The commander shouted again and waved the command flag in his hand, and another round of artillery bombardment sent the deadly shells to the other side of the river two kilometers away, and the explosive warhead exploded immediately after touching the ground, and the violent explosion of two-thirds of the gunpowder that filled the entire warhead lifted the gravel on the ground, plus the lethal fragments formed after the copper particles were broken, and within the explosion range, it could really be regarded as certain death. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The firelight reflected the other side of the river, and in a hurry, the torches lit by the orcs became the target of the artillery attack, and after a slight adjustment, all the shells of the third round of shelling hit the target, and the shadows of the orcs in the firelight flew away, falling, and obviously dead and could not die again.

In this way, the shelling continued, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of tons of ammunition were tilted to the other side of the river, and the orcs stationed in the town of Moss were no longer moving.

The town of Moss is cut into two sections by the Moss River, and the towns on the north bank of the river are larger, so there are a little more people stationed in the towns. Because of the relationship between the river defense, the south bank has shore defense battery facilities that are not available on the north bank, but because the previous king had too much confidence in the front-line legions outside the Allah Pass, he had already retained the most basic cannon base for placing cannons, and all the cannons were transferred to the outside of the Allah Pass, and the entire five hundred polished and shiny cannons were all wiped out under the iron hooves of the orcs, which also made Ye Zifeng encounter serious resistance in trying to use cannons to block the abandoned race. However, due to Ye Zifeng's full order, thousands of blacksmiths in the entire imperial capital all took action, and they were obliged to produce 800 cannons within ten days, although the effect is not as good as the exquisite cannon, but the current situation is already good if there are cannons first, and Ye Zifeng will not have too many requirements.

The brick and wood structure of the house collapsed in the raging fire, turning into a pile of old rubble, I don't know how many orc soldiers sleeping in it died in the fire, anyway, it was a chaotic scene in the monoculars, although it was dark because of the distance, but Ye Zifeng could still see the opposite scene.

Behind Moss Town, the airship troops gathered together are extremely busy, the strong wind a few days ago made the airship not have enough hydrogen to float away, but after the wind stopped, the supply of hydrogen was suddenly insufficient, nearly two hundred airships filled the hydrogen balloon in the gas station, and the follow-up airships There are more than fifty ships According to the current speed, after ten rounds of shelling, only less than half of the airships can take off.

It is better to inflate half of the airship than not to take off, the bombs in the explosive compartment have been fully filled, which may be a blessing in misfortune, also in order to cope with the strong winds of the previous days, someone came up with a bomb to press the airship to the ground.

"Sir, there is a serious shortage of hydrogen, and now it is not a question of whether you can catch up with the time, as far as the current hydrogen reserves are concerned, even if they are mobilized from the nearest city, they will arrive tomorrow morning at the earliest." A quartermaster, holding an unstable helmet on top of his head, hurried towards the head of the Hydrogen Management and Airship Maintenance Department, who was standing on a high platform and reading documents, shouting loudly as he ran.

"How can this be, at that time, the hydrogen stored here was enough to equip the entire airship force and even had room to spare, why is there suddenly so much less now." The minister at the level of flag commander held the fence and looked at the quartermaster running over with an anxious face, "How many airships can take off at most?" ”

"There are eighty-two more." The quartermaster did not hesitate, it seems that this data has been compiled before.

"Eighty-two." The minister whispered the number reported by the quartermaster, "Together with the one hundred and twenty-nine ships that took off before, it is a total of two hundred and eleven, which is quite a lot, but ......"

The minister was running his brain quickly, towards a solution, although more than 200 airships are a lot, but they absolutely do not have the ability to deal with the enemy's vanguard before the big war, according to the regulations, this is required to be less than 300 airships to be able to do this.

The minister's brow furrowed, and the quartermaster looked anxious.

"Sir, what should I do?"

"Don't worry too much about it for now, if you can fly, one is one." The minister shouted from the high platform.

