readx; In the East China Sea, dozens of ships are sailing in the northeast direction at a speed of 12 knots, and almost all of these ships are flying the Chinese five-color flag, and the inside of the formation are all transport ships, and on the periphery of the formation is an anti-submarine warning circle formed by many destroyers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among the several destroyers, there are also several aircraft carriers, but this is not a fleet aircraft carrier in the traditional sense, but an escort aircraft carrier in the Chinese Navy.

In today's navies of various countries, the naval carrier-based aviation force can be divided into four types, the first is the well-known aircraft carrier, and the aircraft carrier in the general population generally only refers to the fleet aircraft carrier, that is to say, those aircraft carriers that can participate in the decisive battle of the fleet, the number of aircraft carriers carried by these aircraft carriers, defense is not the focus of distinction, there is only one point to distinguish them, that is, speed. Generally speaking, only a fleet aircraft carrier can be called a fleet aircraft carrier with a speed of more than 30 knots, whether it is a large aircraft carrier of 30,000 tons or 40,000 tons or a light aircraft carrier of more than 10,000 tons. However, some early aircraft carriers may not have reached thirty knots, only twenty** knots, but they can barely be counted.

The second is escort aircraft carriers, and their sources are relatively large, including the modification of civilian ships, military transport ships, cargo ships, etc., or they are directly built, but they all have a characteristic, that is, the speed is generally below 256 knots, and their speed cannot keep up with the high-speed mobile fleet for mobile operations, and can only exist as escort forces or aircraft carriers. The Americans have the most such escort aircraft carriers, and now there are almost a hundred of them, and there are quite a few British. The Chinese Navy does not have much, there are more than a dozen modified escort aircraft carriers with a speed of about 25 knots, in addition to more than 20 specially built Hanyun-class escort aircraft carriers with only 21 knots. Because escort aircraft carriers are mainly used to escort transport formations, anti-submarine and so on, and China's current demand for ocean-going escort is not large, the number of escort aircraft carriers is far less than that of the Americans, of course, there are still a lot more than the so-called "original."

The third type is the seaplane carrier, which is called "I have a lot of people, but the combat effectiveness is very average, and the seaplanes carried may still be useful before the war, but now they are useless."

The fourth is the seaplane carried by the battleship, the battleship with a larger tonnage will basically carry the seaplane to carry out reconnaissance, air shooting and other tasks, but it is still the same as the seaplane carrier, limited by the surname of the seaplane, the seaplane is no longer good today, and the enemy's plane will be sunk if it encounters it casually, but it is better than nothing, and it is better than nothing.

The above four types constitute the current carrier-based aviation force.

However, there is a fifth type in the Chinese Navy, that is, carrier-based helicopters, but the number of equipment is relatively small. Although the Chinese Navy's carrier-based helicopter surname can not be good, but as mentioned earlier, because the seaplane surname on the battleship has become more and more unable to meet the needs of the navy, and the navy is very heavy on anti-submarine, search and rescue tasks, so it is gradually increasing the number of carrier-based helicopter equipment, according to the navy's expectations are to replace all seaplanes with helicopters, but it is still only a planning stage, and only a small number of ships are equipped with helicopters, so they want to use them on a large scale. Also have to continue to develop helicopter technology later.

Now the escort for the transport formation is a number of Chinese Navy's Hanyun-class escort aircraft carriers, Hanyun-class escort aircraft carriers, is a 38-type standard cargo ship as the prototype of the modified design of the aircraft carrier, the standard displacement of 12,000 tons, the combat displacement of 15,000 tons, the use of steam turbines, power output of 18,000 horses, speed of 21 knots, armor protection capabilities are not the same, armed as a single five-inch forty-fold gun and forty mm guns and twenty mm, However, the number of aircraft carried is still relatively objective, and it can reach thirty-two.

Naturally, the combat effectiveness of such cheap escort aircraft carriers is not as high as there, and generally speaking, they will not participate in decisive battles between fleets, but will be used as escort ships.

Since 1942, the Chinese Navy has been built in small batches, and has accumulated more than 20 ships, and after commissioning, it has been used with more than a dozen other modified escort aircraft carriers for anti-submarine and escort of transport fleets, shore attacks, and occasionally aircraft carriers.

This time, in order to escort the landing force, in addition to the Fifth Mobile Fleet carrying out combat readiness defense on the periphery, there were also as many as six escort aircraft carriers walking together in the transport formation.

