Santa Barbara is a Pacific coast city in California, USA. It is about 130 kilometers northwest of Los Angeles. In 1782, the Spanish built a fortress here and was once a Catholic mission center. The climate is warm, the subtropical plants are lush, and the style of white wall and red tiles in the pioneering era of the United States.
The streets make the city unique. However, after the Central Team set out from Hawaii and was about to land and strike the west coast of the United States, the residents of Santa Barbara quickly evacuated here. Although not everyone evacuated,
But the population living here has more than 20,000 people reduced to less than 5,000. Most of the remaining 5,000 people are poor and have no place to go. Some people believe that China and the United States are between China and the United States.
The war will not cause any harm to these civilians.
The U.S. Army deployed a regiment of troops in Santa Barbara, the 3rd Regiment of the 54th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, an infantry regiment with a force of only 1,800 people. Moreover, this regiment has just been formed less than three months ago.
Time, a lot of time, just learned to shoot. The entire regiment only has 8 75mm mountain cannons, and only 11 heavy machine guns. As for light machine guns, the US Army is not equipped. There is only China in the world.
The Army was equipped with light machine guns on a large scale.
The regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, although he was only twenty-five years old, was a veteran with six years of military experience. However, three months ago, he was only at least one captain company commander. But after the US Army expanded its troops wildly,
His company was directly expanded to a regiment, and he also became the leader of the lieutenant colonel. However, he could not tell how much combat effectiveness this regiment had.
The garrison of Santa Barbara is a relatively good job for the 3rd Regiment of the 54th Infantry Division. Because it is relatively remote here. Although there is a port, it is mostly for fishermen and cannot be parked with too large ships.
Therefore, no one in the whole group thought that the Chinese would land here. In their opinion, the landing location chosen by the Chinese team must be a large city with large ports such as San Diego, Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Santa Barbara's defense seemed a little lax. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas scolded him several times, but after it still did not improve, it didn't matter. Anyway, he also believed that Santa Barbara would not be the target of the Chinese.
In addition, Oxnard, fifty kilometers away from Santa Barbara, is the location of the 54th Infantry Division. The entire defense area of the 54th Infantry Division is a remote beach with many loopholes.
However, in Los Angeles to the south, it is the area where the US Army is focused on defense. Here, the US Army concentrated 100,000 troops, commanded by Lieutenant General Samuel Young. In Los Angeles, thousands of cannons were concentrated.
A large number of mines were also laid in the port area to prevent the Chinese team from landing. A large number of Chinese teams were also buried in the port facilities. Once they were lost, the port area could be destroyed and avoided being used by the Chinese teams.
, Los Angeles' defense is solid. If the Chinese team chooses to log in here, it may not be possible.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, the huge fleet escorted by the Chinese Navy Pacific Fleet arrived at the sea outside Santa Barbara. The sky was already bright at this moment. Although it was not bright, you could already see the situation on the sea. However,
The emergence of a large number of Chinese fleets did not seem to have been discovered by the US military. The officers and soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the 54th Infantry Division of the US Army are still sleeping soundly at this moment! Even the sentries on the beach are dozing with guns in their arms.
, they have long forgotten their mission.
"The battleship of the Qinghai, the battleship of the Hawaii, the heavy cruiser of the Chengdu, the heavy cruiser of the Chongqing, the heavy cruiser of the Kangding, the heavy cruiser of the Xining and the heavy cruiser of the Wuhan,
Go to a location five kilometers away from the coast and prepare for artillery fire. The Third Marine Brigade is ready to land!" Admiral Li Dingxin, the commander of the Navy Pacific Fleet, issued an order.
Two battleships and five heavy cruisers began to sail towards the coast of Santa Barbara. In addition, transport ships carrying the Third Marine Brigade were also followed. After the artillery fire was over, the Third Marine Brigade was
The landing will begin. The three divisions of the Sixth Army's rear Army, the 11th, the 12th and the 42nd Division, will go ashore to expand the position after the landing of the Third Marine Brigade successfully.
Private Barlow became the first American soldier to discover the ** team in this landing battle. Every morning, it was his turn. When he got up early in the morning
When he came to the beach with a gun in his arms, his sleepy eyes suddenly opened wide. On the sea, the huge steel giant ships, like hills, and the dense ships, made him
The sleepiness disappeared without a trace.
