Chapter 381 Chapter 971 The Starry Sky
Chapter 381 Chapter 9.71 The Starry Sky
Just as the New Guinea Equatorial War was about to begin, the old "tigers" in the Shenzhou Pacific Fleet were looking bleakly to the south.
Shenzhou, Dayuan Island, Lotus Port. This is the base of the Shenzhou Pacific Navy.
At this geographical location, if Shenzhou deploys enough sea control forces, it can control the important maritime trade in the entire East Asia. It belongs to the position of "one son determines the four seas".
Dayuan and Sinhalese are called the two gate-guarding stone lions of the ocean by the Shenzhou Navy.
Shenzhou's Navy Marshal Fu Youji is 70 years old this year and will hand over power in a few years. In Shenzhou, there are always people who say that he relied on his "tumbler" skill to reach this high position. But it must be said that because he has steadily controlled the strongest navy in the Pacific Ocean, this has allowed the Western Pacific to maintain peace for decades. Therefore, the contemporary Wei Keng's evaluation of him is: "A loyal gatekeeper."
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The elites of East Shenzhou clearly realized that the Dongbin area was going downhill, and the manpower and material resources that could be invested in various strategic directions were limited. Random attacks can only aggravate the consumption of vitality, so that the Dongbin of Shenzhou will fall faster. Only by consolidating power in places where they still have an advantage can they consolidate hegemony.
It is worth mentioning that ten years ago, at the beginning of the rise of maritime power in Tianzhuyang, Fu Youji tried to let the naval forces of Taiyangyang and Tianzhuyang exchange defense. But this matter was blocked by the Silk Faction who "did not want others to get involved in the maritime trade line" at the time, and it was abandoned. But it can be seen from this that this old man is not a complete coward.
However, the current situation is another matter. Lizhou was taken down, and the unprecedented changes in marine development have taken place. The era of the dominance of the battleship may have passed. The battleship can only be destroyed remotely, and clear occupation requires a marine stronghold.
But once the problem is brought here, it is a problem beyond the military.
In the eyes of the people of East Shenzhou, 20 years ago, the academic and business elites of East Bin, who had high moral sentiments, made a "wise" decision to stop the development of the ocean in order to protect the ocean and allow the next generation of children to eat seafood without heavy metals.
And in the past 20 years, West Shenzhou took over this "garbage industry" despised by Jiangnan, but this garbage industry was continuously invested in, and then in the great social changes in the past few years, it became a vital strategic industry.
The economic structure can determine the military structure.
Fu Youji looked at the map of the world's oceans and accepted a strategic fact with difficulty, that is, the current Tianzhu Ocean has circled a large arc of tens of thousands of kilometers from the south to try to encircle the Taiyang forces.
This unprecedented large-scale strategic encirclement is an unprecedented big move in the past few hundred years since mankind entered the Age of Discovery.
In this era of rapid technological change, Fu Youji is obviously old. However, due to the inertia of the bureaucratic structure in the old navy, the Shenzhou Navy still needs his prestige to suppress stability.
So four hours later, at the strategic decision-making meeting on the eastern line of Shenzhou, he acted as a coordinator and asked the six generals who were second only to him to each bring a set of plans. For the current mess in the equatorial region (the confrontation between Nanyang and Shengyang as one group and the Ocean Commune and Lizhou Shezhi as another group), select the current response plan for Shenzhou Dongbin.
Fu Youji frowned after reading these reports, but finally picked the general from the dwarfs.
He chose the plan completed by a colonel named Inoue. This person is from Izumo Province.
His opinion is to concentrate the thunderous force and block the command strait. This seems to be an irrelevant idle piece, but it has confused the entire Taiyang Ocean. Oh, this is to use stones from other mountains to attack jade.
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When Shenzhou blocked the entire Taiyang Ocean into an inland sea. The situation here has changed.
Inoue's statement: Originally, the Nanyang Jiedushi of Shenzhou and the forces of Lizhou and the Ocean Commune were like anxious buffaloes glaring at each other in the arena.
