ACT208: Decisive Moment

Like many other countries, Japan has also begun to systematically study the core of the gods after it has a certain industrial base in modern times. But the same thing, through the hands of different researchers in different countries, the products obtained are also different. The Italians obtained the "crystal dust" through high-voltage electric shock, and Zhao Jian obtained the doppelganger crystal block by shocking its product twice.

In the process of research, Japanese scientists wanted to analyze the essence of the god core by completely destroying it, so they turned to study the only biological giant god soldier in their country - the "wine swallowing boy" with C-level combat power, and then obtained a magical "biological acid", which has a strong ability to devour metals.

However, to the regret of Japanese scientists, the destructive effect of this biological acid on the god core is even worse than that of the destruction solution. Moreover, the synthesized bacteria are all "eunuchs", which do not have the ability to proliferate, and can only survive for 7 minutes at most.

This mucus substance, named "iron phage", dissolves the metal at high speed and releases a large amount of oxygen, and the bacteria will go dormant below 0°C. The Japanese military industry took advantage of this characteristic and applied it to the new type of space torpedo.

After testing a large number of metallic substances, they found that gold is the metal that "eats" ferrophic acid the slowest and releases the largest amount of oxygen. Therefore, they used iron phagocytic acid as the loading agent, gold as the catalyst, and the oxygen produced during the reaction of the two as the power, used porcelain that would not be corroded as a container, and covered it with a layer of symbolic iron sheet at the back, and made the famous "Type 93 acid torpedo" in the future, and applied it to the battle against Tang first!

Each of the eight Wakatake-class destroyers was equipped with four triple torpedo tubes, capable of projecting 96 acid torpedoes at once, while the Japanese arsenal produced a total of 100 torpedoes for the battle. These black technology products with a range far beyond ordinary torpedoes, because they were used for the first time, so as Yamamoto expected, did not attract the attention of the Don fleet, and by the time they realized that something was wrong, the torpedoes had already flown in front of them.

"Torpedo?"

The first capital ship to be recruited was the Guiyang Battle Patrol of the third formation. A total of 4 acid torpedoes flew towards her, two of which brushed by her hull, and two of them hit her port main armor belt and No. 3 turret respectively, and after the torpedo's porcelain container broke, 490 kilograms of iron acid were like boiling water poured on a snowdrift, and in less than half a minute, the huge turret weighing several hundred tons was eaten up, and a terrifying hole appeared on the port side.

Fortunately, the torpedo consumed more than 5 minutes of life in the process of defrosting and launching, otherwise the damage would have been even worse!

Of the 96 torpedoes that came over, 35 hit the target. In order to ensure the density of firepower, the Tang army indirectly increased the hit rate for the enemy. Three battleships in Qinghai, Guangdong, and Fujian, and two battle cruisers in Guiyang and Taipei were severely damaged, and another three capital ships were wounded by a torpedo, and more than half of the capital ships were damaged in an instant.

In addition to the capital ships, 3 heavy cruisers, 5 light cruisers and 10 destroyers were swept by indiscriminate gunfire, only the heavy cruisers barely resisted, and the others were sunk on the spot because the tonnage was not large enough. One of the major characteristics of acid torpedoes is that they ignore the armor and directly devour them according to the amount, and the large ship can still rely on tens of thousands of tonnage to resist, and the small ship is directly corroded into two.

The first appearance of the Japanese acid torpedo. Just tear off a big piece of meat on the Datang fleet!

After the Japanese torpedo strafing, the Datang fleet inevitably fell into a burst of chaos because of the emergency evasion. Originally, with their quality, it was a matter of less than 3 minutes to regroup, but the torpedo on their side had just passed. The main Japanese fleet took advantage of the chaos directly below them, and it was the secret weapon Kii that took the lead.

"Oh hehe! I smell the fragrance of death. Come, everybody! Let's play a song with killing and wailing! ”

The Kii, which rushed up from below, first smashed a destroyer that could not dodge, and then forcibly flicked its tail by inertia. Sticking sideways to the firing angle of a Sichuan-class battleship, 12 410mm main guns fired a salvo from a distance of less than 500 meters, inflicting heavy damage on the opponent to the point of losing combat effectiveness.

Her crazy act of ignoring the feelings of the crew in the cabin not only shocked her opponent greatly. Even her own people were taken aback by her. The Sichuan, which had been lucky enough not to be injured before, saw the appearance of a strong enemy other than intelligence, and gambled on the pride of the flagship of the Zephyr Fleet and took the initiative to meet it, while the Qinghai, which was carrying two commanders, was wounded and organized to meet the enemy.

Deng Xian ordered the third patrol formation to cover the ascent of several communication ships, fly out of the interference range of the star ring as soon as possible, and send a distress signal to the surroundings. Knowing that there were only two large fleets around Jupiter, Deng Xian's actions were tantamount to pinning his hopes on a "miracle".

At the same time, in Jupiter's low-earth orbit, the northern aircraft carrier detachment also discovered enemy traces, and the aircraft carrier task force of Yamaguchi Duowen attacked New Port Arthur in accordance with the established operational plan, and destroyed the logistics base here when the main fleet was besieging the Tang Army. In this way, even if the Tang army is not completely wiped out in the decisive battle, it will not be repaired and supplied after retreating, and thus will not be able to recover.

However, just as the aircraft carrier detachment was about to leave to intercept the Japanese aircraft carrier, the call for help from the front-line fleet also came. Faced with this unexpected situation, the bridge of the Changbaishan looked at each other for a while. Fleet Commander Ding Da hurriedly walked to the edge of the regional star map, made two gestures with a ruler, and then said to everyone present.

"The opposing side is about 70,000 kilometers away from us in a straight line, and at a cruising speed of 30 knots, we can reach it in 40 minutes. If we're just going to pick them up, I think we've got the ability. ”

"But General Ding, the core combat power of our fleet is aircraft carriers, and space warfare is not our specialty! Carrier-based aircraft cannot take off and land in space. ”

A naval cadet who didn't know the actual situation of the Dao couldn't help but ask, Li Ti patted him on the shoulder, glanced at Zhao Jian and said.

"Junior, the problem of carrier-based aircraft is no longer a problem."

Ignoring a look of surprise from the student party, Tinda pointed to the area where the front-line fleet was located.

"But our problem now is that whether we are going to intercept the Japanese aircraft carriers or to rescue the front-line fleet, with our current strength, we can only concentrate on one of them. It's really hard to make a decision on this multiple-choice question! ”

When he said this, Ding Da's eyes were staring at Li Ti, and the meaning could not be more obvious.

You are the emperor's own son, and you are more suitable for this multiple-choice question than me! Li Ti looked at the star map and groaned for a while, and Zhao Jian, who had been talking less and watching more, silently monitored the other party's brainwave activity, preparing to use this incident to evaluate Li Ti's character. The other party thought about it for about 3 minutes and finally made up his mind.

"The military port is unsinkable, and even if it becomes a ruin, it can be rebuilt quickly, but once the fleet built by combining huge manpower and material resources is lost, it will be difficult to rebuild it in a short time. So this king thinks that we should go and save the fleet first! (To be continued......)

PS: Erosion torpedoes do not hurt the ship, acid torpedoes do not hurt the ship!