"Boom!" A loud sound like spring thunder suddenly echoed in the sea and sky. ◎ Small, the right side of the main gun of the battleship A turret of the Frontier Governor suddenly erupted with a colorful and blazing orange-red light, as bright as the morning sun and clouds; A chilling wave of cannon breath swept across the foredeck in an instant, blowing the wide Iron Cross flag at the bow of the ship. After nearly 20 seconds of flight, the 885-mm 380-mm high-explosive bomb weighing 380 slammed down on the beach, and the 60 high explosives detonated violently under the action of the warhead fuse, and a formidable towering fire cloud immediately appeared in the field of vision of the officers and men on the ship.

On the wide transport ship, the officers and men of the army were watching with excitement as the navy's heavy artillery thundered against the targets on the shore. For reasons of mobility and transportation, it was impossible for the army to be equipped with the same number of appalling super-heavy guns as the navy: at present, the German divisional units were armed with only 150 mm cannons and 210 mm howitzers at the maximum, which even the main guns of light cruisers could surpass them. The 283 mm and 305 mm guns dismantled from the decommissioned battleships were converted into only a few dozen train guns in the entire German Army, and the funds for the development and manufacture of larger caliber train guns were diverted to the Air Force's bomber program. For them, the 8 380mm guns on the King-class battleships were completely unthinkable, and with its support, they were completely sure of victory in this battle!

Shortly after the Border Governor, the 2nd ship of the Crown Prince William, opened fire, two other Italian "Leonardo da Vinci"-class battleships also joined the artillery suppression. The 356 mm 45 guns, although slightly less powerful than the German battleships, still fired in waves. Full of momentum. The Italian Navy, which had retained too many old ships, did not have the right to start construction of new ships during the treaty. Therefore, the Italians are even more powerful in terms of overall national strength and overseas interests than in the same period in history. He put all his energy into the transformation of the old ship. After a large-scale magic change, the ship's standard displacement rose to 27,000 tons, the horizontal armor increased to 110 mm, and the speed suddenly increased from 21.5 knots to more than 27 knots. Because of this, this 25-year-old ship was able to re-enter the battlefield and was active in this Caribbean theater with the good firepower of 8 356mm heavy guns.

Artillery fire thundered, light waves exploded, and hundreds of meters high flames and smoke constantly rose from the beach land. A large amount of sand, gravel, shrapnel and other debris were shot into the sky like a storm. Taking into account the logistical disadvantages of transoceanic operations, the frequency of firing of artillery by the German-Italian fleet was infrequently, and each battleship could only complete a salvo in ten minutes on average. However, the powerful firepower of 4 battleships and 7 cruisers also turned the opposite shore into a burning hell in an hour's shelling. The sand trenches were blown apart and collapsed, and the two barbed wire fences on the beachhead and the anti-landing deer barrage were full of blackened and shattered scenes. Several machine-gun bunkers, which posed the greatest threat to the landing force, were also bombarded by the heavy bombardment of large-caliber shells, and roaring flames and billowing smoke poured out from the broken holes, and the bones of the American soldiers inside were long gone. Due to the rush of time, the Americans had not yet had time to adequately camouflage these pillboxes; At this time, under the guidance of the allied army school shooting aircraft. The battleship soon dealt a devastating blow to these firepowers!

At the same time, the minesweeper unit was also in full swing. Wide trawls are stretched and propped up. Then put it into the water and follow the boat; Whether it is a drifting mine with the waves or a fixed anchor mine, they will be stopped by these large nets and dragged away from the waters where they were originally located. The officers and men of the minesweeper stared intently at the nearby sea with wide eyes: in the midst of this deep blue wave, a terrible drifting mine of the same color could come out at any moment. And once in close contact with these spiky spherical objects, the body of the minesweeper, which is only tens of tons, will not have a second result except for shattering bones!

"Boom!" A huge flame of fire suddenly rose on the surface of the sea, roaring like a mad tiger, throwing a large amount of debris into the surrounding sea. When the flames of the explosion dissipated, the minesweeper that had just been in this area of the sea had disappeared into the sea, leaving only a piece of gunwald plate painted with the word "-35" sinking and falling. Seeing this, the German sailors on the nearby minesweepers looked heavy, but their minesweeping operations did not slow down in the slightest, but continued to advance in an orderly manner towards the beachhead.

After almost two hours of operation, the minesweeper unit finally arrived at the beachhead. The mines laid by the Americans were also limited, and the German minesweepers managed to clear a route after clearing nearly 40 mines. The transport ships, which had been waiting for a long time, calmly moved forward under the escort of the destroyers, approaching the shallow sea less than 7 kilometers from land, and the suppressive fire of the German and Italian fleets also turned sharply stronger. Any ground that could have become a hiding place for American artillery was subjected to indiscriminate attacks from the large-caliber guns of the battleships.

