Rhode Island, destined to be a bloody place. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The artillery fire blew the water in the bay to a boil, scorched the flowers and trees on the island, and even burned some fragile stones, but it could not burn the backbones of the 50,000 soldiers of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army who were holding on here.

Under the command of Governor Shi Dakai, 50,000 soldiers of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army, relying on strong fortresses for defense, repelled the fierce charges of the American army again and again.

U.S. Army Commander Myers personally supervised the battle and mobilized 50 infantry divisions to besiege Rhode Island, each equipped with 30 75mm infantry guns and 6 155mm heavy howitzers.

Although the U.S. military was not equipped with 125mm medium artillery due to financial constraints, it seemed that it would be enough to concentrate 1,500 75mm guns and 300 155mm heavy howitzers for the attack on Rhode Island. Coupled with the firepower of more than 20 old battleships and armored cruisers, it should directly bomb Rhodes Island.

However, to Miles's anger, the Rhode Island fortifications were arranged in a powerful and secret manner, and he had received information that the largest caliber fort gun on Rhode Island was only 305 mm, but when the American battleship sailed into Newport Bay, it was attacked by the 15-inch (381 mm) fort guns located in Newport Fort, and the American battleship USS Alabama was sunk by one shot.

You know, it was a 25,000-ton battleship, although it was a bit old, it was already an old ship in 1882, but it also had armor protection more than 300 millimeters thick, and it was sunk by a cannon, which frightened the US Navy fleet that was preparing to attack from the sea, and turned around and fled for its life.

Since the main fleet of the US Navy was transferred to the Pacific Ocean and assigned to Dewey's command to attack Pearl Harbor, the US Navy fleet remaining on the east coast of the United States had only the old Indiana-class battleships with the largest tonnage, the strongest protection, and the greatest firepower.

Therefore, the sinking of the battleship Alabama undoubtedly frightened the American friends and made them feel warlike.

General Myers counted the number of 15-inch fortress guns and found that there were as many as 12 guns on Rhode Island, and each turret was a triple turret, which clearly moved the 15-inch naval ship's main turret directly to land.

In fact, with the construction of the Thor class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the subsequent Fury-class battleships and Bingyang-class battleships were all equipped with 406 mm (16 inches) main guns, and the 381 mm (15 inches) main guns were no longer needed, and several shipyards in the Chinese Empire misjudged the naval gun needs of the imperial court and the navy, and produced a large number of 381 mm main gun barrels, which were backlogged and could not be sold.

For this reason, several major shipyards decided to ask the army for help, and I heard that the army was building fortress fortifications on a large scale in major naval bases around the world to see if they could sell these 381 mm gun barrels, even if only to recover the cost.

After careful research, the Imperial Chinese Army found that the overseas territories of the Chinese Empire, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico, Key West, Cyprus, Djibouti, Sri Lanka and other places, will face the threat from the powerful maritime power of the Allied Navy, the traditional installation of 280 mm fortress guns, 305 mm fortress guns, it is difficult to resist the attack of those super-dreadnought battleships equipped with 343 mm, 356 mm, 381 mm caliber or more, so the Army Armament Committee decided to develop a larger caliber fortress artillery, It is used to strengthen the fortified defense capabilities of these overseas territories and military bases.

However, the cycle of developing the army-type fortress gun is too long, but the large-caliber naval gun of the navy is ready-made, and with a slight modification, it can be installed on the fortress battery, and the turret equipped with the naval gun has a strong protection ability, which is more suitable for use as a fortress artillery.

Therefore, when the general managers of several major shipyards made a request to the War Department, the Army Armament Committee immediately agreed to purchase this batch of 381 mm (15 in) naval guns.

In this way, a batch of 381 mm caliber fortress guns, including the fortress of Rhode Island, was secretly replaced.

When the U.S. Navy sailed into Newport Bay, the 25,000-ton battleship was instantly sunk by an armor-piercing blast bomb weighing a ton of armor.

Faced with the strong fortress artillery superiority of the defenders of the Chinese Empire, General Myers could only give up letting the American ships attack during the day, and chose to sneak attack quietly at night, bypassing Newport Bay and entering the inner bay of Rhode Island.

As a result, the Imperial Chinese Navy's Fish and Radium Boat Force, Submarine Force, and Water Radium Force used a combined fist, once again causing the US Navy's sneak attack to be bloodied and suffering heavy losses.

