Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 925

When the Air Force launched an air strike on the Goba Heights, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", which was ordered to provide fire cover for the Anzacs, was sailing on the sea ten kilometers away from the Goba Heights with two other battleships.

The battleship "HMS Queen Elizabeth" is currently the most powerful battleship in the British Royal Navy. 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, the main gun of "HMS Queen Elizabeth" has reached an unprecedented caliber of 15 inches, which is 381 mm in conversion. This data is still kept secret at present. The caliber of the main gun of the HMS Queen Elizabeth is only 14 inches. In the previous battles, the HMS Queen Elizabeth rarely had a chance to perform, and now the opportunity has come.

The power of the 15-inch main gun is huge, and the shooting range is already ten kilometers, but the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. The distance between the defenders' positions on the Goba Heights and the Anzac positions is too close, and the "Queen Elizabeth" battleship will continue to advance. In order to ensure that the shells will not hit the Anzac positions.

This kind of thing is not unheard of. When the Anzacs landed on the Goba Heights, the British 29th Division landed at Cape Hess. The terrain of Cape Hess is more complicated. The 29th Division has five landing points. As a result, the warship covering the landing accidentally hit the position of one of the landing troops.

For the unprepared landing troops, the naval guns are very powerful. By the time the oolong was discovered, the shelling had lasted for 10 minutes, and the landing troops suffered heavy casualties. They were not sacrificed in the battle with the enemy, but were killed by themselves. People accidentally injured.

After an urgent communication between Rock and John Fisher, a gag order was issued on this matter, and no one could discuss it. If those all-pervasive media reporters found out, this would definitely become the biggest scandal of the coalition forces since the outbreak of the World War.

Rear Admiral William Lloyd, the interim captain of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, didn't want to make headlines, so he ordered the HMS Queen Elizabeth to move on and cover the Anzacs from as close a distance as possible. It doesn't matter if you are tall, the most important thing is not to make mistakes.

If there is no accident, when the "HMS Queen Elizabeth" battleship officially enters service, Major General William Lloyd will become the first captain of the "HMS Queen Elizabeth" battleship. This is a great honor, which can only be obtained by truly talented generals. John Fisher did it 30 years ago, and John Fisher went on to become a legend in the Royal Navy.

"Sir, we are only five kilometers away from the Goba Heights." The first officer, Charles Collins, is also an outstanding new general, otherwise he would not have had the opportunity to serve on the "Queen Elizabeth" battleship.

"Go ahead and let me know when it's three kilometers—" William Lloyd kept his eyes on the telescope. In his telescope, the Goba Heights had been shrouded in thick gunpowder smoke, and several aircraft looked like seabirds. The same planes gleamed in the sunlight, and they shuttled up and down in the smoke like elves. Every time they swooped down, the thick smoke above the Goba Heights became thicker.

"Wtf, what happened?" William Lloyd didn't understand the new things like airplanes. In his eyes, only powerful battleships were the decisive force to change the situation of the battle.

Charles Collins was silent, he was also observing Goba Heights with a telescope.

The ground support aircraft made its debut, and its performance was indeed amazing.

The incendiary bombs are equally as good as the ground support aircraft. Compared with the aerial bombs that rely on shock waves to cause damage, the incendiary bombs may not be more effective in killing, but the psychological panic created by the enemy is far beyond the aerial bombs.

Water and fire are ruthless, and people are always full of fear of the force majeure of unknown things. It is miserable enough that people who are killed by shells are torn apart, but that kind of death happens in an instant, and it causes an instant visual impact on people. Of course, recruits It will panic, and the veteran will turn a blind eye after a long time.

Burned to death by incendiary bombs, death does not happen instantly. The cruelty of incendiary bombs is that as long as the solid fuel is contaminated, the flame will not be extinguished until the solid fuel burns out. It is useless to jump into the water. This is still an Ottoman It was the first time that they felt the power of incendiary bombs. They lacked experience in dealing with incendiary bombs. The soldiers watched their comrades roll on the ground crying and crying for help, but they could do nothing but watch their comrades being swallowed by the fire. , distorted, carbonized, and finally turned into a pile of coke that no one can recognize.

This process may last as long as 10 minutes.

Many soldiers collapsed immediately after seeing their companions burned to death by incendiary bombs. The Ottomans piled up a lot of ammunition on the position. This was originally prepared for the ANZACs who landed. Now the shells and bullets are also ignited to die. Exploding, the whole box of shells and bullets released destructive fireworks like fireworks. This would be refreshing in peacetime, but now it has become the sickle in the hands of the god of death.

