When the "Ziqiang" ship returned, Omori Shaoza's hanging heart slowly relaxed.

After a while, Omori Shaosa saw that the American ship did not attack, so he simply ordered a meal.

Since the mission must be completed within the time limit, the submariners of the Lu-35 have not eaten until now, and since they can't do anything now, they have to wait, so they will fill their stomachs first.

Of course, all this had to be done in silent mode, and Omori didn't want to make a noise from eating and let the Americans discover the location of the submarine.

The Japanese submariners' meals consisted of canned red rice and miso soup, which they had to eat in 10 minutes. The sailors stood at their posts, carefully and quickly stuffing food into their mouths with plastic lunch boxes that did not make a sound...... Some Japanese soldiers even thought that even if they died, they had to fill their stomachs first, and in the words of the Chinese, "If you die, you must be a full ghost!" ”

At this moment, the sonar crew made a gesture to them to be quiet, and the Japanese submariners knew that the American ghost destroyer was coming.

At first, the Japanese sailors thought that this time it was still as usual, and that the American destroyers were just passing over their heads, so a considerable part of the Japanese sailors were still silently delivering food to their mouths. But soon they noticed that this time something was different, because the sonar man's expression became more and more nervous, and the alarm was not lifted for a long time, so the Japanese sailors knew that the American destroyer was circling overhead and searching for them...... That's not a good thing for them.

Gradually, the sailors threw down their lunch boxes and bent down, grabbing what they could grasp with their hands and stomping their legs on the ground hard, because they realized that the "greeting" of depth charges was coming soon.

Sure enough, as the Japanese sailors had predicted, a report of the discovery of the target came from the sonar room of the destroyer "Ziqiang".

White couldn't help but glance at Zhang Chi in surprise, but at this time he didn't dare to say anything, and immediately directed the Chinese crew to drop depth charges at the target area.

Chinese sailors dropped 60 depth charges in one go, and the explosion of these bombs caused the Japanese submarines at the bottom of the sea to suffer, and many times, the Japanese sailors felt that they were about to meet Amaterasu.

The 61st depth charge was quite close to the command tower of the Lu-35, and for a moment the sailors in the boat felt a strong impact, and Omori even had the illusion that the depth of the submarine had risen several meters in an instant. At the moment of the explosion, the submarine's power was cut off, and the inside of the boat was pitch black. The freshly painted white paint on the top of the submarine compartment was shattered and fell to the floor. Many sailors were stunned and fell to the ground, and there was a mess everywhere in the boat, as if everything that could fall to the ground had fallen, and the sailors were almost out of place.

Still, the Japanese sailors maintained amazing discipline, and whether they were panicked or wounded, they all gritted their teeth and remained silent...... In fact, this is also what the Japanese Navy requires of submariners, because the sound of injury and panic will not help them in any way except to allow the enemy to find the location of the submarine more accurately.

But in fact, it was found that the sound did not matter much at this time, because the explosion of the depth charge would hide the sound of these sounds at all, and the Japanese sailors were just habitually obeying orders.

But the nightmare of the Japanese submarine was not over, what was even more terrible was that the submarine began to lose its balance between the front and rear, the stern gradually sank, the bow of the boat went up, the passage in the boat became uphill and downhill, and the thumping sound of human bodies and heavy objects falling was endless.

In the darkness came the order of the deputy captain, Captain Tomita: "Balance the water in the bow!" The maximum depression angle of the submariner rudder!"

"Yes!" The Japanese sailors immediately carried out the order, but the submarine was still sinking slowly and lightly.

At this time, a report from the diesel engine engine room came to the command tower: "The engine room is damaged, and there is serious water ingress!"

Fortunately, there was not much water ingress and the damage to the engine room was dealt with in a timely manner.

However, it didn't take long for the most worrying report from Omori to come through the microphone: "The battery was badly damaged and could not be started. ”

If the battery does not work properly, the electric motor certainly cannot rotate, and the Lu-35 is slowly sinking into the water with its tail facing down. At that time, the maximum depth of the Lu-35's submersible was 75 meters. If it continues to sink like this, the submarine will be squeezed to pieces by the powerful water pressure like a plastic model.

The depth charges dropped by the U.S. destroyer still unceremoniously exploded around the Lu-35, and the echo of the explosion made the submarine shake slightly in the water, whether it exploded far or near.

Under the orders of Omori Shosa, the Japanese sailors constantly relied on human bodies to move to the bow in an attempt to maintain the balance of the hull, and in the end, even the rice bags were carried out of the grain hold and transported to the bow. In order to restart the damaged equipment (including batteries, propeller propulsion, etc.), the repair work in the battery compartment was exhausted but bogged down.

To make matters worse, there was less and less oxygen in the cabin, and the horror of death was looming over everyone.

The air in the command tower seemed to freeze, and Omori took off his combat cap and put it on the chart, and asked Deputy Captain Tomita, "How much oxygen is left?"

"It's only 40 kilograms!" Tomita hesitated and replied.

It was at this time that the helmsman reported: "There are still 30 kilograms of air." ”

This made Omori's mood even more depressed and depressed.

Let's float...... This means that the submarine has to face the enemy's destroyers, and there is a high probability that there will be more than one, which is a dead end for the submarine.

If you don't float, the nearly 100 sailors in the boat will soon suffocate to death due to lack of oxygen.

"No, we can't die like this!" Omori Shaosa said.

At this time, Omori Shaoza was ready to die for his country, but he didn't want to die so unclear, at least he had to fight to the death, although the odds of winning were very small.

"What does Your Excellency Shaosa mean ......" Captain Tomita seemed to have guessed the answer, but he still wanted to confirm it.

Instead of answering Captain Tomita's words, Omori stood up and said to the submarine sailors in the dark, "Ladies and gentlemen, we must be loyal to the emperor. But...... At the last moment, I don't want to sink to the bottom of the sea with the submarine, I want to die honorably under the enemy's guns, is there anyone with me? ”

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Long live the Emperor!"

……

The Japanese sailors responded to Omori's call with shouts, and at this point they no longer cared if the sound would be heard by the American destroyers.

"Float!" Omori Shaosa ordered: "Get ready to go out to fight!" ”

(To be continued.) )