721 Owl Crying in the Sky (2)

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The first artillery formation, inside the flagship Hebei.

When the commander of the artillery formation, who had never cared much about military appearance, came to the bridge, every officer's eyes widened.

The neat military uniform, the tightly bridled style and discipline buckles, what made everyone dumbfounded was that the white gloves that had always been in the corner were turned out, and they were washed clean and pinched in their hands.

"What do you see, don't you have to do things?"

After Fang Jin swept away countless glances, he immediately asked, "Where have we been?" Are the gun emplacements ready? And what about reconnaissance aircraft? ”

"There are still 3 nautical miles from the minefield of the Port of San Diego, and the gun emplacements are ready." The navigator pointed to the approximate location on the chart and said, "The first escort fighters have begun to take off, the first wave of bombers will arrive in about an hour and a half, and the reconnaissance planes that guided us will pass 10 minutes ago."

In addition, we should have already been discovered, because before the reconnaissance plane arrived, an American plane appeared, but it was too far away for the anti-aircraft guns to intercept it. ”

"It's okay, I didn't want to hide it."

Not only did he not feel nervous about being discovered, but he thought it was a good thing, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that he had to use the attack on San Diego as a cover, the First Fleet would have destroyed this place a long time ago, and it would not have been delayed until today.

From the geographical point of view, the port of San Diego is undoubtedly one of the good deep-water harbors on the west coast of the United States, a natural levee separates the Pacific Ocean from the harbor, the entire harbor is in the shape of a hook, and the arc-shaped channel in and out of the harbor is as long as 6,000 meters, not only narrow but also unable to accelerate and rush straight into because of the bending, plus the US military has arranged a large number of heavy artillery on both sides of the channel, and no ship can attack it.

However, there are pros and cons, compared with San Francisco, the front of the port of San Diego is too wide, although warships cannot pass through this natural embankment, but they can easily approach the offshore to align with the internal waterway, so the United States not only built a large number of shore guns on this embankment, but also deployed a minefield nearly 5 kilometers wide along the coastal waters to try to isolate the shelling from the sea, plus because of the suffering of aircraft in the past year, more than 400 anti-aircraft machine guns of various calibers have been deployed, Coupled with the fact that the warships at anchor can provide fire support, it seems to be impregnable.

Because the total depth of the minefield and the bay adds up to more than 38 kilometers, this depth even in the later World War II period means that almost all the naval guns can be isolated, but the problem is that the demonic Emperor Li made a bottom exhaust range extender projectile!

When the bombardment of New York was first fired, the extended-range projectiles carried by the 380-mm main guns could hit 48 kilometers, and the United States always believed that Li Xiuyan actually entered the mouth of the bay when the shelling was carried out, and the extended-range shells were only used once in Jiapo, so they did not realize that they had to continue to widen the minefield.

Although the first artillery formation was armed with slightly smaller L50/356mm naval guns, the firing range could still reach 45 km, which meant that the entire harbor was covered under the guns, except for the second line of shore artillery defense inside the bay bottom!

4 Hebei-class, 48 L50/356 mm naval guns, each gun has 100 ammunition, and this time they all carried 600 kg bottom-row high-explosive shells, not a single armor-piercing shell.

This configuration was strange to everyone at first, but when any of them were issued, it became clear that the first artillery formation had to deal with not shore artillery wrapped in thick cement and steel at all, but those anti-aircraft artillery positions that were scattered all over the place, mostly exposed.

Nearly 400 / anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, the threat to the aircraft carrier flight wing is too great, so if you want to minimize the casualties of the aircraft, you must first solve them, although the four Hebei class can not be completely eliminated, but even if it can be weakened by half, it is enough to ensure the safety of the attack aircraft. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

The battleship began to turn sideways, the escorting destroyers had already spread out their protection, the thick barrels began to rise a little bit, there were still 90 minutes before the arrival of the attack aircraft, and all the first artillery formation had to do was to shoot all the shells!

When the ship's guns reached a large inclination, fire points had already appeared in the port of San Diego, and the sky was instantly filled with black smoke after the explosion, as if a pot had been boiled.

The reconnaissance plane, piloted by the ace pilot, constantly swept at a low altitude to attract the enemy's anti-aircraft fire and fired, and then passed through the hummingbird reconnaissance plane observing from a high place, and then sent back to the battleship by the reconnaissance plane, providing detailed coordinates, the whole process was smooth and rigorous, and the technical superiority was undoubtedly advanced!

"Sir, this is the first batch of coordinates."

