Chapter 644: After the Battle of 644
The Battle of the Mozambique Channel was brought to an end less than 24 hours into play. In terms of battle losses, the US military and NATO's allied fleets sank 14 surface ships, shot down 61 military aircraft of various types, and suffered 780 casualties; China's Indian Ocean Fleet did not lose ships, losing 66 warplanes and 30 casualties. In general, the U.S. military suffered greater losses, and strategically, the U.S. military did not realize its strategic attempt to break through the Mozambique Strait, while China's Indian Ocean fleet successfully froze the U.S. military in the narrow waters of the southwest Indian Ocean, ensuring its dominance in the larger waters of the Indian Ocean.
Fundamentally, however, although the US fleet was damaged, the main force was especially strong, and after replenishing the fighters and a small number of ships, it was still able to launch a second battle in the Mozambique Strait and strive to break through the Chinese Navy's defense. Of course, the U.S. Navy could also choose to bypass Madagascar and enter the Indian Ocean from the direction of Reunion and Mauritius, but this route would be tantamount to not challenging China's presence in East Africa and the Middle East, and would only be able to try to connect with India, and could be harassed by the Chinese Navy at any time.
Qi Yiming was not surprised to learn the outcome of the battle of the Mozambique Channel, and there were no additional surprises. It is true that the US military and NATO's allied fleets are larger, but China's Indian Ocean fleet has a technological advantage, and the two sides are basically evenly matched.
When he received the war report, he was in the senior general's sanatorium in Qingdao, chatting and drinking tea with the old general Liu Huaqing. Qi Yiming was not very excited, but the old general's excitement was uncontrollable, and he clapped his hands again and again.
"Well fought, well fought, today's battle has played the prestige of our people's navy, played our morale, from now on, our navy will have a real hard battle record, any strong navy, need such a hard battle endorsement!" Liu Huaqing said in a slightly trembling old voice, full of excitement.
Since the establishment of the Chinese Navy half a century ago, until today, the process of its establishment and development and growth has actually been quite rapid. Naturally, after Qi Yiming intervened with the power of the Red Alert base in the mid-80s, the Chinese Navy expanded from a second- or third-rate yellow water navy to a powerful world blue water navy. For example, the naval battles with KMT on the southeast coast and the Xisha naval battle were relatively small-scale water conflicts that were not taken seriously by the world. After the 80s, the navy has experienced the Korean rebellion, the South China Sea War of Independence, the liberation of Taiwan, the Russo-related war and other examples, although the scale is not small, but the opponents it faces are often much weaker than themselves, even if people have recognized the Chinese Navy as an important naval force in the world, even second only to the US Navy, but always feel that there is still something missing.
The world-renowned naval battle with the U.S. military in the Mozambique Strait and the largest since World War II completely paved the way for the Chinese Navy to enter the history list of the world's most powerful navies. Just as the British Imperial Navy defeated the Armada, the three Anglo-Dutch Wars, and the Battle of Trafalgar, and the German High Seas Fleet fought the Battle of Jutland, the U.S. Navy went through many battles in World War II, such as the Battle of Kuah Island, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the Battle of Okinawa, before finally making itself a world-class navy with conclusive facts. Although today's Battle of the Mozambique Channel did not completely bury the US fleet, it was a touchstone and named the Chinese People's Navy!
Qi Yiming made a pot of tea for Liu Lao, served it in front of him, and said: "In the end, the strength we put here is weaker, if we can mobilize the Sichuan aircraft carrier battle group to participate in this battle, I am afraid that the US military will not lose such a small amount of the problem now." β
"It's already good, fourteen surface ships, with a total tonnage of close to eighty thousand tons, have knocked out more than sixty aircraft, and most importantly, their strategic purpose has not been achieved and they are still trapped there by us." Liu Huaqing took a sip of tea lightly, and said with a slight red light on her face.
Qi Yiming sighed: "I think that after this defeat, the Americans may not be able to defeat their fighting spirit, although they have consumed a lot, but I am afraid that the US military will further increase its troops and impact our blockade of the Mozambique Strait with stronger force." β
"They can increase their troops, and we can increase our troops. Besides, time is on our side, and if the US military does not open up the situation for a day, we will have a day to continue to use troops in South Asia, completely forcing India into a dead end, and India will collapse, even if the Americans defeat us and enter the Indian Ocean, it will no longer make much sense. Unless they dare to mobilize more than a million troops to launch a landing operation on the South Asian subcontinent, and they must be prepared for constant attrition. Liu Huaqing said arrogantly, the iron bones of a soldier are heartbreaking.
