Chapter 1740: A Tragic Decision

As the Minister of National Defense, Lin Hongfei certainly understands why General Huaqing wants to make such a statement, because this is just a statement, and really fighting so hard is an absolutely loss-making deal for the Republic: the family foundation accumulated in the past ten years of reform and opening up will definitely be destroyed in this war.

I finally worked hard to save a little money to take off in the future, can I lose it all at once? After decades of hard work, is it just to return to the pre-liberation period overnight? This is absolutely unacceptable, and it is also unacceptable to the people of the whole country and the D and the core who have worked hard to save such a little money: no matter when and where, there is only one core principle of our D, that is, to lead the broad masses of the people to live a good life.

Whether active or passive, even to assert their dominance, to maintain their supremacy, they must do so.

Sure enough, as Lin Hongfei thought, General Huaqing's next words changed......

"One thing that must be admitted, however, is that the situation we are facing is very serious, because in addition to missiles, our other conventional combat military capabilities, especially our air combat capabilities, are not as good as those across the strait, and it is extremely unrealistic to directly attack the airspace and land guarded by the Bay Island, which is densely populated with air defense missiles and F-5, F-104, and IDF fighters, in a backward state. Rather, it is to blockade the bay through strong military force, forcing the leaders of the bay island to bow their heads and no longer make any statements about independence...... This is the bottom line, and it would be better if you could take this opportunity to reclaim Bay Island. ”

"Based on this, and also based on the comparison of military strength between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, we have formulated the following basic operational ideas: Under the cover of the air force, naval ships will enter the north-south sea passage of the bay and the bay to blockade, forcing the bay island air force to leave the local warning network support and the superior firepower of the air defense. In a naval and air battle with our air force and naval aviation, our air force and naval aviation units can rely on the radars of surface ships to provide early warnings and rely on numbers to consume the opponent's combat strength. Forcing the Bay Island Air Force into non-dominant melee combat. ”

This tactic was quite good in the absence of the Americans, when the Bay Island Air Force did not have air warning, but the medium-range search and long-range firing capabilities of the F-5 and F-104 fighters had surpassed all aircraft on the mainland except for the SU-27 fighters: although the F-104 fighters were called "widow makers", their supersonic performance and interception capabilities were outstanding; The F-5 "Tiger" fighter is a mediocre aircraft, but the control is simple, and the electronic equipment is still advanced compared to our air force, and our most advanced fighter other than the SU-27 fighter: the "J-8" J-8II is still a single radar system, and it was not until 1998 that it was replaced with Doppler radar.

Worse: the IDF fighters that the Bay Island relied on to be made by the Americans were also put into service. Although the IDF has the problem of insufficient thrust-to-weight ratio, it must be admitted that the radar electronic performance of the IDF fighter is no less than the level of the F-16A/BBLOCK15 after the support of the Americans, and what is more important is that with the support of the "strong network" system on the Bay Island. The Bay Island Air Force, which has undergone intensive training in the United States, is more effective.

Regarding the military's military deterrence concept, Lin Hongfei also had to nod. After all, maneuverability and shipborne radar support are not small advantages!

But Lin Hongfei, who knows the direction of this matter, knows very well. In this matter, our army and my D leaders made a mistake: they did not expect the United States to react so quickly! General Huaqing's next words also prove this......

"As for the combat strength of the Bay Island Air Force, all the comrades here are experts and should be very clear, but even so, we still have a certain degree of certainty that we will achieve the goal: up to now. Our air force has only 30 SU-27 fighters with insufficient technical and tactical performance and aircraft flight performance, and we do not intend to put this precious force into close combat, but use the SU-27 fighter as a warning and an aerial assassin as a shadow hovering in front of the eyes of the Bay Island Air Force. Due to the poor low-altitude scanning capability, the SU-27 fighter will be used as a supplement to the J-8/8II mid-altitude and high-altitude fighters; ”

"Although the J-8 fighter does not yet have the ability to fire at medium range. And the radar performance is single and easy to be interfered with, but in the confrontation training of the J-7 fighter, we found that the J-8 has the same radius of rotation as the J-7, and it has better climbing ability, better detection ability than the J-7, and can also carry more fuel, which means that in the absence of ground command, the J-8 can use more tactics to defeat the J-7, which is more in line with the concept of overseas warfare; ”

"J-7 has good supersonic performance, but subsonic performance is very bad, during the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese Air Force's MiG-21 never fought with the Americans in the air, using sneak attack tactics, it has been proved that this tactic can maximize the J-7 fighter, the only problem is that if you need to replicate this tactic, J-7 needs good guidance and a small group of aircraft to rush to the airspace in multiple batches;"

