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    After flying forward for a long time, we were surrounded by the vast sea, but the fuel gauge showed that there was not much fuel.  ////

    Yang Mingyun was anxious, and the wound on his waist became more and more painful, probably due to blood loss. He felt stars rising in front of his eyes, and his hands began to tremble.

    The sea breeze suddenly picked up, the clouds and fog on the sea began to increase, and the visibility dropped sharply.

    At this moment, a fighter jet suddenly appeared in the clouds in the distance.

    Yang Mingyun immediately recognized it as a Japanese Navy "Gale" fighter jet, and couldn't help but secretly groan in his heart.

    Although the helicopter he was flying did not have any markings on it, it was an authentic Chinese-made "Sparrow" type. It was unlikely that Japanese planes would see it and not launch an attack.

    Yang Mingyun shook his head, took a deep breath, and began to lower his altitude, trying to avoid the Japanese fighter jets by flying at ultra-low altitude, but by then the "Gale Wind" had already spotted him and immediately dived towards him.

    The Japanese fighter jets opened fire. Yang Mingyun controlled the helicopter to dodge desperately, but to no avail. Soon the helicopter began to burn. Yang Mingyun opened the hatch without hesitation and jumped out.

    The moment he fell into the sea, there was a loud noise above his head and the helicopter exploded.

    Yang Mingjun swam hard while avoiding the falling debris above his head. He raised his head and saw the "Gale Wind" making a big circle in the air and swooping over again, as if to shoot at himself who had fallen into the water.  .

    "Son of a bitch!" Yang Mingyun cursed in despair.

    At this moment, a series of red lights suddenly shot out from the distance, and the "Gale Wind" was instantly surrounded by black smoke balls.

    Yang Mingyun glanced around and saw an aircraft carrier emitting thick smoke, followed by several destroyers.  The artillery fire attacking the "Gale Wind" was fired from the two destroyers.

    Seeing the red and blue "human" flags flying on aircraft carriers and destroyers, Yang Mingyun, who has always been cynical, suddenly felt an inexplicable kindness and felt like she wanted to shed tears.

    The "Gale Wind" flew too low because it attacked Yang Mingyun's helicopter, and happened to fall into the artillery fire of the Chinese destroyer. It fought left and right in an attempt to fly away.  But it was still unable to break through the fire net. Soon, it was hit by anti-aircraft shells and exploded, turning into burning fragments and falling into the sea.

    soon.  A small boat came over.  The Chinese sailors above rescued Yang Mingyun.

    Yang Mingyun explained his identity to the sailors, and he was rescued aboard the aircraft carrier - the Chinese Navy "Huqiu" aircraft carrier.  The doctor on the ship treated his wounds and told him to get good news.  A sailor brought him a hot meal, and Yang Mingyun, who had been hungry for a long time, ate it hungrily.

    Having eaten.  The strong Yang Mingyun quickly recovered his strength.  Unable to rest, he did not rest in bed like the other wounded, but wandered around the aircraft carrier.

    After walking around, he discovered that the aircraft carrier had been seriously injured by the Japanese attack.

    Yang Mingyun went to the anti-aircraft gun deck for a walk.  The front left gun emplacement where a heavy bomb fell was horrific, but what surprised Yang Mingyun was that the surviving gunners were still there manipulating the anti-aircraft gun that survived the disaster.  There is a gun mount on the port side of the middle of the ship that extends outboard with a hinge.  Above is a triple 25mm gun.  Although other gun positions were still sticking out of the side, Yang Mingyun found that this gun position was pushed in heavily.  Later, Yang Mingjun learned that while the twelve gunners there were operating the gun, a bomb passed over the platform and fell into the sea below. The air wave suddenly pushed the heavy gun mount in, and the gunners were  Thrown to the deck.  They jumped up, moved the detachable cannon bodies and shells, and went into battle again.  But the gun mount has been deformed and can no longer be extended overboard.

