Bismarck

Even though Bismarck was already at the end of his strength, it was still easy for him to deal with some remnants of the defeated army.

Under the coverage of sixteen 152mm naval guns, the British troops were blown to pieces and wished they were born with two less legs. Driven by artillery fire and pursued by the African Corps, they rushed towards Alexander like sheep!

Not to mention, at Matruh Airport, 110 kilometers away, the dozens of BF-111 fighters and HE- bombers at the airport, as well as General Nehring, Chief of Staff of the African Corps in El Alamein, were not doing nothing.

In the radio station of the British Army Headquarters, various war reports were floating around the room like snowflakes, although few of them were good news.

"The vanguard of the British 51st Division has arrived at Alexandria, but the heavy weapons of the follow-up troops have difficulty moving in the paddy fields and swamps southeast of Lake Mareotis. There are swamps and paddy fields nearby and they cannot be deployed..."

"The Australian 6th Division was ordered to attack the German positions in El Alamein, but was attacked by German artillery and bombers in front of the fortresses and mines in the village of Deir Aisha, and is now trapped in the minefield and cannot move forward or backward..."

"The British 1st Armored Division was counterattacked by the rearguard of the African Corps in the village of Abser. We can't deal with their tanks! Request support!"

"Report! The town of Correl was bombarded by Axis naval artillery! The New Zealand 2nd Division suffered heavy casualties! Moreover, they reported that they could not shake off the German army!"

"Air Force report! A bomber formation they sent out was intercepted by the German BF-110 heavy fighters. The escorting Hurricane fighters were besieged by the German fighters and suffered heavy losses!!"

"Damn it!" In Auchinleck's headquarters, several senior officers were so angry that their noses were crooked.

It was clearly tens of thousands of people against thousands of people, how could this happen?

It's that damn German warship!

"Didn't they say that the German fleet has been paralyzed?!" Auchinleck asked the staff officer angrily.

The staff officer who was in contact with the Air Force was also confused. He had clearly received intelligence from the Air Force that the Bismarck had lost its combat effectiveness, but now...

However, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and there was a possibility of false alarms. Auchinleck did not have the energy to pursue anything now.

"Someone! Get me more bombers! Send them out to bomb! I want to sink those damn German battleships!"

The roar of Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, commander of the British Middle East Air Force, spread to every British airfield and the cockpit of every British fighter plane, and reached everyone's ears directly.

At this time, Tinault's dive bomber, with an electronic jammer and a one-ton heavy bomb, flew over the fort under the desperate escort of the FW-190 led by Bar, facing the anti-aircraft fire of the Alexandria port...

The Tirpitz had also turned around, with its eight sturdy 380mm main guns raised high and pointed in the direction of the turret!

Chapter 472: Clear the obstacles on the beach, come on!

The blue Mediterranean Sea was cloudless, and a small five-plane formation led by Tinault was struggling to navigate the barrage of British anti-aircraft guns on the shore...

The British anti-aircraft guns dotted the blue sky and blue sea with clouds of smoke. Fragments of all sizes flew in the sky under the blazing sunlight of the Mediterranean Sea, dragging a stream of reflected light from time to time, passing by the warhawks! Occasionally, you could even hear a few bangs - that was the sound of relatively small shrapnel hitting the aircraft after the anti-aircraft shells exploded, forcing holes in the aluminum fuselage!

This is still at a longer distance... If it was a larger shrapnel, or if the distance was closer...

However, the pilots had no other options except making some routine evasive maneuvers. In this case, they could only rely on luck. After all, they were not over the target yet, so anti-aircraft guns were still the boss.

If you get hit, you can only blame it on bad luck.

An unlucky JU-87 was directly hit by an anti-aircraft shell amidst the dense anti-aircraft artillery barrage. The shell penetrated the fragile body and exploded inside, then was blown to pieces in a fierce flame and broke into two pieces.

Although the plane was far away from them, everyone heard the pilot's desperate call for help on the radio, including Tinolt, and everyone couldn't help but shrink their necks...

There was nothing they could do but watch their brother war eagles fall.

