It can be said that no one knew that the two sides in the war had "a big deal"!

Nimitz's goal is the entire South China Sea fleet, and Zhu Bin's goal is the US Navy coming from the Suez Canal. How many ships are there, and the specific number of equipment is only a rough number. Because of the Americans' efforts to conceal and continuous harmony, they deliberately create false information, so that his powerful reconnaissance methods are a bit not busy enough.

Think about it, a ship with less than one hundred ships may be able to detect a total of three hundred warships, one point, another, and then divide it. Just in the Andaman Sea, at least three strands were scattered, each strand looked relatively strong. In addition to being able to determine the main force led by Mitchell and successfully killing two Yamato ships that could not escape, Nimitz personally led the surprise soldier was really beyond expectations!

The ocean is so vast. With the satellites that Zhu Bin can only guarantee the coverage of the battlefield and the submarines that can only roam the Pacific, it is not enough to meet the global defense standards. Under deliberate hiding, Nimitz has a mental calculation but is not intentional, and finally achieved a successful concealed attack!

The confrontation in the Andaman Sea quickly advanced southward. Major General Mitchell's command art shone brightly this time! Through the summary of the navigation speed of the South China Sea Fleet and the previous Chinese naval tactics, he boldly judged the opponent's goal, intending to lure the enemy deeper and take the lead in the guest. He decisively ordered the left fleet to form a huge circular formation after a radius of 50 nautical miles and joining the aircraft carrier towing formation, and suddenly detoured eastward with the expressway.

The most critical move is that he sent out almost all of his night reconnaissance forces, and the seaplane boldly conducted a dragnet-style search on the sea surface, and the circular defensive array formed by the rapid destroyer was dispatched thirty kilometers away, just like the way the earth revolves around the sun, with aircraft carriers and battleships as the core, and conducts uninterrupted scanning and reconnaissance.

In this way, submarines that were originally hiding behind the technological advantages and surveillance nearby rarely had the opportunity to show their heads and observe. Even under the sonar search by Americans at all costs, they did not dare to set the dive deep too low. It would be very difficult to rely on passive sonar alone to pursue it. After all, the Andaman Sea is not a familiar South China Sea, and there are too many hidden dangers. If you don’t do it well, you may fall into a sinking or hit a reef, which is not worth it!

The entire Mitchell Task Force 19th Tel. Like a super hedgehog, there was nowhere to go. Although the defense of destroyers and patrol aircraft inevitably exposed the target, the front line of the two was too long after all. The large circular formation also had a misleading effect. After a few hours of circumcision, the main ship had gone from the south to the east along the arc, and it was almost always a distance of 100 nautical miles from the South China Sea Fleet opposite, passing by!

One hundred nautical miles. Decades ago, it was undoubtedly a very safe distance--at that time, the danger was only within the range of the main gun of the main ship.

After the Air Force rose, it really formed a threat, that is, what happened in the past five years, and it was Zhu Bin's navy that formally performed the full set of tactics of controlling the sea to the world by using air to control the sea, which caused the world to undergo a complete transformation. Even so, the radius of air reconnaissance and strikes has not exceeded 350 kilometers. In theory, 500 kilometers are not very safe.

On a dark night, the maneuvering distance of 100 nautical miles, the main ships that constantly change positions make it difficult to catch specific targets if there is a possible long-range attack threat. That destroyer of only one or two thousand tons is probably not worth the other party's waste of a precious anti-ship missile.

Chen Ce did realize that the other party's circular array completely moved to the east like a paramecium, and then he suddenly became alert.

At this time, the South China Sea Fleet had already entered the central and southern part of the Andaman Sea, closer to the area of ​​Sri Lanka and the Indian Peninsula. A straight line would definitely deviate, and it would be roughly parallel to the Mitchell Fleet. At this time, the judgment of maneuvering again is very important.

However, he had already received a message from Zhu Bin that the main force of the ocean fleet had arrived and was expected to cross the Java Sea and enter the Indian Ocean by the next morning. By then, the total voyage from the battlefield will be two and a half days.

So, as long as they can hold the other party for a total of three days, they can ensure that they can't run out. At that time, they should work together inside and outside, close the door and beat the dog, and completely eat this big guy. There is no problem.

After returning to the chart and planning, Chen Ce ordered the fleet to turn left and move into an S-shaped maneuver, making a move towards Sri Lanka.

This is very much like a decisive move. Both sides know that the importance of Sri Lanka is, once it is occupied, it will form a blockade of the Andaman Sea exit, and those who are locked up in it will be in big trouble!

The practice of not having any hidden whereabouts is certainly a signal of judgment for the other party, and also to test out what the US military is planning. If it is just to rescue the army and protect the port, the Mitchell fleet should follow the trend and occupy the central Andaman Sea, and then work with the archipelago and land, Sri Lanka's land-based air force to severely damage or drive the South China Sea fleet out.

But Mitchell didn't know that there was an ocean-going fleet behind him that had quietly come, and only determined that the other party wanted to seize the powerful strategic high point, break the land-based blockade line, and return to the front and decide against himself. Of course, such a thing is not allowed to happen.

