Chapter 19 Landing on the Yangtze River
Suddenly, Gunpowder saw a cloud of thick smoke coming out of the enemy battleship's muzzle, followed by a scream that seemed to pierce his eardrums, and then with a loud noise, a 10-meter-diameter ball was blown out on the beach more than 150 meters ahead.
The big pit.
The battleship's famous 510mm main gun failed to exert its advantages in previous battles. This time in the landing battle, its huge power was finally fully displayed. Gunpowder knew that the opponent was correcting the ballistics, and he just
I wanted to open my mouth to remind the soldiers on the ballistic path to pay attention to hiding, but I opened my mouth but couldn't say anything. According to the power of this main gun, the air-raid shelter they dug would not play any role at all, and the reminder was in vain. Only in the fastest
The best way to kill that battleship within time is to kill it.
Thinking of this, he picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Railgun, kill that battleship for me."
Soon, the other party's voice came out: "Report to the leader, the distance is too far, the hit probability is too low, at least we have to wait until they get closer to 5 kilometers."
Although the effective range of the rail gun is 60 kilometers, the premise is that you have to hit it accurately. The effective range of the battleship cannon is 20 kilometers, but the actual aiming distance of the rail gun is only 15 kilometers, and these 5 kilometers are the range of being hit.
, the losses that must be borne.
Gunpowder hit the table hard and said to the intercom again: "Prepare the shore-based missiles, target that battleship and hit me."
Several missiles flew out with a "swish", and the opponent's close-in defense artillery fired collectively. The missiles were broken into pieces in the air. Seeing this, Gunpowder slammed the intercom onto the table. Sequoia on the side hurriedly comforted: "Don't
Don't worry, if the distance is too close, you will soon enter the blind spot of the missile range. It is normal to be shot down. When they get closer, use the rail gun to destroy their battleships. Everything else is a piece of cake. There is no pressure.
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Gunpowder nodded with an ugly expression. At this time, the Japanese battleship's main gun fired again, and this time it exploded only 20 meters away from the defense line. The fortifications of the defense line were covered with shrapnel, and pieces of concrete fragments were scattered everywhere.
Fall straight down.
Gunpowder's face shook violently as the shell fell. He knew that the Japanese ballistic trajectory should have been corrected, and the next shot should fall on the defense line. Although he had known that there would be great losses, but
When he really faced it, his heart still hurt like a needle pricking him. The people gathered here were all his elite men. In order to prevent the new recruits from fleeing due to lack of combat experience, he sent almost all the veterans and all the armored troops
They were all thrown into the defense line.
Immediately afterwards, there were four loud noises, and the ground shook violently like an earthquake. Gunpowder, who was sitting on the chair, was knocked to the ground. When he stood up and took a look, he was so angry that he was about to curse, but he saw the defense line.
Four large holes were opened at the front end, which were the result of damage from the opponent's battleship's main guns.
The main guns of other warships also fired one after another, and the front line was suddenly filled with smoke. The shells fell on the position and splashed dust and smoke all over the sky. The heavy artillery of the coastal defense front also began to fire back, but because the Japanese fleet had not yet entered
Their effective shooting range was a bit poor, so the hit rate was a little bit worse. But there were still a few veteran gunners who accurately hit the opponent's warship with the shells, bursting out into clouds of fire.
The artillery battle lasted for nearly 20 minutes. Since their warships were not close at 20 kilometers, the battle was almost suppressed by them, and the entire position was desolate. Finally, one of the opponent's destroyers was hit by 6 heavy bombs one after another.
After the artillery attack, it began to sink slowly. Yamamoto Ichimoku could no longer bear such losses and began to order the Marine Corps to land on the beach.
Under the cover of fierce fire from the battleship's main gun, more than 30 rubber speedboats were launched, and more than 600 Marines rode the speedboats and braved the sky full of gunfire to quickly charge towards the coastline.
When Gunpowder saw this situation, he laughed ferociously: "Humph, are we finally here? After waiting for so long and killing so many of my people, we finally got to wait for you little devils."
The rubber assault speedboat was extremely fast, and they arrived at 20 kilometers in less than 10 minutes. The Marines were indeed elite, and they quickly set up heavy machine guns and began to seize the beach. The Japanese Marines spent more than 50 people on the beach.
After paying the price of death, he finally broke into a position 50 meters away from the defense line.
Seeing that this line of defense could be taken down with a single charge, suddenly, there was a loud rumble from both sides of the artillery array. Tanks came out from the bunkers one after another, and the artillery fire was accompanied by the heavy machine guns on the top of the tanks. The Japanese country
The Marines fell down row after row like wheat being harvested.
Standing on the battleship tower bridge, Yamamoto saw this scene through his telescope and cursed angrily: "Haga, Colonel Sato, destroy those Chinese tanks for me immediately."
The captain named Sato immediately turned around and got into a main gun cabin, picked up the gunner inside, and sat in the fire control position. With Sato's operation, the battleship's 510mm main gun began to move.
, but after waiting for a long time, no main gun fire was seen.
Yamamoto yelled loudly: "Baga, Sato, you bastard, why don't you open fire yet? All of our most elite marines in the Royal Empire of the Sun are going to die, didn't you see?"
Sato got out of the gun cabin and said aggrievedly: "General, we are too far away. It's okay to set up a position, but such a small tank cannot aim."
"Then how close do you want to be?" Yamamoto asked with a ferocious look.
Sato calculated in his mind and said in a deep voice: "If we advance another 3 nautical miles (1 nautical mile = 1.8 kilometers), I can hit them."
Yamamoto nodded and loudly ordered: "The fleet advances 3 nautical miles."
Following his order, the remaining eight ships of the fleet began to move forward quickly, but they had not yet reached the designated position. Suddenly, with a loud noise, Yamamoto felt the ship's body shake violently at a glance, and he was unsteady.
He fell from a high tower. This generation of famous Japanese generals ended his life in such a disgraceful way.
When Gunpowder saw the railgun accurately hitting the battleship, he jumped up from his chair excitedly. Through the telescope, he could see that a big hole had been opened on the side of the battleship, and seawater was pouring into it crazily.
The hull slowly began to tilt, and just when Gunpowder was about to order an all-out counterattack, the battleship raised a white flag.
"Huh? What tricks are these Japanese devils playing?" Gunpowder asked doubtfully. The redwood tree next to him thought for a moment and said with a smile: "If my guess is correct, the rail gun just fired should be just right.
After Ichimoku Shang was killed, they were left without a leader and they chose to surrender."
Gunpowder laughed ferociously and shouted to a messenger next to him: "Show the flag and notify their warships to dock immediately and accept surrender, otherwise they will be killed without mercy."
Chapter completed!