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On the night of July 6, Du Xiaolei held another press conference.

In response to Japan's offensive operations in the Indian Ocean, China will expand the scope of war accordingly and intercept and detain all Japanese ships in international waters.

Now, no one can stop the war from escalating.

Two hours later, a hydrofoil missile boat of the Chinese Navy intercepted a Japanese cargo ship south of the Zhongsha Islands and detained the ship and crew. Subsequently, a Japanese cargo ship was intercepted in the southern waters of the South China Sea. After not turning to the Chinese Navy patrol plane for a request, it was sunk by a bomb. Several crew members were killed. The rest were rescued by Chinese maritime patrol ships the next evening. Before dawn, Chinese Air Force fighters sank four Japanese fishing boats operating in the Bay of Bengal and forced six fishing boats to go to Myanmar port.

On the morning of July 7, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded, claiming that it would take retaliation.

The problem is that Japan can retaliate for a very limited range.

Near Japan's mainland, there are no Chinese ships at all, so Japan can only mobilize the Indian Ocean fleet and make a big fuss in the Indian Ocean.

On that day, two Chinese ships were intercepted.

Interestingly, the Japanese fleet did not sink the two merchant ships, but forced them to go to Indian ports, and the crew was then released, and the cargo on board was transferred to merchant ships from other countries, and arrived in China a week later, and the two Chinese ships were returned before the end of the war.

This is true for the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet to search or pursue the Chinese fleet.

However, by the evening of that day, the situation changed.

As Mu Haoyang expected, a Japanese submarine lurked south of the Sunda Strait, so when the Chinese Indian Ocean fleet approached, it immediately broke its whereabouts. Then, the Japanese fleet left the international waterway gathering area south of the Andaman-Nicobar Islands and turned to the Sunda Strait.

There is no doubt that this is definitely good news.

If the Japanese fleet continues to carry out the blockade mission, it will definitely cause a heavy blow to China's economy. You should know that at that time, there were more than 100 Chinese ships in the Indian Ocean, mainly oil tankers. Under the threat of the Japanese fleet, most of these ships chose to go to Pakistan's ports, and some chose to bypass Australia and enter the Pacific Ocean. If the blockade continues, China's crude oil imports in July will decrease by more than 30%.

Unfortunately, the Japanese fleet did not do this.

It seems that in the eyes of the Japanese fleet commander, only by destroying the Chinese fleet can we severely damage China and play our due role.

In the Western Pacific, Mu Haoyang was still not anxious or panicked and acted according to the scheduled plan.

That night, the task force bombed the Japanese mainland for the first time.

The bombing scale was not large, and only twelve j-25m fighter jets were dispatched. Because the fleet was nearly 2,000 kilometers away from Japan, twelve j-25m were dispatched to perform partner refueling tasks, and eight j-32s were arranged to perform escort missions, and two early warning aircraft were responsible for combat command.

This bombing operation was mainly about putting pressure on the Japanese authorities.

By the evening of July 7, major progress had been made in strategic bombing against Japan.

According to the battle report of the Air Force Command, during the nine-day bombing operation, 60% of the targets within the first phase of the mission have been destroyed, 286 Japanese fighters have been shot down and nearly 400 Japanese fighters have been blown up on the ground in the battle for air supremacy.

Because in the early stages of the war, the Japanese Air Force dispatched the most advanced main fighter jets, while the Japanese Air Force had only less than 1,000 fourth-generation fighter jets, namely about 400 F-22j and less than 600 F-35aj, so the remaining main fighter jets of the Japanese Air Force would not exceed 300.

Judging from the specific statistics, there are about 120 f-22j and 140 f-35a.

For national air defense, this little force is simply not enough.

In addition to heavy losses in fighter jets, all 64 large bases of the Japanese Air Force were bombed. Although 23 of them were repaired to varying degrees and more than 30 field airports were opened, the dispatch rate of the Japanese Air Force was greatly reduced due to severe damage to the infrastructure.

For example, in the morning of July 7, the Japanese Air Force dispatched only more than forty fighter jets, less than one-third of the first day of the battle.

What led to a significant reduction in the combat capabilities of the Japanese Air Force were also related to the communications and command systems.

According to the Air Force's war report, after nine days of high-intensity bombing, Japan's local air defense network has been paralyzed, all fixed-distance long-range air defense radars have been destroyed, and more than two-thirds of the mobile air defense radar have also been lost, resulting in the inability to use the air defense system normally. In addition, in air combat, the Japanese Air Force also lost 18 early warning aircraft, six of which are strategic early warning aircraft.

By the evening of the 7th, the Japanese Air Force had only eight strategic early warning aircraft capable of launching into the air for combat.

The actual number is even smaller, because two early warning aircraft failed, and only six early warning aircraft deployed near Osaka and Tokyo could be launched.

