510 The pinnacle of the Battle of Luzon
On the bridge of the battleship Tianzhu Mountain, the captain stood in his position, feeling that today was really the coolest day after he joined the army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
From the moment his battleship appeared on the edge of the Ceylon landing ground, the battle of this battleship turned into a massacre.
Ten 356 mm caliber cannons, in the face of the new British capital warships, there may be a huge gap, but in the face of cruisers and destroyers, it can really be said to be at ease.
What's more, the main guns of the battleship Tianzhu Mountain were not aimed at the Ceylon escort ships rushing over at all. To deal with these ships, with the ship's secondary artillery, it is enough!
"Boom!" The huge muzzle flame blew the waves on the side of the battleship, forming a huge shock wave that spread over the sea.
A shell flew towards the target, passed the rushing Ceylon frigate, flew a long distance of 20 kilometers and landed near the ships on which the infantry was being dropped at the landing site.
The shell pierced directly through a Ceylon transport ship full of soldiers, and then exploded inside the transport.
After all, Ceylon's transports do not have the same heavy armor as battleships, and the destructive ability of 356 mm caliber shells is too rebellious for such civilian ships.
The huge explosion directly flew off the deck of the troop carrier, and flew into the sky with thousands of soldiers inside the ship. The surrounding boats were swept away, and countless infantry capsized and sank in the water.
The Ceylon landing force finally felt what it was like to be abused by a 356 mm caliber gun.
On the ground on Luzon, the Ceylon landing force, deprived of naval artillery cover, has truly become a lamb to the slaughter. Every inch of land where they hid was a place where the Ming Empire knew it well.
Every inch of the beachhead here has been mapped and mapped for a long time, and the hidden batteries far inland are aimed at these places.
Now, all the Ceylon firepower that suppressed the artillery fire of the Ming Empire no longer exists, so the entire island of Luzon seems to have been resurrected.
Hundreds of artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, mercilessly shelling the beachhead where the Ceylon landing force was located. The sand and corpses were blown away by the shells, and the blood that flowed into the sea turned the waves red.
"Request for support! Request support! A Ceylon Army commander leaned against a huge radio station a meter square, loudly pleading for artillery support.
But the naval artillery that supported him was all taken away at this time to deal with the two battleships in the distance, how could there be firepower to support him?
Watching, with the explosion of a cannonball, an arm missing two fingers fell from the sky and smashed into the steel helmet of the army commander.
He was startled by this arm, and beside him, a soldier who was also startled, and then subconsciously raised his head, was crushed in the head by a bullet from his own people.
The corpse was bloodied directly against the radio, and the officer was still desperately pleading for artillery support. Without support, they are now unable to even take a step forward.
The enemy hid in the jungle and fired wildly, and bullets rained down on the beach. Littered with corpses and wounded screaming soldiers, it's not an exaggeration to say that this is hell.
A small boat was carried to sea by the waves, but the bottom of the boat was up, and it was caught on the surface of the sea and washed up on the beach. The bottom of the boat was covered with holes made by bullets, and from time to time there was seawater lapping against the hull.
Farther away, there was a larger, abandoned ship, with piles of corpses and soldiers reluctant to disembark.
The Navy sailors who drove the ship told the Army landing soldiers to go ashore as soon as possible, but the landing soldiers on the ship shouted to the sailors to hurry up and take them out of this ghost place.
"Dismount! It's dangerous to stay here! You've built a forward base on the shore, and it's much safer than here! The ship's sailor shouted loudly.
And not far in front of him, dozens of soldiers holding their weapons and reluctant to get off the ship were waving at him: "Get out of here!" There are enemy bunkers ahead! It's a dead end for us to go down! ”
While the people on both sides were arguing, a 356 mm caliber shell landed on the sea in the distance, overturning a transport ship that could carry about 500 people at once.
The ship capsized on the sea, and the soldiers, carrying heavy luggage, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and rifles, had no time to untie their burdens, and sank into the bitter waters because they could not swim.
The sailors and infantrymen who saw what was happening in the distance stopped arguing at this time, and they all jumped out of the boat they were in and ran desperately to the shore.
The bullet struck them at their feet, and then knocked down their comrades, who screamed in terror until they rushed to the beach, where they stopped behind the bunkers built by the corpses.
In just one hour, the Ceylon landing force, which had lost artillery fire, almost left the bodies of 3,000 people on the beach.
At this time, Ceylon's landing force was not calm -- didn't it be said that the navy would fight the navy, and the army would land?
What now? Who will come and see what the situation is: the other side's navy, land and air forces have all arrived, where is our navy dead?
Speaking of the Air Force......
The Ceylon landing force, which was entangled, raised its head and found that before it knew it, the fighters of the Ming Empire had flown back again! Two Piercing 2 fighters were using their own cannons to shoot fiercely at the Ceylonese soldiers on the beach.
An atmosphere of despair spread among the landing Ceylonese troops, and if it were not for the fact that they were the carefully selected main force of Ceylon, they would have collapsed long ago if they were replaced by ordinary troops.
But even the main forces are now on the verge of collapse -- no matter how well the naval warships fight, it seems that this landing operation will not go too smoothly.
At least for now, it seems that the island of Luzon of the Ming Empire is really a man-eating tiger for the Ceylon landing force.
Every detail here is used to kill people, to kill more and more people. The Ceylonese soldiers were caught between the enemy's coastal defense forces and the naval battleships, and there were enemy planes raging overhead, and for a time they could not move forward.
And at this time, the cruiser of the Ceylon Navy had already approached the two battleships of the Ming Empire, facing the intensive artillery fire of the other side, ready to use everything of their own to prevent the other side from approaching the landing site.
The naval battles on the three battlefields started at the same time at this moment, and the entire battle of Luzon reached its peak at this moment.
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Don't mention it, I worried about my son's kindergarten all night, but there was no problem at all today, but when Long Ling sent the child, he shed tears in distress. Shame, shame!