At the same time, in the Rakdives Sea in the north of the Maldives, an Air Police-200S AWACS aircraft and a Y-8F anti-submarine aircraft patrolled the sky and sea hundreds of kilometers ahead under the escort of a J-18 squadron, and 100 nautical miles behind it, two 7,000-ton 052D destroyers chopped the waves, forming a queue of 40 nautical miles apart, these two large destroyers with nuclear power and air defense combat system modifications, At this moment, not only is the China Aegis air defense system making every move within 100 nautical miles of the air and sea searching, but the newly improved Sea Shark integrated anti-submarine system is also fully turned on.

The powerful Sea Shark integrated anti-submarine system, which consists of HLS-50 hull sonar, HLR-3 towed array sonar and 20 nautical miles of Z-9 carrier-based anti-submarine helicopter in front, can feed back suspicious situations on the seabed in the distance of 70 nautical miles to the main engine of the Sea Shark integrated anti-submarine system.

The base array of HLS-50 Hull active/passive sonar is a circular column with a diameter of up to 5 meters and a height of 1.8 meters, on which a total of 8 layers are set up for 576 transducers, which can be used to detect suspicious noise targets on the seabed in an active or passive way, and when using active full-power mode search, the effective detection range can reach 35 nautical miles, in this case, the noise emitted by underwater targets with a speed of more than 5 knots moving at a speed of more than 5 knots. It is the most important anti-submarine device of the PLA 052 series destroyers, which is not intended to escape its detection and provide attack guidance for anti-submarine torpedoes or anti-submarine missiles.

The HLR-3 towed array passive sonar is the main long-range submarine target search device of the People's Liberation Army in service, using a 2000-meter special towing towing cable, and the rear end is a passive array sonar system with a length of up to 250 meters, with a new submarine noise intelligent analysis engine, the effective detection distance in the deep sea can reach up to 70 nautical miles.

In this way, the leading anti-submarine zone formed by these two 052D destroyers will form an area of 140 nautical miles in the front and rear, and 180 nautical miles in the left and right.

Following these two 052D destroyers under the sea are two 039G Xinsong-class diesel-electric nuclear submarines, which are the main force against the Kilo-class or Squid-class submarines that the Indian army may be lurking on the bottom of the sea.

And 50 nautical miles behind these two destroyers, there are two 054B missile frigates as the lead, and the middle two aircraft carriers are lined up in two columns according to the distance of 5 nautical miles, while the 081-class amphibious landing ship, the 100,000-ton ro-ro cargo ship and two large supply ships.

4 10,000-ton 052E destroyers and 4 039G Xinsong-class submarines are protected on both sides of the aircraft carrier queue, 2 054B missile frigates and 2 097 Qin-class nuclear submarines.

The entire fleet is very well guarded in the air and on the sea surface and seabed, and in addition to the four 041B Yuan-class nuclear-powered attack submarines that set sail in advance in concealment and detected in advance the choke point navigation arteries that the task force must pass through, this is basically the most powerful task force of the PLA at present.

However, looking at the blue waters in the distance, Rear Admiral Xue Chenguang, commander-in-chief of the fleet, still could not relax, and he had already received satellite information from the headquarters that the main force of the US Fifth Fleet was heading east from the Gulf of Oman, and its purpose could be known without asking.

Judging from the analysis of satellite pictures, the two major aircraft carrier battle groups composed of the "Eisenhower" and the "Truman", 12 Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers and Ali. The main warships of the Burke-class missile destroyers were all dispatched, and in addition to the warships of the amphibious landing operation, the main forces of the Fifth Fleet's naval operations were all concentrated, and although there was no intelligence on the eight Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarines of the US Fifth Fleet, Xue Chenguang believed that they must be heading towards their own fleet underwater.

Compared with the Eastern Naval Fleet of the Indian Army, the Fifth Fleet of the US Army is the real opponent of the PLA Task Force, and Ah San's broken ships have never been looked at by Xue Chenguang. With Ah San's weak industrial manufacturing base, no matter how much they boast about it on weekdays, their strength will not exceed the limits of their actual industrial base.

If it weren't for the rapid development of the PLA's strength in recent years, the gap between the PLA Navy and the A.3 Navy would not have been so big, but Duke was born, whether it is the industrial base such as basic raw materials and processing machine tools, or the cutting-edge technology of software and hardware such as core electronic equipment and combat systems, the PLA is completely different from the scene of the past, and has truly entered the world's top level.

Xue Chenguang only needs to look down at the equipment in the command module of the "Shanghai" aircraft carrier, most of these things were unimaginable a few years ago, all the anti-submarine and air defense information detected by various detection equipment of the entire fleet has been transformed into a clear and easy-to-understand representation on the combat map through the extremely powerful G3 super small machine cluster system on the ship, the green area indicates the sea area that has been detected and judged to be safe, and the yellow area is the sea area that has not been effectively detected.

