Bombardment of San Francisco
Chapter 176:Bombardment of San Francisco
In the port of San Francisco, Major General Evans, commander of the Great White Fleet, is gathering to discuss the Navy's next actions as other squadron commanders of the Great White Fleet in the command.
The president had ordered the Great White Fleet to act and sail immediately.
The fleet has also shifted from resting to ready-to-de-off, with a large amount of kerosene being moved into a warship, and ammunition resupply work, as well as equipment overhauls in the port of departure, are in progress.
However, the fleet sailed not overnight, and as soon as tomorrow evening, a fleet of sufficient size could leave the harbor and enter the Pacific Ocean.
According to the plan, the first batch of departing fleets will travel to Hawaii for the first time, and before the enemy fleet, they will arrive in the waters near Hawaii to find possible aircraft.
The U.S. Naval Headquarters is also constantly analyzing the location of Fan Yize's fleet, the most powerful Indian Ocean fleet is blocking the British Indian Ocean, it is impossible to operate here in the Pacific Ocean.
The defense fleet was responsible for patrolling the East British Indies, and it was possible to attack the Philippines, but it would not appear in the Pacific.
The First Fleet was also active in the British Indian Ocean, and could be largely ruled out.
The Second Fleet operates near the Sea of Japan, and the Third Fleet is near Australia, and the two fleets are most likely to travel to Hawaii.
And Fan Yize's first declaration of war before the military operation, the United States also felt an unusual breath.
Let the U.S. Navy have an unknown premonition.
In the past, Fan Yize first fought, attacked the Japanese joint fleet, and launched a war against Britain, and also took the opportunity to attack the British Far East Fleet.
In the words of the Americans, shouldn't Fan Yize attack San Francisco before declaring war?
However, San Francisco is still calm, and it has been several hours since the declaration of war, and both the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet seem to be still in Australia and the Sea of Japan.
There was no suspicious fleet found near San Francisco, and it seemed that Fan had become a gentleman.
But the generals of the U.S. Navy are not really naive enough to continue to grind in San Francisco.
San Francisco's harbor is not safe, the bay is very close to the sea, once blocked by a powerful fleet of the bay outside, the entire fleet will become the urn.
“I think it is necessary to leave quickly, we cannot wait for the kerosene and ammunition to be replenished and then go away, and all the soldiers should be recalled immediately, and the man Fan Yize will hide his strength the most, just like the Indian Ocean fleet, and perhaps another powerful navy similar to the Indian Ocean fleet may be outside our port.”Rear Admiral Emery, commander of the Great White Fleet I Squadron, spoke.
“If there had been a surprise, wouldn’t it have started long ago?”Don't scare yourself."
On the side, someone said, "We can't be prepared enough, and if we go out to sea to meet the enemy, we will be quite passive."
Everyone said their own opinions, in short, no one is in the mood to go back to sleep, Fan Yize put too much pressure on them.
While a group of major generals in the Great White Fleet discussed, the Red Guard Pacific Fleet had crept outside the port of San Francisco.
Three years ago, in the San Francisco earthquake, several Red Guard Navy supply ships sent supplies to San Francisco to support the relief efforts of the Americans.
In the later period of peace, the Navy also visited San Francisco, and the Red Guard Navy was no stranger to the port.
Now, spies are observing the military port around the port and report to the Pacific Fleet every ten minutes.
The busy military port was preparing for the departure of the fleet, a large number of supplies filled the port, and Xu Xuebin, who commanded the ship, was not in a hurry.
The American fleet, unable to go to sea in a short period of time, the huge fleet slowly approached San Francisco, from fifty kilometers, gradually reduced to twenty kilometers.
Twenty kilometers, is Xu Xuebin determined the attack distance, at this distance, the ship's gun can directly over the mountains along the San Francisco military port, directly into the vicinity of the military port.
In contrast, all warships docked in U.S. ports, guns could not threaten the Pacific Fleet, which was 20 kilometers away.
The Pacific Fleet, which arrived at the port of San Francisco, was unhurriedly preparing for the attack, and determined that it would officially launch an attack on the port of San Francisco in 15 minutes.
The spies lurking around the military port also received an accurate attack time, and they will guide the fleet to shell.
Four fearless second-class battleships, four battlecruisers, one by one more than a thousand tons of turrets slowly turned up, and the angle of the barrel was raised more than a dozen degrees.
Unlike the four battleships, although the tonnage of the four battlecruisers is only about 40,000 tons, the caliber of the artillery is also a unified 406 mm, and it is a three-seat three-coup artillery layout, which is a little stronger than the battleship.
However, if it is a matter of combat effectiveness, it is much worse, because the protection and speed of the battleship are stronger than the battleship cruisers.
The battlecruisers who sacrificed their protection were difficult to win in the face of battleships of the same caliber, or even to fight at all.
The main guns of the eight main warships are all ready, choose armor-piercing shells, automatic loading system in the turret, send the shells into the cannon chamber, the ammunition packs are opened, the rolling ammunition is rolled on the loading device, and the propulsion device pushes the three packs of explosives into the cannon chamber at one time, and the cannon chamber is closed.
At the same time, in the gun control center, the gun indicator light was lit up with a signal that could be fired, and the bombardment button was also popped up.
Fifteen minutes passed, a giant cannon roared almost at the same time, and the fire of the cannon's mouth shone on the sea.
The first speed of the super-fast cannonball, out of the barrel of the first second, has flown out more than tranotherly, the speed of the shell, across a beautiful arc in the sky.
A large number of people in the San Francisco port, workers carrying cargo on board, someone heard a noise in the sky, a whistle-like shell that made a scalp tingle.
One by one, the workers put down the work at hand and couldn't help but look up, and the howling sounded as if in their ears, followed by an astounding explosion, which sounded everywhere in the military port.
At the moment of the explosion, the port of San Francisco was directly chaotic, and a large number of sailors were also headless flies, and they did not know whether to go to the warship or find a place to hide.
The American sailors on the warship, too late to think about it, hurriedly started the boiler and wanted to leave this dangerous place for the first time.
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