Rhode Island is destined to be a bloody place.

The cannon fire blew the water in the bay to boil, burned the flowers, plants and trees on the island, and even burned some fragile stones, but it could not burn the backbone of the 50,000 soldiers of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire who were standing here.

Under the command of Governor Shi Dakai, 50,000 soldiers of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire relied on the strong fortress to defend and repelled the fierce charges of the US military again and again.

US Army Commander Miles personally supervised the battle and mobilized fifty infantry divisions to siege Rhode Island. Each division was equipped with 30 75mm infantry artillery and 6 155mm heavy howitzers.

Although the US military did not equip the medium-sized artillery such as 125mm due to financial constraints, it seems that it is enough to concentrate 1,500 75mm guns and 300 155mm heavy howitzers to attack Rhode Island. In addition, the firepower of more than 20 old battleships and armored cruisers should be directly blown up Rhode Island.

However, what angered Miles was that the fortifications of the Rhode Island Fortress was powerful and secret. The information he had received before was that the largest fortress cannon on Rhode Island was only 305 mm. However, when the US battleship entered the Newport Bay, it was attacked by the 15-inch (381 mm) fortress cannon located in Newport Fortress, and the US ship Alabama battleship was sunk by one shot.

You know, it is a 25,000-ton battleship. Although it is a bit old, it is an old ship in 1882, but it also has more than 300 mm thick armor protection. It was sunk by a shell, which scared the US Navy fleet, which was about to launch an attack from the sea, and turned around and fled.

Since the main fleet of the American Navy was transferred to the Pacific Ocean and placed under the command of Dewey to attack Pearl Harbor, the US Navy fleet that remained on the east coast of the United States had the largest tonnage, strongest protection and maximum firepower.

Therefore, the sinking of the battleship Alabama undoubtedly scared the young American soldiers and made them feel cowardly.

General Miles counted the number of 15-inch fortress cannons and found that there were 12 in total on Rhode Island, and each of them had triple turrets. This clearly directly moved the 15-inch naval ship-based main turret directly to land.

This is true. As the Chinese Empire Navy started construction of Thunderclass battleships, the subsequent Furious Class battleships and Bingyang-class battleships were all equipped with 406mm (16-inch) main guns, and 381mm (15-inch) main guns were no longer needed. Several shipyards in the Chinese Empire misjudged the demand for naval guns from the imperial court and the navy and produced a large number of 381mm main gun barrels, but they were backlogged and could not be sold.

For this reason, several major shipyards decided to ask the Army for help. They heard that the Army built large-scale fortifications at major naval bases around the world to see if they could sell these 381mm gun barrels, even if they could only recycle the cost.

After careful research, the Chinese Empire's overseas territories Rhodes, Puerto Rico, Key West, Cyprus, Djibouti, Sri Lanka and other places will face threats from powerful maritime forces from the Allied Navy. The traditionally installed 280mm fortress guns and 305mm fortress guns are already difficult to fight against the attacks of super fearless battleships equipped with calibers of 343mm, 356mm, and 381mm or above. Therefore, the Army Equipment Committee decided to develop larger caliber fortress artillery to strengthen the fortress defense capabilities of these overseas territories and military bases.

However, the cycle of developing army-type fortress guns is too long. Instead, the navy's large-caliber naval guns are ready-made. After a slight modification, they can be installed on the fortress turret. The naval naval guns are equipped with very strong turret protection capabilities, which are more suitable for use as fortress artillery.

So, when the general managers of several major shipyards made a request to the Army Department, the Army Equipment Committee immediately agreed to purchase this batch of 381mm (15-inch) naval guns, which was simply cheap and cheap. Once it was deployed, it was the strongest fortress artillery, why not do it?

In this way, including the Rhode Island Fortress, a batch of 381mm caliber fortress cannons were secretly replaced.

When the American Navy swore to enter Newport Bay, the 25,000-ton battleship was instantly sunk by an armor-piercing blast bomb weighing a ton.

Faced with the powerful fortress artillery advantage of the Chinese Empire defenders, General Myers had to give up allowing the US ship to launch an attack during the day and chose to quietly attack at night, bypass Newport Bay, and enter the inner bay of Rhode Island.

As a result, the Chinese Empire Navy's fish radium craft troops, submarine troops and water radium craft troops used a combination of punches, which once again caused the US Navy's sneak attack to break out and suffered heavy losses.

Myers had no choice but to temporarily give up attacking Rhode Island from the sea, turn his troops to land, and plan to launch a ground offensive from Tiffon, who is closest to land in the northeast of Rhode Island.

The bay there is only a few kilometers wide, and the US military's 155mm heavy howitzer can achieve firepower coverage. Myers transported thousands of landing craft from the Atlantic Ocean to Tiffon by land to help the US Army launch a beach landing battle.