Qi Yiming nodded, and said, "But this battle still exposed some of our problems." Compared with the US military's main line of focusing on aviation, the development of our navy is actually relatively balanced, and the air force is somewhat weaker than that of the United States; of course, the level of individual pilots and weapons and equipment is not bad, but in large-scale air battles, we still suffer a slight loss, and although we are slightly inferior to the Americans in terms of battle loss ratio this time, in fact the number of fighters dispatched by the Americans is about 20 percent more than ours, and it should not be too surprising that we can achieve such a battle loss ratio. β
Liu Huaqing nodded slightly in agreement, and he immediately said: "I heard that the General Staff Department is planning to continue to force and compress the United States, and the Navy also wants to completely dig up the foothold of the US Fifth Fleet in the Middle East. β
"Yes, the U.S. military is in Bahrain right now, and Bahrain doesn't have the ability to drive the U.S. military away. At the same time, our efforts to win over Saudi Arabia are heading for success and should be effective in the near future. When the time comes, Saudi Arabia will join our allies and cooperate with our troops in the Middle East and the Babylon Army to invade Bahrain and completely drive American troops out of Bahrain. At the same time, our Sichuan aircraft carrier battle group will also encircle and strangle the remaining US fleets in the Persian Gulf, and finally complete the goal of completely destroying the US Fifth Fleet, thus completely depriving the US military of the power to contain us behind our backs. Qi Yiming said in a sonorous tone.
"It's not an easy thing to convince Saudi Arabia to join us." Liu Huaqing asked.
Qi Yiming smiled slightly: "Have you ever heard of super plants?" β
After all, Liu Huaqing is also a member of the former military committee, the secrets of some countries, and he knows a lot, super plants almost made a mess back then, he has also heard of it, and now a large area of desert in the northwest has become a forest, even if the news is well covered, the legend about super plants is also very loud, not only in the power level, even the people for super plant seekers are endless, but also a large number of foreigners come to China under various banners to get samples of super plants, Conduct research and copycats.
However, because of the technical protection carried out by the black technology center, even if the large forest of super plants has been opened to a certain extent in the past two years, and even tourist forest parks have been built in some places, even if people get some samples of super plants, they cannot replant this plant. The reason for this is that the new generation of superplants has actually been reconditioned in terms of their ability to reproduce, making it impossible for them to reproduce freely. Only with the technical support of the Black Technology Center will the super plants grow and reproduce in a large area.
If the introduction of super plants can convert a large area of Saudi Arabia into forests and even arable land, it will greatly benefit the overall living environment of the Saudis, expand their living space, and will also change the current situation of water shortage in Saudi Arabia. It can be said that the role of super plants for Saudi Arabia will be subversive and revolutionary, so much so that the Saudi royal family was almost crazy when they learned that there was an opportunity to obtain such a thing.
At a time when Saudi Arabia itself is more inclined to the SCO side, the super plant can be described as an important bargaining chip, and after being placed on the scale, Saudi Arabia is not far from joining the Chinese side and even sending troops to participate in the war.
Liu Huaqing suddenly realized and said: "I am willing to take out such things, it seems that we have also paid a lot of capital for this war." β
Qi Yiming said: "Originally, such a thing was used to transform the earth, and in the future, this world will be dominated by us, and we will inevitably use such similar things to continuously produce benefits, so it doesn't make much difference if we take it out early or late, and now it's just to maximize the benefits we can obtain." β
Liu Huaqing bowed slightly, and said: "Saudi Arabia has joined our side, the situation in the Middle East will be greatly improved, if the Fifth Fleet can be completely swept away by us, then the US military's road to the Indian Ocean will become more and more rugged, I am afraid that then it is time for them to consider expanding the scope of the battlefield and launching a global offensive against us." β
Qi Yiming snorted and introduced: "Now the Americans are actually already working on this idea, even if they make smooth progress in the Indian Ocean Theater, there will be no pause in their deployment in other places." It is now evident that the actions are mainly in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and the United States wants to completely destroy several of our European allies, so as to protect the backyard of its European allies in NATO, and also to ensure its own European interests. I am afraid that the US military is still a little hesitant in the Asia-Pacific direction, after all, this is where our most powerful military deployment is, and the main plan of the US military at this stage is to stabilize its military presence in Japan, the Ryukyus, and the second island chain, and to strengthen its military deterrence against us. β
"This world war, but it really has to exhaust the brainpower of many heroes and talents, I see that you have been very busy recently, and the Strategy Bureau and the General Staff have probably made no less than a million pages of materials these days." Liu Huaqing said with a smile.
Qi Yiming said modestly: "The main thing is that everyone is doing things, and I am actually very idle." β
Liu Huaqing was noncommittal about his modesty, and said: "The strength on your side is also more prepared, I don't know when it will be your turn." Although this war was fought decisively, it is impossible to say that we do not mutter in our hearts, and now China, the United States, Britain and France have not used nuclear weapons, but when it is really time to drop nuclear bombs on each other, who knows what will become of the earth. β
Qi Yiming also knows that not only Liu Huaqing, but also from the top to the people, although everyone is supporting the war carried out by the country, but for the nuclear war, it has cast a shadow on everyone's hearts. Although China and the United States had previously concluded an agreement on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile control, neither side had the intention to abide by such a clause, so the possession of nuclear weapons and nuclear vehicles by the two countries has been increasing year after year.
