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Less than 10 hours after the attack on the merchant fleet, Foreign Minister Yueben, who had just left for the mainland, boarded a special plane and flew to the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, the intention is clear: to drag the United States into the water.

In any case, six of the merchant ships sunk by the Russian army flew the American flag and belonged to American shipping companies, and the United States had a reason to occupy them, put pressure on Russia, and even send ships to escort the fleet. As long as the United States does this, the Russian army will be somewhat restrained in breaking diplomatic relations. You must know that it is impossible for the United States to lease warships, and attacking US warships on the high seas is tantamount to starting a war against the United States.

It is a pity that the Americans are more thoughtful and act faster than they are.

Before the foreign minister's plane arrived in Washington, the US Secretary of State issued a statement, declaring that the six merchant ships had been leased to the company for a long time, and that they had all purchased a huge amount of insurance, and that the shipping company had not made a security request to the federal political axe, so the federal political axe would not consider providing additional security protection for the fleet for the time being.

The meaning of this statement could not be clearer: the United States will not be involved in this pointless military conflict.

Viewed from another angle, this is tantamount to telling Yue Ben unequivocally that the United States does not support any military action taken by Yue Ben on the issue of the four northern islands.

In Washington, Foreign Minister Ben received the same reply.

During his meeting with the US Secretary of State, Foreign Minister Yu Ben was warned that the conflict provoked by the extremist forces in Ben had already harmed the fundamental interests of the United States, and that the United States had no obligation to provide military assistance to the United States in a conflict triggered by a dispute over the four northern islands.

Subsequently, at the White House, Foreign Minister Ben was warned again.

Cronin's attitude is very clear: the United States will neither send troops nor provide any military assistance to the United States other than the defense of the homeland. The best option for Ben is not to continue fighting, but to declare a ceasefire at the right time. To that end, the United States can provide diplomatic assistance to Ben.

Of course, in order to preserve the U.S. alliance, the U.S. has not completely abandoned its roots.

Before leaving Washington, Foreign Minister Ben received a "gift." Cronin personally promised that the United States would ensure the safety of the fleet outside the Russian blockade zone, that is, there was no need to expand the scope of the escort.

Obviously, this "gift" has no value.

In the more than a month of blockade, Russian submarines have not crossed the area.

As a matter of fact, the authorities had anticipated this outcome for a long time, and the main purpose of Foreign Minister Ben's emergency visit to the United States was not to get the United States into the war, but to obtain much-needed offensive weapons and equipment from the United States, especially offensive ammunition for the F-22J and F-15J.

It is a pity that on the issue of arms sales, the United States has taken a very firm position.

According to Cronin's reply, as long as the United States and Russia remain at war, the United States will not provide any offensive weapons and ammunition.

This reply is also reasonable.

At least by this time, the "pacifist constitution" had not been completely nullified, i.e., the newly formed army was still essentially a defensive military force.

There was only one thing Cronin could give to him: the source code of the F-15J's fire control software.

Although this involves the top secret of the US military, after all, the fire control system of the F-15J is common to many other fighters, and these fighters are in service in many countries, and the US military also has quite a few F-15 fighters. However, the U.S. military has already formulated a new development plan, and in the next five years, the F-15 will be replaced by the F-22A, and other fighters that use similar fire control software, such as the F-16, will also be replaced by the F-35 in the near future.

The source code obtained by Ben is just something that the United States does not use.

For Yuben, this is the real "gift".

After obtaining the source code of the fire control software, it is possible to modernize the F-15J and even the F-4J, which has been upgraded with a fire control system, so that it can obtain the necessary ground strike capability, and then replace the pylons used to mount ground strike ammunition to become an attack aircraft.

At this time, what Ben needed most was attack aircraft.

With nearly one-third of the F-2 consumed and the restart of the production line was unable to produce fighter jets in time, the modernization of the huge F-15J fleet and the upgrading of the mothballed F-4J fighters enabled the Air Force to acquire a large number of attack aircraft in a relatively short period of time.

You know, there are still thirty-two F-22Js in the Air Force.

Relying on these 32 fighters, the air force has the ability to maintain air supremacy on the battlefield.

With the replenishment of attack aircraft in place and the corresponding ammunition production lines running at full speed, it is said that Ben will eventually gain the military strength to attack the four northern islands.

For him, if he can win back the four northern islands before he has to negotiate a cease-fire with Russia, even if he only recaptures some of them, it can add bargaining chips to future negotiations, rather than not even having a trump card that can make Russia make concessions.

With this result in mind, Foreign Minister Saimoto, who had been in Washington for a week, set off for Tokyo.

Because neither side has released the secret agreement, and the source code of the fire control software can be stored in a single memory, the foreign minister's trip to Washington is meaningless to the outside world.

At this time, those Russian submarines that returned to Petropavlovsk had completed their rest and replenishment.