The US military's 155mm heavy artillery group did show its power at the beginning, but that was when the US Army did not start landing on the beach. When they started landing on the beach, the hidden Rhode Island Artillery Division of the Chinese Empire began to fight back fiercely.

They are also 155mm heavy howitzers, but the Chinese Empire's 155mm heavy howitzers are much more powerful. The shells all over the sky caused corpses to spread across the sea just a few kilometers away. In the first day alone, more than 2,000 people were killed in the US military.

Myers was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, so he decided to go for another night attack in the evening.

When the US landing craft passed half of the distance, the Chinese Empire defenders on Rhode Island quickly fired a flare, and the whole sky suddenly seemed like daytime. Then the overwhelming shells fell down, causing the US military to cry and cry. In just a few minutes, the US military killed and injured more than 3,000 people, which was even worse than the daytime.

The Chinese Empire defenders had excellent tactics and advanced equipment. In the next ten days, the US military suffered a great loss. As the attacking side, the US military suffered more than 10,000 casualties, but not many people died in the Chinese Empire defenders.

Myers had no choice but to mobilize heavy artillery and constantly bombard Rhode Island. Thousands of tons of shells poured on Rhode Island every day, turning Rhode Island into hell in an instant.

However, Shi Dakai was prepared for it. When the US military was shelling, the Chinese Empire defenders quickly entered the underground castle and tunnel, which were fortifications and were not worried about the US military's shelling.

Shi Dakai did not fight back. He knew that Rhode Island had been surrounded by the US military and it was impossible for any replenishment materials to be sent in.

At that time, Li Weiguo gave Shi Dakai a task to hold on for several years, so every shell and every bullet was used to kill the enemy's vitality. Therefore, Shi Dakai ignored the US artillery bombardment at all, because even if the artillery counterattack and several heavy American artillery were destroyed, the US military would soon be produced again. Only when the US ground forces attacked, Shi Dakai ordered artillery attacks, because only by killing US soldiers, the Americans could only create another US soldier in 18 years. Only in this way can they ensure that the Rhode Island Fortress can persist.

Miles wanted to fight Shi Dakai quickly, but obviously Shi Dakai was not fooled. Every soldier was used on the blade, one flip-flop, one sentence dragged on infinitely, and finally it was victory.

The US military destroys a group of water radium networks around Rhode Island during the day, and will be restored by the Chinese Empire defenders at night, and the cloth radium is in different ways.

Even the Chinese Empire defenders used the most advanced magnetic storm radium, causing some careless US radium sweepers to be hit and blown to pieces.

For a time, Rhode Island became a tenacious nail house, which the US military could not pull out, as if it was stuck in its throat.

There are 50,000 Chinese Empire's Divine Army on Rhode Island. Roosevelt wants to completely eliminate them. After all, it is too close to New York and too close to Washington. If they are not eliminated, once they rushed out thousands of people and went to New York and Washington for a trip, the destructiveness would be unimaginable.

So Roosevelt issued a death order to Myers, and he must completely eradicate the cancer that grew up in the United States before the American army set out.

The fierce battle was going on every day, and the US military launched a charge desperately, and the result was that corpses were everywhere and blood flowed into a river.

Miles was so angry that he had a big string of fire bubbles growing on the corner of his mouth.

"We can use black smoke to block the enemy's sight! Our army takes the opportunity to launch an attack!"

Suddenly a voice appeared in Miles' ears, making his eyes lit up.

"This suggestion is very good. What's your name? Soldier!"

"Sir, my name is MacArthur!"

Myers glanced at it and found that the young man named MacArthur had a very military style, and he liked it.

If Li Weiguo heard this name, he would be shocked.

This MacArthur was a famous American general during World War II in history. However, history changed. Old MacArthur unexpectedly shivered eighteen years ago, which led to MacArthur being born early.

Myers was very happy. After learning that MacArthur was the son of old MacArthur, he immediately promoted him to the Lieutenant Chief of Staff and allowed him to give advice around him.

So, the US military began to make black smoke and used electric fans produced by the Chinese Empire to blow the black smoke towards Rhode Island, blocking the Chinese Empire's defenders' sight.

Immediately afterwards, the US military began to land on the beach, and with the help of black smoke, they quickly crossed the bay and rushed to Rhode Island.

Opposite to the Portsmouth Fortress in Rhode Island, Shi Dakai saw all this in his telescope and scolded the US military for being cunning.

Chen Yucheng said: "Governor General, what should we do now? We can't see the enemy at all!"

Fang Boqian snorted coldly: "Isn't it just black smoke? I don't know what to do? It's so stupid! The Governor ordered the artillery division to open fire, and the firepower covered the entire bay beach area. No matter whether he had black smoke or not, if a round of shells went down, many US troops were killed."

Fang Boqian has been punished by the court since the Rhode Island incident in China and the United States a few years ago. He has been staying in Rhode Island, and has been demoted from the captain to the water radium camp. His mind and body have been tortured by Shi Dakai, but he is still a stubborn person.

