Second, whatever intentions they had with the authorities of the country, they were all covered up by the ensuing battle.4

Beijing Time. 【Full text reading】The third round of strategic strikes of the Republican Celestial Army has just ended. As soon as the "war mobilization meeting" of the state deputy of the Republic of China Jiaoshushan came to an end, several major Russian naval bases in the Far East, namely the Pacific Fleet Command and Pacific Fleet home port in Vladivostok, the Pacific Fleet auxiliary ship base in Nakhodka, the offshore patrol fleet base in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the Marine Corps base in Vanino, the submarine base in Nikolaevsk, the integrated submarine base in Magadan, As well as the long-range sea patrol base in Petropavrovsk, which was hit almost simultaneously and devastatingly. According to the first reports, the most important military bases of the Russian Pacific Fleet were completely destroyed or completely paralyzed after a few minutes of bombardment, with Magadan and Petropavrovsk also being hit by tactical nuclear weapons. Immediately afterwards, he mentioned in the report that it was not the Republican Celestial Army that was responsible for this round of strikes, but the Republic Navy.

In fact, this is indeed the case, and the Navy of the Republic has finally taken the stage after both the Celestial Army and the Army have been engaged in battle.

Although this round of blows can not be called earth-shattering. But it's also shocking. In any case, it is definitely not an easy task to attack so many military bases at the same time, and all of them are in the way. More importantly, this is a strike mission undertaken by the Navy alone, and it does not rely on other branches of the military. If we take into account that the main force of the Republic Navy, that is, the aircraft carrier battle group deployed in the western Pacific theater, is still operating in the waters south of the Osahara Islands in Japan, it did not immediately go north. Then this crackdown is even more extraordinary.

In fact, before that, many people ignored, or even ignored, the Navy of the Republic.

In the eyes of many, the republic is adjacent to Russia, and the homeland of the Northeast is with numerous military bases. The stage for naval performances is not large, and the Central Asian theater is far from the sea, and it is difficult for the navy to intervene.

In general, according to conventional thinking, the main value of the Republican Navy in the Western Pacific before deciding to challenge the global supremacy of the US Navy was to serve as a mobile base and assist in strengthening the perimeter defense line of the homeland. Even if it is a secondary mission, it will go between the first and second island chains at most. Deter the U.S. Navy with offensive deployments, so that the U.S. Navy will not act rashly. The pre-war deployment also basically followed this tactical principle, and only three of the Kouzhi aircraft carrier battle groups of the Republic Navy remained in the western Pacific, and the home port was transferred from Naha to Zhoushan, and the other aircraft carrier battle groups were deployed in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean in the narrow sense of the Western Pacific, excluding Southeast Asia, and three of them were named "Chongqing." The aircraft carrier battle groups are all deployed in the Indian Ocean, with Gwadar as their home port. Consolidate the Republic's predominance in the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Red Sea by means of offensive deployments, and intimidate Diego Garcia, the only US military base in the Indian Ocean.

Because it was difficult to keep the deployment and movement of the naval fleet secret, the pre-war deployment determined the basic tactics of the Republic Navy in the early stages of the war.

From another angle, in the war against Russia, the significance of the Qinhe State's seizure of sea supremacy was minimal.

