After the sky darkened, the tense atmosphere in the bridge of the aircraft carrier Sturdy of the Red Tiger Navy's Navy eased a little, after all, the fighters of various countries could not carry out combat missions at night.

However, when the data on the losses of the four navies was transmitted to the bridge of the Sturdy, the faces of the four fleet commanders were very ugly, and in order to facilitate unified command, the four fleet commanders of the four navies had been gathered on the Sturdy aircraft carrier to coordinate the operations of the combined fleet of the entire four navies.

The air defense force around the aircraft carrier Sturdy is the strongest in the combined fleet of the four navies, and in the six waves of air attacks, the Sturdy aircraft carrier was only hit by a 500-kilogram aerial bomb, and it hardly affected the combat effectiveness of the Sturdy aircraft carrier.

Marshal of the Red Tiger Navy, Longcott, took a loss report and said with an iron face: "Such a huge loss can be described as unprecedented in our Red Tiger Navy, in less than four hours, our Red Tiger Navy was sunk three large aircraft carriers, three medium aircraft carriers, four small aircraft carriers and seventeen escort aircraft carriers, in addition to four super dreadnought battleships, six battle cruisers, four dreadnought battleships, eleven heavy cruisers, eighteen light cruisers, Twenty-two destroyers and two submarines were also sunk, and this enemy must be returned to the Red Tiger Navy! ”

As the main force of the combined fleet of the four navies, the Red Tiger Navy is also the focus of attack on many bombers of the Independent Division of the Great Qin Air Force and many carrier-based bombers of the Independent Fleet, making the loss of the Red Tiger Navy the largest among the navies of the four countries.

Marshal Fairford of the Blood Wolf Country crumpled the loss report in his hand vigorously, threw it to the ground casually, and then said viciously: "Now that our four-nation naval combined fleet is less than a hundred kilometers away from the port of Daqinming Port, we will take this revenge back tonight!" ”

The number of warships that the Navy of the Blood Wolf Country joined the combined fleet of the four navies was second only to the Navy of the Red Tiger Country, and in the six waves of air raids by the independent division of the Great Qin Air Force and the independent fleet, the losses of the Navy of the Blood Wolf Country were also very heavy, and five regular aircraft carriers were sunk, and two super dreadnought battleships, four battle cruisers, three dreadnought battleships and seven heavy cruisers also sank to the bottom of the sea, which was equivalent to the loss of twenty-one capital ships at once.

Among the navies of the countries of this world, aircraft carriers, super dreadnought battleships, dreadnought battleships, battle cruisers, and heavy cruisers are classified as capital ships.

Admiral Delva of the Ice Lion Country hesitated for a moment and said: "The Great Qin Navy, which is subordinate to the Yueyang Front, in addition to escorting aircraft carriers, has only captured a few warships of our Ice Lion Navy, and now our combined fleet of the four navies is heading straight to Minggang Port, I am worried that this Great Qin Navy will not continue to stay in Minggang Port at all." ”

Marshal of the Red Tiger Navy, Long Kete, then said: "It doesn't matter if the Great Qin Navy escapes, anyway, the port of Minggang can't run, and the army forces of the Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and East Bear that follow behind the combined fleet of the navies of our four countries exceed 1.2 million, and the combined fleet of the navies of our four countries can take advantage of the situation to cooperate with the army and capture the foothold of Minggang, so as to open up another battlefield in the northeast region of the Great Qin State!" ”

At this time, in the bridge of the super dreadnought battleship Xingchen, the flagship of the independent fleet, Ding Haifeng, the commander of the independent fleet, sighed and said to Liu Bin, the captain of the Xingchen: "After all the carrier-based aircraft in the sixth wave of sortie are recovered, our independent fleet will go south, if our independent fleet does not leave, according to the speed of the combined fleet of the four navies, in about two hours, it will enter the range of the main guns of those battleships of the combined fleet of the four navies." ”

Liu Bin, the captain of the Xingchen, frowned and said: "Although our independent fleet and the independent division of the air force have dealt a heavy blow to the combined fleet of the four navies, sinking dozens of aircraft carriers and dozens of capital ships of other types, but the strength of the combined fleet of the four navies still exists, and relying only on the defenders of Minggang Port, can it block the attack of the combined fleet of the four navies and more than one million army units?" ”

