Redemption of WWII

Chapter 150 Six: The End of the Navy

Just when Williams, commander of the Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Third Squadron, kept asking his adjutant what to do, unfortunately, a stream from outside hit his adjutant directly on the head. 【】Like a sack of potatoes being dropped, his adjutant fell silently beside General Williams.

Williams, who was splashed with brains and blood all over his face, also fainted on the ground.The people next to him hurriedly helped him up, then fed him water and massaged him, finally allowing Williams to breathe again.Seeing the adjutant who had fallen to the ground, he couldn't help showing a wry smile.

This adjutant is not an ordinary adjutant. This adjutant is a senior secret agent specially assigned to Williams by the Ministry of Internal Affairs when Williams took office.Basically, Williams has to agree with this adjutant before issuing orders on major and minor matters.That's why William will only show a wry smile after seeing the adjutant fall to the ground and die.

With no one who can give him advice, William will have to bite the bullet and give orders to his subordinates.Fortunately, there are also many naval officers in the headquarters. Williams will order all the troops to stick to the base, and at the same time send a telegram for help to the warships anchored in the harbor, asking the warships to support the battle in the base with artillery fire.

The Royal Navy's land combat capabilities are not very strong, and this is a fact that no one can change.But when it comes to fighting at sea, the Royal Navy is really not a vegetarian.Let's just talk about the 380mm main guns on the four Rhodes battleships. It doesn't take a lot. As long as three or five guns go down, the entire British base will have to be reimbursed.Those main cannons weighing 300 kilograms are the ancestors of cannons. Once a cannon is fired, it is impossible for any creature to survive within a [-]-meter radius.Not even the Terminator played by Schwarzenegger.

Major General Black, who was waiting anxiously on the battleship Rhodes, received an order from General William, but Major General Black did not execute this order.Not for anything else, it's all because the cannons on the warship are really not suitable for accurately shooting the enemy troops in the base who are fighting with their own people.However, if it is daytime, the small-caliber naval guns on the warship can achieve very accurate shooting standards.

So Major General Blake called General William back and explained in detail why he could not fire at night, and hoped that William would lead his men to hold on for a few more hours until dawn.Of course, there is also the reason why Major General Black knew that only small-scale troops came to attack the base.General Williams also did not want to be lost under the guns of his own warship, so he agreed to Major General Braque's request.

What Major General Blake believes in is the maxim that there is no need to butcher a knife to kill a chicken.With him, the shore base of the fleet with 2000 people in charge will never be breached by that small army.However, just to be on the safe side, Major General Black still ordered the entire fleet to enter a combat state.They all aimed their muzzles at the area where the land was being fought, and started shooting immediately after their own troops sent back the shelling coordinates after dawn.

Of course, Major General Black still hoped that William would retreat to the warship, but this was rejected by William without hesitation. One was because William really couldn't stand the atmosphere on the ship. If there is any loss of those gold, William will also understand that his life will come to an end.

So after Liu Qi and the others took down most of the bases, both sides stopped attacking.The Royal Navy was waiting for dawn to deal a devastating blow to the enemies who attacked them, while Liu Qi and the others were nervously setting up those cannons.This time is very important for both parties.However, although Liu Qixin had no doubts about his ability to hit those warships at anchor, he did not have much confidence in whether the power of his artillery could sink those warships.Especially the battleship Rhodes, which has steel armor with a thickness of [-] millimeters.

The British fleet is less worried about this. One is that the enemy who attacked the base at night did not use artillery at all, which made the Royal Navy logically think that the enemy did not have artillery.Another one is that the Royal Navy has always been known for its strong guns, and there has never been a precedent for land artillery to threaten a large battleship.Therefore, none of them, including General William, had the idea of ​​letting his fleet weigh anchor and sail to sea.

Compared with building solid shore-based forts, warships are still slightly inferior.But this is the base of the Royal Navy, and the Royal Navy, which has a powerful naval force, has never built a shore-based fort here.

Since Liu Qi and the others stopped attacking the headquarters, General William cooperated and waited patiently for dawn.

Finally, the light of the sun that the Royal Navy has been looking forward to has begun to slowly dispel the twilight of the night.William will also be able to blur the outline of his base with the naval observation mirror.William will secretly hate these enemies who attacked his base secretly.On the one hand, use the naval observation mirror to observe the enemy's position.

