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On the morning of July 26, the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet left Gwadar Port.

At the same time, two rapid combat support ships that went to Karachi Port three days ago to replenish supplies also started anchoring and met with the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet that afternoon.

Such a major action, there are not many secrets.

However, due to the paralysis of the global satellite communication system, the Japanese intelligence agency received the news on the night of the 26th and immediately judged that the Chinese Indian Ocean fleet would meet with the fleet that came to support, and the Chinese fleet that had left the Western Pacific before was likely still in the Indian Ocean.

At this time, the 1st Brigade of the Third Land Division had already captured the surface position of Iwo Huang Island.

Although the Marines mainly attacked at night and hid in the temporary underground bunker during the day, the strength gap between the two sides of the war was too great. When the Japanese counterattack was launched during the day, they were hit by fierce artillery fire and could not withstand the Marines' attack at night.

When night fell, only Zhebo Mountain was left on Iwohuang Island under the control of the Japanese army.

Because the Japanese army did not have many heavy artillery and not even many small-caliber machine guns, the Marines began to repair the bombed airport on the night of the 26th.

Using various prefabricated parts, the construction speed is very fast.

According to the news sent by the defenders on Zhebo Mountain, it is very likely that the Chinese Marine Corps will repair the runway before dawn and repair some infrastructure in the early morning of the 28th.

In other words, the Chinese Navy will be able to use the airport on Iwo Huang Island as early as the night of the 27th day.

This is definitely not a trivial matter

The Chinese Marine Corps' tactical intention of bypassing the Okinawa Islands and directly attacking Iwoyu Island was very obvious: to obtain a forward base and search for the joint fleet that had disappeared for several days.

After the airport is restored, the Chinese Navy will definitely deploy anti-submarine patrol aircraft to Iwoyu Island.

The flight radius of these anti-submarine patrol aircraft is more than 3,000 kilometers. It takes off from Iwoo Island, which is enough to cover the entire Mariana Islands, and can reach Wake Island, the Caroline Islands and the Marshall Islands. The Nanbird Island where the joint fleet hides is also within the coverage area.

As soon as the search operation begins, the joint fleet will be exposed.

Everyone wants to get what will happen next.

Even if only one Chinese fleet is active in the Western Pacific, it can use a precise attack to kill the joint fleet without any suspense.

The threat is also direct, but there is no good way to deal with it.

If the joint fleet retreats, even if it does not consider where to withdraw, the maintenance work will be affected and will definitely not be repaired within fifteen days. More importantly, the Chinese Navy will definitely retreat steadily and will capture Nanniao Island next. Although Nanniao Island is just a small place and cannot deploy anti-submarine patrol aircraft, it can build a seaplane dock or open up a space enough for vertical take-off and landing aircraft to operate. In other words, after the Chinese Navy captures Nanniao Island, it will definitely expand the search scope with Nanniao Island as the center.

Escape is definitely not the best choice.

If you don’t escape, what can I do to stop the Chinese Navy from using Iwo Huang Island?

There is definitely no chance for a ground counterattack. If the defenders have the ability to counterattack, they will not lose their surface positions and will not allow the Chinese Marines to occupy the airport.

At that time, the only way was to prevent the Chinese Navy from deploying anti-submarine patrol aircraft to Iwoyu Island.

To this end, it must pose a threat to Iwoyu Island, making the Chinese Navy afraid to dispatch anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Obviously, the Japanese Air Force does not have this ability. Although the F-22j and F-35a can both reach Iwoyo Island when they take off from the local area, the air supremacy is in the hands of the Chinese Air Force, and the Japanese Air Force does not have many fighter jets to deploy, let alone long-distance raids of thousands of kilometers.

The only one who can launch a counterattack is the navy, and to be precise, the Akagi aircraft carrier battle group that is still operating at sea.

On the night of the 26th, the Japanese Navy Command issued an order to the USS Akagi aircraft carrier battle group: return to the Western Pacific at full speed, bomb the Chinese Marines on Iwo Huang Island, block the sea and air routes from China to Iwo Huang Island, and the yin* Chinese fleet fought a decisive battle.

This is the highest level of command, not a requirement.

For the commander of the Japanese fleet, this order was equivalent to allowing him to go to the gates of hell by himself.

The battle group of the Akagi aircraft carrier has been wandering in the Tasman Sea for two days. According to the maximum patrol radius of Chinese carrier-based fighters, and the Chinese fleet is likely to appear south of the Coral Sea and have been staying south of the Tasman Sea. The Japanese fleet commander still believes that the Chinese fleet is operating in the Coral Sea.

After receiving the order, the commander of the Japanese fleet had to order north.

However, the speed is not thirty knots, but eighteen knots.

It can be said that the Japanese fleet commander was very cautious.

At around 1:00 a.m. on the 27th, a latest information was sent to the commander of the Japanese fleet, and this information made him make a major decision.

The general content of the information is: the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet appeared near Matle, south of Sri Lanka, and was sailing eastward at a speed of about 30 knots. The destination is likely to be a naval base on the South Andaman Island, or will go directly to the Strait of Malacca and return to China via the South China Sea.

