The joint emergency force stationed at the westernmost part of the base rushed toward the center the moment it realized what was happening.
That was where the command headquarters, family housing, and two attack-type strategic nuclear submarines docked in the shipyard were located!
The Seventh Fleet had originally possessed five attack-type nuclear submarines.
Three had gone out to sea with the fleet, while the remaining two had stayed behind at the base port.
Normally, aside from attack-type strategic nuclear submarines unable to stand watch due to maintenance, repairs, personnel changes, non-combat missions, or other reasons,
all attack-type strategic nuclear submarines that could immediately enter combat duty carried a sufficient number of nuclear warheads at all times.
As it happened, neither of the two attack-type strategic nuclear submarines at the base had any problems.
Their maintenance and repair work had also been completed last month.
They had remained here to fulfill the Lighthouse Nation's obligation of providing Japan with "nuclear protection" under the Lighthouse Nation–Japan Security Treaty.
Therefore, they had to ensure that those two attack-type strategic nuclear submarines did not fall into enemy hands.
That priority was even higher than the base commander's safety.
As for sending word of the enemy attack outside, they had naturally tried many times already.
Unfortunately, the ninjas had long since destroyed both the base's communications stations and its national defense fiber-optic cables.
They had even destroyed more than a dozen nodes of the underground communications cables outside in Yokosuka City.
The entire Yokosuka Peninsula had thus become an "information island."
Even satellites in the sky found it difficult to locate and communicate with the area.
Though it was impossible to conceal what had happened here for long, communications between the inside and outside would at least remain cut off until dawn.
If the outside