The captain of the USS San Juan said to the officers next to him in a relaxed manner: "Now that we have everything we have to do, the only job is to drink coffee and wait, waiting for them to show up." When they can't stay any longer below, they will have to obediently get out from under the acoustic cline, and then we will generously send a torpedo.

No, I still admire the Chinese, one torpedo seems to be too disrespectful to them, you should give them two, no, give them four torpedoes, they used four torpedoes to sink our aircraft carrier Rendova built during World War II, and we also pay tribute to them four torpedoes. You say, isn't that polite and gentlemanly? ”

Several of the officers burst out laughing again.

The lower-ranking combat staff officer said with a smile: "The Chinese never thought that our understanding of the Indian Ocean far surpassed theirs. They dive into the canyon, thought they could set a trap, watched us jump down, and shot us in the head, bang! ”

The captain touched his head proudly and said with a smile: "Hehe, it's a pity that we are more cunning hunters than them, so we didn't jump down, so we let them hide below obediently come up and obediently put their heads in front of our guns." We turned this hunter of China into our prey, it was so enjoyable and so cool! ”

The chief of staff smiled reservedly and summed up very gently: "The Chinese are just too eager to achieve success, and they dare to argue with us the United States just because they have developed for 40 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there has been a delay of more than 10 years in between. When our navy dominated the world's oceans, they had only a few small sailing boats. It is not yet known how the artillery will be installed. I want to be on our side now. It's incomprehensible. Not to mention that they are not familiar with the Indian Ocean, even the South China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea at their doorstep are not familiar to us, and our submarines can sail in the waters at their doorstep with their eyes closed, and their own warships have to tremble and walk slowly. It is too far wrong to take conventional submarines against our nuclear submarines now. ”

A small officer asked playfully, "Will that decoy torpedo we released just now take the bait?" ”

Originally, this was to make everyone happy and happy, and there were more topics, but the captain didn't know whether he was choked on coffee or a little dissatisfied that he hadn't waited for the Chinese submarine to come up for so long, so he gave this funny subordinate a blank look. The urn said angrily: "They must take the bait!" Besides, it doesn't matter if they don't take the bait, if they do, we can sink it in a few hours. If not, let them stay a little longer in the dark waters, even if we stay here for three days. ”

The little officer saw that he was patting the horse's ass on the horse's hooves, and quickly shrank back.

The combat staff officer next to him took a sip of coffee and said with a smile: "Yes, as long as we hold the mouth of this canyon, they have nowhere to escape." To escape, they must ascend above the acoustic cline. Otherwise, the submarine will be smashed by the hard rocks of the seabed, unless God helps them to swim slowly through the rocks.

And once their submarines rise above the acoustic cline. How could they escape our sonar detection, how could they escape our tracking? If they had fled at full speed when they found us, they might have survived a little longer, and now hiding in this canyon would be a self-defeating trap. ”

Several officers laughed again, and one officer laughed: "Why don't we fire a few torpedoes at random, scare them, suffocate them to the bottom of the sea, and then call our fishing boats to tow them to India, maybe for a few dollars, enough for each of us to buy a good car." ”

"Would you still buy a car? I'm sure you'll give Marina the money as soon as you come ashore, enjoy it and then go home. Pay your wages to your wife, and let your wife happily wait for you for one night. ”

"Haha......"

The little officer who had made a mistake just now kindly reminded: "When the Chinese submarine sees that we have been waiting outside the trap, will it quietly escape from the T-shaped opening in the S valley?" There is a warm current from the equator at the T-shaped mouth, which changes direction and flows westward after being blocked by the submarine mountains, and if the Chinese submarines can reach our rear with the help of this warm current, they can hit us by surprise. ”

The chief of staff was stunned for a moment, looked at the map, and said, "Yes, there is such a possibility." ”

The captain also chuckled in his heart, and when he saw that the little officer who had been scolded by himself was full of excitement because of the approval of the chief of staff, he couldn't help but disdain, shook his head and said, "Haha, you guys are so cautious." No, not cautious, it's just too mindless. Think about it, if they come out of the T-mouth, do you say they let the submarine shut down and drift out of the water, or do they turn on the machine and sneak out of the T-port at a slow speed? ”

Before the chief of staff could answer, the combat staff officer next to him smiled, raised his coffee cup, and said, "What the chief said is too good. If you want me to answer, you can really only say that you can fly out, fly out of S Valley. ”

The chief of staff had to nod his head and glared at the little officer with a little resentment.

