Girls und War

Looking at the dense anti-submarine network on the radar panel, Yanjie couldn't help but sneer and said, "Come in if you dare, and get out if you dare."

It seems that he was indeed angered by the attack from Eagle District.

Seeing this, Xia Shu asked, "With current technology, can underwater units avoid being captured by anti-submarine equipment?"

Yanjie glanced at Xia Shu and replied, "If it's a small combat unit—like the miniature submarines you used in your previous battle in the Arctic—it might be able to evade anti-submarine reconnaissance.

"But small underwater units can't cross the ocean to get here. You have to know that this place is 500 nautical miles away from the Eagle Zone's control area. The submarines are small, so how can they get here? Do they swim?"

At this point, both Kenji and Natsuki laughed.

Then, Yanjie continued, "When facing dense sonar arrays, submarines often cannot conceal themselves. If they want to avoid being discovered, they have to stay still on the seabed.

“And even if we don’t move, we’re not completely helpless.

"You have to know that a submarine is a large heat source. When stationary, the energy dissipated by it is far greater than that of the surrounding seabed. So, if we explore area by area, we'll eventually find them.

"I just can't believe it. With a submarine's turtle speed, how can it possibly cover 500 nautical miles in two hours?"

As they were speaking, news came from the anti-submarine department that several places where suspected submarine traces were found had been marked out.

Anti-submarine helicopters are rushing to the target area to conduct a check item by item.

However, things don't seem to be going so smoothly.

Just as the inspection began, the target submarine seemed to have discovered its own critical situation and asked for help from the Eagle Zone.

On the other hand, the Eagle District quickly dispatched multiple support units, which approached openly.

It seems that they need to rescue the submarine in the "fishing net" head-on.

"Lieutenant General, it's the enemy's armed helicopter formation and submarine combat group." The leader of the radar team immediately reported to Yanjie.

Upon hearing this, Yanjie smiled instead of getting angry. He looked at the radar screen and said, "Great! They're sending a large force to rescue us? That's really a gesture of loyalty."

However, although these Eagle Zone combat units came with great momentum, their attitude was very cautious.

They stayed outside the range of the carrier battle group's ship-to-air missiles and did not get close.

It seemed that the attack aircraft were unable to take off due to the bad weather, so they stayed on the sea level with impunity.

They are just waiting for the target submarine to leave their anti-submarine search range, and then escort the target back home.

But Huaqu will obviously not let this big fish go so easily.

Therefore, a large number of armed helicopters were quickly dispatched from the Sheng Qilin and the Sea Cat, and a maritime confrontation with the Eagle Zone began.

In addition, a large number of depth charges were laid by anti-submarine helicopters on the route that the enemy's submarines must pass to prevent the enemy's submarine clusters from forcibly breaking in and launching anti-ship missiles.

At the same time, some helicopters deployed anti-torpedo decoy bombs around the aircraft carrier as a last line of defense.

After completing this series of arrangements, the anti-submarine team in Hua District began to carry out targeted and detailed anti-submarine work on some suspected target areas.

It seems that he is determined to catch the big fish in the net.

1026. Strategy is always more important than tactics

Seeing that the Flower District had gone too far and showed no intention of giving in, the Eagle District also knew that the situation would not be resolved amicably.

So they simply deployed armed helicopters in formation and launched an invasive operation into the territorial waters of the Hua District.

Then the helicopters on both sides engaged in a fierce exchange of fire at sea, but the location of the exchange was out of the sight of the aircraft carrier, so Xia Shu could not see it at all from the island.

She could only watch the red and green dots on the radar panel disappear little by little, and guess which side had gained the advantage based on the overall formation.

A little later, another violent explosion occurred not far above the sea level, and the water splashed dozens of meters high.

That was the place where the anti-submarine helicopter had previously installed anti-torpedo decoy bombs, so Xia Shu guessed that it was the enemy's torpedo that hit it.

Xia Shu didn't know which one was more expensive, the torpedo or the decoy bomb, but judging by the situation, it seemed that the Eagle District was at a loss.

Because the anti-submarine helicopter quickly found the hiding place of the target submarine and dropped a large number of depth charges underwater.

After hearing the ripples under the sea, Xia Shu estimated that the depth charge had hit the target.

