"It has been determined that the general of the vanguard army is still unconscious?" Shouichi Terauchi asked.

"The four well-known doctors of the empire have made judgments in three investigations, and according to the extent of his injuries, he will have to recuperate for at least two months even if he wakes up." Teng Gang replied. He made repeated mistakes in the intelligence of the Vanguard Army, and now his rank has been demoted to Zhongzuo.

"What's going on with that cow leader?" Terauchi asked again.

"He refuses to throw himself on us, but he has the intention of being self-reliant and can live peacefully with us." Teng Gang bowed his head and said.

"I'd rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail! This has always been the case with the people of China! Terauchi Shou nodded and smiled.

"I heard that the navy is going to attack Shouguang's sheep's horn ditch? There seems to be a salt pan of the Vanguard there, and a dock? He then asked.

"Yes!"

At this time, the navy's fleet, under the leadership of the Izumo, the aircraft carrier Ryuchi, the Ashigara Heavy Cruiser, the Myoko Heavy Cruiser, the Tama Light Cruiser, the Tenryu Light Cruiser and a few other large and small ships slaughtered the Shouguang area together.

This time, the base camp issued an order to attack Zhengzhou first, and this time there was not much to do with the navy. Thinking of the sinking of the Canglong, the Chinese fleet of the Navy, which was holding back its breath, gathered the ships of the Fourth and Fifth Fleets and began to settle accounts with the vanguard army.

Knowing that the Pioneer Army's air force is powerful, this time they brought the Longxiang aircraft carrier, and Hainan Airlines also used the airport near Texas to take off the HNA plane, trying to teach the Vanguard Army a lesson and save some face.

Such a team was discovered by radar stations far away.

"It's finally here!" Meng Xiang fiddled with the live broadcast of the main base, and sat back and watched the approach of the devil ship.

Because the sea water is very shallow in many places in Laizhou Bay, these heavy cruisers cannot pass through. Therefore, according to the channel that had been surveyed before, it stopped far from the coast, almost ten kilometers from the coast. But this distance does not have much effect on those naval guns. They don't need precision, they just need to bombard that general area.

As soon as he formed a formation, he heard the sound of stirring in the air in the sky.

"Watch out for cannonballs!" Someone shouted. Hasegawa's face changed, which indicated that the fleet had not been spotted for a long time.

"Boom!" The shell landed more than 200 meters near the Izumo, sending up a high column of water. The distance between this water column and the shore indicates that the vanguard army had large-caliber shore artillery.

"At least 200 mm." Hasegawa Kiyoshi judged. This time, he rode the Izumo and launched a temporary bombardment of the vanguard army, but he did not enter the base camp with a nod. At this time, the main focus of the base camp was concentrated on the side of Soviet Russia. However, the Pacific Fleet against Soviet Russia did not seem to need the Chinese fleet to come out, and the Imperial battleships had already patrolled the Korean area.

"Even if the vanguard army has shore artillery, it will not be able to stop the bombardment of the fleet." Hasegawa Kiyoshi confidently tilted his head and looked up at the sky.

The two reconnaissance planes of the vanguard army hovering in the distance in the sky, and the three fighters flying up from the Longxiang immediately flew over to expel them. But during this time, the relevant correction parameters have been transmitted back to the shore artillery.

Two more shells came at him, and the shells landed behind the moving Izumo.

"Attack!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi ordered. The devil had detailed charts, as well as maps of the Sheep's Horn Valley, and the reconnaissance planes, which were also driven by the fighters of the Vanguard Army, also transmitted back the relevant parameters. It's still easier to face a fixed target on land.

The Izumo's four 203 twin guns first fired sequentially at the Giejiaogou pier.

Myoko's five-seater twin 203 naval guns also began to fire at the pier. The Ashigara, which had also been renovated, followed suit and began to bombard the Vanguard Saltworks area.

Whether it is the 7 main guns of the Tama Light Cruiser or the 4 main guns of the Tenryu, they are all 140 mm naval guns. At this distance, the accuracy can no longer be guaranteed, but the fire support is still possible. Together, along with the Ashigara, the bombardment of the salt works began.

