Chapter 41: Convoy and Deep-Sea Assault
In July, the refreshing sensation of the previous days of wind and rain has completely faded, and the scorching summer light has forced the temperature of the sea to rise again and again, and even the rising waves carry with them the warm smell of the face. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Fortunately, in this era of wasteland full of radiation and mutation, the life that has survived so far has a strong ability to adapt, even if the water temperature rises again, they can still move normally.
For example, the schools of fish that hide in the shadows of the plants on the bottom of the sea are also struggling in such heat.
The petite girl with two short blue pigtails looked at the underwater world below her with great interest and had the idea of finding out.
Although it was a bit distracting to look at the surrounding scenery in such a leisurely way, this young girl was indeed fulfilling her mission.
Avoiding the waves and underwater tides caused by passenger liners breaking through the water, the girl is faithfully completing the escort mission.
In addition to laying out mines to defend the port, escorting certain routes is also some of the most common tasks of destroyers. With a few exceptions, these tasks are fairly safe and rewarding, making them the easiest and easiest tasks.
Of course, the blue-haired girl at the moment is quite bored. Her clear blue eyes reflected the turquoise sea, not far away was the passenger ship carrying merchants bound for Grand Cayman.
Such an easy task was so easy for the girl that she had to turn her attention to the underwater world that she hadn't paid much attention to before to pass the time.
While curious, the girl did not forget the danger hidden underwater. Underwater that looks quite interesting, there are dangers that can attack ships below the surface of the sea - deep-sea submarines.
As a destroyer carrier, she is naturally not afraid of them, even if she mainly relies on depth charges with a very low hit rate, she is quite confident that she can drive away the submarines that appear here.
It's just that she has to take into account the large passenger ship next to her, and it is impossible to give it up instantly.
"If it's a submarine, Betty is really good at it~ The results in the academy are also excellent." Thinking back to his more painstaking anti-submarine warfare, Mogador, who was originally interested in staring at the new scenery, also seemed to have lost interest.
Even if she carried a considerable number of depth charges, she could only assist her teammates in carrying out combat missions without effective sonar equipment, and could not achieve much results.
"Woo~ Betty also has a hedgehog anti-submarine launcher, it's a foul!" Through a psychic link, Mogador's slightly complaining thoughts were also known to a short, blonde girl in the distance.
Betty, who had a double spiral ponytail, suddenly heard Mogador's complaint and said in a daze:
"But Betty is also very envious of Sister Mogador~ There are eight main guns, and they are far higher than Betty in terms of gunnery shooting?" Betty, who also expressed her envy, seemed to look through the passenger ship to the blue-haired girl.
"No, Betty's air defense exercise scores and anti-submarine warfare scores were very high during the last test, but the artillery and lightning strikes were second to me and Lan~", although Mogador was sometimes very stunned, but this time she obviously remembered the comprehensive assessment results in the academy last time.
"But but, last time, Sister Mogador solved a deep sea with the tide senior!" , who was asked by Mogador's question, also threw out this fact.
"Hmm...... I'm just good at fighting at sea......", and Mogador, who was suddenly praised, didn't think back to the question just now for a while, and seemed to be still immersed in the memory of the last battle.
"Sister Mogador is also enviable for running faster, ......", but this sentence was not said by Betty, the congenital disadvantage is not made up for by hard work, and Betty can only work hard to do her job well.
While Mogador was at a loss for what to think, the SG mounted on the Betty ship picked up a distinct radiation response to the sea radar.
Perhaps this reaction was too sudden, and Betty almost missed it the first time, and it wasn't until the second time that it was reconfirmed.
Given that the deep sea was on the key line of the shipping lane, Betty had already relayed the enemy's deep sea information to Mogador very quickly.
"There really is a ...... in the deep sea", although Mogador was a little stunned, but her amazing intuition also made her detect some anomalies behind this matter.
"Betty, are there any other reactions nearby?" , Mogador, who was in a combat-ready state, communicated with Betty very cooperatively.
After continuously using the many radar sonars on board, Betty gave a positive opinion:
"No, it seems to be a lonely wandering deep sea."
