.When Yang Yu rushed over, Teng Yaohui had already issued a turn order.

In less than a minute, all the twelve warships turned to 225 degrees, that is, sailing northwest, leaving the previous patrol area at a speed of twenty-six knots.

However, not all ships have changed their course.

At this time, there were not only six destroyers and six frigates in the East China Sea Fleet, but also eight amphibious landing ships that had previously transported supplies to the Diaoyu Islands and started anchoring on the evening of June 7th.

According to the plan, these warships should return to Zhoushan after anchoring.

Although there is no longer any need to transport equipment and supplies to the Diaoyu Islands in the short term, the landing fleet does not have the ability to defend itself, and the sooner it returns, the safer it will be.

However, Teng Yaohui must let the Second Fleet escort the landing fleet.

As a result, Teng Yaohui adjusted his combat plan, the East China Sea Fleet headed to the battlefield in advance, and the Second Fleet also followed him to the eastern waters of the Diaoyu Islands.

Without warship escort, landing fleets are easily ambushed by submarines.

Although there is reason to believe that the submarines of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force did not cross the East China Sea mid-line, no one dared to pack up, and no one dared to guarantee that the landing fleet could return to the Zhoushan Naval Base safely without cover. So Teng Yaohui asked the landing fleet to stay and follow the combat fleet to move.

Logically speaking, the landing fleet should be incorporated into the Second Fleet.

However, when the decision was made, the landing fleet had already started to anchor and was leaving the Diaoyu Islands, while the East China Sea fleet was still west of the Diaoyu Islands.

In other words, the closest thing to the landing fleet is not the Second Fleet, but the East China Sea Fleet.

As a result, the landing fleet did not meet with the Second Fleet, but was incorporated into the East China Sea Fleet.

If the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force does not launch a counterattack, the landing fleet will turn west on the morning of the 8th to meet with the Second Fleet.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force launched a counterattack in the early morning.

These coincidences led Teng Yaohui to make a major decision: to use the landing fleet as a shield.

Of course, Teng Yaohui did not tell anyone about this decision, but just tampered with the adjustment of the fleet's course.

Seeing the battlefield situation on the big screen, Yang Yufang immediately understood.

"Old Teng, those landing ships..."

"The speed is too slow to keep up, I let them lag." Teng Yaohui glanced at Yang Yufang and said, "The attack aircraft fleet is about to arrive, and I can't let the fleet stay here to take risks."

"But there are thousands of officers and soldiers on the landing ship!"

Teng Yaohui gritted his teeth and said, "What else can you do?"

"At least they have to leave." Yang Yufang knew what Teng Yaohui was thinking, "It's nothing to lose a few landing ships, but we can't let the officers and soldiers on the landing ship make fearless sacrifices. I can't guarantee that I can intercept all attack aircraft, but at least I have to give the officers and soldiers on the landing ship a chance to choose."

Teng Yaohui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Go and arrange it, but the landing fleet cannot turn."

Yang Yufang nodded and immediately called Yu Zhanbing over.

To control a landing ship, only a dozen officers and soldiers are required, and other officers and soldiers can evacuate.

Five minutes later, the "Haikou" issued a light signal. The order was very simple. Each landing ship was at a minimum, leaving a group of volunteers. Other officers and soldiers took a lifeboat to leave the ship and waited for rescue in the nearby waters. Finally, the flagship also sent a very tragic signal: the fleet would come back.

The fleet will come back, and indeed will come back.

At 3:50, eight landing ships successively lowered their lifeboats, and thousands of officers and soldiers began to leave the ship.

There were not many officers and soldiers who volunteered to stay, and many of them were forcibly sent to lifeboats by the captain.

These officers and soldiers knew that they might never have the chance to board their warships again.

Although eight landing ships are not expensive, six of which are over thirty years old and the other two have served for fifteen years, for naval officers and soldiers, warships are their homes and their second hometown. Letting them leave their warships is equivalent to letting them give up their homes.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the officers and soldiers of the landing ship evacuated, Yang Yufang made more arrangements.

According to the combat records of the East China Sea Fleet, before 4:5, sixteen anti-submarine helicopters sent eight electromagnetic warfare systems to eight landing ships.

The electromagnetic warfare system is not complicated, mainly the launch device of electromagnetic rockets.

Although these launch devices are controlled by fire control systems on destroyers and frigates, they can also be controlled by personnel on the deck when necessary.

To this end, the East China Sea Fleet sent twenty-four electromagnetic warfare officers and soldiers.

Regardless of whether this is useful or not, it will at least prevent the landing fleet from surrendering in the face of an upcoming strike.

After 4:5:00, the East China Sea Fleet had sailed ten nautical miles westward.

At this moment, the air defense fighter jets that were coming out discovered the approaching attack aircraft group, and it was an extremely large attack aircraft group.

At that time, at least six fighter pilots reported on the situation.

According to Yang Yu's estimate, the size of the Japanese attack aircraft group that came from the east was more than 100, and they all carried FDs with anti-ship missiles.

At about eight o'clock, twelve j-20s on standby over the East China Sea Fleet began to assault at full speed.

