The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"Is it still impossible to break through? Is the Chinese air defense system really strong enough to be completely unbreakable? This is unscientific!"

Major General Mitchell has been paying attention to the situation in the air. After nearly an hour of fierce confrontation, the night fighters that attacked lost more than 30 aircraft, but they were unable to drop even a single torpedo or heavy aerial bomb on the opponent's head.

Such a result made him feel powerless in his heart.Really, it's too shocking.

He couldn't imagine what kind of means could be used to ensure this.If it is in the daytime, the field of view is wide, and the fighter plane can see everything with the help of radar and vision, which is understandable.Then on such a night, everyone can only rely on instruments to work, and the radar response is a little slow. Let alone aiming, it is good to find people.

Under such circumstances, a large target like a battleship has nowhere to hide. The plane, your own plane, with its pitch-black paintwork, strong power, and low-altitude flight, what method can you use to accurately spot it?

A large group can be easily caught by the radar, so spread out, one or two, sneaking, advancing close to the sea, how do you defend?

For more than a year, the U.S. Navy has tried various tactics by itself, and with the strong support of the British radar and infrared technology, it quickly filled the gap, greatly increasing the effectiveness of night fighters.In many internal simulated offensive and defensive battles, professional night fighters like f7f often only need a brigade, or at most a dozen of them, to launch a surprise attack on a large-scale fleet under careful arrangements. The effect is very amazing!

And to put it into night fighting, the effect is not bad.It can be said that all kinds of balance and all kinds of sharpness.I thought so.This time it will be foolproof, but now it seems that it is still very pessimistic!

On the contrary, more than a dozen fighter planes successfully dropped bombs, but the big explosion caused by the torpedo hitting the target was not found!The gliding bombs dropped from high altitude were terribly poor in accuracy, but they blasted brilliant water jets one after another.But in the end, it was only reflected in the extreme distance, and the extremely streamlined and graceful body of the enemy ship became more and more mysterious and moving.

It's very unreasonable!

But fortunately, it seemed that the other party was indeed more difficult to be entangled, and did not send more attack planes to attack, or, their reconnaissance force was under the strict defense of the 19th Fleet.It is difficult to accurately capture and determine the location of the capital ship, so there is no way to attack suddenly?

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In short, the left-wing capital ship under Mitchell's close attention took advantage of the opportunity to maneuver to the left sea surface. Coincidentally, the South China Sea Fleet also turned to the other side under the threat of the air, and the distance between them suddenly widened to more than one hundred. distance in nautical miles.No matter how you calculate it, it's all about precision strikes.On a night like this.As long as you are careful and don't give the other party a chance, you don't have to worry about being attacked.

The fuel and ammunition of the night attack fleet was almost exhausted, so it was replaced by the fighter plane that was originally on the right wing to assist in guarding, and returned to the aircraft carrier for replenishment and maintenance.

The overall situation is still Mitchell's strategic retreat.The fleet under the command of Chen Ce corrected its course again and headed straight south, making a posture that it must break through the encirclement and reach the Indian Ocean.

This kind of practice gave Mitchell a headache.There is no way to defeat the enemy.He can't just die at the beginning, that doesn't conform to the established strategy.

In desperation, he re-contacted the Fleet Command and asked when the 20th Task Force led by General Nimitz would arrive in the theater.

General Nimitz didn't give him a definite answer, and he didn't even talk about his own position. He just asked the 19th Fleet to continue to strictly implement the established strategy, drag the South China Sea Fleet, and complete its mission.

Mitchell understood that this was worrying about their communication being monitored and deciphered.The Chinese have no electromagnetic blockade on the war zone, and they have no good intentions at all. Perhaps one of their intentions is to deliberately allow themselves to communicate freely so as to steal information from it?

In fact, Nimitz at this moment is near Christmas Island, more than 1000 nautical miles away from Colombo, and is undergoing intensive supply and maintenance.In order to ensure the secrecy of his whereabouts, in the past ten days, he even asked the entire fleet to be silent on the radio, and the lights were blacked out at night. The front, rear, left, and right sides of the fleet were alerted and deployed in advance. In the air, there were 24-hour patrol planes. And every time the seaplane is released, it is not allowed to return to the fleet. If no conclusive enemy situation is found, it is not allowed to use the radio or telegram. That is called strictness.

All kinds of deployments are to ensure that the existence of their squadron is absolutely kept secret, and the Chinese cannot be found out. In addition, there is a powerful force that has quietly pushed into South Asia, secretly watching!

The 20th Fleet, mixed with the Mitchell formation, passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.Hundreds of ships sailed on the wide waters during the day, and specially picked up the narrowest canal channel at night, even passing through at a rapid speed regardless of the danger, in order to prevent the secret enemy spies from grasping their whereabouts.

For this reason, the British Army and two full divisions of the U.S. Marine Corps, in partnership, guarded both sides of the Suez Canal tightly and tightly.At one time, Hitler thought that they were going to open up a battlefield in North Africa and counterattack Europe, so he had to ask Rommel's African Army to take strict precautions in advance and be ready to meet unprecedented challenges at any time!