"Yes, sir." After the quartermaster answered, he turned around and ran back to work, while the minister flipped through the information in his hand, his mind was full of question marks, and the numbers displayed on the data were not difficult to see, the hydrogen stored before was completely sufficient, but why? Why is it so much less?

The minister was confused, and kept flipping through the information in his hand to find out what the problem was, but the last page of this information was a report compiled five days ago, and it was more than enough to count the hydrogen consumption, what happened tonight?

The minister turned the materials in his hand into a paper roll, and slammed the wooden handrail in front of him with a muffled sound.

U.S. Navy outpost base, Hawaiian Islands, Pearl Harbor.

It's called Pearl, but Ye Kexin looked at the high-definition 2D flat image map transmitted back by the spy satellite, and couldn't help sighing, where is this Pearl, after about half a century of operation. The Americans have cast this beautiful bay with reinforced concrete into an impregnable fortress, a large number of American warships are docked in the military port, the island is densely covered with radar, and the radius of 20 nautical miles has become the US air traffic control area, and the radar density has reached the level that even a seagull flying over it will be displayed on the screen of a large phased array radar. However, this air traffic control zone is not permanent, according to the agreement signed in the previous UN Security Council group meeting, the United States and Canada will gather more than 30 naval warships of all kinds here, but afterwards there will be a crowded phenomenon in the military port, when the time will be turned on all kinds of defensive weapons, once the computer miscalculates, missiles will be launched at any aircraft passing over here, in order not to accidentally damage civilian aircraft, it is absolutely necessary to set up a temporary air traffic control area.

In Pearl Harbor, whether on the deck of the battleship or on the dock on the shore, there is no longer a U.S. Navy that usually does idle things, and the entire Pearl Harbor is in a tense atmosphere, which looks a little realistic Pearl Harbor incident, but there is no zero attack, but the Iroquois-class destroyer and the Arleigh Navy. The sight of Burke-class destroyers docked side by side can be seen everywhere, and the Canadian sailors on the Iroquois-class destroyers and the Arleigh destroyers on the side. The American sailors on the Burke-class destroyers spoke loudly in English, but the dialect gap between the two places made communication between the two sailors difficult.

As busy as Pearl Harbor is Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Navy Command, where officers of all ranks shuttle back and forth in Washington, the papers in their hands make a grinding sound from time to time, and the leather shoes waiting under their feet also collide with the tile floor to make a crisp clicking sound, which sounds like the sound of successful people running back and forth in the Empire State Building for multimillion-dollar business, but the footsteps at this time sound a little rushed, as if they were halfway through the race against time, and everyone's face was written " I'm busy, don't bother me" frowned, and the uniform on his body was slightly messy.

In the office at the end of the corridor, the five-star admiral of the US Navy was holding the phone, shouting into the microphone the words "the whole fleet will leave in ten minutes", but when he heard the other side not knowing when, his face immediately turned cloudy, and his voice changed from impatient to cold.

"You said the Admiralty were coming?"

"That's right, the other party's ship is under the banner of the Admiralty." On the other end of the phone, the major on duty in the Pearl Harbor guard duty room held the microphone and said cautiously, "I can see it very clearly, they are waving flags and saying that they are asking to enter the port for renovation." ”

"What's going on!" Mr. Five-Star General shouted, and the major on duty on the other end of the phone trembled, "I'm busy enough now, I don't have time to care about them." ”

The five-star general was angry and wanted to drop the microphone back onto the phone, but as soon as he raised his hand, the five-star general suddenly remembered something.

"How many ships are coming from the Admiralty?"

"Huh?" The Major was startled, he had expected the sound of a phone being slammed.

"I said." The five-star admiral was a little impatient, and repeated what he had said before, word by word, "How many ships are there from the Admiralty?" ”

"There's only one." After reading a little bit of the information that the reconnaissance plane would report, he replied without hesitation.

"What tonnage of ship?" The five-star admiral calmed down, and his voice flattened out.

"The reconnaissance aircraft reported that it had a large displacement, estimated to be between 25,000 and 27,000 tons, and it should be a battleship of the type of heavy cruiser." The Major read out the contents of the document word for word.

