The William shot down a fighter plane, as if it had stabbed a hornet's nest, and the group of planes in the sky quickly split into a formation of six planes and pounced on the William.

"Damn it!" Miller's face turned pale, and sure enough, the William no longer had such good luck, the second plane's dive bomb hit the stern of the William, almost blowing up the entire back half of the warship, and then the third plane quickly dived down, this bombshell killed the front half of the warship, and the violent explosion almost blew up the entire front of the warship, and the entire warship completely lost its combat effectiveness, and the warship sank in the plane.

Several of the remaining personnel on the bridge struggled to escape by jumping into the water.

Miller breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of an officer, who appeared to be his chief of staff, York. As far as the eye can see, the entire Da Nang has simply become an iron fire hell, the Chinese aircraft group in the sky is constantly diving and dropping bombs, the flames of the explosion rise dozens of meters high, and there are constantly earth-shattering explosions, that is, the ammunition depot of the warship has been detonated, and the shells of thousands of naval guns have been detonated, the power is simply more than the explosion of ordinary small ammunition depots, and the lethality is absolutely radiating a kilometer radiation.

York was not dead, and he saw Miller and ran towards him, but when he was still more than ten meters away, he suddenly stopped, looked in one direction in horror, and cried out in despair: "God, Elizabeth"

Miller followed his gaze, only to see the "Queen Elizabeth" rapidly tilting in a violent explosion, and a full three planes swept in the direction of its sideboard, and he saw the planes pull up. Although he did not see it with his own eyes, he could immediately tell that the flagship was torpedoed. Immediately after that, he saw that the other two sister ships, the "Warrior" and the "Malaya," also had two huge blasting openings exposed on their sides, and the sea water was surging in, but there were still two Chinese planes diving down and firing aerial torpedoes at a distance of several hundred meters, and the four waterlines stirred up by the high-speed movement of the torpedoes were shooting at the two giant ships.

Miller was full of despair, he found that it seemed that the warships of more than 10,000 tons, the Chinese Air Force were all attacked with aviation torpedoes, although the power of Chinese aviation torpedoes seemed to be insufficient, but under the continuous attack, it was completely down.

"Come with me!" Miller yelled at York and ran towards headquarters. Navy officers and men who fled in a panic everywhere, and the water in Da Nang was also full of officers and men who had jumped into the water to escape because the warship was destroyed, and all kinds of cries for help and wails rang out, and even on the shore there were officers and men who were injured by shrapnel and steel parts.

Eventually, the bomber groups of the Chinese Air Force began to dive, and the batteries outside Da Nang were heavily bombarded, destroying fortress batteries and blasting them into steel parts. After the J-2 Swallow fighters finished dropping their bombs, they also began to strafe the naval officers and men on the shore, and the ferocious airborne machine-gun fire caused countless officers and men to fly with flesh and blood, and some soldiers were directly separated by the bullets that hit them continuously.

Miller and York fled to the headquarters almost with their lives, came to the three generals Ivier, Kate and Billy, and shouted: "Commander, the Chinese have launched a full-scale war, we must get out of here." ”

French Admiral Billy roared frantically: "No, never, we can't lose Da Nang, which is the largest naval base for our ** Chinese." ”

"It's over, it's over." Ewell and Kate trembled, in pain and despair.

The losses are too great, not to mention the value of the fleet, even calculating how much this fleet is worth will make people feel hopeless. Calculated in terms of the ocean, a capital ship averages at least 50 million, a full sixteen, that is 800 million oceans, and hundreds of cruisers, destroyers, and auxiliary ships, shells, fuel and other supplies, how much does it cost? Just do the math and count it at least two billion oceans.

But how much did the Chinese pay for destroying this huge fleet? At present, it seems that the Chinese side has lost only a dozen planes, one million to the sky, and other bombs and torpedoes to consume some fuel, more than 10 million?

It's such a simple calculation, the difference is a full two hundred times! What's more, the Chinese's planes are constantly diving ** their precious naval officers and soldiers, knowing that the cost of training a qualified naval soldier is almost ten times that of the army, each of which is a technical branch to supplement the suffering.

