1353: Trail of a destroyer

Half an hour later, the crew members of the lifeboat, who were frantically fleeing in all directions, saw two huge flames rising into the sky at the end of the sea area behind them.

At this distance, they could no longer hear the roar of ammunition detonation.

However, the furious flames rising from a height of 100 meters have already indicated that from now on, the famous Fifth Fleet will completely lose one capital battleship and two frigates that are rushing to the sea.

A [whaling operation], as conceived by Commander Lachit, of the Combined Fleet, should be an easy journey full of fun.

As soon as the sonar buoy is thrown into the sea, the target submarine or ship will not be immediately frightened and obediently let them slaughter?

As a result, they encountered a ship with a particularly iron head and a speed that could turn the otherwise deadly torpedo into a turtle walk.

It's like a dream.

But the icy sea breeze and the bumpy lifeboats kept forcing Lachit to stay awake.

……

The sea shimmers with golden afterglow at sunset.

When this golden afterglow slowly faded, the originally blue sea turned into an endless black curtain.

Lachit's lifeboat was like a speck of dust clinging to the curtain.

Fear, insignificance, helplessness.

By this time, their lifeboat had run out of fuel and could only move with the waves on the surface. The negative emotions brought about by the darkness are slowly draining everyone's will.

They didn't know how long they had been adrift at sea, and at last they saw a glimmer of light at the end of the darkness.

The staff officer excitedly felt for the signal from behind him and wanted to send the signal, but was pressed down by the commander Lachit.

"Confirm your identity first. As Lachit spoke, he turned on the special hand-held radio that had been turned off, and only after confirming that it was his own person did he shoot a signal flare that rose high into the sky.

On the other side of the island of Madagascar, three more warships carrying out blockade missions have finally arrived.

After a five-hour emergency voyage, they were supposed to take part in the pursuit, but instead turned into rescuing their companions who were adrift on the sea.

Two hours later, the detection radars of the three warships that had fished all the personnel from the lifeboat were fully turned on, and a full five listeners sat on the listening seats of the SQR-20 active and passive towed sonar system.

The three warships, in a vigilant posture that could not be more cautious, approached the location of the two warships that had self-destructed on the surface of the sea in the evening.

Before the evacuation, the crew recorded the GPS positioning coordinates of the two ships, and the military-grade positioning coordinate accuracy was no more than one meter in this open sea.

But the searchlight came, and there was no shadow of the wreckage of the two warships on the sea.

The two warships should have sunk into the sea, and the average depth of this sea area is 80 meters, and it is basically qualified for salvage.

They were going to salvage the two warships.

Even if the ammunition depot is detonated, the shock wave will not be able to tear the entire ship to shreds.

At the beginning of the design of modern warships, they fully absorbed the experience of blood and tears summed up by their predecessors over hundreds of years. In order to minimize the damage caused by the detonation of the ammunition depot, the ammunition depot is not only located far away from the control tower with the highest level of electronic integration, but also the ammunition depot is surrounded by high-strength alloy armor of incredible thickness to reduce the possible impact of external attacks on the ammunition depot.

In addition to being equipped with a dense fire extinguishing system, the ammunition depot will also be partitioned for different types of ammunition to reduce the power of the explosion as much as possible.

In addition, unlike the usual detonation, this time both warships have exhausted all the missiles they carry, which can greatly reduce the power of the detonation.

So even if the salvaged warship is no longer eligible for repair, the engineers can still dismantle at least half of the equipment on the ship for reuse.

Combined supply vessels, rescue and salvage vessels, arriving in two days. And during this time, they have to be prepared.

An unmanned diving probe was hoisted into the water by the ship's personnel to make a preliminary observation of the damage to the warship.

As a result, the crew operating the diving probe controlled the probe to slip away for a long time, but they did not find the slightest shadow of the destroyer.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still some fragments of fragmented decks and ship parts stuck in the seabed, Commander Lacit even suspected that someone had tampered with their location coordinates.

Where did the destroyer go?

They immediately turned on the active sonar base, which has the ability to detect the topography of the seabed.

As a result, a radius of thirty nautical miles was scanned one by one, and no trace of the destroyer was found.