In order to cover the landing of the landing force, the Fifth Mobile Fleet, in addition to patrolling and escorting the periphery, dispatched carrier-based planes at dawn to launch a large-scale bombardment of the defenders of the Ryukyus.

At the same time, the Air Force's bomber units also took off from several coastal airfields in the country, and then formed a large group of aircraft after forming an air formation and headed for the Ryukyus.

These bomber groups, consisting of B11 bombers and B16 bombers, will carry a large number of bombs and carry out carpet bombing after arriving from a high altitude to weaken the strength of the Ryukyu defenders to the greatest extent.

July 9 at 9 a.m., Ryukyu.

He Minglun boarded a landing craft, and many landing craft had already been laid down by the numerous transport ships in the vicinity; in addition to the landing craft for personnel landing, the tank landing craft were also ready, and the artillery support unit composed of many warships in the distance had already carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the beachhead, and the naval guns were used to support the land, and their power was far from being comparable to that of the natural artillery of the ground forces.

The landing force soon launched the first round of landing operations, and many landing craft began to rush quickly to the beach, and the fire of the fortress on the shore was also launching a fierce counterattack, and the machine-gun bullets came in a row, and then fired into the sea.

And the machine guns on the bows of many landing craft were also firing fiercely at the beachhead.

"I've all lowered my body!" He Minglun shouted loudly, but as soon as his words fell, a private next to him suddenly appeared a bloody hole, and he fell down without even shouting!

He Minglun looked at these comrades-in-arms around him, they didn't shout loudly, but they all grabbed the guns in their hands, and the nervousness on their faces was clear at a glance, and a few of them were trembling all over, and some people were muttering words like God bless.

Even though they are elite soldiers of the Marine Corps, they are as fearful as ordinary people in the face of fierce enemy resistance, and their comrades are hit and killed and wounded.

He Minglun looked at the beachhead that was getting closer and closer, and silently calculated in his heart the last distance and time, it was almost here.

As the landing craft suddenly shook, He Minglun knew that the landing craft had successfully washed the beach, and immediately shouted loudly: "Hurry, hurry, get off the boat, rush up and establish a fire point!" ”

As his words fell, the soldiers on the landing craft had already hurriedly climbed off the landing craft, and then entered the half-waist-high seawater, and then rushed forward one by one.

He said that his machine gun bullets were constantly strafing, and these machine gun bullets splashed in the sea, and a few directly hit the chest of the landing soldiers, and those bullets that were fired into the water continued to move forward, occasionally hitting the legs of the landing soldiers.

He Minglun rushed to the beachhead with his subordinates in such a rain of bullets!

The wading distance of tens of meters was like a line of death, constantly harvesting the lives of the landing soldiers, and the sea water and the beach were full of landing craft after explosions, and the corpses of the soldiers were as if they were all stained red with blood.

He Minglun walked forward among the corpses, and he didn't have time to catch his breath when he lay down on a small sand pile after landing on the shore, but immediately shouted to a few soldiers behind him: "The mortar team is ready, in the direction of two o'clock, the distance is two hundred, and the rapid fire is suppressed!" ”

There was a heavy machine-gun position of the Yue Army, which was constantly spraying bullets at this time, causing great trouble to He Minglun's troops.

The members of the mortar crew behind him immediately began to set up the sixty-millimeter mortar in their hands, but at this time they were facing a real rain of bullets, and before the cannon was fired, a mortar operator was hit by a bullet and fell, but the remaining gunners did not hesitate, and immediately loaded and fired after setting Zhu Yuan, and in just a few seconds, three sixty-millimeter mortar shells were fired in a row, and then they rushed to He Minglun with the wounded comrade.

"Medic, Medic!" A sergeant next to Ho Minglun shouted loudly, and the mortar man was shot in the thigh and was bleeding profusely.

Not far away, a medician with a red cross armband on his arm trotted over, at this time he was covered in blood, not his own, but his comrade-in-arms!

The paramedic rushed over, and before the person arrived, he asked loudly, "Where are the injuries?" ”

A first-class soldier next to him said: "It's the thigh, it seems to have hit a blood vessel!" ”

The medic trotted over and crouched in front of the wounded private mortar, cut his trousers with scissors and checked the wound, then took out morphine and a strap, and without saying a word, immediately gave the first class a morphine injection and wrapped his wound tightly with a bandage, the bandage was very tight, and the first class soldier was not injured in the artery, so the blood did not flow out very quickly.

Before the paramedic could breathe a sigh of relief, someone on the other side shouted, "Medic! Medic! ”