Nixon's tactical vision is very good, but it is very difficult to implement.

The cruise flight speed of heavy anti-ship missiles is as high as Mach 8 and the penetration speed is faster. Therefore, even if you enter the fleet's regional air defense network, the attack time window for heavy anti-ship missiles is only about two minutes. If you want to take this opportunity to let fighter aircraft carrying anti-ship guided bombs launch an attack, you must let the attack aircraft group reach the target in these two minutes and successfully drop the anti-ship guided bombs.

Obviously, from an organizational perspective, this is a difficult task.[]

The war has been outbreaking almost a year, and the Chinese and American navies have never successfully implemented coordinated attack operations between strategic bombers and tactical fighters.

The main reason is that collaborative organization is too difficult.

You know, even experienced pilots are difficult to seize such a short opportunity.

For those rookie-level pilots, this is even more difficult to do.

In fact, it is unlikely to organize hundreds of bombers to jointly attack and allow more than a thousand heavy anti-ship missiles dropped to reach the target at the same time.

At that time, the US military dispatched 120 strategic bombers and dropped 1,440 heavy anti-ship missiles.

Unfortunately, these heavy anti-ship missiles were divided into five batches, with the interval between the first batch and the last batch exceeding five minutes.

At 6:11, the first batch of heavy anti-ship missiles approached the target.

This time, Tong Shaoyun did not put out a circular air defense array, but arranged eight large comprehensive warships in an interlaced manner, and all starboard were facing the direction of the anti-ship missile attack, which is the direction where the Solomon Islands were located. In this way, each large air defense warship had four sets of last-stage defense systems that could be put into combat, and the longitudinal distance between the large air defense warships was only five kilometers and the horizontal distance between the large air defense warships was only two kilometers. In other words, each large comprehensive warship could cover four adjacent friendly ships to ensure that in areas where the missiles were key breakthroughs, at least six large air defense warships could be put into combat. On the left side of the formation, the six anti-submarine warships kept the column, and the lateral distance between the adjacent large integrated warships was only two kilometers. That is to say, when necessary, the anti-submarine warships could deal with the fish that had escaped the net.

This type of air defense queue is only suitable for air strikes coming from a certain direction.

Fortunately, the early warning aircraft provided sufficient battlefield information to indicate that heavy anti-ship missiles were flying from the south.

This time, the medium-range air defense missiles did not work.

In fact, at that time, none of the eight large integrated warships used medium-range air defense missiles, and only six anti-submarine warships used medium-range air defense missiles to intercept the incoming heavy anti-ship missiles.

This is understandable, only large comprehensive warships were put into battle at the first time.

After the battle began, the last defense system once again supported the fleet's air defense network, turning the twenty-kilometer area around the warship into an "anti-ship missile restricted area."

It can be said that the anti-ship missiles entered into five batches greatly weakened the penetration capability.

Even if the interval is less than one minute, it is enough to change the outcome of the battle.

In fact, as long as the entry time interval between the two batches of anti-ship missiles is more than ten seconds, it is difficult to form a joint force, because intercepting a batch of heavy anti-ship missiles will only take ten seconds at most.

However, heavy anti-ship missiles are not easy to deal with.

Thanks to the large warhead mass, even if it is directly hit by shells, some warheads can still fly by inertia and may even hit the target.

When intercepting the third batch of heavy anti-ship missiles, the Liaoning, which was immediately behind the Heilongjiang, was hit by a warhead. Fortunately, the warhead did not explode, but only hit the integrated mast, causing all the priceless electronic equipment inside to be damaged. Immediately afterwards, the Hebei, located at the end of the first column, was also hit by a warhead, and the warhead exploded, blowing up most of the ship's bow. When intercepting the last batch of heavy anti-ship missiles, the Shanxi, the first in the second column, was hit by a warhead, causing more than 30 officers and soldiers, including the captain, to be killed. The Shanxi also turned left urgently and temporarily withdrew from the combat queue. Fortunately, fifteen minutes later, the first lieutenant took over command and activated the No. 2 command center, and the Shanxi returned to the combat queue.

It can be said that the battle was going on thrillingly.

What was shot down was not the heavy anti-ship missile, but the warheads of the anti-ship missiles, and most of the warheads landed on the sea less than 500 meters away from the warship.

Fortunately, less than one-twentieth of the warheads were shot down.

If more warheads explode, the shock waves generated will be enough to damage nearby warships. You should know that in the three-point battle, an anti-submarine warship was damaged by the shock waves generated by the explosion of the nearly lost anti-ship guided bomb, causing damage to an auxiliary thruster.

But the battle is not over.