The frigate had not been lost, it had broken into two pieces and lay quietly on the seabed.

There is only one possibility, which can explain the reason for the disappearance of the destroyer.

A few hours earlier, the target ship had arrived around the destroyer, dragged the slowly burning destroyer behind the ship, and dragged it away.

A destroyer is just an eight-thousand-ton ship, and when it comes to the physique of the target ship, it is like the difference in physique between a wagon and a sedan.

This is possible as long as the target ship carries a towing cable and the destroyer's hull does not break to the point of sinking.

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Following.

The reconnaissance satellite, which had once again arrived at the port of the Anu district, sent back an overhead photo that made everyone extremely angry and shocked.

The port in the photo, although there is no trace of the giant black ship on the berth.

But on the harbor side, a ship with the second half of the building in tatters, the front half of the deck and the control tower still intact, was lying quietly on the beach.

Anyone who wasn't blind would recognize the wrecked ship as a warship, and the Burke-class guided missile destroyer they were proud of.

Now the destroyer was lying on its side on the beach, surrounded by an improvised fence. In addition, the satellite happened to take pictures of its number, and it seems that it was deliberately placed there for the satellite to shoot.

When the photo was handed to the conference room table at the headquarters of the Fifth Fleet, the officers, large and small, who had attended the meeting, were almost outraged.

Half an hour later, the office of the president of Behemoth Industries received an unsigned telegram.

There were only a few words on the telegram:

Return ship 93.

Ye Qing replied with the word "roll".

Ye Qing had already arrived in the Anu Special Zone at this time.

Instead of taking the Peregrine Falcon, he took the Lordship of the ninth stage.

Upgraded to the ninth stage, the Lord Battleship has become a sky monster that can carry up to 2,000 tons and has the ability to fly at supersonic speeds.

Now Ye Qingzheng is in the Anu Special Zone, hundreds of kilometers away from the port, on a barren beach under a mountain cliff.

The humpback whale is actively stranded here.

The Humpback Whale is a flat-bottomed air-cushion high-speed giant ship, and it does not have a draft, so the Humpback Whale only needs to anchor in the shallows at high tide.

In the control room of the Humpback Whale, in addition to Ye Qing, there are also electrocrystals and several delicate masters.

"This is war. "The electrocrystals are so angry that the two ears are constantly energizing.

"There are bugs that challenge my majesty. The Master of Ingenuity was a little more restrained, and he leaned slightly over as he tuned into the footage of the voyage taken by the external optical surveillance equipment.

When he saw a rain of missiles flying towards the bow of the ship, the Master of Ingenuity glared, "Boss, is there any such missile on the broken ship that was dragged back?"

"No, the ship has been inspected inside and out, and all the missile launchers are empty. Ye Qing shook his head, "But I've asked the metal experts to disassemble the electronic equipment in the control tower, maybe these things can give us a better understanding of their electronic information level." ”

"It's just a bunch of rags, let's just build a directional super-high-power electromagnetic generator, and if we encounter them again at sea, we will directly irradiate them without saying hello. ”

Ye Qing was not as optimistic as Master Jing, "Next time, I may not be so lucky." ”

"Just a missile ride from a destroyer and a frigate almost smashed the humpback whale to the bottom of the sea. ”

"We were lucky that only one cruise missile hit the hull at that time. If there is a second one, and it hits the control room, have you thought about the consequences?"

"Also, do you know how many frigates and destroyers they have?"

"They also have amphibious assault ships, aircraft carriers, Ticonderoga-class cruisers, submarines. Our electromagnetic generators can destroy electronic equipment within two nautical miles, but electromagnetic waves will decay rapidly in seawater, and we will not be able to deal with submarines at all. ”

"Now it seems that we have only achieved radar stealth, not sonar stealth at all. I'm sure the next time they track the humpback whale, they'll be smashing hundreds of missiles. ”

The master of refinement didn't speak, and the electric crystal on the side snorted and spoke, "Boss, you give me the control of the lord battleship, I don't want three days, and the fifth fleet will be leveled." ”

Ye Qing spread his hands, "Then I'm afraid it will be a nuclear bomb." ”

"But don't worry, I can't bear this kind of thing just like you. ”

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