At a distance of 27,000 meters, in the narrow bay of Cape Verde, "406 mm extra-heavy armor-piercing shells stirred up a column of water nearly 100 meters high, and clouds of brown smoke rose from the bottom of the sea, making the bay, which was already restless due to strong winds, roll even more unquenchable." ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

A 670-ton torpedo destroyer threw off its cables, and the sailors on deck were already praying for a break from hell, but the black dots that fell from the sky buried the hope of leaving.

The shells went straight down from the middle of the hull, there was no explosion, no gunsmoke, and the shells weighing more than a ton directly smashed the destroyer and more than 100 sailors on it into the bottom of the sea with inertia.

I didn't even hear a cry for help!

The sailors ran like headless flies to dodge, and one after another Schott-184 water reconnaissance planes were beaten into a hornet's nest by more than a dozen Hornet fighters that came at the same time before they could take off, "the majestic body of the Malaya was trembling in the rain of bullets", "one shell after another fell from the sky, and a column of smoke and fireballs rose from the deck", and the scattered stream formed by the explosion formed a brilliant smoke huā

When the shells from the sea began to extend back into the port, "the three battleships that had managed to escape from India had all been reduced to scrap metal, and the Anson was left with only one mast that surfaced."

At the top of the mast, only half of the British Royal Navy flag, which once represented invincibility and keeping those who see it away, remains, and it hunts in the gale.

Campbell sat dumbfounded in his office, turning away the soldiers from taking cover and silently watching the harbor reduce to rubble.

His face was pale and sweaty.

Rumbling without the sound of the explosion, he slowly opened the drawer, took out the gun he had been awarded by the Emperor when he was the commander of the Indian Grand Fleet, and "pressed a bullet into the chamber." At 11 a.m. on July 13, the second task force of the Chinese Navy suddenly attacked the port of Cape Verde, sinking 3 battleships, including the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship Malaya, 2 cruisers, 11 destroyers, and 4,613 dead.

Former commander-in-chief of India's Grand Fleet and Vice Admiral of the British Royal Navy, Mollian Campbell committed suicide with a gun in his base office half an hour after the sudden shelling.

Whitehall.

At the headquarters of the Royal Navy, the pace of the British Royal Navy was hurried and the flow of people was endless, and the navy, which was known for its elegance and steadyness, "was becoming restless and restless."

In the corridor, Sir Nelson, who laid down a hundred years of sea power for the British Empire and made outstanding contributions to the domination of the Seven Seas, stood quietly in the mural, watching the younger generations of the present day scrambled and even panicked.

"It is reported that the Sylves has discovered a light cruiser of the Chinese people off the coast of Hala in the west, which is suspected to be the Honolulu-class." The transport ship Boone reported being attacked by two Chinese aircraft, 37 nautical miles southwest of the Canary Islands west of the Sahara. "God, information from Panama that their second battleship formation of the fifth task force has set off, and the third battleship formation is speeding up the clearing of the Mona Strait, and they are about to enter the Atlantic!" ”

"Bad news, Wilhelm II and Tirpitz have arrived in the port of Kiel and are inspecting his ocean fleet!" , "Spain", there were riots in Spain, and Alfonso XIII left the Royal Palace three hours ago "to ...... whereabouts"

"Generals, President Melkin has just sent a telegram "The Prime Minister asks us to do our best" and His Majesty the Emperor will also make a public speech this afternoon: "If we cannot salvage the situation, then ......, perhaps we will have to prepare a surrender draft!" ”

In the famous Whitehall conference room, Admiral Edward Carson had just put down the phone, and Vice Admiral Hamilton, the direct leader of the Royal Navy, the First Sea Lord, rushed in again with a pale face, holding the telegram and trembling slightly: "Just now, the soldier found Campbell in the ruins, he, shot in the head, committed suicide!" ","Bang Dang ......"

A fine white porcelain coffee cup rolled from a general's hand "Brown coffee juice spread along the oak floor, just as the situation in the Atlantic Ocean was at the moment, and the task force that suddenly appeared, with two formidable Taiwan-class battleships, spread like a virus from the South Atlantic to the north. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

It's pointless to ask for responsibility and find out how the other party arrived here after a long journey, now it's important to find out the other party's intentions and block it! Otherwise, they will enter the North Sea, and once they join the German Navy, the tragic scene of the Italian Navy in the Ionian Sea will be repeated again!

