Now the entire Asan Kingdom aircraft carrier formation is on the verge of destruction. Those frigates and destroyers with sword guards have either sunk, or in the process of sinking, they are no longer capable of protecting the Vikrant aircraft carrier located in the core circle.
Exposed to powerful anti-ship missiles, the aircraft carrier's weak defense capabilities were fully exposed at this moment.
The Vikrant aircraft carrier is still struggling, no matter how hard it works with its four Otto 76mm naval guns and three AK-630 six-barreled 30mm cannons, the Vikrant aircraft carrier is huge in size. If you want to defend it, The anti-ship missiles fired like swords still seemed powerless.
A pure white Swordfish anti-ship missile cut through a wonderful arc, dodging the intensive interception barrage on the Vikrant aircraft carrier.
The Swordfish anti-ship missile went all the way down from the aircraft carrier deck, penetrated the closed chimney, smashed through the sailors' dormitory, and finally got stuck in the rear of the aircraft carrier with a bang.
The warhead flashed red, and after a brief delay of a few seconds, it exploded with a bang.
The 900-kilogram warhead of the Swordfish anti-ship missile showed terrifying power. The explosion directly penetrated the bottom of the aircraft carrier. A huge gap appeared at the bottom, and seawater poured in crazily.
What's even more frightening is that the explosion also caused damage to the aircraft carrier's propeller propeller.
The speed of the aircraft carrier dropped visibly to the naked eye, from a high speed of more than 20 knots to a turtle speed of five or six knots.
Without mobility, Vikrant's last hope of escape was completely lost.
At 8:03, an Exocet anti-ship missile exploded in the aircraft carrier hangar. The shock wave destroyed the spare fighter parts here and ignited the aviation fuel retained in the hangar. A billowing fire spread in the hangar.
Those damage control personnel who tried to get closer were so frightened that they turned around and ran away when they saw the engulfing flames.
In just three minutes, the aircraft carrier Vikrant was hit by five anti-ship missiles.
This medium-sized aircraft carrier with a displacement of 43,000 tons was bombed horribly, with fire and thick smoke everywhere.
But the aircraft carrier's own buoyancy is still there, and there are a large number of watertight cabins. The Vikrant is 260 meters long, 60 meters wide, and as high as a 14-story building. None of these five anti-ship missiles made it sink.
It's just that the huge explosion has destroyed all the defensive weapons on the Vikrant aircraft carrier. Now Vikrant is like a naked woman who took off her clothes and allowed the Jieko Group to do whatever they want.
"Commander, retreat quickly, retreat quickly, we have lost this naval battle, please remain useful and fight again tomorrow!"
In the bridge command room, several naval commanders grabbed Kumar, who was crying bitterly, and dragged him out.
These officers were all from the upper castes of Asan Kingdom, and they did not have the determination or courage to sink with the ship.
"You, you bastards, mistook me, mistook me! My reputation will last forever."
Kumar yelled, struggled a few times, and with a reluctant expression on his face, he allowed himself to be dragged out of the bridge control tower.
When I came outside, I saw the miserable state of the aircraft carrier. There were bodies with broken limbs everywhere, and the deck was stained red with blood.
boom!
An anti-ship missile exploded on the deck, and many naval soldiers who were struggling to grab lifeboats were swallowed up by the explosion and flames.
The shock wave flipped the broken naval soldier into the sea, leaving a twenty-meter-sized gap in the deck. The steel of the deck rolled around like a morning glory.
A severed arm was blown away by the shock wave and hit Kumar's feet. The charred severed arm and the cold wind with a strong smell of blood lingering on the tip of his nose made him shiver uncontrollably, and a chill spread throughout his body.
"Retreat, let's retreat quickly."
Kumar shouted, broke away from the support of several officers, ran to the front, and untied the lifeboat's cable.
Several officers were stunned, looked at each other, and quickly followed.
"Commander, wait for me."
"I haven't boarded the ship yet!"
"Untouchables, this is something you can get into. Get out of here and find your own way if you want to survive."
"Pull quickly, row quickly, it's very dangerous near the aircraft carrier, stay away from here first."
A group of senior naval officers rushed to the lifeboat. Several people occupied one lifeboat and rowed desperately away from the doomed aircraft carrier Vikrant. They yelled at other naval soldiers who wanted to follow the ship.
"There are so many places on the ship, why not let us in."
"We are all going to die. You are still so condescending and don't take us seriously at all."
"Ignore them, get on the boat, I don't want to be blown up."
