69novels Chapter 893
Chapter 893
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“Has the battle started yet?”
Halsey’s fleet was not far from the Bermuda Islands at this time, but he did not immediately lead his troops to rescue the defenders on the island.
For the Eagle Sauce, the Bermuda Islands are of great significance. If not, they would not have rushed Halsey to bring the Pacific Fleet to support!
However, for Halsey, no matter how important the Bermuda Islands are, they are not as important as the fleet behind him! If you save the people but lose the land, both the people and the land will be saved!
If you save the land but lose the people, both the people and the land will be lost!
Halsey naturally understands this simple truth better than anyone else!
If his Pacific Fleet can be preserved intact, then they have hope of turning defeat into victory.
Even if the Germans really took the Bermuda Islands this time, they can defeat the Germans through a decisive battle at sea and take it back!
However, if their navy takes the lead If they lose the war, the situation will be completely reversed!
Without the navy, no matter how many troops are placed on the Bermuda Islands, they can’t resist the continuous attack of the German army. They can only watch the German army take over the Bermuda Islands little by little!
Therefore, when facing the emergency order from the White House, Halsey did not rush up all at once, but chose to approach slowly, approaching the destination while gathering intelligence from the enemy.
If the German army reveals a flaw, Halsey doesn’t mind giving the German army a severe lesson and reversing the offensive and defensive momentum of both sides through the victory of the naval battle.
However, if the German army has no flaws to find and the German army is extremely powerful, he will not act rashly. Even if there is an order from the White House, he can choose not to execute it!
After all, the general is not subject to the orders of the king when he is away!
“Yes, General, the enemy started bombing the Bermuda Islands after arriving last night. The first round of bombing was carried out last night, and the second round of bombing began this morning. This is already the third round of bombing!”
The Bermuda Islands have not been lost yet, so news from the island can still be sent out continuously through the radio.
However, according to the distress telegram sent by the defenders, Halsey learned that the situation in Bermuda was quite bad. The enemy’s offensive was very fierce, especially the second round of shelling and the third round of shelling that was now underway!
In these two rounds of shelling, the German army not only dispatched aircraft carriers for air bombing, but also dispatched battleships in the fleet, using the main guns and secondary guns of the battleships to bombard the targets on the island!
The caliber of the main guns of the German main battleships is quite terrible. The 406mm caliber cannon of the Bismarck-class battleship can be said to be indestructible. As far as Halsey knows about the fortifications built by the US military on the islands, he has almost no idea. Any fortifications can withstand the German bombing!
If the number of German warships is limited, such a threat may be great, but the problem is that this German fleet is not small in size, and there was almost no loss in the previous sea. Except for intercepting the fleeing Japanese warships at the last moment, the German surface fleet hardly fired a shot!
In this case, the German ammunition reserves are quite sufficient, which can support them to repeatedly bomb the fortifications on the island.
The area of the Bermuda Islands is not large. The total area of this archipelago is only 71 square kilometers, which is only eight or nine kilometers long and wide.
Such a small area is obviously not enough for a German fleet, especially under the double attack of the German sea and air!
“Didn’t the landing force get ruled out?”
Halsey was more concerned about this issue. If the German army only bombed, then even if the defenders on the Bermuda Islands suffered heavy losses, they could still gain control of the islands.
However, once the German army deployed the Marine Corps to conduct landing operations, the situation would be very different!
It is definitely impossible to occupy the island relying solely on naval warships.
After all, naval warships cannot drive onto land, and the sailors on naval warships are not suitable for fighting on land, except for the Soviet Navy.
After all, the Soviet Navy was established for a relatively short time, and after the civil war, the Soviet Navy’s warships were almost wiped out, so most of their naval soldiers were drawn from the army.
Therefore, it is not surprising that they have land combat capabilities!
However, the navies of other countries have not undergone the militarized training of the army. Letting them fight on land is simply embarrassing them.
Therefore, in order to enhance their land combat capabilities, the navies of various countries often train special marines and let these troops follow the fleet. When they are needed to conduct landing operations, the fleet will send marines to land and attack the enemy’s fortifications and occupy the enemy.
The Marine Corps is a must if you want to capture the island.
Of course, if there are no Marine Corps, it is not impossible to bring some army troops, but the combat effectiveness of the army troops will be greatly reduced after drifting on the sea for a period of time, and there are actually many problems with cross-arms cooperation.
The navy cannot command the army, and it is also troublesome for the army to provide fire support.
Therefore, unless it is a large-scale combat operation, the navy still likes to play by itself!
Although the
Japanese army did not report whether the German army brought the Marine Corps in the previous Bermuda Battle, based on Halsey’s experience, the German landing force must have brought it!
One of their purposes this time is to destroy the Allied Navy and seize control of the sea, and the other is to take the Bermuda Islands and nail a nail on the Eagle Sauce.
Although Halsey did not want to take his entire fleet for the Bermuda Islands, the strategic significance of the Bermuda Islands is still too great for them. If there is a chance, they should try to save it as much as possible, otherwise the situation will be too passive!
“No, the Germans seem to be just bombing and have not sent any Marines to land!”
After the soldiers finished their report, they felt very strange: Why didn’t the Germans send troops to land?
“Haha, this is not that simple. Nimitz was afraid that he would be attacked by us when he sent troops to land, so he didn’t dare to do it easily!”
Halsey already knew who his opponent was on the way here, so he had been very alert and didn’t dare to be careless at all!
“The landing force is very vulnerable. They need absolute control of the sea and naval warships to ensure the safety of the sea environment around them. If a fleet or an air fleet suddenly rushes over when they are landing, they will suffer huge losses!
A landing ship will transport at least dozens of soldiers, and at most thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers. If they are sunk, these soldiers will lose more than half. This kind of loss is unacceptable to the German army, so they dare not send landing troops to land!”
Although he said so on the surface, Halsey felt very nervous in his heart!
“Nimitz should have guessed that we were coming!”