.Chapter 60 The strange battlefield

After the war, many people attributed the US military's misfortune in the "Second Battle of Digo Garcia" (when the war broke out, the US military's sneak attack on the Chinese Navy's West Indian Ocean Fleet, which was also called the "First Digo Garcia Navy Battle") to Reagan's wrong judgment. Some people also believe that the main reason is the serious differences between Major General Reagan and Brigadier General Nixon. Read the full text of the Burning Ocean.

In essence, in addition to Reagan's responsibility for indecision, it is mainly the US military's own problems.

To put it bluntly, it is the basic strategy pursued by the United States over the past thirty-eight years.

After the Second Korean War that broke out in 2014, the US authorities have always pursued a "no contact policy", that is, no longer curbing China through direct confrontation, but instead restraining China by supporting China's hostile countries, especially the powerful countries around China.

The core idea of ​​this strategy is to not have head-on conflicts with China.

The result was that in the next thirty years, although the US military fought several wars, it was all small-scale wars, which was not considered a big battle.

Compared with the US military, the squadron has experienced several large-scale wars in more than 30 years.

Economically, the United States obviously benefited a lot. According to some people's estimates, if the United States adopts a tougher stance or a more direct military strategy in the several wars that China has experienced, it will suffer tens of trillions of dollars in economic losses in just two Indian Ocean wars and two wars between China and Japan. The "non-contact policy" pursued by the United States not only did not cause the United States to suffer direct losses, but also earned a lot of benefits for the United States, and the economic value created is as high as trillions of dollars, which is the main driving force for the rapid economic growth of the United States.

The problem is that the US military missed the opportunity to exercise because of this.

You should know that before the Second Korean War, the combat effectiveness, quality, organizational structure, etc. of the US military were unique in the world. In fact, if North Korea was not China's neighbor, even if it was just a little far apart, the squadron would not have defeated the US military in 2015.

The ability of the US military to have such strong combat power is not unrelated to its long-term baptism of war.

After the end of World War II, the US military was the army with the most participation in wars, and the development of the US military was largely related to frequent participation in wars.

Unfortunately, after the Second Korean War, the US military rarely participated in real wars.

On the contrary, after this, the squadrons frequently appeared on the battlefield, fought several real battles, and accumulated a lot of practical experience.

In a sense, the Chinese Navy is a warrant.

Without the East China Sea War, without the two Indian Ocean Wars, without the Indochina Peninsula War, without the War against Japan, the Chinese Navy would never have achieved the achievements of 2052, and it is unlikely that it will even find the right direction of development, and it will be impossible to build the most experienced fleet. The complete collection of burning oceans

Among them, the Second Indian Ocean War and the Sino-Japanese War played a crucial role.

The Second Indian Ocean War taught the Chinese Navy how to fight in adversity, while the Sino-Japanese War taught the Chinese Navy how to fight in the vast ocean.

These experiences are intangible and priceless assets.

In contrast, the US Navy began to have a serious lack of experience in fighting big wars. To be honest, when World War III broke out, the US Navy did not even know how to use the world's largest fleet and how to use this fleet to achieve strategic victory.

From a strategic perspective, the U.S. Navy made serious mistakes from the very beginning.

Judging from the situation after the outbreak of the war, the US Navy should not be anxious to gather its troops to the Western Pacific, but should first remove China's peripheral military base groups, such as using troops in South Asia and Southeast Asia to attack China's weaknesses and consume China's combat power. In terms of fleet deployment, the US Navy only needs to leave at most six aircraft carrier battle groups in the Western Pacific, maintain the minimum strategic threat, and deploy nine aircraft carrier combat clusters in the Indian Ocean, use Australia and Digo Garcia as bases to attack China's military bases in South Asia and Southeast Asia, dismantle several countries with less determined will, such as Sri Lanka and Indonesia, and force the Chinese fleet to fight to the Indian Ocean. After completely defeating the Chinese Navy, launch a strategic offensive in the Western Pacific.

If this is true, Mu Haoyang is likely to be forced to send troops to the Western Pacific.

In the Philippine Sea, the situation of the Chinese fleet is not so ideal.

Not to mention, the Philippine Sea is too narrow, and the space for fleet activities is far less than that of the Indian Ocean. In addition, Guam’s military facilities are much more complete than Digo Garcia, and the ability to deploy troops is much stronger. It is also in the core war zone of the United States and can receive enough cover. As long as the US military makes full use of Guam, it is very likely that the Chinese navy will be annihilated in the Philippine Sea if only six aircraft carrier battle groups are used.

