Peng Dechao turned his head to the staff officer behind him and ordered: "Order to start acting according to the No. 1 battle plan." ”

After Peng Dechao's order was given, the fleet began to slow down, and all the warships were arranged in a certain formation, covering more than a thousand square kilometers of sea surface. Feng Ju also issued an order to the Eastern Ocean Fleet through the encrypted naval communication channel, and soon the Eastern Ocean Fleet also began to reduce its speed and form an air defense and anti-submarine formation.

This sortie was supposed to be the flagship of the Eastern Ocean Fleet, but his curiosity about the Iron and Blood Army made him come to Peng Dechao's flagship in the name of joint command, and he wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of powerful weapons and equipment the Iron Blood Army was blown out.

Feng Ju stared at the flight decks on both sides of the bridge with wide eyes, he waited for the Sailfish 3 carrier-based aircraft to take off, but after waiting for a full minute, the elevators that transported the planes did not move at all. After watching it for a while, Feng Ju couldn't help it, and he was about to ask Peng Dechao why the plane hadn't moved yet, when a large flash of light suddenly appeared around more than a dozen aircraft carriers.

Feng Ju looked around in astonishment, and found that those flashes of light were emitted by some strange giant ships. These ships have a displacement of about 30,000 tons, except for a bridge covered with radar, they are all bare flat plates, without any traces of weapons, but after Peng Dechao issued an order, those seemingly smooth decks suddenly opened countless lids, and one after another missiles burst into large flames in the hull, and then the missiles took off, and on the way to the air, a straight short wing poked out on both sides of the missile body.

When these missiles were raised to an altitude of 50 meters, a puff of smoke came out of the warheads, and the body of the missiles changed to level flight with this force, and soon they flew away at a speed of Mach 1.5. These grotesque ships fired missiles at a rate of one shot per second, and soon hundreds of missiles were launched.

Looking at this spectacular scene, Feng Ju couldn't help but ask, "Commander Peng, what kind of warships are they, how come I have never heard of them." ”

Peng Dechao said with a smile: "This is our unique arsenal ship of the Iron Army, it is specially born to carry missiles, each arsenal ship has two hundred and fifty-six missile launch units, each unit has five rounds of ammunition, can launch a variety of missiles, but this time in order to attack land targets, they are all carrying cruise missiles of the Long Sword series." This warship has its own long-range radar and satellite access system, which can instantly download satellite maps and quickly input them into the cruise missile computer, so that the cruise missile can accurately hit the target. ”

"It's amazing, if our Eastern Ocean Fleet also has this kind of warship, wouldn't it be invincible?" Feng Ju was secretly speechless when he heard this, and at the same time he looked at the arsenal ship with envy on his face.

Peng Dechao shook his head and said: "Actually, this is a failed attempt on our part, because we found that the cost-effectiveness ratio of this kind of warship is not as good as that of aircraft carriers, and the range cannot be compared with the missiles attached to carrier-based aircraft, and in terms of air defense, it is not as flexible as destroyers, which can be described as a chicken rib ship type." The Iron Blood Army was also only equipped with thirty-five ships, and it was no longer built. ”

Feng Ju nodded and said, "But even if the consumption ratio is lower, it is still very useful at this time, especially when bombarding ground targets, it is much easier to use than naval guns." ”

"Does it work? In fact, the 203-millimeter naval guns installed on our Canberra-class destroyers can already accurately fire at targets up to 200 kilometers away, of course, in the case of rocket range extender shells. Peng Dechao said with a smile.

"What? Two hundred kilometers? Feng Ju exclaimed, today's Iron Blood Army had already brought him too much shock.

Not only Feng Ju, but all the officers and men of the Eastern Ocean Fleet were shocked by the powerful lineup of the Iron and Blood Army, and at the same time as they were shocked, the 700 Changjian-3 cruise missiles that launched the first wave of attacks had already rapidly approached various important bases on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar.

In a shore defense artillery barracks near the Strait of Gibraltar, it was dawn for the early Axis soldiers to begin their routine early morning exercises. The Axis soldiers lined up had just run around the playground when they were attracted by the vision on the sea. At the junction of the sea and the sky, a large flickering light suddenly appeared, and its dazzling degree even overshadowed the newborn sun.

The flash was rapidly approaching, and soon came to the sky above the barracks. Patches of cruise missiles broke through the coastline at a height of fifteen meters above the ground. After entering the land range, the cruise missile swarms dispersed, and they rushed towards their respective targets.

"It's missiles, a lot of missiles." Acquaintances screamed in the ranks, staring blankly at the missiles that flew by, but they didn't think about what it meant, and they were completely shocked by this time. Before they could realize that the Chinese Navy had begun to attack, two missiles had already hit the reinforced concrete batteries on the coastal hills.

The cruise missile accurately drilled through the window of the battery and exploded violently inside the fortifications. The 700 kilograms of high explosives directly destroyed the heavy artillery of the shore defense in the fortifications, and at the same time, because the space inside the fortifications was relatively confined to the air, this added greater power to the explosion of the missiles, and the entire fortifications were shattered by the impact of the air waves generated by the explosives, and many places collapsed, and the entire battery seemed to be no longer usable.

Looking at the batteries that were destroyed in an instant, the artillerymen standing on the playground gasped, because there were still dozens of artillerymen on duty in those batteries, and now they had been reduced to pieces of flesh and blood along with those heavy artillery. The artillerymen immediately panicked, and they scattered in all directions, looking everywhere for a place to hide, but their hiding was superfluous, because no matter how strong the shelter was, it could not escape the missile attack, and the Chinese Navy would not waste precious cruise missiles for a small number of artillerymen.

The altitude of 15 meters is already considered an ultra-low-altitude flight, and this altitude is a dead angle for all types of shore-based radars, especially those radars of the Axis countries that are not advanced, and they do not need to be dispatched by electronic jammers at all, and they can also evade radar monitoring.

The coastal artillerymen were just busy running to the battery to rescue their doomed companions, and no one thought to inform their superiors about this by telephone. At this time, the soldiers who were sticking to the radar in the various military positions of the Axis countries were still at a loss to know that the danger was approaching, and by the time the missiles were in the air and began to raise their altitude to prepare for the attack, it was already too late.