient, how can you come up so directly to die? ”

The deputy captain smiled disapprovingly and said, "I'm just a little nervous, with my directness, this submarine 'San Juan' is near us, and they are waiting for us to expose ourselves and then give us a fatal blow." ”

"Cut! Are they that powerful? We're the snipers at the bottom of the sea, okay? Ma Yanshu said very angrily, "We are lurking well now, patiently waiting for the prey to appear, when it shows its head, we will shoot it in the head, bang!" ”

Jiang Haitao, who was next to him, looked at the two subordinates who were whispering and talking, smiled, swallowed the cup of tea that had been cold in one gulp, and said: "Since we came according to the plan, let's carry it out according to the plan, it's just a big deal that the other party runs away." At least we're safe. ”

The political commissar said: "It was you who said that you were beating, and now it is you who is hiding, how can you tell us to drum up?" ”

Jiang Haitao said with a smile: "We have to be flexible in everything we do, since they are nuclear submarines and are angry, of course we can sneak attack if we can, and let it go if we can't sneak attack." Why do you have to live with your surname? ”

Just then, a message from the sonar room flashed across the screen: "The other party has been completely shut down, and we can't monitor the other party." But we can be sure that the other party is still within range of what we can detect, and as long as the other person drives the propeller to move, we will definitely be able to pick up its sound. ”

"Dog-called Yankees, I can't imagine that they are so cunning that they actually play hide and seek with me?" Jiang Haitao said, "That's fine, at least let us make sure that you are here for us." Lao Tzu has to break ground on Tai Sui's head this time, and he will kill you first. ”

He picked up the microphone, turned on the communication loop to the sonar room, and asked, "How's it going?" Didn't the other party have a voice? ”

The sonar was stunned for a moment, took the microphone off the hook, and replied: "There have been some faint sounds in that direction, but the distance is too far away, and the sound is too weak to determine whether it is a submarine or a passing whale." The computer didn't analyze this weak signal at all, and a few of us listened to the recording a dozen times, which was a bit like the sound of the other submarine, but it was a bit strange. ”

"What's weird?" Jiang Haitao asked.

The sonar chief replied, "It's that the sound is too regular and the speed is too smooth." ”

Jiang Haitao asked, "Do you suspect that the voiceprint decoy torpedo released by the other party?" ”

The sonar chief said: "There is this speculation, but it is not certain. ”

The so-called voiceprint decoy torpedo is to record the sound of the submarine itself with a tape recorder and put it in the torpedo, and when the torpedo is launched, it will start to play, as long as the submarine stops making sound, it can make people outside think that the torpedo that makes the sound of the submarine is the submarine itself, so as to attract the enemy's attention to divert attention, and even the torpedo guided by the voiceprint can abandon the original target submarine itself and attack the torpedo.

Jiang Haitao thought for a moment and asked, "If we close the distance of about ten nautical miles from the other party, can you judge the other party?" ”

The sonar chief affirmed: "There is no problem, as long as the noise is two decibels louder, we and the computer can judge it." ”

Interrupting the intercom, Jiang Haitao patted Ma Yanshu on the shoulder and said, "Don't be so surprised, since you want to be a sniper, you should know how to lurk, what are you afraid of when you get closer?" ”

Ma Yanshu shook his head and said: "I'm not afraid, but I think the Yankees are very familiar with the terrain in this area, and they actually know how to wait for the rabbit, and they actually know the card position, which shows that they know S Valley very well." Now that they are taking the initiative and waiting for us to be delivered to the door in a static and leisurely manner, how can we be willing? ”

Jiang Haitao said: "No way, there are many submarines, many allies, and a long history of naval development, so I am naturally very proficient in exploring the terrain in this area." But we are not afraid of death than them, and our sonar is more advanced than theirs, which can ensure that we can stealthily engage the enemy, and can appear in places they do not expect and take them by surprise. This is called 'using one's own strengths, attacking the enemy's shortcomings', and we can't compete with them for familiarity with the terrain, nor can we compete with them for speed and depth. ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a chart of all the currents, beckoned the co-captain to look at it, and studied it quietly.

After the two carefully studied and discussed for a while, Jiang Haitao asked the deputy captain to temporarily take over the command of the submarine, and called Ma Yanshu over.

He pointed to the chart and said: "You see there is a valley mouth in the southwest of here, called the T-shaped mouth, there is a ** flowing from the equator after being blocked by the submarine mountain range to change direction, and flow out along the T-shaped mouth, our submarine can use it to propulse, and it can quietly move to the west for about fifteen nautical miles." If the USS San Juan is really waiting for us in its original position, we will be able to quietly reach its southeast. Tell me, if we do this, will we be able to reach the attack position by surprise and help us to strike? ”

Ma Yanshu asked in surprise, "Can't you do this, right?" This ** passes through shallow water, the deepest point is only a hundred meters, and there is nothing around to obstruct it, once it is discovered by the Americans, what should I do? To restart the power equipment, to turn around and run away, where is the time? has become someone else's target completely, and he must die. It's too big a risk to take, I ......."

Jiang Haitao asked, "You can't think of it?" ”

Ma Yanshu immediately said, "Yes." It's not that I didn't think about it, but I don't think so at all, you must know that the effective range of other torpedoes is longer than ours, and once they find out about launching torpedoes, we will not have time to launch torpedoes immediately. ”

Jiang Haitao said with a smile: "Since you can't think of it, then they can't think of it." ”

"You!" Ma Yanshu suddenly quieted down, looked at the chart carefully, and after a while, said, "Okay." I'm in favor of that, but when it takes nearly eight hours, would the Yankees be willing to wait that long? Either they try to come in and find out that we are not here and look around, or they simply leave here and go to the waters where India and Pakistan meet, or they stop our fleet in the Strait of Malacca. In that case, we won't be able to hit it. ”

Jiang Haitao said: "The problem is that we can't wait for them to come in like this now, and we are still in a passive position, we can only fight with them for patience and familiarity with the terrain, and we have almost no chance of winning." If another American submarine arrives and strikes back and forth from the deepest place in the south, from the deep sea where we cannot dive at all, our difficulties will be even greater, and then we may really be doomed. ”

Ma Yanshu said: "That's it." ”

Jiang Haitao said: "It's still you to command, I'll think about whether there are any loopholes." ”

Just when the No. 031 submarine was about to take the risk of using the ** to push the submarine to approach the US "San Juan" nuclear submarine generously, the US ** officer in the nuclear submarine was resting for a long time and was leisurely drinking coffee in the submarine command tower.

The US submarine captain touched his bare head, took a sip of coffee, and said with a smile: "The stupid Chinese think that everything will be fine if they hide below the sound jump, and we will not find it. Chinese, just enjoy the death below. ”

Several officers next to him burst out laughing.

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