In terms of the military strength of the Labor Republic, the Lyor army of Hawaii is crying. The only thing lacking is a suitable strategic platform. That is, it can support hundreds of thousands of troops and become a large sea base for the Republican team before landing on the main islands of the Hawaiian archipelago.

Even before the outbreak of the war, there were many discussions within the Republic about whether or not to enter the Hawaiian Islands, and how to enter the Hawaiian Islands.

As we all know, the purpose of entering the Hawaiian Islands is to enter the North American continent and enter the mainland of the United States. Because the invasion of the Hawaiian Islands is not the only means, it is not a necessary option. As early as the murderous year, that is, when the pre-war preparations were in full swing, the General Staff put forward several sets of strategic plans for advancing into the United States, which were generally divided into three directions, southeast, and west, that is, crossing the Pacific Ocean to the east, landing on the west coast of the North American continent, marching into South America, marching north along the Isthmus of Central America and marching north into the United States, and advancing westward and landing in North America from the direction of the North Atlantic. Of the three schemes, there are several schemes each. The north route is to land in Alaska from the Bering Strait and go south along the western coastal plain of the Rocky Mountains, the middle route is to land on the west coast of the United States through the Hawaiian Islands, and the south route is to land in Central America through the Central Pacific Islands, and then go north to enter the United States through Mexico. Although the eastward route of the center, that is, the attack on the Hawaiian Islands, was the most feasible of the many options, until the year before, there were still those within the Republican ** team who thought that this route was too traditional. It is also the most difficult. It was not until a group of computers built specifically for war preparations was put into operation and a comprehensive simulation analysis of various strategic advance plans was carried out that the debate over the route of the march died down. The results of the simulation analysis are very clear, that is, in extreme cases, the cost and difficulty of attacking the US mainland through the Hawaiian Islands are minimal, and the main route of the march is the main route, while other directions can only play a supporting role. Influenced by this, the republic's preparations for war were basically related to this. Of course, during the war, the strategic offensive of the republic was also deeply affected. For example, after occupying the Kamchatka Peninsula and sweeping the Russian Far East, the Republican ** team did not land in Alaska from the Bering Strait, or even advanced towards the Bering Strait.

After it was determined that the Hawaiian Islands must be attacked. All that's left is how to attack the Hawaiian horde.

Before the outbreak of the war, the authorities of the Republic also used a computer fleet to simulate the combat operations of the attack on the Hawaiian Islands.

Although computer simulation analysis cannot be absolutely accurate, and in some cases there may even be large errors, but in some cases, the computer simulation analysis results are still the most important, and in some cases, even the only reference data. It can be said that in almost all decisions from strategic to tactical, the Republic and the US authorities have made full reference to the results of computer simulations and analyses and have used them to guide military construction. Facts have also proved that the impact of computer simulation analysis on the combat operations of the two sides is very significant.

It is undeniable that the authorities of the Republic were developing a plan of operation to attack the Hawaiian Islands. The results of computer simulation analysis are fully referenced.

Although the authorities of the Republic have never published any data from the analysis of computer simulations, there is reason to believe that the conclusions drawn by the authorities of the Republic on the basis of computer simulations were made before the outbreak of the war. It was determined that the Hawaiian Islands could not be captured through Wake Island and Midway. The reason is simple: the "sea base group", which played a crucial role in the attack on the Hawaiian Islands, was developed before the outbreak of the war, and it began to be implemented before the outbreak of the war.

"Complex of sea bases. It is not a large-scale sea base, in nature, "sea base group" and "sea base". There is an essential difference, that is, the main value of the existence of sea bases is to play an active and effective role in a war with a clear purpose and provide strong support for combat units, while the main value of the existence of sea base groups is to flexibly and conveniently provide support and cooperation for combat units in all aspects in a certain strategic direction, and become a strategic base for military operations at the theater level.

Of course, there must be a core sea base in the sea base group, and on the basis of this sea base, other functional sea bases will be added according to the operational needs.

With this capability, naturally, is the fifth-generation sea base.

It was this until the completion of the construction of the fifth-generation sea base, and the formation of combat effectiveness. The expansion into the Hawaiian Islands is only possible for implementation.

