Chapter 531: The Prelude of the Naval Battle

As for the fleet's escort protection, the remaining fighter jets will kill the last US fighter jets and the fuel will return. The Americans will attack in stages in batches, and we will do it too!!

"Fei Lian Squad, please note that we don't have a lot of fuel left. Pay attention to the speed during combat and try to expand the results of the first wave of attacks." Li Chengbi reminded the pilots of the team that the fuel pointer in front of him was very unpretentious and reduced to half of the time, which made people a little disappointed, but there was nothing we could do about it. High speed and high performance mean high fuel consumption.

"Squad Feilian, please note that this is the lighthouse air command center. The opponent's second attack echelon has just been assembled. At your current speed, you will be able to fight in thirteen minutes. You and the third combat squadron have not much fuel. The fourth, seventh, and eighth squadrons have flew to the enemy's wings to kill from the side. You and the remaining squadrons directly strangled each other from the front."

The orders from the combat command center on the electronic early warning aircraft that serves as the air command center allow the fighter planes responsible for strangling the opponent on both sides of the wings to leave the fleet formation. They will enter both sides of the ambush circle in advance, playing a good role in strangling the opponent again.

"It's great. It's great to have such a thousand-witted eye and ears. We can see each other, but we can't see us. We are determined to fight but not intent. We really pay silence for those American pilots. We don't know how we die if we die!!"

Gu Mingyao looked back at the aerial early warning aircraft that he could not see in the sky, and sincerely sighed at the various benefits brought by technological leadership. Just like such an aerial ambush, the opponent's speed, course, and even the approximate number were clearly controlled by the Chinese. In this kind of battle, the opponent had already lost half of it before the fight started.

"Yes, I lost half of the opponent before I started fighting! All Feilian's team was paying attention. There were still four minutes to catch the enemy. The opponent was not blind. We could see our aircraft group a few thousand meters away. We took the lead, kept rushing into the opponent's formation, and broke into the strafing and shot first to hit the opponent's head-on strike! Increase the horsepower and follow me to chase the enemy aircraft!"

Li Chengbi and his comrades pushed the fuel-saving valve, and the engine that received a large amount of fuel injection accelerated immediately. Four aircraft responsible for rushing into the opponent's formation and acted as sabotage began to accelerate rapidly.

When they rushed to the other side's piloted aircraft group at high speed, the dense firepower net made by the four aircraft immediately made the two aircraft their results!

Then, the pilots of the second echelon of the US military received a news that the first echelon was killed by the commander of the second special mixed fleet. Although the US military commander immediately ordered the end of the operation during the communication, the aircraft formation commander in charge of contact could only smile bitterly after hearing this.

It was all because this order was too late, and a large number of Chinese fighter jets were already appearing in the sky and rushing towards them fiercely.

Li Chengbi's record became the best explanation for the air competition in this battle. American pilots all hated the other party's powerful caliber aerial artillery ammunition. As long as this shell hits his own fuselage, it will cause great damage to the fuselage.

Many planes even exploded and disintegrated in the air after the opponent's dense shells hit.

There is no way to do this. Once this shell hits the fuel tank on the fuselage, it will easily detonate the fuel tank. The protective layer originally used to protect the fuel tank is as fragile as paper-paste in front of the 25mm shell.

It was similar to the destruction of the first echelon. At first, the aircraft group that was escorted by the head still wanted to maintain its formation. The fighter jets escorted by the US military aircraft group also came out to drive out the Chinese fighter jets that were escorted by the head. However, when Chinese fighter jets appeared from both sides, no matter how stupid the person was, he knew that his whereabouts were exposed.

The weight-bearing body of the US military aircraft is really no match for China's flexible fighter jets. The first batch of aerial turkeys soon appeared in the sky.

The only regrettable treatment for the second echelon is that the number of Chinese fighters that "welcome" to themselves is not that large. The first echelon was intercepted by fighters of almost the same number as their own. The second echelon encountered only more than 80 Chinese fighters. This gave the other party time to breathe.

Some US military aircraft have time to throw away their plug-in ammunition and fuel tanks to reduce their loads and hurry to face the enemy.

Unfortunately, doing so cannot save most of the second echelon from being killed. The aircraft reduced the load, but the second echelon just left the fleet and rushed to meet the enemy again. Neither the aircraft nor the pilot state could keep up with the rhythm of Chinese fighter jets.

These are two factors. Although the aircraft threw away the external load load, the fuel tank inside the aircraft was still full of fuel, while the fuel in the opposite Chinese fighter jet was only half of the fuel in the fuselage.

As for personnel, most Chinese pilots have already had a sufficient psychological and physiological adjustment during the killing of the first echelon just now. Simply put, they have enough warm-ups, and even the planes that did not participate have enough time to preheat and adjust during the flight.

Don’t underestimate this kind of psychological adjustment, just like the saying “It’s really good” that Gu Mingyao said. Fortunately, there is such an early warning to adjust personnel and aircraft to the best state to fight against the enemy.

The performance of American aircraft and Chinese old propeller fighters is not much different, and the quality of pilots is also high. This is like a competition between two masters. Sometimes, if you don’t pay attention to the details, you will regret it for life.

