Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 530: Broken?Not a big problem

"This is..." Colorado frowned slightly, looking at the black smoke slowly rising under the sea level.

West Virginia looked away from the ship's observation deck and said, "It should be the aircraft carriers that dispatched bombers."

"Huh? Commander, are you finally willing to use aluminum?" Maryland was flexing his muscles and was very surprised when he heard what Sifu said.

"Although there is not much aluminum in the warehouse, you can still burn it in one or two battles." Colorado was not surprised by this result, "But it can be seen that the situation in this sea area is more complicated than we imagined. At one point, there may be a big battle to be fought.”

"That's a good feeling." Maryland said it didn't matter, and even felt a little excited.

The enemy's position was obviously getting closer, and the three battleships could already faintly hear explosions in the distance.

Colorado finally contacted Akagi and confirmed that Huang Jiang had ordered the aircraft carrier to attack. At the same time, Lexington's order was finally passed on.

"Solve the battle as soon as possible and return to defend Leia Island."

"Return to defend Leia Island?" Maryland was stunned for a moment, "Something happened over there? But there is no news from Nevada and the others."

"Maybe it's just a precaution." Colorado said, "After all, we don't have a reliable patrol system like here in the south. The sea area there is a bit wide, and it's impossible to completely capture the mirage's trajectory with a submarine alone."

"Have the latest instruments been delivered?" West Virginia asked.

The instrument she was talking about was a detection instrument recently developed by the Jialan Research Institute based on the characteristics of purple haze to detect mirage activity signals.Although the radar of the ship girls can also detect mirages, the principles of the two are completely different. The radar uses the reflection of electromagnetic waves, while the purple haze detector detects regular purple haze radiation waves.

What does it mean to be regular? It's the communication between mirages.According to Stanke's research, Mirage's weapons are shaped from a variety of purple mist structures, making the structure very strong and not emitting radiation. However, this is not the case for communication between Mirages. In order to achieve The ability to communicate at a sufficient distance must actively stimulate the radiation of the purple mist and give it a specific wave pattern to achieve the purpose of transmitting signals.

The instrument West Virginia mentioned is not actually an instrument for detecting the whereabouts of mirages, because the radar of the ship girls is sufficient. Its main function is to receive and decipher the mirage's communications.

Intercepting telegrams and deciphering them is a channel often used by ship girls to obtain intelligence. This was the method used to determine Midway Island. However, after traveling to the blue world, because the method of transmitting signals between mirages is completely different from that of the deep sea, ship girls We have lost this very effective source of intelligence and have no choice but to defend passively or completely take the initiative to attack. We are completely unable to conduct a purposeful and proactive defensive attack after learning the enemy's intentions.

The option of completely taking the initiative to attack is difficult to implement effectively in today's Jia Lan.Because of the blank space of several decades, even the adult survivors of that year still survived, but their memories of the sea conditions in Edelweiss Collar were already very vague, and even Erich could not accurately tell the specific locations of some islands.

The lack of an overall perspective makes it difficult for Huangjiang and its flagships to judge which islands are strategic points. Lanbin Island and Laiya Island can only be regarded as a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, but Huangjiang does not expect to rely on this form to occupy it in the future. Take the lead, so we continue to urge the Garland Institute's research.

"It's almost there." Colorado recalled for a moment and said, "But it has not experienced actual combat, and testing will probably take a lot of effort. We can't expect a brand-new technology to change our direction instantly."

"I've seen them." Maryland said loudly.

The two people who were discussing suddenly returned their attention to the battlefield.

Akagi quickly informed Colorado of the end of the bombing, and also informed the Sifu fleet of the general situation of the identified opponents.After being harassed by the aircraft carriers, the strength of this mirage force has been weakened to a certain extent, but this weakening cannot give Sifu and others an overwhelming advantage. The reason is because of the aircraft carrier currently led by Akagi. There are only three people in the formation, and their bombing capabilities are limited. In addition, the Mirages already have a good air defense system, which is even stronger than some deep-sea air defense capabilities in the port area.

Furthermore, in order to prevent aluminum spraying, Akagi lowered the density of bombing. After sinking one Mirage captain and damaging two others, he recovered his carrier-based aircraft formation.

Although there is no overwhelming advantage, this little advantage is enough for West Virginia.

"Get to work, sisters." Colorado raised the main gun.

"Understood!"*2
Soon after, the mirage entered the range of the battleships.

As the flagship, West Virginia opened fire first. Although she did not see the mirages appearing in her field of vision, she confidently dropped the shells in the direction of the rising smoke.The precise fire control system quickly calculated the relevant shooting parameters, and the shells drew a beautiful arc in the air.

The range of most battleships is more or less beyond their own field of vision before using radar, that is, beyond their own visual range. In order to maximize the range of battleships, water reconnaissance aircraft were used to conduct shooting in the early days. Calibration attempts.

This kind of attempt was indeed effective, but most of it achieved good results in exercises, but in actual combat it was not as ideal as it was in theory. Later, with the popularity of radar, the later ship girls gradually became less effective. used.

The three Colorado sisters are all equipped with advanced fire control radars. Although they are not as accurate as the Missouri, they are obviously enough to deal with the mirage in front of them.

The attacking mirages are obviously not a good thing, which can be seen from the fact that they can maintain sufficient combat effectiveness as much as possible under the bombing of the aircraft carrier.

Mirage's counterattack came soon, just because the two sides had not yet entered their respective line of sight, the accuracy of the Mirage's shells was pitifully scary, far inferior to Colorado, which attacked with the assistance of detection radar and fire control radar class battleship.

"There are a lot of opponents, so be careful." Even though he had the upper hand, Colorado was still very cautious.

Before she could finish her sentence, an obviously abnormal shell pierced the sky.

The three sisters suddenly frowned, sensing something was wrong.

However, before they could react accordingly, the cannonball hit.

boom!
Maryland's ship equipment suddenly made a violent explosion sound. Maryland, who had been so high-spirited just now, waved away the surrounding smoke in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

However, the fire on the ship's equipment was still burning slowly, and the damage control began to take effect.

"Are you okay?" Colorado asked concerned.

Maryland gave a thumbs up and said confidently: "It's not a big problem."

(End of this chapter)