"Full speed ahead, full speed ahead!" In the tall bridge of the Kitty Hawk, Captain Michael looked at the sea outside, looked at his own warships around, two Ticonderoga-class cruisers and two Burke-class, formed a tight air defense formation, so as not to be hit by China's shore-based aviation, at the same time, there are several anti-submarine ships on the outside, plus the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine underwater, his own lineup is already quite powerful.

Such an aircraft carrier formation is simply invincible, but now, Captain Michael still thinks that his warship is not fast enough.

Huaxia actually used force to deal with the problem of Wanwan Island, and Huaxia's army has landed on Wanwan Island!

In this case, he was still a few hundred nautical miles away, which made Captain Michael a little irritable, especially last night, when the No. 4 boiler suddenly failed and could not be increased to the maximum pressure, which reduced the speed of the aircraft carrier to twenty-eight knots.

Now, the sky has already dawned, and they have not yet rushed to the vicinity of Wanwan Island to carry out the task of seizing air supremacy, which can't help but make Captain Michael a little irritable.

But, he didn't know, bigger troubles were yet to come.

"Report, several fishing boats have been spotted ahead." Just as the fleet was sailing at full speed, the lookout reported to the bridge.

As we continued southward, we entered the confines of the Zhoushan Fishing Grounds, and in front of the fleet, we could see the fishing boats, which were engaged in fishing operations.

"Damn it, blow the whistle and get them all out of the way!" Captain Michael looked through the binoculars at the fishing boats and couldn't help but say.

This is the most hateful, if the US Navy attacks the fishing boats, it will lead to diplomatic disputes, and those fishermen. Not only the fishermen on the mainland, but also the fishermen on Wanwan Island, cannot be expelled by machine guns, let alone use anti-ship missiles, and even if they can realize that this is a trick by the Chinese side, they have no choice.

You can only rely on the whistle to get the other party to give way.

"Whew. Woo. At the same time, the captain of a Perry-class destroyer at the front, with a high-powered loudspeaker, shouted to the opposite side: "Fishing boat, get out of the way!" This is the US Navy! ”

Unfortunately, he used English. The boats didn't understand what he was saying, and continued to cast their nets and fish, and now was the right time for the fishermen to get up early and stay up late in the hope of getting more catches.

Underwater, a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, is constantly advancing. As a guard underwater, this nuclear submarine. It undertakes the important task of discovering and expelling the enemy's nuclear submarines and protecting the underwater safety of the aircraft carrier.

Under water, the only equipment that can detect is sonar, and now, the high-speed aircraft carrier formation on the surface has greatly reduced the detection range of Los Angeles-class submarines.

And for the protection of the formations. Los Angeles-class submarines are generally sailing in the sea area 20 nautical miles in front of the aircraft carrier, and by the time the surface warships found those fishing boats, the Los Angeles-class submarines were already very close to the fishing boats.

Although the sound of the engine on the water was heard. The captain of the Los Angeles-class submarine didn't pay too much attention, the order from above was to sail at full speed, and they had to quickly support Wanwan.

On the submarine in three shifts, day and night, after the captain inspected the whole boat, he was just about to go back to his room to squint for a while, when suddenly, the submarine shook violently.

"What's going on?" The captain stumbled, picked up the phone, and asked the command room.

"Report, our propellers, entangled in fishing nets!" The first mate replied to the captain that although his eyes could not see the outside of the hull, according to experience, the power output of the steam turbine at the tail had decreased sharply, apparently encountering a great resistance, and eighty percent of this resistance came from the propeller being entangled.

Damn it! The captain cursed and said, "Reduce the power and reverse." ”

Having given this order, he climbed towards the conning tower.

If you look at it from the outside, you can see that the Los Angeles-class seven-bladed large side-tilting propeller is entangled with a fishing net at this time, densely packed, and the entire propeller is almost immobile.

In order to increase the strength of the nets, many nets are not only made up of ropes, but also have steel wires inside, and although the propellers are very powerful, they cannot cut the nets.

This is also the reason why the later submarine propulsion system used pump jet thrusters, not only fishing nets, but also kelp on the bottom of the seabed, which may entangle the propellers and cause the propeller propellers to fail.

And since it is entangled, one of the most basic solutions is to reverse the car and let the propeller turn upside down, so that the entangled thing can be released.

However, this is not 100% effective.

As the propeller began to reverse, the fishing nets that had just been wound up began to loosen, but there were still many fishing nets wound around the propellers, and after dozens of turns, the propellers ended up reversing and began to rotate again.