Ding Haifeng shook his head and said: "Our independent fleet only has two super dreadnought battleships, two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and four destroyers, even if the combined fleet of the four navies has suffered heavy losses, it is not something that our independent fleet can compete with at close range, and after dark, the carrier-based aircraft of our independent fleet cannot take to the air to fight, so they can only temporarily evacuate the port of Minggang." ”

After a pause, Ding Haifeng continued: "But now the port of Minggang has almost been built into a super fortress, even if the combined fleet of the navy of the four countries plus more than a million army troops, it will be difficult to gnaw the port of Minggang." ”

After deciding to use the port of Minggang as the home port of the independent fleet, Su Yi invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build the port of Minggang into a super fortress with a large number of permanent batteries in a short period of time.

Now, with the help of the mountains around Minggang Port, the Yueyang Front has built a total of 36 batteries, plus 24 batteries located in the port, and the entire defense system of Minggang Port is composed of a total of 60 batteries, all of which are made of reinforced concrete more than two meters thick, which is theoretically enough to withstand the direct hit of 500 mm armor-piercing shells.

The 60 batteries have a total of more than 800 large-caliber coastal defense guns, of which 100 are more than 350 mm calibre, including 20 giant coastal defense guns with a caliber of 50 times the caliber of 406 mm, 40 giant coastal defense guns with a caliber of 50 times the caliber of 381 mm, and 40 giant coastal defense guns with a caliber of 50 times and 356 mm.

The other more than 700 coastal defense guns are all of 150 mm or more in caliber, and only 50 times the caliber of 334 mm and 50 times the caliber of 305 mm each have 100 guns.

And so many coastal defense artillery were transported from the world on the side of the Tang Empire, in fact, not only in the port of Minggang, but also in the coastal ports suitable for landing operations in the northeast of the Great Qin State, the Yueyang Front Army has built a large number of battery groups with large-caliber coastal defense artillery.

And because the port of Minggang has been under military control since it was captured by the Yueyang Front Army, the real situation of the port of Minggang is not clear to the four countries of Ice Lion, Red Tiger, East Bear and Blood Wolf.

Liu Bin, the captain of the Xingchen, sighed and said, "It seems that our independent fleet can only evacuate the port of Minggang. ”

Ding Haifeng, commander of the independent fleet, then said: "The attack on the port of Minggang by the coalition forces of the four countries will not end overnight, and after dawn tomorrow, our independent fleet can still dispatch carrier-based aircraft to provide air support to the port of Minggang." ”

At a little after 8 o'clock in the evening of November 3, 2539, the dense warships of the four navies and more than 1,000 transport ships arrived at the sea about 30 kilometers away from the port of Minggang.

After the shore defense artillery of Minggang Port launched an artillery bombardment, the super dreadnought battleships, battle cruisers, and dreadnought battleships of the four navies also launched a counterattack on the battery group in Minggang Port.

As the combined fleet of the four navies approached, 100 shore defense guns of 50 times caliber 334 mm and 100 coastal defense guns of 50 times caliber 305 mm also launched artillery bombardment of the combined fleet of the four navies.

The Marshal of the Red Tiger Country, Long Kete, looked at the super fierce artillery fire of the Minggang port battery group, and couldn't help frowning and said, "When did the port of Daqin Minggang have so many large-caliber coastal defense guns?" ”

Marshal Fairford frowned even tighter, "With so many large-caliber coastal defense guns, our four-nation naval combined fleet is not taking advantage of it!" ”

Marshal of the Red Tiger Navy, Long Cote, gritted his teeth and said: "At this time, we can't care about the losses, and order the army units of the Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and Dongxiong to immediately launch a landing operation, and take the port of Minggang at all costs!" ”

In order to defend the port of Minggang, the Yueyang Front Army has arranged four temporary divisions in the territory of Minggang County, and in addition, in the surrounding areas of Minggang County, six temporary divisions have also been placed as reserves, and Su Yi also transferred the five heavy artillery brigades subordinate to the Yueyang Front Army Headquarters into the territory of Minggang County, and these five heavy artillery brigades each have more than 400 guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm, including 24 203 mm howitzers, 160 155 mm howitzers, and 240 105 mm howitzers.

