Chapter 501: Two More Ships Sunk
Inside the Virginia-class submarine.
"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the No. 1 missile and No. 1 torpedoes have all hit the target, the target destroyer USS Mexico has been blown up, and now it has been smashed in two and is sinking into the sea, Your Excellency Commander, do you want to clean up the rest of the Mexican surface ships around the USS Mexico!"
Yu Zhiqian couldn't enjoy the huge fireworks explosion on the sea, and the hired captain reported the latest information to Yu Zhiqian.
"Did it just blow it up in two? It's not bad, this time Silva is distressed enough! Yu Zhiqian chuckled, sat down casually, looked at the submarine, and felt satisfied.
"Commander, do you know how much the Virginia submarine costs?"
"Report to the commander, the cost of the Virginia-class submarine is between two billion and three billion dollars, and some of the cost fluctuates because of some different internal structures and different uses!"
"Holy, so expensive?"
Yu Zhiqian was taken aback by this price, he always thought that the price of this submarine was about one billion US dollars, and coughed lightly: "Is it so expensive?" ”
"Yes, this is still the price after the technology is mature, the price of the first ship is about 5 billion, and the current cost is about 2.4 billion US dollars!"
"I know it's wrong!" Yu Zhiqian couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and now he couldn't wait to find the fat man called the three-hundred-pound veteran navy on Zhihu, hang him up and beat him.
At first, Yu Zhiqian didn't know the cost of Virginia at all, so he searched on Zhihu and found this fat man's post, in line with the principle that you have many words and you are right, Yu Zhiqian took a look and found that what he said was still the head, so Yu Zhiqian believed it and gave a billion dollar offer, and now it seems that Yu Zhiqian has completely lost a lot!
"Damn, don't let this fat man know who it is, or I'll kill him!" Yu Zhiqian cursed.
At this time, Mao Sanbai, who was happily nibbling on chicken legs in the cabin, suddenly shivered and looked around: "It shouldn't be, the temperature here is quite high!" Then he continued to gnaw on his chicken legs, he didn't know his head, and now he wanted to crush his bones and scatter ashes.
After thinking about it for a long time, Yu Zhiqian decided to dial the phone again, after all, this is not a small matter of a few yuan, but a big thing related to more than a billion yuan.
What Yu Zhiqian didn't know was that when Yu Zhiqian's offer was sent to the top, the people above were stunned.
The first reaction was, this is really a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine, not Florence or something? A billion dollars? It is estimated that it is only enough to build an empty shell, and the power system may not have it.
Without hesitation, he gave the order to buy, after all, it is too good and cheap, if you can, you even want to buy a few more, this submarine is lower than what you built in the shipyard, it's a big deal to dismantle one, play one, and dismantle another one if it is broken.
Yu Zhiqian's side was annoyed that the offer he gave was a bit low, and Silva's side could no longer be described as gloomy, and there was no adjective in Silva's mood now.
"The USS Mexico is sunk!"
Seven simple words, equivalent to seven sharp daggers, were inserted straight into Silva's heart, he never thought that this kind of thing would happen, the capital ship of the Mexican Navy, the symbol of the Mexican Navy, the USS Mexico was sunk.
"Sir, there's a message from the Pentagon that their satellites have captured the trajectory of a missile launch in our waters, let's explain what's going on!"
"Explain a fart, it's not a hit at their damn America, damn it!"
Silva roared at his subordinates, then grabbed his head and slowly crouched down, the Mexico sank, and then it was not just as simple as a warship being sunk, Silva's father, family, and now Mexico's ruling party, no one can escape, all of them will be implicated.
"Why! Damn, why is this happening! Silva couldn't figure out why things had come to this point.
Silva slowly calmed down, thought about the whole thing for a while, and finally thought of the Americans, the initiator of everything, because the Americans, if it wasn't for the Americans to let their intelligence department arrest a person, there would be no follow-up.
