Tune the Pacific

Chapter 727 Login 4

"Dingling bell, jingling bell."

The rapid rang of the phone. In the early morning of San Diego, which had calmed down for a day, Lieutenant General Carl yawned, opened his bloodshot eyes, and picked up the phone.

"What's the matter?"

"What!"

As soon as he asked, he was stunned by the panic from the phone. He ran to the headquarters not far away. The soldiers on duty along the way frowned secretly when they saw this scene. What happened?

"What's going on? Why Santa Barbara, not San Francisco or Los Angeles? Where is the San Rosa Island guard post? Why is there no advance warning? Carl fastened the button and shouted into the command room. When the adjutant saw him, he immediately handed the emergency telegram he had just received: "There is no warning. We suspect that the San Rosa Watch Tower may have been destroyed in advance."

"Enable password number 4." After giving the order to change the password, Carl asked again, "How many warships are there?"

"I don't know yet, but a reconnaissance aircraft has been dispatched from Los Angeles, and it is expected that the news will be available in 20 minutes, but." The staff officer gritted his teeth: "According to the description of Major General Sampson's shell power, we judge that it may be a 15-inch or 16-inch naval gun!"

"16 inches?!"

Carl took a breath of cold air. It is no secret that the new Huawei replaced the 16-inch gun with the Guam-class. If it is really 16-inch, it means that the other party has invested in the Guam-class battleship that has never appeared!

This is not a trivial matter. Even if they didn't send the Guam class off the coast of San Diego three days ago, now they have launched the strongest battleship against the little Santa Barbara. What does this mean?

"Is there a new fleet arriving in Ensenada?" Although Carl had vaguely guessed, he still couldn't believe it, but when he saw the staff officer's shaking head, his whole body froze and suddenly sat in the chair with cold hands and feet.

"We are all wrong. The landing point should be Santa Barbara!"

The staff officer said what everyone wanted to say, but this conclusion was extremely bitter. Due to Xinhua's large-scale bombing of San Diego before, the headquarters judged that all the other party's aircraft carriers were concentrated here, and the second fleet arrived, so five troops were reinforced on the border of the Lower California Peninsula, but now it tells him These are all illusions. The real landing point is Santa Barbara, 200 kilometers away. What other support can they get?

"The defenders of Santa Barbara are the 27th Army led by Major General Sampson, with a total of 6 divisions and 110,000 people, 570 cannons and 2,300 machine guns. They have enough combat effectiveness from the perspective of their subordinates, but they lack the help of heavy artillery. In addition, most of them are deployed on the front line of Mount Santa Yezi, far from the coastline. It's 6 kilometers away from the coast. If the Chinese move fast enough, then. The tip of the staff officer stopped beside the coastline of the map. Although he did not continue, everyone knew that the strength to defend the coastline was seriously insufficient!

"Order Army 36 and Army 52 to go south from San Francisco immediately, and Army 12 to go north from Los Angeles. They must be supported there as soon as possible." Carl finally recovered from the attack and immediately ordered, "Tell Sampson to move to the coast as much as possible, use the local woods to kill their soldiers, and the reinforcements will arrive soon."

"General, it's almost dawn. I'm afraid if I take the railway for support."

"Then let's go of the road. We must support Santa Barbara, or we will lose Los Angeles!"

"Yes." In Carl's roar, the staff immediately dispersed, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the non-commissioned officer beside him shouted, "General, it's Lieutenant General Joe Wilt's phone."

"Joe?" Looking at the ringing of the phone, Carl's mouth was full of bitterness. This time, he really didn't know how to talk to the minister.

====== "Boom, Boom."

In the fierce strafing of machine guns, two huge columns of water rushed up from the bottom of the sea. The waves formed by the explosion pushed the minesweeper hundreds of meters away straight away by several meters away, and the flying water sprinkled all over the sky fell on the deck, forming a trickle.

"Quick, change the net!"

After handing over the rudder wheel to the first mate, Shangguan Liang personally ran to the back deck to help. After the winch quickly withdrew the tattered trawl net, the fish gun quickly knocked down a new rope head on the sister ship opposite.

The wide trawl net was thrown out again, and soon an invisible gate was formed. As long as it was pulled by the net, it is impossible to leave any mines in the waters. This is the simplest and most dangerous way to clear mines.

However, before Shangguan Liang and others resumed work, several shells suddenly exploded between the two ships, and a piece of shrapnel roared out of the water. Only a bang was heard, and the roof of the cockpit was cut off in half.

The explosion made the mate who was at the helm tremble all over. When he saw that the top of his head was almost empty, he suddenly turned blue with anger and shouted, "Fry mother!"

"Pony, give me the radio."

"The fisherman called No. 9, the fisherman called No. 9, found the enemy army's shore gun, found the enemy army's shore gun." He held the steering wheel in one hand and stamped his feet with the microphone in the other. After a while, countless fireballs exploded on the beach a few kilometers away, and the cannon just designed for them was suddenly submerged by the sea of fire.

Before he was happy, the fisherman's No. 19 bow in the distance suddenly burst under the water. The water column lifted more than 100 tons of minesweeper to a height of more than ten meters, and then the whole ship collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only a large pile of debris when it fell.

"Let the fisherman No. 17 take the place, pay attention to keep the distance, and don't miss it!" Shangguan Liang on the deck even gave orders before he had time to be sad, but his red eyes still betrayed him. It was nothing that a minesweeper was destroyed, but with such a violent explosion, the 11 brothers above must not survive.

"Captain, the fishing net is ready."

"Start, keep moving forward, don't stop, the machine guns cheer me up." Boom." Another shell exploded at close range not far from the minesweeper, and the column of water swept over his face was drenched by Shangguan Liang and sailors.

