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Before eight o'clock, the joint fleet began to carry out fuel supply operations.

Because the wind and waves on the sea surface were relatively large, the fleet reduced its speed to twenty knots. Even so, the supply operation was still full of dangers.

The four aircraft carriers do not need to be replenished, but they cannot leave the formation, and must reduce their speed to twenty knots. According to Dongxiang Zuwang's arrangement, the e-2f was first launched to passively monitor the surrounding airspace, while other fighters were all parked on the flight deck.

If it is attacked suddenly, these fighter jets can take off urgently.

Dongxiang Zuwang did not arrange air defense fighter jets. First, there were not many remaining fighter jets, and second, the supply operation would last at least seven hours, and the patrol time after the fighter jets were launched will not exceed three hours. If the fighter jets were arranged to take off, the aircraft carrier would have to accelerate its navigation twice in the middle. In other words, when the fighter jets were released, the aircraft carrier would leave the formation and would not receive any cover.

In this case, the most important thing to worry about is not air strikes, but submarines under the sea.

Before ten o'clock, the second batch of warships receiving supplies had just moved closer to the fast combat support ship, and a bright fireball illuminated the entire joint fleet.

Dongxiang Zuwang reacted suddenly and issued an air defense combat order as soon as possible.

But, it's too late.

Two minutes later, the anti-ship missiles came overwhelmed, and the four F-35cjs that were urgently launched were shot down by the missiles while they were still climbing at full speed.

The attack came very suddenly, and the joint fleet had no time to organize defense.

The eight warships that completed fuel supply first had not activated the anti-aircraft radar, and anti-ship missiles had arrived, and the other warships had not even had time to evacuate from the fast combat support ship.

At this time, the only feeling of Dongxiang Zuwang was "despair".

Time flips back to an hour ago.

After concluding that the joint fleet turned south, Mu Haoyang personally deployed aviation combat operations with Yan Yingba, and the first batch of reconnaissance aircraft took off at about 9 o'clock.

Mu Haoyang used not j-25m, but j-32.

According to his requirements, all the thirty-two j-32s carrying out reconnaissance missions were searched passively and divided into eight reconnaissance teams. About two hundred kilometers behind each reconnaissance team, each with an zy-1d followed and contacted through a directional communication system.

Like j-32, zy-1d also searches in a passive manner.

In this way, before the J-32 is discovered by the Joint Fleet's early warning aircraft, zy-1d can discover the Joint Fleet's early warning aircraft. As long as the Joint Fleet's early warning aircraft is discovered, it is equivalent to discovering the Joint Fleet, because according to the battle report provided by Yang Yu's side, the remaining early warning aircraft of the Joint Fleet will not exceed four. If an early warning aircraft is flying to Nanniao Island in the evening, then the Joint Fleet will only have three early warning aircraft at most. In order to maintain uninterrupted air defense alert at night, the Joint Fleet will dispatch at most one early warning aircraft, and this early warning aircraft will definitely patrol over the fleet.

In other words, the Joint Fleet is just below the early warning aircraft.

That's why Mu Haoyang decided to focus on early warning aircraft, that is, to find the joint fleet by searching for early warning aircraft of the joint fleet.

You should know that in the case of passive search, the detection distance of high-altitude targets is more than 400 kilometers.

Although e-2f also has passive detection capabilities, it is not perfect enough. According to the combat report of the First Fleet, the detection distance of j-32 will definitely not exceed 200 kilometers.

Of course, Mu Haoyang was not sure that the joint fleet would definitely dispatch early warning aircraft at night.

In this way, he arranged enough reconnaissance aircraft. Even if he failed to detect the early warning aircraft of the Joint Fleet, these reconnaissance aircraft could search the entire sea area in the northeast.

Fortunately, Mu Haoyang's judgment is very accurate.

First, the target was not the reconnaissance aircraft, but the zy-1d behind the second group of reconnaissance aircraft, and the e-2f that was detected was the e-2f that was taken off the air patrol.

At this time, Mu Haoyang's aviation combat deployment began to take effect.

Shortly after the reconnaissance aircraft was dispatched, Mu Haoyang ordered the ninety-six j-25m that carried out the attack mission to take off and divide it into eight teams to follow behind the eight zy-1ds. No matter which group of reconnaissance aircraft discovered the joint fleet, the attack aircraft group could launch an attack within five minutes.

Of course, the first round of attacks will not be too fierce. After all, the twelve j-25m can only carry up to forty-eight anti-ship missiles.

The key is that timely attacks can minimize the air defense power of the joint fleet and disrupt the air defense deployment of the joint fleet. In addition, the other seven attack aircraft groups can arrive within fifteen minutes and launch attacks one after another, without giving the joint fleet any chance to counterattack.

At this time, the thirty-two j-32s that were reconnaissance had enough ability to seize air supremacy.

In other words, even if there are air defense fighters over the joint fleet, the four J-32s that arrived first could hold back these air defense fighters. The J-32 that arrived later had enough ability to seize air supremacy and even had the opportunity to attack Japanese warships with the support of early warning aircraft.

