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The air raid alone was far from achieving the purpose of Li Guang's military training, and of course it did not reflect the conscientiousness of the Naval Resistance Army, let alone the deep friendship between the Naval Resistance Army and the British Empire (vomiting). On the way back, Li Guang took a detour.

On the evening of the 21st, in the afterglow of the setting sun, the battleship Pacific appeared outside the port of Berbera without any call-up.

Zheng Xuechang and the more than 1,000 officers and men on the battleship were looking forward to the live firing. The battleship Pacific, several salvos were fired at the Italian shore guns outside the harbor.

The officers and men of the whole ship were extremely interested in being able to fight with live ammunition, and in order to prolong the life of the naval guns, two-thirds of the charge was used for the two rounds of naval gun salvos. The main gun, which was supposed to have a range of up to 27 kilometers, was now less than 24 kilometers.

According to the performance of the naval guns, the shelling at a distance of fifteen or sixteen kilometers was relatively accurate. In order to prevent the battleship from being damaged by the Italian shore guns, the whole process of shelling was worked out quite carefully.

In ten minutes, five rounds of main artillery salvos were fired. At the end of the shooting, the battleship made a big bend in the sea and withdrew at full speed.

The battleship's main gun salvo was earth-shattering. At the beginning of the Battle of Shixiang Island, the battleship Pacific fired only thirty or forty guns in total, which had already caused huge casualties to the naval resistance army. Most of the officers and men on Li Guanghe's battleship experienced the horror of that huge cannon.

The ten huge cannons roared together, and the officers and men on the ship intuitively shook the entire battleship violently, and the huge battleship was actually pushed backwards by the recoil of the shells.

The Italian shore artillery batteries, even if they were strong, could hardly withstand the mighty guns of the battleships. In the telescope, Li Guang once again saw the horror of the main artillery, and ten shells exploded together, and the Italian shore artillery batteries were immediately shrouded in sand and dust rising into the sky. In Berbera, even the seaside is half of the Gobi Desert, and the yellow dust bursts like volcanic eruptions at the point where the shells fall.

In the telescope, Li Guang could see clearly that none of the five rounds of artillery bombardment directly hit the fort, but the lethality should not be underestimated. It is really difficult to predict whether people will survive such a huge earthquake. The battleship's cannon is truly incredibly powerful when striking targets on the opposite shore, and no matter how brave and invincible you are, you will be terrified by this kind of devastating blow.

The Italian shore gun batteries built along the shore were not one, but there were eight along the port. The reason why the battleship Pacific retreated after firing for ten minutes was that it was worried about the counterattack of the shore guns.

The first live firing of the Pacific battleship of the Naval Resistance Army was not satisfactory, and the five rounds of salvo firing at stationary targets cost 50 shells, none of which hit. That night, Zheng Xuechang led the artillery staff and the artillery crew to carry out an in-depth discussion to find their own shortcomings from these two rounds of shelling.

At midnight, the Naval Resistance Army continued eastward, reaching the outside of the port of Erigabo, where several more salvos of naval guns were fired.

By the next morning, the Pacific shelled Bossaso.

By noon, the battleship Pacific shelled the island of Socotra.

In just over a dozen hours, the warships of the Maritime Resistance Army fought from the west end of the Gulf of Aden to the exit of the Gulf of Aden. The three ports and one island along the way were all taken care of by the battleship Pacific.

The results of the artillery bombardment were not good, but the officers and men of the Maritime Resistance were brave and trained even harder. From this convoy, the tactical level of the Naval Resistance Fleet has improved rapidly. Later, due to the change in escort tactics, it became a common practice to shell the Italian military batteries along the Gulf of Aden every three to five days, and several ports along the East African coast were considered to be unlucky.

As time progressed, the battleship Pacific became more and more engaged in shelling training subjects, marching at high speed to single targets and firing at multiple targets. Turning salvos, sideways fire, high and low speed combined shots. They train on sunny days, fight on cloudy days, and attack in storms. Over the course of a month, the battleship Pacific consumed fifteen hundred shells. The fleet's achievements are improving rapidly. Li Guang saw it in his eyes and enjoyed it in his heart, this kind of intensity of the battle was simply tailor-made for the Naval Resistance Army.

Not a single country in the world has such extravagant training for its battleships, even cruisers, including the most wealthy America. In the past month or so, the port batteries of the four cities along the coast have all been destroyed, and the port facilities have also been blown up like ruins.

