**My comrade-in-arms Zheng Tianwei's "My Love is in the Sea" series of articles-2
Ordered from a different place
The overhaul work was carried out in a tense and orderly atmosphere, everyone dutifully completed each task, and the superiors had new instructions, the whole ship was derusted, painted with anti-rust paint, and repainted with hull paint, so that the battleship took on a new look. This order was somewhat unexpected, because our ship had just left the factory and was in service, and the paint was basically not old, so it was reasonable to say that there was no need to repaint. However, since the military order has been issued, it must be carried out unconditionally, regardless of whether it is understood or not. So, everyone began to work on the deck, the integrated warehouse of the logistics department quickly sent the paint to the dock, the sail and cable squad kept mixing the required colors, everyone tied up the seat belts, set up the springboard, and began to beautify our battleship. One day, I was sitting on the gangplank, with my seat belt on my waist, hanging from the side of the boat, wielding a roller brush and paint tied to a stick, when I heard someone shouting that the captain had returned. Turning his face to look at the dock, sure enough, the boss of our ship was carrying a leather bag, dusty, and in a hurry, striding towards the ship. My heart couldn't help but move, it was normal for cadres to go on vacation, go to sea on duty, cruise, by the deputy commander **, if necessary, the captain, the captain's team leaders can board the ship at any time to go to sea and assist the deputy commander in his work. What exactly is the mission waiting for us this time? The sudden large-scale overhaul, the refresh paint on the whole ship, the urgent recall of the ship boss who had just left the team on leave, everything was unexpected, everything seemed particularly mysterious, and it seemed that what was waiting for us must be a very important task.
After the hard work of all the crew, the maintenance work was basically completed, a large number of grain, vegetables, and voyage food were continuously replenished to the ship, and the seawater in the ballast water tanks before and after the ship was all discharged, after a clean and thorough cleaning, it was filled with fresh water for a long time at sea. The technical staff of the 4810 factory of the aviation protection department of the base specially boarded the ship and lowered the freezing temperature of the ship's freezer a lot. (It wasn't until the end of the mission that I realized that I had lowered the temperature of the freezer, which could fully meet the needs of food storage, because I was worried about an accident at sea and built **staff** to facilitate the preservation of the remains of the victims.) We also carried some large plastic bags for the remains. Although so many years have passed since this incident, it still feels quite scary in retrospect).
On this day, after returning to the ship from the brigade headquarters, the captain and the political commissar gathered all the crew members to announce that after the careful preparation of the comrades, the preliminary preparations for this mission had been completed, and that today we would go to the fleet to receive specific tasks and action plans. You can use the following time to write letters to your family, relatives and friends, telling them that they will not be able to contact them for a long time, please do not worry and worry, but you must pay attention to the wording, pay attention to the problem of not leaking secrets, before dinner, hand over to the messenger to send to the brigade headquarters to send, after today, no one is allowed to write a letter, not to contact the outside world in any way, if there is a violation, severe punishment will not be granted. After dinner that day, the bell of three short and one long bell (the order to prepare for war and prepare for sailing) sounded, and the ship's attendant issued an order to prepare for war and sailing, and all the crew quickly rushed to their posts and began to prepare for sailing. With the report of the head of each department "preparing for the voyage", the captain's loud command echoed through the loudspeaker: "Four cables are retracted, three cables are retracted, two cars are back to one, the left is full of rudders, two cables are retracted, one cable is retracted, two cars are in one, and two cars are in two." Signal man, please signal the signal station, our ship will leave the port". In the sound of the loud whistle, we sailed away from the military port, blended into the vast sea, into the dusk of the sunset, the comrades of the ** mountain signal station sent us the last set of light signals, "I wish you a smooth sailing".
