Chapter 221 Various Harassment and Anti-Harassment Strategies

"Who can tell me what to do now?" The Gunslinger looked at the burning battleship not far away and asked the think tanks around him.

A think tank member spoke without thinking: "These should be mines dropped by the Frost Rose Alliance fleet during its movement. The purpose is probably to hinder our speed, so I think we only need to conduct anti-mine operations." ”

"Fart." A think tank next to him yelled at the think tank who spoke before: "Is there something wrong with your eyes or your brain? These are not mines dropped by the Frost Rose Alliance fleet at all. The first ship that just hit the mine Positioned in the middle and front of the fleet, it can be said that the mine happened to pass through the gap in the fleet in front and was hit by the battle cruiser. However, the concentration of mines on the ships in the back showed that that area was obviously a minefield, but In such a dense minefield, the battleships in the front passed by without incident, but the fleet in the middle was hit. In such an obvious situation, you can still open your eyes and tell lies about the mines dropped by the battleships of the Frost Rose Alliance. Your mines Can it automatically select the target?”

"Then what's going on?" The accused guy argued angrily: "If it's not floating mines, where do you think those mines came from?" "Idiot." The think tank behind him first cursed with contempt, and then turned around The Gunslinger said: "President, these mines were not triggered by our fleet at the first time, which means that they were not at the depth that could be triggered at that time. Therefore, I think these mines were released by submarines from below our fleet. The opponent's attack They aimed at our position and calculated the time for the mines to rise before dropping them, so the explosion points were basically concentrated in the central area of ​​the fleet, because this is where the ships are most densely populated and it is not easy to make mistakes. And only in this way can we explain why the previous The battleship passed by without incident. But something happened to the battleship behind."

The Gunslinger lowered his head and thought about this possibility, and found that it was indeed very possible. Our Frost Rose Alliance has a sea tribe alliance. This matter is no longer a secret, because there is a special passage over the Essinger Twin Cities that leads to an underwater altar outside the Twin Cities. Although it is said to be an altar, there is actually a large living area surrounding it. The people living in these areas are all authentic sea tribes - mermaids.

Because the mermaid race is relatively famous among fantasy creatures, there are many tourist-type players who come to this underwater area. After all, this is the easiest place to see mermaids in the world. In addition, a huge Poseidon Temple was recently built in the underwater part of this area, which not only began to accept job transfers for sea warriors, but also issued missions. certainly. The above is only information accessible to ordinary people. Gunslinger and the others actually know a more important piece of information, that is, a little further from the underwater altar, there is a large secret submarine base in the deep sea area, and those submarines are all operated by Sea Tribe warriors, and their combat capabilities are quite powerful.

Based on the fact that our guild has a large number of submarines, it would be abnormal if we did not bring any submarines in this battle. so. Our guild's submarine must have come out, and must be cruising nearby, looking for fighters. So, based on this, it is very normal for these submarines to release mines underwater to attack.

"What you said makes sense. The submarines of the Frost Rose Alliance must be nearby, and it is not impossible for them to release the mines." The gunman thought for a long time and still felt that what the think tank said later was more reliable.

In fact, what they don't know is. In fact, half of what both people said is correct. The mines that just attacked these warships were not laid exactly in one way, but half were dropped by submarines and the other half were floating mines.

What those two guys thought was half correct. It is indeed difficult for ordinary floating mines to cross the front battleship and attack the rear battleship. But the floating mine we used is equipped with a timed floating device. After this kind of mine is dropped, it will be set at a depth of 150 meters underwater. Then according to the setting of the internal timer, after the timer countdown is completed, the high-pressure gas tank will be triggered, and then part of the seawater in the mine will be discharged. To make the mine body float up and enter the triggering depth.

The manufacturing process of this kind of mine is not complicated at all, but the accuracy is often not easy to master. After all, the enemy may not arrive at the designated location according to the time you designed. Usually this kind of mine is prepared for submarines. When the submarine is performing the task of blocking the sea area, if the mine is discovered prematurely, the submarine's own safety will be threatened. Therefore, the best way is to release this kind of timed floating mine, as long as the working time of the submarine is calculated. Then just time the mines. In this way, after the mine placement is completed, all the mines will float up at the same time. In this way, it is unlikely that the submarine will be in danger because the mines are discovered in advance.

The American fleet and the Russian fleet have been moving in the direction of Isengard. Not only is the speed fixed, but also the direction is locked, so we can accurately calculate the time it takes for them to pass through a certain area. In this way, it will be much simpler to set up timed floating mines.

In addition to these mines dropped directly by our warships, our submarine force here is also not idle. The underwater combat units produced by Atlantis move faster than American surface ships, and the underwater covert action capabilities of these Atlantis submarine forces are absolutely beyond imagination. They didn't even know they were being attacked until the mine was triggered. These submarines use steel cables with movable buckles to drag the mines from below the battleship group to the vicinity of the opponent, and then find a suitable target to release the safety. Those large mines will begin to float under the action of buoyancy, and then accurately hit Battleships passing overhead.

