The fleet was rushing to the place they wanted to go as fast as possible. In fact, they were unable to reach the location where Jianmu was in a short time.

Although sea ships are much more powerful than aircraft, their heavier weight and greater resistance to water navigation than air are enough to become their biggest obstacles.

For example, small ships, such as missile speedboats, torpedo speedboats, may have a speed of more than 40 knots, which is about 80 kilometers per hour. Big guys like aircraft carriers or amphibious assault ships can have a speed of about 20 knots at most.

Of course, it is impossible to throw a crucial aircraft carrier behind and let other destroyers or frigates rush forward first. That is the way of fighting in the warship world, not the rule of modern warfare. If you dare to play like this in modern warfare, then in minutes, enemy missiles, bombers and submarines can send your aircraft carrier back to your hometown.

Losing an aircraft carrier is equivalent to losing air supremacy at sea. And when planes throw bombs at your head in the sky, even if you are reincarnated by a god and incarnated by a vicious dog, you will not be able to stop your failure.

Even if Australians can dream, they will never joke about their own family. Therefore, all their actions are within standard procedures.

The strategic delivery ship acts as an aircraft carrier and becomes the core of the entire fleet. The patrol ship is responsible for the way and patrol alert; the frigates serve on the left and right, responsible for escort and anti-submarine work; the submarine is deployed underwater, and the supply ship is attached to the rear.

The entire fleet has clear division of labor and unified planning. It can be said that the safety of the entire fleet is guaranteed to the greatest extent. Even if there is a sudden short-term handover, when the patrol ship pulls the enemy's process, the frigate can calmly guard the strategic delivery ship and transfer it to a safe place, and at the same time use missiles and aircraft to carry out air strikes by the enemy.

If you want to stop them, you can only fight to the death. The firepower of the frigate is not a joke. What's more, there are submarines underwater who are eyeing them.

Of course, you can also choose long-range strikes. However, except for the express delivery services of several rogues, most long-range strikes may not play any role in the dense air defense firepower network of frigates. The Aegis system is one of the American magic weapons. As a former younger brother, the Australian Navy, which enjoys this kind of welfare, will not slim those long-range firepower.

It can be said that Australia is practicing its ambitions with absolute caution at this moment. And just as they are doing their steps and approaching their target little by little, the sonar from the guards suddenly sounds an alarm.

"The sonar monitored a huge reaction, and the position was coming to us! The speed was too fast!"

The crew had just issued a warning, and with a bang, the patrol ship directly in front of them seemed to have encountered an iceberg, and the entire ground soared from the water.

A clear white wave emerged from the bottom of the ship, and was like a winding giant python. At the speed that you could hardly follow with your naked eyes, turning left and right, turning around the surrounding patrol ships one after another.

The patrol ships had no time to avoid it. Although there was a factor in the innate speed of the Amedale-class patrol boats, no matter what, they were warships of more than 50 meters long and 270 tons. It was so easily overturned that it was like overturning a paper-made boat, which was really incredible.

Of course, after surviving the initial shock, the Australian fleet commander accepted the reality. He knew very well what he was going to deal with. It was not surprising that the extraordinary opponents would have any situation. There were just a bunch of worthless patrol ships. It was worth it to use their sacrifices to exchange for the large army's first acquisition of intelligence!

As a soldier, the fleet commander is not as ignorant and stupid as his own politician. He will not say anything stupid about winning by zero sacrifice, because unless it is a dream, even if the United States fights Iraq, there will be casualties. The only difference is whether the casualties are within your acceptance scope.

At present, the sacrifices of more than a dozen patrol ships are obviously acceptable. And taking advantage of this skill, he still ordered the entire fleet to start operating.

"Import the frigate to monitor the movements of the other party at any time. The underwater submarine enters the pre-war preparations. Once the target is discovered, immediately launch an attack with torpedoes. Prepare a cluster bomb and prepare the fighter-bomber to prepare to take off. Once the target is discovered, immediately strike it in the air. Let the helicopter take off and rescue it. It doesn't matter those patrol ships, but if the crew members above can save me a few of them."

It simply wanted to deal with the situation. Australia changed its own strategic projection ship into a light aircraft carrier in advance. Otherwise, the function of only a strategic projection ship that can only be equipped with tanks and take-off helicopters will not necessarily be able to deal with the current situation.

And now, when the triple insurance is placed here, he really doesn't believe that this unknown extraordinary enemy has the ability to catch them off guard like before attacking the patrol ship.

As a soldier, compared to those opponents who cannot win, what he fears most is to meet those guys who cannot see or fight. Although the former cannot win, at least you can fight him to the death. Even if he really dies, it is a glorious sacrifice and the most decent outcome of a soldier.

But if you face those opponents that cannot be seen or touched, and he hits you and you can only be next to each other, that is another situation. Not to mention the frustration, just an indecent problem is a result that most people don’t want to face.

The fleet commander hoped that he would face an open battle, so he was full of vigilance and even acted as if he could put his sonar directly in front of him. One of the benefits of doing this was that all the sailors were also energetic and did not dare to have any slight slightest reluctance.

"The sonar reaction is in front of us right, at three o'clock. The distance is 8 nautical miles, the depth is seventy meters underwater, one hundred and twenty meters, and two hundred meters are still diving! It has exceeded one thousand eight hundred meters, and we have lost the accurate positioning of it!"

"So fast?" The most old navy, the fleet commander was undoubtedly surprised by the opponent's diving speed. Because if the speed of diving for hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye occurs on a submarine, it will kill a ship of people in an instant.

