All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

It has been mentioned before that in the world of navigation, the risk of a large number of warships sailing in formation at night is not small. Therefore, under normal circumstances, neither the indigenous forces nor the player fleet will choose to maintain high-speed sailing at night.

Therefore, as soon as the sky darkened, both the combined fleet desperately returning, and the alien players who had received the news and were gathering with each other, preparing to return or entangle with the third fleet, were all in a static state, anchored on the sea to rest.

In the morning, they had already received a telegram or message from Mink Island asking for help. They also knew that the offensive of the Blue Star player fleet was very fierce. Without reinforcements, it would be difficult for Mink Island to hold on.

They also started to leave one after another, preparing to return to support Mink Island. In order to escape the pursuit and containment of the second fleet, those alien players even adopted the technique of survival by cutting off their tails, leaving hundreds of players to desperately block them, hoping to The trip back to Mink Island was uneventful.

They have been working hard enough, and it can even be said that they have made great sacrifices to support Mink Island.

As a result, Mink Island only lasted for one day and could not hold it anymore. Most of the surface fleet was sunk, and the ground airport, large radar station and air defense positions were all blown to pieces.

Now even the coastal defense artillery fortress has been bombed. It is obvious that Mink Island can no longer hold on.

But what can they do? Not to mention the interference and containment of the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet, it is not that easy for them to return to Mink Island smoothly.

Even if the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet now open the passage and no longer block it, they are still some distance away from Mink Island. It is impossible to rush back to Mink Island, at least tonight.

Alien players were anxious to contact each other in the chat section, trying to find a better solution.

When the main battleship had no choice but to let the alien players who were scattered in the sea area and were rushing to the assembly area to join other players and then return to Mink Island to return home first.

Although their number of warships is small, they are closer to Mink Island. Only they can return to Mink Island quickly. Regardless of whether this power is enough, it is support at least.

As for the alien players who had gathered together and formed a large formation, they also started to activate their warships and sailed slowly on the sea, returning to Mink Island. For the sake of safety, not only did they turn on all the navigation lights, the distance between the warships also increased. It was spread far apart, and the entire team occupied a large area.

Although the team is widely spread out and the formation is even wider, it is actually easier to be detected by the radar system or discovered by the aerial reconnaissance of the carrier-based aircraft, but this is at night.

Although the carrier-based aircraft equipped by the Chinese fleet are equipped with airborne radar and have night combat capabilities, neither Cunningham nor Halsey have done anything like night reconnaissance.

The distance between the fleets of both sides is not close, and they are not within the effective detection range of the shipboard radar at all. Therefore, Cunningham and Halsey did not know that the combined fleet of Mink Island and the alien players were actually there. Venture back in formation at night.

However, neither of them noticed it, but Nimitz did.

The main fleet is anchored in the waters about 300 kilometers away from Mink Island, and it is still the main channel to and from Mink Island. Most warships entering and leaving Mink Island almost pass through the waters around them.

Langsdorff had already sailed to Mink Island with a large number of warships, preparing for a close attack, but there were hundreds of warships left behind, including the Yanhuang.

Among these warships, the warships belonging to the First Fleet are equipped with ship-borne radars up to level 8. Their effective detection range is much longer than that of the warships of Mink Island and Alien players, and their detection capabilities are stronger.

What's more, the Yanhuang is still in base form at the moment. Not only the ship-borne radar can play a role, but its specially built large-scale ground radar station can also play a role.

Previously, on the Yanhuang, the large-scale ground radar station technology was not very strong. It only solved a problem of availability, but the effect was not much better than the ship-based radar.

Now with the addition of Watt, it is not only the performance of airborne radars that has been improved, but also the performance of large ground radars has also been greatly improved.

Moreover, it is much more convenient and simpler for ground radars to improve their performance than shipborne radars and airborne radars. After all, they do not need to consider issues such as space, size, and weight. They can just keep adding equipment to improve detection capabilities. That's it.

Therefore, the First Fleet's ability to monitor the surrounding sea areas is much stronger than that of the normal surface fleet. Even if the carrier-based aircraft is not released to conduct aerial reconnaissance of the surrounding sea areas, it can already detect many situations just by relying on the detection of the radar system..

