After the corpse and beauty declared war with each other, the whole world had not yet come back to its senses. The second game of Haihaoer started in the Pacific Ocean.

It has to be admitted that the third World War, especially the battles and battles carried out during the Mabushi period after China and the United States declared war on each other, can be regarded as the most compact and fastest combat operations in the history of human wars. Although some people attribute this high-tempo combat operations to advanced science and technology, especially communication technology and strike methods, the pace of war in the 2nd century was much faster than previous wars. But objectively speaking, in the lockdown period of 2nd century, month, day, and month 3, what really accelerated the war was not technology, but the preparation of war plans in advance.

As we all know, the Republic and the American Mother have formulated war plans in advance.

In order to formulate a relatively complete war plan, including the early campaign operations, two superpowers not only made preparations several years in advance, but also spent huge amounts of money to build the world's largest computer system. You should know that the supercomputer system built by the General Staff of the Republic to simulate the war process is enough to match an aircraft carrier battle group, and the value of the supercomputer system in the Pentagon will not be much lower. With such a huge investment, coupled with several years of planning

Time, if both sides did not accurately judge the early stage of the war, it would be a deception. In other words, the combat operations in the early stages of the war were strictly carried out according to the war strategy that had been planned. The decision-making space of the front-line commanders was not large, so the battle seemed particularly compact. Strictly speaking, the three battles in the outer space, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean were not in sequence, but were carried out simultaneously, but were limited by other conditions, and the time for the outbreak was first and later.

Like the battle in the Indian Ocean, the battle in the Pacific is mainly about fighting for sea control.

However, this time the two sides exchanged positions, attacked by the Republic Navy and defended by the US Navy.

The fundamental reason for this situation starts with a volcanic island that was very famous in World War II, iodine Island.

After the Japanese War, the Republic not only forced Japan to "cede" the Ryukyu Islands in the name of preventing Japan from secretly developing nuclear weapons again, but also obtained the right to garrison on Japan. Before Lili Year, affected by severe radioactive pollution, the Republic did not send garrisons to Japan. From the beginning of the year, the exact time was the end of the year, shortly after the large-scale ground battle in the Middle East War ended. The Republic announced that it would send garrisons to Japan. At this time, the Republic's authorities sent troops to occupy Iwok Island in the name of verifying whether Japan was hiding nuclear weapons. In fact, after the end of the Japanese War, the Republic sent personnel to board Iwok Island based on relevant information provided by the Japanese authorities and conducted on-site investigations. It was confirmed that Japan had only built a branch for nuclear tests on this island.

The aid facilities, without building a nuclear test base on Ukraine, facilities and equipment related to nuclear tests are placed. This is also easy to understand. Iwo Huang Island is a volcanic island, and the Zhabo Mountain on the island is an active volcano. Unless the Japanese are impatient, it is impossible to conduct nuclear tests on the crater. It is also very easy to understand that the Republic is in a hurry. In the end of the year, in the name of not conducting a comprehensive survey of Zhabo Mountain, he sent personnel to Iwo Huang Island again. This is also easy to understand. During World War II, the Japanese army almost hollowed out the entire Zhabo Mountain, turning this mountain composed of volcanic ash and lava into the largest military fortress on the island. It also cost the US military a greater casualty price (the Iwo Huang Island landing battle was the only battle in the entire Pacific War where US troops suffered more casualties than Japanese troops).

The problem is that the purpose of the Republic sending troops to Iwojin Island is not to verify.

To put it bluntly, even if militarist ideas rekindle in Japan, the Japanese authorities will not be so stupid as to develop nuclear weapons.

The Republic has only one purpose," which is to control Iwo Huang Island and turn it into a base for advancement in the Western Pacific.

