The Seventh Fleet is the largest military force of the United States in the Southwest Pacific, it was established in 1943, formerly known as an out-and-out miscellaneous force, and was the largest forward-deployed force of the American Navy at that time, with a total strength of 60,000 troops, 38,000 Navy, 22,000 Marines, and was mainly equipped with nearly 60 ships and 350 warplanes. Among them, there are 19 permanent ships, 1 carrier-based aircraft wing, 1 marine expeditionary detachment, 105 aircraft, including 84 combat aircraft, and 12,200 personnel on board.

As the commander of the Seventh Fleet, commanding the strongest armed forces of the United States in the South Pacific is undoubtedly something that Vice Admiral Clemings is very proud of, but today he is not happy at all.

Since the last attack on the Holy Dragon, the American intelligence agencies have been collecting all the information about the Holy Dragon, and although so far, the CIA has not obtained any information about the members of this organization, but through various channels, the CIA finally targeted the Emerald Isle of Ceylon.

According to the intelligence provided by the LTTE, the LTTE's weapons are all from the Emerald Island, for which the CIA has used satellites to reconnoiter the Emerald Island, but the photos taken from the satellite show that there is nothing on the Emerald Island, not even a single ship close to the island can be seen, but according to the CIA's intelligence officers in Ceylon feedback back the news, it shows that a large area of construction is underway on the Emerald Island, although it has not landed on the Emerald Island, but the houses and factories on it are faintly visible, So the CIA suspects that the Emerald Isle is likely to be the base of this mysterious Holy Dragon Organization, and the reason why the satellite photos show that there is nothing on the Emerald Isle is that the other party obviously has a device that can interfere with satellites.

Regardless of the laser weapons deployed in space by the Holy Dragon Organization, or the equipment used to jam satellite signals, this is definitely the technology that the American political axe is most eager to obtain at present, as a military power, the American political axe will never allow a weapon on this planet that can attack the territory of the United States at any time, so this time the American high-level decided to send troops to Ceylon after careful negotiations, trying to use force to pressure the Holy Dragon Organization to force it to hand over these two technologies.

In the past, if he received a mission, Cummings immediately had a kind of ambition to give up on me, but when he learned the true purpose of this mission, that ambition disappeared without a trace in an instant, thinking of the attack that happened in Dongying not long ago, not only did he not have the confidence that he had in the past, but also had a very ominous feeling, and he always felt that this mission was likely to let his Seventh Fleet stay there from now on, so in order to have this premonition not happen, he was able to successfully complete this mission, This trip to Ceylon for the Seventh Fleet could almost be called a nest.

At noon the next day, the Seventh Fleet finally came to the waters of Ceylon, in the eyes of Cummings, Ceylon is just a country with weak military strength, if it is in the past, against such a country, as long as a few rounds of artillery bombardment on the land, it will definitely be able to make the other side obediently lay down their arms and surrender, but this time he did not rush directly to the coast of Ceylon as before, but when he approached Ceylon more than 300 nautical miles, he ordered the fleet to stop advancing, and then sent reconnaissance planes to the Emerald Isle for reconnaissance.

Bruce is a major pilot of the naval aviation of the Seventh Fleet of the United States, as a major pilot, he does not know the real mission of this trip to Ceylon, but only combines what he has seen on the news, and instinctively thinks that this time he came to Ceylon to help the Ceylon political axe army eliminate the LTTE and restore the power of Ceylon, so when he received the task of asking him to conduct combat reconnaissance of the Emerald Isle, he felt very puzzled in his heart, and asked in his heart several times: "Why don't you conduct reconnaissance in the capital of Ceylon, But he went to the poor Emerald Isle, where the population is small, to reconnoitre, is there an extremely productive gem mine, if so, it will not let the whole fleet come here? ”

More than 300 nautical miles for the "Hornet" fighter is just a blink of an eye, when Bruce first saw the Emerald Isle, the whole person was obviously stunned, because before setting off, he had seen the satellite reconnaissance photos of the Emerald Isle in the war room, the photos showed that there was nothing on the Emerald Island, but the Emerald Island in front of him was located in an orderly manner full of various buildings, and it looked like a beautiful garden from the air.

Seeing this scene, Bruce immediately realized that this mission was very unusual, and he immediately turned on the camera installed under the plane, and steered the plane to prepare for a tactical photo shoot of the Emerald Isle.

At this time, just as Bruce was about to lower the plane and take a tactical photo of the Emerald Isle, a warning sound was heard from the communication system on the plane: "You have entered the private neckline, you are limited to ten seconds to turn around and leave here immediately."

