Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 511: Night battle encounters heavy patrol

"The weather is very good today." Portland took back the tachymeter in his hand.

At this time, the entire heavy cruiser fleet was still in the stage of silent navigation, and all the lights on the ship were turned off. If they didn't know that Mirage had no means of detecting sea fog communication signals, they might even have entered silence in communication.

After more than an hour of forced march to the southern waters of Gloria Island and close to Wutou Island, the flagship Baltimore ordered the entire team to enter economic speed to save fuel consumption in order to face the possible battle next.

"Yes, the weather is very good." Wichita said happily, because this means that tonight, their shipborne radar is relatively reliable. At night, the first to discover the enemy can often get the upper hand, sometimes even Able to establish victory in one fell swoop.

However, the sea is too vast. After the enemy was lost in Wales, all the ship girls were put on alert.On the sea, looking for traces of the enemy, especially before the research institute has cracked the communication between mirages, they can only rely on their judgment of the possible destination of the mirage to find traces of the enemy on the vast sea.

Where could this Mirage main force be headed?
There is no doubt about this, they are most likely to go south to Edelweiss Island now.Jialan Territory dispatched a large number of warships on this sea just to catch the fleeing mirages. If they continued to stay in the sea, even if the warships couldn't catch them, the cut off supplies might take them. Life.

So there is no doubt that they will choose the direction of Edelweiss Island.

But knowing the destination does not mean that the heavy patrols will not encounter enemies.On the vast sea, anything can happen. If the mirage wants to go east or west or simply loses its way, it may turn to the north.

Because there is no danger in the surrounding area, with the radar equipment carried by the current ship girls, it is very difficult to completely block the enemy's position by relying on only a few fleets.

However, once one of these four fleets captures the traces of the mirage, the ending will be completely different.A huge encirclement net will be formed after the brief contact between the two sides. The discoverer must do everything possible to drag down the mirage, while the other fleets will shrink the encirclement in this very short period of time, without trying to secure the main force of the mirage. They were trapped so that they could never escape the detection range of the ship girls.

If you want to suppress the points in your hand, you can effectively attack the mirage troops who come to support you.

The screen of the warning radar was empty, but the heavy patrols did not relax at all. This was the experience given to them by many years of night fighting. Sometimes the enemy often passed by the edge of radar detection. This fleeting signal If you miss it, you will most likely let the fish slip from your hands.

The warning radar equipped by heavy patrols has an effective detection range of about tens of kilometers. Of course, this is for surface ships. If it is an aircraft, the detection range should be farther.

"There is a situation!" Northampton suddenly yelled. She was originally with Bumblebee on Yuanluo Island. At that time, the news that Quincy had sneaked off to play in the dangerous sea had just reached Huangjiang.Huang Jiang felt that Quincy's actions this time might bring out the edge that Mirage had been hiding for a year from the keen sense of smell honed by the dozens of times of killing by Utopia and Amethyst.

So the heavy patrols began to assemble at the Iris Island Pier under Huang Jiang's order. Northampton, who had originally accompanied Bumblebee on Iris Island, set off immediately. At the same time, the Baltimore heavy patrol returned from Blue Beach Island and was repairing on Violet Island. The brigade also gathered towards Iris Island. Wichita, who had experienced childhood life in the "Garland Daily" newspaper office, had to end this rare leisure trip and set off from Garland Island.

In just a few hours, the heavy patrols gathered from all sides of the Gloria Territory. In addition to New Orleans, who set off with the Wutou Island fleet because of worries about his sister, and Quincy, who was hunted by the mirage, the American heavy patrols The patrols have all arrived, so the girls almost all sailed at full speed to Iris Island.

After gathering on Iris Island, the heavy patrol troops took Baltimore as the flagship and quickly approached Wutou Island, ready to support the battlefield in the sea area of ​​​​Sedong Island at any time. In the evening, they really received Huang Jiang's order and fully cooperated with Hu The German fleet's blocking strategy tried to weaken the main force of Edelweiss Island as much as possible.

Everyone was still on vacation in the morning, but they started running around in the afternoon, and officially entered the battlefield in the evening. This urgent march made all the heavy patrols suffocate, especially Northampton and Wichita.

Bei'an originally planned to make a delicious apple pie dinner for Bumblebee and the other aircraft carrier sisters, but the pie was still baking in the oven when the mirage came.Although the mirage was caused by Quincy, in the eyes of the heavy patrols, their lovely mentally retarded family member was pure and innocent no matter what.

It must be Mirage's fault.

Wichita had a similar idea. She even brought the latest issue of the Garland Daily, just waiting for the time to start the war, and smeared it in the face of the mirages. Damn it, you might as well read more newspapers!

The mirage signal disappears fleetingly on the radar, but the heavy patrols are all experienced battlefield veterans. They have seen countless deep-sea signals on the radar, and they have photographed nuclear bomb-level artillery shells countless times during night battles. With the deep seamen in their faces, Baltimore immediately changed course.The entire fleet is rapidly approaching southwest.

After sailing for about three and ten minutes, the mirage signal appeared on the radar screen again.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!" Baltimore gave the order calmly.

The heavy patrols quickly launched, and Northampton, who was in charge of communications, quickly contacted the Prince of Wales who was on the southern battlefield and informed him of the direction of the mirage activities.

"Understood." Wales responded immediately.

"Be careful." Pensacola wiped his main gun, "Most of the enemies are at the level of battleships."

Wichita chuckled and said, "I may still be afraid of them during the day, but at night, we are the ghosts on the sea."

In fact, in terms of firepower, heavy cruisers are completely suppressed by battleships. They are not born to fight against battleships, but to suppress small enemy ships with hulls and artillery that are more cost-effective than battleships. Liberating the hands of your own battleships can better allocate strategic resources.

In terms of armor and firepower, it is naturally impossible for American heavy cruisers to match battleships. However, with the team BUFF blessing of every American heavy cruiser in the Baltimore team that adds five points of firepower to heavy cruisers and light cruisers, The heavy cruiser fleet now consists of a total of six heavy cruisers from Baltimore, Wichita, Portland, Pensacola, Northampton, and Houston. Each of them has thirty points of firepower, although it is far less than It's not a battleship, but it's more than enough to deal enough damage.

Huang Jiang is still a little worried about sending out heavy cruisers to block the main force of Mirage, because he doesn't know whether heavy cruisers in reality also have the powerful night battle damage bonus in the game.You must know that the reason why Baltimore's BUFF completely changed the premise of the American heavy cruiser is because the American heavy cruiser, as an artillery heavy cruiser, already has a considerable damage bonus in night battles. The name of the heavy cruiser's night battle nuclear bomb is Wedge. It was typed by Ta and others.

At this time, the "Mudskipper" didn't know that he had been discovered by the ship girls.

They turned off all the lights on their bodies and moved forward carefully and quietly on the sea, just waiting for the arrival of daylight and praying for support from Edelweiss Island.

Snapped!
A searchlight was lit, and the intense light made the "mudskipper" almost unable to open its eyes.

(End of this chapter)