Chapter 919: The Ziya Incident

readx; The Chinese Army has mechanized infantry divisions, motorized infantry divisions, mountain infantry divisions, amphibious infantry divisions, and a large number of reading brigades, regiments, and battalions. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoTake the Ninth Infantry Division as an example, although many people know that the number one ace division of the Chinese Army is a mechanized infantry division, but it is not obvious from the number, and another important point is that outsiders do not know where the Ninth Division is deployed.

After all, although China has more than 100 divisions and brigades, and although the level of equipment is also comparable, there is still a great difference in the actual combat strength, and the combat effectiveness level of the old ace divisions is not comparable to those units that have only been formed in recent years. Just like the one in this case, the combat effectiveness of their 30 standing divisions far exceeds that of those that were later formed, and based on the same theory, various countries are also paying more attention to the movements of the ace divisions among the standing divisions that were organized before the war in China.

The secrecy of the deployment place and the secrecy on the number make it difficult for other countries to find out how many divisions China has now, let alone the specific surnames and deployment places of so many infantry divisions in China.

Now they can only learn through some public information, for example, in the process of China's attack on Singapore and the Philippine and Indonesian islands, many parts of the number have been gradually exposed, among which the most information for the US military is the division of the Seventh Army currently deployed on the Philippine island of Luzon.

Intensive aerial reconnaissance allowed them to obtain some detailed information about the Seventh Army, and at the same time, based on the intelligence obtained from the air, they analyzed the specific Chinese establishment intelligence collected over the years, and they were able to obtain a large amount of information about the Chinese Army, including the level of equipment and the general size of the establishment.

When the air forces of the two countries are in frequent contact, although they do not open fire, interception operations occur almost every day, and once the other side continues to fly forward despite the warning, some fighter pilots who are anxious will shoot with warning names, and if they do not return to the plane, they will not dare to shoot down directly, but both sides have some particularly bold pilots, who even dare to directly pilot the plane to approach, and then come to a wing collision, the aircraft will be damaged, and in serious cases, the plane will be directly damaged because of the serious damage to the airframe, and they will have to give up the plane and parachute.

Someone started this, and then in the next half month, there were more than a dozen similar plane collision accidents, which resulted in the death of a Chinese pilot and one death and one serious injury on the American side. On the one hand, both sides wanted to fly over each other's skies to conduct reconnaissance, but on the other hand, they were strictly forbidden to open fire, and even in order to avoid accidental firing that would lead to a complete change in relations between the two countries, the planes of China and the United States simply did not carry ammunition before they were dispatched.

And if you can't fire and have to intercept the opponent's plane, what else can you do but crash into it directly!

As a result, a very strange situation appeared in the sky over the Philippines, where the fighters of both sides did not carry ammunition and did not fire, and then chased each other, and when they were pressed, they directly hit each other's wings with their wings, and even the 25th Wing was forced to urgently strengthen the strength of the wings of the F5E fighters under its jurisdiction. As a result, the two sides staged a real aerial fight, like two samurai close to each other, and often a close collision is often a lose-lose situation.

After this situation lasted for half a month, the air force commanders of the two countries did not dare to continue to play, after all, no one knows whether it will catch fire if they continue to play like this, and the resistance of the pilots is also very large, if they say that they are not afraid to fight directly in the air, but what makes people feel embarrassed is that you can't fire, and you have to intercept the other party's plane, you can only rely on yourself to crash down,, is there such a play?

The air commanders of the two sides made private contacts, and when the upper echelons did not know about it, they quietly formulated a Philippine air defense identification zone, which tacitly stipulated that Chinese planes were not allowed to intrude into Mindanao, while US planes were not allowed to enter Luzon.

The plane collision war between the two sides is over, but the navies of China and the United States on the sea can often bump into each other, and although it is impossible for the navies of the two sides to collide with ships, they often chase and intimidate each other.

In the waters east of the Philippines, the 23rd Squadron was carrying out a routine patrol mission, and the weather was sunny and there was not much wind and waves, which was a very perfect sortie weather for carrier-based aviation.

On the bridge of the aviation command ship on the Qingshan, the combat staff officer on duty picked up the phone: "The 24th squad is about to return, and the 25th squad is ready to take off and take over the 24th squad to carry out the vigilance mission!" ”

With his order, there were several F8G fighters in a whole row of aircraft on the deck, ready to take off under the work of the ground crew.

