Chapter 155 - The Right to Control Electromagnetism
At Apra Air Force Base in Guam, a Tang Army TD-2 Hawkeye high-altitude electronic reconnaissance plane took off from the runway and prepared to go to the skies over Vietnam to conduct routine reconnaissance of the combat situation between the US and Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam War.
At the same time, two 4th generation Raptor fighters took off at the same time on the Tangjun airfield to escort the Hawkeye.
What is different from the past is that in the command room of the Guam Air Force Base, which has hundreds of large screens, has all been turned on, and Lieutenant General Liu Qiang, commander of the Guam Air Base, is personally in charge, making the command room tense and busy.
"Commander, are you sure you want to do this? This is a military adventure, to touch the ass of the US tiger, once the plan is ruined, the consequences are unimaginable, and it is afraid that it will cause a serious military crisis in Tang and the United States! Major General Xiao Ke, Chief of Staff, came to Liu Qiang's side and said with a worried face.
"Afraid of what? We are ferocious lions, and it doesn't matter if we touch the ass of an American tiger once in a while! Since the Ministry of Defense has handed over the secret weapon to us for actual combat testing, how can there be a place for actual combat in this vicinity except for the Vietnam War? It's clear that it's tacit consent to let us touch the ass of the Americans! Liu Qiang didn't care and said with an oath.
Xiao Ke smiled bitterly: "The superiors always give us some ambiguous orders, it's nothing more than that you carry something wrong, everything has nothing to do with them, it's all the grassroots officers who do it themselves, and push the responsibility away!" ”
Liu Qiang suddenly smiled and said: "It's not easy to eat anywhere, since you understand the twists and turns, you should be calm!" ”
Xiao Ke said helplessly: "Okay, I'm calm, anyway, the sky is falling and I'm carrying it again!" ”
This time it was Liu Qiang's turn to smile bitterly, obviously he was the tallest person here.
Report. Hawkeye has reached the sky above the target and asks the command if it is carrying out the Tianzi No. 1 plan! ”
Liu Qiang and Xiao Ke glanced at each other, and their expressions suddenly became serious. The two hurriedly stepped forward.
Liu Qiang took the phone and said, "I'm Lieutenant General Liu Qiang, and Eagle Eye will report the situation to me!" ”
Over the South China Sea, the TD-2 Hawkeye electronic reconnaissance plane hovered at an altitude of 10,000 meters, escorted by two Raptor fighters.
In the Eagle Eye cockpit, the commander, Major Wang Bing, observed the battle below through a high-altitude telescope while holding a phone to report to the base. Behind him were more than a dozen officers and soldiers.
At this time, off the central coast of Vietnam, the main forces of the US Third Fleet were launching a new round of fierce offensives. The goal was to land on the beach in central Vietnam and encircle the Chinese and Vietnamese troops in Cam Ranh Bay from behind. Once successful, more than one million Chinese and Vietnamese troops will be exposed to the enemy, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Artillery roared on the coast. Smoke fills the air. Each round of fire volleys fired by four Montana-class super battleships and two Iowa-class battleships was powerful enough to flatten the beachhead defensive positions constructed by the Chinese and Vietnamese forces on the coast.
There were also more than a dozen heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers in the vicinity of the six battleships, which together covered the approach of many large US landing ships to the coast, and thousands of US landing speedboats broke the waves and rushed towards the coast.
The firepower of the Sino-Vietnamese coalition is also extremely strong, and although they do not have naval support, the army and air force alone are enough to inflict heavy losses on the American army. Although the Tang Empire did not directly participate in the war. However, it exported a large number of top-notch weapons and equipment to federal China, most of which were used in the Vietnam War.
Now. In the shelter 10 kilometers behind the coastal positions of the Sino-Vietnamese coalition forces, 64 towed heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of 203 mm caliber and 55 times the diameter have been deployed in place, which is the strongest army towed artillery developed by the Tang Empire, and is known as the world's first army field artillery, which is several times more powerful than the 155 mm caliber heavy howitzer that the Tang Army was equipped with before, and its firing range is as high as 50 kilometers, and a single gun can destroy a light cruiser or destroyer, posing a serious threat to the US landing force.
"Ready, put!"
At the sound of an order, 64 203-mm guns opened fire one after another, and a ball of fiery red erupted from the muzzle of the guns, and one after another high-energy armor-piercing blasting shells were fired into the air, roaring towards the US fleet and landing force near the coastline.
"Boom!"
Shells rained down and exploded violently, stirring up columns of water hundreds of meters high, and some US landing craft were instantly hit, shattered, and turned into a huge black and red flame. The blast wave of the explosion set off a huge wave several meters high, causing the high-speed US landing craft to capsize in an instant, and the US soldiers inside fell into the water one after another.
The U.S. military has suffered this kind of loss more than once, and this is also the fundamental reason why the Vietnam War has been fought for more than 10 years, and it has not ended, but has become more and more miserable. China and Vietnam have the support of the Tang Empire behind them, constantly updating various weapons and equipment, forcing the US military to continue to expand the scale of the Vietnam War and invest more troops to participate in the war, becoming a big black hole in the US finances, consuming tens of billions of dollars every year, but still trying to save face and refuse to give up.
