Rise from the sword

Chapter 668

Southeast Asian waters.

Tonight is sunny and calm.

There are white clouds floating in the sky, and a crescent moon is looming among the clouds. Fragmentary moonlight shines down, making the originally blue sea look extraordinarily eerie at this time.

Under the night.

The three ships rowed across the silent sea, sailing all the way west.

"God Amaterasu bless you for peace."

On the side of the destroyer Isou in the front row of the fleet, Naval Chief Cao Kikube Jiro sat beside the anti-aircraft gun, watching the crescent moon reflected in the calm sea, praying silently in his heart.

Kikube Jiro is a Cao commander, with fifteen people under his command, commanding a triple-mounted Type 25 [-]-caliber anti-aircraft gun, similar to the captain of the army's horse dung.

He is the most basic officer of the devils.

Although naval officers have always been treated well, much better than horse dung. After all, the navy has a lot of money and eats up a destroyer every year, but in the later stage of this large-scale military expansion, it is just a little bigger cannon fodder.

But compared to ordinary cannon fodder, Kikube has a bit of a brain.

In the news, the empire severely damaged and repelled the U.S. ghost and animal navy, withdrew its forces from the Republic of China to occupy the crown of the empire on which the sun never sets, occupied Southeast Asia, expanded a large amount of territory for the empire, and seized a huge amount of supplies.

But he didn't believe it at all.

With such a big victory, is there still a piece of the empire that was blown up?The locust palace was blown to ashes.

Although the empire vehemently denied these news, and the news mainly came from the photos dropped by the enemy, the experience of the large number of recruits proved that the empire was suffering from heavy bombing.

Even if it is not true that the locust palace was burned down, it is probably not much better.

and.

Winning every day, need to use destroyers and fast transport ships to transport supplies at night?The blackout during the voyage is fine, but when sailing at high speed at night, even the anti-collision fog lights are in the dimmest state!
It is still in the Southeast Asian waters, this sea area known as the racetrack of the Imperial United Fleet.

So the voyage must have been very dangerous.

Before the fleet set off, the air defense was strengthened, a large number of anti-aircraft guns were deployed, and their air defense team was on standby at night, ready to deal with air strikes at any time. The enemy should launch an attack from the air.

But it's a big night.

Kikube Jiro looked to the sky.

At this time, the clouds covered the moonlight and lost the only light. The entire sea appeared dark and silent, only the noise of the fleet's engines and the sound of piercing the sea.

"You can't even see it at night, how do you launch an attack?"

Kikube Jiro didn't understand.

The plane can't see their fleet, how can they attack?

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at the same time.

In the sky, an 'Air Police 1' is flying at a high speed of 7000 meters.

"Fleet of devils was found, the distance is 150 kilometers, the number is three, the course is due west, the speed is [-] knots, the specific position is being calculated..."

Air Police 1 is based on the latest four-engine transport aircraft. It is similar to the E1 early warning aircraft of the United States. The most notable feature is an oval and thick antenna dish on the back.

Yes, the oval shape and thick antenna dish are quite different from the nearly round and thin antenna dish of the E2.

After all, the current radar antenna technology is far from reaching the level of later generations.

Fortunately, the passing system has strengthened the clutter filtering technology, and the radar antenna has also been strengthened to a certain extent, and the performance is close to the top radar in the early 60s.

"What a beautiful day."

After receiving the enemy situation reported by the radar operator, the commander on the early warning aircraft sighed with emotion.

Today, the weather is calm and the sea clutter is extremely low, so they not only found the enemy fleet 150 kilometers away, but even calculated the number of enemies and the coordinates of the route.

If the weather is bad, it can only be calculated within a hundred kilometers.

"God makes good."

The early warning aircraft is a complex of top technology. The overall technological level is the same as that of the 01-level destroyer. Those who can be on duty on it are those with a university education level and have been trained by master masters.

The quality of college students in this period is nothing to say.

"Report to Natuna Base."

The captain then gave the order.

Unlike the thick data link, the current early warning aircraft is still very primitive, and can only manually disseminate information through the radio.

"Yes."

Ten seconds later, the radio waves carried the message to the base.