Of course, this strategic error is definitely not caused by a factor or someone.

Fundamentally speaking, the strategic focus of the US military is to win quickly, that is, to defeat China before China completes the mobilization of the total war and far exceeds the United States, the war potential that is far beyond the United States breaks out. Therefore, the US military must make strategic breakthroughs as soon as possible and gain overwhelming strategic advantages. The only way is to open a breakthrough in the Western Pacific, then strategically bombard China to weaken China's war productivity.

Unfortunately, the United States did not seize this opportunity. Read the Burning Ocean online

You should know that if the United States temporarily abandons the Indian Ocean and stabilizes Israel without igniting fire in the Middle East, it will have the ability to concentrate fifteen aircraft carrier combat clusters in the Western Pacific, and at least twelve aircraft carrier combat clusters to crush the Chinese Navy with absolute military strength.

Judging from the information disclosed after the war, the main reason for the US military's mistakes is that the US military's prediction of the war situation is that it is that the US military is not accurate enough.

At that time, even Jordan and others did not expect that the sudden attack before the war could destroy the Chinese Pacific Fleet, and then eliminated China's West Indian Fleet, sending two-thirds of the main warships of the Chinese Navy into the seabed, and gaining absolute military strength advantages within a few days.

The impact of this prediction error is difficult to explain in words.

You should know that when formulating a strategic plan, the US military only hopes to severely damage the Chinese navy and expand its fleet size advantages, and never thought of crippling the Chinese navy. The result is that the US military does not dare to give up the Indian Ocean strategically, so it has to use heavy troops on the Indian Ocean. Because the strategic plan directly determines the preparations before the war, such as deployment of troops, material transportation, support, etc., after the war officially begins, if the situation differs from what is expected, it will take a lot of time to redeploy.

In terms of fleet combat, before the outbreak of the war, the US military spent a lot of effort to expand the infrastructure of Perth Port, built deep-water docks for aircraft carriers to dock at Darwin Port, and built several air bases in northwestern Australia, enhancing the deployment capacity of troops. On the contrary, in the Pacific direction, the infrastructure of Alapu Port in Guam, Pearl Harbor on Oahu, and even the local San Diego Port were not expanded, and the ability to accommodate and support fleet combat was very limited. Under the circumstances at that time, the US military could only deploy twelve aircraft carrier battle groups in the Western Pacific, and the ideal state was nine. If it reached twelve, it would inevitably reduce the combat efficiency of the fleet.

These factors have led to the US military's actions as they have changed.

There are so many problems at the strategic level, and it is easy to imagine the problems within the US military.

For the front-line commanders of the US military, especially the fleet commanders, what they lack most is combat experience, especially the experience of commanding large fleets to conduct sea-making operations.

You should know that after World War II, the US military did not engage in any kind of sea-making war.

Even during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and the Sino-US Cold War, it was mainly maritime confrontation and had no combat opportunities. The wars involved in the US military did not involve sea-control operations at all, because in these wars, the US opponents were very weak and could not pose a threat to the US fleet, nor could they challenge the US Navy on the ocean. In this way, the experience of the US fleet commander often comes from the experience summarized by the opponent, that is, the Chinese Navy in several large-scale naval battles. The learning and reference of this indirect nature of the Urban Rebirth Novel Ranking is obviously not as good as direct participation.

Reagan's performance at that time just explained this issue.

In the early morning of the 26th, Reagan did not make a decision in time, but delayed for several hours before turning the fleet after dawn.

If it were Mu Haoyang, even Gong Jifei would not have wasted these few hours.

The first result of the US joint fleet turning after dawn was that it crashed into the intensive search waters of Chinese Navy anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Before eight o'clock, the US joint fleet was discovered by anti-submarine patrol aircraft again.

Within the next few hours, the Chinese Navy's anti-submarine patrol aircraft discovered the US joint fleet three times, and each time it sent out reconnaissance intelligence.

Although the Chinese Navy lost more than 20 anti-submarine patrol aircraft for this reason, it received priceless battlefield intelligence.

For the US Joint Fleet, what is most lacking at this time is battlefield intelligence.

On the morning of the same day, the US military's fourth reconnaissance operation focused on the north, that is, the focus was on searching the waters east of the Maldives Islands.

This time, the US reconnaissance plane encountered greater resistance.

Because anti-submarine patrol aircraft had encountered US reconnaissance aircraft many times and several anti-submarine patrol aircraft were shot down, the Chinese Air Force strengthened its cover for anti-submarine patrol aircraft that morning and arranged two or even four escort fighter jets for each anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Although these escort fighters cannot accompany anti-submarine patrol aircraft throughout the journey, they can fly at least more than a thousand kilometers.