In the current fight between the buffaloes, other forces, such as Edenia and Shengyang, have evacuated the battlefield and watched from the high platform. But now if Shenzhou Dongbin closes the gate of the entire stand, forming a cage of imprisonment,
the "buffaloes" will look around the venue and try to guard against the movements of enemies from other directions that cannot be evacuated.
By then, the forces of Lizhou and the Ocean Commune will realize that they have to face the forces from the three directions of the North and South New World, Shengyang, and Nanyang at the same time because they occupy the center of the Pacific Ocean Basin. They will also be forcibly stabilized.
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After Inoue finished speaking, everyone who had been trapped in strategic passivity had their eyes brightened.
Fu Youji did not have a foresighted perspective. If he was a system-assisted traverser, he would know that Inoue made strategic mistakes that were taken for granted in several battles on multiple timelines.
Strategy needs to be supported by ability. If you want to keep the "wild bull" in a pen, the "fence" must be strong enough. If this wild bull was Shengyang a hundred years ago, it could still be contained with the national strength of Shenzhou, but now it has contained itself.
But for Fu Yuji, there is really no way to deal with it at the moment. It is inevitable that he chooses Inoue. There is no if in history.
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In the corridor,
Fu Yuji's assistant Chen Lejia stopped Inoue.
As the winner of the combat meeting just now, Inoue slowly turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
Chen Lejia took a deep breath and said, "I am looking forward to your toast. I wish you a successful campaign." Then he handed him the report on the combat effectiveness evaluation of the latest lotus-shaped submarine in East Asia.
Chen Lejia asked for his opinion.
Inoue pushed his glasses: "The momentum of the Southern Ocean Front now looks very strong. But if Shenzhou can integrate resources, the balance of victory will be firmly tilted to the court."
But at this time, Chen Lejia sighed in a low voice: "It is indeed a good conspiracy, but do you know who the commander of Western Shenzhou sent to the southwest Pacific?"
At this time, the sky darkened in time, and a cloud covered the sun.
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In the Southern Ocean, the Ocean Commune's offensive against the Java Fleet was busy.
Colonel Liu Xi of the Ocean Commune, the frontline commander in the deep ocean, began to spin like a gyroscope after determining his mission in the battle, looking for a direction to break through around the overall strategic goal.
This is the characteristic of Wei Keng's command system. After the battle begins, the key nodes and significance of the battle must be made clear to the relevant personnel.
In Master Wei's command system, there is no such thing as a discarded child. The key will not be concealed for the so-called overall situation.
In order to ensure that all departments of the battle can be carried out as scheduled, all grassroots departments are "lively, tense, and serious".
The General Command has determined the three possible marching routes of the Java Fleet. And arranged targeted deployment.
As the team at the end of the command chain, Liu Xi announced to his soldiers: "The mission has been clarified, and I also know the dangers at the forefront of the battle. But I just need to know whether the mission can be completed!"
"Yes!"
In the small command cabin, the loud voice from another small battle cabin came from the projection communication interface.
Blood and masculinity bloom in the depths of the ocean.
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On the other side where Liu Xi can connect to the communication, the front-line engineering team has completed the battlefield network for ocean monitoring.
Information on ocean operations comes first. After the battle order is issued, the engineering team will set up automatic monitoring stations within a limited time.
Forty-eight hours after the deployment of the monitoring station, a large number of ship sonar signals were found on the No. 2 channel determined by Liu Xi.
In the Great Barrier Reef area, on the continental shelf, the instructor of the long-range strike department of the missile force, who had already been deployed, spoke up: "Start measuring the ocean currents."
After the first order was issued, the entire missile command system was like water entering a hot pot, and various orders began to boil.
The combatants wearing spiritual armor began to issue complicated orders to the interface in front of them.
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At eight o'clock in the morning, the forces of the Ocean Front began to attack the coalition fleet along the equatorial current.
The "Java Group" in the South China Sea, the original double-row fleet at sea, sounded an alarm at the bottom. Then less than five minutes later, the underwater supercavitating torpedoes and the sudden air strike forces on the surface turned the entire sea area into a dazzling scene.
