Chapter 273: Mighty Little Sparrow

I look forward to climbing the Tiananmen Tower and witnessing the most glorious moment together.

However, now Zhong Yi ...... The Han Emperor, who was called the greatest representative of imperialism and fascism, it was clear that there was no such opportunity.

If there is no loss at all, it is really deceiving one's heart.

But it seems that all the resentment has been dried by the warm spring breeze of Nanhua along with the ink stain on the letterhead in the study. His Majesty had a calm expression on his face when he walked out of the study, and lightly instructed Hainie that there would be no need to make tea in the future, just coffee......

In the conference room of Weiqing Pavilion, when several bigwigs walked in, they also found that the big teacups on the seats had been replaced with crystal clear coffee cups with small plates.

Zhang Zheng curiously picked up the sugar cube in a small plate and threw it into his mouth, "What, have you changed the rules?" ”

No one answered him, and the native girl had obviously just been reprimanded by His Majesty, and pouted silently. The others also vaguely realized something through a cup of coffee, and invariably turned their eyes to Mu Yu, who was sitting silently in the chair.

"Nima, if anyone can see something from Director Mu's face, my old nine will really be convinced!" Air Force Commander Yun Jiu looked at Mu Yu's dead face that seemed to be forever unchanged, and couldn't help but complain.

To everyone's surprise, all the topics at this wartime CMC meeting still revolved around the two major battlefields of Siberia and the Mediterranean, and had nothing to do with China, and there was almost no mention of China.

It's just that when all the topics were about to end, Mu Yu mentioned softly, "...... in the South China Sea"

"All the problems in the South China Sea, including the demands of the Kingdom of Judah, have been put on hold, and the brothers are on the wall, let alone allowed others to take advantage of them." His Majesty's tone was very resolute, and he didn't wait for Mu Yu to finish speaking, "It's better to focus all your energy on the front line, winning the war is the most important thing." ”

"That'...... Your Majesty, I still have some tea! Mu Yu's words surprised everyone else, could it be that the coffee in the conference room was changed today because His Majesty had no tea?

"Ugh! How many? Come on, send them to me, it's a waste for you to drink. You might as well have coffee with your Garbo! ”

His Majesty's words confirmed everyone's speculation, but ...... The royal family of the Han Empire has no tea to drink?

"It's not that there is no tea, it's that Your Majesty is used to drinking the big red robe of the six tea trees, and the other teas are not used to drinking!"

After the meeting ended, Zhang Zheng pulled the indigenous girl and finally asked to understand, it turned out that the Chinese side had cut off the supply to Nanhua, and there was nowhere to buy the already scarce big red robe.

"Nima, this is inevitable...... Too unsophisticated, right? In a hurry, Lao Tzu sent a team of seals to dig up all the trees. ”

"Well, I'll see what to do!" Zhang Zheng's angry words won Yun Jiu's high approval, "What, Lao Zhang, our Air Force will send you a long-range transport plane!" ”

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The air strikes carried out by the multinational forces in Sardinia and Sicily basically achieved the objectives of the campaign.

Because most of the airfields on the two islands were destroyed, the Allied air forces had to retreat to Italy and Egypt, as well as to the Greek islands of Crete and the Peloponnese.

However, the Entente side also failed to take advantage, and the airfields of the multinational forces such as Tunis City, Annaba, Constantine, and Tripoli were also bombed.

The Allied air forces also had to retreat hundreds of kilometers in search of a new base to take refuge. A large air vacuum, at least until the front-line airfields of the two sides are repaired, it will be difficult for the fighters of the two sides to talk directly.

This vacuum zone includes the main shipping lanes of the Mediterranean, such as the Tunis Strait. Commander Cunningham, a multinational force in Algiers, immediately ordered the C Fleet and the U.S. Atlantic Task Force, which had three large aircraft carriers, to dispatch in an effort to take advantage of the fact that the Allied air forces had moved back and land-based aircraft could not stay in the southern Mediterranean for a long time, to crush the Allied navy in one fell swoop, regain sea supremacy in the Mediterranean, and, of course, rescue the British Eighth Army and Field Marshal Brooke, who were struggling to hold out in Benghazi.

At the same time, in order to prolong the Navy's activities, the carrier-based aircraft of the multinational forces continued to bomb Sardinia and Sicily, making it more difficult for the Allies to repair the airfields.

The highly mechanized engineers of Britain, the United States, and other countries, which had been arranged in advance, were quickly stationed at the coastal airfields on the front line and stepped up urgent repairs.

The calculations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Allied Powers were very elaborate, and with the destruction of carrier-based aircraft and the efforts of the engineering units that had been carefully prepared in advance, the side would certainly be able to repair the runway a week ahead of the Allied side.

A week was enough, and even in the eyes of Admiral Cunningham of the Navy, just one day was enough. As long as the coastal airfields on the side of the multinational force are repaired in advance of the allies, the next raid will give the Allied air forces no chance to return to the center of the Mediterranean.

What awaits them will be the landing of multinational forces like a tidal wave after the Royal Navy regains sea supremacy, and Mussolini doesn't want to turn the Mediterranean Sea into an inland sea for Italy? Didn't you want to restore the glory of the Roman Empire again?

"Greed will leave people with nothing!"

