"There is no way! On the side of the Air Force, there are combat missions to suppress ports and airfields. Hines said helplessly.

"You're here to understand what the Air Force is doing." Lu Teyans looked away and said, "So, how do we start attacking now?" ”

"There's nothing I can do on my side! With such thick smoke, the effect of the bombing is actually quite average...... What's more, I don't have napalm as a new weapon. Hines shook his head and turned down his job.

Lu Teyans also felt that he didn't have a good way, but if he didn't do anything, wouldn't it be a trip for nothing?

You know, the entire fleet of the Axis powers, hurrying and hurrying, rushed to the outskirts of Sevastopol in the afternoon of the same day.

If you don't even try a decent attack, a hasty retreat like this is definitely a demoralizing approach.

However, Lütjans did not plan to stay here for too long, he was still afraid of the small submarines deployed by the Soviet Union in the Black Sea, and he was afraid that these pocket killers would really make some changes in the situation of the war.

"According to the coordinates provided by the shadow troops, ten minutes later, the Italian fleet began shelling heights No. 3 in the zone of Soviet occupation!" Having made up his mind to make a quick decision, Lu Teyans opened his mouth and ordered.

"Yes! Your Excellency, General! The Italian liaison officer, who had been standing beside him, replied.

This time Italy came to the Black Sea, but it was not a purely military operation. Mussolini hoped that his fleet would be able to achieve dazzling results in the Black Sea to pave the way for him to gain Italy's voice in the Axis.

Looking at the situation now, Germany is less and less in need of Italy as an ally. But Italy's expansion road still depends on Germany, the big brother, to continue.

Therefore, Italy must show its strength and role in order to make the German top leadership face up to the cooperative relationship between the two countries.

In addition, I heard that the head of the Third Reich promised part of the profits from the Baku oil fields in France, and Italy naturally wanted to get some benefits in this regard.

After saying the first order, Lütjans looked at the liaison officer on the French side and continued to order: "The French fleet has begun to bombard Heights 4!" ”

After hearing the order, the French liaison officer also actively cooperated and promised: "We will definitely complete the assigned task!" Rest assured! ”

The battle in front of us is definitely a killer, so everyone is willing to express their loyalty with practical actions.

After all, for the French, there is an example made by the Italian Navy, and it is enough for them to follow it.

As long as they can do better than Italy in the battle for the Black Sea, then the profit dividends of the Baku oil fields are a sure thing.

At 3:21 p.m., the Axis battlefleet began shelling the fortress of Sevastopol, with the Italian fleet firing first and the battleship Veneto firing the first shots of the battle.

At an interval of about a second, the eight 381 mm guns on the battleship Veneto fired their respective shells one after another.

Subsequently, the French battleship Richelieu opened fire on the flanks and fired a salvo at the Germans themselves on heights No. 4.

About 40 seconds later, the Soviet defenders' No. 3 heights were covered in the dust of the explosion.

A massive cannonball hits there, destroying all fortifications and bunkers within its blast radius.

After almost 1 minute and 30 seconds of silence, the sound of a terrifying explosion on the high ground was faintly heard on the side of the Axis fleet.

Then, with the first explosion over there, the second and third, an almost infinite loop began.

On Heights 4, the battery, which had been damaged by the bombing, was hit again by the guns of the French battleships.

A huge explosion tore through the bunker and destroyed most of the defenders inside. Even the Soviet defenders, who were fighting on the periphery, were wiped out a lot by this attack in front of them.

"The Germans are shelling! Cannonballs come from the sea! "Finally, after confirming that no enemy planes continued to hover overhead, the defenders of the USSR finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

The Axis warships, which were expected to arrive in the afternoon, have now arrived at their designated combat positions.

Now the German battleships can do more damage than the JU-88 and JU-118 strategic bombers.

The main guns on these battleships can accurately hit the targets they want to hit, and they are much more reliable than bombers that drop bombs.

The ground shook, and the shells fired from the 381 mm guns could penetrate the heavy armor of battleships and, of course, through heavier reinforced concrete fortifications.

A huge explosion that defies the human imagination and makes the entire highland tremble. Vasilevsky, who was in the far underground fortifications, frowned, waiting for the distant explosion above his head to fade away.

But what he heard was more explosions, as if they were about to destroy the peninsula, and it was chilling.

After the French and Italian battleships opened fire, the German naval battleship fleet also joined in the revelry.

The 356 mm guns on the battleship George V, renamed the King, opened fire first, kicking off the shelling of the German Navy's battleship fleet.

Immediately afterwards, the 381 mm guns on the two battleships of the Warrior and the War Weary also roared, sending more than a dozen shells into the distant mountains.

It took about 40 seconds for the shells to fly from the position of the German fleet to the vicinity of the target, and during the long wait, the battleships Bismarck and Tirbitz also fired deadly shells.

In the end, the battleship Barham also opened fire, pouring out its own ammunition. The entire Axis fleet on the Black Sea fell into a strange silence, and all the warships seemed to be reloading their main guns and ammunition.

After a brief period of silence, a new round of shelling began. The Italian fleet, which fired first, and the French fleet, which fired later, again let out a landslide-like artillery bombardment.

Above the sky, carrier-based fighters of the German Navy were patrolling the entire airspace. They protected the artillery school planes in the sky, guided the main guns on the battleships, and corrected their firing parameters.

Although the smoke obscured the view of these correction planes, they still had to conscientiously report what they saw, and direct the fire on their warships to the area close to the target.