Chapter 1521: Overcoming the Pacific Line of Defense (Part 2)
1521, Conquering the Pacific Defense Line (Central)
With the Spruance-class destroyer being hit by a missile as a prelude, the Guardian Empire's general attack on the Pacific defense line has officially begun!
Before the aftermath of the explosion was over, the second wave of missiles from the Dragoon IV aircraft arrived! The U.S. Navy guard troops opened fire, the Phalanx close-in defense system fired desperately, and the six-barreled 20mm caliber rotary cannon sprayed out two to three meters.
Long tongues of flame poured out cannonballs at a speed of 100 rounds per second!
If there is any shortcoming of the Dragoon IV aircraft, it is that this aircraft has insufficient bomb load. The Spitfire II air-to-ground missile used on it is actually the same size as the American AMG-111 Hellfire missile.
Similar small missiles are about two meters in length. If this kind of missile is used to attack warships, it is slightly less powerful. Under the crazy close-range firepower of the United States, many missiles were actually intercepted, but hundreds of missiles still fell.
Boom! Boom! Boom! A series of explosions exploded in the U.S. fleet! The power of the explosion shook the warships, and raging fires broke out on the decks of several warships. Soldiers from the damage control department quickly began to put out the fires.
Before the flames were completely controlled, a buzzing engine sound sounded, hundreds of Dragon Cavalry Type 4 aircraft swooped down, and a large number of ion cannon shells fell like raindrops. There was no way to avoid it! At the beginning of Tang Yu
After studying Eridium ore, he upgraded all of his ion cannons. After using Eridium ore as the reactor energy source, the ion cannons became more powerful, had a longer range, and changed their color to lavender!
Boom!! An ion cannon slammed into the bow of a Perry-class frigate, causing a violent explosion. The MK-75 76mm caliber naval gun equipped in front of the warship was suddenly blown out of a huge
The gap, the extremely high temperature instantly melted the turret into a ball of scrap metal that could not be seen clearly! Then the high temperature detonated the ammunition depot, and the second explosion immediately occurred!
Boom! Boom!! The bow of the Perry-class frigate was suddenly blasted with a huge gap, seawater poured in, and the tail of the warship immediately began to gradually tilt up.
On a nearby Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship, hundreds of U.S. soldiers were manipulating the MK-38 25mm anti-aircraft cannon temporarily installed on the flight deck to fire desperately, but the anti-aircraft shells hit these Dragoon IV aircraft.
They were immediately blocked by a faint light curtain and couldn't even touch a layer of their skin!
Boom! Boom! Boom!! The warship was immediately attacked by more than a dozen aircraft, and the deck was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire. Under the extremely high temperature, the unprotected U.S. Navy had no time to even scream.
It was burned to coke! Even the bridge was hit by countless ion cannons. After a violent explosion, it became a ruin. Now this Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship has completely turned into a ghost ship. The explosion and high temperature will
All the officers and soldiers on the ship were killed, and all the equipment was damaged. It was already a piece of scrap metal floating on the sea!
In just the first wave of attacks, the intensive ion cannon attacks of hundreds of Dragoon IV fighter jets destroyed more than 20 U.S. Navy warships. Because these warships were all attacked on the upper deck, except for the previous Perry
Including the frigates, four or five ships were sunk because their fuel depots or ammunition depots were hit, triggering explosions, and other destroyed warships were floating on the sea like torches. This situation is more difficult than directly destroying them.
The sinking of warships is even more horrifying, because the charred corpses and twisted structures on those warships haunt the hearts of every American naval officer like a nightmare.
The USS New Jersey also came under concentrated attack. Dozens of Dragoon IV aircraft surrounded this huge battleship, and ion cannons continued to bombard it. But fortunately, compared with other modern warships, this World War II-era battleship
The battleships built put more emphasis on armor protection, so even though they were bombarded by the Dragoon IV aircraft, they managed to persevere even though they were on fire!
This wave of attacks lasted for more than an hour, and more than ten Dragon Cavalry Type 4 aircraft were shot down by the intensive firepower of the American fleet. Although the energy shield was powerful, it had its limits after all.
In the command center on the artificial floating island, the U.S. Navy commander put down his telescope and said loudly: "They have retreated! Repair all damaged warships immediately, and let the barges drag the destroyed ships forward to sink them with torpedoes!"
Then hurry up and salvage those downed aircraft, we need to study them! We should still have half a day before the next wave of attacks comes!"
"Sir, I feel that the Guardian Empire's offensive this time is unusual..." the adjutant said worriedly from the side.
The commander nodded and said in a deep voice: "They are completely crazy. There were rarely more than a hundred aircraft before, but according to our statistics just now, a total of 347 aircraft were invested!! Not only that, the action patterns of these aircraft
He was also even crazier, which is why he was shot down more than ten times."
"So, this time they may be determined to win!" the adjutant said. In their conversations, they always referred to these aircraft as 'them'. In fact, the Dragoon IV aircraft is actually a kind of robot, which has been confirmed by the United States.
Already.
"No! It's impossible for them to capture the Pacific defense line!" the commander said proudly, "Although the aircraft of the Guardian Empire are quite powerful and can even render our aircraft and missiles useless, they don't have a navy! They only rely on those collected from them.
It is impossible for civilian ships to cross our defense line! Whether it is naval guns or torpedoes, even without missiles, we have 10,000 ways to send them to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish!!"
"But even so, in the face of attacks from these aircraft, we are completely using our lives to pay for it!" the adjutant said.
"Behind us is our motherland! Even if we pay ten times or a hundred times our lives, we will defend this place! Moreover, the mothballed battleships North Carolina, Massachusetts, Texas and Alabama are also in urgent need of help.
The transformation can be strengthened in at most two months. At that time, I would like to see why the Guardian Empire can fight a war of attrition with us with an Antarctica and those robots!" the commander said loudly.
"Sir..." A communications soldier next to him suddenly whispered as if he had seen a ghost.
"What's wrong?" the commander turned and asked.
The signal soldier pointed out the window with a trembling finger and said incoherently: "Here it goes again... again..."
The commander rushed over, only to see hundreds of black spots appear again in the sky ahead! It was the Dragoon Type 4 aircraft again! He quickly raised the telescope, only to see that it was indeed the case.
The Dragon Cavalry Type 4 aircraft is brand new!!!
Not only that, this time there is a very huge saucer-shaped aircraft in the middle of these aircraft! The width of this huge aircraft alone is more than fifty meters, even larger than some destroyers!! But you must know,
Compared with a destroyer, this aircraft is fucking flying in the sky!!
"No...impossible!! Antarctica can't possibly support such a large army!! Didn't Mrs. Yutani promise that? The number of Dragoon IV aircraft will not exceed 300 even if it is fully loaded!!" the commander murmured, bang dang.
With a sound, the telescope in his hand fell weakly to the ground.