The old sailor wiped the sweat from his head, looked at the still gloomy sky above him and sighed again, and suddenly he noticed a black cloud floating in the distance, but soon he understood that it was not a cloud, because it was moving fast, and in the blink of an eye it had already crossed the sky for more than ten nautical miles.

Booming explosions sounded one after another, and the black cloud that came to the front turned into countless black dots and landed on the harbor and dock, causing bursts of explosions, and the old sailor, seeing that the momentum was not good, hurriedly threw away the fishing rod and plunged headlong into the water.

With the skillful water nature he had cultivated in his youth, the old sailor had dived more than ten meters before he came out, he wiped a handful of water droplets on his face, and looked in the direction of the sea, where a large fleet had faintly appeared, and the Boston attack had finally begun.

The huge flotilla of twelve battleships approached, and the harbor was bombarded by dense naval artillery fire, enveloping everything here in smoke and dust. The Sahr reacted quickly, and the coastal batteries, located on the heights on either side of the port, immediately began to return fire.

The Sahr were very well prepared, with more than 60 guns on the battery, including five 330 mm fortress guns, and after being attacked by the Boston fleet, they began to return fire one after another. The artillery battle between the two sides was quite fierce, and every gunner was firing desperately, hoping to destroy more enemies.

The Bostonians generally had a large caliber and a large number of naval guns, and they soon gained the upper hand, and the coastal batteries, although they were fierce, could not move, let alone resist the continuous bombardment of large-caliber shells, more and more gun emplacements were destroyed, and the Sahr counterattack became weaker and weaker.

The Bostonians were not unscathed, at the moment they had already three battleships seriously damaged and exited the attack sequence, and another cruiser and two destroyers were sunk. But the number of Saar artillery was too small after all, and after the artillery battle lasted for half an hour, the Saar battery finally fell silent.

Seeing that the other side had no counterattack, a large number of transport ships stepped forward, and the Boston soldiers on board began to use rope nets to descend into the assault boats and quickly row towards the harbor. With a loud bang, one of the assault boats in front of it ran into a mine laid on the harbor channel, and the entire assault boat immediately disintegrated, and several Boston soldiers sitting on it were also blown to pieces.

The Boston soldiers did not hesitate, and the group of assault boats continued on their way, and soon several more assault boats were shattered, but others approached the dock. Hundreds of Boston fighters quickly boarded the dock and quickly took control of an area.

Seeing that there were mines on the surface of the harbor, some wooden minesweepers modeled after those made by the Chinese Empire rushed up, and they began to catch mines with fishing nets, and then blasted them. Perhaps because of the short duration of the occupation, the Sahr had deployed surprisingly few mines here, and the minesweeper unit quickly cleared the channel.

Led by two destroyers, the transports began to sail into the harbor one by one, and they approached the dock to quickly unload soldiers and various heavy weapons.

Admiral Godard was looking around with a telescope, and he was a little puzzled by the smooth capture of the port of Sturdam, even if it was only the flank of the Saars, the defense should not be so weak, not to mention that it was impossible to achieve complete secrecy when such a large fleet of their own was dispatched, and they did not even find the patrol fleet of the Saars along the way. There are only two explanations for such a strange situation, and if it weren't for the Boston Empire's character explosion, then it would be a trap.

Admiral Godard shuddered at the thought that he might have fallen into the trap of the Sahrs, but there was no indication that he had fallen into a trap, and if he retreated because of suspicion, he was afraid that he would be court-martial for missing the warplane.

Watching the army boarding the dock little by little, Gothall's heart slowly relaxed, as long as he could occupy the port of Sturdam, he had nothing to fear, and with enough footholds, they could choose at will whether they were attacking or defending. If the landing of the Boston Empire caused chaos among the Sahrs and thus pushed the Sahrs back from the northwest coast of the Western Continent, then the Boston Empire would have gained the greatest political leverage.

One transport ship after another entered the port, those that had been emptied left the port, and those that had not yet been unloaded were freed up for berths, and the whole harbor was quite busy, and the Boston soldiers who had landed began to expand the occupation area, little by little, searching the nearby houses, and finding out all possible ambushes.

The landing of the Bostonians was surprisingly smooth, the landing force soon exceeded 20,000 men, and the harbor was already full of transports waiting to be unloaded, when suddenly dozens of black shadows swept through the sky, and a black bomb fell and smashed straight into a transport ship that was entering the port.

The huge bomb pierced several decks and exploded in the bilge, completely shattering the bow of the entire transport ship, shaking the back half and quickly sinking.