However, those alien players who were scattered in the sea and received the request for help were not close to Mink Island and were returning at night. Although their number of warships was small, they did not need to consider the dangers and speed of formation sailing. It can be improved a bit, but returning to Mink Island is not something that can be done in a short time.

It wasn't until the third wave of attack aircraft released by the Yanhuang had completed another round of large-scale bombing of Mink Island that these alien player warships appeared on the radar display screen of the Yanhuang.

Of course it did not appear on the display screen of the shipboard radar system, but was detected by a large ground radar station.

But whether it is shipborne radar or ground radar, it is detected, which means that the actions of these alien players have been discovered.

After discovering the existence of alien player battleships, Nimitz certainly would not let them go easily. Carrier-based aircraft soared into the sky from the Yanhuang and flew towards the discovered alien player battleships at high speed.

At the same time, several of the warships escorting the surroundings were activated, broke away from the fleet formation, and also sailed towards the discovered alien player warships.

These returning Alien players originally returned in scattered pieces. Although they had already assembled, the time was too hasty and many of the Alien players who had received the news and came to assemble were still on their way, so these were the first to return. There are actually not many alien players.

Night bombing is not only a huge problem for ground air defense, but also for battleship air defense. The key is that these carrier-based aircraft taking off from the Yanhuang are equipped with airborne radars. Although the accuracy of night bombing is not as good as that of broad daylight Bombing, but still capable of bombing very accurately.

Even though most of the carrier-based aircraft of the Yanhuang that had completed combat preparations went to bomb Mink Island, there were not many carrier-based aircraft that could bomb these returning alien battleships, but they still caused great damage to these alien player battleships. of damage.

The most important thing is that under the night bombing of the Chinese fleet's carrier-based aircraft group, these alien players' idea of ​​returning to Mink Island for support was completely frustrated. Let alone returning to support now, can their own lives be saved? Whether it can be saved is still unknown.

When encountering night bombings, these alien players organized limited anti-aircraft firepower for air-to-air shooting, while constantly contacting other alien players and requesting instructions. Now should they bite the bullet and continue to rush forward? Or use the cover of night to quickly escape the scene.

Although they still don’t know how they were exposed, they can guess that they must have been detected by the shipboard radar equipped on the Blue Star player’s battleship. As long as they escape far away, they can escape from the shipboard. The radar's effective detection range was covered by night, so they were safe.

However, among the Alien players, or in the minds of the commanders, they were originally returning to support Mink Island, so escaping at this time is useless.

Therefore, many commanders feel that they should continue to move forward. Anyway, the effective detection range of shipborne radar is limited. Whether they rush forward or escape backward, the effect should be considered to be almost the same.

Needless to say, such a suggestion was really recognized by most Alien players, so these Alien player warships that were somewhat damaged in the carrier-based bombing began to start again, and continued to speed towards Mink. pungent.

The method adopted by the alien players was good, but they had no idea that under Nimitz's command, the entire surrounding area of ​​Mink Island had actually been completely controlled.

Not to mention that a group of warships are speeding towards their location, wanting to intercept them and completely eliminate them.

Even if they broke through the surface interception of the warships sent by Nimitz and approached Mink Island, in fact, with their small number of warships, it would be impossible to provide good support to Zhao De.

The attack formation commanded by Langsdorff is powerful. The number of large main battleships such as battleships and battlecruisers exceeds 30. Coupled with the large main battleships belonging to players, this number will even further increase to more than 50 ships..

Such a powerful attack formation can completely attack Mink Island while detaching a small fleet to intercept these alien player warships that want to support Mink Island.

What's more, in the offshore waters of Mink Island, there are more than 700 Type XXI submarines lurking underwater, like assassins, able to emerge at any time and launch a fatal blow. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

It can be said that when these alien players choose to continue sailing to Mink Island, their ending is already doomed, just to see how far they can sail. , and where their warships will be sunk.

Langsdorff didn't know what was happening in the rear. After more than 6 hours of night sailing, he led the attack formation and finally arrived in the sea less than 30 kilometers away from Mink Island.

As for the arrival of the attack formation, the Mink Island side had actually discovered it a long time ago. Although the large ground radar station on the island had been completely blown up by aerial bombing and lost its function, the shipborne radar equipped on the surface warship could still be used. Still functioning..