Miles had no choice but to temporarily abandon a frontal attack on Rhode Island from the sea, turning his forces to land, and planning to launch a ground offensive from Tifferton, the closest to land in the northeast of Rhode Island.

The bay there is only a few kilometers wide, and the 155-mm heavy howitzers of the US army can achieve fire coverage. Myers transported thousands of landing craft from the Atlantic Ocean to Tveverton by land to help the U.S. Army launch a beach-grabbing landing operation.

The U.S. Army's 155-mm heavy artillery group did strike at the beginning, but that was when the U.S. Army did not begin to land on the beach, and when they began to land on the beach, the hidden Rhode Island Artillery Division of the Chinese Empire began to fight back violently.

The same are 155 mm heavy howitzers, the 155 mm heavy howitzers of the Chinese Empire are much more powerful, the shells in the sky smashed down, so that the sea surface of just a few kilometers is full of corpses, just the first day, to the US army caused more than 2,000 deaths.

Miles was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, so he decided to do another night raid at night.

When the U.S. landing craft passed half the distance, the defenders of the Chinese Empire on Rhode Island quickly fired flares, and the whole sky suddenly seemed to be daylight, and then the overwhelming shells fell, causing the U.S. troops to cry and cry for their mothers, and in just a few minutes, the U.S. troops killed and wounded more than 3,000 people, which was worse than the daytime.

The tactics of the defenders of the Chinese Empire were clever and the equipment was advanced, and in the next ten days, the American army really suffered a big loss, as the attacking side, the American army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, while the defenders of the Chinese Empire did not die a few people.

Miles had no choice but to mobilize heavy artillery and bombard Rhode Island incessantly, dumping thousands of tons of shells on Rhode Island every day, turning Rhode Island into hell in an instant.

However, Shi Dakai had already prepared, and when the US army shelled, the defenders of the Chinese Empire quickly entered the underground bunkers and tunnels, which were all permanent fortifications, and they were not worried about the shelling of the US army.

Shi Dakai didn't fight back, he knew that Rhode Island was already surrounded by American troops, and it was impossible for any more supplies to be sent in.

At that time, Li Weiguo's task to Shi Dakai was to hold on for a few years, so every shell and every bullet was used to kill the enemy's living force, so Shi Dakai didn't pay attention to the U.S. artillery bombardment at all, because even if the artillery counterattack was carried out and a few U.S. heavy artillery pieces were damaged, the U.S. military would soon produce it again, and only when the U.S. ground forces attacked, Shi Dakai would order an artillery attack, because only by killing the U.S. soldiers, then the Americans could only create another U.S. soldier after 18 years. Only in this way can we ensure that the fortress of Rhode Island can be held.

Miles wanted to fight with Shi Da quickly, obviously Shi Da was not fooled, every soldier was used on the blade, a flip-flop, a sentence was infinitely dragged down, and in the end it was victory.

The water radium nets around Rhode Island, the U.S. military destroyed a batch during the day, and at night they would be re-repaired by the defenders of the Chinese Empire, and the cloth radium would change in a variety of patterns.

Even the defenders of the Chinese Empire used the most advanced magnetic storm water radium, so that some careless US sweepers were recruited and blown to pieces.

For a time, Rhode Island became a tenacious nail household, so that the US military could not pull it out when they saw it, like a fish in the throat.

There were 50,000 Chinese Imperial Divine Troops in Rhode Island, and Roosevelt wanted to completely eliminate them, after all, it was too close to New York, too close to Washington, and if they didn't eliminate them, once they rushed out of the thousands of people and went to New York and Washington for a walk, the destruction would be unimaginable.

Therefore, Roosevelt gave Miles a death order to completely eradicate this cancer growing in the United States before the American army set out.

Fierce battles were fought every day, and the American troops launched a desperate charge, and the result was that corpses were strewn all over the field and rivers of blood flowed.

Miles called a fire, and a large string of fire bubbles grew at the corner of his mouth.

"You can use black smoke to block the enemy's view! Our army took the opportunity to attack! ”

Suddenly, a voice appeared in Miles' ear, and his eyes lit up.

"That's a very good suggestion, what's your name? Soldier! ”

"Sir, my name is MacArthur!"

Miles glanced at it and saw that the young man named MacArthur had a military demeanor and liked it when he looked at it.

