Boom!

At night, the sound of explosions in Monrovia Bay is incessant.

On the way to attack the fortress of Monrovia, the Imperial Chinese Navy had to clear a safe channel first, otherwise it would not be able to smoothly carry out the beach-grabbing landing operation.

The traditional way of discharging radium was too time-consuming in such an emergency moment when every second was in demand, so the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy who were responsible for cleaning up the radium area had to take extreme measures.

Captain Liu of the minesweeping team made a phone call to the commander, Vice Admiral Lin Yongsheng, and although he was scolded for being a bloody squirt, he suddenly became the commander-in-chief of the lightning strike fleet, the submarine fleet, and the destroyer fleet.

Lin Yongsheng not only transferred the command of the Fish and Radium Boat Brigade requested by Captain Liu to him, but even after learning that Captain Liu planned to use Fish and Radium to sweep the water radium, he transferred the submarine fleet and the destroyer fleet to cooperate with the minesweeping team.

The fish and radium boat is a surface ship, and its combat object is the enemy's surface warship, and the fish and radium fuse used is generally from a fixed depth of six meters to the surface area, with the purpose of blowing up the enemy's ship's waterline and armor, so as to achieve the purpose of sinking the enemy's surface warship.

The water radium laid by the German army was located at different depths, even exceeding the average draft of 11 meters of battleships, and the magnetic explosion water radium was even buried by the Germans in the range of 15 meters to 30 meters below the sea surface, and the depth of the fish and radium fuze of the surface fish and radium boat could not meet the requirements.

Lin Yongsheng transferred the submarine fleet to cooperate with minesweeping, which was to borrow the deep-depth fish radium launched by the submarine during the deep dive to achieve the purpose of minesweeping.

However, these two ways of using fish and radium to clear mines alone could not completely ensure the safety of the shipping lane, so Lin Yongsheng, under the reminder of the fleet staff headquarters, transferred the anti-submarine destroyer fleet to use deep-water fried eggs to cooperate with the violent sweep of German water radium at a deeper depth.

This anti-submarine destroyer comes with a sonar detection system, although the accuracy is far less than that of the anti-submarine sonar of later generations, but it can roughly detect the existence area of the German anchor radium, so that it is much easier to lock the approximate location of the German water radium, and then use fish radium and deep-water fried eggs to carry out violent cleaning, greatly reducing the waste of resources.

The vigorous mine-sweeping operation was launched, which was the most extravagant in the history of the Imperial Chinese Navy, consuming a total of 500 fish radium and 20,000 rounds of deep-water fried eggs.

Before dawn, the minesweepers finally cleared a safe passage to ensure that the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet could enter Monrovia Bay.

Lin Yongsheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, although the flesh on his face twitched after hearing the amount of wasted fish and radium, but that was a headache for the Quartermaster Department, at this moment, he was instantly excited, and he could finally sail the fleet into Monrovia Bay.

"Dawn is coming, the bomber group of the Reich Air Force will soon arrive, and before that we must organize a large-scale attack to lure out all the hidden German troops, and then the bomber group will be wiped out."

The combat deployment was issued step by step, and the fleet artillery began to prepare, locking onto the German coastal fortifications in Monrovia, and was about to carry out naval artillery fire coverage to cover the landing operation of the marines on the beach.

"Knock knock!"

"Knock knock!"

As the main guns of the battleship the First Emperor opened fire, hundreds of battleships in the entire fleet fired a salvo.

In the blink of an eye, countless fires were shining on the sea, and dense cannonballs roared into the sky, drawing a long line of fire.

However, after more than ten seconds, the shells were overwhelmingly smashed on the German coastal fortifications.

"Bang bang!"

At that moment, a dense cloud of fiery red mushrooms rose into the sky, instantly lighting up the sky.

The roar of the explosion was deafening, and the entire coastline was reduced to a sea of fire, as if the end had fallen.

This is the fire cover, every minute thousands of shells of various calibers will fall on the German positions, boulders will crumble, dust will fly, and the heat will melt steel in an instant.

All the German soldiers on the position were blown up in an instant, and they were either killed or maimed.

With such a terrible shelling, the German soldiers did not dare to show their heads at all, and all of them hid in the anti-artillery holes.

The huge force of the explosion shoveled up the sand on the ground, like a sandstorm sweeping through the desert, burying the German soldiers in the fortifications layer after layer.

