The Last Submarine Formation!
Katerina's fleet has a fighting chance against three Dragon Country carrier groups.
But dealing with eight carrier strike groups would clearly be too much for them.
The main reason is that, due to Katerina's previous operational error, all of the Eagle Sauce carriers lost their carrier-based aircraft.
Without air power, we already lack a crucial means of attack.
This deficiency cannot be compensated for by increasing the number of warships.
The difference between having air support and not having air support is like night and day.
Another point is that Lin Ye triggered the mechanism buff ahead of time in the Instance settings.
Because they chose the Big Macaque Country, the Dragon Country's fleet received a speed boost buff from the start.
[Alpine Garland: If Challengers in the Instance chooses to spawn in the Big Macaque Country, the number of ports in the Dragon Country increases by 50%, and the speed of the Dragon Country's navy increases by 50%!]
This attribute boost can be fatal in a tense battle.
It's important to understand that a top-tier weapon like the Type 055 Destroyer, with a 50% speed boost, is practically invincible.
When designing the Instance, Lin Ye naturally considered how to ensure that Challengers could not win if the weapon scale was similar.
It relies on its unique mechanism!
As for how to get these seemingly unreasonable mechanisms approved by the Firmament, it all comes down to the early-stage design of the Instance.
The Dragon Country and the Big Macaque Country have a history of enmity. The Dragon Country helped the Big Macaque Country a lot in the past, but the Big Macaque Country betrayed the Dragon Country countless times.
Once the battle resumes, the fighting spirit of the Dragon Country warriors will be ignited!
This logic is reasonable.
It's just that the Challengers don't notice this layer.
After the complete Nanming Fleet reassembled, Katerina's fleet was in a state of complete collapse.
Even with the fighting power of the Eagle Sauce warships, the number of Challengers has begun to decrease rapidly.
Under intense bombardment from the destroyer's vertical launch missiles.
Those outdated Challenger Warships were eliminated immediately.
One aircraft carrier after another was bombed, billowing smoke and rendered completely inoperable.
[Big Macaque Country: 900,000 people!]
[Big Macaque Country: 800,000 people!]
[Big Macaque Country: 700,000 people!]
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[Big Macaque Country: 600,000 people!]
The brutal war has resulted in the complete collapse of the Challengers Faction.
The number of people is dropping by tens of thousands.
In less than half an hour, the number of people has shrunk from 1 million to 600,000!
Seeing the brutal battle, Katerina, with her keen senses, immediately realized that the Challengers were no longer capable of making a decision on the front lines.
At the same time, a missile struck the Queen's deck, punching a huge hole in the thick deck.
At the same time, a raging fire broke out in the interior of the Queen.
Before long, this Ford-class aircraft carrier will also be completely scrapped.
"It seems... the time for a desperate fight has come!"
Katerina gritted her teeth and took one last look at the minefield system.
The entire Nanming Fleet is now besieging the Challengers, meaning that Qiong Island has truly entered a state of vulnerability.
She has to play her last card!
Katerina strode to the very bottom of the aircraft carrier, where she had reserved a Columbia-class Strategic Nuclear Submarine!
She had previously divided the entire fleet into Three Fleets.
The Surface Fleet, the Decoy Fleet, and also an underwater submarine fleet consisting of 50 Columbia-class Strategic Nuclear Submarines!
However, this submarine squadron never appeared during this incredibly fierce Naval Warfare.
Katerina kept the submarine fleet hidden at a depth of 500 meters, then moved slowly with the surface fleet, but it was absolutely forbidden to surface.
She anticipated that her surface fleet would be no match for the Dragon Country's Nanming Fleet, so she kept one last contingency plan for herself.
That's the submarine fleet.
While the Eagle Sauce's Columbia-class Strategic Nuclear Submarines may not be as powerful as Russia's Russian Bear- Borei, they still possess formidable lethality and land-attack capabilities.
It is equipped with ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, and cruise missiles!
While the Nanming Fleet is currently engaged in attacking the surface fleet, she will launch a surprise attack on Qiong Island from underwater! Catching them completely off guard.
Openly repair the plank road while secretly crossing the Chencang pass!
She wanted to personally control and fight this final gamble!
Having entered the nuclear submarine, Katerina immediately gave the order for the Queen to launch the submarine into the water.
Then they dived directly to rendezvous with the hidden submarine fleet.
"Submarine squadron, listen up! This is our last chance!"
"Full speed ahead, head to Qiong Island in the Dragon Country. Then, emerge from the water at a safe location and launch missiles towards Qiong Island!"
"Receive!"
"Receive!"
On the sea, smoke and fire filled the air.
Unseen beneath the surface of the sea, fifty nuclear submarines, like ghosts of the deep, hurtled toward Qiong Island.
At this point, the Challengers is in dire straits, with only a slim chance in the entire battle!
Find the right opportunity and strike decisively.
Alright! Then the land-based firepower on Qiong Island can be destroyed directly, and then we can land and occupy Qiong Island as soon as possible.
No! Then we'll just have to wait to die; there will be no chance of survival.
Despite being in dire straits, Katerina's confidence remained undiminished.
She didn't believe that at this point, the Nanming Fleet would still have anything to hold back.
If Lin Ye had anticipated all of this, then she would accept her defeat willingly.
What she had to do was simple: land smoothly, and then have all 50 nuclear submarines simultaneously launch all the missiles inside their vertical launch systems.
Even if Qiong Island has an interception system, it's impossible to block them all.
"Carter, stop immediately!"
"I don't know if I'm seeing things, but what's that in front of us?"
Challengers suddenly issued a warning over the communication channel.
Katerina was somewhat annoyed; this was a time when every second counted and no delays could be tolerated.
She looked directly out through the porthole of the nuclear submarine.
The deep sea is pitch black, with extremely poor visibility.
At first glance, nothing seemed amiss.
"What is there?"
Suddenly, a violent tremor came from underwater, as if the entire seabed was roaring wildly.
Waves of tremors followed one after another, so intense that they could not be ignored. Katerina stared intently at the porthole, trying to make out the scene before her through the swaying water.
Her heart was pounding wildly, as if it would leap out of her chest. When she looked out the window again, the sight before her almost made her faint in the wheelhouse.
Submarines! Submarines everywhere!
The deep sea before us was not dark because of its depth. On the contrary, it was a suffocating black ocean, densely packed with the silhouettes of Dragon Country submarines.
The water rippled gently, and the submarines gradually revealed themselves. Like dark phantoms, they silently lurked in the depths of this sea.
Katerina couldn't help but gasp. At a glance, there were at least several thousand submarines!
The feeling was like being stacked on top of each other. One after another, countless submarines were silently waiting in every direction, forming a giant fortress on the seabed.
Their numbers are so great that they have even blocked the entire seabed.