After arriving at the exit waters of the John Bull Empire's Singapore Naval Base, the Empire's First Task Force in the South China Sea and the First Task Force in the East China Sea engaged in a bombardment with the enemy's coastal defense heavy artillery. To read the latest chapter of this book, please search on Baidu
:1 Novel Network Several Imperial aircraft carrier reconnaissance aircraft flew over the enemy's high altitude to provide shooting coordinates for the Imperial Navy fleet.
Even the naval guns of the Imperial Task Force, which have unparalleled technical advantages over enemy artillery, are still in an extremely disadvantageous situation when faced with the threat of enemy shore defense artillery. Because of the crossfire of enemy shore-based firepower
The configuration seemed quite reasonable, and the Imperial task force did not dare to get too close to the opponent.
After the imperial air fighter planes shot and killed the observers in the enemy's observation tower, and then shot down the enemy reconnaissance balloons and enemy reconnaissance aircraft, the enemy shore artillery group lost its aerial reconnaissance, and the effective shooting coordinates were lost.
Then he fell into a situation where he was truly passive and being beaten.
When the two imperial task forces were fighting each other's shore-based defense guns, a small fleet consisting of 6 torpedo destroyer leaders and 4 shallow water heavy gunships also arrived at the scene. Together with the imperial task force, they
A concentrated fire bombing was carried out against the enemy's coastal defense heavy artillery.
However, the enemy's coastal defense heavy artillery is not a turret exposed outside the fortifications, but an existence hidden in a permanent fortress-style turret. Therefore, the Imperial Navy's naval guns cannot eradicate the firepower points of these heavy artillery groups, and can only destroy them.
Those small, coastal defense artillery firepower points.
Facing the remaining enemy fortress-style main turrets, which were numerous, the imperial fleet could not think of anything. It was not until the second wave of bombers from the Sun Houzi Wing arrived at the enemy's coastal defense turrets that the situation changed.
ease.
However, more than half of Sun Houzi's second wave of fighter planes carried torpedo bombs, which were not very damaging to the enemy's solid fortifications. Only a very small number of bombers carried the empire's advanced yun explosives.
Bombs, this kind of explosive is quite effective for strong fortifications, but unfortunately the quantity carried in this batch is too small.
Originally, the main target of the Sun Houzi Wing's fleet was still the enemy's Far East Fleet. However, facing the empty enemy naval port, the fleet found that the torpedo bombs had no use. In the end, everyone had to throw all the torpedo bombs at
The enemy's anti-aircraft firepower and coastal defense heavy artillery fortifications still play a certain role!
The second wave of bombing by Sun Houzi's air fleet was mainly concentrated on the protruding part of the enemy's military port and the enemy's most advanced coastal defense heavy artillery tower. After removing several of the most advanced cross-heavy artillery fortresses, the imperial task force,
and the Empire's shallow-water heavy artillery fleet, finally heroes have a place to play!
The empire's two task forces and the shallow-water heavy artillery fleet approached the enemy's bay outlet and conducted fixed-point bombardments on the enemy's shore-based defense positions. For this bombardment, everyone switched to armor-piercing loaded ammunition.
It is characterized by strong penetrating power. After the explosion, it does not kill the enemy with fragments, but burns the enemy with special flames.
In addition, everyone finally used the artillery accelerator when attacking the opponent's heavy artillery fortress. After adding the artillery accelerator, the speed and power of the artillery shells increased geometrically. The concrete and steel bunkers on the top of the enemy's fortress, which were more than ten meters thick, were used
It looked vulnerable in front of the 356 shells from the artillery accelerator;
The "turtle lid" that the enemy was proud of was completely melted in front of the powerful Imperial 356mm main artillery shell.
Those John Bull soldiers who were hiding inside the fortress never thought about what kind of thing had such powerful penetrating power until they died. But they no longer had the chance to know what kind of thing sent them to see God. In the face of a large number of artillery shells
Under the precise attack, their fate was completely melted like the fortress.
Almost every enemy fortress hit by the main cannon of the Imperial Navy ship was engulfed by the flames produced by the loaded shells, and no living thing was spared. When the Imperial Marines arrived later, they came from the enemy's protruding part.
When we landed on the beach, we were shocked by the scene inside the fortress!…
Because the fleet used special loaded ammunition, this kind of ammunition was used by the East China Sea Fleet against the Japanese in Ryukyu. It can produce flames that burn everything. Therefore, what the soldiers saw at the scene was inside the fortress that had been opened.
