Yuan Qing is a person who doesn't like empty talk and likes to do practical things. 【】

Arriving at the General Staff Headquarters, Wang Yuanqing asked Pei Chengyi to issue orders to the "prefabricated fleet" and other units that could participate in the interception operation to prepare for battle, and asked Xiang Linghui to report on the movements of various units at any time.

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As soon as the order was given, the units began to operate.

The group of missile frigates led by the "Wanzhou" and "Daxian" has been following the US fleet westward, keeping all transport vessels within visual surveillance distance at all times. The "Zhendong" mother ship dispatched several alert helicopters to take turns to coordinate with the missile escort boats.

Because it is necessary to deal with the Japanese coastal defense fleet, other combat forces are indispensable.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, long-range coastal patrol planes carrying anti-ship missiles, antisubmarine patrol planes carrying aviation torpedoes, and 2 joint command planes, accompanied by large tankers, took off from the Kadena Air Base, which had just been restored and put into operation, and headed for the waters of eastern Hokkaido to participate in the interception operation.

30. The Air Force's 12J14 fighters, 12J15 fighters, one KZ21 early warning aircraft, and large tankers took off from an air base in the northeast of the Republic and rushed to the waters east of Hokkaido to assist the Navy's combat units in intercepting the transport fleet.

After 5 o'clock, 2 submarines operating in the sea area replied and were rushing to the place of the incident.

It took only 2 hours for the participating units to be deployed.

Wang Yuanqing did not leave the General Staff. Instead, he was listening to Pei Chengyi's brief report.

Although the Japanese aircraft carrier battle group and displacement were 5:00 large and medium-sized warships were annihilated. But the Japanese Navy still has numerous small ships with a displacement of less than 5: ground in the near sea. According to the results of the General Staff. The conventional submarine forces of the Japanese Navy did not suffer heavy losses. There are about 0 conventional submarines operating in the sea.

Because of the lack of reliable tactical intelligence. It is difficult for Japanese conventional submarines to pose a threat to the ships of the Navy of the Republic.

In order to deal with Japanese conventional submarines. The Navy sent all attack submarines to the western Pacific. Dozens of anti-submarine patrol planes and dozens of coastal anti-submarine ships are concentrated in the waters of the East China Sea west of the Ryukyu Islands. Because it is the most vulnerable to submarine attacks, the ground transport ships have always been closely protected by anti-submarine forces, and the waters of the East China Sea and the Ryukyu Islands have been closely protected. Therefore, both the General Staff and the Naval Command believe that Japan's conventional submarines have been operating in the near sea. Didn't go to the ocean.

The greatest threat is not Japanese submarines. Rather, it is a Japanese ground-based missile boat.

Back in the 20s. Japan has developed an extremely advanced hydrofoil missile speedboat.

In front of the military junta, under the guidance of the policy of "exclusive defense," Japan attached great importance to missile boats. Even at the beginning of the 21st century, Japan's warships gradually moved toward large-scale warships and built many large warships, including the "Hyuga" class, the Japanese Navy did not reduce the development of new missile boats.

After the military junta came to power, due to the brain drain, Japan once regarded missile boats as its main coastal defense force. After Mura Sada, in order to concentrate on developing nuclear weapons and effectively suppress the neighboring countries that posed a threat to Japan, the Japanese Navy built more than 50 missile boats within three years and formed the world's largest group of missile boats, which almost led to a large-scale arms race in Northeast Asia!

With the gradual recovery of national strength, Japan has successively reduced the production of missile speedboats after 2023.

According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, because Japan underestimated the difficulty of developing submarine-launched ballistic missiles and believed that it could develop strategic nuclear submarines of the real meaning by 2025, it abandoned the strategy of "coastal defense" and instead concentrated its efforts on building a "grand fleet" with the protection of strategic nuclear submarines as its main combat mission. As a direct result of this policy, Japan has accelerated the construction of various types of main warships, especially destroyers and frigates with anti-submarine as the main task, and equipped the two aircraft carrier battle groups with the world's most powerful anti-submarine escort lineup.

It was not until the Republic Navy began to equip the 6011-class missile frigates in large quantities that the Japanese Navy realized the importance of missile speedboats and launched the development program of a new missile speedboat in 2025. It is a pity that the development of such a missile speedboat, which concentrates Japan's latest scientific and technological achievements and has extremely advanced performance, is expected to be completed in 2030, and mass production is scheduled after 20311.

At this time, Japan's main missile boats were of the "Ibuki" class.

This kind of missile speedboat, which was successfully developed in 20177 and mass-produced in 201, has a standard displacement of only 342: and a full load displacement, using a hydrofoil wave-piercing ship type, with a maximum sailing speed of 45 knots, a cruising speed of 24 knots, a maximum endurance of 15 nautical miles, a maximum self-sustaining force of 15 days, and a standard crew of 211 people, including 3 officers, non-commissioned officers, and 1 sailor, equipped with 2 anti-ship missile launchers, 1 57 mm high-level dual-purpose gun and 1 6-barreled 20 mm machine gun, It can carry 1 small helicopter without hangar, and the electronic equipment is mainly 1 dual-coordinate sea search radar, 1 small weather radar and 1 set of photoelectric detection and tracking system.

