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Chapter 236 Billion Ton Fleet

At the end of August, after completing the initial project approval, the "Xingtian Project" was officially launched.[..com]

Immediately afterwards, the Battle of Hawaii Islands began.

It was not Mu Haoyang who commanded this battle in the rear, but Zhou Yusheng. It was mainly Mu Haoyang who was trapped in the "Xingtian Project" and had no energy to care about the battle on the front line. Fortunately, Zhou Yusheng was a trustworthy "deputy general manager", and Tong Shaoyun, Jing Wenhui, Gong Jifei and Sima Wenzheng who were commanding the battle on the front line were all generals who had withstood the test of war, so Mu Haoyang had no need to worry about anything.

Of course, judging from the forces invested by the Chinese army, Mu Haoyang really has no need to worry.

In the navy, the Pacific Fleet led by Tong Shaoyun has fifteen super aircraft carriers, divided into three fleets, and there are also sixty large comprehensive warships, one hundred and twenty anti-submarine warships, thirty fast combat support ships, thirty Great Wall-class attack nuclear submarines and one hundred and twenty Tuna-class fully electric submarines. All warships combined have a displacement of up to 7.5 million tons.

Although the fourth batch of super aircraft carriers has not yet been put into service, the supporting warships have been put into service and are all incorporated into the Pacific Fleet.

In addition to the Pacific Fleet, there is also a "Second Fleet" with a larger scale. The core is eighty escort aircraft carriers, two hundred and twenty fire support ships, two forty armed escort ships, and forty anti-submarine destroyers, twenty comprehensive combat support ships and eighty fully electric submarines. Because these "military auxiliary ships" are all modified from large cargo ships, the total tonnage of this fleet exceeds 90 million tons.

At that time, the Chinese naval fleet was known as the "billion-ton fleet".

How large are these two fleets? It will be clear to use a simple metaphor: if these warships are connected to each other in the head and tail, they can be connected from several large islands in the eastern Hawaiian Islands, namely Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii Island, and the excess can also be around Hawaii Island.

In fact, this is not all the ships dispatched by the Navy.

In the rear, the Navy organized forty transport fleets, each with fifty fast cargo ships, each with a load-bearing tonnage of more than 300,000 tons, and is protected by twenty escort fleets, each with four escort carriers, eight anti-submarine destroyers and eight fully electric submarines.

If the transport fleet and the escort fleet are included, they can connect from Hawaii Island to Midway Island.

In later evaluation, the Chinese Navy used such a lineup to attack the Hawaiian Islands, and the US Navy did not even have the courage to go out to fight.

Of course, this is a very exaggerated statement.

The US Navy not only has the courage, but also has come out to fight.

French was commanding the US fleet, and he also had fifteen aircraft carrier battle groups, but the escort warships were half less than the Chinese Navy.

At that time, the US fleet had fled to the west coast of the United States and was deployed at the Port of Long Beach and San Diego.

When French led the fleet to the war, he left a suicide note to his youngest son, who was also his only son who was not alive (France had four sons, three of whom had died in the war), hoping that his youngest son would engage in peace after the war ended.

It can be said that this was a desperate expedition.

At that time, more than 80,000 officers and soldiers in the US fleet left suicide notes, and more than 40,000 people just didn't know who to leave the suicide notes to.

Winning is hopeless. As soldiers, all they can do is sacrifice for their country.

Of course, it is the most heroic sacrifice.

On September 4, this naval battle that took place north of Midway Island was without any suspense. Tong Shaoyun did not adopt any tricks, and the fleet he commanded was enough to crush his opponent. French did not adopt any tricks, because he knew that the huge gap in strength would overshadow any tactics.

At that time, both sides went directly to the battlefield and fought a battle face to face.

After the war, many people described this battle as "the last knightly naval battle in human history." Of course, this is also the last large-scale naval battle in human history led by a fleet.

There is no suspense in the battle, nor does it create any suspense.

Although during the battle, French used all his strength and even mobilized 2,000 local bombers and 1,000 bombers deployed on the Hawaiian Islands to carry out unprecedented heavy anti-ship missiles concentrated attacks on the Chinese fleet, and it must be the last of the last heavy anti-ship missiles, the outcome did not change at all. This super attack, which cost 36,000 heavy anti-ship missiles, only sank less than ten large warships and did not injure an aircraft carrier. By the time Tong Shaoyun counterattacked, French had no chance to parry, because he had to face not only the overwhelming 3,000 carrier-based fighters, but also the large-caliber electromagnetic cannon shells as dense as raindrops.

By the end of the battle, the US Pacific Fleet no longer existed and the US Navy was dying.

