Chapter 1753 shelling from the other side 2)
Gothob is the capital and largest city on Greenland. This city built by the sea has a large number of beaches. In winter, the beach is directly ice. In summer, as the ice melts, the beach is exposed.
On this beach, the island's guards have built various facilities to block landing, such as bunkers and artillery positions on the edge of the city, and even many turrets disguised as beach villas. Although there are no particularly large shore defense guns, the caliber of more than 200 mm is zero, and there are only 100 millimeters of shore defense guns, which is also a huge harm to the landing troops.
For various reasons, they did not lay mines. By the end of the war, it would be extremely difficult to eliminate mines. As long as a winter passes, the lower part will become frozen, and no one knows when it will be dug out.
Although there are no mines, they have made a lot of obstacles to delay landing speed: such as barbed wire, anti-tank horse-repellent welded steel bars, hollow triangular cone magic cubes, anti-tank trenches specifically for armored vehicles, "Dragon Teeth"-shaped obstacles, and blades on wooden stakes on the beach that can cut through the landing craft...
These will cause great difficulties for the landing troops and make their landing difficult. At the same time, due to concerns about the assistance of a large number of paratroopers, they also inserted wooden stakes vertically on the clearings slightly far from the beach on the coast. If the paratroopers come down, it will definitely be a death zone.
These measures were built in full. Now, the two infantry divisions of the 2nd Army are guarding here, and together with some of the local volunteers in Greenland, they are preparing to fight against the German invasion.
However, the first round of shelling made them feel the arrival of doomsday.
"Boom!" As the huge 330mm battleship's naval shells fell, the moment they came into contact with the ground, the fierce flames began to spread from the center to the surroundings, and the orange-yellow light represented absolute death.
The light was spreading rapidly around, and black smoke rose above, and a powerful shock wave rushed towards the surroundings.
The huge anti-tank repelling horses, the various obstacles, were immediately knocked away at this moment, and the ones located in the center of the explosion were immediately burned, and the ones slightly far away were blown away, just like leaves in a storm.
The huge shock wave was also shaking everyone's body. In the fortifications not far behind, the throats of several soldiers were smelly, and then, with a wow, he spit out blood.
The explosion stimulated the eardrums, and many people only heard the explosion sound. Then, all kinds of sounds could not be heard, and the world seemed to be quiet in an instant.
They were deafened.
The 330mm high-explosive bomb is already so powerful. When the smoke of gunpowder dissipates, a deep pit with a diameter of ten meters appeared at the bounce point, the dust was flying and the earth was trembling.
The battleship's naval gun attack on the ground is so cruel!
This is only a 330mm naval gun. If it were a Hindenburg-class 460 naval gun, the scene of shooting would be even more magnificent.
Everyone felt fear. At this moment, the earth was trembling and burning, just like a place of death. They were so close to death that it seemed that it was their turn in the next moment.
Not far from Gothob, Green Valley Military Port.
The port is docked with more than a dozen patrol ships of the Coast Guard in Greenland, with a maximum displacement of less than a thousand tons. At the port, Thomas, the captain of the Coast Guard in Greenland, was anxiously looking at his communications soldier.
"What's going on? Can't contact the Governor?" Thomas asked.
Everyone had to fight, bravely fighting to defend Greenland, but now, just as the battle was about to begin, they suddenly lost news from their superiors.
It was as if they had all disappeared.
Gothob's headquarters was taken away and all the senior officials were taken away. The news did not spread, only the troops responsible for the pursuit knew that it was a pity that the unit was destroyed by helicopters outside the city, and the rest had not returned yet. In this era without the Internet, the news spread very slowly.
"We cannot get any contact, we cannot find the governor, the general of the United States, the consul of the American people, we cannot find nothing."
Upon hearing the news, Thomas slammed his fist on the table: "These cartilage guys have been saying that they will live and die with Greenland all day long, but now, when the danger really comes, they all run away!"
Thomas was quite disappointed.
"What should we do?" asked his subordinate.
"Although we are the Coast Guard, we must also protect our islands. Now, I order all our Coast Guard patrol ships to set out and attack the enemy!"
Using some 1,000 tons of small boats to attack tens of thousands of tons of battleship troops was definitely a brainwash. Now, Thomas also knew that he would face an ending of annihilation, but he was not afraid.
The enemy is attacking himself. If he cannot protect his territory, why should he wear this military uniform?
Ready to start the boat!
It is very difficult to ignite a heavy oil boiler and diesel is required to help with combustion. Therefore, if it stops for a short period of time, the boiler will maintain the minimum combustion. When needed, it will be enough to increase the firepower.
At the same time, the water in the boiler is always under pressure. As long as the power of the boiler is increased, it can be discharged.
With Thomas' order, the heavy oil boiler came out of black smoke and began to accelerate the combustion. The violent combustion inside the boiler allowed the steam to resume pressure, the steam turbine started to start, and the warship was about to leave the port!
"It was discovered that the Greenland Coast Guard warship began to set off fire and was preparing to go out to sea." At this time, in the sky, a reconnaissance plane, the pilot immediately reported via radio.
Yesterday's naval and air battle seemed to completely destroy the Americans. Today, the entire fleet released dozens of carrier-based aircraft and searched for enemies everywhere, but found that the Americans dared not take off to fight.
In this way, air supremacy completely fell into the hands of the German fleet, and an aircraft was responsible for reconnaissance of the port here. It turned out that these weak patrol ships wanted to be dispatched?
Isn't this seeking death?
As the radio waves came back to the fleet, a team of HS129 carrier-based attack aircraft immediately rose from the deck and rushed up fiercely.
If these Greenland local patrol ships stayed in the port obediently and did not come out, they could be kept for the post-war period and continued patrolling nearby. If they also planned to come out and cause trouble, let them know the ending of the mantis arm as a chariot.
Chapter completed!