Chapter 1535: The Captain Kept in the Dark
A few hours later.
Chinese Navy Yazhou Base.
The fleet commander Yang Yue, who had just disembarked from the Star City, had no intention of resting. After getting off the ship, he kept on walking, asking the confidentiality officer to polish the report he had written on the ship and submit it, while calling on a group of technicians who had been waiting near the dock to rush to the adjacent berth.
Although the specific process was full of coincidences and no real "battle" occurred, this was the first time in the history of the People's Navy, and even the entire Chinese Navy, that a foreign warship was officially "captured".
It is still the latest conventional submarine.
You know, China has not even had time to establish systematic technical intelligence information for the Soryu-class, but it is generally believed that it is still superior to China's current main 636M and 039B types in some technologies.
What's more, this is from the Self-Defense Forces.
Historically, the People's Navy did not inherit the Beiyang Fleet, but it never denied the sacrifices and contributions made by its predecessors in resisting foreign aggression.
It's heaven's will that this is the case.
Even if he just wanted to watch the fun, he had to go inside the Canglong to take a look as soon as possible.
After a wait that seemed like an eternity, the damaged Canglong was finally safely "laid aside" by Nantuo 195 in a floating dock.
"Let's go, get on the boat!"
Yang Yuelun waved his hand and was the first to step onto the wobbly gangway...
In the range of conventional submarines, the Soryu-class is already a true behemoth, but like all of its peers, the interior of the submarine is still small and cramped, the air is turbid and stuffy, and even the electronic nautical charts in the command cabin are squeezed into the angle formed by the console and the operating table.
Fortunately, Yang Yuelun had been on the smaller 033 and 035 submarines before, and he was very excited, so he didn't feel uncomfortable at all.
The engineers and submarine technical officers behind them also climbed down the ladder, making the already small space even more cramped.
For the Chinese Navy, the Type 89 wire-guided torpedoes and Harpoon missiles are not worth studying, and the bow and side array sonars are almost completely destroyed. What is truly valuable is the MOF integrated command system and the Stirling engine behind it.
Before boarding the boat just now, Yang Yuelun had already assigned tasks to everyone.
Therefore, without any additional orders, more than a dozen people got busy.
As for himself, he naturally had to take a general look at the interior of this "trophy" first.
"TMD..."
After a while, Yang Yuelun cursed without warning, scaring the people around him and thinking that they had not done their job well. When they turned around, they found that he was concentrating on fiddling with the handle on the periscope operating table and was not paying attention to other directions at all.
"Captain Yang, what are you doing..."
A professional technical officer who was about the same age as Yang Yuelun asked tentatively.
"Oh... it's okay." Yang Yuelun waved his hand. "I was just thinking, after all, we salvaged this boat in the name of rescue, and we still have to return it to Xiaobenzi..."
The officer behind him saw this and stopped pretending:
"That's right. In my opinion, we should treat it as a captured ship and put it into service in our submarine detachment after repairing it..."
A happy atmosphere suddenly filled the command module.
It's just talk anyway, so just do whatever makes you feel good.
But at this moment, Xie Jiangming, an information engineer at a device station a little further away, suddenly turned around and reported: "A key data hard disk in the command module has been removed. We can only restore part of the data through the work logs in other storage devices."
The others also became serious again.
"It doesn't matter if we don't have detailed data," Yang Yuelun replied. "As long as we can determine the type of information the other party has obtained, it will be easier for us to offer a high price when we negotiate with the Self-Defense Forces later."
China has also been vigorously advancing underwater mapping work in relevant waters, and does not necessarily require data in different formats and which is obviously incomplete.
Time passed by minute by minute.
"Strange..." Xie Jiangming sighed and murmured.
Although I was talking to myself, it was clear as day in this small space.
Yang Yuelun struggled to squeeze through the people behind him and came behind the other person. "What's going on?"
"The restored information is very messy..." Xie Jiangming scratched his head, looking puzzled. "It not only includes the Haiti topographic data from normal sonar mapping, but also the magnetic field, gravity field, fault zone structure and some...it seems to be the distribution of microscopic particles...Some of them are obviously not obtained during this mapping process, but were originally stored in it..."
Yang Yuelun tried to see clearly what was on the laptop screen, but was soon dazzled by the vast number of units and numbers.
"The magnetic field is understandable and is very useful in anti-submarine warfare..." He had no choice but to give up delving into the technical details and speculated based on his command experience, "But the gravity field..."
