ACT360: Containment, pursuit, and interception
After receiving a report from the Japanese army's Yamaguchi Tawen Division, the Italian commander Campioni immediately gathered all the forces at hand and led the fleet to kill the interception point.
Campioni firmly believes that 100% of this "suspected important target" discovered by the other party is their giant god soldier. So in order to make amends for his mistakes, he ordered his fleet to take back Caesar and their lost "honor" at any cost!
Soon after the Italians began to act, the battleship Kii of the Japanese search fleet on the other side also asked the commander Tawen Yamaguchi to take the initiative to support the friendly forces.
In Kii's opinion, as a top-level capital ship, it is really overkill to let her follow the aircraft carrier as a nanny. Therefore, in order to have a battle to fight and a cannon to fire, Kii wittily "instigated" his captain and asked him to apply for aid to the Italians.
Those guys don't have aircraft carriers, and the Andrea, as the main force, can't compare with her in terms of firepower, defense, or speed, and naturally grabbing people's heads will not be her opponent.
Yamaguchi pondered for a moment about this, and saw that the defense forces around his aircraft carrier were sufficient, and the reinforcements he had requested from Yamamoto Isoroku were on their way. So he agreed to Kii's request and asked her to accompany the two destroyers with him.
And one of the two destroyers who followed the crew was the famous "Shi Yu".
Not realizing what a terrible teammate he had led out, Kii took his two friends out of the escort formation after applying for permission.
And this situation was soon discovered by the Star Castle side, and Hongling, who stayed on the Star Castle, notified the Second Cover Fleet as soon as possible, telling them to be more careful.
So King Kong and Ghost Ji all silently activated a few shuttle "special bombs......
In terms of special ammunition, Zhao's plasma bomb is not the only one, and Japan and Italy are actually prepared. The former was based on an acid torpedo and created an acid shell. In order to confuse the opponent, it was deliberately named "Ninety-one Type Armor-Piercing Bullet. change". The latter developed a "disorder projectile", which is very lethal but only needs one shot to make the target unable to maintain a stable position for a period of time.
These two new shells may not be as mature as plasma shells in technology, but their power in actual combat should not be underestimated!
Soon the Italian fleet was the first to reach the ambush point, and not long after their arrival, an unidentified fleet appeared in front of them. The opposing combat ships consist of 2 capital ships and 4 destroyers, and are protecting a large cargo ship.
At first, the Italian side mistakenly thought that it had encountered a Japanese friendly army because the shape of the opponent's capital ship resembled the Japanese Kongo-class, so it made inquiries with a lantern. But the response was a volley. The Italians then realized that the other side was the target they were going to intercept.
"Surrounded by ships, don't let them escape!"
Under Campioni's orders, the Italian fleet launched an onslaught as soon as it came up, attempting to surround its opponent with its own numerical superiority. On the front, three heavy cruisers led by Andrea forcibly suppressed, while the light cruisers and destroyers outflanked them from both sides, forcing the other side to turn around.
But the real trump card of the Italian army is the attack submarine hidden in the subdimensional space!
As early as when the Italian fleet arrived at the ambush point, Campioni asked his two attack submarines to find a place to ambush first. Wait for the enemy to appear. The main fleet then forced the other side in front of the submarine, creating an opportunity for these "assassins" to attack.
However, although Campionni's idea was good, he did not know that he had encountered this group of enemies. It is currently one of the very few fleets in the world with anti-submarine capabilities. Zhao Jian had long known that 2 of the 4 submarines of the Italians were attackers, so he deliberately asked Meow Bo to act with King Kong.
None of the 2 unlucky Italian submarines escaped her "cat ears"!
In the horrified gaze of the Italians. An inconspicuous destroyer in the enemy fleet suddenly burst out of the crowd. The other party fired several bombs in a row towards the seemingly empty place, which could distort the space. Immediately afterwards, a submarine was squeezed out of the turbulent subspace, and before it could escape, it was killed by the destroyer's several cannons!
There is no cover of subspace. Submarines are weak scum that even armed merchant ships may not be able to beat!
"Roar! Well done! ”
Seeing that Meow Bo took the lead, King Kong praised the other party without hesitation, and then used his brand new 14-inch main gun to greet the enemy ships that were outflanked from both sides. After a series of modifications and upgrades, the hull of the two has been reborn from the beginning.
Under their ferocious firepower, the light cruiser and destroyer could not get close to the range of the torpedoes, and the small-caliber naval guns could not help the two big guys.
