594 Collision (4)

Rumble!

A cannonball landed in front of the low slope, and the scorching heat roared into the house, and large pieces of rubble fell overhead, crackling the concrete façade, and the house was filled with smoke and dust. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

In the room, dozens of non-commissioned officers of the electric reconnaissance company seemed to have not heard the shells whistling, and they were still busy regardless of the danger.

This is the core area of the Coron Islands Electric Reconnaissance Company, and it is also an important place on the entire island, because there is a radar that has just arrived, and several radio stations of various types, these are the secrets of the core of the empire, if it falls into the hands of the enemy, you can imagine how much trouble it will bring.

To tell the truth, in terms of firepower intensity and artillery intensity, the five old US ships are not even as powerful as the two Yangtze River-class ships, but the total area of San Cristobal Island is only more than 500 square kilometers, long and narrow in the southeast, and only 18 kilometers wide at the point.

Whether it's a Maine-class or an old Pennsylvania armored cruiser, the range of the ship's guns is not enough to penetrate the entire island, but it is not difficult to hit the radar center in the center of this island, so he will be a little uneasy.

The sappers began to lay ** along the house, and the radar antenna, which had been erected high for less than five days, could not be taken away, so it was wrapped in a full ten kilograms, ready to destroy it completely.

Although the non-commissioned officers of the electric reconnaissance company are heartbroken, there are too many things to save, especially the core machine of the radar, even a part of this thing cannot fall completely into the hands of the United States, so He Wenan arranged dozens of soldiers to help disassemble and take them all away, if they can't wait for reinforcements, these things will also be destroyed by the ** sub-region and completely buried.

"Ahem......."

Thick smoke drifted from the far dock to the place, and the throat was extremely uncomfortable for a moment, but fortunately the demolition work was coming to an end, and the soldiers could finally start moving.

"Boom......."

Suddenly, the earth seemed to tremble, and a ball of fire hundreds of meters high rose above the dock a few kilometers away, and all the marines clenched their fists when they saw the fire, and the important oil depot on the island was ignited.

The raging fire lit up the entire Black Buckrizo Harbor, but standing on the flagship battleship Ohio and looking at the burning oil depot, Rear Admiral Edward Abel did not have any joy, because several warships docked here were missing.

Edward did not doubt the authenticity of the intelligence, because it was obtained from a Peruvian transport ship two days ago, when a Jinghai-class cruiser and three Defense-class destroyers also happened to enter the port to refuel, and they passed by.

"Sir, do you want to arrange a landing?"

Shells whistled out of the five battleships, and after half an hour the small harbor was almost in ruins, and the enemy had not fired a single shell from beginning to end, so the officers in the bridge thought that the time for landing should have come.

Edward hesitated, he was sure that the small fleet should still be nearby, and it was extremely dangerous to rush soldiers to the island before gaining absolute sea supremacy, not to mention that there was also a Jinghai-class light cruiser with extremely high shelling speed in that small fleet.

"Did the squadron of destroyers (the United States also learn from China and renamed all torpedo ships destroyers)?"

"Not yet, they are searching for Santa Maria and Spanish Island, and there are also two ships patrolling in the direction of Santa Cruz." The staff officer immediately marked the course of action of the six destroyers on the chart, and from the chart, it was clear that the six scattered destroyers had formed a solid triangle outside the port of Black Baquerizo. 【 I want: super fast update 】

"Where is General Claxton's fleet?"

"Waiting in Isabella Bay."

Edward looked at his watch and made up his mind, it was 19:25, and if that fleet was really nearby, then the power in his hands should be able to block them, so he gave an order that was later considered crucial: "Order the Maine, the Missouri, to search north along the east of the island, and turn off all lights!" ”

In an instant, the two battleships that were shelling turned off all the lights and headed north, while two freighters under the protection of three protective cruisers began to dock towards the harbor, and several minesweepers converted from wooden fishing boats opened the way in front of them, and for the sake of safety, Edward ordered the remaining three capital ships at the same time to fully protect the northwest that might appear behind the enemy.

Half an hour later, when the cargo ship was stable, Private Carter ran out of the cargo ship with the sergeant with his gun, and then rushed all the way to the harbor in the middle of the shout, and suddenly two large turtles crawling slowly in the light of the fire caught his attention, because it was the first time he had seen such a large turtle.

Almost subconsciously, his footsteps moved a little to them, but it was this step that made him feel as if he had stepped on something, and his pupils suddenly shrank into a little cold star.

