Girls und War

At this time, the mighty naval forces were displayed on the sea, waiting for the headquarters to issue military combat missions to them at any time.

At this moment, Xia Shu walked down from the helicopter, walked towards Yanjie with a smile on his face, and gave her a bear hug.

At this time, the aircraft carrier was in a state of combat readiness. You could see that the deck was full of planes, lined up in a row without even a gap.

If they wanted to, these planes could take off and land an entire squadron in half an hour.

However, the headquarters does not seem to have issued any formal combat missions recently, so the planes have not taken off yet.

When Vice Admiral Kenji took Xia Shu past the plane, he also introduced to her the different functions of different types of fighter jets.

It is worth mentioning that the helicopter carrier under Xia Shu can also be used as a fighter flight platform to some extent.

Therefore, Yanjie also temporarily borrowed eight fast take-off and landing fighter jets and placed them on the deck of the Seacat.

Together with the Seacat's four vertical take-off and landing fighters, a total of twelve aircraft also constitute some reliable air combat power.

Speaking of which, this is one of the reasons why the Air Force Ministry and the Army Ministry agreed so readily when Xia Shu first requested the construction of an aircraft carrier.

After the two arrived at the carrier island, Yanjie sat in the main seat and made tea himself while saying with a smile, "Hey, I just finished a remote meeting. The Air Force said that several of their airfields were bombed by the Eagle Zone. They are having a headache now. Have you heard about this?"

Xia Shu shook his head and said, "No."

Then he looked at the ocean map of the large oil field area in the center of the conference room and asked, "Are these red dots the bombed airfields?"

Yanjie handed teacups to everyone in the conference room. After hearing Xia Shu's two secretaries thank her, she nodded and said, "That's right. But we also bombed all the airports in Eagle District. So it's a draw, 50-50."

Natsuki took the teacup and nodded.

When two war zones engage in direct combat, it is customary to bomb the opponent's air force bases as soon as possible.

Because things like front-line airports cannot be moved.

Often before a war breaks out, when both sides have not yet officially become hostile, they will first find out the location of the other side's airport.

Once the war begins, the destruction of the air base is a foregone conclusion, and there will be almost no surprise.

The corresponding countermeasure is to build some temporary airports that can be used.

Sometimes, the engineering corps would temporarily pile up loess in some flat areas to build some simple airports for transport planes to take off and land.

However, this simple airport cannot accommodate sophisticated fighter jets.

Therefore, when a real battle occurs, we still have to rely more on aircraft carriers.

1013. Gateway to the Southern Ocean

The book continues above.

As mentioned earlier, air force operations in modern warfare are more dependent on aircraft carriers.

But there are also many aircraft that cannot take off and land on aircraft carriers.

For example, large radar aircraft or heavy fighter jets.

These elite aircraft have higher requirements for runways, so in order to allow them to fly freely in the ocean airspace, the Air Force often uses more special combat methods to assist them.

One of the common practices is to use a refueling machine for long-term endurance.

However, the tanker's endurance capability is not very useful when it is at a disadvantage in the air.

Because enemy fighter jets will destroy this important logistical and high-value equipment as soon as possible.

Unless the Air Force is willing to equip more expensive stealth tankers that are no less powerful than stealth bombers.

Therefore, at this time, air force ground crew often use some cheaper and more efficient means.

For example, the green belt on a section of high-quality highway was removed and converted into a runway for high-precision fighter jets to take off and land.

Yes, highways actually have such military uses. Isn’t it amazing?

A good road network can be hundreds of kilometers long, making it difficult to destroy a long "runway" that can be used as a field airport at any time.

Any ground mobile squadron can complete the cleanup and reconstruction of a temporary airport within half an hour.

Therefore, once the two armies go to war, the highway will be the important strategic material that must be seized first.

This is an important part of the Air Force's front-line combat system, and its strategic value is no less than that of the advantageous air control area.

The Flower District's advantage in controlling the large oil fields, or the confidence that allows them to challenge the Eagle District in air force competition, comes from the coastal transportation network that they have maintained and controlled along the coastline of the Poor District for many years.

