If you can't penetrate and get close during the day, you can only do it at night. In the underwater world, there is not much difference between day and night. After evacuating the established sea area and dormant for half the day, Sumu Haisheng issued an attack order again ,This time, two combat groups were ordered to attack,
In Sumu's imagination, it is very difficult for conventional fighters such as fighter jets and bombers to perform night missions. For helicopters with relatively simple size and functions, night flying is naturally even more difficult. "Let the night be our friendly force." When issuing the order, he said this to the leaders of the two combat groups, but he forgot that in the art of war, the right time, the right place, and the right people are always on the side of the landlord. Moreover, he only understood that the helicopter was a specific "Nation" "Ni" thing, how dare you assert that helicopters cannot be used for night operations?
The top officer of the Xuebing Army in Karachi is Bai Liusu. This weak woman, who is only twenty-five years old, has now held the rank of general and has five divisions of 60,000 marines under her direct command. , and counting the left-behind troops of the Pacific Fleet and other base personnel currently under her command, the number of soldiers under her command has exceeded 100,000. At noon, she received a report and learned that the anti-submarine force was 150 meters away from the base. A Japanese Min-02 submarine was discovered and sunk in the sea area of 1,000 meters. Combined with the intelligence sent back by Li Lanwang, it was inferred that Koizumi Minichiro wanted to use the submarine force to raid Karachi, and immediately summoned several unit leaders at the base. meeting,
The Karachi base currently has a total of four departments. In addition to the Pacific Fleet, there are also the Marine Corps Command in India, the Base Garrison Command and the Karachi Industrial Management Committee. Following the Pacific Fleet, Chen Shichang led the troops to fight abroad, and later Chen Ce Responsible for the daily affairs of the fleet; at the Marine Corps Command in India, Bai Liusu is responsible for the daily training of the troops and is actually responsible for the external security tasks of the base; at the Base Security Command, Liu Dakai serves as the commander and is now actually responsible for the internal security of Karachi ; Karachi Industrial Management Committee, with Ju Taiping as chairman, is responsible for managing various factories run by Xuebingjun in Karachi.
Bai Liusu first informed everyone about the battle report that was sent back not long ago, and then gave his own analysis, saying: "The Min-02 submarine itself is not terrible, but the fifty special attack aircraft it carries are quite destructive. Therefore, We must take appropriate precautions..."
After some discussion, everyone finally decided to raise the air defense alert level of the base to the highest "red" level from today on, and implement light control at night. Unless necessary, docks, factories and military stations are not allowed to turn on lights at night. Companies that have open flames spilling out during their production processes, such as oil refineries and steel mills, must also stop production at night. At the same time, the base security headquarters is ordered to strengthen anti-espionage and anti-infiltration efforts to never give the Japanese an opportunity.
During the discussion, Liu Dakai asked Chen Shichang to send a call to Chen Shichang and ask him to send a certain number of ships to return reinforcements. This suggestion was rejected by Chen Ce and Bai Liusu. Chen Ce was considering the overall situation and believed that the Chinese and Japanese navies were surrounding Australia and were waiting for a decisive battle. At this time, any move to divert frontline troops would be unwise. Bai Liusu was confident. She pointed out that the reconnaissance planes of the land-based naval aviation forces did not detect the Japanese aircraft carrier during long-distance patrols during the day. Therefore, relying on the base's existing air defense With our strength, it will definitely not be a problem to withstand this wave of Japanese submarine attacks.
Karachi is close to the Middle East and can easily obtain oil from the Middle East. Therefore, after Ouyang Yun successfully captured Karachi, he built various factories here. To this day, take the oil refinery as an example, Karachi produces The fuel is enough to support the daily training and combat needs of the Pacific Fleet, which also makes the security work of the base difficult. The refinery, especially the oil tanks, really cannot withstand the ravages of war, so even so, Doing so would reduce the refinery's production capacity by half, but Bai Liusu and the others still decided to implement it.
The air defense alert level has been raised to the highest "red" level, which means that all air defense equipment in the base, including land-based naval aviation units, will be on 24-hour alert. At the same time, all warships on the dock will be pulled to the base dock. A cordon was set up in the sea area 150 kilometers away, including a newly repaired Nissan aircraft carrier.
In the Battle of the Timor Sea, the Pacific Fleet captured a total of three Japanese aircraft carriers. Of these three aircraft carriers, except for one Shokaku-class aircraft carrier that was directly bombed and sunk because it had lost its repair value, the other two were towed back together with other captured Japanese ships. Of the two aircraft carriers that were towed back to Karachi, one only had its flight deck blown up, so it required a lot of repairs. Now it has been repaired and put into active service. This aircraft carrier was named Zhou Shizong. In addition, the Ming Taizu, which did not follow the expedition of the Pacific Fleet, also joined the alert fleet. As a result, the total number of ships dispatched by Karachi exceeded 30, and the number of fighter planes exceeded 200. Its anti-submarine capabilities can be regarded as a large fleet. level,
Sumu Haisheng didn't know this, let alone that helicopters can perform anti-submarine warfare at night, so the two combat teams he sent were like six sheep breaking into a pride of lions, and the end was not difficult to imagine.
When the two battle groups attacked, Sumu ordered the submarine to maintain a certain height so that it could receive the telecommunications signals sent back by the two groups. In fact, after leaving the battle group, the six Min-02s seemed to have disappeared from this world. It seemed like it had disappeared, and no more messages were sent back.
Xu Mu waited all night, but did not receive any feedback from the front. He had already realized that the situation was not good, but he still took chances. After waiting another day and night, he confirmed that the two combat teams sent out had failed. , the little devil no longer dared to make decisions without permission, so he called Koizumi Toshiichiro and reported the situation to ask for instructions on the next step of action.
Tachibana Jiro's team was ordered to wait for an opportunity to ambush the Gakushu Pacific Fleet's support fleet. They were operating in the sea area 2,500 kilometers away from Karachi. Normally, there was no need to worry about being actively attacked by the Gakushu Pacific Fleet, but sometimes It was such a coincidence that a supply fleet imitating the Pacific Fleet happened to be transporting supplies from Karachi. As a result, a combat team sent by the Tachibana Squadron to Somalia encountered it and was caught off guard and sank two ships.
The supply fleet of the Pacific Fleet also used helicopters for anti-submarine warfare, but the Japanese army could not adapt to this novel anti-submarine method at all. Therefore, they were often attacked when they thought they were safe, and then they were always in a passive position of being beaten, even flying fifty There is no chance for special attack aircraft.
The battle reports of the two teams were collected by Koizumi Minichiro. The kid realized that continuing to act according to the original plan would only bring humiliation to himself, but he was unwilling to give up just now. In vain, the military power of the Xuebing Army was increased, so he ordered Suki and Tachibana