Suddenly, Jiang felt that something was wrong. There seemed to be something more on the blurry open space of the base, and these things seemed to form a neat formation, which was quite a lot in terms of scale.However, due to the lack of light, it is still not very clear. Is it very clear what William is going to be?

At this moment, there was a sudden loud noise from the entire base, and William, who was observing those unknown objects, was temporarily blinded by the dozens of flames that appeared at the same time.Moreover, the entire base shook with the loud noise.General William's body was almost thrown to the ground by the shock. Fortunately, General William grabbed the handrail next to the door so that he didn't fall to the ground.However, the glass on the roof was all shattered by the strong earthquake.

Only then did General William realize that it was the enemy artillery firing that made such a big noise just now.At this time, not only William will understand.Even Major General Black, who was observing with a telescope on the Rhodes battleship, also arrived at the large flames that erupted from the base almost at the same time.

From the length and size of the flame, Major General Black quickly judged that it was the shooting flame of a howitzer below 150mm.And the appearance gun was aimed at the warship on the pier.At this point, Major General Black couldn't help but chuckled inwardly. He had never seen such a funny thing. Someone actually used a howitzer with a caliber of less than 150 to attack a warship with an armor of more than 100 mm.Isn't this tickling the warship?However, Major General Black still issued an order for all to prepare for the shelling.Major General Black didn't even grab the emergency handrail beside him, because Major General Black believed that the guns of these howitzers would not cause any harm to him.

Sure enough, the battleship Rhodes on which Major General Braque was located was not damaged at all.When Major General Black was laughing at those stupid enemy artillery in his heart, a monstrous explosion came from the heavy cruiser 'Exeter' moored on the battleship 'Rod'.

Of course, the Rhodes battleship will not be affected, because all the guns hit the middle part of the 'Exeter' heavy cruiser, and the impact was amazing.There is also the reason why Liu Qi wanted to try the cannon on the boat first.Although the 'Exeter' is not too small, it has a full displacement of 1 tons.

Rear Admiral Black turned his face away and happened to arrive at the heavy cruiser section of the 'Exeter'. Because of the downward force generated by the explosion of many guns, he insisted on pressing the middle part of the 'Exeter' towards the sea water.And the bow and stern of the 'Exeter' stayed in place because of the buoyancy of the compartment.The 'Exeter', which was subjected to forces acting in two different directions, was extremely distorted at this time.This scene is extremely shocking to the eyes, as if the 'Exeter' is not a heavy cruiser made of steel, but a ball of plasticine floating on the water.

And the result of those gun set explosions made the entire hull of the 'Exeter' tremble with extremely high frequency.This kind of shaking is very regular like the hand of a patient with cerebral thrombosis.With the shaking of the keel between the 'Exeter', it could no longer support the buoyancy force of the two compartments and the downward pressure of gravity, a fracture occurred from the bottom of the warship, and then the 'Exeter' moved towards a Like broken chopsticks, the bow and stern of the boat stick out of the water.Next, the 'Exeter' sank with high efficiency and ended this visual feast.

At this point, Major General Black couldn't help but twitched himself.It wasn't anything else, it was because Major General Black thought he was dreaming, and it was still a nightmare.But the slight pain on his face made Black realize that what happened in 15 seconds just now was not a dream.

But Blake still couldn't believe the incident in front of him. A 1-ton heavy cruiser just said goodbye to him silently. Could it be that today is April Fool's Day?Could it be that there is something wrong with my own brain nerves?All kinds of questions flooded into my mind in an instant.However, due to the depth of the port, the 'Exeter' was not completely submerged in the water, and the bow and stern of the ship towering above the water surface were still left on the water surface.Blake reflected this.

While all the Royal Navy was still in shock, there was a second loud gunshot in the distance.Major General Blake has fully reflected this time.Major General Black hurriedly grabbed the safety handrail next to him, and then shouted with all his strength, "Dodge the shelling." Major General Black had completely put away the mentality of belittling his opponent just now.At the same time, he was secretly praying that this round of shelling would not be his turn.

But the more you don't want it, the more you will get it.Of course guns are no fun.This round of artillery directly hit the front main gun of the Rhodes battleship.Of course, the force of the huge explosion was also like a giant's big hand, pushing Rhode's bow to the water fiercely.