957 Chapter 955-War Countdown

In the South Atlantic Ocean, the night is shrouded in this calm sea area, the sea is filled with dense fog and visibility is getting lower and lower.◇

On the command ship of the Somali Atlantic Fleet, Lieutenant Admiral Lynch, at this moment, is sitting leisurely in the command ship’s headquarters.

In front of him, the five NATO aircraft carrier battle groups are still sticking around the fleet like dogskin plaster, with a distance of less than a thousand kilometers. At this distance, they are all within the combat radius of the carrier-based aircraft of both sides.

The AWACS on both sides did not know how many times they had greeted each other. Using 500 kilometers as the radius, the carrier-based aircrafts of both sides passed by several times.

The active radars and fire control radars of each ship are all in a silent state, and the phased array radars are also in a semi-rest state.

This situation where chickens and dogs hear about each other but are old and dead is the scene that can most test the patience of the commanders of both sides.

For the NATO fleet, the thing to do now is to wait for the order to attack, or to abandon the attack and prepare to return.

For Lynch, he is now waiting for NATO to show offense.

At this time, on the decks of the aircraft carriers of both sides, a large number of carrier-based aircraft are in a state of waiting to fly. Once the attack intention of the other party is discovered, the fighter planes will take off as soon as possible. It is enough to quickly send the carrier-based aircraft to the sky to enhance the safety of air superiority.

Therefore, both sides were very calm, but when this situation lasted for nearly a day, the tight nerves on both sides naturally tightened.

Because at this time, no one dared to be careless, NATO must also be alert to the active attack that the other side may adopt.Although this probability is not high, it can be in such a situation.Even if there is only one percent chance, you must beware.

And put out a NATO navy in a complete blockade.The Somali Atlantic Fleet must naturally be more vigilant, especially underwater submarines. This invisible threat is the most terrifying.

Following the six Typhoon-class attack nuclear submarines operating around the Atlantic Fleet’s dual aircraft carrier battle group, at this moment, they formed a hexagonal anti-submarine circle just outside the fleet.

Following the fleet's speed of 25 knots, their responsibility is to find the traces of the local submarine.Prevent the opponent from approaching your fleet.

The two parties are already at war. In terms of anti-submarine warfare requirements, a submarine that is hostile to its own fleet, and a submarine that deliberately sneaks into the fleet's underwater dangerous defense circle, the underwater submarine force can attack.

At this point, the submarine forces of both sides have also been ordered, once the other submarine enters the fleet's underwater defense circle, the submarine is allowed to counterattack.

This kind of silent confrontation underwater is the most able to test the quality of every soldier, and this is in a closed environment.Maintaining concentration for a long time is a huge test for any officer and soldier.

It lasted for nearly a day, and the soldiers on both sides were very tired.But no one dared to relax, because no one knew whether the battle would break out in one second.

As the military commander of one of the parties.Lynch is very relaxed now, because he has only one thing to do.Defense and counterattack.

From the moment the fleet set off, it sailed in defensive formations.The outermost is four Aegis ships, there are eight multi-function destroyers in the middle, and around the two aircraft carriers, there are eight sea scorpions.

The eight sea scorpions have only one mission to help the aircraft carrier block the attack. Once an enemy missile cuts into the blind zone of the fleet's defense, the sea scorpion must use itself as a shield to prevent the aircraft carrier or command ship from being attacked.

Just this fight, the world peace that has been maintained for nearly 80 years is about to be broken.

Europe, America, Africa, Oceania, and West Asia will all be shrouded in war.It is definitely a world war level battle.

However, this is no longer a problem considered by NATO. Now the entire NATO high-level is considering the possible back-up in Somalia.

For this reason, a large number of anti-submarine vehicles of the NATO Atlantic Joint Fleet have scanned this sea area in all directions, confirming that the underwater is very quiet, and no ambush submarine has been found.

When this news was reported to the NATO high-level officials for the tenth time, more and more heads of NATO member states agreed with the attack on the Somali Atlantic Fleet.

Even the hearts of the British and French heads of state have begun to shake. The facts of performance have told them that this sea area is very safe and there is no so-called underwater ambush at all.

However, Hillary hesitated even more, because the victory that seemed to be achieved before her was too easy.

She really couldn't understand how Li Lan could allow the two aircraft carrier battle groups to return to Africa alone. This kind of behavior is not like Li Lan can do.

So when everything pointed to the other party and absolutely no ambush, she didn't believe it at all, but felt more dangerous inside.

The video conference was over long ago, and there was no result of the discussion, and Hillary stayed awake all night.

If she doesn't figure out Li Lan's successor, she will not let her fleet take risks.

She also thought about the Somali v-1dd ballistic missile, which can attack a distance of 3,000 kilometers. The Bush was tragedy under this weapon.

But now that the fleet is more than 3,000 kilometers away from the African continent, the range of this missile is impossible.