Chen Yucheng sneered: "I said Fang Boqian, who do you think is stupid? You know how many enemies there are in the Black Smoke Zone. If there are 10,000 enemies, we will make a profit if one round of shells. If there are only 1,000 enemies, it is not enough for a round of shells. Do you know that we are now isolated and helpless? Every time we shoot one round, we will have one less. We have to hold on for a few years. If you shoot all the shells, you will be like a shell at that time!"

Fang Boqian suddenly became angry and was about to fight with Chen Yucheng.

At the critical moment, Shi Dakai stopped the two of them.

"Let's fight for a round! Let's see the situation! After the fight, transfer the position immediately!"

Shi Dakai had no way to judge, so he had to ask the fortress artillery and artillery division to fight a round first to see the situation.

Boom bang bang bang...

The sound of cannons sounded, and the black smoke area was violently bombarded, and a sea of ​​fire suddenly became a sea of ​​fire.

This saturated shelling left the US military with nowhere to hide, and the landing troops were wiped out.

Myers in the rear suddenly twitched. Fortunately, he did not send more US troops, but only sent less than a thousand people to conduct tentative attacks.

Sure enough, after a try, the Chinese Imperial Army finally couldn't stand it anymore. Forced by black smoke, the artillery troops opened fire in full swing.

As the fire opened, the location of the artillery positions of the Imperial Army was exposed.

So, several artillery divisions that had been on standby in the US military gathered artillery attacks, and countless shells were overwhelming towards the artillery positions of the Imperial Army.

In the blink of an eye, the artillery positions of the Imperial Army that had fired before were in flames.

Fortunately, Shi Dakai was experienced, and the artillery of the Imperial Army, with the help of the tow truck, moved the position in time and hid under the anti-artillery shelter without suffering any losses.

However, this also exposed an artillery position to the US military.

The two sides were fighting wits and courage, and Shi Dakai also saw that the US military suffered very little casualties, which was obviously a test.

Ten tests, I'm afraid nine times are fake, but as long as one comes true, the frontier defensive positions will be lost.

But if artillery attacks are gathered every time, the preset positions of the artillery of the Imperial Army will be exposed. It will be impossible to accidentally strike the enemy in the future, and precious artillery shells will even be wasted.

If Rhode Island was not surrounded and the supply line was not cut off, then Shi Dakai would definitely not be stingy with artillery shells. No matter how many times the US military attacked, it would directly pour out artillery fire, blowing the US military to pieces.

But now Shi Dakai has to make careful calculations. After all, he has to stick to it for several years and every shell has to be saved.

"The enemy has released black smoke again!"

This time, Shi Dakai did not fire the artillery again, but instead ordered the soldiers in frontier positions to lay a large number of ground radium.

Listening to the density of the ground radium explosion, we can judge the scale of the US military's forces. If it is a large-scale US military dispatch, Shi Dakai will immediately order artillery fire and carpet bombing. If it is a small-scale US military, then the heavy machine gun castle in frontier positions will be enough.

However, this is a treatment of symptoms but not the root cause. As the number of attacks by the US military increased, the location of the heavy machine gun castle of the Chinese Empire defenders was constantly exposed. Although the US infantry could not destroy the heavy machine gun castle, after they returned, the US military's heavy artillery soon came and directly blew up the exposed heavy machine gun castle.

After a while, three days later, the heavy machine gun castle of the Imperial Army deployed on the frontier was successively destroyed by US artillery fire, and the frontier defense power became weaker and weaker.

On this day, the US military released black smoke again, but this time they were unlucky. Shi Dakai ordered people to make a batch of large fans and blew the black smoke instantly.

Suddenly, the US infantry was completely exposed to the guns of the Imperial Chinese Army.

That heavy machine gun fired, more than 3,000 US troops were beaten into sieves. The tragedy of flesh and blood flying and blood flowing into a river made Miles so angry that he vomited blood for the first time.

In the following days, the two armies of China and the United States fought wits and courage, and both used big fans to blow smoke. The US military did not dare to use large forces to attack. They were all small troops, and they would not feel sorry for their losses even if they lost them.

On this day, luck returned to the US military, and the northwest wind blew. No matter how many fans the Chinese Empire military used, it could not blow the black smoke. The entire black smoke immediately swallowed Rhode Island.

"Order the frontier command post, if the enemy is large, retreat to the second line of defense immediately!"

Shi Dakai was not unprepared. He also knew that using electric fans to blow black smoke is a pediatric department and will fail sooner or later, so he came up with more solutions these days.

Seeing God helping him, Myers immediately became confident and launched a large-scale offensive, preparing to take down the beach and climb to Rhode Island in one go.

Under the cover of black smoke, the US military crossed the bay again and boarded Rhode Island.

The defenders of the Chinese Empire fought bravely, but their vision was blocked, and the black US military and smoke were not clear.

The US military launched a charge, and instantly it was like rain.
To be continued...