The only fortunate thing is that, perhaps because the British Army has only been producing VT fuses for a short time, it seems that only the ammunition for the Royal Navy's new anti-aircraft guns is equipped with VT fuses. The vast majority of ammunition is still like this, relying on pre-entered explosion time or explosion height, and exploding rigidly according to the settings. This is a blessing in disguise.

However, while passing through such dense and fierce barrage, Tinault did not dare to be careless at all, and he turned the jammer to maximum power!

There are still four bombers left! Four 1000 kg semi-armor-piercing bombs! This is already a very limited bomb load!

In fact, the empty weight of the JU-87 dive bomber is about five tons. If it is equipped with bombs of this level, it really needs to use booster rockets to barely take off from the flight deck of the Zeppelin. It's like a small man holding a giant sword that is longer than his body.

Forget about mobility; it's all just empty talk under this kind of load.

However, "Since I'm here, I'll just blow him up first!" Tinault opened the drawings in his drawing folder and started looking for them by comparing them with the aerial photos.

Although the artillery positions are camouflaged, it is basically impossible to see them with the naked eye. At such a high altitude, the human eye is not a scanner.

But who wants to come prepared?

The drawings and photos in his hand were given to him by Zeppelin. They used some unknown means to confirm the positions of the three 15-inch main turrets and the specific positions of the six 152mm gun positions. In the enlarged photos, the position of each gun position was clearly marked in detail!

It is said that this is a photo taken by Zeppelin himself after he borrowed a BF-26 from the heavy fighter squadron of JG110 to conduct reconnaissance - although Tinault looked down from the sky and looked at the "real scene" for a long time, he could not see where the turret was...

The British were very cunning. Although the effective range and accuracy of the artillery were much greater than that of a shaking battleship, even so, the British hid their artillery and did not fire until Bismarck and Tirpitz got close enough to have a stable hit rate.

I don't know if they wanted to lure the German battleships closer so that they could have a higher chance of hitting the target, and then suddenly open fire to catch them off guard or something...

However, it doesn’t matter if you can’t find it. The location of the artillery has been marked in the photo, and even the detailed direction, distance and more obvious identification features are listed.

Tinault was secretly impressed in his heart: I really don’t know how Zeppelin could distinguish so carefully. As the only female pilot of the HNA, she must have some outstanding qualities.

Once you figure it out, the rest is easy!

What you need to do next is to drop a bomb at this location. This is just a matter of following the instructions and is not very difficult.

Looking at the "target range" in the observation window on the floor beneath his feet, which was obscured by the huge 1000-kilogram bomb, a place that looked like a "stone platform" that could not be seen without a telescope appeared at the border between the African continent and the Mediterranean Sea meters below his feet...

"It's so well disguised. If it weren't marked, I really wouldn't be able to find it!"

"But don't think you can get away with it by pretending to be dead this time." He laughed triumphantly.

Although the British were very cunning and had done a very thorough disguise, and had been playing dead, the approximate location had been marked on the specially enlarged photo by Zeppelin. With the rigorous training he and his men had received, the ultra-high bombing accuracy within an average diameter of 25 meters...

The corners of Tinault's mouth curled up into a sneer!

It was really their loss not to fire in advance, and they wasted such a good artillery.

No matter how cunning the fox is, it can't beat the gasoline seller!

Looking back in the direction of the German Mediterranean Fleet in the west, it seems that the battleship Tirpitz has also begun firing at another relatively closer artillery position?

They chose the nearest turret, while I chose the farthest one. In this way, my dive bombing and the firepower of the battleship Tirpitz would not affect each other.

"Brothers! Look under your feet. Do you see the target?" Turning on the close-range tactical channel, Tinort pointed to the back, "... it's the cape at the east end of Pharos Island! This is the target marked by the instructor! Now, follow me! Start diving!"

"Yes!"

The Stuka, carrying heavy 1000 kg armor-piercing shells, turned over with great effort and began to dive!

However, this time the dive bomber did not make the devil's scream.

The device that could emit a whistling sound was removed, but it brought a faster speed! Although another JU-87 was unfortunately hit by anti-aircraft guns during the dive, the remaining three Stukas, led by Tinolt, had already covered the unfortunate turret that was camouflaged very well, but its position had been marked in detail, in the center of the aiming halo crosshairs! !