If Iwoo Island becomes a military base, it will push the Republic's local outer defense line eastward to the east and make a thousand meters. More importantly, Iwoo Island is only more than four kilometers away from Guam, just within the range of the tactical aviation, so it can also make Guam a decoration. In fact, in World War II, the only day when the US military conquered Iwoo Island at a huge cost was to deploy two escort fighter jets here. That is to say, the area of ​​Iwoo Island is enough to make it a military base that can deploy hundreds of fighter jets.

Of course, in order to avoid overstimulating the United States, the Republic did not build a large-scale construction on Iwo Huang Island.

In fact, with the technical strength of the century and the military requirements of the Republic for Iwo Huang Island, there is no need to build a large-scale construction in peacetime. To put it bluntly, as long as there is a Republican army on the island and the ability to become a military base in a short period of time, Iwo Huang Island is a major concern for the US military. That is, before the outbreak of the war, the Republican army only did one thing on the island, that is, level the land in the name of verification, and carry out a comprehensive and thorough cleaning of Zhebo Mountain. According to the standards of the Republican army, as long as enough vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft are invested and prefabricated parts are transported to the island in time, a front-line airport can be built within 2 times to make tactical aviation.

"The air force provides support. If large-scale construction equipment and construction raw materials can be delivered by sea, plus a battalion of engineering forces, Iwo Huang Island can be built into a comprehensive military base with sea and air support capabilities within a week. Although at this time, Iwo Huang Island's Yupei Pan-power is also very limited, and the fighter jets that can be deployed will not be attacked or attacked. But the main value of the land is not to bear the support point of the strike force. Instead, extend the distance of the reconnaissance force to assist other troops, such as the Western Pacific Fleet, to put it simply, you only need to deploy dozens of tactical reconnaissance aircraft to the island, which will make the American fleet deployed in Guam unable to move freely.

Judging from the overall strategic situation, Iwoo Island's importance in the Western Pacific is similar to Digo Garcia's Indian Ocean.

Not to mention, if the US military cannot take down Iwoo Island, it will be difficult to provide practical support to the Philippines to the west and Japan to the north. Of course, the US military does not necessarily have to capture Iwoo Island. As long as it loses its military capacity, it will be unable to serve the Republican army.

In fact, this is exactly the Republic’s “request” for Digo Garcia.

From this perspective, the United States can completely use defense instead of attack, that is, focus on strengthening Guam's defense, and then use the aviation troops deployed at Anderson Air Base in Guam and the fleet operating with Guam as the support point to attack Iwoo Island, causing Iwoo Island to completely paralyze. For the Republic, the situation is not so lucky.

Because the nearest military base to Iwoo Island is far away from the heart, the Republic will definitely not tolerate Iwoo Island being threatened. To be precise, we should try our best to avoid a devastating blow to Iwoo Island. In this case, the only option of the Republic's Navy is to actively launch an offensive, causing the US military to lose its ability to attack Iwoo Island.

Obviously, this is also an important reason why the Western Pacific Fleet has been operating in the waters near Iwo Huang Island.

Of course, from the perspective of the United States, the situation is not very optimistic. Because the Republic's Western Pacific Fleet has been active nearby, and the United States did not take the initiative, before joining the war, there were not many US fighter jets deployed at Anderson Air Base in Guam, and the US Seventh Fleet, which took Guam as the support point, also headed south in Koyuri and left the strike range of the Republic's fleet to avoid sudden attacks. In other words, when the war broke out, the US military actually had no way to launch a full-scale attack on Iwoo Island.

This is also one of the important factors for the Republic's Navy's active offensive.

To put it bluntly, if the US fleet had been active in the waters north of Guam and the Fifth Fleet with Pearl Harbor as its home port arrived in advance, the Western Pacific Fleet of the Republic Navy would have dared not go south rashly. It would have dared not to launch carrier-based fighters to bomb Guam and Tinian Islands on the night of the 2nd of the month (Tinian Island belongs to the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands were handed over to the United Nations to the United States to be entrusted. Before the young and 2008, the United States did not have the Northern Mariana Islands.

