Chapter 676 The USS Roosevelt Sinks
Boom!
A bioplasma shell penetrated the bow of the Maya destroyer of Sakura Country. This is a destroyer with a full load displacement of 10,500 tons, and it is the most powerful destroyer of Sakura Country.
But such a destroyer, in front of the bioplasma cannon, one shot, the bow of the Maya disappeared, melted by the high temperature, molten steel flowed into the sea, a large amount of water vapor emerged, and seawater began to swarm into the hull.
Although the Maya sealed the watertight compartment and carried out damage control in time, the water inflow at the bow was too serious, and the deck of the hull was half submerged in the sea water. The speed has dropped to less than 3 knots, almost like a turtle crawling.
However, in order to avoid the dying struggle of the Maya, the Führer gave it a quick death.
In the collapsed eyes of the Sakura Navy soldiers on the Maya, the three 600mm bioplasma cannons of the No. 1 turret aimed at it at the same time, accompanied by three tongues of fire.
Three bioplasma shells smashed into the hull of the Maya at the same time. The raging explosion shock wave and high temperature directly broke the Maya into several sections, and the sea was boiled by the high temperature.
Those Sakura Navy soldiers who jumped into the sea were like jumping into boiling water. They were burned and screamed miserably. In a short while, they turned over and floated on the sea.
For a while, the sea was densely populated with the bodies of Sakura Navy soldiers wearing white military uniforms.
When the destroyer sank, there were only a few Sakura warships left around.
"Captain, biological radar detection shows that there are multiple batches of carrier-based aircraft approaching us rapidly. In addition, many warships of the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group also launched missile attacks on us."
In the command room of the bridge of the Führer, the adjutant reported the latest findings.
Xia Jinyi's expression remained unchanged, and he chuckled, "It seems that they want to focus on us first, let the three Devourer-class deep-diving cruisers go free, and see who will go to sleep in the sea first."
Behind Xia Jinyi, three Devourer-class deep-diving cruisers have emerged from the sea, and also released a large number of anti-ship missiles towards the Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group.
Just as the two sides fired missiles at each other, the sharp whistling of fighter planes came from the sky.
Dozens of carrier-based aircraft launched by the Roosevelt aircraft carrier, as well as fighter planes taking off from air bases in various parts of the Ryukyu Islands, headed towards the President, which was located in the center of the three Devourer-class deep-diving cruisers.
On the President battleship, nine 600mm bioplasma cannons pointed obliquely to the sky, and the gun mounts of 18 250mm secondary guns also moved quickly, and the thick muzzles flashed with a faint blue halo.
At the cracked hole on the battleship deck, the transparent tentacles that looked like jellyfish tentacles swayed, making the USS Sovereign look like a deep-sea monster with bared fangs and claws.
The first batch of fighters that came close to here were the Hornet fighters and F-35 fighters that took off from the USS Roosevelt. The anti-ship missiles they carried could attack the battleships first at a distance of hundreds of kilometers.
However, the first to attack was the USS Sovereign. A total of 27 bioplasma cannons roared, and in the deafening roar, the bioplasma shells drilled out of the muzzles and rushed straight into the sky.
The bioplasma cannon has a speed of dozens of times the speed of sound. Even those agile fighters have a hard time dodging it. The time left for them is too short.
What's even more amazing is that this bioplasma shell, which is specially used for air defense, will slightly adjust its flight attitude and adjust its trajectory according to the evasive direction of the fighter to better attack the target.
These American carrier-based aircrafts were maneuvering to evade. When the two sides crossed, the bioplasma shells exploded one after another, like fireworks blooming like a rain of light spots. Each light spot carried high-temperature plasma, which changed from the original condensed explosion to the launch of shotgun shells, and the killing range was extremely large. This was a bioplasma shell specially modified for air defense.
More than a dozen American carrier-based aircrafts were touched by tiny plasma, and the fragile fuselage metal was instantly burned and deformed. The tight electronic instruments inside were destroyed, and they fell into the sea with black smoke.
Some unlucky pilots were directly affected by the plasma from the driving seat, and their flesh and blood melted.
The bombardment of the President was not aimless, but had a clear goal.
By densely covering the predetermined airspace, cutting off the evasive space of the fighters, the bioplasma cannons with a speed of dozens of times the speed of sound were combined with special anti-aircraft bombs. By the time these carrier-based aircrafts reacted, they were often destroyed and killed.
Not only the President, but also the three Devourer-class deep-diving cruisers were firing a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower, attacking the incoming missiles and fighters.
Anti-aircraft missiles were fired one after another, heading for the sky, chasing those supersonic fighters. From time to time, fighters were shot down by anti-aircraft missiles, tumbling into the sea with black smoke.
