Chapter 2181 Outpost Operation Four
In less than 3 minutes, after 5 salvos, 24 V1500 bombers, dozens of various vehicles and hundreds of British ground crews on the tarmac were smashed to pieces by the sudden attack! The original flat and wide apron has now become like the surface of the moon. Huge craters, blown up soil, and pieces of charred wreckage. Gunpowder smoke with a pungent smell and dust lingered over the tarmac for a long time, and the flames spread to the surroundings under the blowing of the sea breeze, and the entire tarmac became a dead flame hell.
The nearby hangars, factories, and power plants suffered a catastrophe almost at the same time. The high-explosive bombs that fell from the sky can easily destroy large hangars with a length of more than 20 meters and a width of more than ten meters, like cracking eggs. The huge brackets made a toothsome twisting sound in the flames caused by the picric acid explosives, and the wooden boards used to build the airport were burned up in a few minutes. The huge hangars turned into torches one by one. From time to time, the hangar could not withstand the flames and collapsed, and the aircraft and personnel trapped inside were directly engulfed in flames! "Less than 15 minutes after the start of the war, the fire area has exceeded 1 square kilometer." A German pilot wrote in a telegram to the fleet.
The biggest casualties occurred in the machinery factory, the power station, and the workers' dormitory area next to it. The British's combat readiness has reached the last juncture, and thousands of workers and soldiers are working day and night. At this time, the British who were busy beside the rumbling machinery in the factory had no idea that the disaster had fallen from the sky. When the first shell hit the roof of the factory, the British were still busy at their posts!
The results were absolutely disastrous! The high-explosive bomb that detonated almost instantly on the roof launched an indiscriminate coverage attack on the personnel and machinery within a radius of thousands of square meters below! Tens of thousands of shrapnel and flames fell from the sky, engulfing those who hadn't reacted yet and the roaring machinery! With a loud noise, the huge factory building collapsed like an egg smashed by a giant's war hammer! Pieces of factory buildings were wiped off the ground under the rain of shells. The rising flames and gunpowder smoke were so dazzling in the night sky that the British naval officers and soldiers staying at Scapa Flow could see the doomsday-like scene in the distance!
Then the nearby power station, the substation and the generator workshop were attacked first. With the shells falling, the high-speed operation of the click and the buzzing substation outside were engulfed in a sea of flames. In an instant, the power supply of the entire airport was cut off , Except for the flame, all the electric lights went out in an instant. For this important target, the Germans took the trouble to fire more than 200 tons of ammunition, and even blew up the core area of the power plant into a huge crater. The possibility of the British resuming production was completely eliminated.
The most difficult targets to destroy at the airport are the semi-sold ammunition depots and oil depots. These flammable and explosive items are placed under the reinforced concrete dome with a thickness of more than 1 meter. And it is covered with a thick layer of soil and vegetation. Therefore, this is also the only area where the German High Seas Fleet needs to use special armor-piercing projectiles to attack.
"Replace with heavy concrete armor-piercing projectiles and launch them with reduced charges." Under the command of the gunnery chief, the German naval officers and soldiers in the turret put the remaining unfinished high-explosive grenades on the temporary ammunition rack in the tail compartment of the turret , and then send a round of special reinforced concrete armor-piercing projectiles into the turret through the ammunition feeder. This kind of projectile uses a round and blunt projectile, and the projectile is heavier than the normal armor-piercing projectile. In order to launch this armor-piercing projectile, Germany The Navy has specially compiled a gun table for reducing charges. In addition, the hood of this shell is not so long, so the long-distance speed storage is even worse.
But the Germans are for this, in order to better obtain horizontal penetration, the shell needs to be as heavy as possible,
Moreover, the trajectory must be curved, and reducing the charge and using a hood with poor speed storage is to achieve this. (The horizontal penetration of high-speed shells is poor, and the horizontal penetration of heavy shells with low speed is good. For details, you can refer to the combination of the American MK6 artillery and MK8 super-heavy shells in World War II. The American MK6 artillery seems to set a record The record of the strongest level of penetration in the history of battleship battles. During Operation Torch, a single shot penetrated the ammunition magazine for the secondary battery of the battleship Jean Bart! Fortunately, there were no shells in it at the time...)
After the Germans changed the shells and bound the shooting tables, the attack on the last important target of the Hartston Naval Airport kicked off. With another firing order issued, the German fleet once again roared, The artillery barrel was raised high, firing groups of shells towards the British ammunition depot in the distance!
boom! After two rounds of corrective firing, the German shelling was like a godsend! In the first group of shells fired into the force, 3 rounds hit the target area! The shell weighing nearly 900 kilograms slammed into the top of the ammunition depot. The huge impact lifted tons of soil into the air, and then the shell made a diagonal downward channel in the soil layer and finally hit the thick reinforced concrete dome!
With a loud noise, the warhead and the concrete collided fiercely. The solid concrete layer could not save the poor ammunition depot below this time. The concrete layer was cut open, and shortly after the projectile entered the warehouse, the fuse located at the bottom of the projectile detonated!
"Fuck, what's the situation?" At this time, even the German pilots in the air felt the huge vibration from the ground. The whole ground suddenly rolled like a sea wave! The positive piece of soil was thrown into the air by the shaking ground, as if there was something huge underground revived.
Afterwards, several huge columns of smoke rose into the air, directly flying into the air for hundreds of meters, and then, the columns of smoke began to spread to the surroundings, forming mushroom clouds that heralded destruction one after another. Violent explosions and flames emerged from the ground, and pieces of the ground collapsed downward, forming huge deep pits one after another! The shock wave produced by the explosion even had an impact on the low-flying German planes. From time to time, debris hit the wings, and the air waves generated made these planes sway like boats in rough seas, scaring some German planes. The pilot immediately pulled up the plane and prepared to move away. But before that, they still dutifully sent out a telegram: "The attack was successful, continue!"
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