Yuan Qing is a person who doesn’t like empty talk and likes to do practical things...

When he arrived at the General Staff, Wang Yuanqing asked Pei Chengyi to issue orders to the "prefabricated fleet" and other troops who could participate in the interception operation to prepare for war, so that Xiang Yinghui could report the actions of each unit at any time.

The boss is really good!

After receiving the order, each unit immediately launched an operation.

The group of missile escort boats led by the "Wanzhou" and "Daxian" have been sailing westward with the US fleet, always allowing all transport ships to be within the visual surveillance distance. The "Zhendong" mother ship sent several alert helicopters to cooperate with the missile escort boats in turn.

Because it is necessary to deal with the Japanese offshore defense fleet, other combat forces are indispensable.

At 4 a.m., a long-range maritime patrol aircraft carrying anti-ship missiles and anti-submarine patrol aircraft carrying aviation torpedoes. The 2 joint command aircraft took off from the Kadena Air Force Base, which had just been repaired and put into use, and headed to the eastern waters of Hokkaido to participate in the interception operation.

30. The Air Force's 12j-14c fighter jets, 12j-15c fighter jets, a kz-21c early warning aircraft and a large tanker took off from an air force base in the northeast of the Republic and rushed to the eastern waters of Hokkaido to assist various naval combat units to intercept the transport fleet.

After 5 o'clock, 2~ The submarine that was operating in the sea sent back the message and was rushing to the location of the incident.

It took only 2 hours to deploy all participating troops.

Wang Yuanqing did not leave the General Staff. Instead, he was listening to Pei Chengyi's brief report.

Although the Japanese aircraft carrier battle group and displacement of 500~: all large and medium-sized warships above the ground were annihilated. However, the Japanese Navy still had many small ships with displacement of less than 500~: small ships in the offshore area were active. According to the statistics of the General Staff, the Japanese Navy's conventional submarine troops were not severely damaged. About 0 conventional submarines were active at sea.

Due to the lack of reliable tactical intelligence, conventional submarines in Japan are difficult to pose a threat to the Republic's naval ships.

In order to deal with Japanese conventional submarines, the Navy sent all attack submarines to the Western Pacific. Dozens of anti-submarine patrol aircraft and dozens of offshore anti-submarine ships were concentrated in the East China Sea to the west of the Ryukyu Islands. Because the most vulnerable to submarine attacks, the Earth transport ships have been strictly protected by anti-submarine forces in the East China Sea and the Ryukyu Islands. Therefore, the General Staff and the Navy Command both believe that Japanese conventional submarines have been operating in the offshore and have not entered the ocean.

The most threatening place is not the Japanese submarine, but the Japanese missile speedboat.

As early as the 20th century, Japan developed a ground-hydrofoil missile speedboat with extremely advanced performance.

Before the military government came to power, under the guidance of the "defensive defense" policy, Japan attached great importance to missile speedboats. Even in the early 21st century, Japanese ships gradually became larger and built many large warships including the "Hyuga" class, the Japanese Navy did not reduce the development of new missile speedboats.

After the military government came to power, affected by the loss of talents, Japan once regarded missile speedboats as the main maritime defense force. After Murakami came to power, in order to concentrate on developing nuclear weapons and effectively film neighboring countries that pose a threat to Japan, the Japanese Navy built more than 50 missile speedboats within three years and formed the world's largest group of missile speedboats, which almost led to a large-scale arms race in Northeast Asia!

As national strength gradually recovers, Japan has gradually reduced the production of missile speedboats after 2023.

According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Japan has underestimated the difficulty of developing submarine-launched ballistic missiles and believes that it can develop a truly strategic nuclear submarine before 2025, so it abandoned the "offshore defense" strategy and instead focused on building a "big fleet" with the protection of strategic nuclear submarines as its main combat mission. The direct result of this policy is that Japan has accelerated the construction progress of various types of main warships, especially destroyers and frigates with anti-submarine as its main mission, and equipped the two aircraft carrier battle groups with the world's most powerful anti-submarine escort lineup.

It was not until the Republic Navy began to mass-equip the 6011-class missile escort boat that the Japanese Navy realized the importance of missile speedboats and launched the development plan for a new missile speedboat in 2025. Unfortunately, the development of this missile speedboat that concentrates Japan's latest scientific and technological achievements and has extremely advanced performance is expected to be completed in 2030, and the mass production plan is scheduled after 20311.

At this time, Japan's main missile speedboat was the "Ibuki" class.

The standard displacement of this missile speedboat successfully developed in 20177 was only 342~: The full load displacement is used, with a hydrofoil-passing wave ship type, a maximum navigation speed of 45 knots, a cruise speed of 24 knots, a maximum endurance of 1,500 nautical miles, a maximum self-sustaining force of 15 days, and a standard crew of 211, including 3 officers, non-commissioned officers and 1 sailor. They are equipped with 2 SS-6c anti-ship missile launchers, 1 57mm high-level dual-purpose gun and 1 6-barrel 20mm machine gun, and can carry a small helicopter (no hangar). The electronic equipment is mainly 1 double-coordinate sea-to-sea search radar, 1 small meteorological radar and 1 photoelectric detection and tracking system.

