Daoguo said that the commander of the US army was hesitating, then Zhang Xuefeng was calm. [No pop-up novel network]

Although in the month. Day and night, Zhang Xuefeng didn't know the specific location of the fleet on the first day, but on this unquiet night, he didn't have the slightest worry.

Long before this naval battle, exactly. It was at the end of the year before the outbreak of the war, that is, more than a year ago, that Zhang Xuefeng, who was already the chief of staff of the Western Pacific Theater, participated in a simulated confrontation presided over by the Navy Command. For the first time, he saw the "Qin" class capital ship that was still under construction, and mastered the main performance data of this type of warship. This highly confidential simulated confrontation revolves around the "Qin"-class capital ship. The simulated confrontation was carried out in three situations: First, the aircraft carrier battle group lost its combat effectiveness. Only the main fleet with the "Qin" class as the core can compete with the enemy for sea supremacy; Second, the aircraft carrier battle group has only limited combat effectiveness, and the main fleet dominated by the "Qin" class has seized sea supremacy under the cover of carrier-based aviation; Third, the aircraft carrier battle group has perfect combat effectiveness, and the main fleet dominated by the "Qin" class will participate in combat operations to seize sea supremacy.

Because the atmosphere of the war explosion was already very strong at that time, the first batch of eight "Qin" class navies made the decision to order the second batch of female "Qin" class before the new year, but due to the limitations of the shipyard's construction capacity and the questioning of the combat capability of the "Qin" class, the second batch of construction work was arranged in the year of Libi, that is, after the first batch of launches. Before the construction of the slipway was completed, the navy made improvements to the second batch according to the performance of the first batch of "Qin" class in actual combat, which means that the later eight "Tang" class capital ships are almost impossible to complete before the explosion of the war, so the navy must consider the situation that may occur before its service, and prepare for war in a targeted manner

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Judging from the simulated confrontation, the navy at that time was not very sure about the performance and tactical use of the "Qin" class.

Of course, this does not include Zhang Xuefeng.

Although he came from the submarine force, and before becoming a commodore general, he served on the submarine for many years, leaving the most important youth of a person on the submarine, and thus became a "submariner" who was full of thought and habits, from language to behavior, but no one can deny that the submariner has always been known for its resilience and adaptability. Imagine who could live without going crazy for months in a tin jar that could be squashed by hundreds or thousands of tons of seawater on their heads? If anything, it's submariners. Of course, it must be added that even by the middle of the century, submarines were the only ships that kept women out.

As the captain of the rank of the captain of the Republic Navy in the history of the record, according to the tonnage. Zhang Xuefeng's results when he left the front-line troops surpassed Hua Jianfeng and Liu Haifeng, and Zhang Xuefeng's talent did not need to be doubted. It is such a proud record that allowed Zhang Xuefeng to get an opportunity that other officers could never dream of after being promoted to commodore in the Navy, that is, to return to the Military Academy in the form of commissioned training by the Navy and receive a two-year off-the-job training. To know. Pei Chengyi was here after receiving this training. He was given the opportunity to serve as a military adviser to Pakistan and reached the pinnacle of his military career as the commander-in-chief of the front line in the Indian War. In addition to Pei Chengyi, there are also Yuan Chenhao, Su Jinhui, Ling Yunxiao, Hua Jianfeng, Liang Guoxiang, Jia Baoguo and other famous generals who have participated in this training. It is no exaggeration to say that when it is Zhang Xuefeng's turn, this kind of two-year, irregular, and irregular resignation military literacy training has become an important symbol to measure the identity and success of the republicans.

It was these two years of training that allowed Zhang Xuefeng to gain the capital to become the supreme commander of the navy in the theater.

More importantly, the comprehensive military literacy training gave Zhang Xuefeng the opportunity to get in touch with the tactics of other services and arms, and also gave him the ability to integrate the tactics of other services and arms with submarine tactics, so as to form his own tactical thinking that is in line with the actual situation.

It can be said that after receiving two years of training. Zhang Xuefeng is no longer a simple "submariner".

According to a more reliable account, Zhang Xuefeng was one of the first generals in the Republic Navy to recognize the important position of capital ships in the Battle of the Unmaku. Although there is no direct evidence, and Zhang Xuefeng himself has not admitted it, at the end of the year, as the chief of staff of the theater who is in charge of naval affairs in the theater, Zhang Xuefeng actually took the initiative to ask to be in charge of the construction of the capital ships and the formation of the main fleet in the capacity of "chief of construction." This is enough to prove that this general, who has a brilliant record in the submarine battlefield, has found a new stage in life.