In fact, fifth-generation sea bases did not first appear in the central Pacific Ocean.

This is likely to be the largest self-navigating floating facility complex in human history, which first appeared in the Southwest Pacific theater, and before the end of the field year. It has always been the main base for strategic bombers of the Space Forces of the Republic.

Let the fifth-generation sea base go to the southwest Pacific to warm up first, mainly because the infrastructure construction cannot keep up with the needs.

Although in accordance with the agreement signed by the republic with France. During the war, the republic was free to use Volpol Island, that is, strategic bombers could be deployed to the island. Since most of Noumea's land was private territory, and the French government's state-owned land in New Caledonia was mainly mountainous and unsuitable for an airport, the Republic agreed to this proposal and built a military base on Thierpole Island. But what the republic did not expect was that this island made of coral reefs was not suitable for the construction of military bases, especially for the service of strategic bombers of the Space Army. As a result, the progress of the project on Volpole Island was greatly delayed, and most of the construction plans were adjusted. According to the estimates of the engineering units of the Marine Corps. The airport on Volpole Island will not be put into operation at the end of June, but at the end of the impeachment year, and may even be delayed until the end of the first quarter of the year.

The progress of the project can be delayed, but the bombing campaign cannot be delayed.

In response to this problem, the authorities of the Republic made two preparations: one was to negotiate with France to deploy bombers at Nouméa airfield, and the other was to build more fifth-generation sea bases and send the first fifth-generation sea bases to the southwest Pacific. Although before the Republican Navy advanced into the Fiji Islands, the French authorities made concessions and agreed to the deployment of bombers by the Republican Celestial Forces at Noumea airfield. However, it was clearly demanded that these bombers should only be used to carry out purely military missions, that is, they could not be used to carry out strategic bombing of Makoto Needle and civilian facilities, and all the strategic bombers deployed in the Pingyang Ocean were sent to support the combat operations of attacking the Fiji Islands, while the bombers that carried out strategic bombing against Australia were all deployed in the Ryukyu Islands, which were further away from the battlefield, and military bases in Southeast Asia.

It was not until the end of April that the first fifth-generation sea base, named "Pangea", arrived in the Coral Sea and was located in the northern waters of a small archipelago dominated by coral reefs and atolls in the northwest of New Caledonia in the Huon Islands. This situation has fundamentally changed.

It has to be admitted that fifth-generation sea bases do have unparalleled advantages in supporting strategic bombing.

In the standard case, it is composed of a modular ship, which is used to accommodate and support strategic bombers, and the Yan ship is used to carry and preserve ammunition materials. In the case of the whip serving personnel and the landing of various functional modular ships, the "Pangu" can accommodate the specific number of bombers that are concave to friendly knife frames, depending on the type of bomber on board, and at the degree of blade frame per minute, half of the bombers are dispatched in an attack cycle. In other words, "a sea base can undertake a bombing mission in a strategic direction." If calculated in terms of capacity, the "Pangu" is equivalent to a large bomber base. If calculated in terms of dispatch capacity, it is equivalent to the old airport. In fact, the most powerful place for the fifth-generation sea base is not yet here.

The biggest advantage of fifth-generation maritime bases over military bases is their high operational efficiency.

As we all know, most military bases are planar structures, especially aviation bases, and even if many key facilities are placed underground, such as ammunition depots, command and control centers of bases, power supply systems, and so on, the operation mode of these military bases is still planar, not three-dimensional. In the case of supporting bombers. Before takeoff, a bomber has to carry out maintenance checks, replenish coolant and other liquids, reload ammunition, charge the power system, etc., and most of these must work cannot be carried out at the same time, and the reason why it cannot be carried out at the same time is not that it is not allowed, but that there is not enough space. As a result, the preparation time for the bomber to take off is often several hours, and even in an emergency, even if most of the preparations are made in advance, it can take several minutes to take off. On fifth-generation sea bases. This problem is not so obvious, except for some preparations that cannot be carried out at the same time for safety reasons, such as replenishing liquid and gas at the same time as charging, and must be carried out separately, all other preparations can be completed at the same time in a three-dimensional way, so the preparation time before take-off can be shortened to within a blade minute, reaching the level of a fighter. If you don't consider the structural strength and service life of the bomber fuselage, you can double the sortie rate of the bomber!