"Oh God! The Chinese warship! The Chinese actually chose to land here!" Barlow shouted in horror.
"Hi! Man, wake up and report to the regiment headquarters. The Chinese are calling!" Barlow kicked the sentry on the beach with both feet.
"What happened?" asked the sentry on the beach, rubbing his eyes. However, he was speechless in horror.
"Boom!" A loud noise like thunder came from the sea, and orange-red flames flashed from the muzzle of the huge warship on the sea. A sharp roar sounded, making people's eardrums seem to be about to burst. Then,
A violent explosion sounded in downtown Santa Barbara.
"Boom!" The shells exploded, and the fire was everywhere. The house was easily destroyed in the explosion.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Two battleships and five heavy cruisers of the Chinese Navy Pacific Fleet anchored on the sea began to launch fierce shelling on Santa Barbara. High-explosion bombs hit Santa Barbara one by one.
Barbara, in a few minutes, it became a sea of fire. The top-ranking soldier Barlow and the sentry on the beach were already scared.
The officers and soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the 54th Infantry Division of the US Army and the residents of Santa Barbara were also panicked. The soldiers ran out of the barracks, and many of them did not even wear clothes and did not know the weapons.
Everyone's eyes were filled with fear. The violent explosion, as if the earth was shaking, made these new recruits who had never experienced the baptism of war, filled with fear.
"Damn it, send a telegram to the division headquarters. Those Chinese actually chose this place as the landing point. Come on, all the soldiers, hurry up and enter the position, and the Chinese are about to land!" Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, the regiment commander,
The command loudly outside the command center said. However, the panicked soldiers had no idea of carrying out his orders.
"Boom!" At this time, a shell hit the command center. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas's command center was blown into ruins at once, and he himself was also driven up by a powerful shock wave. Fortunately, it was different.
It's far away and does not cause any damage.
"Damn it, come, all of you, let me enter the position!" After Lieutenant Colonel Thomas got up from the ground, he immediately ran to the position on the beach. The other soldiers followed him into the position.
However, soon the target of the Mid-Number ship on the sea became a position on the beach. The Navy began to clear the final obstacles for the Marine Corps landing.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The dense shells exploded around. The trenches that were not standard dug by the US soldiers were blown up in the shelling. Even the permanent firepower points poured with steel and cement were also
The bombardment was blown into pieces.
"Mom, I want to go home, I want to go home!" Some American soldiers who had been scared long ago cried in horror. Some people couldn't stand the huge pressure and got up from the trenches and wanted to go to the shore.
Run. But it was blown into pieces.
A large number of American soldiers were lying in the trenches, holding their heads, and enduring hard. They could only ask God for blessings and bless the shells not to fall on their heads.
The power of the naval gun is very powerful, especially the 305mm caliber naval guns on the two battleships. If one high-explosion bomb is launched, there is often no living creature within hundreds of square meters, and there is even ten diameters left on the ground.
The fortifications built by the US military could not defend against the navy's large caliber guns. During the shelling, the 3rd Regiment of the 54th Infantry Division of the US Army suffered heavy losses. The entire regiment suffered more than 1,800 people,
After the Chinese Navy's shelling ended, less than half of them were left, and the rest died in the shelling.
At this time, hundreds of small boats appeared on the sea. A battalion of Marines were rowing hard and attacking the beach. On the bow of the ship, a light machine gun was set up to land.
The army provides fire cover.
"Get up quickly and prepare for battle. The Chinese are going to land. Artillery, fire the guns and shoot me hard!" Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, covered in mud and sand, shouted loudly.
"Dadada!" Soon, heavy machine guns on the US military's positions began to fire, and a series of bullets hit the sea, splashing water. However, on the one-kilometer-long defense line, the US military only
There were only 11 heavy machine guns, and three were destroyed in the shelling. It was simply impossible to block the beach with this amount of firepower.
"Boom! Boom!" The mountain cannons on the US military's positions also began to shell the artillery. However, the artillery suffered heavy losses in the Chinese Navy's artillery bombardment. Most of the survivors were full of fear, and the shelling had no accuracy at all.
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At 6:55 a.m., the first landing craft rushed to the beach in Santa Barbara!
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