The aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower, the flagship of the US Fifth Fleet, which was cleaving the waves in the Arabian Sea, was busy.

"George, our 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division in Africa has been devastated, and all combat units are finished, except for the logistics support units," Chief of Staff Mark Brown, who was in the command center. Rear Admiral Fitzgerald watched the latest detailed report of the African campaign that came a few hours later. Fitzgerald was still very irritated when he saw the details of the battle again, and he looked worried about George after reading it. Vice Admiral W. Nicholson said, "The combat power and tenacity of the PLA are truly unimaginable. But the most surprising thing is that the PLA will always try to keep a hand, George, I am afraid that this time the PLA task force may be the same, and there is still room for strength in the battle against the Indian Eastern Fleet. ”

"They will definitely do this," Vice Admiral Nicholson also said very solemnly while looking at the latest location information of the PLA task force from the satellite, "The two Kilo-class submarines of the Indian army were easily discovered by the PLA and then annihilated by carrier-based anti-submarine helicopters, which shows that the PLA task force must have a large number of submarines escorting it, and the Indian submarine should have been discovered by the leading submarine before being attacked, did the intelligence department transmit the latest task force compilation information?" ”

"I haven't received any new news yet, this time the PLA has extremely strict control over intelligence, according to our internal intelligence, all the ships are ordered to set off immediately, so that some of our chess pieces lurking on the ships are completely unable to pass on the news, according to the CIA's early information, a 039 Song-class submarine detachment of the South China Sea Fleet of the People's Liberation Army has lost news for a long time, and the detection device set up in the Strait of Malacca by our Singapore base has detected the noise data of the PLA 039 Song-class submarine, I believe that this 039 Song-class submarine detachment should be the main force following the task force. It's just disturbing that these 039 Song-class submarines seem to have been further improved, and the noise level has dropped quite a bit. ”

"The People's Liberation Army has been continuously improving their arsenal in recent years, and at the same time, they have also been constantly introducing new weapons systems," Vice Admiral Nicholson said with a frown, "They have completed such an advanced aircraft carrier as the Beijing class in a very short period of time, and it is conceivable that they will definitely not be idle in terms of submarines, don't just stare at the 039 Song-class submarines, but think about whether there are any 041-Yuan-class submarines of the People's Liberation Army this time, it is said that the People's Liberation Army has achieved nuclear powerification of all 041-class submarines, That's the opponent we're particularly worried about. ”

Due to the insurmountable difference in speed and diving time between conventional submarines and nuclear submarines, they are also incomparable in size, which leads to a huge difference in combat power between the two sides, so for the 039 Song-class submarine, Vice Admiral Nicholson does not take it into account, compared with the 7000-ton Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarine, the 2000-ton 039-class submarine is just like a toy.

Only the legendary 4,000-ton 041-class nuclear-powered submarine of the People's Liberation Army will make Vice Admiral Nicholson feel very tricky, this kind of big guy who can dive in the ocean for dozens of days is not only difficult to catch the trace, but also very fast, if he follows the PLA task force to the Indian Ocean this time, it can pose a major threat to his Fifth Fleet.

"You're right, George, I'll order the intelligence services to keep an eye on you, but I have a bad feeling that our plans don't look promising." Rear Admiral Fitzgerald said worriedly, "In particular, if our aircraft carrier battle group stops 500 nautical miles away from the PLA as planned, I think it will definitely attract their attention and suspicion." ”

"That's a question," Vice Admiral Nicholson nodded, "maybe we should slow down and make things look less conspicuous, where are our submarines now?" ”

"It should go to the sea west of Jamunagar, India, they set off more than ten hours in advance, and now they should basically go to the predetermined lurking sea area, according to our plan, eight Los Angeles-class submarines will form an S-shaped formation on the main channel that is 60 nautical miles wide and about 100 nautical miles long, even if there are any changes in the PLA task force at that time, the submarines behind can also flexibly adjust their positions to ensure that the sneak attack can be successful."

With the attack capability of the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines, as long as one of them approaches within 20 nautical miles of the PLA task force aircraft carrier, the Mk-48ADCAP heavy torpedo and submarine-launched Harpoon anti-ship missiles will deal a fatal blow to the PLA aircraft carrier, and the 12 missile vertical launch tubes and four 533-mm launch tubes on the Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarine are not decorations.

"Order the submarine squadron to be careful, the submarine lurking in front would rather miss than rashly expose the target." Vice Admiral Nicholson said solemnly that after so many dismal reports of defeat, it had left a deep shadow in his heart, which was inconceivable for a high-ranking US military general a few years ago, because at that time the US military was still an invincible giant in the world.

When the PLA's military reconnaissance satellites sent this information to the command center of the task force, everyone from fleet commander Xue Chenguang to the chief of staff and the commanders of various ships were a little unsure of what the US Fifth Fleet meant.

