.    Chapter 548: Abandoning the car to protect the coach

The US Navy officer was very sharp-eyed. He clearly saw his younger brother standing on the deck and was still alive. This relieved him a lot, and at the same time, a subtle psychological change occurred in his heart.

If his brother died in battle, he might be very sad and angry and would increase his fighting spirit, but what he saw was the fear in his injured brother's eyes.

The blood relationship, emotion, and even scientifically unexplained heart-to-heart relationship among brothers with the same father and mother conveyed the terrifying experiences that my brother saw, heard, and felt on the battleship. This emotion in his brother's heart just affected his brother here.

Now the commanders of the Second and Fourth Special Mixed Fleets are a little regretful, regretting why they saw too many sailors seeing the tragic phenomenon of the Third Special Mixed Fleet when they went to pick up the fleeing ships two days ago.

At that time, I was trying to save more of our own ships and personnel, but I didn't expect that this would cause a severe blow to the morale of the fleet.

The mixed fleet also tried to regain morale, but the results were minimal. At the beginning, everyone was wary of the possibility of Chinese people's pursuit and automatically and consciously maintained a high level of vigilance.

However, after two days, the consequence of such high tension and high concentration is more or less fatigue. It is impossible for a person to remain in such a tense state forever. If he is so nervous, it is estimated that in two days, the morale of the fleet will drop to the lowest point.

Faced with this situation, some commanders were discussing whether to organize exercises and training to adjust the morale and mental state of the sailors. This proposal was unanimously agreed, but when the training content was submitted to the fleet commander, he was thrown back by the fleet commander.

"Now there is no need to worry about any training exercises anymore. The urgent news sent back from the west tells everyone - the Chinese pursuers are coming!"

That's it, the rehearsal is no longer needed, because the next big drama is about to begin, but the protagonist is not an American.

The shrill air defense combat sirens are better than any stimulant. Although the US officers and soldiers are exhausted, they are definitely not as hard as they cannot react.

The bullet was loaded and the shooting angle was adjusted. Every shooter opened his eyes wide and stared at the sea, ready to fire heavily at the things he saw.

This time, the first batch of raided attack troops learned from the lessons learned from the hunting of the third special mixed fleet and adjusted the attack order time difference. The interval between attack fighter jets and anti-ship missiles was only thirty seconds.

At the same time, all fighter jets participating in the first batch of attacks accelerated their speed to more than Mach, not asking how great the fighter jets are, but asking only the first wave of attacks may cause chaos and put greater psychological pressure on the other side.

When the first anti-ship missile hit the first unlucky guy, the sailors of the second and fourth special mixed fleet finally realized what a high-speed "suicide" weapon is and what a high-speed aircraft is.

When the "suicide" weapons hit their target one after another, jet fighters followed one after another...

This tactic is very effective. Facing the anti-ship missiles that are rushing towards you with unyielding subsonic speed, facing aircraft that are faster than those that hit the cigar bodies that exploded.

Like many sailors in the Third Special Fleet, when they first saw these weapons attacking themselves, the interception tactics of fighting slow Japanese aircraft that used to fight on slow Japanese aircraft were useless. The lack of joint interception was a tactical backwardness, and the psychological pressure caused by the double attacks from the sea and the sky caused many air defense points to make mistakes in a hurry.

A sea hunting battle with total quantity and tonnage asymmetrical, but the results are absolutely opposite, is being staged.

In the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet, the fourteen missile ships participating in the pursuit operations, the sailors are rapidly loading new missiles, and anti-ship missiles are quickly loading into the launch chamber.

The sailors' passionate mood and the temperature in the filling room made sweat constantly flow on their foreheads, but no one cares about this. They just want to complete their work better and faster, so that huge anti-ship missiles can be launched from the launch tube chamber again as soon as possible to sink American warships.

"The missile launching compartment of the No. 4 missile is loaded!"

The weapon watched the huge anti-ship missile gradually enter the launch chamber with the help of the delivery rails, and loudly informing the missile launch control room of the latest situation through internal communication equipment.

The control room will immediately debug the circuit, launch control equipment and other series of next preparation processes. Only when these processes are completed can the anti-ship missiles in the launch chamber be considered to have truly completed the preparation work to be launched.

This is the cumbersome and lengthy preparation work of the first generation of anti-ship missiles. The second generation of anti-ship missiles currently under development focuses on simplifying many of the procedures, speeding up the loading of missiles and preparing for launch time.

It can be said that compared with the first generation, the second-generation anti-ship missile has a considerable technological upgrade and improvement. All of this requires the first-generation missile to constantly expose its various defects during use to understand and improve it in the process of solving one by one.

"The missile control room received it and now debug the No. 4 warehouse immediately. The control alarm light of the No. 2 missile launching chamber flashes from time to time. If you have time, please send someone to check."

