Chapter 12: Battle

The second round of missile strikes mainly attacked the infrastructure of Yokohama Port.

In this round of attacks, the US military's military's military's advantages in military technology were reflected, namely, the intelligence of ammunition.

As early as half a century ago, the US military began to study the intelligence of ammunition to improve the strike efficiency of ammunition and achieved some achievements. However, in the 1910s, with the rise of drones, the US military changed its research direction and focused on improving the intelligence level of drones. Unfortunately, in the Second Korean War, as the Chinese army used electromagnetic weapons on a large scale, drones quickly became marginalized. After that, no one proposed to replace manned fighters with unmanned fighters, so the US research in the field of military intelligence was temporarily terminated.

It was not until after the Sino-Japanese War that intelligence once again attracted the attention of the US Navy.

At that time, the US Navy realized that in high-intensity naval and air combat, only by improving the strike efficiency of ammunition can the troops be effectively improved. The development model that was adhered to in the past, that is, improving the delivery capacity of ammunition can no longer effectively break through the existing defense means.

To improve the strike efficiency of ammunition, we must solve the problem of intelligence, that is, to allow ammunition to have certain intelligence, be able to actively identify and attack important targets, choose the most appropriate penetration route, exchange information between ammunition, and deal with threats posed by the defense system, etc.

Of course, this is definitely an easier said than done.

You should know that by 2050, the smart level of the world's most advanced supercomputers is not even one ten thousandth of that of the cockroach nervous system. According to some scientists' predictions, even if quantum computers can be successfully developed, their intelligence level will only be equivalent to that of insects.

To put it simply, the level of intelligence has nothing directly to do with the speed of the computer.

In principle, the computing process of electronic computers is two-dimensional, while the biological nervous system is three-dimensional. This difference in dimension cannot be solved by quantity and operation speed at all. Only by developing a brand new computer system can breakthroughs be made in the degree of intelligence.

As early as 2040, computer experts raised this question.

At that time, computer experts in China and the United States mentioned that only from a new perspective can there be hopes to make a major breakthrough in computer intelligence. With the technical level in 2040, the most likely to be achieved, and the least difficult one is definitely not a quantum computer, but a photo-sensing neural network computer. To put it simply, this kind of computer is a data processing system in three-dimensional mode, so it can mimic biological neural networks. Theoretically, as long as there are enough numbers, it can be used to simulate the human brain. Of course, this "enough" is almost impossible to achieve, because the human brain has 100 billion nerve cells, and 100 billion photo-sensing neural network computers are needed to form a simulation system in parallel. Its size is tens of thousands of times that of the human brain. Due to the speed of light, its response speed is tens of thousands of times slower than that of the human brain, and it is impossible to reach the human intelligence level. At most, it can only help humans understand the way the brain operates in a deeper manner.

Of course, the US military has not pinned its hopes on these cutting-edge technologies.

The method adopted by the US military is very simple: increase the running speed of the computer, input the necessary comparison parameters in advance, and then set up control programs with learning capabilities for the computer. To put it simply, these so-called "intelligent" devices will not produce solutions to the problem, but when encountering problems, they will find the most suitable solution from their massive databases. These solutions are set up in advance, or in other words, past experience. In this way, "intelligent" itself is a false proposition.

Fortunately, this "intelligence" is enough when engaging in relatively simple jobs.

For example, when guiding missiles to attack targets, this "intelligence" is enough to greatly improve the missile's penetration efficiency and attack hit rate.

In the first round of missile attacks, the combat effectiveness of the US military's intelligent cruise missile has been proven.

When the second batch of missiles arrived, Yokohama's air defense system had collapsed, and all three theater air defense systems were used up to intercept missiles.

As for the air defense fighters that were rushing back, they could not intercept cruise missiles with speeds above Mach 8 in time.

In other words, the US military's cruise missiles launched an attack without being affected.

More importantly, this batch of cruise missiles hit fixed infrastructure.

During the strike, the hit rate of US missiles was very high, almost perfect. The problem is that when formulating the attack plan, the US military must have left some margin so that when it is intercepted by anti-missiles, there are still enough missiles to destroy important facilities in the port. The result is that when Yokohama becomes a sea of ​​fire, nearly one-quarter of missiles still fail to hit the target.

Instead of self-destructing, these missiles hover over the target area according to the pre-determined procedures and re-search the target to attack.

Because high-value targets cannot be found, the fire control system on the missile will automatically lower the level and expand the search range.

As a result, some missiles attacked targets such as vehicles in the port, and some missiles attacked military facilities near Yokohama Port, including air defense positions, communication command centers, material warehouses, military camps, vehicle parking areas, power generation centers, etc.

