In addition to the loss of 88 aircraft, the Chinese Grand Fleet sank 5 destroyers, 1 light cruiser and 11 speedboats under the siege of European submarines, and several warships were damaged.

Compared with the results of the battle on Socotra, these are really not much. So the old emperor only looked at it in his eyes and didn't take it to heart.

Plant melons, get melons, plant beans, get beans, you always have to plant first, don't you? If you want to reap the rewards, you have to pay the price. I really want not a single ship to sink, not a single plane to shoot down, and not a single person to die, and that kind of war only exists in the image of people.

In the 21st century, the United States still had more than 100 deaths [in the war] if it wanted to deal with Iraq, not to mention that now China is fighting against Europe.

After eliminating the threat of Socotra, the Grand Fleet moved to the islands of Abdulkuri and Samha on the western side of Socotra, while Deirsai was too small, an uninhabited island with no water source and no value.

Abdulkuli Island and Samkha Island, one more than 100 square kilometers and the other 40 square kilometers, are just a foothold for the Grand Fleet, and there are no deep-water ports on these two small islands, let alone docks where aircraft carriers can dock.

The transport ships accompanying the Grand Fleet were not only a certain number of marines and army officers, but also many more fighters and pilots. The 88 planes lost in the battle of Socotra, as well as the corresponding pilots and crew members, were immediately replenished. Except for the tacit understanding and cooperation within the pilots, which are not as good as the martyrs who sacrificed, there is no difference in other aspects.

These are just a small part of what the transport fleet carries. Occupied the islands of Abdulkuri and Samha, especially Abdullkuri. Unleash the full combat power of the fleet in no time. After China's naval forces had a firm foothold, the combat effectiveness of the entire fleet was greatly enhanced.

The next Grand Fleet had no intention of attacking the Gulf of Aden or continuing to bomb Socotra. A large number of engineering troops landed on the two small islands, and engineering vehicles were transported ashore to build improvised sea plank roads, build airfields, and build improvised fuel transport pipelines to transport barrels of fuel from transport ships to the shore. Of course, the Marines who had landed before that had completely controlled the indigenous people of the two small islands.

It took half a month, and it was not until late September that the airports on the two islands were completely built. More than 300 warplanes were also deployed to the two islands. A large number of transport ships were replaced by new arrivals, and they crossed most of the Indian Ocean to Goa under the protection of escort carriers.

This was a Portuguese colony, the defeat of the British, the arrival of the Chinese army, the Portuguese colonization history here for 400 years was also forced to come to an end, but the Chinese gentlemanly protected the Portuguese 'legal property', and paid the Portuguese 500 million Chinese dollars as the cost of buying Goa. This amount of money is naturally insignificant compared to the real value of Goa. But what can the Portuguese do but smile and accept?

Compared to the 'tragedy' of the British, their fate is already good.

So this piece of land, which is slightly larger than the island of Taiwan, has become China's only 'territory' on mainland India. Goa is also a logistical supply base for China's Arab naval war. Hundreds of thousands of troops and thousands of aircraft. There are also hundreds of ships gathered here.

The Chinese Grand Fleet has been at sea for a month or two of 'stagnation', and all logistical supplies are from here.

Fighter planes one by one, as long as the weather allows. It will keep shuttling through the sky, monitoring every inch of space on the sea. This is not a place where European submarines are raging. But it's better to be careful.

The escort fleet is dominated by light cruisers and destroyers, and is accompanied by escort carriers. Their enemies are mainly submarines.

Goa's defenses are too meticulous. It's not that European submarines don't want to wreak havoc there, if it is possible, anyone will guard here and sink the Chinese supply fleet non-stop. European submarines were unable to do this, so they had to move away from the coast of Goa and launch a targeted attack on the transport fleet in the middle of the sea.

Because there are too many submarines in the entire Arabian Sea, and the enemy and us are intertwined with each other under the sea level, how the joint fleet of the three countries sends a broken fleet will not be able to go far before it will be called by the Chinese submarines. Therefore, the only weapon used by the Europeans for the logistics supply line of the Chinese Navy was submarines.

Although the protection and anti-submarine work of each transport fleet has been carried out to the extreme under the existing conditions, losses are still unavoidable. Submarine warfare is, after all, an offensive game. Submarines have too many advantages in today's science and technology.

