Chapter 148: Accidental crash

When returning, the Tamsui Ray first went to the Solomon Islands, but found that the route into the Coral Sea had been blocked by the US military. To be precise, the US military deployed a large number of anti-submarine forces in the Solomon Islands, and there were hundreds of anti-submarine ships of various types alone.

At that time, the main task of these ships was to search for Chinese submarines.

However, what we are dealing with is not a submarine heading north from the Coral Sea, but a submarine heading from the north.

However, for the "Tanshui Ray", this is no difference at all, because it means that if you return along the coming waterway, you have to cross the anti-submarine area that is hundreds of kilometers wide. Even if Wang Yuanyang got his true teachings, he would not dare to rashly enter such a dangerous sea area.

Fortunately, the "Talshui Ray" still has enough electricity reserves.

Don't forget that before returning, the Tamsui Ray only performed four days of patrol missions, and under normal circumstances, it can patrol for seven days. Although some electricity was consumed when evading US anti-submarine ships and anti-submarine patrol aircraft, the remaining electricity could still make it bypass the Solomon Islands.

Of course, you must control the speed and try to make use of deep ocean currents.

These skills are compulsory courses for submarine captains. Each submarine has a complete set of current maps, and the navigator who assists the captain is very clear about which routes can bring the submarine back to the base. What the captain needs to do is just choose a route that looks more ideal.

In fact, the so-called "look" is the captain's intuition.

At that time, the main means of communication with submarines were still ultra-long-wave and very long-wave radio stations. The former was mainly used to convey tactical information, while the latter was mainly used to convey strategic information. Relatively speaking, the former was more efficient. The same was that the two communication methods could only allow the submarine to receive information. If the submarine wanted to send information, either floated up to the depth of the periscope to send signals with the communication mast, or used a communication float.

It can be seen that communicating with submarines is a very troublesome thing, and even if you only send information, it is also troublesome.

The reason is very simple. The action depth of the ultra-long-wave radio station is only 30 meters, and the action depth of the very long-wave radio station will not exceed 100 meters. The new submarine's submarine is more than 200 meters in most of the time. If it is active in a war zone, it will increase to 350 meters. The result is that the submarine either drags an antenna behind and keeps the end of the antenna within 30 meters from the sea surface, or floats up to 30 meters regularly. The former is mainly used by attack nuclear submarines with large displacement. For "Stingray" class fully electric submarines with small displacement and do not have to be equipped with towing sonar, the latter method is mainly used.

In other words, the "Tanshui Ray" will float up regularly.

Generally, it must float up every four hours. If you do not receive the command, you will return to the deep sea. If you receive the command, you must patiently accept the complete telegram.

Why do you say "patience"?

When using an ultra-long-wave radio station, it takes four hours to send a telegram of 100 words. If the telegram content is confirmed in a standard way, that is, to receive the telegram again, it takes eight hours. The communication efficiency of the long-wave radio station is much lower than this.

It can be said that this is a very painful thing and a major problem facing the naval submarine force.

At that time, the Chinese Navy had more than 20 "submarine communication aircraft" modified from large electric transport aircraft. These aircraft had long hovering in a certain area, dragging communication antennas several kilometers behind them, and repeatedly issued combat orders issued by the Navy Command.

It can be seen from this that it is almost impossible for a submarine to obtain detailed battlefield information.

Of course, there are no other communication methods, but it is difficult to use on the battlefield. For example, the Navy has developed a laser communication system that specializes in communicating with submarines, but the aircraft that needs to send information fly over the submarines, so it can only be used in relatively safe sea areas. In addition, the Navy has a high-frequency sonar communication system, but this kind of equipment can only be installed on warships and communicates between warships and submarines.

In short, it is not difficult to contact a submarine that performs a single mission of breaking the way, but it is almost impossible to provide detailed battlefield information for a submarine that costs thousands of kilometers or even tens of thousands of kilometers away. Unless there is a short-wave radio station hundreds of kilometers away. The reason is very simple. The communication bandwidth is large, and the effective working distance of a short-wave radio station that can send complex information is only a few hundred kilometers.

The result was that Wang Yuanyang only knew that the fleet had already moved south and was fighting with the US military.

In order to obtain this battlefield information, the "Tanshui Ray" took four hours. Because there are often US anti-submarine ships and anti-submarine patrol aircraft nearby, Wang Yuanyang did not have a confirmation message at all. You should know that the submarine is sailing at a depth of 30 meters from the sea, and the pilots on the anti-submarine patrol aircraft can see it with their naked eyes. In addition, the noise emitted by the submarine at this depth can be transmitted hundreds of kilometers away.

Only by diving into the deep sea can the safety of the submarine be guaranteed.

Theoretically, for every 100 meters of submarine's submarine's submarine's detection distance will be shortened by 60%, and the detection distance of active sonar will be shortened by 40%. If the submarine has good silent performance, sailing in the deep sea will be almost never discovered.

