Chapter 37: The Decisive Battle at Sea
tuefeb0300:00:00cst2015
For any country, it is excellent to be able to contain the enemy's lines of communication in wartime. For Huaxia, it is no exception, because the scale of Ji Feng's fleet is beyond the imagination of those Liu bigwigs, it is very tragic that he was used as a gun. It takes at least half a year for the sailors in the run-in period to develop real combat effectiveness, but now they will go to sea in a few days. This is ridiculous.
All the detachments under the Combined Fleet left the port at about the same time, which naturally could not escape the sight of American spies. As a result, the fleet of the Chinese side lost the opportunity from the very beginning. What can be pinned on now is the ability of the sailors and the excellence of the equipment.
For this kind of thing, Ji Feng is also very helpless, who can guarantee that a few spies will not be planted among the huge population of more than one billion. But Ji Feng still firmly believes in his creed: not to kill any good person by mistake, even if it is a bad person, a comprehensive investigation must be conducted. Ji Feng believes that most people in Huaxia are very upright, at least for the superficial aspect of patriotism.
After the Combined Fleet Headquarters fleet traveled, the US military clearly discovered that the scale of this fleet was significantly larger than that of the other fleets. Moreover, there is a commander's flag hanging on it, and although the flag of a major general is hung below, the US military believes that this is a Chinese plan to lure the enemy. They believed that the commander of this fleet was an important figure in the Chinese navy, or at least someone who was on an equal footing with the deputy commander.
If Ji Feng knew all kinds of speculations about the US military, he might die of laughter. The reason why he hung the flag of a major general is because he is a major general and has not been promoted for 8 years.
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The U.S. military hastily assembled a task force. The main force is the Pacific Fleet's four Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, namely the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), the USS Lonner Reagan (CVN-76) and the USS Nimitz (CVN-79) [Since in the previous battle, the CVN-68 was sunk by the Chinese Navy, so the US military built the CVN-79 to fill in. Of course, this is yy, if there is anything like this one, it is purely his plagiarism]; The two Ford-class aircraft carriers that have just been built are USS Ford (CVN-78) and USS Eisenhower (CVN-80) [In fact, the first ship of the Ford-class class, USS Ford, has not completed operational readiness until now (2015.2), and this is built to fill the USS Eisenhower, which was taken away by Ji Feng]; Dozens of destroyers equipped with Aegis, including at least 20 Burke-class destroyers, as well as the supply fleet required for these ships.
The size of the entire fleet is more than 200 ships, if you add the naval fleets of Japan and other countries, although Ji Feng's headquarters fleet is very powerful, this pressure is not small.
Ji Feng didn't know anything about what was about to happen at this moment. Now I'm loading B on the bridge command, and I'm feeling a little bored, so I'm going to the platform in front of the bridge to get some air. (In fact, this platform is called the lookout) It just so happened that Liu Xingjun, the political commissar of the headquarters fleet, was in the parallel position of Ji Feng, and Ji Feng went over to talk. Despite being nearly 100 meters apart, the two sides were able to communicate.
The U.S. military command is very busy right now, and the U.S. fleet is also maneuvering rapidly. This will be a new Armageddon at sea, which will involve not only a war between aircraft carriers, but also escort destroyers.
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On the other hand, all the sub-fleets of the Huaxia Fleet were under the command of their own commanders in an intense and orderly pre-war preparation.
Because of the rotation system, each J-15 has more than two flight crews. Although the speed of the team's "experience upgrade" is very slow, it can effectively prevent the flight crew from being like the "elite route" of the Japanese naval aviation in World War II. For the "elite soldiers", once the losses cannot be effectively replenished for a period of time, but the rotation system can train more flight crews at the same time.
The heavy pylons of the Jian-15 are equipped with oversized auxiliary fuel tanks, and the missile pylons are equipped with "Sea Sparrow" air-to-ship anti-ship missiles. In this way, the J-15 is equivalent to the carrier-based torpedo bomber of World War II, but the difference is that the J-15 has higher speed and dodge ability, and can dodge attacks and miss all attacks.
An hour and 30 minutes later, the U.S. fleet entered the combat range - 2,725 kilometers. This is also the maximum combat radius of the J-15 after loading the auxiliary fuel tank.
Ninety percent of the J-15 in the headquarters fleet has taken off to hammer the US fleet, and the remaining 10 percent is responsible for the fleet's close defense mission. Although this is a bit dangerous, it is the best way for the Huaxia Combined Fleet, which has fewer carrier-based aircraft.
