What the captain of a national submarine lacks most is experience, and Sun Xinchang is no exception. 【Reading.com】

As the only South Korean submarine captain who survived the Dokdo War, although Sun Shinchang failed to create a miracle for himself and the South Korean submarine force in the Dokdo War, he can also be regarded as the "veteran" of the South Korean submarine force, and he has more capital than those novices who serve after 2022 and go to the United States to "gild".

From a personal point of view, Sun Shinchang did not advocate war with Korea, because it would be at war with the Republic.

In the Dokdo War, Sun Shinchang was able to survive the disaster, and he was inextricably linked to several Republic submarines that entered the Sea of Japan at that time. If it weren't for the appearance of those submarines at a critical moment and "scared away" the Japanese submarines, Sun Shinchang would have become the first submarine commander of the South Korean Navy to die in the Dokdo War.

Later, if Liu Zongchun had not embarked on the extremist line, Sun Xinchang would have very likely gone to the Republic to "learn from experience".

Even if the performance of submarines is not taken into account, the quality of submarine officers and men, especially the quality of submarine captains, the ROK Navy will never be comparable to the Republic Navy. In several naval battles in the 211th century, in which submarines participated, the submarine forces of the Republic Navy were present, and the submarines of the Republic Navy were the final winners. The submarines of the Indian Navy lost completely in the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, and the submarines of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force lost to the submarines of the Republic Navy in the East China Sea War. According to rumors, even the submarines of the US Navy lost to the submarines of the Republic in the war in the East China Sea!

To fight with the Navy of the Republic, you must first consider the submarines of the Republic!

Although the performance of the 2211 class submarine is very advanced, which can be regarded as a conventional submarine of the AIP, it is still much worse than the all-electric submarines of the Republic, and it is not as good as those "nuclear hybrid submarines".

Sun Xinchang did not want to fall victim to Liu Zongchun's personal ambitions, but his status as a soldier forced him to carry out orders.

On December 17, 2024, the "Lee Jung-chung" commanded by Sun Shin-chang quietly left the Busan Military Port.

Let Sun Xinchang feel ironically yes. Li Zhenzhong was his classmate at the Submarine Academy. The two also served on the same submarine for 3 years. The relationship is very good. Because Lee Jung-chung was martyred in the Dokdo War. So he had to drive the submarine named after his classmate to the bottomless abyss! If you can call the shots. Sun Xinchang wanted to give the submarine another name. Because no one wants to "die" themselves on a submarine on their own.

Luckily, it is. The Navy did not assign specific combat missions for the "Li Zhenzhong."

Because when the "Li Zhenzhong" left Haiti, the Republic had not yet entered the war. The DPRK Navy did not have decent warships. Therefore, the first six submarines to leave the port all carried out "combat readiness patrol" missions. Defend against potential enemies.

Combat-ready patrols. This means that Sun Xinchang can decide on his own submarine patrol routes in the sea area designated by the navy.

Until December 20. Sun Xinchang received the news. The Republic is at war!

The patrol area of the "Lee Jung-chung" shifted from the northeast of Jeju Island to the southwest of Jeju Island. Using the U.S. aircraft carrier battle group that was operating in the Yellow Sea at that time. The "Lee Jung-chung" headed south from the east of Jeju Island. There was no danger of reaching the sea area designated by the Navy to patrol. and lurked in a basin of the continental shelf suitable for lurking.

Sun Xinchang did not want to take risks, and in addition to floating to the depth of the periscope every night and sticking the long-wave communication antenna out of the sea to receive the latest news, the "Li Zhenzhong" has been lurking in the deep sea more than 200 meters below the sea surface, controlling the speed at about 2 knots and reducing the noise as much as possible.

More than 0 days passed quickly, and the ROK Navy has not assigned a combat mission to the "Lee Jung-chung".

Because the long-wave radio station did not have a large ground communication bandwidth and the speed of transmitting information was very slow, Sun Xinchang did not know the situation on the ground on the land battlefield and could only receive news related to the navy.

It was not until January that Sun Xinchang received an order for operation.

The Republic Navy ground aircraft carrier battle group is heading north, and all submarines are on a "free hunt" mission.

On the night of the 5th, "Li Zhenzhong" was less than 50 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier battle group!

For the vast ocean battlefield, this distance is almost negligible.

Sun Xinchang was even sure that the "Li Zhenzhong" was the closest to the aircraft carrier battle group at that time. It's just that he didn't give the order to attack, and he didn't even let the submarine get close to the aircraft carrier battle group that was heading north at high speed. The reason is very simple, when the passive sonar of the "Li Zhenzhong" received the noise from the surface warship, it also received the noise from the anti-submarine patrol aircraft!

What scared Sun Xinchang was not the anti-submarine patrol plane, which proved in actual combat that the ability of the anti-submarine patrol plane to deal with submarines was not strong.

The "Li Zhenzhong" uses the electric energy in the ion membrane fuel cell during the submarine, and when it encounters danger, it can use the electric energy in the ferroalloy battery to sail at a speed of more than 20 knots for at least 8 hours. As long as you can get 60 nautical miles at the fastest speed, you have a 90% chance of avoiding anti-submarine patrol aircraft. If you can run 1 nautical mile in 5 hours, you are almost 100% sure of avoiding an anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

What really scared Sun Xinchang was the submarine of the Republic that did not "appear".

