Chapter 564: Prologue to the Naval Battle

Vice Admiral Mitchell did not hesitate, so he chose the most advantageous option - to dispatch all the planes to destroy the opponent's artillery, in fact, not all, but all the army planes, and there was an aircraft carrier in the port, but this aircraft carrier was used as his hole card, so he did not move. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The artillery has already calculated that the opponent's artillery is at least more than 30 kilometers away from itself, and this distance is almost beyond the range of all the guns in Gibraltar, you must know that the artillery of the Gibraltar fortress does not have many large calibers, and the largest is only 233 mm coastal defense guns, and these guns are still in positions near the sea, and the artillery positions on this land are 155 mm mobile artillery, and these guns cannot reach 30 kilometers at all.

The main thing is that no one would have thought that Hitler would be so crazy, for a six-square-kilometer projectile land, he actually dispatched almost 20 train guns, this is a train gun, not a cheap howitzer, there are not so many train guns in the whole of Britain.

There is only one salvo, because the firing frequency of various train guns is different, so the next shells are falling one without a single shot, only the eight K5 maintain the frequency of salvo fire, almost every ten minutes.

All the planes in Gibraltar took off, and this time the pilots had a very sad mood in their hearts, they had already seen the big craters on the shells of the planes, and they knew very well that they might never come back after taking off this time, and many people had written suicide notes, and even had a conversation with the nurse before, and they got married on the spot, kissed them and got on the plane to prepare for takeoff--there was not much room for them to talk about love in troubled times.

"The radar has detected a large number of light spots in Gibraltar, and the opposing air force has been dispatched!"

"The observation point found that the Gibraltar Fortress dispatched aviation units, and it was all sorted! Repeat, Gibraltar dispatched all the planes!! ”

Every move of the British troops at the fortress of Gibraltar was actually monitored by the German observation points, although it was impossible to see the specific situation of the transfer of troops, but the take-off of the plane was still known.

The air forces of the German and Spanish armies, which received the news, also immediately took off urgently, and the anti-aircraft guns around the train guns also turned their barrels, ready to meet the enemy at any time. The target train guns also found camouflage cloth and began to dress their train guns, and the train guns that were covered in camouflage in the woods were not so easy to find.

Tony piloted his beloved Spitfire and his friend Emitty to form a formation, he looked around, there were hundreds of planes forming a huge air formation, with bombers in the middle and fighters around, and they had only one goal, to attack the train guns in the sky. The comrades around him didn't make him feel so reassured, he knew what he was up against.

"Enemy planes!!" Suddenly, a shout sent a chill down Tony's spine as he saw a silver-white plane flash in front of him, more than a little faster. What kind of plane is that? But the plane only flashed by, and then it was never seen again, which made Tony a little curious.

Then, Tony saw more than a dozen German fighters, all of which were the latest equipment of the German army in the intelligence, the FW-190, nicknamed Mozu, and these planes were obviously a little different from the photos in the intelligence, and they should be improved.

"Damn, it's the main force of the German army, everyone be careful! The second and third detachments meet the enemy, and the rest of the people do not mess up and continue to assault! Tony listened to the command on the radio, swallowed his saliva, resisted his feeling of wanting to meet the enemy, and continued to assault.

Thirty kilometers away even the slowest bomber does not take ten minutes, although the British army took off and assembled in a small half an hour, but after all, it has a close advantage, so these German fighters are all fighters that have been patrolling the sky above, but only a dozen, and the British fleet is enough for 100 aircraft, although the German fighters are superior to the British fighters in terms of pilot experience and aircraft performance, but they cannot stop this huge group, the group continues to fly towards the train gun position, and the anti-aircraft guns on the ground began to roar.

The 20-mm FlaK30 anti-aircraft gun hit like a machine gun, instantly forming a wide firepower network, and the shells fired by the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun were all killed next to each other, and they were injured when they touched it, and when they looked down from the plane, although they could find the railroad tracks, it was too difficult to hit them at an altitude of several thousand meters, after all, they only had this one chance.

