768 Didn't wash

When the Air Force launched an air raid on Goba Heights, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", which had been ordered to provide fire cover to the Anzac Corps, was sailing along the sea 10 kilometers away from Goba Heights, along with two other battleships.

The battleship "Queen Elizabeth" is currently the most powerful battleship of the British Royal Navy, before the Battle of the Dardanelles, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" had not yet entered service and was on trial trials in the Mediterranean, considering that most of the battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet at that time were on the verge of retirement, Winston ordered the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" to reinforce the Mediterranean Fleet.

As the most powerful battleship of the British Royal Navy, the caliber of the main gun of the "Queen Elizabeth" reached an unprecedented 15 inches, which is converted to 381 mm, this data is still confidential at present, in order to confuse the Germans, the British Navy claimed that the main gun caliber of the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" was only 14 inches, in the previous battle, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" rarely had a chance to perform, and now the opportunity has come.

The power of the 15-inch guns was huge, and ten kilometers was already within the firing range, but the accuracy could not be guaranteed, and the defenders' positions on the Goba Heights were too close to the Anzac positions, and the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" had to continue to advance to ensure that the shells would not hit the Anzac positions.

This kind of thing has not happened before, when the Anzac landed on the Goba Heights, the British 29th Division landed on Cape Hess, the terrain of Cape Hess is more complicated, the 29th Division has a total of five landing points, and as a result, the warships covering the landing mistakenly hit the position of one of the landing forces.

For the unprepared landing force, the power of the naval guns was enormous, and by the time the oolong was discovered, the shelling had already lasted twenty minutes, and the landing force suffered heavy casualties, and they were not killed in the battle with the enemy, but were mistakenly wounded by their own people.

After urgent communication between Roque and John Fisher, a gag order was issued on the matter, which no one could discuss, and if it was known by those pervasive media reporters, it would surely become the biggest scandal of the coalition forces since the outbreak of the world war.

Rear Admiral William Lloyd, the interim captain of the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", did not want to make headlines, so he ordered the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" to move forward and provide fire cover to the Anzac at the closest possible distance, it did not matter whether it was efficient or not, it was most important not to make mistakes.

If there are no accidents, when the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" is officially commissioned, Rear Admiral William Lloyd will become the first captain of the battleship "Queen Elizabeth", which is a great honor that only a truly talented general can receive, John Fisher did it 30 years ago, and later John Fisher became a legend of the British Royal Navy.

"Sir, we are only five kilometers from Goba Heights." First mate Charles Collins was also an outstanding new general, otherwise he would not have had the opportunity to serve on the battleship "Queen Elizabeth".

"Keep going, let me know when it's three kilometers away—" William Lloyd's eyes did not take his eyes off the telescope, in his telescope, the Goba Heights were already shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and several planes that looked like seabirds glistened in the sunlight, they were like elves up and down in the smoke, and with each dive, the smoke above the Goba Heights became thicker.

"WTF, what's going on?" William Lloyd did not understand the new thing as an airplane, and in his eyes, only a powerful battleship was the decisive force that changed the tide of battle.

Charles Collins is not speaking, he is also looking at Goba Heights with a telescope.

The ground support aircraft made its debut and the performance was indeed very impressive.

Incendiary bombs are also as good as ground support aircraft, and they may not be more effective than aerial bombs that rely on shock waves to inflict damage, but they create far more psychological panic for the enemy than aerial bombs.

Fire and water are ruthless, people are always full of fear of the force majeure of unknown things, and the broken limbs of people killed by shells are tragic enough, but that kind of death happens in an instant, and it causes a momentary visual impact to people, recruits will certainly panic, and veterans can turn a blind eye after a long time.

Burned to death by an incendiary bomb, death does not happen instantly, the cruelty of an incendiary bomb is that as long as it is contaminated with solid combustibles, before the solid combustibles are burned out, the flames will not be extinguished, and it is useless to jump into the water, this is the first time that the Ottomans have felt the power of incendiary bombs, they lack experience in dealing with incendiary bombs, the soldiers watched their companions wail and roll on the ground, desperately begging for help, but they could do nothing, they could only watch their companions being engulfed, twisted, and carbonized by the fire, and finally turned into a pile of coke that no one recognized.

This process can take up to ten minutes.

Many soldiers collapsed directly after seeing their comrades burned to death by incendiary bombs, and the Ottomans piled up a lot of ammunition on the position, which was originally prepared for the landing Anzac, and now the shells and bullets were also ignited and detonated, and the whole box of shells and bullets released a devastating fireworks like fireworks, which would be refreshing in peacetime, but now it has become a sickle in the hands of the Grim Reaper.

