The battleship of the South Carolina completely ignored the shelling of the Ryukyu, and pursued it at full speed, obviously having already seen through the strength of the Ryukyu, with an 8-inch barrel, it is almost impossible to penetrate the iron turtle shell of South Carolina, of course, hitting the horizontal armor belt at a large elevation angle is also slightly damaged, but at the same distance, a main gun hit by South Carolina is definitely enough to seriously injure the Ryukyu, and even feed the fish directly!

But this was obviously not the only trouble, an American destroyer had apparently received an order and had broken away from the right flank and hurried in, regardless of the order there, but the Americans had already seen that the American Iron Tortoise of the South Carolina class had no advantage over the Ryukyu in terms of speed, and how could it be possible to catch up. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, with the assistance of the destroyer, even if the speed is not as fast as the Ryukyus, the destroyer can make full use of the speed to complete the tracking, and the extreme tactic is to make the opponent unable to complete any form of supply, and eventually consume the opponent on the sea...... This kind of thing, in the era when the sun never set in the British Empire, the Royal Navy liked to do this the most!

The fact that the Yankees were ready to use this tactic somewhat exceeded Wu Hongyuan's expectations, after all, the US Grand Fleet had spent a lot of effort, but it did not come to Guam to fight soy sauce, and it was completely illogical to put such a big target as the Guam base and not toss, but to follow his own guerrilla squad......

"General, the destroyer Sanming sent a telegram that they had gotten rid of the pursuit of the Americans and were heading towards the No. 3 assembly point, according to the plan, the Nanping was monitored behind the palace, and the American ship was not found following!" At this moment, the important news sent by the telegraph officer, the so-called No. 3 assembly point, was actually to use a reef area north of Tinian to get rid of the opponent, and then make a detour through the strait between northern Tinian and Saipan.

This section of the strait, which is only 10 kilometers long, as long as it can be fully utilized, absolutely has the natural terrain to block any enemy, of course, if you give the opponent two bread dumplings, it is to bury your own natural Jedi...... Now that he was followed by a big guy, it was completely beyond his ability to deal with, so almost without hesitation, the Ryukyu immediately turned north.

At 12:33, after several attempts at shelling to no avail, the Ryukyu stopped wasting shells and turned into the strait north of Tinian...... The three destroyers lost were all done by the cunning Chinese battleship in front!

A few minutes later, on the battleship South Carolina, Rear Admiral Evans had already received a report from the destroyer, and since the enemy had escaped into the strait, the destroyer did not dare to pursue it alone...... This made him immediately realize that this was the home of the Chinese, and after studying the chart for a while, he immediately sent a telegram to Vice Admiral Abel of the Grand Fleet, and he keenly felt that this Chinese warship detachment posed a great threat.

However, after a short wait, he received a decidedly opposite order from the flagship—the main fleet had sailed off the coast of Guam, and in the face of a powerful armed challenge from the Chinese base, Vice Admiral Abel demanded that all combat forces be concentrated, after all, destroying an important Chinese transit port in the Pacific Ocean was far more significant than sinking an old Chinese armored ship.

Vice Admiral Eber's direct judgment on the USS Ryukyu was that this was a Chinese decoy not sufficient to pose a threat, and that the purpose was to distract the forces of the US Pacific Fleet, and, according to the advice of the fleet staff, he had cautiously dispatched one of the only three remaining reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the important position of Guam that he was going to strike with all his might.

At 1:07 p.m., the two destroyers in front of the Grand Fleet encountered a Chinese inshore torpedo boat, and the other side obviously had no intention of fighting, and after hastily firing a torpedo to interfere with the American destroyer, they immediately fled south along the coastline, and in the following 30 minutes, Vice Admiral Abel continued to receive reports that the forward fleet had encountered Chinese offshore ships, but without exception, the other side withdrew in the direction of the Guam base.

At about 2:30 p.m., the four destroyers of the vanguard of the US Grand Fleet had sailed into the Guam Naval Port and began to drive away the Chinese ships that appeared nearby, but they were immediately bombarded by artillery fire from the harbor batteries, and the US ships immediately cautiously distanced themselves and continued to search for them at a distance to the south.

At this moment, the combat readiness of the entire Guam base has been completely activated, and the garrison commander Lin Yongsheng has already been supervising the battle in the main battery on the left flank, and looking out of the binoculars, the US destroyers are cruising back and forth on the sea in the distance...... God knows which tendon the Yankees twitched!

The Yankees' movements are not small, the reconnaissance plane from the base brought the news, the other party is really aggressive and rushed to the base, however, for himself, this is a rare opportunity, he raised his hand to take off his white navy hat, touched the bald skull, did not expect that he had been in the army for 30 years, and he could fight once before retiring......