The launch of missiles exceeding 3,000 kilometers is already expressly prohibited, because once a missile has a range of more than 3,000 kilometers, it will be judged as a nuclear bomb.

Hillary Clinton believes that Li Lan will not do such a thing. Since the threat of the African homeland cannot exist, Hillary also considered the weapon in space.

The United States has the battle of God satellite weapon system, and Somalia is also very likely to have similar kinetic energy super lethal weapons.

But this kind of weapon is not suitable for attacking moving targets at all. Its destructiveness is effective against fixed large targets and urban targets.

And unless necessary, Hillary will not use the battle of God, even if it can destroy all the major cities in Somalia, but the major cities in the United States will be finished.

But after excluding the weapons in Somalia and the sky, Hillary really couldn't think of what the opponent had.

It's not just her.The staff gathered in the oval office at this moment could not think of any results.

Because the P-8 anti-submarine aircraft took off from the United States.Cooperating with the shipboard anti-potential capacity, a carpet search has been carried out around the fleet.It is almost possible to send the other party to lurch the submarine.

Everything started to point to an unquestionable fact, that is, is Li Lan trying to lay emptiness.

When this thought appeared, it was as if an endless black hole swallowed everything, and soon Hillary had only this thought left in her mind.

"Maybe that man just wants me to be suspicious of this kind of arrogant behavior, and then let the so-called danger that is unnecessary, so that I dare not do it. Smoothly let the two aircraft carrier battle groups go back. All this is based on my own right In terms of his familiarity, he relied on his understanding of him to plunge himself into a sense of crisis. The false and real, the impermanence of the soldiers, the false and the false tactics of the suspicious soldiers, the tactics in the mind to make himself suspicious in doubt. "

Hillary raised her chin, muttered a few words in her heart, and then shook her head again.Xin said: "But this is also deliberately done by the other party. Any possibility may become a reality. The Chinese culture is really hard to understand."

After several thoughts.Hillary, who was still undecided, suddenly picked up the phone and blocked all the staff.A number that only she knew was broadcast.

The phone was connected quickly, and there were waves of women's gasps on the other end of the phone.Then a man's magnetic voice: "It looks like we didn't launch missiles!"

Hillary looked at the time.Listening to the clearly affectionate voice on the other end of the phone, there were a few more black lines on her forehead, but she didn't have any reason to be angry, because at this time the call passed, she interrupted the other party's normal life time.

And the other party's ability to answer the phone in this situation is enough to show the importance of her call.

The only thing that embarrassed her was that, as if hearing the voice on the phone, all the staff in the Oval Office looked at her with a strange look in their eyes.

"I'm about to launch an attack on your Atlantic Fleet, don't you send some troops to rescue it?" Hillary calmed down all the emotions in her heart and asked.

"Don't you find reinforcements yet? Seeing that I am about to re-evaluate your combat capabilities, I still pay such attention to it in vain." On the other side of the phone, Li Lan hung up the phone very bachelor.

Hillary, who just said a word, frowned and listened to the busy tone on the phone. He looked around at the gazes cast by the staff around him and said: "You said, Li Lan is an empty city plan? Or a plan?"

The chairman of the Joint Staff Council stood up and said: “Based on the results of the feedback in the last twelve hours, even if Somalia is prepared, it must let the submarine sink to the bottom of the sea a long time ago and use terrain such as submarine trenches to escape us. The anti-submarine detection, otherwise, if you just sit on the bottom of the sea, in such a long anti-submarine search, we will also be detected by us because of changes in the earth’s magnetic field environment."

"You mean, Li Lan is using a mid-calculation plan, and it is estimated that smoke bombs will be released. But at a very early time, she has dispatched a submarine to ambush in a certain position in a certain trench on the seabed." Asked.

"It is not ruled out that there is such a possibility. Li Lan should not be underestimated. He often has unexpected behavior. Moreover, it is not difficult to plan this matter. With his intelligence, he can do better."

"Then let the fleet's submarines start searching along each trench to see if they can find the other side's dormant submarine unit." Hillary said.

However, the chairman of the Joint Council of Staff shook his head and said: "There is no time at all. The South Atlantic Ocean Trenches are vertical and horizontal, the deepest is three to four kilometers, and the spread is very long. When we search every trench, Somalia’s Atlantic Fleet has long been Back on the African continent, this search will become meaningless."

"If you don't know whether the other party has an ambush, how can we launch an attack." Hillary said with a ugly expression.

The chairman of the Joint Staff Council shook his head when he heard the words, and said: "From the beginning, whether we decided to launch an attack on the Somali Atlantic Fleet, the danger is no longer the first factor to consider, but whether we are ready for war and are attacking. At the same time as the opposing fleet, is it also prepared for its own losses? And is the global combat system ready for the Turkish side. Is the attack on the Mediterranean coast ready?"

"You mean, it's not the time to go to war." Hillary's eyes flashed.Become severe.

