Chapter 363： torpedo

Captain Jason put down his telescope and stood in his bridge, his eyes firm and steady. He is an old sailor, a boat boss who has sailed for a lifetime.

When he joined the army and was assigned to the navy, he witnessed the rise of the Allanhill Navy. From the beginning of the southward raiding war, to the subsequent endless blockade of Hainan, he participated in it.

At that time he was the captain, and now he is still the captain. The difference is that he is now the captain of a destroyer and the commander of a destroyer fleet.

"Keep your speed! The bow against the enemy! Check all the torpedo safety devices! The guns on the bow are ready to fire!"

The destroyer he is in charge of command is a standard American Fletcher-class destroyer with new style and strong firepower, high speed and excellent combat effectiveness.

Another advantage of this type of destroyer is that the manufacturing process is relatively simple, and it can exaggerate production.

In the World War II era, the United States produced a full 175 standard Fletcher-class destroyers in just two years, with an average of 7 ships capable of being launched into the water a month.

The Fletcher-class destroyer has a full load displacement of 3,050 tons, and the length of the battleship is close to 115 meters. It is already a very standard World War II large destroyer.

The main weapon of the entire warship is five single-barreled 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns. This type of artillery has excellent performance and is also the main reason why Fletcher-class destroyers are favored by the Navy.

In addition, this destroyer is also equipped with two five-pack 533mm torpedo tubes, which can fire 10 torpedoes at once, and has a strong ability to damage large warships.

In order to cope with the air power of the Demon Navy, it is also equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, including 3 dual 40mm Bofors machine guns and 10 single-tube 20mm Oerlikon machine guns. It can be said that the anti-aircraft firepower is very powerful.

Moreover, this warship also uses a relatively new technology power system, with a rated power of 60,000 horsepower, which can allow the warship to run at an astonishing speed of 70 kilometers per hour!

At sea, this speed is already very alarming. Destroyer can become the future maritime hegemon and eliminate cruisers and battleships. Of course, there is a certain reason.

At least, Ailan Hill now likes this type of warship very much, because the speed of construction is too fast.

Because it successfully predicted the outbreak of the Eye of Magic in the Endless Sea, the naval construction work was carried out ahead of schedule. At this time, there happened to be a number of new warships in service, and the number of naval ships was quickly replenished, ending the seriousness of naval ships. Inadequate situation.

Most of these newly commissioned warships are destroyers, and most of them are Fletcher-class artillery torpedo destroyers. This also makes it much more convenient for the Navy to train command personnel, dispatch personnel, maintenance personnel, and unified production processes.

The Fletcher-class destroyer has also lived up to expectations. With its powerful performance, it has met the navy's combat requirements and has become the absolute main force in the current naval destroyer formation in Ailan Hill.

On the other hand, because it is equipped with electronic equipment such as radar, this type of destroyer can attack opponents with higher accuracy, and at the same time, it can also warn and defend against the air. It is a very comprehensive warship.

Precisely because of this, when Ailan Hill had begun to build guided missile destroyers on a large scale, this type of destroyer did not stop production, but was still being built and used in large numbers.

The two 127mm guns on the bow of the ship pointed at the enemy and fired fiercely at a distance of five kilometers. After the destroyer fleet occupied a favorable position on the flanks, it began their best tactical play.

The demon warship naturally did not let off the enemies whose artillery did not seem so sharp. The two-wing warships also began to use magical cannons to fight back. The water jets boiled up on both sides of the destroyer fleet, and for a while the entire battlefield was boiling. .

"The distance is close to 4 kilometers! Captain!" A non-commissioned officer watched as the sea water stirred up by a water column in front of him fell, splashing on the bow of the ship, and reported nervously.

Their 127mm caliber naval gun has limited lethality against the demon warship. After all, under the obstruction of the magical defense barrier, it can only cause a non-lethal penetration effect when it smashes on the side of the demon warship.

Wanting to sink an enemy ship, such endless shelling is really anxious. Therefore, for the destroyer, to quickly end the battle, it still depends on the torpedo attack.

Therefore, the main reason that Captain Jason is desperately pulling closer is to prepare a full turn at an appropriate time and use the side torpedoes to cause trouble to the opponent's fleet. This is his relatively easy tactic to create results, and it is also his killer.

"Send a signal to the Lamay and Siding behind! Zuo Man Ruo! Ready to launch a torpedo!" Jason once again held up his telescope, looked at the demon fleet that was already close at hand, and ordered.

