Font Size:
Theme:

Chapter 616:St. Lawrence Island

After a false alarm, the "Snow Dragon" did not send someone to check on the "Saddle Horse", because since Sasebo Military Port is not far away, the island and the Strait of the horse are also close.

Several of the ship attendants who returned from the vicinity of the "Saddle Horse" stayed on the deck, and they were pulled to inquire about the situation, one of them knew the naval history of various countries very well, and he not only introduced the identity of the "Saddle Horse", but also talked about some interesting things related to Sasebo Port.

"This port built a very famous warship during World War II - the destroyer Yu Yu, which was called Sasebo Rain.The ship belongs to the "white dew class", said very evil, do not know whether it is good or bad, anyway, every battle will be defeated, every defeat must run."

"Run expert," someone laughed, "and the Navy still takes it to play with you on this virtue?"

“Don’t worry, listen to me.Since the day of the rain, the size of the dozens of combat crews are almost unharmed, it is not the experience of being torpedoed and the ship shelling, but the torpedo hit does not explode, the shell is not loud, the evil door.

“Shut up, this fucking hangs,” someone said with emotion.

"But then it sank and was killed by the submarine."

"It's always necessary to come out and get back," someone summed up the career of this "rainstorm".

"Yes, when it comes to the ship of the evil gate, there is another one, but not in Sasebo Port, but in Wugang, in the place of Hiroshima."That ship is the snowwind of the "Yangyan level", and it is called "Xianrui" together with the rain.The "snow wind" is that it is protecting who and who sinks."

“What do you mean?”The big fly heard rising around, and asked curiously.

“At that time, the Sakura Navy generally integrated the destroyer into the escort fleet, which was used to escort the battleship and the aircraft carrier, and most of the warships escorted by the Snowwind were sinking on the escort, and it itself was almost uninjured, and it was able to salvage many friendly soldiers who had fallen into the water.”

“The star!”Fly in your heart.

"Yes, the ship's life is very hard, unlike the Time Rain, it will not have to be mixed up."There were more than 80 destroyers of various types in the Pacific War, and only the Snowwind survived the war, and it almost never suffered serious damage, and each time the shot was either not hit or lost, or simply dumb.The crew of the ship has killed less than 10 people in the battle, two are missing, and several captains are all at the end.This result is a miracle in the Pacific theater, where the battle is very intense, so the Snowwind is also known as the "undead bird" and the "miracle destroyer".Of course, the crew of the other ships hated it, because few of the ships that attacked it could come back safely.”

"Hahaha," the explanation of the "expert" in naval history among the crew made everyone laugh, and everyone was surprised by the experience of the two "Xiang Rui" ships.

Through the Strait of Malaysia, the "Snow Dragon" officially entered the Sakura Sea area, which belongs to the typhoon-prone area, but at this time it is the winter and spring season, the typhoon has been transformed into an extratropical cyclone into a westerly wind belt before it comes.If it is 6 to October, the sub-high north lift, the typhoon has room for activity, and will often visit the coastal areas such as Okinawa, Kyushu and Shikoku.

These geographical knowledge Chen Bin and Da Fei do not know much, the two people on the ship to listen to the crew chat when they learned a lot of things.Most of these crew members did not belong to the "Snow Dragon" ship group, but in this operation to accept the government's call-up temporarily to join, they have a wealth of experience in other ships and routes, these experiences are very fresh for long-term inland people, but also everyone's tea after dinner after the entertainment activities of the first choice.

On the tenth day of the trip, the "Snow Dragon" began to cross the Aleutian Islands into the Bering Sea, the temperature here is much lower than when it just left Chongming, in recent days willing to go to the deck of people suddenly less, most of them choose to nest in the living cabin or to go to the basketball court and KTV pastime.

There is also a gym in the cabin, and there are a lot of people active inside, so almost always line up during the day.Da Fei is a fitness enthusiast, these days on the ship, he pulled Chen Bin to the gym several times, but each time there is no chance to line up, so he later gave up.

Zhang Cano spent almost every day in his own single room to delve into some things, Chen Bin and Da Fei also went to him several times, knowing that he would not bother him much after he was busy.

In the cabin of a circle, the two decided to go to the deck to breathe, although the boat out to sea, although fresh, for a long time, not everyone can get used to it.No one in the team was seasick, and the food on board was very good, the cook was not fixed, and sometimes some crew members volunteered to show one or two crafts.The home of these crew members is from Tiannan North, so Chen Bin has eaten several dishes after boarding the ship.

