Based on such a logic, the mines should be laid, and the United States, of course, would not care about the feelings of the Japanese.

Tomorrow's things, tomorrow's talk, first get through today's difficulties!

Within a few days, thanks to the unremitting efforts of the JMSDF submarine force, the western side of the Tsugaru Strait and the Soya Strait was laid with mines and turned into a completely impassable waterway of death.

In this operation, in order to deter the Red Navy, the Americans not only urged the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force to go all out and secretly lay mines under the air pressure of the Russians, but also dispatched mine-laden fighter-bombers and antisubmarine patrol planes to drop MK65, MK67, and other underwater mines in the waters on the west side of the strait.

The use of mines to block the sea area is generally a trick used by weak countries to defend against maritime threats, but now the Americans do not blush at all when they use it.

In the past, they always believed that their naval and air strength was invincible, and the Americans had not done much strategic defense before, but now once faced with the ocean-going threat of the Red Navy, the military has searched through the list of huge arsenals, but has not been able to find an economical, cheap, and practical weapon for sea control.

In order to curb the pace of the Russian fleet sailing to the open sea, in terms of strategic encirclement, the combination of US Navy and Air Force fighters and AGM-84 "Harpoon" anti-ship missiles is worrying about the survivability of the Russians in the face of the sea. In contrast, the "Type-88" shore-based anti-ship missile of the little devil is a good choice, but the number is too small, and it is easy to be searched and annihilated in the case of loss of air supremacy. There's no way around it.

But. Just look at the map. These measures alone were not enough to block the Red Navy's ocean-going routes.

In the far southeast of the Soviet Union, surrounded by the Japanese archipelago, several southward waterways were easily controlled, and for this reason the Red Navy had another Tatar Strait to use, as long as it entered the vast Sea of Okhotsk and turned south through the Kuril Islands, it could enter the Pacific Ocean unimpeded, and this route had Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka Peninsula as a screen. It is difficult for US warplanes, surface ships, and submarines to launch attacks.

With regard to this detour route, because it is located in the coastal waters of the Soviet Union, which are full of knives and guns and heavily guarded, the Americans seem to have no other means to deal with this roundabout route than to lay out a sonar base array and strengthen the activities of nuclear submarines in the Kuril Islands.

Because of this, before the two camps really broke out in a contest in the open sea, the confrontation between anti-submarine and anti-submarine expulsion in the southern waters of the Kamchatka Peninsula had already begun, and the tug-of-war between the two sides had been going on for many days. In the face of the US Navy, which has no aircraft carriers and relies only on surface ships and amphibious assault ships to fight soy sauce, the Red Navy fleet, with the Project 1143.3 "Novorossiysk" heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser as the core and the Type 1144 nuclear-powered missile cruiser "Frunze," has been able to effectively drive out US attack nuclear submarines.

It has the largest navy in the world. Its own nuclear submarines have repeatedly hit a wall in the open seas, although the two sides have not yet fought on the high seas. Americans still feel very embarrassed.

However, with the arrival of the aircraft carrier battle group, the mystery of the smoke and waves in the ocean will soon turn into an earth-shattering change.

Battleships have left the port one after another, and huge warship formations are heading toward the depths of the ocean, and the distance between the main forces of the two sides is still very long, but the ships of the Red Navy and the US Navy deployed in the front have already made small-scale contacts.

As the first line of defense against the Russian fleet, several "Los Angeles"-class attack nuclear submarines of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet deployed east of the Kuril Islands have been on covert standby, and their main task is not to go head-to-head with the Russians, try to get close to the fleet, and strike the enemy with torpedoes, but to cast a sparse underwater listening line in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and after discovering the activities of the Russian ships, they will use long-wave communication means to send back information.

Of course, the idea of using nuclear submarines to detect the enemy's situation is very good, but the Red Navy naturally cannot remain indifferent to these ambushes lurking on the edge of the ocean, and under the undulating seas, the confrontation and chase between the Type 971 attack nuclear submarine and the "Los Angeles" is being staged almost all the time.

The underwater battle in the dark and deep sea is completely different from other battlefields with a wide field of vision, and the attack nuclear submarines deployed in the front are actually in an extremely dangerous situation, while capturing any trace of the enemy, they must always be vigilant against the threat of ambush in the shadows, even if they are lucky enough to catch the target trail at once, the next torpedo throwing is also full of uncertainty; If both sides refuse to back down, after a contest, there will always be a submarine that will fall to the bottom of the sea with turbulence, and often it will not even have time to send the news, and will sleep quietly in the dark abyss of death.