The British anti-aircraft guns suddenly fired more fiercely! It seemed that they also knew that the situation seemed a little bad. Even a fool could see that the Germans had discovered the location of this artillery position.

But... if you get into the crosshairs of Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Tinolt...

He thought to himself, British people, please wake up today!

Looking at the ground in the crosshairs that was getting closer and closer, probably the target area, Tinault seemed to see the unique fear and despair before death revealed in the dilated pupils of the British!

The bomber started diving at an altitude of 4,000 meters, and it didn't drop the bomb from its belly until it reached an altitude of more than 400 meters! At a height of 470 meters, the overload caused by the timely pull-out can make people's eyes go black and their heads dizzy!

Fortunately, it wasn't the jet that came later, otherwise they would probably have fainted.

The bombs whizzed down, and the iron wings began to separate after the bombs were dropped, almost at the same time! Just a second after the Tinort flattened and separated from the sea surface, under the disguised object, accompanied by a loud bang like the collapse of the sky and the crack of the earth, violent smoke and flames rose up! Straight into the sky!

After the death passed by, the flowers on the other shore bloomed, as if welcoming the dead souls!

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"The target is 32740 meters away, 70 degrees to the right front... Data input completed, ready to fire. Tirpitz, get ready."

Lindemann turned around and glanced at Grape, who was sitting next to him and pretending to manually input data into the fire control device. Grape glared at him angrily with a disgusted expression.

But Lindmann was very clear that this grape actually wanted to say that the guided artillery shells were ready, right?

Tizi was still very conscious at this time, but he was dissatisfied with Lindman's lack of confidence in him.

The commander and Bismarck were still in danger, so Lindemann certainly had to reconfirm to be absolutely sure.

"fire!"

Following Lindmann's order, eight 380mm guided shells flew out from the raised gun barrel of the Tirpitz battleship!

Even though Bismarck's own homemade version of the guided artillery shell has wings, the resistance is greatly increased, resulting in the range being reduced to the current limit of the guided artillery shell; even though the guided artillery shell's speed is slower, the theoretical kinetic energy and theoretical dispersion are also inferior...but only guided artillery shells can accurately hit a turret with a diameter of only ten meters from more than thirty kilometers away!

You know, fortress artillery is often built in a strong and hidden position! The radar at that time could not observe the artillery, and optical observation of the hidden artillery was also extremely difficult, not to mention that the smoke from the bombardment would obscure the optical observation system - even if there was a seaplane to calibrate the fire!

Under normal circumstances, the probability of a conventional shell hitting the fortress turret is only one in ten thousand! Not to mention that the turret itself has a solid structure - except for the weakest part of the turret, which is only ten meters in diameter and extremely difficult to hit, the concrete, covering soil, armored steel, etc. in other places are all in meters! High-explosive shells can only blow up a pile of sand, and even armor-piercing shells, as long as they can't hit the turret directly, they will definitely not be able to penetrate the mixed defense that is several meters thick!

But... these concealment methods are completely meaningless in the face of the observation ability of the ship girl!

At the request of Ms. Bailey Dura Despicio, secretary of Mediterranean Fleet Commander Cunningham, the British army conducted a special combat assessment and felt that if the artillery wanted to deal with the battleship, it had no choice but to fight hard - to be precise, with almost the same artillery accuracy, relying on its much smaller size than the battleship to "gamble" on the probability of survival!

After working hard to strengthen the special training of long-range artillery capabilities, the accuracy of the artillery fire is not much worse than that of the ship girl! And if it is a battleship without a ship girl, three or four battleships can't deal with a turret!

However, there is one thing that Warspite is not clear about…

That was the guided artillery shell developed by Bismarck. She had definitely never heard of this thing, because the name of remote control was unimaginable for people who had participated in World War II.

After all, it is a thing from the future. Although Bismarck was just an ordinary person before he traveled through time, it was broadcast every day in the news broadcast. In his previous life, when he accompanied his father while eating and watching the news, even if he didn't pay much attention to it, his ears were callused from hearing it. In addition, being able to control things on his body, wouldn't this little thing be great?

She could only listen to the very technical stuff, but if she used her own body, it would be a piece of cake.