Even by the standards of 2027, the performance of the "Ibuki" class is not far behind, only compared to the 60 of the Republic

Not a little bit.

The point is that the combat capabilities of missile boats are not strong.

From the day it was born, the performance of the missile boat was greatly limited because of its small displacement. With the exception of sinking destroyers during the war in the Middle East, the missile boats have not performed spectacularly. In the final analysis, it's all about the "peculiarities" of the missile boat.

Small ships have the benefits of small ships, such as being fast, flexible, not easy to be seen, and so on.

With the advancement of technology, it is difficult for these properties of missile speedboats to be used in war. No matter how fast it is, it can't be faster than an anti-ship missile; No matter how maneuverable it is, it is no better than helicopters and combat aircraft; Even if it is very difficult to be revealed, it is difficult to hide its whereabouts in front of various detection equipment.

The hull is too small, but the problems can never be overcome.

Compared with any kind of large warship, the combat capability of the missile boat is very simple, and the combat use is even more single.

Since World War II, the United States has not developed small ships, but has gone all out to build large warships. Although the Navy of the Republic once possessed a "Sea Tiger" that was feared by all enemies, after the Republic's national strength gradually increased and it had sufficient ability to build a large fleet, the missile boats gradually retreated to the second line, and were no longer the main combat ships of the Navy, and could only undertake coastal patrol and coastal defense tasks. If it is not forced by the situation, there is insufficient funding; The construction period of warships is too long, it is difficult to build too many large warships in three years, and the Navy of the Republic will not form a "prefabricated fleet" with missile frigates to carry out strategic blockade tasks.

In order to wield missile speedboats in terms of combat effectiveness, they must have sufficient assistance forces and strong joint combat capabilities.

To this end, the shore-based aviation and air force of the Republic Navy have dispatched dozens of warplanes, including early warning planes, antisubmarine patrol planes, joint command planes, tanker planes, and fighter planes, to the front line to provide all-round support and assistance to the missile frigates carrying out blockade and interception missions.

The Japanese Navy did not have such good "luck".

Before dawn, the Air Force Command sent the latest information that two groups of missile speedboats, which had been operating in the waters east of the Tsugaru Strait, had left their patrol sites and were sailing eastward.

Before the point was reached, the long-range coastal patrol planes that had arrived in the operational area were now missile boats approaching the transport fleet.

The "Ibuki"-class missile boats are not equipped with long-range air-to-air search radars, nor can they be equipped with large radars with a total system mass of several hundred tons, so they naturally cannot appear as early warning planes and long-range coastal patrol planes hundreds of kilometers away. Although the Japanese Navy has equipped most of the "Ibuki" class with short-range anti-aircraft missile army individual air defense missiles, this kind of missile can only deal with helicopters and low-flying fighters within the field of vision at most, and cannot reach combat aircraft flying at an altitude of several thousand meters or even 10,000 meters.

Through the information network system, every move of the Japanese missile speedboat group was sent to the missile frigates that met the battle.

Needless to say, the Navy of the Republic has the initiative on the battlefield.

To fight, or not to fight?

The decision-making power is not in the hands of the Navy, nor in the hands of the Chief of the General Staff, nor in the hands of Wang Yuanqing.

While the officers and men of the various participating units were anxiously waiting for the order to attack, Wang Yuanqing was waiting for news from the Military Intelligence Bureau.

You definitely have to fight, but you have to master the timing of the fight!

This was no ordinary interception, and since the U.S. fleet had not heeded the warning before, it would heed it after. If you want to avoid something like this again, you must hurt the enemy and fear the enemy. When making a decision, Wang Yuanqing made clear the purpose of "fighting," but he only emphasized the way of fighting.

The United States wants to make trouble for the republic, and the republic wants to make trouble for the United States.

Who can have the last laugh is not to see how many Japanese ships and how many ships can be sunk, but whether they can get a full reason after the fight to make the United States dumb and eat Coptis chinensis!

Wang Yuanqing was not worried about anything, the speed of the fleet was only 24 knots, and it would not be until the evening to reach the Japanese port at the earliest.

At midnight, Wang Yuanqing contacted Yan Shanglong through the confidential communication line of the Military Intelligence Bureau, asking the foreign minister to make preparations in Paris to denounce the United States for deliberately sabotaging the armistice talks.

When he received the call, Yan Shanglong was still a little surprised, and he didn't seem to understand what Yuan meant.

Wang Yuanqing didn't say anything, just asked Assistant Xi Jiao Lushan to give Yan Shanglong a brief explanation, and then asked Yan Shanglong to make relevant preparations in accordance with the highest decision.

At 11:30, Li Cunxun came to the General Staff.

After receiving the assessment report from the Military Intelligence Bureau, Wang Yuanqing did not delay and immediately asked Pei Chengyi to arrange combat missions in accordance with the relevant plans formulated by the Military Intelligence Bureau.

The strategic blockade is the "trump card" that completely defeats Japan.

After getting the plan of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Pei Chengyi understood the reason why Yuan was delayed in issuing combat orders. As a soldier, Pei Chengyi has to admire Yuan's strategic vision and political acumen. This is not an easy battle, but one that is destined to have an impact on numerous countries!

After 12 o'clock, the combat order was issued to all combat units, and the countdown to the interception operation began.