At the same time, those American carrier-based aircraft also fought back, and the flames of anti-ship missiles fell off from the belly mounting point and ignited towards the President.
The missile rain launched from the Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group also fell almost synchronously, and the dense missile rain almost covered the entire sky.
"Start the equal-row anti-aircraft bacteria array!"
On the towering bridge of the President, Xia Jinyi's expression remained unchanged, and he calmly issued orders.
On the deck of the President battleship, the hundreds of transparent tentacles that drilled out of the deck, in addition to spewing energy spores to affect those missiles, destroyed the missiles' precision equipment and made them lose their accuracy.
At this time, clusters of white mycelium were sprayed out. These mycelium surrounded the Sovereign battleship, expanding and extending between 5,000 and 3,000 meters, like a dense spider web covering the sky above the Sovereign, twisting wildly in the wind.
The incoming missiles, whether launched by destroyers or carrier-based aircraft, would riot as soon as they approached the mycelium network. The mycelium would be like a long whip, either pulling off the incoming missiles or directly blocking them, causing them to crash into it.
Within three kilometers centered on the Sovereign, dense missile explosions and flames rose and fell. Coupled with the rain of close-in defense shells and the auxiliary air defense of three Devourer-class deep-diving cruisers, the launch of hundreds of missiles actually broke through the Sovereign's air defense network and the number of missiles that could attack the Sovereign was infinitely close to zero.
"Mike, damn bastards, I want you to pay with your lives."
The eyes of the captain of the US carrier-based aircraft squadron, Addison, were red. He saw with his own eyes that his best wingman partner was blown apart in mid-air by the biological plasma shells, and the severe pain made his heart throb.
He also saw the Sovereign, which was safe and sound, calm and composed, and constantly roaring with naval guns, dozens of kilometers away.
The biological plasma cannons it fired continued to explode, and the fighter planes of the United States flying in the sky fell into the ocean below like eagles with broken wings.
For a moment, a huge anger swept his body and mind.
"Fuck, I don't believe I can't hit you."
Addison pushed the joystick hard. As the ace pilot of the United States, he once achieved a dazzling record of shooting down ten enemy planes. Now someone must stand up to break the situation. If the battleship continues to wreak havoc, the United States will definitely lose this battle.
As the F-35 fighter jet he sat on turned on the afterburner, the engine vibrated violently, and Addison drove the fighter plane like a diving falcon, rushing down towards the battleship of the President.
"Captain, cover the captain."
"Fight this monster battleship."
"Captain, you must win!"
The nearby American carrier-based aircraft discovered Addison's bold move and were infected by his spirit. Many people desperately covered him, causing themselves to be hit and disintegrated in the air.
With the sacrifice of his teammates, Addison was lucky enough not to be affected by the explosion of the bioplasma cannon while flying horizontally.
When he arrived at the mycelium protection circle, he controlled the fighter to fly up and down, turning into a nimble swift, dodging the dense whipping of layers of mycelium.
The fighter successfully broke into the air defense gap of a close-in defense gun, and simultaneously dropped two anti-ship missiles, successfully hitting the battleship U.S.S. President.
Boom! Boom!
Two loud noises came in succession, and an anti-ship missile hit the 600mm triple-mounted naval gun mount of the U.S.S. President.
The protection here is second only to the command tower and the energy storage ammunition area on the U.S.S. President. The alloy biological composite armor of the gun mount is more than 700 mm thick. When the anti-ship missile fell on it, it did not shake the turret at all.
When the smoke from the explosion was blown away by the sea breeze, the gun mount was only blackened, and some small sunken white marks appeared in the explosion area, and there was no other loss. The entire gun mount continued to fire fiercely, firing at the sky, shooting down the carrier-based aircraft flying like flies.
Another anti-ship missile landed on the deck of the Führer. The horizontal armor of the Führer was also 380 mm thick. When the anti-ship missile exploded with hundreds of kilograms of explosives, the deck vibrated violently, and the shock wave and kinetic energy of the explosion were absorbed layer by layer, only a small hole less than two meters wide was blown open.
This kind of wound is completely harmless to the Führer, which is 541.1 meters long and 79.5 meters wide.
Even at the gap made by the anti-ship missile, the layers of tumors here were rapidly squirming, absorbing most of the power of the explosion and quickly filling the gap. The shrapnel of the anti-ship missiles was also squeezed out by the tumors, just like a living warship with its own vitality.
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Edison's expression froze as he watched the results of his attack excitedly. He thought that even if his two anti-ship missiles could not severely damage the Führer, they would at least weaken the opponent's firepower output. Who would have thought that the Führer was completely unaffected.
