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"Jingle bells......, jingle bells ....... ※※※※※I ※ I ※ ※

The rapid ringing of the phone shattered the calm of the San Diego morning, and Lieutenant General Carl yawned, opened his bloodshot eyes, and picked up the phone.

"What's the matter?"

"What!"

As soon as he asked, he was stunned by the panicked screams coming from the telephone, and ran to the headquarters not far away without caring about his disheveled clothes.

"What's going on? Why Santa Barbara, not San Francisco, or Los Angeles! What about the Santa Rocha Island guard post? Why wasn't there an early warning? Karl rushed into the command room with a shouting as he buckled, and when the adjutant saw him, he immediately handed over the urgent telegram he had just received: "Without warning, we suspect that the Santa Rosa Island watchtower may have been destroyed in advance." ”

"Enable password number 4." After Karl first gave the order to change the code, he asked again: "How many warships?" ”

"I don't know yet, but Los Angeles has sent a reconnaissance plane, and it is expected that the news will be available in 20 minutes, but it is ......." The staff officer gritted his teeth: "According to Rear Admiral Sampson's description of the power of the shells, we judge that it may be a 15-inch or 16-inch naval gun!" ”

"16 inches?!"

Carl gasped, it is no secret that Huawei's Guam-class replacement of 16-inch naval guns, if it is really 16 inches, it means that the other party has invested in Guam-class battleships that have not appeared!

This is not a trivial matter, even if they were off the coast of San Diego 3 days ago, they did not dispatch the Guam class, and now they actually dispatched a strong battleship against the little Santa Barbara, what does this mean?

"Has Ensenada's fleet arrived?" Although Carl had already vaguely guessed, he still couldn't believe it, but when he saw the staff officer's shaking head, the whole person froze, and sat down on the chair with cold hands and feet.

"We were all wrong, the landing site should be Santa Barbara!"

The staff officer said what everyone wanted to say, but this conclusion was extremely bitter, because of the previous large-scale bombing of San Diego by China, the command judged that the opponent's aircraft carriers were all concentrated here, plus the second fleet arrived, so the border of the Lower California Peninsula reinforced 5 corps, but now they are told that these are all illusions, the real landing point is Santa Barbara, 200 kilometers away, what else can they support?

"The defense of Santa Barbara is the 27th Army led by Major General Sampson, a total of 6 divisions, 110,000 people, with 570 cannons, 2,300 machine guns, from the point of view of the subordinates, there is enough combat effectiveness, but they lack the help of heavy artillery, in addition, most of them are deployed on the line of Santa Yenez Mountain, far from the coastline, 6 kilometers from the coast, if the Chinese action is enough, then ......." The tip of the staff officer's pen stopped next to the coastline of the map, and although he did not continue, the meaning was clear to everyone, and the troops defending the coastline were seriously insufficient!

"The 36th and 52nd Armies were ordered to move south from San Francisco at once, and the 12th Army to the north from Los Angeles, and they had to do everything they could to support there. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Karl finally recovered from the blow and immediately ordered: "Tell Sampson to move as far as possible towards the coast, use the local woods to kill and wound their soldiers, and reinforcements will arrive." ”

"General, it's going to be dawn soon, and I'm afraid it will be ...... if you take the railroad to support."

"Then spread out and take the road, we must support Santa Barbara, or we will lose Los Angeles!"

At the roar of anger, the staff officers immediately dispersed, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the non-commissioned officer on the side had already shouted: "General, it's Lieutenant General Joe Wirt's call." ”

"Joe?" Looking at the constant ringing of the telephone, Karl's mouth was full of bitterness, and this time he really didn't know how to tell the minister.

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

During the heavy machine-gun fire, two huge columns of water rose from the bottom of the sea, and the waves formed by the explosion pushed the minesweepers hundreds of meters away straight out several meters away, and the flying water splashed on the deck, forming a trickle.

", change the net!"

After handing over the steering wheel to the first mate, Shangguan Liang personally ran to the aft deck to help, and after the winch quickly retracted the tattered trawl, the speargun quickly knocked down one of the rope heads to the sister ship opposite.

The wide trawl net was thrown out again, forming an invisible sluice, and it was impossible to leave any mines in the water area pulled by the net, which was a simple and dangerous way to clear mines.

However, before Shangguan Liang and the others could start their work again, several shells suddenly exploded between the two ships, and a piece of shrapnel roared out of the water, only to hear a bang, and the entire cockpit roof was cut in half.

The explosion frightened the first mate who was at the helm trembling, and when he saw that the top of his head was almost empty, he suddenly shouted with anger: "Mother! ”

"Pony, give me the radio."

"Fisherman No. 9 called, Fisherman No. 9 called, enemy army shore artillery found, enemy army shore artillery found." The first mate, who held the steering wheel in one hand and the microphone in the other, stomped his feet and shouted, and a few moments later, countless fireballs exploded on the beach a few kilometers away, and the cannon that had just been designed at them was suddenly overwhelmed by the sea of fire.

But before he could be happy, the bow of the Fisherman No. 19 in the distance suddenly burst under the water, and the water column lifted the minesweeper of more than 100 tons to a height of more than ten meters, and then the entire ship shattered and disintegrated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when it fell, only a large pile of debris remained.

"Let Angler No. 17 take the place, pay attention to the distance, don't miss it!" Shangguan Liang on the deck didn't even have time to grief before giving the order, but the red eyes still betrayed him, the destruction of a minesweeper was nothing, but with such a violent explosion, the 11 brothers above would definitely not survive.

"Captain, the nets are ready."

"Start, keep going, don't stop, the machine guns cheer me up." A cannonball exploded not far from the minesweeper at close range, and the swept water column drenched Shangguan Liang and the sailors.

