Chapter 59: The Periscope on the Sea
374 Island is located on the border of the motherland. The other side of the sea is South Korea. A country that has maintained a state of war and has foreign troops stationed on its territory. The United States Navy and Air Force Bases are numerous. It is common to invade our territorial waters and airspace from time to time, play a verge or even drive straight in, so there is no need to make a fuss.
Several soldiers held a military meeting around the sonar buoy suspected of being deployed by the US submarine or airdropped by US military aircraft. The first thing they reported was clear. What they discussed was mainly what they could do. The soldiers had the responsibility to defend their territory, and it was a shame for the soldiers to allow foreign submarines to act arbitrarily.
Zhu Mengjun was furious: "Do we treat it as a territorial waters or public toilets? Come whenever we want, and leave whenever we want!"
"Strictly speaking, this is the high seas, and if they don't operate within 12 nautical miles of our 374, we can't take military action against it," Pershing said.
Zhu Mengjun said: "That can't be too presumptuous. Those who offend our China will be punished even if they are far away!"
Gao Xiaobo said: "It's normal for submarines to conduct information on the high seas. Not to mention the high seas, even if they submarines within your territorial sea, it's useless to attack it. This is the Yellow Sea, which belongs to the shallow sea. American submarines dare not be too presumptuous. The near seas are all fishermen's breeding bases. There are ropes and kelp everywhere. If you wrap them up, you have to float up... Besides, our submarines often wander around. I heard that the navy often sneaks to Kaohsiung Port and finds all the hydrological information clearly. In short, you can only say tough words if you have the strength. If you want to take action against others, you must have that ability. What do we have? Do you use the Bayi Bar to strafuse nuclear submarines?"
Fu Ping'an said: "Do you still remember Wang Wei, 81192."
A sentence made everyone silent. Before Wang Wei, the so-called accidental bombing of the Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reported. He was not strong enough and could only sleep on firewood and taste gall. Wang Wei had been dying for nine years, and this revenge had never been avenged, and he had never spoken out.
Huang Yaowu said: "First report to the superiors, we are the army, and we really have no tricks on submarines. We must be realistic, but there is no way. We can start a horse by doing things in a traditional way. Lao Gao, didn't you say that kelp can be entangled with submarines? Let's set up a kelp array."
Gao Xiaobo said: "I'm talking nonsense, I don't take it seriously. Kelp breeding is all near the sea. We are almost a hundred kilometers away from the mainland, and it belongs to the far sea."
Huang Yaowu said: "No one can stump the Chinese people. They can also breed scallops and kelp from the far sea. Let's talk to Pang Hong to see what he thinks."
Pang Hong is a fellow villager of Corps Huang, a fisherman from Rongcheng, Shandong. He is also a purchaser of several people on the 374 island. His fishing boat is the second supply boat, and the ones that come are more diligent than the military supply boat. I wish Meng Jun the strange things he used, and everyone's tobacco and alcohol were transported by him, and he was a model of supporting the two sides.
When Pang Hong landed on the island next time, Corps Huang told him about this idea and hit it off. Pang Hong said that deep-sea breeding is not uncommon, but he didn't expect to do it around 374 Island.
"The water quality here is good and pollution-free, which is quite suitable, but I'm not afraid of affecting military operations." said Pang Hong.
"Even if we get on the horse, we will watch for you." Captain Huang made the final decision.
With a word from the head of the army stationed in the island, Panghong started working with great fanfare. Boats of supplies were transported over and a large formation of kelp breeding around Island 374. Several fishing boats were leaning on the dock for a long time. Fishermen had a meal on the island, ate seafood every meal, and drank a lot of wine, and had a lot of fun.
The next time the supply ship came, the sonar buoy was handed over to his comrades to take away. I heard that this thing is often found in the sea. It is useless to fishermen, so they hand it over to the navy or local government. However, because there is no reward, the fishermen are not very enthusiastic and will not deliberately salvage it.
As the summer season begins, the temperature of the sea water is also high. Fu Ping'an's daily swimming time increases to five hours. The water quality is getting better and better, and he can be called a white strip in the waves. He can dive deep into the sea bottom 50 meters deep without any equipment, hold his breath for up to three minutes, and his muscles are trained in swimming and rock climbing. Everyone jokes that giving him a trident will make the appearance of the Sea King.
The thing Zhu Mengjun has been tinkering with finally came into everyone's sight. The reason why he could not continue to keep it confidential was because he could not complete the follow-up work alone. Everyone visited his work. This is a miniature manned device, with 80% of the internal facilities completed, and the external materials were also prepared, just waiting for welding.
Zhu Mengjun asked everyone to guess what this is. Gao Xiaobo curled his lips and said, "Is it still necessary to guess it?" It's just a diving bell."
"No, this thing looks like a diving clock, but it is actually a survival cabin in the end of the world." Zhu Mengjun said seriously, "You have watched the movie "2012". It is not completely fictional, it is a major disaster that may really happen, global climate warming, Arctic Ocean melting, Antarctic melting, sea level rise, countries like the Maldives were at the earliest, and then the Japanese archipelago sank, and our coastal cities will also be submerged. My home is in Zhejiang, so I prepare this thing to resist earthquakes and withstand tsunamis. There are oxygen cylinders and drinking water and food inside. By the way, I am also preventing zombies."
Everyone was interested and thought that he had made such a high-end artifact for so long, but he didn't expect that he was just such a useless waste.
Zhu Mengjun quickly grabbed everyone: "Don't leave, I can't weld it alone, I'll treat you, each person will benefit."