If the US military does not use "smart" cruise missiles, the strike effect will definitely not be so obvious.

At this point, the US military's strike was over.

At less than 24 o'clock, Mu Haoyang received a report from the Pacific Fleet Command. The losses of the fleet and Yokohama Port were very heavy, and the specific losses were still under statistics. However, Wei Xiangdong was not optimistic at all, and it was a foregone conclusion that the Pacific Fleet lost its combat capability.

At this time, Mu Haoyang also received a message from the Subic Bay Naval Base.

Not all bad news. The US military bombed Subic Bay, but before the US bombing, the USS Tarzan aircraft carrier battle group had already left the port and entered the deep water area. Under the cover of air defense warships, the USS Tarzan was safe and sound. Only one cruiser and one destroyer were sunk, and three destroyers suffered heavy damage. Because they were intercepted by the fleet's air defense and anti-missile fire, the US military's attack on Subic Bay was not thorough, and the port infrastructure was not seriously damaged, and it was still able to support fleet operations, but the efficiency was reduced.

After receiving this report, Mu Haoyang ordered the "Taishan" and the undamaged warship to return to the South China Sea urgently.

Fortunately, Mu Haoyang has not received reports from the "Huashan", "Hengshan" and "Songshan", indicating that these three aircraft carrier battle groups were not attacked. The Navy Command had issued an alarm at 20 to 20, allowing these three aircraft carrier battle groups to return to Zhoushan at full speed.

In addition, Naba was also attacked. More than a dozen ships anchored in Naba Port were sunk and the infrastructure was also damaged. Fortunately, Naba was not the key target of the US military, so the attacks suffered were not serious and the losses were within a controllable range.

In the direction of the Indian Ocean, Gwadar Port is the number one target of the US military. However, the West Indian Ocean Fleet had already left the port and was not within the range of the US military's strike. By the early morning of the 23rd..., Mu Haoyang received a message from the West Indian Ocean Fleet Command that the West Indian Ocean Fleet avoided the sudden attack of the US military and was operating in the Arabian Sea and was not seriously threatened for the time being.

The only thing that made Mu Haoyang not very relieved was whether Zhang Yuting would risk attacking Digo Garcia.

For this reason, about half a day, Mu Haoyang sent Zhang Yuting a telegram asking him to stay in the northern Arabian Sea and not to launch a rash counterattack.

Except for Guadal Port, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Galle, Jeddah and Haoyang Port were all hit.

According to the war report, the ones attacking Jeddah and Visakhapatnam should be US cruise missile submarines, while the ones attacking other ports were US strategic bombers. However, in the war report sent back from Haoyang Port, it was mentioned that during air defense operations, the early warning aircraft detected US fighters, but it was impossible to determine whether they were US Air Force fighters or US Navy fighters, so further inferences could not be made.

It can be said that the US military's sudden attack was very powerful and the range of attacks was very wide.

In Mu Haoyang's view, this is not a bad thing, it should be a good thing. The reason is very simple. If the US military does not disperse the attacks of nine Chinese naval bases, but instead concentrates its forces to attack two or three of them, the attack effect will be more obvious. The "Tarzan" aircraft carrier battle group that just left the port is likely to be finished, and even the Western Pacific fleet operating in the Arabian Sea is likely to be wiped out.

From a military perspective, this kind of sudden attack at a strategic level and dispersing troops is the biggest mistake.

You should know that the purpose of the US military launching a surprise attack is definitely not to destroy the infrastructure of the Chinese navy, and the US military does not have the ability to paralyze all the military ports of the Chinese navy in a sudden attack. Even if it can, the Chinese fleet can continue to fight based on civilian ports. In other words, the infrastructure such as attacking ports cannot destroy the Chinese navy at all, and the fundamental purpose of the US military launching a surprise attack is to destroy the Chinese navy.

It is obvious that the actions of the US military are seriously inconsistent with their goals.

If Mu Haoyang was to command this surprise attack, in addition to focusing on bombing Yokohama, Subic Bay and Gwadar Port, he would arrange more troops to search for three aircraft carrier battle groups operating in the Philippine Sea, as well as the Western Pacific Fleet that had just left the port, striving to eliminate all the main fleets of the Chinese Navy in the sudden attack, with the purpose of seizing sea control, and then use the fleet to blow up China's naval bases one by one.

If this is true, China will not be far from defeat.

Of course, this sudden blow had severely damaged the Chinese Navy, causing the Chinese Navy to lose 50% of its main fleet overnight. The second largest military port was completely paralyzed, three major military ports suffered serious losses, and five military ports suffered varying degrees of blows.

Even if the Chinese Navy is still able to fight, the subsequent battle will become extremely difficult.

Chapter 12: Battle
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