“…… These official and even some from the ACA have fully demonstrated that the Alliance's control of the sea has made great progress in the last three years, but this change in the balance of naval power has not directly affected the continental battlefield, and the navy is more engaged in the struggle for islands in the Pacific Ocean, close to the equator, and this action cannot help but be associated with the orbital elevators that can only be built near the equator......"

-- "Starry Sky Exploration", an electronic magazine on space technology published by Icarus Press

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Ling Yu followed the instructions given by Helis and looked at the naval officer who was floating in the sea, he hesitated, the helicopter had already flown over the wreckage, and went to the designated place not far away to project the sonar buoy.

The surviving destroyers have analyzed several possible launch sites, although according to these calculations, the position of the ACA submarine is abnormally close to the formation, but now that there are no other clues, they can only search in a step-by-step manner.

What's wrong? The crew of the civilian ship will drop the lifeboat.

Ling Yu didn't speak, but replied to Helis with his mechanical left eye a little rusty, the helicopter flew very fast, and the unlucky naval officer disappeared into the wreckage in an instant.

This reply can be described as decent, because at this time, the anti-submarine helicopter should not be responsible for the rescue of the crew who fell into the water, and the tactical core of a qiē must be to find the submarine and then kill it, otherwise any rescue will be as futile as saving oil and fire without closing the valve.

If the helicopter had been an ordinary commuter helicopter, it now carried not only sonar buoys, but also anti-submarine torpedoes - although reduced from six to two in order to carry personnel, but it would be enough to seriously damage or even sink a possible ACA submarine.

No, I'm not talking about that.

Helis held out a hand. Placed on Ling Yu's shoulder, she stood behind Ling Yu, turned her cat ears, and quietly transmitted a piece of information to Ling Yu.

"Pull Collision Alert!!"

"Unknown noise detected!! Probably in—"

Ling Yu frowned as he listened to the audio from Helis, and didn't wait for him to speak. As always, Helis sent over a large section of analysis and evidence.

In Jones. Before the sinking of the John, I found such an audio recording from the bridge communication recorder, and I did a voiceprint recognition to confirm that it was the sonar officer on the ship, and it was he who had just floated on the water.

As if to prove this, Helis also re-released the image of the people on the water just now, and enlarged the armband and epaulettes of the officer who fell into the water to Ling Yu.

"Captain, turn around immediately. Return Jones. Near the wreck of the John! ”

Ling Yu, who had determined the judgment, gave the order straightforwardly, if this analysis was given by anyone else, Ling Yu would definitely question it more or less, or ask some questions, but Helis would definitely not be a person who did not understand the priorities, if she thought it was necessary to fish out the sonar officer with the big life immediately, then it must be necessary.

"But sir, we've been ordered—"

"If you don't ignore that order. I don't mind throwing you off the plane, all we want is the plane anyway. Ling Yu directly reflexively drilled into the cabin. Walking to the cab, "I'm responsible for what's wrong." ”

The co-pilot and the captain exchanged a look, and then gave full play to the spirit of a hero who did not suffer immediate losses, silently turned the nose of the plane, and returned along the way he came.

After all, it is still easy for a TF to snatch this plane. What's more, there was a TF on the plane.

"JJH-2, what are you doing? Your order is to go—"

"The plane was kidnapped."

Ling Yu stretched out his hand and directly turned off the external radio, then turned his head and shouted to the sonar cabin behind the cockpit, "Prepare for sea rescue!" ”

"Roger! Prepare for the sea rescue!! ”

One of the sonar soldiers in the back compartment jumped straight out of his chair and rushed to the personnel compartment with a cat. Open the life-saving equipment panel next to it and start operating.

"I'll do it."

Payne turned his head to look at Ethan, who was sitting in the chair, the boy reached out and patted the seat belt buckle on his abdomen, signaling that it was okay, and after the middle-aged man confirmed, he stood up, took off his trench coat to reveal the short-sleeved shirt and angular muscles inside, took out the strap from the shelf next to him, and put it on himself.

The sonar soldiers are back at their posts! Ready to release the sonar buoys, turn on the torpedo safe, we may only have a split second chance!

"Yes!"

As soon as Helis turned his ears, the red font suddenly appeared on the life-saving panel that the sonar soldier was operating, and the startled sonar soldier took a step back, and then turned around and entered the radar cabin.

"Can you do this?"

Payne checked the V-belt on his body, leaned out of the cabin to determine his altitude, and then turned to look at Helis and pointed to the lifeguard panel.

Nonsense.

Helis gave Payne a blank look, shook his hand, and walked to the life-saving control platform, which flashed a bunch of codes of unknown meaning, and then instantly changed to a new interface.

Miss Ben's control technology is twenty-five times that of this garbage goods, and the new OS can make the boom accurate to the centimeter control device, so you can rest assured, you can't fall to death.

"If I had a daughter, I would be twenty-four." Payne smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The generation gap ...... such a thing"

I'm twenty-five!

Helis turned his head directly and glared at Payne viciously, who raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender, then walked to the open hatch and jumped out of the helicopter at the moment when he leaned back at a large angle and entered the hover.

"Visual contact, the target is injured, be prepared for first aid!"