"This is almost the same." Everyone succeeded in their plot and came back happily.
Seeing that there seemed to be very high-end electronic devices in the survival pod, Pershing frowned and asked, "What is this?"
Zhu Mengjun said: "It's nothing. I asked someone to buy components and sensors in Shenzhen Seg Electronics Market."
Pershing said: "Seg Electronics Market sells U.S. military-grade components?"
"Maybe there is a way." Zhu Mengjun didn't admit that he had dismantled the US military's sonar buoy and took out the things inside and used them privately.
Before Zhu Mengjun's survival cabin was completed, a happy and troublesome news came. Two people wanted to switch back to the mainland. These two lucky ones were Fu Ping'an and Zhu Mengjun, Huang Yaowu and Pan Xing were cadres, Gao Xiaobo was a third-level non-commissioned officer and both party members. He should set an example and stayed in the isolated island for a long time.
After all, Fu Ping'an stayed on the island for nearly a year and was already familiar with every tree and grass on the island. From his initial discomfort to his deep love now, he loved these comrades, the fishermen brothers who were unruly and dared to fight with the Korean Coast Guard, and their Madai Island. He was sad when he thought of leaving, but he would not give up this opportunity. There was no banquet that would last forever. The relationship between the five brothers would never end, but the days spent together on the island had entered the countdown.
In two days, the supply ship will send two new recruits to pick up Fu Ping'an and Zhu Mengjun. A faint sorrow of separation permeates the island. Zhu Mengjun is busy welding the last steel plate for his doomsday survival cabin, while Fu Ping'an takes the Bayi Bar and a telescope to the mountain to shoot a target.
There are no living targets on the island, and it is already useless to shoot fixed steel targets. Shooting seabirds is not conducive to the ecological environment and cannot be done frequently. Fu Ping'an most often shoots floating targets floating on the sea, such as a small, brightly colored ball. He was aiming with a gun when suddenly something appeared in the scope, like a shark's fin, but the temperature in the Yellow Sea is low, so there is no shark.
An ominous premonition came suddenly. Fu Ping'an picked up the telescope to observe and confirmed that it was the submarine's periscope. Not far from the east of the island, he immediately picked up the intercom and called his comrades.
Originally, there were no walkie-talkies on the island, so Zhu Mengjun paid for his own money to buy a lot of cheap walkie-talkies made in Fujian. It was just right to use them on the island. When the comrades who received the report rushed over, the periscope had disappeared.
"Maybe it's our submarine." Zhu Mengjun said that what he said made sense. Navy ships often passed by nearby areas, and submarines were no exception. The navy would not report to the garrison area for missions.
But there is another possibility, which is to use submarines from the United States and South Korea to launch sonar buoys and collect hydrological intelligence.
"Report to our superiors right away!" Huang Yaowu said, "This is our territorial waters. If it is an enemy, it has already violated our territorial waters. It is necessary for the navy to dispatch and drive away."
"Or anti-submarine aircraft are fine," Zhu Mengjun said, "But the effect is hard to say. There is still a gap in our country in this area. The submarines currently in service in the US military do not have conventional models, they are all nuclear submarines. The US Navy is also the world's strongest maritime force. Only when the navies of all other countries are combined can they compete with it. They have more than a dozen aircraft carriers, but our aircraft carriers are still being renovated in the dock, and they still bought second-hand Russian goods."
Pan Xing said coldly: "I'm going too far, just do our own things." After that, he went to send a secret telegram to the garrison area. This was a confidential coded report and would be transmitted to the garrison area duty room through the submarine optical cable.
The TV screen is covered with snowflakes, and the signal is not very good. The announcer who can vaguely hear the weather forecast speak: "The gusts of some waters in the Yellow Sea are 9-10, and the waves are five meters high. The navigation in the seas affected by strong winds. Ships operating should pay attention to navigation safety."
The wind is about to rise on the sea.
The sky of the sea is like a child's face, changing at any time. In the blink of an eye, the sky is full of dark clouds and the waves are high and the wind is strong. The kelp farm around 374 Island is affected and is blown away. Once the investment of more than 100,000 yuan is wasted. This is just the prelude to the storm. When the large army comes, the farm will not even leave any trace.
On strong winds, soldiers stationed in the island usually hide in their houses to shelter from the wind. There was an unknown submarine invading the territorial waters. Everyone couldn't sit still, but now they couldn't do anything when they went out and could be blown away by the strong wind. They just stayed up all night. In the early morning, the wind suddenly became calm. Experienced veterans knew that this was because Island 374 was located in the eye of the wind.
If we look at the satellite cloud map, 374 is in the center of a huge vortex cloud cluster, with strong winds raging around it, and only such a small piece of time is peaceful.
The superiors sent instructions to let them pay attention to the whereabouts of submarines of unknown nationality.
Gao Xiaobo cursed: "We are the army, how do we observe it? Do we use our naked eyes? It's just a joke."
Zhu Mengjun also said that we don’t have planes, sonar, and radar, just look at the telescope. Maybe American submarines like to hide and seek with us, and just spin around 374, giving us a chance to make contributions.
Huang Yaowu shook his head and Pan Xing sneered.
Only Fu Ping'an carried the gun and took out the telescope.
He also understood that the US submarine had already returned to the flight, and he just wanted to do his duty as an island guard before leaving.
Standing at the fortification lookout, the sea was calm and the light was good. Fu Ping'an looked at the sea and suddenly found a very obvious black shadow under the water. From the distance, it was about one hundred meters long.
Chapter completed!