From this, it can be inferred that the aircraft carrier battle group sent by China to the Indian Ocean was either in the Andaman Sea or had returned to the South China Sea.

To put it bluntly, the Chinese fleet is likely to have searched in the Indian Ocean for a few days, but failed to find the Japanese fleet. In addition, the war in the Western Pacific is tight, so they turned to return.

Obviously, this is related to the war on Iwoo Island.

The Chinese Navy must have determined that the joint fleet is located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. After capturing Iwo Huang Island, it will use anti-submarine patrol aircraft to search the surrounding waters. It is very likely to find the joint fleet. Because it is impossible to judge whether the joint fleet has recovered its combat effectiveness, the Chinese Navy decided to concentrate its fleet forces, first annihilate the joint fleet in the Western Pacific, and then find the battle group of the "Chiacheng" aircraft carrier.

If this is true, the Chinese fleet will definitely be on its way back to its homeland.

Because it was judged that the battle group of the Akagi aircraft carrier had left the Indian Ocean and India declared neutrality, the Chinese Navy mobilized the Indian Ocean fleet to the Western Pacific.

After careful consideration, the Japanese fleet commander ordered the speed to be increased to thirty knots.

At this time, it was around 1:30 a.m. on the 27th. The "Akagi" had sailed about 100 nautical miles before this. It is expected to enter the Coral Sea around 8 a.m. on the 27th. If the speed remains unchanged, it will leave the Coral Sea before 6 p.m. on the 27th.

Obviously, the Japanese fleet commander is by no means a mediocre person.

According to the Japanese fleet commander's judgment, it is unlikely that the Chinese fleet will launch an air strike during the day, so it is arranged to cross the Coral Sea during the day. After dark, the Akagi aircraft carrier battle group will reach the waters of the Solomon Islands and can use the island to hide its whereabouts as much as possible.

It must be admitted that this has caused a lot of trouble to Mu Haoyang.

At that time, it was not Mu Haoyang who ordered the Indian Ocean Fleet to go to Haoyang Port, but Teng Yaohui.

After receiving the combat deployment transferred by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Teng Yaohui immediately realized that Mu Haoyang was "fishing" and Yu'er was likely to have become alert. Don't forget that Teng Yaohui was also a naval general and a hero of the East China Sea War. He immediately made a judgment that Mu Haoyang's measures to lure the enemy were not strong enough to ensure that Yu'er was caught, so he adjusted Mu Haoyang's tactical deployment.

Teng Yaohui's adjustment was very timely, otherwise the "Chiacheng" might not have accelerated to the Coral Sea.

The problem is that Teng Yaohui made this adjustment several hours late.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Teng Yaohui.

Mu Haoyang's tactical deployment was passed by the Embassy in East Timor. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense changed hands three times before it was delivered to Teng Yaohui. It took several hours to delay it. Teng Yaohui only took an hour to make an accurate judgment and then make adjustments. No one could do better than him.

If you want to blame, you can only blame the communication system.

As a result, it was not until the last reconnaissance in the early morning of the 27th that the j-25m reconnaissance aircraft with a course of 190 degrees discovered the "Chengcheng" aircraft carrier battle group about 150 kilometers south of the South Bellona Reef, and it was less than two hours before dawn.

Obviously, it was too late to launch an attack before dawn.

Even if an attack is organized immediately, carrier-based fighter jets can only be dispatched in half an hour. The attack will begin at dawn, and it is already dawn when you return.

Because the "Akagi" is likely to maneuver and avoid, the battle may start after dawn.

Fighters are not transport aircraft, especially j-32, and do not have a complete set of mechanical control systems.

When designing, j-32 was not equipped with a full set of mechanical flight control systems. First, the closed photoelectric flight control system has strong anti-electromagnetic interference capabilities and its reliability is far beyond the previous fly-by-electronic flight control system; second, j-32 is overweight, and the installation of mechanical flight control system will increase by nearly 400 kilograms; third, the design of j-32 maneuver overload is fifteen g, while the maximum overload allowed by the mechanical flight control system is only twelve g.

The result is that there are only the most basic mechanical control systems on the j-32.

To put it bluntly, after the photoelectric flight control system is paralyzed, the j-32's mechanical flight control system can only ensure return and cannot perform combat missions.

Under a particle storm, no one can guarantee that the photoelectric flight control system can work normally.

Although j-25m uses a closed fly-by-wire flight control system, its reliability under particle storm is not necessarily much higher than that of photoelectric flight control systems.

After July 14, several flight safety accidents occurred in the Air Force.

According to the investigation results submitted by the Air Force, most of the accidents are related to the flight control system and are affected by particle storms.

Even if the Air Force is like this, let alone the Navy.

Don’t forget that the j-25m and j-32 are fighter jets jointly developed with the Air Force, and the flight control system is no different from the two fighters of the Air Force.

When fighting on the ocean, Mu Haoyang has to consider flight safety, especially the safety of pilots.

If there is another choice, Mu Haoyang will not let the pilot take risks.

The question is, is there any other way?
Chapter completed!