All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

When he heard the situation reported by the communication soldier, Lütjens's expression changed and he immediately said:"Quickly report the size of the opponent's fleet?"

Ye Bai's expression also changed. He just heard clearly what the communication soldier said. , the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft sent by our own side was expelled by the opponent's carrier-based fighter jets, which means that there must be an aircraft carrier in this indigenous force fleet, but we don't know whether it is an escort aircraft carrier or a light aircraft carrier. Although both types of aircraft carriers are called aircraft carrier, but the gap in combat effectiveness is huge.

The communications soldier wore a headset, picked up the intercom, and communicated with the pilot of the reconnaissance aircraft in front for a while before turning around and saying:"The report indicates that the opposing fleet has more than 30 warships, including destroyers, light cruisers, heavy cruisers, and aircraft carriers. According to the pilot, Visual reconnaissance, one aircraft carrier, two heavy cruisers, about six light cruisers, and the rest are destroyers. Judging from the opponent's route, they should be heading for resource points." The strength of this fleet is much better than what they had yesterday.The defeated pirate fleet must be even stronger. If there is a fight, with the more than 400 carrier-based aircraft in the Yanhuang hangar, and under repeated attacks, the final victory should belong to the Chinese fleet.

But the question now is whether it is necessary to take the risk of offending all the aboriginal forces in the entire great maritime world to launch an active attack on this aboriginal force fleet. Also, even if the opponent is really defeated, how much will one's own losses be? The most important thing is what kind of benefits one side can get after winning the battle.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Ye Bai came up with the idea of ​​​​taking the initiative to attack the aboriginal fleet was ultimately due to that resource point. He urgently wanted to know whether such resource points that were randomly refreshed by the system in various places in the world of navigation could be used. It is stored in the small space of the logistics cabin.

If possible, such a risk is worth taking if it is certain to defeat the aboriginal force fleet. But if not, such a battle is completely meaningless, and it will cause quite serious consequences. Ye Bai doesn't want to gamble now.

"Commander, order the fleet to detour. In this situation, we no longer need to provoke a war. The other party's reinforcements have already arrived."

After learning that this powerful fleet of aboriginal forces was coming, Ye Bai had already had the idea of ​​giving up. Now that Lütjens said this, he completely made up his mind, nodded, and spoke. Said:"Lütjens, let the fleet make a detour and rush to the destination we set before."

"Yes, Commander."

The fleet circled around and continued to sail in formation, but Ye Bai did not order the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft that had been released to return. He was not worried at all that after the fleet moved quickly, the returning reconnaissance aircraft would get lost.

Needless to say, this was naturally the case. The system is amazing. In the world of navigation, facing the boundless sea, when a fighter plane flies over the sea, even if there is no radar as a detector and no fixed target as a reference point, it will still not get lost. This is very convenient. Unreasonable, but for Ye Bai, this is quite good news.

With the protection of this special rule, he can allow the fleet to keep carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft in the surrounding waters to perform high-altitude reconnaissance missions at all times while sailing at high speed, which can be regarded as The detection range was expanded in disguise, making up for the shortcomings of the radar system's lack of effective detection range.

As soon as the order was issued, the fleet that was originally swaying slowly on the sea speed up instantly. The original speed of less than 20 knots was instantly increased to 26 knots. If not for this In order to take care of the two Benson-class destroyers in the fleet, this speed can continue to increase. The fleet route planned by Qi Sicheng personally shuttled directly between the rapidly approaching aboriginal force fleet and the resource point. According to According to his calculations, based on the current speed of the fleet, there will be no encounter with the indigenous force fleet, which can also avoid some unnecessary misunderstandings.

The fleet adjusted its course and sailed for a short time before being expelled by the indigenous force's carrier-based fighter jets. The two reconnaissance planes returned and landed smoothly on the Yanhuang. The reason why they did not change their direction and went to other directions for reconnaissance was to bring back the reconnaissance photos taken in the reconnaissance cameras so that the headquarters could better understand them. The ground was analyzed.

Although it was detected by the air search radar of the aboriginal warship, and was subsequently expelled by the opponent's carrier-based fighter jets, making it impossible for them to carry out detailed reconnaissance of the aboriginal fleet and take more photos, but At least some photos were taken while on the periphery.

Although these photos were not very valuable, they were at least somewhat useful. At least through these reconnaissance photos, Ramsey quickly determined that the aircraft carrier in the opponent's fleet was not like a pirate. The fleet is average.

It is not an escort aircraft carrier, but a serious aircraft carrier. Even though it is just a light aircraft carrier, it is much stronger than an escort aircraft carrier in all aspects, with faster speed, heavier tonnage and more armor. Thick, the key is that the number of carrier-based aircraft is much more than that of escort aircraft carriers.

