Chapter 219: Scurrying Mines (Second Update)
"Tsk, so many ships."
Su Jie looked at the transportation team composed of dozens of ships in front of him, took out the Ten Thousand Souls Flag from his arms, and touched the head of the Thousand-Handed Centipede wrapped around his arm.
"Xiao Qian, go ahead and show me what dumplings are."
"Zizi."
The Thousand-Handed Centipede neighed, climbed down from Su Jie's arm, and dived into the seawater not far away.
Gulu!
The Thousand-Handed Centipede spit out bubbles in the sea water, and its pale corpse hands fell off automatically. It swam in the sea water, drilled into the mud, and found the magnetic mines that had been placed here in advance.
These pale corpse hands were in groups of ten, grabbing magnetic mines and quickly approaching the American Bay of Bengal Expedition Fleet in the distance.
Mines are known as the artifacts of naval warfare in poor countries. Even if a 10,000-ton warship is hit by one, it will be severely damaged. However, due to the nature of waiting, it can only stay in place and wait for the ship to hit it.
Modern sonar technology has become very advanced, and mines can be easily scanned, and then minesweepers can be dispatched to clear them.
But Su Jie's method of using mines was different. He did not focus on waiting for the enemy, but an active assault.
Aboard the Littoral Combat Ship USS Wichita.
Emra Abdullah, who was working in the sonar room and wearing earmuffs, suddenly caught a strange sound feedback in the hydrography.
"Schools of fish, dolphins, etc., etc., this is feedback from mines"
Emra was a little unconcerned at first, until she caught the sonar feedback of the mine, she was so shocked that she almost jumped up, and quickly passed the information to the captain.
The pale corpse hands condensed by spiritual power are extremely powerful. The ten arms grasp the mines each other, forming a fin-like swinging arm. Even if they push the heavy mines, they still swim at an astonishing speed in the sea water.
It takes time to transmit information, and it also takes time to make a crisis judgment and issue orders, but Su Jie does not intend to give the fleet too much time.
The American expeditionary fleet in the Bay of Bengal is still ignorant of the danger. At this time, the navy on board is busy with docking work. Many American Marine Corps soldiers walked on the deck, talking and laughing about what was about to unfold. fighting.
Nadaya Herbert stretched, looked at the land that gradually appeared in the field of vision, and said to his friend beside him: "Bryce, do you think those rumors of super soldiers are true? Yesterday, the commander specially We have been summoned to hold a military seminar to deal with the surprise attack from those little supermen.”
"You are scared. Now you can retreat into the cabin if you are scared."
Bryce chuckled and leaned on the railing to enjoy the sea breeze.
"Shit, how could I be scared? Even if someone sticks a gun into my ass, I won't frown. I don't believe that the enemy is really invulnerable. Maybe everything is just to expand propaganda. Those generals don't exaggerate the enemy's strength. , how to get more military spending from Congress.”
Nadaya curled his lips, not really believing in any super soldiers, he trusted more in the rifle in his hand.
"It's okay to worry. There are so many tanks over there, and there are amphibious assault ship and aircraft support behind them. If they don't fight, they will cry for their parents."
Bryce pointed to the tank landing ship and military roll-off ship over there. These ships carry tanks, armored vehicles, military Humvees and other vehicles.
"When the time comes I will"
Nadaya was about to speak when he suddenly saw the bow of the tank landing ship tilted up high. A violent explosion blew up water columns tens of meters high, tearing a huge hole more than ten meters long in the bow, and the sea water surged wildly. enter.
On the ship, the heavy main battle tanks were also shaken by the explosion, their fixing bolts were broken, and they rolled back and forth in the ship's cabin.
Some naval soldiers on board were crushed by dozens of tons of main battle tanks and turned into pulp.
"What is this, what is this!" Nadaya's body trembled for a while, and he stared at the tank landing ship that was seriously flooded and slowly sinking. His mind went blank.
"Are you kidding? If you hit a mine, what will the sonar soldiers do for food?"
Bryce took a breath. This is the military port of the Zen Kingdom. Could it be that a submarine secretly came here to lay mines?
But that’s not right! Aren't they dealing with a warlord? Where did the other party get the submarine?
As the tank landing ship struck a mine, every soldier in the expedition fleet suddenly became nervous. This was definitely a heavy mine. If his own ship was hit by one like that.
In the command room of the amphibious assault ship still floating outside the sea, Davila's face changed suddenly when he received the news, and he quickly issued an order: "Let the fleet pause its advance first, withdraw from the minefield, send out minesweepers to clear mines, and take off and land anti-submarine helicopters. Use the loudspeaker to search for directions and detect the location of the mine. Maybe the enemy submarine is still hiding here. Let’s find it together.”
It has to be said that Davila's order was correct. If it was really an ordinary mine, they would lose one ship at most.
But this time, the mines are powered by biokinetic energy.
On the sea, after the explosion of the tank landing ship, the American transport fleet immediately slowed down.
Fortunately, because the fleet plans to berth at the dock, the speed has already slowed down. Otherwise, large ships are not like cars, and the brakes will not work immediately.
On several frigates and destroyers, active sonar was immediately turned on and operated at full power.
The anti-submarine helicopter took off from the rear deck, dropped the sonobuoy, turned on the surface search radar, and lowered the suspended sonar to comprehensively monitor the sea area.
"This Fake, what the hell are these, mines? Active mines are not that fast!"
In the cab of an anti-submarine helicopter, the pilot's eyes nearly popped out when he saw the information detected by the sonar.
The sonar showed that they were mines, but why were these mines scurrying around in the sea, and so fast, as if they were equipped with 180 boosters? They were faster than those direct-flying ultra-high-speed torpedoes from Maozi's family. The speed is much faster.
It is not that the driver has never seen an active mine triggering. This kind of mine can sense the changes in magnetism, sound and water pressure in the sea. It will automatically start running towards the target after locking on the approaching warship from a long distance.
However, the speed of that kind of mine is too slow, and the distance it actively detects enemies is also very short, so it does not pose a great threat to warships.
Under the sea, a magnetic mine was pushed by a pale arm and approached a high-speed troop carrier.
The transport ship that was slowing down and turning around was like a target and could not be avoided at all.
When the magnetic mine is close to the bottom of the ship, the mine triggers a collision. Because this weapon does not need to consider power, the charge is very exaggerated, and the hundreds of kilograms of high explosives contained are detonated.
boom!
The central axis of this high-speed transport ship is arched high, and the mine explosion forms a high-temperature and high-pressure air mass. The air mass expands and contracts several times in the water, causing repeated tearing attacks.
From a distance, the transport ship looked like a toy that had been broken by a naughty child. The steel was torn and twisted, and the hull was broken into two parts from the middle.
The hundreds of Marines transported on the ship were even more miserable at this time.
Many people were directly shaken to death by the explosion. More soldiers followed the broken ship, crawling on the hull with ants, and dumplings fell into the sea one by one.
After all, transport ships are not combat-type warships. They are typically thin-skinned and large-stuffed, and the mine charge is as much as six to seven hundred kilograms.
In comparison, a 155mm artillery shell has a charge of about ten kilograms, and the famous Harpoon anti-ship missile has a charge of only two hundred kilograms. One can imagine the power of this kind of mine explosion.
Not to mention that mines are detonated in water. Water is an excellent energy transmission medium, so the power of underwater explosions naturally increases a lot.
Visible to the naked eye, this high-speed transport ship with a total length of 103 meters, a width of 28.5 meters, and a fully loaded displacement of 2,400 tons failed to resist and broke into two parts. The bow and stern were raised high, and it sank into the icy ocean on the spot.
(End of chapter)