It must be admitted that Zhang Xuefeng is very different from other generals who also come from the submarine force.

In terms of the evaluation of the outside world, Zhang Xuefeng is a soldier who was born to fight, not a commander who stays behind the battle line.

Regardless of whether this evaluation is objective or not, it at least shows one problem, that is, Zhang Xuefeng is a soldier who likes to charge into battle.

From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand that Hua Jianfeng's focus on cultivating Zhang Xuefeng has nothing to do with Zhang Xuefeng's background.

In fact, there are many similarities between the capital ship and the submarines that Zhang Xuefeng is familiar with, at least the "Qin" class.

For example, the "Qin" class, like the submarine, attaches great importance to passive stealth, rather than active stealth, although the ways and methods of stealth are not exactly the same, that is, the "Qin" class attaches more importance to electromagnetic passive stealth including radar, infrared, visible light and ultraviolet light, while submarines pay more attention to sound wave passive stealth, but the result is the same. That is to quietly approach the enemy and then attack by surprise. This can be seen from the armament of the "Qin" class, especially the ammunition of the main battle weapons. The amount of ammunition reserves that can only consume old minutes is certainly not prepared for protracted war. Affected by this, the "Qin" class and submarines have a very significant common point when attacking targets, that is, they strive to kill with one blow, and as long as they get in the way once, they can completely destroy the enemy, or at least make the enemy lose their combat effectiveness. Not to mention anything else, the kilogram-level armor-piercing projectile is comparable to the power of the Tian millimeter heavy torpedo.

This fundamental similarity also determines the tactical similarity between the "Qin" class and the submarine.

It can be said that this is also the key factor for Zhang Xuefeng to be the commander of the first main fleet. In fact, the commander of the US Navy is also from the submarine force, and he is "professional"! He has been working on strategic submarines for many years.

In the same way, in the simulated confrontation, Zhang Xuefeng saw the strength of the "Qin" level at a glance.

Before the end of the simulated confrontation, Zhang Xuefeng sent a report to the naval command, in which he explained the strength of the "Qin" class capital ships, and also asked for the establishment of a special organization to study the naval combat tactics of the capital ships, and hoped that he would lead this organization.

Of course, what Zhang Xuefeng got was the chief assembly chief of the female "Qin" class capital ship. That is, the position of the "construction chief".

According to the custom of the Navy, each warship was ordered during the construction of the slipway, and the assembly chief was scheduled at a certain time in the construction. Normally, the assembly chief is appointed when naming a battleship, and it is certainly the first captain of the ship. Other words. At the time of Zhang Xuefeng's request, the assembly chiefs of the eight "Qin" class ships had already been determined. Moreover, as a rear admiral, he was not "qualified" to serve as the chief of assembly, so a new chief of assembly was added. Although the Navy had no precedent for forming a fleet of warships under construction, judging from the situation at that time. Unless there is a major change, the chief of assembly must be the commander of the fleet.

After getting this appointment, Zhang Xuefeng devoted himself to his new work.

That is to say, when he led the First Main Fleet to the battlefield, he already had more than a year of command experience, and not only knew all the tactical theories of the capital ship well, but also knew all the officers, including Captain Ming. Because he served as the chief of staff of the Western Pacific Theater, most of the escort warships assigned to the First Main Force Fleet were from the former Western Pacific Fleet, so Zhang Xuefeng also knew most of the captains and main officers in the fleet.

To put it mildly, the first main fleet is Zhang Xuefeng's fleet.

Of course, there are none. The officers and men of the fleet dared to underestimate this "captain" who used a submarine to send three aircraft carriers and several escort warships of the Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet to the bottom of the sea in a single attack during the Indian War.

In any case, Zhang Xuefeng has all the qualities and basic conditions to become an excellent fleet commander and achieve greater achievements in this position.

What's more, behind him, there is a supporter who has absolute trust in him.

According to the operational record of the Navy of the Republic. Hua Jianfeng's last order was in. The old day is the old point, the old is divided, and the main content of this order is to let Zhang Xuefeng make full decisions, and there is no need to ask for instructions on tactical issues. After that, knowing that the First Main Fleet had a good news, Hua Jianfeng did not give any orders.