Although it has been argued that the United States has long been allied with Russia, and that the United States has promised to enter the war after the invasion of the Russian mainland, the United States will soon enter the war after the war with Russia. Judging from the war against Russia alone, the greatest influence of the United States is not to send troops to help Russia fight a ground war. In fact, it is unlikely that the United States will participate in a ground war on the mainland, but will provide Russia with material support such as weapons and equipment, military resources, and strategic materials, and most of these materials will have to be transported by sea. The shortest shipping route from the continental United States to Russia is not through the North Atlantic to the northern ports of Russia, but through the North Pacific to Russian ports in the Far East. And so it goes. It was necessary for the Republic to seize sea supremacy in the North Pacific, as it had done with the blockade of Japan. Prevent the American convoy from reaching Russia. But it must be understood that seventy percent of Russia's * population is in the European region. More than half of the industry is also in Europe. Imagine what would be the point of the United States sending supplies to the Russian Far East if the Republican Army could win a quick victory on the ground battlefield? When the time comes, the United States will only be able to send supplies to the ports of the European region of Russia. If the situation is diametrically opposed. That is, if the Republican Army fails to win quickly, the United States will definitely go all out to help Russia tide over the difficulties, and the most effective way is to actively attack in the Pacific theater. With the strength of the Republic's navy, I am afraid that the first thing to consider is not to seize sea supremacy, but to ensure the security of the homeland. That is, no matter what the battles on the continental battlefield look like. Seizure of sea supremacy in the North Pacific is of little significance. Even in order to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, it is only necessary to complete the initial strategic strike. There is absolutely no need to invest a valuable naval fleet to strike at Russian ports in the Far East with the strategic forces of the Space Forces.

It is precisely in this way that the Republic Navy will transfer the home port of the Western Pacific Fleet from Naha to Zhoushan. Retreat thousands of kilometers.

All in all, in the opinion of most people, including military experts, military commentators, and even generals of other countries, it is better to pull out Diego Garcia and concentrate on attacking Australia than to use the fleet against the weak Russian Pacific Fleet. In the long run. The Republic of Haicai" has to go south. And whether or not Australia can be defeated in time will determine whether it can defeat the United States in numbers.

You must know that "more than four years ago, the Japanese Navy, under the excellent situation of successfully attacking Pearl Harbor and almost paralyzing the US Pacific Fleet, was unable to drive the US Navy back to the US and Zhejiang continents in one go, because on the way south, it fought too hard with the US military on an island called Guadalcanal, and as a result, it suffered meaningless losses in the Battle of the Coral Sea, resulting in the loss of two attack aircraft carriers in the Battle of Midway. If the Japanese Navy's aircraft carriers "Zuizuru" and "Shozuru" had not suffered heavy losses in the Battle of the Coral Sea, they would have participated in the combat operation of attacking Midway Island with the Combined Fleet. The U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet had to face an enemy twice as strong as itself, and no matter how good Nimitz was and Spruance was lucky, it would be difficult for him to win a big victory at the end of the Battle of Midway. The U.S. Navy basically ran out of carrier-based aircraft on the Whip carrier. Basically, there is no way to take out another Japanese aircraft carrier, and it is even possible to lose the Battle of Midway. It can be said that even if Japan does not win the final victory of the Pacific War and does not suffer a crushing defeat in the Battle of Midway, it will lose in the next naval battle, such as the Battle of Oahu, and finally lose completely, but Japan can at least take advantage of this for a few more years, and it is even possible that the United States will give up its demand for unconditional surrender and withdraw from the war in a more dignified way.

Of course, the current republic is certainly not the Japan of the past

From the perspective of pure war, if the republics in the western Pacific region suppressed by the United States want to win the Pacific War, they must actively attack. And the naval fleet is the root of an active offensive. It is the foundation of victory. In the case of the fact that the strength of the fleet is already inferior to that of the United States, there is no reason for the Navy of the Republic to waste valuable forces in the secondary direction, and the fleet must be concentrated in the main direction. This is the main reason why the Navy of the Republic of China is deploying three aircraft carrier battle groups in Southeast Asia, which is narrow and does not lack shore bases. The shore base can be used as a defensive support point, or it can be used as a rear base during the attack, but it cannot be an offensive support point!

The only one that can support the offensive across the ocean is the fleet.

From this, it can be seen that the sudden force of the Navy of the Republic in the Russian direction is not only unexpected, but also leaves a huge room for speculation.

Of course, it must be admitted that this was a very typical and successful crackdown.

