On the wide and thick rings of Jupiter, a transport fleet consisting of 3 Kongo-class battleships, 4 Fuxue-class destroyers, and 12 armed transport ships is cautiously sailing on the surface of the rings in a "semi-submersible attitude".

The formation of the fleet is composed of three three-dimensional structures, the uppermost destroyer flies against the surface of the ring, hiding most of the hull below the halo layer, carefully guarding the cosmic space outside the ring, and in the middle are 12 protected transport ships. Because of their large size and strong defense, the three Kongo-class ships stayed at the bottom to block large pieces of floating debris for the transport ship.

But even with such caution, the fleet was spotted by a nearby Don submarine that had been ambushed shortly after leaving Ganymede. At this time, around them, as many as 6 submarines had gathered to track and monitor, and the main force of the Tang Army followed at a slightly farther distance, waiting for them to join the large force.

"Brother Deng, do you feel it? This smell of traps. ”

"I've felt it for a long time, but the current situation is the Longtan Tiger's Den, and we have to break into it!"

"That's right! Break and die! If you don't break in, you will definitely die! ”

As the fleet continued to follow up, He Shichao, the commander of the West Wind Fleet, and Deng Xian, the commander of the Far East Fleet, gradually noticed a strange atmosphere. Their instincts told them that the convoy in front of them was most likely a decoy deliberately given to them by Yamamoto's old fox to lure them into the trap.

After a sum up, the two decided to put themselves to death and live again.

Everyone knows that dumplings with thin skin and big filling are delicious, but if the filling is too big, it will be broken!

At this time, the large fleet composed of the west wind and the Far East had 9 battleships, 7 battle cruisers, 15 heavy cruisers, 28 light cruisers and 60 destroyers.

On the capital ship side. The 5 Sichuan-class ships from the Westwind Fleet are the first-generation "super dreadnoughts" of Datang, equipped with 8 360mm guns with a diameter of 45 times, and the caliber is rounded from the 14-inch metric system, while the Qinghai-class of the Far East Fleet is a second-generation super-dreadnought built to deal with the Queen Elizabeth class of the United Kingdom, which is an upgraded version of the Sichuan-class and is equipped with 8 380mm guns with a diameter of 45 times. The remaining 4 Chengdu-class and 3 Xining-class battle cruisers are high-speed light armor versions of the above two types of battleships, respectively.

At least in terms of the number of capital ships, the Tang Army was completely intimidated by the Japanese army, and the numerical advantage of 16 to 9 was enough to offset the threat from the two Nagato-class 16-inch main guns!

"Report to the Commander! Forward submarine returns. The target has entered the ring, and they find a large group of shadows in the ring of Jupiter, which is suspected to be the main fleet of the Japanese army. ”

"Tell them to double-check to make sure the situation is correct."

"Yes!"

Soon, the 6 submarines in front confirmed from their own angles that there were a large number of warships lurking in the star ring, including 6~7 large warships with heavy cruises or more. After the intelligence was confirmed, the two commanders immediately made a decision, let the fleet set up a battle formation, start with the flagships of the two fleets, and rush up with a double-layered three-dimensional sub-vertical array to force a decisive battle with the other side!

"The capital ship formations listen to my orders. Stabilize the formation, slowly move forward, and after approaching the optimal distance, follow the flagships of their respective formations to concentrate fire. If any formation can take out a Japanese capital ship in three salvos, I'll invite them all to drink when they get back! ”

"Commander! 4 capital ships in one formation, more than 6,000 people. Would you like it all? ”

"A man's word is hard to chase, and the old man does what he says!"

The arrogance of Deng Xian, commander of the Far East Fleet, immediately boosted the morale of the officers and men of the capital ships, and the celestial maidens of the ships were also inspired by this atmosphere. The 16 large ships were divided into two columns and rushed to the front of the fleet formation. The halo of the star ring provides shelter for the Japanese fleet. It can also cover the attack of the Datang fleet.

As the distance between the two sides continued to get closer, the hazy figure of the enemy ship in the halo gradually appeared in the field of vision of the Datang capital ship. After determining that the distance between Sichuan and Qinghai was close enough, they immediately led the rest of the capital ships behind them to turn. Facing the ship horizontally. Immediately after that, the flagships of the four main formations used their secondary guns to fire a signal flare at their selected targets, and then led their subordinate formations to concentrate fire on the targets.

"The first formation hits the target!"

"The second formation hits the target!"

"The Third Fleet is ...... Wait a minute! That thing shattered!? ”

In the first round of concentrated fire, Datang's capital ships all showed a very high hit rate, after all, in the vacuum and microgravity-affected space, the range, penetration, and ballistic walk of the shells were better than those in the atmospheric environment. But after the third formation hit the target, it was shocked to find that the other party had disintegrated like a cracked cookie!

This is clearly not the reaction that a "real battleship" should have when it was shot.

"Oops! These are fakes! ”

Seeing the smashed target, He Shichao and Deng Xian couldn't help but change their faces. They originally thought that the other side was using the real ship as bait, and then set up another ambush or several ambush soldiers, so that they could be fooled and attacked inside and out, so they chose a compound column formation that was both offensive and defensive, and could open bows left and right, in order to directly face the combined fleet.

But I didn't expect the other party to use fake bait, you must know that this kind of 1:1 scale model is not something that can be made in three or five days. If the shadows of these ships in front of you are fakes, then the other party's preparations are even before the declaration of war.

"The ships stopped firing, and the destroyer fleet immediately dispersed to search, but not beyond the range of communication."

He and Deng can be sure that the main force of the Combined Fleet must be nearby, but the severe electromagnetic interference in the star ring greatly reduces the effective range of radio and radar. At this moment, in the shadow of a large area of ships as bait, some inconspicuous small ships suddenly moved.

These small ships, which look like only about 1,000 tons, are Japanese second-class destroyers of the Ruozhu type, with a hull tonnage of only 900, and the core of the gods all uses the smallest specification of 1000~1200 tons. As the spearhead of the operation, all Wakatake models involved in the operation removed their turrets and replaced them with torpedo tubes, and used a new type of torpedo with great power.

A total of 8 Ruozhu-type destroyers, when they were still more than ten kilometers away from the Tang Army, hurriedly dropped torpedoes, and then turned around and slipped away. The Tang destroyers were quite puzzled when they saw their reaction, because the effective range of the current mainstream jet torpedoes is very short, and once the built-in gas tank is exhausted, the flight of the torpedo is no longer controlled. Sometimes used in low-Earth orbit, this thing will even be pulled back by the gravitational pull of the planet.

However, the destroyers on the periphery soon noticed that a bunch of "little red dots" were flying towards them at high speed. The torpedoes fired by the other side not only have an unimaginable range, but also an astonishing speed! In the blink of an eye, the red-headed torpedoes easily passed their defenses and swooped down on the capital ship that had not dodged...... (To be continued......)