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The Third Empire - Chapter 657

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:48:29 AM


Chapter 657: 657

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After World War I, although Britain won, its national strength was still declining. Although it was still maintaining colonial rule everywhere, their funds had become more and more scarce.

For example, in Gibraltar, although there are 356 mm shore guns, they have no turret. Those powerful fortress guns, almost like naval guns, are turrets with strong armor protection.

But this kind of shore gun is not. It is installed on a rotatable chassis and becomes a ring firing fortification. Everything is exposed outside. It looks quite simple.

Now, you can also see its lower part.

Several soldiers, with bare arms and exhausted all their strength, were shaking the handle on one side.

With their shaking, the winch was slowly turning.

In the past, all this was operated by electricity, but now, due to the loss of power supply, they have to operate manually, which is fatal!

You know, there are almost hundreds of kilograms of propellant bags. The warhead weighs more than half a ton. All of them are placed below.

After all, the strength of several people is limited. Now, it is even more difficult for them to pull up the warhead with their own strength.

If you want to save energy, you have to increase the distance. Now, every ten circles they shake is equivalent to one circle driven by electricity.

Several people sweated and shook for a long time, and the shells below were slowly pulled up.

This is just a warhead!

The heavy warhead was finally stuffed into the gun chamber, and then there was the firing charge!

This is different from the flying monkey. Just light the twist. The operation of this large-diameter shore gun is quite complex. In short, it is to select different warheads, armor piercing bombs, high explosive bombs, etc. according to the nature of the target. At the same time, different firing packages are selected according to the distance.

If the distance is far, there will be more propellants. If the distance is close, there will be less use. According to these, it is divided into full charge, semi charge, strong charge and so on.

Now, their shore guns, the first thing to kill is the other party's flagship, that is, the super battleship with eight giant guns at the head. The distance is too far, so they must use strong charge!

The group of people just now are tired. A new group of people continue to shake the winch and lift the launching medicine bag manually!

Time, in the past bit by bit.

Here, the French warships also stopped temporarily.

From here, we can see that almost all the targets in the flat area in the West have been destroyed.

Fires are burning everywhere. Air bases, ports, power plants and barracks are surrounded by fires. The retaliation of the French fleet is also quite crazy.

Just now, in a short time,

Normally, the anger was also vented, and the British people knew their strength. It was time to retreat. However, general Jean sur did not order his subordinates to retreat.

General Darlan's order has just been issued to destroy the British fortifications inside the rock mountain!

At the beginning, when we started, we said that we would withdraw after firing all the shells, but that was just a happy word. It was impossible to fire all the shells. After all, a gun has hundreds of bullets( There are also some materials that say more than 200?) The service life of a gun is only two or three hundred rounds. If all the spare bullets are fired, the ship gun will have passed half of its barrel life.

Just now, each gun fired about ten shells, and Gibraltar opposite had been destroyed. This is the power of large caliber naval gun!

However, this is far from destroying the fortifications inside the rock mountain. After all, those fortifications are not conspicuous. They can't be seen clearly more than ten nautical miles away. If they are close... He is also worried about each other's shore artillery!

"Release the reconnaissance plane." Let general sur finally give the order.

Let the reconnaissance plane investigate first. At the same time, it can also play the role of calibration shooting. The long-distance shooting of naval guns is inseparable from seaplanes.

With his order, the two carrier planes were ejected and took off. Shortly after they had just flown up, they had seen black smoke coming out of the rock mountain opposite.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The British counterattack in Gibraltar has finally begun!

After waiting for a long time, they are waiting for the firing of their two 356mm main guns. Now, with the firing of these two large-diameter shore guns, other shore guns are also firing!

Total, about 30! These shore guns formed a powerful shore gun group. For a moment, the whole rock mountain was shrouded in black smoke!

Countless shells are coming towards the French fleet here!

"Right rudder, double car, forward three!" Seeing the moment when the other side opened fire, the French fleet here was like being beaten with chicken blood. The battle that made their blood boil had just begun!

The other side dares to use shore guns!

Indeed, the accuracy of shore artillery is high, but our warships can move! It takes more than ten seconds for the other side's shells to be fired. During this time, our warships have already moved away!

At the same time, the other side's fire has been firmly captured by the reconnaissance plane. Calibrate it, and then your side can fight back!

With the British shore artillery firing, the French fleet reached the climax of the battle again.

Warships, start at full speed, find the right position and prepare to fight back!

"Boom!" Strasbourg also began to counterattack first. After all, it did not need to change its orientation. All eight naval guns were in front of it. At this time, it was sailing directly towards the other side. In this way, it had the smallest bullet area and was the most difficult to be hit.

The 330 mm high explosive bomb flew quickly towards the opposite shore gun group. It aimed at one of the largest shore guns!

"Cough, cough, cough!" At this time, everyone was coughing in the shore artillery position. At the same time, the commander's voice could be heard: "come on, turn on the exhaust fan!"

The shore gun was embedded in the rock mountain. At this time, it happened that the west wind blew again. After firing, the huge black smoke almost all got into the gun position of the shore gun and filled every corner.

The British artillery in the corner were forced in an instant. They were breathing the black smoke and coughing.

Turn on the exhaust fan! In the fortification, there is a perfect air extraction system, or you can't stay at all.

However, he heard a depressed voice: "no, there is no electricity!"

The exhaust fan is also started by electricity. Without electricity, nothing can be done!

While they cursed the power supply, the shells of French naval guns had come quickly!

"Boom!" When the shells were in close contact with the rock mountain, the whole fortification shook up, as if the end had come. The rock ash on the head kept falling down!

"Boom, boom!"

Eight naval guns fired in unison, and the nearest warhead was 200 meters away from this gun position!

On the reconnaissance plane, the pilot in the back seat was preparing to report to the warship and determine the firing data for the second time. At this time, he saw that the cliff collapsed above the target!

The bombardment of the naval gun was too fierce. Although it was hit in the wrong position and hit the other side, eight 330 mm high explosive bombs successfully caused a landslide!




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