Submarine forces have always been the most dangerous profession in the navy, because the mission itself alone is a double torture of psychology and physiology. The submarine forces' years of silence and isolation during missions can easily cause psychological illness. Every rise or dive may affect the body of each crew member due to a sudden change in water pressure.

Humans, or any creature in the world, cannot ignore the wanton diving of the marine environment. Because of water pressure, every ten meters of diving, the organism will bear an additional atmospheric pressure. It is like suddenly double the air in its lungs. The further down, the more difficult it will be for the organism to breathe.

In this regard, whales such as sperm whales are probably the most resistant. Even if they can only dive 170 meters per minute. If it were humans, they would have probably already suffocated to death.

Of course, humans have human methods. Using technology, humans can also offset external water pressure and maximize their ability to dive to the maximum extent. However, this takes time and is limited. Submarines need to adjust the air pressure in the ship to a normal value. This value will change with the speed of the ship's diving, so its own process cannot be called very rapid. For example, if the deep-sea adjustment problem occurs, even if it suddenly falls by dozens of meters, the result is likely to be catastrophic.

In addition, the maximum diving depth of a submarine is also limited. Due to materials and technology, conventional submarines can only dive to a water depth of several hundred meters. Once this limit is exceeded, the water pressure will immediately destroy the integrity of the ship, and water leakage in the deep sea will be revealed.

Of course, there are cases where some nuclear submarines can dive to a depth of 1,000 meters and deep-sea submarines can dive to a depth of more than 10,000 meters. However, those are not conventional-level submarines, and the two are not comparable.

So like now, facing such an opponent who suddenly dived 1,000 meters and was more rapid than imagined, the fleet commander immediately started sweating his palms.

As I said, the most troublesome opponent that cannot be seen is. Fortunately, he now knows the angle at which the opponent may launch an attack, so he immediately ordered again.

"I inform all ships to immediately drop mines into the two hundred meters below the water. Superboats are prohibited from floating to prevent accidental injury. Also, the submarines are activated to start active sonar and do everything possible to find the underwater target. In addition, what exactly is our target? Has the sonar monitoring just now not yet drawn?"

"Not yet, sir. The other party moves too fast and has too much noise, so we can't accurately draw its size!"

"Damn it, where did this monster come from!"

After smashing the table hard, the fleet commander had to calm his anxiety in this way. To be honest, he had never seen any creature that could move at such a speed in the sea. Even the advanced sonar system could not capture his full picture, which immediately cast more than a layer of shadow in his heart.

He just thought that this monster could launch an attack honestly according to his vision, so that they might achieve the expected results. If it was so cunning that it did not follow the common sense at all, then this battle would be really difficult to fight.

Murphy's law, the more worried about something, the more likely it is to happen. All the defense lines of the fleet commander are built with the strategic ship Canberra where he is located as the defense core. The center is deployed and the multi-network handover is handed over. As long as the opponent comes for himself, once he falls into the net, his long-term attack will hit its face in an instant.

What he didn't expect was that the other party seemed to see his intention and did not mean to act as he expected.

The attack core is Canberra, no. The other party doesn't think so. The first target it chose is a submarine group that dives deep below the fleet.

Just like a great white shark hunting seals, it suddenly launched an attack from directly below. Some people may have thought of this possibility, but absolutely no one could imagine that this suddenness would be so sudden.

Almost as soon as the sonar monitored the reaction, the attack came with it. The Sean, with the hull number ssg77, had no time to respond at all. A violent impact had already caused the entire submarine to bump from the inside out.

The alarm device sounded wildly, and countless other shells broke. The Sean was about to overturn, but compared with these problems, the officers as the captain discovered that they had a more serious problem.

The hull was floating up, which was not the situation under their control. Instead, under the influence of some external force, their ships were forced to start moving towards the sea. The speed was beyond imagination and it floated up more than a hundred meters in an instant. The result was that there was no time to adjust, and the sudden reduction of atmospheric pressure was like blowing bubbles, causing every crew member's lungs to react like an explosion.

Their lungs expand excessively due to the expansion of air, and a large amount of air escapes into the blood vessels to form bubbles. This is a symptom called gas embolism. Accompanied by this symptom, a large number of bubbles will flow into various organs of the body with the flow of blood, and will have a fatal impact on humans in a short period of time. Under normal circumstances, emergency rescue may be performed with a high-pressure chamber. However, it is not very high in the upward range and the symptoms are not serious. And in this current situation, it is basically beyond salvation.

So just cursed and said, "It took me a long time to curse. The captain of the submarine had already swollen eyes. He covered his chest and fell to the ground with blood. He was not the first to fall to the ground, nor was he the last one. In short, everything was a very short process. More than 40 people in the submarine died in their posts one after another.

In this regard, everyone, including the Fleet Commander, had not yet realized the situation. They could only send inquiries on the Sean on radio.

"Sean, Sean! We found that you seem to have been attacked. Please report the situation, please report the situation!"

The Sean could no longer report the situation. Not only because all its crew members had fallen on their posts, but more because the enemy who attacked him had no intention of stopping.

Under the action of some external force, the Sean continued to be dragged and moved, and soon entered the mine layout area. Then, the external force applied to the Sean suddenly increased, just like the bowler threw a baseball, and the Sean was thrown out in an instant.

Sensitive mines could not withstand this level of impact at all, so when the sonar of all ships obviously found violent fluctuations underwater, countless mines had exploded in no particular order.

The fluctuations of the explosion affected the detection of the sonar and caused almost all sonars to be disordered to varying degrees. This was equivalent to blinding the fleet, and taking advantage of this opportunity, their enemies were already reunited and stretched out their claws.
Chapter completed!