After hesitating, Molowan made a decision. The reconnaissance aircraft that took off early first moved towards the Strait of Malacca and took on the forward search mission. The three planes that were supposed to provide command and guidance for the attack aircraft group turned to the Strait of Malacca to assist the reconnaissance aircraft to perform the search mission. In order to cover the early warning aircraft, Molowan sent out the Shishi fighter jets. The "Carrots that had been hung with anti-ship missiles and had been sent to the flight deck were all sent into the hangar to escort and stay in the Pacific to carry out the fleet air defense mission. The three aircraft carriers each sent a fierce air defense fighter jet.

It was obvious that Molowan did not give up on his last hope.

The Strait of Malacca is not spacious. The narrowest place is only a few dozen kilometers, and the widest place is only a large number of kilometers. Not to mention carrier-based early warning aircraft such as the Four Blanket, even carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft can monitor and search the entire strait. As long as the Chinese fleet is found, the attack aircraft group will set off immediately. No matter what the result is, an attack must be launched before the Chinese fleet.

Molowan's calculations are very accurate and his ability to do math problems is pretty good.

According to the information received before, the Chinese fighter jets attacking the Western Fleet are above the Jinjia, which is equivalent to the old carrier-based aviation brigade, while the Peng large aircraft carrier has only the old carrier-based fighter jet brigade in total. In other words, the Chinese fleet dispatched half of the fighter jets that have been launched to attack the Western Fleet. Apart from the fighter jets used for fleet air defense, the remaining fighter jets in the Chinese fleet cannot pose a threat to the Eastern Fleet.

Therefore, Molowan has enough reason to believe that the fighter jets sent by the Chinese fleet to attack the Western Fleet are likely to be above the Jinjia, of which there are about four fighters for the attack mission, and there are also escort fighters above the Tianjia, otherwise it would be impossible to kill all the air defense fighters of the Western Fleet at the beginning of the battle. From this, it can be concluded that the Chinese fleet used all its strength to attack the Western Fleet.

In Molowan's view, these theories are completely reasonable.

Shortly after the battle began, Chinese submarines ambushed the Western Fleet. Obviously, Chinese submarines had discovered the Western Fleet long ago, thus allowing the Chinese fleet to grasp the whereabouts of the Western Fleet. Without finding the Eastern Fleet, the Chinese fleet would definitely concentrate its efforts to kill the Western Fleet. To be on the safe side, the Chinese fleet would definitely leave enough air defense fighters. Exploiting two-thirds of its power and defending with one-third of its power is just in line with the laws of naval warfare.

After reaching this conclusion, Molowan's tactical ideas became clear.

The Andaman-Nicobar Islands were bombed at the Old Spot in New Delhi time, and the Western Fleet was attacked about half an hour later. It is obvious that the Chinese fleet first used one-third of its power to destroy the military facilities on the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, eliminating its worries. Then it launched an attack on the Western Fleet. The operation of the attack on the Western Fleet ended at the Old Spot in New Delhi time. If it was not surprising, the carrier-based fighter jets attacking the Andaman-Nicobar Islands would return to the Chinese fleet before the Old Spot in New Delhi time, and take off to perform the fleet air defense mission before the Fleet; the carrier-based fighter jets attacking the Western Fleet would return to the fleet before the Fleet at 0 a.m., and launch an attack with the approximately thug of Feng Fleet.

The order from Fernandez was received was that the New Delhi time was about the point of the blade.

In other words, Molowan has more than three hours to find and attack the Chinese fleet. To be precise, as long as he can find the Chinese fleet in the early morning of the New Delhi time and before the thugs are attracted, Molowan can send an attack aircraft group in time, retreat northwest before the Chinese attack aircraft group arrives, and do a good job in the fleet air defense. Even if the Chinese fleet cannot be killed, he can still use an attack to severely damage the Chinese fleet. When the time comes, he will retreat into the hinterland of the Bay of Bengal and avoid being hit.

