Chapter 86 The Aircraft Carrier Has Arrived! The Enemy is at the Gates
The warm atmosphere of the birthday party didn't last long.
Just three days later.
A suffocating dark cloud enveloped the entire southern base.
"Report! Unidentified large fleet spotted!"
"Direction XXX, Distance XXX!"
"It is rapidly approaching my territorial waters!"
At dawn, just as the sky was beginning to lighten, the piercing alarm shattered the tranquility of the base.
The atmosphere in the Southern Fleet command headquarters instantly froze to freezing point.
Commander Zhao Tiezhu held a meeting overnight, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the huge nautical chart.
On the radar screen, countless red dots, like a swarm of bloodthirsty ants, were swarming in from the southeast.
"Has your identity been confirmed?"
Zhao Tiezhu's voice was hoarse, as if he had a mouthful of sand in it.
"Confirmed!"
The intelligence officer was deathly pale, and his voice was trembling.
"It's the US Seventh Fleet!"
"The USS Kitty Hawk and the USS Enterprise, two carrier strike groups!"
"More than thirty cruisers, destroyers, and supply ships accompanied them!"
"There are still hundreds of carrier-based aircraft in the air!"
hiss--
A collective gasp filled the command center.
Dual carrier strike groups!
What does this mean?
This is no longer a deterrent.
This is preparation for a medium-sized local war!
And what does their Southern Fleet have?
Several old destroyers bought from Big Brother, which should have been in museums long ago.
There's also a bunch of small gunboats whose combined tonnage isn't even as big as one of their aircraft carriers.
As for the Air Force, those few old fighter jets wouldn't even be enough to fill someone's teeth.
Their only trump card was the "Little Black Fish," which was still in the top-secret testing phase.
But no matter how powerful the "Little Black Fish" is, it is still just a submarine.
Can we expect it to take on an entire carrier strike group single-handedly?
This is essentially a war between ants and an elephant!
The gap in strength was so vast that it was despair-inducing.
"Bang!"
Zhao Tiezhu slammed his fist on the table, leaving a fist-shaped dent on the thick solid wood surface.
"Fuck you!"
"This is outrageous!"
"Do you really think we're pushovers, that we can be bullied however we want?!"
Commander Zhao was so angry that he trembled all over, and the veins on his neck bulged out, looking as ferocious as a writhing dragon.
Throughout his military career, he fought countless tough and fierce battles, but he had never felt so frustrated as he did today.
Someone had a knife to his neck, but he had no one to fight back.
That feeling of powerlessness was worse than killing him.
"Commander, instructions from above..."
The political commissar beside him whispered a reminder, "Remain restrained and don't fire the first shot."
"Restraint? How can I restrain myself?!"
Zhao Tiezhu roared like an enraged lion.
"They're practically riding right up to us! If we don't restrain ourselves, our doorstep will be gone!"
"These sons of bitches were scared away by 'Little Black Fish' last time, and they're not satisfied. This time they're determined to get their revenge!"
"They just want to force us to take action, and then use that as an excuse to start a war!"
The command center was deathly silent.
Everyone had their heads down, their fists clenched so tightly that their nails dug into their flesh.
Tragic.
anger.
There was also a trace of unspeakable fear.
Just then, the door to the command room was pushed open.
Lin Jianguo strode in, dressed in a crisp training uniform.
His face was expressionless, and his eyes were as cold as ice.
"Reporting to the Commander!"
He walked up to Zhao Tiezhu and snapped to attention with a standard military salute.
"I request to go into battle!"
"Let me take 'Little Black Fish' with me!"
"Even if it costs me my life, I'll tear a piece of flesh off those two iron lumps!"
Lin Jianguo's voice wasn't loud, but every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, carrying a resolute determination that he would rather die than live in dishonor.
Zhao Tiezhu looked at him, this former king of soldiers who once struck fear into the hearts of the enemy on the battlefield, this father who would risk everything for his daughter.
He knew that Lin Jianguo wasn't exaggerating.
If he gave the order, Lin Jianguo would indeed pilot the "Little Black Fish" like a depth charge towards the enemy's aircraft carrier.
Then, they perished together.
Zhao Tiezhu's eyes reddened.
He patted Lin Jianguo on the shoulder, as if he wanted to say something, but his throat felt like it was blocked by something, and he couldn't say a word.
In this extremely oppressive atmosphere.
A childish voice came from behind Lin Jianguo.
"Father, what are you looking at?"
Zhao Di rubbed her sleepy eyes, awakened by the sound of an alarm outside.
She came running in, wearing little slippers.
She spotted the huge electronic nautical chart at a glance.
On the nautical chart, a large, dense cluster of red dots is moving slowly but steadily.
From her perspective, it looked like a group of red tadpoles swimming in a blue pond.
The two largest lights at the very front had long trails (traces) behind them.
It looks like...
"Wow--!"
Zhao Di leaned over the control panel, stretched out her chubby little hand, and pointed at the two largest lights.
"Father, look!"
Is that a large bathtub?
"Wow, it's huge!"
"It's so much bigger than Uncle Zhao's bathtub!"
Children speak without restraint.
But when those words rang out in the command room at that moment, they were like the sharpest knife, piercing the hearts of every soldier present.
yes.
In the innocent eyes of a child, it was a huge bathtub.
But in the eyes of these soldiers, they were two mobile sea fortresses, two Damocles' swords hanging over the nation!
Zhao Tiezhu took a deep breath, turned around, and faced away from the nautical chart.
He didn't want his child to see the bloodshot eyes and the despair in them.
He forced out a smile that looked worse than a grimace.
"Yes, Zhao Di."
“That’s…that’s a big bathtub that bad guys brought in.”
"They want to use this big bathtub to take over our fishpond."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Di's face immediately fell.
"That won't do!"
"The fishpond is ours!"
"The big crabs inside are ours too!"
"Don't let them steal it!"
The little girl stood with her hands on her hips, cheeks puffed out, her face filled with righteous indignation.
That "my territory, my rules" attitude eased the tense atmosphere in the command room a little.
But everyone knows that simply shouting slogans won't scare away those two 100,000-ton steel behemoths.
The outline of the enemy aircraft carrier was already visible to the naked eye on the sea surface.
The dark, imposing hulls resembled moving hills, making it hard to breathe.
In the sky, the distinctive swept wings of the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet pierced through the clouds, and the sonic booms it emitted seemed to be the prelude to the impending storm.
War is imminent.
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