Hearing the warning, Bruce felt that this warning was the funniest joke he had heard today, in the South Pacific for so long, even if it was the territory of a big country like the Tang Empire, he would occasionally sneak in, not to mention the airspace of a militarily weak country like Ceylon, so he didn't take this warning to heart, and drove the plane to enter the sky over the Emerald Isle, however, just when the plane just entered the Emerald Isle, there was a sudden alarm sound from the plane that was locked by missiles.

Hearing the alarm, Bruce was completely panicked, while speeding up the throttle and squeezing the plane to climb rapidly, while looking around, looking for the direction the missile was flying from, and at the same time looking into the microphone, asking for help: "Bird's nest!" Nest! I've been hit by missiles, I've been hit by missiles! ”

Just as Bruce called for help, he finally saw a missile trailing a long orange-red tail flame heading towards his plane at Mach 16.

From seeing the missile to the approaching missile, the whole process did not exceed two seconds, and Bruce, who felt that the Grim Reaper was approaching him, pulled out the ejection of the plane at this moment, and at the moment of the explosion, the whole person flew out of the cockpit and fell quickly towards the sea.

From receiving Bruce's call for help, to the complete extinguishing of the aircraft signal light, the whole process was less than three seconds, and at this time Cummings's face became very ugly, he served as the commander of the Seventh Fleet to today, the Seventh Fleet has carried out dozens of missions before and after, although there are also planes shot down, but today is the first time that it was shot down by an organization's prevention and control missiles, so at this time he obviously felt the other party's provocation, and ordered his subordinates around him angrily: "Immediately send the Sea King helicopter to the sea area to search and rescue the pilot, The first group was ordered to attack, the second group was ready to attack, turned on the search radar, looked for the signal of the opponent's missile navigation radar, the ships dispersed, the tactical formation, after the first round of attacks on the Emerald Island, the attack group immediately took off for the second round of attacks. ”

"Commander Clemmings! We received a warning signal from the other side, and the other party demanded that we immediately withdraw from the Emerald Isle's warning area, otherwise we will be attacked. Just as Cummings was giving the order to attack, the Communications Officer stood up from the front of the device and reported to Cummings what he had just received.

If he had been warned at the beginning, Crimmings might have withdrawn the fleet from this sea area because of his previous fears, but the fact that the plane was shot down at this time undoubtedly aroused the blood of his soldiers, so at this time he angrily ordered his adjutant: "Order the "Bunker Hill" and "Mobile Bay" to carry out a missile attack on the Emerald Isle, and destroy all the buildings on the island for me. ”

"Commander Clemmings! The sonar spotted that something was rapidly approaching our fleet from east to west at the bottom of the sea. Just as Cummings gave the order to attack, the sonar crew suddenly stood up and loudly reported to Cummings what the sonar had found.

When Crimmings heard the sonar's report, his instinctive idea was to think that the other side was firing torpedoes at the fleet, and then his face changed, and he immediately ordered decisively: "Left full rudder!" Immediately do tactical evasion, launch torpedo bait, and give me an immediate counterattack! ”

Just as Clemmings' order was given, Clemmings distinctly heard "Boom!" from the bottom of the ship. There was a soft thud on the ground, but there was no expected explosion and impact, but the lights in the cabin flickered on and off at this time, and a subordinate nervously reported to Cummings at this time: "Commander! Our power is rapidly draining, warships are gradually slowing down, rudder is out of control, weapon systems are all out of order! ”

"Your Excellency, Commander! The USS Washington, the USS Bunker Hill and the Mobile Bay missile cruisers, as well as all the other warships, are out of control, and the submarines are rapidly sinking into the deep sea. Just after the captain had reported to Cummings about the loss of control of the flagship, the communications officer reported to Cummings the last thing he wanted to hear.

As a fleet commander, Crimmings knew very well what it meant when a fleet lost power, so at this time he hurriedly ordered his subordinates: "Give me the reason to find out the reason immediately, ask for help from the Pacific base, the plane will take off immediately to launch the first round of attack on the Emerald Isle, put down all the landing craft, and order the Marines to land on the Emerald Isle as quickly as possible." ”

One order after another was sent to each ship by Clemings, but at this time, Cummings did not realize that the power system and weapon system of the fleet were all out of order, why the communication system was intact, because he could not have imagined that the strongest armed force in the South Pacific would become someone else's bait today, used to fish for other fleets in the United States, until not long after his distress message was sent, when he learned that the communication system was also out of order, he realized that he and the entire fleet had fallen into a trap.

(To be continued)