Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 326 Underwater Zhuge Repeating Crossbow
Soon, the Huitian Torpedo, along with the frogman special forces, arrived at Xingnan Port.

If you rely on people to swim, let alone fifty kilometers, even five kilometers would exhaust your energy. Even for Marines who have all mastered some martial arts, ten or so kilometers would be their limit.

Even having a warm sharkskin wetsuit is not enough, since swimming long distances in cold water requires not only physical exertion but also significant depletion from the low temperature.

As the alcohol engine inside the Kaiten torpedo started, about a hundred divers, who had already changed into shark-themed thermal diving suits, entered the water and tied ropes to the tail of the Kaiten torpedo.

Although the Kaiten torpedo was modified to change from a fully submersible to a semi-submersible state, it had a very conspicuous air intake on the surface of the water.

However, at night, the air intake pipe, which was only as thick as an arm, was not very conspicuous. Even though the torpedo had already reached a position less than a kilometer away from the Xingnan Port fleet, the entire fleet had not noticed Wang Gensheng's movements.

The US fleet did not find Wang Gensheng's frogmen, so Wang Gensheng naturally did not hold back. He immediately waved his hand, and the hundred or so frogmen who had been brought over by the Huitian torpedo immediately carried their underwater explosive packs and searched for their targets.

Boom! Boom! Boom! ...
A series of explosions startled Smith, who had finally managed to board the ship that day and was just about to get some rest.

But the sudden explosion immediately woke him up, and then he heard the sailors on the ship shouting that the bottom of the ship was leaking.

Smith immediately inquired whether the reinforcements had deployed submarines and attacked their ships with torpedoes. However, the US Navy was highly professional. While the US Army was weak in combat, the US Navy was highly professional. Since the end of World War II, the US Navy had consistently been the world's number one.

Therefore, it was immediately clear that this was not a torpedo attack. Judging from the extent of the damage to the ship, it was more likely the result of an explosive charge planted in the hull detonating, with a power of about ten kilograms of TNT.

Therefore, the US fleet commander quickly determined that this was an attack carried out by the frogman special forces of the aid-to-Thailand army.

Although the frogman team's ten-kilogram explosive charge could not sink a warship or aircraft carrier weighing thousands or even tens of thousands of tons in one go.

After all, these warships and aircraft carriers have plenty of watertight compartments. Unless more than half of the watertight compartments are blown up, it is impossible for them to sink. But unfortunately, there are too many times!
In addition, Wang Gensheng led the frogman special forces team, which consisted of soldiers from the original Marine Corps assault team who had been re-equipped.

That's right, Wang Gensheng's frogmen are from the Marine Corps. In addition to being able to go ashore to fight as vanguards, the Marine Corps members, especially the assault team, can also go into the sea to become frogmen who can attack enemy warships. Therefore, Wang Gensheng's Marine Corps can also be called an amphibious special forces team.

Of course, in addition to Wang Gensheng's frogman attack, the soldiers of the 26th Army on the shore also launched a feint attack on Xingnan Port according to the pre-arranged battle plan.

That's right, it was a feint attack. After all, if a full-scale attack were launched before the fleet docked at the port was driven away, it would inevitably be met with concentrated fire from the fleet's artillery.

Those 406mm, 305mm, and 280mm naval guns are not easy to withstand. If it's not a feint attack but a real attack, and the fleet of hundreds of ships anchored in Xingnan Port launches a concentrated barrage, then it will be a sea of ​​fire.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng's mission for the 26th Army was simply to launch a feint attack, and a feint attack with a particularly dispersed force, mainly to create a sense of momentum. Wang Gensheng understood that the main strength of the US military lay in its naval fleets, and without driving them away, the attack would be ineffective.

The underwater bombs of the frogman special forces also made the US military understand what a fleet killer was. After the first round of concentrated fire, Wang Gensheng's side had already sunk ten ships of about 1,000 tons each. Although a 10-kilogram explosive charge could not sink a ship of 1,000 tons like a torpedo, it was still effective under the concentrated fire of the frogman special forces.

Although underwater bombs with 10 kilograms of explosive charge can only puncture watertight compartments, they cannot directly sever the keel of a thousand-ton warship and sink it in one shot, like a torpedo with 500 kilograms of explosive charge.

However, if ten frogman special forces teams were to place ten underwater bombs in various locations on the ship and detonate them, even with so many watertight compartments flooding, the keel wouldn't need to be blown up much.

After suffering the loss of ten warships at sea, the U.S. Navy could no longer afford such losses. After reporting to the head of the Chaos War, Michael Asahi, Michael Asahi decisively ordered an immediate retreat and abandonment of Xingnan Port.

That's right. At this point, there's no better way to deal with the frogman team than to use frogmen themselves.

If there were any other means, it would be to set sail and use the speed of the warship to shake off the frogmen. After all, frogmen are also human and can't keep up with the speed of a warship by swimming on two legs.

Of course, some US Marines also discovered the frogmen in the water, and immediately some brave Marines jumped into the water to try to take down Wang Gensheng's frogman special forces.

However, what these US Marines did not know was that the frogmen brought by Wang Gensheng, in addition to wearing warm shark diving suits, also had fish guns that could be used for long-range attacks underwater.

Moreover, it was an improved version of the fish gun. In the past, fish guns required reloading arrows after each shot, which was very troublesome. However, after Wang Gensheng's research, he developed a fish gun that could fire multiple times in succession.

The old-fashioned fish gun was just a wooden shaft with a rubber tube tied to the end, the kind of rubber tube doctors tie to their arms when giving injections.

Then, tighten the rubber tube and attach it to the simple trigger behind the wooden pole. Finally, load the arrow. The structure is similar to that of an ordinary crossbow, so it can only fire one arrow at a time and cannot fire continuously. This is fine if you encounter one enemy underwater, but it will be troublesome if you encounter multiple enemies at the same time.

If only one enemy can be eliminated, the remaining enemies will have to be fought in close combat underwater, which is naturally detrimental to the frogman special forces' advantage underwater.

So after much thought, Wang Gensheng finally came up with a solution. Since the fish-shooting gun was actually a crossbow, except that the bow arm used to store power was replaced with a rubber tube, Wang Gensheng naturally thought of the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, which could fire multiple times in succession.

Wang Gensheng knew about the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow because it was very popular online for a period of time. This type of crossbow was only mentioned briefly in history books and there were no physical examples, but a history teacher managed to replicate it.

(End of this chapter)