The entire position had turned into a sea of ​​flames. After being shrouded in thick black smoke, the ground support planes did not give up. They swooped continuously and fired all the ammunition of the aviation machine guns before returning.

When the six ground support planes flew past the battleship "HMS Queen Elizabeth" in a neat herringbone formation, the lead plane in the center shook its wings and made a friendly chat with the battleship "HMS Queen Elizabeth". call.

It's a pity that William Lloyd didn't understand the language of the Air Force, and he felt as if he was being ridiculed. The plane flapped its wings to mock them for being late.

When did the Royal Navy, which has dominated the world for a hundred years and was invincible, ever suffer this kind of anger!

Even though William Lloyd knew that the pilot on the plane could not hear him, he couldn't help but curse, and the fragrance of his mouth immediately echoed in the bridge.

Charles Collins did not speak, and watched quietly with a telescope. In this situation, it seems that the "Queen Elizabeth" has lost the meaning of fire cover.

"Fire! Fire at the Goba Heights!" William Lloyd always had to do something. A battleship dispatch was very expensive, and it was not a waste of time.

What William Lloyd didn't expect was that Albert, the Anzac beachhead commander who was ready to kill himself, thought so too.

When the ground support aircraft bombed the Goba Heights, Albert was already mobilizing troops.

The idea of ​​landing in the wrong place and putting [-] Anzac soldiers in great danger has been eating Albert's heart like a poisonous snake since the discovery of the wrong landing site.

It is difficult to describe Albert's psychological activities more clearly. Numerous complex thoughts such as anger, remorse, heartache, despair, etc. are entangled in Albert's mind. At that moment, Albert must have no hesitation.

So it is conceivable how ecstatic Albert was when the ground support aircraft began to bomb the Goba Heights.

An attacking force of about 2000 people was assembled in the shortest possible time. The commander from New Zealand, Broad, wanted to wait until the bombing was over before attacking. Albert couldn't wait.

"Let's set off now and attack the Goba Heights. The Southern African Expeditionary Force has played a perfect infantry coordination in Ypres, and we can do it too!" Albert thought the infantry coordination was too simple. Air-ground integrated combat is not the same thing. It is difficult for pilots to observe the situation of the ground troops, or even tell whether the ground troops are the enemy or us. Therefore, air-ground coordination is more difficult than infantry coordination. Similar experiments have been conducted in southern Africa. But it was found to be too difficult to implement.

At least not yet.

After the "Operation Horn of Victory", the combat method of the Southern African Expeditionary Force was formulated and distributed to all combat troops of the Allied Powers. The stubborn generals dismissed it, but someone would always be inspired.

Just after Albert was eager to lead his troops to the Goba Heights to reap the victory, the tragedy finally happened again.

"1000, two hundred people were killed and 600 people were injured, which means that the air force's perfect air strike turned into a result of heavy casualties again. Our battleships are really powerful. Why can't they perform so well when dealing with the Ottomans?" Luo Ke almost collapsed when he saw the battle report. It’s fine to land at the wrong place, but he was attacked by his own fleet in order to claim credit. The last time he hit by mistake, he could issue a password-blocking order. What should we do this time?Continue to issue a gag order?If you can stop the mouths of the officers and soldiers of the Mediterranean Fleet and the expeditionary force, can you still stop the mouths of the people in the world?

"It's not anyone's fault. We sent ground support planes, but didn't notify the fleet and landing troops. The coordination between the frontline troops is a big problem. They couldn't report the situation in time, so they caused accidental injuries. I think, this The explanation is acceptable.” Ian Hamilton was a competent chief of staff after he entered the working state. He had few achievements when he served as a military officer. When he was the chief of staff, he won the Victoria Cross with the rank of general.

"Take the Anzacs down, they need to rest before they can return to the battlefield." Rock was worried that the Anzacs would collapse, and no one could bear such heavy blows one after another.

"I asked General Nancy's opinion. He disagreed with the withdrawal of the Anzacs. The attitude of the Anzacs is very firm. They want to wash their humiliation with their own hands—" Ian Hamilton shook his head, Brad South Xi is too stubborn, which is understandable, for soldiers, honor is more important than life.

But it’s a bit difficult to wash it off. Now it seems that the Anzacs have more and more stains, which are simply incompatible with everyone. The Ottoman Fifth Army beat them, and the friendly fleet also beat them. How to wash them?

(End of this chapter)