June 18, 1997, afternoon.

Although it was already tilted westward, the outfitted docks of the Northern Shipyard were crowded with people. The technicians of the Northern Shipyard, representatives of various supporting factories, leaders of relevant naval departments, and even the families of the Northern Shipyard, stood tightly on the dock and watched the terrifying steel warship that had been stopped in the shipyard for more than 7 years.

On the battleship, colorful flags were hung on both sides of the bridge, revealing festive colors.

15:15, naval officers and soldiers wearing naval dresses began to appear on the left side of the Yongxing Island ship. Each deck appeared in soldiers wearing naval dresses. In a quiet environment, soldiers on the Yongxing Island began the highest etiquette of the naval station slope ceremony.

At 15:20, Bai Meng, former Minister of the Navy, delivered a speech, announcing that the Chinese warship will set sail from here.

At 15:30, a team of model soldiers holding a Type 56 semi-automatic concierge walked onto the bow deck.

15:45, accompanied by the loud national anthem, a five-star red flag rose on the huge missile battleship bridge.

16:00, everything is ready.

"Each unit is ready to take the tugboat No. 1, tugboat No. 2, and tugboat No. 3!" As Wu Donghao, who was on the outfit dock, commanded the tugboat around the missile battleship to start the action.

When large warships enter and exit the port, they all need to rely on tugs to help.

Before the 1980s, the captain of the Republic's Navy had one of the most important training, which was to command ships to skillfully leave the post by harbor. After years of research, it has been proved that long-term and frequent reversing and starting warships will have a great impact on the service life of the warship host.

Therefore, since the late 1980s, the Republic's navy also began to study using tugboats to push, push and pull to assist large warships in leaving the port.

There was no large warship with a large tonnage before, and only the 051 ship was not very demanding for the operation of tugboats. Now the tonnage of the Yongxing Island exceeded 50,000 tons. In order to ensure safety and smoothness, the Northern Shipyard prepared 13 tugboats at the request of the Ninth Courtyard.

With the order, the No. 1 tugboat and the No. 2 tugboat were approaching from the tail of the battleship, while the No. 3 tugboat was close to the bow of the battleship and the middle.

"Rise the anchor!" The tugboat was in place, and Ai Guoxiu, who was at the Bridge Command, also issued an order.

Two giant anchors weighing more than ten tons were pulled out of the water by iron chains as thick as arms.

"No. 1, No. 2 start!" With the order, the two tugs at the tail of the battleship that had been connected to the battleship began to start. The captains of the two tugs were carefully looking at the various instruments on the cockpit, with extremely nervous faces.

They had undergone countless training times, and the huge battleship was also dragged from the ship Taichung to the outfit pier.

However, now, leaving the port is completely different from before. Once a part below the waterline is damaged, it will be troublesome to repair it. Everyone knows this. The Chinese nation has been waiting for hundreds of years for China's large warships!

No mistakes are allowed.

The two tugboats at the rear continued to increase their power, and other tugboats also began to join in under unified command, especially on the side near the dock. In order to avoid collision between warships and docks during the towing, a tugboat drilled into the short distance between the docks and the warships, and used the power generated during the steering to push the battleship slowly retreating outside the docks away from the docks.

At the beginning, the missile battleship left the port and moved only more than two meters in one minute. As the distance from the dock was widened, more and more tugboats joined in, and the speed of departure was getting faster and faster.

The naval officers and soldiers on the decks of each layer of the warship were standing on the slope until the warship completely left the port and completed a 180° steering with the assistance of many tugboats, and the ship was bowed outside.

The whole process took forty minutes from the start of the tugboat until the warship left the port and the complete turn.

It’s not that they can’t do it faster, but that they are asked to make sure that no accidents occur.

China has no experience in the towing process of large warships, especially when leaving the port and approaching the port. It is because there is no large warship of 10,000 tons in China and has no experience. It cannot miss every training opportunity, so it will make the departure port so long. The more tugs participate in it, the more complicated the command and coordination will be.

"Shock the horn, activate the central control system, and prepare to leave the port!" Ai Guoxiu, who is the person in charge of the sea test, issued an order on the warship.

“Woo…”

The huge and long whistle sounded, and many people on the harbor became excited.

After working hard for so many years, China's largest tonnage warship is finally about to set sail.

