The blue sea and blue sky are sunny, and the sun shines all over the ocean, reflecting thousands of sparkling lights, which is very beautiful. There is a mighty and majestic fleet adrift on the endless sea, which is the combined fleet of the multinational forces and navies. The core warships that make up this fleet are basically Chinese and US warships, and like other branches of the armed forces, only China's military strength can be comparable to that of the US military.

Guo Dezhu, the captain of the cruiser Nanjing, stood on the bridge and looked at the behemoth not far from the ship, and couldn't help sighing with envy: "The battleship Wisconsin, the fourth ship of the Iowa class, the most rearly old battleship in the United States during World War II, participated in the Battle of Inyain Bay, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, returned to active service twice in 1951 and 1988, and has now completed the modernization and modification, in addition to three triple 406mm main guns, there are also four eight-mounted Tomahawk cruise missile launch boxes, Four quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers and four phalanxes. If it weren't for the Type 002 aircraft carrier, there would not be a single ship in the whole navy with a larger tonnage than the old ships of the World War II period. ”

Political Commissar Song Hua said: "After all, the battleships have been eliminated, and the return of the USS Wisconsin and USS Missouri to active duty is to adapt to the '600 fleet' plan proposed by Reagan before, the main purpose is to confront the Soviet Union, and now that the Cold War has ended, there is no need for the US military to maintain such a large-scale fleet, and even if the Iowa class is modernized, it cannot be compared with the destroyers of this era in terms of mission." To put it bluntly, although the displacement of our Nanjing is less than a quarter of that of the Wisconsin, it is really one-on-one, and the chances of victory for the Nanjing are far greater than that of this old ship. ”

Guo Dezhu bowed his head frequently, and said with a smile: "This is true, after all, the times are different, although the main guns of the battleships are fierce, but we don't need to enter their range at all, our phased array radar can detect them hundreds of kilometers away, and then we can use supersonic anti-ship missiles to launch a saturation attack, with the air defense capabilities of the Iowa-class battleships, we can't intercept a few at all, and hundreds of millimeters of armor can't stop our new generation of anti-ship missiles." In the end, the American battleships did not even see us, and they were sunk by us with missiles. ”

Guo Dezhu leaned on the back of the chair and sighed: "What I just thought about is that our country's navy has changed from weak to strong, from the era of Zheng He, which has the ability to cross the ocean, visit all the countries of the South Seas, and then to the end of the Qing Dynasty to start preparing for the construction of the Beiyang Fleet, the slump after the First Sino-Japanese War, the gold in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in exchange for the four King Kongs, the confrontation with the KMT Navy, the Battle of Xisha, and then to our majestic posture today." I think we may have missed the era of giant ships and artillery, at that time we even said that we did not have a navy, we could only watch the invaders come to our homeland on warships, and the bloody wind of the Pacific War had nothing to do with us, but today, we have caught up with the era of information-based navy and high-tech navy, and our ships may not be the largest, but the comprehensive combat strength of our ships is absolutely impossible for even the Americans to catch up! ”

The fleet sent by the PLA Navy this time is organized into amphibious assault ships Shangri-La and Fujian, cruiser Nanjing, four 052D destroyers Kunming, Nanchang, Hohhot and Sansha, three frigates, one 054B Wuxi, two 054A Ma'anshan and Wenzhou, plus two Type 093 attack nuclear submarines and two 039C conventional submarines, two ocean-going supply ships and one submarine support ship.

Even the U.S. Navy was a little surprised by such a fleet formation, China alone took out 5 Aegis ships, at last year's National Day parade, people saw two 052D Aegis destroyers, so the outside world thinks that China has only built two of this new kind of ships, but now China has taken out four ships of this type, which can't help but make people speculate whether China has more. What they don't know is that the 052A, which was originally equipped with a large number of equipment in the navy, has long been transferred to the Nanyang Navy, and the 052A at last year's parade was specially borrowed from the Nanyang Defense Force to fool people. This kind of fooling happened this time, as China left four 054A frigates, and this time sent two, just to prevent people from discovering that they were actually equipped with a large number of 054B frigates.

The 054B frigate has stronger firepower, and is equipped with a phased array radar, and the multi-target processing capability is greatly enhanced, which can be called a small Aegis, and it is very different from the 054A in appearance, because its stealth design is better, using a fully enclosed mast, and many devices are built-in.

In many overseas deployments, the frigate class is the most commonly used, so the Chinese Navy has left four 054A to recharge, but in fact, the main combat capability has been shifted to the 054B.

