Dominate South Asia

"Full speed ahead, full speed ahead!" In the tall bridge of the Kitty Hawk, Captain Michael looked out at the sea and at the surrounding warships, two Ticonderoga-class cruisers and two Burke-class cruisers. A tight air defense formation was formed to avoid being attacked by China's shore-based aviation. At the same time, there were several anti-submarine ships on the outside, plus the underwater Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines, and our lineup was already quite strong.

Such an aircraft carrier formation is simply invincible, but now, Captain Michael still feels that his warship is not fast enough.

China actually used force to deal with the problem of Wanwan Island. The Chinese army has landed on Wanwan Island!

Under this situation, our own side was still advancing slowly hundreds of nautical miles away, which made Captain Michael a little irritable, especially last night when the No. 4 boiler suddenly malfunctioned and could not increase the pressure to the maximum. This reduced the aircraft carrier's speed to twenty-eight knots.

Now, it's already dawn, and our side has not yet arrived near Wanwan Island to carry out the task of seizing air supremacy. This can't help but make Captain Michael a little irritable.

However, he didn't know that bigger troubles were yet to come.

"Report, several fishing boats have been spotted ahead." Just as the fleet was sailing at full speed, the lookout reported to the bridge.

As we continued southward and entered the Zhoushan Fishing Grounds, in front of the fleet, we could see those fishing boats engaged in fishing operations.

"Damn it, blow the whistle and get them all out of the way!" Captain Michael couldn't help but say as he looked at the fishing boats through the telescope.

This is the most abominable thing. If the U.S. Navy attacks fishing boats, it will cause diplomatic disputes and those fishermen. Not only the fishermen on the mainland, but also the fishermen on the Bay Island cannot use machine guns to expel them, let alone use anti-ship missiles. Even if they can realize that this is a trick on the Chinese side, they have no choice.

You can only rely on the whistle to get the other party to give way.

"Woo, woo." The steam-driven whistle had a full alto and spread toward the distant sea. At the same time, the captain of the Perry-class destroyer at the front used a high-power megaphone to shout to the opposite side: "Fishing boats, get out of the channel! This is the U.S. Navy!"

Unfortunately, he was speaking in English, and those fishing boats didn't understand what he was saying at all. They continued to cast their nets and catch fish. Now was the time. The fishermen work from dawn to dusk in the hope of harvesting more.

Underwater, a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine. It is constantly moving forward. As the vanguard of underwater escorts, this nuclear submarine is responsible for the important task of discovering and driving away enemy nuclear submarines and protecting the underwater safety of the aircraft carrier.

Under water, the only equipment that can detect is sonar, and now, there are aircraft carrier formations traveling at high speed on the surface. This greatly reduces the detection range of Los Angeles-class submarines.

In order to protect the formation, Los Angeles-class submarines usually sail in the waters twenty nautical miles in front of the aircraft carrier. When surface warships discovered those fishing boats, Los Angeles-class submarines were already very close to the fishing boats.

Although he heard the sound of the engine on the water, the captain of the Los Angeles-class submarine did not pay too much attention. The order above was to sail at full speed. They must quickly support Wanwan.

On the third-shift submarine, no matter day or night, after the captain inspected the entire boat, he was just about to return to his room to relax for a while, when suddenly. The submarine shook violently.

"What's going on?" The captain picked up the phone while stumbling. Asked the command room.

"Report, our propeller is entangled in a fishing net!" the first mate replied to the captain. Although his eyes could not see the outside of the hull, according to experience, the output power of the tail turbine dropped sharply, which was obviously due to a collision. There is a lot of resistance, and 80% of this resistance comes from the propeller being entangled.

Damn it! The captain cursed and said: "Reduce power and reverse."

After giving this order, he climbed towards the control tower.

If you look at it from the outside, you can see that the Los Angeles-class seven-bladed propeller is entangled with a fishing net. It is so densely packed that the entire propeller is almost unable to move.

In order to improve the strength of fishing nets, many fishing nets are not only composed of ropes, but also contain steel wires. Although the propellers are very powerful, they still cannot cut the fishing nets.

This is also the reason why later submarine propulsion systems used pump-jet propellers. Not only fishing nets, but also kelp on the seabed may entangle the propeller, causing the propeller to fail.

And since it is entangled, one of the most basic solutions is to reverse the vehicle and rotate the propeller, so that the entangled thing can be released.

However, this is not 100% effective.

As the propeller began to reverse, the fishing net that had just been tightly wound began to loosen. However, there were still many fishing nets wrapped around the propeller. After dozens of turns, the propeller ended its reverse rotation and started to rotate forward again. Although it could rotate, The efficiency of the propeller is quite low, and as it rotates, countless bubbles rise.