Mogador certainly trusted Betty's intelligence detection skills, but he waited quietly for a while before making a decision when he heard Betty's hint that the Deep Sea was approaching at a high speed.
After communicating with the captain of the passenger ship to prepare for damage management and lifeboats, Mogador was ready to attack under the guidance of Betty's radar.
According to the radar's response, it seems to be just a two-level deep sea. She didn't have much fear in her heart after having a combat experience, which was also based on her confidence in her own abilities.
If she were to carry out anti-submarine missions, Mogador would find it quite tricky. However, in terms of professional anti-lightning strikes against the sea, Mogador is very sure.
"Betty, keep using radar support, I'm going to intercept it." As the bathyscapher was moving rapidly towards him, Mogador began to adjust his state.
Betty also knew that she was not suitable for this kind of task, so she naturally took over the task and began to lock the direction of Mogador.
The blue-haired girl, without the constraints of escort missions, began to liberate the long-dormant host and fully show her abilities.
In just a few tens of seconds, Mogador had gone from a speed of about 25 knots to a top speed of 43 knots, and this was only the speed at which she had used her special ability to overload her console.
Wearing a slim sweatshirt, the energetic blue-haired girl disappeared from Betty's vision, and at this moment, Betty also wholeheartedly activated the ship's radar to complete the work of guarding the ship and assisting her teammates.
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Even under the guidance of the radar, Mogador spent some time coming to the direction of the deep sea just now, but he was in vain.
Undeterred, Mogador used his own radar system to conduct a more comprehensive search with the assistance of Betty's radar.
Mogador, who did not have a carrier-based aircraft to accurately locate and track, finally locked on to its position after chasing the scurrying deep sea for some distance. At this moment, the battlefield in which the two sides are located is less than nine kilometers away from the passenger ship.
Facing the monster in front of him, wrapped in black armor and with bloodthirsty red eyes like a beast, even Mogador was not too relaxed.
Only by concentrating and doing your best can you not miss any important moments. Having had a combat experience, she also reminded the liner to turn and prepared Betty for a deep-sea assault.
The four naval guns lined up behind them in turn, relying on the information calculated by the radar, had locked on to the deep sea, and after the first round of analysis, they began to fire a half-salvo.
At this moment, the distance between the two sides is still more than seven kilometers, which is not the distance that ordinary destroyers would use their main guns to shoot. Relying on the more powerful and long-range naval guns than ordinary destroyers, Mogador was able to fire his main guns from a greater distance.
She did not lose her speed in pursuit of the accuracy of her main guns, and her excellent maneuverability was also a source of confidence for her to confidently carry out tasks at sea.
After a little probing, Mogador decided to settle it in one fell swoop. By overloading the main engine, she temporarily soared to about 47 knots, which was already close to a certain special limit.
It was only at this moment that she turned some of her attention to the deep sea in front of her. The pitch-black metal shell seemed to have four single-mounted naval guns welded to it, and due to the color, she could only vaguely see some protrusions on the ship's installation, but she could not make out whether they were torpedo tubes or not.
She didn't rush straight into the range recklessly, but kept a certain distance to swim with the deep sea.
When the distance between the two sides reached about 5,000 meters, the blue-haired girl adjusted the two twin torpedo tubes hanging from her waist and projected four torpedoes at a speed of 35 knots to disrupt the course.
She kept closing the distance and fighting, and in more than two minutes, she projected nearly 100 high-explosive bombs, and the tiny flames were extinguished and sunk to the bottom before they burned on the surface of the sea.
With the high-explosive shells alone, she only inflicted a slight amount of damage on the deep-sea. After closing the distance again, she slightly adjusted the angle of the torpedo tubes while dodging the opponent's main gun fire.
As the distance between them continues to widen, the number of missed bullets has increased. Melee combat is always full of luck and danger, and after Mogador dodged two close misses, he concentrated his firepower for a perfect salvo!
Three high-explosive shells burst across the dark metal shells of the deep sea, and beneath the fragile armor was the extremely white skin, making people wonder what kind of life it was.
