Chapter 656： Shore artillery force

"Boom, boom!" One shell after another fell, and the fourth shell successfully hit the runway. In an instant, a pit with a diameter of more than 30 meters appeared on the runway.

A pilot who just stepped onto the fighter plane and wanted to force takeoff finally stopped. With the explosion just now, the entire runway was damaged!

It’s not just the big pit. With these few explosions, the entire runway is filled with all kinds of fragments that were blown up. At this time, it’s easy to hit these fragments when taking off at this time. If you accidentally hit it, that’s A takeoff accident!

The airport has been abandoned.

At the same time, in the harbor, several ships were also ready to move after receiving orders.

Like the original French navy, they hurriedly got up, the first thing was to light the boiler!

They can't be dispatched immediately. They cannot be dispatched until the water in the boiler is boiled and the steam pressure is reached.

This is the result of the sneak attack!

While they ignited anxiously, Dongfang slowly revealed his white belly.

Its daybreak!

At this time, these destroyers have not yet reached the conditions for activation at all, and when they saw the French warships on the sea, they were desperate.

That is definitely the main battleship of France! The big guys with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons are here.

Even if they were able to move, they would definitely not go out to fight, but quickly slip away and save a destroyer, which is their greatest contribution!

Now, time is too late.

In the past battles, French warships fired at fixed targets on land, but now, as the daybreaks, they have noticed these British warships.

Think about it a day ago when you were held in the port and hit by the British fleet, and now you can finally return it!

"Boom!" The battleship Strasbourg fired all eight guns and hit the port. The shells fell into the water and splashed a water column more than ten meters high. In the first round of the salvo, there was one shell, which was successfully smashed. Arrived on a destroyer of the opponent!

This time it was loaded with armor-piercing projectiles, 330mm armor-piercing projectiles, and hit the destroyer. What was the reaction?

The shell passed through the other's weak hull, as if tearing apart a thin layer of paper, easily tearing apart the destroyer's hull.

This kind of armor-piercing projectile can tear apart 300mm thick armor, but now, on the opposite side is a destroyer that doesn't even have a thickness of 30mm. This kind of warship was not originally used for bombardment.

"Boom!" The armor-piercing projectile penetrated into the opponent's hull, and then, in the sound of a huge explosion, the destroyer burst into two pieces directly from the middle. It barely struggled before it fell into the water.

This is simply a scene like a human tragedy!

The entire Gibraltar was being bombarded by French naval guns, shaking and groaning.

"Where's the shore artillery? Our shore artillery, fire immediately!" Now, as daybreak, finally, the British garrison's counterattack will officially begin!

On your own side, you can't only be passively beaten. You must know that the most important task of the British troops stationed in Gibraltar is to block the Strait of Gibraltar when necessary.

Therefore, they still have a lot of shore artillery!

Generally speaking, shore artillery is a symbol of passive defense. No matter how powerful the artillery is, no matter how powerful the artillery is, the turret cannot be moved. It can only passively wait for others to fight. It has the upper hand in the confrontation, and the enemy cannot pursue it after retreating.

However, this understanding is absolutely one-sided. Although shore artillery is tactically defensive, it can be completely offensive strategically. A great significance of its existence is to liberate the fleet.

The fleet is inseparable from the port. If the port is attacked, the fleet will lose support and collapse without fighting. Therefore, any activities of this fleet cannot leave the port.

With the protection of the port, the fleet can perform various tasks away from the port.

At the same time, another use of shore artillery is to block the strait. Not only Gibraltar, but also the Port Said Fortress in the United Kingdom, the Bosphorus and Tatarniel Fortresses in Turkey, the Hanko Fortress in the Soviet Union, the Sharm el-Sheikh Fortress in Egypt and so on. This kind of effect.

For example, in Gibraltar today, Rock Mountain is a huge fortress. With Rock Mountain as its base, the British deployed some shore artillery here. The largest caliber is two 356 mm guns.

In terms of caliber, this type of shore gun is larger than the French fleet’s naval guns and has a longer range. At the same time, shore guns have some outstanding advantages over naval guns.

Naval guns are mounted on warships and will shake. Every time you shoot, you need to adjust the shooting elements.

The shore artillery is no longer needed.

Shore artillery is a naval gun mounted on an unsinkable continent, and there is no restriction on weight and volume. Moreover, it can also rely on the terrain advantages to form shore artillery groups.

Since it is originally fixed, the coordinates of the channel within the control range can be calculated in advance, and the target can be bound directly after seeing the target, and the fire can be fired, and there is no limit on ammunition inventory.

Accuracy advantages, observation advantages, standing high and far away, etc., make shore artillery a very powerful weapon. It can be said that as long as the generation difference is not too great, shore artillery groups generally teach the enemy's fleet to be human.

However, before the sun rose, the shore artillery group did not fire, and at the same time, General Eddie did not order them to fire.

Because their shore artillery has shortcomings, it is reloading.

After all, it is embedded in the mountains. It is not easy to dig a shore artillery bunker. If an automatic bomb hoist is used, there is no doubt that it needs more space.

Therefore, their shore artillery is manually loaded. In this way, it takes at least 20 minutes to load one shell.

In other words, they only have the chance to fire one shot, and they must hit with one shot! Because in the future, these French people will definitely escape!

Brigadier General Eddie insisted on this view so he did not let the shore artillery fire, aiming in the dark is not easy, and now, it's dawn, it is finally possible to fire!

His order was quickly passed to the shore artillery unit. At this time, the shore artillery unit was anxiously awaiting the restoration of power.

Why hasn't the emergency generator started yet?

If there is no power supply, do they have to refill it manually? What a terrible question that would be!

You must know that the shells of the naval gun are divided into pieces. Even so, a warhead weighs half a ton, and it is fatal to stuff it into the barrel by manpower.

Wait, wait!

In fact, they were gathered when the French shelling began, but after that, they have been waiting, waiting, and waiting until now, they have not waited until the power supply is restored!

"Can't wait any longer, the governor ordered us to fire and reload manually!" Finally, the commander in the gun station shouted.