What's left? What's left? The chief of staff looked at Fleet Commander John Cleves with confusion written all over his face.
John Cleeves looked at the other officers and continued: "Take the Chief of Staff to the aircraft carrier Neverwinter! Leave immediately with a capable battleship! Get out of here! Quick!"
He was prepared to stay and act as bait. As long as they insisted on not being sunk here, the Tang Army fleet's pursuit of the combined fleet would naturally slow down.
In the midst of the flames, the flagship of the combined fleet, the Dornish Empire Long Live, lowered its command flag. More than half an hour later, the aircraft carrier Neverwinter raised its flag and became the new flagship of the entire fleet.
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In the port, Sun Guang, the Qin naval admiral who had been paying attention to the naval battle, was in a state of nervousness after receiving half of the message from the submarine.
He had no way to help and could only wait anxiously in the port. Three destroyers staying at the port had already left, but as long as they were too far away from the port, their radios could not contact the port.
The enemy's interference was too strong, which made Sun Guang in the port very worried about the safety of the combined fleet: What he didn't know was that the combined fleet retreated towards the port, causing the Tang Army's electronic warfare aircraft to get closer to the port.
Therefore, the communication conditions became even worse. Although the phone lines in the port were relatively complete and there was no problem in contacting the army and air force, the radio was completely unusable.
On the radar screen deployed on land, the green lines are dense and jagged - yes, the radars deployed here are very backward. They are basically rags left over from the Kingdom of Shu and were made several years ago.
These radars are so old that the screen display is very different from the latest radars. Now the signals on these radars show that the sky is full of Tang Army aircraft...
The Qin army simply did not have enough time to build enough radars on the Shu coastline. The only radars were either old equipment left over from Shu, or extremely rare Qin self-developed products.
All radars have no anti-interference ability at all. Under the suppression of Tang Army's electronic warfare aircraft, they are no different from blind people.
For the sake of safety, after the Tang Army fleet approached the Shu coastline, it also dispatched Prowlers equipped with anti-radiation missiles, preparing to destroy these somewhat threatening radar stations.
"No news about the combined fleet yet?" Sun Guang looked at his pocket watch and walked around in the huge headquarters. This is a huge room where many staff officers and civilian personnel work.
A huge chart is hung on the wall, with many magnets representing various types of ships representing the combined fleet adhering to it. These magnets are now very close to the coastline, but they have also missed Qingluan Port where Sun Guang is located.
Qingluan Port was the largest port in the Shu Kingdom, and now it is also the largest port in the Qin Kingdom. When it maintained trade with Dorn in the Tang Kingdom, it was quite prosperous.
Now, due to the outbreak of war, prosperity has disappeared. There are only some warships coming and going in the port, which looks quite bleak.
Sun Guang had previously hoped that the combined fleet would enter Qingluan Port to take refuge, but at that time the combined fleet was unwilling to push himself into the port and wait for death, so he missed Qingluan Port directly...
In fact, whether the fleet enters the port or not, the result is the same: the difference may be that the sailors who are now soaking in the sea will feel much better.
"There is no news... The communication is completely interrupted... Not only is it interrupted, the telegram we sent to Wuyang seems to have not been sent..."
"If the equipment that interferes with us has a distance limit...it means that the opponent's fleet is closer to us." Sun Guang also realized this, walked to the chart, and touched a blank space on it with his hand.
Pointed at the location: "They should be around here!"
But the problem is that knowing the approximate location of the Tang Army's fleet is useless. It's dark now, and as the top commander in the naval port, he has no means of counterattack at all.
The remaining fleet is responsible for port defense, including a cruiser and several destroyers. Even if a fleet of this size is killed, it is no different from dying.
The opponent can clear out these minions with only escort battleships. If the enemy brings battleships, these small boats escorting the port will not even be considered as delivering food.
Don't even count on air power: if dispatched at night, there is no way to carry out an attack. Unless the Tang Army fleet now turns on all the lighting facilities and exposes itself.
Of course, propeller aircraft actually have a certain degree of night combat capability, but this tactic requires the cooperation of professional aircraft, and pilots must undergo rigorous night combat training.
The whole tactic is roughly as follows: In the vast darkness, the special aircraft that first detects the enemy fleet will project illumination flares to illuminate the entire battlefield, and the subsequent attack echelons will rush up to carry out the attack.
But the problem is that this tactic is ineffective against the Tang Army. First of all, large-scale aircraft formations require radio navigation, and it is very dangerous to implement it in an electronic jamming environment.
The second problem is that the Tang Army has its own missile air defense system. At the same time, night combat is also very easy for Tang Army aircraft... This is just a strong young man bullying a blind old man, which is simply cruelty.
The carrier-based aircraft pilots of the Combined Fleet have not undergone similar night combat training, and the land-based air force pilots have no time to study such night combat tactics.
Therefore, the entire Qin State's night air defense basically relies on anti-aircraft guns and a small number of night fighters.
These night fighters were modified by installing radars on DO-17 and JU-88, which were all old models exported by the Tang Army in the early days.
They can solve the problem of presence or absence, but they are not very useful in night battles: especially when intercepting Tang's jet bombers.
"We don't have night fighters near here, and the Air Force has also confirmed that there is no bomber formation that can carry out bombing at night." An officer came over and reported to Sun Guang: "The people here are all second-line troops...
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The air force deployed by the Qin State here basically exists in a symbolic sense. Some of the troops are trained here, and they are all novices and instructors; the other part is purely second-line troops, and some are even still waiting for their own equipment.
When the war started against the Tang State, the Qin State's air power doubled, and rear production could not keep up. Therefore, many troops were short of equipment, especially those deployed on the second line. It was common to have half as many aircraft.
Fighters are okay, after all, they have a higher priority, and bombers are okay, and they were all considered useful before the war. Special types of aircraft such as night combat aircraft are miserable. Basically, not many are produced, and most of them are concentrated in
Responsible for air defense near important military targets.
"Where are the troops stationed in the hinterland? What did General Zhang say?" Sun Guang sent messages asking for help to many places and made countless phone calls.
Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that at this moment, Zhang Xuan, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Cluster in charge of the entire southern offensive, was already in dire straits and was about to collapse.