In this embarrassing situation, Andrea's 320mm gun was the only weapon that could pose a substantial threat to the enemy. But they were fighting a pursuit battle at this time, and Andrea could only exert the firepower of the two turrets in the front, and after a long time, he was stunned to hit a "0" hit rate.
This achievement made Andrea, who was fighting with injuries, want to cry without tears!
"Ellie, you'd be on the right track!"
"But General, our triple cannon is not easy to use, QAQ......"
Andrea's triple gun is an early construction and does not have a "delayed fire" capability. If three main guns are fired in a salvo, the unloaded shells will interfere with each other, and the accuracy of the guided fire will decrease. And because there is no covering effect for spot shots separately, it is not as reliable as using a salvo to cover it.
So the volley battle turned into a pursuit battle, and the Italians originally thought that the other side would definitely not be able to run fast with a freighter, but after chasing them, they found that the legs and feet of the freighter were unexpectedly sharp!
The two sides chased after me and quickly flew out of the range of the vine sea, and then flew towards the remote star field. King Kong knew very well that their mission was to lure the Italian fleet away from the Star Castle, and then find a good place to set off the fireworks, and throw the Hydrangea and the bomb in its stomach to the Italians.
However, not long after they flew out of the sea of vines, three warships, one large, two and small, came rapidly from their 8 o'clock position. As soon as King Kong and Onihime saw this signal, they understood that the Japanese battleship Kii that Star Castle had alerted them to before was coming!
"Dujiao, you immediately transfer to the destroyer, and you will abandon the ship in a while!"
"Oh!"
At Onihime's reminder, the unicorn came to the deck, and a run-up jumped onto the meow that was approaching. Normally activated ship mother,The god core is left in her body.,And you can unassimilate with the hull at any time.,It's more convenient than taking off clothes.。
So in order to make it easier to run, the unicorn first moved to the friendly ship in advance, and then remotely controlled the Hydrangea to follow the team. And the Italians, who were more than ten kilometers away, did not notice her leap from the freighter to the destroyer.
Relying on the superiority of radar, King Kong and Onihime detected the approaching Kii in advance, and the two of them invariably slowed down the frequency of the main gun fire and began to suppress the enemy ship with the secondary gun. However, this move was misunderstood by the Italians as "insufficient ammunition", and instead it was glued tighter than before.
King Kong and Onihime didn't care about this, and both focused their attention on the imminent formidable enemy. After firing another round of normal ammunition, they fed the activated spiral plasma implosion shells into the chamber of the cannon, and moved their positions so that the two main guns in front of them were aiming in the direction that the opponent was coming from.
Although the Italian fleet did not understand what the opponent's formation was like, after discovering that the enemy's main guns suddenly glowed with light blue fluorescence, they also had a faint premonition that the opponent was going to "enlarge the move"!
After the hurriedly arrived Kii bypassed an asteroid and finally appeared within the range of King Kong, the two ships immediately set fire on her and Andrea behind her!
"Plasma bomb, launch!" x2
With the roars of King Kong and Onihime, their main guns fired 16 thick dark blue pillars of light in both front and rear directions at the same time. It was the afterimage of the plasma bomb in flight, and the shooting effect looked like a laser cannon at first glance, and the power of the plasma bomb really lived up to expectations!
Of the 8 shells fired in the direction of Kii, 5 hit, but unfortunately only 2 of them hit Kii. One of them hit the belly of the ship, and the hot plasma melted a large chunk of the ship's hull, while also inflicting far more pain on Kii than ordinary ammunition. Although the other shot did not hit directly, it "rubbed" off a piece of the bridge, and it felt like someone had a piece of flesh cut off the back of the neck!
As for the other three shots, they all hit the Xia Yun that came with them. This Chaochao-class destroyer with a displacement of 2,370 tons instantly turned into a handful of overflowing molten iron, and in the end, there was not even a little scum left after evaporation, only the Shiyu was unscathed because of its remote position!
It was just a face-to-face effort, and the three warships that rushed to reinforce the Japanese army paid a tragic price of one dead and one wounded. And in comparison, the situation of the Italian fleet on the other side was not much better!
Perhaps because both King Kong and Kihime's attention was focused on the Kii's side, only 2 of the 8 shots fired at them hit. Although Andrea only received one shot, this shot hit the door! All the Italian officers on the bridge were wiped out in an instant, and Andrea, who was immersed in the plasma, let out a heart-rending scream! (To be continued......)
PS: When I saw someone complaining about why they didn't use AI to develop missiles, I wanted to say that airplanes can be reused and AI can be upgraded. There's a tracking erosion torpedo with AI, but I just don't care if it's called a missile, what do you do?