Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 778 Shaojiang Changed Frigate Battle Record
"At 34:[-] a.m. on the third day of combat operations, this ship arrived at the southwest border of the gray mist forest with the fleet. Enter the gray mist forest airspace."

"The entire fleet has entered a state of first-level combat readiness."

"In 25 seconds, the 'Forge Hammer' at the top of the fleet crossed the 'red line', and a large number of native creatures with the ability to fly broke through the tree canopy and dense fog and attacked the 'Forge Hammer' in the gray fog forest. "

"The entire fleet is in combat."

"The fleet commander's order came from the flagship 'Forge Hammer': All warships in the entire fleet continue to move forward, and don't love to fight."

"This ship will increase its speed to 75% of the maximum value..."

The records of the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate are basically the same as what Ke Lan saw in the file. After encountering the attack of those biological weapons, the commander of the special operations fleet decided to speed up all the warships and quickly break through the interception of biological weapons. , but soon they realized that this was a wrong decision-the number of biological weapons flying out of the forest far exceeded the imagination of the fleet command team, and it was precisely because the entire ship distributed the power of the power furnace to the engine and propellers, which caused the energy shields to be unable to receive sufficient energy support. The energy shields of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate and another high-speed support ship that was later shot down were overloaded many times, and the shield generators suffered serious failures. Four engineers and a marine were killed in the explosion in the compartment of the cooling unit.

Although it took less than 2 minutes after the damage control was activated, the energy shield had returned to normal, but in these 2 minutes, "Shaojiang Kai" was still seriously damaged, and 32 main propellers had Half of them lost their thrust, nearly 35% of the cabins on both sides and below the hull were punctured, and [-] people died directly or indirectly from the damage caused by the hull damage. In addition, there were about [-] living creatures Weapons invaded the interior of the battleship.

The "Shaojiang Kai" frigate was equipped with only two platoon-level mobile squads of marines. At that time, there were not even forty soldiers who were still capable of fighting, and they were simply unable to deal with the biological weapons that invaded the warship.Captain Hruni Yang had no choice but to order the invaded cabins to be sealed, and use thick alloy gates to block the attacks of those biological weapons.

Although with the destructive power of these biological weapons, it is only a matter of time before these alloy gates are torn open, but there is another more serious problem facing Captain Hruni and the entire ship——

After half of the main propellers were turned off, the speed of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate dropped to one-third of its original speed. Falling behind meant that it would not be able to get support from other warships in the same fleet, and would soon fall into an isolated and helpless situation. situation.

The only solution is to rush to repair the damaged propellers, but the main propellers are located at the stern of the battleship. To send people there, they must go through the closed compartments that have been occupied by biological weapons-the only self-defense on the ship. The power is barely enough to protect the safety of the bridge and reactor, let alone escort maintenance personnel through the pile of monsters.

According to the current situation, the energy shield of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate will be broken again in less than 10 minutes.

Just when everyone was anxious like ants on a hot pot but couldn't come up with an effective countermeasure, the captain of this battleship, that is, He Luni Yang, proposed an almost risky plan.

He decided to let the battleship descend and fly close to the canopy of the gray fog forest. In this way, including the bottom of the battleship, at least one-third of its volume would sink into the gray fog.

These biological weapons will only attack targets outside the dense fog, and ignore the intruders who plunged into the dense fog-this conclusion, Hruni has already come to it when he just observed the battle process of the carrier-based aircraft: there is Several carrier-based aircraft were forced to dive into the dense fog in order to get rid of the biological weapons that were chasing after them, and when these carrier-based aircraft penetrated into the dense fog, those creatures that were biting behind the carrier-based aircraft's buttocks The weapon will immediately give up the pursuit and turn to attack other targets.

Although most of the carrier-based aircraft that got into the dense fog did not fly out of the fog, a few lucky ones managed to return to the battlefield.