But in the end, it turned out that it was just a false alarm.

Nimitz led the 20th Task Force. After leaving the Gulf of Aden, he parted ways with Mitchell, crossed the Indian Ocean from the southern part of the Maldives, and took Jakarta as the target. He traveled day and night and arrived here.

It seems that they are going to cross the Java Sea and attack Malacca and even the South China Sea from the south to the north, but in fact, it is just Nimitz's suspicious strategy.The purpose is to prevent being discovered by the enemy's unimaginable detection capabilities, and to judge his action strategy based on this, it is a bit of a loss.

Now, Mitchell had already fought Chen Ce, and the first step of strategic deployment was basically successful. After receiving the telegram, Nimitz breathed a sigh of relief.But the loss of the two Yamato ships was far beyond his expectations.Holding a handful of description details from witnesses, he fell into deep thought.

"Is the Chinese naval aviation really that strong? It's not even the long-range anti-ship missiles that have been exposed, the concealed formation raids, the forced breakthrough of sea and air interception, and frontal bombing. Destroy the warship with the world's strongest armor at once. Listen. Up there, it seems invincible."

Repeating the conclusions drawn by the weapons analysis experts, a sneer of sarcasm emerged from the corner of Nimitz's mouth.

He was never a weaponist.Compared with the ever-changing equipment replacement, he is more willing to focus on the strategies and tactics that really play a decisive role.No matter how the war develops, it will ultimately depend on human will.This will never change.He keeps a copy of the English translations of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "36 Strategies" in his hand, and he is familiar with them by heart, in order to truly understand the Chinese way of thinking and strategic thinking.

It has to be admitted that even the highest strategic achievements made by Chinese military leaders more than 2000 years ago can be applied to today's wars.The higher the status and the broader the general's vision, the more he agrees with the wonderful ideas in it.The Chinese are really a nation that truly understands the essence of war.them.It is definitely not what those ignorant and arrogant politicians and greedy plutocrats described, ignorant, ignorant, stupid and hopeless, on the contrary, it is very terrifying!

Shouting to such an enemy, he rushed forward without sufficient preparation.The result was the two disastrous defeats I suffered last year.

That kind of fiasco like a head-on blow is enough to make anyone unforgettable.Not to mention his haughty Nimitz.It's just that he didn't become depressed like General Kimmel, or resigned himself to his fate.In his eyes, it was all just a final compromise and tolerance to the traditional, stubborn and conservative military thinking, faithfully implementing the strategies and tactics they thought were correct, but in the end it was proved that they were all wrong.I was just doing my duty.

Today, the re-established Pacific Fleet, mainly composed of brand-new aircraft carriers and battleships, forms a powerful maritime force and executes the entire combat plan against China.It was he, Nimitz, who, as the top commander of the U.S. Navy today, really showed his hands, something that completely conformed to his thinking and strategy!

This time, the battle was carried out completely according to his will. Hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of people were operating around a core.Today's Nimitz has truly become the commander-in-chief in an absolute sense, and none of the old guys above are gesticulating.There is no need to pay such a heavy price in order to satisfy the hateful consortium bankers' greed for Chinese technology, even at the expense of his warships and soldiers, to take risks and fight for it!

Of course, benefits are exchanged everywhere, and Nimitz is no exception.

If it wasn't for the last time last year, when he gave up all his naval power and exchanged for three ships carrying the things he snatched from the East Pacific base, and successfully returned to the mainland, he would not have stayed here with those fiascos. Opportunities in position.

It is also because of those things that, under the joint support of the Morgan Consortium, the Rockefeller Consortium, the DuPont family, and all the powerful forces that have gained huge benefits, no one will hold him accountable, and even continue to entrust him with important tasks.

Only in this way, Nimitz hated this impure military power even more.On the premise of continuing to serve as the commander of the Pacific Fleet, he required complete control of the campaign.

Without a doubt, his request was granted.It is also because of this that there is a grand strategic attack that spans half of the earth this time!

In the turbulent Indian Ocean, the 20th Fleet quietly approached the battlefield, headed by two Essex-class aircraft carriers in a hurry, supplemented by three Independence-class light aircraft carriers, two Iowa-class battleships as the main attack, plus four Heavy cruisers, and huge light cruisers, auxiliary destroyers, fast supply ships.The total number is seventy or eighty ships!

All of these warships were produced using the segmented construction technology spread by Zhu Bin.Especially the Essex-class aircraft carrier, it even took less than eight months to complete the main body splicing, [-] months to complete the sun-drying, and [-] months to launch into service, which is at least [-] months faster than conventional construction !

For the Iowa-class battleships, because the construction of six ships was started in stages at one time, the total construction period was shortened by at least six months, and the time that originally needed to be staggered by at least one to two months was also compressed to almost nothing.It has to be said that this is also his own doing.Without his full cooperation with the American consortium, without such technical input, it would take at least a year, or even longer, for the U.S. Navy to restore its combat effectiveness!

Thinking of this, Nimitz showed a faint smile again.Reality is often more dramatic than stories. Perhaps ten years ago, no one would have thought that China and the United States, two countries so far apart, would have a full-scale war in such a state of role reversal!

