Six and forty years became two days

Outside the port of Shilonggang, 10 kilometers. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

The little-known small harbour was originally a special wharf for fishermen in Kapo, located in the Johor Strait in the northeast of Kapo Island, from here to the east of the fertile Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea.

Standing on the heavy cruiser Dalian, He Ping seemed to smell the smell of gunpowder wafting from the big island of Jiapo in the distance, and as an old captain of the Imperial Royal Navy, he had some regrets in his heart.

The Dalian-class heavy cruisers, which were once the pride of the Navy and had made great achievements, finally got old, and the occasional appearance in the Imperial counterattack could not save the aging Shaohua, and they were downgraded by the Navy in just a few months, and if it were not for the residual power of the 254 mm naval guns, they might even be directly removed.

Ten years ago, except for the emperor, who spent a lot of money on aviation development and even made the navy jealous, no one would have thought that it would be the sky that would dominate the war today.

At the age of 48, he was even ready to retire, but the war suddenly came, otherwise he probably couldn't imagine what a funny ending it would be to take off his military uniform and go home with his grandson.

Let the naval artillery go crazy in this large-scale war!

He Ping turned his head, and the six battleships that were completely modified on the basis of crazy artillery battles showed their hideousness in the morning light.

This is the Nakshatra!

Legend has it that the Yaksha is a sea patrol general under the command of the Dragon King, who can lift thousands of huge waves ashore to help.

Today, the Yaksha can't make terrible waves, but it can also bring endless fear to the enemy from the sea!

Three Fire Dragon-class fire support ships improved from the original Duke class, and three Hellfire-class fire support ships improved from the old Polaris, the original size of the Yaksha squadron should be ten, but because the warships provided by Simmons later were not qualified, there are only six at present.

The fire support ship is the product of the navy's evolution into the tactic of "moving from sea to land" after the emperor put forward the strategy of decisive battle abroad.

The first thing that has changed is the appearance, if you are holding a photo of two old battleships at this time, you will definitely not associate the six warships in front of you with them, because they have long been different.

The forebridge and foremast have been merged, the two chimneys have been laid out side by side behind the bridge, and the original secondary guns, rear mast and rear bridge have all been bulldozed in order to stuff more turrets.

The Fire Dragon class (formerly the Duke-class battleship), with 7 triple 152 mm / L52 naval guns, the front two and five backpack layout, the Hellfire class (the original Polar Star battleship, three repurchased from Chile) has 6, the front two and the back four layout, the six support ships have a total of 117 152 mm naval guns, each gun has 900 ammunition, because the naval gun itself is more powerful than the army's guns of the same caliber, and the mechanical power launch speed is twice that of the army, so the designers have calculated that in the same unit time, The intensity of fire of 6 ships exceeded that of 24 armored division artillery battalions.

Although the power is huge, such a huge number of naval guns and alterations have seriously damaged the original structure of the battleship, the thick armor has been removed, the turret is just an anti-fragmentation ordinary steel plate, and the ammunition compartment adopts a large cabin layout, sharing an ammunition compartment for every two turrets, all in order to reduce weight and crammed into more turrets and shells.

Later, the designers also specially studied that Europe added two meters wide anti-torpedo empty compartments to the side waterline of six support ships, and the internal steel pipe was used as a support, which not only increased buoyancy, reduced the roll during salvo fire, but also improved the ability to attack under waterproof.

It should be said that this is not a warship at all, but a mobile fire support platform at sea, a dangerous powder keg, and the fragile structure is such that no naval captain is willing to lead it, so the command of the six support ships is all reservists and veterans who have recently been called back after retirement, and the establishment also belongs to the Marine Corps, which is only managed by the Navy.

It is said that when the six fire support ships were refitted and test-fired, there was a consensus within the navy that this was Hua's multi-turret monster! "Monsters are good, the British have heavy artillery mosquito ships, and we have fire support ships, so let's see who is perverted!" Emperor Li smiled when he commented afterwards, and personally named it "Marine Yaksha Fire Support Squadron". 【 I want: super fast update 】

As the sun rose, the British Far East Fleet's Discord, the Crown-class first-class armored cruisers USS Ariadne and USS Argo Heroes, were all hit by submarines three hours earlier and stranded on the island of Bergan at the western exit of the Straits of Johor.