At 6:20, the attack aircraft fleet of the US Third Fleet arrived.

Among this attack aircraft group, only twenty-four fighter jets are responsible for escorting the results of the battle after the battle is over.

At this time, Tong Shaoyun had received the first reconnaissance report.

To be precise, it is not a reconnaissance report, but a report sent back by a tilted rotary wing aircraft flying in the direction of 130 degrees before being shot down by a US fighter.

This report has two effects.

First, we will replace the warships that are conducting anti-missile operations, guide and coordinate the carrier-based early warning aircraft of air defense fighters, and immediately recruit those air defense fighters operating in the south of the fleet, organize an air defense interception line in the southeast direction of the fleet, prepare to deal with the upcoming U.S. military aircraft fleet.

The second is to make Tong Shaoyun realize that the U.S. Third Fleet is in the direction of 130 degrees.

Of course, no matter what Tong Shaoyun wants to do, he must first withstand the attack of US fighter jets.

In fact, the Second Fleet was in a very bad situation.

When dealing with heavy anti-ship missiles, the first fleet used up all the interceptor missiles, helping the fleet to escape the risk of the first two rounds of missile attacks. As a result, when the U.S. carrier-based fighter jet group was about to arrive, there were only fighting missiles left on the air defense fighter jets.

The number is larger, becoming the only advantage of air defense fighter jets.

However, this is an advantage against escort fighters, not against attack aircraft, because air defense fighters cannot deal with attack aircraft before being entangled by escort fighters.

When the battle reaches this point, no tactics work.

After forcing the out-of-sight attack of the US escort fighter jets, air combat entered the fighting stage, and air defense fighters had no time to intercept the US attack aircraft that were synchronously penetrated.

The heavy responsibility of air defense fell on the warship again.

The problem is that less than one-third of the medium-range air defense missiles are left on the fourteen battleships of the Second Fleet.

In other words, when intercepting the attack aircraft group of penetration, the role of medium-range air defense missiles cannot be played out, and can only break up some aircraft group.

It can be said that the result is disastrous.

The first thing the US military attacked was not the Heilongjiang, but the Hebei, which was located at the end of the first column, had its bow blown up and the fire had not yet been extinguished.

At that time, it was already dark and the fire on the "Hebei" was particularly dazzling.

Immediately afterwards, US fighter jets concentrated on attacking the "Liaoning" and "Jilin" that actively slowed down to cover the "Hebei", and the "Shaanxi" that leaned over from the left.

These four warships were hit to varying degrees, among which the "Hebei" was directly hit by five 2,000-pound anti-ship guided bombs. Even the safer "Shaanxi" was hit by a bomb and the weapon module in front of the bridge was damaged by two large-caliber electromagnetic cannons. If the officers and soldiers of the damaged tube responded quickly, immediately poured water into the ammunition compartment, and the gunners who were staying at their posts closed the ammunition compartment before they died, otherwise the bomb would have detonated the ammunition compartment with thousands of shells.

Fortunately, the US military is also at the end of its strength.

At that time, only 82 US fighter jets were performing attack missions, of which more than 40 remained in queues, and the other four teams were disbanded by medium-range air defense missiles.

In other words, after attacking four large integrated warships, the attack of US fighter jets ended.

At this time, Tong Shaoyun made a decision to change history, and it was also a decision that made him promoted to lieutenant general a month later and became a well-known young general of the Chinese Navy: to allow four anti-submarine warships to stay and help the damaged four large integrated warships. The remaining four large integrated warships, accompanied by two anti-submarine warships, reorganized into combat formations and advanced toward 130 degrees in 45 quarters.

Before this, just before 6:20, Tong Shaoyun had issued an order to the reconnaissance plane sent out, focusing on searching for the 130-degree direction.

Intuition told him that the U.S. Third Fleet was in this direction and was not very far away.

Of course, some people must think that he is a lunatic, because even if they can be sure that the US Third Fleet is in this direction, they cannot be sure whether it is within 1,200 kilometers. If it exceeds 1,200 kilometers, then the actions of the Second Fleet will undoubtedly take the initiative to die.

In a sense, Tong Shaoyun is taking the entire fleet to make a big bet.

You know, the US military will definitely launch another air strike at night.

Interestingly, when making this decision, Tong Shaoyun sent a telegram to Gong Jifei: a combat report that was more like a suicide note.

The general content is to let the First Fleet stop sending air defense fighters.

Obviously, Tong Shaoyun has already made a sacrifice.

Judging from the situation at that time, if he lost the bet, even if he could go back, he would be sent to military court, and he would be very likely to die with the flagship.

No matter what, Tong Shaoyun must have this enlightenment.
Chapter completed!