When the Air Force launched an air attack on the Goba Heights, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", which was ordered to provide fire cover for the Anzac Corps, was sailing on the sea ten kilometers away from the Goba Heights with two other battleships.
The "Queen Elizabeth" battleship is currently the most powerful battleship in the British Royal Navy. Before the Battle of the Dardanelles, the "Queen Elizabeth" battleship had not yet entered service and was undergoing trial trials in the Mediterranean. Considering that most of the battleships in the Mediterranean Fleet were in
On the verge of decommissioning, Winston ordered the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" to reinforce the Mediterranean Fleet.
As the most powerful battleship in the Royal Navy at present, the "Queen Elizabeth" has an unprecedented main gun caliber of 15 inches, which is converted to 381 mm. This data is still confidential at present. In order to confuse the Germans, the British Navy declared to the outside world that "
The main gun caliber of the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" is only 14 inches. In previous battles, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" rarely had a chance to perform. Now the opportunity has come.
The power of the 15-inch main gun is huge, and it is already within the shooting range of ten kilometers. However, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. The garrison position on the Goba Heights and the ANZAC position are too close. The battleship "Queen Elizabeth" will continue to move forward.
Only in this way can we ensure that the artillery shells will not hit the ANZAC position.
This kind of thing has happened before. When the Anzac Army landed on the Goba Highlands, the British 29th Division landed at Cape Hess. The terrain of Cape Hess is relatively complicated. The 29th Division had a total of five landing points.
As a result, the warship covering the landing mistakenly attacked the position of one of the landing troops.
For the unprepared landing force, the power of the naval gun was huge. By the time an error was discovered, the bombardment had lasted for twenty minutes. The landing force suffered heavy casualties. They were not sacrificed in the battle with the enemy, but were killed by themselves.
Injured by accident.
After urgent communication with John Fisher, Rock issued a hush order on this matter. No one could discuss it. If reporters from the all-pervasive media knew about it, this would definitely become the biggest scandal for the Allied Forces since the outbreak of the world war.
The temporary captain of the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", Rear Admiral William Lloyd, didn't want to make headlines, so he ordered the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" to continue moving forward and provide fire cover for the Anzac Corps at the closest possible distance. It was very efficient.
It doesn't matter if you are high, the most important thing is not to make mistakes.
If there are no accidents, when the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" is officially commissioned, Rear Admiral William Lloyd will become the first captain of the battleship "Queen Elizabeth". This is a huge honor that can only be obtained by truly talented generals.
John Fisher did it 30 years ago, and John Fisher later became a legend in the Royal Navy.
"Sir, we are only five kilometers away from Goba Heights." First Officer Charles Collins is also a young general with outstanding performance, otherwise he would not have the opportunity to serve on the battleship "Queen Elizabeth".
"Keep going and let me know when you are three kilometers away." William Lloyd's eyes did not leave the telescope. In his telescope, the Goba Highlands were shrouded in thick smoke, and several of them looked like seabirds.
The planes sparkled in the sunlight, and they shuttled up and down in the smoke like elves. With each dive, the smoke above the Goba Heights became thicker.
"wtf, what happened?" William Lloyd didn't understand a new thing like airplane. In his eyes, only powerful battleships were the decisive force that changed the situation of the war.
Charles Collins was silent, but he was also observing Goba Heights with his telescope.
The ground support aircraft made its debut, and its performance was truly amazing.
As good as ground support aircraft are incendiary bombs. Compared with aerial bombs that rely on shock waves to cause damage, incendiary bombs may not have a better killing effect, but the psychological panic they create for the enemy is far greater than that of aerial bombs.
Water and fire are merciless, and people are always full of fear of the force majeure of unknown things. It is tragic enough for people who were killed by artillery bombs to have their limbs broken, but that kind of death happened in an instant and caused a momentary visual impact to people. Of course, the recruits
Will panic, and veterans will be able to turn a blind eye over time.
Burned to death by an incendiary bomb, death does not happen instantly. The cruelty of the incendiary bomb is that as long as it is contaminated with solid combustibles, the flame will not go out until the solid combustibles burn out. Even jumping into the water is useless. This is still the Ottomans
It was the first time they felt the power of incendiary bombs. They lacked experience in dealing with incendiary bombs. The soldiers watched their comrades wailing and rolling on the ground, desperately asking for help, but they could do nothing. They could only watch their comrades being swallowed by the fire.
, twisted, carbonized, and eventually turned into a pile of coke that no one could recognize.
This process may last ten minutes.
Many soldiers collapsed immediately after seeing their comrades being burned to death by incendiary bombs. The Ottomans piled up a lot of ammunition on the position. This was originally prepared for the landing Anzacs. Now the shells and bullets were also set ablaze and martyred.