The control room immediately feedbacked the information. When the control room heard the news feedback, a sailor wearing a dirty and grim military uniform immediately entered the narrow gap outside the bullet box to inspect.

Even the narrow figure of the southerner has difficulty moving in such an extremely narrow space. However, judging from his flexible posture and the rank of the Sanji Non-commissioned officer on his shoulder, I believe that his relaxed and relaxed skills have been developed over the years.

Soon, a burnt line connector was thrown out from the inspection port. The soldiers familiar with these control pipe fittings could tell at a glance that the part belonged to, and no time wasted.

The new parts were quickly taken out of the spare parts box and sent to the Sanji Non-commissioned Officer. Soon, the flashing warning light in the control room went out and declared that everything was normal.

"Report to the Commander, all anti-ship missiles of the missile ship are ready, and you are now waiting for your launch order to be launched at any time."

"Very good, thank you for your hard work. Immediately launch the second wave of anti-ship missiles to the US fleet. After the launch, Immediately load the third wave of attack missiles!"

"yes!"

"Lightning protection, explosion and anti-aircraft. It seems that the mixed fleet is a tactic of becoming a turtle stream."

The attack aircraft squadron in the sky smiled helplessly after seeing the formation of the US mixed fleet. The second wave of anti-ship missiles smashed against the sea toward the US warships. The hit warships ignited a huge fire. The scene was extremely beautiful to the Chinese.

The US mixed fleet is also quite decisive. As long as the ambush ship loses power or slows down, the fleet will give up the warship without hesitation and let it continue to be attacked on the sea until it sinks. This is what the Third Fleet has exchanged for the lessons learned from the destruction of almost the entire fleet.

If the slow-speed troop transport ships, cargo ships, and the main warships of the third special mixed fleet were given up directly at that time, they would definitely have escaped more.

Such abandonment tests the overall decision-making ability of the fleet commander. Such decisions require considerable courage and also greatly impact the morale of the fleet soldiers.

It's like a constantly moving team suddenly encountering a wolf attack. As long as there are injuries, old, sick and disabled people, they have to give up to avoid dragging down the speed of the entire team.

What does it feel to the abandoned person to watch the team gradually fading away? This is an endless feeling of despair. For the people in the team, isn’t this a moment of bursting and testing for their conscience and various negative emotions?

The abandoned person may be his own relatives or friends. Even if he has no kinship, no one knows whether the next one will be himself?

Maybe now that you are just secretly happy to get rid of a burden of dragging back, the next person abandoned by the team is yourself. Therefore, watching ships that lose power or are damaged in their power and gradually leave the fleet, the American soldiers are definitely a very bitter feeling in their hearts.

On those boats, they have their own relatives, old friends from their hometowns, and friends they train together to meet...

It is precisely this abandonment that allows the US mixed fleet to maintain a high-speed evacuation rate. Due to this tactic, the US fleet has always maintained the fleet's air defense fire density and overall integrity as much as possible.

Once a ship loses more than half of its air defense capabilities, the warship will leave its current position and be replaced by other warships. In this way, the US turtle shell can be kept as intact as possible.

The attack is not good, so why don’t you concentrate all your forces on defense? However, the Chinese attack aircraft commander made his conclusion too early.

When Nimitz, who was in Melbourne, knew that the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet was chasing the mixed brigade, his brain was immediately deficient in oxygen. He was afraid that he would still be most afraid of what he would come. He only asked two special mixed brigades that had lost their ability to attack in the air to get together and come back safely, thank God, but he didn't expect the Chinese to pursue him so quickly.

The attack power of the main combat ships of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet is scared by Nimitz. From the news sent back by the mixed fleet, he learned that the cigar-like weapons that attacked the own mixed fleet are much larger and more powerful than the third special mixed fleet.

This made everyone understand what the huge square tube under the bridge in the main fleets of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet was. What made Nimitz and others even more frightened was that these things were not one-time launchers, but weapons and equipment that could be reloaded and then quickly launched!!

In a concise narrative, after the first wave of cigar weapon attacks more than an hour ago, the second wave of attacks broke through the air again in large numbers. The two attacks caused great losses to the mixed fleet. The ships set on the periphery for use as cannon fodder, and the ships that were targeted were beaten to sink and retreat.

After using the ships of his own fleet, the valuable experience and conclusions exchanged for the bodies and blood of the corpses and blood of the US Navy officers and soldiers, Nimitz now faces two choices.

One is to continue to evacuate the mixed fleet quickly to the northeast direction. Of course, the mixed fleet will suffer certain losses during this evacuation process, and the amount of losses cannot be estimated for the time being. This depends on whether the defense ability of one side can withstand the opponent's multiple attacks and some issues involving character outbreaks.