It is undeniable that the Chinese Air Force also suffered a great loss. By the evening of the 7th, the Chinese Air Force had lost 167 fighter jets, of which 14 were J-30s, and five H-20a and one strategic early warning aircraft. However, compared with the Japanese Air Force, this loss is nothing.

More importantly, the losses of the Chinese Air Force can be replenished in a timely manner.

Although China did not mobilize war, military-industrial enterprises were allowed to make adjustments at the beginning of the year to improve the production efficiency of the military industry. According to the arms production plan formulated by Mu Haoyang, by the end of July, the Air Force will obtain more than 100 fighter jets, including forty J-30s.

In comparison, the Japanese Air Force is not so lucky.

Although Japan has several fighter production lines, and has already obtained a production license, and has purchased the original code of the f-22 and f-35 fire control systems, most of these two fighter jets have not been fully domestically produced, and some key components still need to be imported from the United States.

According to the intelligence provided by the Ministry of Two, before the war broke out, the inventory of Japanese fighter parts was very limited.

At the speed of wartime production, Japan's stock parts can only last for three months. If key parts cannot be produced, Japan's fighter production line will be closed by the end of the year.

In other words, it is impossible for the Japanese Air Force to be supplemented in time.

In fact, even if Japan could solve the production problems of key components, it could not fill all losses. At that time, Japan had a total of four fighter production lines, namely f-22j, f-35aj and f-35cj, and domestic fighter code-named f-3, each with one production line, with a maximum monthly output of no more than one hundred. Within nine days alone, the Japanese Air Force lost nearly 700 fighter jets.

In addition, Japan cannot produce large aircraft on its own.

Obviously, for China, there is no problem with supplementing early warning aircraft, tanker aircraft, strategic electronic reconnaissance aircraft, transport aircraft, etc.

That's why mother Qi Tie has made a promise to completely defeat the Japanese Air Force within three days.

This is definitely not a bragging. Regardless of whether Japanese fighters take off or not, the average loss speed of nine days before will be calculated, and all fighters will be consumed in three days.

Three days later, the Chinese Air Force still has at least 2,400 fighter jets.

At this time, Mu Haoyang asked the fleet to participate in the war and dispatched carrier-based fighter jets to bomb the Japanese mainland, which clearly meant to anger the Japanese authorities.

Of course, the result is not to let the joint fleet come to fight to the decisive battle, but to let the joint fleet hide far away.

As long as the commander of the Japanese fleet is a little rational, he will not go south at this time, but will choose to avoid it, because the Chinese fleet is prepared and is likely to receive strong support from the air force. Edongxiang Zuwang's xing style will never fight the Chinese fleet in this situation.

So, will Japanese politicians force Togo Zuwang to make a helpless choice?

In the middle of the night that day, the Japanese Prime Minister held an emergency meeting in the wartime shelter. Because the communication satellite was paralyzed, front-line commanders such as Dongxiang Zuwang did not attend.

At this meeting, the Japanese Prime Minister ordered the Navy and Air Force to turn the situation around as soon as possible.

In the prime minister's anger, the Minister of Defense turned the tide and advised the Prime Minister of Cambodia not to be blind and impulsive. He also proposed that the strategic blockade against China should be increased, forcing the Chinese Navy to send troops to the Indian Ocean and create opportunities for the joint fleet to annihilate the Chinese fleet.

The question is, how to strengthen the strategic blockade?

The Indian Ocean Fleet has only one aircraft carrier and is searching for the Chinese fleet. It has no ability to intercept Chinese ships and cannot perform the blockade mission.

In response to this issue, the Japanese Defense Minister proposed a solution: using submarines and aircraft to attack Chinese ships.

To put it bluntly, it means no longer detaining Chinese ships, but directly sinking them.

Without a choice, the Japanese Prime Minister had to accept the proposal of the Defense Minister.

As for the joint fleet, under the threat of the Chinese Navy and Air Force, it was forced to turn north again, rather than heading to the western waters of the Izu Islands as arranged by Dongxiang Zuwang.

In the early morning of July 8, the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet took the lead in launching operations.

According to China's news, at around 4:30 that day, Japanese fighter jets attacked a Chinese container freighter heading to Australia in the central Indian Ocean without warning, and swept the crew who jumped into the sea to escape after the freighter caught fire and sank.

Immediately, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released the on-site photos taken by the reconnaissance satellite.

Since the Japanese Navy first attacked Chinese freighters without warning, China has no reason to be polite.

On the morning of the same day, the Chinese Ministry of Defense officially stated that in view of Japan's expansion of the scale of its destruction operations, the Chinese team will also attack Japanese ships in the high seas without warning.

Subsequently, Chinese Air Force bombers sank three Japanese tankers in the Arabian Sea.

In the afternoon of the same day, an attack nuclear submarine from the Chinese Navy ambushed a Japanese fleet in the North Pacific and sank eight large cargo ships within fifteen minutes.
Chapter completed!