When the navy soldiers saw this scene, their eyes flashed with anger. In the face of death, they did not care about their identities and rushed into the lifeboats one after another.
"Bold!"
A senior officer drew his pistol and opened fire on the crowd.
Amidst the screams, several soldiers fell down.
Instead of scaring the navy soldiers, this move aroused their anger even more.
"Fight them."
Many Asanguo navy soldiers shouted, and while the officer finished firing his magazine, they angrily rushed to the lifeboat, punched and kicked the senior officer who had just fired, and then threw him into the sea and drowned.
Other senior officers were not spared and were treated as sandbags by these naval soldiers and beaten crazily.
They didn't just hit senior officers, because the lifeboat space was limited, the navy soldiers themselves soon started fighting among themselves, fighting for the limited positions, fighting each other and even shooting, and the scene became bloody.
Kumar, the fleet commander, was in chaos, and no one cared about his identity.
His old arms and legs couldn't compete with others, and he was immediately pushed out of the lifeboat and fell into the sea.
Fortunately, there happened to be a floating rubber tire next to him. He hugged the tire tightly and was continuously carried away from the Vikrant aircraft carrier by the waves.
Such chaotic scenes are happening everywhere on the Vikrant aircraft carrier, including other warships.
The corrupt military discipline and regulations of the Three Kingdoms are not only in the army, but also in the navy.
The outbreak at this time also led to more deaths. Many people died not in the attack of the Jieko Group, but in the hands of their own people.
More anti-ship missiles are coming, because now on the sea, all the other warships of the three countries have sunk, leaving only the Vikrant, and all the anti-ship missiles have found it.
INS Vikrant also became the most tragic warship in this naval battle. Its anti-sinking ability actually gave it a harder blow.
As a result, a large number of Asan navy soldiers on the ship were bombarded by anti-ship missiles in turn.
It is even difficult to determine how many anti-ship missiles it was hit by in the end, whether it was the naval soldiers of Asan Kingdom or the Devourer-class cruiser that launched the attack.
One could only see waves of horrific explosions raging on the aircraft carrier, from the bow to the stern, from the island to below the waterline, and the high-strength steel of the aircraft carrier was repeatedly ravaged.
Afterwards, according to a naval soldier who jumped into the sea near the Vikrant, he saw at least 13 explosions on the Vikrant aircraft carrier when he fell into the sea and held a lifebuoy.
Later, in an interview with the media, the naval soldier said bluntly with tears in his eyes: "When the Vikrant sank, its entire hull structure had been completely deformed, and I could not even recognize its shape."
The fatal blow to the aircraft carrier Vikrant was an explosion from the oil depot.
An anti-ship missile was fired into the aircraft carrier's oil depot, igniting the explosion of heavy oil on the aircraft carrier.
The huge explosion even lifted the aircraft carrier out of the water. The rolling fire turned the Vikrant aircraft carrier into a flaming coffin floating on the sea. A sailor covered in fire cried and jumped into the sea to escape.
The entire battleship burned on the sea for a long time. When several Devourer-class cruisers arrived, they happened to witness the Vikrant aircraft carrier, burning with flames and thick smoke, slowly capsized and sank into the icy sea. .
Even though the aircraft carrier's island masts have sunk into the sea, you can still see the fire burning inside the Vikrant aircraft carrier through the sea.
Like a red meteor falling into the sea, it illuminates the surrounding sea area until it is completely swallowed by the deep sea.
This domestically produced aircraft carrier, known as the pride of Asan Kingdom, sank. Of the 1,400 naval soldiers on board, only 87 were rescued in the end.
Among those rescued was Fleet Commander Kumar.
He was lucky enough to survive until the war. When the soldiers of the Jieco Group found him, he was already unconscious and had to be rescued to survive. As a result, he became the highest-ranking officer of the Asan Kingdom captured by the Jieco Group.
A few hours later, Peng Hongtai stood on the bow of the Irrawaddy Devourer cruiser, looking up.
The ocean is full of people calling for help from Asan Navy soldiers who have fallen into the water, and the rescue speedboats of the Jieke Group are rescuing them one by one.
There are also a large number of corpses floating on the sea surface, being washed away by the waves.
The blood attracts some foraging sharks, but humans are not the food that sharks like. They often take a bite and, disgusted by the lack of fat, the sharks will swing their tail fins and leave.
More soldiers who jumped into the sea could not even find their bodies. They had sunk into the sea and could only be recorded as missing.