To put it simply, let the merit bombers do the work of 4 or four bombers.

Of course, in order to fully display the combat effectiveness of bombers, it is necessary to train more pilots first. If the shortage of pilots was a very real problem in the year of the year and the year of the letter, then in the year of Tian, with a large number of pilots who were recruited and trained after the outbreak of the war to enter the front-line troops, this problem was not so prominent, or even a problem. For example, by the end of the first quarter of the Tian year, the ratio of the number of bomber flight crews to the number of bombers of the Republic of China Celestial Army had reached Hong, and even if the rotation was counted, it was guaranteed that the bombers had two crews. If all goes well, by the end of the year, this ratio will be raised to the dirty right, ensuring that in any case "the bomber has a fiber crew." In this way, the bomber pilots were given ample rest time.

A high-intensity bombing campaign is more demanding on the bomber itself than it is about requiring more pilots. To put it mildly, if the sortie rate of bombers is doubled, that is, the number of bombing missions carried out by Sun Bushi is increased from two to four, the service life of the bombers will be shortened to one-third of what is normal under normal circumstances. According to this calculation, "a bomber worth tens of billions of yuan can only fly for a maximum of three years, which is equivalent to a flypower year in peacetime, and even if it is modernized, it can only fly for a maximum of one year, which is equivalent to a flying blade year in peacetime."

This lamb is the question: "Can a bomber get a sufficient return on tens of billions of investments in 3 years?"

Thankfully, no one would have settled this economic account during the war. In any case, war is definitely not a matter of calculation, otherwise it would not have destroyed a tent worth four yuan with a ferocious bomb.

The most important thing is that the arrival of the "Pangu" allowed the strategic bombing to be carried out smoothly.

In April of the same year, the Celestial Army of the Republic of China used the bombers deployed on the "Pangu" for the first time to carry out strategic bombing of the industrial area centered on Rockhampton in northeastern Australia. To be on the safe side, during the bombing that day, only a few sorties were sorted, and the bombers were divided into old groups and bombed separately. More importantly, the bombers mainly used long-range ammunition with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, and only 2 groups of Jinduo bombers used tactical ammunition with a range of about 1,000 kilometers.

Undoubtedly, the greatest significance of this round of bombing is to prove that the efficiency of small-scale bombing is not high.

Although throughout the bombing campaign, the bombers on duty were not much threatened. Even the two fleets close to the Australian mainland were not intercepted, and only three bombers broke down during their missions, two of which flew to the emergency landing site on Walpole Island, and the other crashed on the way back. And the failure rate of about 1 in 1,000 is also normal. However, the results achieved in this round of bombing are also not worth mentioning, not only were most of the long-range ammunition intercepted, but even the missiles that broke through the interception system were not able to destroy many targets, but on the contrary, the two aircraft groups using tactical ammunition achieved good results.

At the end of the day, it's a question of ammunition.

It's not the penetration capability of long-range ammunition. However, when using long-range ammunition, the bomber's carrying capacity is very limited, and it is impossible to drop enough body clams in a single bombing.... In addition to shortening the interception time of the enemy's air defense system and interception system by shortening the firing range, the greatest significance is that the dense amount of bombs can saturate the interception system. It is not possible to intercept all munitions in a timely and effective manner. To put it bluntly, "a new type of bomber invested by the Celestial Army of the old Republic alone can only carry a good number of long-range cruise missiles at most." However, it can carry as many as many pieces of tactical ammunition under the same circumstances, so that four old planes can drop Jikou cruise missiles or mouth tactical ammunition in a single bombing, even if the combat efficiency of the enemy's interception system is 100 percent, it also means that when using tactical ammunition, it can be more crispy. ammunition, which can make the enemy's interception system worthless.

All in all, this method of increasing the penetration rate by throwing the amount of ammunition is very common in large-scale wars.

Affected by this, in the next few days. The bombers deployed on the "Pangu" adjusted their tactics and began to use tactical ammunition on a large scale.