** The combined fleet's carrier-based aircraft are 75% on mission, 10% on defense, and 15% on standby. The US military has the largest number of carrier-based aircraft, so the commander of the US carrier-based aircraft group should naturally serve as the commander-in-chief of the carrier-based aircraft.
Thirty minutes later, a whole bunch of small red dots appeared on the radar screen - the carrier-based aircraft group of the Americans arrived.
Thirty-three minutes later, a batch of small, faster red dots appeared on the radar - the Americans launched anti-ship missiles.
Thirty-five minutes later, all the close fire power of the combined fleet was at full power, and most of the anti-ship missiles were quickly destroyed. But the Enterprise was unfortunate enough to take a hit, but fortunately the hole was above the waterline, and after some repairs, the big hole was temporarily filled with metal blocks. The "Enterprise" is like nothing happened. However, despite this, the "big e" will have to undergo a major overhaul of at least two months before it can be restored to its pre-war level.
The naval aviation of China launched Sea Sparrow missiles, and due to the installation of countermeasure equipment, many of them hit, but because most pilots were unable to communicate effectively, most of the pilots launched missiles aimed at small destroyers. It did not pose any major threat to the aircraft carrier, presumably the damage management equipment of the US military was very effective, and I am afraid that these injuries will be fine in 30 minutes. But this is still a good way to deal a blow to the morale of the enemy.
Huaxia did not lose a single fighter, the US military lost three advanced carrier-based heavy fighters, and two were forced to land on the sea because of their injuries during the return home.
The carrier-based aircraft power of the Ford-class is obviously superior to that of the Nimitz-class, because the two carrier-based aircraft carriers of the Ford-class have recovered more carrier-based aircraft. In the case that carrier-based aircraft will not fly the wrong aircraft carrier, this is obviously a sign of the large number of aircraft carried by the aircraft carrier.
Tong Guò "Eye of God" looked at the picture of the Ford-class retracting the carrier-based aircraft, and Ji Feng was about to drool. Such heavy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are obviously still in their "golden age", and they all happen to be at the right time to run in. If you can get these two aircraft carriers and give them to the Huaxia Navy, I am afraid that your status will be one step further.
The carrier-based aircraft on the return voyage were loaded with very advanced airborne radar-guided bombs. The error of this kind of bomb is even as small as 0.1m, and for the J-15 flying above 7,000 meters, the hit rate of the dropped bomb is already very high. This is the real interpretation of the "Norton" bombsight advertisement, "drop the bomb in a pickle jar". Compared with the World War II, a large number of carrier-based dive bombers were dispatched to dive and drop bombs at an angle of 70 ° ~ 85 °, and the safety factor was so high that I don't know where it went.
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A major of the Chinese Naval Aviation, who took off from the "Xuefeng," piloted the Jian-15 carrier-based heavy fighter to the combat area. This time his weaponsmith had eight guided bombs, each weighing more than 500 kilograms of warhead charge. If Ji Feng hadn't strengthened the overall structure and engines of these J-15s, these poor turbine engines would probably have been scrapped directly.
The power of 500 kg of heavy armor-piercing blasting shells is enough to blow the deck of any type of US aircraft carrier into a taco, and it is even more terrifying for the Burke-class destroyers of the US army. Although the destroyers were all over 8,000 tons, the inertia of this bomb was strong enough to penetrate the hull and enter the keel and blow up their keel.
The major is the captain of a carrier-based aircraft group (12~16 carrier-based aircraft), and he also has 11 J-15 under his command. Such a flight formation is undoubtedly formidable, at least for now.
Only an hour and thirty minutes later, the J-15 piloted by the major reached the top of the American fleet, which was the best position to drop bombs. Because Huaxia's bombs use automatic radar guidance, each bomb has a radar guidance head. As long as the target is set, these bombs can be truly "thrown away". This is also the biggest attraction of the equipment of the Chinese fleet.
The lieutenant in front of the major carefully aimed with radar equipment, and their target was the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Ford" of the "Ford" class, which was preparing to take off a standby fighter. That is, the lead ship of the Ford-class, if this aircraft carrier can be captured by China, both military and political significance will be huge.
