novelhk Chapter 752
Chapter 752
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: 0.362s Scan: 0.024sAfter the German fleet arrived at the sea off Gibraltar, it was not in a hurry to launch an attack, because the coastal defense batteries had a great advantage over the sea fleet, so it was quite disadvantageous for them to rashly engage in an artillery battle with the other side.
However, when the attention of the British defenders was attracted by the army artillery on the other side of the strait, and they used their batteries to fire at the army artillery, the situation was completely different!
Taking advantage of the opportunity that the enemy and the army artillery had a back-and-forth battle, Dönitz immediately ordered the two aircraft carriers Hindenburg and Friedrich the Great to dispatch ground attack aircraft to attack the British artillery batteries exposed in the artillery battle.
If these batteries can be knocked down, then the British troops in the fortress will not pose a direct threat to the German fleet. At that time, even if they cannot conquer here, they can still enter the Mediterranean and assist Rommel’s North African Corps to land in Africa!
However, in order to prevent the retreat from being cut off, it is better to take this place in one go. In this way, it will be easier to control the Mediterranean in the future!
“Tell the Marines to be careful, the enemy’s artillery caliber is too advantageous, they will be no match if a real fight breaks out!”
Seeing that after the British army’s calibration, the landing point of the shells gradually approached the position of the German army on the shore, Dönitz was worried for Steiner.
It is not pleasant to be hit by a fortress artillery. Although the German positions are scattered, with the power of the large-caliber fortress artillery, one shell may destroy the position of an artillery company! The loss of artillery and other things does not matter, these can be directly replenished, but if the casualties are too large, it will not be worth it!
After all, artillery and armored troops are both technical arms. Their lives are very valuable and cannot be squandered like this!
After receiving the order, Steiner did not choose to resist. He quickly ordered the troops to retreat to a safe range for rest.
The bombardment just now did not last long, and the German side suffered almost no losses. Although the British fortress artillery was very powerful, their shooting speed was very slow, and the initial calibration did not hit the target, but was off target. They moved more than 1,000 meters, which took them several minutes to calibrate. By the time they finished calibrating, the Germans had already moved their positions, so their artillery fire naturally missed!
On the other hand, the Germans did not have time to fire too many guns in order to transfer safely, but they still achieved at least two goals. Two British bunkers were blown away by them, which can be regarded as creating favorable conditions for the landing battle later!
However, the German artillerymen were a little puzzled. The British army should be well-trained, but why was their artillery accuracy so poor?
Shouldn’t the firing elements around the artillery be calibrated in advance, and should they fire directly according to the firing elements after seeing the target?
Why did the British act as if they had no data prepared, and fired in a panic, and then hit the target crookedly? Although they had a fast adjustment ability and hit the target accurately in minutes, this still could not cover up their previous dereliction of duty!
“The British fortress artillery was not prepared for our army, right? They were prepared for the enemies at sea from the beginning, so the data of their firing parameters were probably for the enemies at sea, not for the enemies on land, so when they fired at us, their performance was so bad, right?”
Someone guessed the truth, the British army underestimated the enemy!
They only thought about intercepting the enemies from the sea, and did not expect that the enemy would fire at them on the land across the strait, so they did not conduct firing parameters here in advance, which resulted in them not having an accurate parameter for their reference.
However, when the German naval fleet approached, the British coastal defense artillery began to show its power!
As the two most powerful battleships of the German army, the Bismarck and Tirpitz were far away in the sea west of the fortress, using their main guns to bombard targets on the shore from a long distance.
The power of the 406-meter naval gun is not comparable to that of the 150-mm army howitzer. Even the British army’s sturdy artillery can’t withstand a main gun attack of this caliber, so after the Germans opened fire on them, they immediately began to fight back.
For a while, explosions occurred one after another at sea, and the water columns stirred up by the explosions continued to rise into the sky. The two sides fought back and forth, which was extremely lively!
However, because the German warships were far away, even if the British artillery had fired in advance, the accuracy was not high due to the long distance. The two sides fired six or seven rounds of artillery shells at each other, but none of them hit the target.
The British soldiers in the fortress saw that their shells had never been able to destroy the enemy’s warships. Although the enemy’s shells were very off-target at the beginning, as they kept correcting, the landing point of the German shells was getting closer and closer to their artillery positions, which made the British feel a great threat!
Just when they thought that the artillery bombardment launched by the German army from the sea would pose a fatal threat to them, there was a sudden roar in the air!
Many British soldiers looked up blankly and looked at Look in the direction where the sound came from!
Although they have heard about the strength of the German Air Force in the Battle of Gaul and the Battle of the Sun Never Sets, these soldiers have not participated in these two battles, and have not personally experienced the threat of the German Air Force, so they lack an intuitive feeling of the strength of the German Air Force.
If it were a British army that had participated in the Battle of the Sun Never Sets, I am afraid that the moment they heard the roar from the sky, their hearts would have collapsed!
The number of aircraft dispatched by the German army in the first batch was not large, only 25 ground attack aircraft, and each aircraft carried a 500 kg heavy bomb under the belly!
This bomb is not an ordinary bomb, but a special ground-penetrating bomb with the ability to drill the ground!
Needless to say, this bomb is specially prepared for the enemy’s underground fortifications!
At this time, these bombs were used to deal with the solid artillery outside the British fortress!
Boom!
A huge explosion sounded, and under the watchful eyes of the British army, one of their bunkers was hit by a German bomb, and then immediately turned into a ball of sparks and disappeared!
“Enemy attack!”
“”Get cover!”
The sound of the explosion was like some kind of signal, awakening the previously shocked British soldiers!