2181 Outpost Operation 4
In just less than 3 minutes, after five rounds of salvos, the 24 V1500 bombers, dozens of various vehicles and hundreds of British ground crews on the apron were smashed into pieces by sudden attacks! The originally flat and wide apron has now become like the surface of the moon. Huge craters, blown up floating soil, and charred wreckage. The smoke of smoke with irritating smells and dust has lasted for a long time over the apron. The flames spread around under the blow of the sea breeze, and the entire apron has become a dead hell of flames.
The hangar, factory and power plant next to it encountered a catastrophe almost at the same time. High explosive bombs falling from the sky were easily destroyed by large hangars of more than 20 meters long and more than ten meters wide. The huge brackets made a tiny twisting sound in the flames caused by picric acid explosives. As for the wooden boards used to build the airport, they were burned out in a few minutes. The huge hangars became torches. From time to time, the hangars could not withstand the scorching flames and collapsed, and the planes and personnel trapped inside were directly engulfed by the flames! "Less than 15 minutes after the war started, the area of overfire exceeded 1 square kilometer." A German pilot wrote in a telegram to the fleet.
The largest casualties occurred in the machinery factory, power station and the workers' dormitory area next to it. The British's combat readiness had reached the last moment, and thousands of workers and soldiers were working day and night. At this time, the British who were busy by the rumbling machinery in the factory could not have imagined that the disaster had fallen from the sky. When the first shell smashed the roof of the factory, the British were still busy at their posts!
The result was absolutely catastrophic! The high-explosive bomb that was detonated almost instantly at the roof carried out an indiscriminate coverage attack on the personnel and machinery within a radius of thousands of square meters below! Tens of thousands of shrapnel and flames fell from the sky and those who had not yet reacted and the roaring machinery were swallowed up! With a loud bang, the huge factory collapsed like an egg smashed by a giant war hammer! The large factory buildings were wiped from the ground under the attack of raindrop shells. The rising flames and smoke were so dazzling in the night sky that the British naval officers and soldiers who stayed in Scapa Bay could see the scene like doomsday in the distance!
Then there was the power station next to it, the substation and generator workshop were first attacked. With the drop of shells, the clicks running at high speed and the buzzing substation outside were engulfed by the sea of fire. In an instant, the power supply of the entire airport was cut off. Except for the flames, all the lights were extinguished in an instant. For this important target, the Germans tirelessly fired more than 200 tons of ammunition, and even blew the core area of the power plant into a huge bomb crater. The possibility of the British resuming production could be completely extinguished.
The most difficult targets to destroy in the airport are semi-selling ammunition and oil depots. These flammable and explosive items are placed under reinforced concrete domes with a thickness of more than 1 meter. They are also covered with thick soil and vegetation. Therefore, this is also the only area where the German high seas fleet needs to attack with special armor-piercing bombs.
"Replace heavy concrete armor-piercing shells and use reduced-loading spray to fire." Under the order of the artillery leader, the German naval officers and soldiers in the turret placed the remaining high-explosive grenades that had not been finished on the temporary ammunition rack in the tail compartment of the turret, and then sent a special reinforced concrete armor-piercing shell into the turret through the bullet conveyor. This shell uses a round and blunt warhead, and the bullet weight is heavier than normal armor-piercing shells. In order to fire this armor-piercing shell, the German Navy specially prepared a cannon watch for reducing drug. In addition, the hood of this shell is not that long, so the speed of the long distance is even worse.
However, the Germans are doing this for this. In order to better obtain horizontal penetration, the shells need to be as heavy as possible, and the ballistics must be bent. Reducing the charge and using the hood with poor speed is to achieve this. (The high-speed shells have poor penetration depth, while the low-speed heavy shells have a good penetration depth. For details, please refer to the combination of the American MK6 artillery and MK8 super heavy shells in the Battle of 2. The American MK6 artillery seemed to set a record of the strongest level penetration depth in the history of battleship combat. During the torch operation, it penetrated the secondary artillery ammunition depot of the Jean-Bar battleship! Fortunately, there were no shells in it at that time....)
After the Germans changed the shells and bound the firing table, the attack on the last important target of the Hartston Naval Airport kicked off. With the issuance of another fire order, the German fleet roared again, and the artillery tube raised high, firing groups of shells at the British ammunition depot in the distance!
Boom! After two rounds of agitating, the German shelling was as if it was God's help! Three shots hit the target area when they entered the first group of shells that were shot! The shells weighing nearly 900 kilograms hit the top of the ammunition depot. The huge impact force flew tons of soil into the air. Then the shells made an oblique downward passage in the soil layer and finally hit the thick reinforced concrete dome!
With a loud bang, the warhead and concrete collided fiercely. The solid concrete layer could not save the poor ammunition depot below this time. Under the action of huge inertia, the shells easily cut the concrete layer like a hot knife cutting butter. Shortly after the bullet entered the warehouse, the fuse at the bottom of the bullet detonated!
"Damn, what's the situation?" At this time, even the German pilots in the air felt the huge vibration coming from the ground. The whole ground suddenly rolled like waves! The main piece of soil was thrown into the air by the shaking ground, as if something huge underground revived.
Then, several huge smoke pillars rose into the air and rushed into the air for hundreds of meters. Then, the smoke pillars began to spread around, forming mushroom clouds that predicted destruction. Fierce explosions and flames emerged from the ground, and the ground collapsed downwards, forming huge deep pits! The shock waves generated by the explosion even affected the German aircraft flying at low altitudes. From time to time, debris hit the wings, and the air waves generated made these aircraft sway like small boats in the stormy waves, which scared some German pilots immediately pulled the plane and prepared to stay away. However, before that, they still sent a telegram with all their heart and responsibility: "The attack is very successful, continue!"
Chapter completed!