Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

Chapter 518: Burning Islands

The sudden anti-ship missile attack threw the Indian Navy into chaos. Some of the panicked naval soldiers stood there in a daze, while others screamed and shouted at the top of their lungs.

Due to lack of training, many naval soldiers didn't know what to do at this time.

"Go and start the boat immediately."

"Go operate the rapid-fire guns and close-in defense guns and shoot down those missiles."

"Contact the anti-missile forces on shore and launch anti-aircraft missiles."

"Release jammers to disrupt the accuracy of those anti-ship missiles."

"Stop running around and get on with the ship."

There were also some Indian naval officers at the scene who maintained their professionalism. The navy is a technical branch that requires high knowledge, and many Indian naval officers have studied abroad in Europe and the United States.

It is undeniable that there are some unqualified people among them, but there are also officers who maintain the corresponding combat qualities.

A small number of soldiers, under the command of officers, hurriedly operated their weapons and wanted to use anti-aircraft missiles and close-in defense guns, but it was too late.

In the dark night, the shrill air raid sirens rang out.

One anti-ship missile after another rushed in rapidly, wreaking havoc on the warships anchored at the pier and dock, and explosions occurred repeatedly throughout the naval port.

4:38 minutes!
A Swordfish supersonic anti-ship missile pierced through the 36000-ton Jody supply ship. The thin-skinned and large-stuffed supply ship was loaded with a large amount of supplies, including 10500 tons of fuel, 250 tons of water, and 880 tons of ammunition.

This Jyoti supply ship is specially designed to accompany and resupply the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, and much of the fuel is aviation fuel used by carrier-based fighter jets.

As luck would have it, the Swordfish anti-ship missile penetrated the fuel storage area of ​​the supply ship.

In other words, because most of the space on the supply ship is used to carry fuel, it is more difficult to avoid hitting the vital points than to hit them.

When the anti-ship missile exploded, it immediately ignited the aviation fuel, and an unprecedented spectacular explosion occurred.

The Jordi supply ship exploded and burned section by section starting from the bow. In the violent explosion, almost the entire superstructure of the 36000-ton warship was blown away. The flames burned more than 400 meters high, like an active volcano spewing flames. Among the more than naval soldiers on the entire supply ship, no one survived.

4:41 am!
A Exocet subsonic anti-ship missile skimmed across the sea and penetrated into the bow of a thousand-ton Kola-class frigate.

The explosion of hundreds of kilograms of high-intensity TNT charge in the anti-ship missile warhead would cause unbearable damage to a frigate of only a thousand tons.

With just one anti-ship missile, more than half of the capital of this thousand-ton Kola-class frigate was blown off, revealing the sparking wires and twisted steel inside.

The sea water rushed into the hull frantically, the tail was lifted high, and the propeller was exposed above the sea surface. In just a few minutes, the battleship disappeared below the sea level.

4:48 am!
The INS Bombay destroyer started in an emergency. The propeller of this 6700-ton destroyer stirred the water, and a 100mm main gun located at the bow fired special anti-aircraft shells. With the water cooling system, it could maintain a firing rate of dozens of rounds per minute.

The four 4mm anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns arranged in the front and rear of the ship also opened fire in succession, continuously fighting back at the anti-ship missiles coming towards them. The anti-aircraft missiles also entered the final stage of launch adjustment, and by then they would be able to form a stronger anti-aircraft firepower network.

Dense artillery shells rained down, and three subsonic Exocet anti-ship missiles were shot down in succession, but the number of incoming anti-ship missiles was too large.

A Swordfish supersonic anti-ship missile rushed forward at high speed, and the Bombay destroyer fought back desperately.

However, the difficulty of hitting a ship with a supersonic anti-ship missile suddenly increases, and this Swordfish anti-ship missile, compared to the Spearfish anti-ship missile, also has terminal maneuvers.

The Swordfish anti-ship missile was seen moving in a serpentine manner in the rain of bullets, and then suddenly leaped up two kilometers away. The nose of the missile rose from the ground and ascended to a height of three hundred meters at a large angle of attack, forming a parabola, avoiding the firepower network of all naval guns and close-in defense guns, and then fell from the sky. This position happened to be a blind spot in the air defense firepower network.

