Chapter 658 Shore Artillery Troops

"Boom, boom!" The shells fell one by one, and the fourth shell successfully hit the runway. In an instant, a deep pit with a diameter of more than thirty meters appeared on the runway.

A pilot who just stepped on the fighter plane and wanted to take off forcibly finally stopped. With the explosion just now, the entire runway was damaged!

Not only the big pit, but with these explosions, the entire runway is full of various pieces that were blown up. Taking off at this time, it is easy to hit these pieces. As long as you accidentally hit it, that is A takeoff accident!

The airport has been abolished.

At the same time, in the port, several ships were also ready to start after receiving the order.

Like the original French navy, they got up in a hurry, and the first thing they did was to set the boiler on fire!

They can't be dispatched right away, they can't be dispatched until the water in the boiler is boiled and the steam pressure is reached.

This is the result of the sneak attack!

At the same time as they anxiously set fire to the fire, Dongfang slowly revealed the fish belly white.

Its daybreak!

At this time, these destroyers had not yet reached the conditions for starting, and when they saw the French warships on the sea, they were desperate.

That is definitely the main battleship of France! Big guys with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons have come.

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

And now, time is running out.

French warships had been firing on fixed targets on land in past battles, and now, as the sun dawned, they had noticed the British warships.

Think about how one day ago, you were trapped in the port and attacked by the British fleet, and now, you can finally return it!

"Boom!" The battleship Strasbourg fired eight cannonballs 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 salvos, there was a shell that successfully smashed into the water. On one of the opponent's destroyers!

This time, the armor-piercing projectile, the 330mm armor-piercing projectile, hit the destroyer. What was the reaction?

The shells passed through the weak hull of the opponent, as if torn a layer of tissue paper, and easily tore the destroyer's hull.

This kind of armor-piercing projectile can tear through 300mm thick armor, but now, the opposite is just a destroyer that is not even 30mm thick.

"Boom!" The armor-piercing projectile drilled into the opponent's hull, and then, with the loud explosion, the destroyer exploded into two sections directly from the middle. It barely struggled before falling into the water.

This is simply a scene like a human tragedy!

The whole of Gibraltar was being bombarded by French naval guns, trembling and moaning.

"What about the shore artillery? Our shore artillery, fire immediately!" Now, with the dawn, finally, the British garrison's counterattack will officially begin!

On our side, it is not only 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.

So, 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 good the artillery defense is, it cannot move. It can only passively wait for others to attack. It has the upper hand in the confrontation, and the enemy cannot chase after retreating.

However, such an understanding is absolutely one-sided. Although shore artillery is tactically defensive, it can be completely offensive in strategy. One of the great significance of its existence is to liberate the fleet.

The fleet is inseparable from the port. If the port is raided, the fleet will lose support and collapse without a fight. Therefore, any activity of this fleet cannot be far from the port.

The port is protected by forts, and 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 here, but also the Port Said Fortress in the UK, the Bosphorus and Tatarnir Fortresses in Turkey, the Hanko Fortress in the Soviet Union, the Sharm El Sheikh Fortress in Egypt, etc. this effect.

For example, in Gibraltar now, Rock Mountain is a huge fortress. Based on Rock Mountain, the British deployed some shore guns here. The largest caliber is two 356mm guns.

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

The naval gun is mounted on the warship and will shake. Every time you shoot, you need to adjust the shooting Zhuyuan.

The shore artillery is no longer needed.

Shore guns are naval guns installed on unsinkable continents, with no weight and volume restrictions. And it can also rely on the terrain advantages to form shore artillery groups.

Since it is fixed in the first place, the coordinates of the channel within the control range can be measured and calculated in advance, and the target can be directly bound with Zhu Yuan, and then the fire can be fired, and there is no restriction on ammunition inventory.

Accuracy advantages, observation advantages, standing far from high altitude, etc., make the shore artillery a very powerful weapon. It can be said that as long as the generation difference is not too large, the shore artillery group is generally teaching the enemy's fleet to behave.

However, before the sun rose, the shore batteries did not fire, and General Eddie did not order them to fire.

Because their shore guns have shortcomings, that is, reloading.

After all, it is embedded in the mountain, and it is not easy to dig a shore gun bunker. If you build an automatic bomber, there is no doubt that it will require more space.

Therefore, their shore guns are manually loaded, so that it takes at least 20 minutes to reload a shell.

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

Brigadier General Eddie insisted on this point of view, so he did not let the shore guns fire, aiming in the dark was not easy, and now, it was dawn, it was finally possible to fire!

His order was quickly passed on to the shore artillery unit. At this time, the shore artillery unit was still anxiously waiting for the power to be restored.

Why hasn't the emergency generator started yet?

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

You must know that the shells of naval guns are packaged separately. Even so, a warhead weighs half a ton. It depends on manpower and is stuffed into the barrel of the gun, which is simply fatal.

Wait, wait, wait!

In fact, they were assembled at the start of the French shelling, but after that, they have been waiting, waiting, until now, and have not waited for the power supply to be restored!

"Can't wait any longer, the Governor ordered us to fire and reload immediately!" Finally, the commander in the gun emplacement shouted.