I'm thinking about it.The real commander of the 20th Fleet, Rear Admiral Spruance, hurried in, sweating, but his expression was still steady, and reported to him: "General! The supply has been completed, and the fleet can continue to move in at any time!"

Nimitz nodded.Asked: "With regard to the South China Sea, have the Chinese made any new moves?"

Spruance replied: "At present, there are indications that there is no change. The main force of the East China Sea Fleet they have reinforced is still staying on the line from the Gulf of Thailand to Malaya, and continues to carry out destructive bombing of the bases and airports preset by the coalition forces! And Continue to intercept our transport forces. All capital ships are in place, which has been repeatedly confirmed."

"Where is the direction of the Java Sea? I remember that I found out ten days ago that they have a small fleet led by a special cruiser guarding there."

He was referring to the "Xuanzhou", after that night interception.Its existence is no longer a secret.Using a single cruiser to suppress the remaining navy of the entire coalition forces in the South China Sea theater can be described as domineering and brutal.But no one dared to try their own abilities to see if they could withstand this terrifying guy covered in missiles.

Even Nimitz felt very headache.God knows, how did the Chinese come up with such a freak, with only one double 127mm gun all over the body.But the shells fired can open a hole in the battleship's main armor!Flat and concise superstructure.It looks like a toy built with building blocks, but it has a chilling ultra-long-range precision attack missile. The stealth effect is still very good, and it is impossible to guard against it!

The most frightening thing is that abnormal self-sustaining ability.I can't see the chimney for more than ten days.I haven't seen where it goes to replenish ammunition and fuel. Doesn't that thing burn oil?

Thanks to the very difficult construction of the "Yingzhou-class" guided missile cruiser, as far as the U.S. military knows, there are only two more powerful "Kunlun-class" battleships.It is also scarce, which can be seen.

Major General Spruance also had a very headache, and shrugged regretfully: "Yes! That guy is still there! I have to admit that the Chinese's methods are very clever. With her on guard, we cannot quietly enter the Java Sea to launch attack."

Nimitz waved his hand: "Leave him alone. Since the Chinese haven't changed anything, then we don't have to worry about falling into their trap, order the fleet, immediately, the target, the Bay of Bengal. This time we will annihilate a complete Chinese navy in one fell swoop! "

In the end, Spruance even heard a wave of determination deep in his bones.He could understand the general's unwillingness to fail last year, took a deep breath, and saluted solemnly: "Yes! We must succeed!"

The huge Task Force 20 is mighty.This indicates that the total force besieging the South China Sea Fleet will reach an astonishing nine aircraft carriers!Nimitz wants to use storm-like dense air power to completely submerge them!

It's just that Nimitz missed one thing after all his calculations. He had no real understanding of Zhu Bin's madness at all.He thought that the South China Sea Fleet went deep alone because it relied on its strong combat power, and even faced the siege of the Mitchell fleet, it was still aggressive and unscrupulous.And there is the East China Sea Fleet behind to reinforce at any time, so the chances of winning are sure.

Therefore, the tactic of completely killing them was set up with the Bay of Bengal as the encirclement.But I didn't expect that Zhu Bin would use a powerful and complete fleet as a bait. What he was waiting for was that their huge sea group force would be fully invested in a narrow battle zone, and then, the real killing move , stabbed from behind!

At this time, across the entire Pacific Ocean, a stealthy ocean-going fleet is quietly sailing through the Makassar Strait in a dense formation to the Java Sea!They are led by two aircraft carriers, one of the four Kunlun-class battleships, and two "Yingzhou-class" guided missile cruisers. On the deck of the aircraft carrier, there are all jet fighters. The reconnaissance plane is spreading its wings and slowly moving forward, firmly controlling all electromagnetic signals in the sea area with a radius of [-] kilometers below.

Zhu Bin, who did not know when he flew here from Guangxi, stood side by side with Ouyangge on the top of the flagship bridge, facing the salty sea breeze, pointing at the distance of the sea and sky, proudly declaring: "The United States This time, I spent a lot of money this time, very good, it can be a big enough stepping stone for our ocean-going fleet to truly sweep the world!"

For his almost crazy plan, Ouyang Ge could only express his emotion silently.If it were him, the Pacific Ocean would be enough to imagine how many years.But Zhu Bin, from the beginning to the end, probably put the whole earth in his hands to play with!

Poor Americans, they have worked so hard to save a fortune, I am afraid this time they will be taken over again.However, when he thought that soon, he would command a naval battle of unprecedented scale, which could be called the world's largest, Ouyang Ge couldn't help but feel his blood rushing up.This battle will definitely be recorded in the annals of history, and even change the world pattern forever!

It is not a secret that the U.S. Navy is dispatched in full force. The movement through the Suez Canal is too great for anyone to hide.But Zhu Bin did not fully grasp the subsequent division of troops.But what does it matter?As far as we know, there are four battleships, a bunch of aircraft carriers, and one or two hundred ships. This is already a huge piece of fat, and it is worth taking a bite! (To be continued..)

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