Chapter 2181: Operation Outpost Four
In less than 3 minutes, after 5 rounds of volleys, 24 V1500 bombers, dozens of various vehicles and hundreds of British ground crews on the tarmac were broken into pieces by the sudden attack! The originally flat and wide apron has now become like the surface of the moon. Huge craters, exploded floating soil, and pieces of charred debris. The gunpowder smoke with pungent smell and dust persisted over the tarmac for a long time. The flames spread to the surroundings under the blowing of the sea breeze, and the entire tarmac became a dead flame hell.
The hangar, factory and power plant next to it suffered a catastrophe almost simultaneously. The high-explosive bombs that fell from the sky, one by one, were more than 20 meters long and more than ten meters wide, and they were easily destroyed like an egg. The huge bracket made a sour twisting sound in the flames caused by the picric explosive, and the wooden planks used to build the airport were burned out within a few minutes. The huge hangars turned into torches. From time to time, the organic vault cannot withstand the flames and collapses, and the aircraft and personnel trapped in it are directly engulfed by the flame! "In 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 machine factory, power station, and the workers’ dormitory area nearby. The British had reached the final juncture in their combat readiness. Thousands of workers and soldiers were working day and night. At this time, the British who were busy at the factory's Rumble Machinery never thought that the disaster had fallen from the sky. When the first shell smashed the roof of the factory, the British were still busy at their posts!
The result is absolutely disastrous! The high-explosive bomb that was detonated almost instantly on the roof carried out an indiscriminate coverage attack on personnel and machinery within a radius of thousands of square meters below! Tens of thousands of shrapnel and flames fell from the sky and talked about the people who had not reacted and the roaring machinery engulfed! With a loud noise, the huge factory building collapsed like an egg smashed by a giant's warhammer! Pieces of factory buildings were wiped off the ground under the rain of cannonballs. The rising flames and smoke are so dazzling in the night sky that the British naval officers and soldiers staying in Scarpa Bay can see the scene like the end of the day in the distance!
Then there was the nearby power station. The substation and generator workshop were first attacked. With the falling of the shells, the high-speed clicks and the buzzing substation outside were swallowed by the sea of fire. In an instant, the power supply to the entire airport was cut off. Except for the flames, all the electric lights went out in an instant. For this important goal, the Germans tirelessly fired more than 200 tons of ammunition, and even blasted the core area of the power plant into a huge crater. The possibility of the British returning to production is completely eliminated.
The most difficult targets to destroy in the airport are semi-saleable ammunition depots and oil depots. These flammable and explosive items are placed under a reinforced concrete dome with a thickness of more than 1 meter. And it is covered with thick soil and vegetation. Therefore, this is also the only area where the German High Seas Fleet needs to use special armor-piercing shells to attack.
"Reload heavy concrete armor-piercing projectiles and launch them with reduced charges." Under the command of the artillery chief, the German naval officers and soldiers in the turret placed the remaining unfinished high-explosive grenades on the temporary ammunition rack in the turret tail compartment. , And then sent a special reinforced concrete armor-piercing projectile into the turret again through the ammunition feeder. This projectile uses a round and blunt warhead, and the weight is heavier than normal armor-piercing projectiles. In order to launch this armor-piercing projectile, Germany The navy specially compiled a gun table with reduced charges. In addition, the hood of this shell is not so long, so the long-distance storage speed is even worse.
But the Germans did this. In order to achieve a better horizontal penetration, the shell needs to be as heavy as possible, and the trajectory has to be curved. The reduction of charges and the use of a hood with a relatively poor storage speed are to achieve this. (High-speed shells have poor horizontal penetration, and low-speed heavy shells have good horizontal penetration. For details, please refer to the combination of the American MK6 artillery and MK8 superheavy shell of the 2nd World War. The American MK6 artillery seems to have hit the mark. The record of the strongest level of penetration in the battleship history of battleships. During Operation Torch, one shot penetrated the secondary artillery magazine of the battleship Jean Barr! Fortunately, there were no artillery shells inside...)
After the Germans changed their shells and bound the firing schedule, the attack on the last important target of Hartston Naval Airfield kicked off. With another firing order issued, the German fleet roared again. The artillery barrel was raised high and shot groups of shells toward the British ammunition depot in the distance!
Boom! After two rounds of orthopedics, the German bombardment was so helpful! Three of the first group of shells that entered the effective firing hit the target area! The shell weighing nearly 900 kilograms slammed into the top of the ammunition storehouse~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The huge impact lifted tons of soil into the air, and then the shell made an oblique downward channel in the soil. And finally hit the thick reinforced concrete dome!
With a loud noise, the warhead and the concrete slammed into each other. The solid concrete layer could not save the poor ammunition storehouse below this time. Under the action of huge inertia, the shells were like a hot knife cutting butter. The concrete layer was cut, and shortly after the projectile entered the warehouse, the fuze at the bottom of the projectile detonated!
"Fuck, what's the situation?" At this time, even the German pilots in the air felt a huge vibration from the ground. The whole ground suddenly rolled like ocean waves! The positive piece of mud was thrown into the air by the shaking ground, as if there was some behemoth under the ground reviving.
Then, several huge plumes of smoke rose into the air, directly into the air for hundreds of meters, and then, the plumes of smoke began to spread around, forming mushroom clouds that heralded destruction. Violent explosions and flames emerged from the ground, and pieces of the ground collapsed downward, forming huge pits! The shock wave generated by the explosion even affected the German aircraft flying at low altitude. From time to time, debris hit the wings, and the generated air waves made these aircraft sway like a boat in the stormy sea, scaring some Germans. The pilot immediately picked up the plane and prepared to stay away. But before that, they still sent a telegram with all their heart and responsibility: "The attack was successful, continue!"
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