Chapter 852 Spring

Houston.

In Galveston Bay, the blue water is like a huge and smooth blue amber, intoxicating everyone who comes here.

It is famous for later generations, because in the early days of the space era in the United States, this is the starting point of the most important sea route between the Houston Space Center and the Cape Canaveral launch site, and the most important link for the United States to complete its global hegemony.

Bayton Port, which is close to the bay, is not big. Compared with many natural deep-water ports on the U.S. coastline, it looks shabby and narrow, but it is such a narrow harbor that can only dock two 10,000 tons of ships at a time, but today six giants came.

The special ocean-going ro-ro ship is also an exclusive ship type used by Xinhua. It is impossible for the 35-meter-wide hull to pass through the Panama Canal, so these six ro-ro-ro-ro ships full of weapons and ammunition all arrived in Panama City first, and then departed from there to bypass the South American continent under the protection of naval cruisers. It took nearly 40 days of a long voyage to reach the Gulf of Mexico.

Just arrived here from Australia. Before I could appreciate the difference between North America and the coast of Australia, 30,000 soldiers of the Fifth Marine Division lined up and began to board the ship. Tanks and armored vehicles drove directly into the roll-ro wheels with the soldiers.

In addition to the six ro-ro ships from afar, there are more than 30 other transport ships waiting to carry soldiers in the bay. This large-scale maritime scene is no longer new to Xinhua soldiers, but it is strange that it requires everyone to wear a mask on the ship, and it must be every Tian accepted the doctor's physical examination and said that once he felt a headache, cough and fever, he must report it immediately, otherwise he would be punished.

No one wants to be punished for this little thing, so even if they get up in the morning and cough twice, or smoke too much, they will run to report. But these usual jokes that are enough to make the medical officer kick them into the sea have now been carefully and detailed, which makes everyone have a strange and indescribable feeling.

Fortunately, the upcoming military mission diluted this feeling.

At the entrance of the bay, on the new deck of the Ningxia, the sailors are doing regular cleaning up. The full load displacement has reached 33,000 tons and has three triple L55/305 mm guns, focusing on strengthening the command, air-to-air and anti-submarine capabilities of Xi'an-class large cruiser No. 3, on single-ship combat. Its ability is no less than that of European front-line battleships, and its biggest highlight is the specially designed fleet command center.

Xi'an class is Xinhua's first and only warship designed to consider the command ability of the formation from the beginning. It has two front and rear radars, a steam/electric dual propulsion mode, and three reading fuel generators. At the same time, it is equipped with 26 radio stations in various bands. It also has a reading electronic warfare. Center.

It can be said that in addition to not being equipped with missiles and not having advanced electronic capabilities as later generations, this large cruiser can be regarded as the first new warship in this era to collect the most cutting-edge electronics, fire control, radar, hydroacoustic and other equipment. This is why Li Mo chose to build it and began to list this equipment as the future. The main reason for the design ruler of the warship.

The biggest benefit of the sharp increase in displacement is the increase in internal space. Today, when automation is emerging, the Xi'an-class large cruiser can be called the world's most comfortable warship, and its internal space is even more spacious and comfortable as that of the Taiwan-class battleship, which is almost twice the displacement. Take it.

In the bright oval combat conference room, several generals from the army began to envy the navy for the first time, because according to Luo Feng, the navy is digging the corner of the army and building military yachts to enjoy themselves.

This provocative sentence naturally attracted a piece of the middle finger of the admirals. The navy that originally offended the air force because of the "air attack on me as the king" was remembered by the army this time.

Fortunately, this kind of joke quarrel did not last long, but because of the arrival of Sun Jiugong, the commander-in-chief of the war zone, dissipated.

"This will probably be the last major military operation in our North American theater."

Sun Jiugong's opening remarks immediately made everyone stand up. In fact, everyone knows that today, when domestic logistics is getting tighter, it is not realistic to continue to maintain more than one million troops in continuous combat, so everyone wants to take this last opportunity to add a military medal to their chest.

"At present, the U.S. military is exhausted, and the will to resist has become lax because of the news of chaos in France. According to the intelligence, we have monitored a large number of deserters in individual U.S. troops more than once. Cheng Biguang, the newly arrived Chief of Naval General Staff, walked to the map and pointed to the Bay of Chesapik and continued, "This is a good opportunity, and our goal this time is here!"

"Chasapic Bay!"

Cheng Biguang took a deep breath and picked up the information at hand with a smile: "This is a pre-war economic intelligence on the scale of the American industry and shipbuilding industry in Chesa Pike Bay. Originally, I was going to publish it and send it to you, but after thinking about it, I'm going to help the Prime Minister save some money. I will dictate it again. It's the taxpayer's money.

"Ha ha." The funny words attracted everyone's laughter. Even Sun Jiugong couldn't help laughing, and he also understood why the low-key lieutenant general could climb to the high position of the Chief of General Staff of the Navy.

