Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 252 Powerful Fleet
Wang Gensheng naturally had no objection to the aircraft carrier returning to the Bohai Sea, after all, he was aware of the strength of the US fleet.

However, Duan Peng, who had never witnessed the power of the American fleet, said:

"Are we just going to back down like this? It's just the US Seventh Fleet! How many fighter jets and aircraft carriers can they possibly have? Didn't we sink the old man's fleet off Tashan Beach?"

Wang Gensheng was speechless in response:

"Those warships in the old 'fish' fleet were all unwanted by the US and the UK. Do you know why I went to such great lengths to convert battleships into aircraft carriers?"

Duan Peng nodded in agreement.
"It's all because aircraft carriers are powerful! Aircraft carriers can carry fighter jets, instantly increasing their attack range from a few kilometers or tens of kilometers to hundreds or even thousands of kilometers!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Gensheng nodded and said:

"If you knew that the United States has more than 150 aircraft carriers, do you think we could deal with more than 100 US aircraft carriers with just our one aircraft carrier?"

Seeing Duan Peng's stunned expression, Wang Gensheng continued:

"Actually, it's unnecessary for us to get angry with the US Seventh Fleet right now. The US's main focus is still on North and South Korea, and the war between North and South Korea is actually a contest between two major camps. But we in South Korea are not the leader of the South Korean camp right now. So we are not afraid of a mere Seventh Fleet, but we don't want to directly confront the camp behind this fleet!"

Wang Gensheng's words were not empty talk. After all, the Seventh Fleet was actually nothing special. If Wang Gensheng used the Kaiten torpedo, he could take the Seventh Fleet away directly.

Although the United States' Seventh Fleet was a household name, even Wang Gensheng had heard of it before his transmigration.

After all, this fleet, from the later stages of World War II to the beginning of the 21st century, has directly influenced the living environment of almost half the world's population and even the basic trajectory of history over the past eighty years.

The most crucial event was in the early 1950s when the Seventh Fleet openly intruded into a key strait, directly disrupting the entire process of the Huaguo project.

This historical impact can be described as global, and it remained unresolved until Wang Gensheng's time travel. It was the potential flashpoint for the world's greatest contradiction and conflict, and it could even be the key point for the outbreak of World War III.

Based on this alone, the Seventh Fleet can be considered quite famous in the tens of thousands of years of human development history.

Despite its great reputation, the Seventh Fleet is actually just one of the branch fleets in the superpower's two-ocean fleet division, but the area of ​​its strategic jurisdiction is unprecedented and unparalleled.

Because the area of ​​the sea, stretching from the International Date Line in the east to the mouth of the Red Sea in the west, covering a total area of ​​over 220 million square kilometers, belongs to the Seventh Fleet's fixed defense zone.

It's important to understand that Earth's total surface area is only 510 million square kilometers, and just looking at the numbers, you can see that the Seventh Fleet's defense zone occupies more than 40% of that. Calling it unprecedented or unparalleled wouldn't be an exaggeration.

The fact that a single squadron is responsible for nearly half of the surface area also illustrates the immense overall strength of the Seventh Fleet, both historically and in reality.

However, the problem is that this power has always been relative.

In other words, if the Seventh Fleet is taken out of context and compared to the total naval power of a superpower, it doesn't seem to stand out in that respect.

For example, from the end of World War II until around 2000, the core of the Seventh Fleet's strength was the 80,000-ton conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. Surrounding it were about ten destroyers and frigates, plus no more than five Los Angeles-class attack submarines.

In addition, there is a permanent amphibious strike flotilla, with two 40,000-ton amphibious assault ships as its main force, and several replenishment ships.

Of course, there is also the Blue Ridge command ship, which is extremely rare in the world and weighs over 20,000 tons.

Therefore, the Seventh Fleet at the height of the Cold War had a total displacement of around 350,000 tons.

This tonnage, compared to the total tonnage of 5.5 million tons of the superpower navy during the Cold War, and the 15 large or even giant aircraft carrier strike groups, is less than one-fifteenth of its total strength.

The fact that it can still defend such a vast area only demonstrates that the superpower's naval strength was exceptionally outstanding globally during World War II and the Cold War.

This further illustrates that along the tens of thousands of kilometers of coastline stretching from the Tsushima Strait to the mouth of the Red Sea, the naval forces of almost all the major Asian land powers were far too weak during the Cold War!

A single conventionally powered aircraft carrier plus a dozen or so Aegis-equipped ships would be enough to completely suppress them.

In fact, the core mission of the Kitty Hawk carrier strike group for the past forty years has been to prevent the Soviet Red Navy from easily breaking through the island chain and moving south.

Then, not until after 1990, it took on the new task of suppressing a certain emerging power for the first time, and even then, it was still an easy task to handle.

However, the problem is that after 2020, everyone suddenly realized that the Seventh Fleet had become visibly inflated.

After the USS Kitty Hawk was decommissioned, the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers that replaced it were constantly being replaced, and now it's the oldest one, the USS Nimitz itself, that's taking its place. But this aircraft carrier will be decommissioned next year.

Of the nine Aegis destroyers that were originally assigned to the fleet, two were destroyed in a collision a few years ago, and the others are undergoing ongoing, albeit slow, repairs in Yokosuka, and are not readily going to sea.

In addition, there are fewer than three permanent nuclear submarines left, and their permanent base has been moved to Guandao Base.

As a result, the current Seventh Fleet is in the embarrassing situation of having no ships available for use for many years.

Their actual remaining strength is less than half of any of the three fleets they are trying to contain!
Even just ten years ago, this would have been completely unimaginable!
Of course, he would only be able to fight against the US Navy alone thirty years after his brother Su Guo fell. As things stand now.

Even if Wang Gensheng used his "Return to Heaven" technique to destroy the United States' Seventh Fleet, so what? With the United States' industrial production capacity, it wouldn't be a problem to build ten or even a hundred more Seventh Fleets. But what about the United States?
Let alone ten, producing even one would be a struggle. Therefore, keeping the war confined to land and within the territory of Korea is in Korea's best interest, rather than letting the US go crazy and bombard Korea's coastal cities.

Of course, they also understood the vulnerability of their own navy, so after the US Seventh Fleet entered, they immediately canceled the plan to seize the boat.

Then they focused their main efforts on the Korean side, and as expected, the Korean side's initial offensive went quite smoothly, almost driving the Koreans into the sea.

However, the US military's Incheon landing caught North Korea completely off guard, leaving a large number of North Korean soldiers stranded on the southern part of the peninsula. This Incheon landing naturally shocked the world.

(End of this chapter)