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"This is what happens if you don't have the right to control the sea. "www.biquge.info Without the right to control the sea, we can only be beaten passively, mobilizing a large number of forces just to defend against attacks that do not know when they will appear." Without sea dominance, the enemy can fight as much as he wants, from wherever he wants, and at any time and whenever he wants. They have complete control over the sea. Without the Navy, we would have lost this war. ”

"Now it's ...... to say this," the chief of staff smiled wryly and did not finish his sentence. It's really too late to say that. The United States is trying to surpass the Ming Dynasty in all aspects, as long as the Ming Dynasty has it, they must have it, and they must be strong. However, the real strength of the United States is not comparable to that of Daming, and the United States, as a nouveau riche, does not have the accumulation of Daming for many years.

Before the start of the war, the high-spirited United States tried to compete with the Ming Dynasty in three aspects: land, sea and air. However, they lagged behind the Ming in terms of resources, industrial production capacity, and population. The final result has now been seen, they have not been able to surpass the Ming in any of the aspects, and they have lost all their allies.

Originally, the United States had a chance to win this war. If they devote all their energies to the navy and aviation, and leave the ground war to their allies for two to three years, then they will be able to win the war at sea with their naval and air forces with Japan, Germany, Britain, and other countries.

After eliminating the main forces of the Ming navy, they were able to approach the core of the Ming mainland, and use massive bombing to destroy the main production capacity of the Ming by establishing forward bases in coastal areas such as Japan. After all, the development of the Ming Dynasty is somewhat strange, and their main production capacity is concentrated near the east coast.

As long as the Ming Dynasty is forced to lose most of its industrial production capacity, then they will win the war.

It's a pity that there are no ifs in war. The strategic failure before the war directly led to the Allies taking a wrong step, a wrong step. There was no hold on the ground, and there was defeat after defeat on the sea. After all the allies are defeated one by one, the remaining United States will face the wrath of the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Forget it." Nimitz waved his hand, he also knew that there was no point in saying anything now, so he had to turn around and return to the headquarters, "Do a good job of dealing with the aftermath, and be sure to guard against the Ming army coming to attack again." ”

"Yes, General."

A few hours after the sun went down, many U.S. soldiers were busy fighting fires, rescuing the wounded, and transporting supplies to repair all kinds of damaged equipment. Sirens sounded again inside the city of San Diego.

One after another, frightened US troops ran to the air defense positions. But it wasn't until they calmed down a little bit that they realized that it was a fucking fleet alert!

Since the advent and rapid development of aviation forces, the artillery bombardment of naval fleets close to the enemy's coastline has become a matter that is considered meaningless. Because of the threat of air forces, it will be very dangerous for the fleet to reach the shore, and in the event of an air attack, there is a high chance that the fleet will be lost.

Because there are very few incidents of artillery bombardment by the fleet on the other side, most people even forget that there is such a thing. When the alarm sounded, the US officers and men who had come to their senses immediately dispersed and ran towards the nearest underground bunker.

That's a battleship, and the smallest caliber guns are all big killers of 155 mm or more. Especially if there are battleships in the shelling fleet, it is completely a real weapon of mass destruction. In the era without the atomic bomb, the main guns of battleships were everyone's greatest nightmare.

The fleet that came was indeed the Ming Navy. After the daytime air raids, the Task Force Commander asked the pilots what the results were. Because there were American fighters nearby to reinforce them, they did not launch a second wave of attacks. This made the fleet commander not too confident about the outcome of the battle.

Then, after careful judgment, the commander of the Daming Task Force ordered the escort fleet to form an artillery fleet and come out in a circle, and then quickly approach San Diego before dark.

The fleet consisted of four battleships, two large air defense ships, four heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and twelve destroyers. They have hundreds of large-caliber guns. Heavy shelling after the arrival will leave unforgettable memories for the U.S. forces in San Diego.

San Diego certainly has shore artillery, but most of the guns are old, old-fashioned. There are even guns that were dismantled from battleships decades ago from the old pre-dreadnought era. When the U.S. Navy began to expand its forces on a large scale, they focused their efforts on building new warships. There is little interest in shore fire protection.

Especially after the advent of military warplanes and the rapid demonstration of their potential to become the protagonists of war, the U.S. Navy has invested less in shore defense artillery. Not only the US Navy, but the navies of all countries in the world, including the Daming Navy, are in this line of thinking.

With the rapid development of new technology, everyone believes that shore fire cannons are very expensive, and it is very likely that there will be no chance to fire a single shot in the whole war. In this case, who will invest in this?