With such a huge fleet, they saw it all over, and they didn't even have the ability to fight back. In just ten minutes, I couldn't find a single intact warship, and the most embarrassing thing was that it was bombed as an immovable target.

Miller shouted, "Commander, two generals, do you see? Chinese bombers are destroying fortress batteries. ”

Admiral Evel said dismally: "What do you want to say? ”

Miller shouted: "Why did they destroy the fortress battery, it is obvious, the Chinese fleet will definitely launch an attack on the Da Nang base, block the exit, and annihilate us all." You look to the north, the fortifications over there were also destroyed, and if I guessed correctly, the Chinese army would quickly land in the north and attack from the north to capture the entire fortress. We must leave immediately, or it will be too late. ”

Kate laughed miserably: "Leave? How to leave. ”

Miller kicked hard and said, "Submarine, we can leave in the submarine." He pointed in the direction of the submarine, but his eyes saw a group of Chinese bombers passing by the submarine's berthing at a low altitude, countless bombs fell, and the whole place was instantly enveloped by violent explosions and soaring water columns, which made him so shocked that his mouth almost couldn't close, his face was extremely ugly, and he cursed: "Damn." ”

Ewell said bitterly: "I am a sinner of the British Empire, a sinner of the Royal Navy. Major General Miller, you are right, we are too underestimated, too small. From now on, you are solely responsible for the affairs of the officers and men of the Royal Navy. ”

"Commander!" Miller was taken aback, and there was a sense of unease.

Admiral Ewell turned to Admiral Billy and said, "Your Excellency, I hope to borrow your radio to send a telegram to the Admiralty of the Royal Navy. ”

Billy nodded bitterly, knowing that the other party was arranging the aftermath. The imputable Royal Navy of the British Empire suffered such losses, and for whatever reason, Evel could not have survived. Of course, he himself is afraid that the same fate will be.

Ewell turned and entered the command without looking back.

Admiral Kate said to Miller with difficulty: "Major General Miller, are you sure that the Chinese will launch an attack on Da Nang?" ”

Miller said, "General, I'm sure." Otherwise, there was no need for them to destroy the fort battery, which would have made it easier for them to blockade the harbor and prevent the warships from being shelled by the fortified guns. If there was no such intention, the bombs of their bomber group would have fallen on our heads. ”

Kate said with some hesitation: "The Chinese Navy and Army actually dare to cooperate in launching a landing operation? There were more than 300,000 French troops in northern Vietnam, and as long as some troops were transferred back to the division, the Chinese troops would be driven into the sea to feed the fish. ”

Miller shook his head and said, "If it's a real French team, I think it can be done." But they weren't. ”

Billy could only smile bitterly, to be honest, he did not have any confidence in those colonial legions that had only been formed for a long time, you must know that the Chinese Defense Force could easily defeat the army that had defeated the old power. If China really launches a full-scale attack, then North Vietnam will definitely be attacked, and judging from the ferocity of the current Chinese Air Force, it is estimated that if the north can be defended, he has already prayed to God and worshiped Buddha.

"Bang!" A shot from a Browning's pistol was heard from the command headquarters

Admiral Kate seemed to be awakened, with a hint of sadness in her eyes, but quickly exclaimed, "Damn, I must inform Manila immediately." With that, he hurriedly rushed into the headquarters.

Billy sighed and said to Miller, "Major General Miller, I believe in you, tell me what to do?" ”

Miller breathed a sigh of relief and said hurriedly: "General, this war broke out very suddenly, so the Chinese are not completely ready, and the attack we have received can only be said that they have been preparing for a full-scale war." Judging from this aspect, I think it will take time for the Chinese fleet to come here, even if they send a fleet from the Sanya base at the first time, the speed of their fleet will take at least four or five hours even if it is thirty knots. ”

Billy breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The analysis is good. Continue »

"We have time, but not much. The time for the planes to be in the sky is limited, they will soon be gone, and I believe that we will have small warships that have not been destroyed, or submarines that have remnants, after all, we have more than patrol detachments on the periphery. We should leave by enemy planes, and before the next wave of attacks, let some of the men leave by boat, and the rest of the people organize to retreat by land. ”

Billy hesitated and said, "We're going to leave like this?" What to do with the base? ”

Miller said: "Defending the base is a matter for the ground forces, isn't it?" ”

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Manila trembled at the sudden onslaught of bombardment, and the sound of the sirens struck fear across the city.

