When he arrived at the fleet, Hua Jianfeng felt that the atmosphere was not quite right.

"How is the marriage done~"

Glancing at Lin Xiaolei, Hua Jianfeng said: "Marriage is like that, what else can I do?" ”

"It's different from when I got married, I heard that there are a lot of tricks now." Lin Xiaolei smiled and said, "You are also in your forties, it's time to get married." When are you going to have a baby? ”

"Hey, don't mention it." Hua Jianfeng shook his head, "Have a new mission?" ”

"Prepare for war."

"Fighting!?" Hua Jianfengyi, "When did you give the order?" ”

"The order to prepare for war just now." Lin Lei glanced at his watch, "Half an hour ago, you came back on time. ”

"An order from the General Staff?"

Lin Xiaolei clicked and threw a battle plan to Hua Jianfeng. "See for yourself, the fleet will leave the port in two hours, and after entering the deep-water channel, an operational meeting will be held, so hurry up and prepare."

"Go back and see. Send someone to me. ”

Return to the cabin. Hua Jianfeng took a hot shower first. Only then did he sit down and look at the battle plan that Lin Xiaolei gave him.

After the East China Sea War. Jianfeng took the initiative to apply for the transfer of the "Swordfish" and recommended Le Jiacheng as the captain of the "Swordfish". The Navy Command approved Hua Jianfeng's application. Le Jiacheng was promoted to major officer and became captain. It's just that. The Navy did not approve Hua Jianfengdi's other application. Didn't let him go to the shipyard as a "chief assembly" (during the construction of the ship. The Navy will arrange for the first captain or captain to participate in the construction work at the shipyard. At this time, the captain or captain of the ship is called the "assembly chief"). Instead, he was sent to the South China Sea Fleet. Became the commander of the submarine group.

No doubt. This is promotion.

As a submarine captain. If you want to go to a higher command position. All have to make a transition in the "submarine brigade". Land is a few years, land is a few months.

Hua Jianfeng is not very "appreciative". The main thing is that I don't want to leave the front-line command post.

A year later, Hua Jianfeng found an opportunity to "change jobs".

After the launch of the "Republic", the Navy began to prepare the command staff of the aircraft carrier battle group. In addition to fleet commanders, aviation commanders, an experienced submarine commander is needed. Hua Jianfeng saw the opportunity and offered to serve as the submarine commander of the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group.

The application was quickly approved, and when he arrived at the new unit, Hua Jianfeng learned that it was Lin Xiaolei who "poached" him.

Compared with Hua Jianfeng, Lin Xiaolei is more "unrestrained".

Soon after the launch of the "Republic," Lin Xiaolei approached Ying Changhui and asked to be the commander of the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group.

At that time, Lin Xiaolei was the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, and going to the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group was equivalent to decentralization.

Ying Changhui definitely didn't agree at first, the East China Sea Fleet, which had just experienced the East China Sea War, needed a commander like Lin Xiaolei, and it was a waste of talent to let Lin Lei be the commander of the battle group.

In the end, Lin Xiaolei even called for "retirement".

As a last resort, Ying Changhui could only compromise with Lin Xiaolei and change the commanders of the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, with the "Republic" as the flagship of the South China Sea Fleet.

Although Lin Xiaolei did not become the commander of the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group, with his character, overstepping the command must be an inevitable result.

When the command system of the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group was formed, Lin Xiaolei played a great role.

In addition to poaching Hua Jianfeng, he also poached Zhu Ronghui and Yang Jinjie of HNA. Unfortunately, Lin Xiaolei originally wanted to dig up Liang Guoxiang and Di Boqing, but HNA refused to let them go.

After nearly two years of hard work, the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group has gathered the best officer corps in the sea.

The commander of the battle group was Yuan Renshi, the former chief of staff of the East China Sea Fleet, who was also Lin Xiaolei's partner. The captain of the "Republic" is Yin Yuanqiao, the former captain of the destroyer "Lanzhou", and in order to become the captain of the aircraft carrier, he not only defeated more than 30 competitors, but also participated in a special training for one and a half years. The captain of the carrier-based aviation group is Zhu Ronghui, and the deputy captain is Yang Jinjie. The commander of the battle group anti-submarine and joint operations was Hua Jianfeng, who was promoted to colonel. In addition, the captain and captain of the escort ship were all Lin Xiaolei's former subordinates, including Du Xinghua and Liu Haifeng, the captains of the attack nuclear submarine.

Because the maximum speed of the "Swordfish" was only knotted, it was not incorporated into the aircraft carrier battle group.

By the beginning of March 20199, the USS Republic aircraft carrier battle group had completed a one-year training and had basically formed combat capability.

Because the production of J-15B and HJ200 cannot be increased, the configuration of carrier-based aviation has not reached the standard.

At that time, there were only 15 J-12Bs stationed on the "Republic", for which the number of J-10Cs was increased to 36; There are only 2 HJ200s, and 1 of them is still being trained and commissioned.

Although the establishment was not completed, there was no doubt about the strength of the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group.

At the end of February, before Hua Jianfeng took "marriage leave," the "Republic" conducted a confrontation drill with the navy's shore-based air force, and the carrier-based air force not only successfully completed the fleet's air defense combat mission, but also brilliantly completed the ground strike mission, which made the officers and men of the shore-based air force force sigh with great emotion.