"I don't mean that, but once war starts, we must speed up preparations, because I believe that Somalia is not yet ready for a full-scale war, so we can take the lead in killing this fleet, and then gradually move forward. Expand the scale of the war step by step."

"In that case, order the fleet to attack. I don't want to wait any longer. Somalia's strength changes three times a day. They are preparing faster than us. I don't want this fleet to return to the African continent, otherwise the Atlantic will not be in our future. Is under control." Hillary Clinton made the decision very seriously, and this is really not the time to reserve.

She strongly agrees to kill the Atlantic Fleet in Somalia first. In the backyard of her home, there are actually two aircraft carrier battle groups that threaten the security of the sea and the homeland at any time, which will seriously hinder the pace of war that NATO is starting to prepare.

Once waiting for Somalia to complete a full-scale war, NATO is not yet ready.Then NATO has fallen behind in terms of strategy.

Therefore, Clinton’s idea is very straightforward. First, get rid of the exposed edge, and then further control the Atlantic, so that NATO will win the initiative in this war.A united NATO.No matter how strong Somalia is, it is definitely not an opponent.

The key to this is to get rid of Somalia's deep into the Atlantic.Only in this way will the passage between the United States and Europe be smooth.

In recent years, the United States has also focused on building anti-potential quantities.Winning the Japanese navy is not to ensure the safety of the Atlantic Ocean underwater and on the surface.Because NATO needs Japan's anti-submarine capabilities too much.

Nowadays, the main force of the Japanese navy is concentrated in the Atlantic Ocean, and there is only one mission. During the war, search for Somali submarines active in the Atlantic Ocean to ensure the stability of the sea lifeline.

"I think this order should be issued later. Our Fifth Fleet has not yet entered the cruising radius of Australian land-based fighters, and it is very likely to face retaliatory attacks from the Somali Navy.

And in order to ensure safety, we think it is necessary to wait for the Somali Atlantic Fleet to enter British St. Helena, and to unite the air force on the island to destroy the fleet in one fell swoop."The chairman of the Joint Staff Council persuaded.

"What time do you think is the best?" Hillary nodded and asked.

"It will be about the same in ten hours. At that time, our fleet will enter Australian territorial waters, and the opposing Atlantic fleet will also enter the optimal attack radius of St. Helena Air Force Base."

"Then ten hours later, tell the joint fleet commander that the offensive will be launched ten hours later, and ten minutes before the attack, all military bases in the world have all sounded first-level combat alarms, and they are basically ready to respond. The plan, start to act." Hillary again decisively issued the order.

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At the same time, after a lot of hard work, Li Lan in pajamas came to the console. Upon receiving his call, Natasha and Tan Ya also quickly came to the console.

"NATO may have decided to attack our Atlantic Fleet, but it is not yet possible to determine the timing of the other party's attack." Li Lan immediately said when he saw the two.

"Why is the commander so sure?" Tan Ya asked.

"Because Hillary just called, I feel that the other party is already a little impatient, and the war will definitely break out in the next twelve hours." Li Lan firmly said.

"If this is the case, then we will do better." Natasha suggested.

"No, even if we start this war, it will not do any good. The key now is the survival of the Atlantic Fleet. Even if we launch an attack, the Atlantic Fleet will be very dangerous." Li Lan shook his head and said.

"Then we should be even more prepared. I immediately notified Lynch, began to change course, and slowed down to 20 knots, to keep the fleet within the range of our submarine attack, away from the NATO military base in St. Helena. Otherwise, five With an aircraft carrier battle group and a maritime air base, the Atlantic Fleet will be even more dangerous.” Tan Ya said for the first time.

"Okay, by the way, tell Lynch that once it breaks out temporarily, you will move towards the Cape of Good Hope at full speed for the first time. Only there is safer."

Speaking of this, Li Lan's eyes shone, and he sternly said: "Tell Lynch again, when it's a desperate situation, I can allow the Atlantic Fleet to be destroyed by the enemy, but he must make the enemy suffer a greater loss.

NATO thought it could easily take down my Atlantic Fleet, so let the other party taste what is called the most powerful counterattack."

"Yes." Tan Ya's eyes shrank, and immediately picked up the phone next to him and contacted Lynch, commander of the Atlantic Fleet.

"If a war breaks out, will it begin to clean up NATO's military bases in Africa?" Natasha asked.

"This is necessary. Within twelve hours of the outbreak of the war, I don't want to see the presence of NATO military bases on the land of Africa and the Middle East, and allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the bed." Li Lanhao Nodded without hesitation, and said.

"If this is the case, should the battle alarm be sounded now?" Natasha asked.

"No, first notify the troops involved in the cleaning plan so that they are ready for battle. Once the war really breaks out, the battle alarm will be sounded as soon as possible. From now on, the air force and air defense forces must do it immediately. Prepare for battle. Especially the garrison and friendly forces in the Middle East must be very careful."