Although the scene of lasers and small missiles exploding in the sky was large. All this just interfered with the operation of anti-submarine fighters taking off from the sea surface.
But what is really deadly is the underwater raid. The battleship had a circular white shock wave centered on the bottom keel. There was no smoke or steel collapse, but the shock wave was directly applied to the keel. If you look through the warship's interior, you will see that the keel has been broken. In the core cabin, the tiny tears that are densely scattered over a range of tens of meters are spraying water, which is a fatal injury that cannot be blocked.
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The siege of the Java Fleet is the focus of the battlefield spanning thousands of kilometers, but fighting is also going on in other places.
1,400 kilometers away, the Shengyang Navy crossed the equatorial current, preparing to take advantage of the start of the war to sneak attack and find opportunities.
The sky was clear and everything was good.
Within fifty meters, Shengyang's submerged Lance VIII Vanguard submarines were forming a battle line to complete regional alert for subsequent large warships.
However, at this time, Shengyang's submarine formation sent a warning that a fierce battle of supercavitating torpedoes appeared underwater ahead.
This was obviously because the Ocean Commune's blocking force discovered that the Shengyang Navy was ambushing.
On the flagship Yako, the commander of Shengyang, Shirata Nozomi, looked at the murderous sea ahead on the bridge and fell into hesitation.
As a fleet commander who came from afar, her mission was to participate in the war. But as a fleet commander, it was her duty to save the warship.
At this time, in the captain's command room of Shengyang, circles of red warning stripes kept flashing on the blue nautical chart, and all the members on the ship were discussing these enemy attacks, "How much angle should the anti-aircraft gun be raised?" "How much depth should be calibrated with torpedoes" and other topics.
But please note that these discussions of Shengyang are all self-centered. It seems that it is very appropriate to say it at this time, but in fact it has nothing to do with the upper and lower processes at hand. This is the style of Shengyang bureaucrats when they are "powerless". At this time, everyone in Shengyang is using nonsense, waiting for the order of the supreme commander.
[In the same "powerless" situation, the atmosphere in Shenzhou's officialdom is: everyone remains silent, ready to push the inexplicable pot at any time. ]
In such a nonsense atmosphere, Shengyang commander Shirata Nozomi hesitated again and again, and did not issue orders for a long time.
What finally forced Shirata Nozomi to make a decision was the ballistic missiles launched from the Great Barrier Reef area.
Shirata Nozomi believed that the enemy's main force was nearby and was ready to close in on herself, so she prepared to evacuate!
So, when Shengyang encountered the Ocean Commune for the second time, such a force that was enough to decide the key to the battlefield directly withdrew from the battle sequence and took the route of protecting the ship.
In fact, Bai Tianxi's judgment could not be said to be wrong. As the general dispatcher of the maritime battle, Wei Keng did arrange enough reserve teams to guard all directions.
[Shengyang people are very brave to gamble for the benefits they see. But if they make a promise to others, once they judge that the cost is too high, they will choose to "bow and apologize." ]
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Wei Keng accurately grasped the Shengyang Group and the Malaysian Group.
From the perspective of the war, when the Ocean Commune was besieging the Java Group and preparing to ambush the Lusong Group, the commander of the Malaysian Group fleet chose to be the middle-class at this critical moment and make a judgment on the battle situation.
This commander, whose ancestors were merchants in the Strait of Malacca, although he had the qualifications of the Shenzhou Naval Academy and entered the circle of military generals, in the business society in the Malaysian region, his code of conduct often tends to be the code of businessmen. This is like a tiger that has been a cat for a long time, and it really becomes a cat.
The commander of the Malaysian fleet, who was in the captain's room of a 40,000-ton warship, which was full of calligraphy and antiques, believed in "the smallest cost" and "the biggest gain". (In fact, the core of war is to win, to achieve the predetermined strategic goals in the predetermined time and space, and then consider the cost and gain.)
The Malaysian commander judged the battle zone with multiple red punctuations on the projected map as follows: In this war, victory is a tragic victory. And failure requires keeping the chips.
