Chapter 44: Declaration of War

Of course, the Third Fleet also received an order not to attack the big octopus until it was certain that the negotiations had broken down, and at most to track it. After all, if there is no need, they don't want to offend this Atlantean Empire that ran out of nowhere, after all, these guys are haunted in the sea, and if they attack merchant ships every day, it will deal an extremely heavy blow to the economy.

However, unlike the caution of the US imperialists, the stick government was simply crazy after learning the news, and their fragile and sensitive little nerves were greatly stimulated, and they were indeed very innocent.

Your bullshit beasts are just going to harm us just for fun, and then we have to pretend to be okay and send it away with a smile, and we have to compensate you, Nima, bullies don't bully people like this, except when we were dogs to the Japanese, when did we suffer this kind of humiliation, that is, when we were grandsons of the Celestial Empire and the American imperialists, they never bullied us like this.

"It's ridiculous, compensate you? We should ask you for compensation, because the destruction of your so-called divine beast has caused more than one billion dollars of direct economic losses to our country, and the indirect losses are even more immeasurable, and two soldiers were injured by it, and we are still trying to find the culprit to compensate! ā€

In the conference room of the Third Fleet Headquarters, An Haorong, the ambassador to the United States, stood at the conference table and said in an excited tone.

The envoy of the Atlantean Empire rolled his fist-sized eyes blankly.

An Haorong then remembered that he could write and not listen, so he had to sit down with a gloomy face, type out his words again in a notebook and show them to it.

"What do you mean, are you refusing our request?" His Excellency the Special Envoy replied with a tablet.

"Of course, we will not accede to such an outrageous request." An Haorong said without hesitation.

"Is it the same decision in your country?" His Excellency the Envoy held up the tablet towards Rice.

"Your Excellency, I have made it very clear that this is a matter between the two of you, as a neutral third country, we refuse to respond to your demands, but if you dare to carry out a brutal attack on our ships or ports, our army will inevitably retaliate, and also as two allies of a military alliance, if you attack them, we will also fulfill our alliance obligations." Rice replied with a blank face.

"Well, you chose war, can I understand that?" His Excellency the Special Envoy raised the tablet with a blank face, and of course it had no expression to speak of.

"If that's what you mean, then forget it!" Rice replied.

"Then let's fight, use force to settle our differences!" His Excellency the Special Envoy replied.

This result did not exceed Wang Yue's expectations, although the stick is just a puppy of the American emperor, but after all, it is also an obedient good dog, they still have to come out after being bullied, and as the boss, they must also take care of the feelings of other younger brothers, if they betray their little brother just because of an empty threat, then the hearts of their team will be scattered, and it is not easy to be the boss in these years.

Moreover, they also lack an intuitive feeling of the combat effectiveness of the Atlantean Empire, and they will not come to their senses if they don't slap them hard.

Next, it's time to look at the second fool.

Two hundred kilometers away from San Francisco, in the pitch-black two-thousand-meter deep sea, in an bottomless submarine canyon, a giant octopus crawled out close to the ground, like a six-story residential building, a pair of terrifying big eyes flashed a strange ghost in the dark, and after a slight pause, began to crawl slowly to the northeast.

"Report to the captain, command order, negotiations break down, and if the enemy is found, open fire and destroy!"

At the same time, the captain of the USS Howard, who was searching west from San Francisco, also received the latest order.

"Alright, guys, cheer up, even though our enemy is just an octopus!" He said to his subordinates rather amusedly.

The sailors who were at their posts immediately burst into laughter, to be honest, in the eyes of the officers and men of the Third Fleet, this mission was too funny, they had imagined fighting Lucia, and Chinese, terrorists, and even aliens, but no one had imagined fighting an octopus.

"Sir, I'll build yƬ let's have octopus for lunch today." An officer said with a smile.

"Will, you're good at this, tell the kitchen, add one octopus to each person for lunch today, if the kitchen doesn't have one, let our helicopter go to San Francisco and pull some." Captain Huck nodded solemnly.

Of course, contempt for the enemy is contempt for the enemy, they are still meticulous in their work, especially the sonar officer, who is wearing headphones and staring at the screen in front of him, the underwater spherical part of the bow of this 9,000-ton giant warship, the powerful active sonar is constantly emitting ultrasonic waves to the bottom of the sea, and the passive sonar dragged by a cable a kilometer away is constantly receiving the reflected ultrasonic signal, and then the image is generated after computer processing.