"Leave it to me!"

Ethan's voice entered the microphone with the crisp sound of unbuckling his seat belt, and Payne frowned, but still focused on the more than ten meters ahead.

"Start Trauma Scan...... Open wound ...... Multiple fractures...... Vertebral fracture ......"

"Stop scanning, he'll die if you don't pull him up again!" Ling Yu's voice directly interrupted Payne's step-by-step work, "The whirlpool is approaching, and I can see that his fingers are almost unable to grasp the plastic plate here!" ”

"I'm sorry."

Payne apologized, and then Helis instantly controlled the boom to let him approach the sonar officer, who was already teetering on the edge of the whirlpool, not that Payne had really done anything wrong. According to the procedure, the first step in rescue is to scan the injuries of the rescued, and many internal wounds and open wounds cannot be carried casually.

But the situation did not allow the old knight to follow his course, and the wreckage of the destroyer, which was still burning just a moment ago, had completely sunk to the bottom of the water, forming a huge whirlpool, which was devouring the wreckage and debris around it - once the ship sank. Soon a huge whirlpool will form at the sinking site, so after falling into the water, the surviving crew members will have to swim away from the wreckage of the ship as much as possible.

It's just that the lucky sonar officer doesn't seem to have the strength to continue struggling, his injuries are so severe that it looks like a miracle that he can still float on the water because he is paralyzed in the lower half of his body.

"Hold on, it's okay!"

Helis didn't exaggerate, the crane arm that had been at the decimeter level spun into place rapidly, and with centimeter-level positioning, Payne was sent directly above the sonar officer who was constantly moving in the direction of the vortex.

"Hold on!"

Payne flipped his right hand. A first-aid injection was inserted into the sonar officer's neck, and TF's superhuman reflexes and physical strength made him grab the opponent's arm at the same time, scoop it up, and then grab the opponent's belt with five fingers, directly pull him out of the water, and then hold him with his other hand.

Almost at the same time, the steel wire on the life-saving boom flew quickly into the sky with Payne under the action of the electric motor. The plastic sheet floating on the surface of the water was swept into the water like a dead leaf and disappeared.

"Anomalous...... Sound ......"

A sonar officer with pale yellow hair is held by Payne. But he suddenly reached out and grabbed Payne's shoulder, and then pointed not far away with all his might.

That's the direction of the transport fleet.

"Ling Yu! Did you hear that?! Most likely, the target submarine is just below the fleet! Cover yourself with the noise and magnetic field of the fleet! ”

"I heard you!" Ling Yu shouted directly, then turned on the radio switch and took the microphone, "JJH-2 calls the flagship." We found out that the target submarine was directly below the convoy, immediately mobilized the anti-submarine forces, and then evacuated the convoy of transports! ”

“JJH-2！ There is no evidence that the ACA submarine is below us! If you don't come back to your post! We're about to start anti-aircraft fire! ”

"Then you can give it a try." Ling Yu didn't bother to talk nonsense, turned his head and made a gesture at Helis, and then stretched out his hand and patted the captain's helmet. "Rush in directly, drop anti-submarine torpedoes, move fast, the next wave of attacks may come at any time!"

Below the thermocline, it can only hide there.

Helis added a sentence on the display.

", why did I run into all the bad luck!"

The captain shouted, but he still faithfully carried out the order, anyway, if he was really hit by a surface-to-air missile, these TFs would also be dead, it was better to gamble, so as not to be directly twisted off his neck by the fierce scarf man behind him.

"The wounded are fixed in place, their vital signs are stable and they can maneuver!"

"Hold on!"

Ethan's somewhat immature voice came from the personnel cabin, Ling Yu turned his head and shouted, then took a step forward, grabbed the armrest, and leaned over in the direction of the captain's headset and said,

"Enter the torpedo firing position." Ling Yu's voice was flat and calm, even a little cold, "Avoid merchant ships." ”

"Damn! Damn it! Damn it!!!! As soon as Ling Yu's words fell, an alarm buzzer suddenly sounded in the entire cabin, and the prompt of "radar irradiation" kept ringing in his ears.

"Well, get into the torpedo dropping position!!"

"The missile has been launched."

"Herris!!"

Three voices sounded almost simultaneously, and the white anti-submarine commuter helicopter dived at a large angle, then pulled up, and skimmed directly over a merchant ship at a low altitude, while not far behind it, a small terminal anti-aircraft missile flew out of the inclined interceptor missile slot of the destroyer "Black Rose" and instantly rushed towards the helicopter.

But this missile, which was theoretically impossible to miss, suddenly lost its target at a distance of 30 meters from the helicopter, staggered like a drunk, and plunged headlong into the deep sea below.

"Drop the torpedo!"

Drop the torpedo, self-guided mode, set the depth of 100-200 meters, start the active sonar!

"Self-guided mode, set depth of 100-200 meters, start active sonar - launch!"

Ling Yu's order seemed extremely unprofessional, but Helis quickly explained in the terminology that sonar soldiers were accustomed to, and the helicopter shook violently on the left, and then violently swayed, and a huge torpedo plunged directly into the water in the direction of the helicopter that was dodging in the middle of the merchant ship. (To be continued......)