"Damn Americans!" Silva roared angrily, and the staff officers around him looked at Silva with a puzzled expression, not knowing why Silva would say such a thing, you know, Silva and the people behind him are all pro-American, and Silva is also a staunch pro-American, and suddenly said such a thing, and it was in public, which made people feel very surprised.
Silva hated Yu Zhiqian and others very much, but he didn't have any way to take Yu Zhiqian, in Mexico, the army, air force, and navy were all humiliated by Yu Zhiqian in turn, if Yu Zhiqian was allowed to return to Namibia, for Silva, it would be even more difficult to take revenge.
And Silva himself will not admit that now he is afraid, he is full of fear of Yu Zhiqian now, he is afraid of getting any news about Yu Zhiqian, because none of these news is good news, instinctively began to resist, so he set his sights on the United States.
The United States is terrible, but at least in front of Silva, there is no Yu Zhiqian to be terrible.
"Sir, what do we do now?"
A Mexican officer walked up to Silva and asked in a low voice, now everyone is distracted, and they don't know what to do, Yu Zhiqian's sudden sinking of the Mexico disrupted everyone's deployment, and anyone who made a plan never thought that the Mexico would be sunk.
"Report the news to the Congress, I will be responsible for this matter, one person is responsible, it was my command that made a mistake!"
After Silva finished speaking, he stood up in despair, he knew very well what the outcome would be after this incident, he would become a disgrace to Mexico, he would become a fool, an imbecile, and all kinds of humiliating words, and then he would be imprisoned in a place where no one knew about it, and he would become a pile of dry bones.
His father, his family, etc., will pay a huge price to protect themselves, but no one will protect him, he needs someone to take responsibility for the whole thing, the reality is so cruel, the victor Yu Zhiqian, who hugs left and right, is spending a happy time in the submarine, and the loser needs to face death.
"Sir, the frigate Monterrey has just sent news that Torreon, the Saltillo has been sunk!"
"Sir, report from the Third Fleet, the Monterey has been sunk!"
Just as Silva was about to accept all this, two more staff officers trembled and reported to Silva that the three frigates, that is, the capital ships of the three detachments sent out to search for Yu Zhiqian and others, were sunk almost at the same time.
"Sunk? Got it! Silva just said something faintly, and without saying anything more, he walked straight out of the headquarters.
"What happened to Silva?"
A staff officer looked at his companion with some confusion.
"It's nothing, someone needs to be in charge this time, Silva, and us, none of them can escape!" After the staff officer finished speaking, he sighed and began to busy his business.
A minute ago, the USS Virginia.
"Report, Commander, six Mexican warships have been spotted 50 nautical miles northeast!"
"Report, Commander, eleven Mexican warships have been spotted 55 nautical miles southeast!"
Due to the weather, the radars of all ships began to show different scales of detection range, and after the sinking of the Mexico, the radar of the Virginia was not turned on at full power, maintaining a vigilance of about seventy or eighty nautical miles.
"So many warships?"
Yu Zhiqian was taken aback, when did Mexico's navy become so strong? Yu Zhiqian immediately hung up the phone in his hand and looked at the radar screen: "What level of warships are they?" ”
"Report to the commander, according to radar feedback, among the seventeen warships, only three have a tonnage of more than a thousand tons, which are Mexican frigates, the type is Knox-class frigates, and they are corvettes of the United States in service in 1969!"
"Just three? What is the rest? ”
"They are all ordinary surface ships with a tonnage of less than a thousand tons, and they do not pose any threat to our ship!"
Yu Zhiqian was a little relieved after hearing this, he was really frightened at first, and after thinking for a while, Yu Zhiqian felt that it was better to leave these three dangerous ships in the Mexican waters forever.
"Can you sink it?"
"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the target ships are within the attack range of our ship, and they can carry out precision strikes!"
"Then kill them!"
"Yes!"
Soon the entire Virginia began to work again, and unlike before, this time instead of using torpedoes, all POW missiles were used, and all three missile silos were warmed up.