After putting down the economic intelligence, Cheng Biguang immediately said, "In the United States, many people here are more familiar than I am. There are three regions that are the most important in the U.S. economy and industry, Chesa Pike Bay, New York and the Great Lakes.

Needless to say, New York is the financial center of the United States and has a strong industrial foundation, but after we dug out the gold reserves, it has lost its glory.

The Great Lakes are the largest resource and steel industry center in the United States. They are made of raw materials and large-scale equipment in the heavy industry in the United States. However, they are far from the coast, and the Air Force's Raytheon long-range bombers must also take off from the temporary airport in Kansas City to threaten, but also because the distance is a little expensive, so I We are out of reach for the time being.

The rest is Chesapik Bay!

This is the largest shipbuilding base in the United States and the center of steel and heavy industry. I have some data here.

Before the war, the United States had a total of 27 docks of more than 20,000 tons, 19 of which were in Chesapik Bay. Three of the top ten steel companies are also here. In addition, there are 70% of the shipbuilding industry, 50% of the heavy industry and nearly 40% of the military industry in the United States!"

Cheng Biguang's words attracted a burst of saliva from everyone. Among other things, you can know how important it is just by thinking about the weight of the U.S. economy before the war. This is simply a super invincible fat pig!

Cheng Biguang and Sun Jiugong smiled at the unbearable expression of the generals' bandits. The former continued: "After the end of the Battle of Bermuda last year, our navy carried out many large-scale bombings and shelling here. In addition, most of the people here have fled to the north, so Judging from the investigation, it has basically destroyed the industrial manufacturing capacity.

But I think everyone knows that our goal is not only to prevent them from building, but also to make them unable to build it for a long time in the future, so the core of this operation is to occupy the whole Chesa Pike Bay, including Baltimore, and then completely remove all the mechanical equipment here and blow it up. Help restore all production infrastructure to achieve the goal of paralyzing the largest industrial zone in the United States and delaying the post-war reconstruction of the United States.

Just after Cheng Biguang's introduction, Sun Jiugong immediately stood up and waved his hand and said, "At present, the U.S. military is mainly suppressed in the three states of South Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri. Chesa Pike Bay and New York are also key defense areas, so we chose this landing point here, Delaware!"

With Sun Jiugong's fingers stopped, the last battle in the North American theater began on the morning of March 20.

Since March 20, the United Command of the North American Theater has gathered 4 Xinhua armored divisions, 2 infantry divisions and as many as 32 infantry divisions. With the support of tens of thousands of South American national divisions, including 20 Japanese infantry divisions, 15 Mexican divisions and two Cubans, across Tennessee, Kansas and Buddha. In Rorida, it advances to the central United States in three ways at the same time. At the same time, the three air divisions and naval task forces under the North American theater were also dispatched on all lines, and once again launched strategic bombing of the East Coast and Central United States with more than 1,000 high-intensity aircraft per day.

Although it was expected that Xinhua would launch a huge spring offensive, when millions of troops went hand in hand, the U.S. military generals, including Pershing, still took a deep breath. No one wanted to fight in the logistical pressure, and the road and railway damage were very serious, which had obviously lost the rapid state at the beginning of the landing. The Xinhua Army, which gradually entered the stalemate stage, suddenly broke out after saving for a winter.

In order to prevent Xinhua from entering the most important central and eastern regions, Pershing had to pull out about 30 divisions from the east coast to support.

With the arrival of reinforcements and Xinhua's own logistics problems becoming more and more prominent, when the war was about to fall into an impasse again, it departed from Houston and pretended to return to Panama to rest on more than 40 transport ships on more than 40 transport ships, under the protection of two heavy aircraft carriers, quietly followed Puerto Rico. After drilling into the Atlantic Ocean and sailing around a big circle for six days, he suddenly went straight from the deep sea of the Atlantic Ocean to Delaware, which is only one step away from Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

The arrival of the Fifth Marine Division not only means bypassing the U.S. defense lines of South Carolina and North Carolina, but also deployed in Virginia. All the U.S. troops that had been preparing to defend against Xinhua's landing in Chesapiq Bay were left behind.

Because the U.S. military was attracted by the ground offensive, the landing of the Fifth Marine Division suffered too much resistance. With the support of 2 aircraft carriers, 6 battleships, 12 cruisers and 6 fire support ships, Delaware Bay was torn apart in just three days.

With the landing of Xinhua Marines in Delaware, the most important political and industrial areas of the United States have been exposed to gunpoint, which means that the last barrier outside the heart of the United States has been broken through!

On March 28, in Pittsburgh, the temporary seat of the U.S. political axe, U.S. U.S. Melkin submitted a draft of the end of the war to Congress for the first time, leaving the responsibility of ending the war and the likely to pay huge amount of compensation and ceding land to the parliament to make a decision

(to be continued)