"We continue to follow the target."

The captain's tone was leisurely.

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"Set off."

Three minutes later, at Natuna Airport, accompanied by the roar of huge propellers, four air-launched Styx anti-ship missiles 'Sea Eagle-3' were suspended under the wings of five planes and flew towards the devil's fleet.

The reason why it can be so fast is that although Natuna is a new base, it has always been on duty.

The ground staff prepares for battle 24 hours a day, ensuring that the ten missile attack aircraft can take off at any time, and the pilot and crew are also on standby at any time. After receiving the news, the pilot immediately enters the plane from the combat readiness duty room.

The cruising speed of the new four-engine transport aircraft is 540 kilometers. Although it is carrying four missiles at this time, it actually does not have a heavy load, so it can maintain a cruising speed of more than [-] kilometers per hour.

In less than half an hour, a fleet of five missile attack aircraft arrived at a distance of [-] kilometers from the Devils fleet.

At this distance, devils without radar naturally cannot detect the arrival of the attacking fleet. As for the sound, the noise level of the new five-page propeller is relatively low, and it cannot be observed at a distance of [-] kilometers.

"Determine the target location."

In the attack fleet, the captain gave the order.

In the era when there was no data link, no GPS, and no integrated chips, missile attacks were actually very primitive.

The guidance method of the Styx missile is the front and middle section autopilot, and the end active radar homing guidance.

In layman's terms, it is necessary to set the approximate position of the target on the missile's autopilot, so that after the missile reaches the target, the radar will automatically turn on to search for the target and guide the missile to the target.

Therefore, the specific location of the target, the target route and other data are needed.

Five minutes later, the first 'Osprey' spouted flames from its tail and flew towards the Devils fleet thirty kilometers away. Then, the second and third also flew towards the Devils fleet in turn.

From the sky, it looks like falling meteors.

Beautiful and dangerous.

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"what is that?"

When the first 'Osprey' engine was ignited, the dazzling flame immediately attracted the devil's attention.

At an altitude of 7000 meters and a distance of [-] kilometers, the sound of the sea cannot be transmitted so far, but the fire, especially the tail flame of the missile, was so bright that it immediately attracted Jiro Kikube's attention.

"meteor?"

The devil on duty at the side guessed.

Immediately afterwards, the second, third, and fourth missiles ignited and swayed towards the Devils fleet.

"Not right."

Kikube Jiro's keen gap to the wrong:
"It's not a meteor, it's a rocket."

He has seen meteors, they have completely different shapes and different trajectories, and as the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery, he has a full sense of space, and he can also see that these 'rockets' are aimed at his own destroyer.

Also recognized that this is a rocket.

Although the devil is stretching his hips, there are still rockets, it's just that his skills are poor.

"Enemy attack."

At the same time, the commander of the fleet, the captain of the destroyer Jiro Kikube was on, also issued an order:

"Prepare for air defense."

According to the telegram sent back by the sinking fleet, the devils already knew that this was the attack method of the independent regiment.

"Hurry up····"

After receiving the order, the anti-aircraft guns immediately began to operate.

The destroyers in the front row began to turn, aiming their flanks in the direction of the 'flame' attack, in order to exert the strongest anti-aircraft firepower.

The devils on the anti-aircraft gun positions also moved in an orderly manner. Some devils shook the steering gear and pointed the anti-aircraft guns at the target.

"too fast."

As the commander of the single cannon, Jiro Kikube stared closely at the incoming rockets with his binoculars, his eyes were solemn, and the cold sweat began to drip down his back.

As a subsonic missile, Styx only has a cruising speed of more than 900 kilometers, but in this period, it is already an incredible speed.

"It's a big trouble."

Kikube Jiro couldn't quickly judge the speed of these strange rockets, and he didn't understand why the rockets could fly so far, but he knew that they were in big trouble.

This speed has clearly exceeded their air defense capabilities.

Thirty kilometers, for a missile with a speed of 2 kilometers per hour, it only takes [-] minutes. The devils are not ready yet. At this time, the first missile is only less than five kilometers away from the fleet.

In the navigation system, the autopilot continues to work, the active radar is turned on, and the search for the intended target begins.