There is only one mission: use all means to prevent Japanese attack aircraft from launching anti-ship missiles.

Twelve J-20s are definitely not enough. Even if the air-to-air missiles they carry have a 100% hit rate, they cannot shoot down all Japanese attack aircraft.

What's more, there are dozens of F-22a between the J-20 and the attack aircraft fleet.

It can be said that this is the most tragic battle that the j-20 fighter jets participated in in this war.

According to the Air Force's combat records, at around 4:12, twelve J-20s fired all pl-12d at the speed, intercepting the FD fleet a hundred kilometers away. These fighters were then attacked by the F-22a.

The reason is very simple. When launching a missile, the stealth ability of the j-20 will also be reduced.

In fact, after activating the fire control radar, the j-20 is easily discovered by strategic electronic reconnaissance aircraft.

More importantly, Japanese fighter jets are everywhere on the battlefield, and there are many F-22a on the side or behind the J-20 aircraft fleet.

As long as j-20 is exposed, he will definitely be attacked.

In the end, none of the twelve j-20s survived, but only seven were shot down by the f-22a before fighting with the fd. The remaining five were shot down by the f-22a who was catching up with fighting missiles when they attacked the fd at close range. One of them also killed one f-22a and three fds in the fight.

The one who persisted until the end was Colonel Yan Yingba, who led the J-20 squadron to fight.

In fact, the j-20's high-speed counterattack has little tactical significance.

Before J-20 launched pl-12d, the first FD group had already started firing anti-ship missiles, and the pl-12d launched by J-20 mainly attacked the FD in this group. Although the second FD group that followed was also intercepted, at least seven FDs were shot down before launching anti-ship missiles, and seven FDs dropped missiles outside the range of anti-ship missiles. However, for three aircraft groups, a total of 108 FDs, this loss was nothing. Even if the seven FDs shot down by J-20 in combat air battles were included, only twenty-one FDs failed to complete the attack mission.

In the end, eighty-seven FDs dropped anti-ship missiles about two hundred kilometers away from the East China Sea Fleet.

To be precise, it is two hundred kilometers away from the landing fleet.

Before the attack, the FD aircraft group had obtained tactical intelligence provided by the reconnaissance aircraft and inputted necessary fire control data for the anti-ship missiles.

The problem is that the FD fleet did not discover the East China Sea Fleet.

In this way, when using anti-ship missiles, you can only determine the approximate attack area, so that the anti-ship missile can find the target by itself after reaching the attack area.

The attack area determined by fd is not the area behind the East China Sea Fleet, but the area before.

According to the situation at that time, the FD aircraft fleet entering from the east had to fly west about twenty kilometers further to ag4m to catch up with the East China Sea Fleet.

The reason is very simple. FD launched anti-ship missiles at around 4:00 and lasted until 4:25. The East China Sea Fleet turned before 3:45 and had sailed westward for 12 nautical miles, which was about 22 kilometers. Because in air defense operations, the air defense destroyer was at the forefront and the anti-submarine frigate was at the rear. When turning to escape, the air defense destroyer could reach 30 knots, and the anti-submarine frigate could only reach 26 knots, so the evacuation distance of the East China Sea Fleet was not twenty-two kilometers, but about twenty-six kilometers. Next, it would take about fifteen minutes for the ag4m to fly more than 200 kilometers.

, and the East China Sea Fleet can sail about 14 kilometers within fifteen minutes. Because the frigate is always in front of the fleet and maintains a distance of about twenty kilometers from the destroyer, the destroyer will catch up with the frigate at this time. In other words, the frigate does not drag down when evacuating. In this way, the actual range of the anti-ship missile attacks the East China Sea Fleet is 240 kilometers, not 200 kilometers. Because the maximum range of AG4M is only 240 kilometers, only the thirty-six FD-launched anti-ship missiles that arrived first can catch up with the East China Sea Fleet, and the next two batches of FD-launched anti-ship missiles cannot catch up with the East China Sea Fleet.

With the air defense capabilities of the East China Sea Fleet, there should be no problem with intercepting more than 100 anti-ship missiles launched by thirty-six FDs.

Of course, this situation did not occur because the FD attacked the landing fleet.

After the kj-2000 detected the approaching anti-ship missile group, eight landing ships began to launch electromagnetic rockets.

Although this method is almost useless against the ag4m, it at least makes it difficult for the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets and early warning aircraft to determine the results immediately.

Like the J-20 who risked his life, the endings of the eight landing ships were very tragic.

At 4:25, the first dock landing ship was hit by an anti-ship missile. At 4:37, the last anti-ship missile detonated, lasting only twelve minutes. By 4:53, the last landing ship sank in the flames, only 28 minutes.

On the eight landing ships, only seven survived nearly 200 left-behind officers and 24 electromagnetic warfare officers and soldiers.

But their sacrifices are valuable.

If the East China Sea Fleet is attacked, in front of more than 300 anti-ship missiles, twelve large warships will be ruined, and the ending will not be much better than the third guard group.

At this point, the battle is not over.
Chapter completed!