After a while, an unfamiliar communication came over the radio channel - the submarine in Eagle Zone raised the flag of surrender.

So, under the threat of several anti-submarine helicopters, the submarine slowly surfaced from the water and opened its hatch, indicating that it posed no threat.

Afterwards, under the coercion of the helicopter, the submarine slowly moved towards the aircraft carrier battle group, announcing the victory of Hua District's anti-submarine operation.

Seeing that the situation was settled, the Eagle Zone on the sea level gave up the rescue operation and began to retreat.

After the submarine was driven near the aircraft carrier, the supply ship arranged a speedboat to transfer all the people inside and detained them in the prisoner-of-war room on the ship.

Looking at the various officers and soldiers of the Eagle Zone, including special forces members, walking towards the deck with their hands raised high, Yanjie finally showed a happy smile of revenge.

So, after consuming a large amount of anti-submarine resources, the Flower District finally managed to make a small comeback in this round.

As for the follow-up of the aircraft carrier insider incident, Xia Shu only heard that the management department later found two colonels in the communications department, and after having a private conversation with them, they did not make it public.

They simply arranged a helicopter overnight to take them from the aircraft carrier to the rear base.

Although the higher-ups didn't say much, the officers and soldiers below guessed it. That was the nail that the Eagle District had placed on the aircraft carrier.

The girls didn't have any special reaction to this. After all, an insider is just the same as a corporate spy, right?

It’s not shabby to have a meal.

Anyway, the Eagle District will definitely do its best to protect them when the time comes.

Otherwise, no one will be willing to work for them.

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Then, there is a short period of immersion.

Due to weather conditions, the sea during this period is full of uncertainties and rough waves.

So for the rest of the time, the Flower District and the Eagle District could only stare at each other's radars.

A few days later, the Holy Qilin finally completed its repair work and patched up the three holes on the deck.

Although when sailing on the sea, the three white patches on the deck give people a sense of humor, making people feel that the Holy Qilin is like a broken ship from a comedy comic.

(Or a welfare girl with three band-aids)

But now the Holy Qilin, at least in terms of combat capability, has recovered 60% of its usual strength.

It is much better than a few days ago when it could only be used as a fixed helicopter base.

So the Sea Cat and the Holy Kirin exchanged hangars again and switched back their battlefield positions.

After that, the Sheng Qilin aircraft carrier battle group, which had restored its combat strength, responded to the Mirage Dragon and Xuanshenbei aircraft carrier battle groups on the east and west sides, forming a stable triangular semi-encirclement of the Eagle Zone control area.

Then, as the war continued to develop, exciting good news came.

That is, with the strong support of the Flower District Air Force Department, the Eagle District was defeated on the land battlefield of the large oil field.

As for the reason for the defeat, it was not because the three war zones of Snow, Sea and Iron performed so bravely in the battle against the Eagle Zone.

Instead, Huaqu made every effort in the fight for air supremacy.

It felt like they were determined to defeat the Eagle District Air Force at the southern end of the World Island even if their logistics collapsed completely.

As we all know, the Eagle Zone can gain an all-round advantage in the imaginary battlefield, and the most important point is the absolute suppression of the air force.

Although the Flower District is slightly inferior to the Eagle District in terms of the proportion of the Air Force - the overall quality of fighter jets may be around the ratio of 0.7:1.

But the Eagle District really can't compete with the Flower District on a scale of one living and one dead.

Don't forget that the overall battlefield threats faced by the Eagle District include not only the Asia-Pacific ocean circle centered on the Flower District, but also the Arctic to East Ocean island chain region where the Snow District is located.

Even the European and American war zone west of the World Island seems to have nothing to do with the Eagle Zone - but in fact, behind the scenes, everyone has an attack plan against the New World.

Therefore, the Eagle District was unwilling and dared not to use up all its air forces in the Southern Ocean and Flower District.

It is also time for them to pay for the evil consequences of their past imperial hegemony.

As for the Flower District, aren't they afraid that after their air force is damaged, the suppression of the surrounding war zones will be weakened, so that they will suffer a backlash?

Afraid! Of course they are afraid!

However, compared to the Eagle District’s fear of losing its world dominance, the Flower District’s fear is actually not that severe.