"Swoop down! For the sake of the British Empire! The order came over the radio, and Tony no longer hesitated, pressed the nose of the plane and rushed down, he had already made up his mind that if his plane was injured, he would find a train cannon to crash into it - only then would the people he valued in the fortress be safe.

"A large number of enemy aircraft appeared! A large number of enemy aircraft appeared! The bombers lowered their altitude to bomb, and the fighters caught up! There was a shout over the radio, and Tony looked up, only to see countless black dots rushing towards him from all directions, and German air reinforcements had arrived.

"Come on! German devils! Tony only panicked for a moment, then firmed up, shook his wing, and pounced on his wingman.

His opponent was a silver-white plane he had never seen before, this plane shone with a metallic glow, and there was not a single propeller in sight.

- Fortress of Gibraltar

Lieutenant General Mitchell made his rounds around the fort, talking to the soldiers from time to time in order to boost morale, and when he came to a ward in a wartime hospital, he saw seven or eight men lying there already bandaged, and it was a kind of luck to survive the wounds under such heavy artillery.

"Your Excellency General, you're here!" A beautiful female nurse was chatting with the wounded soldier to reassure him, but when she saw that the wounded soldier suddenly wanted to struggle, she quickly turned around and saw Lieutenant General Mitchell.

Lieutenant General Mitchell held down the wounded soldier, greeted the other wounded soldiers, and said to the nurse, "You did a great job, thank you." ”

The nurse blushed and said, "That's what I'm supposed to do, General... Do you think we can hold it? ”

Lieutenant General Mitchell's eyes were in a trance, and he said firmly, "The sun never sets, the empire will not fall, the Germans have lost to us once, and this time it will make no difference." ”

"That's right! We're waiting for the day when we can go to Berlin and kick Hitler's ass! A soldier on the hospital bed next to him said a little weakly.

"Well said, corporal! Then live well and go out and kick Hitler's ass together! Lieutenant General Mitchell said with a laugh.

"Is our plane back?" A wounded soldier in an Air Force suit asked, this is a soldier who was wounded at the airfield, he was about to get on the plane, but a shell that was obviously dozens of meters away from him knocked him to the ground, thanks to an airplane that helped him block the shrapnel and rocks of the shell, otherwise, he would have died.

Lieutenant General Mitchell's eyes also revealed worry, he didn't know what the result was, he actually couldn't stand the torment of waiting, so he patrolled, anyway, the Air Force has an Air Force commander who can replace the command.

"Report! Urgent military intelligence. A non-commissioned officer walked in and said, Lieutenant General Mitchell stepped forward to take the battle report, he glanced at it, his eyes suddenly shrank, the wounded soldiers and nurses were about to ask, a huge explosion came, looking at the dust falling from the ceiling, everyone's hearts were half cold, the German train guns opened fire again, then the result of the raid can be imagined.

"Your Excellency, where is our plane?" The nurse asked nervously.

Lieutenant General Mitchell folded the battle report and said slowly, "They have proved their bravery and loyalty with their lives!" ”

"Tony!!" After the nurse screamed a person's name, she fell to the ground, tears fell out of her eyes, and the corners of the eyes of the wounded soldiers next to her also turned red, Lieutenant General Mitchell looked at such a scene, clenched his teeth, walked out of the door and said, "Gentlemen, let's start preparing for battle." ”

In fact, the British raid was not without effect, there were five train guns due to the British bombing or impact and suffered varying degrees of damage, and even two were completely damaged, one of which was still a K5 train gun, but such a loss was nothing to the German army, the next day, the German train guns kept firing shells at the fortress, and the next day, the bombers and fighters of the Axis coalition began to tentatively come to the fortress to bomb, and on the third day, More than 300 sorties have been made to bombard the fortress, and the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the fortress can hardly stop for a minute, and the last few anti-aircraft guns have even exploded due to overheating, which shows the fierceness of the battle.

-- London

"We have received information that the Italian Mediterranean Fleet has been dispatched, and their target may be the H Fleet outside the Gibraltar fortress." An officer said to Churchill.