"Wait!" The five-star general shouted. This sound really jumped off the major.

"Sir?" The Major stopped reading the information and spoke cautiously to the five-star general again.

"When you say 'battleship', did you fly in the sky or drive on water?"

"Huh?" The major was stunned for a moment, but he was randomly relieved, "It's on the water." ”

"How can there be surface ships in the Admiralty!" The five-star admiral slapped his desk heavily as if he saw a hippopotamus dancing, "Where has the boat been parked?" ”

"It's not clear-cut." The Major shook his head, "This ship has no registered nationality, and the printed string number is not registered, this is a privately built battleship. ”

"How can it be!" The five-star admiral shot again, "The Admiralty dares to build a warship under our noses, why didn't the satellite reconnaissance find it?" ”

"This ......" The major hesitated, starting from the previous question, the question raised by the five-star admiral was beyond the scope of the major's authority, not that the major didn't want to answer, but he didn't know the answer at all, "This question should be asked of NASA, sir, we really don't have a record of the construction of this ship, and we don't know when it was completed." ”

"Damn." The five-star admiral looked a little dejected, after all, there was such a mistake in the sovereignty of territorial waters, and the five-star admiral could not completely exempt himself from responsibility. What it means for a heavily armed heavy cruiser to appear off the coast of the United States, Mr. Five-Star Admiral knows very well in his heart.

"Sir, what now?" The Major asked with some eagerness, "The other party has sent a communication requesting entry into the port again." ”

"Send the battleship to keep it out, I'll go over now." The five-star admiral didn't say much, and without even waiting for the major to respond to his order, he hurriedly hung up the phone, snuffed out the cigarette in his mouth in the ashtray full of cigarette butts, grabbed the U.S. Navy uniform on the back of his chair, and hurried to the outside of the office.

The guard, who was waiting outside the office, saw the chief appear and immediately followed.

"Let's go to Pearl Harbor." The five-star general didn't even look at the guard, and said anxiously. It is not difficult to see that this is a serious incident, and the guard is not only skilled in kung fu, but also has an extraordinary ability to read words and colors, and immediately saw that the admiral was disturbed by trouble, and did not dare to speak much, so he immediately walked down the aisle and took out the keys to the Humvee from his pocket.

Subordinate to the Admiralty, nuclear-powered cruiser, "Gerfes", bridge.

"It's a pointless move." The captain of the cruiser "Gerfes" looked indignantly at the enlarged image on the porthole, and couldn't help but feel a little arrogant, and sent out two application communications requesting entry into the port in ten minutes, but all of them were turned away, and the message that came back was a moment later, and the sentence "verifying the identity information you provided" was obviously a perfunctory set of information. It was not only the colonel of the "Gerfyes" who was angry, but also all the crew members on the bridge who were looking at the images on the portholes. With this kind of porthole of the system of using high-definition digital information, the captains of the Admiralty fleet do not need to hang a 500-gram miniature astronomical telescope around their necks to observe the battle situation in space anytime and anywhere. Therefore, the institute has specially equipped it with a miniature high-definition digital completion system, and it should be said that the 20-nautical-mile system has raised the command system on the "Gelfish" by more than one level.

"Prepare again, and send a third message in a minute." The captain of the colonel held back his anger and said to the crew. If it weren't for Commander-in-Chief Ye Kexin's direct order, no use of force and no excessive language, otherwise Captain Colonel would have commanded the "Gelfish" to rush into Pearl Harbor.

"Sir, it's moving." Without waiting for a minute, two battleships painted Navy Gray appeared on the portholes heading towards the "Griffith". As long as you have a little common sense of ships, you can't see that the two ships coming here are the main warships of the U.S. Navy. Burke" class missile destroyer. Its high speed, agility and maneuverability, and high-intensity firepower strike capabilities are the first impressions it makes.

"Could it be to come out to greet you?" The first mate at the helm quipped.

"No, I should have come out to make room for us." The second officer followed the words of the first mate, and the humorous words caused a burst of laughter to ring out on the bridge.