After eight hours of night sailing, the next morning we arrived at the seat of the fleet, a city known as the "Switzerland of the East", and sailed across the Naval Aviation Corps Island Maritime Airfield, stopping at Pier 3 of the Grand Port. At this time, we were surprised to find that another of the three brothers of the icebreaker had also arrived from its station. Like us, it is fully loaded, with a low side, a waterline sinking deep below the surface of the sea, and a new hull, is it going to carry out this mission with us? Everyone was silently guessing in their hearts. (This is my first time in this city, and I was impressed by its beauty, where I saw the famous Lu Xun Park, the aquarium, the small fish mountain, the famous trestle bridge, and the high church.) The head of the fleet was very concerned about us, and specially instructed the relevant leaders and relevant departments to send us to the local famous tourist scenic spot in the country in the busy preparations for sailing, so that we could appreciate the beautiful scenery and the magic of nature, and also visited the historical Taoism in the scenic area, and the legendary location of the magical Taoist priest who can walk through the wall Shangqing Palace, Xiaqing Palace. Later in the military period, it became a common thing to travel to and from the city, and I had to travel and stop many times a year, so that I knew the layout of the city, the roads, and the famous shopping malls by heart, just like the city I was stationed in). The mystery will finally be revealed, and on this day, the speculation in our hearts for many days can finally be stopped, and the leaders of the fleet's combat department gave us an order to carry out this mission in the dock auditorium, and cooperated with the X Department of the General Staff and the X Department of the Sea Division to complete a major voyage operation. The target, the Sea of Japan and the Northwest Pacific, lasted for two months, and the operation was codenamed "844". The purpose is, first, to demonstrate the capability of our navy to fight in the open sea; the second is to break the military hegemony of the Sea of Japan, which is known as the "military forbidden zone"; The third is to enjoy equal rights of navigation on the high seas and the sharing of resources on the high seas. It is also another action after China launched a long-range carrier rocket in 1980 and the navy sailed to the South Pacific for the first time. I hope that everyone will stick to their respective posts, resolutely complete this arduous and glorious task, and present to the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. At the same time, I hope that everyone will abide by discipline, keep in mind the code of secrecy, do a good job in secrecy work, and never allow the slightest leak to anyone, otherwise military law will be involved. It was only then that everyone understood why they wanted to repaint the hull and go abroad, the appearance of the ship and the appearance of the ship can directly reflect the basic quality of an army, reflect the basic information such as the training level of the army and the mental state of the soldiers.
The work of going to sea is ready to continue, but the main role is no longer us, many new, sophisticated instruments are constantly installed in place, the radar class of the Guantong department has replaced the radar with a longer detection range, the newspaper class has also added high-power single-sideband marine radio and security telephones, and the navigation department has added satellite navigation systems (GPS) and meteorological satellite cloud image receivers to the general flights. The personnel who participated in the mission also began to board the ship, and I was surprised that some of them were wearing army uniforms instead of navy personnel. Later, in the days when I spent time with them at sea, I learned that they were the technicians of the X Department of the General Staff, a group of people who worked and dedicated silently behind the scenes. Hehe, it's not an easy thing to add dozens of people to the ship all at once, and the burden of the cooking class has increased a lot, and you have to have to do two meals at once. In order to complete the mission, for the sake of revolutionary friendship, we had to live in a tool room, a repair room, a dressing room, and an air-conditioning room. It is also because of this experience that when the factory was repaired later, the unnecessary free space on the ship was compressed, and many cabins were added, which avoided the recurrence of this situation. In order to ensure safety, the Fleet Security Department has specially issued boarding permits, which are issued to personnel participating in this mission other than the crew of our ship, and clearly instructed them to show them when boarding the ship, and to accept the inspection of the commander and the armed guard, and strictly prohibit unrelated personnel from stepping on our ship. After a period of continuous preparation, all the personnel participating in the mission were in place, and all the instruments and equipment were installed and debugged, and the shore support department once again replenished us with food, medicine, grain, and fresh water.
On the morning of that day, Li Yaowen, political commissar of the navy, who was on his way to inspect the fleet, went to the ship, accompanied by the head of the fleet, listened to a report on the state of preparations, inspected the warships that were about to set sail, and gave the order to set sail to He Changyun, chief of staff and deputy political commissar of the "844" squadron. In the loud song of the People's Navy's advance, under the affectionate gaze of everyone, and in the silent blessing of everyone, the battleship set sail, and the two battleships, one after the other, left the dock, sailed away from the military port, sailed into the Yellow Sea, sailed to the first island chain, and sailed to the distant northwest Pacific Ocean.