Chapter 607 [On the eve of the smoke of gunpowder!] 】
Eight o'clock in the evening!
The world of Shamu Island is pitch black, and the boundless ocean is calm and calm, which seems to be extraordinarily quiet.
And the flames of war ...... It's about to burn!
On the wharf, 1,402 heavily armed soldiers of the First Army lined up in two columns in the dark, stretching for hundreds of meters.
Silent and silent, many but not chaotic, long but not oblique, like a dragon.
This is the discipline of the military!
"Whew-"
In the distance, a low ship whistle suddenly rose.
The Second Army Fleet led by the "Black Dragon" appeared huge and faintly like a giant beast in the night.
After about ten minutes of sailing, it finally moored 300 meters from the pier.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The sound of dense ship engines sounded, and more than 20 black shadows broke away from the four warships, let out a violent engine roar, and headed straight for the shallow water port dock.
More than 20 air-cushion landing craft, personnel landing craft, and transport speedboats collectively rowed across the sea, waving up bursts of undulating waves, like silver kelp, rushing along the sea surface into the distance under the dim moonlight.
Waiting for the first batch of 4 hovercraft to dock at the dock, Xing Feng said to Zhao Gang: "The warship has come, the time is just right, let's organize the soldiers to start boarding the ship." ”
"Okay!"
Zhao Gang nodded and walked towards the long dragon phalanx, and shouted loudly: "Zhang Dabiao." ”
"Here!"
Zhang Dabiao, who was in the left column, took a step out of the column.
"You lead the first brigade and board the boat from the left side of the pier."
"Yes!"
After Zhang Dabiao finished answering, he turned to the team next to him and ordered: "All of them are here, board the ship in order, and the first squadron will set off." ”
Having received an order, the fighters of the 1st Squadron of the 1st Brigade, under the command of the squadron leader, trotted one by one out of the long column and went straight to the large hovercraft on the left side of the pier.
"Sun Desheng!" Zhao Gang shouted again.
"Here!"
Sun Desheng, who was in the long dragon column on the right, came out of the column and replied loudly.
"You lead the second brigade and board the ship from the right."
"Yes!"
After Sun Desheng answered, like his second brigade, he gave the same order according to the standard boarding action.
"Wang Gensheng, Duan Peng."
"Here!"
Hearing Zhao Gang's order, the captain of the third brigade in the middle of the long line, and the captain of the special sniper team, responded at the same time.
"You lead your respective brigades and follow the team to board the ship."
"Understood!" Wang Gensheng and Duan Peng replied at the same time.
……
Under the command of Zhao Gang and the transportation of the Second Army Fleet, after an hour of busy back and forth, 1,402 soldiers of the First Army all boarded the four warships.
Then, under the cover of night, the stubbornly defending warship left Shamu Island and disappeared into the silent sea.
Inside the command module of the Black Dragon!
The captains and above officers of the First Army and the captain-level officers of the Second Army all gathered here.
Xingfeng sat in the chief seat, and sat next to Mina, who had come by helicopter from Dima Island during the transportation of troops on board the ship, carrying all kinds of information collected by the Intelligence Department in the past three days.
"Mina, tell us about the situation on the island of Mayor." Xingfeng said.
In this lore operation, it is an operation that cannot reveal the identity, and all actions must be carried out quickly and ended quickly, leaving no handle or tail.
Therefore, the first to appear was not on the side of Xingfeng, but on the sneak attack fleet of the "Blue Dragon".
There are two benefits to this!
First of all, we can increase the success rate of the sneak attack on the side of the "Blue Dragon", so that the two French warships anchored in the port will not feel the crisis and increase their preparedness because of the heartbeat of the Xingfeng.
Second, once the French fleet is successfully damaged or sunk, the French Foreign Legion on the island of Stu disguised as mercenaries will definitely fall into a panic.
As long as Xingfeng finds the right entry point at that time, he can take this opportunity to reduce the loss of capturing Stu Island, and win this battle with the smallest battle loss ratio or even zero chance of death.