After the communications staff officer brought back the coordinates of the first batch of antiaircraft guns sent back by the reconnaissance plane, Fang Jin gave the order to open fire at full speed almost without pause.

6:15 a.m.

The first salvo was fired from the Hebei-class battleships that had been prepared for a long time, and 48 high-explosive bombs roared towards the US Pacific Naval Base 40 kilometers away.

Fang Jin and all the officers stared at the navigation bell, and it took 51 seconds from the time the cannon was discharged to the time it hit the ground.

"Knock knock knock ......."

"Give me the shells."

On the central island on the south side of the hook-shaped channel, the air defense positions were already busy, and eight 47-mm anti-aircraft guns roared rhythmically, and some blackened bullet shells after being roasted by gunpowder covered the entire position.

Hearing the shout, Maliki hurriedly pushed the cart containing six boxes of shells directly to the gun position, and after unloading the shells with a strong turn, he immediately turned around and ran towards the ammunition depot in the bunker, and several gunners immediately opened all the ammunition boxes, because it was impossible to wait until wartime to adjust the delay fuse, so many shells were pre-set, and the height of the enemy aircraft and the number on the ammunition box must be used after corresponding.

Maliki and a dozen of his comrades were running back and forth, the shells were consuming like running water, but what was frustrating was that 200 shells had been used, and none of them had been shot.

It's just because those damn Chinese planes are too fast, when you use the delayed fuse, they whizz down and close the distance, and when you change the shells that are close, they suddenly pull up, and the flight attitude is not fixed, sometimes flying sideways, sometimes rolling, and from time to time pulling a beautiful figure-eight over the port.

Damn, it's not a pretty figure-eight, it's evil!

Al-Maliki secretly warned himself that he must never praise the enemy, even if their flying skills are a hundred times better than those of the good American pilots!

Countless anti-aircraft guns and machine guns almost obscured the sky, but they couldn't hit these planes, this scene was really too torturous, and if there were a few Chinese planes coming here, wouldn't it be .......

Before he could finish his thoughts, al-Maliki saw a bumblebee suddenly flip its wings and fly upside down over the top of his position, and those with good eyesight could even see the sarcastic smile in the cockpit! "Damn, are these guys here for war, or are they here for air shows? It's so fancy! ”

Finally, sparks appeared on the wings of a Chinese plane shuttling back and forth, which made Maliki jump excitedly, but before he could see the other party fall, he saw it make a rapid dive, and the sparks on the wings were immediately blown out by the diving wind, and then the injured plane flew towards the open sea with black smoke.

Maliki swallowed his saliva, a little frustrated, and was about to return again to push the ammunition, but he didn't believe that he couldn't fight a fight, but before he could enter the ammunition depot bunker, a series of bullets flew under his feet, so frightened that he quickly shrunk his neck and fell to the ground.

"Bastard, damn it!"

The shouts and shouts came one after another in the position, and even the shells and explosions could not be concealed, and everyone was outraged by this kind of provocation that dared to be aimed at hundreds of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns!

A number of anti-aircraft guns began to fire, but at this moment, the remaining three enemy planes suddenly soared into the sky like rockets, rising to a height of several thousand meters, and suddenly dispersed and flew into the distance.

"What's wrong? Out of gas? Or are you scared?! ”

When Maliki was wondering, he suddenly felt something flash in the corner of his eye, and before he could see it, a violent fire accompanied by a deafening explosion suddenly surged from the side of the machine gun bunker that had been extinguished a hundred meters away.

"Boom......."

Although the 600-kilogram high-explosive bomb has a charge of only 50 kilograms, it is not even as powerful as a 250-kilogram aerial bomb, but the power is not so small, although the sandbags around the anti-aircraft machine gun bunker are piled up layer after layer, like an iron bucket, but in front of it it is still like paper.

The shock wave of the explosion immediately lifted away all the sandbags, and the "sandbag bucket" that originally seemed to be mighty was bulldozed in the blink of an eye, and then a heat wave rushed to his face, and several pieces of flesh and blood blurred body stumps fell beside him, and the mud and sand mixed with minced flesh and blood, splashed all over the body.

"It's ......."

Although Maliki was disgusted by the charred corpse and wanted to vomit, he still looked up at the sky first, only to find that there was nothing above his head except for the few Chinese planes and white clouds hiding in the distant sky, so how did the explosion come about?

Like Maliki, many American soldiers looked at the sky with puzzled faces, how could it be ...... that even the 15-inch guns of the Chinese powerful Guam-class battleships could not reach the coast more than 35 kilometers from the coast.