It can be seen that in. When it's dark. The combat operations of the First Main Force Fleet have entered the stage of tactical decision-making.

The problem is that by this time, Zhang Xuefeng can only be sure of one thing, that is, the First Fleet has not yet entered the battle sea area that is thousands of kilometers away from the First Main Fleet...... At the end of the month, when the eight "Qin"-class capital ships were delivered to the Navy, the Navy Command approved the battle plan drafted by Zhang Xuefeng himself, that is, to fight a decisive battle with the US forces in the waters between the Mariana Islands and the Philippines, and to seize absolute sea supremacy in the western Pacific.

As a preliminary preparation for the campaign, the first batch of eight attack submarines left Zhoushan when the Republic Navy moved the headquarters of the Western Pacific Fleet back to Zhoushan, and moved the submarine headquarters here to the western waters of the Mariana Islands, and set up a submarine cordon in accordance with the predetermined method. By February 2, 24, before the 1st Main Fleet left Naha, the Navy of the Republic deployed skimming attack submarines to several straits north of Saipan in the Mariana Islands. The task of the submarine is the same, that is, it can even stop sailing when it is necessary to patrol the predetermined sea area, monitor the surrounding sea area with passive detection systems such as towed sonar and sideside sonar, and report the situation when there are suspicious targets, especially large fleets. That is, in the event of a temporary impossibility of sending reconnaissance aircraft to this sea area. The Navy of the Republic of China has built an invisible line of defense with submarines.

As mentioned earlier, it is practically difficult for submarines to ambush fleets above the knot, and submarines with scattered activities are not capable of ambushing capital ships covered by numerous escort warships. Take 10,000 steps back, unless they are very close, it will be difficult for submarines to use passive sonar to determine the fleet's voyage and line data. But one thing is certain, and that is that the loud noise of any large fleet can be seen by submarines hundreds of kilometers away.

That's enough. Anyway, the mission of the Naao submarine is to provide the most basic security vigilance for the first main fleet.

Of course, in tactical operations, such security alerts can also be turned into effective tactical reconnaissance means.

The reason is very simple: "The submarines are all operating in their respective Te'an waters, so they can roughly judge the position of the US fleet according to the submarines that have issued the alarm, and then dispatch reconnaissance planes, or directly have the first main fleet use "reconnaissance shells" to determine the exact position of the US fleet. Because the distance between the submarine cordon in the southeast direction and the first main fleet is about one kilometer. Even if the detection range of the submarine's passive sonar is added, when the submarine is alarmed, the distance between the first main fleet and the suspicious target is within a kilometer, that is, the suspicious fleet is already within the strike range of the first main fleet, so the use of "reconnaissance shells" is more practical.

Influenced by this, Zhang Xuefeng's tactics were very simple.

It's so simple that it's almost unbelievable: after determining the exact location of the enemy with "reconnaissance shells". Let the battleship automatically attack under the control of the central fire control computer.

To put it mildly, this is tantamount to no tactical arrangement.

The reason is simple, the central fire control computer on the flagship, which is unique to the flagship and is also the most powerful computer in the fleet, will automatically analyze and process all the battlefield information returned from the "reconnaissance shells". If there is a suspicious target whose characteristics are consistent with one or more types of enemy ships in the target database, the computer will not only automatically distribute the fire control information to all warships in the fleet, but will also activate the emergency control system, that is, the flagship will control all the warships that can strike at the target in a unified manner. More weight female rigid feet. At this time. The computer would ask the fleet commander whether or not to make a question. As soon as the Fleet Commander or other officers with commanding authority, such as the Captain and the Fleet Commander, select "Yes", the computer will automatically attack

This advanced fire control system minimizes human interference.

It can be seen from this that Zhang Xuefeng has done almost nothing.

There must be a problem with this, because the fire strike tactics of the capital ships and the main fleet, that is, the combat plans that are pre-set in the fire control computer, are almost all related to Zhang Xuefeng, and many of them were even thought up by Zhang Xuefeng alone. There is no doubt that these pre-set combat scenarios have been simulated and tested, and all of them have proven to be reliable and the most effective tactics for specific situations.

Objectively speaking, in the case of combat rhythm exceeding human reflexes, letting the computer control the combat is the only option.