"Mines!"

Four anti-infantry mines were detonated at the same time, and a large number of steel balls were fanned down the road in fragments, and more than 20 of the first soldiers, including Carter, immediately felt as if their bodies had been hit by countless catapults, and they all fell down in an instant.

The soldiers who had no combat experience were terrified, God knows if there were mines here, so they were all scared and didn't know what to do, but they didn't know what kind of tragedy had been caused by the delay and delay here because of their lack of experience.

The American soldiers all over the ground made the scouts hiding in the dark clench their fists excitedly, and a wave of radio sent out at a rapid pace.

"Report, U.S. troops are starting to land."

Lin Pengxing stood up with a bang, and from the beginning he didn't think about fighting to the death with the American fleet, because he knew very well that warships would not be able to seize the islands, and as long as those land forces were defeated, then the US army's plan would be tantamount to a failure.

"28 knots, ship artillery ready!"

"Order the destroyer to go."

In the dark, in the darkness east of the Colon Islands, the three Defend-class destroyers, after letting out a slight tremble, quickly increased to a high speed of 30 knots and rushed to the east of San Cristobal Island, while the Anhai went south along the island in the opposite direction, but Lin Pengxing never expected that the two American battleships were colliding head-on.

"Fuck, bastard!"

In the southwest of the harbor, Dai Jintang's eyes were bloodshot in the 19th submarine, and in the periscope, clumps of flames erupted from the American battleship, and it was difficult for anyone to hold on to such dense firepower.

"Torpedo compartment, how long will it take!"

Dai Jintang grabbed the telephone and yelled, but it still took thirty minutes to make him both disappointed and helpless, the oxygenation process needs to be extremely careful, pure oxygen and the oil and gas inside the torpedo will become extremely unstable once they are shocked and react in advance, and an explosion will occur if they are not careful, so the manual strictly stipulates that all torpedoes must be flushed with oxygen before attacking, and it is forbidden to perform this operation in the battle of shock and explosion.

These 30 minutes are destined to be a difficult stage for the two tiger sharks.

"Enemy attack! Destroyer! ”

While searching Santa Cruz Island, two American destroyers to the east of the protection fleet raised the alarm, and everyone saw in the darkness that three Defend-class destroyers had their bows smashed through the night barrier and appeared in the searchlight posts of American destroyers, and then the ship's guns began to hiss.

Three twin 130mm naval guns, whistling and pouring shells on the two American destroyers, both in terms of speed and fire intensity, the American destroyers were far inferior to the Defender-class, the exchange of fire lasted only a few minutes, and the two American destroyers were on fire, but before the three Defender-class destroyers were happy, two old American Pennsylvania-class armored cruisers appeared in the firelight in the dark.

While the searchlight locked on the three Defender-class guns, 8 40-fold diameter 203-mm main guns, 14 50-fold 127-mm guns, 20 50-fold-diameter 57mm rapid-fire guns, plus 12 small-caliber rapid-fire guns, the super secondary artillery systems of the two old Pennsylvania-class armored cruisers began to wield, and the three Defender-class destroyers were overwhelmed in an instant.

In the dense shells and water columns, the three Defense-class destroyers resolutely chose to launch a decisive assault, and at a high speed of 30 knots, the three destroyers maneuvered like snakes while rushing towards the armored cruiser.

Rumble!

A 127-mm shell landed on the foredeck of the Self-Defense, and while the explosion tore a large hole in the forward turret, the Self-Defense had already deflected the bow of the ship, and when it drew a beautiful U-shaped track on the sea, six Lance-2 torpedoes drilled into the sea like lightning.

In the searchlight, the snow-white torpedo track was particularly obvious, and because the torpedo was fired at a distance of more than 6,000 meters, the six torpedoes were able to graze the bow of the opposing ship and rush towards the coast.

At this moment, the Self-Defense was also hit by a 203-mm main gun shell, and any shell above 200 mm would be fatal to the Defense-class destroyer of more than 1,000 tons, and the explosion began to tilt rapidly as the destroyer's deck began to tilt at the same time as it rose from the stern.

"Mom! Torpedo ready! ”

In just ten minutes, the pilot Self-Defense was doomed to sink, which should be said to be not a good sign, but the remaining two captains not only did not fear, but flicked their hats one after another, with red eyes, and personally steered along both sides of the burning Self-Defense, drilled out of the fire and fired 12 torpedoes again.

