Chapter 203: See Mistaken Hit Again
Indian Ocean, the sea north of the Tongue Country.
Nunara, the captain of the Visaca, has been here for some time with a telescope and has been here with a convoy in his hands.
The salvage ship never pinpointed the location of the Keqin, after all, the water depth here is hundreds of meters.
If you go a little further north, the water depth quickly increases to more than 3,500 meters.
This is because the area where the country is located happens to be a huge submarine seamount, but beyond this area, the water depth quickly reaches the average level of the Indian Ocean.
Even so, there are often deep trenches that reach or exceed an average depth of 3,800 meters.
Therefore, if the wreckage of the Keqin fell into those deep trenches, it would be basically impossible to salvage.
Nunara observed the sea, in fact, he was mainly observing the movement of the American salvage ship in the distance, and the Burke-class Aegis ship suddenly left two days ago, which surprised him very much.
However, when it was almost four o'clock in the morning, the two air targets that suddenly approached at high speed made him break out in a cold sweat.
Fortunately, he commanded the fleet in time and fired a number of anti-aircraft missiles, accurately shooting down two targets.
Although before the voyage, the Navy Staff had already issued an order not to allow the random launch of anti-ship missiles, but anti-aircraft missiles could always be fired.
This is a defensive operation, and you can't let other people's missiles hit your own warship.
It's just that after dawn, it was suddenly found that the salvage ship of the United States was heading in the direction of the two downed targets, which made Nunara a little uneasy.
He left two frigates to guard his salvage ship to continue the operation, and he slowly followed the American salvage ship with three destroyers and a frigate.
The two targets were on their radar at the same time as the incoming missiles, and their speed was subsonic.
At that time, it was 80 kilometers from the fleet, and it was knocked out by his first round of anti-aircraft missiles.
The reason why Nunara dared to launch anti-aircraft missiles directly was that there were no international air routes passing through here, so it was absolutely impossible for passenger planes to appear.
But to the west, the aircraft carrier group and the frigate of the Tanga Federation are conducting so-called anti-piracy exercises.
I believe that this time, I will definitely not hit it by mistake.
Besides, if you are defending yourself, even if you hit a missile by mistake, it will not be a big deal.
After daybreak, the Navy General Staff sent a telegram commending him for his decisive defensive actions, which reassured him.
It's just that the salvage ship of the United States is rushing there now, which still makes him a little unsure.
After all, with the radar of the salvage ship, there is no way to know where the two incoming missiles were shot down by themselves.
But how is it now so straight and right?
By noon, Nunara's heart was even more flustered.
The salvage ship of the United States circled in the waters around that area, apparently looking for the location where the two missiles fell into the water.
That's not what makes him panic.
What disturbed him was that at noon, two B52 bombers of the Mi Army circled over his fleet.
He used a telegram sent by an international communication channel to ask the Mi military planes to leave, but the two bombers only retreated one or two kilometers.
It is still going around in a big circle, and it seems to surround the entire fleet of the three countries, as if it is about to bomb at any time.
Nunara immediately reported the situation to her naval headquarters.
The naval staff immediately ordered him to immediately abandon the tracking of the salvage ships of the Mi army and withdraw to his original position, telling him not to have any conflict with the Mi army.
Obviously, the Navy Staff decided that it was his behavior of tracking the salvage ship of the Mi Army that attracted the bombers of the Mi Army.
When he retreated all the way back to the same place, the two B52 bombers flew away.
Nunara was so angry that she blew her beard and glared at her eyes, is there any reason?
With such a big Indian Ocean, why can you go with a salvage ship, but not with our Azerbaijani fleet?
It's just that as a small destroyer captain, of course I don't know what the above is planning.
At this moment, it is an extremely critical preparation period, if you provoke the people of the United States, then not all plans have been lost?
After that, until nightfall, the planes of the Mi army flew over Nunara's fleet one after another, including anti-submarine patrol planes, bombers, and electronic reconnaissance planes.
It seemed that they were all long-range, and Nunaraa immediately understood that these planes should all come from the Diego Garcia base of the Mi Army.