While everyone was avoiding shells and fighting against mines, three American torpedo boats suddenly drilled out of the distant coastline, which was more threatening than shells.

"Left rudder!"

"Avoid, avoid it!"

"Fisherman 33, damn it, Fisherman 33 is on fire, machine gun, machine gun!"

"Don-Don."

In the messy shouts, a series of small columns of water suddenly approached the fisherman No. 9 from a distance. When Shangguan Liang turned his head and saw the torpedo boat, several quick-fire shells suddenly exploded on the deck. Flames suddenly ignited on the rumbling wooden deck, and the starboard unprepared machine gunner was penetrated through his thigh by broken boards. Blood suddenly spilled all over the deck.

"Fuck your grandma." Seeing that his partner was hit, Shangguan Liang quickly dragged him to a safe position in the middle of the deck, shouted and ran to the edge of the machine gun. His shoulder suddenly touched the butt and aimed at the torpedo boat.

"Come on, come on!"

"I don't have a cannon, but an organic gun!"

"Dad""

The 12.7mm venomous snake water-cooled heavy machine gun spewed out a long revenge tongue. Compared with the 7.62mm machine gun, the 12.7mm heavy machine gun is more powerful and has a range of 4,500 meters, which is enough to deal with torpedo boats with only rapid-fire guns. In addition, other minesweepers around have also temporarily turned the machine guns. Come here, and then Mars splashed on the shell of the torpedo boat.

"Keep going, leave me alone, pay attention to the trawl buoy!"

While shooting, Shangguan Liang shouted to command the minesweeper to continue his work. After seeing the emergency here, a coast guard frigate following behind the minesweeper, inserted horizontally and began to use the 76mm naval gun of the bow to help disperse boats.

It was targeted by more than a dozen 12.7mm venomous snakes at the same time, but dozens of tons of torpedo boats could not stand it. What's more, it was followed by a frigate. The U.S. military suddenly turned its rudder and was ready to leave, but how could the Coast Guard, which finally had the opportunity to go to the battlefield, let them go? When the bow deflected, it revealed four After installing the 37mm rapid-fire gun, the three torpedo boats suddenly turned into fireballs.

"Captain, three o'clock, mine!"

After watching the frigate solve the torpedo boat, Shangguan Liang was finally relieved. When he was about to relax his shoulder, which was sore by the machine gun, he heard the shout again and quickly turned the muzzle at the buoy at three o'clock.

The buoy has been pulled into the water, which is a sign of touching a heavy object. He quickly aimed at it and pulled the trigger. The sudden rainstorm-like bullets fell near the buoy. When the click of the bullets were exhausted, a column of water also rose into the air.

"15 pieces, check the fishing nets."

"Fishing nets can also be used, they can also be used!"

In the continuous explosions and the sound of machine guns, every shout needs to do its best. The coast in the distance is already filled with gunpowder smoke, and a huge fireballs rose from the whole of Santa Barbara. In this situation of watching your own heavy artillery cover the sweep, while facing the shells from the enemy on the shore from time to time to time. Minesweeping is really not a good job.

"Rumble."

Fisherman No. 51 near the coast also turned into a fireball to burst. Before the fire went out, the fisherman No. 11 next to it and its group was also hit by a shell shot from the shore and began to sink.

"The loss is too big!"

Seeing the partners sinking in the explosion, Shangguan Liang's hands began to tremble, and tears kept sliding down his dark cheeks, but half of the minefield had not been swept, so he had to take everyone to grit his teeth and rush forward.

"Seven ships have been lost, and there is a vacuum in the east. Let the second batch catch up. Don't leave a dead corner!"

"Go on, keep going!"

Fisherman No. 9 and the team of Fisherman No. 6 dragged the fishing net like a bull. The shells exploded beside him, and the bullets kept hitting the wooden hull, but everyone seemed to be numb, and there was only one thought in their hearts, rushing out of the minefield!

"Nine o'clock."

Observe the jumping hands and feet, pointing to a mine faintly visible under the water on the left side of the ship 100 meters away. After being reminded, Shangguan Liang turned the machine gun that was reloaded with the bullet box again and aimed at it there, but he did not see the black spot under the water ten meters away also flashing in the waves.

The bullet accurately hit the mine, and the violent explosion rushed to the fisherman No. 9. When Shangguan Liang grabbed the machine gun and was ready to meet the impact, he saw the black spot just now from the corner of his eyes and was hitting himself with the wave of the explosion!

"Damn it, mine!"

"Jump into the sea, jump down!" Shangguan Liang shouted loudly to let everyone jump into the sea to escape, and he held up a machine gun and aimed it at the mine that hit with the wave, but it was too late.

When a sailor was just about to jump into the sea, the explosion exploded on the port side of the bow of the minesweeper. The violent explosion lifted the whole minesweeper. Shangguan Liang suddenly felt that his body seemed to be out of control, and a scorching heat came from his side. When he subconsciously hugged the board of the side of the ship, the heat wave had already killed him. He pushed forward a hundred meters away, and then slammed into something on his back, losing his intuition.

It was not until half an hour later that a seaplane found Shangguan Liang, who was drifting with a wooden board in his arms, and sent him to a medical boat. Fortunately, two days later, he finally woke up, but lost a leg.

Lost at the same time, there are 23 of the 50 minesweepers in a total of 2 batches, as well as 173 partners!

Finally, at the end of the war, the Imperial Royal Navy lost a total of 178 minesweepers and killed 1,451 minesweepers, but they cleared a total of 119,000 mines and explosives. The minesweeping fleet was also the only unit in the war that won the highest collective honor, the Imperial Royal Warrior Medal.

At 10:41, after the minefield was basically clean, the landing craft began to rush out of the cabin.

(to be continued)