"Report, there are still fishing nets entangled, which has reduced the efficiency of our propellers and we will not be able to reach the maximum speed of thirty knots." The deputy captain reported to the captain.

Damn it! The problem happened at this time!

"If we want to regain our speed, we can only surface and cut the entangled fishing nets." The captain said, "But if we do this, there will be no submarine escort for our aircraft carrier formation underwater. "

Generally speaking, there are two nuclear submarines in an aircraft carrier formation. However, because of the urgent departure this time, only this nuclear submarine came over. The other one was still cruising in the Pacific. It would take at least two days to come over.

"Report to the fleet and ask the fleet for instructions," the captain said.

Through the underwater communication system, the encounter of the Los Angeles-class submarine was reported to the captain of the USS Kitty Hawk, who was also the commander of the formation.

"Damn it! How did they drive a submarine? How could they get into the fishing net like a fish?" Michael said angrily when he heard the news.

In fact, anything can happen underwater. Submarine soldiers are the ones who face death most directly among all naval branches. Once an accident occurs, rescue will be very difficult.

"Let them come up and get rid of the entangled fishing nets before catching up with our formation." Michael said. Being entangled in the fishing nets destroyed the hydroacoustic characteristics of the propeller and reduced the speed. The nuclear submarine was useless and must be resolved. This question.

"Then we don't need nuclear submarines to escort us underwater." Colonel Kate said at the side.

"China's backward Han-class nuclear submarines cannot pose a threat to us at all. Even if we only have surface ships, we can still deal with the threat." Michael said: "This is a trick of the Chinese people in an attempt to delay our actions."

Michael has realized that there must be a conspiracy when these fishing boats dare to fish in the US aircraft carrier's route. It is definitely not a coincidence that the Los Angeles-class submarine was entangled in fishing nets this time, but he has no other choice.

"Keep moving forward." Colonel Michael continued: "In two hours, release the first batch of fighter jets."

As long as we sail for another two hours, we will be within the range of the aircraft carrier's force projection. We must quickly support Wanwan! Even though there was danger underwater, Michael decided to keep going!

"Report, the escorting Burke-class destroyer USS Barry reported the discovery of a suspicious sound wave underwater." Just three minutes after Colonel Michael made the decision to continue moving forward without nuclear submarines, another one made him despair The report came.

Found something happening underwater!

The U.S. government has already said that if the Chinese dare to use ballistic missiles to greet their own aircraft carrier formation, that will be the beginning of a nuclear war! However, if a Chinese submarine sinks an American aircraft carrier, or even just damages an American aircraft carrier, the United States will have no recourse. After all, if the submarine fires a few torpedoes and then slips away, the Americans will not even be able to find it. However, there is no definite evidence to accuse China of doing it.

"Anti-submarine formation, release S-2 anti-submarine aircraft, drop sonobuoys, find this Chinese submarine for me!" Colonel Michael has no choice. For the aircraft carrier formation, or for any kind of surface ship, submarines The threat of the enemy always comes first. Now, since a submarine is discovered, we must take action to force the submarine out, or even blow it up and sink it!

If China sends fighter planes, then come here and have a contest with China! Colonel Michael issued the combat order. In addition to the S-2 anti-submarine aircraft, four F-18 fighter jets were also ejected to perform fleet air defense missions.

The aircraft carrier formation is unable to gain air supremacy for Wanwan on time! On Bay Island, which had lost its air superiority, the battle was almost one-sided.

With air support, the two armies that landed on Bayan Island quickly advanced southward along the open plains in the west of Bayan Island. The 3rd Tank Division of the 39th Army, which was at the forefront, advanced along the highway. The highway has passed through Taichung and headed towards Tainan!

At this time, the politicians in Wanwan Island had begun to despair. They originally thought that relying on the force of the island, they could at least withstand the Chinese army for a few days. The opportunity to counterattack the mainland was gone. Is there no problem with Wanwan Island?

However, who would have thought that the entire battle did not take two days! The U.S. aircraft carrier arrived belatedly. When the U.S. Kitty Hawk formation finally arrived at 300 nautical miles east of Wanwan Island at four o'clock in the afternoon, and was preparing to eject fighter jets to fight for air supremacy, China's leading troops had already arrived in Kaohsiung. !

The once sick man of East Asia has now grown into a giant in the East! Not only is the economy strong, but the combat effectiveness of the military also impresses the world.

In fact, China has had a tradition of attaching importance to the army for many years. When the 39th Army landed on Wanwan Island, the fate of Wanwan Island was already sealed. (To be continued ~^~)