The Chinese army conquered the port of Bahrain and defeated the U.S. Fifth Fleet with almost no loss of personnel or equipment. The most unpredictable thing about this battle before and after is two things, that amazing lightning storm, and the last moment Saudi Arabia joined the SCO, so that the only remaining US military in the Middle East can no longer be maintained.

Now that the Fifth Fleet has been destroyed, there is only one master in the Persian Gulf, that is, China, and the facilities in the port of Bahrain are no longer usable, and the Chinese fleet can only temporarily settle in the port of Kuwait, and only a small number of people remain in Bahrain to manage the prisoners of war, and at the same time try to restore the operation of the port. Of course, the most important thing for the Chinese Navy is not the use of the port of Bahrain, but the naval ships that the US military has abandoned in the port.

"There are about 20 ships in the Fifth Fleet whose hulls have not suffered much damage, but various internal facilities have been destroyed, if the internal equipment is replaced, after some major repairs and transformations, it is estimated that they can still be used, those Ticonderoga, Arleigh Burke and the like are not of much use, but that Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is simply an accident for the Navy." Mo Xiantong said with a spring on his face, and he was also very surprised that this lightning storm operation could get almost a fleet of ships from the US military.

Qi Yiming was also very excited, he said: "Our Red Alert repair plant in Kuwait can come in handy, after aircraft carriers, cruisers, and even ordinary combat aircraft are towed there, they can be reused on the battlefield in a month's work, and the Johns-Stennis does not need a lot of things to change, the main electronic equipment and the like, cruisers, destroyers and other things can actually be directly rebuilt." Hehe, just like that, we're just one more aircraft carrier battle group. ”

Frankly speaking, with the current strong manufacturing capacity of the Red Alert base, Qi Yiming has no problem contributing several aircraft carrier battle groups to the Navy in the short term, and he now provides the military with 30 army group armies, while the Red Alert fleet has not yet been taken out. But even if you have more, this kind of loot and reuse it still has a different kind of pleasure, when the Americans see their Nimitz aircraft carrier F-14 fighter jets attacking them, it is estimated that all the faces of the American soldiers will be black charcoal.

"Inform the navy and start doing this, we don't have to be too anxious, just wait for these ships to be used next year, we don't lack many troops in the Indian Ocean for the time being." Qi Yiming instructed.

Although China won the battle of the Mozambique Channel, the three aircraft carrier battle groups lost more than 60 fighters, and the submarine fleet also fired a large number of supersonic anti-ship missiles, and these assets need to be replenished. After the start of the Great War, the manufacture of various types of military equipment has entered a peak period. Previously, the Navy had reserved more than 100 J-15 fighters, which were specially used to supply two Type 001 aircraft carriers, and the production line of J-15 before the war had been reopened to continue to produce these fighters to ensure that each aircraft carrier could be equipped with at least three full carrier-based fighter units. The production of the F-14 Tomcat has basically come to an end, and the Navy has produced a large number of Tomcats, but in the evaluation, the new version of the Tomcat, that is, the F-14CN+, is expensive to build, and it is not much cheaper than the fifth-generation fighter J-31 Falcon, and the complex mechanical structure of the variable sweep wing and some designs of the older era make the maintenance of the F-14 more complex than the new generation of fighters. After such calculations, it was not cost-effective to use the Tomcat than the Falcon, so in wartime, the military, considering pragmatism, cut the Tomcat's continued production plan and invested resources in the production of fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft.

However, there is a small problem here, the Navy can obtain more than 400 J-31 Eagle fighters per month under the condition of full wartime and full production capacity, but it is difficult for the Navy to provide 400 qualified HNA pilots every month.

Of course, the navy still has a way, that is, to borrow red alert pilots from Qi Yiming, these red alert pilots are very high in quality and level, and they are not very afraid of losses, and the navy and air force have plans to borrow a large number of pilots from Qi Yiming to use.