In the sky, the two echelons of the US military were treated similarly, and their fate was mostly like roasted quails covered in fire and were planted on the sea. However, for pilots who had time to escape from emergency parachuting, the fate between the two echelons was completely opposite.

Shortly after taking off, the second echelon left the US Second Special Mixed Fleet, it was naturally rescued by the naval ship after parachuting. The pilots who escaped from the first echelon were very close to the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet. The salvage of them was naturally completed by the Chinese warships.

For prisoners of war, both sides of the war have a tacit understanding of the unspoken rules, that is, exchange. Prisoners of war will appear in war. Some people once advised not to be too good to Western prisoners of war, or even not to leave prisoners of war, but in fact this is not the case.

In the hidden rules of prisoners of war, the party with more prisoners of war will naturally take advantage of the more when exchanging, and the party with less will naturally suffer losses. And if you dare to abuse the prisoners, I dare to play with it. And if I capture more prisoners than you, you abuse me, one soldier, I abuse you ten or even more, see who suffers!

Therefore, retaining prisoners is actually a way to survive and strive for more and better treatment after their soldiers are captured. In particular, prisoners of high-tech troops, such as pilots, are the key targets in exchange between the two sides. A pilot prisoner can usually exchange several or even more infantry prisoners.

This is why China still retains the other side’s captives at some point, which is used to exchange for the bargaining chips of its own captured soldiers.

When dealing with Chinese soldiers and prisoners, the United States, Britain and France, especially Britain, dare not to torture Chinese soldiers too much. Why?

So far, the Chinese have tens of thousands of British prisoners of war taken over from the Japanese army in Southeast Asia. You abuse me as a soldier prisoner of war. I can return them hundreds of times and thousands of times. Let's see who suffers!

Therefore, for prisoners of war, whoever has a large number of prisoners of war will gain more advantage in the future exchange process.

Major General Bogen, the commander of the second special fleet, was now bitter. He thought he had taken a big advantage and sneaked into the other party while the other party was not prepared. However, he did not expect that the person who was sneaked into the attack was his own group.

The two waves of planes sent out can fly back less than a quarter of them. They can’t steal chickens and lose rice, which has been described as the current loss. This is simply a loss! It’s a huge loss!

The current aircraft reserves of the entire Second Special Mix Fleet can no longer attack the opponent. Not to mention attacks, the pilots who came back knew that if the opponent launches the same number of attacks, it would be difficult for his aircraft to defend even if it launches the same number of attacks.

In desperation, although Major General Bogen was full of anger and wanted to let the giant cannons on the battleships in the fleet help vent, Major General Bogen did not dare to expose the second special mixed fleet to the deterrent power of the Chinese aircraft group, and immediately ordered the second special mixed fleet to evacuate backwards.

After the Chinese side discovered that the Second Special Mixed Fleet had to terminate the "return visit" mission of the attack aircraft group that was about to be dispatched. The guests had left, and there was no need for a follow-up visit.

The experience of the Second Special Mixed Fleet was immediately passed back to the Australian and US Alliance Navy Command, suppressing the morale that had just been upgraded to the peak, which was not good for the troops to go.

Faced with the strong air supremacy that China has exploded, this is the first time the US Navy has experienced it. As for the warnings from the Air Force ahead, the US Navy really doesn't take it seriously.

The air battle between the two sides in Port Augusta standoff was just a hundred aircraft, which could not be compared with the combat effectiveness of the navy at all. However, now that the commanders of the special fleets had to consider it carefully after suffering such a big loss.

The US military did not know that more than 190 propeller fighters used in this air battle have approached the limits of the traditional fighter jets of the Expeditionary Fleet and the nearby air force, and the propeller fighters that can be dispatched have basically been dispatched.

If the other party comes to such an echelon, either they will draw fighter jets from other directions, or maybe the jet fighter will be used in advance to enter the battlefield.

After suffering a loss, the remaining few special mixed fleets also put aside their contempt and took a twelve-pointed spirit to deal with this opponent.

Especially for the Chinese's aerial reconnaissance ability, the US fleet is more cautious. Although it is not very clear how the other party knows the existence of its fleet, one thing is certain. If you want to use Kangaroo Island as a cover to conduct raids with planes, it will definitely fail.

After analysis, US Navy combat officials believed that there must be a Chinese front-line observation post on Kangaroo Island, because even if the Chinese fleet has good carrier-based radar, it is impossible for the radar wave to pass through the other side of Kangaroo Island to detect the island due to the influence of the earth's curve and the natural radar blocking barrier of Kangaroo Island.

Therefore, the Chinese should set up observation posts on Kangaroo Island. Before removing these front-line observation posts, it will be difficult for the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet in Spencer Bay in straight line from Kangaroo Island.

This judgment of the US military is analyzed from conventional radar means. If there is no air early warning aircraft, the US military's judgment is absolutely correct.

But the fact is that in Kangaroo Island, apart from hundreds of white settlers and colorful wild flowers, plump winged birds and cute Australian marsupials, naughty and lively seals and fairy penguins who walk home every day, there are really no Chinese people on Kangaroo Island, an ecological tourist destination that has not been invaded by species.