    On the 120mm gun position, the gunners are still sticking to their posts to guard against possible attacks by the enemy in the evening.  Enemy strafing and bomb fragmentation took their toll.  They told Yang Mingyun that a gunner was busy loading 120mm shells from the bomb hoist into the automatic fuze setting machine.  At this time, a wave of Japanese torpedo planes fired with machine guns and flew over.  The gunner kept working, picking up two shells from the hoist and putting them into the loading machine. Suddenly he fell down and died.  He had been shot minutes earlier.  But until he fell, he always stood by his position.

    A destroyer picked up the seriously injured wounded on the starboard side.  Yang Mingjun found that the gunners were busy unloading the 20mm gun barrel and magazine —— 5 ——>.  they know.  This destroyer also has a small-caliber gun of this type, so the gun barrel is removed to prevent it from sinking with the warship and causing waste.

    Fire on aircraft carrierThe fire has reached the place where the 127mm shells are stored, and in order to prevent them from exploding on the ship, the gunners are throwing the shells into the sea.

    Yang Mingyun returned to the flight deck and happened to meet Lieutenant Colonel Li Yuxi, commander of the fighter squadron.  He was surrounded by a group of pilots, mechanics, gunners and flight attendants from his squadron.  He was talking to them about the fate of war as if in a classroom, but the deck beneath their feet was already being engulfed in flames.  A mechanic came to report that he had just installed a new hand pump for the Major's aircraft.  Li Yuxi said humorously: "Thank you, this must have cost you a lot of time."

    The man replied: "That's right. I picked a new one from the inventory and spent a long time installing it. The fire down there was scary."

    Li Yuxi smiled and continued talking.  He said to the people sitting or standing around him: "Our squadron has participated in many battles and has not lost a single soldier so far, but we have dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. This is thanks to our maintenance personnel,  Because there was never any mechanical failure in the battle against the enemy. We were united and covered each other when attacked, so we won the victory."

    The pilots stayed in twos and threes under the wings, and most of the wings had numerous bullet marks left in today's battle.  Someone shouted to them: "Who wants to eat ice cream? There is plenty here." These lively young men remembered that the ice cream from the snack bar on the ship would soon go to the palace of the Sea Dragon King, so they ran down to pick up some ice cream.  The big bucket came up, along with paper cups and wooden spoons.

    The ice cream was a hit because the drinking water thermos had been dry since 1 a.m. —— 5 ——>.  Standing on the hot flight deck under the scorching sun, the ice cream was really refreshing and delicious.  Especially since people haven’t really had a meal since breakfast.  At lunch, everyone was in the fighting position. The chef made sandwiches and coffee with apples, and everyone passed them around. Most of them were hungry now.

    Yang Mingyun stayed with Li Yuxi for a long time.  Eating ice cream while listening to him joke with the pilots about his plane.  This aircraft once had a strange problem. The firing coordinator that controlled one of the front cannons was not working properly. As a result, Li Yuxi punched many holes in the propeller.  The maintenance crew tried their best to repair it, because each time a new propeller was destroyed, and propellers could not grow back like mushrooms.  at last.  They changed the coordinator.  The electrical system was checked and the engine was even replaced last night.

    This morning, the plane was flown by Navy Captain Ba Tiancheng.  Before the plane took off, the ground crew chief alerted the pilot.  The last propeller of this type on the ship was installed on this aircraft.  A few hours later, he returned to the aircraft carrier, and the ground crew was disappointed when the engines stopped and there was another hole in the propeller.  Ba Tiancheng said.  He intercepted a Japanese torpedo plane and took aim before realizing there was something wrong with the gun.  He hesitated, but pressed the fire button.  There was the usual vibration when shooting.  This time he didn't care.  The Japanese plane was hit, caught fire, and fell.  He estimated that the Japanese plane was shot down by artillery shells and part of the propeller fragments.

    Some pilots took out their small yellow rubber boats and gave them to the mechanics who slid into the sea along the ropes.  This small boat is more than enough to carry one person, and several people can sit on it without getting wet.  A fighter squadron ground crew leader got into a small rubber boat and started paddling.  There was a flare gun hanging on his waist, and his hat was tilted elegantly on his head.  Squadron leader Qi Wenhao whistled at him, and he rowed back and asked, "What's the matter, squadron leader?"