At this time, there was not a single Entente ship around the fortress of Gapo, so the sailors of the two escorting Dalian-class heavy cruisers crowded onto the deck, and when they saw the picture of 117 52 body tubes erected at the same time, they all felt their scalps tingle, and the thought that they would shoot cannonballs at a rate of at least six shells per minute, the current was covered with vests along the backbone, and their whole bodies were numb.

Bottom-exhaust extended-range shells with a range of 40 kilometers were stuffed into the chambers, and the gunners excitedly waited for the order to fire, but strangely, as the sun rose a little bit, the order was not given, and even in the sky there were no planes in sight, except for two hummingbirds sent for fire reconnaissance and guidance.

The Air Force is on holiday?

While everyone was dumbfounded, Lieutenant General Phillips, who was covered in dirt inside the Bukit Timah Mountain bunker, also frowned secretly.

What's going on?

Could it be that yesterday's overwhelming airplanes were all illusions?!

After thinking about it, he walked out of the central fortress of Bukit Timah Hill, which was deep into the mountain, protected by thick earth and cement reinforcements, but when he appeared in the sun, the soldiers who had stayed up all night in the trenches around him, and the soldiers who had prevented Hua from landing could hardly believe that this was the vice admiral of the Royal Navy who had always appeared as a neat and clean nobleman.

At this time, Phillips was like a beggar and a flower, and his military uniform was torn through several large holes, hanging like strips of cloth, black and white, and almost unrecognizable, it was a white naval uniform.

Yesterday he was dug out of the rubble of the explosion by the staff officers and soldiers, if it wasn't for everyone's desperate rescue, I'm afraid he would have suffocated to death, compared to the uniform, his eyes worried everyone, and his pupils were dilated with almost no divine light.

Everyone knew that the usually amiable vice admiral had suffered a painful blow in his life, his fleet was wiped out in just one hour, and last night it was reported that the formation led by the battleship Discord had also been sunk and stranded. And proudly, known as the fortress of Gibraltar in the East, was destroyed in just one day, and if it were not for the Bukit Timah Mountain, which was built on the belly of the mountain, in addition to thick cement steel bars and mountain barriers, I am afraid that it would have been destroyed by the kind of large bombs dropped by enemy planes.

The figures just counted tell you that in just one day, more than 5,000 people were killed or wounded in the garrison of the Kapo fortress, including the navy, more than 5,000 people were killed or wounded, nearly 300 planes were all destroyed, and half of the remaining more than 100 warships, large and small, were sunk or damaged, and the rest were either blocked because the channel was blocked and could not leave, or they were stranded, but even if they could rush out, I am afraid that the sea of Malacca was already full of warships of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire.

Although yesterday's blow was heavy, Lieutenant General Phillips still did not think that Gapo would collapse quickly, he believed that his fighters, yesterday's huge casualties were due to underestimation of the aircraft, or did not expect it at all, so taking advantage of the cover of night, he had readjusted his defensive deployment, and transferred all the anti-aircraft guns that could be used to the vicinity of the Bukit Timah Mountain Fortress, as long as Hua could not break through this fortress in the mountain for a day, he could not say that he had occupied Gapo Island for a day.

Looking at the trenches crisscrossed all around and a large number of anti-aircraft positions, Lieutenant General Phillips took a deep breath, his scattered eyes gradually converged under the stimulation of the sun, it was impossible to hold on for two years, but it was still possible to hold on for a while.

The telegram for help believed that both the Indian Grand Fleet and the Prime Minister's Office had already been received, so it was necessary to hold on for a while longer and hold on to .......

Lieutenant General Phillips raised his head, and the ** sun that gradually moved overhead made him feel a lot warmer, and at this time, the entire Gallope was silent, except for the water reconnaissance planes that appeared from time to time, none of the roaring Grim Reaper yesterday appeared.

What the hell is going on?!

Lieutenant General Phillips frowned and pondered, the lack of information made him unable to make a judgment, but he always felt that Matsue had a sense of impending disaster.