"It's an air strike." Admiral Godar, who had been apprehensive all along, finally knew why he was upset, because he had forgotten the threat from the air. Seeing a large number of Handley Page bombers in the air, there was chaos in the Boston naval fleet, and the sailors ran to the anti-aircraft gun emplacements.

Since the last naval battle, all the Boston warships have set up anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and the dense fire is fired into the sky, and the rain of bullets is intertwined into a fire net, blocking the entire sky, but those Sahr bombers in the air did not rush to the warship, but rushed to the nearby transport.

The transport fleet was defenseless, and they could only watch as the bombs fell on their ships, and with a loud bang, a transport ship full of army equipment was hit by aerial bombs. A 76 mm infantry gun was pushed into the air by the force of the explosion, and then it fell down fiercely, smashing heavily on the surface of the sea, stirring up a sky-high wave.

The transport fleet was neither protected nor sunk well enough to be sunk almost as soon as they hit a bomb. In addition to the ships that had landed and were in the harbor, these transports had more than 60,000 officers and a great deal of equipment on board, and if they were sunk, the Boston Army would suffer heavy losses.

Seeing this, Admiral Gothal immediately ordered the fleet to rush to the rescue and use the anti-aircraft fire on the warship to disperse the bombers, but they did not see that some small periscopes were poking out of the sea and observing everything nearby.

A sailor gritted his teeth and carried onto the deck a heavy ammunition box filled with shells for small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, which could be described as quite heavy. He put the box on the ground, wiped a handful of sweat, and was about to lift the box to move on, when suddenly he saw a straight line of water on the water rushing towards him, and his face instantly turned pale.

"There are torpedoes underwater." As soon as the sailor's mournful shout sounded, a heavy torpedo crashed into his cruiser, and before the others could react, the huge force of the torpedo's explosion blew the cruiser into two parts.

"There was a torpedo attack." "There are submarines." The alarms came one after another, and the Boston fleet was suddenly in chaos, and Godar looked at the increasing torpedoes on the surface of the sea with a sweaty face, and he was convinced that he had fallen into a carefully woven trap.

The current Boston fleet has been caught in a dilemma, if the air defense continues, the ships that cannot maneuver quickly will inevitably become the best prey for the Sahr submarines, and if the anti-submarine is quickly evaded, then the power of the anti-aircraft artillery will be greatly reduced, and the anti-aircraft guns of all warships cannot be connected into a network, then its effectiveness will drop sharply, and those transport ships will be completely abandoned.

Seeing the enemy on both sides, Admiral Gothal gritted his teeth and ordered all warships to maneuver quickly and start anti-submarine warfare, of course, he could not completely abandon those transport ships, and he sent a telegram to the transport ships, asking the army on the ship to use all firepower to fire at the air to protect his own safety.

All destroyers with hydrophones are heading towards the outer ring, where they will conduct anti-submarine warfare against those submarines that are raging. In such a noisy environment with many ships, the Boston destroyers are equipped with hydrophones with limited search capabilities, but fortunately, the Saar submarines need to be observed with periscopes before attacking, and the torpedo water trail during the attack is also very obvious, and the position of the opposing submarine can be roughly judged by visual inspection alone.

Heavy depth charges were thrown into the sea one after another, and muffled explosions rang out one after another, and the destroyers of the Boston Fleet began effective anti-submarine warfare, while the bombers of the Thar Air Force seized the opportunity to pounce on the convoy at a low altitude.

Seeing the swarming bombers, the desperate army soldiers on the transport ship picked up machine guns, rifles and even pistols and fired desperately, but these small arms had little effect on the bombers, and at best they could only embolden them.

Aerial bombs were dropped, transport fleets suffered heavy losses, and some panicked army soldiers rushed to jump into the sea despite the fact that they could not swim, they struggled desperately in the water, but no one would pay attention to them, and soon these soldiers became ambushed corpses on the surface of the sea.

Those who did not jump into the sea were no better than these soldiers, under the continuous attack of the Sahr bombers, one transport ship after another was sunk, and the officers and soldiers on those ships were not only killed, but they could only be thrown into the water, and the army soldiers struggling on the sea abounded, but everyone was fighting desperately, and there was no manpower to rescue them. Most of the soldiers who could swim began to swim towards the harbor, but these people were still in the minority, and there were more and more corpses on the sea, and when the transport ships were gone, the bombers again aimed at the Boston warship.

A word to readers:

Recommend Zhen Chen's work "Shura Emperor"