The dock in Manila because the US military has just arrived, the dock is full of unloading troops, materials are piled up, rows of cars, columns of artillery, ammunition are piled up, after all, it takes more time to transport. But it turned out to be a catastrophe, as the roaring bombers in the sky dropped incendiary bombs, that is, arson bombs, and in an instant these materials turned into a sea of fire, and cars, artillery, planes, and mountains of ammunition and other materials were drowned in flames, and countless explosions were like a super earthquake.

The US Army's ranking in the world at this time is indeed nothing, but the United States is the world's largest industrial power, and the army is equipped with the most heavy weapons in the world, and the artillery shells delivered this time are as good as 2 million rounds, and there are countless ammunition. The explosion of such a huge number of shells and ammunition was no less than the explosion of a small nuclear bomb, and the entire pier instantly became a no-man's land, and the shock wave caused by the violent explosion swept over a radius of more than ten kilometers like a death typhoon

At the Manila Governor's Palace, Governor Leonard was giving a banquet to Pershing, the commander-in-chief of the army sent by the United States, when the violent shaking caused by the explosion caused the banquet on the table to be in a mess in an instant, the roof was blowing like a strong wind, the tiles were all blown off, and the courtyard outside was flying sand and rocks.

Everyone jumped up in shock, and saw out the window in the direction of the pier, and the skyrocketing fire stained half of the sky red.

"Ahh

Leonard's face turned pale and he shouted at Pershing: "General, what's going on?" ”

Pershing's face was extremely ugly, even if he had experienced a world war, but in addition to this terrifying explosion, it was beyond his imagination. There is only one possibility, that is, the huge ammunition that came with the army this time, and the consequences of such a martyrdom are unimaginable, and the officers and men who unloaded the materials at the dock were only afraid that the whole army would be annihilated.

He was not in the mood to answer Governor Leonard, so he quickly greeted the officers at the US military meeting and rushed out, and saw a dense group of Chinese bombers in the sky, and also saw several US planes taking off in the direction of the airport, but then a number of Chinese fighters flew over, and in the blink of an eye, several US planes that had just taken off turned into turkeys.

"Oh God!" Leonard followed behind, and was so frightened that he could barely close his mouth at the sight of the huge swarm of planes in the sky. The Chinese planes are not here for tourism, and the bombs that are constantly being dropped are all rising from the ground with a huge explosion and fire.

At this moment, a staff officer of the command headquarters rushed over sweating profusely and shouted: "Commander, Admiral Kate, commander of the Pacific Fleet in Da Nang, urgently telegraphed, Da Nang was destroyed by the Chinese Air Force, and the Chinese have begun a full-scale war." ”

Pershing roared, "Damn the telegram, why is it only here now?" Don't I know the purpose of the Chinese? "His headquarters is not far from the Governor's Palace, and if this telegram had arrived so early for half an hour, even fifteen minutes, the losses of the American troops would definitely not have been so great. The loss of materials is just money, but now under such a martyrdom, how many officers and soldiers must die? At least tens of thousands of people, such losses are the most unbearable for him, and this is a fatal blow to the morale of the army.

"Kate, this damn thing, why wouldn't he die?" Pershing's fury erupted like a volcano. He is now extremely worried that the Chinese are actually preparing a full-scale attack, and Da Nang is being bombed by the destruction surname, which means that the combined fleet has suffered heavy losses, and the Chinese may gain sea supremacy in the South China Sea for a considerable period of time, and it is likely to attack the Philippines. You must know that although there were more than 200,000 U.S. troops in the Philippines before, they were only used to deal with the insurrectionary natives, and they were not equipped with many heavy weapons, and there were no air defense weapons at all. Although he brought a lot of heavy weapons this time, as well as a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, because they were prepared for a joint attack on China in the future, they were all turned into ashes in this explosion.

