Chapter 184: Ah! Blue Water Navy
In accordance with the demands of the political axe of the South Asian People's Republic, Deng Feng decided to withdraw the remaining units of the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 6th Group Army and all the troops of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region to the Shannan Special Administrative Region, except for the division headquarters and one tank battalion of the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 6th Group Army left in New Delhi, the capital of the South Asian People's Republic. The 1st Armored Division and the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division are both stationed in Bangladesh Province and the eastern coastal region of the South Asian Republic, with the headquarters of the garrison in Calcutta, and a large naval base with a composite surname will be established in Kolkata to provide a base for the Indian Ocean Fleet to be formed by China. Deng Feng ordered Wu Di to lead four Jian-10 fighters, 12 "Falcon" Jian-1 fighters, two "Saboteur" bombers, three Flying Leopard Jian-7 fighters, two "air trains," a UAV squadron and five "Lux" transport helicopters, a radar station, an antiaircraft artillery battalion, and an anti-aircraft missile battalion to form a mixed division, stationed at the Kolkata airport, and formed the First Naval Aviation Division of the Indian Ocean Fleet subordinate to the Shannan Military Region.
Deng Feng's deployment was aimed at establishing a powerful strategic deterrent in the Indian Ocean, controlling the entire Bay of Bengal and, in a more far-reaching sense, the Arabian Sea to the west of the Indian Peninsula. Controlling the entire Bay of Bengal will ensure the maritime security of East Pakistan and the eastern South Asian People's Republic, and it will be able to attack the entire Southeast Asian region with China's Hainan Island and Taiwan region, and connect the international waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and the Strait of Malacca, which is at the crossroads of Asia and Oceania. On the other hand, as a deterrent force that can occupy the coastal areas of the Indian peninsula at any time, it is enough to deter India and make India dare not act rashly and honestly leave it at the mercy of China.
In the name of the South Asian Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Deng Feng signed a lease contract with the South Asian People's Republic of China on the establishment of a comprehensive naval base in the Kolkata area of the South Asian Republic. Valid for 70 years. The rent is 1 RMB per year. Seventy years later, all the facilities of the base were owned by the South Asian Republic. The proviso is that China has helped the South Asian People's Republic build a powerful navy and air force over the past 70 years.
Since there is no access to the sea in Shannan Special Zone, it passes through Dengfeng and East Pakistan Shambu. According to Rahman's study, Deng Feng represented the central government to exchange 120 square kilometers of territory in the southernmost part of the Special Administrative Region in the Mizo region, and East Pakistan for a 10-square-kilometer coastal section of Hidagonda, located on the northeast bank of the Bay of Bengal and on the right bank of the lower Gornopuri River, only 15 kilometers from the Shannan Special Administrative Region, and a 15-kilometer-long and 200-meter-wide passage leading to this section. In the eyes of some people in the Shannan Special Economic Zone and even in the central government, this incident was a deal with a big loss, and they did not understand the 10-to-1 exchange, and the criticism continued. Deng Feng was unmoved, he could understand the thinking of China, a land-based nation that lacked maritime awareness. This natural harbour adjacent to Chittagong is 20 to 1, 30 to 1 also has to be replaced. Change! In order for China to have its own outlet to the sea in the Indian Ocean, this price is not too big.
Shemub. Rahman saw that the former India [***] (Maoist) and now South Asia [***] had established its own state. Rahman and the Central Committee of the Bangladesh People's Liberation League also asked Deng Feng to help them build a state of their own. This is also what Deng Feng once promised. But unlike India, Pakistan has no direct conflict of interest with China, nor does it harm China's interests, and China is not easy to dismantle Pakistan, although in 1971, with the help of Indian armed forces, East Pakistan was founded as Bangladesh, but that was in 1971 after all. So Deng Feng hopes that Xie Mubu. Rahman and the Central Committee of the Bangladesh People's Liberation Union (BLU) first coordinated with Pakistan. To solve the problem of reading power in East Pakistan in a bloodless way, we can hold a referendum on reading power in East Pakistan in the form of the Shannan Special Economic Zone, and the price paid in this way is the smallest. Of course, if Pakistan does not agree. That would have to be a unilateral declaration of secession from Pakistan. Deng Feng knew very well that Pakistan today had no effective way to maintain this nominal unity with East Pakistan, which was separated by India and the South Asian People's Republic. Deng Feng vs. Xie Mubu. Rahman said that no matter which of the above methods you use, Shannan SAR will fully support your actions.
Deng Feng devoted almost all his efforts to the establishment of the Chinese naval and air base in Kolkata and the construction of a seaport in Hida Gonda, which was shared by the military and civilians, and these two bases are really important to China. It is the key for China to go to the world, to the sea, and to enjoy an absolute voice in the world, although this strategic position has not yet become as prominent as in later generations. But Deng Feng, a later person, knew how important these two strategic locations in the northern part of the Bay of Bengal were to China and how influential they were to the world.