What is shocking is that this combat map is still a three-dimensional map, which is completely different from the original combat command system.

In the face of the huge detection data transmitted by various detection equipment of the entire fleet, this system can display the results on this three-dimensional combat map in less than a second after comprehensive analysis and intelligent judgment.

If a dangerous target is found, the system will immediately mark its 3D coordinates and automatically guide the most suitable attacking combat unit in the fleet to prepare for the attack.

Compared with the warships of the Indian army, which are at most only at the level of the eighties and nineties of the last century, the PLA task force certainly has the ability to destroy the withering and decaying.

But now the problem is that the U.S. military's dual-carrier battle group has similar combat capabilities, and their surface combat firepower units are more and more powerful.

If Xue Chenguang also had two aircraft carriers like the "Shanghai" and 10 052E missile destroyers to form a two-carrier battle group, Xue Chenguang would not be afraid of a head-on battle with the US military at all.

But now he only has 4 052E missile destroyers, which is that the foundation was too thin in the past, and even if it has been built with all its strength in recent years, the speed of manufacturing cannot keep up with the demand.

Xue Chenguang sighed, turned his head and was about to say something to Chief of Staff Tang Deen on the same side, when suddenly a sharp alarm sounded from the command center!

"180 nautical miles to the left of the front, coordinates ***, ###, 2 877-class Kilo submarines were found active!" A red alert message soon appeared on the large screen of the combat command center system.

"It was discovered by the Seawolf Squadron that was exploring the path in front, it should be the submarine of the Indian Army, it seems that they are still very unwilling," Chief of Staff Tang Deen looked at the coordinates of the target and said to Xue Chenguang, "Old Xue, do you order the Seawolf Squadron to knock out these two small trash fish that are in the way, or let the large forces behind us go and kill them?" ”

"Order the Seawolf squadron not to attack, just need to track the target, don't alarm them, our fleet continues to advance, after arriving in the sea area, let the Sea Tiger detachment out of the front two 039G new Song-class cooperate with the carrier-based anti-submarine helicopter to complete the combat mission." Xue Chenguang replied without hesitation. "The task of the Sea Wolf Squadron is to find the way and hide itself, and it is not possible to fight unless it is absolutely necessary, these regular combat missions are handed over to the Sea Tiger Detachment to complete, and the two sharp knives of the Sea Wolf Squadron and the Sea Shark Squadron must be used at critical moments. The target cannot be exposed in advance. ”

Xue Chenguang's biggest hole card in defeating the Fifth Fleet is the three submarine forces in his hands, especially the Sea Wolf Squadron composed of 041B Xinyuan-class nuclear-powered submarines and the Sea Shark Squadron composed of 097-class Qin-class attack nuclear submarines. Like the Indian Army's 877 Kilo-class conventional submarine, Xue Chenguang can't make a main force to expose the target, and the 039G Xinsong-class of the Sea Tiger Detachment is enough to deal with it.

Now that the Indian military and the US military are in an alliance relationship, information on undersea combat against the PLA task force like this will certainly reach the ears of the US military as soon as possible, just like the battle situation of the Indian army's eastern naval fleet, and almost as soon as the battle began, the US military received information about the entire battle process like the Indian army general headquarters, so that the US Fifth Fleet Command could obtain extremely valuable first-hand information on the combat strength of the PLA task force.

The entire combat deployment quietly passed through the combat command system, and was instantly transmitted to the two 039G Xinsong-class submarines and the 052D carrier-based anti-submarine helicopter of the Sea Tiger Squadron in front of the fleet, and the combat units that received the combat order began to prepare for the battle, while the rest of the ships continued to sail forward in their original formation, as if they had never noticed any movement.

A few hours later, when the PLA task force approached the Indian submarine lurking area, the Seawolf squadron in charge of keeping an eye found that the two Kilo-class submarines of the Indian army began to sail towards the main channel of the task force at a speed of 7 knots per hour.

But in the face of the ancestors of this tactic, the Indian army's plot is just to kill itself, two 039G New Song-class submarines on the bottom of the sea quietly pounced on the bottom of the sea in an all-electric drive mode, and in the air, two carrier-based anti-submarine helicopters took off, and they rushed in front of the submarine of the Sea Tiger Detachment, accurately sending 4 torpedoes to the bottom of the sea, so that the Indian submarine did not understand what was going on, so he watched the torpedoes that fell from the beginning and buried himself at the bottom of the sea, and once again told Ah San with bloody facts, This is no longer a war that they can afford to get involved in, so they have completely abandoned the plan to attack the PLA task force again in the middle of the way, and they can no longer afford such losses, and if they consume all the last bit of family foundation, they will lose all their efforts to form a naval superiority over Pakistan's old enemy at sea.

For Xue Chenguang's task force, this was just a small episode of westward expansion, and the real henchman in his heart was the Fifth Fleet battle group that was constantly approaching.