This kind of battle was so comfortable that the Italian Navy and Army had no power to fight back. And the miserable Italian Navy simply could not send even a single destroyer from the Mediterranean. On 11 November, British aircraft carriers raided the Italian military port of Taranto, inflicting heavy damage on the Italian fleet, and the British Navy gained the upper hand in the Mediterranean. The British used aircraft carriers this time, which was the first to attack battleships by aircraft carriers, and it was only at this time that the countries of the world knew that a giant battleship could be sunk by a torpedo dropped by a small warplane. Of course, this country does not include the Haitang Kingdom, and Li Guang has long known the function of aircraft carriers.

This battle of the British Navy's aircraft carrier can be described as the first of its kind, and in the past, aircraft carriers were actually mostly used as auxiliary weapons to support land operations or naval operations in various countries, and even Britain did not use aircraft carriers as the main force.

Under such conditions, it is difficult to know whether Italy can send submarines, and although the Maritime Resistance Force has paid more attention, they have not found anything.

Of course, the so-called consumption of 1,500 rounds of artillery shells, and how much was privately transferred by the Naval Resistance Army is simply impossible to calculate. All in all, in the past month or so, the Maritime Resistance Force has overfulfilled its tasks, not only by escorting diligently, but also by weakening Italy's defense capabilities on the East African coast.

In the process of escorting, the Maritime Resistance Army charged a lot of escort fees by the way, you must know that the ships passing by sea are not only British, but also Spain, Greece, the Netherlands and other countries.

The convoy consumption of the Maritime Resistance Army is not only reflected in the consumption of artillery shells, but also in the consumption of gasoline and diesel. Each time several seaplanes escorted a large area of patrol, it was really foolproof. Air patrols also require certain tactics, and in the process, the early warning tactics of the Maritime Resistance Force were rapidly perfected. The combat effectiveness of the seaplane carrier PC can be regarded as a preliminary small success.

With such strict patrol vigilance, it is difficult for even warships to break through the defensive circle without even detecting it, let alone armed merchant ships. Of course, if Italy sends submarines, there is still a certain threat.

In these days, the anti-aircraft gunners of the Naval Resistance Army matured faster. The number of anti-aircraft guns in the fleet was already large, and Li Guang had the British to supply ammunition, which was even more generous.

At the beginning, the training of anti-aircraft gunners of the Naval Resistance Army was often a chance to have only one shell in a week. Now it has been greatly improved, and during the march of the fleet, nine water reconnaissance planes are often seen towing long towing targets. More than 100 anti-aircraft guns opened fire one after another, and the scene was quite spectacular.

Later, the British felt that they could not bear it, and at the insistence of Major Smith, anti-aircraft artillery training was controlled at the level of one per gun per day. Even then, it is five or six times higher than the normal training ammunition consumption of the Naval Resistance Army.

Fighter squads and bomber squads have also been working hard lately, fighting almost every day as long as the weather permits, and not only airfields but also bridges and railways are regularly bombed in the Italian occupation zone. As for the few small boats moored in the harbor, they have long since been blown to the bottom of the sea. Originally, Li Guang also planned to bomb French Djibouti, but Major Smith firmly disagreed, so he had to give up.

The Navy was diligent from top to bottom, and this diligence quickly overwhelmed Major Smith's contact group. For more than a month, the Naval Resistance Army really did not have a day off. Except for a short period of replenishment, all at sea. Such consumption, especially of shells, completely exceeds the consumption of a fleet of this size by several times.

At the beginning, Major Smith was still in high spirits when he wrote a report to his superiors, and the Navy Army had done a great job of completing its mission. The Italian threat to merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden was almost completely lifted. And the miraculous thing is that for more than a month, no German submarines and German armed merchant ships appeared in this sea area.

But after a long time, Major Smith was not a fool, he found that the Navy Resistance Army was not for war, but purely for training. Sometimes an Italian shore artillery battery can be completely destroyed if it is fired statically, but the naval resistance forces firmly do not agree to shoot in a stationary state, on the grounds that they are worried about submarine torpedo attacks, so the battleship needs to be kept dynamic and fire a salvo of main guns in motion.

That close-range shooting will always be more accurate, Li Guang's shirk is a bit shameless, once the Italian army gets a small cannon and the battleship loses some patent leather, he will feel distressed.

Major Smith began to protest frequently to Li Guang, who was very good, saying that he would no longer do meaningless shelling, and immediately changed direction. After completing the escort mission, the battleship sailed out of the Gulf of Aden, not returning to the southeast, but directly south. Somali ports along the East African coast began to suffer.

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