The Tang Army destroyer launched not just one torpedo, but more than 20 destroyers launched at least 120 torpedoes at the Mirage fleet from several directions at once.
The fixed depth of these torpedoes is relatively large, because the destroyers of the Tang Army actually look down upon the small fish and shrimps scattered around the Mirage Fleet.
Their targets are all the big guys, and they are preparing to give these Mirage battleships and heavy cruisers last hits!
The Mirage Navy, which has been trying to crack the Tang Army's anti-ship missile offensive, has indeed relaxed its vigilance about the situation on the sea. In fact, they have no way to keep an eye on the sea all the time with poor vision.
The Tang Army is completely different. Even if they are not equipped with anti-ship missiles, the Tang Army's warships are equipped with radars. They can know the opponent's speed and heading, and roughly calculate the opponent's corresponding position.
Moreover, because the Mirage fleet was attacked by anti-ship missiles, the fleet's formation began to become long and slender. This formation was really convenient for torpedo sneak attacks.
After a cruiser was hit by a torpedo, there was no time to take evasive action. Another Mirage battleship was hit by two torpedoes, and the stern and bow of the ship exploded at the same time.
Sadly, this battleship had been hit by an anti-ship missile before, and the flames in the middle of the hull had just been extinguished by the damage control department. As a result, water began to enter the front and rear sections.
The entire battleship began to roll, and without even having time to take a rest, the sailors on the battleship began repair work again.
After being hit for the second time, the battleship basically had to break away from the battle. But in its current state, it was hard to say whether it could escape the attack range of the Tang Army's carrier-based aircraft after dawn.
At this time, the remaining warships of the Mirage Navy finally came to their senses and began to avoid the torpedoes attacking them.
The lights of the entire fleet began to change from pointing to the sky to pointing to the sea. Everyone was looking for the white line in the water, until another warship was hit...
This is entirely a matter of luck: torpedo tracks at night are difficult to detect, and now the entire fleet is in chaos, making it even more difficult to avoid.
Fortunately, in order to "evade" the Styx missiles, the warships of the Mirage Navy themselves were making serpentine and irregular maneuvers, so they still got rid of most of the incoming torpedoes.
This was an unintentional act. Mirage Haifeng himself might not have thought that his mistake of haphazardly ordering the fleet to use snake-like maneuvers to avoid anti-ship missiles allowed his fleet to escape the assassination of torpedoes by luck.
Unfortunately, luck is a matter of probability, and many warships are still hit by torpedoes: This is different from the superstructure being penetrated by anti-ship missiles. The warships hit by torpedoes... basically reduce their speed and cannot continue to move forward.
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In the headquarters of Mirage, the main island, and the base camp, after ignoring Mirage Feng's request for the injured warship to retreat, the decision-makers of Mirage are discussing the next countermeasures.
Using the fleet to gamble on the fate of the country is an option, but no one is willing to just sit back and wait for death.
Therefore, two generals, Mirage Wuke and Mirage Haiping, together with the Mirage Emperor, discussed a series of preparations for the next Mirage Kingdom.
Mirwuk said: "We now need more anti-aircraft guns to deal with possible bombings by Tang Army aircraft. In addition, we also need more radars to provide early warning..."
In the Battle of the South Island, the Mirage suffered the loss of air supremacy to a large extent. If you don't remember it, the other islands will only be lost faster.
In the past, they relied on Zero fighter jets, but who would have thought that the Tang Empire could get fighter jets across the sea to compete with Zero fighter jets for air supremacy?
Well now, after the South Island is lost, the Tang Army will soon build an airport on the island. At that time, the Tang Air Force will have an even greater advantage.
Butcher fighter jets, Flying Fortress bombers, and Yin'er attack aircraft... plus those mysterious bombers that come and go like the wind, the Tang Army's air superiority will only be greater.
After talking about anti-aircraft artillery and radar, Mirwuk then talked about the problem of soldiers: "In addition, we also need more soldiers to be deployed on the defense lines where enemy troops may land... These places must be guarded against.
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Seeing that the Tang Army was about to occupy and control the South Island, starting from the South Island, no matter which island the Tang Army attacked, the distance would be closer than before.
Under such circumstances, the Mirage Army must station heavy troops on the remaining three islands. Then the previous army size will not be enough.
Therefore, Fengwu Ke explained: "Previously, our estimate of the Tang Army's ability to conduct cross-sea landing operations was seriously insufficient, so we probably need to build an additional defense line of at least 1,000 kilometers to consolidate each island."
After saying this, he continued to add: "In addition to anti-aircraft guns, all cities must start digging cellars and air-raid shelters... to reduce the impact of enemy bombing on our cities."