Interception and breakthrough, reconnaissance and expulsion, the large sea area through which the warship is about to pass has not yet seen a trace of stirring up waves on the sea, and the underwater contest is already one after another.

The underwater battle in the waters of the Northwest Pacific Ocean is not large-scale, but it is very important for the next ocean-going decisive battle.

At the same time, when the Soviet Pacific Fleet successively sent a large number of ships to form the first and second sea and air battle groups to cross the island chain of the Kuril Islands from different routes, a skirmish at sea also broke out in the waters east of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

After departing from the home port of San Diego, unlike the USS John F. Kennedy, which needed to receive the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS George Washington aircraft carrier battle group, which had sailed westward for several days, arrived in the waters off Attu Island, approaching the operational waters of the Project 1143.3 heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Novorossiysk".

Separated by a distance of several hundred nautical miles, with the E-2C early warning aircraft first discovering the enemy's stock, the Americans first watched for a moment, and then quickly organized a wave of air offensive, and several F/A-18E/F "Super Hornet" fighters carrying "Harpoon" anti-ship missiles approached the "Novorossiysk" formation, and a skirmish broke out between the two sides; Sensing the imminent threat, the combat formation formed into a combat formation consisting of the only Type 1144 nuclear-powered missile cruiser of the Pacific Fleet immediately entered the air defense formation, and after successfully resisting a batch of air raids, it did not choose to rush forward and turned to the southwest to disengage.

Before the outbreak of an encounter, the 3rd Air and Sea Combat Group, where the "Novorossiysk" was located, had already learned about the general movements of the US Navy with the help of information obtained at the previous stage.

Now, since it has encountered a wave of air attacks by enemy aircraft, it means that the Americans' aircraft carrier battle group is very close, and the "Novorossiysk" formation, which has no fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft, immediately retreated and moved to about 400 nautical miles south of Petropavlovsk, on the one hand, to ensure its own safety within the combat radius of shore-based aviation, and at the same time to continue to maintain anti-submarine pressure in the nearby waters and prevent US nuclear submarines from making a detour from the northern side of the Kuril Islands.

A cross-fire on the ocean, so far away, that Viktor Rezenov, who was in the Far East, was not much for the time being.

Just after planning to participate in the Red Navy's ocean-going decisive battle, every day when he got the battle report issued by the headquarters, Long Yun, who was flipping through it in his hand, would try to analyze it with keen insight and thinking ability, and extract the direction of action of the Pacific Fleet from the vague report.

This kind of thing is very reluctant for a Red Air Force pilot, but fortunately, Long Yun is from the real world, and his understanding of the Soviet Navy is not limited to a little experience in the parallel world, combined with the homework done after the last crossing, it is still possible to guess the Red Giant's offshore strategy; Looking at the battle reports of the last two days, which mentioned the small-scale encounter in the East China Sea between Kanma and Kamka, he, like the staff officers and staff of the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy, smelled a hint of the decisive battle of the US military in a big way.

Nearly a month has passed since the war began in the Far East, and the US Navy, which had been dormant in the rear base before, is afraid that it will have to make a big move.

Anyone who follows the war can probably guess that if the war is allowed to continue like this, sooner or later the NATO side will collapse and be unable to withstand the Soviet air offensive; If you want to save the situation, the addition of the U.S. Navy is almost inevitable, and the aircraft carrier battle group that can maneuver at will in the vast ocean and actively choose the time and place of engagement can add new pressure in the Far East, and in order to defend against the threat of attack by these mobile forces, the Red Empire will inevitably need to invest a considerable amount of troops.

Of course, the establishment of this hypothesis is premised on the basic elimination of Soviet maritime power in the Far East.

As long as the so-called struggle for sea power can maintain the current balance of power in the Far East Sea, or even make a breakthrough on this basis, the US Navy, which is so powerful, will be able to attack and retreat, and its strategic shape will be much more advantageous than it is now.

Since this is the case, in addition to taking to the air every day to fight, Long Yun's combat preparations have not been delayed.

Flying into the ocean on an An-124B transport plane may sound like a risk, so the relevant agencies have been conducting coordinated drills between fighter jets and aircraft on board, and it is important to be prepared for everything.

At the Oryolminsk airbase, after completing the flight tests of carrying Su-27M fighters, the project team began to send test pilots to take off on the "Ruslan", and to separate the Su-27M2 from the carrier aircraft in the air, and then the two planes returned to the airport separately; After several tests, it was verified that this idea was basically feasible, and Viktor Rezenov was notified to find time to personally participate in the test flight and feel how the whole plan was implemented. (To be continued......)