Section XLVIII

"All of you! The first level of combat configuration, all the personnel working outside are in place, and after five minutes, the base will enter combat mode, and the gate will be closed!

Red warning lights flashed in every corridor, at every corner intersection, and the whistle used for battle warning emitted a loud hum that pierced the sky, enveloping the entire Seventh Fleet military port.

The logistics soldiers who were carrying out loading and unloading operations in the port did not care about the ammunition and materials that had not yet been transported to the ship, immediately turned the steering wheel, opened the loaded or emptied supply boxes, and returned to the mountain fortress inside the military port as fast as possible.

After receiving the order from the headset, the sailors of the ship who were cooperating with the collision with the supplies threw down the materials that were still piled up on the dock, pressed the crane button, put away the crane, and the personnel quickly rushed back to their wartime posts.

"This batch is only half loaded, give me five minutes to get it done!" some soldiers shouted into the microphone as they looked at the half-loaded crane.

"Give up materiel and get into combat as soon as possible. The fleet command issued the first level of combat mobilization, and the enemy was coming at once! You still care about this?! Execute the order!" the superior officer in the headset yelled loudly and repeated the order again.

"Yes!" The sailors looked at the material boxes piled up on the dock, which were finally snatched back from the munitions warehouse, before the fleet entered combat mobilization, all warships always have a base number of ammunition, and only when they go out to carry out territorial sea patrol missions, they will be loaded with an additional base number of live ammunition.

When the fleet entered combat mobilization and demanded that the battleships sail with full ammunition, the quartermasters of all the battleships went to the logistics warehouse to line up to receive supplies, and the more than 30 ships of various types in the fleet could only rely on grabbing if they wanted to complete the supply of ammunition and materials within the specified time.

It took a lot of effort to almost fight with the logistics soldiers of the brother warship to grab the materials back, and less than a third of them were loaded on the ship, and they had to be discarded on the dock, how could the sailors be willing.

"Ten minutes later the fleet set sail for combat duty. The route map has been sent to the terminals of each ship, and the captain of the ship can collect it with his identity key. "The captains, who were already in position in the command compartment of the bridge of their respective battleships waiting to sail, received an operational order from the General Headquarters almost simultaneously.

"Good fellow, this time it's serious! Didn't you say that there was a tsunami coming? ”

Although there are doubts in his heart, the duty of a soldier is to obey orders. The commanders of each warship use the identity key issued at the time of inauguration to identify themselves at the terminal of the battleship's combat master, and receive battle-related orders and navigation routes.

Having seen the route, the captains of the fleet blew up again.

Captain-level officers of the Seventh Fleet have a privately used contact chat group, and at this time, countless messages in the group are rapidly swiping the screen, all of which are some questions and conjectures about this combat mission, as well as an occasional few complaints and complaints.

The captains of the cruiser Yuanshan and the frigate Weishanhu, who were on their way, also received orders from the command.

"Order your ship: move freely, preserve the living force. Good luck. ”

Looking at the four big words of good luck on the projection screen, the captain of the Yuanshan was completely confused. At this time, the Yuanshan ship had already sailed away from the Kuroshio Sea for two hours, and it would be able to return to the anti-fleet base in less than two hours.

"Captain, the radar shows that a large target is approaching our ship from the rear at high speed. ”

"Optical detection captures the target. ”

"Identification is underway... It is a heavy cruiser USS Chixiao. ”

"The Chixiao is now flying at subsonic speed at an altitude of 3,000 meters, and in a minute it will join our ship. ”

"The Chixiao sent a call request, is it connected?"

"Plug in. "Captain Toyama.

The video call was connected, and Captain Chixiao Liang Qiming first saluted a military salute, and then Captain Yuanshan returned the salute.

"This is Liang Qiming, the captain of the Chixiao heavy cruiser, may I ask about the hull situation of the Yuanshan of the Zhenyuan-class heavy cruiser of your ship, the time is urgent. Please reply within thirty seconds. Thank you. Liang Qiming's sharp and somewhat heavy gaze looked through the picture and looked at Captain Yuanshan in front of the picture.

“... There were three serious damages to the hull of our ship, twelve were moderately damaged, and minor damage was not counted. I wonder why Captain Chixiao asked like that?"

"Wait a minute..."Liang Qiming nodded and said, then his gaze moved to the other side, obviously talking to another person at the same time as he was talking to the Yuanshan ship. Captain Toyama almost subconsciously thought of the frigate Weishanhu on the side of his own battleship.

Between them, Liang Qiming's face suddenly became gloomy and terrifying, as if he was about to scold in the next moment.

In the command compartment of the bridge of the Chixiao ship.

"The Weishanhu can already constitute the overall moderate damage, although the Yuanshan ship is only slightly damaged, but from the analysis of the optical picture, the location of the damaged hull is connected to the important transportation hub in the ship. The observer non-commissioned officer next to him reported.

"If we had dropped tactical weapons as planned, both the Yuanshan and Weishanhu would have sank completely...... "The staff officer reported the results of the explosion calculation of the N3 fusion bomb.