However, no one can deny that talent is the first element of war, and computers can only be regarded as the first combat tool at best. And tools are always just weapons in the hands of people. Even in this era of milliseconds, people still play a role more than computers.

It can be said that in some cases, an idea that only the human brain can come up with is much more effective than any tactic that any computer can logically analyze.

Naturally, this includes reconnaissance tactics.

According to Zhang Xuefeng's arrangement, the fleet's reconnaissance tasks were to be carried out by the accompanying cruisers and destroyers. And not let the capital ship carry all the load.

This alone makes the tactics of the First Main Fleet more flexible, and it also has multiple opportunities to choose.

Like the U.S. Navy, the Republic Navy also has a variety of models of "reconnaissance shells" and can be very convenient to assemble and change the use of "reconnaissance shells", for example, after installing high-resolution visible light cameras, they are mainly used in good weather conditions during the day, and after installing millimeter-wave synthetic aperture radars, they are mainly used in bad weather conditions, equipped with infrared and external sensors at night, and if they are used with wide-angle cameras, they are used in post-war strike evaluation.

More importantly, the "reconnaissance shells" of the Navy of the Republic are also lightweight.

As mentioned earlier, with sufficiently advanced electronics, it is not necessary to carry out reconnaissance missions with shells weighing up to ah kilograms. In the case of the use of yo-kilogram projectiles, "reconnaissance shells" can be fired not only by capital ships, but also by electromagnetic cannons on escort warships. To be precise, it is not necessary to increase the firing range to more than o kilometers, mainly with electromagnetic guns on escort warships.

The reason is simple: the booster motive on the "reconnaissance shell" is able to increase its range to a kilometer.

It can be said that this is a very crucial episode.

As we all know, without the use of extended-range ammunition, the first-generation spiral electromagnetic guns equipped on cruisers and destroyers can only shoot standard-quality shells at most kilometers away, which is much shorter than the range of the second-generation spiral electromagnetic guns on capital ships. In fact, even with the use of extended-range ammunition, the maximum firing range of the Feng O-kilogram electric bumper gun is difficult to reach the kilometer. Affected by this, when the "reconnaissance shells" were specially prepared for the artillery battles of the capital ships, the design of the "reconnaissance shells" would not be earlier than the capital ships, and mass production was a matter of the Year of the Crane, the navy did not consider equipping them on escort warships, but used electromagnetic guns on the capital ships to shoot them like the US Navy. to gain the necessary range and make it as difficult as possible. After Zhang Xuefeng took over the start of the capital ship at the end of the year, he set new requirements for the performance indicators of the "reconnaissance shells," that is, they must be able to be fired by escort warships. And the firing range must not be lower than the maximum range of the main guns of the capital ship. Fortunately, when Zhang Xuefeng took over, the miniaturization of electronic equipment was advanced by several levels, and thanks to the space force's emphasis on small military satellites, the electronic system of the navy's "reconnaissance shells" was able to be made more precise, and it was able to free up space and mass, and to assemble rocket booster engines with greater thrust and longer working hours, thus increasing the range of the "reconnaissance shells" to kilometers long.

Of course, there is no reason to believe that as early as more than a year ago, Zhang Xuefeng encountered the naval battle at the beginning of the year.

Judging from the situation at that time, the main reason why Zhang Xuefeng changed the technical and performance indicators of the "reconnaissance shells" and demanded that the firing range be increased to at least the old 4,000 meters was not that he wanted to make full use of the escort warships, but that the ammunition depots of the "Qin" class capital ships were too narrow, and it was certainly much easier to change the design of the capital ships than to change the design of the "reconnaissance shells." More importantly, from the actual situation. The command of the Navy will not approve any proposal to change the basic design and construction of the capital ship without first ensuring that the capital ship can be put into service in a timely manner.

Objectively speaking, Zhang Xuefeng can do this. There is an absolute relationship with the strong base of the republic in the field of electromagnetic guns.