"Commander Xue, could it be that the Fifth Fleet is a little timid?" After discussing for a long time without a clue, Colonel Gao Yang, the captain of the destroyer "Chengdu," suddenly put forward such an earth-shattering hypothesis, which made the PLA generals participating in the discussion suddenly quiet down.

This assumption is so bold that the PLA generals, who have always been accustomed to the strength of the US military, cannot accept it for a while. When did the senior generals of the US military actually have a cowardly mentality? Isn't that a fantasy?

After a moment of silence, the meeting in the command center soon fell into a heated discussion, although most of the captains questioned Colonel Gao Yang's assumptions, but as these doubts were constantly overturned by a small number of captains who accepted the assumptions, after more than an hour of discussion, everyone suddenly found that Colonel Gao Yang's assumptions were very likely, because recently, whether it was the Korean battlefield, the Pakistan battlefield, or even the African battlefield, the US military has not taken any advantage. On the contrary, they suffered a lot of heavy losses!

Since most of these things were done by the Army brothers, the Navy has not yet engaged in a real tough dialogue with the US military, and it is not clear to everyone what level they are now compared with the US military.

"Let's not forget that our theater joint combat tactics system can give full play to the combat power of our equipment to the extreme, and it is no exaggeration to say that under the same firepower, the theater joint combat tactics system can exert at least double combat power, which has been fully verified in the battles of the army and the air force, perhaps, the US Fifth Fleet has been afraid of us by the army's repeated defeats, and has developed a fear of war avoidance mentality for us, which can explain why they slowed down after leaving the Gulf of Oman. I think it is very likely that it is to avoid a narrow encounter with our army.

You must know that the US military now has only the Fifth Fleet left to use in the Indian Ocean, and if the Fifth Fleet is lost in a battle with us, the US military will not be able to draw new forces to fill this gap at all; in this way, if our military sends several submarines to the ports of Gwadar and Karachi in Pakistan as a base, the US oil tankers and military supply convoys in the Gulf region will lose their security umbrella, and this will be extremely fatal to the US Air Force and Army stationed in the Gulf region and the US military in Afghanistan. You must know that the US military's dependence on logistics supplies is very huge, and land and air transportation simply cannot support their huge army and air forces in the Gulf and Afghanistan. After Colonel Gao Yang opened his mind, Colonel Li Hongcheng, the captain of another destroyer "Nanjing" who strongly supported Colonel Gao Yang's hypothesis, pushed his thinking to a higher strategic level.

Xue Chenguang and Tang Deen couldn't help but glance at each other when they heard Colonel Li Hongcheng's hypothesis, and a little light flashed in their eyes, and it could be seen that the two chief officers were somewhat moved by Colonel Li Hongcheng's hypothesis.

"But why did the U.S. Fifth Fleet still sort? With where they are now, they can pounce on us at any time as we get closer to Pakistan, how do we know that they are not waiting for better fighters? Colonel Mai Jiahan, captain of the destroyer Hefei, asked rhetorically, "Don't forget that no matter what you say, the carrier-based aviation combat strength and air defense strength of the US Fifth Fleet are still far above ours, and if we fight head-on, our chances of victory are not very great." ”

"However, the problem now is that even if we only have a chance of two or three percent, I am afraid that the US Fifth Fleet will not be able to afford to lose," Colonel Li Hongcheng said, "As long as the Fifth Fleet is defeated, the US military's oil interests in the Gulf and the security interests of hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in the Gulf and Afghanistan will be very dangerous. By land, we are also able to provide Pakistan with sufficient weapons and ammunition for the battlefield. Therefore, I do not think that the Fifth Fleet will dare to fight with us at all. ”

"Then you think there is no point in the Fifth Fleet being dispatched now? What risks won't we encounter this time? Colonel Mak then asked rhetorically.

"No, I guess they are waiting for the opportunity to move with both hands, if there is a chance, they will definitely pounce on us and bite us" Colonel Gao Yang shook his head and said, "This time we still have a difficult battle under the sea, I'm afraid that the US nuclear submarines have already been dispatched to wait for us somewhere in front, as long as our aircraft carrier is sunk by one of their nuclear submarines, I think they will not hesitate to pounce on us and tear us to pieces!" Don't forget the tactics we used to use against US aircraft carrier battle groups. ”

Xue Chenguang was shocked, his main thoughts along the way were on how to deal with the naval and air forces of the US Fifth Fleet, but he did not pay much attention to the submarine sneak attack tactics proposed by Colonel Gao Yang, and now he was reminded by Gao Yangyi, combined with the strange movements of the main force of the US Fifth Fleet now, this possibility is indeed very large.

If this is the case, this conspiracy of the U.S. military is really vicious enough, but now that Gao Yang has seen through it, the conspiracy of the U.S. military is destined to be Dongshi's imitation!