143: Do you think you are the only one with heavy bombers? Look, I am going to bomb your aircraft carrier fleet!

At the Anti-War Army's mountain base command center, Yue Hanshan reported to Fang Le:

“Commander, the northern defense line reports that it can still delay the American military for about half a day. The American military's reinforcements for the southern defense line will arrive around dusk, with their light infantry arriving first, followed by heavy infantry… It seems the American military is truly anxious.”

Fang Le nodded, indicating he understood.

Fang Le: “How much ammunition does our heavy bomber squadron, which was dispatched not long ago, still have?”

Yue Hanshan: “Because we basically controlled the aerial supremacy in this region in the initial stage, those bombers didn't need to worry about their payload and were dispatched with full ammunition. The external aerial bombs have almost all been dropped, while the internal missiles have basically not been used yet… Commander, I have a somewhat bold, and somewhat risky idea.”

Fang Le: “Tell me about it.”

After hearing the suggestion put forward by Yue Hanshan, Fang Le hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: “Alright, I approve… Let the bomber squadron act according to this order, but remember, strike once and leave, return after dropping all bombs, do not engage in prolonged combat.”

An hour later.

The U.S. Military's Seventh Fleet's USS Reagan carrier strike group was anchored on the sea outside Darwin Port in northern Australia.

They were originally just reserve forces; after all, this war was happening in the inland heartland. It would have been sufficient for them to launch some medium- and long-range missiles as support based on the coordinates provided by the frontline troops.

But now, communication between the frontline U.S. Military forces and the fleet had actually been cut off.

In this situation, either the U.S. Military's ground command post had been wiped out, or that command post was observing radio silence to avoid detection of its location.

However, the latest directive from the Pentagon gave the fleet its operational direction: they must dispatch carrier-based aircraft to regain aerial supremacy and assist the U.S. Military's frontline ground forces in escaping their predicament.

Thus, over a hundred carrier-based aircraft from the USS Reagan carrier strike group, including the most advanced F Three Five B stealth fighters, almost collectively sortied, heading south for combat.

The carrier strike group itself only retained a small amount of air defense capability for self-preservation.

The reason the fleet was so overconfident was that the Commanders believed the Anti-War Army had no capability to break through the air defense network formed by a large number of carrier-based aircraft and reach the aircraft carrier to cause damage.

As for the probability of missile attacks, according to existing intelligence, the Anti-War Army only possessed some short-range missiles; medium-range missiles exceeding a thousand kilometers were simply impossible for them to have.

Just as the USS Reagan carrier strike group's Commander Manong was quietly waiting for good news from the dispatched carrier-based aircraft squadron, the fleet's air defense alarms suddenly blared collectively.

What's going on?

Manong rushed into the flagship's bridge, and upon seeing the situation, his head felt as big as a bucket.

He had originally assumed there would be no American military missile attack, but now he saw a massive cluster of red dots, densely packed, approaching the fleet from high altitude on the fleet's air defense radar display!

Manong was both shocked and suspicious: “What's going on? Where is this attack coming from?”

A radar operator lieutenant, with sweat on his forehead, replied: “According to parameter identification, they are various models of air-to-ground and anti-ship missiles, with ranges varying from tens to hundreds of kilometers… The radar did not detect the launch source.”

Manong was instantly greatly alarmed.

A large number of short-range missiles were incoming, but the radar had not detected their launch source, indicating a high probability of beyond-visual-range combat by stealth bombers.

And the only one with the motive to attack the carrier strike group could be the Anti-War Army, but would the Anti-War Army have stealth bombers?

It would be good enough if they even had some F-16s, right?

But he had no time to ponder this question and could only urgently order the entire fleet to prepare for air defense.

The remaining carrier-based aircraft scrambled, and the anti-aircraft guns on all warships opened fire with full force, close-in weapon systems chattering away from afar.

Ten-odd minutes later, the overall battle concluded.

The USS Reagan carrier strike group was in ruins.

Commander Manong's scalp tingled when he saw the overall damage report.

The USS Reagan's flight deck was severely damaged, its runways heavily compromised and unusable for carrier-based aircraft takeoffs. Even the carrier's own power system had issues, as this aircraft carrier had suffered the most concentrated missile strikes, and the anti-aircraft guns could not intercept all missiles.

Other warships, from cruisers to frigates and destroyers, all sustained more or less damage.

And they didn't even touch a single hair of the American military.

The American military dropped a bunch of missiles and ran.

Damn, they had never experienced such a frustrating battle.

Manong quickly reported the intelligence to his superior, while urgently contacting the USS Nimitz carrier strike group in another direction, instructing them to take precautions early. However, when the communication connected, there was also a commotion of chaos on their end…

U.S. Secretary of Defense Sevitz was stunned upon learning that two carrier strike groups had suffered severe air attack losses almost simultaneously.

Based on the battle situation analysis of the two fleets, the attackers were surprisingly bombers similar to the U.S. Military's B-series stealth heavy bombers, and there were quite a few of them.

How could this be possible?!

Didn't the Anti-War Army return all B-series stealth heavy bombers to the U.S. a long time ago?

They manufactured them themselves through imitation?

Don't be ridiculous!

Even if the Anti-War Army figured out the cutting-edge technology of those bombers, replicating them wouldn't happen overnight; it involves military industrial production capabilities, rare materials, and a large number of skilled manufacturing talents.

It's absolutely impossible for the Anti-War Army to possess all three of these simultaneously!

They are cooped up deep in the mountains, hiding in unknown caves; how could they set up military factories? Are they dreaming!

No, that's not right,

Savitz immediately thought of another possibility, and instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

Just before this war, Dragon Country announced that its heavy stealth H-20 Bomber had successfully completed its test flight and was currently entering mass production.

Could it be that… Dragon Country provided the first batch of H-20 Bombers as support to the Anti-War Army?

Or even, Dragon Country itself directly entered the war???

Big trouble—

Savitz's head felt as big as a bucket; he truly hadn't expected such a major turn of events to occur at this point in the war!

He immediately contacted a few people in the Department of Defense, including Chief of Staff Claire and other core high-ranking officials, for an urgent discussion.

The final conclusion was that regardless of what happened with the attack on the carrier strike group, it was currently inappropriate to make this public, otherwise, those NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) countries planning to remotely dispatch troops to participate in the war would certainly back out.

Sigh.

After the meeting concluded, Savitz let out a long sigh.

He already had extremely pessimistic thoughts about the final outcome of this bandit suppression operation.