The American sailors were frightened by the fan-shaped torpedoes, who had never seen so many torpedoes, and the only consolation was that the torpedoes had obvious tracks, so it was relatively easy to dodge.

On the rapidly deflecting cruiser, the sailors almost counted the torpedoes one by one and swept over the hull, and the cold sweat was already drenched in the vests, although the two old Pennsylvania-class armored cruisers struggled to evade, although the rapid-fire guns exploded three, and the remaining eight were also avoided by the experienced captain, the latter still caused serious damage to the South Dakota.

The spear hit the front along the rapidly deflecting bow, hundreds of kilograms, and suddenly made the armored cruiser with a displacement of 13,680 tons seem to be held up by the occupants.

Countless sailors, because they did not grasp the explosion, were unlucky and even swept into the waves by the waves that rose into the sky.

When the fire cleared, everyone found that its bow had been almost completely flattened, but to the surprise, the armored cruiser had not sunk, but continued to float on the water, and began to turn the rudder to withdraw from the battle.

The two destroyer captains sighed secretly, the bow is a non-lethal part, if it was the hull or stern, this armored cruiser would probably be lost here, but now I am afraid it will not be killed.

At 19:45, the arrival of two American protective cruisers made the remaining two Defender-class destroyers have no choice but to retreat temporarily, because it takes enough time to change mines at sea.

It was at this time that the movement reached the Anhai on the east coast of the island of San Cristobal, and 12 152-mm guns whistled.

Dense shells, across the island, fell on the heads of the American soldiers who had just landed, 72 152 mm shells per minute, let them taste the taste of being bombarded indiscriminately, in just five minutes, the two American freighters docked were fatally hit, these ordinary cargo ships simply could not withstand such dense fire, explosions and fires engulfed them in an instant.

After receiving the scout's telegram about the destruction of the freighter, Lin Pengxing ordered to turn the muzzle of the gun and fire at full speed towards the harbor, and the sudden appearance of the shell made Edward's eyes explode, because the angle of fire of the ship Ohio was not enough, he could not even return fire across the island.

The 3,000 American soldiers who had just completed the landing but were blocked by mines in the harbor were dealt a tragic and merciless blow to the shells, and the weakness of the American soldiers' lack of combat experience was exposed at this time, and they even forgot the principle of the need to disperse immediately after the landing.

The shells landed in the center of the hedgehogs gathered together, almost every explosion could take dozens of lives, and in the harbor that had just been ploughed by their own naval guns, there was no place to hide, and many people had to drop their guns and jump into the sea to escape.

But no one expected that the Anhai, which was firing at full speed, showed its shape because of the artillery fire, and was seized by two Maine-class battleships rushing north!

"Battleship! 11 o'clock position! ”

In the mournful shouts of the lookout, several huge fireballs erupted from the darkness, and 8 305 mm heavy guns shot out a column of water hundreds of meters away from the port side of the Anhai, the light cruiser could not compete with the battleship, even if it was two old battleships, as long as they were bitten, they had enough ability to destroy the Anhai.

"Captain!"

The staff officers and all the officers all looked at Lin Pengxing, and at this time everyone understood that it was time for life and death, because everyone knew very well that there were only two choices left for Lin Pengxing and the Anhai.

First, use the speed to leave immediately, but then the landing Americans can breathe a sigh of relief, reorganize and continue to advance in depth, and the Marines stationed there will be torn apart due to lack of fire support.

The second is to ignore the battleships and continue to shell the harbor and completely destroy the American soldiers who landed.

"Hehe, two battleships! It's worth it! ”

"29 knots, serpentine maneuver, the naval guns continue to fire at full speed!" Lin Pengxing took a deep breath, glanced at everyone, and saw the decision in everyone's eyes, nodded, shouted, and gave the order: "Target, Black Buckriso Port!" ”

The Anhai was later awarded the Royal Medal of Warrior for firing 2,966 152mm high-explosive shells into the harbor in a total of 37 minutes before they were hit, despite the danger and using their high-speed maneuvering ability.

It was later confirmed that more than 2,500 of the 3,500 US troops who landed were directly killed by the shells of the Anhai because they did not disperse, and most of the rest were injured and lost the ability to continue the offensive.

When four consecutive 305-mm shells hit the Anhai, the first round of 12-piece torpedoes was fired 8,000 meters behind the two old Pennsylvania-class armored cruisers, the 19th and 25th submarines were fired.

The defense of the Coron Islands was completely disrupted by an epoch-making torpedo!

RO！ ~！