The naval soldiers on the destroyer Bombay looked at the Swordfish anti-ship missile that was rising up and falling almost vertically with horror and despair. The first reaction of everyone was to hold on to the objects nearby to stabilize their bodies.

Whoosh!
The Swordfish anti-ship missile pierced from the top of the Bombay destroyer, penetrated the deck, and the armor-piercing warhead smashed through multiple layers of steel plates and penetrated into the ammunition depot area.

The destroyer's ship-launched missiles, artillery shells, torpedoes, and anti-submarine depth charges were neatly placed in the ammunition depot. Swordfish anti-ship missiles fell from overhead, knocking over the ammunition racks, and missiles and depth charges fell and rolled to the ground.

Several Indian naval soldiers who were busy working in the ammunition depot heard the noise, turned their heads, and witnessed the scene with their own eyes. Their hearts suddenly turned cold, and they looked at the Swordfish anti-ship missile that fell in, as if they saw the god of death grinning at them.

boom!
As the delayed fuse stopped, the destroyer Bombay was like being stepped on by a giant. Amid the huge fireworks of the ammunition depot explosion, the battleship was blown in half. The huge fireball produced by the explosion rushed straight into the air 150 meters high. Countless soldiers were swallowed up by the explosion without even having time to scream.

The 163-meter-long warship was severely twisted and deformed, and its hull was broken. Amid the huge explosion, the Menghai destroyer, which had 360 naval personnel, sank into the sea in less than five minutes. Only half of the mast was exposed above the sea. Only 13 people survived on the entire ship.

Next to the Bombay, the Bombay's sister ship, the 6700-ton destroyer Mansol, was only one step away from sinking.

Three anti-ship missiles hit the destroyer, and the warship was taking on water and tilting severely. It was completely beyond rescue. The naval soldiers on the ship jumped into the sea one after another, abandoning the warship that was destined to sink.

4:52 minutes!
The entire Andaman Sea and Air Joint Base was ravaged by anti-ship missiles. As the largest target in the military port, the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier was naturally the most frequent target of anti-ship missile attacks.

Warships such as aircraft carriers have poor air defense firepower of their own, and require the fleet to provide anti-aircraft firepower barrage protection.

But now the fleet has suffered heavy losses and is unable to protect itself, let alone the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier.

An Exocet anti-ship missile hit the waterline at the rear of the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier. The violent explosion destroyed the propeller of the aircraft carrier, completely paralyzing the aircraft carrier which was originally moving backwards.

Having lost its mobility, the aircraft carrier became a sitting duck.

A series of anti-ship missiles came crashing down, some of which hit the aircraft carrier's hangar. The explosion ignited the fuel stored in the hangar, and a fire spread on the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier.

Some anti-ship missiles hit the island of the aircraft carrier, where senior technical personnel, officers and captains on the aircraft carrier were staying.

When the anti-ship missile hit, in the violent explosion, the steel on the upper part of the island was torn outward, looking like a steel trumpet flower blooming on the aircraft carrier. None of the senior officers on the island were spared and all died in the explosion.

Some anti-ship missiles smashed into the crew rest area of ​​the aircraft carrier, and the shock wave of the explosion swept around, tearing the naval soldiers to pieces.

After being hit by several consecutive anti-ship missiles, the explosions left the aircraft carrier riddled with holes, and large holes were torn in the hull. The hull capsized after taking in water, with the bottom of the ship facing up and the deck facing down, and it was upside down on the sea and slowly sank into the sea.

Because the attack was so sudden, many pilots and soldiers on the aircraft carrier did not have time to go up to the deck and jump into the sea to escape. Some were blocked by the leaking and burning fire halfway, some had their hatches damaged and could not be opened, and some were blocked by the influx of seawater.

The Vikramaditya aircraft carrier is fully staffed with 1400 crew members. Because of the declaration of war by the Jeko Group, they plan to set sail early this morning to threaten the Kra Isthmus Canal, so the naval soldiers on the ship are basically on duty.

The tragedy occurred due to the capsizing and sinking of the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya.

In addition to the more than 100 people who escaped at the last moment when the aircraft carrier capsized, more than people were trapped inside the aircraft carrier and sank into the sea along with the hull.