There were also several Asan Kingdom warships at the scene with their bellies exposed like dead fish, lying upside down on the sea. The Devourer cruiser was using torpedoes to hit them completely, sending them completely into the sea.
At this time, the time had just reached 11:20 in the morning, and the sun was blazing, but this sea area gave people the feeling of a large number of corpses drifting with the current, as if they had come to the River Styx, giving people a bone-chilling chill.
A speedboat came to the Irrawaddy and brought one of them onto the deck.
This person is none other than Kumar, the fleet commander.
Kumar was horrified. He had once boarded the beautiful country's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, but now when he came in front of the Devourer cruiser, he felt that this arsenal ship that combined biology and steel gave him as much shock as a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
"I am Peng Hongtai, commander of the first fleet of the Jieke Group. This is the first time we have dealt with each other, and it may also be the last time we have dealt with each other."
Peng Hongtai turned around and looked at Commander Kumar.
Now, Kumar's gorgeous general uniform was soaked by the sea water, and his hair was messy and wet. Compared with Peng Hongtai's straight military uniform, he looked very miserable.
The escorting soldier took off the exquisite gun from his waist and handed it to Peng Hongtai. Kumar could only stare angrily, but was powerless.
Peng Hongtai looked at it, handed the gun to the soldiers on the side, and then pointed at the sea: "Speaking of this battle, I have to thank you for your help. Without your cooperation, we would not be able to completely wipe out your fleet."< br>
Kumar's face turned ugly when he heard this.
He regretted it very much at this time. If he had known how powerful the Devourer cruiser was, he would never have brought the aircraft carrier formation to die, but now it was too late.
"You are just relying on novel warships to show off your evil for a while. When your warships are thoroughly studied, when the beautiful Guoshuang aircraft carrier battle group arrives, it will be the day of your demise."
If you lose, you won't lose. Kumar knew that his end would not be good, so he didn't worry too much at this time and said stiffly.
"Many people also say they want to crack our mechas, but until today, no force has been able to produce results."
Peng Hongtai smiled and shook his head, unfazed by Kumar's incompetent rage.
Peng Hongtai leaned against the side of the ship, the sharp bow cutting through the waves, and then said: "As for the beautiful Guoshuang aircraft carrier battle group you mentioned, I really want to fight with them. The navy of your Asan Kingdom is too inexperienced. I I want to weigh the quality of their beautiful country, known as Blue Star’s first navy.”
"Arrogant!"
Kumar looked at Peng Hongtai's high-spirited look, and his heart was already filled with regret.
Now he can only hope that the beautiful country can teach the Jieko Group a lesson and destroy their stealth cruiser.
Otherwise, in the future, all countries in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian waters will have to look at the face of the Jieke Group and be threatened by their naval and gun diplomacy.
"Take him down. Don't be harsh on him. After all, he is also the highest-ranking officer of Asan Kingdom whom we captured. Let's see if Asan Kingdom is willing to pay the ransom."
Peng Hongtai waved his hand, losing interest in continuing to talk to Macul, his defeated general.
Looking back at the sea, the blue sky intersects with the sea. There are shipwrecks and corpses floating on the sea. The dejected wounded and survivors of Asan Kingdom are in sharp contrast with the excited naval soldiers of Jieko Group.
"Commander, the results of the battle are calculated."
At this time, the deputy ran over and showed Peng Hongtai a statistical document to check.
Peng Hongtai lowered his head to read the document, raised his head and stared into the distance. The sea breeze blew his face with the salty smell. When he saw the six mighty Devourer cruisers around him, he suddenly felt heroic and said loudly to his deputy: "Write me a letter. Respect. Great Commander Su, on March 12, at 7:24 a.m. that day, our First Fleet successfully ambushed the A-3 aircraft carrier formation in the waters of the Bay of Bengal.
In this battle, the navy of the three countries sank the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, the destroyer INS Kolkata, the destroyer INS Rajput, the destroyer INS Chennai, the Shivalik-class frigate, and the nuclear submarine INS Arihant. A total of 30 enemy ships, against the enemy The fleet completed its annihilation.
After this battle, the main force of the navy of the three countries was lost. With our navy now here, we can turn the Bay of Bengal into an inland sea, deter the Southeast Asian waters, dominate the Indian Ocean, and become the new maritime overlord in this sea area. ”
The deputy wrote down every word Peng Hongtai said, and then ran to send the report with excitement on his face, and used the radio to transmit the good news back to the Jieke Group. (End of chapter)