Just when he and the staff officer were studying that the Ho Hua plane had not come so far, it had been bombed for a day, and because the soldiers who were afraid that the enemy army would attack at night could not hold on, the sun shone on their bodies, and their eyelids drooped involuntarily, and most of them took the opportunity to get out of the bunker to stretch their stiff bodies that had been curled up all night, and breathed in a big gulp of air.

Dozens of turban-clad Indian cooks began to serve lunch to the soldiers, and they all laid down their guns and sat on the edge of the trench in twos and threes, enjoying a rare moment of relaxation.

Suddenly!

Just as a soldier raised his glass to drink and looked up, a dense black spot suddenly appeared in the afterglow, and before he could react, the surroundings of Bukit Timah Mountain were enveloped in endless shells.

"Boom......."

The soldiers crawled and tried to hide back in bunkers and trenches, but the falling shells were so dense that in just a minute the entire area of the position seemed to be plowed all around.

The shells whistled and fell, and before the Indian chef could shout, he was drowned out by five shells falling in succession, and when the smoke cleared, only craters remained, and nothing was left.

Cannonballs, explosions or shells and explosions!

Endless!

Have you ever seen a torrential rain hitting a calm pond? At this time, Bukit Timah Mountain was the surface of the lake, and the cannonballs turned into raindrops and poured down violently.

A ball of fire was connected to a ball of fire, a crater to a crater, and after a moment the fire and the crater were not even distinguishable, and they were completely connected.

In the sky, the two hummingbirds were no longer able to command, because no matter which angle you looked, there were explosions and fires all around Bukit Timah Mountain.

Dozens of anti-aircraft artillery positions that took one night were drowned out by hundreds of shells that fell at the same time without even seeing the enemy's shadow, and the armored vehicles were blown up to the point that only fragments remained, and after just ten minutes, the trenches up to two meters deep had been filled with the mud kicked up by the explosion, and countless soldiers were buried under the mounds, and some soldiers were ready to climb out in a panic, but a little of their bodies were shredded by the shrapnel that swept by.

Wails and screams, wafting through the explosion, and none of the soldiers, who had just stepped out of the fortress and bunker to catch their breath, could not have imagined that they would encounter so many and such dense shells.

No, it should be said that the coverage of the rain of bullets!

The explosions that could be distinguished at first could no longer be heard, and the entire Bukit Timah Hill was filled with shells and explosions, and the soldiers could only subconsciously hold their heads and lie down in the deep trenches, either torn apart by the shells or buried.

Lieutenant General Phillips's newly restored confidence was hit again, he couldn't believe the facts in front of him, when he tried his best to defend against the enemy and continued to attack from the sky, he didn't expect that this time it was a cannonball that roared!

What's crazy is that with such a dense number of shells, how many battleships are needed to fire at the same time? As a naval officer, he knew very well that so many shells and explosions in front of him would require at least a hundred or more naval guns to fire at the same time, could it be said that Hua had arranged at least ten light cruisers to bombard this place? But the problem is that 152-mm naval guns simply can't hit here!

Because the Bukit Timah Hill Fort is 20 kilometers from the sea from any direction, and it must be separated from the sea shoals at a certain distance, which means that unless it is more than 305 mm and has a range of more than 25,000 meters, the other naval guns should not be a threat.

But the problem is, experience taught him that both the whistling and exploding fireballs showed that these were 152-mm shells, how could it have flown so far? Still so dense?

God, what kind of cannon the hell?

"Hit, hit!"

Just when Vice Admiral Phillips and the British soldiers were in despair when they were overwhelmed by artillery fire, the two Dalian-class heavy cruisers burst into bursts of cheers, and the six fire support ships next to them saw that some people cheered, and the bigger they were, the more energetic they became, throwing shells at a speed of 900 per minute to 30 kilometers away, even He Ping, the captain of the rear admiral who had experienced many naval battles, couldn't help but chill in his heart in the face of such a fierce shelling, and the corners of his eyes only twitched.

"I'm afraid the British can't even pick up the scum, right?!"

Two hours!

