Chapter 1290: 1291 Qingluan Port

Chapter 1290: 1291 Qingluan Port

leftover? What's left? The chief of staff looked at Fleet Commander John Cleeves with doubts written on his face.

John Cleeves looked at the other officers again and continued: "Take the Chief of Staff to the aircraft carrier Neverwinter! Take a capable battleship and leave immediately! Get out of here! Quick!"

He is ready to stay and act as bait. As long as they insist on not being sunk here, the Tang Army fleet will naturally slow down its pursuit of the United Fleet.

Amidst the flames, the flagship of the combined fleet, the Dornish Empire Long Live, lowered the command flag. More than half an hour later, the aircraft carrier Neverwinter raised the flag and became the new flagship of the entire fleet.

 …

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 a message from the submarine.

He had no way to help and could only wait anxiously in the port. Three destroyers staying at the port have already left, but as long as they are too far away from the port, their radios cannot 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.

 So the communication conditions have become even worse. Although the phone lines in the port are relatively complete and there is no problem in contacting the army and air force, the radio is 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 the Tang Army's electronic warfare aircraft, they are no different from blind men.

For safety reasons, 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 the huge headquarters. This is a huge room where many staff officers and civilian staff work.

 Huge nautical charts are hung on the walls, with many magnets representing various ship types representing the combined fleet adhering to them. 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 Shu Kingdom, and now it is also the largest port in Qin Kingdom. When it maintained trade with Dorne in the Tang Dynasty, it was quite prosperous.

 Now, because of the outbreak of war, prosperity is no longer visible. There were some warships coming in and out of the port, which looked 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... that means that the other party's The fleet is closer to us." Sun Guang also realized this, walked to the front of the chart, and clicked on a blank spot on it: "They should be near here!"

But the problem is that knowing the approximate location of the Tang Army fleet is of no use. It is 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 were to fight out, it would be the same as dying.

The opponent can clear out these minions with only **** battleships. If the enemy brings battleships, these small boats guarding the port will not even be considered as delivering food.

There is no hope for air power: if deployed 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 like this: In the vast darkness, the special aircraft that is the first to discover the enemy fleet will project flares to illuminate the entire battlefield, and the subsequent attack echelons will rush up to carry out the attack.

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 interference environment.

 The second problem is that the Tang Army has its own missile air defense system, and night battles are 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.

 Hence, the entire Qin State's night air defense basically relies on anti-aircraft guns and a small number of night fighters.

These night fighters are modified by installing radars on DO-17 and JU-88. They are 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 nearby. 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...”

The air force deployed by 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 the second-line troops who are purely filling up the numbers, and some of the troops are even still waiting for their own equipment.

For the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Qin's air power has doubled, and the rear production cannot keep up, so many troops lack equipment, especially for troops deployed on the second line. A few planes are common phenomena.

 Fighters are okay, since they have a relatively high priority, and bombers are okay, and they were all considered useful before the war. Special types of aircraft such as night combat aircraft are in a miserable situation. Basically, not many are produced, and most of them are concentrated near important military targets for air defense.

"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.

 What he didn’t know, unfortunately, was that at this moment, Zhang Xuan, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Cluster in charge of the entire southern offensive, was already exhausted and about to collapse.