12dz Chapter 365: Mine?
Chapter 365: Mine?
"Lookout! What happened? Report immediately!"
The escort destroyer, which was less than a nautical mile away, was suddenly sunk.
Lieutenant General George's face changed and he immediately rushed into the control room, grabbed the communicator and started roaring wildly.
"Report to the General, we have not observed any surface attacks!"
"The attack should come from underwater!"
next second.
A report from the observation station came over the communication channel.
"Underwater? Could it be a torpedo?"
"The Dragon people actually have submarines?!"
After hearing the sailors' report, Vice Admiral George looked incredulous.
Submarines were a rare commodity just after the Second World War.
Except Eagle Sauce, Mao Xiong, Xiao Ying, John Country and Hans Country.
Basically no other country knows how to create this underwater killer.
After all, submarines have very high requirements for a country's industrial level.
If a hull leak occurs, the sailors on the warship may still have a chance to escape.
As for those submarines that have been operating at a depth of one or two hundred meters underwater, if they leak, there is absolutely no chance of survival for the people on board!
As for the Dragon Kingdom, even manufacturing its own warships is a problem.
Not to mention the more difficult submarines.
However, Lieutenant General George also knew that nothing was absolute.
After all, although Longguo cannot produce it, can't the Russian Bear produce it?
The Soviet Union's S13 submarine created the record for the largest tonnage sunk by a single submarine in World War II.
As an ally, the Russians have even sent planes and tanks, so naturally they wouldn't be short of a submarine or half a submarine...
Thinking of this.
Lieutenant General George immediately calmed himself down and gave the order without hesitation.
"Anti-submarine team! Lower the sonar immediately and search for enemy submarines!"
"Once discovered, destroy it immediately!"
After hearing what Lieutenant General George said.
The sailors immediately took action, but a moment later, the communications sailor came to Vice Admiral George again.
However, there was still a conflicted look on his face.
"Report, General, we have just searched with sonar."
"The final search results show that no submarines were found within a 20-nautical-mile radius of our fleet..."
"What? No submarines? Then how did my destroyer get destroyed?"
"The people of Dragon Country, could it be that they all know sorcery?!"
After hearing the sailor's report, George was so angry that his nose almost became crooked, and he even crushed the cigarette in his hand into pieces without realizing it.
Now, Vice Admiral George wished he could strangle to death this sailor who had been reporting bad news to him since the beginning.
But reason told him otherwise.
What the sailor said was true... After all, he wasn't crazy, so it was impossible for him to give me some unverified information...
But, since it wasn't a Longguo submarine, who destroyed his destroyer?
You know, that Adams-class destroyer weighs four to five thousand tons, and its armor is very strong.
Even if Iowa used its 406mm naval gun to bombard it continuously, it would take at least six or seven rounds, and they had to hit the vital points, to sink it.
However, the destroyer just now was obviously hit fatally!
This situation is really rare, except when a submarine launches a torpedo larger than 600mm and hits the bottom of a warship where its defense is weakest...
"boom--"
Just when Lieutenant General George was still lost in thought.
An Adams-class destroyer once again followed in the footsteps of the previous destroyer.
The huge hull broke directly in the middle, huge flames rose from the hull, and it quickly sank into the water.
See this scene.
Lieutenant General George felt like his three views were about to collapse!
They had already lost two destroyers, but they didn't even know how the other side killed them.
This was the first time that Vice Admiral George had encountered this in his decades-long naval career!
Could it be that these Dragon people are really blessed by the souls of their ancestors in this sea area?
Or was it their Mazu appearing?
At this moment, Vice Admiral George didn't even know whether he should continue attacking the Dragon Nation's fleet...
However, at this time, Yamamoto Ikki, who had been a bystander, discovered some clues.
Then he spoke immediately.
"General George, don't be fooled by the Dragon people's tricks!"
"They don't know any witchcraft, and of course, they don't have any submarines!"
"What sank our destroyer was not a torpedo, but a mine!"
"Mine?!"
After hearing what Yamamoto Ikki said, Lieutenant General George was extremely angry!
He stood up, looked at Yamamoto Ikki, and laughed in anger.
"Sergeant Yamamoto, do you think that I, a sailor who has sailed at sea for more than 30 years, am actually an idiot who doesn't even know what a mine is?"
"Or do you think that the minesweepers in my Seventh Fleet are just useless idiots who only know how to eat and drink for free?!"
"Ok?"
Seeing that Lieutenant General George was really angry, a look of panic suddenly appeared on Yamamoto Ikki's face.
Even facing the furious Lieutenant General George, he fell to his knees with a thud.
Here comes the dogeza, which is what the Sakura people are best at.
At the same time, he immediately said with great fear.
"Lieutenant General George, I absolutely did not mean that!"
"I'm not saying this to mock you, but I really saw it..."
"Hmm? What you said... is true?"
Seeing Yamamoto Ikki behaving so humbly, a look of doubt suddenly appeared on Lieutenant General George's face.
After coming to his senses, he also reacted.
Yamamoto Ikki is on my side now, and as a member of the defeated country, he is too busy trying to please me, so why would he mock me?
However, he found it very difficult to accept Yamamoto Ikki's statement that it was actually a mine that sank his warship.
After all, as an old sailor who has been on the sea for nearly 30 years, he has spent almost half of his life at sea.
He was extremely familiar with all kinds of naval weapons.
Of course, I also know what a mine looks like.
Yes, the power of mines is great, in fact, not inferior to the torpedoes fired by submarines.
But the problem is that those torpedoes basically float on the water surface. Before they hit them, the sailors on the lookout tower would have already seen them and issued warnings.
Moreover, even if the sailors missed these, the Seventh Fleet still has minesweepers specifically responsible for detection and mine clearance!
However, neither the lookout nor the minesweeper discovered these mines.
Could it be that these mines suddenly fell from the sky?