Of course, this brought a new problem, that is, the rate of bomber losses began to skyrocket.

It's also easy to understand that bomb groups are vulnerable to fighter interception when bombs need to be dropped close to the target, and most bomber groups have to take risks. No matter how advanced the couple is. In front of the enemy's air defense fighters, they all looked very vulnerable. For example, on 3 February, the bombers on the "Pangu" flew a total of more than one sortie in Wangkou, and were shot down by a US air defense fighter and a meteorite mouth frame due to malfunction and unknown reasons. The overall battle loss rate was as high as the old Nuo, which was more than 7 times the overall battle loss rate of the bombers of the Republic's Celestial Army in the first two years of the Great War!

In the face of the sesame blossoming bomber battle loss rate, the Republican Celestial Army was not stunned and took the initiative to ask the naval aviation to provide escort fighters for the bombers. Fortunately, the Navy of the Republic had already seized absolute sea and air supremacy in the waters of the Fiji Islands, so after receiving the request of the Space Army, it immediately dispatched a number of fighters from the tactical air force to return to New Gloridania. 2 days later, the Navy of the Republic returned to the Tasman Sea from the sea base of the "Kuye Island", which was operating in the direction of the Fiji Islands, and covered the bombers on the "Pangu" with the fighters on board.

At that time, the main reason for the Navy's deployment of the Kuye Island sea base in the Tasman Sea was that the infrastructure of Novaya Lidonimo was really bad, and it could only accommodate a tactical air force at most. And full attendance is not guaranteed. What's more, as the bombing area extends southward, the combat effectiveness of the fighters deployed in New Lloridonia will rapidly decrease. Therefore, it is necessary to deploy an offshore platform here that is specially equipped to carry escort fighters.

It can be said that this unintentional move has instead achieved the most effective bombing tactics.

Theoretically, "a fourth-generation sea base is enough to support a thousand fighters." Even in the case of ensuring the efficiency of the sortie of fighters. It can also support a tactical air force because it is mainly deployed on sea bases, so the size of the naval tactical air force is determined by the support capability of the fourth-generation sea base, that is, it can ensure the smooth performance of combat missions by compass fighters under any circumstances. According to the actual combat experience summed up by the Republic's Celestial Army on the mainland battlefield, "the safety of the 3-to-dart bombers can be ensured by escorting fighters." From this, it can be seen that even the fighters deployed on the fourth-generation sea bases can only be dispatched half at a time. It can also cover objects and young bombers, and the fifth-generation sea base can only be dispatched at a time, such as the Junkou bomber. Although there is no evidence to prove it. When designing the fourth-generation offshore platform and the fifth-generation offshore platform, the technical staff of the Navy of the Republic took this situation into account, that is, to let the two offshore platforms work together, but at least it is certain that the fifth-generation offshore platform was designed at the time. It must have referred to the proposal of the Space Army, after all, this kind of offshore platform with epochal significance was considered as a sea base for strategic bombers and even aerospace bombers when the project was established.

Of course, the sea base of "Kuyewu" also played a very important role in the battle. That is to act as an emergency landing field for damaged bombers.

In the case of a light load, the strategic bomber is able to land on a runway that is a meter long. If the lift thruster is not damaged, it can also land vertically with no load. Therefore, some bombers that were damaged in battle or broke down during the mission did not need to return to the "Pangea", let alone fly to the farther Noumea, and could land on the "Kuye Island". More importantly, in the operational deployment, the "Kuye Island" will definitely be in front of the "Pangu". That is, it is closer to Australia, so some seriously damaged bombers, especially those who have no way to drop their ammunition, must not land on the sea base at this time, and they can make a forced landing near the "Kuye Island" and then wait for rescue, without worrying that they will be finished if they do not wait for rescue after a forced landing at sea. Of course, this will not have an impact on the combat operations of the "Kuye Island" and the "Pangu".