This is a dangerous moment, because as his warship starts to turn, the enemy's attack will have a larger area to be aimed at. The next attack will definitely be more precise, or his warship will be sunk. .

But he decided to turn resolutely and decided to aim more artillery and mass-killer torpedoes at the enemy's warships.

Almost at the same moment, a demon bat descended from the sky, ready to pounce on the battleship to attack. Although its sharp teeth cannot cause damage to the main body of the battleship, it can attack the soldiers on the battleship.

You know, many gun positions on the battleship, including the torpedo launching positions, are exposed outside the battleship. Once someone attacks, there will definitely be corresponding casualties.

"Tutu! Tutu!" The 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun on the ship began to shoot at the demon bat that rushed in. The demon bat was quickly pierced by the shells and plunged into the sea beside it.

But another demon bat rushed over from the other side and directly hit the hull of the destroyer commanded by Jason. The 20mm anti-aircraft gun on the side fired at the demon bat, but did not immediately kill the behemoth.

It struggled for a while, using its angle to avoid the shells hitting its vital parts, and then directly bit a soldier on the deck and threw him into the sea.

The surrounding soldiers were so frightened that they quickly dispersed and avoided. This flexible monster interspersed back and forth in the cracks of the buildings on the battleship, and was completely killed when the second sailor was killed.

The black blood spilled over the entire deck of the battleship, and the corpse of the soldier who had been bitten into two pieces lay beside the mouth of the demon bat. The cruel picture seemed to make the stomach twitch.

At this time, the Fletcher-class destroyers lined up in a row began to turn as a whole. The leading flagship Anson had already aimed its sideboard at the enemy, and the Lemay destroyer, which followed closely, had already begun to move at a rapid pace. Steering.

Because the speed was too fast, the sharp bow of the destroyer cut the sea water, and the splashing waves were regular and beautiful.

The naval guns on the battleship were still firing continuously, and one shell after another hit the opponent's magical defense barrier, leaving unhealable marks on it.

"Torpedo! Fan firing! Three, two, one! Volley!" Jason seized the opportunity and gave the torpedo attack order.

After the hull of his destroyer and the opponent's warship were in a relatively parallel state, he issued an attack order to launch a torpedo.

Following his order, the torpedo tube that had been turned to the side, knocked out all 10 torpedoes in one go.

The compressed air pushed out the huge torpedo inside the torpedo tube. Almost at the same time, a shell fired by a magic guided gun was directly loaded on the bridge of the destroyer Siding, which had just begun to turn.

In just an instant, the huge energy melted the entire destroyer's bridge, leaving a huge black hole on it.

Then the destroyer Siding lost its response and no longer made any steering movements. In this way, it lost control, and in the midst of the raging fire, along its inherent course, rushed straight to the direction of the demon fleet.

"Siding! Siding!" The radio operator was holding the intercom and repeating the call over and over again. He seemed to want to hear the answer from Siding, but the radio was quiet, and it made people desperate.

The heavy attack directly reimbursed most of the upper structure of the Siding, and even detonated the torpedo carried on it. After a few seconds, the warship, which had only been launched for a few weeks, exploded into a ball of flames on the sea, and then sank. All 353 people on board were killed, none of them were spared.

When the Siding exploded and sank, the white tracks around it had begun to fade away. The white foam left by these torpedoes rowed towards the demon fleet at an extremely fast speed.

These vengeful ghosts under water are rushing towards the demon fleet in the distance at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

Different from the attack methods on the water, the power of these underwater ghost explosions is stronger than that of ordinary air explosions, and only one can be used to paralyze or directly kill a huge demon warship.

Those demons who stood on the ship's side and watched the Elan Hill destroyer exploded in the distance, also found these white trails that represented death.

They pointed to the white track on the sea in horror, and shouted to their companions: "Those! Those underwater weapons! Underwater...weapons!"

Amidst his desperate cry, a white trail has reached his feet. That represents the traces of death, and the moment it came into contact with the battleship, the sea water began to boil.

In the next second, a huge explosion broke the demon's warship that was sailing, and the sea water turned into a dragon, swallowing everything within the explosion range.

The entire demon battleship broke apart from the middle, the deck broke apart because of the huge force, and the surrounding demon corpses began to slide to the side as the battleship tilted.

Then, before the battleship sank into the sea, the magic propulsion device exploded violently, and the remaining battleship was completely torn into pieces.