It was an exciting and painful 120 minutes for the sailors, but it was a nightmare for the British army in Bukit Timah Hill, with 84,240 high-explosive bombs sweeping over this main fortress of only 20 square kilometers like a hurricane, with an average of 4,212 bombs falling per square kilometer!

Based on the calculation of 50 kg of each 152 mm bottom exhaust range extender projectile, the total number of projected shells in 2 hours was 4212 tons, which was 10 times the total tonnage of bombs dropped by the Air Force in one day yesterday!

When the shelling was over for a while, the pilots on the two hummingbirds saw that the trenches and tunnels that had crisscrossed the country had been almost completely filled in, and all the exposed fortifications of Bukit Timah Hill had been destroyed, the trees had been blown off, and the hill seemed to have been shaved off in a thin layer.

Lieutenant General Phillips stood stupidly in the air window, the hellish sight outside made him almost unable to control himself, his fingers grabbing the cracks in the wall almost grinding blood, and the surviving soldiers outside began to dig through the dirt in the hope of rescuing their buried companions.

The corpses were scattered all over the ground, with broken limbs and broken arms scattered everywhere, and a soldier who had just come out of the thick earth, with his gun on the ground, looked around, his eyes lifeless.

A buzzing noise came from above him, and he looked numbly at the sky as 12 huge airships were slowly approaching.

No one knew what he was thinking, all they saw was that he raised his gun almost numbly, didn't aim, didn't crouch, just stood there, shot after shot.

After losing all air defense positions, on the hippopotamus airship at an altitude of 1,300 meters, the bombardier did not even look at this tickling attack, and slowly opened the bottom hatch, revealing four giant bombs nicknamed "Little Fat" with a length of 5 meters stacked side by side in groups of twos and twos.

1800 kg extra-heavy armor-piercing high-explosive shell!

This is a super bomb that cannot be loaded by any aircraft at present, only with a load of 10 tons, and the ammunition compartment has been specially improved for it, and the Hippopotamus-class airship is designed to carry it after a special reinforced pylon.

Airships, in groups of two, skimmed over the Bukit Timah Hill Fort.

The first wave of 8 "Chubby" bombs took the lead in drilling out of the magazine, and the black dots continued to enlarge in the soldier's eyes, and the heavy bullet body fell to the ground almost vertically, and then .......

The flames rose into the sky, hundreds of meters high, and the howling wind along the center of the explosion was more powerful than a violent hurricane at sea, and several large trees that needed to be held by two people were overrooted.

The ground shook violently, and the Bukit Timah Hill Fort, which was considered indestructible and unshaken even by the heavy shells just now, seemed to be experiencing a terrible earthquake, but it was as if it had turned into a small boat on the tip of the wave, repeatedly jolting and shaking in the continuous explosions.

Not a single piece of rubble smashed beside him startled the already sluggish Lieutenant General Phillips, who saw the soldier standing alone in front of the position, still pulling the trigger, disappeared after being swallowed by a circle of fire visible to the naked eye.

It should be said that the efficiency of airship bombing is really low, and the accuracy of hitting is miserable, but this is a "little fat" of 1800 kg after all!

Every time the "Chubby" fell, a huge crater of up to 10 meters deep and 30 meters in diameter appeared around the fortress, and when one of them, and the only one of the 48 to hit the main body of the Bukit Timah Hill Fortress, "Chubby" effortlessly penetrated the thick earth, smashed the cement layer that was extremely weak for it, and exploded inside the fortress.

As if stung from the inside, the mountain arched at the center of the explosion and then exploded under pressure like a volcanic eruption, and when the flames and air waves rushed out of the fortress's air windows and vents, the entire western section was like a balloon that was filled with water but was continuously punctured, and the main structure began to collapse inward.

As the airship slowly disappeared beyond the horizon, Vice Admiral Phillips crawled out of the guards, and when he looked around, he saw that panic and despair had crawled all over everyone's faces, and suddenly a trace of bitterness rose from the corners of his mouth, and his cheeks were hot.

Two years turned into two days!

What a contrast and a mockery!

: For the sake of Chubby, ask for it once!! Explode!

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RO！ ~！