The entire position had turned into a sea of fire, and after being shrouded in thick black smoke, the ground support planes did not give up, and they continued to dive, and only returned after they had exhausted all the ammunition of the aviation machine guns.

When six ground support planes flew past the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" in a neat herringbone formation, the long plane in the center waved its wings and greeted the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" in a friendly manner.

It's a pity that William Lloyd doesn't understand the language of the Air Force, and he himself feels as if he is being ridiculed, and the plane is laughing at them for being late.

When did the Royal Navy, which has dominated the world for a hundred years, suffer such gas!

Even though William Lloyd knew that the pilot on the plane couldn't hear it, he couldn't help but curse, and the fragrance of his mouth immediately echoed in the bridge.

Charles Collins did not speak, but quietly observed with a telescope, and now the situation seems to be as if the "Queen Elizabeth" has lost the meaning of fire cover.

"Fire! Shoot at Goba Heights! "William Lloyd had to do something, a battleship sortie was very fuel-intensive, and it could not be made in vain.

What William Lloyd didn't expect was that Albert, the commander of the Anzac beachhead who was ready to die, thought the same way.

When the ground support aircraft bombed the Goba Heights, Albert was already mobilizing his troops.

The idea of landing in the wrong place, putting 16,000 Anzac soldiers in great danger, has been eating away at Albert's heart like a poisonous snake since discovering that the landing site was wrong.

It is difficult to describe Albert's mental activity more clearly, anger, remorse, heartache, despair and countless other complex thoughts are entangled in Albert's heart, if he can give his life to return the Anzac to the moment before the landing, Albert must not hesitate.

So one can imagine how ecstatic Albert was when the ground support aircraft began to bomb Goba Heights.

An attacking force of about 2,000 men was assembled in the shortest possible time, and the commander from New Zealand, Broad, wanted to wait until the bombing was over before attacking, and Albert could not wait.

"Set off now and attack on the Goba Heights, the Southern African Expeditionary Force has played a perfect infantry and artillery coordination at Ypres, and we can do it too!" Albert thought about the coordination of infantry and artillery too simply, and the coordination of infantry and artillery and the integration of air and ground operations are not the same thing, and it is difficult for pilots to observe the situation of the ground forces, and they cannot even tell whether the ground forces are the enemy or us, so the coordination of air and ground is more difficult than that of infantry and artillery, and similar experiments have been carried out in southern Africa, but it is found that it is too difficult to implement.

Not yet, at least.

After Operation Victory Horn, the methods of operation of the Southern African Expeditionary Force were written down to all the combat units of the Entente countries, and the stubborn generals dismissed them, but there were always people who were inspired.

Just after Albert was in high spirits and wanted to lead his troops to the Goba Heights to reap the victory, tragedy finally happened again.

"Twelve hundred people were killed and six hundred wounded, which means that the perfect air raid of the air force once again turned into a result of heavy casualties, our battleships are really powerful, why can't they perform so well against the Ottomans?" Roque was about to collapse when he saw the battle report, just land in the wrong place, and in order to grab the merit, he was attacked by his own fleet, and the last time he hit by mistake, he could issue a gag order, what should he do this time? Continuing to issue gag orders? If we can block the mouths of the officers and men of the Mediterranean Fleet and the officers and men of the expedition, can we still stop the mouths of the people in the world?

"It's not someone's fault, we sent ground support planes, and we didn't notify the fleet and the landing force, the coordination between the troops on the front line is a big problem, they can't report the situation in time, so it caused accidental injuries, I think, this explanation is acceptable." Ian Hamilton entered the workforce as a competent Chief of Staff, having achieved little success as a military officer, and was awarded the Victoria Cross with the rank of General as Chief of Staff.

"Remove the Anzac, they need to rest before they can return to the battlefield." Roque feared that the Anzac would collapse, and that no one could stand such heavy blows one after another.

"I asked General Nancy's opinion, and he did not agree with the withdrawal of the Anzac, and the Anzac was very resolute that they would wash away the humiliation with their own hands-" Ian Hamilton shook his head, Brad Nancy was too stubborn, which is understandable, for a soldier, honor is more important than life.

But it's a little difficult to wash, and now it seems that there are more and more stains on the Anzac, and it's just out of line with everyone, the Ottoman Fifth Army beat them, and the fleets of friendly forces also beat them, how to wash?