The defenders on the British position were unaware of the impending disaster. A distance of 30 kilometers was almost beyond visual range. What could the artillery fire from such a distance do?

"Report to the commander! The German battleships are firing!"

"Humph! So hiding alone doesn't work? That guy is said to be controlled by an evil spirit... Then let's fire back! Order the gunners to follow my orders..."

"boom--"

Before he could finish his words, there was a loud bang, and the poor artillery position was suddenly enveloped by several balls of flames!

At about the same time, at the location of the last artillery position on the eastern side of Pharos Island, after three or four streams of light swooped down from the sky, an even larger mushroom cloud rose in an earth-shattering explosion...

"Well done!" Lütjens, who was driving the wobbly Bismarck battleship towards Alexandria Harbor, was standing in front of the steering gear in the command tower. He saw the mushroom cloud rising in the direction of the distant Alexandria Harbor and heard the deafening roar coming from dozens of kilometers away. He couldn't help but feel refreshed!

Sure enough, no matter how great the difficulties, no matter how dangerous the situation, the only real way to survive is to rely on everyone's unity and fight their way out with their own hands. He has always known that Lindemann, Bonte, Zeppelin and Tirpitz...his subordinates have actually been fighting with him.

here you go!

He turned around and shouted to the empty command tower: "Bismarck, did you see that? Tirpitz and Zeppelin did a great job!"

"Hold on a little longer. As long as we knock down the artillery and let that bastard Rommel rush into Alexandria Harbor, we can seize the beach under their cover and buy time for repairs."

Even someone like Lütjens couldn't help but get excited when he saw this scene.

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(PS: In fact, the battleships hate the shore guns... There was an incident in history that in March 1944, Major General Willis Lee, the meritorious commander who had sunk Kirishima in Iron Bottom Channel, was ordered to bombard the blockaded and half-starved Japanese-occupied island MILE ISLAND (belonging to the Marshall Islands, with 3 8mm guns and 150 3mm guns) with the battleships Iowa and New Jersey. After two hours of long-range bombardment, when the Americans tried to get close to shoot, the 140mm shore guns that had been forbearing to not fire only started to return fire at a distance of 150 yards. As a result... who knew... the two newly commissioned Iowa-class battleships could not hit the Japanese gun positions at all at a distance of 15000 yards. Instead, they could not hold on after just two shots, and finally were beaten by several 15000mm coastal guns and fled... It was really horrible)

ps: I recommend a book called "Battleship Montana, Debut" written by a little loli (legal loli fog!)

Chapter 473: The turrets are all destroyed, and the fox can't be stopped

The earth-shattering explosion at the east turret of Pharos Island shattered not only the lives of dozens of officers and soldiers in a turret, but also the already extremely fragile hearts of the British soldiers!

The energy of the explosion penetrated the earth and spread far away. The soldiers hiding in the bunkers jumped up in surprise when they saw things like cups. Not to mention the dust and other things, which directly covered their faces. Many people at close range were knocked down by the shock.

"What's going on? Is there an earthquake?" Some people were confused and didn't know what was going on.

Does the earthquake in your house also come with loud explosions?

Soon, someone reacted and looked outside in horror. There was something similar to a mushroom cloud.

"No...it's not an earthquake! It's the navy. The navy's fortress battery exploded!"

"What? How is that possible?! How can a fortress be destroyed in one shot? That's a fortress!"

Could a terrifying existence like a fortress turret be destroyed in an instant? Even if it was reduced to ruins, it would be impossible for it to have such an explosive effect. How bad must one's luck be to have this happen.

"Sure enough...are these Germans evil spirits..."

"Oh, God……"

One turret exploded on the spot under the attack of the dive bomber, and the other turret did not respond for a while after being covered by artillery fire...

The sounds of wailing were heard one after another in various British positions, and their glass hearts were beginning to break.

However, perhaps Secretary Bailey had already been prepared for this. Although the morale of the British army suffered a great blow, it had not collapsed yet!

The last remaining 381mm main battery, with six 155mm guns, began to fight back - since they were already exposed, they would die if they didn't fight back, so they might as well fight.

This is a very simple truth.

"Damn evil spirit, I don't believe you are so invincible! Attack! Attack!"