Of course, this is not enough to guarantee the elimination of the joint fleet.

On the Yellow River and the Yangtze River aircraft carriers, there are eight j-32 and twenty j-25m each. These fighters are ready for takeoff, all carrying "warship killers". After the first round of attacks, they launch a second round of attacks on the joint fleet.

In addition, there is another situation where the fuel supply operation of the Joint Fleet is not thorough.

If Dongxiang Zuwang was highly vigilant enough and aimed at getting rid of the Second Fleet, then all warships would not be given enough fuel on the night of the eighth day, and only limited supply would be provided to ensure that they could sail normally during the day of the nineh day, and then resupply again on the night of the nineh day.

That is to say, if the joint fleet cannot be found before ten o'clock, the distance between the second fleet and the joint fleet will be shortened to three hundred kilometers.

This distance is enough to allow the main gun on the escort warship to exert its power.

To this end, Mu Haoyang once again asked Zhuo Yuming to lead an artillery formation composed of three cruisers and six destroyers to launch aboard the joint fleet when necessary.

At that time, there were only two destroyers covering the carrier.

Because there are very few fighter jets left in the Combined Fleet, they are unable to organize an effective air strike, and it is even possible to detect the Second Fleet, so Mu Haoyang does not have to worry about threats from the air at all. As for threats from the sea, as long as the speed of the Combined Fleet has been above twenty knots, Japanese submarines will not be able to keep up and participate in combat operations. If the Combined Fleet's speed is less than twenty knots, then both sides will not be able to encounter them on the night of the eighth day, so the Japanese submarines must be hundreds of kilometers away.

Of course, the Second Fleet also received direct cover from four attack nuclear submarines.

According to Yan Yingbo's memoirs, this series of combat deployments was mainly due to Mu Haoyang's credit, and he only helped solve the details of aviation tactical issues.

It can be seen from this that Mu Haoyang's aviation tactics are not bad.

It can be said that Mu Haoyang has talent in this area because he has not received any training and learning in aviation operations except for participating in several actual combat.

It was this series of deployments that sent the joint fleet to the grave.

The first shot was not the attack aircraft group, but the j-32 that first approached the joint fleet. Under the command and guidance of zy-1d, the j-32 launched a medium-range air-to-air missile at the e-2f 160 kilometers away, and unexpectedly shot down the early warning aircraft of the joint fleet.

Almost at the same time, twelve j-25m launched anti-ship missiles three hundred kilometers away.

Because there were no air defense fighters over the joint fleet, and no warships even activated air defense radars, all four J-32s arrived were converted to sea combat.

Unfortunately, there is no ammunition on these fighters to attack targets on the sea surface.

What they can do is to use air cannons to fire four aircraft carriers to prevent Japanese fighter jets from taking off, and attack Japanese fighter jets that were taking off urgently.

After 10 o'clock, the other seven j-25m aircraft groups gathered together and launched another attack.

At this time, the two aircraft carriers in the second fleet had begun to dispatch the second batch of attack aircraft.

It must be admitted that the response speed of Japanese warships is not very slow.

Before the arrival of eighty-four anti-ship missiles launched by J-25m, the eight warships that first completed fuel supply had activated the air defense radar and began to launch the air defense missiles.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, the j-32 aircraft group took the lead in evacuating the battlefield.

There is no doubt that the air defense operations of the Joint Fleet were not going well.

At that time, all eight warships were in front of the fleet, while the combined fleet was sailing south, while the anti-ship missiles were fired from the west of the fleet.

In this way, the air defense warships can only cover the "Flying Dragon" and "Canglong" in the front.

This is not just a hit. The Feilong and Canglong are not many anti-ship missiles that are aimed at the Xianghe and Ruihe. These two aircraft carriers have six final interception systems and have sufficient self-defense capabilities.

The real disaster came from the artillery formation led by Zhuo Yuming.

At five o'clock, after obtaining the accurate information provided by the early warning aircraft, nine warships opened fire about 270 kilometers southwest of the Joint Fleet.

Because the distance is very long and the helicopters sent by the warships have not yet reached the sky above the battlefield, all nine warships are commanded by the "Tianjin", which serves as the flagship, and concentrate their firepower to shell out Japanese warships one by one.

The first thing that was hit was the eight Japanese warships that carried out air defense operations.

These eight Japanese warships are not only closest to the artillery formation, but also the air defense pillar of the joint fleet and the only force that can counter the artillery formation.

In just five minutes, the nine warships shot a total of 1,200 shells, and each electromagnetic gun fired an average of 100.

Because before dark, the shelling formation met with the rapid combat support ship, unloaded the shells that attacked the targets on the ground, and replaced the armor-piercing and semi-piercing shells of the attack warships, the captains of the nine battleships had no worries when the shells were shot. By the time the shells were shot, the battle was over.

Faced with a double blow, the joint fleet did not even have the power to parry, let alone resist.
Chapter completed!