While there was intense fighting on Gotland, the base outside Oscar was also facing a huge test, and it was a test of land, sea, and air integration...

In order to use the exercise to hold back P.B's main forces, or rather, to prevent P.B's main air forces from entering the skies over Gotland for support, the Lake Belga Foundation mobilized all its connections, escalating the exercise intensity to a level akin to actual combat through a preset exercise script.

With the Prince of Wales as the flagship, along with a total of 43 various vessels from 16 countries including supply ships, it formed a massive fleet stationed in the waters between Poland and Sweden.

By sheer numbers, this is absolutely a force capable of breaking a nation...

But the reality is, even if all the countries below the Big Five were united, they couldn't compete with any single Big Five nation at sea.

NATO's primary naval forces, France and Italy, did not exert much effort, with France even finding excuses to stay near Denmark instead of moving forward.

The England Navy seemed to make a full effort, even placing an amphibious assault ship in the battle, but in reality, the Prince of Wales sent for the exercise was in poor condition...

However, even so, counting the two 8000-ton Type 45 Destroyers responsible for escorting the carriers, plus four aging 4500-ton Type 23 Frigates...

England's current total tonnage in the Baltic Sea has already surpassed the combined total of the navies from the other 16 countries.

This is the gap in modern naval power!

No matter how many jokes England makes, if they desire, they can crush the navies of all countries below the Big Five!

At this moment, Qing Shan was under immense pressure, as the materials and equipment organized in six days were simply inadequate to handle a 'nation-destroying battle'...

NATO first dispatched air forces to seize air supremacy, then simultaneously sent landing troops to land from Kamar south of Oscar, simulating NATO's attack on Saint Petersburg from Estonia...

At the same time, silent electronic warfare engagements surged over the Baltic Sea; if strategic support temp workers performed poorly, resulting in interference with the air defense systems, NATO missiles would launch an attack on the base immediately.

Qing Shan stood at the command position, his eyes fixed on the huge screen before him, witnessing his side suffering heavy losses in a round of air force engagements...

Four Nan Batian leading 16 F-16s engaged fiercely over the southeastern Baltic Sea against NATO's multinational fighter group flying out from Latvia...

With 20 fighters on our side against the opponent's 28 fighters, the final result was both sides losing 12 fighters each, resulting in a 1:1 score...

As he watched the radar showing red dots representing the enemy's 16 fighters retreating towards Latvia under the directorate's request...

Qing Shan angrily slammed the tabletop before him, glancing at the few Middle Eastern Prince bigwigs seated in the VIP spectator seats, then whispered to the Tri-yellow Chicken beside him: "Get all those Shah pilots grounded; they're causing more trouble for us than the opponent..."

Tri-yellow Chicken listened and reluctantly approached the equally dissatisfied Shah Dewali, whispering a few words...

Then, to support Tri-yellow Chicken's persuasion, Qing Shan yelled through the radio: "Command calling Bully Squad, what on earth is happening?"

Bully Squad, not involved in the Gotland interception of F-22 combat with their four Su-27s, were leading the F-16 fleet back.

According to the directorate's standards, they'd given their all in the recent air battle and were now combat ineffective...

Upon hearing Qing Shan's angry call, Bully Squad's leader Gao Qiu said helplessly: "The enemy has early warning aircraft support, plus we need to avoid surface ship anti-air missile lock-ons...

Sir, without authorization for sea attacks, we're very passive, and moreover..."

Hearing Gao Qiu trailing off, Qing Shan shouted, "These are your comrades; how can you look down on them?"

"How could I?"

Gao Qiu paused to quickly defend: "I didn't..."

"You did..."

"Did I?"

"You did!"

Hearing Gao Qiu wanting to argue further, Qing Shan shouted: "Our Shah allies lack experience, but you're the leader; coordinating your comrades' actions in combat is your responsibility...

Look at what you've all done?

How can you have any shame when all 12 of our allies were shot down?"

With that, Qing Shan gave Gao Qiu no chance to argue, stating loudly: "Eight hours confinement after returning; if you don't figure it out, don't bother flying..."

After speaking, Qing Shan cut communications, seeing the complicated expressions of several big Prince tycoons who walked by the command position, he earnestly said: "Fortunately, this is an exercise; we'll soon learn from these lessons..."

As the Shah Dewali, the head of Shah's air force, he wished he could find a hole to crawl into...

Qing Shan used English when speaking with Gao Qiu, and having mixed with Boss Joe for long, Dewali, combining Tri-yellow Chicken's words earlier, could understand what was meant without needing more explanation.

In the air, an exhausted Bully Squad Gao Qiu said: "This is Gao Qiu; everyone returning in batches, Shah squadrons land first..."

Seeing Shah pilots rudely starting to lower altitude, Gao Qiu annoyedly said: "Damn your ancestors..."

Then his wingman Cai Jing said in Mandarin on the channel: "Don't rush; this is just the beginning?

We're all just testing the waters; we have many opportunities ahead...

Ximen Qing, Wang Po, don't you think so?"

Bully Squad's remaining members Ximen Qing and Wang Po echoed in unison: "That's right, chief; we've got more chances..."

Listening, Gao Qiu smiled bitterly, glancing towards Gotland, saying: "My age is catching up; missing this chance, who knows if I'll ever get another real shot at the F-22 again in this lifetime...

We've always played simulated opponents for others, and with the chance right in front of us now, it was snatched away by those bastards Lu Zhangke and the others.

Is there really something to using code names?"