All in all, the deployment of a much smaller, more flexible fourth-generation sea base in front of a larger, more conspicuous, and more vulnerable fifth-generation sea base that can sail at the level of Feng Jie, while the fifth generation sea base can only sail at the degree of a broken node, is of great significance to improving the combat efficiency and safety of the fifth-generation sea base. In later battles, the Republic Navy also extended and expanded this tactic, that is, if necessary, let the third-generation sea bases, which were about to be obsolete, use their spare heat to enhance the escort force of the bomber group, and by the way, improve the overall safety of the sea bases.

As a matter of fact, this mode of joint operation with multiple sea bases is another way of embodimenting the operational concept of "sea base group."

Tactically speaking, the biggest change brought about by the sea base of the "Kuye Island" is the bombing mode.

Bright. On the first day of the battle at the "Kuyewu" sea base and the tactical air force on board, the Republican Celestial Army organized the first "1,000-plane bombardment" in the Pacific theater

In the morning and afternoon of the same day, more than four strategic bombers deployed on the "Pangu" were divided into two batches and carpeted four jackals in the southeastern region of the state centered on Brisbane and the core area of the 10 states of New South Wales centered on Tani, and used nearly 10,000 tons of bombs to blow up eight industrial areas with a total area of 20,000 square kilometers in these two areas into ruins.

This day is also known as "Disaster Tuesday".

After the end of the Third World War, the Australian authorities designated the day as "Bombing Victims Day." ”

In fact, this was only the beginning of the "big bombing". And not the end.

Of course, the source of the "big bombing" was not Australia, nor the Pacific theater, but Russia on the continental theater. As early as 2 years ago, in the middle of the 8th year, after helping the Navy advance into the Mariana Islands, the Celestial Army of the Republic organized several large-scale bombardments on the continental battlefield. Of course, on the scale of equipment at that time. Dispatching hundreds of bombers to carpet bomb targets in a certain area with tactical ammunition at a time can be regarded as a "big bombing." In the second year, that is, before the "arms limitation talks," the scale of the bombing was raised from more than four planes to many planes. The area of one-time bombing has also increased from one to several. At the beginning of the year, that is, before Russia announced its defeat and surrender, the Celestial Army organized three large-scale bombardments on the mainland battlefield, and since then it has opened the prelude to the "Thousand Aircraft Bombing", making bombers the most violent war tools again.

You know, the bombers in World War III are not bombers in World War II

Machine.

Four more than east front. Prisoners flying from Tinian Island were generally limited to ammunition when bombing the Japanese mainland, even if they were on high-altitude routes. It can only carry up to 6 tons of ammunition, so when the old field frame is dispatched, it can throw thousands of tons of bombs at a time. Because at that time, the US military bases in the Mariana Islands could not deploy so many bombers. Therefore, the amount of bombs dropped in each bombing campaign is mostly below the mouth stew. In contrast, the maximum bomb load of the old is as high as a knife ton, and the bomb load of a kilogram-class bomb is also about a ton under normal circumstances, and a four-kilogram cruise missile or a concave kilogram-level tactical ammunition. Moreover, it can reach the maximum combat radius with a ton of bombs, so the "8" can drop 10,000 tons of ammunition in a bombing, which is equivalent to many times the force of the prisoner group.

It can be said that such a large amount of bombs. It's no longer just about destroying targets.

From the day of its birth, strategic bombers are strategic weapons. As a strategic weapon. The main value of existence is to carry out strategic strikes against enemy countries. And the most effective strategic strike is not the destruction of the enemy's strategic military objectives. Rather, it is to destroy the national foundations of the enemy country, such as factories, cities, roads, airports, ports, and so on. It can be said that the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan by the US military in World War II explained the significance of strategic bombing in the most direct way, and also comprehensively expounded the basic tactics of strategic bombing.

We have to admit that the Republic is learning from the United States in how to use strategic bombing.