Just when everyone was dodging the shells and still had to fight the mines, three American torpedo boats suddenly drilled out of the distant coastline, which was a greater threat than the shells.

"Left full rudder!"

"Avoid, avoid!"

"Fisherman 33, damn it, Fisherman 33 is on fire, machine gun, machine gun!"

"Knock knock......."

In the chaotic shouting, a series of small water columns suddenly approached Fisherman No. 9 from a distance, and when Shangguan Liang turned his head to see the torpedo boat, several rapid-fire shells exploded on the deck, and the rumbling and shattered wooden deck suddenly ignited flames, and the machine gunner on the port side who was caught off guard was pierced through the thigh by the broken wooden plank, and blood was suddenly sprinkled all over the deck.

"Grandma." Seeing that his partner was hit, Shangguan Liang hurriedly dragged him to a safe position in the center of the deck, and ran to the machine gun with a curse, his shoulder slammed against the butt of the gun, aiming at the torpedo boat.

"Come on, come on!"

"I don't have a cannon, but I have a machine gun!"

"Da da da......."

The Mi Da Viper water-cooled heavy machine gun spewed out a long tongue of revenge fire millimeter machine gun compared to the Mi heavy machine gun, the firing range reached 4500 meters, enough to deal with only rapid-fire guns torpedo boats, plus the other minesweepers around also temporarily turned the machine guns around, and suddenly the torpedo boat shell was splashed with sparks.

"Keep walking, leave me alone, watch out for the trawl buoy!"

Shangguan Liang shouted and commanded the minesweeper to continue its work while strafing, and when he saw that the situation was urgent, a coast guard frigate that followed the minesweeper with a shallow draft came over and began to use the 76-mm naval guns in the bow to help disperse the torpedo boats.

They were targeted by more than a dozen rice-sized poisonous snakes at the same time, but the torpedo boats of dozens of tons could not bear it, not to mention that there was a frigate followed behind, and the US troops were so frightened that they turned their rudder and prepared to leave, but how could the coast guard, which finally had a chance to go to the battlefield, let them go, when the bow deflected, revealing a quadruple 37-mm rapid-fire gun, the three torpedo boats suddenly turned into fireballs.

"Captain, three o'clock, mines!"

After seeing the frigate deal with the torpedo boat, Shangguan Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and when he was about to relax his shoulder, which was shaken by the machine gun, he heard the shout again, and quickly turned the muzzle of the gun to aim at the buoy at the three o'clock position.

The buoy had been pulled into the water, which was a sign of touching a heavy object, and he quickly pulled the trigger there, and suddenly a torrential rain of bullets fell near the buoy, and when the click of the bullets was exhausted, a column of water also rose into the air.

"Fifteen, look at the nets."

"Fishing nets are still usable, they can be used!"

Amid the constant explosions and the sound of machine guns, every shout required all effort, and the distant coast was already filled with gunsmoke, and huge fireballs rose from the sky over the whole of Santa Barbara.

"Boom......."

Fisherman No. 51, which was close to the shore, also turned into a fireball and shattered, and before the fire could be extinguished, Fisherman No. 11, who was in the same group as it, was also hit by a cannonball from the shore and began to sink.

"The loss is too great!"

Seeing the partners sinking in the explosion, Shangguan Liang's hands began to tremble, tears continued to slide down his dark cheeks, but half of the minefield had not been swept yet, so he had to lead everyone to rush forward with gritted teeth.

"7 ships have been lost, there is a vacuum in the east, let the second batch catch up, don't leave a dead end!"

"Go on, keep going!"

Fisherman No. 9 and the team's Fisherman No. 6 dragged their fishing nets forward like bulls, and the shells exploded beside them, and the shells kept hitting the wooden hull, but everyone seemed to have gone numb, and there was only one thought left in their minds, to break out of the minefield!

"Nine o'clock."

The observer jumped to his feet and pointed to a mine that was faintly visible under the water on the left side of the ship's side a hundred meters away, and after being reminded, Shangguan Liang turned the machine gun of the reloaded magazine again and aimed it there, but he did not see that a black dot in the water ten meters away also flashed in the waves.

The bullet accurately hit the mine, and the violent explosion brought up a wild wave to rush towards the Fisherman No. 9, and when Shangguan Liang grabbed the machine gun and prepared to meet the impact, he suddenly saw the black spot just now, which was crashing into himself with the waves brought by the explosion!

"Damn it, mines!"

"Jump into the sea, jump down!" Shangguan Liang shouted loudly for everyone to jump into the sea to escape, and he held up his machine gun and aimed it at the mines that hit with the waves, but it was too late.

When a sailor was just about to jump into the sea, the explosion exploded on the port side of the bow of the minesweeper, and the violent explosion lifted the entire minesweeper into the air, Shangguan Liang suddenly felt that his body seemed to be out of control, and a scorching heat surged from his side, when he subconsciously hugged the plank on the side of the ship, the heat wave had pushed him a full hundred meters away, and then his back slammed into something, and he lost his intuition.

It wasn't until half an hour later that a seaplane found Shangguan Liang drifting with a wooden plank and rescued him and sent him to a hospital ship, but fortunately he finally woke up two days later, but lost a leg.

At the same time, 23 of the 50 minesweepers in a total of 2 batches were lost, as well as 173 partners!

By the end of the war, the Royal Navy had lost 178 minesweepers and 1,451 minesweepers, but they had cleared a total of mines and explosives, and the Minesweeper was the only unit in the war to receive the collective high honor, the Royal Medal of Valor.

At 10:41, after the minefield was largely clean, the landing craft began to rush out of the cabin.

RO！ ~！