Chapter 1253 Fiction and Reality 4

Boom, boom, three loud bangs in a row, a battleship with a displacement of 65,000 tons, was pushed to a wobble by the reaction force when the guns were fired, and the sea water under the muzzle was pushed away by air pressure, which shows how powerful this 406-mm naval gun is.

The urban area of Egong City was suddenly turned upside down, there were no tall buildings, and a single shot could clear out a ruined wall, and by the time the 270 shells were fired, the city was full of fire and black smoke, and it had become unrecognizable, it was simply a garbage dump.

Immediately after that, the city of Vung Tau was also subjected to the same shelling, and there was really not much time, the 406-mm naval guns fired two rounds per minute, and the 10 shells were only five minutes, but the destructive power caused by the 155-mm howitzers could not be compared with 40 rounds.

The port of Saigon is one of the main bases of the Vietnamese Navy, and the purpose is naturally to protect the most important city in the southeast of Vietnam, Saigon City, which was once the capital of South Vietnam, and is now a municipality of Vietnam, with a very important location. This is a large estuarine port, with a water area of more than one square kilometer, and the deepest point is as deep as 16 meters, capable of entering 10,000 tons of ships.

Saigon Port is divided into two parts: military port and commercial port, and the military port wharf is concentrated on the west bank of the Saigon River, with 19 wharves of various types, and the largest can berth ships of 10,000 tons. On the west bank of the military port area is the Ba San Naval Shipyard, one of the largest shipyards in Vietnam, capable of repairing 7,000-ton ships.

The terrible sirens sounded in Saigon Harbor, where frigates and missile boats scurried like headless flies, crowds of people running everywhere, and the key point was that the enemy was attacking, but the radar monitors did not react at all.

In the sky, 48 Shield Guardian-2C vertical take-off and landing fighters took off from Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ships, and 48 Shield Guardian-2J carrier-based aircraft took off from aircraft carriers, constantly dropping anti-ship missiles downward.

The Shield Guardian-2C vertical take-off and landing fighter is capable of carrying four Ruby supersonic anti-ship missiles, and the Shield Guardian-2J carrier-based aircraft, which can carry eight Ruby supersonic anti-ship missiles, will strike not only surface ships, but also the port headquarters, ammunition depots, oil depots, radar stations and shipyards.

The Ruby supersonic anti-ship missile has a maximum range of more than 300 kilometers, a maximum speed of Mach 2.6, a maximum flight altitude of 15,000 kilometers, a launch weight of more than one ton, and a 300-kilogram high-explosive charge.

"Report to the governor, the southern area of Saigon was attacked by a large-scale mercenary navy, the other side used naval artillery to shell the cities of Gogong and Vung Tau, and then carried out an air attack on the port of Saigon, our ships were sunk by the enemy's anti-ship missiles, but the radar could not lock on to the enemy planes, and the anti-aircraft guns did not work against the aircraft at high altitude, and the port of Saigon was about to be sunk!" The commander of the port command shouted into the microphone heartbreakingly.

"I know, organize everyone to evacuate the port as soon as possible, don't make unnecessary sacrifices, this is also expected, the gap between the strength of the Vietnamese Navy and the enemy is too big, it can't stop the attack of others at all, our tattered ships, how can they beat other people's fifth-generation aircraft, isn't this a joke!"

"Originally, the navy was strongly opposed to the war, but as a result, the top brass refused to listen, and now it has finally suffered the bitter fruit, let me tell you, Da Nang, where the headquarters is located, is much worse than yours, the opponent's aircraft carrier battle group, using anti-ship missiles to carry out a surprise attack on the port, surrounded the entire port, the ships can only be bombed in the port, four of the six submarines were sunk by carrier-based aircraft, and the remaining two fled everywhere in the southern seas, and sooner or later they were also sunk by bombing!"

"Even the capital has been attacked by cruise missiles, and now the top management has to hide in the underground strategic command, if it is not a wired telephone, or even a phone call, I can't give you any support, you can only rely on yourself, evacuate all the personnel from the port, and leave the green mountains without worrying about the lack of firewood, these people in the navy are the hope for the future." The Admiral Governor said.

In fact, the Navy Governor faced the tragic situation of Da Nang, and directly shed tears, this beautiful coastal city, but the most important port and base of the Navy, fell from heaven to hell in just ten minutes.

The streets and alleys are littered with collapsed houses, terrified corpses, and countless cries of people who are reluctant to leave their homes under naval shelling.

In many places, the fires have not been extinguished, black smoke fills the sky over the city, the ruins are desolate, and the tragedy caused by the war is often the first to be borne by the common people.

Although the Vietnamese Navy has a negative attitude towards this war, it is also actively implementing the military orders of the Ministry of National Defense, but with the strength of the Navy, there is really nothing to arrange, and the warships that can go into battle are a few frigates, which is not enough to stuff the teeth between the aircraft carrier battle groups!

The only thing that can fight is the six Kilo-class conventionally powered submarines, but the admirals know very well that if they want to sneak attack the aircraft carrier battle group, this strength is equivalent to hitting a stone with an egg, and the submarine is not omnipotent, it has its own weaknesses.

A few dozen nautical miles away from the aircraft carrier will have to be discovered by a defense network composed of anti-submarine patrol aircraft, nuclear submarines and destroyers, and submarine technology is developing at the same time as anti-submarine technology. Take Cam Ranh Bay as an example, there is a Blue Eagle 1 anti-submarine fixed-wing aircraft patrol squadron that conducts 24-hour searches of the sea surface.

The Navy Command did not know how to fight this naval battle, and the naval ships in Da Nang were unlucky, and the 48 Shield Guardian-2J carrier-based planes that took off from the Tianfu aircraft carrier, carrying air-to-air missiles and Ruby supersonic anti-ship missiles, quietly came to the sky over the harbor and attacked the fleet like a storm.

The warships in the harbor were on fire and emitting black smoke and fell to the bottom of the sea, and there were all the officers and men of the navy floating on the surface of the water shouting, and everyone tried their best to swim to the shore, otherwise the whirlwind caused by the sinking of the warship would have carried them to the bottom of the sea.

The Ruby supersonic anti-ship missile developed by the former Soviet Union was already quite powerful, and with the further strengthening of the military industrial department of the mercenary corps, it did not give the Vietnamese Navy any time to rescue at all, and the warship had to sink if it was hit. Fortunately, there were two Kilo-class conventionally powered submarines that sank in time, otherwise they would have been wiped out.

The radar station in the port does not work, the anti-aircraft missiles in the port do not work, the anti-aircraft artillery positions in the port do not work, the most powerful point of the fifth-generation fighter is stealth, and it is to launch air-to-ship missiles at high altitude, what role can these things on the ground play? So many anti-aircraft guns, but what a problem to hit cruise missiles in a supersonic state?