From this we can see that Molowan and the thugs arrived in the southeastern waters of the Strait of Malacca and completed the search mission of the entire strait. The remaining minutes are enough for three aircraft carriers to send at least island carrier-based fighters.

Molowan was calculating. Hua Jianfeng in the distance was also calculating.

Unlike Molowan, Hua Jianfeng did not hesitate and did not arrange combat missions based on "guessment".

Beijing time led a thug to the early morning of the day and ordered the witch. Not long before Molowan received Fernandez's order, Hua Jianfeng received a report sent back by the reconnaissance plane.

Finally found the Eastern Indian fleet.

Almost exactly the same as the predictions in the "Pingjigo" formulated by the Naval Command, the eastern Indian fleet did not follow the western fleet south to the Sunda Strait, but stayed west of the Andaman-Nicobar Islands.

Hua Jianfeng did not delay any time and immediately asked Yang Jinjie to arrange aviation combat operations.

What is a bit surprising is that Hua Jianfeng asked Yang Jinjie to arrange the first attack mission, but the fleet air defense.

This is not difficult to understand. In Hua Jianfeng's view, the reconnaissance plane discovered the eastern fleet, and the eastern fleet also discovered the reconnaissance plane.

In fact, Molowan did not find the reconnaissance aircraft that turned on the small Andaman Island, which was to find the eastern Indian fleet.

It was not Molowan's carelessness, but the technical and tactical limitations that made him make mistakes.

At that time, there were only two four-2 and thugs bands that were carrying out the fleet's air defense alert mission. The electromagnetic waves could not penetrate the ionosphere at the top of the layer. The continent was discovered by electronic reconnaissance satellites in space. The long-range alert radars of several air defense warships affiliated to the Eastern Fleet worked in the lower frequency band. As long as the radar was activated, they could be discovered by electronic reconnaissance satellites. It is no secret that the radar working frequency of Indian warships was, and China must have adjusted the orbit of electronic reconnaissance satellites. As long as the warships exposed their whereabouts, the eastern fleet would be exposed. The positioning capabilities of electronic reconnaissance satellites are enough to provide the Chinese fleet with necessary guidance information. The Indian Navy has explicit regulations that when a carrier-based early warning aircraft is dispatched, as long as there is no determined air threat, the air defense alert radar on the warship cannot be used.

If you are facing ordinary targets, four or two are enough to take on the fleet's air defense alert mission.

However, what happened to each other in April this time was the little thug Zhao fighter.

Although the Air Force bombers have destroyed the air defense alert radar on the Andaman-Nicobar Islands. However, Yang Jinjie was very cautious when arranging reconnaissance missions. The urnar reconnaissance aircraft dropped the external auxiliary fuel tank when it was still kilometers away from the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, four kilometers away from the thugs. The Eastern Fleet was 3 kilometers away from the Andaman-Nicobar Islands. It was said that when Xiao Zhao discovered the Eastern Fleet of India, the Fourth 2 Zhuo had not detected Xiao Zhao. Yang Jinjie did not let the reconnaissance aircraft take risks and clearly ordered the discovery of the Eastern Fleet of India and immediately turned back.

That's right, when the little thug Zhao turned and flew away, Molowan had no idea that his whereabouts had been exposed.

This fully exposes the weakness of the Indian fleet. If the Indian fleet carries the US Navy's thug, Zhao fighter, and then sends out an alarm.

What's even more terrible is that the Indian fighter jets rushing to the Strait of Malacca did not find the reconnaissance planes returning.

When Ma Si was performing reconnaissance missions, its fire-controlled radar was in the sea search mode and its air-response capability was very limited. If you need to go to high-risk sea areas to perform reconnaissance missions, San Si would not even use fire-controlled radar, but would use the electronic reconnaissance pods to passively accept the electric collision waves emitted by the warship, and use the optical reconnaissance pod to search for the red radiation emitted by the warship. In this case, E Si would not be able to discover enemy aircraft in the air.