When rescuers tried to cut the thick steel hull with a flamethrower but found it difficult to continue, they desperately continued the search and rescue work until late the next night. The sound of crew members inside the aircraft carrier banging on the hull could still be heard.

5:01 minutes!
With the sinking of the USS Carey, all the anti-ship missiles in the naval port had been used up.

But something even more despairing happened at this time.

Because the second round of attacks also came, the sea-based land-attack cruise missiles launched from the Salween Devourer-class deep-diving cruiser simultaneously attacked the air force bases and various military buildings in the Andaman Islands.

Cruise missiles wreaked havoc on the airport, and the fighter jets costing tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars were turned into scrap metal and destroyed on the runway before they could even begin to demonstrate any value.

If the first round of attacks was aimed at warships, the second round of attacks was aimed at the Andaman naval and air base itself.

The oil depot storing hundreds of thousands of tons of heavy oil was blown into a spectacular mushroom cloud by the cruise missile attack.

Countless amounts of oil continued to flow, bringing the fire to all parts of the base and making the night brighter than the day.

These cruise missiles attacked key points of the base, including military camps, soldiers' dormitories, ammunition depots, radars, anti-missile facilities, shipyard repair shops, etc., causing great casualties.

Many people were killed by cruise missiles while they were sleeping.

5:45 minutes!
When the first rays of dawn light penetrated the horizon, the attack on the entire Amanda Islands also sounded the end signal.

The attack was over, and only the raging fire remained in the base.

The wailing of countless wounded soldiers could be heard everywhere, and the bodies of the dead were floating densely on the sea surface of the naval port.

The bodies were carried away by the waves and washed onto the concrete embankment of the dock, piled on top of each other. The bodies were swollen and bloated, and no one could salvage them because there were not enough people to do so.

The remaining soldiers were busy putting out fires and rescuing the wounded. Many soldiers were so frightened by the attack that they simply deserted the base and disappeared.

The attack ended with a catastrophic blow to the Andaman base of India. The entire base was engulfed in flames, which burned for three days and three nights. The Indian Far East Navy Fleet, which once dominated the waters of the Gulf of Bengal, was reduced to ashes.

So far in this battle, India has sunk one 45400-ton aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, one 1-ton Jhodi supply ship, two 36000-ton destroyers, six 1-ton frigates, three 6700-ton submarines, as well as a number of small missile boats, gunboats, torpedo boats, minelayers, and transport ships.

In addition, India also lost 68 military aircraft and helicopters, various anti-missile systems were destroyed by bombing, and the ammunition and fuel depots in the base were destroyed. The base cannot be reopened without a year or two of repairs.

The two Devourer-class deep-diving cruisers completed their debut perfectly and brought devastating disaster to the Indian Navy.

Asan country, Deli city.

Because the sun rotates from west to east, when it is dawn in the Andaman Islands, it is still late at night in Derry, more than a thousand kilometers away from the Andaman Islands.

Bang bang bang!
In a villa, a violent knock on the door woke Singh up.

As he was old, he had a very light sleep and would be awakened by the slightest noise, let alone such a violent knock on the door. "Who is it?"

Singh turned over and got up with some dissatisfaction. He suffered from insomnia and was woken up after finally falling asleep. His tone was certainly not good.

Singh had just gotten out of bed in his pajamas and walked out of the bedroom when he saw Cabinet Secretary Campos and Defense Minister Vip pacing anxiously back and forth in the living room.

Seeing the pale and frightened expressions of the two, Singh felt a sudden pang in his heart and had a bad premonition.

"What's the matter? Why are you looking for me so urgently?"

Singh told the nanny to get some tea and looked at the two of them.

"Prime Minister, our naval and air bases in the Andaman Islands were attacked by the Jeko Group, and we suffered heavy losses."

Cabinet Secretary Campos spoke in a dry voice, gritted his teeth and told the terrible news.

"What did you say? The Andaman Sea and Air Base was attacked. When did it happen? What is the damage now?"

Singh staggered, asking questions one after another, breathing rapidly.

"Mr. Prime Minister, this is a list of ship losses. As for casualties, we are still counting them. It is estimated that the number of casualties will exceed 10,000."

Campos, with a look of sorrow on his face, handed a piece of paper to Singer. He himself did not dare to say the series of ship names, fearing that his little heart could not bear it.

