The command of the crossing fleet received the good news of the landing force at about six o'clock in the evening, and although by this time there were no detailed results, a major victory was achieved, which was certain. Although there were still nearly six hours before the departure of the fleet, the news of the victory was always encouraging, because it not only greatly boosted the morale of the fleet before the battle, but also aroused the morale of the soldiers, and the landing force could not be compared.

At this time, the officers and men of each ship were preparing for the battle at night, and in addition to inspecting the weapons and equipment of the warships, they also seized the time to sleep, because this battle began at 12 o'clock in the evening, and it is estimated that it will last all night or even longer, so naturally they must rest well and have enough energy to fight at night, so the soldiers on each ship take turns to sleep and rest.

On the Kunming ship, the three people of the fleet headquarters were not idle, although the battle plan had been drawn up, but Xia Bohai and Xiao Jianjun were still not very relieved, at this time the two were using war games to deduce the course of the battle, hoping to find out the shortcomings of the plan, and find a way to deal with it, and strive to achieve victory at the lowest cost.

Qin Zheng is the political commissar, and the battle is not his main consideration, and at this time he is mainly thinking about the work of fighting, and how to carry out the work after the capture of Dagukou and the troops go ashore. Although the work was entrusted to the accompanying government personnel at the daytime meeting, it was not entirely possible to rely on the government personnel to have their own ideas. Although soldiers cannot interfere in politics, it does not mean that soldiers do not understand politics, and Qin Zheng still has some ideas on how to establish his own base area.

Although the time was difficult, it was still a minute by minute in the alternation of rest and work, and after dinner, the three of them also took turns to sleep for a while, to nourish their spirits for the night's battle. At half past eleven in the evening, they were woken up by the guards on time, and after a brief wash, the three of them came to the command room together and sat down in their places.

The captain of the Kunming ship, Shang Jinfeng, reported to the three that the Kunming ship was completely ready and could set off at any time.

After listening to Shang Jinfeng's report, Xia Bohai nodded and said, "Connect with the other ships and ask how they are prepared?"

After a while, the Kunming ship received a reply from the other five warships, and each warship was fully prepared, and then Xia Bohai connected the Taihu ship that stayed behind, as well as the personnel left behind on the three passenger ro-ro ships, and the result was that everything was good, Xia Bohai was very satisfied with this, and then ordered the fleet to set off.

Therefore, under the starry night sky, the Kunming ship was the first to start, and sailed in the northwest direction, followed by the Yueyang, Sanya, Xiangyang, Huaihua, and Changbaishan ships in turn, maintaining a distance of 800 to 1,000 meters between each ship, and in order to maintain the secrecy of the fleet, all the warships extinguished the lights outside the ship, and gradually disappeared into the darkness.

Although the light of the stars and moon shines at night, the sea is not dark, but the visibility is never more than 100 meters, which is basically equivalent to blind navigation for navigation, and once you find danger, you can't avoid it at all. However, the route had already been clearly detected by unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and each ship had turned on its own air and sea search radars, and the sea surface was actually not visible, so although it was sailing in the dark, it was still as if it were day.

Although the lights were lit in the headquarters of the Kunming ship, at this time the soldiers were busy at their posts, and only a few people occasionally exchanged heads, but they also whispered, and for a time the atmosphere in the entire command room was quite dull, and only the sound of keyboard tapping and computer prompts could be heard.

However, this is also normal, because the atmosphere before the war is often the most dreary, and although the Kunming ship is China's most technologically advanced surface ship, it has not been in service for a long time, and it is still in the run-in period after the service, and the main tests and training are carried out, and in terms of actual use experience, it is much inferior to several other warships. Although the other warships have no actual combat experience, they all use mature systems and equipment, and they have participated in many military exercises and carried out escort missions in the Gulf of Aden before.

Xia Bohai and the other three didn't talk at this time, just exchanged glances occasionally, it was not that the three of them had nothing to say, but that everything that should be prepared for this battle had been prepared, and there were a lot of things after the war, but now no one was in the mood to discuss it, just waiting for the battle to be over.

And in the dreary atmosphere, the navigation chart of the Kunming ship was constantly reminding everyone that the fleet was approaching the predetermined battlefield step by step.

The fleet traveled at a speed of 20 knots for more than two hours, and finally approached the Dagukou wharf, about 30 kilometers away; although it had not yet entered the predetermined battlefield, the radar of the Kunming warship had clearly displayed the signals of the warships of various countries anchored at the Dagukou wharf. At the same time, Xia Bohai ordered the take-off of drones to monitor the situation of the wharf and fort at Dagukou from the air.