"This time the devil is menacing, but it doesn't seem like it's attacking with all its might, it looks like he's here to find a scene!" Meng Xiang said with a smile, if the devil came to attack, it would definitely not only be the navy that came over. The devil's naval guns won't just use the sheep's horn ditch to vent their anger.

The direction of the devil's attack was detected in advance, the personnel there had been evacuated, and the machines of the saline-alkali plant that were being debugged had also been temporarily moved. As for the salt works, there is a large area there, and there is not much of value, although let the devils blow it up. When the time comes, it will be repaired at any time without delaying production.

The devils also seemed to know that it was not cost-effective to bombard the salt works, but they still symbolically bombarded the salt works for two rounds and then shifted their targets to the small port of Giethoorngou.

"This scene is not small!" Meng Xiang looked at the gourd that was blown up in a mess on the screen, and couldn't help but sigh. Fortunately, the people were evacuated in advance, otherwise it would be difficult to survive under such artillery fire. A 203-mm naval gun shell came down, and even if it was not affected by shrapnel, it was shocked to death by this huge shock wave.

"But since you're here, why don't you leave something behind! Tell the shore artillery over there, give me a hard beating, don't hurt them, these guys who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard don't know how to shrink their heads. Although Meng Xiang couldn't come forward, Niu Yi and Fan Chong faithfully conveyed their original words.

The thick concrete fortifications blocked the bombardment of the devil's shells, and the three shore guns were still bombarding unhurriedly. Compared with the counterattack of the 3 203 shore guns, the artillery fire of the devils was more intense.

There were still only reconnaissance planes and a few fighter planes from both sides in the sky, but it seemed that both sides were waiting for the other's planes to appear. Battleships such as the Myoko have already been refitted, and their air defense has been greatly strengthened. In particular, the Myoko's 52 25-mm anti-aircraft guns, combined with the Ashigara, were able to block the sky above the fleet.

"The goal has been set!" After hearing the information from his subordinates, Kong Ci ordered with a curl of his mouth: "Attack!" ”

In order to achieve a better bombardment effect, the Myoko did not stop, but it stopped. One of its armor-piercing shells blasted through the thick concrete fortifications of a shore gun, which was temporarily muted. But then there were more and bigger screams in the sky.

"Get out of the way!" That kind of voice is familiar to everyone in the Navy. The roar of a locomotive speeding through it is definitely something that only ships with more than 300 mm of guns have.

But the movement of the battleship could not be compared to the speed of the shells.

More than 20 large-caliber shells fired in unison towards the Izumo.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi was pushed to the ground by the adjutant at once, and several guards next to him were guarding it, and they already knew that this time the Izumo might not be spared.

Kong Ci waited for so long just to kill the Izumo first. Although Myoko's heavy patrol firepower is even more powerful than the Izumo. However, the resurrection of the Izumo when it was in Songhu made the Chinese people lose face, and this time they abandoned other special surprise attacks on the Izumo, just to avenge the revenge of a ship.

"Boom, boom, boom" continuous explosions rang out around the Izumo, and a huge column of water rose above the Izumo's chimney. Black smoke rose from the three shells that landed on the Izumo. One of the 305mm shells almost blew the Izumo in two, but the surging sea water from the large hole meant that the Izumo was at the end of its rope.

"Turn!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi got up from under the guards with a bloody face and shouted loudly. His command room was mostly wiped out by a 203-millimeter shell, and the adjutant and several of the guards lay silent on the ground, surrounded by fire and smoke, and the figures of sailors hurrying to put out the fire, the garbled sound drowned out his orders.

However, he should be glad that it was only a 203-mm shell, and if a 380-mm shell landed not far away, he would never have a chance to get up. But the 380-mm shell smashed next to the Hira gunboat, tearing it in half, and sank into the sea without staying for three minutes.

"Get out of here!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi's shouts were drowned out by another round of screaming in the sky. Two more shells landed on the stern of the Izumo, which was reversing backwards. A 280-mm shell detonated the boiler inside. As soon as the boiler broke, a large amount of seawater could not be discharged from the cracks that had been torn open, and the two large holes in Izumo's body made it even more tilted.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi knocked his head to the ground again, fainting happily, and the soldiers who searched for him carried him onto the rescue boat. The Izumo's condition at this time could no longer hold on, and it could not escape the fate of sinking, but fortunately, there were other ships next to it to rescue it, so that it would not be completely destroyed.