It's nice to say that it is sunk, and these two battleships, whose hulls have been damaged, will completely evaporate in the detonation of the N3 bomb. If the hull is intact, all crew members will take refuge in the core protection bay, and there will be a chance of survival, at least about 10% of the crew will survive.

"Forget these two guys, their speed is too slow, it took more than two hours to get here. ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the radar had previously scanned two warships that identified our allies as being in the core explosion zone of the fusion bomb, we would have been preparing to drop tactical weapons to strike. The second mate rubbed his bulging temples, and the green tendons on his forehead jumped and squirmed.

"Did the original plan come true?" the first mate asked succinctly, his eyes not shying away from looking directly at his old brother, Liang Qiming, a comrade-in-arms, friend and partner who had worked together for many years.

Liang Qiming narrowed his eyes and stared at the tough and heroic two captain-level officers in the two projection screens in front of him, they still stood straight and looked at him under his gloomy gaze, not falling behind at all, although Liang Qiming's inexplicable strange attitude made them a little confused.

Liang Qiming's back molars rubbed back and forth in his mouth, and the fist he clenched had begun to turn white because he was too hard.

Boom~!

He stomped his foot heavily and sighed.

"All members of your ship are ready to withstand impact, and our ship will lead your ship forward, so that all crew members are as close to the bow as possible. The rest is left to fate. Don't ask why, execute the order. I now demand the initiation of the regulations on the leadership of military ranks in wartime, I am the captain of a floating battleship, a rear admiral-level floating fleet officer, and your department must unconditionally enforce it. That's it. ”

"Hey~!, I knew you wouldn't abandon your comrades. This is the Liang Qiming I know!" The first mate unfastened the fixed mechanical arm around his waist, walked over to the captain, and patted him on the shoulder. A heartfelt grin.

"Hmph~ The kindness of a woman!" Liang Qiming closed his eyes self-deprecatingly, and at the same time waved his hand to close the call.

"With these two boatloads of people, tens of millions of people may die in the coastal area. Have you thought about it?" Liang Qiming's tone was indescribably hoarse. When he opened his eyes again, the whites of his eyeballs were already bloodshot.

"The battleship slowed down, got out of subsonic flight mode, and dropped the tow cable. The second officer looked at the dejected captain and the first officer with a happy smile on his face, rubbed his hand on the short beard that grew on his chin, and ordered the helmsman.

"The thrust of the main engine is reduced, 85%... 75%..."The helmsman, who had long pricked up his ears and waited for the order, secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly operated the battleship.

The Chixiao ship smoothly got out of the subsonic flight mode, borrowed inertia to continue to fly forward, and at the same time, the anti-gravity floating engine output decreased, and the battleship quickly reduced its altitude, and soon two white dots appeared on the main screen of the Chixiao ship, and quickly approached.

In the eyes of a floating battleship that can fly, two battleships sailing on the surface of the sea are as slow as two snails. There was no way to do this, the hulls of both warships were damaged, and it was impossible to use the maximum maneuverable speed in wartime all the time on the way home, and it was a good loss to be able to maintain a cruising speed of twenty knots.

What's more, the Weishanhu was moderately damaged, and the hull was seriously cracked in many places, and the reason why it did not leak and sank at this time depended on the excellent and strict shipbuilding industry of the Dahua Dynasty to build the excellent quality of the battleship, and the temporarily closed water compartment did not cause secondary leakage.

A few minutes later, the Chixiao ship had been lowered to a height of 50 meters above the sea, and the shadow cast by the slender hull of the 270-meter-long ship obscured most of the two surface ships. It flies at the same speed as the two warships, while dropping four giant magnetic chucks with robotic arms at the ends.

The suction cups were smoothly attached to the bow sides of the two warships under the working attitude engine of the robotic arm. After firmly attaching to the bow armor, the brightness of the uppermost particle aperture of the stern propulsion main engine of the Red Sky began to increase, and the high-energy particle stream ejected formed a bright flame visible to the human eye.

The steel cables that connect the suction cups are gradually straightened.

The two offshore steel warships, totaling nearly 20,000 tons, trembled violently, their bows slightly upturned, and the water-breaking ball nose was pulled out of the water by a huge brute force. The two warships, with a minimum draft of five meters, set off white waves like towed boats, and the speed of sailing increased sharply, and several parts of the hull were torn with unbearable metal, and this terrifying sound was like the whisper of a demon, and like the invitation of death, one of the last sounds of all the sailors going to sea to hear.

The sailors in the ship were immediately enveloped in great fear, but the superior commander did not give an order or explanation, and they could only continue to hold on to their posts.

The second aperture of the stern thruster of the Chixiao ship lit up, the speed of the ship below increased again, and the sharp hissing of the torn hull became more intense, the damage at the stern of the Weishan Lake had cracked, and the crew of the Yuanshan Ship could already see the inside of the hull of the Weishan Lake through the porthole.

The anti-submarine helicopter on board the frigate collapsed miserably on the edge of the inner side of the cabin, and the clanded, cracked surface of the body looked like a hard-boiled egg poured out after being thrown in an iron pipe and shaken back and forth with hatred.

