Gao Jiu sat on the landing craft, and the gentle breeze of the Mediterranean Sea blew on the quiet sea.

The moon in the sky was round and large, like a huge pale yellow saucer hanging in the sky.

Today's tide is a bit big, and it's a bit bumpy to sit on the landing craft.

Gao Jiu only grabbed the handle of the landing craft, trying to keep his body balanced. He didn't want to be like that hapless recruit, who fell on a landing craft and broke his head.

This is the latest landing craft in the Marine Corps, which can be put into the sea directly from the landing ship.

Each landing craft can take on board an entire platoon at a time.

In this way, the establishment will not be scattered.

The waves rattled outside the landing craft, and the vomiting of the soldiers inside came and went.

"Boom!" A shell slammed into the seawater, and the explosion of the shell stirred up a column of water more than ten meters high.

Inside the landing craft with the roof open, it immediately seemed like it was raining.

The sea water flowed down Gao Jiu's steel helmet, wetting the clothes on his body. The camouflage uniform wet by the sea water was clinging to the body, and it was a little uncomfortable.

But compared to the upcoming battle, this is nothing.

The sound of shell explosions is getting denser and denser, and listening to the sound is estimated to be howitzers. This thing hits far, but it is very unsuitable for dealing with a landing craft that is bumpy on the sea.

Only those who are extremely unlucky will be hit by a howitzer.

But after a while, the distance was close, and the cannon on the opposite side smashed over, but it was time to look at the character.

I hope I won't be hit by a cannon, this door made of thin iron sheet is okay to block bullets.

Cannon!

More than 70 millimeters, a single shot can pierce the landing craft.

Thinking of this, Gao Jiu glanced at the platoon under him helplessly.

A dark face, big eyes, and a straight nose.

On his waist carried their special weapon, the Gurkha scimitar.

Daming has always liked to use the Gurkha people as cannon fodder, which is unfortunate! I am the head of these cannon fodder!

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and everyone's bodies were turned upside down by the landing craft.

The iron door in front has a crescent-shaped notch!

God! The prayers of the Gurkha worked, and it was a real explosion of character.

The gap could have only been made by a cannon shell, which neither exploded nor landed in the landing craft, but did not know where it flew.

Character explosion, character explosion.

Gao Jiu felt that he should also pray to the Mantian God and Buddha.

Three nautical miles from the coast, a fleet of ten destroyers was already lined up.

The 155-millimeter gun in the bow of the ship was pointed at the coast of Targnano.

Behind the destroyer, five arsenal ships were arranged in front of two and three in the back.

Ten nautical miles away from the coast is the essence of the Ming Navy.

The three existing aircraft carriers of the Ming Dynasty were fully dispatched, and there were two heavy cruisers on each side of the aircraft carrier carrier.

And behind the aircraft carrier, there are three mountain-class battleships pressing the formation.

At this time, Li Xiu was standing on the bridge of the Changbai Mountain with Chen Laohu. Use a special high-powered telescope to see the Tavignano coast in the distance.

On the sea, a landing craft was hit and caught fire.

The soldiers inside howled and tumbled into the sea from both sides.

The heavy equipment quickly plunged them to the bottom of the sea, and not even a bubble came up.

But the rest of the landing craft still stubbornly moved towards the coast at full speed.

It was so fast that it almost flew up.

"How far are they from the coast?" Li Xiu asked without replying.

"One and a half nautical miles!"

The staff officer hurriedly replied.

"What should be exposed is almost exposed, and cannon fodder has to be spared.

Let's go! ”

Li Xiu said softly.

"Plan No. 1, start executing in a minute." Chen Laohu gave the battle order to the radio.

Immediately, the whistle on the Changbai Mountain whistled.

The sound of the whistle was like the deep roar of a dragon.

Soon, the whistles of the battleships on the sea sounded. The voice was overwhelming, like a dragon's groan.

A red flare flew straight into the air and exploded.

All the Ming warships opened fire in unison, and the fiery red shells made countless bullet marks in the sky.

The arsenal was filled with smoke, and countless rockets flew across the sky with long tail flames towards the shore where the guns were roaring.

A moment ago, Gao Jiu could still hear the sound of machine gun bullets hitting the front armor plate of the landing craft.

In the next second, the sound of an explosion crept close to the surface of the sea.