At this time, the aircraft carrier battle group of the Mi army in the Indian Ocean was participating in the Persian Gulf region and did not come to this area, otherwise there should be an F18 above his head.
As the officers and sailors of the navy of the three countries, who have always imagined the Indian Ocean as their own inland sea, they can hardly restrain their anger when they see this scene.
Many people ran to the deck and raised their middle fingers at the Mi Jun planes flying overhead, making all kinds of mocking Mi Jun planes, venting the anger in their hearts.
Nunara didn't want to care about it when she saw it, this kind of thing was better according to the wishes of the officers and soldiers, which was conducive to maintaining morale.
It was only not long after nightfall that there was a sudden loud tremor from the whole ship, and everyone was knocked to the ground if they didn't catch anything.
Nunara hadn't gotten up to see what had happened.
Immediately afterwards, I felt that the whole warship seemed to be tilted upwards, and it was getting taller and higher.
Everyone suddenly slipped towards the stern of the boat, and some people fell directly.
Before Nunara could even give the order to sound the battle alarm, the man had already fallen to the wall of the command room near the stern, dizzy.
At this moment, he had only one thought, his battleship was hit by something in the tail and flooded in large quantities.
Otherwise, how could the bow of the ship be cocked?
As if to confirm his thoughts, a loud explosion was heard.
Then, there was a tooth-aching sound of steel twisting, and the entire battleship sank into the sea at an alarming speed.
All this happened in a very short time, and before the warships around the entire fleet could react, the Visa disappeared into the sea.
All the battleships immediately sounded the battle alarm, and various searchlights shone on the Visaca's original position.
But the sea had returned to calm, and although the current was still strong, the ship was nowhere to be seen.
The point is, there are not yet any survivors and all sorts of debris.
A destroyer raised its flag, lit up its lights, and Captain Hrinik shouted in the communication channel: "Now that the fleet is under the command of this ship, it must be the submarine that sank the Visaca, and all ships should pay attention to the implementation of anti-submarine warfare procedures!" ”
Even at night, anti-submarine helicopters of several destroyers immediately rose into the air, which dropped sonar buoys around the fleet.
"Captain, a huge object has been detected moving underwater! Directions are in ......"
In the bridge command room, the sonar crew was already shouting.
Hrinik calmly ordered: "Order all ships to drop depth charges on this position!" ”
The fleet was originally in a circular defensive formation, ready to rest at night, and the Visa was originally in the center of the formation, and the underwater objects detected at this time were in the north-central direction, but not yet outside the defensive formation.
As a result, ships can easily drop depth charges at designated locations.
"Boom, boom, boom", a series of dull explosions rang out.
Hrinik asked: "Has the underwater object been destroyed?" ”
The sonar officer shook his head, "The underwater sound is so mixed right now that I can't hear it!" ”
At this time, the voice of another captain came from the communication channel, "Our ship detected a huge underwater object and left north at a speed of 30 knots!" ”
Hrinik yelled, "Damn, it wants to escape!" Let's catch up and destroy it! ”
"Hrinik, could this be the nuclear submarine of the Mi Army, and if we sink him, will it trigger a war between the two countries?"
"Salek, you coward! The Visa has just been sunk by it! ”
"I think there must be a reason for this, and it's better to report this matter to the staff first."
"I'm now the commander of the fleet, listen to my orders, catch up! Whether you want to sink or not, you can ask the General Staff. Hrinik said, holding back his anger.
This Sarouk must have envied himself for becoming the commander of the fleet, so he deliberately came to add to the blockage.
Hrinik thought indignantly, and then ordered the communications officer: "Immediately report the situation here to the naval staff, tell the higher-ups, we wait for their orders!" ”
"Yes, Captain."
At this moment, about 50 kilometers north of this sea area, 200 meters below the surface of the sea, a Virginia-class nuclear submarine is heading south.
"Sir, there seems to be a large submarine coming towards us from the south!"
Submarine Commander Geert was shocked, how could a large submarine suddenly be encountered here, could it be that the fleet of the three countries is still following the submarine?
"Level 1 combat readiness, bow torpedo readiness."