Chapter 120 The decisive battle
It is indeed impossible to fight. This frigate has four nuclear anti-submarine missiles, but it is helpless against the enemy who is close at hand because it is too close, so close that it is almost directly below. Not to mention using nuclear deep bombs, even ordinary deep bombs may have the possibility of blowing up the enemy and blowing themselves up first. Then they fall in love with 520.
But just as the captain and his subordinates stared at the sonar screen with tears in their eyes, Ersha's attack began, and the giant sea monster began its classic sprint that had already made the US Navy unforgettable.
"Fire deep bombs!" Looking at the enemy shooting like underwater shells, the captain roared in horror.
Unfortunately, he overestimated the courage of his soldiers. He fired deep bombs? Where to go, throw them down against the side of the ship? More than 100 kilograms of zha medicine exploded under him, and it was impossible to injure the enemy underwater for two thousand meters, but there was no problem with hurting himself. The current situation is very clear. Launching ordinary deep bombs is useless. Launching nuclear anti-submarine missiles and monsters die together. If they do not launch nuclear anti-submarine missiles, the monsters will definitely use torpedoes to destroy their warships.
The Washington can testify.
Since there is anything else to choose from, all the people around you will die, so why not run away quickly!
Almost all the sailors gave up their responsibilities and fled to their posts. While Ersha fired two torpedoes, they fled to the head of the ship that was the least likely to be a target, rushing to jump to the sea.
On a accompanied environmental protection yacht in the distance, the passengers and reporters held telescopes and cameras and looked at the scene in a daze. Before they could understand what was going on, they saw the 4,000-ton frigate jumping up hard, and then huge waves sprayed into the sky with steel debris.
At this time, less than two kilometers away, the Nassau was crazily spraying rockets outwards, and smoke traces turned the entire warship into dazzling fireworks.
"Start, keep firing!" Major General Thomas roared.
At this time, he was sweating protrudingly. The infamous monster put too much pressure on him. After all, the Washington was destroyed under its attack. The Nassau was not as strong as the Washington. If he wanted to save his life, he had to delay until the Yorkshire entered the nuclear anti-submarine missile range. It won't take too long, it only takes a few minutes.
But unfortunately, this is a completely impossible luxury for this ancient warship that has been built for nearly 40 years, because while the frigate was blown in half, the paths of the two heavy torpedoes had already stabbed under its waterline like spears.
"Torpedo!" Amid a series of terrifying screams, a steam gas torpedo rushed over to the head of the Nassau ship, but before the sailors could sweat, the second torpedo hit the waterline of the ship. The 400 kilograms of black cordon was instantly detonated, and the flames ejected out with sea water and steel in the terrifying explosion.
Nearly twenty kilometers away, looking at the faint flames in the direction of the Nassau in the distance, the captain of the Yorkshire kept urging to accelerate. The acceleration of the gas turbine was unquestionable. Driven by the powerful power of nearly 90,000 horsepower, the 9,000-ton giant ship accelerated to more than thirty knots in a very short time. Because there was no vertical launch device, the old Aslock used on this cruiser actually had a range of only more than ten kilometers. Such a distance was not enough to launch nuclear anti-submarine missiles, and it had to be closer.
"Enemy attack!"
But at this moment, with the sonar screaming, five spots of light appeared on the sonar screen. At a high speed of two hundred knots, it was inserted diagonally in front of it.
"Continue to move forward!" the captain roared, he knew the targets of these enemies very well, and at this moment, a series of flames suddenly exploded in the direction of the Nassau, followed by a sound of explosions like muffled thunder.
The Nassau was hit with four more torpedoes.
Ersha didn't escape a single attack in the second round. A total of five heavy torpedoes almost completely blew up the starboard side. At the shocking cracks, sea water poured in crazily.
"Abandon the ship, abandon the ship immediately!" Major General Thomas issued an order without hesitation. The ending of this warship is destined. The power of the five heavy torpedoes will be severely damaged even if they survive this round of attacks. Moreover, even if they survive this round of attacks, they will not be able to survive the next round. Since this is the case, there is no need to let more people continue to die for the ridiculous decisions of those politicians.
After receiving the order from the fleet commander, the Nassau, which had already begun to sink, was immediately in chaos. Everyone rushed to escape the docking compartment at the tail. As an amphibious assault ship, its docking compartment contained a large number of hovercraft that could be used for evacuation.
Just as the Nassau began to evacuate on a large scale, Yorkshire and the Gates, who were reinforced on the other side, entered the anti-submarine missile launch distance almost at the same time, but unfortunately they could not launch either, because at this time their enemy was just below the Nassau, and an explosion of 10,000 tons would swallow all the hundreds of sailors evacuating.