Everyone covered their ears, and some yelled in fright.

No one heard him roar, even though it was close.

It was a full nautical mile from the shore, but everyone felt the scorching heat of the shell explosion.

On the shores of Tavignano, countless puffs of smoke rose in an instant.

The huge explosive power of the heavy rockets directly plowed the French positions.

Don't say anything about cannons, even if God comes, they will have to be smashed to pieces by scattered shrapnel.

The French Foreign Legion on the shore defense had just been fighting vigorously, and now they had no chance of escaping at all.

Heavy rockets fall to the ground and can blow up a large crater up to three meters deep.

This is still the lethality of the special terrain of sand, which is greatly reduced.

Coastal fortifications, digging too deep and the problem of water seepage is very annoying.

Digging too shallow, under the shells of the Ming Navy, it is no different from nothing.

In particular, the 480 mm guns on the Ming battleships were like a volcanic eruption when they were hit by one shot.

All the work on the ground is finished!

Gao Jiu saw that the 12.7 mm heavy machine gun on the landing craft fired a few shots and stopped firing.

Having the courage to climb to that gap and look out, he also felt that there was no need.

Smoke was everywhere on the shore, including the shallows.

The entire field of palm trees was burning, and the thick smoke even obscured the moonlight, and the vision became extremely dim.

In the distance, explosions were still heard.

Looking back, the battleship could be seen clearly in the moonlight.

The guns of all the battleships were smoking, and the arsenal ships were spewing puffs of smoke, turning on the surface of the sea, aiming their other hull at the shore.

In a moment, the rockets on the other side of the ship were about to be fired.

Looking at the arsenal ship with thick smoke billowing out, Gao Jiu felt some sympathy for those people.

It is no wonder that the people on the arsenal ship have to wear pig-mouth gas masks when fighting.

The landing craft quickly burrowed into the smoke and slammed into the sand as the landing craft slammed into the sand.

The valve on the armored door turned rapidly, and the gate slammed into the sand.

The Gurkhas, armed with rifles loaded with bayonets, howled and rushed out of the landing craft.

Then, he coughed loudly.

There was smoke everywhere, and the pungent smell of gunpowder everywhere.

Gao Jiu was so smoked that tears flowed, and he highly suspected that the bastards in the navy were shooting smoke bombs.

Now his biggest fear is not that he will be choked to death, but that the navy does not know what is going on here on the beach, and that another shelling will be over.

Reach into your rucksack and pull out a flare gun. Pick up a flare with a green warhead and shoot it at the sky.

After hitting three in a row, Gao Jiu could be regarded as relieved.

The smoke was so thick that he was really worried that the Navy cattle wouldn't see it.

If you really cover it with artillery fire, you will become a barbecue.

Everyone didn't use Gao Jiu's orders, and they all lay on the beach.

This can effectively avoid the choking smoke!

After about ten minutes, the smoke of gunpowder dispersed somewhat.

Li Jiu dipped a towel in seawater and covered his face, finally resisting the invasion of thick smoke.

It turns out that the Gurkha are not as stupid as the legend suggests.

They followed the same example, and soon followed Gao Jiu's example, covering their faces with wet towels.

The navy may have seen the flare and did not continue the artillery attack.

The landing craft also went to transport the second group of landing personnel.

Gao Jiu led his men with rifles with bayonets on them, and advanced inland in the smoke that gradually dissipated.

Along the way, I saw a lot of fortifications of the French Foreign Legion!

There are also the ruined Makqin, which would have become the scythe of death that harvested their lives without the cover of the superior artillery fire of the Ming army.

In each fortification, there were three or two corpses.

Inside the largest fortification, there were five corpses.

Some of the bodies were charred and smoked.

Some of the corpses are still burning, and a mass of humanoid things can be seen burning.

Some of the bodies were relatively intact, except for bleeding from their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears.

These should have been shocked to death during the rapid artillery fire.

The Gurkha people don't seem to have any affection for people of a similar color to them!

Touching those who had not been breathing for a while, the bayonet was plunged directly into the chest.

Some people also like to stick it in people's heads!

Gao Jiu was not surprised, this was much better than when they were in the Middle East.

When these Gurkha first arrived in Damascus, they were fond of chopping off the heads of their enemies.