Lieutenant General Koichi Shiozawa loudly ordered the Myoko to return fire, but after one round of return fire, the shore artillery under the unified command of Kong Ci arrived, and the third round of undiminished attacks arrived.

The target of this attack was directly aimed at the Ashigara, and the first choice was the aircraft carrier Longxiang, but the Longxiang hid far away. It was too late to adjust the muzzle, so I chose the nearest foothandle.

When the shore artillery was first arranged, the surrounding sea area had already been divided into pieces and set coordinates. Through the feedback of the reconnaissance aircraft and the message from the radar station, the position of the ship was locked, and the direct bombardment could be commanded in a unified manner. But when the fleet is constantly wandering, the target is uncertain. It was only when they bombarded the Sheephorngou wharf, when the Pioneer Army planes did not make a sortie, and there were only two or three shore guns, that the devil's fleet stabilized, which just gave the Vanguard Army's shore guns a chance to hit these relatively fixed targets.

Columns of water rose into the sky, but the scattered mist could not cover the smoke rising from the Izumo, and the Ashigara was also hit by a 280-millimeter bullet, and the same column of smoke rose. In the firelight, the sailors who were busy fighting the fire looked worriedly in the direction of the shore. It won't be long before the fourth round of attacks is coming.

The roar of aircraft engines sounded in the sky, and the planes on the aircraft carrier Longxiang had already taken off one after another when the first round of bombardment appeared.

The 96 land attack, escorted by fighters, flew in the direction of the shore artillery shells. Halfway through, they saw a fourth round of cannonballs whizzing past them, heading for the Ashigara.

At this time, the Ashigara was already under the command of Deputy Toyoda, and retreated. The incoming shells only caught up with the tip of it. But the 305-millimeter shell that fell beside it tore a large hole directly in its right side, and seawater poured into it.

"There are four of them!" In the sky, four 96 land attack planes and four 96 ship explosions were escorted by eight 96 ship battles, and they saw one end of the necklace of a shore gun, and a particularly thick cannon pierced straight into the ocean.

"That's a 380mm one. It's too powerful! Pilot Kora Shouzo exclaimed. That one shore gun was enough to hold the fleet faltering. In his position, although the 203 naval guns could also hit it, in the face of the possible thick protection below, the 203 mm shells were afraid and could not do anything.

"This 250-kilogram bomb doesn't seem to work, right?" Gu Liang Shouzo looked at the Type 96 shipboard critter produced by Aichi under him, and he was also a little worried, and he didn't know if the 250-kilogram bomb could work against the thick concrete protective fortifications, which seemed to be very thick from a visual inspection.

His teammates had already swooped down, but he was greeted by the fire of anti-aircraft artillery. The intertwined firepower of the British 133-mm Mark 1RP10 anti-aircraft guns and the Bofors MKII quadruple 40mm directly blocked the space for these aircraft to stretch their wings.

In order to test the ability of various artillery pieces, 21 large-caliber naval guns of various types have been accumulated and arranged here as shore artillery defense. From 203 mm to 380 mm caliber, there are quite a few in various countries, although there is more logistical pressure, but it has become a test ground for naval artillery, and it can also strengthen the coastal defense here.

At the same time, there were also tests of anti-aircraft guns on land and ships, and after comparison, Meng Xiang finally found that although the Germans' 88-mm anti-aircraft guns were good at fighting tanks, they were not the best as air defense.

The American 127 naval guns and the British 133 anti-aircraft guns were greatly increased due to the use of proximity fuses. Although the price is a lot more expensive, in order to better test, Meng Xiang still produced four each, all of which were placed in the open Shouguang area, tested and compared together, and also increased the air defense of the shore artillery by the way.

Unfortunately, Gu Liang Shousan and the others rushed in headlong and were immediately locked in by fifty large and small anti-aircraft guns. Under the unified command of Kong Ci, the German 88-millimeter, the French-100-millimeter, the American 127-millimeter, and the British 112-133-millimeter, and 144-millimeter, under the unified command of Kong Ci, formed several layers of firepower in the sky, directly enveloping the dozen or so planes.