When the land units of the Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and Dongxiong began to carry out landing operations, not only did the other 500-odd coastal defense guns with a caliber of less than 300 millimeters in Minggang Port start shelling, but the artillery units of the five heavy artillery brigades and four provisional divisions of the Yueyang Front Army also opened fire one after another, inflicting very heavy casualties on the army units of the Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and Dongxiong that were preparing to land.

For this landing, the Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and Dongxiong Army units prepared thousands of landing craft, and each landing craft could carry a squad of infantry at a small level, and a few tanks and a company of infantry at large.

By the time the first rays of sunlight appeared, the sea outside the harbor of Minggang was already filled with corpses and fragments of ships.

The combined fleet of the navies of the four countries has been reduced in size compared to last night's when it came outside the port of Minggang, and the navy of the four countries, which has a total of more than 20 capital ships, was sunk by the large-caliber coastal defense guns of the port of Minggang in the bombardment last night.

This is still because the joint fleet of the navy of the four countries took the initiative to retreat a certain distance after losing more than 20 capital ships, out of the effective range of many large-caliber coastal defense guns in the port of Minggang, otherwise the losses would have been even greater.

After dawn, the carrier-based aircraft on the remaining aircraft carriers of the combined fleet of the four navies immediately tried to bombard the battery group in the port of Minggang from the air in accordance with the order of the commander-in-chief, Marshal Long Cote of the Red Tiger Navy.

In the confrontation between naval guns and shore defense guns last night, the battery group in Minggang Port suffered almost no major losses, and the reinforced concrete batteries more than two meters thick could not even be destroyed by 406 mm armor-piercing shells.

However, after dawn, a large number of Xiuniao fighters of the independent division of the air force, the Bamboo Dragonfly carrier-based fighters of the independent fleet, and the carrier-based bombers of the combined fleet of the four navies appeared in the sky above the port of Minggang.

The only thing that made the Four-Nation Alliance relieved was that some army units of the Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and Dongxiong successfully landed on the beach of Minggang Port without counting casualties.

In the bridge of the aircraft carrier Sturdy of the Red Tiger Navy, Marshal Longcott put down his binoculars and said to the commanders of the naval fleets of the other three countries in a hoarse voice: "It seems that it is difficult to use carrier-based aircraft to bomb the batteries in the port of Minggang, and now we can only rely on the army to take down the enemy's batteries." ”

Admiral Delaware of the Ice Lion Country then said with a wry smile: "But if such a hard attack continues, the losses of the army troops of our three countries are too great, because each landing craft needs to sail dozens of kilometers, and the ten landing craft can finally successfully rush to the beach, almost less than one-third, and the batteries in Minggang Port are extremely strong, the strength of the defenders is also very sufficient, and the firepower is very strong. ”

Although the navy of the Ice Lion Country did not send many warships to join the combined fleet of the four navies this time, the land forces of the Ice Lion Country sent about 650,000 troops to act with the combined fleet of the four navies.

In last night's forced landing operation, the losses of the Ice Lion Army were very large, and the number of casualties exceeded 150,000.

Marshal of the Red Tiger Nation Roncott sighed and said, "Then what to do? You can't just give up attacking the port of Ming Harbor! In order to open up another battlefield in the northeast region of the Great Qin Kingdom, all four of us have paid a considerable price! ”

Marshal Fairford of the Blood Wolf Country said at this time: "Minggang is the largest port in the northeast region, and it is normal for the Great Qin Yueyang Front Army to deploy heavy troops here, but the coast of the northeast region of the Great Qin Country is not only the port of Minggang that is suitable for landing. ”

Field Marshal Mochka of the East Bear Country followed up with approval and said: "I think Marshal Fairford's suggestion is very good, such a forced landing operation regardless of casualties has caused too great losses to our landed army troops, and in addition, the super dreadnought battleships, battle cruisers and dreadnought battleships of our four navies are unable to provide fire cover for the landing army units because they are worried about aggravating losses, and as for the carrier-based aircraft of our four navies, it seems that they cannot provide air cover, Therefore, it is better to choose other ports along the coast of the northeast region of Daqin to carry out landing operations, and avoid Minggang, a landing site like a hedgehog. ”

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