The fierce attacker who went forward to perform reconnaissance mission did not start the radar before entering the Strait of Malacca. First, to avoid premature electromagnetic radiation being discovered by Chinese fighters in the strait, and thus being attacked by Chinese fleet air defense fighters. Second, there is no need for this. As long as the Chinese fleet is active in the strait and then start the radar after entering the strait, the Chinese fleet can be discovered in time. Third, to extend the reconnaissance time, because the continuous working time of the four-yue phased array radar is less than the system. If the Chinese fleet is discovered, the Chinese fleet must also provide guidance information for the attack aircraft group that arrives behind, and the continuous combat time is likely to be more than 4 hours.

More importantly, Xiaojiuo, the trojan did not return on the original route.

Because the reconnaissance planes set out before the outbreak of the war, they can pass through the narrowest waters of the Strait of Malacca from an ultra-low altitude.

After the war broke out, the US Seventh Fleet, which had arrived in Singapore, would definitely not do nothing. Even if it did not help the Indian Navy to deal with the Chinese fleet, it would activate the radar. It was the eyeliner of the Indian fleet. Later, it was proved that the US Seventh Fleet's air defense cruiser did launch an air search radar and closely monitor the aircraft appearing in the strait. The little thug Zhao was able to deceive the Indian fleet's early warning aircraft, but it might not be able to avoid the US Fleet's early warning aircraft. When designing the route, Yang Jinjie not only took this into consideration, but also made arrangements. All said, Xiaoguanqian. When returning, all reconnaissance aircraft took advantage of the Kra Isthmus in southern Thailand, first entered the Gulf of Thailand, then headed south along the eastern coastline of the Malay Peninsula, and finally returned to the fleet. Although this route had an additional range of about a kilometer of milk kilometers, it could ensure that the reconnaissance aircraft returned safely, and it could also ensure the concealment of the fleet's whereabouts and not exposed prematurely.

The discovery of the eastern Indian fleet did not make Hua Jianfeng feel relaxed.

Just use a compass to compare and scrape it on the chart to measure the distance between the eastern Indian fleet and the Republic fleet.

In fact, there is no need to be such a hassle. Just input the reconnaissance information into the computer and you can get the answer.

The straight line is kilometers away from Choukou. If you need to avoid Malaysia and Thailand, the one-way flight is about kilometers.

It is not too close. Shi Si's attack radius against the sea will not exceed the thug without considering air combat. Xu's situation is similar, and it is basically impossible to complete the attack mission alone.

Not too far. If the tanker can be supported, Shi Si said that Xiaoxu could launch an attack under full load.

In terms of defense, Hua Jianfeng had to consider two uncertain factors

It is very likely that the Indian Air Force will send refueling aircraft to the Andaman Sea to provide supplies to the returning attack aircraft group so that the fighters of the Indian fleet can return to the aircraft carrier. The Indian Air Force has a total of large refueling aircraft. If only the fighter is provided with return fuel, each refueling aircraft can refuel the 8 Masi and support the thugs. Unless it is forced, Hua Jianfeng does not want to use forced electromagnetic interference equipment, because it is a tactical method to kill one thousand enemies and damage eight hundred of them.

The second is whether the US military deployed in Singapore will provide support for the Indian aircraft fleet. "Carrot is an American cargo, and India's refueling aircraft is also an American cargo. Even if the United States does not deploy a refueling aircraft at Changi Air Force Base, it can still use the Seventh Fleet's start-carrying partner air refueling pod to provide fuel for India's start-carrying fourth. In this way, multiple fighter jets on three Indian aircraft carriers can be dispatched as a whole. The first four who are responsible for attack missions will exceed the thugs and fall off the rack. A total of them are projected like multiple anti-ship missiles, posing a greater threat to the Republican fleet.

In terms of offense, Hua Jianfeng also had to consider an uncertain factor.

That is, will Thailand allow tankers that provide fuel supply to carrier-based fighters performing attack missions to take off from their air bases? If the answer is yes, Hua Jianfeng does not need to worry about attack distance. The thugs deployed in Thailand return to the aircraft carrier after completing the mission.

If the answer is no, Hua Jianfeng has to arrange for partner air refueling fighters to reduce the number of attack aircraft groups to below the thug's thug.