"Each system is ready to start the machine!" With Ai Guoxiu's order, the huge warship began to operate under the operation of technical personnel from each system.

With the order of the chief designer, the various display screens that were not turned on in the battleship command and the operators in front of the equipment began to get busy.

"The power cabin is ready!"

"The radar system is ready to start up!"

"The information system is ready to start up!"

...

The startup preparation work of each unit and each system is completed.

Liu Yijiu stood next to Ai Guoxiu. He felt that this was a bit painful. Every part and every system had been debugged many times before, but now it still requires preparations to start.

The five candidates for captain stood aside with nervous expressions, and they didn't dare to breathe. They stood straight on the side like recruits who had just joined the army for three months. Fortunately, the interior space of the bridge after the transformation was large enough, otherwise it would become very crowded.

Seeing that everyone looked solemn, Liu Yijiu didn't say anything, but he could just look at it anyway.

This is a historical moment.

"Reactor No. 1 is started, and the power system is ready to switch to the battleship's own power." Ai Guoxiu personally pressed the nuclear reactor start button that has rarely been pressed since it was loaded onto the ship.

After the start button of the nuclear reactor is pressed, the nuclear reactor in the power chamber near the bottom begins to operate.

"Successfully started, the reactor power is 1%...3%...5%..." The observers of the power system kept reporting the power of the power system.

The startup process of nuclear reactor systems is very slow.

“The pressure is normal!”

“The temperature is normal!”

“The cooling system is normal!”

“Generator starts!”

The situation inside the power cabin is constantly reported to the bridge command room.

Ai Guoxiu's expression became more and more nervous.

This is the 13th time that the entire warship will start the power system, and the power supply from the dock will be cut off. Only when the nuclear reactor starts up can the power supply be generated and transferred to all systems of the entire warship.

In order to ensure the smooth switching process of the power system, except for the lighting system and necessary equipment operation monitoring system, the other systems are in a shutdown state.

Liu Yijiu himself was not sure why he did this, and he was really not familiar with warships.

"Reactor No. 1 has a power of 30%, switch the power system."

“The power system switch is completed!”

"Shock the whistle and signal the dock to cut off the power transmission." Ai Guoxiu commanded according to the standard process formulated at the beginning.

The loud whistle sounded again.

During the whole process, Liu Yijiu watched quietly without saying anything.

Logically, the power supply on the dock should be disconnected before leaving the port. At that time, the warship had already started its own power system and even conducted preliminary inspections on the power system. It did not start the propeller, but it had to keep the boiler preheated.

Everything is for more caution. Everyone has been studying theoretically and has only operated the Navy officers and soldiers who have operated at most ship 051 at most. Ai Guoxiu was worried that they made mistakes when the warship had power, which would cause the warship to hit the dock and affect the entire sea test.

The same is true for the sea tests I have conducted before.

After all, the previous ten sea trials were launched in the afternoon and the departure in the morning.

Currently there is only such a large warship, and any experience is valuable.

"System Check!"

A series of system reports, the situation in each cabin is reflected through the central control system, and the various systems of the warship are in good condition.

All this check was completed, and the sky outside was already dark.

In the port, all kinds of radar systems are not turned on and can only be directed by the navigator.

"Start the propulsion system, reactor No. 1 has a power of 50%, a speed of 8 knots, and a course of 87°..."

With Ai Guoxiu's fate, the operators of various systems started to operate quickly and carefully. The tail of the warship, which was originally quietly parked on the water, began to swell.

The power of the nuclear reactor continues to rise, and the high temperature gradually heats up the water flow in the cooling system. The steam generated pushes the steam turbine laid out behind the middle of the warship to run quickly. The spindle connected to the steam turbine begins to rotate, and part of the generated mechanical energy is transferred to the generator and converted by the generator into the power required by other systems of the warship. Another part of the force drives the propeller to rotate, generating huge thrust, causing the warship to start slowly moving towards the outside of the port.

Those who visited the port were reluctant to disperse after the warships slowly left the port. Under their gaze, the huge warships gradually became smaller in the gradually dark ocean and finally disappeared, and they were still unwilling to leave.

This sea trial will be the longest time for the entire warship, lasting 27 days, and will not return until July.

Whether the efforts of more than ten years are successful depends on the sea trial this time.
Chapter completed!