Chapter 524: Startled

Woo... A shrill alarm suddenly sounded on the sea. Some players who were practicing fishing skills on the edge of the deck threw their fishing rods and got up and ran to the cabin. The NPCs following them did not move. Slowly, they all got into the warships one after another. At the same time, all the warships on the sea began to accelerate and widened the distance between each other to facilitate maneuvering during battle.

"What's going on?" A player rushed into the bridge while fastening the buttons on the front of his clothes, and behind him was a pretty-looking beauty who was walking with her hair tied up.

Seeing the appearance of these two people, most people immediately understood what the captain was doing just now. But under this current situation, no one has the intention to make fun of these two.

A player sitting in front of the radio frequency sonar device quickly operated the equipment in front of him and replied without looking back: "A huge ship shadow was found directly below the fleet, and it was floating at high speed."

"Ship shadow? You mean the submarine?" The captain had already put on his clothes and immediately squeezed to the side of the sonar operator and looked at the screen in front of him and asked.

The sonar operator nodded and said: "It is certain that it is not a marine creature. As for whether it is a submarine, it cannot be confirmed for the time being. The shape of the target object is very irregular. It looks like a battleship and is very different from a submarine."

"How could a warship come up from the water? It's almost sinking." The woman behind the captain also came over.

The sonar operator shrugged helplessly. "Anyway, the instrument is so realistic. Either there is something wrong with the machine. Or there is really a warship floating up."

"How far is it? Where is the other party's position?"

"It is directly below us at a depth of 1,300 meters. It is currently rising rapidly, and it is certain that the other party is coming towards us."

"how do you know?"

"After we discovered the target, the fleet started to speed up, but the other party was also obviously speeding up. It was obviously coming towards us."

"Is the other party faster than us?" the woman asked.

The sonar operator looked at a few crystals under the screen, and then said: "It has not exceeded the limit speed of our warship, but it is not certain that this is the opponent's limit speed."

After hearing this, the woman looked at the captain and asked, "Do we need to speed up? If we reach the top speed, the other party may not be able to catch up with us."

"Only one ship?" asked the captain.

The sonar operator nodded and said: "At least this is the only one that can be detected. In addition, the other party is very large, no smaller than our Bi Ling class."

"So big?" The captain was stunned for a moment, then turned around and returned to the captain's seat and ordered: "The order was divided into two columns according to the previous formation. The first team rotates clockwise in the inner circle. The second team rotates counterclockwise in the outer circle. The hour hand rotates to form a circular array.”

"Understood." The correspondent immediately began to contact the command rooms on other battleships, and soon the fleet began to change formations because the speed had increased. Therefore, the reorganization of the fleet is very fast. This circular array was quickly completed.

In fact, this formation was not meant to fight the unknown warship. Rather, it is equivalent to sending an inquiry signal to the other party. Because the sonar operator previously reported that the other party was changing course following him, this meant that the other party could detect the position of his own warship. Well, the fleet now has this kind of circular formation. It was like setting up an ambush circle. If the opponent is an enemy, they will definitely move outside the circle, because once they enter the inside of the circle, they will be under the direct firepower of all our battleships. In this case, even the most cutting-edge super battleships in our guild will definitely It will be blown to pieces in an instant, so if the opponent comes to fight, it is absolutely impossible to get in the middle. On the contrary, if the other party enters the ring directly, it will be simple. Being able to do this kind of thing shows that the opponent is not here to fight at all. Of course, it is also possible that the opponent's collective brains are flooded, but that possibility is relatively small.

After the formation change was completed, the captain immediately asked: "Report the relative position and heading."

"The depth is 350 meters, and our fleet is moving. Judging from the current course, it should be within the circle, but the distance is too far, and the opponent may change the course at any time."

"Instruct the fleet to maintain relative speed, but stop moving horizontally and stabilize the formation."

"clear."

Although the fleet had been circling before, the entire fleet was actually moving forward while circling, but now after receiving the order, the fleet immediately entered a state of circling around a fixed location.

After the formation change was completed, the sonar operator reported directly without asking himself: "The target depth is 150 meters, and it has entered the center of our circular array and started to float vertically."

"It doesn't look like the enemy." The woman behind the captain said.

The captain himself nodded, and then said to himself: "But why don't you communicate with us first?"

After the captain finished speaking, the correspondent on the other side suddenly shouted: "Captain, the communicator has been interfered with for unknown reasons. The other party seems to be able to connect to our communicator, but the sound is very harsh and cannot be identified."

"Does it really have a communicator?" The captain asked doubtfully: "Could it be that the other party's communicator is broken? But I have never heard of such a warship in our guild!"

The woman said from behind: "Could it be a cutting-edge ship? I heard that all cutting-edge ships are three-purpose warships that can float and dive. If it is a newly built cutting-edge ship, it is understandable that the new number may not be recognized, right?"

"Impossible. The warships in our guild are all coordinated by the God of War. How can they not be numbered?" After the captain finished speaking, he said: "Instruct all ships to prepare for battle, but they are not allowed to fire first without my order."

After the order was issued, the sonar operator over there had already shouted: "The opponent's depth is sixty meters, fifty-eight, fifty-seven..."

"Stop shouting, that thing is out!" The sonar operator's voice was directly interrupted, because a needle-shaped antenna had already surfaced in the center of the circular array in front of the billowing white waves, and then he saw to a horizontal cross-shaped structure sticking out of the water. Below, a bunch of complex antenna equipment and something that obviously looked like a radar antenna emerged. Further down, a formed ship island structure began to appear, followed by front and rear turrets and decks. The battleship was moving at a very fast speed. It completely rose from the sea with huge waves, and due to its inertia, the warship actually left the water and jumped upwards before crashing back to the sea.