After the Battle of Socotra, the European submarine forces were even more frantically strangled the supply routes of the Chinese Grand Fleet, and more and more transport ships were sunk in the ocean, and in just half a month, 13 ships were sunk, nearly double the number of 7 ships before the Battle of Socotra. The escort fleet also suffered considerable losses, with 2 escort aircraft carriers sunk, 10 destroyers and light cruisers sunk, 17 lightly and seriously damaged, and the number of speedboat accidents was even higher.

It's all worth the loss. The continuous logistical supply allowed the Grand Fleet to complete the arrangement of the two airfields on Abdulkul Island and Samha Island in half a month, and the presence of more than 300 aircraft, with these two islands as the center, the flight radius can already cover most of the Gulf of Aden.

Liu Xian's next plan is to seize Somalia, not all of Somalia, but a few points along the coast. It depends on the situation whether the planes of the Europeans come or not, they come, then it depends on the situation, to hit or not. If they don't come, then quickly transport the fuel and complete the layout of the airports. Using these airfields as combat bases, aircraft were sent to sweep the entire Gulf of Aden.

Follow-up supply ships are constantly transporting planes to the Grand Fleet, and the accumulation of more than 10 years of accumulation of the Chinese Air Force, the manufacture of fighters and the training of pilots are absolutely not holding back. Then it's up to the other side to see what the other side will do!

Jellico did not let Liu Xian wait any longer, and just as the Chinese plane entered Somalia westward, the air force of the three countries, which belonged to the command of the joint fleet of the three countries, began to rapidly advance eastward from Djibouti. Clearly, the movement of Chinese fighters into Somalia made the Europeans realize that something was wrong.

In the turquoise skies of Somalia, the strongest aviation power in the East and West. Swiftly and decisively, one of the largest and most brutal duels unfolded over this land with no industrial capacity.

The Europeans took the initiative to kill them, intending to drive the Chinese forces that had just landed into the sea again. The number of aircraft in the first wave reached 500. Liu Xian is now following the Grand Fleet north from Abdulkuri Island to contain part of the Europeans' air force. Aircraft from Abdulkuri and Samkha were immediately ordered to reinforce the Somali coast.

500 is a lot, but that number doesn't go beyond the red line. Even if some of the Abdulkuri and Samkha planes were left to guard the islands, they could help the bases off the Somali coast to withstand the attack.

The main force of the Chinese fleet, consisting of three task forces, can reduce the pressure on the Somali side by at least half. A large number of warplanes frequented the coastal cities on the north shore of the Gulf of Aden from time to time, bombing British garrisons and some landmark facilities, such as the British ruling institutions and tax agencies, and those buildings with the rice flag of the British Empire were mostly given special care.

Salalah, Nishton, Milbat, ....... A large number of coastal towns on the peninsula were bombed by Chinese planes, and the air force under the combined fleet of the three countries naturally did not dare to completely transfer to Somalia.

A telegram was sent to Egypt from Sultan Temur bin Faisal of the Imam of Muscat, one of the main British supporters of the eastern part of the peninsula, and Salalah was the most prosperous city and port in his territory, although it was not the capital of the Imam of Muscat, Salalah was the permanent residence of Temur bin Faisal. In addition, as a matter of gossip, the Imam of Muscat is the Sultanate of Oman in later generations!

As Yemen's neighbor and a staunch ally of the British in the face of squeeze on the peninsula, Temur bin Faisal's protests are not simply a matter of war. It also depends on a political issue.

The Chinese have now reached the Strait of Hormuz, but the Chinese cannot fight any further. If Tymur bin Faisal had questioned the 'protection' of the British Empire because of the loss of his own territory, the worst consequence would have been for the Patriarchate of Muscat to go to China, which would have dealt a heavy blow to the British Empire.

Jericho and other British, French and German officers actually didn't understand why the Chinese Navy didn't fight for the Persian Gulf. If the Chinese Grand Fleet arrives in the Persian Gulf. Jericho and others did not believe that the British Empire could maintain the ruling order of half of the peninsula. By that time, countless tribal leaders would offer their knees and humility to the Chinese. The tribal cavalry that rode camels and horses galloped across the vast deserts, deserts, and Gobi for their lives and interests. In the blink of an eye, the most vicious invasion of the British will be launched. They went from being warriors who obstructed the Chinese army to being hounds for the Chinese, and they needed a word from the tribal leaders and elders.

