The U.S. Navy personnel were busy extinguishing the flames burning on the deck of the USS Eisenhower, but the deck was badly damaged due to the impact, and the USS Eisenhower had to return to the dock to repair the mission.

The flaming Il-38 began to break in the middle, and the rear section of the body fell silent in the bottomless Pacific Ocean, and the front section smashed on the deck and burst into flames, enveloping the wreckage of the plane like Soviet fury, burning in front of the American fleet.

Although the Il-38 used such an extreme method to try to severely damage the US USS Eisenhower, it did not sink the USS Eisenhower in the western Pacific Ocean, except for damaging the deck of the USS Eisenhower.

The USS Eisenhower could no longer carry out the task of joint military exercises, and the aircraft carrier battle group had to cover the wounded ship to withdraw from this extremely risky military exercise, while the remaining four aircraft carriers are continuing to approach the Kuril Islands and reach the designated sea area for joint military exercises.

The Soviet Navy Headquarters had just received information from the Alikseevka Air Base, explaining to them that a fleet composed of the United States and its allies was approaching its doorstep, and that a Hawthorn anti-submarine plane of the Soviet Air Force was planning to further feed back the intelligence of the US fleet to the command and was approaching the US aircraft carrier battle group to collect intelligence, and finally unfortunately crashed. The driver's fate is uncertain.

After hearing the news, the commander of the Navy, Smirev, fell directly to the ground with the cup he was holding in his hand, and he turned his head stiffly with an incredulous look. said to the admiral who reported the situation. "Are you telling the truth? The US Navy provokes our Air Force in the Western Pacific? ”

"Yes. Our anti-submarine aircraft has already confirmed that it is an American aircraft carrier, and the anti-submarine aircraft that detected the American aircraft carrier was unfortunately wrecked. The admiral who reported the situation buried his head very low, for fear of raising his head and seeing Smirev's furious appearance, and everyone knew that the admiral had a bad temper, especially when dealing with the Americans.

"Four Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the Americans appeared within our sea area, and one of our anti-submarine aircraft was shot down by them?" Smiryev replied word for word.

"We don't know whether the specific situation was shot down, and the early warning aircraft and reconnaissance planes that were redispatched have not yet reported back. But it is certain that through our ocean surveillance system, one of the aircraft carrier battle groups has already begun to return. In other words, there are only five aircraft carriers of the US military in the waters of the western Pacific Ocean. ”

The colonel finally added in a whisper, "One of them is still our Kyiv-class aircraft carrier, and there are Kongo-class destroyers of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force." ”

Hearing the appearance of a Kiev-class aircraft carrier, Smiryev immediately understood which other countries were participating in the joint military exercise this time, and the United States was preparing to unite its allies in Asia to give the Soviet Navy a disadvantage. Could it be that the appearance of that Ulyanovsk already made them panic?

"How long has it been since it happened?" Smiryev tried his best to control his temper and try to calm his heart, and at this time he was eager to give the order for the Soviet aircraft carriers to attack. Even if it is not numerically advantageous. At the very least, we have to win back the momentum. The Soviet Navy was not as strong as the United States, but it was never a loser. You have four Nimitz-class ships. One Kiev-class, we have another Varyag, one Ulyanovsk.

"It's been half an hour since it happened." The other party returned to the road, and seeing that Smiryev did not show the anger he had imagined, he quickly raised his head and glanced at the top boss. But when he looked up, he regretted it.

It was a grim face more terrible than the ice of Siberia, and there seemed to be only one expression of indifference on the pale face, and even those eyes could only be possessed by crawling out of the pile of dead bodies on the battlefield, which was revenge and revenge that strengthened the faith. Until the enemy in front of him was wiped out in ashes.

Smiryev picked up the clothes on the hanger and prepared to go out, he gave him an order while wearing his overcoat, "Order our Pacific Fleet, as well as the radar military monitoring station in the Far East, to give me a good eye on the movements of this group of bastards, and report to the command every ten minutes, if they slip out of the eyelids." ”

He paused for the last sentence before continuing, "From the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet to the captain of every ship, wait for a court-martial!" ”

Smiryev dialed the phone number of the Moscow Minister of Defense through a secret hotline, which conveyed the emergency from Leningrad, which was set up in a secret dark room in the Navy headquarters building. At this time, Smiryev sat alone at the table, quietly waiting for the other party to pick up the phone.

"Hey, is it Comrade Smirev?" Defense Minister Yazov asked, his voice a little gloomy, because when he picked up the phone call, which was also far away in Moscow, it meant that something ominous was happening.

"It's me, Minister Yazov, that I have a very urgent situation to report to you, the United States Combined Fleet is now present in the waters of the Western Pacific Ocean and heading for the Kuril Islands. One of our anti-submarine aircraft could be destroyed by the enemy's ship-to-air short-range missiles in the course of the confrontation. ”

Smiryev paused at this point, he was waiting for further instructions from Yazov, as long as the other side said a word to counterattack immediately, then the Pacific Fleet would be dispatched without hesitation, charging at the enemy who was twice or twice as powerful as himself, and using a saturation attack to make the American fleet show off its might, and then be carried back.

But the end of the sentence was followed by an embarrassment of silence, and the other party did not seem to want to answer Smirev's question, and he could only hear the rapid and restless breathing from the other end through the microphone. It was only after a long time that he heard Yazov's disappointing answer.

"Continue to send reconnaissance aircraft to reconnoiter and give feedback to Moscow. All warships of the Pacific Fleet are put into combat readiness and are waiting for orders. It is not allowed to act without an order from Moscow. ”

"Now that you're in a state of readiness, why don't you fight back against them. We lost an anti-submarine aircraft in front of them! Smiryev tried to persuade Yazov to go to war now and annihilate the fleet on the sea at his own doorstep.

"Do you think I don't have heartache? Comrade Smirev. I am also saddened by the loss of our comrades-in-arms and the heroes of the Republic. But you are a soldier, and the duty of a soldier is to obey orders! Defense Minister Yazov angrily reproached that he was now enough to make a fuss, and he, like Smirev, had never felt such humiliation.

But all retaliation will not be carried out until Moscow finalizes its formal plan.

After hanging up the phone, Yazov hurried to Yanayev's presidential office, knocked on the closed door with a quick knock, and then closed the door tightly. Yazov took a deep breath and told Yanayev what had happened in the most concise language.

"The combined fleet of the United States and his allies appeared in the western Pacific with unknown intentions, and we had an anti-submarine aircraft that could be shot down by them. Now the entire Pacific Fleet is waiting for an order from Moscow. ”

Yanayev put down the pen in his hand, he looked up at Yazov and asked, "So how many aircraft carriers did the United States dispatch this time?" Is it enough to provoke a war? ”

"The anti-submarine aircraft personnel reported that there were five aircraft carriers, and even if the strength of the four naval fleets of the Soviet Union combined, it would not be enough to match the combined fleet of the opposing side."

"Fight back." Yanayev's answer was succinct and clear.

"But the number of the American fleet is far above ours......" Yazov was anxious, deeply afraid that Yanayev would make a wrong decision in an irrational situation.

"If you don't fight back, wait for the Americans to see jokes about the weakness and incompetence of the Soviet Navy? Joke that the Soviet Navy could not even protect its own anti-submarine aircraft? Joke that the so-called mighty Soviet army was just a fleet folded with paper? ”

"We will take revenge on the Americans, and the revenge is definitely not a petty fight for the loss of a plane."

"It's about terrifying the world."

Yanayev gently put down the pen in his hand, looked at Yazov and said. (To be continued.) )