After understanding the situation on the battlefield, Wang Yuanyang decided to return along the farthest route.

In his opinion, the U.S. Third Fleet will definitely operate in the Coral Sea and will not risk going north to the Solomon Islands. Otherwise, the U.S. military would not use so many anti-submarine ships to block the Solomon Islands' waterways, nor will it dispatch so many anti-submarine patrol aircraft to search repeatedly in the Coral Sea.

In fact, Wang Yuanyang did not know that the US anti-submarine patrol aircraft were searching for the "Tanshui Ray".

Don't forget that it was the "Tanshui Ray" that first discovered the U.S. Third Fleet. Although Nixon didn't take it seriously, the U.S. shore-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft troops would not underestimate this submarine. What's more, before that, the "Tanshui Ray" sank the U.S. transport ship.

As for the anti-submarine ships in the Solomon Islands, they are just in case of accidents.

In the eyes of the US military, the Second Fleet has approached the Solomon Islands, so the fully electric submarines that follow the fleet are likely to enter the Coral Sea.

The result was that the route Wang Yuanyang chose happened to pass through the eastern end of the Solomon Islands.

Going further east, the remaining electricity of the Tamsui Ray cannot guarantee the return to Anathahan Island.

At the same time, the speed of the "Tanshui Ray" must be controlled at around 16 knots. To be precise, the static water speed must be controlled at 16 knots, and the error cannot exceed 0.5 knots. Otherwise, before returning to Anathahan Island, you have to float in the Shanghai area and ask the base to send ships to replenish its power.

It can be seen from this that Wang Yuanyang had never thought of making a great contribution. He just wanted to bring more than 20 crew members back safely.

At around 5 p.m. on September 2, the "Tanshui Ray" detected the U.S. Third Fleet, but Wang Yuanyang did not believe that the U.S. Third Fleet would come here at all. The distance was too far at that time, more than 200 kilometers, and the "Tanshui Ray" was just heading towards the U.S. Third Fleet. When the spherical sonar array on the bow was working in a passive mode, it was not entirely certain that the U.S. Third Fleet was detected.

Perhaps, it is just a large fleet of fast transport ships.

Obviously, this is entirely possible, as several routes from Southeast Australia to the west coast of the United States have to pass here.

Three months ago, the Tamsui Ray ambushed a transport fleet here, but it did not receive much results.

Wang Yuanyang did not turn the submarine, nor did he consider whether to attack the "fale", because the remaining electricity of the "Tanshui Ray" did not allow him to pursue the "fale".

As a result, the "Tanshui Ray" maintained its original course and speed.

Two hours later, Wang Yuanyang changed his previous thoughts because the sonar told him very clearly that the sonar detected an extremely obvious explosion sound and could vaguely distinguish the terrifying sound made by the ship when it sank into the deep sea and the hull deformed and ruptured under the huge seawater pressure.

You should know that experienced sonar lengths can definitely hear the sounds made when the hull is deformed and broken.

Obviously, whether it is a fleet or a fleet, it is being attacked. This means that there must be Chinese Navy ships near that fleet or fleet.

In other words, as long as the Tamsui Ray is rushing over, it can replenish the power of other ships after the battle.

Wang Yuanyang did not hesitate and immediately ordered the submarine to turn, and increased the speed to twenty-four knots. Then he asked the gunman to inspect all the torpedoes.

At this time, there were only fourteen torpedoes left on the Tamsui Ray.

It can be said that Wang Yuanyang regretted that he wasted four torpedoes before attacking those US transport ships. If four more torpedoes were released at this time, he would be very sure to sink four larger "transport ships", which might be four large warships that any submarine captain would dream of killing.

Obviously, Wang Yuanyang had realized at this time that there was a very likely fleet ahead.

Later, Wang Yuanyang also considered a possibility, that is, the Chinese Navy fleet was attacked. Although he was not willing to believe this possibility, he knew better that if it was his own fleet, he would have to rush over and he would never hesitate at all.

At that time, only the Tamsui Ray was sailing towards the waters where the U.S. Third Fleet was located.

Although there were four fully electric submarines to cooperate with the Second Fleet, at the end of the battle, these four fully electric submarines were more than 1,000 kilometers away from the US Third Fleet and could not arrive in time. More importantly, after Gong Jifei issued a retreat order, all four submarines covered the four damaged large comprehensive warships, and encountered two US attack nuclear submarines in the early morning of September 3. It was under the cover of these four fully electric submarines that the four large comprehensive warships were not attacked by US submarines.

It can be said that Wang Yuanyang should indeed feel regretful.

In front of him, there were a total of twenty-two almost paralyzed warships, and all of them had lost their combat capabilities. Unfortunately, there were only fourteen torpedoes on the "Tanshui Ray".

Chapter 148: Accidental crash
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