However, the interference of this detection method is amazing, such as sea temperature differences, salinity differences, ocean currents, ocean noise... And so a lot of things can interfere with its effect, and the material of the detected object itself will also affect its effect, the submarine is a hollow metal object is easy to detect, and the ultrasonic wave hitting the hull will form an obvious metal echo.

But the rocks on the bottom of the sea are much worse, and the octopus is even more difficult, and the sonar must interpret the sonogram formed by the feedback signal, in short, this is a high-tech job, very high-tech.

Just as the Howard was preparing to face the big octopus, a Fox TV helicopter in the sky was also broadcasting the following search operation, at this time, the US imperialist government had made public the news of the breakdown of negotiations with the Atlanteans, and the US imperialist President Little Black Horse made a statement on the lawn of the White House that the people of the United States of America will resolutely defend the peace and justice of the human world, faithfully fulfill their obligations to their allies, and any enemy will be crushed in front of the heroic US imperialist army, no matter what they are.

"Even if it's an octopus!" His Excellency the President said with humor.

Infected by the optimistic spirit of His Excellency the President, the people of the United States are full of optimism about this war at this time, and in fact the vast majority of the people of the United States are treating it as a large-scale entertainment program, an octopus, even if it grows to 200 meters long, it is still an octopus, an ordinary 500-pound bomb, a heavy torpedo, and even a large-caliber naval gun can beat it into a pile of rotten meat.

If it is unknowing, it takes a sneak attack on those unarmed merchant ships, which may cause some damage, but now that they have publicly identified themselves, then there is no threat at all, all the merchant ships and fishing boats on the west coast have been notified to prohibit leaving the port, and the merchant ships that originally sailed from the east have also turned to Hawaii for temporary evasion, and there are only powerful American imperialist warships in the northern sea of the entire eastern Pacific, and if this octopus does not escape, it will only be a dead end.

In this case, not only Fox TV, but also the major TV stations of the United States imperialism have sent live broadcast helicopters, each following different warships, looking forward to being able to hit the big luck live broadcast of the battleship vs. octopus scene, the US imperialist military also adopted a welcoming attitude, in their opinion, these aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers if they can't even beat an octopus is completely fantastical, since there is a live broadcast of these TV stations, the whole world can see their heroism and invincibility, why not?

What they don't know is that in a villa in San Francisco, a pair of sinister eyes are looking through the TV screen to determine their target.

"Howard, it's good, Aegis destroyer, DDG83, 9,300 tons of displacement, 96-cell vertical launch system, standard Type 2 anti-aircraft missile, uh, this can be ignored, Tomahawk**, this can also be ignored, Asroc anti-submarine missile, this needs to be careful, one, two, seven mm main gun, this, it's not much fun, two fools and one claw can pull it down, Phalanx, this one needs to be careful, the reaction speed is too fast, well, this is a powerful enemy!"

Boss Wang looked at his target and felt that it was best to be careful this time, you must know that this is the first battle between the Atlantis Empire and the human race, and it will not be fun if you lose the battle.

"Ah, yes, I'm a genius!" This thing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said proudly as he looked at the TV screen.

Half an hour later, aboard the Howard, which was on sail.

"Report to the chief, a large submarine has been found underwater, with a southwest direction, a depth of five hundred meters, a distance of about two kilometers, and a speed of thirty knots, which is approaching us, but the silence performance is very good, and no mechanical noise has been detected." The sonar officer suddenly reported.

"Submarines? Is there a nuclear submarine of ours nearby? Check with Strategic Command immediately. Captain Huck said hurriedly.

"No, the Strategic Command said no, and this is not our nuclear submarine route, they say that it should be a foreign nuclear submarine that broke into our search range." The Communications Officer then reported back.

"Foreign nuclear submarines? Could it be Lucia's? Who, apart from these bastards, would dare to drive a nuclear submarine into our near seas? Lock on to the target and force it out. Captain Huck said with a sneer.

"It stopped below us, no, how is this submarine not a metal echo? It's accelerating, oh my god, it's too fast, at least two hundred knots, what submarine has such speed?" Suddenly, the sonar officer exclaimed.

"Ready for battle, anti-submarine missiles ready for launch, damn it, that's not a submarine!" Captain Huck suddenly came to his senses and screamed like madness.

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