readx; After putting down the battle report, Chen Jingyun said to Guan Shijie: "Remember!" ”

Then Chen Jingyun spoke one after another: "The First World War of the United States has made immortal contributions to the great cause of China's rejuvenation, and I thank you on behalf of the party and the country......

This is a telegram of condolences sent to the Second Mobile Fleet, the number of words is a bit too much, Chen Jingyun said it for a few minutes before it was finished, and then Chen Jingyun carefully considered it and said:

"In addition, a commemorative medal will be awarded to all soldiers who participated in this battle!"

Chen Jingyun said sentence by sentence: "Special order to promote Lu Jian to admiral and award the Diamond Double Sword Medal!" ”

As soon as Guan Shijie heard this, he couldn't help but jump in his heart, the rank of admiral is nothing, because when the naval battle just broke out, Chen Jingyun had already promised Lu Jian the rank of admiral in order to boost the morale of the generals, and now the great victory in the naval battle is naturally the time to fulfill the promise, but this diamond double sword medal is a little different, because this diamond double sword medal has not been awarded since its establishment, and the highest medal awarded before is the 'red and gold double sword medal' Guan Shijie got this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info However, now Chen Jingyun took out the Diamond Double Sword Medal as soon as he opened his mouth, which shows that Chen Jingyun is in an excellent mood at this time, and he values Lieutenant General Lu Jian.

Guan Shijie, who secretly sighed in his heart that Lu Jian's luck was so good that he continued to record Chen Jingyun's words: "Promoted to Rear Admiral Zhao Zidong and awarded the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal. In addition, Major General Yang Kunlin and Colonel Fu Changpeng were awarded the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal. ”

The rest of the meritorious soldiers then reported and were promoted and awarded medals one by one! In addition, Lu Jian temporarily let him continue to stay in the Second Mobile Fleet, "Chen Jingyun is still counting on Lu Jian to continue to lead the Second Mobile Fleet to finish this war."

After all, in Chen Jingyun's view, Lu Jian is a general who is so lucky that he has a good command and has a very good tactical command, and he belongs to the kind of famous admiral, and this kind of general is suitable for staying on the front line, if he is transferred back to China because of his promotion or transferred to the position of commander of the three major fleets, it will be a waste of his command talent.

The establishment of the mobile fleet was originally a temporary establishment, and it was possible to use a lieutenant general as a commander, or a general as a commander.

After hearing this, Guan Shijie said: "I understand, the navy will make proper arrangements!" ”

"Now that the Second Mobile Fleet has won a big victory, but its own losses are not small, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time to rest, so how to replenish the combat power of the North Pacific Theater next? The landing plan on the Ryukyu side has reached its final stage, and it cannot be postponed because of the rest of the second mobile fleet! Chen Jingyun had already turned his head to Jin Hongye at this time.

Jin Hongye said: "Chairman rest assured, although there are many injured ships in the Second Mobile Fleet, only one of the six aircraft carriers of the main force is injured, the Huashan, and the other five can recover their maximum combat effectiveness in a short time after replenishing carrier-based aircraft and pilots." The loss of escort ships will also be replenished by drawing some ships from the First Mobile Fleet and the Fifth Mobile Fleet, and the Second Battle Fleet's Yaodi and Zhuan Xuan will also join the sequence of the Second Mobile Fleet. ”

Although the aircraft carriers in the second mobile fleet were not badly damaged, the escort ships, especially the main escort ships, suffered great losses, two battleships and four large cruisers were severely damaged, and they could not restore their combat effectiveness without a month or two of maintenance, you must know that one of the turrets of the Yandi was overturned, and the Yellow Emperor and the Yandi were both hit by torpedoes, and it will take time to repair them. Among the large cruisers, the Shaohao sank, and the Emperor and Fuxi were severely damaged, and the two large cruisers that were heavily damaged had to be repaired for a month, to say the least.

During this period, if the Second Mobile Fleet wanted to go to sea, it had to be supported by a part of the escort of the capital ships, and it was only natural that the Second Fleet was transferred from the Second Fleet to the Second Mobile Fleet of the First Fleet. After all, although the Second Fleet is responsible for the situation in the South Pacific, it is said that "the main force of the Navy is not much, and there are still British and American navies, so the pressure on the Second Fleet is not great; of course, what is more important is that China's current strategic focus is on the North Pacific, mainly attacking the Ryukyus, and the other is attacking the Philippines.

Under such a strategic requirement, it is not too much to mobilize more troops into the second mobile fleet!

However, now these arrangements are all follow-up arrangements, and now the Second Mobile Fleet has not yet returned to China, and the naval battle has just ended, and now the entire Second Mobile Fleet has just completed its integration and formation, and more than 100 warships are heading for the Taiwan Naval Base, and many of these warships have been injured, in addition to the two battleships and two large cruisers that have been heavily damaged, the Shiguang heavy cruiser and five other light cruisers have also been seriously damaged, and there are even more injured destroyers.

Although the damage to the capital ships in the naval battle was noticeable, it was the light ships that sank the most, and the second mobile fleet sank a Clanlan-class light cruiser and a Fuyan-class anti-aircraft cruiser. Two other Zi'an-class destroyers were sunk, one Zimei-class destroyer was sunk, and two Zigui-class destroyers were sunk.

In this way, the 2nd Mobile Fleet sank a total of one large cruiser, two light cruisers, and five destroyers in this battle.

In addition to surface warships, they also lost a large number of carrier-based air forces, and from the beginning to the end of the war, including such factors as being shot down, getting lost, and taking off and landing accidents, they lost more than 90 carrier-based aircraft, accounting for more than one-sixth of the more than 500 carrier-based aircraft participating in the war, and it is worth noting that less than half of them were shot down by the navy's anti-aircraft fire or fighter planes, and the remaining half were lost due to various accidents.