Seeing this huge behemoth rushing out from under the sea, everyone on the surrounding battleships opened their mouths in surprise. Only a few people reacted in time and began to operate turrets and other equipment to lock the target. Once the opponent made any changes, they could immediately Immediately began to fight back.

What made everyone feel a little more at ease was that the battleship in front obviously had no intention of fighting, because all the forts were in the heading position, that is, there was no angle. But no one dared to be careless. Because the appearance of this battleship is very different from the battleships in our guild. Although it also has turrets and islands, the front and rear decks of the battleship are not flat, but have a large number of checkered covers on them. If these are hatches for entry and exit, the number is too many. And rows so densely packed together are obviously unnecessary. so. These things are definitely not hatches. As for what it is specifically - someone has guessed a possibility. But I can't confirm it.

In fact, many people have seen this thing, especially military fans, because this thing is very similar to the missile vertical launch system installed on modern warships. It can even be said that this is a vertical launch silo. But the problem is, first of all, in the game, even the liquefied magic crystal steam missiles of our guild are not ready for use at will. They are only equipped for use by some powerful troops. The main reason for limiting their large number of equipment is that The guidance head in front of the liquefied magic crystal steam missile is the magic circle engraved with the guidance arrow skill. The production cost of this thing is very high, even more expensive than the liquefied magic crystal steam carried on the liquefied magic crystal steam missile, so we only produced the liquefied magic crystal steam missile and did not use other types of explosives, because only liquefied magic crystal steam missiles were produced. The explosive power of magic crystal steam is what makes us use this kind of guidance arrow magic array. However, missiles made from ordinary explosives are too weak to be worth the price of an array disk, and it is a waste to make them.

If there is really a missile vertical launch system under the dense hatches on this battleship, then the opponent's missile must have used some kind of exaggerated explosives, or the opponent has a way to reduce the damage of the missile's seeker. , at least in terms of our guild's production method, this kind of business is not cost-effective.

Moreover, in addition to the problem with the seeker, there is another reason why everyone thinks this is not a missile launcher, and that is - there are too many hatches.

The missile vertical launch system is not a space bag. It only saves space on the deck. There is also a huge magazine in the cabin, so the space on several decks below the location of the launch device is packed. of. Even if modern warships are equipped with this kind of vertical launch system, there are usually only one to five groups, and each group can only have sixteen at most. After all, the size of the missile itself is not small. If too many are installed below the deck, The space was completely packed. Missiles are not the only thing that needs to be installed on a warship. The power system, control system, basic artillery and other weapons all need to occupy space. The most important and most wasteful of space are the operators' passage, residence and combat positions. There can be anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand people on a battleship. If you don't leave enough space for these people to live, where can they live?

However, the ship in front of me was different. There are so many hatches on this thing that they almost fill up the space on the deck. In addition to the positions of the naval guns, even the sides of the ship island are equipped with side launchers. If there are really all these As for missiles, even if each silo on the battleship has only one ammunition, the entire ship has at least three hundred missiles. And if there is an ammunition depot on this ship, the number will be even more terrifying. Therefore, the number of launch silos is so scary that no one believes that they are launch silos.

In fact, in addition to the above reasons, there is another reason why everyone does not believe that those are missile silos, and this reason is the performance of the missiles.

Missiles in reality are very powerful weapons. They can use various guidance methods to strike targets beyond visual range after launch. The success rate is very high and the damage capability is also very good. However, it's different in the game. What the guidance arrow magic array can do is only allow the missile to lock on a target that can be directly seen, which means it has no beyond-visual-range strike capability.

The guild's warships are equipped with super-large-caliber cannons, coupled with the over-the-horizon attack capability brought by the crystal communicator and the long-range observation capability of the pilot ship, our warships can often attack the two fleets before they enter the other's line of sight. Kill nearly half of the opponent's warships. This kind of long-range strike capability is really scary. However, in comparison, the range problem caused by the guidance arrows that need to be seen before they can be launched severely limits the use of missiles. Moreover, the guidance arrow magic array needs to be activated manually by players or NPCs and cannot be remotely controlled. way to launch. In the final analysis, the Guiding Arrow skill is still a skill used by players. Its target locking is based on the soul, so the Guiding Arrow Magic Array also requires a soul to activate it. This is why our guild's liquefied magic crystal steam missiles are basically equipped for players and mobile angels, and they are rarely modified into fixed defense weapons. Because these things need creatures with souls to indicate their goals.

Based on this situation, the limitations of the guidance arrow magic array are so serious that our guild's fleet has never used missiles as its main weapon. So far, our fleet battles still use naval guns as the main weapons.

Since missiles have short range, low power, and high price, it is obviously inappropriate for the opponent to equip so many missiles. So this is why they don't believe that this battleship is equipped with missiles.

Just as these people were staring at this strange battleship in a daze, a cough suddenly came from the battleship. "Cough cough cough...Audio audition...Audio audition...I am your president Ziri, and this is the battleship I just got from the underwater ruins. There is a large ruins below, and there are many more like this Warships, you should immediately organize manpower to start salvage work. In addition, arrange some communication buoys here as soon as possible. I will tell the War God how to activate the warships below. You can use the communicator to contact the War God for guidance. "

Although my voice is familiar to everyone. But there is no way to simply believe that I am Ziri based on the sound alone. However, after surfacing, I connected to the bridges of each battleship through my personal communicator, so everyone quickly believed it. After all, the communicator signal of our guild cannot be faked.

"Boss, you are too awesome. How lucky are you to pick up such a big warship after just one turn in the water?" Several captains in the fleet complained together. (To be continued...)