One Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety-Seven Every Second Counts

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, faster——" Luo Qi's loud voice echoed in the radio, and the soldiers in full power armor quickly gathered near the airlock.

Seeing the last soldier arrive, Luo Qi immediately shouted on the radio: "Bridge, Marines in place, request to close Area A9!"

"Bridge received!" Before the voice fell, all the isolation doors near the airlock fell at the same time.

After the gate was closed, Luo Qi and the soldiers immediately heard the hissing sound of gasps. After a while, the sound disappeared completely, and the originally closed double-layer airlock opened silently.

Luo Qi swung his right arm over his head: "Follow me!" After saying that, he jumped out of the airlock first.

All the members of the Marine Corps followed Luo Qi and floated out of the airlock in a line. After the last member passed through the airlock, the gate slowly closed.

Like all human warships, the Leishan is divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers are separated by an airlock, and both entering and exiting the inner layer must pass through the airlock.

But the space in the airlock is too small. Even if you use all your strength, you can only squeeze in three or four people at most.

There are not many marines on the Leishan, but only three or four people can go at a time. It will take at least seven or eight times to get all of them into the outer layer.

The military situation is urgent at the moment. One second in advance may determine the survival of the Leishan. In order to speed up the process, Ye Han personally decided to close the airtight layer.

The same situation not only occurred here with Luo Qi, but also happened simultaneously at the other two airlocks.

Luo Qi originally planned to take the marines to complete the transportation task independently, but after a little thought, he knew that the marines alone could not handle it, so he gathered people as quickly as possible and organized two other teams. Each team was responsible for a turret to speed up the transportation of shells.

Outside the airlock is a passage leading directly to the bow of the ship. It is more than two meters high and more than two meters wide, and the cross-section is almost a square. Two team members standing side by side can block the passage tightly.

This passage leads to the bow. Luo Qi's target is a damaged turret above the bow, which is also the farthest from the inner layer among the three turrets.

There are handrails on the four walls of the passage for easy passage. Luo Qi grabbed one of them and pulled his arm violently. The whole person jumped forward like a fish in water: "Those behind, hurry up and catch up!"

The soldiers followed Luo Qi one after another in silence.

The length of Leishan is 316 meters.

The straight-line distance between the airlock and the target turret is only a little over 100 meters. In a few breaths, Luo Qi arrived at the end of the field.

The passage there suddenly became much wider, and there were two explosion-proof doors on the bulkhead, one leading directly to the turret and the other leading to the ammunition compartment.

Luo Qi didn't pay attention to the turret, so he opened the door of the ammunition compartment directly. When he looked inside, he was immediately stunned by the scene in the ammunition compartment.

At some point, the wall in front of the ammunition compartment had torn open a crack that was more than two people wide and as long as a minibus. Half of the crack was a brilliant starry sky, and the other half was a distorted turret.

The situation in the ammunition compartment was also not optimistic. The ammunition transport equipment was seriously damaged, and shells, cartridges, and various debris were floating everywhere. Luo Qi even saw several broken cartridges, and the propellant was scattered everywhere.

Seeing this scene, Luo Qi almost peed on the spot, thinking that it was fortunate that it was split-loaded ammunition. If it was fixed-loaded ammunition, this ammunition compartment might have been blown up long ago.

The caliber of the naval gun on the Leishan was only 120, and fixed-loaded ammunition could be used. The reason for abandoning the fixed-loaded ammunition plan with a higher rate of fire was that split-loaded ammunition saved more space, and the second reason was that the split-loaded plan was safer.

The so-called split-loaded plan is that the warhead, cartridge, and fuse are stored separately, and the shells are assembled only before firing. If this situation occurs, the risk of secondary explosion can be minimized!

The loading speed of split-load ammunition is indeed not as fast as that of fixed-load ammunition, but the Leishan is equipped with the most advanced automatic loader, and the actual loading speed is not much slower than that of fixed-load ammunition.

Without time to observe the situation carefully, Luo Qi calmed down and ordered with an unprecedented stern attitude: "Pay attention, be careful, follow me now!"

Luo Qi took the lead and floated into the ammunition compartment, grabbed a cartridge, and after a simple inspection, he found no problems, and immediately handed it to the soldier behind him: "Quick, send it back!"

Others followed suit and immediately began to collect shells.

Although everyone was extremely careful, the ammunition compartment was too messy and the time was so tight that it was inevitable to stumble when moving. One of the soldiers even accidentally bumped into the broken cartridge, and a large handful of propellant immediately spilled out, almost drowning the careless soldier.

The soldier almost cried and was so scared that he dared not move.

Luo Qi rushed up, but he immediately told himself to calm down.

At this critical moment, getting angry won't solve any problems, and the most important thing is to complete the task quickly.

So he said in a relaxed tone: "It's okay, they are all blunt propellants. I say it again, be careful!"

"Yes!" The soldiers quickly agreed, but their voices were all very low, as if the sound was loud enough to detonate the shells in the cabin.

Luo Qi's mouth twitched, and he pushed away a shell beside him, and lightly jumped to the corner where the nuclear shells were stored.

At the same time, another ammunition compartment under the belly of the ship staged a very similar scene.

When the team responsible for carrying arrived at the ammunition compartment, they unexpectedly found that the hatch was deformed. It was stuck there and could not be opened no matter what.

Time was running out, but the team was blocked by the hatch. The officer in charge immediately became anxious and took out a laser gun to force his way in.

Another officer was quick and grabbed his wrist and asked sternly: "What do you want to do?"

"Cut it open!"

"Nonsense, use laser to cut the ammunition compartment, are you tired of living?"

"I..."

"Shut up, listen to me, come on, let's do it together!"

Several soldiers gathered together. Under the command of the officer, everyone grabbed the crack of the door with their hands and feet. Everyone shouted and worked hard together. The deformed hatch was twisted by the huge force. It was pulled off the wall by the soldiers in a short while.

"Quick!" The officer waved his hand and rushed into the ammunition compartment with the soldiers.

The last team of people encountered even more danger. There was nothing wrong with the ammunition compartment itself, but the turret outside was broken too weirdly. Half of the gun barrel penetrated the wall and inserted straight into the ammunition compartment, causing damage to the transportation equipment in the compartment.

This is nothing, the key is that at the end of the conveyor belt, there are several complete shells with fuses installed!

More importantly, the conveyor belt has been deformed. To put it more alarmist, these shells may explode at any time. Even if they are not dealt with now, they are hidden dangers that must be dealt with immediately after escaping danger.