After tasting the benefits of the 1,000-plane bombing on the mainland battlefield, the Republican Celestial Army spent several months summing up its experience and making adjustments to its bombing tactics. To put it in relatively simple terms, after the bombing campaign on the continental battlefield, the Republican Celestial Army summed up the bombing of 1,000 planes as follows: "Theoretically, no Japanese bomber worthy of dispatching a bomber at the same time, not even a population like Sydney." 10,000 international metropolis. It can't withstand the ravages of the coffee bombers. More importantly, in tactical use, because the explosion of ammunition will have an impact on bombing operations, it is not possible to allow milk rack bombers to drop ammunition over an area at the same time. What's more, it is almost impossible to command and control a four-distillation bomber in an airspace. In this way, the Thousand Bombers were actually sorties, with four bombers bombing multiple targets, and the only advantage of doing so was that the enemy could not intercept all the bomber groups. Either concentrate on intercepting bombers in a certain area. Either the limited air defense will be consumed on an infinite number of battlefields. In order to improve the survival rate of bombers, although the simple way is to let the bomber groups in all directions arrive at Fengyi at the same time. And at the same time launched a bombing campaign. From this, it follows that "arrived at the same time." It is not only experience, but also the most basic and simple combat tactics for the bombing of 1,000 planes.

Of course, to put it simply, it's just the tactics themselves. and not the specific implementation process. After the Republican Celestial Army gained the experience of a thousand-plane bombing on the mainland battlefield, it did not immediately use it in the Pacific theater, and the key is that it did not meet the conditions. You must know that on the continental battlefield, the space army does not lack strategic bases, and there are enough places to deploy curved bombers. There was also enough access to command and control, recess bombers, and in the Pacific theater, especially in the Southwest Pacific theater, there was a lack of command channels, in addition to not having enough bases. Of course. These questions are all related to the "Pangu." The arrival of the sea base was easily solved, and after the arrival of the sea base of the "Kuye Island", it had a more solid foundation.

What is involved here is the escort tactics of the 1,000-plane bombing.

In any case, bombers are extremely vulnerable targets, and when attacked, bombers have very limited self-defense capabilities and means. It can be said that the prerequisite for the bombing of 1,000 planes is a sufficiently powerful escort force. Through combat operations on the continental battlefield, the Celestial Force summed up many escort tactics, and summed up the effectiveness of various escort tactics, especially their adaptability in various situations, and then arranged the most effective escort combat methods to improve the efficiency of escort operations.

For the bombing of 1,000 planes, the most effective escort operation is before the bomber group enters. Expel the enemy's air defense fighters with escort fighters, at least ensure that the enemy is unable to concentrate enough air defense fighters in a certain direction, and then accompany the bomber group with a small number of escort fighters. to ensure that the bomber group successfully completed the mission.

According to the escort combat tactics formulated by the Space Army, in the case of dispatching the old four bombers to deal with a target, the old squadron's wrecked fighters are required to carry out the advance sweeping mission, and a squadron of fighters is also needed to accompany the bomber group's activities

It can be seen from this that the arrival of the "Kuye Island" sea-based has enabled the 1,000-plane bombing to be carried out.

Exactly. On the first day of the "Kuye Island" participating in the battle, the Celestial Army organized a large-scale bombing of 1,000 planes, and carried out two rounds of bombing within the sky, so that all the bombers and escort fighters participated in the battle.

Because each bomber was equipped with two crews, and later it was expanded to the fact that each fighter was equipped with a micro crew, the Heavenly Army again organized two rounds of 1,000-plane bombing on the day of the month, so that all bomber pilots were familiar with, or rather revisited, the main tactics of the 1,000-plane bombing, especially the tactics of cooperating with the escort fighters after entering the theater of operations.

Obviously, the bombing campaign of these two days was only a warm-up exercise for the Celestial Army of the Republic. Month day. The Celestial Army gave the front-line troops a day of rest and asked the bomber units to seize the time to solve the problems exposed during the bombing operation and to sum up the lessons learned.

On Anal Day, the bombing campaign began again.

In the first hour of the day, the two bombers carried out a total of four 1,000-plane bombings on major towns and industrial areas in the eastern and southeastern regions of Australia in a period of six hours, dropping nearly 10,000 tons of ammunition.

The intensity of the bombing campaign remained at that level for more than a month.

We have to admit that in the large-scale bombing of individual planes, the greatest pressure is on the logistics support troops.