When the radar confirmed the target, the autopilot was turned off, and the radar guided the missile to lower its altitude and rush towards the target. At this time, the missile was only three kilometers away from the Devil fleet.

At this time, the surrounding anti-aircraft guns began to fire.

"Ba Ga, a bunch of idiots."

Jiro Futo, who was still looking for an opportunity, immediately cursed:
"Why not have an air defense commander?"

Although he is only a commander, he has also experienced many actual battles, fought against American ghost planes many times, and has rich combat experience, so he knows very well that although the air defense of the imperial warships has a lot of problems.

What weapons are of poor quality, anti-aircraft guns have insufficient rate of fire, etc.

But the most troublesome problem is the lack of unified command, each anti-aircraft gun fights independently, and it is impossible to form an effective firepower network at all.The already poor weapons could not exert their unified strength, so the air defense was naturally in a mess.

"shooting."

Kikube Jiro also commanded his anti-aircraft guns to start firing at an incoming 'rocket'.

Da da da... The Type 25 triple-mounted [-]mm anti-aircraft gun muzzle burst into intense fireworks, and the shells flew towards the target, trying to intercept the 'Osprey' missile flying at high speed.

Air defense in this period relied on the accumulation of projectiles, replacing accuracy with quantity.

"Reload, reload quickly."

After a burst of fire, the missiles still flew at high speed without being affected at all, Jiro Kikube howled hysterically.

It's a pity that the Type [-] multi-mounted anti-aircraft gun, known as the "shame of air defense", is too hip. Although the paper data is good, the design problem is fatal.

The Type 45 anti-aircraft gun is fed by magazines, each magazine has fifteen rounds, a total of [-] rounds, such a small amount of shells can be fired in one burst, and six loaders are equipped for this.

Also, this kind of "shame of air defense" is extremely troublesome to change the ammunition, the process is complicated and takes a long time, and it cannot be fired during the change of the magazine.

This is fatal to air defense.

Not to mention there are still problems with the command.Even if the devils had deliberately increased the number of anti-aircraft guns, the firepower network was still sparse.

"Damn it, why don't you change your clothes."

When the rocket was more than 300 meters away from the destroyer, Kikube Jiro still hadn't finished reloading here, and he shouted in despair.

In fact, the empire already has a more advanced Type [-] anti-aircraft gun, which solved most of the problems of the Type [-].

but.

Type [-] was developed by horse manure!

boom···

The first missile accurately hit the flank of the Devil destroyer. The thin armor of the destroyer couldn't resist the [-]kg warhead at all, and the entire side of the destroyer directly hit this section.

Kikube Jiro was also shattered in the explosion.

"Even if the [-]-type anti-aircraft gun is installed, it can't stop it. The enemy's weapons are too fast."

This was Jiro Kikube's last consciousness.

Five missile attack aircraft, [-] missiles, and a fleet of three ships sank in the waters of Southeast Asia with [-] tons of supplies. None of the devils on board survived.

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The next morning.

subcontinent.

"The fleet lost contact."

Gangcun sighed.

This is already the No. 11 transport fleet, but none of them broke through the enemy's blockade.

"Pity."

Yamamoto also sighed.

He originally thought that the NO.11 fleet would arrive.After all, although the fleet is the smallest this time, the ships are advanced and fast, and can quickly pass through the enemy's blockade line in the dark.

"There is no way to get the fuze of the shell from the country, so we have to find another way to solve the shell problem."

Gangcun quickly changed the subject.

If the discussion continues, the independent group will be involved. There is nothing to discuss about this topic. The two of them have nothing else to do except sigh repeatedly.

The NO.11 fleet is mainly loaded with shell fuzes.

Thanks to the foundation left by the British, the subcontinent's industrial facilities are actually good, and they were not damaged during the locust army's occupation. They can directly produce various small and medium-caliber shells, but they cannot produce shell fuzes.

So the two planned to transport the fuze domestically.

Unfortunately.

"We figured out a way to make it ourselves, and the British still left some technicians here."

Yamamoto took up the topic.

They are unable to manufacture fuzes on a large scale, not outright impossible to manufacture.

(End of this chapter)