.On July 5, at 8 o'clock in the evening in Beijing time, that is, at 6 o'clock in the evening where the Andaman-Nicobar Islands are located, Japanese naval and air forces suddenly attacked Yuelong Air Force Base and Haoyang Naval Base on South Andaman Island, and sank several large ships in the port.

Fortunately, the main warship of the Indian Ocean Fleet left the port on June 30.

Half an hour later, Mu Haoyang received a message from the General Staff and learned that the main force of the Indian Ocean Fleet had avoided the sudden strike and was moving south.

At this time, Teng Yaohui had issued a mobilization order to the combat troops in the southwest and northwest regions as planned.

Within 24 hours, the two armies of the Chengdu Military Region, the two armies of the Lanzhou Military Region, and the 15th Airborne Army transferred to the southwest on July 1 will all arrive at the advance bases in Tibet and Xinjiang, and will be launched on the spot, ready to start war against India.

This is done just to put pressure on India.

Politically speaking, Japan's most important thing to prevent was that India took the opportunity to join the war.

Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the military strength of the western region.

At the same time as the Army, there were more than 400 fighter jets from the Air Force, a division's strategic bomber, and four ballistic missile brigades.

Subsequently, Teng Yaohui personally contacted the Chief of Staff of the Pakistani Army.

According to the "China-Pakistan Joint Defense Treaty", Pakistan must also take the same action when the Chinese team is improving its combat readiness level against India.

If everything goes well, Pakistan's three armed forces will enter combat readiness within 24 hours.

Burma is also mobilizing war at the same time, because Myanmar has declared war on Japan and has promised to obey China's military command during the war.

Almost at the same time, diplomatic operations began.

At around 9 o'clock in the evening at New Delhi time, the Chinese ambassador to India came to the Prime Minister's Office and formally protested, demanding that India prohibit Japan from using its military base, and clearly mentioned that if India ignores China's condemnation and decides to help the evil, China will have no choice.

At the same time, Li Pingko summoned the Indian ambassador to China at the head of state.

In addition to protesting in person, Li Pingko also mentioned that as long as India remains neutral, China will consider returning the military base in the Andaman-Nicobar Islands after the war; if India insists on doing its own thing, China will launch a full-scale war mobilization within 24 hours.

There is no doubt that this is definitely not a joke.

You should know that after declaring war on Japan, China did not mobilize wars or even recruited retired soldiers. If China mobilizes wars against India participating in the war, it would not be a war dominated by sea and air, but a large-scale ground war that was enough to destroy India.

As for whether China has this strength, Indian leaders will definitely not dare to gamble.

To put it bluntly, China has the ability to mobilize millions of soldiers within a few months and arm these soldiers with various advanced weapons within two years, so it has the ability to completely kill India within two to three years. If the war escalates, China is likely to use nuclear weapons.

It can be said that India has no chance of winning.

At this moment, South Andaman was bombed for the second time.

According to the information sent by the garrison troops, Japan not only dispatched fighter jets, but also used large warships to launch artillery bombardment on the island's military facilities.

Fortunately, the casualties of the garrison troops were not large.

After the second round of attacks, only more than 100 officers and soldiers were killed, with about 400 wounded. The engineers repaired the runway of Yuelong Air Force Base in time.

The Air Force has sent a transport plane and will arrive after dawn to pick up the wounded and non-combatants.

At that time, there were not only more than 5,000 officers and soldiers on the South Andaman Island, but also nearly 4,000 soldiers' families, and most of them were women and children.

At this time, the Chinese Air Force had dispatched two squadrons of J-30s and two large early warning aircraft to Myanmar.

Before dawn, the first large-scale aerial battle took place over the Andaman Nicobar Islands.

The two sides of the war were the carrier-based fighter jets of the Japanese Navy and the long-range fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force. Although the Japanese Navy took the initiative to provoke the battle, it did not take any advantage in the "Dragon Wall" composed of J-30s. In the half-hour air battle, at least fourteen Japanese fighters were shot down, and the Chinese Air Force lost only one J-30, and it was injured and destroyed during the forced landing at Yuelong Air Force Base.

There is nothing surprising about the results of the air combat. In front of the j-30, even if the initial types of tactical indicators are reduced, such as the maximum maneuver overload reduced from 20 g to 15 g, the Japanese Navy's f-35cj has no advantage and is not an opponent of the j-30 at all.

This is like using su-27 to fight f-22a.

More importantly, the large early warning aircraft dispatched by the Chinese Air Force played a key role, while the Japanese Navy's carrier-based early warning aircraft can only provide limited tactical support.

This air battle stopped the Japanese Navy's offensive operation.

After dawn, the first batch of eight large transport planes arrived and picked up all the seriously injured and more than 300 children.