Even so, the German soldiers did not dare to move, they knew very well that as long as they showed their heads out, the whole person would be swept away by the air wave in an instant, and any piece of sand the size of a grain of rice, in the violent explosion shock wave, would be no different from a high-speed flying bullet, and would instantly break a complete person into a hornet's nest.

Tirpitz arrived at the forward position along the underground tunnels and was terrified by the powerful artillery fire of the Imperial Chinese Navy on the sea.

However, he quickly calmed down, because he had been prepared, so if the Chinese Imperial Marines wanted to rush to the beach and land, they still had to pay a heavy price.

"Don't worry, our bunker is sturdy. Although we can't help the Chinese guns, as long as these Chinese soldiers dare to go ashore, we will definitely be able to beat them crying and crying for their mothers. ”

Tirpitz walked all the way, inspired all the way, but it didn't work very well.

Throughout the tunnel, the German soldiers were gray-headed, like potatoes that had just been dug out of the ground.

After a few rounds of shelling, the defensive positions of the German coastal fortresses were scorched, scorching with black smoke.

The air was filled with the strong smell of blood and gunsmoke, and the German soldiers hiding in the tunnels were constantly pulling their pants and peeing their pants in fright, and this special smell made more German soldiers vomit and diarrhea.

Tirpitz carefully stretched out his periscope, and at this moment the fortress of Monrovia was in flames.

There were no stars in the sky because of the smoke of gunpowder.

Gradually, nothing could be seen on the sea, and the same smoke was shrouded, and the fire flickered in the smoke, but it was the artillery firing, and the battleship could no longer be seen.

"Oh no, at this time, if the Chinese Imperial Marines start to land on the beach, we can't see the enemy situation at all!"

Tirpitz was immediately aware of the problem, but he had another hand, a dozen German warships in the military port.

These German warships were not capable of going to sea to engage the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was purely to send experience, so they were dragged by Tirpitz to the beach near the coastline and stranded.

The battleships were like steel bunkers, which could help the Germans defend the coastline.

But this was not Tirpitz's real purpose, and at the moment each stranded German battleship was stored a large number of poison gas canisters, which were connected to chimneys and would be released at a critical moment in the war.

Tirpitz had studied the monsoon climate of Southwest Africa, where the wind would blow towards the sea, which was used to block the landing of the Imperial Chinese Marines, and if successful, would cause great damage to the Imperial Chinese Marines.

"Attack! Let me see how strong your Chinese Imperial Army really is! I'm looking forward to it! ”

Tirpitz smirked, since he was looking through the examples of the American battlefield of the World War, he accidentally found a report on poison gas warfare, so he studied it painstakingly, and finally took it to the battlefield of Monrovia for testing.

There was no international convention against gas warfare in those days, so Tirpitz could have no scruples.

The guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy became more and more ferocious, and in less than an hour and a half, the entire coastline of Monrovia was in flames.

It was already close to dawn, and the sky was already showing the whiteness of the fish's belly, but it was soon obscured by billowing black smoke.

The landing warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy entered the field one after another, and a large number of marines rushed to the coastline in small landing speedboats.

The sound of motors from far and near alerted the Germans, and Tirpitz immediately ordered the fortress batteries to begin a counterattack.

With the experience of the last battle, the German fortress batteries abandoned the combat method of mutual damage with the capital ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and instead deployed more large-caliber mortars to attack the landing force of the Imperial Chinese Army.

The German artillery counterattack began, and a large number of mortar shells fell in the shallow waters of the coastline, where the landing ground was set by the Chinese Imperial Army.

Cannonballs rained down all over the world, and the entire sea surface boiled instantly.

Some landing speedboats were hit and then exploded, but this did not affect the fighting spirit of the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Marine Corps, who, as always, rushed to the coastline as fast as they could.

The Imperial Chinese Navy reacted quickly, and after discovering the German artillery fire, it quickly launched a counterattack.

Hundreds of battleships and thousands of artillery salvos quickly suppressed the German artillery fire.

One after another landing craft rushed to the coast, and the soldiers of the Imperial Chinese Marines inside jumped off the beach with swift movements, some set up a cordon around them, and the rest of the soldiers quickly blew up the German anti-landing obstacles, clearing a safe area and leaving it as a beachhead defensive position.

At this time, the German bunkers began to operate, and heavy machine guns fired from concealed positions, forming crossfire on the beachhead along the coastline.

Da-da-da-da! Da-da-da-da!

Gunshots rang out, and the ground battle began instantly!

"Fire cover!"