After the warships of the Holy Gun League were attacked, although other ships did not intend to slow down, because there were still many people and materials in the water on these bombed ships, some ships were still needed to stay and salvage, and the remaining The warships below need to avoid this area, on the one hand to avoid the survivors and scattered supplies in the water, and on the other hand to avoid the remaining mines that may exist in this area.

With this detour, the speed will naturally decrease, so the Russian fleet found that the speed of the Holy Spear Alliance fleet had slowed down significantly.

The Frozen Banshee turned her head and looked at the American fleet with some doubts. Then ask your first mate. "What's going on over there with the Holy Spear Alliance? Why has the speed slowed down?"

"Just now, several ships in their fleet hit mines, and it seems that several ships were sunk."

"Thunder struck?"

"I don't know the specific situation. I just know that it hit a mine, and it was very powerful. Several ships were sunk. Among them was a battlecruiser."

"American ships just don't resist maneuvering." After the Frozen Banshee finished speaking, she suddenly said to the first mate: "Order our ships to put down mine protection nets. I don't want to be laughed at."

The so-called lightning protection net is actually a modified fishing net. The line is still the same, but some plumbs are hung below. When the mine protection net is lowered, an interception net can be formed on the outside of the ship one meter away from the ship. When a mine or torpedo approaches the ship, it will be entangled in this net, thereby triggering the torpedo or torpedo. The port cannot touch the hull of the battleship and cannot be detonated. and. Even if it is triggered by a fishing net, a torpedo or mine that explodes one meter away is far less powerful than one that explodes directly against the outer wall.

It can be said that the orders given by the Frozen Banshee were extremely accurate, because the order from her side had just been conveyed, and the battleship that responded quickly had just put down the mine protection net, and suddenly discovered that something was caught on the net. Then two explosions were heard from two directions at the same time.

The fleet on the Russian side was obviously also attacked by mines, but unlike the Holy Spear League, the Frozen Banshee made arrangements in advance because of the Holy Spear League's mistakes, and ended up intercepting most of the mines at the critical moment. , only two slow-reacting battleships hit mines, and one of them was a super-heavy battleship. Although it hit a mine, it only caused minor damage, while the other fast cruiser was slightly worse. Basically lost the ability to move. However, because only this ship was damaged, it can be towed away by other warships, basically without much impact.

I saw those large mines entangled in mine protection nets. The Russians felt quite lucky. If they had been three to five minutes later, only two ships would not have been hit by the attack. It is conservatively estimated that at least a dozen ships will hit mines, of which less than half will survive.

Although both the American fleet and the Russian fleet suffered losses this time, the actual losses were not too large compared to the number of ships in the fleet. This loss is really minimal. What makes Gunslinger and Frozen Banshee really sad is not the loss, but the morale of the people within the guild.

After the double-teaming tactic was discovered. The American fleet and the Russian fleet have been under continuous harassment by us, starting with shelling. Then came the mines, and I don’t know what comes after that. During this entire process, the American fleet and the Russian fleet lost less than a hundred warships in total. It can be said that the losses were very small, but the feeling of being passively beaten was not pleasant. Originally, the American fleet and the Russian fleet were already a combined fleet composed of enemies, and they were quite unstable internally. In this case, if pressure continues from the outside, leaders on both sides are worried that internal staff will choose to take it out on the other party's people because they cannot resist this pressure.

Although our fleet has not dared to confront their combined fleet so far, this is because they are a combined fleet. If we separate them and simply face the fleets of either the United States and Russia, we will definitely not be afraid of them. Therefore, both the Gunslinger and the Frozen Banshee know that the combined fleets of both sides cannot be separated, otherwise the American fleet and the Russian fleet, no matter who takes them out separately, will not be an opponent of our Frost Rose Alliance fleet.

Just because they are worried about this happening, both sides are trying their best to suppress the occurrence of unpleasant events, and even dare not merge into a fleet. But even so, the pressure on both sides is very high, and now we are constantly increasing this pressure. This is a headache for both the Frozen Banshee and the Gunslinger.

Just when the Frozen Banshee and the Gunslinger were worried that their own people wouldn't be able to hold on, bad news followed.

"It's not good, it's not good." A Russian player stumbled into the bridge, then pointed at the sky diagonally above and shouted: "A large number of flying units of the Frost Rose Alliance were found ahead."

"where?"

"Directly ahead, fifty kilometers away."

Following the member's report, the Frozen Banshee quickly rushed outside the bridge, then stood on the terrace outside the bridge and held up a telescope to observe the sky in front of her. It took her barely a few seconds to spot the aircraft reported by her men. Because there were so many of them, a large black patch in the distant sky looked like locusts.