There are even people who fight for their heads!

Gao Jiu didn't understand at first, but later understood. They thought that the way to record military merits in the Ming army was still to stay on the head of the contributor.

It was only later, when the Gurkhas found out that the cutting off of people's heads had nothing to do with the calculation of military exploits, that they stopped cutting off people's heads.

Gao Jiu found that there were very few white people in the corpses.

Most are black, and some have distinctly Central Asian characteristics.

Even, Gao Jiu also found a Worm cultist wearing a white hat.

Anyway, there's everyone here.

There were several corpses that were still smoking with bulging chests, and Gao Jiu deeply suspected that these were women.

The march was extremely boring, and the mines on the ground were almost all detonated by artillery fire.

Anyway, Gao Jiu didn't step on a mine.

As for the French army, they were like frightened rats.

Even a few daring shots were quickly shot and killed by the Gurkhas.

Almost a kilometre near the beach, the land is charred black. Some of the craters are covered with dirt that can reach a person's foot or neck, and there is a handful of dirt in it, and there is scorching shrapnel in it.

Gao Jiu roughly estimated that the French army defending here had almost two companies, and at most there was only about one battalion.

They were poorly armed and used old bolt-action rifles.

There were a few cannons, and now the barrels were twisted and twisted.

The mortar position was still intact, but the people inside were all shocked to death.

Just a dozen meters away from the mortar position, Gao Jiu discovered a huge shell crater.

He had deep suspicions that the crater was a masterpiece of a 480mm howitzer.

It was really unlucky to be smashed by such a thing more than ten meters away.

Not to mention that the mortar position is nothing more than a dirt pit, even if it is a reinforced concrete bunker, there is no way to protect them.

Having advanced two kilometers, the enemy counterattack was also not seen.

Gao Jiu felt that he could no longer go, and he ordered these Gurkhas to dig bunkers on the spot, or use the French bunkers to organize defensive positions.

"Second master! News came from the front that the landing went well.

It's just that the number of enemies destroyed is not much.

Predicting from the front, they had almost a battalion of troops. ”

Chen Laohu held the battle report, and the expression on his face was very proud.

So far in this landing operation, only four landing craft have been lost, less than a hundred Gurkhas.

In Chen Laohu's view, this is simply too smooth.

Originally, they thought that they would open up a battle and attack, and the French would fight them to the death on the beachhead.

Whether it is Chen Laohu or Li Xiu, they are all ready for the annihilation of the entire army of those Gurkhas.

As a result, not only did they successfully take the beach, but they also established several outpost defensive positions two kilometers away.

"Tiger, don't be happy so early.

I always felt that something was wrong!

Although we are a navy, we should also know. A battalion was to defend a beach of up to fifteen kilometers long and two kilometers deep.

In any case, this little force is not enough!

The French have put such a small number of troops on the beach, what about the rest of their forces?

Where is it hidden?

Do you want to fight with us in the streets of Tvignano? ”

"Street fighting? That's a big trouble, I heard that the marshal was fighting with the French in Tsaritsyn.

The two armies of the enemy and ours are intertwined, and our superiority in artillery fire cannot be brought into full play.

On average, there are 12,000 casualties per day!

If we also get into street fighting, then ......! Chen Laohu glanced around.

When the staff officers saw his eyes, they immediately withdrew and walked away.

"Second master, we don't have enough troops to fight in the streets. There are only two divisions in total, and they have not been exhausted after a long time. ”

"This is not comparable to Tsaritsyn, which is a large city with a population of 600,000.

But Tavignano died, and it was only a small town of 350,000 people.

It's not that evil!

But I don't want to fight in the streets, because the casualties would be too great.

We don't have the same amount of capital as our eldest brother, and I feel sorry for one more person to die.

You say, could it be that our artillery fire was so strong that it scared the French.

After all, they are the Foreign Legion, and no one wants to put their lives on the line here. ”

Li Xiu thought for a while and asked.

"Second master, what do you mean ......!"

"Did you catch the captives?"

"This ...... Not really. ”

"These Gurkhas, they know how to kill.

Let the front catch a few live mouths and come back, and find someone to interrogate.

Also...... think of a way to get in touch with the head of the Foreign Legion.

Let them surrender, and the Ming will guarantee the safety of their lives. ”