Within the next four hours, four batches of thirty-two large transport aircraft arrived one after another, each carrying more than a hundred women and children.

At the same time, these transport planes also sent reinforcements and combat supplies.

The most important thing is two sets of air defense systems in the war zone.

Because the infrastructure of Yuelong Air Force Base was severely damaged, the Air Force did not send additional fighter jets to the front line, but instead placed the fighter jets in Myanmar.

When the Chinese Air Force was urgently adjusting, the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet was searching for its main opponent: the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet.

According to the Japanese Navy's combat plan, before the main fleet of the Chinese Navy arrives, the Indian Ocean Fleet must be annihilated, and then an ambush is set up in the Strait of Malacca or Sunda Strait. If the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet cannot be annihilated, the Japanese fleet must retreat to the Bay of Bengal.

Obviously, whether the Chinese Indian Ocean fleet can be annihilated will determine the outcome of the next battle.

The question is, is it that easy?

Tactically speaking, the Japanese Indian Ocean fleet had already failed when it launched an attack.

On the night of June 30, the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet left Haoyang Port and sailed south at full speed before dawn, and was not discovered by Japanese reconnaissance satellites. On the same night, the Marine Corps' engineering troops used prefabricated parts to "built" two cruisers in the port, four destroyers and two frigates, which is a realistic model of large warships. In order to confuse the opponent, the Marine Corps also organized a group of officers and soldiers to change their Shanghai military uniforms and practice on fake warships. In addition, two frigates stayed and left the port on the morning of July 1st and returned only on the night of four days.

In other words, the Japanese Navy did not know that the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet had already left the port at that time.

As a result, in the first round of assault on the night of July 5, Japanese fighters carried anti-ship ammunition and bombed fake targets.

In the second round of assault, the port facilities were focused on bombing.

On the morning of July 6, the Japanese Navy discovered that only two frigates and four transport ships were destroyed, and the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet had long disappeared.

Obviously, the Japanese fleet did not achieve its goal at all during the assault on the night of July 5th.

Now, it is obvious that it is difficult to search for the Chinese fleet in the vast sea without the assistance of reconnaissance satellites. It is obvious that relying solely on early warning aircraft deployed on the shore and reconnaissance aircraft in the fleet is not as good as the sky. More importantly, the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet has left the port for five days, enough to sail thousands of nautical miles. If you want, the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet has left the Indian Ocean and may soon arrive at a port on its own.

Even if it is still active in the Indian Ocean, it is unlikely to be close to the Japanese fleet.

A bad start, heralding a bad ending.

On the afternoon of July 6, after losing more than a dozen carrier-based fighter jets, the USS Akecheng aircraft carrier battle group had to move south from the west of the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, leave the dangerous Bay of Bengal, heading to the vast waters south to search for the main targets, and at the same time avoid the long-range strike forces of the Chinese Air Force.

It can be said that the Japanese fleet has embarked on a path of no return.

Although two fast combat support ships accompanied the operation, carrying nearly 30,000 tons of fuel, including 26,000 tons of ship fuel, the warships of the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet were all conventionally powered. If the "Akagi" sailed at 30 knots, it would burn 1,200 tons a day, and the other eight large warships and two support ships would burn nearly 2,000 tons. Including the fuel loaded by the warship when it left the port, it would last at most twelve days at its maximum speed. Even if the speed was reduced to 16 knots, that is, the cruise speed under normal circumstances, it would only be able to sail for thirty days.

At this time, too short endurance became the main factor restricting the combat capability of the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet.

For the commander of the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet, there are only two options: one is to catch up with the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet, and the other is to wait for the Chinese main fleet.

If you choose the former, you will likely use up all your fuel before fighting with the Chinese main fleet.

If the latter is chosen, you should beware of sudden attacks from the flanks or even the rear. You should know that there are at least two cruisers, four destroyers and two frigates in the Chinese Indian Ocean fleet. These warships have hundreds of powerful heavy anti-ship missiles on them.

More importantly, the commander of the Japanese fleet at that time had no idea which direction to pursue.

There is only one thing that can be clarified, that is, you must not stay in the Bay of Bengal, because the Chinese Air Force is sending additional fighter jets and early warning aircraft to Myanmar. If the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet is found, it will launch an attack to avoid using the main fleet. Whether it is for its own safety or a strategic goal that must be achieved, the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet must immediately leave the Bay of Bengal and go to the far sea to find opportunities.

That's why the Japanese Indian Ocean fleet headed south on the afternoon of July 6th.

The problem is that the combat capability of the fleet has been greatly reduced at this time, mainly because more than a dozen carrier-based fighters were lost in the morning air battle.

At that time, there were only forty-two fighter jets left on the Akagi.

Judging from the aviation combat capability alone, even China's "Yangtze River" class aircraft carrier is not as good as China.
Chapter completed!