Chapter 65: The Scales of Victory
Another battlefield.
The attack on Zhao Yunfei's fleet by 80 fighters and 210 attack planes has begun, and the ionic tail flames of the fighters have illuminated the entire starry sky as if it were day.
All Stellar Wind fighters immediately intercept the Star Pirates and stop them from attacking the Meteor Attack Planes.
Now only the anti-aircraft fire of the fleet intercepts the Meteor attack aircraft on its own.
"Dispersal, immediate dispersion......"
Among the battleships, the Iowa, the most protruding battleship, was the first to be killed, and the Meteor attack aircraft found him and dropped eight plasma torpedoes - the ship sprayed unusually blazing anti-aircraft fire, but it had a guiding effect on the attack aircraft.
"Fire torpedoes"!
Within 18 seconds, the Iowa had another 12 plasma torpedoes.
The plasma torpedo differs from the metallic hydrogen torpedo in that it is much more advanced than the latter. It consists of three parts: a powerful rocket thruster and a magnetic field generator that confines millions of degrees Celsius of plasma. as well as a titanium case.
It releases all of its plasma upon hitting a starship, instantly dissolving the ship's titanium armor. When a large amount of plasma enters the hull, it will also produce an EMP effect, completely paralyzing the hit part.
The Iowa was hit by 12 of these torpedoes, and the reactor armor that could easily block the metallic hydrogen torpedoes could not stop the plasma torpedoes — the runaway magnetic restraint unleashed four clusters of fusion fireballs that blew the giant ship into three sections.
These three segments of the ship float in Jupiter's orbit and will be part of Jupiter's rings for thousands of years.
The next unlucky guy was the USS Missouri.
The ship fired all of its fire in the direction where Iowa was, shooting down 9 fighters, but not paying any attention to the surprise attack in the other direction, and all 24 torpedo planes successfully dropped mines.
The 24 plasma torpedoes were spherical at 120 degrees, and the New Jersey twisted its body to avoid it, but to no avail.
In an instant, the superstructure, including the conning tower, and all the anti-aircraft gun emplacements were evaporated, and the strong EMP effect caused by the plasma caused the entire ship's systems to shut down, paralyzing her in the dark universe.
Then there's the USS New Jersey. Her plasma thrusters were bombarded with 20 plasma torpedoes, the plasma fairing valve failed, and the furious plasma tail flame rolled upside down, scorching her hull in a frenzy.
The strong EMP effect takes the damage management system offline and the injury cannot be controlled. The ship had no choice but to abandon ship.
Although the opponent has not been destroyed, Lan Bing is sure that the opponent is hopeless.
But the attack on the Montana was declared a failure - Zhao Yunfei transferred all the fighters to protect himself. This is also why the attack on other warships went so smoothly. 、
Lan Bing sneered, and soon his own artillery formation would come to pick up the Montana.
And on the other side: the hangars of the four Essex-class have long been completely destroyed. Even if the attack group they released earlier returned, it would no longer be able to fight again.
Finally, his own artillery fleet appeared in Zhao Yunfei's field of vision.
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Cruisers hundreds of kilometers apart exchanged artillery fire at least ten times the speed of sound, but they looked as if they were engaged in a broadside battle, connected by flashing lines of fire.
The fire of the electromagnetic railgun, which turned into arrows made of beams, smashed into brilliant fragments on the protective shield of the Musashi.
The remnants of the Star Pirate fighters guarded Zhao Yunfei's flagship "Montana", and the Stellar Wind fighters swarmed towards the enemy planes. Although the opponent's pilots destroyed the enemy planes one after another with their mechanical precision, they were powerless.
As the last of the flagship pirates turned into a mass of hot gas, the Stellar Wind fighters flew away, exposing the Montana to all the artillery fire of their own fleet: the Musashi, the Bismarck, and the Tirpitz. As well as several heavy cruisers.
The three battleships were in a triangular formation, holding up in a higher orbit to suppress the Montana and force it into Jupiter's gravitational well. Under the constant bombardment of electromagnetic bombs, the armor of the "Montana" gradually could not be supported, but the flagship was still trying to fight back.
But the tracking cannon fire circled around the battleship in a circle, and little by little it ate into the hull of the Montana, like a flaming noose that was constantly tightening.
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After 5 salvos from the Musashi, the Montana fired another salvo, but due to damage to the fire control system, it could only fire indiscriminately, and not a single shell hit the target at all.
The energy fluctuations caused by the Montana's blind fire were in turn captured by the rangefinders of the own fleet, and in the seventh salvo, the Musashi had already hit the rear deck of the enemy ship. Detonated the escape pod and a large number of pipes, causing a violent air leak.
Due to damage to the damage management system, the air leakage was uncontrollable for a while.
"Retreat! It is necessary to retreat immediately! Seeing that something could not be done, Zhao Yunfei ordered the Montana to sail out of the battlefield under the cover of his own destroyers, hoping to withdraw from the battle as soon as possible.
But the Musashi had approached a distance of 2,200 kilometers, and the heavy cruiser USS Spee, which was covering the staggering movement, spotted the destroyer Montana, which was covering its faltering movements, and tore the brave destroyer to shreds with four salvos.
Then it was the Hipper, who destroyed a destroyer............
And then another......
The warships that could cover the Montana were constantly destroyed, and the explosions made the dark space around it shine like daylight. One electromagnetic bomb after another from the three capital battleships pierced its body.