As mentioned earlier, the "Pangu" sea base has a total of ammunition module ships, each of which can carry 10,000 tons of ammunition, so the "Pangu" has a clear self-sustaining power. The problem is that it takes at least a few days to refill 48 ammunition module ships at sea, and counting the module ships that have to undergo regular maintenance and overhauls, there are hardly a few days to spare in the operation cycle on a good day. In fact. This is also a key factor restricting the efficiency of bomber sorties. You must know that the number of sorties of the mouth frame bomber Sun Bushi can reach Tian four sorties, not the surname mouth fight. In fact. This issue has been paid attention to at the time of design, but the sea base itself is also a combat platform with a flat structure, so if you continue to increase the number of ammunition module ships, it will only reduce the efficiency of operations. Affected by this, the solution proposed by the Navy of the Republic is to build more ammunition module ships for the fifth generation of sea bases, and to return the ammunition module ships to the rear ports for loading operations, instead of building separate ammunition supply ships, large ammunition supply ships have a much higher carrying capacity than ammunition module ships, and therefore have higher operational efficiency in normal use. The question is. Because the demand for fifth-generation sea bases is very alarming, there has been no spare time to build more ammunition module ships, and it is impossible to equip each sea base with a second set of ammunition module systems, which naturally cannot improve the combat effectiveness of sea bases.

This problem was not solved until the end of Tian Nianming.

At that time, the second fifth-generation sea base "Nu Jiao" was about to be commissioned, and the Navy had already decided to send the "Nu Yu" to the Hawaiian Islands to become the core of the sea base group, so the 48 ammunition module ships belonging to the "Nu Ma" were temporarily useless.

In a sense, it was the Celestial Army's strategic bombing operations in the southwest Pacific that prompted the Republic Navy to use its sea bases in the form of a "sea base group", rather than using a fifth-generation sea base to strengthen the Republican Navy's presence in the western waters of the Hashengyi Islands and provide support for the advance into Oahu after taking control of Wake Island and Midway.

On June 10,000, the ammunition module ship belonging to the "Female Milk" came to Manrou.

On that day, the sortie rate of the bomber group of the Celestial Army reached the number of concave sorties, and the target was also aimed at New Zealand during the last round of 1,000-plane bombing.

It must be said that before that, the estimates of the authorities of the republic for strategic bombing appeared to be excessively conservative.

By the end of June, the bomber group of the Republic's Celestial Army had dropped nearly 10 million tons of ammunition on Australia, bombing almost all the important targets in eastern Australia, and even bombing the residential areas of some industrialized towns.

Of course, the authorities of the republic did not cancel the strategic bombing campaign as a result.

From? At the beginning of the month, the bomber units of the Celestial Army began to make sorties at the highest intensity, that is, every day. Vehicles. In accordance with the orders issued by the High Command, the bombing area was also extended from eastern Australia to the whole of Australia, and the bombing of major cities and towns in New Zealand was planned.

Although by this time, the Republic Navy had already launched an offensive in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands, and the focus gradually shifted from the Southwest Pacific to the Central Pacific. However, the impact of the space army's strategic bombing on the Pacific theater was not great, and even if the average monthly consumption rate of ammunition and other materials was close to 10,000 tons, the military personnel participating in the bombing operations at that time had to consume every month, and more than 40,000 tons of various materials would not have much impact on the supply of materials in other directions. More importantly, the most important work of ammunition transportation and supply is handled by ammunition module ships, which do not occupy maritime forces, and therefore do not need to provide too many transport ships for strategic bombing.

In fact, it is precisely because the Republic has mobilized enough war forces that it was able to fight three huge battles in the Pacific Theater at the same time, and to move towards victory with a monthly consumption of more than 40,000 tons of supplies. For the United States, this is undoubtedly the biggest nightmare. When the Republic has the strategic strength to support victory with great attrition, any tactical means adopted by the United States for victory will appear weak. In any case, when the gap in strength is getting wider and wider, and it is no longer a tactical means that can make up for it, there is no suspense about victory or defeat!

As far as the Navy of the Republic is concerned, the greatest advantage of strategic bombing is that it gives the Navy more reason to believe that in the combat operation of attacking the Hawaiian Islands, the air combat force supported by the sea bases is sufficient to provide air support for all combat units, and the most important offensive force on the sea is the main fleet. Concave 8 said that the situation was full of umbrellas