"I have made a detailed arrangement of the situation of the army and warships on the island of Mayor."
Mina linked the computer to the main screen of the command module, called up various data files, and explained them one by one: "First of all, the French warship targeted by the Second Army this time, the 'Dexterous' frigate, with a tonnage of only 1,450 tons, is a light frequency sea combat ship, which is mainly used for coastal defense, sea patrol and other tasks. ”
"It is powered by CODAG (diesel-fuel combined propulsion) mode, which can provide a maximum speed of 35 knots, and there are two main weapon systems, one of which is a short-range weapon within line-of-sight for littoral support, anti-surface or anti-aircraft combat installation, which is a medium-caliber Otto-Melera 76 mm and Bofors 57 mm naval gun systems, and a 30 mm anti-aircraft rapid-fire gun, one each."
"The second is the line-of-sight medium-range missile, which uses the DCNS's "Sivar" vertical launch system for the "Aster" 30 area ship-to-air missile with a range of 80 kilometers, as well as 16 "Mika" anti-aircraft vertical launch missiles......"
Hearing this, Xingfeng interrupted Mina's words and said, "The Dexterous corvette, focusing on coastal combat and air combat, does not pose any threat to our operation this time, let's focus on the "Dixmed" warship. ”
Three days ago, they had already set out from Haijiao Island overnight, deliberately circumnavigated 1,000 nautical miles to avoid being involved in the Huanyu Company, and prepared to prepare the "Blue Dragon" and "Blue Dragon" frigates from the southern Indian Ocean near the island of Mayor, all of which were equipped with "Lightning Bird" large-caliber electromagnetic guns.
With an effective range of up to 300 km, the "Lightning Bird" is not afraid of these small water guns of the French "Dexterity" at all, and it can attack beyond visual range.
That's the advantage of a hand length!
Mina, who was interrupted by Xingfeng, adjusted the information on the main screen, and then said: "Dixmede is a French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, built with the French Pacific shipyard, commissioned in 2012, with a total tonnage of about 21,000 tons, and the current international price is 1.7 billion US dollars. ”
"Because the demand for this kind of ship is derived from the 'CNOA' (National Amphibious Combat Operations Doctrine), and is positioned as an amphibious force projection, withdrawal, infiltration assault, etc., it combines the functions of a helicopter carrier, a dock landing ship and a dock transport ship."
"At the same time, in order to enhance the ability to resist battle damage, the Mistral adopts a double hull structure, and the outer layer is coated with composite materials that absorb radar waves, so as to reduce the overall radar cross-sectional area and infrared signal."
"As a warship for amphibious operations, it has a standard full crew of 450 people, a maximum capacity of 900 people, and is powered by an 'IPS' integrated electric propulsion system, with a maximum speed of 18.8 knots and a cruising range of 5,800 nautical miles at 18 knots."
"In terms of combat weapon systems, it is equipped with '1× MRR3D-NG-C frequency 3D air/plane search radar, SENIT-9 combat command system, two six-pack PDMS anti-aircraft missile launchers, two 'Brenda Mauser' 30mm 70 times diameter cannons, and four 12.7mm carrier-based machine guns......"
After listening to Mina's detailed explanation, Xing Feng was 100% sure of the success rate of this operation.
The reason is simple!
Whether it is the "Dexterous" corvette or the 10,000-ton "Diksmed" amphibious assault ship, it has one thing in common.
That is the tendency to fight against land!
Whether it is the weapons on the ship or the combat mode where the ship is designed, it is all about the ground landing battle, and the anti-aircraft firepower and anti-ground firepower are mostly very powerful, but there is no major defense capability against attacks from the sea.
This may also be a deliberate arrangement made by France in view of the fact that the Kingdom of Coro does not have a fleet and the whole country is made up of islands.
Coincidentally......
The "lore plan" prepared by Xingfeng and the way to launch the attack happened to be the weakest area of their defense-
Battleship!