    Qi Wenhao said: "It's okay. I just want to say. You look very impressive. It's only four hundred nautical miles to Japan."

    Lieutenant Commander Rong Keding came over and said to Yang Mingyun: "I said, you have written a report for the newspaper now, right?" Yang Mingyun told them that he was a war reporter.

    Yang Mingyun replied: "It's written. But you haven't done anything for me yet."

    "There is one thing you can report. In the last hour, we operated the Tiger Hill as if we were back in ancient times. The steering, communications, gyro compass and autopilot all failed. We returned to using magnetic compasses, artificial rudders and verbal communication.  The era of passwords." He said and smiled.

    Lieutenant Commander Rong Keding told Yang Mingyun that it was a recruit who reported the first torpedo hit.  The young man called the damage control service to report that a torpedo had blown a large hole in his cabin at the waterline.  Most of the hole is above the waterline.

    "Why don't you block it?" said an emotional sergeant major.

    The young man replied: "The hole is too big and I can't block it. You can see a cruiser from the hole."

    "Then close the watertight door. Just leave it alone." The sergeant major warned him.

    There were only a few people left on the flight deck.  Leaving is Captain Qu Wentai.  He slid from the flight deck more than ten meters high into the sea.?It's 100 meters out.  Later, Yang Mingyun saw him turn around and swim back, and soon climbed up along a rope.

    "Why are you back?" a pilot asked.

    "Oh, I feel a little lonely there. I don't know anyone there. When are you coming?" he replied.

    No one was in a hurry to leave the ship.  It was only later that Yang Mingyun was called upon and found out that 92% of the personnel on the ship had been saved.  After listening to the report, Captain Yang Baiyu discovered that only eight percent of the personnel were missing.  These people must have died in air battles, bombings and torpedo attacks, as well as during firefighting and explosions inside the ship.  The captain was convinced that all those who were alive when the order to abandon ship were issued were saved.

    Yang Mingyun and the ship's flight officer, Lieutenant Commander Ai Xiaolei, finally walked around the flight deck and met Lieutenant Commander Bai Leshan, who looked a little worried.

    Earlier that day, when he was returning to land after attacking the Japanese, the group leader had scolded him for not shaving.  His beard is longer now.

    "Why haven't you shaved yet?" Major Ai Xiaolei asked.

    He replied: "Oh, I have nothing to scratch. The bomb blew up my cabin. To make matters worse, the manuscript I showed you that night was burned. Two years of hard work were in vain.  ”

    He said that as far as he knew, all his men had left the ship and he was preparing to leave.  People thought this was a good idea, so Yang Mingyun and Ai Xiaolei found a place behind the starboard side and waited until a cruiser parked there sent a motorboat.

    Yang Mingyun picked a rope with a big knot on the head and carefully slid it down.  Ai Xiaolei was a little careless and did not hold the rope tightly.  He slid into the water, his palms were burning, and one of his legs was scratched.

    Yang Mingyun climbed onto a raft and then onto a motorboat.  The motorboat also towed several life rafts filled with people to the cruiser, and all people were aboard.  Yang Mingyun stayed on the motorboat.  Together with the helmsman, he went to fish for others.

    This time the pilots drove to the port side of the "Tiger Hill".  There were people there who had been swimming in the water for a long time.  Those on the raft would be safe as long as Yang Mingyun and the others drove beside them, but some of them were almost exhausted. If they were not brought to the ship as soon as possible.  There will also be trouble.

    The motorboat whizzed past the stern of the "Huqiu" without trying to tow the raft.  The helmsman controlled the engine and rudder, and Yang Mingjun dragged the swimmer onto the boat.  The first person pulled up was Captain Lin Yudan, the warship's weather officer.  He wears only a shirt and is a good swimmer.  Yang Mingjun greeted him with a smile: "It's not like going home, is it?"

    "This is the easiest time to feel homesick." He said with a smile.

    The pilots continued to fish the crew members out of the water.  By the time it reached Ensign Shamford of the Second Reconnaissance Squadron, almost 60 people had been picked up.  He was swimming sideways, holding a water bottle —— 5 ——> and a can of 50 cigarettes in one hand.