"The Navy is constantly sending troops to the Indian Ocean Fleet, and it seems that they are going to take the initiative and not let the Americans launch a second battle in the Mozambique Channel." Mo Xiantong speculated behind Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming nodded and said, "That's right, the navy does have such a plan." There is no reason to completely hand over the initiative to the Americans, the war is originally a matter of you coming and going, and although the US military suffered heavier losses than ours in the Battle of the Mozambique Channel, it only lost flesh and blood, and its muscles and bones were not injured, and the US military was not inferior to us in terms of replenishment capabilities. It is a more prudent and smarter way for the Navy to be reluctant to continue to use its strength on this battlefield with the US military and to jam the strategic nodes so as to completely counterbalance the US military's entry into the Indian Ocean theater. ”

Mo Xiantong rolled his eyes and said, "You mean, Madagascar?" ”

Qi Yiming smiled and said, "Well, Lao Mo, your thinking is still so sharp." Indeed, the next target of the Navy is Madagascar. ”

"This is not a very surprising thing, Madagascar is located on the eastern side of the African continent, and the loss of an important strategic node in the southwest Indian Ocean, no matter who gets here on both sides of the war, the impact on the other side will be extremely huge. The capture of Madagascar would allow for a large number of land-based aircraft, even shore-to-ship missiles, short-range ballistic missiles, which would be threatened by any ship entering or leaving the Mozambique Channel. The Americans can suppress our fleet if they get it, and we can suppress the expeditionary fleet of the American army if we get it. During the first battle of the Mozambique Channel, everyone still had some scruples, after all, Madagascar clearly expressed its neutrality and was unwilling to participate in the war, but now, if everyone still pays attention to this unreliable face problem, they can only let the other side take advantage of it and affect their own war. ”

Qi Yiming sighed: "Yes, war is like this, if you are not despicable enough when others are despicable, you can only be eliminated, so it is difficult to learn well, but it is easy to learn bad." ”

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Former Navy SEAL member Jill Robinson returned to the military, unable to return to the predominantly young SEALs, but instead passed the officer exam and became a lieutenant in the Marine Corps. In his thirties, he has experienced many wars, and he also has a broad knowledge background and good character that many officers do not have, he is a natural leader, a sharp and heroic fighter on the battlefield.

Robinson straightened his uniform and watched the sun outside jump out of the horizon, he was still a little uncomfortable with the trajectory of the sun in the southern hemisphere after arriving in South Africa, he and his fellow Marines had only been in South Africa for two weeks, and the bells of war were urging them, making them fear and worry.

"Madagascar, sir, are you not joking? If I'm not mistaken, Madagascar is a neutral country and has not declared its participation in either side, and if we take the initiative to attack a neutral country, I am afraid that it will have a lot of negative effects. Robinson said to his superiors in surprise.

The lieutenant colonel in charge of the expeditionary battalion of the Marine Corps held a cigar in his mouth and said to Robinson: "I think Jill you are not so naïve, Madagascar is indeed a neutral country, but as long as they are still in that damn place for a day, it will never be able to remain neutral, hell, no one will allow them to be neutral, they can only choose NATO or SCO, there is no zài third way." ”

Robinson said, "But there is no decent army in this country. ”

"Yes, Madagascar does not have any troops, but what we need is not them as our allies, but this island as our unsinkable aircraft carrier at sea, where our fighter jets and our missiles can attack the Chinese fleet in the Indian Ocean, and our marines can transit to India from here, so to speak, the wisest decision made by those bureaucrats since the beginning of the war is to capture Madagascar." The lieutenant colonel took a heavy drag on his cigarette and said with a disrespectful expression.

Robinson thought for a moment and said, "So the first stop of our attack was Madagascar, not the Chinese?" ”

"No, it's the Chinese." The lieutenant colonel put down his cigar with an inexplicable look in his eyes, not knowing whether it was fear or excitement, "The Chinese are also not fools, they are already planning to attack and occupy Madagascar, and this is something we absolutely cannot tolerate." So when we Marines attack this island, our main enemy will not be the, but the PLA's well-equipped army or marines. ”

"That's not good news, how many people are there?"

Lieutenant Colonel said: "I don't know, maybe there are hundreds of people, maybe the size of a group army, China itself has a large standing army, although their mobilization is a little later than ours, but now the size of the army is much larger than ours, so if you see that the Chinese have invested more than 100,000 troops in Madagascar, don't be too surprised." ”

Robinson frowned and said: "This is basically impossible, I know that the Chinese have a strong ability to project troops in the theater, but to send 100,000 people in a strange land, they basically cannot meet the logistics of these soldiers, and this is too close to us, our aviation will continue to use bombs to make it difficult for them to survive." ”

The lieutenant colonel said: "In the same way, the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet will also assist them in their actions, so this battle for Madagascar may be a big battle with both land and sea." ”