Without heavy weapons, once China attacks the Philippines by land and sea, what will he use to resist? As a high-ranking military officer, of course, he did not go back to believe the propaganda of those idiots, saying that the Chinese were backward in weapons and lacked heavy weapons, and he knew that the Chinese's rifles were semi-automatic, and they were ten rounds of magazines, and there were assault rifles, an automatic weapon similar to submachine guns, but the range was much farther than submachine guns, and his personal comprehensive evaluation showed that the firepower of infantry light weapons of the same strength was basically more than three times that of the US military now. It is true that there are not many artillery pieces of the squadron, but it is not nothing, when their merchant ship saved a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean, several people on it, two of them named Itagaki Seishiro and Ishihara Waner, learned from their mouths that the Chinese have an extremely terrifying artillery, the power is no less than the shelling of 300 mm giant guns, and it can fight with the army, and the reason why Ben could not fight a protracted battle in the decisive battle with the squadron ** was that it was covered by the shelling of this terrifying artillery group of the Chinese side, and it was directly defeated.

"Go, call the person named Ishihara Wan'er." Pershing yelled at the staff officer, and when he saw the staff officer's panicked response, he shouted, "Forget it, go to the headquarters." ”

Governor Leonard said in a panic: "General Pershing, then what should we do?" ”

Pershing paused, leaned forward and yelled, "Whatever you want, as long as you don't bother me, understand?" "Then he took the officer and left.

In the vast Pacific Ocean, the pier on Guam turned into a sea of flames, and the garrison of an infantry regiment of the US army stationed near the pier was in flames, with corpses strewn across the field and wounded wailing. And dozens of Chinese planes hovered in the sky, and the sky was covered with white umbrella flowers.

"Guam is a must!" Li Bufan stared at the sand table in the command hall of the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing, with a solemn face.

Wu Di scratched his head and said, "Isn't it just an island?" Is it that important? ”

Chief of Staff Li Huashan said: "The two springboards in the Pacific Ocean are the Hawaiian Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands, including Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, except for Guam, were originally in the hands of Germany, and then the world war was captured by the Emperor, and after we defeated the Island, it fell into our hands, but Guam has always been controlled by the United States. If the Pacific Ocean is divided into east and west, then Kanto is equivalent to a springboard in the western Pacific. At present, the range of the Navy's warships is limited, basically about 6,000 or 7,000 nautical miles, 5,000 nautical miles in the Pacific Ocean, and the distance between Guam and Hawaii is nearly 3,000 nautical miles. ”

Wu Di laughed and said, "How is it possible, you can bring a supply ship." ”

Li Bufan sneered: "If there is a battle, the supply ships are equivalent to consumables, do they still have the ability to protect themselves in the battle?" Even if the ship is resupplied and leaves, then at most a small half of fuel will be replenished, which can support consumption for a few days? In addition, the range we are talking about is the range of large ships of more than 10,000 tons, and the range of destroyers and other auxiliary ships, many of which are within 3,000 nautical miles. Do they not want warships under 10,000 tons in order to fight a war? ”

Wu Di opened his mouth, shrugged his shoulders and stopped talking. He also seems to understand a little, no wonder in the history of the Pacific War, Xiao Yueben sneaked up on Pearl Island and left, and Lao Mei ** did not directly attack Xiao Yueben from Hawaii. After thinking about it, he said: "Then as long as we take Guam, Lao Mei wants to **, then we can only come from the direction of Southeast Asia?" ”

Li Huashan said with a straight face: "That's right. The premise is that we take and hold Guam. ”

Wu Di rolled his eyes and said: "There is a corps hidden on Saipan Island in the Northern Marianas, there is also a small fleet, landing ships, airborne troops, and aircraft bombing, and the other side only has one regiment, it is better to jump directly into the Pacific Ocean if you can't take it" (to be continued.) )