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Chapter 234: The Kinmen Strait

On 24 May, just as more than 20,000 men of the 25th Division began to prepare to fight southward! The expeditionary force formed mainly by troops of the Pacific Military Region had already arrived in the Pacific Ocean on the west coast, less than 10 nautical miles from San Francisco! Of course, it was a waste to use all the more than 30,000 sharp marines of the two divisions of the Huo Jiajun Army to attack a city!

Therefore, Wu Guangzong, commander of the expeditionary force, led nearly 20,000 troops of the Eighth Marine Division to continue the attack on San Francisco, while Wang Xiangzong, chief of staff of the expeditionary force, led the 6th Marine Division of more than 10,000 men to take Los Angeles, a large city second only to San Francisco in the western United States! Of course, big cities are also relative!

"Has the intelligence been confirmed?" Wu Guangzong looked at the operational staff officer who walked in and asked calmly! Because the Pacific Military Region has just been established, there are many things to do with the troops, and in addition, the scale of this Sino-US war is limited, so this time he is the commander of the military region, Wang Xiangzong, chief of staff of the military region, and Wenming, deputy political commissar of the military region! However, they have just taken the Hawaiian Islands, and the situation on the island has just stabilized, and the status of this archipelago is too important, and it is also the logistics supply base of this expeditionary force, so the civilization stayed in the Hawaiian Islands and temporarily took charge of the island's military and political affairs!

Therefore, only he and Wang Xiangzong were the only ones who commanded this expedition this time!

"Yes, it has been confirmed again and again! Now stationed in San Francisco is an infantry division of Americans who have just been reorganized. and some militias such as the National Guard, the two sides together are about 20,000 people! The few warships on the West Coast of the United States have taken refuge in San Francisco Bay!"

"Well, it seems that the Americans have been prepared for our arrival! By the way, is there any other news?" Wu Guangzong then asked!

"Yes, according to the intelligence we have gathered, the Americans have placed heavy artillery on both sides of the Kinmen Strait, blocking the entire waterway of the strait!"

Getting this news, Wu Guangzong couldn't help frowning, and his face showed a deep thought!

Golden Gate Strait. The Straits of San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, USA. It is 8 kilometers long from east to west and 3 kilometers wide from north to south, choking the throat of San Francisco and other ports out of the Pacific Ocean. With the current artillery formation, it is completely possible to block the entire waterway with ease! Although facing the Pacific Ocean, the terrain on both sides of the Kinmen Strait is steep, and there are no beaches suitable for large-scale landing of troops, so if Huo Jiajun wants to take San Francisco, he must open the Kinmen Strait. Access to San Francisco Bay is possible!

Although the warships of the Huo Jiajun Navy are very good, because of the angle of attack, it is not impossible to take the Kinmen Strait completely by the gunfire of the battleships, but in the end, there will definitely be warships damaged! After all, the enemy's artillery fire is condescending, and it has already taken advantage of it!

You know, it's been more than two years of hard work. Relying on self-construction and capture, the Huo Jiajun finally got to the current size of the navy! Even the loss of a warship would make the Huo Jiajun navy feel distressed for a long time!

Standing on the tall Cambridge of the destroyer 'Meng Tian', Wu Guangzong held his telescope high and observed the Kinmen Strait in the distance. Don't open it!'

The whole San Francisco Bay, like a flattened bottle. The location of the bottle mouth is the Golden Gate Strait, and the mountains to the west of the bay block the storms from the Pacific Ocean, turning the wide San Francisco Bay into a beautiful bay with many good harbors!

"How can such a good harbor be cheaper than the Americans?" Thinking of the terrain around San Francisco Bay, Wu Guangzong couldn't help but think with some envy in his heart.

However, as the commander of the expeditionary force, Wu Guangzong also knew that now was not the time for him to think about this, and the urgent thing to delay now was how to let the troops take the two mountains in front of him with minimal losses, so as to open the passage for the rear army to pass through the Kinmen Strait and attack San Francisco and its surrounding towns!

"Staff Officer Wang, let's go to the Lieutenant Colonel of the Sea Lion Special Forces!" After observing for a while, Wu Guangzong put down the binoculars in his hand, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then suddenly said to the entourage behind him!

From its establishment to the present, it has been more than two years, and in more than two years, Sea Lion has grown from scratch, from weak to strong, until today, Sea Lion is already a powerful special forces force with five brigades and more than five hundred people, although compared to the dragon tooth and cheetah, there may be some gaps in combat power, but compared with the two special forces of Cobra and Snow Wolf, it is indeed not much inferior!

This time, Huo Jiajun launched a war against the United States, and the General Staff Headquarters of Huo Jiajun considered the actual needs of the war, and it just so happened that the Sea Lion Special Forces also needed to use this war to accumulate experience! Therefore, before the expeditionary force was launched, the military headquarters specially sent two large groups of sea lion special forces to fight with the fleet! However, because the expeditionary force was divided in the early stage, one of the brigades had already left here with Wang Xiangzong's troops attacking Los Angeles!