Since the focus of this combat mission was to severely damage the US aircraft carrier, the strategy chosen by the major was to blow up the flight deck of the US aircraft carrier into honeycomb coal, and then blow up any destroyers that could cause damage to the aircraft carrier. The U.S. military's mission fleet on this mission is only aircraft carriers and destroyers, and there are no large ships that can be towed. Another way to deal with missile destroyers is to use airborne artillery to strafe, and the focus of strafing should be missile launchers.
Thinly armored missile tubes are something that is "thin-skinned and big-stuffed", not to mention those missile destroyers that interpret the term "thin-skinned and big" even more vividly.
The major's lieutenant was a very reliable man, and he dropped the eight guided bombs on the deck of the Ford evenly. The entire USS Ford seems to have recreated the four unlucky Japanese aircraft carriers of the Battle of Midway, and it was covered in fire, and even if it could be extinguished, it would be a scrap ship. The Major's squadron inflicted heavy damage on the USS Ford and its escort squadron, which probably did not have more than 5,000 men alive.
In addition, there was a small bomblet inside those bombs, which was a 25-kilogram aviation cloud burst bomb. It burns instantaneously, consuming the surrounding oxygen, creating a "vacuum" for people. All soldiers within its range died either from the heat or from suffocation due to lack of oxygen.
In this way, not only will the aircraft carrier be damaged, but a large number of people in it will be killed in an instant. This is obviously an excellent approach, although it may not seem like a very ethical thing to do. But the war has reached this point, and there is no need to take care of these things. Whoever stays has already failed. War does not need the weak, and it does not need mercy. Only by attacking strongly can you ensure the safety of your subordinates.
Because Huaxia's infrared induction equipment is very advanced, all the air-to-air missiles launched by US carrier-based aircraft have failed. After the US fighter plane, which had run out of missiles, lost its own Hangma, the despair in his heart was already very strong. So they launched a suicide attack that their opponents used to do at the same time.
Before colliding with the plane, they would also fire aircraft guns that had not been used several times since they entered service. In this way, the 10 Jian-15 were slightly or seriously injured by the enemy's suicide attack, three of them were forced to make a forced landing on the sea, and two of them were forced to land on the water because of their injuries on the way back. Soon a submarine will come to their rescue and let them return to the Hangma as much as possible.
The Major's plane was also badly wounded, but fortunately the Major was not forced to land on the surface, but his bombardier was wounded in the arm by a stray shell from a machine gun shell. They were on their way back to the carrier, and the plane was already starting to emit white smoke, but fortunately they were back on the carrier.
As soon as the lieutenant got off the plane, he was almost carried by ground staff to the AH-5 hospital ship. There are one and a half hospitals on it, and the naval hospital attached to the Combined Fleet is counted as one, plus the hospital, which the fleet already has. This technical force is obviously not ordinarily strong.
As soon as the Major's plane stopped, a ground crew member who had nothing to do came over and counted something. He cried out when he saw the tail - the left side of the tail was half missing, and the crack was a cut from a cannon shell. Obviously, it was after an emergency evasion that it was to avoid being shot down on the spot.
After some careful counting, the major had a total of 97 bullet holes in the fighter, of course, the lost ones on the tail and on the auxiliary fuel tanks could not be counted.
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Sure enough, the U.S. military chose to retreat because it had lost an important maritime force, which was obviously a stealing of chickens and a handful of rice. The commander of the U.S. fleet was killed in the attack, so these trumped-up charges sat on the head of the tragic admiral.
The family of the American general was secretly protected, which was effectively house arrest.
When Ji Feng's Combined Fleet Headquarters fleet sailed into the military port of Fort City, a group of people welcomed Ji Feng's Combined Fleet on both sides of the dock. Because Huaxia has not won a few battles at sea in recent years, this time this "Rear Admiral with the Most Potential in the Navy" came out, and directly captured the pride of the Navy. This is obviously very political, but the fly in the ointment is that Ji Feng is only a major general, which obviously cannot be equated with the commander of the combined fleet.
Ji Feng's headquarters fleet, with the help of the First Detachment and the Submarine Detachment, towed all the repairable warships of the American army back to the military port of Fortress City, and although these warships were very dilapidated, the number still exceeded 100. The entire military port of Battery City was filled with captured American warships. After these warships are repaired, they will be distributed to each fleet by the Admiralty in a "charity bazaar" for each fleet.
Of course, Ji Feng didn't need these broken things, for him, his fleet was already strong enough. There's no need for these slow super dumplings to help. Moreover, the battle exploits will also be "shared" by those old ships, which is not what Ji Feng wants.