Therefore, the main force of the 19th Fleet did not wait until he fully judged Chen Ce's actions. After completing the first round, he turned his head and detoured towards the south again.

The speed difference between the two sides is not big, so it doesn't matter. It's like getting in quickly and then correcting the direction and rushing southward.

The huge destroyer warning circle is inevitable, and it is closer to the outer vanguard ships of the South China Sea Fleet, and even intersects the gap, which is less than ten nautical miles at one point!

In the middle of the night, the US military's reconnaissance capabilities were greatly reduced. Even though they specially equipped the British and Japanese lookout hands with good night eyes and used infrared night vision equipment, it was still difficult to see clearly the stealth appearance and Chinese destroyers.

But the radar on the Chinese destroyer found the Americans through scanning. When they found that they were only about twenty kilometers away from the enemy ship and the other party was still pushing in quickly, they were shocked! They hurriedly reported.

Chen Ce replied extremely decisively: "Don't hesitate! When encountering an enemy ship again, start fire and strike immediately! No matter how small the mosquito is, it is still flesh! Besides, if you hit the small ones, I don't believe that the old ones won't come out!"

The captain of the destroyer who was receiving the enemy was just 30 years old and had never fought a decent tough battle since he joined the army. He fought against the world's strongest navy many times and made great achievements. He was envious today. He had a chance!

The destroyers hedged each other in a figure-eight shape split the waves, with a relative speed of more than fifty knots, and the distance between a few minutes was only a few minutes, so they quickly got closer!

Coincidentally, the main guns of both sides are the same double 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns. Zhu Bin's copycat model is even better than the Americans, regardless of range or accuracy. Not to mention, he also has various special shells, such as high-speed armor-piercing shells, which are specially designed for destroyers to deal with cruisers--there must be given these little guys to have the means to counterattack twice!

The dark and bright fire control unit has no need to say much about the effect of the intelligent fire control unit. It is easy to lock the Somos-class destroyer of the US military, who is confused and encounters big trouble, and suddenly fires when the distance between them finally enters 15 kilometers!

As soon as you make a move, two high-speed armor-piercing shells were shot at the bow of the ship! In the sudden flash of fire, the two shells were aimed diagonally at the tall bridge of the enemy ship at an angle of 80 degrees, drawing a perfect arc!

A few seconds later, one in front and one behind, the two bombs formed cross-fire and near-lose attacks against the enemy ships. The intelligent fire control unit calculated the updated shooting elements almost instantly and outputted them to the naval guns. This time, three double-mounted artillery fired rapidly together! Each one poured more than a dozen shells at the target in one breath, and the bang bang and brittle sound was similar to the cucumber. The total number of more than thirty shells densely formed a narrow rough grid. Hulala covered the enemy ship in!

At this time, the US ship had just reacted from the first round of explosions and was searching for shooters looking for shells. Following the burst of fire in the continuous guns, the lookouts looked at them and screamed: "Enemy ship shelling! The distance is about 15,000 yards!"

"This is impossible! Hell, that's so far away. How did they find out that we are still fighting so accurately?"

The captain and others were really familiar with the 127mm cannon, like their own fingers, the range and the power of the explosion. They were exactly the same at first glance. He knew that 15,000 yards was the theoretical maximum range. If you want to hit it, it would be almost the same as hitting a great fortune!

Without even being surprised, he hurriedly sent an order: "Avoid at full speed, right rudder 45, hurry up! Quick!"

Needless to think about it, they must have encountered big trouble, who have been targeted and fired first!

It's too late to fight back, so let's escape the damn aiming area first.

However, it was still too late! Although the ship opposite was the second oldest "island-class" 2500-ton destroyer in the Chinese Navy, the so-called "old" was compared to their own new 4000-ton destroyer, and other big guys. For the US military, it is even much more advanced than the Glyfos class that just started mass construction, or even the Fletcher class that has not been designed yet! The radar fire control system alone is far from comparable to them!

With just a few seconds apart, the island-class destroyer made all three ship guns that had already been aiming at fire! A distance of less than 15,000 meters is indeed the maximum range of the naval gun, but who has stipulated that such a distance will definitely spread too much and cannot hit it?

More than thirty shells formed an irregular grid that was only the size of a basketball court. The total time difference between the first and last shots was less than thirty seconds, and it was hit one after another!

The poor Somos-class destroyer seemed to have been sacked by someone, and he was beaten up with a hapless man in one breath. He hit six armor-piercing bullets one after another! The rest of the near-missile bombs were actually hit on the side with a waterline. He turned to the right and turned the rudder so badly that the injection angle was just good enough. Not only did it not fly away, but it also directly broke the shell and drilled in!

The armor of the destroyer is almost the same as that of none. Perhaps the Americans' own conventional capped armor-piercing missiles will have insufficient power if they fly 15 kilometers, but the Zhu family army is completely enough!