The difference between the two is too big, and the impact on the attack results is very obvious.

Of course, for Hua Jianfeng, who has already achieved a major victory, how to maintain the results of the battle is the key issue.

Under this circumstance, Hua Jianfeng asked Yang Jinjie to craft a fleet of air defense first.

Next, Hua Jianfeng contacted the Navy Command and the Frontline Command.

What is Thailand's attitude? Hua Jianfeng said nothing, and it is useless. He can only let the Navy Command and the Frontline Command work hard, try his best to gain Thailand's support, and at least get Thailand's default.

Anyway, Thailand is not Indonesia.

As one of the most important allies of the Republic in Southeast Asia, Thailand turned to the Republic after the South China Sea War and completely abandoned the United States. Although Thailand has always supported the Republic in major international affairs and will definitely not drag the Republic down on the issue of war, the Republic must also respect Thailand and cannot advise against acts of rashly.

Because tactical intelligence is mutually connected through military networks, when Hua Jianfeng is considering this issue, Lin Xiaozun is also considering this issue.

Before receiving Hua Jianfeng's report, Lin Xiaolei contacted Xiang Yinghui, who was still in Pakistan.

At this time, Xiang Yinghui had sent away the Chief of Staff of Pakistan and was discussing the next battle with Pei Chengyi.

When Xiang Yinghui learned that the fleet was in trouble in combat, he did not hesitate. On the one hand, he ordered the commander of the Air Force Base in Thailand to ask the refueling aircraft loaded with aviation fuel to take off urgently and go to the Gulf of Thailand to perform the "exercise mission" over the Gulf of Thailand. On the other hand, he contacted the head of state and told Wang Yuanqing the news.

Wang Yuanqing naturally has a sense of what to do.

Of course, even if Thailand's attitude is hesitant, there is a solution.

That is, let the aircraft group that completed the attack mission enter the Gulf of Thailand from the Isthmus of Kra, meet with the tanker group that performed the "exercise" mission over the Gulf of Thailand, and then replenish fuel, and then go to the air force base of the Republic in Shupu and Vietnam in the name of "exercise", and wait until dawn to return to the fleet. At that time, even if the matter is penetrated, it can be concealed in the name of "exercise", so that the Thai government will not be unable to step down.

As for what Xiang Yinghui thought of or what Pei Chengyi thought of, I'm afraid no one can explain it clearly.

After Xiang Yinghui made the arrangements, Pei Chengyi sent a message to Hua Jianfeng, asking him to organize the attack as soon as possible and make sure to annihilate the eastern Indian fleet as planned, and there is no need to worry too much about other matters.

At this time, Wang Yuanqing also asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take action.

Obviously, it is very unrealistic to have Thailand make an immediate decision to support the Republic in opening war against India.

Wang Yuanqing had no other choice, so he could only go down the road and informed Xiang Yinghui's arrangement that the Republic's Navy was conducting military exercises in the South China Sea and needed to use Thai airspace. According to the relevant agreement signed between the Republic and Thailand, unless the Thai government immediately rejected the Republic's request, the Republic's fighter jets could peacefully use Thai airspace without endangering Thailand's national defense security.

Whether it is a peaceful use is a question.

From a strict perspective, after completing the mission of attacking the eastern Indian fleet, the fighter jets of the Republic Navy passed from Thai airspace, which is definitely not a peaceful use, because this is part of the war operation. But from another perspective, the fighter jets of the Republic Navy have completed the attack mission and are on the way back, and will not attack any enemy targets on the way back. The military operation has ended, and through Thai airspace can also be regarded as a peaceful use.

No matter what, such diplomatic quarrels must be very troublesome.

No matter how troublesome it is, it is impossible to have an impact on the upcoming battle.

After receiving Pei Chengyi's order, Hua Jianfeng no longer hesitated and immediately asked Yang Jinjie to start arranging an attack.

All the problems were solved, and all that was left was waiting for the fleet that attacked the western Indian fleet to return.
Chapter completed!