Half a minute later, the 460mm shell came through space and hit the deck in front of the bridge of the Montana, blowing all the facilities encountered to pieces, breaking a large gap in the horizontal deck and emptying half of the ship's hull.
The Montana has fallen into the encirclement, and the only countermeasure that Zhao Yunfei can think of is to rely on the advantage of a reasonable level of defense, fight and retreat, and drag his life-saving props to take effect.
"Full throttle, full speed ahead!" Zhao Yunfei shouted involuntarily.
Blue Ice ordered: "Catch up and destroy the enemy ship at close range!" ”
The nuclear reactors of the Musashi, Bismarck, and Tirpitz were blazing and spinning.
The flame of the ion thrusters had turned blue, and they had entered "Forward Three" and were entering "Forward Four". The distance to the Montana is getting closer and closer.
“2200km…… 2100km…… 2000km……”
With a loud bang on the deck, a bright light burst out from the front of the Montana bridge, and the No. 2 main gun was mercilessly pierced by a 460mm mass bullet, twisted and deformed, and lost the opportunity to fire.
Montana fought and retreated, sometimes turning a few angles to the right and bombarding the Musashi with two triple 406mm main guns in the tail. With each turn, the 127mm secondary guns on the port side fired together, and the accuracy was much higher than at the beginning.
But the three battleships remained unmoved, resolutely closing the distance, and the Bismarck sisters behind Musashi continuously poured 380mm shells on the rear deck of the Montana. Finally, in a salvo, an armor-piercing projectile caused an explosion that jammed the Montana's third turret, leaving only two of the ship's main guns functional.
Taking advantage of the great reduction in the firepower of the enemy ships, the three battleships approached to a distance of only 1,750 km, and a 460mm shell tore open the deck near the stern of the Montana, destroying a fusion reactor, and the flames from the thermonuclear explosion evaporated half of the deck, making the enemy ship a very striking target.
Another minute later, a 380mm shell pierced the main deck and burrowed into the No. 1 Energy Control Chamber, a violent explosion that pierced several energy pipes.
A terrifying electric current rushed into the cabin, turning the human crew into black charcoal. Half of the thrusters dimmed, and the Montana was no longer able to maintain the "Forward Three".
The Montana's damage management system repaired the energy pipeline, and the ship's power began to recover again, but the good times were short-lived, and two minutes later, another round of salvo fire pierced through the warship and penetrated the ship's side armor belt, and a large number of energy regulating compartments were destroyed......
Heavy cruisers also joined the ranks of accurate hits. Their main guns could not penetrate the battleship's main armor belt, but they were able to frantically clean the upper decks of enemy ships with their high rate of fire. Slowly, most of the remaining secondary guns on the Montana were forced to shut down.
The Musashi continued to fire volleys, this time hitting the Montana's repeatedly damaged bow, completely destroying the entire bow and pouring almost all of the air inside the ship through the gap.
The entire battleship has become a vacuum inside, and the power output of the power compartment is getting less and less, and the Montana can only continue to move forward with the acceleration of "forward one".
"Sir?" The weak voice of the communications officer gave Zhao Yunfei a glimmer of hope. "We're getting a message from an enemy battleship, sir. They proposed a ceasefire. ”
Zhao Yunfei seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and his red eyes stared at the tactical display diagram.
"Ceasefire?"
There was a temporary ceasefire on the three battleships, but the fire control system was constantly updating the data.
"New message, sir. is the commander of the enemy army. ”
"Send it over."
On the ship-to-ship holographic communication device: Lan Bing is dressed in the uniform of a naval colonel, with a heroic posture, and his ice blue eyes that render purple reveal calmness and confidence.
"Zhao Yunfei." She said coldly, "I'll give you a chance to surrender." Disarm the fleet and hand over all warships to us. Otherwise, in ten minutes, your ship will be reduced to a mass of scrap metal! ”
"Surrender?" The sounder simulates a sneering sound. "It's ridiculous."
"I won't mention it a second time. Please think for your crew. ”
Zhao Yunfei coldly glanced at the crew on the bridge. "Why should I think about their lives or deaths?"
Lan Bing didn't show the slightest surprise, but he showed a hint of gloom. "So, that's your reply?"
"Of course not, I have a proposal as well. Keep your ceasefire and let me go. Otherwise, wait for my father's uninformed reply. ”
"To quote you - that's ridiculous."
Blue Ice walked briskly to the No. 4 fusion crew at the stern of the ship, put on the Psychic Blocking Alloy Glove, and placed the Witchcraft World Rune into it.
What a stubbornness!
The surging magical power contained in the runes of the wizarding world can be extracted by the energy network!
The essential power of the Runeterras was pumped into the battleship's body, and the silver energy network on the Musashi began to emit the cold light of the starremains.
Energy readings on the main panel are climbing: 80%...... 90%…… 100%…… 110%…… 120%.
A skull button flashed with a line of words:
Yamato Gun!
Yamato cannon!
Pressing it, Blue Ice instantly understood why it needed such harsh conditions to use.
The energy supply of the ship's close defense weapon system, main ship gun system, and damage management system has been adjusted to the lowest level.
The energy of a controlled thermonuclear explosion is pumped into the shaft cannon that runs through the center of the Musashi, and the magnetic restraint system is temporarily overloaded, firmly confined the energy comparable to a strategic nuclear weapon in the shaft gun......
Due to the influx of rune energy from the wizarding world, the nuclear explosion energy was induced by its energy to faintly form a comet's phantom.
The Musashi's attitude adjusted and the engine started, and the huge hull turned into a cannon barrel, slowly pointing at the Montana.