"Reportedly, there are still fishing nets entangled, which is causing our propellers to be less efficient and we will not be able to reach our maximum speed of 30 knots." The co-captain reported to the captain.

Damn it! It's just that something went wrong at this time!

"To get back on the surface, we had to surface and cut through the tangled nets." "However, if we do this, there will be no submarine escort under the water of our aircraft carrier formation," the captain said. ”

Generally speaking, an aircraft carrier group has two nuclear submarines, but, because of the rush of departure this time, only this one nuclear submarine has come, and the other one, which is still cruising in the Pacific Ocean, will take at least two days to come.

"Report to the fleet, please tell the fleet." The captain said.

Through an underwater communication system, the encounter with the Los Angeles-class submarine was reported to the captain of the USS Kitty Hawk, who was also the commander of the formation.

"Damn! How did they drive submarines? How can you get into a fishing net like a fish? When Michael heard the news, he said angrily.

In fact, under water, anything can happen, and submariners are the most direct people in the face of death among all naval arms, and once they are wrecked, rescue is very difficult.

"Let them float up, dispose of the tangled nets, and then catch up with our formation." Michael said that if the fishing net is entangled, the hydroacoustic characteristics of the propeller are destroyed, and the speed is reduced, the nuclear submarine is useless, and the problem must be solved.

"Then we won't be escorted underwater with nuclear submarines." Colonel Kate on the side said.

"Those backward Han-class nuclear submarines in China cannot pose a threat to us at all, even if we only have surface ships, we can deal with the threat." "This is a trick by the Chinese to delay our actions," Michael said. ”

Michael has realized that there must be a conspiracy for these fishing boats to dare to fish in the route of the American aircraft carrier, and this time the Los Angeles-class submarine was entangled in fishing nets, which is definitely not a coincidence, but he has no other choice.

"Keep going." Colonel Michael continued: "Two hours later, the first fighters were released. ”

As long as you sail for another two hours, you will be able to reach the range of the aircraft carrier's projection force, and you must quickly support Wanwan! Even though there was danger underwater, Michael decided to move on!

"Report, Burke-class destroyer USS Barry, escorting the ship, report the discovery of suspicious sound waves underwater." Just three minutes after Colonel Michael had just made the decision to move forward without a nuclear submarine, another report came that made him desperate.

Found out that there is a situation underwater!

The U.S. government has already made it clear that if the Chinese dare to use ballistic missiles to greet their own aircraft carrier formation, it will be the beginning of a nuclear war! However, if the submarine of the Huaxia people sank the US aircraft carrier, or even only damaged the US aircraft carrier, the United States would have no way to make a move, after all, the submarine fired a few torpedoes and slipped away, and the Americans could not even find them, so there would be no definite evidence to accuse Huaxia of doing it.

"Anti-submarine formation, release the S-2 anti-submarine aircraft, throw sonar buoys, and find out this Huaxia submarine for me!" Colonel Michael has no choice, for the aircraft carrier formation, or for any kind of surface ship, the threat of submarines always comes first, and now, since a submarine has been discovered, it is necessary to act to force this submarine out, or even sink the other side!

If Huaxia sends fighters over, then here, have a contest with Huaxia! Colonel Michael gave the combat order, and in addition to the S-2 anti-submarine aircraft, four F-18 fighters, which were also ejected, were ejected for fleet air defense missions.

The aircraft carrier formation will not be able to seize air supremacy for Wanwan on time! On Wanwan Island, which had lost air supremacy, the battle was almost one-sided.

With air support, the two group armies that landed on Wanwan Island quickly advanced southward along the open plains in the western part of Wanwan Island, and the 3rd Tank Division of the 39th Army, which was at the forefront, had already crossed Taichung and rushed straight to Tainan along the highway!

At this time, the politicians on Wanwan Island have begun to despair, originally thinking that relying on the force on the island, they can at least resist the Chinese army for a few days, and the opportunity to counterattack the mainland is gone, and it is no problem to hold Wanwan Island, right?

However, who would have thought that the entire battle would not take two days! At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the US Kitty Hawk formation finally arrived in the sea area 300 nautical miles east of Wanwan Island and was preparing to catapult fighter planes and engage in a battle to seize air supremacy, the vanguard of China had already arrived in Kaohsiung!

Once the sick man of East Asia, he has now grown into a giant of the East! Not only is the economy strong, but the combat effectiveness of the army has also impressed the world.

As a matter of fact, China has always attached great importance to the army for many years, and when the 39th Army landed on Wanwan Island, the fate of Wanwan Island was already doomed. (To be continued.) )