Arc of Gunfire

Chapter 593 "Is there any justice in this?" (Update 39/81)

On January 17, General Steiermark personally went to the seaside to urge the troops to board the ship.

He set up a small but well-equipped headquarters on the beach.

The core of the headquarters is a radio car, a telegraph car and a matching generator car. In addition, in order to deal with possible attacks by the Ants, there are four long-tubed Type 4 tanks next to the headquarters.

Everything was normal throughout the morning. The White Sea Fleet sent out five 10,000-ton large cargo ships, escorted by five destroyers. In addition, a heavy cruiser led two destroyers to be on alert in the nearby waters, ready to deal with the Ant Navy at any time.

It can also be heard from the radio communication that General Steiermark asked the radio operator to connect the receiving end to the loudspeaker on the car, so all the details of the conversation on the radio came out of the loudspeaker.

The people who spoke on the radio throughout the morning were calm and did not look like people who were about to be surrounded.

After all, the sea control is in hand. Although the speed of retreat is a little slower now, 10,000 to 20,000 people can still be evacuated every day.

Today, the navy has also increased its efforts and sent out five 10,000-ton giant ships at once, starting with 50,000 at a time.

The only problem is that there are indeed a few small boats for transportation. Tens of thousands of Prosen troops are blocked on the beach, and the number of people transported by the small boats has not decreased after a day.

I don’t know if these five ships can be filled in one day.

General Steiermark was worried about this, and suddenly a loudspeaker connected to the radio exclaimed: "Enemy planes are coming up, diving rapidly!"

The general immediately turned his head and heard the person in the loudspeaker shouting: "Enemy planes are diving! We..."

The words were swallowed by the noise, and it was impossible to hear what was said. The operator immediately adjusted the knob, and soon the noise disappeared, and a voice exclaimed: "Lützow was shot! Lützow——"

The explosion broke the loudspeaker, and everyone present shrank their necks, and their ears were hurt by the shock.

General Steiermark had a bad look on his face, picked up the microphone and shouted: "What happened? What happened?"

The adjutant put his hand on his shoulder and reminded him: "Don't use plain language! Use code words!"

General Steiermark waved his hand and knocked the adjutant's hand away: "Don't bother me! I am General Steiermark, answer me, what happened?"

There was silence on the other side for a while, and the voice that just shouted "Lützow" said: "The Lützow was attacked by enemy dive bombers, and a boiler explosion just happened. It is...sinking."

General Steiermark's body froze. This news was like a bolt from the blue, and it shattered his good mood that had lasted for the whole morning.

The adjutant was still reminding: "General, saying such things on the radio is a devastating blow to our morale! General!"

General Steiermark realized that the adjutant was right, and was about to say something when the loudspeaker shouted again: "The enemy's torpedo planes have given up the attack! The Lützow fleet called 'Traveler', the enemy's torpedo planes are heading towards you!"

Traveler was the radio call sign of a transport fleet consisting of five 10,000-ton cargo ships.

Steiermark threw down the microphone, rushed out of his small temporary headquarters, stood on the edge of the high ground, and raised his telescope.

Soon, he saw planes flying close to the sea surface. These planes did not use the common paint of the Ante Air Force, but were all painted dark blue. The mark on the wings was not the Ante logo, but a white five-pointed star with a basket ring and a red dot in the middle (the earliest aircraft emblem of the United States Navy had a red dot in the middle of the white star, and the red dot was later removed to distinguish it from Fuso).

These planes flew almost close to the sea surface, like flying fish jumping between the waves.

Although they were enemies, Steiermark couldn't help but sigh: Was the Fuso Empire defeated by such elite pilots?

No! This is not the time to admire the enemy!

The enemy planes disbanded their formation and rushed towards the five 10,000-ton ships anchored on the sea in a two-plane formation.

The first group of enemy planes immediately launched an attack. They circled all the way to the left wing of the 10,000-ton ship with the hull number 131 before circling right to enter the attack route.

The only anti-aircraft gun on the 10,000-ton ship was firing in vain, and shells kept falling on the sea behind the enemy planes.

Steiermark didn't understand the navy, but he understood mathematics. He knew that this firepower density would definitely not be able to shoot down enemy planes, and it would be impossible to prevent enemy planes from dropping torpedoes.

Through the telescope, he clearly saw two enemy planes throwing something into the sea.

From his angle, he couldn't see the track of the torpedoes, but could only see the two torpedo planes that had completed the attack turning again and flying towards the beach.

Flying towards the beach? ? ?

By the time Steiermark realized what the two enemy planes were going to do, they had already opened fire, using forward-firing machine guns to sweep at the Plosson soldiers on the beach.

The people on the beach were still watching the show, and no one expected that the god of death would suddenly come to them. When the machine gun barrage swept across the beach, it knocked down many people at once.

After completing the attack, the two aircraft of unknown model flew away (actually TBF Avenger torpedo planes).