The highway belt with a total length of 20,000 kilometers has almost put the Hua District half a foot into the 70 million square kilometers of maritime airspace of the Southern Ocean.

As long as the Poor District is still focused on the Flower District, and the Flower District still holds on to this Central Asian gateway that borders the Lang District Plateau to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south - the Eagle District will never be able to prevent the Flower District from becoming a strong spokesperson for the World Island.

Considering all the above reasons, it is not difficult to understand why the Flower District dared to go to war with the Eagle District head-on.

The Eagle District's own air force ground support mainly relies on the offshore military base located in the desert south of the large oil field.

After these bases were bombed by the Flower District, the infrastructure in the Money District was not as complete as that in the Poor District, so the Air Force's reserve force was much weaker than that in the Flower District.

This also caused them to be somewhat timid in strategic confrontations at sea.

As a result, the Flower District gained a rare advantage in the initial stage of the war.

However, it is well known that Eagle Zone’s military bases in the imaginary battlefield are spread all over the world.

Even though the military bases in the southern desert were bombed and could not deploy large amounts of air power, the Southern Ocean military bases and the Asia-Pacific base group still provided a lot of military support to the Eagle Zone.

After a while, when the four aircraft carrier battle groups in the Eagle District are in place, the Flower District may be suppressed in all aspects of air and sea supremacy.

Therefore, how to take advantage of the early stage and establish the overall combat base as quickly as possible is the most important issue that the flower district needs to consider now.

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Xia Shu sat in the conference room, holding a teacup, looking at the battle map in front of him, and thought to himself -

However, these things have nothing to do with special forces.

All she has to do is do her own job and complete the military tasks assigned to her by the headquarters.

At this moment, Yanjie seemed to think of something and said to Xia Shu, "Are you a little disappointed that your special forces team isn't leading the charge this time?"

Xia Shu looked up and smiled, "What's the big deal? I'm just hoping to relax a bit. Do you think the commander-in-chief isn't tired?"

"Really?" Yanjie said with a playful smile, "I heard that during the Gaoshan battle, you squeezed Guguji hard."

"Hmm? No, no." Xia Shu quickly rejected the question. "Cuckoo Chicken... Oh no, Lieutenant General Wutongqi, her command philosophy is outdated. Headquarters doesn't want command to affect the fighter, so they let us command the battle on our own."

After saying that, Xia Shu secretly calmed down.

It was a joke. As a lieutenant general, Yanjie teased Wutongqi, who was also a lieutenant general. Besides, the two of them didn't belong to the same department. If Wutongqi heard about it, she couldn't do anything.

But if Xia Shu also teased like this so heartlessly, and the words got to Wutongqi, then Xia Shu would probably have no good days in the future.

After all, if a lieutenant general wanted to make trouble for her, anyone else would have to think twice.

After hearing this, Yanjie seemed to understand Xia Shu's difficulties, so he smiled and stopped talking nonsense.

Instead, he talked to Xia Shu about the command team members of this operation.

Speaking of which, Xia Shu and Yanjie, as the on-site commanders of the two major military divisions, should also be considered as members of the command team.

However, because they have their own combat missions, they cannot stay in the command center for a long time.

In addition to the two of them, the commanders of this operation were Lieutenant General Shi Shang, the Chief of Staff of the Hua District, who was personally appointed by Princess Zhao, and her two subordinate Major Generals.

There is also a major general commanding the Air Force Department and Lieutenant General Liang Yue, the commander-in-chief of the large oil field area.

These two parties, like Kenji Natsuki, are at the same command level and obey Lieutenant General Shiso.

Because at this time, Lieutenant General Lycoris represented Princess Zhaohuang herself.

If nothing unexpected happens, when the battle reaches a critical point, Princess Zhao will enter the virtual battlefield and lead the army in person.

At this time, the location of the front-line command has become completely confidential.

Even Xia Shu and Kenjie didn't know where the command center was located.

The only way they can communicate with the headquarters is through encrypted channels.

