Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 708 Fire preparation
Bai Mingxiu saw in the newspaper that the Ming army was yelling about launching a landing operation with great fanfare, and even the code name of the operation was announced in the newspaper in a grand manner, so he felt that there were really a group of guys in the staff headquarters who were doing more tricks.

The code name of this operation was decided by Bai Mingxiu himself. The code name of the Normandy landing in the other plane is called "Operation Overlord", and Bai Mingxiu corresponds to "Operation King", which can be regarded as appropriate for the occasion.

"I even told the other party clearly about the day of the landing. This is not an action that is owed, it really means that the contempt for Xiqing has reached an incomprehensible level." Bai Xiaofan put down the newspaper, and he agreed with this feel magical.

He is also one of those people who thinks that this landing operation cannot fail because Ming has so many cards in his hand that it is unbelievable.

In the UK alone, Da Ming has deployed more than 12 military aircraft of various types, and the elite of the Atlantic Fleet of the Navy has also concentrated in the English Channel. Da Ming has prepared more than 23 full-time medium and large landing ships, and the troops preparing to land include The 1th Army of the Army, the 2rd Marine Corps, the [-]st British Army, the [-]nd Army, and the second wave included the two French armies commanded by Marshal Villars.

At this moment, Daming has fully demonstrated its national strength advantages.

In order to provide fire support for the landing operation, the Navy can be said to have provided unparalleled support. The real protagonist of this landing operation is the military branch of the Ming Dynasty.

As the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, Galdan had just experienced a beautiful victory, and immediately surrounded the English Channel with a large number of giant steel ships.A shallow strait has now become the place with the highest density of battleships in the world.

The local tyrant Daming almost neatly laid out all his wealth and told the whole world——I don't want to hide anything anymore, you should take a good look at how big my fists are.

There are 2 Shanghai-class battleships, and the 5-ton giant Shanghai and Suez are the most dazzling stars of the entire fleet. Following these two big sisters of battleships, there are 3 Jiangnan-class battleships and 8 Morocco-class battleships. Battleships, 18 Java-class battleships, a total of [-] battleships.It occupies more than two-thirds of the total number of battleships in the Ming Navy at this stage.

In addition to battleships, there were 3 battle cruisers, 10 heavy cruisers, and 8 light cruisers. These battleships equipped with large-caliber artillery formed the surface fire support force of the Ming Navy's English Channel landing fleet.Surrounding them are more than 20 frigates, carrying out related escort and guard tasks. After all, maybe the Xiqing Navy still has submarines alive.

Galdan was also in a slightly agitated mood. Looking at this magnificent naval fleet as if he was participating in a ship review, he couldn't help saying: "It's hard to imagine what a shock it will be when we have so many warships firing at coastal targets at the same time. An exciting picture."

The firepower preparations made by the Navy are far more than that!

The five aircraft carriers of the Ming Navy are also patrolling the English Channel. They carry more than 300 Qiang-1 Skyraider attack aircraft, which can carry out high-intensity strike missions and eliminate important shore targets.

And the Ming Navy, which inherited Bai Mingxiu's "Fire Power Obsession Syndrome", did not stop even so. There were still twelve large converted civilian ships in the strait, all of which were large container ships of tens of thousands of tons. An unexpected modification.

Densely packed rocket launchers are arranged on these container ships. Fortunately, they fired rocket launchers, and they did not have too amazing recoil. Otherwise, the recoil of the shelling alone would be enough to severely damage these civilian standard ships.

Each ship is equipped with 18 rocket launchers with a caliber of 273 mm, one of which is mounted in 12 units, and a rocket launcher loading system is also installed on the ship.

Such a warship has almost no actual combat flexibility. It is simply a mindless, crude and simple fire suppression weapon. In essence, it is not in line with the Ming Dynasty's weapon philosophy that advocates efficiency and practicality, but it makes people obsessed with it for no reason.

"Two thousand large-caliber rockets were launched in a single salvo. This kind of coverage of firepower is simply brutal." Galdan couldn't help but sigh, wondering who came up with such a terrible thing.

Although these are just unguided rockets, they have a large caliber and a large number, so a single salvo can be regarded as a lot of money.

What Daming wanted to fight was never a Normandy-style beach landing, but to rely on its utterly unreasonable and abundant firepower to smash all the resisting forces on the entire beach into scorched earth, and then let the ship group carry out the attack under absolute safety. login.

In fact, the landing initiated by Daming was done with some cunning intentions.

The real landing D-day is not the day it is published in the newspaper, but the next day.

The Qing army, who was in charge of guarding the beach, was worried for a day, and found that the Ming army had not made any moves. After scolding a group of liars in the Ming army, they relaxed their defenses a little. As a result, the Ming army officially started firepower preparations the next day.

The first wave of attack was the Ming Air Force, escorted by old-fashioned Mustang fighters, and a large number of H-4 strategic bombers surrounded them, attacking the coastal defense facilities of the Qing army.

In this bombing, the Ming strategic bomber used some bombs with a guidance system for the first time. Although it is not precise enough to guide, the error is about 50-200 meters, because it is also a powerful high-explosive heavy bomb. Pound bombs, so the destruction of ground facilities is also very powerful.

After the first wave of attacks by the bombers was completed, the Ming Dynasty attack aircraft took action. They identified some targets, mainly Tibetan troop facilities on the coast, coastal defense artillery, ammunition depots and the like, and began to carry out key strikes.

In order to deal with it, the Qing army also worked hard to send an air force to intercept, and all the anti-aircraft guns on the ground also fired, but the effect was very small.The already large number of Mustang fighters shot down the Bifang fighters of the Qing army from the air like a fly, and the anti-aircraft guns on the ground were quickly bombarded.

The artillery formation of the Ming Navy was also in place and began to conduct precise artillery fire on the coordinates transmitted by the reconnaissance aircraft.A large number of large-caliber artillery shells of different calibers were unleashed on these positions in tons and tons. In just more than ten minutes, the Qing army's anti-aircraft artillery positions had been completely disintegrated.

When the rocket launcher boats that were finally transformed like child's play launched hellish bombardments on the beach ground, both the core defensive infantry division and the garrison division of the Qing army finally collapsed completely.

Many former Qing army veterans who survived recalled that the scene was a hellish scene they had never seen before. Countless artillery shells fell like meteorites, turning everything into ashes.

(End of this chapter)