Carson waved everyone to silence and asked, "Guys, who can tell me where they're going now?!" ”

"I think it's the Azov Islands and Gibraltar."

"Why?" Carson looked at the general who spoke, his tone was concise, and he didn't want to delay for a moment.

"First, we found their cruiser in the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa, and the first stop along the Canary Islands north was the Azov Islands, our rear fortress in the Atlantic.

Second, let's not forget that there is also a Chinese fleet in the Mediterranean, which has been hovering off the coast of Spain for nearly a long time, and all of them add up to 4 super battleships equipped with 16-inch guns, plus aircraft carriers, which will have enough power to threaten Gibraltar!

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Mo has been committed to seizing the choke point of maritime communication: "The Strait of Malacca, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, all of them!" So he was definitely interested in capturing and opening up the Gibraltar fortress. "I don't think so. Hamilton shook his head and looked solemn: "In the Caribbean, Li Mo's Fifth Task Force can enter the Atlantic Ocean at any time, plus this fleet, they already have the ability to change here, so Li Mo no longer needs to open Gibraltar" I think they will go directly north to enter the coast of our country.

Combined with the intelligence just now, the Germans will do it in the next few days, so I think they should have a tacit understanding with the Germans: "Prepare to flank us!" ”

"No, it should be the East Coast of the United States" Li Mo's army has never entered the European continent, "but it is fighting in the United States", so I think his ultimate goal is to defeat the United States! And leave us and Europe to Germany. ”

"I have to go to the prime minister immediately." Three different speculations" gave Kasenga a headache, and he also knew that Cape Verde was attacked alone and could not infer the other party's actions, so he stood up and said to Hamilton: "Frederick" Didn't Jericho say that his withdrawal reputation level was injured? Let them come back and repair them. ”

"But......

Hamilton opened his mouth wide, he wanted to say that it was only a minor injury, and it had been dealt with and would not affect the future war, not to mention that the United States was now under great pressure" Once withdrawn, the relationship between Britain and the United States would also suffer, but after seeing Carson's lifeless gaze, he had to nod his head.

On July 1, "under the strict orders of the British Admiralty, two Prestige-class battleships supporting the United States began to rush to the North Sea on the grounds that they were wounded," and at the same time, in order to hold the 2nd Chinese task force, a small fleet of 30 destroyers rushed to the Azov Islands.

On a day and night in July, "King George V summoned British journalists at Buckingham Palace and repeatedly expressed his concern about the war and called on all Britons to prepare for an imminent Great Patriotic War."

In the early morning of July 15, the U.S. Navy battlecruiser USS Lexington, which had just been launched for three days and had not even recruited sailors, led seven cruisers and 27 destroyers to urgently set off from the Chesapeake Bay to support the Jericho fleet in Miami.

At ten o'clock in the morning of July 15, a formation of 110 Handley Page 400 bombers set off from South Carolina and headed for Bermuda, the British offshore territory 900 kilometers away and the only barrier off the east coast of the United States.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of July 15th, the Second Task Force of the Chinese Empire, which had not been faced, suddenly appeared in the Atlantic, and the two French transport ships were captured after sending a telegram.

The night of July 15

Countless New Yorkers rushed out of their homes "carrying large bags and small bags, stepping on the news newspaper that the "China" fleet is crossing the Atlantic, and rushed to the "Zhong" Central Railway Station.

The station was already crowded with people, and the usually polite people had long forgotten politeness: "The train to Chicago was so crowded that some of those who had no place even climbed onto the roof and tied themselves to the railing with belts.

The sudden frenzy of crowds caught the railway company off guard, "I had to temporarily find a large number of bodyguards with loaded guns to maintain order" Damn, you black-skinned pig, get off the train! "A large group of late-arriving workers were about to wait for the next train after discovering that they couldn't squeeze in, when they suddenly saw two black guys hiding in a corner, squatting on the ground and standing in a small position.

The crowd was instantly ignited by a certain emotion, and the nervousness, uneasiness, and uncertainty about the future turned into impulsiveness and tyranny in an instant, and countless white men rushed towards the two poor and thin black boys, "and before they could cry, they were dragged by the neck."

The head, body, and even the nails began to bleed outward," many people looked at numbly.

"Bastards, these white bastards killed Dicks ......."

"Guys, kill these black-skinned pigs!" Suddenly, a high-pitched voice broke the numb crowd next to him, and a large group of blacks who came from the suburbs to try their luck and find a way out of New York found their partner who had been killed, and the hatred suddenly made the eyes of the person responsible, and the knife "bullet" all exploded at this moment.