The Mirage Emperor suddenly felt a little irritable. Their treasury was already quite empty. Asking for this and that at this time was simply killing him.
But he also knew that the problems raised by Mirwuk must be solved, so he could only stand there honestly and listen to Mirwuk's various requests.
After thinking of this, Mirewuk thought of the issue about the bombing of the airport on the South Island, so he said: "In addition, what needs to be built is the defense measures of the airport! We have not considered bombing by enemy planes before.
, all aircraft have only simple hangars, which is completely unfeasible now. These hangars must be reinforced! As soon as possible! In addition, we must hide the airport runway as much as possible to prevent the enemy from destroying the runway and affecting the takeoff and landing of aircraft.
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The Army had not made any decent air defense preparations before, and the runway was not camouflaged. The aircraft were either placed in the open air or had only a simple awning.
This state allowed the Tang Army to easily destroy a large number of the Mirage Army's airports and aircraft, seriously affecting the combat effectiveness of the Mirage Army's air force.
Therefore, Mirage will separately talk about building hidden airports and increasing the airport's anti-strike capabilities.
"In terms of mobile troops, we need more tanks, armored vehicles, anti-tank guns... We need a lot of mines... and all the anti-tank weapons that can be manufactured." Mirage became more and more fluent as he spoke, saying whatever came to his mind.
What, as if all the requests I made were granted.
In fact, given the current industrial status of the Mirage Kingdom, if the weapons he wants can be given to him one-fifth or one-tenth of the time, it can be considered a credit to the strength of the workers of the Mirage Kingdom.
The problem is that even if the workers of Mirage Kingdom work day and night, where will their raw materials come from? The country that previously supplied them with the most raw materials, the Ice Empire, is now at war with the elves, and their own steel and copper are not enough.
How could it be transported to Mirage Country?
As for whether the Tang army would block the sea transportation lines after the navy was completely lost, that was an issue subconsciously ignored by the senior officials of the Mirage Kingdom.
"The Army still needs a lot of heavy artillery, more artillery shells... more aircraft... Even if the performance is not as good as our opponents, we still need more Zero Fighters... and their pilots." Having said this, Mirage Wu
Katsuya felt that he wanted too much, so his voice became softer and softer as he spoke, and finally stopped.
Mirage Emperor looked at Admiral Mirage Haiping, who had not spoken a word, and asked with a cold face: "If there is anything else, let's talk about it together."
"As for the navy, we need to modify some more practical equipment! It is too late to think about building additional battleships now. Our national strength does not allow us to rebuild a large-scale navy." He Mirage Wu
Ke was different, Mirage Haiping was more fanatical and had more ideas. He knew that rebuilding the navy was absolutely impossible, so he could only come up with another way.
Just listen to what he said: "I want to give priority to building some speedboats, the kind equipped with gasoline engines, preferably with a speed of more than 50 kilometers! Fill these speedboats with explosives, select brave soldiers to drive them, and let them ram enemy ships!"
"Huh?" In the Mirage Emperor's view, this idea was more feasible than Mirage Wuk's request for a lot of things. Therefore, he became interested in Mirage Haiping's plan.
After Ming Haiping finished talking about this crazy plan, he added: "Only in this way can we make up for our lack of combat power! I hope the Army will also come up with a similar plan! You can take off planes loaded with explosives to hit the Tang Army.
Battleship! A plane for a warship!"
"Is it necessary to do this?" Mirage Wuk didn't react for a while.
"Only by doing this! Can we avoid the destruction of our country and our species!" Mirage Haiping said firmly.
The Mirage Emperor was also very satisfied with this crazy plan, which was at least within the scope of feasibility. So he ordered: "Then decide like this first! Form two troops and put them under the command of the two of you!"
Just as the two generals stood at attention and saluted and said "Yes, Your Majesty", an officer trotted over and handed over a message: "Your Majesty! Mirage Feng just sent news that the enemy launched a torpedo attack... The fleet suffered heavy losses.
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"What?" The Mirage Emperor grabbed the message and read it carefully: Five battleships of the Mirage Kingdom had been damaged, and they were only an hour away from the Tang Army's landing fleet at the landing site.
"Call back! Let Mirage Haifeng do whatever it takes! Rush into the landing site! Get rid of Tang's landing fleet!" Mirage Emperor seemed to see hope from the one-hour journey, and gritted his teeth and issued the order.
He didn't know that before Mirage Haifeng got his call back, another battleship was damaged and a cruiser was sunk by Styx anti-ship missiles...
And between Mirage Haifeng and the Tang Empire's landing fleet, there are two Datang Empire battleships that are waiting in full formation!