The garrison was not until the Republic sent troops to board Iwo Yu Island that the United States decided to requisition Tinian Island. The theater air defense system was deployed on the island. More importantly, on the month and on, the Western Pacific Fleet turned south and actively approached Guam. So shortly after the bombing began, the cruisers and destroyers in the fleet launched shelling of the theater air defense system on Tinian Island, as well as the Anderson Air Base and Azengla Naval Base on Guam.

Mu Yong doubted that the real fatal blow was the fleet's artillery bombardment.

As the most important military base of the United States in the Western Pacific, there is no need to say much about the importance of Guam. Many years ago, the US authorities granted more than 50,000 green cards from the Northern Mariana Islands. The main reason for requisitioning Tinian Island was to strengthen Guam's defense deployment. It can be said that as a military base, Guam's defense intensity exceeded that of all cities. In addition to the theater air defense system on Tinian Island, Guam also has a tactical air defense system, and all military bases have multiple sets of last-stage interception systems. For this reason, the United States also built a high-power controlled fusion nuclear power plant on Guam.

Affected by this, the attack efficiency of carrier-based aviation is far less than that of fleet artillery fire.

Because the shells fly faster, the shells fall on the US base before the ammunition outside the defense zone projected by the carrier-based fighter jets arrives. In other words, the fleet artillery fire acts as the pioneer of the aviation force. It is precisely because the early artillery fire coverage destroyed the theater air defense system on Tinian Island that the carrier-based fighter jets can shorten the attack distance to within aid kilometers, and use ammunition with a slightly closer range but much more powerful. It is precisely because the artillery fire covers the US military base. Therefore, the efficiency of air strikes is not so low that it is unacceptable.

From a tactical point of view, the Republic's Navy scheduled the attack on Guam on the night of the 2nd, rather than day and night, which also had a lot to do with the use of fleet artillery fire. If only ship-based aviation troops were dispatched, at day and night, that is, when the battle in the Indian Ocean began, the Western Pacific Fleet should launch an attack.

Actual combat proves that it is not that there is no way to defend against artillery fire attacks, but that the defense efficiency is too low.

According to the results of the war announced by the US authorities, during the battle, the interception system of the Guam base shot down thousands of targets, most of which were gun shells weighing kilograms. The problem is that there were definitely more than that in the shells dropped on Guam at that time. Judging from the battle reports released by the Republic's Navy, there were 6 cruisers and destroyers participating in the shelling, and the shelling lasted for 30 minutes. Even if the fire was opened at a normal speed, about 30,000 tons of bullets were shot down, which is equivalent to a Wanggong shell. Therefore, only a very small number of shells shot down by the US military were ablaze.

After the battle, the Western Pacific Fleet turned north. After two days, it returned to Naha Port in the Ryukyu Islands. All the Shan warships involved in the artillery were replenished. According to the combat rules of the Republic's Navy, when the ammunition reserve is low, as long as the port is in the port, it can also receive the old Shandao warships and throw at least the door. Tons of shells (the warships can carry up to 60,000 tons of ammunition), that is, the amount of shells thrown will not be less than 50,000, which is far exceeding the defense capabilities of the US interception system.

This is also the difficulty of intercepting shells.

From a technical perspective, it is not much more difficult to intercept kilogram-level or bladder-level electromagnetic cannon shells than to intercept anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles. The reason is very simple. The flight speed of electric-touch gun shells at the end of the ballistic is generally within 8 kilometers per second, equivalent to Mach 10,000, while the last flight speed of most anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles is around Mach. Because the bullet adopts the separation technology between the warhead and the bullet body, the missile warhead is not much greater than the shell. The key is that in the face of the shells that are hit by the sky, any kind of interception system seems powerless. You must know that the shells thrown in the electromagnetic cannon within minutes are

If the warships launch more than twice the number of missiles within a minute, if the continuous ability of fleet artillery fire is included, during the battle in which the number of minutes or blade minutes is occupied, the shells thrown by the naval guns are dozens of times, or even hundreds of times that of the missiles launched by the warships. There is no doubt that if the interception efficiency cannot be improved, increasing the interception capability by dozens of times means deploying dozens of times. Even if we do not consider how to deploy so many interception systems in a limited space, and these interception systems will not reduce the interception efficiency due to mutual interference, or even be completely unable to fight, it is also very unrealistic to start from an economic perspective.