According to the reports of the pilots of these few carrier-based aircraft, they have not been attacked after rushing into the dense fog. The only danger is that it is difficult to determine their altitude in the dense fog. It will crash into the canopy of the tree and kill people... Those carrier-based aircraft that failed to fly out of the dense fog basically crashed like this.

But the battleship is different. The structure of the battleship is not as fragile as the carrier-based aircraft. Even if the belly of the ship is flying against the canopy, it can last for a long time.

Hrooney's idea is very simple - sinking one-third of the ship's hull into the dense fog can greatly reduce the attack area of ​​the battleship, the defensive pressure will be greatly reduced, and the energy shield can last longer .

This effect is far better than relying on the firepower and hull of other warships for "physical support", and most of the damaged parts of the hull are at the bottom, and sinking these breaches into the dense fog will avoid more damage. The biological weapons invaded the interior of the battleship.

Relying on this opportunity, they can find a way to concentrate their forces, first clear the biological weapons that invaded the interior of the battleship, then repair the damaged propeller hull, wait until the state of the battleship recovers, and then chase the fleet ahead at full speed.

This plan is very risky, but it is the only way out for this battleship at the moment.

In just a few seconds, this plan was unanimously approved by all the officers on the bridge—rather than waiting for the energy shield to explode again and the battleship to be sunk by these monsters, it is better to take a gamble and sink the battleship directly into the dense water. in the fog.

Anyway, if you lose the bet, it will crash at worst, but if you bet right, it can give the officers and soldiers of the entire ship a chance of survival.

The battleship was switched to manual operation mode. The helmsman held the joystick with both hands, stared at the height indicator, and pressed down the joystick little by little.

But when the bottom of the battleship came into contact with the dense fog above the tree canopy, the data of the altitude indicator was confused, jumping to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters for a while, and then directly turned into a negative number—"Shaojiang class "Most of the external sensors of the frigate's altitude indicator are installed at the bottom of the hull, and all of these sensors failed the moment they entered the dense fog.Fortunately, this helmsman is also a veteran with rich practical experience. The panic in his eyes was fleeting, and both arms exerted force at the same time, pulling up the sinking joystick.

Although there is still a distance of 200 meters between the canopy and the ground, for a warship of this size and speed, this altitude is no different from flying close to the ground. Will bang his head on the ground.

The "Shaojiang Kai" frigate was also flying at a speed several times higher than the safe speed limit threshold for ultra-low-altitude flight. The warship had just been pulled up by a distance of more than ten meters, and even before it completely got rid of the dense fog underneath, it slowly sank again. go down.

This time, the helmsman has experience—he no longer relies on the altitude indicator as a benchmark for controlling the lift, but turns on the laser rangefinder that is often used when warships enter the port and line up. "As a marker, let the "Shaojiang Kai" always maintain a height that allows thick fog to cover most of the hull, but will not lose its balance and hit the ground.

As for the other damaged high-speed support ship, it was not so lucky.Although they followed suit, they lowered the height of the battleship, trying to evade most of the biological weapons' attacks by sinking into the dense fog.However, the helmsman of this high-speed support ship is obviously not as experienced as the helmsman of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, and because the battleship itself is a light high-speed warship, the damage to the propeller is not as serious as that of the "Shaojiang Kai", and the speed is even higher. A little faster than the "Shaojiang Reform".At the moment when the bottom sank into thick fog and the altitude indicator failed, the high-speed support ship did not have time to pull up the bow in time, and directly fell to the ground.

Ke Lan and Mo Jue, who were watching the video, couldn't help holding their breath from the violent explosion and the soaring flames—the hull of the high-speed support ship was broken into five pieces, and the bow part of the ship that touched the bottom was severely compressed. Explosions continued to come from inside, and the disintegrated parts splashed everywhere, and some even flew in front of the "Shaojiang Kai", and the energy shield of the "Shaojiang Kai" was instantly melted into a bright metal jet. Then it is evaporated at high temperature.