"How could this happen? Is this warship made of steel or a biological creature?"
Edison's face was full of loss of composure. He could not accept that the slight chance he had gained by sacrificing several fighters had no effect on the Führer.
Countless tumors hidden under the deck of the Führer filled the gap caused by the explosion, as if mocking his incompetence.
But Edison had no chance to launch a new round of attacks again, because a 250mm biological plasma cannon was aimed at him.
The distance between the two sides was only a few kilometers, and Edison had no chance to react.
With a flash of fire from the muzzle, the biological plasma cannon directly smashed Edison and his fighter plane into pieces at dozens of times the speed of sound.
Facing the intensive attack of a large number of fighter planes and missile rain, the defense of the Führer was not perfect, but the Führer relied on its own strong ship, powerful guns, thick armor and self-healing ability to withstand all the damage, and its combat effectiveness was not much weakened. While the damage was high, it was also surprisingly tough.
Dozens of carrier-based aircraft and hundreds of fighter planes taking off from the Ryukyu Islands were helpless in the face of the tough and thick skin of the Führer, and were even used as targets by the biological plasma cannon.
Ordinary anti-aircraft missiles have several times the speed of sound, while the biological plasma cannon has dozens of times the speed of sound. Coupled with the special anti-aircraft shotgun, the killing range of one shot is extremely huge, which is difficult for fighters to resist.
The speed of the fighter planes in the sky is decreasing visibly, and they can no longer threaten the Führer.
"All main guns aim at 2-1-0, target, USS Roosevelt."
Xia Jinyi saw that the fighter plane was no longer a threat, so he chose to focus on the USS Roosevelt.
"Turret No. 1 has completed aiming."
"Turret No. 2 has completed aiming."
"Turret No. 3 has completed aiming."
Soon, with the battleship Sovereign aiming at the USS Roosevelt, nine 600mm main guns fired at the same time. The fierce recoil caused the sea surface to surge, and the Sovereign moved sideways by several meters.
This was the first salvo of the Sovereign, and the target was the USS Roosevelt, which was nearly 200 kilometers away.
In less than ten seconds, several hundred-meter-high water vapor groups rose around the USS Roosevelt. They were white steam vapors formed by the high-temperature evaporation of seawater by the biological plasma cannon.
The USS Roosevelt was hit by five biological plasma cannons at the same time.
The huge power directly blasted the USS Roosevelt to the point of disintegration on the spot.
Even if this is a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, it still can't withstand the direct fire of the 600mm bioplasma cannon.
A bioplasma cannon exploded on the deck of the USS Roosevelt, and the high temperature melted the deck of the aircraft carrier and the hangar below. The dripping molten steel was like a torrential rain. Many American ground crew soldiers who were working here were dripped with these high-temperature molten steel, and suddenly a barbecue-like aroma came out. One by one, the ground crew soldiers wailed and fell to the ground, rolling on the ground in pain.
A bioplasma cannon hit the USS Roosevelt below the waterline, directly penetrating the hull of the aircraft carrier, and seawater immediately poured in.
However, modern aircraft carriers use a large number of watertight compartments and use computer autonomous control. They have good anti-sinking properties against the influx of seawater. The USS Roosevelt only slowed down sharply, and did not sink due to the influx of seawater.
The real fatal blow to the USS Roosevelt was the three bioplasma shells that fell on the stern of the aircraft carrier.
The three shells landed so close together that the Roosevelt aircraft carrier was torn apart by the explosion. The entire aircraft carrier's rear part was broken and melted, and the bow of the aircraft carrier was lifted high out of the sea, completely losing its combat effectiveness.
To make matters worse, the high temperature of the biological plasma cannon also melted the thick steel plates of the aircraft carrier's ammunition depot, and the fire door failed and twisted. Molten steel and high temperature were drawn into the ammunition depot, detonating the 3,000 tons of aviation ammunition used by carrier-based aircraft.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The next moment, a dazzling fire broke out inside the Roosevelt aircraft carrier, and billowing smoke rose thousands of meters into the air. The huge hull with a displacement of 100,000 tons completely collapsed.
No warship can withstand the explosion of the ammunition depot, and aircraft carriers are no exception.
The USS Roosevelt sank completely into the sea in just a few minutes. Of the 3,102 crew members, 2,825 aviation personnel, and 72 marines on board, only 13 survived the explosion, and several senior officers including the fleet commander Sigmund were all killed.
This nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, built in 1986, was buried in the sea, becoming the first heavyweight victory of the battleship USS Sovereign.
At the same time, this also marks the change in the pattern of the Blue Star world, and a new ocean overlord is rising.