"Glara!" With a cacophony of metal grinding, the ship's side curtains were slowly lifted, and the rolling waves swayed and swayed, constantly attacking the low bulwark, which was less than half a meter high. Without the slightest hesitation, the landing craft full of soldiers slid into the sea with the modified opening, and the roar of the waves stirred up a large snow-white spray. They are standard closed iron coffins in appearance, and the aspect ratio of slightly more than 2:1 can barely guarantee the hull's maneuverability in category 3 wind and waves; However, the landing craft with a 30-horsepower gasoline engine has a considerable load capacity of 6 tons, which can transport 50 heavily armed soldiers ashore at a time. Protected by a 6-millimetre-thick hull on all sides, the soldiers inside the landing craft were completely immune to machine-gun fire from the shore throughout the sprint, and the safety was somehow higher than the rafts used to cross the river.

In addition, the German transport ship also lowered a dozen heavy landing craft that were obviously several times larger by the Guò slide, and the surging waves caused by their rush into the sea made those who witnessed it worry about whether this big creature would become a deep-sea habitat ship that went straight to the bottom of the sea. These heavy landing craft with a displacement of 38 tons were loaded with a tank number and 15 infantrymen, and as long as they were not directly hit by shells during the charge, the tanks released after running aground would be the strongest protection for the landing infantry!

According to the original plans of the German Army, the landing craft were originally intended for crossing the English Channel; In order to ensure the success of this historic landing, more than a dozen elite divisions and brigades also conducted a large number of simulated exercises in the Baltic Sea. Now, this preparation for a cross-sea landing has finally come in handy on the battlefield on the other side of the ocean. The German Army is also developing a super-heavy landing craft capable of carrying the Tiger tank, as opposed to the heavy landing craft that carries the Tank, and once the tank can appear on the beachhead, all conventional anti-aircraft guns will be rumbled under its tracks.

After a short time, the sea sounded the unique "sudden" sound of a gasoline engine running, and the square landing craft began to calmly turn and slowly sail towards the distant beach at a speed of 7 to 8 knots. Looking from the towering bridge, nearly 100 landing craft released from six transport ships are moving forward one after another, which is another exciting feeling. Halfway through the landing craft, the U.S. sporadic counter-artillery shells were finally fired from the shore, but before they could stir up many columns of water in the sea, the heavy naval guns of the German and Italian fleets roared with earth-shattering volleys, causing the exposed artillery positions to quickly mute fire. Even the 152-mm guns on Italian light cruisers were by no means comparable to ordinary army artillery; When the waves of fire and smoke die away with the deafening sound of explosions, a huge crater with a radius of 5 meters and a depth of 1 person in the center will appear on the sand, and the destructive power of 356 mm or even 380 mm shells will undoubtedly be ten times greater!

After a thirty-minute voyage, the German landing craft finally approached the white sand of Cuban beaches. Under the excellent cover of the fleet's artillery fire, only two landing craft were blown up by enemy shells during the voyage. The heavy landing craft, which was more than 3 meters wide, ran aground on the beach first, and the square steel plate on the front side immediately collapsed and unfolded. To the stunned eyes of the American defenders, it was not flesh-and-blood infantry that poured out of these large square boxes at all, but roaring steel chariots. With the roar of diesel engines, they quickly washed out of the water onto the beach, and the gray steel armor that reflected the cold light in the sunlight made any American soldier hiding in the fortifications and preparing to shoot feel his scalp tingle!

"Bang! Bang! The crisp sound of gunfire rang out suddenly, and the daily training of the American soldiers finally drove them to launch a counterattack, but the rifle bullet hitting the steel armor of the tank would only be bounced away instantly, and not even a single spark or white mark would be left. The German tank crews, who had been in fear and turbulence in the sea for a long time, finally showed their sharp edge that swept across Europe at this moment: the light and flames of the 88-mm guns burst one after another, and the remaining fortifications under the fire of the naval guns suddenly collapsed and exploded, and the machine guns and mortars were destroyed into useless scrap metal-34 heavy machine gun fire was like a torrential rain, and the debris burst out, and the original American rifle firepower that was still on a scale was quickly suppressed; The German infantry met almost no strong resistance and quickly swept across the wide stretch of beachhead.

"Send a telegram to the follow-up convoy and ask them to start the action in advance. We must quickly crush the American resistance in this fishing village and then reinforce the 3rd Airborne Division, which is under attack by the main American forces. After receiving the progress report of the first landing force, Siriax immediately ordered. From the perspective of the overall battlefield, there is still a long way to go before you can get the desired campaign effect. (To be continued......)

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