In China's case alone, China has more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, and although most of them are tactical nuclear warheads with relatively small yields, there are also nearly 20,000 nuclear warheads used for strategic strikes. And ICBMs that can carry out attacks of tens of thousands of kilometers are directly calculated in the base unit of thousands. Although the United States is a little worse than China in terms of total numbers, it is also good enough to destroy the earth once or twice.
At the time of the Russo-related war, China also faced this kind of nuclear crisis, but at that time, after all, Russia was facing a civil war, and China completely eliminated Russia's nuclear arsenal with mental calculations or not. Although Qi Yiming also has a large nuclear arsenal in the United States today, it is quite difficult to grasp the whole group of Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines.
"In this regard, the danger is naturally in the zΓ i, as long as it is a war, there is a zΓ i danger, and it is not interesting to be too jealous. In order to guard against a nuclear attack by the US military, we have also thought of many ways. The Air Force's air defense units are now basically equipped with a large number of anti-missile missiles such as the Hongqi-19 and Hongqi-26, and we have deployed sea-based and land-based air defense and anti-missile platforms in Central Asia, North Asia, and the Western Pacific, and their ability to check and balance nuclear ballistic missiles is relatively strong. At the same time, the anti-missile early warning network that we have built over the past 10 years has also taken shape, and a large number of early warning radars and space-based early warning satellites can give us more reaction time to deal with these nuclear missiles. Hehe, even if we accidentally let a nuclear missile come in, we still have things like the Iron Curtain and vacuum implosion bombs to save it, not to mention, according to the principle of guaranteeing mutual destruction, if the United States dares to use one nuclear missile against us, we can give them back 10. As long as the United States has the courage to start a nuclear war, within a day, I can destroy everything that the United States has built up over the past 200 years! β
Looking at Qi Yiming's appearance of still looking like a young man in his twenties, but with an amazingly domineering and confident temperament, Liu Huaqing couldn't help but smile and said, "Well, we have always been at ease when you do things." Like you said, war is inherently risky. Those who are afraid of war will never be able to win, and only bravery is the only way to win. If we are not mentally prepared to bear losses, we will not have a chance to succeed, and you can still see this clearly. β
Qi Yiming smiled and waved his hand: "It's better not to lose, or not to lose." Every inch of land and every population in our country is precious, and we have struggled so far for this qiΔ. β
Liu Huaqing pulled a stack of newspapers on the table, although it is now the Internet era, but the old man is still quite conservative and is used to reading news through traditional media such as newspapers. He pointed to some newspapers and said: "Let's think about them, fight and even sacrifice for them, but some people's foreign servile nature still can't be changed!" β
Qi Yiming glanced at the newspapers and knew what they were. Some of the articles published in these newspapers are very right-leaning, which may have something to do with the fact that these newspapers themselves are relatively right-leaning. Although China's development is more smooth, and it is also more open and open-minded on some important issues, the red system and some more traditional Chinese things are still inherited, and they may all need to be reformed, but they are not achievable for a while.
At a time when the economy was booming and many people were getting rich and enjoying prestige in a variety of ways, it was not surprising that groups such as public intellectuals and "elites" appeared. They earn the money of the Chinese and are the beneficiaries of the system, but they keep admiring all kinds of foreign things, and any problems can rise to the problems of the system, and they can attack the government and the party if they find a reason. The undisciplined Cheng dΓΉ can be said to be no worse than the other plane.
The online storage zΓ i amplifies some extreme remarks, and people also like to watch these eye-catching things, so over a period of time, the influence of these GZJY has become more and more great. When these people feel that they have become popular and famous, they begin to intensify their efforts to refresh the lower limit of discipline, and to attack and propagate all kinds of right-leaning and brain-dead remarks and concepts.
After the outbreak of the war, this group of GZJY even began to blatantly attack the party and the state, saying that China is reckless in military force, CP is inherently violent, wants to subvert world peace, and the greedy and ambitious CPC cannot see the prosperity and democracy and human rights of the free world, and is bent on using force to destroy the light in this world, bringing about a "1984"-style totalitarian and terrifying world that suppresses human nature and human rights.
There are also some GZJYs who say that China is essentially a pink country ruled by a privileged class, and that this war has no justice at all, and that it is no different from other hegemonic countries competing for interests. The outbreak of the war began with the increasingly serious trade dispute between China and the United States, and China was eager for greater interests, so it was necessary to go to war to change the situation that is now being excluded by the United States.
This statement is not particularly brain-dead, but it attributes the reason for striving for greater interests for the country and the people to the privileged strata of a few countries, and constantly uses a few examples to exaggerate the extreme corruption of Chinese society and officialdom, and calls for learning from the "clean and efficient" system and system of the West, turning a blind eye to the fact that the development of Western countries has been frustrated again and again and China has risen strongly in recent years.