The Chixiao Ship dragged the two friendly warships and gradually accelerated until it could reach the theoretical maximum speed, and the speed of the three warships was only less than 300 kilometers per hour.

But from the outside, the Yuanshan ship and the Weishan Lake ship are almost the same as motorboats speeding on the sea, and the belly of the ship, painted crimson, only occasionally shoots a piece of snow-white waves on the sea, and they are dragged by the Chixiao ship like a drifter.

Behind, the pitch-black tide is rapidly approaching, and the naked eye can already capture that line of oppressive blackness.

Dragged by the Blaze Ship, the three warships drew a huge arc before the black tide caught up, and escaped to the side avoiding the sea area in front of the black tide.

The stern of the Weishanhu said goodbye to the main body at the fifth minute of the march, along with the supplies in the stern compartment and the poor anti-submarine helicopter. Comparatively speaking, the situation of the Yuanshan ship was much better, although the hull also showed a huge crack, but it still persisted and did not disconnect.

Thirty minutes later.

"Look! What's that?"

The soldier in charge of the observation let out an exclamation and immediately redirected the image he saw through the optical eyepiece into the temporary defense camp headquarters.

A picture of a black tide appeared on the big screen in the combat command room.

"A black wave that is a cut above the normal sea level?" Feng Yang in the combat command room looked at the scene in front of him and asked suspiciously.

"If you can still be seen at such a distance, then the actual altitude may not be lower than 100 meters. How far away is the wave from us in the picture?" Tu Wenfeng asked.

"The data given by the eyepiece is twenty kilometers. The staff officer next to him reported.

"Isn't that almost us?" An ordinary soldier in the command room whispered.

The number of cultivators in the Dahua Dynasty was limited, and the mock wind also hired a large number of officially trained outer disciples (those who were not talented enough but participated in the selection of the cultivation school. Generally cultivated outside the enlightenment period, the personal strength is equivalent to the king of soldiers in the ordinary army. ）

"This is the tsunami warned by the Earthquake Bureau, right? Why did it come so quickly?" asked the leader of the scientific research monks, who was supervising the work of reinforcing the formation runes, and looked up at the black tide in the screen.

"I also want to know, didn't you say that the estimated arrival time is tomorrow, why did you come here suddenly?" Tu Wenfeng pinched the knuckles of his fingers.

"Our formation can stop this tsunami, right?" he then asked the head of research

"Of course there is no problem, this time we have specially added a water system formation to the defensive array, which can guide the sea water to flow through both sides of the formation when the tsunami hits, and it will not cause us damage. It's a pity~ You can't arrange this kind of formation on a large scale along the coast, otherwise you won't have to spend money and money to do any emergency evacuation. The head of research shook his head and sighed.

"The magic circles are so well arranged, what's the use of science?" Tu Wenfeng relaxed after receiving an affirmative answer.

"It must have been caused by the flash of light, right? If our analysis is correct, that flash of light must have been caused by a tactical weapon. The staff officer continued.

"The Seventh Fleet Command notified at 15:00 to drop tactical weapons for fire testing, but I didn't expect these guys to be so unreliable and launch early. Feng Ling pursed her lips and complained.

Recently, there have been several reports on the intranet news of the military department mentioning that the fleet of the Emily Rickon Federation is picking quarrels and provoking trouble in our open sea, and this group of barbarians can't make money to earn us, and they don't forget to continue their dream of being a hegemon-level power, and try every means to suppress our Dahua. Feng Yang said as he sat leisurely in his chair as he pulled out a mint green wrapped candy from his jacket pocket and peeled off the tin foil wrapped in it.

"That's just in the open sea, do they dare to enter the first island chain? Our fleet is not vegetarian. Liu Fengsan said.

"Don't be naïve, of course they don't dare to come, and there are a lot of small actions in secret. The staff officer looked at the frame, frowning at the increasingly defined black.

"The speed of this tsunami is so fast, and after just a few words, the wave line is twice as high as in the picture just now. ”

"What is the speed of the tsunami?" Tu Wenfeng asked casually, looking at the preparation of the various mocking wind teams on another screen. Due to the Seventh Fleet's announcement of the trial of tactical strike firepower, the previous operation to build a reinforced defensive position was temporarily canceled, and at this time, all the monk teams had completed their initial preparations and were debugging the high-power weapons they had brought with them, including the individual weapons brought by the Armed Development Department for experiments.

"313 km/h ......," the observer said with difficulty, his back already soaked in cold sweat.

"What are you talking about?313...... hurry up, immediately activate the defensive array! All of them are ready to attack!" Tu Wenfeng first casually looked at the information in his hand, and after reacting, he jumped up violently and roared excitedly like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

Fortunately, Chenxing had already charged the compound defensive array arranged by Meng Fangfei, and the current defensive array that had been expanded on the basis of this composite defensive array was more than enough to use the spiritual power filled by Chenxing. The chief officer of the scientific research department pressed his palm on the center of the formation, and used his own spiritual power to operate several spiritual runes on the magic array, fully activating the defensive formation.