It can be seen from this that intercepting cannons is still a global problem.

It is not difficult to understand why the Republic and the US Navy will make every effort to develop electromagnetic guns and equip new warships with more electromagnetic guns.

Similarly, the Republic's Navy and the U.S. Navy are not in a hurry to build new aircraft carriers, and this is also true.

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Of course, until the new tactics are established, aircraft carriers will remain the core force in naval combat.

After Guam and Tinian Island were attacked, the Seventh Fleet, which was about a thousand meters south of Guam, immediately turned north and dispatched carrier-based fighters to attack the Republic's Western Pacific Fleet. According to the US military's combat records, the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier of the Seventh Fleet at that time dispatched a total of knife-mounted carrier-based fighters, including the two carriers carrying anti-ship missiles for sea attack missions, and the other was to escort fighters.

The problem is that the Western Pacific Fleet did not approach Guam. Even the fighter planes carrying out the bombing mission projected ammunition hundreds of kilometers away, and then turned back.

In other words, when the US fighter jets took off from the USS Roosevelt, the Western Pacific Fleet had already returned. Because the Anderson Air Base on Guam was fully shelled, the fighter planes could not be allowed to land for the time being. The airport on Tinian Island was also shelled. It was unable to receive carrier-based fighter jets, so the 48 carrier-based fighter jets that were performing attack missions had to abandon anti-ship missiles when they were back (under no circumstances could the carrier-based fighter jets landed with ammunition, let alone landed at full load. If the ammunition could not be abandoned, the pilot could only eject parachuting near the fleet and abandon the fighter jets. Instead of risking landing on the aircraft carrier).

According to the war reports released by the Republic and the United States, the carrier-based aviation forces on both sides did not encounter them.

In other words, this was a unilateral attack, and it was a raid that lasted only for a fantasy minutes, so fast that it was unresponsive.

Because the two sides did not fight directly, the battle did not attract much attention.

Strictly speaking, the government did not introduce relevant war reports on the morning of the 3rd, but many news media, including Al Jazeera, reported on this. Not many news media even thought it was a battle.

If we change the angle, no one would doubt the importance of this battle.

Starting from the morning of the 3rd, the vertical take-off and landing transport fleet of the Republic's Navy Air Force began to transport prefabricated parts to Iwokushima for building field airports. The transport fleet deployed in Yokosuka, Japan, also headed south on the morning of the same day. Affected by the attack on the Guam military base, the Seventh Fleet did not actively head north, and the fifth ship that was rushing to avoid being intercepted by the Western Pacific Fleet, and also adjusted the route to the south of Guam to meet the Seventh Fleet instead of the Northern Mariana Islands.

That is to say, the US military did not stop the Republic's Navy from reinforced Iwoo Island. Although on the night of the 3rd, the US Air Force dispatched a strategic bomber to switch to Oahu and attacked Iwoo Island with hundreds of cruise missiles, during the day of the 3rd, the Republic's army had deployed an interception system on the island and dispatched several interceptor aircraft, so the US military's attack did not succeed, at least it did not cause too much damage to the Republic's army on the island, nor did it have much impact on the ongoing construction work on the island.

As Iwo Huang Island became a military fortress, the strategic situation of the Western Pacific has basically been finalized.

Now, let’s look at the sudden attack that lasted only for Band Minute on the night of the 2nd, and the strategic depth of persuasion brought to the Republic, I’m afraid no one will question it.
Chapter completed!