The Bay of Bengal is a bay in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, bordered by the Indian Peninsula in the west, the Indochina Peninsula in the east, Myanmar and Pakistan in the north, and the Indian Ocean itself in the south from Sri Lanka to Sumatra, and is closely connected with the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca. The area is 2.17 million square kilometers, which is 26,3 times the area of the Bohai Bay. Beyond the Bay of Bengal to the west is the Arabian Sea, which is bordered by the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa to the west. What's there? It is the world's oil depot coveted by all countries, where it contains 78.3% of the world's proven oil reserves, the Middle East alone accounts for 65%, Africa accounts for 9.27% After the establishment of the Shannan Special Economic Zone, the first thing Deng Feng grasped was to expand and rebuild two airports in the former northeast of India, and build a new large airport. After the airport was renovated and expanded, after requesting the central authorities, Liu Yingtian, commander of the First Division of the First Group Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, led eight J-10 fighters, 24 "Falcon" J-1 fighters, four "Saboteur" bombers, and three Flying Leopard J-7 fighters into the Shannan Special Economic Zone. Deng Feng transferred another 6 "air trains" and a drone squadron. One army aviation group of 20 "Hunter" helicopter gunships, 10 "Lux" transport helicopters, an antiaircraft artillery regiment, and an antiaircraft missile battalion have established a powerful radar network, formed the air force of the Shannan Military Region, and the 1st Naval Aviation Division of the Indian Ocean Fleet stationed in Calcutta, a South Asian Republic, and firmly controlled air supremacy in South Asia. Guarantee China's absolute rapid strike capability in this region.
During the war against India, our army formed a task force consisting of two "Dolphin" drop-type diesel engines, two missile destroyers, two 10,000-ton fire support ships, four tank landing ships with one "Hunter" helicopter gunship on each deck, three missile attack boats, and three auxiliary support ships. Activities in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. In order to deter the Indian Navy and protect our fleet of ships transporting war materials to Northeast India, this is the first real voyage of our Navy. Thus it took the first step in the transformation of the "yellow water navy" to the "blue water navy". In the wider ocean, combat missions are carried out for a long time to protect China's core interests. On 19 April, a battle took place with the Indian light aircraft carrier battle group INS Vikrant in the Bay of Bengal. In one fell swoop, it established the prestige of China's Indian Ocean Fleet.
In order to seek hegemony in South Asia and strengthen its status as a great power, India bought a decommissioned light aircraft carrier from the British to decorate the façade of this great power by itself, making India the first country in Asia to have an aircraft carrier after the war, this kind of light aircraft carrier built in World War II, between the fleet aircraft carrier and the escort aircraft carrier did not play a role in World War II, Britain announced its retirement at the end of the 40s, and after India bought it, it was a treasure and gave it a nice name "Vikrant".
The light aircraft carrier "Vikrant" has a full load displacement of 18,300 tons, a length of 211.8 meters, a width of 24.4 meters, a height of 7 meters, powered by 4 boiler steam turbines, 2 axles, 40,000 horsepower, a speed of 25 knots, the entire aircraft carrier establishment: 1300 people, weapons: 6 groups of 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns, 32 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, on which 37 "Spitfire" MK21 are equipped with 4 20-mm cannons, bomb-mounted fighters.
The Indian aircraft carrier was bought at a very good time, and when the Indian Navy had just painted the "Vikrant" on the side of the aircraft carrier, the border situation between China and India became tense, and then a border war broke out between China and India. India's political axe urgently set up the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier battle group and went to the waters of the Bay of Bengal to carry out the combat mission of blockading Chittagong in East Pakistan, so as to cut off the continuous flow of Chinese troops and combat materials into India's northeast from here, so that China's combat troops in India could not be replenished from the sea. The Indian Navy also believes that the time has come for the aircraft carrier "Vikrant" to show its talents. As a result, the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier battle group sailed into the Bay of Bengal with great momentum.
The idea of the aircraft carrier "Vikrant" to attack the Bay of Bengal and blockade Chittagong in East Pakistan is correct. But the result was the opposite of what they wanted.
On 18 April, the aircraft carrier "Vikrant," two frigates, and an aircraft carrier battle group consisting of a destroyer arrived at the Kingenpur base of the Indian Eastern Fleet.
Having received a combat mission from the Indian Navy Command to intercept the Chinese fleet, the fleet sailed out of the Kingtenpur base and headed northeast to search the Chinese fleet in the 50-nautical-mile sea off Chittagong in East Pakistan and inspect passing ships. But no trace of the Chinese flotilla was found. However, every move of the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier battle group was immediately sent back to the front finger of the Tibet Provincial Corps by the drones set up in the Trippur Printing Work Committee, and the front finger was immediately sent to the task force marching into the Indian Ocean.
