Off the coast of Qingdao, off Jiaozhou Bay, the PLA Navy fleet is sailing here. Since the Sino-Japanese Naval War, it has been several decades, China's own strong navy has not appeared again, Qingdao has become an excellent port for Germany and Japan, and warships stop and walk here, while the Chinese can only sigh in vain when they look at the plume of smoke rising from the chimney of the warship.

By this time, however, the situation had changed, and Qi Yuan destroyed the Japanese Combined Fleet, recovered the wreckage of the warship, and rebuilt a more advanced fleet and handed it over to the PLA Navy. Of course, the people in the navy who really understand the navy are all sailors under the command of Commander Qi Yuan, and the newly established navy has recruited a group of red-minded progressives, including shipwrights and young students, to join the navy. Although these people are also on the ship now, they are mainly apprentices, and they can't do complicated things except wipe the deck.

At this time, the ship formation sent to Qingdao consisted of a 50,000-ton Proletarian-class battleship, a Warcry-class heavy cruiser, three Taizhou-class destroyers (Type 051 improved), and a sturgeon-class conventional-powered submarine (Romeo-class improved). These ships are basically a generation of ships in the World War II era, and their naming does not follow the serial number of another plane, but uses the ship class naming like the international mainstream.

In fact, several of the ships blockaded in Jiaozhou Bay at this time were guests from the United States. Vice Admiral Halsey, a member of the officer corps that came to China to engage with CPC, asked the Tunmu fleet to participate in the naval military operation after learning that the PLA Navy was conducting military operations against the Japanese army.

The fleet included the Tennessee-class battleship USS California, the Brooklyn-class cruiser USS Nashville, and several destroyers, roughly the size of PLA Navy ship formations, but slightly smaller in tonnage.

In fact, the appearance of Halsey itself was for the sudden appearance of the naval fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Roosevelt and others could not understand how such a large fleet could suddenly be conjured up by the Chinese, and in order to understand the strength of the Chinese navy, Halsey specially visited China and joined the fleet.

Halsey stood in the bridge of the USS California, looking at the huge Chinese battleship not far from him, and felt inexplicable and mixed in his heart for a while. The battleship, named the Proletarian, had a beautiful hull, and in terms of tonnage, there is no such large battleship even in the current US Navy. But such a huge and powerful warship actually appeared in the hands of the Chinese without warning. Halsey speculated that it must be related to the Wheel King, apparently a mysterious force with the Wheel King, created for the Chinese.

"However, this battleship is really a little strange, it obviously has such a huge hull, but only two triple turrets are arranged, but the 406mm main gun is really loved, and when the Iowa class is put into service, our US Navy will also have such a configuration." Halsey thought so and laughed.

There was also an officer of the People's Liberation Army Navy standing beside him, and this person was naturally also a career naval officer under Qi Yuankong, as Halsey's accompaniment, after all, this was an operation in China itself. Apparently aware that Halsey was wondering why the Proletarian class had only two turrets, the officer relieved him:

"Our Proletarian class does not just use naval guns as the main offensive weapon, but in ship-to-ship combat, we have a new weapon that can better hit the enemy."

When Halsey heard him say this, he was also curious, since he said it, it meant that the Chinese did not want to keep it secret, and he quickly asked: "What kind of weapon is this?" ”

The naval officer smiled: "General, you will be able to see it with your own eyes in a while." ”

Halsey was patient and made a lot of guesses, from special carrier-based aircraft to heavy torpedoes, he imagined them all, and the more he thought about it, the more curious he became, so he craned his neck and waited for the so-called mysterious weapon.

In fact, the main purpose of this sortie was to intercept the troop transport ships that were preparing to unmole and return to the Japanese mainland at Qingdao Port. At this stage, the Japanese army no longer has any decent naval ships to escort them, but the Japanese soldiers still have to go home, so they can only get on board like this. After the spy satellite conducted reconnaissance for many days and found that there was a large-scale movement of soldiers in Qingdao Port, the naval fleet set out to blockade Qingdao Port, and at this time, there was no radar, and the Japanese army did not know at all that outside Jiaozhou Bay, Chinese and American warships were already gathered.

On board the Proletarian, the radar department reported: "Japanese ships have been found to appear in the direction of our ship 0-1-2, number 4, and they are all small and medium-sized civilian ships." ”

The captain of the Proletarian said with a smile: "The Japanese army no longer has any decent troop carriers, and the warships are almost destroyed. ”

"Anti-ship missiles are ready to attack the above four targets separately."

"Ready, launch!"

The anti-ship missiles on the Proletarian are actually a slightly upgraded version of the first-generation anti-ship missiles, that is, China's SY-1 missiles have been slightly improved, and these anti-ship missiles will definitely not be able to do it if they hit the thick armor of the battleship, but the current enemy of the Proletarian is some civilian ships that are even wooden shells, and it is a bit of a luxury to actually use anti-ship missiles to fight.