Therefore, how not to be the party that pays the price in a tragic victory, or to keep the maximum capital in failure, made him think hard.
So after the traces of the underwater troops of the Shenzhou side appeared in his direction, he ordered the troops to strictly guard the defense line and decided to wait for a more suitable time.
At the beginning of the Java and Lusong battles, he shrewdly judged who was the main force in these battles and whether they would lead him into the trap.
Little did he know that Wei Keng deployed only an independent regiment of 15 companies in front of the Malaysian group.
At present, this independent regiment easily stopped this huge fleet from joining the battlefield.
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Comparatively speaking, the Luzon Group was too miserable. It had the enthusiasm to interfere, but its commander had no vigilance for naval warfare.
The entire fleet advanced towards the southern waters regardless of everything, and along the way, with a large number of sonar locks, it did not complete the frigate formation. After sailing out of the Banda Islands. It encountered the navy taking off from northern Australia, as well as sea-based land missiles, and the joint interception of surface and underwater fleets.
This was the Lizhou side that handed over half of its land, sea, and air forces to Wei Keng's command. Wei Keng chose to fight the most fierce fleet.
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8:34 am.
One minute after encountering the missile warning, the naval generals of the Luzon Group had no time to react. Underwater torpedoes, one by one, crossed a white air trail under the translucent water and drilled into the bottom of each ship. Then the air planes intervened in the radar range to throw gliding bombs, and sea-skimming missiles appeared from the horizon.
Within 20 minutes, the Luzon Group was crippled during the march, turning it into a burning refugee and iron raft on the sea. The injured crew jumped onto the lifeboat amid the fire debris, looking at the scene of the sea full of injured warships in a daze, not knowing what to do next.
After this battle, the restorationists' naval forces could not reinforce the Javanese troops 400 kilometers away.
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And in the next 45 minutes, the Javanese fleet was blocked by the heavy fleet of Lizhou and was isolated and helpless.
In the sea bombardment, the Javanese fleet was suppressed by the Lizhou fleet. A large number of drones in the sky strangled the Javanese fleet drones. The Javanese drones were quickly consumed, and the only 44 anti-submarine aircraft were consumed.
The Javanese fleet's fighting will collapsed, and part of the fleet began to flee.
Lizhou sent destroyers to chase, and even at the end, it once reached a close-range artillery engagement range of 15 kilometers, returning to the era of artillery battleships. The high-speed naval guns of the Lizhou destroyers were aimed at the Javanese fleet, one after another, until these fleeing warships raised the white flag.
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Underwater,
The Marine United Front hooked a 500-kilometer encirclement for it. In this encirclement, that is, underwater in the deep sea, supercavitating torpedoes blocked underwater, and breaking through the encirclement would encounter hundreds of underwater missiles.
The militia groups of the Marine Commune, which were comparable to "reefs", made the Java Fleet unable to advance or retreat. Dozens of Java warships were stranded in the siege, and after shooting down all anti-submarine aircraft, they could only ask for help.
The miserable request for help from the Java Fleet Group could not get the sympathy of the surrounding friendly forces, but was scolded by the friendly forces as "impulsive and reckless".
Because previously, the Lu Song Fleet was ambushed when it tried to join the battlefield, and Shengyang announced that it was severely damaged during its U-turn.
In the eyes of the timid officers of the Nanyang Allied Fleet, these unfavorable news: the northern waters of Lizhou have become extremely dangerous, and it should not have gone there. This is a strategic mistake. (If you cook something, you have to blame it. This is the culture of the Eastern officialdom. You can’t miss it.)
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After holding on until the early morning of the third day, the Javanese commander watched the Taibai star light up in the distance and the laser beams radiating from the sky.
Under this attack that was like a vast galaxy falling from the sky, the commander sang with a lonely look: "The movement of the sun and the moon seems to come from it, and the brilliance of the stars seems to come from it."
An hour later, the morning sun rose from the east, a touch of red rose from the sea level, and turned golden after leaving the sea.
Without the screen, you can sleep in peacefully in the morning.