"On the bazooka! him for me! ”

A squad leader of the Chinese Imperial Army roared, leading the whole squad to aim at the German machine gun bunker and fire fiercely, they all used assault rifles, the firepower was quite fierce, not weaker than the German heavy machine gun pillbox, and the fire suppression.

One of the soldiers of the Imperial Chinese Army, carrying a bazooka, quickly maneuvered into position under the cover of his comrades, and fired rockets at the German machine gun bunker.

"Bang" with a loud bang!

One of the German heavy machine-gun bunkers was destroyed by rockets.

"Pyro!"

The squad leader was cautious and sent another flamethrower up to breathe fire into the blown up gap in the German heavy machine gun bunker.

"Ahhhh

A series of screams were heard, and five German soldiers, covered in fire, ran out screaming.

"Fire!"

The squad leader gave an order, and the whole squad of soldiers concentrated their fire and fired a volley, shooting the five German soldiers in an instant.

The field telephone line was pulled to the beach along with the landing speedboat, and at the other end was connected to the telephone terminals of the command ships of the Marine Corps at all levels, which reported the situation of the front-line positions to the fleet headquarters at any time.

This is the most important symbol of the modernization of the Chinese Imperial Army, because the fleet commander can talk to the platoon commander or even the squad leader of the front-line operation at the first time to understand the latest and most timely battle situation.

Looking at the whole world, only the Chinese Imperial Shence Army has done it, other countries do not have this ability, their telephone lines can basically only be placed in regimental and battalion-level units, and even the German Imperial Army only achieves that the telephone lines are connected to the company headquarters during the battle.

This is a symbol of national strength, and it can only be done by the Chinese Empire with money and technology.

"Is the phone ready?"

"That's it!"

A platoon commander who had just landed on the shore quickly picked up the telephone and reported the landing to the higher command headquarters.

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and a sharp soldier of the Chinese Imperial Army who was rushing in front suddenly touched the radium and exploded.

"Stop moving forward and be on the spot!"

"Squad leader, the person is still alive, but the leg is gone!"

"The paramedics save people!"

"Go to the personal report to the platoon commander, C5 encountered radium, ask for mine-clearing support!"

In the dark bunker in the distance, Tirpitz observed the battle situation and found that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Marines was extremely strong, and he thought that the solid heavy machine gun blockade was being pulled out one by one, losing its defensive effect, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

"Fortunately, Lao Tzu buried a large amount of ground radium, I see how you live!"

Tirpitz not only planted a large amount of radium in the bay, but also planted countless radium along the coastline.

After these ground radium and water radium were buried, although they became a sharp weapon to block the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army, if one day after the armistice, the German army wanted to find them one by one, it would cost a huge price, and I am afraid that they would go crazy at that time.

Of course, Tirpitz never thought he would be able to hold Monrovia, so when he buried radium and water radium, he never thought that he would one day dig them up.

For the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Marine Corps who rushed to land on the beach, what they hated most was ground radium.

Ahead was the German radium area, and the Chinese Imperial Army, which had landed on the beach, was forced to suspend the charge, and was quickly suppressed by German firepower and soaked in the beach or even in the sea.

"Has the minesweeper arrived?"

"Hurry up!"

"It's here! It's here! ”

When the officers and men lying on the beach were impatiently waiting, one after another mine-sweeping tanks reached the shallow water through the makeshift trestle bridge, and then roared onto the beach.

"Cover!"

When the minesweeper tank began to work, the Chinese Imperial Marines who landed on the shore finally breathed a sigh of relief, reorganized their forces, and covered the minesweeper tank to begin the attack.

The minesweeper tank is based on the T30 main battle tank of the Chinese Empire, with the main gun removed and a bulldozer-style anti-mine steel plate installed.

The advantage of this thing is that it can directly shovel out the ground radium and detonate it, and at the same time, it has the function of a bulldozer to directly push out a deep ditch to provide a simple trench protection method for the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army who follow behind, killing two birds with one stone.

Deep ditches appeared on the coastline, as if they had been hit by a big rake from Zhu Bajie.

The Chinese Imperial Marines accelerated the pace of the offensive, broke through the German radium zone, and continuously expanded the coastal beachhead, and the heavy equipment, tanks, combat vehicles, and artillery behind were successively ashore.

The situation has changed so much that Tirpitz is full of bewilderment.

It's not that the German army is too weak, it's that the Nima Chinese Imperial Army is too strong!

Tirpitz gritted his teeth in anger, for the sake of the future, he could only use the killer weapon in advance, otherwise the coastal defense line would not be able to hold.

"Poison!"