The Boston docks are already busy in the early morning. to support goods from all over the United States, transported here by train, and then shipped around the world by ocean freighters.

As the country with the highest industrial output value in the world, the United States is obviously unable to consume all the commodities it produces by relying on its own domestic market alone, and it must actively explore foreign markets.

However, with the loss of the British and French colonies by Germany, American goods could no longer be sold in these colonies. As a result, the overseas markets of the United States have been greatly squeezed, and they can only dump in the American market and the market of island countries. However, Germany also began to compete with the United States in the American market, which made the industrial development of the United States more and more difficult. Germany did this on the one hand to develop its own industry, and on the other hand, to suppress the United States.

Although Germany has the largest colonies in the world, as Germany gradually begins to integrate European industry, this makes Germany's industrial output value higher and higher, and it is foreseeable that it will surpass the United States in another year or two. Although the market in the colony is huge, it is estimated that it will not be many years before the colonial market will become saturated. At that time, Germany will have to further develop its overseas markets. What's more, Qin Tian knew that in a few years, the economic crisis would break out. Germany must be prepared for this. At the same time, if American industry can be suppressed, it will also give Germany a great advantage in future wars. After all, the war competition is undoubtedly the comprehensive strength of the country, and the industrial strength is undoubtedly a very important part of it.

The Bostonians didn't know at the moment that danger was coming. There are even many people who are still asleep at all.

When the huge German Combined Naval Fleet appeared off the coast of Boston, the Bostonians were not even immediately aware of their identity.

"Oh God! What a huge fleet! Does the American Republic actually have such a large fleet? "A merchant shipowner is as proud as if the United States were the real number one power in the world.

"Long live the American Republic! We are the most powerful country in the world. A sailor shouted.

Many sailors followed suit, although the United States had been hit hard by Germany in the Azores conflict just now. However, under the propaganda of the American government, Americans' hatred of Germany continued to rise. At the same time, it has also made their national self-esteem and self-confidence unprecedentedly united.

An elderly sailor, who was fishing on the pier, watched it all with a smile.

Although the United States is a country that has only been established for more than 100 years, although it is very young, it is very firepower. Perhaps it is precisely because of this reason that the United States can quickly surpass the old European powers in industry and become the most industrially developed country in the world.

"Damn, that's not our fleet. The Iron Cross on those ships! An American businessman, who was looking at the huge fleet with a telescope, yelled in shock.

"The fleet of the Germans? What are they doing here? ”

"Oh God! The Germans weren't trying to attack Boston, were they? Isn't the conflict already over? ”

Many people suddenly think that the US government claims that the conflict in the Azores is over, but in fact, the two sides have not signed an agreement or document to end the conflict at all, that is, this is nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of the Americans that the conflict is over. In the eyes of the German government, the Americans could provoke a conflict, but it was up to the German Reich to decide when the conflict or even the war would end.

When the huge fleet got closer and closer to the coast of Boston, and those capital ships even began to cross the hull, the Bostonians on the dock woke up one by one. They all realized that danger was imminent.

On the battleship "Caesar", the flagship of the German Navy's combined fleet, Admiral Hipper gave the order to prepare to open fire with an indifferent face.

The 16 capital ships in the fleet have already crossed the hull. Cruisers and destroyers, on the other hand, surround the perimeter and are responsible for countering potential threats. For example, the Americans might send submarines to strike at the German Navy. In particular, those anti-submarine destroyers, which are equipped with the most advanced sonar, are cruising around the periphery of the fleet, building a tightly sealed antisubmarine network. If an American submarine approaches, it will be spotted by them and sunk with depth charges.

The guns of the capital ships of the Combined Fleet were slowly spinning, aiming at the port of Boston. Inside the harbor, countless Bostonians are scattering and fleeing. They screamed in terror as if the end of the world was coming.

Everything that happened inside the harbor was watched by Admiral Hippel through a telescope. However, he did not have any pity for these Americans. War is meant to kill people. Especially this time, if the United States took the initiative to provoke the German Empire, it would be even more self-defeating. For a person like Admiral Hipper, who has already experienced countless tragic battles, he is accustomed to seeing a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and his heart has long been like iron and stone.

"Let's fire! Destroy Boston's harbors, as well as shipyards! "Admiral Hipperl gave the order.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The three triple 50-caliber 410-mm guns of the battleship 'Caesar' began to roar. Shells weighing more than a ton roared and smashed into Boston's harbor.

Violent explosions rang out inside the harbor, black smoke rose into the air, and flames erupted.

Other capital ships of the combined fleet of the German Navy, which also followed suit and began firing.

For a time, Boston's harbor became a living hell. Buildings were destroyed by the shelling of the German Navy's combined fleet, and there were craters everywhere. Many Bostonians who fled in all directions were killed directly in the shelling. The battleship's main guns, so powerful that those people were almost blown to pieces.

In less than an hour, Boston's harbor was bombed into rubble by heavy shelling by the German Navy's combined fleet.

But even then, the combined fleet of the German Navy did not stop. They began to shift their targets to shipyards in Boston. These shipyards, likewise destroyed. At the same time, the battleships on the slipway that were being built for the US Navy were all turned into a pile of scrap metal under the heavy shelling of the German Navy.