However, at this time, the herald phone rang in the war room, and the non-commissioned officer of the communications department stopped for two sentences after picking up the phone, and his face changed, and he immediately put down the phone and said to the staff officer on duty: "Sir, the Ziqing has discovered an unknown submarine, located in the direction of the ship at eleven o'clock, thirty nautical miles away. ”

The face of the staff officer on duty changed slightly: "Is it our submarine or is it my submarine or the Americans' submarine?" ”

In the Pacific, the only naval forces are the Chinese and American navies, while the British and Australian navies also appear in the western Pacific direction, but they are mainly active in the western part of Australia and the waters of the Indonesian archipelago. In the case of submarines, there are very few of them active in this area, and the unidentified submarines found can only be submarines of China and the United States.

Immediately, he said: "Immediately contact the Fourth Submarine Fleet, and conduct another underwater exploration to see if we can determine the identity of the other party!" ”

After saying that, he said again: "Let the Ziqing rush to the top of the unknown submarine to track!" ”

In less than a minute, the communications non-commissioned officer reported again: "It has been confirmed to the Fourth Submarine Fleet that the submarines they sent in Philippine waters are not on this side at the moment!" ”

The staff officer on duty immediately said: "Order the Ziqing to send out a clear text communication, so that the other party can report his identity, otherwise our side will attack!" ”

Now that China is in the midst of a war with the other side, it cannot be said that it has discovered an unidentified submarine and left it alone, and since it has discovered the other side, it must react accordingly.

Below the Ziqing, an American submarine remained motionless in the sea, and the sonar officer reported to the captain at this time: "Captain, they are coming towards us, they are very fast, and they are expected to be able to reach our ship in a minute!" ”

The captain of this American submarine is also a little uncomfortable at this time, his task is only to go to sea to hunt and kill, "this ship, there is no Chinese Navy in the combat target, just now when the voyage was discovered the Chinese fleet, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he is to dive quickly, but I didn't expect to be discovered, now in this case, if you don't respond, it is estimated that soon depth charges will be thrown on their heads, and it is almost impossible to escape, During World War II, the underwater speed of submarines of various countries was very limited, generally only about six or seven knots, and the sailing distance was very short, and there was little chance of escaping the hunt of anti-submarine destroyers.

In order to avoid indifferent smoothness, he also decisively ordered: "Float up, send a clear text communication to show our identity!" ”

At the same time, the staff officer on duty on the Qingshan also learned of the situation: "Since they have surfaced and identified themselves, let them leave this sea area to avoid accidental injury!" ”

Although China and the United States are in a complicated and awkward situation of cooperation, they are far from reaching the point of mutual trust, and such a thing as a joint fleet is impossible, and the core security of the aircraft carrier formation needs to be guaranteed, and he does not want a US submarine to appear in the core scope of the aircraft carrier formation.

After the U.S. submarine surfaced, the two sides naturally couldn't have anything like firing, on the contrary, because of curiosity, the U.S. Navy captain on the submarine still had a short exchange with the captain of the Ziqing, and the two people on the deck laughed and said a few words, smoked two cigarettes together, and then the captain of the American ship also said unashamedly that they had been at sea for a long time, and there were not many food reserves, and asked the Ziqing to support some fresh fruits and vegetables.

This made the captain of the Ziqing smile bitterly, and finally gave them some fruits and vegetables, and the captain of the American submarine took a submarine model in return.

This kind of contact took place very unusually, and in the waters outside the first island chain formed by the Philippines, Taiwan, and the eastern part of the Ryukyu line, and the southern part of the island, a large number of ships of the Chinese and American navies were densely active, and the two sides could often collide with each other.

On 12 August, an American submarine was spotted by a reconnaissance destroyer of the Second Mobile Fleet, the Ziya, when it was floating at night to recharge, and because the sea area was relatively close to the Ryukyus at that time, the destroyer immediately went to follow it, and then the Americans thought that it was a destroyer called Ben, and after the emergency dive, it fired a torpedo. Naturally, this torpedo failed to hit the high-speed tracking of the Ziya, and at this time, the Ziya also thought that it was a submarine called "Ben", and immediately carried out anti-submarine warfare, and after more than a dozen depth charges were dropped, the submarine was damaged by the hull and was forced to urgently float.

After they surfaced, the two sides confirmed their identities, which made everyone extremely embarrassed, and in the end, the submarine sank, and the crew of the American submarine floating on the sea was also rescued one by one by Ziya.

However, this incident triggered a great diplomatic conflict between China and the United States!