As for the fact that the Flower District Headquarters participated in the command of this battle, Xia Shu was not surprised at all.

After all, this battle is not like the last mountain battle, the outcome is not that important.

This large oil field battle will determine the future direction of the Flower District, the Eagle District, and even the entire imaginary battlefield.

It can be said that no matter how much attention is paid to it, it cannot be overemphasized.

Xia Shu even suspected that within half an hour of the Eagle Area being attacked by air, the Sea Dugong Staff Group there immediately took over the combat command of the large oil field area.

However, Xia Shu, a small colonel commander, is still a little far away from this level of game.

If she were asked to command the battle, she would not be able to bear that responsibility.

1014. I am happy here, I don’t miss Shu

The tonnage of the Sheng Qilin aircraft carrier is much larger than the Special Combat Force's own Seacat aircraft carrier.

The Holy Qilin is a large aircraft carrier of 100,000 tons, while the Sea Cat is only a medium-sized aircraft carrier of 40,000 tons.

Since the tonnage is different, it is worth considering the internal cabin structure at the beginning of the ship design.

Therefore, compared with the living environment on both sides, the living space and activity range of the Holy Qilin are much larger than those of the Sea Cat.

So, for a period of time afterwards, Xia Shu lived on the Holy Qilin.

When I have nothing to do, I play billiards and drink tea with Lieutenant General Yanjie in the rest area. Life is quite comfortable.

As for the combat orders issued by the headquarters to the special forces, such as airborne operations and regional searches, although Xia Shu needs to command them, she is now a colonel-level commander after all, and there are some things she does not need to do personally.

So she just had to hand over the combat missions to a few captains and let them lead the teams to complete them.

The team members earn their own military merits, so they will naturally do their best to complete their tasks.

As for Xia Shu, he just needs to take a break and observe the mission status remotely when he has nothing to do.

There are some things that she doesn't need to worry about personally.

So at this time, Xia Shu finally understood how Doragon's slacking state came about.

Being a leader is so comfortable! The team members below work hard, and she doesn't have to do anything. Someone will naturally arrange everything.

The staff team is responsible for providing advice and mission planning, while the deputy officers are responsible for conveying the mission. The communications team completes the liaison work, and the team leaders lead the team to complete the mission.

Very reasonable and well organized.

All you need to do is make the decision and find a time to make pre-war mobilization.

Anyway, she will not be deprived of the deserved credit for the command.

So in order to please Colonel Xia Shu, who was becoming increasingly lazy, the special forces staff team simply moved their headquarters to the Holy Qilin.

In this way, Xia Shu can directly command the special forces' long-range operations on the aircraft carrier.

Seeing this, Yanjie didn't say anything. Anyway, there was still plenty of space on the Holy Qilin. Adding ten command centers, let alone one, would be more than enough.

She even thoughtfully allocated a dedicated meeting room for the special operations staff, providing them with all the stationery they needed so that they wouldn't have to worry about not being able to find the tools when they needed to draw or write.

After such a series of combined punches, the entire special forces fell into a state of "debauchery and extravagance", and they all said that it was more comfortable to stay in the Navy Department, where they felt like being the boss.

So when the naval officers heard this, they all showed expressions of "this plan is clear".

It seems that the day when Xia Shu and her special forces will be incorporated into the Navy Department and renamed the "Marine Corps" is not far away.

By that time, the navy will be crowned king, and what qualifications will the army idiots have to jump around over their heads?

However, these girls in the Special Operations Staff Department were not aware of the ambitions of the naval officers.

But even if they knew, they probably wouldn't be willing to lower their status from special-class people to fourth-class people.

Therefore, all the little tricks in the Navy Department’s mind will be in vain in the end.

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After a while, the war atmosphere in the naval fleet became more and more tense.

The dispatch of reconnaissance aircraft became more and more frequent. Sometimes, a formation of more than 20 aircraft would be dispatched to sweep an area on the nautical chart.

The distances between aircraft carrier battle groups are becoming larger and larger, and often the shadows of other frigates can no longer be seen with the naked eye.