Chapter 480: The Situation Continues One
Receiving a call from the command that the mercenary navy was going to carry out a large-scale artillery bombardment of the fortifications, the soldiers in those fortifications on the coast of the port of Noumea ran to the rear like crazy, and it didn't matter what artillery positions, what anti-aircraft missile and anti-ship missile positions, what machine gun positions, all of them!
This is the bombardment of 406 mm naval guns, a shell can envelop an area of several thousand square meters, a few hundred square meters in the central area, and any living creature will be shocked to death by the air waves. Although www.biquge.info has never seen this scene and has not experienced it personally, there is no shortage of such themes in military schools.
According to the prior plan, the operation began on the Noumea side, and the nine naval guns of the battleship Iowa and the two hundred and three mm naval guns of the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Ushakov were aimed at the fortifications and waited for the order to fire, and the control room set the direction of the attack according to the coordinates.
The Golden Triangle Federation is the second country in the world to have a global positioning system, and the mercenary corps uses the Atlantis satellite navigation system for all equipment except for the missiles and artillery shells supported by the United States, which is undoubtedly the second in the world.
"Fire!" With the order issued by Dennis in the aircraft carrier office, there was a loud bang, and the muzzle of a 406-millimeter naval gun flashed, accompanied by thick smoke, not only the hull of the ship trembled violently, but the sea water under the muzzle also set off waves more than one meter high, and the defensive position more than 30 kilometers away suddenly shook the ground and cracked, and the reinforced concrete fortifications could not stop the huge cannon of this caliber at all.
The shells of the naval guns need to be temporarily loaded with explosives, and for the sake of safety, modern automatic loaders send shell shells and explosive packs to the turret, and the artillery is loaded, the bolts are closed, and the shells are fired immediately, reaching twelve rounds per minute.
The reporters standing on the deck of the aircraft carrier, their ears were numb from the loud sound, and when they saw the scene in front of them, some of them couldn't help but sit down with their legs weak, this scene was really shocking, watching TV and watching movies for a hundred years is not as enjoyable as watching a real one.
A Newport-class tank landing ship and three Austin-class dock landing ships approached the coast during the shelling, the landing ships lowered the rear gates, and the Marines began to set off towards the coast in mechanized landing craft.
The Newport-class tank landing ship is capable of carrying four hundred crew members, three mechanized landing craft, a large personnel landing craft, and a Sea Knight transport helicopter. The Austin-class dock landing ship can carry nine LCM-6 mechanized landing craft, as well as two LCAC air-cushion landing craft or twenty amphibious armored transport vehicles, and six Sea Knight transport helicopters.
The first batch of eight LCAC air-cushion landing craft, loaded with eight Abrams main battle tanks and more than a hundred crew members, first came to the shore to form a defensive formation, and then the landing craft returned to continue loading tanks and soldiers. The aircraft carrier dispatched all thirty Hornet carrier-based aircraft to protect the landing force, and twenty-four Sea Knight transport helicopters brought in six hundred crew members.
A Marine Brigade with nearly 4,000 men in size quickly arrived at a defensive position on the shore and occupied the permanent fortifications that had been bombed into ruins, and this process took only an hour and a half, and it was both offensive and defensive in a tense and orderly manner.
"The elite of the bullshit army, you bastards are simply a disgrace to the Golden Triangle Federation Navy, and even more to the entire legion, look, this is the result of your usual lack of training, you always feel that you are amazing, and now, expose your ass, right?"
"All the standard equipment of the US Navy, the mechanized beach landing actually exceeded the plan by half an hour, and they rushed forward as if they were swarming, blocking their own way, why did the landing craft get together and use them as live targets for the enemy? Fortunately, the French army did not resist, otherwise you would all have to become floating corpses in the sea! Denis was furious at the commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the Marine Corps, who is currently also the commander of the Marine Corps.
The Marines of the Golden Triangle Mercenary Corps, which has not been established for a long time, is a young branch of the army, which has been training near the fortress of Sestopol, and today is the first large-scale real combat exercise, because there is no enemy in the position, of course, it can only be called an exercise.
In the eyes of the layman, this unit acted quickly and well-trained, realized the intention of quickly and assaulting and occupying the enemy's position, and deserved the title of elite in the army, but for the dignified naval commander, there were too many loopholes in this beach-grabbing landing battle.
Genesys also knew in his heart that this group of guys knew that the position was not defended by the French army, and even if there were people, they would not be able to withstand the bombardment of 406 mm naval guns, let alone the assistance of 203 mm naval guns, so they didn't care about the formation at all, plus they had never experienced such a scene before, the result would definitely not be so satisfactory.
But this time it is acting under the noses of the news media personnel, and if there are knowledgeable reporters who publicize it and are known about this scene by experienced marines in Britain and the United States, I rely on it, and the Marines built by the Golden Triangle mercenary corps with all their resources will become a laughing stock after dinner.
The navy of the Golden Triangle mercenary regiment, which was originally called a pension force by the air force and the army, has no achievements to be proud of since its establishment, but the salary is super high, for this reason, from the commander to the ordinary soldier, the pressure in the heart can be imagined.
The big boss Wu Chen unswervingly supported the navy, ignoring the opinions of the two foreign and foreign services, and the funds rose geometrically every year, trying every possible way to build the world's second largest blue water navy, but the Marine Corps, which had high hopes, was not even competent for a single exercise, and the boss's face was lost to his home.
The garrison commander and senior officers quietly came to the position, and when they saw the situation in front of them, they were dumbfounded, the fortifications they were familiar with had been blown up, even the howitzers were scattered by the huge force, and the mortars and machine guns were twisted into twists.
"Well, do you have any comments on my proposal? We have encountered force majeure, the contrast between the two sides is too great, this battle cannot be fought! The commander of the garrison looked at a group of high-ranking officers with earthy faces, and said in a fluke tone.
In fact, if you are determined to fight urban warfare, it may not cause serious losses to the mercenaries, but the question is, who wants to be a martyr in an overseas territory? Seeing that the two lands are about to become independent, it is not worth it to be a hero in such a situation.