Chapter 103: Counterattack in Silence
Kosuke Sato and Li Kang were also watching the movement around the Chicago at all times in Turtle City, and when they found that the nuclear submarine began to expand the search area, they both laughed and laughed happily. But when the nuclear submarine began to quickly withdraw from this area, the cunning Sato immediately realized the danger, and he immediately ordered the three Black Hawk-18s that remained nearby to observe to retreat immediately.
McKaser intended to continue the salvage of the USS Chicago and the wreckage of enemy deep-water submarines, and he ordered a full-scale search operation to begin, and the nuclear submarines, which had grown to eight units, began to search the seabed of the area again, and the salvage operation for the Chicago was resumed. But under the attack of depth charges, the Chicago has also been unrecognizable, detached from the original sinking position, and slipped to a deeper seabed, bringing greater difficulties to the salvage work.
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The MSI Hummingbird A-20 rescue team led by Tong Jiwu has set off, and the rescue team composed of 36 Hummingbird A-20 and eight Hummingbird B-18 entered the sea water of the South Pacific Ocean from the air close to the sea surface when it was less than 100 nautical miles away from the scene of the incident, and then activated the waterjet propulsion to dive underwater at high speed, and the Hummingbird was all equipped with proton torpedoes and general-purpose missiles. Tong Jiwu was very angry at this time, and the arrogance of the aircraft carrier fleet made him angry. Fei Meng, who had already come to the Space City, repeatedly reminded Tong Jiwu to stay calm in front of the big screen in the command center, not to have a direct conflict until the last resort, and to rescue the personnel in the Crystal Palace is the most important task. Gu Xinyu, who had been staying by Feimeng's side these days, was stunned by this tense plot that he had only seen in science fiction, and he realized that the real world was so different from the books.
When the rescue formation was about to arrive at the accident area, the bottom of the sea had just calmed down, and the mud and sand that had fallen again covered the Crystal Palace, Tong Jiwu could only grope forward through the neutrino emergency rescue signal sent by the Crystal Palace, at this time Professor Zhang Keming's faint voice came intermittently from the emergency channel of the neutrino communication system, because the voice was very small, Tong Jiwu, who was surprised on his face, anxiously asked Zhang Keming's current situation loudly, and the intermittent voice came out of the loudspeaker:
"I--the capsizing of our entire hull was mainly caused by the violent shock wave of the depth charges, and I was restarting the 'superstring' to find out the damage before reporting it, and I was just--stunned, bounced onto the bulkhead, bleeding a little from my forehead, there was no major problem, and most of them were probably in the same condition as me."
Listening to Zhang Keming's intermittent voice, Fei Meng and Tong Jiwu felt some relief, Fei Meng once again told Tong Jiwu to act calmly, Tong Jiwu agreed and ordered the rescue team to speed up. At this time, someone reported that a large number of nuclear submarines were heading towards the bottom of the sea at high speed, and Tong Jiwu had to order to slow down again, and at the same time sent four Hummingbird A-20s to reconnoitre. Because the nuclear submarines of the fleet remained nearby, they quickly returned to the bottom of the sea after receiving the order to dive again to search. Tong Jiwu didn't know their true intentions, he just hoped that they could leave quickly, although the hummingbird A-20 was small in shape and soft in voice, but after all, it was a brigade of thirty-six hummingbird A-20 and the main hummingbird B-18 of the rescue concentrated on this seabed, although Tong Jiwu had ordered to widen the distance as much as possible, but there was still a danger of being discovered.
With the rapid approach of the nuclear submarine force, Tong Jiwu had to order a temporary retreat to maintain a certain distance in order to avoid a direct conflict. At this time, Zhang Keming's voice came out again: "'Super String' has just roughly counted the damage to the Crystal Palace, 36 percent of the equipment was damaged, 58 percent of the personnel were injured, of which more than 300 were seriously injured, dozens of people were seriously injured, 19 people have been killed in the attack, the injured are mainly internal and external injuries caused by serious impacts, and they need emergency treatment. I'm in fine condition, I belong to the uninjured person, repeat, request - emergency rescue. ”
Tong Jiwu knew that the total population of this undersea city was only more than 2,000 people, which was much less than the number of people in the space city and his own mountain base, and it was really unexpected that so many people were injured, so he comforted Zhang Keming and said that the rescue team would arrive soon, and on the other hand, he discussed with Fei Meng to send additional medical rescue teams and equipment repair personnel, and the space city and the mountain base also sent hundreds of medical rescue teams and equipment technical engineers to take the Hummingbird B-18 escorted by the MSI Hummingbird A-20 to the accident area.
Sato Hongsuke and Li Kang sat in the comfortable office of Turtle City under the sea, watching everything that happened from the big screen on the wall, Sato sent more Black Hawks to monitor the development of the situation in a stealth state, although the hummingbird rescue team is also in a stealth state, and the individual is also very small, and it can evade the normal radar system, but Sato's UHF frequency hopping radar is designed and manufactured for small targets, so Feimeng and Sato's radar equipment can detect each other, but Feimeng's radar equipment is more advanced, Therefore, the black eagle sent by Sato watched the movement from the hidden position of the hummingbird as far away as possible, and the undulating terrain of the seabed became the best shelter.