As mentioned earlier, due to technical limitations and other reasons, the longitudinal ...... electromagnetic cannon developed by the US Navy for the "Long Beach" class has the problem that it cannot use ammunition with other electromagnetic guns, so the US Navy can only develop several kinds of shells of two heavyweights for it alone, and it can be said that if the problem of ammunition versatility can be solved, the US Navy also hopes to use the electromagnetic guns on cruisers or destroyers to shoot "reconnaissance shells" And not to occupy valuable space in the ammunition depot of the host ship. From a technical point of view. Because the United States is not lagging behind the Republic in the field of electronics and still has a clear advantage in integrated circuits, the United States is fully capable of producing "reconnaissance shells" with a range of about 1,000 meters

It can be said that this small difference directly determines the tactical difference between the two fleets.

To put it plainly, when the US commander was in a dilemma, Zhang Xuefeng went to sleep. According to his arrangement, unless he received tactical information from the warning submarine, he would wait until dawn and let the reconnaissance planes go south to search for the first fleet. The First Main Fleet only needs to do one thing, that is, to wait for the First Fleet to take the initiative to send it to the door in a place that is out of reach of the US tactical aviation.

Of course, there may be other situations, such as when the First Fleet does not have the courage to come to the decisive battle, or if it has found a new target to attack. Is this already true? In the case that the first fleet did not go to the battlefield, the first abundance fleet was there. Well shelled Tinian Island, followed by artillery suppression of Guam to cover the landing of the Marines on Tinian Island.

In other words, if the first fleet does not come, the first main fleet will go to the trouble of the US Marine Corps. Because the greatest value of the existence of the First Pilot Fleet is to ensure sea supremacy in the western Pacific and hold Tinian Island and Guam, unless the US military is ready to abandon the Mariana Islands and retreat to Hawaii and Australia, it will not let the First Fleet hide far away. Besides, the fact that the Long Beach class was handed over to the US Navy and sent to the Pacific Ocean before it had time to complete all the pre-service tests was enough to prove that the US Navy did not want to lose its naval supremacy in the western Pacific at this time.

Some people may say that the First Fleet can completely stay near Guam and wait until the First Main Fleet goes to bombard Guam before coming out and surprise the First Main Fleet. This was obviously the most reasonable tactic, but the problem was that the 1st Main Fleet sailed from Naha to the western waters of the Mariana Islands seven times a month, and its strategic mission was to shell Guam rather than to visit the Philippine Sea. In other words. The 1st Main Fleet wandering in the waters north of the Yap Islands can be seen as waiting for the 1st Fleet to come to a decisive battle, or it can be seen as an amphibious fleet and transport fleet behind the cover. How to look at it in the end. It had to be decided by the actions of the American forces, not by the actions of the First Main Fleet.

After clarifying this point, and looking at the actions of the US First Pilot Fleet, it is not difficult to understand why the First Pilot Fleet continued to sail westward in the face of all difficulties and dangers, instead of staying in the relatively safe waters near Guam and waiting for the First Main Fleet to come to the door.

In terms of the tactics of naval warfare, if we wait until the First Main Fleet comes to the door, it means that the US military will completely lose the initiative.

It can be said that on the maritime battlefield, the initiative of detoxification is synonymous with defeat.

Because the first fleet did not stop moving westward, it was impossible for Zhang Xuefeng to sleep until dawn. Month. Around the point of the day, an attack submarine of the Republic Navy, which was patrolling about a kilometer west of Guam, picked up a loud noise from the first fleet. Although the distance is too far to be accurately measured. And the towed noise jamming system in the U.S. fleet disrupted the source of the noise. As a result, the passive sonar on the submarine could not accurately determine the direction, and could only roughly detect the direction of the US fleet in the direction of Guam, and there must be several new warships in it that had not been in contact before.

This information is enough!

About an hour later. That is, at about the third day of March, the attack submarine, which had turned and traveled northwest for a short distance in the sea, began to receive, and released a towing line that was thousands of kilometers long. It was about early in the morning, around one o'clock. The submarine used a towed long-wave antenna to send out a very important telegram, that is, tactical information on the encounter with the suspicious US fleet west of Guam.

It only took a few minutes for this intelligence point to be delivered to the communication center of the flagship of the First Main Fleet.

At midnight on the day of the moon, Zhang Xuefeng, who had just arrived at the commander's bridge, gave the order to turn.

The question in front of Zhang Xuefeng was whether the suspicious fleet of the submarine was the first fleet. Although the report from the submarine clearly mentions that there are at least several unidentified large warships in the fleet, the exact number is not mentioned. The specifics of an unknown large warship are also not mentioned. As a general from the submarine force, Zhang Xuefeng is well aware of the situation of the vigilant submarine ahead. You can understand the meaning of this report. The problem is that he also knows very well that modern noise jamming equipment can reduce the efficiency and reliability of passive sonar to the greatest extent, otherwise the attack submarine will not be equipped with active sonar, let alone advanced fire control computers.