This quote comes from the Bible. Cunningham was also a devout Protestant, and in the 15th century, when the Pope prevented King Henry VIII from divorce and his maid Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII separated the Church of England from the Holy See and became a Protestant. Of course, the end result was not romantic, and soon after, because Anne, like the previous queen, did not give birth to a son, fell out of favor, was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and was finally beheaded for adultery with her brother.

He is more famous for his creation of the Royal Navy than the six marriages of Henry VIII, ordering the construction of new ships that were fast and flexible, with guns in the cabins, special combat sailors, and several naval docks. In 1514 he granted the Trinity Company a charter to specialize in seamanship, with the right to tax the financing of navigation and the installation of lighthouses.

All these laid the foundation for the rapid development of Britain in the navy, and also laid the foundation for the glory of the empire on which the sun never sets. No matter how obscene Henry VIII was in his personal life, most of the officers of the British Royal Navy still regarded Henry as the founder of the Royal Navy.

Cunningham is the same, just like this expedition to the waters of Tunisia, the commander of the world's most powerful fleet reverently drew a cross on his chest, "God bless, His Majesty Henry VIII bless, bless the Royal Navy to defeat the hateful Han Chinese, just like in the English Channel in the 16th century, the Royal Navy defeated the Spanish Armada, the Mediterranean naval battle will win another three hundred years of glory for the British Empire." ”

Cunningham fantasized about being able to defeat the Allied fleet and make himself the "Drake" of the twentieth century.

But in Alexandria, Vice Admiral Guan Canghai, the "second largest fleet in the world" (in the words of Admiral Joseph King, the Almighty Emperor of the U.S. Navy), was also preparing for a direct confrontation with the Allied navies.

The air forces of both sides were forced to retreat, and in the southern Mediterranean there was practically no presence of land-based aircraft. The naval fleet will once again become the master of the Mediterranean.

Two of the newest Marshal II aircraft carriers, the Wenxiang and the Youjie, were fully loaded with D-15 "Eagle" carrier-based aircraft and led the carrier battle group escorting them to join the Northern Fleet.

At the time of the war, Guan Canghai happily received nearly 300 "Eagle" types, these "Eagles" have eagle eyes and claws almost the same as raptors, all equipped with Dolphin-6 Doppler pulse radar, Dolphin-6 and F-7 Sea Javelin on the American mechanical scanning radar working principle is the same, but it is obvious that Dolphin-6 is much more powerful, the scanning distance can reach about 100 kilometers, and at the same time can lock on to six targets, and select four of them to attack at the same time.

It's not enough to have an eagle's eye, the "eagle" also needs a pair of powerful talons to subdue its prey, the Sparrow-7F, designed by Royal Douglas Aircraft. In fact, in the early days of the war, Douglas had already devoted himself to the research of missiles, but due to the limitations of radar technology at that time, the Sparrow-1 and Sparrow-2 using radar guidance failed one after another.

After Douglas relocated to South China and joined forces with the royal family to form the Royal Douglas Aircraft Company, the Sparrow missile program was restarted. Under His Majesty's attention, the Sparrow-3 has obtained the support of radar technology from part of the base, and can already achieve semi-active radar guidance, and the range has also reached eight kilometers.

Later, with the advent of the D-15 Hawk and the introduction of the over-the-horizon attack concept, the Empire urgently needed a medium- and long-range air-to-air missile to support the Royal Air Force in over-the-horizon operations.

The royal road company continued to improve the Sparrow missile, and after obtaining the technical drawings of the Fire Phoenix-3, the epoch-making Sparrow-7 was successfully developed, and the Sparrow-7X series was born one after another, the most successful of which is the Sparrow-7F, with a range of up to 40 kilometers and a maximum speed of 2. Mach 5, and in a number of test launches have shown reliable combat performance, using pulse-Doppler and continuous radar wave semi-active radar guidance, fully realizing the over-the-horizon combat that His Majesty has been expecting.

Coupled with the super locking capability of the Dolphin-6 radar, the air combat capability of the D-15 Eagle carrier-based fighter is worth looking forward to.

This is also the reason why His Majesty did not panic when he heard that the American F-7 Sea Javelin fighter and the AIM-9 Sidewinder semi-active radar-guided missile were in great power in the Mediterranean.

What is the Sea Javelin compared to the Hawk with four ranged Sparrow-7F and four short-range Sparrow-3D? I'm afraid that before I could see its appearance, it was shot down by the Hawk, right?

Of course, the Sparrow-7F is not without its weaknesses, weighing more than three hundred kilograms and 3. With a length of 8 meters, the Sparrow missile can only be mounted by supersonic heavy fighters such as the Eagle or Raptor.

That's enough, though!

Each of the 12 marshal-class large aircraft carriers of the Northern Fleet has a squadron of 24 "Eagles" on it, which is enough to shoot down nearly 100 fighters from a distance of several tens of kilometers with their powerful multi-target strike capability.

Standing in the bridge command room of the command ship Zhongmou, looking at the busy naval ground crews on the decks of the aircraft carriers, as well as the majestic D-15 "Eagles", Commander Guan was a little puzzled: After the US economy was in turmoil, many aircraft companies had to be transferred, why would His Majesty be so optimistic about the not too famous Douglas Company?