Britain, as an old capitalist country, has begun to decline, and the glory of the once empire on which the sun never sets, is gradually fading. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This can be seen only from the British warships, with the weakening of the national strength, the speed of Britain's construction of new ships has been greatly delayed, so that Britain's current main warships are still from the First World War.

Although the ships are old, the British still adopt the method of modernization and improvement to make these warships have modern combat capabilities.

For example, the War Weary has undergone large-scale modifications, such as the replacement of the main engine or something, and in terms of weapons, it is even more so.

Although the main guns have not been moved, the anti-aircraft guns used for air defense have been improved many times to cope with the increasingly severe air risks.

For example, one of the most important improvements is the addition of a Bang Bang Cannon.

This is an eight-pack version of the early British MKII two-pounder gun, and compared to the original two-pounder gun, the main thing is that the heat resistance is improved to accommodate long automatic fire.

If converted, two pounds should be about 40 mm, compared with the Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, the performance is actually very backward, but it won the contract of the British Navy for no other reason, because after the First World War, Britain still had as many as two million rounds of two-pounder shells in stock.

These shells have to be used again, and they can't be wasted.

Therefore, the British came up with the idea to change this thing into an anti-aircraft gun for a warship, and it took more than ten years to go back and forth.

When it was first born in 1921, it was a six-pack, but the British Navy didn't think it was cool enough, so it added two tubes and became an eight-pack.

Forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns, eight-in-a-pack, this thing, a big guy, a whole dozen tons, could only be installed on a battleship, moreover, the sailors gave it a kind name, called the Chicago piano.

It was not until 1930 that the first bang cannon was officially put on board to equip the battleship Kokang. After that, this bang cannon was mass-produced and equipped on other large warships.

Objectively speaking, the performance of the Bang Bang Cannon was very advanced when it was first born, after all, eight barrels, that firepower, crazy heart.

However, it also has problems, first, the muzzle velocity is too low, the range is limited, and second, it cannot fire shells with proximity fuses. With the rapid development of aircraft, it is less and less able to meet the needs of air defense. It was eventually replaced by the Bofors 40-mm anti-aircraft gun.

But now, this bang cannon is the biggest reliance of the War Weyware, and in front of it is a Junkers-88 bomber that is flying quickly!

When the warship was discovered, Bescher had no time to pull up the plane and climb again, and it was quite stupid to pull it up at this time.

This would expose the belly of the plane to the other side, which is the angle at which he is most likely to be shot, so he can only continue to fly forward at a very low altitude, and at the same time, enter the final bombing route.

His choice of option was not appropriate, but he had no other choice.

"Prepare to drop the bomb." Besher shouted loudly, and at the same time, on the opposite side, the huge battleship, had also opened fire.

Fire!

Bang bang cannon is not only huge in size, but also requires a lot of manpower, and a dozen artillery pieces are needed on a gun position.

And now, the huge eight-mounted gun mount, is slowly turning, eight forty-millimeter barrels, rapidly rising, the British Navy is still in the lead in terms of shooting sights, and their sights are quite sophisticated.

Now having the target set into his own sight, the gunner stepped on the fire.

"Bang bang bang!" A loud bang, quickly sounded on the gun emplacement.

Eight guns fired at the same time, this sound was quite shocking, the barrel was high, the muzzle of the gun burst into flames, one after another 40 mm shells were fired from the horn, and the entire gun position was immediately filled with gunsmoke.

Compared with the vibration of the artillery strike, what is more terrifying is the shell shell spit out on the side, which soon fills the space on the side!

This eight-mounted anti-aircraft gun is fired together, as an automatic weapon, that requires automatic loading equipment, on this turret, there are eight heavy boxes, each box is loaded with 140 shells connected by the bullet chain, at this time, the shells continue to enter the barrel of the anti-aircraft gun, and then throw out the empty shells.

The sound of banging is endless.

With the opening of the Chicago piano, a dense 40-mm shell, forming a terrible storm of bullets, was poured towards the opposite side!

"Hit!" The lookout shouted loudly, from here, it can be clearly seen that the Junkers-88 bomber, the engine on one side, has emitted black smoke!

Finally took out a bomber, and let out a bad breath!

This kind of anti-aircraft artillery seems to have strong firepower, but in fact, the performance of anti-aircraft guns is not advanced, especially the effective slope is still insufficient, and it lacks lethality to dive bombers and torpedo planes that drop mines at long distances.

If the Junkers-88 had been a dive-dropping bomb, it could have flown away safely in the opponent's barrage, but now, it can only choose to deliver a horizontal, ultra-low air-dropping bomb, and at this time, it was unfortunately hit.

However, almost at the same time, the belly bomb bay of this Junkers-88 opened, and the second PC-1000RS, flew out of it!

As soon as it left the belly bomb bay, a burst of fire erupted from the tail of this bomb, and the rocket booster had been ignited! With the speed of the carrier aircraft, it swooped down on the war-weariness that was close at hand!

The sailors looked surprised.

"Quick, quick, left full rudder!" The captain of the war-weary, shouted loudly.

The bomber, it was swerving, but no one cared about it, everyone was staring at the bomb that flew over, it was a big guy, it was terrible to be hit by that bomb!

At this time, the warship had already accelerated to 10 knots, which was not high enough for the Warweary to turn quickly!

Quick, quick, and you'll be able to avoid the past in no time!

Everyone, with their hearts in their throats, stared at the flying bomb closely, calculating in their hearts the possibility of dodging.

No, not fast enough!

In the astonished gaze of everyone, the bomb with flames in its tail dragged straight towards the bridge.

"Boom!"

The armor of the bridge was not enough to withstand a ton of bombs, and with the explosion of this bomb, the entire bridge was almost blown apart, and most of the naval officers on it were killed or wounded!

Flying debris shattered the chimney behind it, and smoke billowed from the bridge.

Warweary, wounded!

At the time of the explosion, the captain, deputy captain, and first mate were killed, and the well-trained naval soldiers immediately began to control the damage, at this time, they didn't need someone to command, they knew what they should do, this is the essence of the old navy!

Although the bang cannon damaged the bomber, it failed to stop the other side from dropping the bomb!