"What the hell is this? Why are there so many?"…

Our guild's small aircraft has just been developed not long ago. This is the first time it has participated in a battle, so even the Frozen Banshee doesn't know this thing. But although we don’t know our aircraft. But at least they know that things that can fly must be difficult to deal with. It’s not that our guild didn’t have air units before. On the contrary, we not only had air units, but there were also a lot of them. However, most flying units such as Warcraft have the disadvantage of high mobility and low attack power, and their endurance is not very good. Artificial aircraft. The cost of large-scale air combat units is too exaggerated. Even our guild only built part of them and there is no way to mass-produce them. As for small flying units, so far only the Mobile Angels of our guild can barely count. However, the Mobile Angel is very powerful. However, the cost is still high, and production is very difficult, so it has never been large-scale. But the black spots that cover the sky in front of us are at least tens of thousands. Such a terrifying number is either a new type of aircraft, or our guild's mobile angel production technology has achieved a breakthrough. No matter what the situation is, it is definitely not a good thing for the American fleet and the Russian fleet.

"President, those things don't look like mobile angels!" A Banshee House player put down his telescope and said.

The Frozen Banshee nodded and said: "Indeed not, it looks like some kind of aircraft. It has no limbs and is not humanoid."

"There are so many people. If they all carry bombs, wouldn't we all be destroyed?" A Russian woman on the other side said for that family.

"Probably not." The Frozen Banshee said: "The power of artificial objects in the game is usually related to the cost. Although there are some things that can amplify the power several times or dozens of times. But it is not too exaggerated. Frost There are so many of these things from the Rose Alliance, which shows that the cost is not high, so the power is definitely not that great. But after all, this thing is a new weapon of the Frost Rose Alliance, so it still needs to be treated with caution."

"Thanks to the fact that the warships in our guild have undergone anti-aircraft modifications before, otherwise it would have been a disaster this time."

The conflict between the Russians and us is no longer a day or two, so it is expected that there may be a battle with the air force of our guild. Therefore, the Frozen Banshee had all the Russian guild’s warships strengthened with anti-aircraft weapons in advance. After all, our guild’s air force is very good. Everyone knows this, if we don’t strengthen our air defense capabilities. If they encounter our air force, they will all become targets.

However, even with the strengthening of anti-aircraft weapons, the players in the Russian fleet are still unsure whether they can stop these air units. There are many things in the game that are difficult to copy in the same way as in reality, so it is impossible to really copy the anti-aircraft weapons in the game. The most important point is that anti-aircraft missiles cannot be manufactured. Even our guild's liquefied magic crystal steam missile does not have a true air-to-air model, because the steering ability of this missile is actually very weak and its speed is not very fast. It is just fine against slow-moving ground or water targets. The hit rate is really a problem. Not to mention other guilds, they can't even carve the magic array of guiding arrows, and they can't make cheap missiles at all. Of course, it is possible to use ghosts as pilots to make suicide missiles, but the cost and size of that thing are unacceptable. Once created, it has no practical significance except to show off wealth.

Without missiles, there are actually only two types of air defense weapons available. One is various types of cannons, and the other is magic weapons.

Let’s talk about magic weapons first. This classification performance is actually quite good. Certain magic skills are actually very suitable for use as anti-air weapons, such as dissociation rays and scorching rays. This kind of beam magic has moderate power, fast firing speed, and faster flying speed, so it is very suitable for use against the air. However, like all magic weapons, this thing is basically just for money. It saves money to use the mage as a battery, but unfortunately it consumes energy too quickly and needs to be replaced after only a few hits. The magic crystal is slightly more useful, but the price of that thing is... Anyway, except for rich guilds like our Frost Rose Alliance, most guilds don't dare to play with it casually, and they really can't afford to burn it.

In the end, the really reliable thing is the artillery. This thing actually has no performance advantages. The only advantage is that it is cheap and easy to produce. Compared with magic weapons that can only be produced by a collective of professional magicians, alchemists, magic circle diagrammers and senior blacksmiths, the artillery production technology is more practical as long as the professional blacksmith opens the mold and the blacksmith apprentice can help complete the follow-up work. It's too cheap. Moreover, no matter how expensive the shells are, they are much cheaper than magic crystals. These advantages determine that the seemingly weak artillery is actually much more reliable than the tall magic weapons and fantasy equipment-like missiles.

The Russian modification uses the method of installing multiple anti-aircraft guns, but this kind of anti-aircraft guns is not the same thing as the multi-barreled machine gun in reality. Although this thing also works by rotating multiple gun barrels, it is essentially closer to the double-barreled anti-aircraft guns installed on battleships during World War II. This thing is fired purely manually. When firing, two people need to step on the bicycle pedals under the seat to make the barrel rotate. The 60mm caliber barrel actually looks quite large, and the shells fired simultaneously It is a kind of explosive bullet that can increase the strike range and improve the hit rate. Of course, for example, it is not very large, but it is enough for ordinary flying monsters.

Compared with the Russian fleet, which was slightly uneasy, the Americans were basically in panic, and the reason was that their warships had too few anti-aircraft guns.