Because China uses air early warning aircraft, the radar waves emitted from the sky are not affected by the earth's curve at all, as long as the US military's aircraft enters the detection radius of the early warning aircraft, they will be discovered by the Chinese from afar on the island.

Unfortunately, the Americans didn't know about these information. They sent hundreds of Marines to the island to search and remove these non-existent front-line observation points.

Apart from wandering around, watching the scenery and making fun of koalas, these hundreds of soldiers did not think of them until the end of the battle. By the time they surrendered to the Chinese, these American soldiers had nothing to do, and they didn't even shoot a single shot. They were the easiest soldiers in this battle.

Affected by the failure of this raid, the US military gave up the idea of ​​flying from Kangaroo Island to continue raiding the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet in a straight line. It took off the fleet planes behind it and placed the assembly direction on a wider sea.

However, it is precisely this way that the battles in the future allow the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet to perform better. After all, the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet raided from the direction of Kangaroo Island recently, and it is the most difficult to take advantage of the long-range reconnaissance advantages of early warning aircraft, playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses. It is simple to say, but it is not easy to do.

Affected by the failure of the Second Special Mix Fleet, the Third Special Mix Fleet, which went deep into the Indian Ocean, attacked from the southwest of the battle circle, gave up the intention of the Air Force to raid the Chinese Air Force and carefully cruised 400 to 500 kilometers southwest of Port Lincoln.

While they were testing the Chinese's defensive forces behind the battle circle, they also looked for and attracted more firepower for the landing troops behind them.

But the third special fleet did not know that it had been regarded as a thorn in the eyes by the Chinese. If this fleet wandering from Port Lincoln to Forres Bay really wanted to attack in, they would definitely find with a smile that a large number of armored divisions were pretending to be fake divisions, and the dense ground air defense firepower was mostly fake troops.

For this special mixed fleet that could threaten the rear of the battle circle, Wang Junfeng did not want it to travel more behind him. A raid against the third special mixed fleet became the first peak moment when the naval battle began!

The third special mixed fleet has much more ships than the second special mixed fleet. This is a mixed landing fleet composed of Australian warships and a US landing force.

In the fleet, there are three aircraft carriers and five light aircraft carriers. The battleships Washington, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, West Virginia, three heavy cruisers and seven light cruisers; a huge combat group of thirty-one destroyers.

Not only that, the fleet also includes more than a hundred ships carrying the 4th Armored Mechanized Division of the United States, the 3rd Marine Division and other landing troops transporting ships and large and large landing crafts. The total number of ships with some weight alone exceeds more than 180.

It can be said that the task of the Third Special Mixed Fleet is to land on the coast west of Port Augusta, which makes it difficult for the Chinese army to be attacked from both ends. Faced with the hungry wolves who were wandering behind him in this way, Wang Junfeng could only sleep peacefully by sending them all to the sea to feed the sharks.

Therefore, the raid on the Third Special Mixed Fleet became the arrival of the first major wave in the Battle of Port Augusta.

The shrill whistle sounded at various airports, and various attack aircraft scattered on various airports. The bombers became the protagonists of this naval battle. More than 500 aircraft gathered from various war zones and coastal garrisons began to reveal their hideous faces.

Fifty-four H-6 bombers modified to throw air-ship missiles were extremely eye-catching in this battle. Whether it was a ship attack or a later land bombing, this kind of bomber became the opponent's nightmare.

During this raid, Wang Junfeng also sent the jet plane, and at this time there was no need to hide it. It was meaningless to not kill this big trouble that threatened his rear at any time.

Wang Junfeng even used the three aerial turret fire support aircraft in the Military Region. Although this aircraft was a bit of a death-seeking warship with strong air defense firepower, it was particularly tempting to fight for troop transport ships without air defense capabilities, cargo ships and landing crafts, especially for small landing crafts worth dozens of tons.

Using torpedoes and bombs is a waste of ammunition, but this thing is accurate at one shot, and one shot will sink after a few shots. How fast and save!

More than 500 aircraft used all 54 H6 aircraft in the first wave, and 108 air-ship missiles were shot, which was definitely a crowd of people.

However, given that the opponent not only has strong air defense capabilities but also has many aircraft carriers, among the first batch of attacking aircraft, in addition to these fifty-four bombers, most of them were escort fighters, and more than 30 aircraft of various types responsible for other purposes.

On the third day of a big meeting gift for the Second Special Mixed Fleet to attack the aircraft, at 7 a.m., the Third Mixed Fleet suddenly lost the timing radio contact between the two aircraft in the north direction of the reconnaissance planes that were dispatched around to investigate.

Since we learned that the Chinese also had kamikaze-style suicide weapons similar to the Japanese devils, the US fleet has been particularly careful. A large number of reconnaissance planes were sent around for reconnaissance, especially in various areas where the other party might appear, and sent reconnaissance planes to investigate.

Although the reconnaissance aircraft are far away from the fleet now, the radio signal is weak, there is no reason why the two aircraft lose contact at the same time.

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