If Li Weiguo heard this name, he would definitely be surprised.

This MacArthur is the famous American general during World War II in history, but history has changed, and MacArthur Sr. was unexpectedly trembling eighteen years ago, and as a result, MacArthur was born early.

Miles was overjoyed, and upon learning that MacArthur Sr. was the son of the elder MacArthur, he immediately promoted him to lieutenant chief of staff, allowing him to advise on his side.

As a result, the U.S. military began to create black smoke, using electric fans produced by the Chinese Empire to blow the black smoke in the direction of Rhode Island, blocking the sight of the defenders of the Chinese Empire.

Immediately afterwards, the U.S. military began to rush to the beach, and with the help of the cover of black smoke, quickly crossed the bay and rushed to Rhode Island.

Opposite, the Portsmouth fortress in Rhode Island, Shi Dakai saw all this through the binoculars and scolded the American army for being cunning.

Chen Yucheng said: "Your Excellency Governor, what should we do now?" The enemy is completely out of sight! ”

Fang Boqian snorted coldly: "Isn't it just black smoke? Don't know what to do? What stupidity! The Governor ordered the artillery division to open fire, and the fire covered the entire bay and beachhead area, regardless of whether he had black smoke or not, and how many American troops were killed in a round of shells. ”

This Fang Boqian has been punished by the imperial court since the Rhode Island incident in China and the United States a few years ago, and now he has been staying in Rhode Island, demoted from the captain to the water radium camp pipe belt, and his mind and body have been tortured by Shi Dakai to obey, but he is still a dead duck with a hard mouth.

Chen Yucheng sneered: "I said Fang Boqian, who do you say is stupid?" You know how many enemies there are in the smoky area, if there are 10,000 enemies, we will earn a round of shells, if there are only 1,000 enemies, it is not enough to pay for a round of shells. Did you know that we're isolated now? For every shell that runs out, there is one less, but we have to hold on for a few years, and if you run out of shells, then your head will be used as a shell! ”

Fang Boqian suddenly became angry, and he was about to pinch Chen Yucheng.

At the critical moment, Shi Dakai stopped the two.

"Let's play a round! Let's see! After the fight, immediately shift positions! ”

Shi Dakai also had no way to judge, so he had to order the fortress artillery and artillery divisions to fight first and see the situation.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Artillery rang out, and the black smoke area was heavily shelled, and suddenly there was a sea of fire.

This kind of saturation shelling left the US troops with nowhere to hide, and the beach-grabbing landing force was wiped out in an instant.

The corners of Miles' mouth twitched in the rear, but fortunately he didn't send more American troops, and only sent less than a thousand men for a tentative attack.

Sure enough, after a try, the Chinese Imperial Army finally couldn't stop it, and was forced by the black smoke, and the artillery units opened fire in full swing.

With this firing, the position of the artillery positions of the Chinese Imperial Army was exposed.

As a result, several artillery divisions of the US army, which had already been on standby, gathered artillery bombardment, and countless shells overwhelmingly fired at the artillery positions of the Chinese Imperial Army.

In the blink of an eye, the artillery positions of the Chinese Imperial Army, which had opened fire before, were in flames.

Fortunately, Shi Dakai was experienced, and the artillery of the Chinese Imperial Army, with the help of tractors, transferred their positions in time and hid under the anti-artillery bunkers without suffering losses.

However, in this way, an artillery position was also exposed to the American army.

The two sides were fighting wits and courage, and Shi Dakai also saw that the casualties of the US army were very small, which was obviously a temptation.

Nine out of ten temptations are fake, but as long as one is true, the forward defensive position will be lost.

However, if the artillery is fired every time, then the preset position of the artillery of the Chinese Imperial Army will be exposed, and it will be impossible to come up with a surprise artillery attack on the enemy in the future, and even waste valuable artillery shells.

If Rhode Island had not been surrounded and the supply line had not been cut off, then Shi Dakai would definitely not be stingy with artillery shells, no matter how many times the US troops attacked, they would have directly poured artillery fire and blown the US troops to pieces.

But now Shi Dakai has to be careful, after all, he has to hold on for several years, and every shell has to be spared.

"The enemy is emitting black smoke again!"

This time, Shi Dakai did not order the artillery to open fire again, but ordered the soldiers in the forward positions to bury a large number of ground radium.