Exploded, the whole box of shells and bullets released destructive fireworks like fireworks. This would have been refreshing in peacetime, but now it has become a sickle in the hand of death.
The entire position had turned into a sea of flames, shrouded in thick black smoke, but the ground support aircraft did not give up. They dived continuously and fired all the ammunition for the aircraft's machine guns before returning.
When six ground support aircraft lined up in a neat herringbone and flew past the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", the lead aircraft in the center also shook its wings and made a friendly greeting to the battleship "Queen Elizabeth"
call.
It was a pity that William Lloyd did not understand the language of the Air Force. He felt as if he was being laughed at. The plane flapped its wings to mock them for being late.
When did the Royal Navy, which had dominated the world for hundreds of years and was invincible, ever suffer this kind of anger!
Even though William Lloyd knew that the pilots on the plane could not hear him, he still couldn't help but cursed, and the fragrance in his mouth immediately reverberated in the bridge.
Charles Collins didn't speak, and observed quietly with his telescope. In this situation, it seemed that the "Queen Elizabeth" had lost the meaning of fire cover.
"Fire! Fire at Goba Heights!" William Lloyd always wanted to do something. A battleship dispatch consumes a lot of fuel, so it cannot be in vain.
What William Lloyd didn't expect was that Albert, the commander of the Anzac beachhead who was ready to commit suicide, thought the same way.
When ground support aircraft bombed Goba Heights, Albert was already mobilizing troops.
Landing at the wrong place put 16,000 Anzac soldiers in great danger. This thought had been eating away at Albert's heart like a poisonous snake since he discovered that the landing point was wrong.
It is difficult to describe Albert's psychological activities more clearly. Countless complex thoughts such as anger, regret, heartache, despair, etc. were entangled in Albert's heart. If he could sacrifice his own life, he could return the ANZAC troops to the time before they landed.
At that moment, Albert must have had no hesitation.
So you can imagine how ecstatic Albert felt when ground support aircraft began bombing the Goba Heights.
An attack force of about 2,000 people was assembled in the shortest possible time. Commander Brod from New Zealand still wanted to wait until the bombing was completed before attacking. Albert couldn't wait.
"Let's set off now and attack the Goba Highlands. The Southern African Expeditionary Force achieved perfect infantry and artillery coordination in Ypres. We can do it too!" Albert thought of the infantry and artillery coordination too simply. Infantry and artillery coordination and coordination
Integrated air-ground operations are not the same thing. It is difficult for pilots to observe the situation of ground troops, and they cannot even tell whether the ground troops are the enemy or ourselves. Therefore, air-ground coordination is more difficult than infantry-artillery coordination. Similar experiments have been conducted in southern Africa.
But it was found to be too difficult to implement.
At least not yet realistic.
After "Operation Victory Horn", the combat methods of the Southern African Expeditionary Force were written down and distributed to all combat forces of the Allied Powers. The stubborn generals dismissed it, but there were always people who were inspired.
Just after Albert was excited to lead his troops to the Goba Highlands to reap victory, tragedy finally happened again.
"One thousand, two hundred people were killed and 600 were injured. In other words, the perfect air strike of the Air Force once again turned into a heavy casualty result. Our battleships are really powerful. Why can't they perform so well against the Ottomans?
"Rock almost collapsed when he saw the battle report. Even if he landed at the wrong place, he was attacked by his own fleet in order to take credit. The last time he accidentally attacked, he could issue a seal order. What should he do this time? Continue to issue a seal order.
The password? It can silence the mouths of the officers and soldiers of the Mediterranean Fleet and the expeditionary officers. How can it silence the mouths of the whole world?
"This is not anyone's fault. We sent ground support aircraft and did not notify the fleet and landing troops. The cooperation between the frontline troops is a big problem. They were unable to report the situation in time, so it caused accidental damage. I think, this
The explanation is acceptable." Ian Hamilton became a competent chief of staff after entering work. He had few achievements as a military officer. When he served as chief of staff, he won the Victoria Cross with the rank of general.
"Withdraw the ANZAC. They need to rest before they can return to the battlefield." Rock was worried that the ANZAC would collapse and suffer such heavy blows one after another, which no one could bear.
"I asked General Nancy for his opinion. He did not agree with the withdrawal of the Anzac Army. The attitude of the Anzac Army is very firm. They want to wash away the humiliation with their own hands." Ian Hamilton shook his head. Brad Nancy was too
It's understandable that you are stubborn. For soldiers, honor is more important than life.
But it’s a bit difficult to wash them off. Now it seems that the Anzacs have more and more stains. They are simply at odds with everyone. The Ottoman Fifth Army beat them, and the friendly fleets also beat them. How to clean them?