Singh saw Campos's expression and seemed to understand something. He looked at the paper and reached out to take it. He actually felt that the thin piece of paper seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.

When Singer saw the data on the sinking and damage of the warships recorded on the paper, even though he had expected it, the losses were still beyond his imagination. His brain was deprived of oxygen and he almost fainted.

Especially when he saw the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, the pride of India, which was also on the sinking list, Singh's heart twitched and he finally couldn't hold it anymore. He couldn't breathe and fell down holding his heart.

"Prime Minister!"

"Prime Minister!"

Campos and Vip hurried to help Singh, and the nanny brought medicine and gave it to Singh with water.

After a long while, Singh's complexion slowly recovered.

"How could this happen? Why did our largest Andaman Sea and Air Base in the Gulf of Bengal become like this? Was it destroyed by the Jeko Group overnight? Vip, how did you become the Minister of Defense? Is this what you call the ability to fight against the Jeko Group?"

After recovering, Singh ignored the nanny's repeated attempts to calm down and glared at Vipu, the Defense Minister, like an angry lion. His roar resounded throughout the villa, without any of the weakness of an old man, which showed how angry he was.

"My Andaman naval and air base was suddenly attacked by missiles. The senior officers there neglected their duties. I have ordered the punishment of officers at all levels of the Andaman base and asked them to appear in military courts one by one for trial."

Vip quickly defended himself, saying that as Indian soldiers, passing the buck has always been a necessary skill for them.

Moreover, Vip felt that he was very wronged. The battle at the Andaman base was not commanded by him. He was only responsible for the overall strategic level. If the battle was not fought well below, it was their own fault. His command was absolutely correct.

"Prime Minister, now is not the time to pursue responsibility. The Jeko Group took the initiative to attack us. They must have come prepared this time. We must be careful to prevent them from attacking our other military bases again."

Campos reminded and covered for Vip, and received a grateful look from Vip.

Singh took a deep breath and said, "You are right. The villains of the Jeko Group always like to take advantage of their victory. Immediately raise the alert of all our bases in the country to the highest level, especially the naval bases. We can no longer accept the bad news of the sinking of warships. By the way, how did the Jeko Group attack our Andaman base? Warships or planes?"

Singh suddenly thought of a problem that he had overlooked. Until now, he still didn't know how the Jeko Group attacked.

"This... could be an anti-ship missile launched from the sea."

Weipu's face froze and he spoke hesitantly.

"What do you mean by possible? I want an accurate answer."

Singh became angry again and looked at Vipu with murderous eyes.

Vip waved his hands nervously and said, “Prime Minister, the response from the Andaman base only said that they were attacked by large-scale anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles.

As to whether the missile was launched from a sea-based warship, from land-based launch in the territory of the Jeko Group, or from the Air Force hundreds of kilometers away, we are still investigating and have no definite conclusion yet.

However, I highly suspect that these missiles were launched from sea-based warships.

Because before these missiles attacked the Andaman base, our radar deployed on the island had captured a strange signal on the sea surface, but the radar operator at the time thought it was some kind of whale surfacing, so he did not alert it. "

What Vip said was what the Andaman base discovered during its subsequent investigation.

However, they were not sure whether the tiny signal captured by the radar was a warship, and they only made a reasonable guess.

The attack came too suddenly. The missiles launched by the air force and land-based missiles were launched too suddenly. The nearest land to the Jeko Group is about 600 to 700 kilometers away from the Andaman Islands.

At such a long distance, even if anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles can fly close to the sea, with so many missiles attacking over a long period of time, it is unlikely that no trace will be found.

If they had discovered it earlier and the base had taken precautions in advance, the losses would not have been so heavy and the Far East Fleet would not have been completely wiped out.

The only reasonable assumption for this attack is that the warships launched sea-based missiles at close range, which did not give the radar much time to react.

"Battleships, are the battleships of the Jeko Group that advanced? The document just said that there are as many as 200 incoming missiles. How many destroyers are needed to fire them?"

Singh didn't know much about military affairs, but he knew that a destroyer only carried a few dozen missiles, and there were many vertical launch units needed to launch anti-aircraft missiles. To be able to launch two hundred missiles at a time, at least four or five destroyers would have to launch together.