Lütjens put down the reconnaissance photo in his hand, frowned, and said softly:"Commander, I always feel that this fleet is aimed at being wiped out by us yesterday. That pirate fleet came from

"

"oh? Lütjens, why do you say that? Is there any basis for it?"

Lütjens shook his head, thought for a while, and said:"There is no basis, just an intuition. According to the reconnaissance plane the day before yesterday, the aboriginal fleet and the pirate fleet were almost evenly matched. Later, due to the storm, the fleets of both sides It disappeared completely, and we can't judge the final result of both parties."

"However, based on the reconnaissance of the past two days, I suspect that the pirate fleet was completely wiped out or dispersed, and the aboriginal fleet also suffered certain losses. If this is the case, yesterday's pirate fleet should belong to the pirates Reinforcements are coming"

"They should have come to support us, but due to the storm, they arrived too late, and unfortunately encountered us. As a result, they were sent to the sea by our carrier-based aircraft to act like bastards."

Listening to Lütjens's narration, Ye Bai gradually came back to his senses and continued:"So, the aboriginal fleet we just discovered should also have come to support, but because of the storm, there is still a storm. Because of the distance, it was only a step slower."

Lütjens's frown has loosened, he nodded, and said with certainty:"It is very likely, combined with the resource points we discovered, that the battle between the two sides will revolve around this resource point. occurring."

A flash of surprise flashed in Ye Bai's eyes. This explanation is indeed quite reasonable. No wonder he was able to send out such a large fleet even though he was restricted by the system. It was for the sake of resource points.

This makes perfect sense. After all, in this rule change, the system has said that if necessary, the fleet of the indigenous forces can take the initiative to leave the island.

What is a necessary situation? Isn’t this it? The resource point occupied by the family has encountered pirates A fleet attack would naturally require a support fleet to be dispatched. Isn't this very reasonable?

As for driving away the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft sent by the Chinese fleet, it would be more normal. If it were not for the identification of friend or foe system with exploratory radar, it would be confirmed that the two sides are not Hostile forces, for the sake of the safety of resource points, I am afraid that these aborigines will directly shoot down the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft sent out.

Ye Bai is now even more grateful for the fleet detour he just made at the suggestion of Lütjens It has been decided that this resource point is completely a hornet's nest and cannot be touched at all. If we rush forward rashly and have a fight, let alone other aboriginal forces, at least this group of aborigines will fight to the death with us. The gain was not worth the loss.

Although he was a little disappointed and unwilling, Ye Bai quickly adjusted his mentality. He looked hard at Lütjens and Ramsay and said calmly:"Okay. , I was fortunate to gain but lost my life. I encountered a sudden storm, disrupting all our plans. There was nothing we could do."

Lütjens and Ramsey looked at each other, turned around and returned to their respective command posts, and simply turned a blind eye to Ye Bai's statement.

This made Ye Bai feel a little embarrassed for a moment. After all, he is also the commander of the fleet, and is their immediate superior, so why not give him face like this? Fortunately, the other officers and soldiers in the bridge were busy with their own affairs and did not see such an embarrassing scene, otherwise Ye Bai would have been embarrassed. Okay. Well

, in fact, this matter started from the beginning to the end because Ye Bai wanted to take advantage of it after discovering the fierce battle between the two fleets. Later, he even focused on that resource point and made a series of tricks. , but was forced to give up after discovering that the scale of the aboriginal fleet was too large and there was no great benefit.

If it were replaced by Lütjens or Ramsay, the pirate support fleet would have been eliminated long ago. They immediately moved. After all, they were just soldiers. They were thinking about winning or losing in naval battles. They didn't care about the role of resource points in the small space of the logistics cabin. Naturally, they wouldn't worry about gains and losses like Ye Bai.

Now it's better. Ye Bai, who had no hope for this resource point that had been occupied by aboriginal forces, relaxed even more. He sat back on the office chair Shi Shiran, frowning and lost in thought. After these two times In the battle, Ye Bai has discovered a problem. His limited knowledge is still unable to command the fleet operations well, so he should try not to get involved in it in the future. The fleet's combat command power was decentralized, and with it came another problem. Another problem is that currently, due to the existence of the Yanhuang, the Chinese fleetThe mode of combat has changed to long-range attacks by carrier-based aircraft groups, and frontal fleet artillery battles rarely break out.

This combat method happens to be Lütjens's shortcoming. Although this guy has been working hard to learn aviation combat command, there is still a big gap compared to Ramsay..