The deck was very cold, and when you breathed, you could see the white mist, and the deck and the shipboard had been hung with a frost, so that everyone was tightly wrapped, and the gloves and hats were all available.

There was a black thing in the water not far away, and Chen Bin's eyes pointed and saw it at once.He pointed to the thing and was ready to scream and fly to see it.

“It’s like the tail of a whale,” Chen Bin saw a whale-like thing sticking out of the water and photographing a huge water flower there, “there’s a whale!”

The excited sound came from his heart, and this was the first time he had seen a living whale in an ocean, and the distance between the two was not too far.

“Wow, what a big guy!”The flight exclaimed.

It was a humpback whale, and it was seen showing a beautiful arc from the waves, and then suddenly bursting out of the water and rising slowly vertically, until the fin-like limbs reached the surface of the water, the body began to bend backward, and from a distance it looked like the rear rollover of the acrobat.

“Look, there’s another one behind,” Chen Bin saw the whale’s body burrow into the water, and then another whale jumped in the spot where it had just disappeared.

The sonar system of the Snow Dragon has found two humpback whales nearby, and the driver has carefully adjusted the course to keep a certain distance from the whale's position.Humpback whales feed on small crustaceans and swarms of small fish, and their temperament is very mild, but the average body length is more than ten meters in adulthood, and some can reach 30 tons.Although this weight and body type appear very small in front of the "Snow Dragon", it will be very dangerous if the two accidentally collide in the sea.

At night, ships arrive near St. Lawrence Island, located at the southern mouth of the Bering Strait, a volcanic island belonging to the United States.The island is not large, about 150 kilometers long, about 15 to 55 kilometers wide, the island is inhabited by Inuit, their population of about a thousand or so, usually fishing and hunting for a living.

The "Snow Dragon" docked on the coast of the city of Gambar in the northwest corner of St. Lawrence Island, which is said to be a city, in fact, the population size is not as large as most of the cities in China.Captain Wang Puhong is in the safe consideration, and when the ship docks here, it is strictly prohibited for all crew members to leave the "Snow Dragon".The number of residents in Gampel is about 600, which is still the data of 2000 in Wang Puhong's memory.

No one knows how many of them turned into bloodthirsty monsters, so staying on board is obviously the right choice.

In fact, it is possible to travel at night, but the "Snow Dragon" has been on the sea for nearly two weeks, and the crew on the ship needs to suspend most of the equipment and overhaul it.This is a routine maintenance operation in the long-distance navigation process, because only in this way can the ship be effectively prevented from passive anchoring on the sea.

Under the twilight of St. Lawrence Island is black and white, black is the mountain, white is snow.If it is during the day, you can also see the distant houses on the boat on the coast, and the residents of the island are basically concentrated in Gamber and Savimgue, and there is a small airport near each of these two places.

The journey at sea was dull, and because they could not disembark, everyone went to bed early at night.At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, Chen Bin suddenly felt a shock in the hull, and then the alarm bells outside sounded.

“Dumped the boat!”Chen Bin heard a shout from the door, and was shocked to jump down from the top, tugging at a piece of clothing, and pushing the door to run out to see what happened.

“What happened?”Chen Bin shouted at a man in the corridor and asked.

“What happened?”The fly came out too.

"Our ship was struck," said the crew, "and you must get dressed and wait for the captain's orders."

"What?Who hit us?”Chen Bin was surprised to hear the news.

"It's not clear at night, it's happening very suddenly, in any case, you're going to get dressed quickly, and if things get worse and everyone has to go to the shore, you'll be frozen to death."

Chen Bin and Da Fei quickly returned to the house to dress the clothes neatly, Da Fei saw the orange light flashing in the night outside the window, he approached the window to look at, couldn't help but cry out, "Fire!"

The two followed some of the crew to the deck, and in the direction of the starboard side of the "Snow Dragon", a huge dark shadow was burning.Through the spreading fire in the wind, it has been confirmed that it was another big ship that hit the "Snow Dragon".

The length of the big ship was almost twice that of the Snow Dragon, and after it hit the "Snow Dragon" on the shore of Gambor, the ship suddenly burst into flames, and then the fire began to spread rapidly.

“The people on the deck are watching, please evacuate immediately; the people on the deck are on, please evacuate immediately.”The sound of the radio was very clear in the night, and everyone was panicked after hearing it, but they still methodically returned to the bridge building.

“All of you in the boat!”After Wang Puhong clarified the situation as quickly as possible, he immediately issued a new order.

“Crash and stop our ship and evacuate at full speed!”

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this chapter!