"Yes, Commander!

From the back of the staff officer who turned to leave, he withdrew his gaze and looked at the Kinmen Strait in the distance, Wu Guangzong's eyes showed a hint of thought!

Combined with his observations just now and the intelligence sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Wu Guangzong could already determine that the artillery pieces that the Americans had placed on both sides of the Kinmen Strait were not very large! After all, it did not take long for the Americans to seize California from Mexico, and the entire western state and city also gradually developed because of the gold rush, and this development time was only a short period of 20 years! Moreover, the desolation and economic backwardness of the western part of the United States also made several western states not taken seriously in the United States!

In addition to the unique geographical location of the United States, the entire United States is extremely backward in national defense and army building, and it can be seen from this that the desolate and backward western part of the United States basically has zero in national defense, especially coastal defense construction! The three western coastal states of the United States do not even have a single shore gun on the coastline of several thousand kilometers!

The artillery now deployed on both sides of the Kinmen Strait was removed from the coastal defense batteries in the eastern part of the United States and transported by the great railway connecting the east and west!

From the Sino-US conflict to the current war, only a dozen days have passed, and in such a short period of time, the United States has already had scarce orders, and few military industrial enterprises have not had time to produce all kinds of artillery needed by the troops, so the current US troops can only use the old weapons in their hands to defend the entire West Coast of the United States!

"Report!" Just when Wu Guangzong was still thinking about his offensive strategy, a young officer with a tall figure, full of jīng fierce air, and the rank of lieutenant colonel on his shoulder, walked into Cambridge!

"Oh, here it is!" Looking at the young man in front of him, Wu Guangzong's eyes couldn't help but show appreciation, jīng's sharp and strong soldiers are the favorite of every handsome! Wu Guangzong is certainly no exception!

"The captain of the Fifth Brigade of the Sea Lion Special Forces, Yan Dong, has seen the commander!" The discipline of the soldiers has been carved into the bones of every soldier of the Huo family army under Huo Shan's original strict requirements, and as the leader among them, this kind of strict self-discipline is vividly reflected from his body!

After reflexively, raising his arm, and saluting solemnly, Wu Guangzong couldn't help but smile and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Yan, I came to you this time because I wanted to hand over a difficult task to your sea lion special forces!"

Hearing that there was a mission, the expression of the harsh winter was suddenly shocked, and his eyes were a little brighter than just now! There is no such thing as a warlike army or soldier in jīng Rui! In this cross-sea expedition, the sea lions have been idle on the transport ship for almost a month! The rìzi who can't train and can't fight are really boring! All the soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the Sea Lion Special Forces have long been eager to go to the battlefield!

"Commander, all one hundred officers and soldiers of our Sea Lion Fifth Brigade are ready, please give an order!"

Looking at the look in front of him, his resolute face was full of young soldiers who were leaping and jumping! Wu Guangzong couldn't help but smile, he was not afraid of death, he dared to take responsibility, this kind of soldier was the soldier he wanted!

"Okay, come and see!" Wu Guangzong also knew that time was precious, so he didn't dwell too much, took two steps forward, pointed to the Kinmen Strait that was not wide in the distance, and continued solemnly: "Do you see that strait?"

At this time, Huo Jiajun's expeditionary force was less than five nautical miles away from the Kinmen Strait, although with the naked eye, it was far from looking clear with a telescope, but the outline of the Kinmen Strait was still very clear in front of everyone!

"See!" Yan Dong looked at it intently, and couldn't help but turn his head and say!

"Well! When we come to the United States, the first place we want to take is San Francisco, and if we want to take San Francisco, we must take the Kinmen Strait that you saw earlier! Otherwise, the large number of artillery pieces placed by the Americans on both sides of the strait will cause great losses to our attacking troops!"

"The commander is to let our sea lion special forces take down the coastal defense positions on both sides of the strait!" asked the severe winter god solemnly!

"Not bad! However, according to the information we have obtained, the Americans have deployed a garrison of about 1,500 troops on the high ground on both sides of the strait! In addition, the side of the Kinmen Strait facing the sea is all mountainous, and the terrain is steep, which is not suitable for a large army to land, so we can only let you sea lions go on it!" Wu Guangzong simply explained the difficulty of the task!

"Commander, don't worry! Our sea lion special forces guarantee to complete this mission and clear the way for the passage of the large army!"

"Well, I'm sure you can do it! But you have too few of them, so you don't have to fight the enemy, your mission is to destroy their shore defense artillery, as long as they can't be used!"

"Yes, understood!"

"Then you go back and hurry up and get ready, and then act after dark!" Wu Guangzong ordered.

"Understood!"