"H-Fleet?" Churchill asked curiously, "Are the Italians crazy?" The fortress of Gibraltar is still in our hands, it is simply impossible for them to win under the flanking attack of the fortress guns and the H fleet, how many fleets did they dispatch? Aren't they afraid that our Mediterranean fleet will attack their lair? ”

The officer immediately said, "According to our intelligence, they dispatched three battleships and two heavy cruisers, of which the battleships should be the newest Veneto-class battleships. ”

Churchill frowned and said, "What is Mussolini doing?" Although such a force is slightly stronger than our H fleet, it will not be able to win, and it is difficult for the French fleet to participate in the war? Wrong... It would be nice if those ships of the French African fleet could protect themselves. ”

The H Fleet, commanded by Lord Somerville, was stationed in Gibraltar, and at the beginning of the war, the whole army was "Warrior" and "Determination" 2 battleships, the battle cruiser "Prestige", the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal", 2 cruisers, and 11 destroyers, but at this time only a few destroyers were lost, one cruiser was injured and under repair, and the main force was still there. The Germans also tried to bomb these fleets during the bombing, but under the anti-aircraft artillery array, they still gave up, and first laid down the artillery positions of the fortress.

Historically, the Italian Navy has been unable to solve the fuel problem, so large warships have not been in battle since mid-June 42 due to fuel shortages. However, the interesting thing is that when Hitler occupied Italy later, he accidentally found that Italy actually had a large amount of oil reserves, and a lot of oil was stored in the cave, so why the Italian Navy did not go to war has always become a topic of discussion in later generations, but in this time and space, it may be where the oil fields of Libya are, there is no reason to say that there is no oil, and it may be because of the interests of Egypt, and the combat enthusiasm of the Italian Navy is not bad.

At this time, the two battleships of the Italian Navy damaged in the Battle of Taranto had been repaired, and the battleship "Roma" had also entered service, and the number of Italian battleships had increased to seven, of course, Churchill had not yet received the news, and he thought it was two Veneto-class battleships.

Churchill asked, "So does the Admiralty have any plans?" The location of the Gibraltar fortress is very important, and we cannot afford to lose it. ”

Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Pound said, "There is no other way but rescue, this one is likely to be a decisive battle, such a move of the Italian Navy is obviously the result of communication with Germany, then the German Navy may also be dispatched, we must leave enough warships to prevent the German surprise attack." In addition, although the Egyptian fleet could not join the battlefield in the western Mediterranean, it could attack the Italian mainland, and the new battleships of the Italian navy were outside, and they might return to the aid out of fear. As for the Gibraltar Fortress, although the German train artillery attack was very strong, they forgot that we still had aircraft on the aircraft carriers, so I suggested that two aircraft carriers be dispatched to establish an intermediate operating platform, so that they could provide a steady stream of air cover for the Gibraltar Fortress and return fire on the German fortress guns. ”

Churchill was so intrigued that he immediately said, "It's an interesting idea, you can tell me about it." ”

An unprecedented sea battle is coming, and in the other side of time and space, Jiang Cheng finally walked out of time and space.

At this time, Jiang Cheng was covered in dark black dirt after blood coagulation, Jiang Cheng smelled it, and there was no smell, but looking at this thing all over his body, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but worry a little about whether he would lose too much blood, but there was nothing abnormal in his body.

"Alright! It's okay, I just checked, you can now generate a life space with a radius of half a meter, and everything in this space can travel through time and space on the basis of maintaining life, but if you use life space, you can't use the transportation space at the same time, and if a life is partly in the life space and part outside, then he will only have the result of dismembering and dying. ”

Jiang Cheng looked at his body and immediately scolded, "Damn! A radius of half a meter? I'm more than half a meter, I can't even take this life space with me! ”

Gallag gagg laughed, "I said you're stupid, you still don't believe it, you don't know how to squat, isn't that okay?" Anyway, you can bring some modern seeds with you in the future, but if you bring the virus with you, there may be a Resident Evil over there. ”