If the US military wants to deceive its opponents, it is certainly not difficult to build a few "large warships."

After only hesitating for a few minutes, Zhang Xuefeng didn't think much about it, and after the operational staff officer and the commander came, he issued a combat order.

In any case, there is no reason for the US Navy to place a decoy fleet dedicated to luring the First Main Fleet so close to Guam. You must know that if the purpose is to lure the First Main Force Fleet into being fooled, the bait should be far away from Guam, so as not to scare the First Poison Fleet away.

At the same time, approximately! A kilometer away, the First Fleet also received an urgent telegram.

Although the attack submarines of the current pilot fleet use long-wave radios with low detectability, because of their low operating frequency, it is difficult to accurately determine their bearings, and frequency technology is used, but it is certainly not possible to keep the telegraph transmitted in the sea area just over a kilometer from Guam. Precisely, at the time of receipt of the telegram by the Navy of the Republic. The telegram was also received by the United States Navy's listening stations on Guam and several islands to the south. Although the U.S. military has no way to break the content of the telegram. After all, the telegram with electronic encryption technology. The chances of decryption are almost nil unless the original code is obtained, but the U.S. military can be sure that the telegram was sent by a Republic submarine. It is also possible to roughly determine the sea area where the telegram will be delivered, and even be able to send several anti-submarine patrol aircraft to this area in a timely manner.

In fact, there is no need for the US military to break the content of Chiang's telegram.

Combined with the situation at that time, anyone can guess the general content of the telegram. It was for this that the US Pacific Fleet Command, after receiving the alert, immediately contacted the First Pilot Fleet.

At this time, there were still two options before the commander of the First Fleet.

According to the operational strategy, "when threatened, two completely different actions can be taken according to the situation on the battlefield." First, it is necessary to stop the combat operation of searching for a decisive battle of the First Main Fleet, retreat to the waters southeast of Guam, wait for a suitable reality, and then go north for a decisive battle with the First Main Fleet. Second, when we are sure that we will find the first main force fleet and attack first, we will actively look for the first main force fleet for a decisive battle.

Obviously, the situation at this time is not exactly the same as in both plans.

If it is said that the 1st Main Fleet is at least 1,000 kilometers away, the submarine that sent the telegram is about 1,000 kilometers away, and neither the escort warships nor the anti-submarine patrol planes have found any enemy submarines within 4,000 kilometers of the vicinity, there is no reason to say that the First Fleet is threatened. The problem is, not to mention that you are sure to attack first, now you can even find the first main muscle... Duo is very sleepy, important. Ken Hong of the first leading fleet will definitely adjust his tactics after receiving the tactical information of the submarine, that is, he will take the initiative to meet it. In this way, before dawn will encounter the main fleet of Diren. And the reconnaissance aircraft will be able to find the first main fleet only after dawn. That is, if you want to fight a decisive battle with the 1st Main Fleet at night, you can only rely on your own strength, and you cannot count on other forces.

Arguably, this is the most critical question.

Since it is impossible to determine whether the 1st Main Fleet has accurately grasped the whereabouts of the 1st Pilot Fleet, that is, whether the submarine that sent the telegram has collected the navigation data of the 1st Pilot Fleet, it can only consider the worst-case scenario, that is, the other side has already mastered all the information of the 1st Pilot Fleet.

To be precise, the US commander must not leave anything to chance, and at least should stop sailing westward.

By the time the US commander figured out this reasoning, it was already about a point.

Because the 1st Fleet was still sailing in a northwesterly direction, and the 1st Main Fleet had turned its course to Guam about a minute earlier, the U.S. commander gave the order to turn. The distance between the two sides is not a kilometer, but about 4,000 meters.

What's more, about a minute before that. Zhang Xuefeng officially issued a combat order to the whole fleet.