Steiermark pushed away the adjutant who had thrown himself down, climbed up, patted the dirt on his body, and took the military cap from the adjutant: "Damn, I didn't do my job well, but I had a lot of other thoughts--"

He thought that the enemy plane's attack on the 10,000-ton ship was ineffective, but in fact it was just that the aerial torpedo was slow.

As soon as the voice fell, two water columns rose from the port side of the 10,000-ton ship with hull number 131.

Steiermark shut his mouth and watched in despair as the 131 ship caught fire. The people on the ship jumped into the sea in a hurry.

Then the 132-ton ship was also hit.

The two torpedo planes that launched the attack passed over the beach, fired a burst of shots, and left.

Then the third and fourth groups of torpedo planes followed.

They even found Steiermark's headquarters and rushed to the headquarters. The machine guns hit the tanks and armored command vehicles with crackling sounds.

After the torpedo planes were gone, Steiermark climbed out from under the tank. He didn't care to pat the sand on his body, but just looked at the sea blankly.

All five 10,000-ton ships were on fire, and the ones that sank quickly were tilted, and the side of the ship was almost touching the water.

The people who had just been transported aboard by the boat were now struggling in the water, trying to swim to the shore. All they could see were the splashes of people splashing in the water, and no waves could be seen.

General Steiermark finally came to his senses and shouted, "Save people! At least half of our soldiers can't swim! Save people!"

Soon, the boat that was busy transporting soldiers began to rescue people. At this time, a dark blue-painted plane suddenly swooped down from the sky!

They actually started to strafe the boat that was rescuing people!

And these planes were obviously different from the torpedo attack planes just now. Their forward firepower was extremely fierce (the attack here was launched by the F6F Hellcat fighter, with a firepower of 6 12.7mm machine guns). No matter what kind of boat was strafed, most of them would catch fire and burn, and the people who had just been rescued had to jump down again.

In addition to strafing the boats, these fighters also opened fire when they passed the beach, knocking the Proson people who had nowhere to hide on the beach to the ground.

Steiermark was so angry that he stamped his feet and screamed at the sky, and then he was discovered by two enemy planes. They circled back and strafed Steiermark's temporary headquarters.

When he saw them coming back, Steiermark wanted to show his integrity and face death, but he was grabbed by his adjutant and thrown under the tank.

After several waves of continuous strafing, the generator car of the headquarters exploded.

After waiting under the tank for an unknown period of time, there was finally no roar of enemy aircraft engines and machine gun strafing. Steiermark climbed out from under the tank again, looked at the three burning half-track vehicles, and then looked at the messy beach.

At this time, the White Sea was rising, and the red waves pushed the bodies to the shore, piling up layer after layer.

Steiermark cursed: "This violates international law! They will pay the price for this inhumane behavior!"

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"Your heroic behavior will receive the highest reward from Ant!" Wang Zhong patted Worcester on the shoulder and said happily, "You will be the first, and possibly the last, United States soldiers to receive the Gold Star Medal!"

Emilia faithfully completed the task of simultaneous interpretation.

Worcester smiled modestly: "It's just a heavy cruiser. In the Pacific, this level of achievement is only worth 50 gallons of ice cream."

Wang Zhong: "Then I'll give you 100 gallons! 100 gallons per person! The torpedo pilots who attacked the ship also have a share!"

After saying that, he saw the fighter pilots of VF6 and hurriedly said: "You have one too! But you didn't achieve any great results, so each person can only eat one cone!"

The fighter pilots looked at each other, and the captain said on behalf of everyone: "In fact, we don't really want to eat ice cream in minus 30 degrees weather. Just give us some hot soup and stew, and the chicken made by your chef is really good!"

In order to entertain the pilots of the United States, Wang Zhong personally gave the chef of Seris a recipe and invented the "General Tso's Chicken" in advance. It was indeed very popular with the pilots of the United States. Every time they were served, they would eat as many chickens as they were served.

Wang Zhong: "Okay, okay! You have done a great service to the people of Ant today, so you can eat whatever you want! But be careful not to have diarrhea tomorrow and not be able to get on the plane! We are counting on you to destroy the Plosen Navy and completely eliminate the enemy's idea of ​​escaping from the sea!"

The pilots all laughed after hearing the translation.

However, Worcester was a little worried and asked Wang Zhong: "We came to the front-line airport voluntarily, but your headquarters is also so close to the front line. Isn't it a bit bad?"

Wang Zhong: "Don't worry, the enemy has been forced back, and there are no powerful enemies nearby. Soon I will go to see the waves of the White Sea myself."

After saying that, he looked to the west: "Do you know that the starting point of my legend is Roniezh, also on the White Sea. When I arrived at the White Sea, I was rounded back to the starting point - rounded."

When he said this, a hand suddenly rested on his shoulder. He turned his head and found that Lyudmila was smiling.