"Boom, boom, boom......."

The sound of the explosion again made the faces of all the American soldiers, including Maliki, change color, although they did not have much experience, but they had seen several live-fire exercises of the shore artillery at the base, and the unique sound of large-caliber artillery whistling was easy to distinguish.

"Naval artillery, it's naval artillery!"

"Hide in,......, hide in there!"

In the midst of the terrible shouts, Maliki only felt that he had been pushed hard, and then involuntarily entered the concrete bunker, and in an instant, the anti-aircraft position, which had just gritted his teeth and fought fiercely, was full of soldiers running wildly, their shells could deal with planes, but not against naval guns dozens of kilometers away.

But what makes people wonder is, how did the enemy fight so far? Is the minefield failing? But I haven't heard the sound of shore artillery for a few days, could it be a submarine minesweeper?

For a moment, a myriad of thoughts and surprises filled Maliki's brain, but after a moment he could no longer think, only to see shells screeching and smashing down on the position, and only a few minutes later, his anti-aircraft position was reduced to a pile of rubble.

On the sea, the 4 Hebei-class battleships were still launching shelling like crazy, and the ship posture positioning process, which originally needed to be adjusted every 10 rounds, was simply saved, and the navigator directly chose to adjust slowly during the shelling, although this would make the accuracy a little lower, but no one objected, because the command required them to shoot all the shells within 90 minutes!

The anti-aircraft positions were bulldozed in the explosion, the sandbags were turned into weapons to kill themselves, the barrels of the anti-aircraft guns twisted and changed shape, and even some of the strong cement fortifications were destroyed in the explosion.

The frenzied and unexpected shelling from the sea completely disrupted the deployment of the US troops, and several camels that tried to figure out the position of the other side and took off to reconnoiter were chopped to the ground by the arriving escort fighters before they even flew out of the minefield.

This was an unconventional attack, both Lieutenant General Karl and his staff officers believed that the first wave of attack would be launched by aircraft with greater Chinese superiority, so they also deliberately strengthened air defense drills, but what did not wait for artillery shells!

When a plane finally saw the position of the first artillery group, the shore artillery in the San Diego base began to return fire, but nearly 40 minutes had passed.

Although the range of the same caliber shore gun is longer than that of the naval gun, the United States is not crazy enough to take the 15-inch or 16-inch naval gun to serve as a shore gun, or in other words, it must first meet the capital ship in the dock on the east coast, so the large caliber of the shore gun deployed in San Diego is only 305 mm, so the distance of 26,000 meters is too far for them.

The 600-kilogram high-explosive bombs are still falling at a rate of one round every 50 seconds, the air defense positions have been destroyed, the buildings have been razed, and the streets are full of rubble.

And this is just a 356-mm naval gun, if it is the Guam class that has just been replaced with a 406-mm super naval gun, or the Taiwanese class, what kind of scene will it be?

4 battleships, 48 naval guns, each with 100 spare shells, each shell weighs 600 kg, and the killing area is more than 25 square meters, which means that they have a total ammunition tonnage of up to 2880 tons in 90 minutes, and it takes 5760 sorties to replace them with 500 kg aerial bombs!

Even if you take into account factors such as repetition and long-range accuracy degradation, the killing area is reduced by four times, and it is as high as 30,000 square meters!

An hour later, the whole of San Diego was filled with smoke and fire from the shells, and countless American soldiers were running away with helmets in their hands, screaming and shouting one after another.

"Boom......."

As the air defense targets were reduced, the naval guns began to launch extended shelling according to the coordinates provided by the reconnaissance aircraft, and an old armored cruiser moored in the harbor became the first victim, although the high-explosive shells could not deal with the battleship or even the battlecruiser, but it was still very powerful against this old armored cruiser, and just one forced the armored cruiser to no longer move.

At 7:50 a.m., five minutes after the latter shell burst out of the barrel, a huge formation of attack planes that almost obscured the sky appeared over the shelling formation.

Looking at the sailors who waved to Long Yi below, Jin Wei smiled slightly, straightened the photo of the battleship New York sandwiched in the front frame of the cockpit, and then twisted the joystick lightly and turned on the sounder.

Under the belly of the plane, on the black shell of the 250-kilogram aviation armor-piercing projectile, four small words written by his own hand flashed in the sun.

Night owl crying in the sky!

"Dig ......."

: Brothers and sisters, come and encourage you!

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