A big part of the reason is that the surrounding war zones are geographically connected to the flower district.

Therefore, even if the Air Force suffers heavy damage, the Army can rely on its strong deterrent power to fill the Hua District's demand for high-quality combat arms in strategic suppression after losing the Air Force.

Secondly, the aerial strategic game between the Flower District and the Eagle District is essentially a "chicken game."

To put it simply, it's like one car colliding with another car, and it depends on who gets scared first and can't help but turn away from the steering wheel.

Now the players in the Flower District are bolder and more willing to exchange pieces, while the players in the Eagle District dare not.

So, the flower district won this game.

The Eagle Zone, which lost its air support, was naturally no match for the Snow Zone and other three war zones that had air support.

Therefore, it was natural that the Eagle District would suffer defeat on the battlefield in the southern desert.

It can be said that from a strategic point of view, Eagle Zone’s defeat in the southern desert has become a turning point in this major oil field war.

Although the damage to the Holy Qilin aircraft carrier during the attack caused some minor trouble to the Flower District, this minor incident was not a big deal and did not affect the overall situation.

In addition, during this period, the Flower District Special Forces continued to harass the Eagle District's South Pacific Islands military base group.

The Eagle District has had to consider the possibility of failure on the battlefield.

And what should we do with the finishing work afterwards?

1027. "Assassination of the Commander-in-Chief"

The subsequent battle situation did develop in a direction favorable to the Flower District.

Xuehai Iron District 3 worked particularly hard in the advancement because they saw hope of driving the Eagle District out of the big oil field.

The Eagle Zone's front line in the southern desert retreated step by step, and finally had to retreat to the end of the desert along the coast of the Southern Ocean.

The confrontation between the aircraft carrier battle groups in the Southern Ocean began with a fierce exchange of fire between the air forces that night after the storm along the coast had passed and the sky had just cleared up.

The air force of the Flower District is based on the highway network in the poor area and uses three aircraft carrier battle groups as fulcrums to form three combat circles with absolute air superiority on the surface of the Southern Ocean.

The Eagle Zone's Air Force used the South Pacific Islands as a fulcrum, drew a semicircle along the Southern Ocean military base, and then relied on the Eagle Zone's aircraft carrier battle group to bring half of the Southern Ocean into its own control area.

Although in terms of controlled area, the Eagle Zone's controlled area is larger than that of the Flower Zone.

However, the military occupation zone of Eagle District in the desert south of the large oil field had lost the air control of Eagle District in the ocean and had become a strategic enclave.

Therefore, faced with the Flower District's continuous air strikes and bombings on the southern desert, the Eagle District was helpless and its morale became increasingly frustrated.

As for the air and sea battlefields, both the Flower District and the Eagle District were continuously subjected to military attacks targeting the other side's logistics.

Although the air support in the Flower District is a little tight, the Eagle District is also suffering from the harassment of their military base group in the South Pacific Islands by the Flower District special forces.

With the accumulation of losses on all sides, the Eagle Zone, which had been engaged in long-distance operations for many days, could no longer hold on.

Now, the Flower District is just one step away from knocking the Eagle District to the ground.

So the Flower District Command planned a targeted general offensive.

The target of the operation is the strongest aircraft carrier battle group that symbolizes the Eagle District's maritime hegemony - the "Golden Commander" aircraft carrier battle group that arbitrates the four oceans and has dominated the imaginary battlefield for more than ten years, and is the Eagle District's maritime ace.

In the naval battle simulation she was studying, the specific location of the Eagle Zone's aircraft carrier fleet was already within her prediction range.

The command's combat objectives are also within that predicted range.

The overlap of the two target locations proves that the Huaqu aircraft carrier battle group is indeed in the target area.

As for how the command knew the target location, Yanjie was not interested.

The only thing she wanted to do now was to find the Eagle Zone's aircraft carrier battle group and completely destroy it from the world.

The commander-in-chief of this operation was Princess Zhaohuang herself.

Yanjie is responsible for the command and operation of the maritime fleet.

Xia Shu's duties in this operation were security and guarding.

It seems that the last anti-special warfare operation of the Holy Kirin achieved excellent results. Now the heads of various military departments have asked the special forces to provide close protection for them.