In the confrontation of air combat, J

-1CB, with a record of 2 to 17.

In the ensuing ground strike confrontation, the J-11CC and J-13B aircraft groups destroyed more than 70 targets in two hours.

According to the plan, at the end of March, the "Republic" will also conduct a maritime confrontation exercise with the East China Sea Fleet, and an antisubmarine confrontation exercise with the submarine force at the beginning of the year.

For this reason, Hua Jianfeng took the time between the two confrontation drills to go back and get married.

What he didn't expect was that war broke out at this time.

After reading the battle plan, Feng involuntarily took out a cigarette. Compared to submarines, in addition to the larger area of the cabin, the biggest advantage is that you can smoke as much as you like in the cabin. In fact, on the "Swordfish", Hua Jianfeng can also smoke at will in the cabin.

The battle plan was drawn up in a comprehensive manner, and both the sea and the air were shared.

The problem is that the plan is not detailed, and only roughly defines the operational objectives of the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group, and does not put forward specific action steps.

However, this is a ~ battle plan drawn up.

Feeling the battleship shake slightly, Hua Jianfeng walked to the porthole and looked outside.

The "Republic" was moving slowly, and it was supposed to leave the dock under the impetus of the motorboat.

In a short time, the bow of the aircraft carrier headed towards the channel leaving the port. The towing motorboats left one after another, the main engine was activated, and under the impetus of 2.11 million horsepower, the aircraft carrier sailed to the departure waterway. Behind the "Republic", several destroyers and frigates also left the dock one after another, keeping up with the pace of the aircraft carrier.

Putting on a clean military uniform, Hua Jianfeng went to the combat center.

Although the space of the "Republic" is larger than that of any ship of the Republic Navy, the space of the aircraft carrier is still relatively narrow compared to the land base.

Finally came to the Navigation Ship Island in front, and Hua Jianfeng was almost the last important officer to arrive.

"Everyone has seen the battle plan." Lin Xiaolei seized the position that originally belonged to Yuan Renshi, "Our task is very simple, cover the landing force to recover the Nansha Islands occupied by Vietnam, expel and strike at the Vietnamese warships that entered the South China Sea, and seize air supremacy on the battlefield. ”

The officers all looked more serious.

"This is the first combat mission of the 'Republic' and the first combat mission of the aircraft carrier battle group of the Republic Navy." Lin Xiaolei's expression was more serious, "Although in the early stage of drills and training, all kinds of tactical tactics have been verified and tested, but actual combat is not training, and on the battlefield, the loser will never have a second chance." No matter how weak and vulnerable the enemy is, we must not underestimate the enemy, let alone treat war as a child's play. You are all vetted officers and soldiers, and some officers have seen more big scenes than I have, and I don't want anyone to make the slightest low-level mistake on the battlefield. The country has trusted us and entrusted us with the most difficult tasks, and we should give our best. I have only one request, that all of us fight this battle with the mindset of dealing with the United States and the most powerful enemy. From now on, the USS Republic aircraft carrier battle group is in combat condition! ”

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and Hua Jianfeng also felt that his heartbeat had accelerated a lot.

After more than 20 years of military service, it was the first time that he participated in combat operations on a ship other than a submarine.

Disciplined severely, Lin Xiaolei began to assign tasks to each combat department.

As the joint commander of submarine operations of the battle group, Hua Jianfeng has two main tasks, one is to arrange combat missions for the submarines accompanying the battle group, and the other is to be responsible for the anti-submarine operations of the fleet.

The burden is not light, and the pressure is great.

Because the operational area is within the cover range of shore-based aviation, the "Republic" will not act alone, and the naval aviation will provide air defense cover for the aircraft carrier battle group, and the air force will also provide support if necessary. Vietnam did not have an aviation force sufficient to pose a threat to the aircraft carrier battle group "Republic", and the threat from the air was not great.

Comparatively speaking, from under the surface of the sea ~ the threat is greater.

Already at the beginning of this century, Vietnam introduced from Russia the Type 2877 "Kilo" class diesel-electric submarines. Although by this time, the "Kilo" was no longer an advanced conventional submarine, and the ground combat capability of the Type 877 was far inferior to that of the Type 636, in the South China Sea, where the hydrological conditions were relatively narrow, the hydrological conditions were relatively complex, and the islands were made up, any submarine in the lurking ground could pose a fatal threat to the passing aircraft carrier battle group.

Not afraid of one, just in case.

No one can guarantee that the "Republic" aircraft carrier battle group will not be unlucky and happen to "step" on the Vietnamese submarine where it is lurking.

After the meeting, Hua Jianfeng immediately asked his staff officers to contact shore-based antisubmarine patrol planes and arrange for the deployment of antisubmarine patrols on the periphery of the fleet.

The "Republic" was not equipped with fixed-wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and long-range anti-submarine aircraft relied mainly on shore-based patrol aircraft.

With years of experience, Hua Jianfeng is well aware of the importance of perimeter anti-submarine warfare. If the submarine is allowed to penetrate the perimeter anti-submarine network and reach a position where it can attack the aircraft carrier with torpedoes, as long as the captain is not a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death, the aircraft carrier will face the test of life and death.

Whether or not enemy submarines can be discovered as soon as possible is the key to the success or failure of antisubmarine warfare! (To be continued)

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