But when the Ming naval shelling fleet approached, the Americans were tragic.

The most advanced shore defense guns of the defenders were installed more than ten years ago. There are no fire control radars and no technical upgrades. The range of most of the shore defense guns was not even comparable to the range of the main guns of the Ming destroyers, let alone the battleships of the Ming army.

"Coordinates determined." The voice of the gunners came from the phone, and the commander of the bombardment fleet put down the binoculars in his hand, nodded and said, "Let's get started." ”

"Boom !!" Hundreds of large-caliber cannons spewed hot tongues of fire in the calculated direction. The officers and men on the US shore defense positions could even see a series of bright lights on the distant sea like someone striking a matchbox. It's a pity that their artillery can't reach it.

There are now only a dozen torpedo boats in the port of San Diego, which are no more than two or three hundred tons, and they are the only weapons that can pose a certain threat to the Ming army. After receiving the order to attack, the officers and men of these torpedo boats set sail with a tragic mood and set sail towards the outside of the harbor. Even if the gap between the two sides is like an elephant and an ant, they must attack.

The Ming army's new provincial capital-class battleships are equipped with 400-millimeter caliber cannons, and the longest firing range can even be close to 40 kilometers under the condition of strong charge and high elevation angle. That's enough distance to cover the whole of San Diego if you remove the distance from the shore.

Several airfields within range were the first to be shelled. The heavy shells that came with the heavy train through the terrifying roar of the cave smashed into the airport, and the violent explosion could even sweep away the air within a radius of several hundred meters. The center of the explosion would have left a huge crater more than 10 meters deep.

The 36 main guns on the four Ming battleships unhurriedly fired high-explosive shells at the intended target at a rate of one round per minute. A series of shelling lasted nearly twenty minutes before moving the target towards various communication arteries in the city.

During this time, although the U.S. military's shore fire force fought back desperately, it was limited by the range of these old guns and the tragic accuracy of these old guns. The U.S. military's shelling is basically a useless exercise.

Moreover, the large air defense ships of the Ming army and the 200-millimeter main guns equipped on the heavy cruisers were not idle, and they cleaned up the resistance of the defenders little by little outside the range of the defenders' shore fire resistance. In the end, the defending shore artillery unit was even forced to stop the counterattack on its own.

There is no way, you can only be beaten and unable to fight back, and if you continue to fight, all the shore defense guns will be blown up. At that time, even the destroyers of the Ming army dared to lean over and bombard the harbor. When things get worse and worse, people can only do everything they can to keep things from getting worse.

"Sir, there's a telegram from the alert fleet that a group of light warships has rushed out of the harbor and is approaching us at high speed." The communications staff officer put down the phone in his hand and shouted to the commander of the task force, "They judged it to be more than ten torpedo boats. ”

"Torpedo boats?" The commander of the Ming army was slightly stunned, and then laughed contemptuously, "The Americans are really interesting." Shaking his head with a smile, he turned around and continued to observe the battlefield, "Order the alert fleet to deal with these little troubles." ”

For the Ming army, this was indeed a minor trouble. The tonnage of more than a dozen torpedo boats added up may not be as large as one of the destroyers of the Ming army's fleet. Although the torpedoes equipped are terrifying, this behavior is more like suicide in the face of an entire fleet that has entered a combat state.

The outcome of the matter was as judged by the commander. When the more than a dozen torpedo boats raised their speed to the highest level, they rushed towards the Ming fleet. Under the guidance of the fire control radar and the ship-wide unified firing command system, the 12 Ming destroyers rained down bullets on these light warships with unusually dense artillery fire.

These destroyers are armed with six 155 mm single-barreled guns, and with the introduction of automatic reloading, their rate of fire is even close to the standard of 10 rounds per minute. Moreover, the officers and men of the Ming navy with rich combat experience used high-explosive shells with broken armor. After the explosion of this shell, it produces a large number of shell fragments, causing damage to the surrounding ships.

Of course, such high-explosive shells are useless for those battleships with strong armor, but against light ships, especially such small ships with a displacement of only two or three hundred tons, it is a deadly killer weapon.

In the end, these more than a dozen courageous US torpedo boats did not even have a chance to fire the torpedoes. After being baptized by more than a thousand high-explosive bombs, they quickly lost motivation and slowly sank. The saddest thing is that the little ones who have already installed torpedoes in their torpedo launchers have blown themselves to pieces because the torpedo has been detonated.

After the complete failure of the defenders' counterattack, this night shelling completely turned into an exhibition match for the Ming fleet. (To be continued.) )