It presents a hellish scene;
With the explosion center of the shell as the radiating point, it radiates in a circular pattern; there are still tiny flames shining faintly, a mixture of black and white smoke drifts in the wind, and there is a disgusting fishy smell in the air; high temperature
All the human bodies in the fortress spontaneously ignited, and even the metal was melted;
The human body is no longer identifiable, with only the occasional carbonized, dry wooden stick-like object remaining. When warriors step on it accidentally, a tooth-piercing and piercing sound will be heard; some dry wooden sticks
Even when blown by the breeze, it turns into powder and floats in the air;
Inside and outside the once strong fortress, there are crumbling cement blocks and ruins of reinforced concrete walls; the roaring, super-large-caliber coastal defense cannons inside the fortress have also been broken down into various shapes of scrap metal, and some parts have even been burned by the flames.
ablation;
In the corner, the soldiers found occasional corpses curled up in various postures. A very few parts still retained the fleshy characteristics of human skin, while most places were charred and black; there was no complete or living body in the fortress.
biology;
Some recruits who had not experienced actual combat could not bear the shock of their hearts. They covered their big mouths and ran away quickly, retching on the ground!
After checking that there were no 'hidden dangers', the empire veterans rushed to the next fortress again. There were enemy positions waiting for everyone to conquer!
After the firepower from the enemy's annular protrusion was removed one by one, the empire's shallow water heavy artillery fleet finally had a place to use. They advanced through the enemy's military port opening and advanced into the enemy's military port.
Because the Imperial shallow-water heavy gunships have a very shallow draft, they basically ignore the enemy's fixed-depth mines. However, they do not dare to advance too deeply into the enemy. After all, there may be other inexplicable dangers in the enemy's military port. Before the threat is completely eliminated,
, the fleet can only bombard the enemy's deep defense firepower at the enemy's military port.
The shallow-water heavy gunship did not penetrate deep into the enemy's military port. It was a wise move to go deeper. Because the six Imperial D-type torpedo destroyer leaders responsible for the escort received the passive sonar almost at the same time, coming from deep inside the enemy's military port.
According to the sonar signal, there are three enemy underwater submarines quietly approaching the shallow water heavy artillery fleet.
After receiving the warning, the four imperial shallow-water heavy artillery ships immediately turned around and exited the harbor, leaving their combat positions to the six torpedo destroyer leaders, which were faster and more powerful in attacking the ships.
The six torpedo leaders spread out the warship's flanks to form a T-position with the enemy submarine, and aimed all the powerful naval guns on the flanks in the direction of the enemy submarine. However, in order to confuse the enemy, the four submersible gunboats withdrew from the harbor.
, deliberately cruising inside the six torpedo leaders so that the other party could not observe the presence of the torpedo leaders.
Originally, the shallow-water heavy gunships also had a small number of depth charges, but they did not dare to use them in the enemy's military port. On the one hand, the speed of the shallow-water heavy gunships was too slow; on the other hand, the use of depth bombs in the military ports could easily induce the enemy to attack.
The fixed depth torpedo will explode. Therefore, it will be the best choice to leave the responsibility of ambush to the torpedo leader.
As time went by, the three enemy submarines gradually approached the waters 1,600 meters from the flanks of the shallow-water heavy gunship. In order to lure the opponent, the shallow-water heavy gunship deliberately used its main guns to continue bombarding the enemy's deep shore-based defenses while hiding.
The six torpedo leaders behind them have accurately locked onto the opponent.
When the opponent approached within a thousand meters, the four Imperial submarine gunboats suddenly moved to the wings, and the torpedo leader group hidden behind them was exposed. At this time, the Imperial soldiers on the warships could use telescopes to observe the enemy submarines.
The snorkel, and sometimes the enemy periscope hidden under the water waves can be observed...
The clever Imperial sonar operator, while listening to the sound, also roughly jotted down the route of the enemy submarine. What surprised the Imperial sonar operator was that the three enemy submarines were actually sneaking side by side. This meant that the enemy's mines
The area of safe passage is wide.
With this, the enemy would never have dreamed of revealing the safe route map. From now on, the imperial fleet can safely enter and exit the enemy's harbor.
At a distance of less than a thousand meters, all naval guns and machine guns on the Imperial torpedo leader ship can effectively attack the opponent's submarine. How could a cunning enemy know that there are passive sonar systems on the Imperial warships?
The device exists?! Not only did they deliver themselves to the Imperial Ship's mouth, but they also dedicated the minefield safety line.
The John Bull submarine used electricity to push the submarine closer to the port, hoping to attack the Imperial shallow-water heavy artillery ship. When the three submarines rushed within a thousand meters, the submarine stopped advancing and began to slowly float up. At this time, they wanted to attack the Imperial Navy ship.
~Launched bow torpedo!
It was at this time that the Imperial shallow-water heavy gunship suddenly moved to both wings, exposing the Imperial torpedo leader group hidden behind it. This sudden change shocked the enemy ship commanders who had been observing with periscopes.
Eclipsed.
The observation and command personnel of the three enemy submarines saw countless powerful and sinister muzzles facing their own side, and immediately exclaimed at the same time: "No... the enemy ships... dive down quickly!" The enemy
The ship operators, inexplicably, still made the move to dive. Unfortunately, their response was too late!
"Concentrate fire... shoot!" The six imperial torpedo leaders had already adjusted their angles, and under the unified command of the commander, they opened fire at the same time! The six torpedo leaders made a uniform roar of artillery fire.
The huge recoil caused the hull to move sideways, causing waves on the water surface;