Listening to the density of the radium explosion, you can judge the size of the US troops, if it is a large-scale US military dispatch, Shi Dakai will immediately order artillery fire to cover, carpet bombing, if it is a small-scale US army, then the heavy machine gun bunker in the forward position is enough.

However, this is a palliative rather than a cure, with the increase in the number of US attacks, the position of the heavy machine gun bunker of the defenders of the Chinese Empire has been constantly exposed, although the US infantry can not knock out the heavy machine gun bunker, but after they go back, soon the US heavy artillery will come over, directly blow up the exposed heavy machine gun bunker.

After three days, the heavy machine gun bunkers of the Chinese Imperial Army deployed in the front line were successively destroyed by US artillery fire, and the forward defense force became weaker and weaker.

On this day, the U.S. military released black smoke again, but this time they were unlucky, Shi Dakai ordered someone to make a batch of big fans, and the black smoke was blown away in an instant.

Suddenly, the American infantry was completely exposed to the guns of the Imperial Chinese Army.

More than 3,000 American troops were beaten into a sieve, and the tragedy of blood and blood flowed everywhere made Miles vomit blood in anger for the first time.

In the following days, the Chinese and American armies fought wits and courage, each other used big fans to blow smoke, and the US troops did not dare to use large forces to attack, they were all small forces, and they did not feel distressed even if they lost.

On this day, luck returned to the side of the U.S. military, the northwest wind blew, and no matter how many fans the Chinese Imperial Army had, they couldn't blow the black smoke, and the entire black smoke suddenly swallowed Rhode Island.

"Order the forward command post, and if the enemy is outnumbered, immediately retreat to the second line of defense!"

Shi Dakai is not unprepared, he also knows that relying on electric fans to blow black smoke is a pediatric, and sooner or later it will fail, so he has come up with more ways in the past few days.

When Miles saw that God was helping him, his confidence immediately increased, and he launched a large-scale offensive, preparing to take the beachhead and land on Rhode Island in one go.

Under the cover of black smoke, the American troops again crossed the bay and landed on Rhodes Island.

The defenders of the Chinese Empire bravely resisted, but their line of sight was blocked, and the difference between the black pressed American troops and the black pressed smoke was not clear.

The U.S. troops launched a charge, and in an instant, bullets rained down.

Realizing the sheer size of the American troops, the forward commander immediately called and ordered the defenders to withdraw to the second line of defense.

"Retreat immediately, take all the ladders with you, and don't leave a single ladder for the enemy!"

The trenches were so deep that even the defenders of the Chinese Empire needed to use ladders to fight on their stomachs, and when they retreated, they dragged the ladders away.

The black smoke swallowed the forward positions, and the American soldiers acted in the black smoke, choking on tears, and finally saw the positions of the Chinese Imperial Army.

"Capture the enemy position!"

The U.S. troops were cheering, and more than half a month had passed before they attacked the defensive positions of the Chinese Imperial Army, and tears were still dripping down, I don't know if they were choked or excited.

Miles was overjoyed and immediately ordered a blow to continue the attack.

However, soon the scene of two Miles was confused.

I saw that after the U.S. troops jumped into the trenches of the Chinese Imperial Army, they found that they couldn't climb out, and one by one they were like forest frogs going down the river, blocked by a plastic fence, and they couldn't get out no matter how they jumped, waiting for someone to catch them for snacks and food.

The American troops were stunned, and after the Chinese Imperial Army toppled the second line of defense, Shi Dakai immediately ordered artillery fire to cover the first line of defense.

For the artillery of the Imperial Chinese Army, they knew the coordinates of the first line of defense very well, so the shells were very accurate, and almost all of them fell into the trenches.

Boom Boom Boom ......

With the sound of violent explosions, clusters of flames rose up, black smoke soared into the sky, and the stumps and severed arms of countless American soldiers flew wildly.

In the blink of an eye, more than 5,000 American troops were all hanging in the position.

The U.S. troops who didn't jump in behind were suddenly frightened, turned around and ran, but unfortunately at this time, the artillery fire of the Chinese Empire suddenly extended, and thousands of U.S. troops were blown to pieces.

In the end, of the more than 10,000 American soldiers, less than 1,000 fled back.

Poof......

Miles vomited blood and squirted again.

MacArthur suddenly shouted, "Medic! Medic! ”

…… (To be continued.) )