In the sky, mainly the fighters of the Chinese and American armies are fighting fiercely, the fighters of the squadron are J-8-F twin-engine jet fighters (Tang-made Raptor 3rd generation), equipped with 30 mm combat cannons, Hongqi 3 medium-range infrared radar-guided air-to-air missiles (Tang-made TK-18 cloud-piercing arrow air-to-air missiles) 4, US fighters are carrier-based F8 Black Widow twin-engine jet fighters, also equipped with 30mm combat cannons, Sidewinder radar-guided air-to-air missiles 4, the performance of the two fighters is almost the same, so they have been fighting for more than ten years, there are winners and losers for each other.
Due to the very rapid pace of updating the weapons and equipment of the two sides, the Vietnamese army was gradually reduced to a second-line and logistical support force, and the real Vietnam War was actually completely contested by the Chinese and American armies, and behind it was the Tang and the United States playing a game.
The battle below was fierce, but the Hawkeye reconnaissance planes and Raptor fighters of the Tang Army in the high altitude were watching the excitement.
Because the Tang Army's fighter planes have been sprayed with stealth materials, it is difficult for radar to detect them, so they will appear over the battlefield with a swagger to collect the combat signals of various US aircraft, warships, infantry, and other weapons, so as to facilitate the Tang Army to conduct a comprehensive study and assessment of the US military's combat strength.
On the way back from a wounded US plane, the pilot spotted three Tang Army planes with the naked eye and immediately made a report to the US Third Fleet Command.
The commander of the US army, Lieutenant General MacArthur Jr., has been fighting the war here for more than ten years, he is very annoyed, World War I and World War II have not been so difficult to fight, I haven't gone home with my wife for a long time, and recently I learned that his wife ran away with someone, he was very annoyed, and blamed all this on the Tang Empire, if it weren't for the support of the Tang Empire, the Vietnam War would have been over long ago.
When he received the report that the Tang Army's reconnaissance plane had come again, he couldn't hold back his anger and immediately sent more than a dozen F8 fighters to expel him.
Since it was in the airspace of the battlefield, according to international law, US planes have the right to shoot down unknown intruders, and MacArthur Jr. had already ordered them to open fire, so more than a dozen US fighter planes came in a murderous manner.
Wang Bing was reporting the battlefield situation to Liu Qiang, the commander of the base, and received Liu Qiang's order to start implementing the Tianzi No. 1 plan.
At this moment, he received an early warning that the US fighter planes had illuminated them with fire control radar.
"Raptor 3, please fire!"
"No need, immediately implement the Tianzi No. 1 combat plan, release the electromagnetic pulse bomb, and leave immediately!"
"Raptor 3 understands!"
The two Raptor fighters have the world's leading generation of superb performance, not only full stealth paint, but also supersonic cruise capability, and over-the-horizon attack capabilities.
It can be said that the combination of two Raptors is enough to take out more than a dozen flying US fighter jets, and the two sides will not even look at each other.
This time, the two Raptor fighters are on a special mission, and they will not take the initiative to get involved in the battle and affect the mission unless they have to.
Therefore, the two Raptor fighters soon opened the cabin, dropped two new bombs - EMP bombs - on the bottom of the battlefield, and then quickly left.
The EPM bomb is a new secret weapon discovered by the Tang Army during a nuclear test, which can emit electromagnetic pulse waves to destroy all electrical and electronic equipment within the radius of action within one second, and it is silent, making the enemy defenseless.
The two EMP bombs were detonated at a distance of 5,000 meters above the US Third Fleet, and in an instant, two electromagnetic pulse waves spread in all directions, with a radius of 40 kilometers.
In just one second, all the electrical and electronic equipment of the US military within a radius of 40 kilometers was destroyed by the instantaneous high magnetic field and high surge, the command system, communication system, and radar system of the US warship were instantly paralyzed, and all the electrical equipment in the battleship exploded and destroyed, igniting a large fire. The same is true of the US fighter planes in the air, all of which have failed in their electronic systems, and one after another has spun out of control and fallen, and some planes have exploded in volleys due to electric fires.
The U.S. battleship Montana used an electrically controlled main gun, and a shell had just been loaded, and the gunners were installing the propellant, when they were instantly attacked by electromagnetism, and the power system near the main gun caught fire instantly, causing barrels of propellant to explode.
The explosion spread to the ammunition depot under the main gun, because the ammunition depot had just been delivered and had not yet been closed, resulting in a massive explosion, the bow of the ship was blown up instantly, and the supergiant ship with a displacement of 70,000 tons sank into the sea in the blink of an eye, and tens of thousands of people died at the bottom of the sea before they could escape.
This sudden accident caused all the warships of the US Third Fleet to shut down and all the electrical and electronic equipment to malfunction, and in one second the US Third Fleet, the most advanced and modern fleet in the United States, returned to the level of primitive society.
At the same time, the landed US forces could not get naval and air support, and in the face of the strong artillery fire of the Chinese and Vietnamese troops, they suffered heavy casualties, and all the US warships became fixed target ships and were fiercely attacked, and hundreds of heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, landing ships, and troop carriers were sunk one after another, while the other five super battleships of the US army were not sunk because of their solid skin, but they were scarred, and it was not until five hours later that the US troops repaired some of the warships, leaving tens of thousands of corpses and fleeing in disarray. (To be continued......)