But with four or five destroyers acting together, such a large target should be easily discovered by the sea search radar.

"We are actively sending aircraft to search for enemy ships, and satellites are also looking for other warships within the Jeko Group's sphere of influence. At present, some of the Jeko Group's warships are not in port, but those warships are old models from the last century, and their anti-radar stealth effect is very low."

Vip became less and less confident as he spoke, because he felt that given the naval level of the Jeko Group, it would be difficult to send warships to attack the Andaman base quietly.

He couldn't help but wonder if he had guessed wrong. Perhaps the Jeko Group had launched a far-reaching attack using land and air forces?
"Could it be that the Jeko Group has secretly built some kind of highly stealthy destroyer, like the Zumwalt stealth destroyer? The Jeko Group has a lot of black technology, could they use it on the destroyer?"

At this moment, Campos, an outsider, suddenly interrupted and this sentence immediately made Vip suddenly enlightened.

"Yes, that's right! Why didn't I think of that? It's very likely to be the case. Otherwise, it can't explain how the other party attacked us by surprise."

Vip shouted, getting excited.

Although the United States' Zumwalt-class stealth missile destroyer has many problems, it is quite disliked by the United States. And because the cost of one ship is as high as billions of US dollars, the United States only built three ships and then stopped construction.

However, Zumwalt's most commendable stealth capability is the use of a variety of new stealth technologies, which makes this fully loaded 15000-ton destroyer only about the same size as a -ton fishing boat in terms of radar cross-sectional area scanning.

If the Jeko Group also built a similar stealth destroyer and sneaked over to launch a surprise attack, that might be the truth behind the attack on the Andaman base.

As for whether the JEC Group can build such a warship, looking at the Spider main battle mecha, Kunpeng rocket, and biological colonization suit, the JEC Group has made too many breakthroughs in the military field. Who can guarantee that the other party has not made any progress in the naval field?

Thinking of this, Weipu broke out in a cold sweat.

Because if the Jeko Group really has a warship with such strong stealth capabilities, it will be much more difficult to deal with it.

"Find it. We must find the stealth destroyer of the Jake Group. Call in our satellites and major warships, send out our early warning aircraft, and our Vikrant aircraft carrier to search for the enemy ships. We must give the Jake Group a taste of its own medicine for this attack."

Singh gritted his teeth and said that the destruction of the Andaman base, the large number of casualties on warships and personnel, and even the sinking of the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, the rising star of tomorrow, he could already foresee how the national sentiment would explode when the country learned the news.

If India does not retaliate, the whole world will regard its navy as a joke.

"I will give the order right away. The Jeko Group used a surprise attack to bomb the Andaman base, which shows that they are also afraid of our naval strength, so they want to weaken part of our forces first. As long as we find the attacking stealth destroyer, we will definitely be able to deal with them."

Weipu nodded repeatedly and expressed his own views.

"Campos, go contact the United States. We need their help. Let them help us track down the stealth destroyer of the Jeko Group and guide us to search the Bangladeshi waters. This is very important to us."

Singh was not prepared to rely solely on his country's navy to deal with the Jeko Group, but was also prepared to borrow reconnaissance intelligence from the United States.

The United States' satellites and reconnaissance planes are much more powerful than those of India, and the United States is very experienced in finding warships.

During World War II, the United States' aircraft carriers found and sank India's warships many times in the vast Pacific Ocean. Moreover, the Gulf of Benga is only a small area, which is much smaller than the Pacific Ocean. With the help and guidance of the United States, India is much better off than acting alone.

Now both sides are trying to deal with the Jeko Group, and the United States will definitely not refuse his request.

In fact, Singh would rather wait for the United States' double aircraft carrier reinforcements to arrive before dealing with the Jeko Group together.

But time has dragged on for too long. The United States has not yet declared war on the Jeko Group. God knows what the other party is thinking.

Singh needs to consider the anger of the people. Besides, Singh does not think that his navy cannot defeat the Jeko Group. The other side just took the initiative by sneak attack. In this sea area, his navy is still the absolute king.

Campos and Vip left in a hurry. They wanted to organize a fleet to search for the stealth destroyer of the Jeko Group, find it and destroy it, and restore the morale of the people. (End of this chapter)

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