    “Catch it, you idiots.” He raised his hands and said.

    After Yang Mingyun took them, he stepped in and threw them to the people who had been rescued behind him. Many people were lying on the boat deck trying to cough up the seawater in their lungs.  In the blink of an eye, Shamford was already on the boat.  He found the cigarettes, held one in his mouth, patted Yang Mingyun on the back and said, "Are there any matches?" Yang Mingyun said no.  "Who has matches?" he turned and asked.

    When Yang Mingyun returned to the cruiser, he passed the stern of the "Huqiu" when another violent explosion occurred.  The flight deck in the middle of the warship was blown away and a fire broke out.  Almost at the same time, there was a flash of fire, the bomb exploded, and the warship shook violently.  Black smoke billowed into the sky.  Debris from the deck and steel plates on both sides fell like raindrops on the sea for hundreds of meters in radius, threatening everyone in the water and on the boat.

    Later, Yang Mingjun learned that Lieutenant Colonel Lin Zun and Rear Admiral Yang Baiyu were sliding down the rope from "Tiger Hill" at that time, and they were shaken by the explosion on the ship and let go.  Both fell into the sea.

    Just a few minutes later, the back of the flight deck was blown away again.  The torpedo's head exploded and the plane was swept into the sea.  At this time.  Rear Admiral Yang Baiyu and Lieutenant Commander Lin Zun swam to a motorboat and then transferred to a cruiser —— 5 ——>.  They were the last to leave the "Tiger Hill" and had just completed the last check to see if all personnel had left the ship.

    Lin Zun later told Yang Mingyun about this incident: "We walked toward the stern of the ship, and I urged the captain to move quickly, because I knew those bombs should have exploded long ago. He seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly stopped and asked  I waited a moment and then ran towards the superstructure. I saw him running into the combat cabin. When he came out after a while, he was wearing a No. 1 hat on his head, which was the newest and heaviest hat.  Gold-rimmed hat.”

      "As we walked to the edge, he smiled and said: 'I heard that there will be no gold rim after the war. I don't want to replace it with that yellow cotton hat. I think it's better to keep the best things.  Come down.'"

    Lin Zun said that when they reached the stern of the ship, the captain ordered him to slide down first.  He found a rope to slide down, but Rear Admiral Yang Baiyu stood on it, looking back thoughtfully at the smoke-filled warship.

    "Hurry up, Captain. Don't wait any longer." Lin Zun urged him.  Rear Admiral Yang Baiyu looked down at him and said slowly: "I was thinking I left the warship. If the fire goes out, wouldn't I look too stupid?"

    It can be said that the sea water is hot now.  The automatic water temperature gauge on the Tiger Hill read thirty-two degrees Celsius, which was only a few degrees lower than the temperature of blood.  Moreover, it can be said that it is a shark-infested place, with vicious sharks of all sizes swimming among the reefs and following ships passing through the Coral Sea.

    The lookout post of the "Huqiu" is constantly searching the nearby sea with its vigilant eyes. Every rolling white wave can be suspected to be the track of the submarine's periscope.  In the days before the final battle, they saw thousands of sharks, so everyone was worried that if the ship was to be abandoned one day, those sharks would be a scourge.

    "If we swim in this sea, we will be eaten by sharks." The deck crew always said this with certainty when they gathered on the flight deck to chat —— 5 ——>.  However, when the time came, when the "Huqiu" abandoned the ship, thousands of people did not see a single shark.  Neither on the flight deck nor on the rescue ship's lookout, the keen eyes could see not even a single fin or exposed, flashing tail.

    ps: An organization uses a red cross as its symbol, advocates saving lives and healing the wounded, and advertises the preservation of poverty.  In fact, it is just a cover to make money through business operations. There are countless industries under its umbrella, the network is huge and complex, and the operating methods are mysterious. All of them enjoy privileges because of the protection of this organization. The core members of this organization have official backgrounds, get something for nothing, and enjoy huge sums of money.  wealth.  What organization is this?  Answer: Knights Templar.

    Asking for a monthly ticket!
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