Jericho and others couldn't imagine the importance that the old emperor attached to the Middle East. What a treasure it is for the peninsula, a land that floats on the sea of oil. Liu Xian would rather take the difficult route he is taking now than burn the flames of the Great War to the Persian Gulf. The sole purpose is to preserve the safety of the oil wells in the peninsula oil fields.

He would rather pay a little more than let the Europeans go crazy to destroy oil wells all over the peninsula, in which case the losses would be even greater.

Just like the Gulf War in the original time and space, Saddam set fire to 732 oil wells before ordering the withdrawal of troops, although the Kuwaiti government miraculously extinguished all the flames in eight months, but don't forget that it was the technology 70 years later, and in the Western world at that time, countless bricks estimated that Kuwait, a rare oil well fire in the world, would take at least two or three years to be extinguished.

If the decisive naval battle between the East and the West had really been introduced into the Persian Gulf, the situation of the Chinese navy would certainly be better than it is now, but after the defeat, who would dare to guarantee that they would not destroy everything like crazy? Even in the midst of war, it is difficult to ensure the complete safety of oil wells on land and at sea.

Up to the end of the war, the Chinese Peninsula column from Kuwait could no longer move, and they were congenitally deficient and did not pay attention to the British at all. But now that China has begun to bomb the northern shore of the Gulf of Aden, if the position of the Muscat Imam fluctuates, thousands of miles of yellow sand and difficult supplies will not stop the Chinese from moving south.

After a short and important meeting, the generals of the navies of the three countries, Jellico, and other navies dispatched a rapid counterattack force composed of four super-dreadnought battleships, four battle cruisers, and a group of heavy and light cruisers to coordinate with the air force's attack to counterattack the main force of the Chinese fleet staying in the Haikou area of the Gulf of Aden.

Such a force could not destroy the Chinese Grand Fleet, and the intention of the combined navy of the three countries was only to drive the Chinese back. This at least gave Sultan Temur bin Faisal an explanation.

Jericho, Scheer and others made quick decisions, but they didn't make plans in an instant. Thankfully, there was no shortage of fuel on the peninsula, there was no shortage of burning anywhere, and the aviation units of the three countries quickly flew in the direction of Salalah. At the same time, the rapid response fleet also lit fire and pulled anchors, braving billowing black smoke and advancing towards the east.

It's just that the great fleets on the east and west sides are more than 700 kilometers apart from each other, and even if these high-speed warships are fast enough, it will take a day to sail. The real war between the two sides will have to wait for the outcome of the air force fight.

Like the air battles on the Somali side, the air battles along the coast of the Gulf of Aden are huge in scale and brutal. It's just that unlike Somalia, Liu Xian, who is directly involved in the battlefield, can directly command.

And what is the art of command in large-scale air battles? It's not the fighter's aerial dogfight, that's what the pilot has to consider; It is not the tactics of group raids and air raids, but the command of the mid-level commanders who take off the planes. As a general in command of a large army, his command art is to grasp the rhythm of landing, replenishing, and then lifting off the plane.

Staggered the sharpness of the enemy's needle-to-point, attracted the attention of the enemy aircraft group with a small number of fighters, and when the enemy's fuel supply was reduced to the point where it was about to return, the group of fighters swooped up. Such a battle is certainly won and undefeated.

Liu Xian believed that some of the pilots of the three countries had a high ideological level and were so high that they did not take their own safety to heart and put the interests of the country and the nation first. But he believes that most of the pilots of the Three Kingdoms do not have such a high ideological realm.

Every pilot has an accurate judgment of their own time in the air, and when the above happens, the pressure on the hearts of these pilots will suddenly become unbearable. A considerable number of them will only want to get rid of the Chinese plane and fly back as soon as possible. I don't have the heart to fight hard.

The benefits to China's naval forces are obvious.

It's just that this kind of rhythm should be a 'God-given opportunity' that can be encountered but not sought in normal air combat. However, under the control of Liu Xian, this kind of "God-given opportunity" was frequently staged in the great air battles along the coast of the Gulf of Aden.

A decisive battle that should have been fierce was beaten to the side by the old emperor...... (To be continued.) )