In the early morning of 19 July, the "Dolphin" submarine of China's Indian Ocean task force numbered Q001 was quietly approaching the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier battle group. In fact, submarines are the only kind of actual combat offensive weapons that can be truly "invisible". Even in the highly technologically advanced society of later generations, there is still no reliable method that can accurately detect and track military submarines. Although all parties in later generations have made every effort to develop cutting-edge weapons that can be invisible, such as stealth aircraft and even surface stealth ships, even the F-117A fighter with the strongest stealth capability is ashamed of itself compared to most submarines. The reason for the submarine's stealth capability is actually quite simple: all electromagnetic waves, from gamma rays to X-rays, have difficulty crossing the seawater barrier. Light rays can only travel a distance of 6 to 15 meters in water, and the distance that light penetrates in water depends on the transparency of the water. Electromagnetic radiation is slightly stronger, but not much better. Radars that detect targets made of metal with electromagnetic radiation and microwaves are useless in the water. Sound waves are the only tool that is desirable for locating submarines, but sonar is not infallible either. Sound does not propagate in a straight line in the water, the jump layer can keep the propagation of sound above or below a specific level, the working environment of sonar is a sea of dynamic changes of physical and chemical characteristics, and the special surnames of sound wave propagation can change with time and place, and at the same time there are thousands of sound sources sending signals. These factors make sonar detection technology more of an experience than a science. Since targets in the water are difficult to detect, identify, locate and track, submarine systems naturally need to minimize the noise they emit while improving their ability to detect targets through sound.
"Report, at a distance of 13,800 meters, at an azimuth of 124.5 degrees, it was found that the Grand Fleet was moving from east to west at 11 knots, and after checking with the computer the sound of its engine, it was determined that it was the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier "sonar report. Captain Lang Haiqiang immediately ordered: "Prepare the torpedo and raise the periscope." "The dolphin submarine does not need to raise the periscope, even in the deep potential sea, it can calculate the direction of the target through the sonar system and the computer of Gao Neng, the reason why Lang Haiqiang wants to risk raising the periscope can determine the target more accurately, but it is difficult for the radar on these old frigates in India to find the periscope that protrudes only one meter from the water surface.
Three Y-A 533-mm heavy torpedoes were fired silently from the 533-mm torpedo tubes on the bow of the Dolphin submarine, each with an interval of 2 seconds. The target was the aircraft carrier "Vikrant" and a frigate in front of it. Six minutes later, the unlucky frigate was the first to hit the left front, the Y-A 533 mm heavy torpedo, which immediately blew up the front half of the frigate with a displacement of 980 tons, and the water column generated by the explosion was thrown into the air more than 50 meters with the fragments of the frigate. The remaining remnants quickly tilted into the waters of the Bay of Bengal and sank in less than 1 minute.
As soon as the water column produced by the explosion of this frigate fell, two loud noises came from the power compartment and fuel tank of the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier, and along with these two loud noises, the dream of the Indian Blue Navy was completely shattered, a Y-A 533 mm heavy torpedo completely destroyed the power system of the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier, and the other torpedo exploded in the fuel tank, together with the huge energy generated by the combustion of nearly 100 tons of aviation gasoline, like a gushing volcano, tearing all the obstacles that hinder its energy release. Thrown into the air, the flames swept through the entire "Vikrant" aircraft carrier, the flames soaring into the sky were as high as more than 100 meters, the explosion of two Y-A 533 mm heavy torpedoes and the fire completely destroyed the mechanical structure of the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier, although under the command of the British captain hired with a high salary, many damage control measures were carried out, but it was still powerless, and 11 minutes after being shot, the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier sank into the sea with more than 500 British sailors hired by India with high salaries and more than 700 Indian naval elites.
After completing the launch mission of the Q001 "Dolphin" submarine, Captain Lang Haiqiang immediately ordered the submarine to dodge at high speed in the opposite direction of the "Vikrant" aircraft carrier attack group, and try to stay away from the Indian escort destroyer.
"At a depth of 350 meters, turn off the engine, turn on the noise detector, and water temperature detector". The warm sea water in the Indian Ocean in the Bay of Bengal is icy below 250 meters, and due to the difference in sea temperature, the sound waves will undergo complex and tortuous changes, and even the most advanced sonar can not determine the exact position of the submarine. After escaping from the attack range of the Indian frigate, the submarine Q001 "Dolphin" regained its silent stealth state in the sea water of 350 meters. Captain Lang Haiqiang, who was highly nervous, returned to a normal level of adrenaline.
The navy is an important symbol of a country's strength, throughout history, the rise and fall of a country is closely related to the strength of the navy. Perhaps it was God's sympathy for China, a weak power, that he arranged for the base to come to this era that would best lead to China's strength. When Zhou En's visit to the base, a group of members of the party committee of the base discussed with Premier Zhou Enlai the criteria for national defense modernization, saying that the establishment of a blue-water navy is an important indicator of a country's national defense modernization. is a sign of a true military power. In later generations, the United States and the Soviet Navy were well-deserved blue-water navies, and their ships could appear at any time in any possible sea area. Even the navies of the aging Britain, France, and other European countries, although they are not as large as the United States and the Soviet Union in their heyday, are still based on medium and light aircraft carriers as the core, large surface ships as the backbone, and with a large number of auxiliary vessels, they can also support them to carry out ocean-going operations of a certain intensity. If China wants to modernize its national defense, it must build a strong maritime force. When Premier Zhou returned to Yanjing, he took a large amount of information and technical data about various ships with him from the base. After the premier returned to Yenching, he immediately forwarded these materials to the relevant departments for a comprehensive demonstration.
(To be continued)