Among the 120,000 American officers and soldiers, less than 30,000 survived, and most of the 90,000 officers and soldiers who died did not have time to escape the rapidly sinking warship.

French survived, and it was unscathed, which had to be said to be a huge miracle.

However, he soon became prisoners of war with another 30,000 US military officers and soldiers, becoming the first five-star US general to be captured since the outbreak of the war.

At that time, after the battle, Tong Shaoyun met French and gave a high evaluation to the US military general. French was also very polite and gave Tong Shaoyun the Medal of Honor awarded by the US Congress as a souvenir, because he felt that the medal would soon lose its value.

For American soldiers, the U.S. Congress Medal of Honor has indeed soon lost its value.

You should know that in the last month before the end of the war, the US Congress awarded medals of honor to 186,878 officers and soldiers. Don’t forget that the US Congress Medal of Honor is the highest-level medal of honor for the US military, and is only awarded to a very small number of soldiers who have made outstanding contributions.

Interestingly, the medal that French gave to Tong Shaoyun was extremely precious after the war.

Later, Tong Shaoyun's descendants auctioned the medal, which was sold for a price of one thousand times that of gold of the same quality at that time, and the buyer was French's youngest son: the most famous entrepreneur, social philanthropist and peacemaker in the United States after the war, and the richest man in the United States after the war. What's more legendary is that after buying this medal, French bought a spacecraft that could reach the third universe speed and sent it into the outer space. More than a hundred years later, Tong Shaoyun's fourth generation descendant, also the most famous aerospace explorer at that time, intercepted the spacecraft on his way to Cygnus on his way to the constellation of the "Shaoyun" and received this legendary medal. A large part of the funds for purchasing the "Shaoyun" came from the proceeds from the sale of the medal. However, the "Shaoyun" disappeared on his way back to the solar system, and no one knew the final whereabouts of the medal.

Of course, these are all later stories.

After the US fleet was wiped out, the battle to attack the Hawaiian Islands began on September 8.

Although Mu Haoyang planned to attack Hawaii Island because it was the largest island in the archipelago, before the attack, the volcanoes on Hawaii Island woke up. Zhou Yusheng had to temporarily change the combat plan, set the target of attack as Maui, and formulate a backup plan to attack Oahu. The main reason is that Maui is not large enough, and the coastal plains that can be used by the Marine Corps are too narrow.

At that time, something very interesting happened.

Before the Marine Corps landed on Maui, the carrier-based aviation and fleet accurately attacked most of the US military's military's military's military's facilities, including a large number of underground fortifications. Before that, the Chinese army had not conducted comprehensive tactical reconnaissance on the Hawaiian Islands, and the intelligence system could not provide comprehensive defense deployment intelligence for the US military. In other words, the Chinese army obtained an extremely efficient battlefield reconnaissance method.

After the war, many people believed that China launched a military reconnaissance satellite in early September, and the satellite's working time in orbit was definitely more than one month.

The Chinese military's accurate attack on US military facilities on the Hawaiian Islands is just a verb proof.

A more direct evidence is: in August, a large drilling platform specially modified was dragged to the equatorial line south of the Tamura Islands, and there was no oil field here. Besides, the oil produced by the Oriental Alliance Group has long exceeded the actual consumption, and China has no reason to exploit new oil fields. From the deployment location, there is only one reasonable explanation, that is, this is a space launch platform. You must know that the energy required for space launches on the equatorial line is the least because the earth is an elliptical sphere protruding along the equator, so the spacecraft rising from the equator needs to overcome when reaching orbital altitude.

In addition, in early September, the Chinese Navy set up a 100-kilometer restricted area near the sea area, prohibiting any ship from entering.

However, on the night of September 3, residents on nearby islands still saw the "natural wonder": a bright light illuminated the night sky within a radius of dozens of kilometers, jumped straight into the clouds, and even under the cover of dense clouds, they could still see its dazzling light.

It is obvious that only large launch vehicles launched into space will have this phenomenon.

However, after the war, the Chinese authorities did not admit that they had conducted a space launch in early September 2055. The first space launch officially recognized was in early January 2056. It was not a military satellite, but a special satellite used to clean up space garbage into orbit.

Of course, it doesn't matter whether China has conducted space launches in early September.

Judging from the situation at that time, even without the support of military satellites, the Chinese army could still capture the Hawaiian Islands.

It can be said that after the US fleet was wiped out and the most important defense barrier was lost, no matter what the US military did, it was impossible to defend the Hawaiian Islands. The difference was just whether to let millions of American officers and soldiers be cannon fodder, or to become prisoners of war before they became cannon fodder.

Chapter 236 Billion Ton Fleet
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