Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Now, in naval warfare, what is really being fought is information warfare; spotting the enemy first and destroying the enemy first.

Whoever first discovers the enemy in the vast ocean holds the initiative and strategic advantage.

But now, both sides' warships are within attack range and have spotted each other. Now it is a matter of whose attacks are sharper and whose defenses are stronger.

Jieke Group strikes first, with those Swordfish anti-ship missiles like daggers suddenly drawn by an assassin.

Although Japan's warships have already heightened their alertness, the warning response distance given to them is too short. Coupled with the supersonic maneuverability of the Swordfish anti-ship missiles, the air defense missiles on the Japanese warships struggle to effectively defend. Only the close-in weapon system on the warships can spray a barrage.

A Swordfish anti-ship missile flies close to the sea, breaking through Japan's barrage blockade and directly plunges into the midsection of the Miao Gao Destroyer.

When the 900-kilogram warhead explosively detonates, the Miao Gao Destroyer shakes several times, and the Japanese Navy soldiers on board stagger, hitting their heads and bleeding.

The command tower positioned in the central area of Miao Gao, along with the Swordfish anti-ship missile's explosion, turns steel into twisted metal, a fierce explosion and dense smoke rise tens of meters high.

From afar, the Miao Gao looks like an apple bitten hard in the middle; the command tower has vanished, the midsection of the ship blooms like a horn, with radar, cockpit, and combat command center inside all destroyed.

Having lost its radar, Miao Gao becomes blind and deaf, even if there are still missiles and close-in weapon systems on board, they can no longer defend against the incoming Swordfish anti-ship missiles.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three more Swordfish anti-ship missiles hit the Miao Gao Destroyer in succession; for a destroyer with only seven thousand tons of displacement, this is an unbearable weight of life.

The entire destroyer, amidst the sound of steel disintegration, has huge gaps blown out of it, seawater crazily floods in, visibly sinking into the seawater.

The Japanese navy soldiers inside are either killed on the spot or blocked in the cabin by the incoming seawater, sinking with the ship into the seabed, with very few able to jump into the sea to escape.

The sinking of Miao Gao is just the beginning, as more missiles start to rain down.

As Jieke Group's navy ace, the Devourer-class Cruiser carries enough missiles to match ten destroyers. Furthermore, there are other warships within Jieke Group's fleet. At this moment, numerous warships fire simultaneously, missiles pouring down like rain.

Japan's warships, in the face of such a number of missiles, become especially powerless; the number of incoming missiles has already exceeded their radar's limit for capturing and locking.

In the face of such a number of missiles, even the Beautiful Country's carrier combat group wouldn't dare claim a complete defense, let alone Japan's few destroyers and escort ships.

After the sinking of Miao Gao, several other Japanese warships soon followed in its footsteps.

On the Kumano-class Frigate, its bow was hit by a Flying Fish subsonic missile. Although the Flying Fish is merely a subsonic missile, relatively cheap and widely deployed on Jieke Group's warships.

This Flying Fish missile was launched by a Jieke Group destroyer; don't underestimate its power just because the Flying Fish Anti-ship Missile is cheap.

Flying in at 0.8 Mach, the Flying Fish Anti-ship Missile pierces into Kumano's bow, and the warhead of several hundred kilograms explosively goes off instantly, blowing off the bow of Kumano, with seawater flooding in wildly.

A small-sized escort ship is very hard to withstand the destructive power of an anti-ship missile; just one hit is enough to make Kumano top-heavy, the stern lifted high out of the water, the propeller spinning in vain, bow straight down into the sea, sinking faster than Miao Gao.

Following closely are the Nengdai, Mikuma, and Yashimao, these three escort ships also did not escape the fate of sinking.

Nengdai was hit by a Swordfish anti-ship missile, losing combat effectiveness on the spot and then being finished off by Jieke Group with a rocket torpedo, directly sinking it.

Mikuma was simultaneously hit by several anti-ship missiles, the ammunition depot exploded, the steel warship blossoming spectacular fireworks at sea, the explosive firelight and dense smoke soaring skyward, visible clearly even ten kilometers away.

Yashimao was blown open by anti-ship missiles, seawater flooding in massively causing the ship to lose balance and capsize, the whole ship like a dead fish turned belly up, the hull inverted on the sea surface, exposing the severely rusted ship bottom.

Japan, due to its positioning issues, to cooperate with the Beautiful Country's navy operations, its escort ships are very skilled in anti-submarine and anti-torpedo, claiming to be the world's best, because the Beautiful Country wasn't counting on Japan's warships to play much of a role in direct naval battle match-ups.

Influenced by this shipbuilding line of thinking, Japan's warships are very biased, being strong in underwater anti-submarine operations.

But in regular naval duels, this is their shortcoming.

Especially when the opponent is the Arsenal Cruiser, which makes even the Beautiful Country's carrier battle group tremble, their outcome is destined to be tragic.

This has led to the fact that just as the war started, five out of the six Japanese warships sank one after another.

And the anti-ship missiles they desperately fired before their demise, just as they approached Ilova, were blown up in mid-air by the dense air defense fire here.

These incoming missiles, Ilova locked onto them with advanced large Biological Radar, and then launched close-range air defense missiles to intercept them mid-air.