While Gao Qiu spoke, Qing Shan's voice suddenly echoed over the radio...

"Attention, enemy aircraft taking off from Poland direction, Bully Squad expedite return, South Sea Squadron Soaring Dragon prepare to engage..."

............

In the ground command center, Tony glared at the screen that suddenly went black, standing and cursing: "FUCK, another drone was shot down...

Prepare the third one, hurry hurry hurry..."

The 'Rooster' beside sighed helplessly and said, "Tony, calm down. The enemy in the combat zone has air defense systems, the drones can't get in..."

Tony heard this and excitedly shouted, "Our boss is in there, he needs eyes.

Launch them, get them ready to take off, even if they can only last two minutes, we can accomplish a lot..."

As Tony spoke, Curry suddenly pointed at a photo on the screen and shouted, "The Winged Dragon captured something, FUCK, what are those things on the ship?"

Tony and the Rooster both leaned towards Curry, watching the image on the computer screen gradually sharpen...

"Oh my god, they've moved the Iron Dome system to the deck of the amphibious assault ship..."

"FUCK, what's that? Looks like something took off from the ship..."

"Drone, it's a suicide drone, notify the boss, notify the boss..."

Just as Tony picked up the radio to loudly call out, all the computers in the command room suddenly went dark, followed by a power outage in the entire base...

In the dark, there was a sudden string of exclamations, then Qing Shan loudly shouted, "Everyone stay where they are, don't move, support team, activate the backup power supply...

Technical team check where the problem is...

Strategic support team... connect to satellite and launch backup systems...

30 minutes, 30 minutes, we need 30 minutes..."

............

When the command center had problems, the coastal defensive battle on Gotland Island reached a fever pitch...

As three large ships led nearly a hundred general-purpose landing craft, quickly approaching the southeast shallows of Gotland Island, nearly 30 large triangular-wing drones and 120 Springblade 600s took to the air from the island.

The plan was to use drones to deplete part of the enemy's air defense firepower, and then launch anti-ship missiles to attack them...

But unexpectedly, all the waves of approaching drones at sea were shot down...

The enemy's air defense firepower far exceeded Joe Ga's expectations...

This isn't normal!

It wasn't until Tony sent him the photos taken by the damaged Winged Dragon drone that he realized what kind of force the Lake Belga Foundation had mobilized...

The F-22 is just a sideshow...

Relying on more than 20,000 tons of amphibious assault ships and two littoral combat ships over 3,000 tons, totaling nearly 27,000 tons of ultra-large capacity, they've moved many incredible things onto the ships, and unexpectedly, it worked quite well...

Joe Ga himself is a makeshift expert, but he really didn't expect the opponent to do the same...

This made him feel like the world is really just a makeshift troupe!

Those military forces that usually seem high and mighty are actually just that...

Theoretically, England's one amphibious assault ship along with America's two Independence-class littoral combat ships is a battle combination only a fool could come up with...

Because the two ships essentially lack strong offensive and defensive capabilities against the shore!

The amphibious assault ship's helicopter strikes, against an opponent with air defense firepower, is like sending vegetables.

While the littoral combat ship sounds impressive, it only has a 57mm naval gun and 20 vertical launch Hellfires to use, simply discussing its offensive capability against the shore is laughable.

The most messed up thing is, their air defense capability is also very poor...

The amphibious assault ship was initially designed to serve as a helicopter carrier, so it's reasonable that its offensive capabilities are not strong when deployed alongside destroyers.

But the two Independence-class littoral combat ships are different; they are an epic joke in Earth naval history, creating the rare phenomenon of retiring while in production, alongside Zumwalt, known as the sleeping dragons of the U.S. Navy...

The Zumwalt's tonnage is there, despite various issues, but the attack capability brought by its shipboard guns and vertical launch system is still top-tier worldwide.

But the Independence-class littoral combat ships are different; they have an average procurement price of $450 million each, plus supporting anti-submarine modules, mine-sweeping modules, anti-ship modules, totaling over $600 million...

And due to the so-called modularity and multifunction of these ships, there are countless issues, even the most prideful U.S. Navy couldn't take it...

Now they are just running around the seas every year, trying hard to fool some fool into buying them, costing nearly a hundred million in maintenance fees.

But now the amphibious assault ships and two littoral combat ships are a bit different...

The amphibious assault ships have no helicopters but have moved the land-based Iron Dome system onboard...

Tracking radar, combat management control vehicles, and as many as eight 20-launch boxes were placed on the deck.

This isn't the most terrifying part. What's most terrifying is that they brought the HIMARS rocket artillery onto the deck, giving the amphibious assault ship offensive capability against the shore, able to cover landing craft on the beach...

In comparison, the 'modification' of the littoral combat ships is even more shameless...

The aft deck, which can park two helicopters, has been emptied, with four commonly used Avenger air defense vehicles parked side by side near the hangar...

A row of four obviously experimental armored vehicles is parked in front of the Avengers, and the spherical laser weapon on top of the armored vehicles took down more than half of the Springblade 600 drones in just a few dozen minutes...

The wider aft deck is densely packed with Springblade launch boxes...

Just after P·B's first wave of drones was taken down, the rear of the two littoral combat ships was like a stirred-up beehive, with over a hundred Springblades taking to the air...

Monkey saw this scene through the view of a small drone and shouted nervously, "Everyone, stay undercover...

Activate all Spearhead Missiles...

Guard Camp, activate jammers...

Lion Camp, Warrior Camp, activate all air defense radars...

FUCK, they're coming..."