The sudden ringing of the phone interrupted Lin Yongsheng's thoughts, originally he was still thinking about whether to urge the Grand Fleet, but the Yankees were bullied, God knows what Liu Hetu was still tossing......

"General, the Army Air Force shot down an American reconnaissance plane! The Marines are rushing to catch the parachuted pilots! The staff officer with the phone reported aloud the news he had just received.

"The Yankees still have reconnaissance planes? Didn't the Army Air Force shoot down five American reconnaissance planes?! Lin Yongsheng frowned, what he was worried about was not the reconnaissance of Guam, Wu Hongyuan was swaying around the periphery with that little ship, if it wasn't for the home field, he would have been abused to death, and the key factor was to fully grasp the entire battlefield situation, which was also a tacit understanding reached by the two in advance.

He patted the table, thought about it for less than ten seconds, and immediately walked to the telephone very seriously, picked up the phone, "It's Colonel Lu Hanglin...... Your new mission has made some adjustments, and you must ensure control of the skies around Guam before sunset, but don't alarm the Americans...... Got it! ”

As soon as he put down the phone, a loud bang had already roared from the sea in the distance, and Lin Yongsheng, who was not very strong, suddenly jumped to the lookout like a chicken...... At the position of the sea and sky, several huge American battleships were constantly rising from below the sea level, and on the American battleship in the first sequence, a large cloud of black smoke had just dispersed!

More than 10 seconds later, next to the No. 3 battery located in the coastal bulge on the left side of the military port, a bomb hit the mountain body and exploded violently, throwing gravel and earth high into the air dozens of meters high...... The battle has begun!

The entire Guam Naval Base, like a **** U-shaped magnet buckled in the middle of the west side of Guam, as a vital transit port in the Pacific waters, the Chinese Navy has made great efforts in the construction of the base, and has built a fort structure along the coastline on the lower side of the U-shape, constituting a trapezoidal arrangement of artillery groups.

However, as the garrison commander of the base, Lin Yongsheng naturally understands the weaknesses of the entire base, the position above the U-shaped bay, as the most important anchorage area of the military port, due to the low terrain, the entire dock area that stretches into the sea is built by engineering, so only the only No. 7 fully enclosed battery was built in front of the right front of the No. 1 main battery to provide protection, and in order to strengthen the firepower, he also sent several small-caliber terrace gun positions to be built.

In fact, there was no major problem with this structure when it was originally designed, you know, it was in the vast Pacific Ocean, and the Chinese Navy was undoubtedly the only hegemon, and the American fleet at that time only existed in the Atlantic Ocean compared to the Chinese Navy. And when the gap in naval strength is not large, such a military port design is more conducive to the fleet to launch a counterattack with the assistance of shore artillery.

But the current situation is that the Guam fleet has run out to find and rob the US detachment by itself, and even Wu Hongyuan, who stayed behind, obviously did not have the confidence to stay in the port and shoot at each other, so he ran out to fight guerrillas. Lu's facilities became vulnerable, and it was not very difficult for the U.S. fleet to achieve its tactical objectives if it were only to destroy the perimeter of the port.

After all, the active fleet has enough mobility to find a position to attack, and it is completely possible to launch an artillery attack from the northwest position, and use the position difference to reduce the threat of the main fortress artillery area of the base, in that case, only the No. 7 battery has a better counterattack position, and the No. 7 battery only has 3 12-inch fortress guns and 12 8-inch guns, and the real strike ability is theoretically only 3 12-inch main guns.

However, for this situation, Lin Yongsheng obviously had a plan, he was born as a captain in the old navy, and what things the navy hated the most were clear...... That is, in just ten minutes, 8 American battleships have appeared on the sea level, and the military port that looks very prosperous in the distance makes Vice Admiral Eber, who is in the same commander's position, a little annoyed......

The frequent sorties of the Chinese Air Force and the superiority in air combat made him feel the huge pressure of reconnaissance, and the Blackburn II reconnaissance plane released more than an hour ago only flew back in the air for a short period of several tens of kilometers and threw two message bottles, and then never returned, not every battleship in the Grand Fleet could carry water reconnaissance aircraft, and now there are only two reconnaissance planes, so he is reluctant to take them out for this kind of death reconnaissance!

At this moment, the four battleships that broke forward had begun to engage with the nearest Chinese battery, but the distance was far, and both sides were obviously just warming up, and he was also puzzled by the two pieces of information thrown by the reconnaissance plane before...... (To be continued.) )