As a result, the US reconnaissance plane was fiercely intercepted by Chinese fighter jets that morning, and one-third of the fourth batch of reconnaissance planes failed to complete the reconnaissance mission.

Now, Reagan became more convinced of the judgment he had made before.

At this time, even Nixon was a little shaken.

If the Chinese fleet was not east of the Maldives Islands, why would the Chinese Air Force send so many fighters?

In fact, some US reconnaissance pilots at that time mistakenly mistakenly regard the Chinese Air Force's j-30 and j-31 as the Chinese Navy's j-32 and j-33.

These wrong judgments and misreports ultimately lead to catastrophic results.

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Chapter 61 Unexpected Factors

On the morning of the 26th, the battle reports sent by the Navy and the Air Force almost flooded Mu Haoyang and Gong Jifei.

Finding key information from these snow-filled battle reports and using them is definitely the biggest test for a fleet commander.

Many times, too much information is not beneficial.

You should know that the information sent by the Navy and the Air Force may not be accurate, and there are factual deviations, and some are even completely wrong. If all chapters of the Burning Ocean cannot accurately identify the correctness of this information and find information that can be used, it will also have bad consequences.

Fortunately, Mu Haoyang was the one who commanded the task force.

Judging from the situation at that time, if Gong Jifei was commanding the battle, the result would probably be difficult to predict, because the young Rear Admiral kept shouting to launch the attack first.

Mu Haoyang was much calmer and had seen some clues.

According to the war reports sent by the Air Force, Mu Haoyang initially concluded that the US military was focusing on searching the east side of the Maldives Islands, but not too focused on the west side of the Islands. More importantly, the news sent by the Navy in the early morning proved that the US joint fleet had turned north.

The two messages combined show that the U.S. military commander believes the task force is on its north.

More importantly, the US military commander made the choice to actively seek a decisive battle.

This surprised Mu Haoyang a little, because if the task force is really on the east side of the Maldives Islands, even if the US joint fleet gets the opportunity to attack, it will undoubtedly be defeated.

The reason is very simple: in this sea area, the task force must have been fully covered by the air force's shore-based fighter jets. The US military has no advantage in force. When it attacks the task force, the task force can disregard the fleet's air defense and dispatch all fighter jets to counterattack.

In addition, the possibility of the US joint fleet attacking is not very high.

You should know that the US joint fleet has been exposed, and the task force is still in the dark. As long as the US joint fleet enters the attack range of carrier-based fighter jets, the task force will launch an attack, and the US joint fleet will have to wait until the reconnaissance aircraft discovers the task force before launching an attack.

Is it so easy for US reconnaissance aircraft to detect the task force when intercepted by Chinese Air Force fighter jets?

In Mu Haoyang's view, the US Joint Fleet is simply killing death when doing this.

That's right, on the morning of the 26th, Mu Haoyang was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should rush over immediately and gave the US joint fleet a head-on attack.

Unlike Reagan, Mu Haoyang made a prudent judgment when he accurately grasped the situation on the battlefield.

At noon, something crucial happened.

Under the cover of Air Force fighter jets, a naval anti-submarine patrol aircraft encountered a US reconnaissance aircraft, and then broke away from the escort fighter jets and headed south alone. Because there was a problem with the navigation device, the anti-submarine patrol aircraft's route actually deviated several degrees westward, and the US joint fleet was discovered when it was not supposed to arrive.

During the report, the anti-submarine patrol aircraft gave accurate position information and route information of the US joint fleet.

Unfortunately, the location information of the anti-submarine patrol aircraft is incorrect.

In other words, the actual position of the US joint fleet is west of the reported position of the anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and the deviation is about 300 kilometers.

This error was not corrected until four hours later by a staff officer who checked the reconnaissance report.

At that time, the staff officer compared the reports given by the radio monitoring station, and the anti-submarine patrol aircraft had returned to the airport. The ground crew found that there was a problem with the inertial navigation device, and the staff officer also discovered that the report of the anti-submarine patrol aircraft was incorrect and reported the situation in a timely manner.

But, this is four hours later.

Upon receiving this news, Mu Haoyang did not hesitate anymore and immediately ordered the fleet to sail southeast, and asked Gong Jifei to prepare for the attack.

According to the report provided by the anti-submarine patrol aircraft, it is enough to determine that the US joint fleet is heading towards Digo Garcia.
To be continued...