"These bastards!" the captain of the Yorkshire roared angrily, but then his troubles came, because the enemy who attacked him had entered within ten kilometers, and with the route and speed of both sides, it would take less than a minute to rush to him.
"Slow down and turn left to move closer to the frigate!" The captain made a decision immediately.
The Yorkshire, which originally reinforced the Nassau, immediately turned left and turned toward the frigate five kilometers away. At this time, except for the two frigates who came forward to respond to Major General Thomas and Nassau crew, and at the same time took over the front defense mission of Nassau. One ship cooperated with an Austin-class dock landing ship at the rear to defend the rear road, the remaining four frigates and one Austin-class were all scattered outwards. The entire fleet could no longer guarantee two lines of defense. It would be possible to form a new line of defense with enhanced firepower, otherwise it would have to be defeated one by one.
But at this moment, all the sonars of each ship lost the trace of the giant octopus. The latter, with the cover of Major General Thomas and others above his head, dived directly into the seabed. The complex terrain and the constant interference sounds coming from around seriously affected the sonar's detection ability. The sonar that had not been found in the background of the seabed was also unable to find it at this time. Everyone knew where it was, but they could not know its exact location.
Five targets on the starboard side of the Yorkshire also stopped, seven kilometers away, and even the cruiser's phased array radar could occasionally detect their dorsal fins on the sea surface.
"What do they want to do?" The captain and his subordinates looked at each other.
It is meaningless to launch nuclear anti-submarine missiles at such a distance. The opponent can clearly see the trajectory of the missile's launch. This distance requires 20 seconds to fly. Twenty seconds, these guys are enough to jump out of two kilometers. In addition, the warhead falls into the water and explodes, so they can easily avoid the attack range of the explosion.
Unless luck is against the will of a terrible, missile landing points can be on their escape path, it is a pure waste of ammunition.
The sea, which was originally full of war, suddenly returned to calm, and there was a strange calmness. Only the sunken Nassau occasionally heard an explosion. In the guards of the entire fleet, the crew members of the tanker were looking at the periphery tremblingly, waiting for the outcome of the battle.
Because of no interference, the remaining US warships completed the formation again, including Major General Thomas, who were also taken to a frigate, but they all knew very well that the battle was far from over.
At this time, on the outside of the battlefield, the environmental organizations hired more and more ships. Most of them were large wealthy yachts with ocean navigation capabilities. There were also some fishing boats. When they left Panama City, there were more than 200 ships. The last storm forced them to retreat, but there were still more than 100. They were all rich and leisure guys, including journalists from various countries. Most of them were watching the fun. Anyway, it was just a sea trip to Hawaii. It was not worth mentioning to these guys who often crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean.
Because of the broadcast of these ships, the US imperialists' defeat in the battle was being sent to people of all countries around the world through the Internet and TV.
"The politicians in Washington succeeded. They got a show, but unfortunately, it was someone else's." Major General Thomas, who escaped, sneered. Because he ran in time, less than twenty people died on the Nassau, and all the others escaped. As for his clothes not even wet.
Just as he finished saying this, the head of a frigate in the distance suddenly flashed with a flash of flames, and then huge waves spurted into the sky.
"The Cromlin touched a mine!" The Chief of Staff reported to Major General Thomas with grief.
"Touching the mine? Where did the mine come from?" Major General Thomas said in shock.
He was indeed shocked. The mine could only be sent by the enemy to close range. However, even if the sonar system is being disturbed, the Cromlin, which has multiple sets of sonars, would not allow a monster to run quietly in front of it and drop a mine. If it was dropped before, it would be even more impossible to avoid the sonar. This thing is metal, and in order to achieve buoyancy, there is an internal cavity. Although it is small, the echo in the sea water is still very obvious.
The Chief of Staff shook his head. He did not know that the Cromlin didn't even get any warning, but at this moment, the head of the Austin-class dock landing ship Dubuk suddenly shook upwards, and then the explosion of huge waves erupted.
"Stop moving forward, the fleet stop moving forward!" Major General Thomas shouted without hesitation, wiped a cold sweat.
The advancing fleet immediately began to slow down, and at the same time the propeller reversed. Dozens of ships, including the mine-hitting Dubuk and Cromlin, stopped slowly. All the U.S. Navy officers and soldiers stared at the sea in surprise. The two mines came too strangely. The only enemy who could put this thing was nearly ten kilometers on the starboard side of Yorkshire. So who put them on the channel? (To be continued. (520.))
Chapter completed!