According to the war report published by the Navy of the Republic a few days later, the main force of the strike was naval aviation, and the main weapons were various types of long-range ammunition. During the continuous bombardment, the Republican Navy's air force, naval warships, and various combat ships dropped more than four tons of ammunition at many targets in Tian, including Zhang. There are more cruise missiles, more long-range surface-to-surface missiles, more gliding bombs, and more than four long-range artillery shells. Although the total amount of ammunition thrown is not very large, the amount of ammunition per unit of time is very quiet. So the blow came very hard and ended very suddenly.

What really attracts attention is the strength and firepower delivery platform of the Republic Navy.

The combat aircraft put into service by naval aviation are good to say. As mentioned earlier, after the integration of the Air Force of the Republic into the Celestial Army, the heavy fighter units were incorporated into the Naval Aviation. Although all along, the Air Force and the Navy of the Republic have insisted on driving heavy fighters together, since childhood. From the beginning, there was a distinction between the Navy and the Air Force, but this does not mean that the Air Force's heavy fighters can be deployed to aircraft carriers. The reality is that most of the heavy fighters of the Air Force can only be deployed at shore bases. The reason is very simple, the air force type does not have the time to strengthen the body structure, so it cannot withstand the huge overload when taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier, and naturally cannot be deployed on the aircraft carrier. Affected by this, after taking over the heavy fighter unit of the Air Force, the HNA abolished the shore-based fighter unit long before it re-established a fighter unit in the shore-based air force, and only retained support units such as patrol planes, and undertook part of the territorial air defense mission, mainly facing the western Pacific. Along with the heavy fighter units, the naval aviation was transferred to the air bases in the coastal areas of the republic, as well as all air bases in the western Pacific. Other words. There is no shortage of air bases in the naval aviation of the Republic, and when heavy fighters carry out ground strike missions, the combat radius is mostly more than 1,000 kilometers, and if they are supported by tankers, they can be increased to more than 4,000 meters. Therefore, fighter jets taking off from the mainland of the Republic or from military bases on the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, etc., are enough to cover the Russian Far East. Even able to fly to Magadan.

The point is, what kind of cruise missiles and long-range artillery shells are fired by warships in the Republic Navy?

First of all, we have to emphasize that cruise missiles in a narrow sense refer to strategic cruise missiles with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers and are mainly aimed at striking strategic targets, not long-range ground-to-ground missiles attached to fighter planes.

In other words, cruise missiles must be carried on platforms at least bombers, and even heavy fighters will find it difficult to carry these heavy ammunition weighing thousands of kilograms.

The naval aviation of the republic has long been out of bombers, and the number of long-range patrol aircraft is also limited, and it is unlikely that thousands of cruise missiles will be dropped at once. That is, the delivery platforms for these cruise missiles can only be warships, and certainly several warships. Yi Xunshu is a fine notch mixed with different body clams

Relatively speaking, the throwing platform of long-range shells is more worthy of attention.

Although the firing range of the naval guns has been increased to more than four thousand meters after the spiral electromagnetic cannon has been equipped with a large number of troops, and it can exceed four thousand meters with a slight improvement, the overall mass of the spiral electromagnetic cannon is very large and can only be equipped on large warships. Large warships are equipped with aircraft carrier battle groups and amphibious assault fleets. It has already been mentioned. The aircraft carrier battle group of the Western Pacific Fleet of the Navy of the Republic is on the lookout for the American fleet thousands of kilometers from the battlefield, while in the Western Pacific, the Navy of the Republic does not have an amphibious assault fleet. That is, at the time of the outbreak of the war, the large warships of the Navy of the Republic were thousands of kilometers away from Russia. Although the maximum size of large warships has been raised to the blade knot, which is more than twice that of o years ago, it is impossible to rush to the Sea of Japan and shell Russian ports in the old next hour.