Just as Foreign Minister Ben's special plane flew over the Pacific Ocean, five Russian attack nuclear submarines were the first to leave the port, followed by eight conventional submarines that also left the port. A day later, two cruise missile nuclear submarines, replenished with missiles, also quietly entered the Pacific Ocean under the cover of night.

The "wolf pack" was dispatched again, and the army was facing a new test.

Because only the Fourth Fleet was still carrying out escort missions, the Japanese army had to adjust the escort arrangements and focus on protecting the shipping routes around the mainland. A thousand nautical miles from the mainland, the anti-submarine task was given to the P-3C and P-1 patrol aircraft. In order to allow more merchant ships to break through the blockade area of the Russian submarines, the military has set up more than 10 key antisubmarine areas on the two routes, and the antisubmarine patrol planes will carry out the antisubmarine search mission without interruption, and the merchant ships heading to the city will reach these areas as quickly as possible, and then sail to the next area after rendezvous, and finally rendezvous with the escort fleet waiting in front to complete the final voyage.

Arriving here, the escort fleet was covered not only by anti-submarine patrol aircraft, but also by heavy fighters deployed on the mainland.

In order to enhance the fleet's air defense and anti-missile combat capabilities, the Chinese military even mobilized eight E-2Cs to provide early warning for the escort fleet.

Doing so will give the escort fleet an additional five minutes to prepare for air defense.

It's just that these tactical deployments still can't stop the Russian submarines.

For this reason, the navy has come up with a new antisubmarine tactic: It has transformed some merchant ships with large decks into "camouflage antisubmarine ships" specially equipped with anti-submarine helicopters, and then let these merchant ships mix in the fleet and wait for Russian submarines to come to the door.

Although merchant ships do not have anti-submarine capabilities per se, the helicopters they carry have strong anti-submarine capabilities.

Cooperate with escort warships, and you can also get the help of warships, such as using the battleship's towed sonar to search for submarines, and then have anti-submarine helicopters attack.

According to the army's assumption, as long as they are targeted by two or three anti-submarine helicopters, the Russian submarine will have nowhere to escape.

Although fundamentally speaking, this does not pose much threat to the Russian army's attack nuclear submarines, especially the two cruise missile nuclear submarines that can launch missiles from a distance of 500 kilometers, as long as they can seize an opportunity in battle and take out a few Russian nuclear submarines, they can force the Russian army to abandon the "wolf pack tactic".

I have to say that Yue himself's mind is indeed flexible enough, but even Yue Jun is not sure how meaningful it is.

You must know that when the Russian army's attack nuclear submarines deal with the escort fleet, the first thing they use must be anti-ship missiles.

Although there are big problems in the means of detection, according to the information released by the Russian army after the war, in order to catch the transport fleet, most of the conventional submarines of the Russian army were sent to carry out reconnaissance missions and provide support for nuclear submarines. But as long as it is discovered by a Russian submarine, it will be difficult for the fleet to escape.

Can an anti-submarine helicopter with a combat radius of just over a hundred kilometers come in handy in the face of a submarine that launches anti-ship missiles from a distance of several hundred kilometers?

Not to mention the "Oscar" class cruise missile nuclear submarines, the Russian army's attack nuclear submarines can launch anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 300 kilometers, and the "Severodvinsk" even has 12 vertical launchers, plus torpedo tubes, which can launch nearly 20 anti-ship missiles at a time, even the "Akula" class can launch six anti-ship missiles in one attack, and even those conventional submarines can launch six anti-ship missiles at a time.

In this kind of battle of numbers, Russian submarines do not need to rush to get close to the flotilla at all.

After a successful missile attack, the nuclear submarine can close in on the convoy within two hours. If the submarine is in front of the fleet, this time can be shortened. After getting closer, use torpedoes to kill the wounded battleships and the slower merchant ships, so as to avoid fighting with the army's anti-submarine helicopters to the greatest extent.

At least in the last battle, the Russian army used this proven tactic.

It can be seen from this that the chances of winning against the Russian nuclear submarines are certainly not great if the military anti-submarine helicopters are used, and it is fortunate that they do not lose their capital in the end.

What the army didn't expect even more was that after the first ambush was successful, the Russian army targeted the fleet.

It must be admitted that the decision-making and command personnel of the Russian army are very sober-minded, and the Chinese army has only two fleets, and if it can take out the fourth fleet, the Japanese army will have to accept the fact of defeat.

That's right, the Russian submarine went out again, aiming at the Fourth Fleet!

By this time, the conflict over the four northern islands had been going on for two months, and both sides had paid a huge price and had exhausted almost all conventional military forces.

If the stalemate continues, both sides will have to mobilize for war, and the conflict will develop into war.

Both sides want to end the conflict, but the ways and means used by both sides to end the conflict are different.

(To be continued)