Chapter 157: Chapter 106: Break It as Easily as Crushing Dry Weeds (Revised) _2
Yan Fei was originally aiming for a substantial Merit, so how could he possibly let these chief culprits from Japan just get away?
The Drone made a turn and chased after a fleeing Japanese patrol ship, then launched two AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missiles. The two missiles, trailing white smoke, flew one after the other toward the patrol ship. In a flash, they caught up to the fleeing ship. A large explosion occurred at the waterline of the hull, blasting a huge hole through it. Then, the second missile followed into the hole and exploded inside the ship. This explosion not only enlarged the hole in the hull but also damaged the patrol ship’s structure, causing the ship to lose power and become motionless.
While the structure of a patrol ship is stronger than that of ordinary ships, it is still far from the durability of military vessels, and thus it was easily breached by the two AIM-120 Missiles. In just a short time, large amounts of seawater rushed into the hull. The patrol ship quickly lost its balance and capsized. If the captain hadn’t realized the situation was dire and issued the order to abandon ship, most of the crew would have gone down with the ship.
It was Yan Fei’s first attack on a naval ship, and he managed to take down a patrol boat, which shocked the other two patrol ships. They hurriedly accelerated in an attempt to escape the fate of being attacked by the drone. But how could they possibly escape from a drone equipped with Quantum Radar? If it was not for the need to conceal the drone’s ability to attack multiple targets simultaneously, a single missile strike from the drone could have sunk all three patrol boats at once. He chose to attack one at a time to hide the drone’s powerful capability while also putting tremendous pressure on the Japanese, torturing them mentally.
After the drone sank the first patrol ship, it did not bother with the crewmen floating on the sea surface. Instead, it made a turn ahead, changed direction to chase another small patrol ship, and launched two AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missiles again. Just like before, the patrol ship was sunk by the missiles, leaving a large number of Japanese crew members floating on the sea.
The fleeing commander of the Hirashima was pale, not expecting a US Forces Fighter Jet to suddenly appear and attack, causing his side to lose two F-15J Fighters, one helicopter, and two patrol ships in a short amount of time. It now seemed that his Hirashima could not escape the same fate. What in the world was happening? Had the United States declared war on Japan? The fear of the two atomic bombs that had once been dropped on Japan by the United States surfaced again in the commander’s heart, and the ambition to dominate the world faded away.
Before the commander of the Hirashima could think of a way to solve the current situation, the drone in the sky turned back and launched two AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missiles at the Hirashima. Although the Hirashima was a patrol ship, it was equipped with a 20-millimeter machine gun. Seeing the missiles approaching and their commander incapacitated, the executive officer quickly ordered to intercept the incoming missiles. The patrol ship opened fire, but the machine gun, which could only shoot straight due to its angle, couldn’t hit the missiles flying low over the sea.
A loud “boom” was heard as the missiles hit the waterline of the Hirashima. To Yan Fei’s disappointment, the Hirashima, although called a patrol ship, was actually a small warship with an extremely solid Hull structure. The AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missiles couldn’t breach its defense, so they couldn’t sink it as they had done with the others before.
However, Yan Fei was not discouraged. He immediately switched the type of missile, changing from the AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missile to the Enhanced AGM-114 Anti-Tank Missile, and then fired two Anti-Tank Missiles at the Hirashima. The two Anti-Tank Missiles, trailing white smoke, successively hit the same waterline position on the Hirashima.
The first Anti-Tank Missile made a small hole in the hull of the Hirashima, and the second one enlarged it. Then the drone fired another AIM-120 Air-to-Air Missile. The missile entered the hull of the Hirashima through the large hole created by the Anti-Tank Missiles and caused a violent explosion inside, inflicting massive damage to the Hirashima.
The engine of the Hirashima was destroyed, instantly losing the power to move forward, and it halted on the sea surface. With a large amount of seawater pouring in at the waterline, the hull tilted, and in just two short minutes, the Hirashima capsized. The commander of the Hirashima had completely lost the ability to think, and all the crew members abandoned ship under the executive officer’s command. With the help of an assistant, the commander himself got to a lifeboat and watched as the Hirashima sank rapidly; his face was ashen, not knowing what had happened. His groin was damp—whether from urine he had scared out or seawater he had touched was unknown…
The drone had single-handedly resolved the Japanese airplanes and patrol boats, leaving only Taiwan’s Helong on the sea surface, but the Helong was also taking on a lot of water and was close to sinking. Below the sea surface, the United States’ Seawolf Attack Submarine noticed the changes above the water. It surfaced rapidly, stopping 20 meters beneath the sea surface, and from there it monitored everything happening on the sea.
On another front, two Huaxia Fighter Jets detected the incident in the territorial waters through their onboard radar. While reporting back, they headed toward the area of the incident.