As for the pilots of carrier-based aircraft, which are the core combat strength of the naval aviation, the losses are also relatively large, and more than 20 people have been confirmed dead in battle, and more than 40 others are missing. Although it has not been confirmed, it can be basically determined that most of these missing people will not survive, because they will not have too many people to get the opportunity to parachute, even if they successfully parachute or climb out of the plane after being shot down to the sea, it is difficult for these pilots to survive, because most of the places where they crashed are in the sea area of the enemy fleet, and even if they survive, they are captured by the enemy. Only a very small number of lucky people will be able to make it to the rescue of their own submarine or rescue ship, and this possibility is really very small.

Therefore, although they are only considered missing at present, if there is no big accident, these missing pilots will be recognized as killed one after another.

In other words, the Second Mobile Fleet lost about 60 pilots in this battle!

Don't look at this number is very small, only a few dozen people, but for the naval aviation, it is a big impact, because the navy's carrier-based aircraft pilots have very high requirements for quality, and those carrier-based aircraft pilots who participated in the war before are all elite pilots trained by the Chinese Navy for many years, and the carrier-based aircraft pilots with the same skills as them are only five or six hundred people in the entire second mobile fleet, and the loss of one-tenth in this battle is one-tenth.

However, although there were losses in planes and pilots, the Second Mobile Fleet had not yet returned to Taiwan's ports, and the First Fleet had already dispatched planes and pilots from the reserve carrier-based aircraft wing to Taiwan and was ready to replenish the carrier-based wings of the Second Mobile Fleet.

The Chinese Navy has always had more planes and pilots than aircraft carriers, and as long as it does not lose hundreds of planes at a time, then the navy will not be damaged.

On July 6, the main formation of the Second Mobile Fleet returned to Keelung Port smoothly at a speed of more than 20 knots, which did not mean that all the ships of the Second Mobile Fleet, the scale of the Second Mobile Fleet was extremely large, and all the warships could add up to more than 100 ships, and this time the ships that returned to Keelung Port were mainly ships that had participated in the battle before and needed to be repaired or replenished, basically the fleet directly under the Second Mobile Fleet, the 21st Fleet, the 24th Fleet, and the 25th Fleet, and then some damaged ships. The rest of the 22nd and 23rd fleets did not return as soon as possible, but took these aircraft carriers as the core, and then transferred some intact ships from other fleets to join them to continue patrolling operations, of which the 23rd Squadron was ordered to go to the Ryukyu waters to launch a large-scale air raid on the Ryukyu Islands, while the 22nd Squadron was ordered to continue patrolling the waters northeast of Taiwan.

After all, in a huge war, it can't be said that it will be over after a beautiful naval battle, and there are still many large and small naval battles to be fought next.

After most of the ships of the Second Mobile Fleet returned to Keelung Port, some lightly injured ships were directly repaired in Keelung Port, but some seriously injured large ships such as two battleships and the Emperor needed to return to China for maintenance, after all, although Keelung Port is the largest military port of the Chinese Navy facing the Pacific Ocean, and the Chinese Navy has also made great efforts to build this port over the years, but it is not the main shipbuilding base in China now, but it does not have the ability to repair dozens of ships at a time, especially the two battleships were seriously damaged, The Yandi even had to replace the turret, which was a big project that only several major shipyards in China were capable of.

In order to increase the strength of the Second Mobile Fleet and the problem of insufficient combat effectiveness of the three old aircraft carriers of the 21st Sub-Fleet in combat, the First Fleet transferred the Songshan and Taishan of the Third Air Group to the First Mobile Fleet, and at the same time transferred the Sixth Air Group to supplement the 21st Fleet. Among the three aircraft carriers under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Air Group, there are two large armored aircraft carriers in the Chinese Navy, the Tianshan and Wudangshan.

As a result, the air strength of the Second Mobile Fleet has increased instead of decreasing, reaching two large armored aircraft carriers, two Aoyama-class straight-deck aircraft carriers, three Aoyama-class angled deck aircraft carriers, and two Qingchengshan-class light aircraft carriers converted from heavy cruisers.

The reason for further strengthening the strength of the 2nd Mobile Fleet is naturally related to the upcoming Ryukyu Campaign!

Before the start of the war, China's State Military Commission had already formulated a policy for dealing with the Ryukyu Islands in advance, among which the three strategic objectives of the highest priority were to be implemented, the first of which was to capture the Ryukyu Islands. The second point was to capture the occupied area of the Indochina Peninsula, that is, the Malaysian region of the former British Indochina Peninsula, including Singapore, and the third point was to land in the Philippines.

In principle, these three strategic objectives are in no particular order, but in view of the actual situation and in order to avoid the dispersion of forces, in fact, the capture of these areas is also in order.

The first plan to capture Singapore was carried out, because there was no need to cross the sea to land in this area, and Chinese army units could go directly south from Thailand and then capture Singapore with the naval support of the Second Fleet.

The landing in the Ryukyus and the Philippines, on the other hand, is a bit backward, because it takes too much time to prepare for launching a landing operation, and it does not mean that the army can land if it says it can land, and it has to cooperate closely with the navy, at least until the navy obtains sea supremacy.

In this way, the defeat of the Second Mobile Fleet made the naval threat of the Navy's sea greatly reduced, and the landing operation in the Ryukyus at this time also entered the actual stage!

On July 8, a large number of soldiers in Shanghai and other major ports in China began to board the transport ship, and they were about to launch a landing operation against the Ryukyus!