"The J-6 fighter is the only domestic fighter that can completely overwhelm all aircraft on Bay Island except the IDF fighter in a melee dogfight, and the two turbojet-6 jet engines can provide almost 1 combat thrust ratio, vertical maneuverability and transonic air combat capabilities exceed the F-5, and horizontal maneuverability is far above the F-104. However, the equipment is backward, the missiles are not reliable enough, and they can only rely on the machine gun grappling, and the biggest weakness is that the supersonic performance is seriously insufficient, and the fuel is too small. ”

"The J-5 also has the same low-altitude dogfight capability as the J-6, and has defeated the Mirage-3 in Pakistan's military exercises, and the J-5 also has the mission of forcing the Gulf Island Navy to hide on the mainland, and our side believes after assessment that the air defense capability of the Gulf Island Navy has not surpassed the British fleet capability in the 1981 Falklands Naval Battle."

Tragic!

Hearing this, Lin Hongfei's eyes were already red, and his heart was even more surging, and he saw with his own eyes that many senior leading comrades who usually had Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and did not move at the moment, their eyes were red and red: To put it simply, but who doesn't know that in this process, our heroic air force and naval aviation pilots are actually risking their lives to fight for a future for the motherland? It is conceivable that if we really fight, we will lose no less than three digits of pilots...... What a heart-wrenching loss?

It is conceivable that at that time, our military will, like Argentina, launch C-601 and C-801 air-launched anti-ship missiles with a small number of unreliable J-7 and H-6D, and a large number of Qiang-5 attack planes will bombard the Taiwan Navy at low altitudes like death squads.

Although it is expected that there will be many losses, it can completely force the Bay Island Navy to not tolerate the losses and can only get close to the local anti-aircraft fire lethality advantage area, away from the rabbit blockade fleet, our air force pilots are really building a great wall of steel with their own flesh and blood.

As a high-ranking general of the army, how could General Huaqing not know what the plan of Lu Dao meant? As the saying goes, men sweat and bleed without tears, but General Huaqing, an iron-clad general, also had two lines of tears on his face when he said this: This is simply filling in the lives of our soldiers!

But what if you don't take human lives to fill it? Our electronic command and electronic warfare capabilities are still far behind those of the "second-rate NATO" level of the Bay Island, and the Air Force is not adequately equipped to rely on voice command capabilities; as for the seaport to the west of the Bay Island, the Air Force is far from reaching the strength of the island, and can only rely on submarines and anti-ship missiles to blockade it.

As for the terrible noise of our submarines, the complex voiceprint situation in the eastern waters of the bay island will cover up the many shortcomings of the black fish, although it can cause certain losses, but it can still complete a limited blockade and minelaying task, this is our tragic plan, in order to safeguard the unity and territorial integrity of the motherland, we do not hesitate to shed blood and sacrifice, not afraid to go forward and follow!

"We estimate that after the enormous sacrifices we have made, the Bay Island side will also suffer high and almost unbearable losses, and we will still be able to use blockade warfare and anti-ship missiles to disrupt the military, political and economic resolve of the Bay Island, and force the Bay Island to return to the negotiating table and achieve our original strategic objectives......"

General Hua Qing wiped the tears that flowed from his face fiercely, and his voice was already choked and almost speechless, "This is all the means we have at present...... We were ready for everything, including a big battle, a hard battle, and we were even prepared for economic stagnation or even a few years of regression, but ......"

Lin Hongfei's tears flowed wantonly, Zheng Zhi's tears flowed wantonly, and Gu Ruihe cried like a child......

Everyone knows in their hearts that until now, our military strength has been in a state of stagnation, and in order to make concessions for reform, a large amount of weaponry and training is still oriented to the level of defense against large-scale invasion, and in the Cold War era, this kind of defense is still effective, but it is still unable to suppress offensive operations on the islands, and in the 1960s and early 1980s, almost all of the offensive autonomous projects of the Air Force have failed, and the backward industry can hardly support it.

The Air Force lacks electronic countermeasures and precision strike capabilities, and it is difficult to strike at the superior air defense firepower kill zone on the Bay Island, but it is still enough to cover the rabbit blockade fleet, and the Navy has the ability to lay nearly 7,000 mines of various kinds at one time on the north and south ends of the Bay Island and the international route to the east through the mobilization of civilian ships, and this capability is still a headache. (To be continued......)