According to the combat record of the 1st Main Fleet.! In accordance with the operational plan, the eight cruisers and eight multipurpose destroyers in the fleet fired more than 1,000 "reconnaissance shells" at the sea areas where the suspicious fleet reported by the submarine might arrive. According to the calculation of the sea area of each "reconnaissance shell" to accurately detect and search the square kilometer of the shell, the shell will enter the gliding flight stage at a distance of 1,000 kilometers from the sea surface. And activate the sensor, search a rectangular area along the trajectory direction, and end the search when the flight altitude is reduced to a blade kilometer, only need to keep the sensor's field of view width at about degrees, you can search the sea area of about, square kilometers, and remove the repetitive pressing area. On average, it is not difficult to search for an average of square kilometers of sea area per shell. The remaining "reconnaissance shells" can search for a sea area of more than 40,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to an entire sea area with Guam as the core and a radius of 1,000 kilometers. Of course, it is not possible to distribute the search forces in such an even way during actual operations, but it is necessary to allocate reconnaissance forces according to the probability of the appearance of the enemy fleet, that is, to conduct repeated searches in the sea areas where the enemy fleet is most likely to appear, and to allocate reconnaissance forces in certain proportions to the sea areas that are unlikely to appear. Even so, thousands of "reconnaissance shells" can search the sea area that has fallen 10,000 square kilometers.

If it weren't for the unclear reports of submarines, the First Main Fleet would not have used so many "reconnaissance shells".

You know, if calculated by value. Heartmouth multiple "reconnaissance shells." Equivalent to the same number of heavy anti-ship missiles.

Again, this is to find the First Fleet, not to attack the First Fleet.

Of course, within the range of the ship's guns. Finding the First Fleet is the beginning of the attack on the First Fleet.

Because "reconnaissance shells." It was shot by cruisers and destroyers, and the flight was a little slower. When reaching the apex of the trajectory, it is necessary to use the rocket booster engine to extend the flight range in outer space and achieve the purpose of increasing the range. It is important that in the absence of being able to reach the first cosmic degree, these "reconnaissance shells." Eventually, they all have to follow a parabolic trajectory back into the atmosphere. Due to these factors, the flight of the "reconnaissance shell" is a little slower than that of other shells that do not use the range extension technology, so the flight time is longer.

It's just that for a shell with an average flight in the Limach, it only takes four seconds to fly a kilometre, which is a little more than three minutes.

That is, when the commander of the US military made the decision to turn, "reconnaissance shells." It has reached the skies over the First Fleet.

Due to the influence of the ionosphere, the passive detection system of the First Fleet does not have "reconnaissance shells" that are flying at altitudes of more than 1,000 meters. "Until these shells enter the dive trajectory, that is, under the ionosphere. And when the captured images were shot back in the form of high-compression digital signals, the passive detection system on the US warship received the electromagnetic signal source, and it was a starry array of hundreds of electromagnetic signal sources that appeared in the night sky. Handle so many electromagnetic signals at the same time. It's a hassle for sure, and even a level-level computer takes a little time. In fact, an experienced fleet commander should have known before the computer drew analytical conclusions. The source of the electromagnetic signal that appears above the fleet is the "reconnaissance shell", and it is the reconnaissance shell projected by the enemy fleet.

Suddenly, the US military is not completely passive.

Thanks to the world's best computer technology, the class computers on the US warships are definitely no worse than those on the Republic warships, and after judging the danger, the class computers of the US warships immediately activated the emergency defense and combat mechanism. Because those "reconnaissance shells" did not pose a direct threat to the warship, the US warship did not activate the air defense system and interception system. More importantly, after analyzing all the electromagnetic signal sources and their movement trajectories, the fire control computer on the flagship of the First Pilot Fleet was able to roughly analyze the position of the First Main Fleet at this time by combining the information it had already mastered, such as the navigation track of the First Main Fleet, the maximum range of its main guns, and so on. Although this rough analysis cannot be used as attack data, it can be used as a reference data for searches with "reconnaissance shells", thereby reducing the use of "reconnaissance shells" and ensuring that the first main fleet is found before the last "reconnaissance shell" is used.

The entire analysis process lasted only a few minutes, and the fire control computer of the flagship of the first fleet gave a reference decision for "countermeasures", that is, "reconnaissance shells." The sea area where the first main fleet of the Humble Rope is most likely to appear.

The U.S. commander did not reject this proposal, but let the computer do it in the best possible way, "Regardless of whether the U.S. commander recovered from the shock or not, he should know that time is running out for the first fleet, and no matter what you do, you should hurry!"