Chapter 394: Death Fleet

"I didn't expect that a person of your level could still get seasick. It's really eye-opening." After Sophie finished speaking in surprise, she looked outside the boat, and then suddenly said: "By the way, Kristina, if you are serious If that doesn't work, just fly. You don't get airsick, do you?"

"of course not."

"Then it's over. When we test it, just fly up and look at us from outside."

"That's not a problem." After Kristina finished speaking, she could only agree to this suggestion.

Because testing situations such as extreme acceleration, extreme deceleration, and turning would have a great impact on the people inside the ship, Sophie first used the radio to announce it, and then waited for a few minutes before starting the test. According to this plan, after we test our navigation capabilities, we will probably just enter the island group where artillery testing can be carried out.

The preparation time passed quickly. Kristina took the initiative to run outside and released her spear and flew into the sky. The battleship Kristina and the surrounding accompanying battleships were all separated by a large distance. The Kristina is not the only ship to be tested this time. The surrounding escort warships are actually all cutting-edge warships. They are also going to sea for the first time, so the test is carried out at the same time for the entire fleet, but each one Each warship is tested independently and does not require unified command. Of course, for the sake of safety, the distance between everyone should be as wide as possible. After all, a battleship is not like a car. Every turn of this thing has a shocking momentum, so there is no way to deal with emergencies in a short time.

After the fleet dispersed, the crew on the ship almost completed the preparations, and then with Sophie's order, the Kristina where we were was entered into the test procedure.

"Attention, all members of the Kristina, the power system test will now begin. The first project is the acceleration capability test. The ship is now anchored and entering a stationary state."

As the order was issued, the Kristina immediately lowered the anchor, and then the battleship slid on the sea for a short distance and stopped. After all, we had lowered the speed in advance for the purpose of testing. After the ship was stabilized, Sophie immediately ordered: "Put away the anchor."

"Put up the anchor," repeated sharply.

After a series of orders were passed, the anchor was pulled out of the water, and then the battleship began to float slowly along the ocean current. Sophie shouted at this time: "Engine crew attention, six cars into five, full speed."

"Six cars into five. Full speed." The battleship pilot immediately moved the two thrust control levers beside him forward to the bottom, and then saw a large circle of white spray suddenly sprayed out from the rear of the Kristina, and the entire battleship The bow of the ship suddenly tilted up a little, and the entire battleship began to accelerate forward.

As the speed increased, the water on both sides of the battleship gradually formed white tracks, and the bow part of the battleship was raised so high that it felt like it was about to emerge from the water. However, this situation is gradually easing as the speed increases. The balance system of the battleship itself will also adjust this unbalanced state. After all, such a sailing attitude is actually very bad for the main keel of the battleship, which may cause excessive stress on the keel. Although it will not break the hull of the battleship at once. However, over time, metal fatigue will occur in the keel of the battleship, and eventually the hull will break.

As the sailing time increased, the speed of the battleship gradually stabilized, and the speed obtained in the final test was as high as 60 knots. This speed is actually not too exaggerated. Although it is already very fast, after all, there are small ships that can exceed this speed. However, it is quite scary that such a large warship can reach this speed.

Unlike the battleships here, the smaller battleships around them have completed their power tests in advance. Large warships may be more powerful, but they weigh more. The volume is also much larger, so under the resistance of the water, the sailing ability is still far behind the surrounding boats.

After testing the acceleration capability, there is the extreme turning experiment. This experiment is to conduct a turning test at the extreme speed to see the inclination angle of the hull. Every battleship has a rolling critical point. Once the inclination of the hull exceeds this range, the hull may capsize. Therefore, the battleship needs to always pay attention to the tilt angle when turning. Once the danger threshold is reached, the course must be corrected in time to bring the ship back to the straight line, otherwise the ship will capsize. However, although this critical point can be calculated using mathematical formulas, you still can't grasp the actual data without actually testing it, so we'd better do some testing.

This extreme sailing test has certain dangers. However, because the battleship is very large, the possibility of capsizing is actually not high. Our test is only a step-by-step test, so the risk is much lower.

As Sophie's test began, the helmsman of the battleship suddenly pulled the steering wheel all the way to the right. The battleship started to twist rapidly to the right with a crash, and we immediately felt that we were being thrown to the left side of the ship. Fortunately, we already knew about this situation before, so everyone found a position to anchor themselves.

In fact, every operating position in the cockpit of a battleship like this has safety belts. Even some positions that are operated while standing are protected by safety ropes. So except for me as a visitor who had to hold something by myself, everyone else was very relaxed.

The battleship's steering ability is very good. I feel that the deck under my feet is tilted by more than four or five degrees. However, the battleship has no intention of turning over and is still turning very steadily until the lateral tilt reaches fifty degrees. The warship's center of gravity began to become unbalanced, but the helmsman, who was prepared in advance, immediately reversed the steering wheel to death. At the same time, he was also prepared to fire a blank round at the naval gun on the left side of the ship. This was equivalent to using The cannon pushed back and straightened the battleship directly.

Because we were properly prepared, we quickly obtained the stable data of the battleship. When doing emergency avoidance in the future, we can know what proportion of steering angle is safe and have a good idea.

After testing the steering performance here, the next step should be to test the extreme deceleration effect. This is supposed to be a test in which the propeller turns over without dropping the anchor. However, it seems that this test cannot be carried out today because just when we were getting ready to do the deceleration test, we were afraid of seasickness. Kristina, who flew out, suddenly flew back and activated the communicator at the same time.

"President, I discovered something happening here."

"What's going on?"

"There seems to be a rather large fleet ahead."

"Fleet?" After hearing Kristina's words, Sophie asked in surprise: "Have you seen what country's fleet it is?"