"Be serious." The captain didn't stop the crew's whispers at once, but waited for a moment before he spoke up, and some cheerful voices were needed in the bridge, where the air was oppressive.

"Yes, sir." The crew happily accepted the captain's order and honestly shut their mouths.

"Ask them what they are here to do and tell them we have no ill intentions." The captain gestured to the third officer beside him.

"Yes, sir." The three pairs responded, their hands quickly tapping the keys on the keyboard, and lines of formal English appeared on the organic superconducting glass screen in front of them.

"Wait." The second officer in charge of the radar frowned and shouted, and his upper body lay on the plane radar in front of him, "The opponent has a weapon unlocked, and the system is analyzing the movement trajectory of the opponent's weapon." ”

The atmosphere in the bridge, which had just been somewhat relaxed, became tense again, and everyone held their breath as they waited for the results calculated by the system to appear on the screen that the second officer was staring at.

"Is there a result?" The captain couldn't sit still, got up and came to the side of the second mate.

"Not yet, the other party seems to have just unlocked the weapon, and the name has not locked on to any target." The second officer shook his head and pointed to the red dot of light on the radar screen, and next to the dot of light there were white lines marking two "Ali. Burke" class string name for the horn.

"It's strange, is it wary of us?" The first mate spoke, and the disgust in his tone was clearly visible.

"The message has been sent, waiting for a response." The third officer clicked enter, and the message was sent to the opposing ship.

"No way, it's better not to move now." The captain frowned, and stared at the two destroyers in the distance with burning eyes, "If it weren't for the order from above, those two ships would have sunk." ”

"Sir, you'd better be calm now." The third officer opened his mouth and reminded in a deep voice, "The other party is sending us a message, presumably to express his position, if he refuses to enter the port again, we can contact the headquarters." ”

"Yes, sir, the higher authorities will not sit idly by and watch such a provocation." The first mate nodded, agreeing with the third officer's view.

"I know." The captain's brow softened slightly, "I'll contact the command when the time comes." ”

There was silence in the bridge, not a single sound could be heard around, the heavy portholes cut off the sound of the waves and the chirping of seagulls outside the bridge, and there was no movement in the bridge, which was full of high-tech products, except for the pale yellow signal lights that kept flashing.

Suddenly, two slightly harsh prompts sounded, and on the console in front of the three pairs, on the organic superconducting glass screen, an inconspicuous red dot flashed twice and then remained in a constant state. Seeing this red dot reminder light, the label on the three pairs' faces looked a little serious, and the crew members in the bridge were also attracted by the harsh hint.

"There's news." The third pair reached out and clicked on an icon on the screen, and a small dialog box popped up.

"You receive a new message. Level: D. ”

After clicking on the message, the translucent screen in front of the three pairs of people that was originally glowing with light blue light immediately lit up with white light, covering the entire screen tightly.

"Displayed on the home screen." The captain did not come to the side of the third officer.

"Yes, sir." The third pair responded, printing all the five fingers of the right hand on the screen, and after a second, the screen was first half of the glass from the organic superconducting glass plate, and sucked tightly on the five fingers of the third pair's right hand. Gently pushing the screen forward, a new window appeared on the porthole directly in front of the bridge.

"Requesting landing?" The captain was stunned for a moment after seeing the text in the window, "What do you mean?" ”

"The other side has sent a helicopter and is coming towards us." The second officer's plane radar scan suddenly appeared with the pattern of a helicopter, and the nose of the plane was facing the "Gerfes", and the speed of movement was not slow.

"Tell them to lock up their weapons and we'll agree to let them land." The captain ignored the rest of the message, and in the captain's mind, it was nothing more than some declaration of territorial sovereignty, in order to prevent the "Gerfish" from sailing into Pearl Harbor. The captain is too lazy to watch it, and now it is already the captain's limit to hold back his temperament and play with the Americans.

"The message has been sent." The third mate reported.

"But there was no response, and the helicopter was already hovering over us." The second officer looked at the radar screen with some nervousness.

(To be continued)