Even by 2027 standards, the performance of the "Ibuki" class is not behind, but it is only compared to the Republic's 60.

Not a little bit.

The key is that the independent combat capability of missile speedboats is not strong.

From the day of its birth, missile speedboats have been greatly limited in their performance due to their small displacement. Apart from sinking destroyers during the Middle East War, missile speedboats have never performed surprisingly. In the final analysis, they are all related to the "speciality" of missile speedboats.

Small ships have the benefits of small ships, such as fast speed, flexibility, and difficulty in being discovered.

With the advancement of technology, it is difficult for missile speedboats to be able to perform in war. No matter how fast the speed is, it is not as fast as the anti-ship missile; no matter how good the maneuverability is, it is not as good as helicopters and combat aircraft; even if it is very difficult to be discovered, it is difficult to hide its whereabouts in front of various detection equipment.

The hull is too small and the problems brought about can never be overcome.

Compared with any large warship, the combat capability of missile speedboats is very single and the combat purpose is more single.

Since World War II, the United States has never developed small ships, but has made every effort to build large warships. Although the Republic's Navy once had a "sea tiger" that scares all enemies, after the Republic's national strength gradually increased and had enough ability to build a large fleet, missile speedboats gradually retreated to the second line and were no longer the main combat ships of the Navy, and could only undertake offshore patrol and offshore defense tasks. If it were not forcing the situation, there was no sufficient funding; the battleship construction cycle was too long and it would be difficult to build too many large warships within three years, and the Republic's Navy would not use missile escort boats to form a "prefabricated fleet" to carry out strategic blockade tasks.

In order to exert the combat effectiveness of missile speedboats, they must have sufficient assistance and strong joint combat capabilities.

To this end, the Republic's Navy's shore-based aviation and air force dispatched dozens of fighter jets, including early warning aircraft, anti-submarine patrol aircraft, joint command aircraft, tanker aircraft and fighter aircraft to the front line to provide all-round support and assistance to missile frigates carrying out blockade and interception missions.

The Japanese Navy did not have such good "luck".

Before dawn, the Air Force Command sent the latest information. Two groups of missile speedboats that had been operating in the eastern waters of the Jinqing Strait had left the patrol site and were sailing eastward.

At less than 8 o'clock, a long-range maritime patrol aircraft that arrived in the combat waters discovered a missile speedboat approaching the transport fleet.

The "Ibuki"-class missile speedboat is not equipped with long-range air-to-air search radar, nor is it equipped with large radars with a total system mass of hundreds of tons. Naturally, early warning aircraft and long-range maritime patrol aircraft that are far away from hundreds of kilometers are not found. Although the Japanese Navy has equipped most of the "Ibuki" class with short-range air defense missiles (individual air defense missiles of the army), this kind of missile can only deal with helicopters within the field of view and fighter jets flying at low altitudes, and cannot reach combat aircraft flying at thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters at high altitudes.

Through the information network system, every move of the Japanese missile speedboat group was sent to the missile escort boats that were facing the battle.

Needless to say, the Republic's Navy took the initiative in the battlefield.

Fight, or not?

The decision-making power is not in the hands of the Navy, nor in the hands of the Chief of Staff, but in the hands of Wang Yuanqing.

While the officers and soldiers of all participating troops were anxiously waiting for the attack order, Wang Yuanqing was waiting for news from the Military Intelligence Bureau.

You must definitely fight, but you must master the time to fight!

This is not an ordinary interception operation. Since the US fleet did not listen to the warning before this, it will follow the warning after this. To avoid similar things happening again, you must hurt the enemy and be afraid of the enemy. When making a decision, Wang Yuanqing clarified the purpose of "fighting", but only emphasized the way of fighting.

The United States wants to cause trouble for the Republic, and the Republic also wants to cause trouble for the United States.

Who can laugh to the end is not to see how many Japanese ships and ships can be sunk, but whether they can get a full reason after the fight, so that the American mute can eat coptis chinensis!

Wang Yuanqing was not worried about anything. The fleet's speed was only 24 knots, and it would take as early as the evening to reach the Japanese port.

After 0 o'clock, Wang Yuanqing contacted Yan Shanglong through the confidential communication line of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and asked the Foreign Minister to prepare in Paris to condemn the United States' intentional disruption of the armistice negotiations.

When he received the call, Yan Shanglong was a little surprised and seemed to not quite understand the meaning of the head of state.

Wang Yuanqing didn't say much, but asked Chief Assistant Jiao Bashan to briefly explain to Yan Shanglong, and then asked Yan Shanglong to make relevant preparations according to the highest decision.

At 11:30, Li Cunxun came to the General Staff.

After receiving the evaluation report from the Military Intelligence Bureau, Wang Yuanqing did not delay and immediately asked Pei Chengyi to arrange combat tasks according to the relevant plans formulated by the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Strategic blockade is the "trump card" that completely defeats Japan, how can it be a joke?

After obtaining the plan of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Pei Chengyi understood the reason why the head of state has been slow to issue combat orders. As a soldier, Pei Chengyi had to admire the head of state's strategic vision and political mind. This is not a simple battle, but a battle destined to have an impact on many countries!

After 12 o'clock, the combat orders are issued to each combat force, and the countdown will begin. (To be continued,)
Chapter completed!