While everyone was stupefied by the brawl and the flying bullets, "several black men suddenly set the train on fire and sent people into the overcrowded train cars."

The fire, which lit up the whole of New York!

That night, riots at New York's Central Railway Station killed more than 2,700 people in the fire and stampede, and injured more than 5,000.

However, this still did not dispel the idea of leaving: "On the same night, about 30,000 people chose to leave the coast and migrate inland after learning the news that the Second Task Force of the Chinese Empire had begun to cross the Atlantic.

Not only New York, but also the terrible news of the shelling of all the cities and settlements on the East Coast spread like a plague throughout the United States in a short period of time, from Miami in the south to Bōtland in the north, a total of about 7 million Americans left the East Coast after the news of the Second Fleet.

Factories began to shut down, raw materials could no longer be delivered, and even if all the southern states were lost, the American industry, which did not stop, was paralyzed by more than forty percent just three days after Task Force 2 arrived in the Atlantic, and the entire national operation came to a standstill.

This was born and Mahan wrote the theory of sea power that would affect the next hundred years after the end of the national war, and in just a few decades after the end of the national war, he jumped from a wild land to the world's largest economic and industrial power, but because of the arrival of a fleet, he fell into despair and confusion, and I wonder if Mahan will feel sad in heaven.

"General......

The poor wooden gate was smashed open again, and before Jericho and the generals could raise their heads from the chart, Roosevelt, who was already going crazy, rushed in in dishevelled and embarrassed: "The Chinese ......, the Chinese Army, has just landed in Appalachian Bay!" ”

Joseph King looked at Roosevelt stupidly, and the pen between his fingers slipped silently to the ground.

The speed of the Chinese people is really terrible!

They deceived the world with an unfinished battleship, then took advantage of Campbell's evacuation to get the carrier battle group out of the Caribbean, and when they finished shelling Cape Verde, everyone thought they would continue north towards the Azov Islands and Gibraltar, but suddenly began to cross the Atlantic!

And while everyone's goals and eyes were on this mysteriously appearing fleet, their land forces suddenly crossed the entire Gulf of Mexico using the navy as a cover!

Florida is so narrow, so narrow that there is no depth at all.

Now that almost all of the troops are deployed along the East Coast, this is tantamount to leaving the entire back to the enemy: "They don't even want to hit Miami, they just need to take Jacksonville in a straight line, and Florida will be lost."

"General, the Cuban government announced its accession to the Central Powers an hour ago, and in Havana and the Chinese representatives signed the document leasing Guantanamo to the Chinese Navy!" "Oh no! The fleet of the Chinese people has set off! An hour ago, their Fifth Task Force stationed in Panama had all set off, and now the Third Battleship Formation had entered the Bahamas, the First Battleship Formation was passing through the Mona Strait, and the Second Battleship Formation was preparing to cross the Strait! "General, news from Washington and London, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile" Their diplomatic envoys all began to evacuate this morning. ”

One news after another, it is dizzying, and at the same time, it is like a thunderbolt exploding in everyone's ears!

Jericho opened his mouth wide and stared blankly at the calendar on the wall.

July!

From the first day, the Chinese people have made up their minds to pay attention to the winners and losers within this month!

July was a crazy month since the beginning of the war, and from Europe to the Americas, the number of dead and wounded exceeded 500,000 in just half a month!

July is destined to be a turning point that will determine the future of the world!

It's been an unforgettable, hot month.

Standing in front of the chart, Jericho knew that he no longer had any choice, he knew that the probability of losing the decisive battle in the open sea was more than ninety percent, and he also knew that he might not be able to stop the enemy, but he had no second way to go!

Li Mo and his ambitious subordinates dug a big pit for themselves and the entire Entente, a fire pit that they had to jump down!

If he doesn't go, then the entire east coast of the United States will tremble under the enemy's guns, and 2 years ago, the Guam class, which was only an inch, almost paralyzed the Atlantic, not to mention the powerful 2 Taiwan-class ships now, and the disappearing aircraft carrier battle group must be hiding somewhere behind them!

And, of course, three battleship formations and 2 aircraft carriers that are heading out for the Mona Strait one after another!

When he closed his eyes, it was as if he saw a fire spreading across the ocean.

Opening his eyes, he gave the only and unchangeable order.

"All of you, I need everyone to cheer up, we're going to defend the post-Atlantic dignity!" @。