Because the Russian army found several heavy artillery shells that did not explode in Vlaslavostok, the military advisers sent by the US intelligence agencies were very fortunate to participate in the identification of these shells, and these intelligence officers also knew the reporters who had just met Zhao, so before the Republic Navy released the war report, Zhao mentioned in the report that the Republic shelled Russian ports with large-caliber electromagnetic guns, and they were similar to the Navy's ship-based electromagnetic guns.

Judging by this report, even the American news media do not believe that it was the warships of the Navy of the Republic that shelled Russia.

At that time, there was speculation that in order to strike the ports of the Russian Far East, the republic was likely to deploy heavy electromagnetic guns in military bases in the northeast, North Korea or Japan. The question is. The Army of the Republic also has long-range artillery, and the range of army artillery is not shorter than that of naval guns, only a slightly smaller caliber. Of course, this is absolutely not a reason for the authorities of the republic to expend their efforts to deploy heavy naval guns on land. To know. The shells of the army's electromagnetic cannon are also above the kilogram. Not to mention dealing with ordinary targets, except for those strategic facilities buried deep underground, other military targets are not a problem. The purpose of shelling the ports of the Russian Far East is to crush the Russian Pacific Fleet and paralyze the ports, and the army's long-range artillery is fully capable of doing it, so naturally there is no reason to move the naval guns to the shore in one more move.

The question is, is it still a more plausible explanation?

There must be, and it is quite obvious, that the Navy of the Republic has specialized artillery warships.

In fact, such a simple thing, the American news media is not unthinkable, but unwilling to admit it.

At a time when the U.S. news media was speculating that the Republic had moved its naval guns to shore, Al Jazeera made a more objective report, that is, the Republic Navy must have secretly built artillery warships, or converted civilian ships into artillery warships. And before the outbreak of the war, these shelling warships were secretly sent to Korean and Japanese ports.

This analysis is sound. It's pretty much the same as it actually is.

According to the battle report released by the Navy of the Republic, it was several "firepower ships" docked in Shincaries and Hakodate, Japan, that shelled the Russian naval base. In fact. Fireships are military auxiliary ships that have been modified on the basis of civilian ships. Not yet a battleship in the strict sense of the word.

According to the Annals of the Warships of the Navy of the Republic, "Fireships. The project was first proposed by Jiangnan Shipyard in the year of the force blade according to the "10,000-year shipbuilding plan" proposed by the navy. "Firepower-enhanced surface warships." It is proposed to invest tens of millions of yuan alone to complete the theoretical research and basic design, and finally pay attention to the navy, and formally establish the project in the second year, formally obtain funding in the Ding fiscal year, complete the design and officially start construction in the fierce fiscal year, and the first batch of six fireships are completed before the end of the calendar year, and are accepted by the Navy at the beginning of the calendar year. Because fireships do not perform front-line combat missions, in order to reduce construction costs, shorten the design cycle, and reduce maintenance costs, a large number of civilian ship construction standards are used in the design, and a large number of raw materials for the construction of civilian ships are used, and the design and construction are carried out in strict accordance with the standards of warships. From this, it follows that fireships are not exclusively civilian ships either. Strictly speaking, a fireship is a military ship built according to the standards of civilian ships.

Speaking of which, someone must have thought of the "arsenal ships" that the US Navy proposed at the end of the century. "Think that the Navy of the Republic is stirring up someone else's cold rice. There is no innovation to speak of.

If that were the case, the fireship would be an absolute tragedy.

The fact is that the unparalleled striking capabilities of this battleship, which previously existed only in theory, proved to be a successful ship for the first time. If, as some American news media speculated, the basic design concept of the fireship originated more than half a century ago and has long been shelved by the US Navy, then it can only be proven. Either the Republic designed and built this unusual warship with a new idea, or the U.S. Navy abandoned this promising warship half a century ago.

Clearly, even the U.S. news media is more willing to accept the former possibility.

In fact, it is also true that the fireship is a new type of warship born under the joint action of new tactical ideas and new design concepts, and it is an epoch-making warship...... If you want to know what happened next, please log in, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!