There must be several submarines in the aviation battle group, and in general, accompany the aircraft carrier battle group

Submarines will sail at the same speed from 1 to 150 kilometers in front of the aircraft carrier. Before the encounter between the "Chung" and the aircraft carrier battle group, there were no high-speed submarines. You know, at that time the aircraft carrier battle group of the Republic sailed at a speed of more than 20 knots. If the submarine also sails at a speed of 2, it will make a very loud noise!

The submarines of the republic either did not accompany the activities of the aircraft carrier, or they were able to sail quietly at a speed of 20 knots!

Sun Xinchang would rather believe it, because no aircraft carrier battle group commander would abandon the submarine with the strongest anti-submarine capability!

After the aircraft carrier battle group had gone far, Sun Xinchang let the "Li Zhenzhong" sail north at a speed.

On the night of the 6th, Sun Shinchang received the news that the Republic of China's naval aviation had bombed Jeju Island.

Although the ROK Navy did not mention the Republican landing on Jeju Island in the war report, Sun Shinchang had enough reason to believe that the battle group of three aircraft carriers was by no means going to destroy military installations on Jeju Island. There are also not many military facilities worth destroying on Jeju Island, and the South Korean Navy has not even deployed anti-submarine patrol aircraft on Jeju Island, so what reason does the Republic Navy have to bomb a worthless island?

There is only one answer: the Republic is ready to attack Jeju Island.

After making this judgment, Sun Xinchang encountered the fiercest ideological struggle after going to sea.

None of the officers and men guessed that the Republic was about to attack Jeju Island, and if Sun Xinchang "pretended to be deaf and dumb" and let the "Li Zhenzhong" continue to patrol the sea area designated by the navy, more than 30 officers and men, including Sun Xinchang, were expected to live until the end of the war, and then surrender to Korea or join the United States; If Sun Xinchang said what he thought in his heart, those officers and soldiers who were poisoned by Liu Zongchun would definitely ask to ambush the aircraft carrier battle group of the Republic or intercept the landing fleet, and it is very likely that all the officers and men, including Sun Xinchang, would only have the last few dozen hours of life left!

After a fierce ideological struggle, Sun Xinchang chose to be loyal to the duty of a soldier.

Yoo Jong-chun is still the president of South Korea, and as a Korean, he should follow orders!

Before the early morning of the 7th, the "Li Zhenzhong" turned to 330 degrees and advanced west-northward at speed.

I have to admit that Sun Xinchang's judgment is very accurate.

The material consumption of the aviation battle group is very staggering, and sooner or later it will have to converge with the supply ships to carry out replenishment operations in relatively safe sea areas. There is no doubt that the aircraft carrier battle group of the Republic Navy will choose the supply sea area to the west, not to the east. Even if the aircraft carrier is sufficiently self-sustaining, the landing fleet will go to Jeju Island from the west.

The submarine maneuvered to the west, and the chances of a sneak attack increased significantly.

Because the speed of the submarine is very slow, only a large angle of entry can be chosen.

After nearly 20 hours of slow sailing, the "Li Zhenzhong" approached the aircraft carrier battle group.

At 17 o'clock, the passive sonar of the "Li Zhenzhong" measured the course and speed of the aircraft carrier battle group, and even could distinguish the noise of the aircraft carrier and the escort warship. This shows that the distance between the "Li Zhenzhong" and the aircraft carrier battle group will not exceed 80 kilometers, and it has entered the "ideal range" of anti-ship missiles.

Sun Xinchang did not take risks, because anti-ship missiles pose little threat to the aircraft carrier battle group.

The "Li Zhenzhong" was still approaching the aircraft carrier battle group at an extremely slow speed, and Sun Xinchang was preparing to attack with torpedoes.

It was also at this time that Sun Xinchang had a problem.

Less than 20 o'clock, 3 aircraft carriers dispersed. With the exception of the one that had already rendezvous with the supply ship, the other 2 were sailing at speeds of more than 3C knots and lasted longer than it would take to catapult dozens of fighters!

Apparently, those 2 carriers did not catapult fighters, but deliberately sailed at high speeds.

The aircraft carrier sails at high speed for only one purpose: to avoid submarines!

This is an indication that the other side has long expected the presence of submarines nearby. Since the presence of submarines is expected, the anti-submarine vigilance must be very tight, and there will be no relaxation.

That is, there must be submarines of the republic nearby!

Just when Sun Xinchang was hesitating whether he should continue to approach, another thing happened.

The passive sonar showed 5 very obvious noise signals, although it was not from the Republic submarine, but 5 conventional submarines that also belonged to the South Korean Navy, but Sun Shinchang was still very shocked. The 5 South Korean submarines, like the hoplites of the Cold Weapon Age, approached the Republican aircraft carriers at a speed of 8 knots, regardless of possible threats.

This is not sending to death, and what is it?

Shocked, Sun Xinchang saw an opportunity.

At 211:35, Sun Xinchang ordered to reduce the speed to 2 knots and follow behind the 5 submarines.

If those five submarines can divert the Republic submarines, the "Li Zhenzhong" can take this opportunity to sneak attack. Even if you can't get close to the aircraft carrier, you can attack the Republic submarine that has revealed its whereabouts.

Whether it is sinking an aircraft carrier or a submarine, the "Li Zhenzhong" will not return empty-handed.

Sun Xinchang believes that he has fulfilled his duties as a soldier and has made the greatest efforts within his ability. (To be continued, if you want to know how to know the future chapters, more,!) )