Kristina replied: "I don't know, I just saw a large number of ships from a distance and came back quickly to tell you."

"A fleet of unknown nationality?" Sophie quickly walked to the chart and looked at it, then frowned and said: "It's strange, this area should be our sphere of influence! How can there be a layman's fleet? ?" After thinking for a moment, Sophie immediately ordered the leader beside her: "Send out the pilot ship immediately. Go and see the enemy's situation before we talk."

"But Captain, we don't have a lead ship!"

Sophie was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she reacted and shouted: "Oops! I forgot this is a fleet that changes defenses!"

The fleet that changes defense is not a complete fleet, because a fleet usually does not change all of its defenses suddenly, but will change half and half. The Kristina that came this time actually took the surrounding warships. It is to take over the main ship of the fleet that is performing tasks in the waters near Indonesia, and the auxiliary ships there will still continue to perform tasks. In other words, the two fleets are merged into one, and the original battleships are simply replaced.

Because it is just a defense fleet that replaces the battleships. So there are no auxiliary warships in this fleet at all. Don't look at the dozens of large and small warships here. In fact, these are all battleships, and the smallest ones are of the same level as fast cruisers. Of course, a warship of this level cannot be used as a lead ship.

In fact, although the battleship of the leader ship was originally meant to be a battleship that went out to explore the way as a forward, it was a temporary title, but in our Frost Rose Alliance fleet, this is not a temporary title, but a special battleship. name.

In our guild, there is a category of battleships called pilot ships, which are the same as destroyers, cruisers, and battleships. They are an independent ship type.

The main function of this kind of lead ship is to conduct enemy reconnaissance. Therefore, their characteristics are that they are extremely fast, can easily catch up with and approach the enemy fleet, and can easily run away at the appropriate time, and also make the opponent have no intention of pursuing them.

To achieve this, the lead ship must be fast, unparalleledly fast, so fast that others simply cannot muster the courage to chase it. Because that speed is completely disappointing.

In addition to being fast, the pilot ship also has another characteristic, that is, it is small.

Although it is small, it is not at the level of a torpedo boat. The pilot ship is called a ship, so naturally it will not be at the level of a boat. However, in fact, the tonnage of the lead ship has just reached the minimum requirement for the battleship level. This type of miniaturized warship usually uses a three-body structure. It is also equipped with hydrofoils, which on the one hand can reduce the cross-sectional area of ​​the hull and increase stability, allowing the lead ship to make incredible turning movements. On the other hand, this three-body structure can also allow the lead ship to run faster and be more stable. of stability.

The pilot ship itself is actually only very weakly armed, and the weapons and equipment on it can barely defeat a wooden ship. It has no chance of winning against an ordinary ironclad ship. Because they were not originally designed for direct combat.

The front and rear decks of the lead ship are empty, with no weapons on them. There are only small cannons installed on both sides of the stern. However, a large observation room is installed in the empty space in the middle of the battleship. This thing is equivalent to In reality, the radar guidance system, communication system and satellite navigation system are an integration of these systems.

With these advanced instruments, the lead ship can immediately guide its own fleet to conduct beyond-visual-range attacks after discovering the target. The only target the enemy can see at this time is the lead ship. But relying on its terrifying flexibility and speed, it is actually very difficult to hit it, and chasing it, let alone chasing it, is basically a dream. Of course, although the lead ship is rarely hit, the feeling of dancing in the enemy's fire is actually quite exciting. So Sophie herself said before that if you want to be the captain of a battleship, you must first serve on a pilot ship, because this kind of battleship is really the best tool for training players' psychological quality.

Although the lead ship is very good, the technical difficulty of this thing itself is also very high, so despite its small size, the manufacturing difficulty and price are actually very exaggerated. Therefore, our fleet actually does not have many lead ships. Generally, a fleet only has two or three ships.

Precisely because there were very few lead ships, Kristina did not bring a lead ship when she came out to change defenses this time. As a result, she only remembered that there was no lead ship in the fleet when she needed to use it.

"I forgot about such a thing." Sophie was a little angry and punched herself, but she didn't panic. After all, she was also a qualified captain trained on the pilot ship, so she could still handle this kind of thing.

"Send two players to ride on spears and take a look." Sophie said.

"Wait a minute." I was about to send the order when I called him. "No need to go to so much trouble. Kristina and I have nothing to do in the fleet anyway. Leave this to us."

"Ah? President, you want to be a scout for me? This is embarrassing!" Sophie said this, but there was no hint of embarrassment on her face, it was completely fake politeness.

I didn't pay attention to her at all, I just walked to the door and opened it and went out. In fact, Sophie is not a bad person. Most of the reason why she was being polite and joking with me was. She basically has a more casual personality, so even with us guild leaders, there is no serious time.

After leaving Cambridge, I jumped out of the escalator. The bird instantly appeared to catch me and then climbed straight up to catch up with Kristina, who was hovering in the sky. I called directly and said: "Let's go over and take a closer look. The fleet here needs to prepare to complete the formation reorganization. We can't help much if we stay here."

"Okay. It just so happens that I don't want to sit on the boat." Kristina was relieved to hear that she didn't have to stay on the boat.

At the speed of the spear, this distance was not a distance at all. We soon saw the fleet that Kristina had discovered before. Not to mention, the size of this fleet is really quite large. As soon as we emerged from the clouds, we saw a large black spot on the sea below, almost facing the Kristina.

"Damn it, you can't avoid it from this angle! I hope it's not the enemy!" I said and asked Asuka to lower his height to see the opponent's flag. But before I could give the order, the next step was to Fire started. A large piece of white light bomb flew up from the battleship group and flew straight towards us. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)