Relying on fire control that was superior to most destroyers, Mogador managed to damage two of her main guns and part of the ship's equipment, and of course she was hit by a near-miss, and she also paid the price of damage to two anti-aircraft guns.
After all the 10 torpedoes in the torpedo tubes were fully assembled, Mogador, who had calculated the angle and bearing, used all the torpedoes to carry out a fan lightning strike.
The bathyscapher, which was only a second-level destroyer with a modest speed, failed to avoid the minefield formed by the torpedo crossing in time, and was hindered by Mogador's all-out projection of artillery fire, and its speed was slowed down by a few points again.
Bang! When the distance between the torpedo and the deep sea reaches a certain limit, it suddenly detonates to produce a strong radiation shock wave and set off a huge amount of seawater.
After the actual battle, the ship girls can fully exert their own combat effectiveness, and the complete power of artillery and lightning strikes have a huge power that is difficult to resist.
It was estimated that the deep sea that had hit the two torpedoes had already been sunk, but Mogador did not get close to it immediately. It wasn't until the curtain had fallen and calm had regained that she saw the wreckage of the deep sea sinking into the turquoise waters.
The scattered fragments slowly fell to the bottom of the sea, and Mogador, who witnessed all this, endured a little discomfort and filmed the scene in its entirety.
This is an important basis for the town guard to confirm the results of the battle, of course, if you directly use the remains of the deep sea, it can also be proved, but this will be more difficult to accept. Even in the Georgetown Guardhouse, it seems that only one person in the Ashgara would do such a move.
After doing everything, she waited for a moment, until the wreckage sank completely, and the rumored radiant core that had fallen from the deep sea did not appear, and she left the place a little disappointed.
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The Georgetown Guard, Arrites, who had just been sorting out his equipment and gathering it in the storage room, decided to report to Trix after hearing about the deep-sea encounter reported by Mogador and Betty.
Just as the boy praised Mogador a little and was about to turn away, he seemed to remember something and said to her:
"Mogador, remember to go to the mountain city with Betty to report the results, and we should be able to get a reward by the end of the month." , recalling the federal reward system, he naturally will not miss this opportunity to exchange for resources and merits.
The boy hurried down the hallway, thinking about the reason behind the incident.
As he was in charge of official duties in the town guard's mansion, he naturally noticed the gradual increase in the number of deep-sea attacks in the past half a month. And this deep-sea attack on passenger ships on the main route proves that the growth of deep-sea forces in the sea area is enough to threaten some tasks of the town guard.
Maybe a combat order will be issued for a comprehensive clean-up, right?
Just as the boy thought about this and pushed open the office door, he was surprised to find that only the gray-haired boy who was also a student of the academy was left.
At this time, it was still a normal shift time, and he felt a little strange and asked the young man:
"Where's Mr. Trix?"
"Uh...... In this case, you better go to the cafeteria......", the gray-haired boy stopped talking, which made the boy feel even more strange.
The teenager, who went to the cafeteria and noticed the inside, noticed that in front of the bar of the restaurant, a young man was talking happily to a young girl, and with his excellent sense of smell, he could also smell the smell of alcohol wafting through the air.
After frowning slightly, he inserted himself between the two of them, not saying a word.
"It's Aritus...... What's the matter? Trix, who was talking to Talia, looked at Aritus who appeared in front of him and was not annoyed, but asked softly.
"There was a ......report of a deep-sea attack on the first-class route," said the young man, sending the entire record of Mogador's work to Trix.
"It shouldn't ...... They also cleaned the route ...... the previous month," said Trix, a young man who was the official admiral of Georgetown, and seemed very surprised by the situation.
"Let's go to the office and have a good talk...... It seems that this time the situation is not quite right...... I'm going to get in touch with the old guy and ask ......," the young man stood up and opened his personal communication channel to communicate.
The boy standing behind him noticed the gaze of Talia beside him.
It's not disgust, it's just the regret and resentment expressed because a certain goal has not been achieved, and the young man is naturally keenly aware of her gaze, but he doesn't care too much.
Speaking of which, the boy also noticed that Talia seemed to be very close to Trix during this time, but since more was better than less, Arrites decided not to pay attention to such a change.