The petty officer was puzzled and looked at the three senior officers with blank eyes.

The captain was in a good mood and said to the combat staff officer: "William, explain to this second lieutenant why the Chinese submarine flies?" ”

The combat staff officer smiled, took a sip of coffee, and said slowly: "In order to achieve the effect of concealment, in order to prevent our sonar detectors from detecting the noise of their submarine, the only way to do this is to turn off the submarine's engine and let the submarine float out with the current." But do you know the terrain there? Once the engine is turned off, the submarine is like a piece of wood, and can only be controlled by the current, they cannot let the submarine avoid the stones under the water, and they are not familiar with the terrain, even if they have the guts, they can't escape the end of being crushed.

If they had turned on their engines and used their power to control the submarine to avoid the stones, then their noise would have been detected by us. You must know that the water depth of the T-mouth is only 100 meters at its deepest, and there is no acoustic cline that can hide their noise. As long as they show their heads, as long as they rise to within one hundred and fifty meters, every one of them is in our field of vision. Their sonar is not as good as ours, their noise is louder than ours, their torpedo range is smaller than ours, and their submarine escape speed is only about the same as our cruising speed.

You say, at this point, do you throw the submarine up to the surface to admit defeat, or retract back into the valley to wait for suffocation? As the commander said, we will not accept their ascension as a sign of defeat, but will directly send them four torpedoes to avenge the Lentova aircraft carrier. Although the Lendova aircraft carrier has been sold to India and named "Matterlaus" by them, our US Navy still has feelings for it. In other words, if you are a Chinese submarine commander, you have only a dead end, understand? ”

Although the last words were addressed to the petty officer, the words of the operational staff officer deeply stung the chief of staff. However, he did not get angry, because the captain was happy, so he just sneered, and then took a big sip of coffee, hating this guy who liked to show off.

At this time, a message came from the sonar room: "Targeted noise came from the valley of S, about twenty nautical miles away, about two hundred and thirty meters deep, and seventeen degrees in azimuth. They also used active sonar. ”

"Keep watching!" After giving the order, the captain put the cup down and said with a smile: "They finally can't wait, even the active sonar is turned on, and they are urging us to jump." ”

The combat staff officer hurriedly marked these numbers on the chart.

At this time, the captain suddenly ordered: "Deploy towed sonar." ”

The operational staff officers were stunned, but they still passed on the order. And the chief of staff sneered in his heart: grass! The mouth does not admit that the enemy will come out of the T-shaped mouth, but the heart is fiercely worried.

The purpose of deploying towed sonar is obviously to expand the detection range and detection accuracy of submarines, so that their detection capabilities can cover a wider, wider and deeper range.

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At this time, the atmosphere on the 031 submarine was tense, because they knew that it was not easy to get out of the T-shaped port, and the slightest carelessness could destroy the boat and kill people. Just as the combat staff officer of the US military said, in order to get out of the T-shaped opening, the engine cannot be completely turned off, and a certain driving force must be maintained, otherwise the submarine without control force will run rampant like a log driven by hydraulic power. However, there are US nuclear submarines guarding outside, and as long as the engine is turned on, it will make noise, and it may be captured and tracked by the other party's sonar.

Fortunately, the day before yesterday and yesterday, No. 031 sailed here twice, and they passed through a much more steep and dangerous canyon on the way from Night Pearl Island to the Pacific Golden Basin, whether it was in the eyes of Jiang Haitao or Ma Yanshu, or even in the eyes of the deputy captain, this uneven road was not particularly difficult to walk, as long as the skills that they had usually practiced were taken out.

In fact, at this distance, only a section of about two nautical miles out of the T-mouth was steep, and the water was more than 200 meters deep before, enough for the submarine to hide. Once the submarine has passed through the dangerous two-nautical-mile length, although the sea depth is less than 100 meters, the seabed is relatively flat, as long as it does not let the submarine get pierced, there is no threat to the submarine, and it can completely turn off the engine and be pushed by the warm current.

According to this characteristic, Ma Yanshu, who commanded the submarine, decided to use the acoustic thermocline as a cover, set a depth of 150 meters, and first sneaked at a small speed, and gradually increased the power and speed to approach the T-shaped mouth, so that the sonar on the "San Juan" nuclear submarine monitored outside thought that the No. 031 submarine had not run far, and even misunderstood that it was still staying in place.

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