The U.S. military also sent nine Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruisers this time, nearly twice as many as China, but the Americans don't mind not bothering themselves when they can use the Allies. The Nanking had more firepower than the Ticonderoga class, and the design was very advanced, and the Americans were eager to take this opportunity to get to know the Nanking and benefit from it. So the Nanjing appeared in the fleet to carry out anti-aircraft and anti-submarine missions for two American battleships.

In addition to the Nanjing and another 052D destroyer Sansha, there are also two Aegis cruisers from the US military, in fact, there are still many difficulties in making the navies of the two countries act together, for example, the problem of identifying friend and foe, Chinese warships and American warships are completely two sets of standards, if the Chinese cruiser launches a missile, it is supposed to attack the enemy, but it is likely to be identified as a threat by the US warship, and then countermeasures. In order to act together, the two sides conducted in-depth exchanges and exchanges, and completed a set of Allied Protocol Protocols, so that Chinese warships can be identified as friendly forces by U.S. warships, avoiding some unnecessary troubles.

Such a group of powerful warships is concentrated together with a direct mission, which is to play the role of a cruise missile launch carrier in an air attack. Whether it is the Ticonderoga class or the Iowa class, or China's 055 and 052D, they all have the ability to launch land-attack cruise missiles, and some tactical indicators of Tomahawk missiles and Longsword missiles are also very close, and the joint combat command basically treats these two weapons as one and the same.

At this moment, the Nanking and other ships in the fleet received orders from above.

"Using cruise missiles, attacking the intended targets." Guo Dezhu glanced at the code text and confirmed the attack command.

For example, among the 128 universal vertical launch units of the cruiser Nanjing, only 36 Thorn-4 long-range anti-aircraft missiles (or Hongqi-9), 64 Thorn-3 medium-range anti-aircraft missiles (one pit and four bombs, or Hongqi-16), and the remaining launch units are mainly equipped with 10 YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship missiles and 8 Changying-5 anti-submarine missiles. The maximum number is 50 Changjian-15 sea-based cruise missiles.

The Changjian-15 is a cruise missile in the Changjian series of missiles that is relatively small in size, but has strong mission flexibility, anti-jamming ability and strike accuracy. Because the volume of the Changjian-10 is more than eight meters, which is slightly too large to accommodate in the vertical hair on the ship, the base has developed a new generation of sea-based special version of the Longsword-15 cruise missile on the basis of the Longjian-10. This missile has a range of 1500 km to 2000 km and a cruising speed of 0. Mach 9, which at the end can be supersonic and carry out special maneuvers, actually uses some anti-ship missile techniques.

Purely from the point of view of ease of operation and reliability, the Longsword-15 is superior to the Tomahawks used by the US military at the same time. It takes 80 hours to prepare the Tomahawk, and it is undoubtedly quite troublesome to draw up a mission plan and input terrain and image data into the missile before launch. Moreover, the Tomahawk is not smart enough to change the target halfway.

On the other hand, the Changjian-15 can be launched quickly, only a set of attack coordinates need to be input, and it can be launched, thanks to the Beidou system, the Changjian missile does not need to carry out overly complex terrain matching and other data input, only a set of latitude and longitude. And it can also preset multiple groups of targets and select new attack points in the middle. New information from early warning aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, scouts, and other media can also be transmitted to the Changjian missiles that have already been launched in a timely manner, and the coordinates can be corrected in the middle of the way, which greatly improves the effectiveness and accuracy of the strike.

Under Guo Dezhu's order, the weapons officer quickly entered the attack command, and then a burst of fire and smoke rushed up from the launch unit, and the hot-launched longsword missile shot out in response to the sound and shot into the blue sky. Similarly, other U.S. warships fired their own Tomahawk missiles, and the Combined Fleet launched 22 cruise missiles in this wave alone.

Batches of cruise missiles are more difficult to defend against than air strikes by fighters, and the Iraqi army does not have advanced and intelligent end-of-battlefield air defense weapons, so cruise missiles are almost insoluble for the Iraqi army.

Due to the faster cruising speed, the Longsword missile, like the long legs in a race, arrived one step ahead of the Tomahawk and attacked. These land-attack cruise missiles all use high-explosive warheads, and when they hit their targets, they often set off a large mushroom cloud, giving great fear and psychological pressure to the defending Iraqi troops.

In conjunction with the attack of cruise missiles and with the almost unreserved cooperation of China and the United States, although the air raid was carried out in a short time, in just a few days, it achieved an attack effect that can only be achieved in 20 days in another plane. A large number of communications facilities, military installations and even some important civilian facilities in Iraq have been destroyed, and some power plants in Baghdad have also been bombed, turning Baghdad into a dark city at night.

Although Qi Yiming doesn't like to hurt civilians in war, war is like this. The ridiculous idea that it is the enemy who holds the gun, and that the one who does not hold the gun is not the enemy, can only hurt himself at the end of the day.