"Thanks to the fog forest, the high-speed support ship can be repaired and blown up like this... It can be sent directly to the scrap metal recycling station to avoid the step of dismantling the ship." Ke Lan complained.

When they were bombed in the glade before, in addition to the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, this high-speed support ship named "Genoa" was also suspended in the air, but judging from the degree of damage on the outside, "Genoa" "" is much more serious than the "Shaojiang Reform".

Especially the bow of the ship, the passage cabin that was originally at least 120 meters long and used to eject the carrier-based aircraft has been squeezed to less than half of its length... Fortunately, the bridge is the most protective on the entire battleship. Where it is strong, the damage is not serious, so the central control computer of the high-speed support ship should also be preserved.

After emptying out the data in the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, Ke Lan planned to explore the "Genoa"—according to the crash scene he saw on the Blasphemer, "Genoa The second crash site of the No. [-] is not too far from here.

The "Shaojiang Kai" frigate crashed due to the explosion of the plasma main gun, and the "Genoa", which itself was already "pineapple pineapple", was forcibly shot down by those biological weapons... If the bridge part of the ship landed If the impact was not too great, the central control computer of the "Genoa" might still be turned on.

Then Ke Lan will have a chance to get a relatively complete data.

After nearly half of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate sank into the dense fog, the pressure from the outside world suddenly decreased—the turrets at the bottom of the hull were destroyed in sevens and eights, and the firepower was far from its full power. The turret and weapons above the body are relatively well preserved.Relying on the thick fog, the "Shaojiang Kai" successfully concealed its weaknesses, and at the same time reduced the attack surface by nearly half.

"According to CIC's calculations, in this state, the energy shield can last at least 25 minutes!" Hroone's adjutant reported to him.

"That's good, everyone, except for the helmsman, fire control and radar, all take up weapons, and the CIC only leaves the minimum manpower, ready to clear the cabins occupied by indigenous creatures!" The assault rifle that came over put a set of military powered exoskeleton on his body.

The rest of the marines were all crowded in the corridor leading to the occupied cabin, with dozens of black holed muzzles pointing at the crumbling airtight door, and no one dared to vent their breath.

Everyone's fingers are tightly clasped on the trigger. At this time, even the instructors here will not accuse these soldiers of "golden fingers"... Although maintaining this position for a long time can easily lead to accidental fire, but no one knows. When will the airtight door in front of you crash down.

The brief moment when the index finger moves from the trigger guard to the trigger could be the difference between life and death.

Captain Hrooney entered the corridor with a group of heavily armed officers, civilian soldiers, and logistical damage control personnel. The already crowded space was suddenly filled with people—now, the entire "Shaojiang Kai" frigate can fight Most of the people are concentrated here.

"Captain, I just counted. Counting the marines and the lightly wounded at the end, we only have 97 people in total." The adjutant hesitated for a moment, and then said, "According to the surveillance inside the ship, the natives who invaded the battleship Creatures, about two hundred or so."

"Relying on the advantage of weapons, one-on-two, there should be no problem." Hrouni frowned, holding an arm shield connected to the exoskeleton in his left hand, and holding a rifle with a bayonet attached to it in his right hand.

At this time, even if there is a problem, he can only say that there is no problem. Whether it is the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate or the people on this ship, there is no other choice.

"Bridge control, look at my signal, get ready..." The adjutant nodded and raised his clenched left hand, "Three, two, one... Open the hatch!"

"Ch——crack!" The severely deformed airtight door got stuck halfway through, and scary faces appeared in everyone's field of vision immediately, even though the cabin door was only opened a little less than a halfway wide. meters, but the ghost-faced owl at the other end frantically squeezed through the gap and rushed towards the crowd.

"Fire!"

In fact, there was no need for Hruni's order at all. When the first ghost-faced giant owl came over, the marines in the front row had already pulled the trigger with their numb index fingers.

Gunshots suddenly rang out in the corridor.

(End of this chapter)