Munitions Empire

After confirming the situation with his own early warning aircraft, the aviation commander walked over to Bernard, stood at attention, saluted, and said, "Your Excellency Marshal! The strike group against the enemy radar communication facilities along the coastline is in position!"

"Commence the attack." Bernard returned a salute, turned around, and inquired about the attack on the joint fleet: "What are the results of the naval attack group?"

"Reconnaissance has confirmed that all major ships of the joint fleet have been damaged or sunk, and all large warships are under our control." The chief of staff answered his question.

"Is it a visual confirmation?" Bernard knew that their carrier-based aircraft were already within the enemy's visual range.

Chasing from the original anchor point of the joint fleet to here, many shipwrecked officers of the joint fleet could see those terrifying, jet-engine aircraft overhead.

Compared to the Army's aircraft, the Navy's planes are twin-engine and much larger in size, so they look more intimidating.

"Tengyun 17 and Tengyun 19 have been ordered to start rescue operations, but the salvage speed is somewhat slow, and we are reluctant to take too many prisoners." The chief of staff mentioned in passing.

The main fleet of the Tang Country found many oil slicks and shipwrecked people floating on the sea. Many of these people had been adrift for an entire night and were now in very bad shape.

Out of humanitarian spirit, the Great Tang Empire dispatched rescue helicopters and assigned two destroyers for the rescue.

However, according to regulations, the Great Tang Empire's destroyers could not rescue more than 50 enemy personnel, meaning that the two destroyers could choose only 100 lucky individuals from the thousands of castaways.

Of course, there were also some Qin Country fishing boats nearby, actively salvaging their own nation's shipwrecked personnel.

Under a white flag, they cautiously picked up those soaked and semi-conscious people from the water, providing them with some hot water to regain strength.

The Great Tang Empire indeed did not continue to attack the fishing boats or small patrol boats, allowing these non-threatening targets to operate near their fleet.

These people also saw the Great Tang Empire's navy fleet, observing the gray and white-painted new destroyers and the scene of helicopters taking off and landing from those warships.

Of course, due to the distance, they could not see the Tang Army's aircraft carrier because if they attempted to enter Tang Country's naval carrier group's defense circle, they would undoubtedly be immediately sunk.

"Don't push too hard, as taking too many prisoners affects safety, living conditions, and food standards." Bernard wasn't planning to take many prisoners.

He just wanted to catch a batch of prisoners to prove that he had defeated the joint fleet. The rest of the matters would be handled by submarines and destroyer flotillas.

Anyway, Dorne and Qin Country now have very few main warships left. Even assembling a fleet, it wouldn't be able to maintain control over the southern sea.

Once sea control is lost, submarines have their opportunity to shine. As long as the Great Tang Empire's submarine officers are willing to work, the entire southern sea will become their natural hunting ground.

...

With anti-radiation missiles mounted, the Tang Army's attack planes launched an assault on the Qin Army's radar stations and communication nodes along the coast.

One missile after another was launched, and soon the Qin Army's first radar station built on the ridge was hit by a missile.

The anti-radiation missile directly struck the radar station's antenna, and the intense explosion also destroyed the adjacent generator equipment.

Fortunately, due to the site's layout, the radar operators who were in the cave some distance from the radar were not affected by the explosion.

However, the next radar station was not so lucky, as both the radar and the radar operation equipment below, as well as the generator and all personnel, were sent skyward by an anti-radiation missile.

Amidst intense interference, these radars were increasing power to try and restore their alert range. The result was a missile awaiting them, turning their antenna equipment into twisted fragments in the explosion.

Sun Guang worried about the joint fleet in his command room, strengthening his communication signal to contact the submarine... the result was that his communication room was easily locked onto by an anti-radiation missile.

To the anti-radiation missile, the strengthened signal communication equipment appeared as bright as the sun in the sky, and the missile's guidance head accurately steered the missile to crash into those towering antennas.

The massive explosion blew up Sun Guang's command post; the ceiling collapsed, and he had no time to react before being buried under the rubble.

Several seconds later, Qingluan Port finally sounded the air raid siren, with the piercing alarm echoing over the harbor district. All warships lifted anchor to stand guard, but no follow-up attack came.

The rescue and alert troops began to clear the collapsed buildings, soon excavating their commander from a pile of broken tables and shattered walls.

Fortunately, he had timely ducked before the roof came down, with tables on either side of his body serving as support, sparing his life.

The entire building being only one story was key; if it had been two stories collapsing, Sun Guang likely wouldn't have survived.

As some were lucky, others were not. Besides Sun Guang, more than a dozen other Qin Country officers died, and dozens more were injured...

Sun Guang was severely injured and fell into a coma, with the port's communication with the Hammerhead Shark Submarine completely cut off. No one knew how the joint fleet was doing, nor did anyone care about that distant fleet now.

After all, the port had been attacked too! They needed to protect the port, search for the enemy fleet, while also reporting the situation and arranging for the land-based air force to launch aircraft to drive away any possible incoming enemy air assault groups.

Of course, all this would still take time to arrange: even the Qin Country generals at the air force command were clueless about what precisely had occurred.

Their radar stations had not provided any feedback, and the phones couldn't get through. There were reports of the port being attacked, but Sun Guang's phone there was also unreachable...

Beyond the anti-radiation missile hitting the command center, no other explosions seemed to have happened at Qingluan Port, leaving no one certain about the situation... Without battlefield intelligence perception, the entire system's speed in making judgments, adjusting deployments, and starting responses became very slow.

However, it wasn't long before numerous pieces of both true and false information began to emerge, disrupting Qin Army's judgments while also providing some basis for understanding the situation.