Chapter 482: Pacific Task Force!
The night on the Chukotka Peninsula comes very suddenly, and although the weather is warmer, the daylight is still short. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The landed U.S. forces had just deployed diamond-shaped horses on both sides of the temporary harbor to guard against assault boats and tank raids, and night covered everything.
Halsey simply did not dare to let the navy spend the night on land, so the American GIs, who were busy building the harbor, returned to the battleship.
As the Pacific Ocean Currents collide with the Arctic Ocean Currents, the ice floes on the edge of the Bering Strait are also melting.
The two distinct currents did not merge with each other, but turned back one after another.
As a result, the southerly wind during the day turns into a northeasterly wind at night.
Large chunks of broken ice, leaves with the wind!
"Bang, bang, bang・・・・・・"
"What sound?" The sound of the ice hitting the steel was so loud that Halsey, who had just been lying down, grabbed his coat and walked out of his room.
"Report to the General, a large amount of ice floes have been found!"
When Halsey walked to overtime, all the warships outside had their searchlights turned on, and there were hundreds of them!
And on the surface of the sea, blocks of ice with snow are colliding and gathering towards the harbor!
The small one meter is one meter square, and the big one is hundreds of meters long and wide!
"Damn, why didn't there be during the day?!" After taking the telescope and following the trajectory of the searchlight, Halsey slapped it on the fence.
"Warm currents return! During the day, these ice floes are blown into the Bering Sea! And at night, it's blown back again! ”
"What bad luck! We must leave, if the submarines of North Asia are here, we will be wiped out by the Lamb!! ”
"Enemy Attack !!!"
"Buzz ・・・・・・"
"Lights Out !!"
"Beep beep ・・・・・・・"
Just as a few staff officers wanted to ask Halsey for advice, there was a terrible roar, and a low engine sound sounded under the northern sky!
Scouts!
The piercing lights-out whistle soon caused the sea to lose its light, and nothing could be seen in the darkness of the night.
Of course, the flying tool with a small light in the sky seems to have become a live target!
Unfortunately, Halsey did not want to reveal his position and, therefore, did not give the order to attack.
“shiit! Their planes were able to fly at night?!! "Halsey, like the United States, doesn't know North Asia at all!
And Starling will not sell his experience in the war with North Asia to the United States!
People are selfish, and the state is no exception!
"Radar!! Turn off the radar!! ”
Suddenly, Halsey thought of something crucial!
And at this time, the planes of North Asia also moved.
One by one, things with a touch of orange-red tail flame pounced on the battleships under the whistling of the bombs!
As soon as Halsey's words fell, those strange things kissed the side of the ship!
"Boom ・・・・・・"
"Not good! They found us!! ”
A tragic explosion doesn't matter!
The important thing is that the moment the strange thing exploded, the Pacific task force was exposed!
"Fight back!!"
"Boom ・・・・・・"
There are really not many weapons on the battleship that can counterattack flying units, and even if there are anti-aircraft guns, whether they can hit or not depends entirely on luck!
Dozens of anti-aircraft guns did not cause damage to those flying objects with flashing small lights, but the successive aerial bombs put the US military in trouble!
Not to mention the warships that were hit, just the ice slag that was crashed onto the battleship became a secondary attack on the US military!
The weapons of this era are mostly on the rough side rather than the delicate refinement of the future!
Some radars are even made of a mass of iron bars, and some searchlights have no protective cover!
After all, when the opposing ship bombards it, the most important thing is to protect the main weapon, and as for the other miscellaneous auxiliary tools, almost all of them can be destroyed with one shot, and there is no protection at all!
And this time, it's a little beyond imagination!
Even the battleships that were not hit by the bombs were destroyed by the ice!
Some of the navies who were preparing to salvage the instruments had just stepped onto the deck when they were covered by huge blocks of ice.
Ice mounds up to one, two, and three feet thick abound!
Halsey watched all this in disbelief, although he had made all kinds of assumptions about the attack in his heart, he didn't expect that the first time he was attacked, he would fall into such a predicament!
However, to Halsey's relief, the bombing did not last long, and the bombers with small flashing lights flew back from their heads again after crossing an arc.
Turn on the searchlight !!
The original criss-crossing beams are now only a dozen!
What made Halsey even more headache was that the radar was extremely badly damaged!
"General, we must get out of here quickly!" A couple of staff officers were not wastewood, and they quickly figured it out.
"I understand, but where are we going?"
"The junction of the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean! Aleutian Islands! We can't accomplish the purpose of this trip, it's so cold here, it's so cold that the ocean is frozen! I think the president, knowing all this, will understand! ”
"Withdraw!!"
Halsey didn't hesitate, he had already thought about this question, maybe after the thick ice was lifted, he would be able to block the Bering Strait with his powerful navy!
But the frozen Bering Strait is called "land"!
"Woo woo・・・・・・"
Just as the warships were about to leave the harbor and enter the Bering Sea, there were many whistles in the inky night!
East, Northeast, Southeast, South, North・・・・・・
"Oh!! Damn North Asia, this turned out to be a trap!! ”
"Sneer・・・・・・"
"Small torpedoes!"
"Boom・・・・・ boom...
A frigate was lifted up by a wave of spray, breaking in half straight through the middle, and then falling heavily into the ocean.
Wailing, crying out for help, screaming・・・・・・
Twenty seconds later, there was no movement except for the frigate's stump due to water pressure, which squeezed the bubbles generated by the air flow in the cabin.
It's not how powerful the torpedoes of North Asia are, it's the icy sea that simply can't give these navies time to struggle!
Even if you are lucky enough to hold an ice floe, you will lose consciousness due to the temperature!
"25 degrees to west-east! Distance Unknown!! ”
"Snort・・・・・ la・・・・・"
At this moment, a strange sound came out again.
Halsey, who heard the sound, already knew where the torpedoes were, but how did the torpedoes in North Asia judge the ice floes and the battleship?
It is simply impossible to do all this with the touch detonation method!
"Boom ・・・・・・"
It was a heavy cruiser that was hit this time!
However, it doesn't seem to have been seriously hurt!
"General, it's foggy!"
"Fog? How can it be?!!! Halsey was stunned for a moment, and then pinched his nose with a pale face, "Poison gas!! ”