The Kunming ship has a larger hull and carries a Z-20 carrier-based helicopter and two WZ-2000 fixed-wing carrier-based unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. After the UAV was launched, the formation of the fleet also changed, from a straight column to a parallel horizontal formation, and the ships were still about a thousand meters apart, spread out horizontally, and traveled at a speed of 15 knots.

More than 10 minutes later, the WZ-2000 unmanned reconnaissance plane transmitted back the picture of the pier taken from a bird's-eye over Dagukou. WZ-2000 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft is developed by Guizhou Aviation Industry Group UAV Center, in the old time and space in 2002 at the fourth China Zhuhai Air Show, the official public model appearance, and on December 26, 2003, the successful first flight, in August 2004 to complete the airborne remote sensing system test. It is the first drone produced in China in a real industrial manner.

The WZ-2000 UAV is based on the design of the American Global Hawk UAV, with a "V" shaped tail and a turbofan engine on top of the rear fuselage, which has excellent stealth performance. However, the WZ-2000 is smaller, with a length of 7.5 meters and a wingspan of 9.8 meters, and has a shorter range, with a cruising time of only 3 hours, a ceiling of 18,000 meters, and a maximum speed of 800 kilometers per hour.

However, the functions of the WZ-2000 UAV are basically the same as those of the Global Hawk, and the nose is equipped with satellite communication equipment, thermal imaging cameras, and synthetic aperture radar, etc., which can provide real-time theater images and electronic intelligence to the command headquarters through satellites throughout the day and all weather conditions, and complete reconnaissance and surveillance tasks. Its reconnaissance data is transmitted externally through a satellite communication antenna in the nose. And it can be used to boost take-off with rockets and land by parachute, which is suitable for carrier-based unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

The Kunming is not equipped with imaging radar, so the identification of warships is usually based on electronic signals and radar reflections. At present, most of the warships have adopted some radar stealth design, of course, there are a few warships are fully stealth design, the radar reflection signal is weak, most of them rely on the electric signal to identify the warship, after all, there are too many electronic equipment in modern warships, and it is impossible to complete without electronic equipment. However, the only place where the warships of this era use electricity is electric lights, but of course there is no radar stealth design for the ship type, on the contrary, due to the large number of gun barrels and masts of warships in this era, these are very obvious targets with radar signals.

During the day, the fleet sent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to reconnoiter the warships of the Eight-Nation Alliance anchored at Dagukou, mainly to collect the radar signals of each ship and transmit them to the main engine of the Kunming ship, at which time the Kunming ship compared and matched the signals scanned by the radar with the signals it owned, and then cooperated with the aerial monitoring of the WZ-2000 UAV to determine the location of the ships moored at the dock.

By the time the fleet had advanced about 10 kilometers or so, the main engine of the Kunming had already identified all the radar signals, and on the large display screen in the center of the command room, it displayed a signal distribution map of all the ships anchored at the pier, and all the warships were named. On the other display screen, the aerial picture sent back by the drone is displayed, although it is shot with night vision technology, but it can be seen clearly, and at the same time, the Kunming ship transmits the picture to other ships, so it can be said that the entire battlefield is now clear at a glance.

At this time, there were 47 warships of various kinds moored at the Dagu wharf, of which 22 were warships, and each ship was distributed according to each country, arranged separately, and spread out to a distance of more than 2,000 meters, of which the Russian ships were the most, a total of 11, and the warships were six, followed by Japan, with a total of seven, and two warships.

In addition, the drone also transmits the scanned heat signal back, indicating the movement of people on the ship and the dock. However, the vast majority of heat signals are largely stopped, and only a few are active. It shows that most of the soldiers and crew members on the ship were sleeping at this time. Of course, this is also normal, because it is already past two o'clock in the morning, and most people naturally fall asleep at this time.

The six warships slowly slowed down and anchored on the sea, at which time Liu Chunliang, the signalman on the Kunming ship, reported that the distance between the fleet and the dock was about 20.4 kilometers.

And Shang Jinfeng said: "Commander, political commissar, chief of staff, the Haihongqi 9 missile is ready, the target battleship Sisoy and the armored cruiser of the Russians, please order the command, ready to launch at any time." ”

As he spoke, on a display screen in the command room, the two largest targets of the crossing fleet in this battle were magnified, the Russian battleship Sisoy and the armored cruiser of the Russians, and at this time, these two 10,000-ton giant ships were quietly moored on the sea, like two big fish.

Xia Bohai nodded and said, "Agree to launch." ”

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