Chapter 680 680 Battle of the Solomon Islands (6)
"Sir, radar has detected a small Chinese fleet coming through from the north, seemingly intending to attack our carrier battle group." The intelligence officer reported to Fargo, who had just received news of the annihilation of his bomber force a few minutes earlier, in exchange for the destruction of a Chinese building and the heavy damage to a frigate.
Fargo was on fire and said: "Small fleet, the Chinese seem to be a little overconfident, do they think a few ships can defeat our two aircraft carrier battle groups?" Send drones for reconnaissance! ”
The U.S. military is now also equipped with many reconnaissance UAVs for naval vessels, RQ-8 fire scouts, this rotary-wing reconnaissance aircraft provides great convenience for the acquisition of ship intelligence, and RQ-8 is not large in size, and it is difficult to be detected by enemy radar when flying at low altitudes, so it is very favored by the U.S. Navy.
After the fire scouts were released, they quickly transmitted back the situation ahead, and the small fleet of the Chinese was actually not very small, there were a total of 5 surface ships on the surface, and how many submarines under the water were still unknown.
Fargo looked at the picture on the screen, swallowed a mouthful of spit involuntarily, and then looked left and right: "Who can sue me, what kind of ship is that, have the Chinese announced this kind of warship before?" ”
The fleet staff officer pointed to the side of the obviously large ship that did not speak, and said: "The one next to it is an arsenal ship that the Chinese have not announced before, and the Chinese official has disclosed it in the media, this is a Type 011 battle cruiser with a displacement of 50,000 tons, in fact, it is an outright arsenal ship, and NATO has not named her yet." Obviously, this one, as the flagship, is much larger than the Type 011 Battle Cruiser, I'm afraid it has 70,000 tons......"
Fargo clenched his fists tightly, revealing his nervousness, he stared at the thick triple turret on the battleship, and said: "I'm afraid there should be 80,000 tons, two triple cannons, this is not an arsenal ship, this is a resurrected battleship!" ”
A rear admiral in the fleet also wiped his sweat beads and muttered: "What kind of disease have the Chinese committed, they have built more than ten aircraft carriers in ten years, and they have built such advanced things as arsenal ships, and now they have built battleships that have withdrawn from history, what kind of enemy are we fighting against!" ”
Fargo said: "It is because Chinese have their own style in terms of military concepts, and they do not conform to the rules and do things that we do not understand, which makes our battles extremely difficult, if Chinese everything follows the route we have taken, we can easily judge their weaknesses and find ways to attack, now ...... We can only test with blood and money how we can win. ”
He then said: "We can't let this kind of thing get close to our aircraft carrier, we don't know what kind of tactical play the Chinese have for this kind of battleship, but no matter what, she can't get close to the Constellation and Ford, withdraw our fighters, I want to sink this Chinese fleet!" ”
The fleet staff officer said pessimistically: "The Chinese Navy uses one battleship with one arsenal ship, plus one 055 cruiser and two 052D destroyers to form a fleet, which shows that they are very confident in such a configuration." The battleship should be the main attack, then the arsenal ship is probably used for fleet air defense, our power we have seen before, it is hard to imagine how many aircraft we need to break through the fleet air defense circle composed of arsenal ships, maybe we can repel it, but the combat power of our two aircraft carrier battle groups will also be abolished. ”
Fargo blushed and said loudly: "Even if all the fighters are shot down, as long as we can sink the Chinese's battleships and arsenal ships, we will take advantage!" The economic and national power consumed to build such warships is incalculable, and it cannot be replenished in the short term, and the encouragement to our NATO allies will be amazingly huge, so let these giant warships become a stepping stone for our success! ”
The U.S. military began to draw a large number of fighters from the previous Tianlong fleet to prepare to return to the aircraft carrier battle group, but when they went, it was easy to come back, and the tenacious Chinese naval aviation was stubbornly entangled with the U.S. fighters, making it difficult for them to quickly reach the position of the Chinese general's battleship. Fargo had to send one of the only three nuclear submarines in the fleet, ready for a surprise attack on the Chinese general's battleship.
However, this Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine has just sailed far, and was attacked by a group of small submarines, these small submarines are China's main design in the offshore activities of the thundering submarine, only 300 tons of displacement, but because it is from the Red Alert base technology, with amazing speed and concealment, the entire Solomon Sea is not very deep, although these small submarines are not as strong as nuclear submarines, but five or six converged together for a surprise attack, the power produced is also quite terrifying.
The Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines simply did not notice these little things, until the sound of water caused by the intelligent light torpedo they launched frightened the American officers and men on board. The U.S. submarine wanted to evade these torpedoes, but the U.S. nuclear submarines, surrounded by thundering submarines, had nowhere to escape and were eventually sunk by these small submarines.
The sinking of the US nuclear submarine was also Fargo, who fell into even greater fear, he did not expect that there were Chinese submarines lurking so close to the US aircraft carrier battle group. The excellent performance of Chinese submarines in the Indian Ocean has already made the U.S. Navy talk about the discoloration of Chinese submarines, and Fargo does not care about sending any units to deal with China's general battleships again, but instead asks the escort formation to go all out to find out those nearby Chinese submarines that may threaten the aircraft carrier. In fact, there are only two Chinese Thundering submarine formations in this area, and even if they fire light torpedoes around an aircraft carrier, they may not be able to sink any of the US aircraft carriers.
In such a delay, the Chinese battleship formation had already entered within 200 nautical miles of the US defensive circle, and the carrier-based planes previously retained by the US aircraft carrier had already taken off and arrived in this airspace to prepare for an attack on the Chinese battleships.
Qi Yiming, who was in Dalinor, controlled this battleship formation, he was the one who really commanded the ships, and at this moment, Qi Yiming showed a smile that was under control, and said: "Do you think a hundred fighters can destroy my fleet?" Let's see how strong the air defense of the arsenal ships really is! ”