Six shells were bombarded one meter from the front deck, bridge, mainmast, chimney and the lower part of the wings, each piercing through the compartment of two layers of spaces, and bursting gorgeously!

"Boom! Boom..."

More than thirty sounds were heard in a row, and the Somos-class destroyer, trembling violently, spraying tons of steel parts out from all directions. The holes torn under the water line formed a 20-30-meter-long crack and headed towards the vertical development. When the fireworks rise, the water column falls, and the unlucky guy who has just completed half of the turn is already crooked and slanted!

If only that is the case, or they can still struggle for a while, they would not have expected that the captain of the island-class destroyer on the opposite side was like an old virgin who had been holding back for decades. He finally took the opportunity to vent his anger and corrected the elements as fast as possible. He smashed dozens of shells in one breath, killing the huge bomb rack of the automatic loader before he stopped.

So the half-destroyed Somos ship was completely helpless! It was hit by seventeen or eighteen armor-piercing bombs in a row, and was penetrated like a sieve. After the explosion, the deck was scattered and almost no place was found. The continuous water line penetrated completely destroyed the hull, and finally it was rumbling and exploded into two pieces. With more than two hundred sailors, they sank to the bottom of the sea!

The first battle was won! From beginning to end, it was a few minutes, so it was so quick!

The young captain waved his fists in excitement. Now his military medal was not blank. A star could be brushed on the bow.

But it is a completely different signal for the US military! The insignificant little battle was like a rough move to tear the mask, which completely broke the two sides' understanding and the detours and silences with each other!

Major General Mitchell felt the first thing he did, instinctively thought that the opponent was going to launch a full-scale attack, so he hurriedly ordered nearby night fighters to rush over first and kill the enemy ship that had been under the control of lights. At the same time, he ordered the main ship to speed up and advance forward.

He boldly judged that the two sides now may have inexplicably narrowed the distance. So dangerous is actually more about being on his own side. If you want to leave quickly, it is probably too late. It is better to just pounce on it and give full play to the advantages of his main ship. Let's have a melee and make a profit from chaos!

Many times, this is how misunderstandings happen. Things that fully grasp the scene are always small in wars. What's more, this huge maritime battlefield with a diameter of thousands of kilometers involves extremely complex commands of more than 200 ships. The amount of information in an instant is enough to make the smartest man's head open!

At this time, intuition is often the most reliable!

Chen Ce almost issued the same order! He knew very well that once the destroyer fired, the general orientation of the fleet would be exposed, and the Americans were actually approaching. There was no doubt that its main battleship must be within the range of its own anti-ship missiles. It only needs to find them out from more than a hundred targets, and then it can attack and sink it!

A heavy cruiser that opened the circuit in the second circle immediately responded and drove at full speed towards the direction of fire exchange. The two Taishan-class battleships also preheated the missiles, launched the hatch covers, and even opened them, ready to launch a long-range attack at any time!

The sea surface, which was originally kept in a strange silence, suddenly boiled!

A total of sixteen US night fighters and reconnaissance planes rushed towards the direction of the firelight like a shark that smelled fishy! The island-class destroyer that had just made military achievements had not completely dissipated. The first enemy plane screamed and rushed into the sight of the air radar. While lowering the altitude, it corrected its posture, preparing to drop the bombs it carried when it saw clearly.

The young captain was excited and ordered the double-mounted turret to turn immediately and aimed at the enemy plane. Just as it entered six thousand meters, it fired three consecutive shots, six wireless near-explosive fuze high-explosive bombs rushed to explode near the plane, and countless prefabricated fragments made it into a sieve in a blink of an eye!

The violently burning plane looked like a big lantern, which suddenly lit up from a height of less than a thousand meters and fell slowly, witnessing the second "pochu" of the destroyer.

But his shooting seemed to provide the most distinctive lighting signals for more than a dozen other enemy planes around him. They were still exploring and searching for them, and immediately found the right direction and surrounded them. The signal light spots immediately filled the radar screen.

When the young captain saw that he had become the target of the beating, his face changed at that time and he blurted out: "Fuck! When did I become so popular? No, no, there are too many people, and I can't stand it!"

He is not stupid. With the firepower of this destroyer, even if he has an intelligent fire control unit and is besieged by more than a dozen aircraft, he doesn't have to think about the outcome. After all, he is not the latest missile destroyer, nor is he the perverted guy with near-defense guns!

Without saying a word, he aimed the anti-aircraft guns in groups and fired to intercept them, while in an emergency with other warships.

Fortunately, the heavy cruiser was not too far away, and he also used radar to discover the pile of enemy aircraft that were rushing out of the air. He responded immediately, aimed slightly, and shot out the "Iron Curtain" rocket interception system on one side like fireworks. He was extremely dangerous and shattered five enemy aircraft that had entered the dive stage in the air.

This fire was equivalent to adding a lot of money to the two sides' bargaining chips. Mitchell was familiar with the enemy's intelligence. The rocket air defense weapons that were fired one by one were only available in large ships. Since they were all so close, it goes without saying that their main force was not far away!
Chapter completed!