The older technical officer at the beginning also guessed at this time: "The gravity field will not be blocked by seawater. In theory... maybe it can be used for navigation?"
"The difference in gravity field at different locations at the same latitude is very small. Only large-scale land-based equipment can detect the tiny differences in g values at different locations. I'm afraid it's impossible to install it on a submarine." Xie Jiangming shook his head, "Besides, there is no one-to-one correlation."
Then he added: "If I have to say, compared to military intelligence, these things are more likely to be of interest to physicists..."
"How can a submarine be used for physics research..."
Yang Yuelun suddenly felt annoyed for no reason and rolled his eyes in annoyance.
After a while, he suddenly turned around:
"You guys continue working, I'm going to go meet that Sato Kenji"
……
Kenji Sato stood at the window of the temporary shelter, looking through the iron fence towards the direction of the dock.
The fence is part of the anti-theft window, not a confinement device.
Of course, there was another tall building in the middle, so I couldn't see anything.
He looked tired, but still maintained a military posture.
The TV next to me was playing military news:
"On the morning of January 1, a fleet of ships of the South China Sea Fleet was carrying out a training mission in the waters near the Zhongsha Islands when it suddenly received a distress signal from a foreign ship. Subsequently, our navy's Taocheng and other warships quickly rushed to the incident area to carry out rescue..."
Sato could understand some Chinese, but as a self-taught man he certainly couldn't keep up with the speed of the news station and could only glance at the images being broadcast from time to time.
Just now, Nantuo 195 was towing the bow of the Canglong out of the water.
The scene now shifted to the naval port, where the Soryu was docked crookedly in the floating dock like a stranded whale.
The crack in the bow of the submarine was covered by a buoy that had not yet been removed, and several Chinese naval technicians were busy around it.
"Captain Sato." A voice in slightly stiff Japanese came from behind. "I hope to talk to you in private. There will be no recording or video, and it will not be used as evidence."
Sato believes that the Soryu was not in the territorial waters of another country when it was discovered. Although in theory, illegal surveying in the exclusive economic zone is still suspected of being a crime, the issue will definitely be resolved through negotiation in the end.
Of course, he wasn't going to hide anything from the other party.
One hundred thousand yen a month, what are you trying to do?
In fact, when he was on the submarine rescue ship before, Sato once put the hard drive he carried with him on the bedside table and slept, hoping that it would be tacitly "stolen" by the Chinese Navy. This would not only save him the trouble of being constantly interrogated, but also allow him to give himself an explanation in his heart.
However, until I got off the ship, the hard drive was still lying safely on the bedside table.
"What do you want to know?" Sato went straight to the point without any resistance.
Yang Yuelun even felt that he was more proactive than himself.
"What is your mission on this trip?"
"Mapping key waterways and underwater terrain near islands is to prepare for possible submarine warfare or underwater mine laying in the future." Sato answered frankly, "Normally, this task would be completed by a dedicated hydrographic survey ship, but we don't have such a ship yet, so we can only use submarines."
Yang Yuelun sneered and asked Sato to mark those "mission points" on the nautical chart.
He was only halfway through drawing when he signaled for the other party to stop, and then pointed to several locations on the map: "Even from the most cursory public nautical chart, many places here are not suitable for submarine concealment or minelaying." Yang Yuelun stared at Sato, "Some points have no military value. What are you hiding?"
Sato was numb, feeling aggrieved that he had been given a great memory recovery technique but knew nothing. He could only shake his head and said, "The order I received was just surveying and mapping, nothing else."
Then, perhaps to enhance his persuasiveness, he added: "We have carried out similar surveying and mapping missions on the high seas and in the sphere of influence of other countries before. You can verify this with my deputy captain and the sonar chief."
Yang Yuelun said nothing more, and directly opened his laptop to display some of the data that had just been restored:
"We discovered that the Canglong was also equipped with a lot of physical detection equipment, and the recorded data contained a lot of data that had nothing to do with underwater topography. Could these also be related to submarine warfare?"
Sato leaned over and stared at the data on the screen for a while.
However, soon, his expression became even more shocked than Yang Yuelun's.
"What are these?" Sato asked blankly, "Some of them look like magnetic fields... but I have never collected this data... You said this was found on the Soryu?"
Yang Yuelun frowned.
The other party's shock did not seem to be pretended, it was possible that he was truly unaware.
Besides, since they have already admitted to illegally mapping underwater topography, a little more doesn't matter.
A bold guess gradually formed in his mind -
Underwater mapping was just a cover, someone was using the Soryu to perform another mission.