In order to strengthen its control over the area where the accident occurred, the satellites of country A and its allies were urgently transferred to the airspace over the South Pacific, and two aircraft carrier fleets were also ordered to sail to the area where the incident occurred for reinforcements, and the dark clouds of war are rapidly gathering. The information war started first, and the three parties used advanced computer systems to monitor all information exchanges, at this time, the unique neutrino communication technology of the New New Human Association was the only communication that could not be detected, and the top-secret communication between the Black Hawk Society and the fleet of country A also used highly directional laser communication, and it was difficult for Feimont to intercept confidential information.
Tong Jiwu was very anxious, he analyzed that the nuclear submarine search team would not evacuate soon, and the expanding search circle also forced him farther and farther away from the crystal palace, he and the crystal palace were in danger of being discovered at any time, behind him was a relatively flat seabed, where it would be easy to be detected by the active sonar system, and the hummingbird rescue team had no way back, so he asked Feimeng for permission to launch a preemptive attack to force the nuclear submarine formation that was approaching step by step. Fei Meng, Professor Gu Liang and others in the command room looked at the 'super string' constantly gathered intelligence, although they could not get the accurate information of the decision-making level of country A, but the gathering of satellites and aircraft carrier formations made Fei Meng feel that it was difficult to rescue the Crystal Palace without using force, after urgent discussion, Fei Meng finally gave Tong Jiwu an authorized order to attack, but he could not expose himself, the purpose was to disperse the other party, clear out the sea area that could be rescued, and immediately evacuate the sea area with the Crystal Palace after the rescue was successful.
Tong Jiwu, who received the order, was in high spirits, he had been waiting for a long time, looking at the situation of the two sides marked on the electronic map, he and the three squadron leaders of the Hummingbird A-20 quickly discussed the method of attacking. Everyone believes that the quickest way to achieve the goal is to quickly sink a few nuclear submarines, or even all of them, and the aircraft carrier formation will lose its protection under the sea and will inevitably retreat, so that it will not cause major casualties and will not be easily discovered; if there is an attack on warships on the sea surface and an air battle breaks out, our side will certainly be exposed.
The strategy has been decided, Tong Jiwu began to issue a specific attack deployment, he knew that a large number of follow-up hummingbird rescue detachments will arrive soon, must be cleared out of this sea area as soon as possible, he ordered each hummingbird squad to belong to four hummingbird A-20 aimed at a nuclear submarine, the remaining squad led by himself as a cover, every five minutes to launch an attack, each attack on two nuclear submarines, if the other side begins to retreat, the attack will stop, alert standby, the specific target of the attack by' Superstrings are selected in order of danger and attacked. After the task was issued, the 'Super String' quickly gave an accurate attack plan according to the input attack strategy, and the Hummingbird squads quickly occupied their own attack positions according to the arrangement of the 'Super String', and opened the weapon hatch at the bottom of the Hummingbird A-20, each Hummingbird carried four proton torpedoes, and the torpedo had been arranged by the computer at this time on the priority position of the weapon launcher, and the hummingbird could launch an attack from the lurking seabed with just one order.
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Vice Admiral MacKaser was proudly looking at the positions of the ships displayed on the screen at this time, he rarely personally commanded such a large-scale operation, and many military satellites had also been running in the earth orbit above his head, using various different means to closely monitor this small sea area, only because of this emergency had the opportunity for MacKaser to show his skills, and the strategy of the digital sea, air and space integrated station had already exerted his power at this time, and everything on the battlefield was under the eyes of MacKaser. MacKaser believed that he could easily wipe out a rogue state that would dare to blow up a thorn with his own team, and that strength was the truth as his life's motto, and he was a staunch supporter and guardian of the law of the jungle.
Since the screen of the passive sonar system was full of huge warship and submarine targets, the radar and sonar system operator of Tong Jiwu, who occasionally floated by, did not care, and he could not have imagined that there was an enemy similar to himself who was secretly watching everything. Tong Jiwu saw that time was pressing, and after finally asking for instructions and getting Fei Meng's approval, he gave the order to attack.
Six MSI Hummingbird A-20s in the two squads rose from the hidden seabed, and twenty-four proton torpedoes were fired together, rushing towards their respective targets at a speed of two hundred nautical miles per hour, because the single-shot proton torpedoes were small, each one was only the size of a cigar smoke, so the sonar system on the nuclear submarine did not react at all and did not have time to react, twenty-four torpedoes hit two targets almost at the same time, after a violent explosion, The two most advanced nuclear submarines were torn out of several huge holes, and four of the torpedoes directly hit the thinnest part of the tail of the two nuclear submarines, unloading the huge waterjet propulsion of the Illinois-class attack nuclear submarines as a whole, and the two nuclear submarines sank to the bottom of the sea before they even had time to send a distress signal.
General MacKaser looked at the two submarines on the screen and suddenly disappeared, thinking that there was a computer malfunction, and was about to ask, when an officer on duty ran in in a panic and reported that two nuclear submarines had been destroyed in an instant and had sunk to the bottom of the sea. MacKaser's face instantly turned from red to white, he couldn't believe it was true, and instead he angrily grabbed the crystal ashtray on the workbench, slammed it on the floor with a "snap", and shouted loudly: "I order: counterattack!" Counterattack! Destroy all suspicious targets! Order the nuclear submarine to shoot freely!! We have torpedoes, missiles! Order the anti-submarine aircraft to descend in altitude and be sure to find the enemy's submarine! ”
Faced with this almost hysterical order, the officer on duty looked at MacKaser a little bewildered, and MacKaser also suddenly realized his serious gaffe, but he knew that he could not show weakness in front of the junior officers, and said loudly: "Look, your ear has been taken out by a cat?" Hurry up and give my battle order, go! ”