Another way is to immediately divide the mixed fleet into two teams, give up some ships with the courage of a hero who cut off his arm, and order these ships to form a new attack fleet to intercept the pursuit of the Chinese expeditionary fleet.

This method can estimate how many warships you have lost. After all, the list of cannon fodders you can choose...

After many complicated and rapid thoughts in my heart and tearing my emotional conflicts and entanglements, Nimitz finally said to the adjutant who had been waiting around me for a long time:

"Appoint the damaged ships in the mixed fleet to continue to organize their own resistance after leaving the fleet, striving to attract the Chinese attack troops as much as possible, reduce the pressure on the main fleet, and fight until the last moment."

"At the same time, the mixed fleet is ordered to select some ships immediately. It cannot evacuate blindly. During the evacuation process, it is necessary to put combat pressure on the Chinese expeditionary fleet, so that it cannot attack the mixed fleet unscrupulously. The ships will be selected by the commander of the mixed fleet."

Nimitz knew that his order was definitely another first precedent in the history of the US Navy and even in the history of the US military.

For the first time, a certain abandoned force was directly ordered to be self-reliant in a abandoned state, and to seek profit for the large collective by sacrificing self-reliance and sacrificing self-realization of collective interests.

This is definitely not something that democracy and Western ideas that emphasize personal interests can accept. But whether it is acceptable or not, the current mixed fleet is now incorporating a fleet. Only this hero cuts his arm or even cuts his arms can avoid the same fate as the third special mixed fleet.

Westerners pay attention to the centrality of self-interest, which is a self-interest need that has been passed down from generation to generation since the ancient Greek Homer epic culture. The reason why Achilles could refuse to go to war was because he did not get the woman he wanted and had conflicts with the Lord. This situation is unimaginable in the culture of Easterners.

Although the myth is illusory, it has indeed become a subtle set of standards that influence Westerners from generation to generation, influence Western thinking, and use codes of conduct and moral concepts to deal with things.

In Eastern countries, if the team that has always been selected to attract the opponent's firepower to become cannon fodder to do this, there is no need to mobilize too much. The commander of this army will complete this life-threatening task with passion, endless regrets for his family, and various complex emotions.

But for Westerners, will they accomplish such a task?

This is one aspect of why Westerners do not emphasize the possibility of surrender when fighting to the death. Western individualism is difficult to allow themselves to work or work for the collective after being abandoned by the large army or the large group. This is determined by their personal interests first thinking.

It is precisely because of this that Nimitz knew that if it were normal, his order was to allow these ships to surrender to the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet to ensure their personal rights.

But now his order is just the opposite. He did not allow these ships that lost their motivation and combat capabilities to surrender to the Chinese, but instead allowed these ships to continue fighting to attract Chinese missiles, torpedoes, and bombs to ensure that the main force of the mixed fleet can successfully escape the pursuit of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet.

This practice of making the hero bleed and cry and likely to die was really a serious injury to Nimitz's inner morality. When he issued the order to continue fighting, he could even feel that his heart was deeply hurt and blood was flowing outward.

Not only that, Nimitz's order also ordered the mixed fleet to select some ships to launch suicide attacks on the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet.

Because these selected warships to attack the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet meant to carry out a mission of ten deaths: when facing the strange weapons of the Chinese and high-speed raid attack aircraft, these warships that lacked air cover were as ridiculous as an indigenous army rushing towards machine guns and cannons, wielding swords, guns, sticks and rushing towards machine guns and cannons.

The heroes who were injured in the front who abandoned the protection team and now they should select some old, weak, sick and disabled people from the team, and tell them that they must launch a suicide attack on the wolf pack to death, so that the overall large army can better escape the clutches of the wolf pack.

Nimitz knew that this order was to exchange the lives of many American soldiers for hope of survival for more American soldiers. This order would definitely cause a stir in the United States soon after this battle.

Americans, especially those families who have lost their loved ones, will regard themselves as victims who have ruined their loved ones. But what can this happen?

As long as the order is executed successfully, more American soldiers can be saved, which will make more American families regard themselves as the saviors to save their families. There will be two different attitudes of families and oppositions in the United States!

The first duty of a soldier is to obey. As a senior commander, the problems he needs to face are often the choice between choices.

Without sacrifice, how can there be victory?

Even if it is the final escape, in Western democracy, if there are one hundred people, as long as fifty-one people can escape, it is worth sacrificing forty-nine people!

Because fifty-one votes are more than forty-nine votes, this is public opinion. As long as you grasp the interests of the majority and conform to their interests, this is the victory and the correct choice of democracy!

As the leader of the army, Nimitz is now making such a decision, or a transaction, using the deaths of some people to exchange for the survival of others. As for victory, he has long stopped thinking about these unrealistic fantasies.

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