"Missile silo No. 1 is ready!"
"The second missile silo is ready!"
"Missile silo No. 3 is ready!"
"Everything is normal with missile silo No. 1, countdown to launch, 10,9 ......"
"Missile silo No. 2 ......"
Thirty seconds later, three missile silos were opened one after another, and three Tomahawk missiles were sprayed out from behind the silos, and finally broke through the sea surface and flew towards the target.
"Was the Mexico sunk?"
The captain of the Monterey in the northeast direction stood on the bridge, listened to the report of his subordinates, and sighed softly, he didn't expect that the Mexico would actually be sunk, he and Cavani are very good friends, the two of them also served in the First Fleet of Mexico, and they were still drinking together yesterday, but they didn't expect that they would be separated forever today.
"Yes, it was already determined just now, the Mexico was hit by a torpedo and a missile, and it was silent!"
The captain let out a long sigh: "Turn on the radar power to the maximum, the sonar is turned on, the surrounding ships are scattered, the anti-aircraft fire is all turned on, it enters the automatic mode, and the whole ship enters the first-level battle!" ”
"Yes!"
The Monterey reacted quite quickly, and after knowing that the Mexico was sunk, it quickly made preparations, and the Monterrey is the only frigate equipped with interceptor missiles among all the warships in service in Mexico, although there are only two interceptor missile launchers for a total of eight interceptor missiles, but it is much stronger than the other two, because the Americans have modified this ship when it was bought.
"Report, a missile is flying towards our ship, and it is expected to hit our ship in twenty seconds!"
"Prepare to intercept!"
"Yes!"
The Monterey quickly began to prepare, the fire control system was turned on, the computer system began to calculate the estimate of the missile's flight, and the two missile launchers on the deck for interceptor missile launches also began to work, removing the shell and facing the sky at 45 degrees.
"The target is expected to hit our ship in fifteen seconds!"
"The Patriot interception system is on, it is warming up, the warm-up is complete!"
"Put!"
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Two Patriot interceptor missiles were shot out to intercept the POW missiles according to the predetermined trajectory, but this time the interception was not successful, and at the first moment of locking, the submarine had already received the information that the POW missiles were locked and entered manual mode.
The Monterrey began to intercept on one side, but on the other side, the Saltillo and Torreón, were in a different scene.
Since the Saltillo and Torreon did not intercept missiles, all anti-aircraft firepower was dominated by machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, which was very similar to the Mexican, except that the fire control systems of the Saltillo and Torreon were slightly more advanced and could automatically calculate the trajectory and intercept it.
But there is a great deal of luck in itself to intercept missiles with machine guns and cannons, and this time God is not on the side of these two ships.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The two missiles hit the Saltillo and Torreon without any hindrance, and the deck of the Saltillo was blown through, and the sea water continued to pour into the ship, and from time to time there were some explosions, and the ship was frantically entering and sinking.
The Torreon was even more unlucky, with missiles inserted diagonally into the hapless ship's ammunition depot.
"Boom!"
After the first round of explosions, the second round of explosions was louder, and under the huge explosions and fires, a sky was illuminated, and it could be faintly seen dozens of nautical miles away.
The Monterey was a little more lucky, after the missile entered the manual mode, there was a slight deviation, and it did not hit the important position of the ship, but hit the stern, although it also caused great damage to the ship, but it did not sink.
"Captain, the stern of the ship is badly damaged, and the speed of the ship has decreased!"
"Close the quarantine compartment, the ship begins to return, report to the command, and say that the Monterrey is no longer combat!"
"Roger!"
"Sir, on our radar signal, the Saltillo and Torreon have lost their signal, they may have been sunk!"
"Damn it!"
Two more capital ships were sunk, and the captain of the Monterrey was in a sinking mood, and the Mexican Navy was so close to it, losing three capital ships, maybe even the surrounding pirates dared to bully the Mexican Navy.