Chapter 278 Paralyzed Fleet
"Fuck it!"
"All four propellers were cut off?"
"This...what exactly is the enemy's purpose?" Patton was completely confused after hearing the report from his subordinates. Even though he had a good temper, he couldn't help but curse.
After witnessing the Izumo, which was the first to be hit, being cut into two pieces, General Patton thought that his Nimitz-class aircraft carrier would not escape the fate of being cut.
Who could have imagined that the underwater enemy that had rendered their 1st Aircraft Carrier Battle Group helpless could only cut off the four propellers of this aircraft carrier!
It felt like the enemy was humiliating Patton in front of him!
You know, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is not comparable to the self-proclaimed quasi-aircraft carrier like the Izumo. It is a real nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, only slightly weaker than the Eagle Country's latest Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Its full load displacement can reach 104,000 tons. Among the four propellers located at the tail, three are nuclear-powered and only one is conventionally powered.
These propellers have very high technical content. Each one weighs 30 tons and has a diameter of 7.6 meters, which is as high as two floors!
In order to install such a huge aircraft carrier propeller, the Eagle Country's shipbuilding factory must use a heavy gantry crane to tow it.
Moreover, these aircraft carrier propellers are made of ultra-high-strength alloy steel, which can resist rust from seawater and the "cavitation" phenomenon under high-speed rotation. The cost of each one is more than 10 million US dollars .
Once ordinary fish are caught in the high-speed propellers of an aircraft carrier, their fate is to be crushed into mud!
However, Chen Jue cut off four of these powerful propellers with one sword, causing the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to lose power output and become a large zombie ship that was stagnant on the sea.
As for why Chen Jue didn't cut the entire aircraft carrier in half with one sword?
They are also worried that the Eagle Country will be provoked and go crazy, and directly start the Third World War on Earth!
It doesn't matter if the Izumo of Japan is destroyed. After all, Japan's backbone has been broken in World War II, and the entire country no longer has the ability to jump out and cause chaos.
But the Eagle Country is different. It is the most powerful country on the Blue Planet so far and has 11 aircraft carrier battle groups .
Once Chen Jue pierces through this Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, detonates the nuclear power center on the aircraft carrier, and sinks the entire 1st aircraft carrier battle group into the Pacific Ocean, there is no guarantee that the president of Eagle Country will get carried away and directly press the nuclear button to perish together with the humans of Blue Star.
If that were the case, once the humans on Blue Star became extinct, no matter how strong Chen Jue became in his training, it would be meaningless once he left the starry sky.
Therefore, considering the overall situation and wanting to "small" vent his anger at being chased, Chen Jue used diving to directly cut off all four propellers of the aircraft carrier, completely paralyzing this steel behemoth.
After cutting off the four aircraft carrier propellers, Chen Jue watched the four still rotating propellers gradually sink to the bottom of the sea. Suddenly, he sensed something approaching nearby.
Looking back, I found a team of Eagle soldiers wearing special diving suits, holding amphibious rifles in their hands and firing at myself with a look of horror on my face.
"Frogman!"
Chen Jue glanced at these frogman soldiers. As for the amphibious rifles in their hands, they continuously fired underwater rifle bullets similar to long javelins.
Ordinary firearm bullets will be subjected to strong damping when encountering water, and will be greatly affected if the range exceeds 2 meters.
However, these javelin-like underwater rifle bullets can reach a range of about 400 meters, but the power of the bullets is greatly reduced.
Watching the underwater rifle bullets sliding towards him, Chen Jue reached out and grabbed them in his hand.
"Give it back to you!"
After playing with it for a while, Chen Jue grabbed an underwater rifle bullet and fired it hard. The huge force generated by his fingertips was even more powerful than the underwater rifles held by those frogmen. With one finger ejection, the bullet directly set off a shock wave in the water, like a white line, and it pierced the head of a frogman dozens of meters away.
The blood and brain matter dyed the nearby water red!
Seeing this, the remaining frogmen swam out in fear, and kept shooting at Chen Jue with their underwater rifles.
Although Chen Jue did not dare to easily attack the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier above his head, he showed no mercy to the Eagle Country soldiers who attacked him.
He just kept snapping his fingers and shooting the bullets. After a few muffled "puff" sounds, more than a dozen frogmen were all shot in the head.
After clearing out all the frogmen, Chen Jue turned around and swam towards the nearest cruiser.
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The combat command room on the aircraft carrier's island was in chaos at this time because the propeller was damaged by the enemy, causing the entire aircraft carrier to lose power output.
If it were wartime, this Nimitz-class aircraft carrier would now be a target ship, and the only fate waiting for it is to be slaughtered by the enemy.
After learning about the power failure, General Patton immediately reported this fatal information to the Pentagon. He felt that this enemy that he was helpless against should be left to the guys sitting in the offices in the Pentagon to deal with.
However, just as this urgent intelligence report was finished, the intelligence soldier who issued the combat mission in the command room began to wail again: "Sir! Emergency!"
"Our frogman unit lost its response 10 seconds ago... According to the feedback from the life sensors, all 13 frogmen who entered the water have died..."
Upon hearing the news, Patton was stunned for a moment. He felt that he had suffered enough setbacks today.
After witnessing the entire destruction of the friendly ship Izumo, he ridiculously thought that the death of a few frogmen was not a big deal!
"Where's the hull?"
"Has the bottom of the ship been damaged?" Patton felt a chill on his back, his heart hanging in the air.
If the potential enemy at the bottom launches a laser attack on their aircraft carrier similar to the one on the Izumo, once the nuclear power plant explodes, the entire aircraft carrier battle group will be buried with it.
The consequence of that would not be as simple as sending him to a military court. I'm afraid even Patton's life might be in danger!
"For the time being... For the time being, there is no discovery of the hull being attacked... and the various emergency teams in the cabin have not reported any water leaks." The intelligence soldier also reported tremblingly as if he was facing a great enemy.
"Fortunately... the hull was not attacked! The enemy's laser weapon doesn't seem to be able to last long..." Patton secretly breathed a sigh of relief and analyzed as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders.
But not long after he breathed a sigh of relief, alarms popped up one after another on the big screen in the command room.
The source of those alarms came from the escort warships near the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier!
Two Ticonderoga-class cruisers, three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, one Perry-class guided-missile frigate, including the Clark-class supply ship that went to rescue the Izumo, all suffered the same power failure as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier!
The intelligence soldier who was responsible for analyzing the data link information looked at the information sent back by the friendly ship, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and reported as if he had seen a ghost: "Sir... the propellers of all warships have been cut off..."
"It's over!" When General Patton heard the news, he felt a buzzing in his head, a tightness in his chest, and his eyes went dark. The high blood pressure directly broke through his brain blood vessels, and he convulsed as if he had a stroke and fell to the ground.
The 1st Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Third Fleet, which was the pride of the Eagle Country, was finally completely paralyzed in the Pacific Ocean by Chen Jue's evil hands, and all of them became a pile of immovable ship targets!
