Chapter 175: Bombardment of San Francisco

In the port of San Francisco, Rear Admiral Evans, commander of the Great White Fleet, was commanding the commanders of other detachments of the Great White Fleet to gather to discuss the next move of the Navy.

The President has ordered the Great White Fleet to move and set sail immediately.

The fleet has also moved from a state of rest to a state of preparation, a large amount of kerosene is being moved into the battleships, ammunition replenishment, and equipment maintenance are in progress.

However, the voyage of the fleet will not be completed overnight, and it will not be until tomorrow evening at the earliest, when a fleet of sufficient size will be able to leave port and enter the Pacific Ocean.

According to the plan, the first fleet to depart will go to Hawaii as soon as possible, and before the enemy fleet can be reached, it will arrive in the waters near Hawaii to look for possible fighters.

The US Navy Headquarters is also constantly analyzing the position of Fan Yize's fleet, the most powerful Indian Ocean Fleet is blockading the British Indian Ocean, and it is impossible to operate here in the Pacific Ocean.

The defense fleet is responsible for patrolling the East British Indies and has the potential to launch an attack on the Philippines, but it will also not appear in the Pacific Ocean.

The First Fleet, which also operated in the British Indian Ocean, can also be largely ruled out.

The Second Fleet operates near the Sea of Japan and the Third Fleet near Australia, and the two fleets are most likely heading to Hawaii.

And Fan Yize's first gentlemanly declaration of war before the military operation made the United States feel an unusual atmosphere.

Let the US Navy have an ominous premonition.

In the past, Fan Yize always fought first and then said, and before he attacked the Japanese Combined Fleet and launched a war against Britain, he also took the opportunity to attack the British Far East Fleet.

In the words of the Americans, shouldn't Fan Yize have attacked San Francisco before declaring war?

However, San Francisco is still calm at the moment, and several hours have passed since the declaration of war, and it seems that both the Second and Third Fleets are still in Australia and the Sea of Japan.

No suspicious fleet was found near San Francisco, and it seemed that Fan Yize had become a gentleman.

However, the generals of the U.S. Navy are not really naïve enough to continue to grind in San Francisco.

The port of San Francisco is not safe, the bay is so close to the sea that if the bay is blocked by a powerful fleet, the entire fleet will become a turtle in an urn.

"I think we have to leave quickly, we can't wait for the kerosene and ammunition to be replenished before leaving, we should immediately recall all the soldiers and set sail immediately, Fan Yize is the person who can hide his strength the most, just like the Indian Ocean Fleet appeared, maybe another powerful navy similar to the Indian Ocean Fleet is just outside our port." Rear Admiral Emery, commander of the First Squadron of the Great White Fleet, spoke.

"If there really was a sneak attack, shouldn't it have started a long time ago? Don't scare yourself. ”

Someone on the side said: "We can't be prepared, if we encounter an enemy at sea, then we will be quite passive." ”

Everyone expressed their opinions, in short, at this time, no one was in the mood to go back to sleep, and the pressure on Fan Yize was too great.

While a group of rear admirals of the Great White Fleet were discussing, the Red Alert Pacific Fleet had quietly arrived outside the port of San Francisco.

During the San Francisco earthquake three years ago, several supply ships of the Red Guard Navy arrived in San Francisco to support the Americans' relief efforts.

And in peacetime later, the Navy also visited San Francisco, and the Red Guard Navy was no stranger to this port.

Now, there are spies around the harbor to observe the situation in the military harbor, and every ten minutes they report to the Pacific Fleet.

The busy military port is preparing for the departure of the fleet, a large number of supplies are piled up in the port, and Xu Xuebin, who is on the command ship, is not in a hurry.

The American fleet could not go to sea in a short time, and the huge fleet slowly approached San Francisco, from 50 kilometers to 20 kilometers.

Twenty kilometers is the attack distance determined by Xu Xuebin, and at this distance, the shells of the naval guns can directly cross the mountains along the coast of the San Francisco Military Port and fall directly into the vicinity of the military port.

On the other hand, with all the warships docked in American ports, the naval guns simply could not threaten the Pacific Fleet twenty kilometers away.

The Pacific Fleet, which slowly arrived at the port of San Francisco, prepared for the attack in a hurry, and decided to officially launch an attack on the port of San Francisco in fifteen minutes.

The spies lurking around the harbor also received the exact time of the attack, and they will direct the artillery bombardment for the fleet.

On the four dreadnought second-class battleships and four battlecruisers, the turrets of more than 1,000 tons slowly turned, and the angle of the barrels rose more than ten degrees.

It is a little different from the four battleships, although the tonnage of the four battlecruisers is only about 40,000 tons, but the caliber of the guns is also a uniform 406 mm, and it adopts a three-seat triple gun layout, which is a little stronger than the battleships in terms of salvo firepower.

However, if it is about combat effectiveness, it is much worse, because the protection and speed of battleships are stronger than that of battleship cruisers.

A battlecruiser that sacrificed its protection would be difficult to win in the face of a battleship of the same caliber or even not at all.

The main guns of the eight capital battleships, all ready, choose armor-piercing shells, the automatic loading system in the turret, feed the shells into the gun chamber, the ammunition pack drum opens, the round ammunition pack rolls down on the loading device, and the propulsion device pushes three packs of explosives into the gun chamber at one time, and the gun chamber is closed.

At the same time, in the artillery control center, the artillery indicator light lit up the signal that it could be shelled, and the shelling button also popped out.

Fifteen minutes passed in a flash, and the cannons roared almost simultaneously, and the fire from the muzzles of the cannons shone on the sea.

The shell with super-fast muzzle velocity had already flown out more than 1,200 meters in the first second it left the barrel, and the extremely fast shell had crossed a graceful arc in the sky.

A large number of people in the port of San Francisco, workers who were carrying goods onto the ship, someone heard a strange sound in the sky, a whistle-like cannonball, which made people's scalp tingle.

One by one, the workers put down the work at hand and couldn't help but look up, the whistling sound seemed to sound in their ears, followed by an astonishing explosion, which sounded all over the military port.

At the moment of the explosion, the port of San Francisco was directly in chaos, and a large number of sailors were also headless flies, not knowing whether to get on the warship or find a place to hide.

The American sailors on the warship didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly started the boiler, wanting to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.

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