However, these anti-ship missiles are all reshaped from waste materials, so the cost is almost none, and the PLA Navy uses these missiles as if they did not need money. Another tyrant who faced the US military in Iraq and used hellfire to beat three terrorists is similar to the current action of using anti-ship missiles to hit fishing boats.

The anti-ship missiles on the battleships all have missile launch boxes, and there are no vertical launch units, and a large battleship like the Proletarian is equipped with a total of 16 anti-ship missile launch boxes, and the SY-1 is not a very large anti-ship missile, and it does not take up much space.

Halsey on the USS California looked at what looked like a rectangular water tank, and actually spewed out thick smoke, and something like a large rocket jumped out of the ship. Lieutenant General Halsey could see clearly that the rocket-like weapon had a clear trajectory adjustment in the air, and then galloped away in the direction of the inner lane of Jiaozhou Bay.

Halsey pointed to the end of the cigarette and exclaimed, "Is that your secret weapon?" A large rocket capable of steering and used to hit a ship? ”

The Chinese naval officer squinted and smiled: "That's right, we call this weapon missile, and the missile used to deal with the spread is also called an anti-ship missile." It has its own engine, which can travel far like an airplane, for example, this SY-1 missile can reach a range of 60 kilometers, which is completely beyond the line of sight at sea, and it carries a homing head, which can assist the missile to find its own target and hit the enemy with complete accuracy. ”

Halsey was incredulous, and said, "Can it find the enemy on its own without being piloted?" ”

"That's right, the fire control radar on the battleship is its eyes, pointing it out the direction of the attack."

Halsey was silent for a moment and said, "If this weapon is really like what you said, I'm afraid this will be a weapon that will change the combat mode of the Navy in the future." ”

He looked at the battleship under his feet and sighed: "Then the battleship with heavy artillery will probably completely withdraw from the stage of history." I think you have something like this on your destroyers, and it would be extremely cost-effective to launch such missiles from a destroyer to attack a large ship, and a large ship would be an easier target for the enemy. ”

The Chinese naval officer said, "You are right, Your Excellency. Moreover, the status of the battleship itself has already been challenged by aircraft carriers, and only then aircraft carriers will assume the role of the core of the fleet's strike. ”

Halsey was a U.S. Navy admiral, and it was natural that the aircraft carrier faction within the U.S. military was thriving. Although the Pearl Harbor incident did not show the great utility of the Japanese army's use of aircraft carriers, the Americans still seized the opportunity and correctly believed that aircraft carriers would inevitably replace battleships in the future. It's just that the battleship is still the most terrible naval weapon in this period, at least in the eyes of the enemy, so the Americans are still sparing no effort to build battleships such as Iowa.

Because it was outside the line of sight, Halsey did not directly see the attack effect of the anti-ship missile, but as the fleet approached Jiaozhou Bay, the transport ship that was hit just now was left with a piece of debris at sea, and some of the Japanese soldiers who were still alive were struggling in the water.

At this distance, the use of anti-ship missiles was no longer necessary, and Chinese and American ships began to carry out heavy shelling of various ships conscripted by the Japanese army in the port of Qingdao. Not to mention civilian ships, even ordinary warships were not lucky enough to encounter such an intense naval artillery attack, and the large-caliber naval guns hit those wooden hull ships with small tonnage, which directly led the ship to explode into a wreckage, and the Japanese soldiers on it suffered a large number of casualties.

The Japanese devils had to jump off the boat to escape, they just boarded the ship, but they did not expect to be attacked by the mixed fleet of China and the United States before they left the port, and there was a way to survive when they jumped into the water and swam to the shore.

Halsey on the California watched the Chinese warships shelling Qingdao Port, his eyes became very condensed, and he couldn't help but secretly say: "Before the war, China had almost no decent navy, and in the face of the Japanese old fleet, they actually had to sink themselves at the mouth of the Yangtze River. And now looking at these CPC naval ships, the combat effectiveness obviously belongs to the first-class navy, even stronger than some American ships with lax training, and the strike level and hit rate of naval guns are good, how did the Chinese build such a navy? ”

The navy is a technical branch of the army, and it has always been considered a technical branch, only by spending a lot of money and time on training for a long time, can we obtain skilled naval officers and soldiers, and a country's navy is also related to tradition, there is no naval tradition, and the fleet with a chaotic style, even if it has a good ship, it can only increase the results of the war for others in the end, a typical example is China's Beiyang Fleet and the Russian Navy at the end of Tsarist Russia.

Halsey couldn't help but think that this fleet seemed to be more than just a powerful ship, and it seemed that even the soldiers on the ship were packed and sent.

In China's coastal waters, the Chinese have won sea supremacy, which is also the first time in modern times that the Chinese have controlled their own offshore sea rights. The return of the Japanese army to China was extremely difficult due to the control of sea power, and it was clear that the United States also wanted to take this opportunity to strengthen its friendship with the CPC and increase its influence in East Asia, so Halsey's fleet expanded its lineup again, and began to deal with the remnants of Japan's naval power based in China.