Chapter 3 Naval Artillery Strikes
When the air power had carried out a baptism of fire and iron on Qingdao, they returned. At the same time as these planes returned, more planes took off from the "Yue Fei aircraft carrier", and their goal was to support the soldiers of the air assault division that were now being airborne in Weihai and Yantai.
Compared with Qingdao, Weihai and Yantai did not have too many troops.
Especially in Weihai, the main team stationed here is the British ** team. Due to the Allied camp in the First World War, when the Japanese captured Shandong, the British ** team directly helped.
At the moment, they were stationed in the military port of Weihai, and they were not subject to any further constraints. There are also some British naval vessels stationed here.
Of course, these warships will inevitably end up in the pocket of Admiral Luknar. For the Chinese Renaissance Party, military ships that come to Chinese ports without being invited will not be protected by them, and the attack is certain.
When the cruiser fleet, on which the British ** team depended, became a dead fish in the harbor under the same means as the special forces, there were swarms of airships flying in the sky.
The British, who were more sensible than the Japanese, did not put up any resistance, although they were annoyed by the bombing of the warship. But the British, who had already attached considerable importance to air power, found that more than a hundred planes had been sent to support the operation at this time.
In particular, when the airships flew over Weihai in groups, the sky was full of + one + book + read + colorful and colorful.
As soon as a large number of infantry of the air assault division came out of the "meteorite", they immediately formed small groups and pounced on their respective targets nearby. It seems as if they are fighting for themselves. In fact, the first small group of attacking troops had their own accurate targets for attack. By the time the British defenders came to their senses, they had been cut into small pieces by the troops that had fallen from the sky.
What happened near the British ** battalion made the British commanders here shudder.
This time, it was not soldiers who came out of the "meteorite", but two armored vehicles and jeeps towing large-caliber mortars drove out of the strange-looking airborne equipment.
It is worth mentioning here that these jeeps, 120-mm heavy mortars crouched on the axis of the jeeps like recoilless guns. When used, simply push the cannon backwards, and it will sit firmly in the ground along with the gun mount behind it, and the Jeep loader can load the first shell in an extremely fast 15 seconds.
The attack of 120mm mortars and 12.7mm machine guns and rockets quickly "stopped" the commotion of thousands of British troops throughout the British camp. At this time, the British camp was full of heavy artillery fire.
Crowds of soldiers were killed directly in the barracks by rockets with quite high accuracy, as well as shells from 25mm cannons. The 12.7 mm machine gun turned all the houses in the barracks into fishing nets. The "Scattered Flowers of the Heavenly Maiden" thrown from the sky created hordes of wounded soldiers.
As for the pillboxes, under the care of heavy mortars, the soldiers inside suffered worse than the rest of the world.
In the face of this fresh and sharp offensive, the British commanders quickly understood who they had encountered, so the resistance did not last long. After all, most of these troops were Ah San, and they could not be compared with the army of the British mainland.
The scale of the battle on the Yantai side was no stronger than the battle in the direction of Weihai, and the resistance at this time was relatively much weaker, and when the fort was fought and the battleships became dead fish, under the double pressure of artillery fire and air, the Japanese soldiers here quickly collapsed. The city was easily taken by the soldiers of the Air Assault Division.
During the whole day's fighting, the attack was the most unsuccessful, and the largest casualty was Qingdao. Because it was used as a base for maritime forces by the Japanese army dispatched in China, at this time not only more than 20,000 of the 51,700 major divisions and regiments of Japan were stationed in China.
It also includes the Fuso, the lead ship of the "Fuso-class battleships" of the flagship of the Japanese Second Fleet, and the "Kirishima" battlecruiser, the fourth ship of the "Jingang-class battlecruisers".
The "Fuso-class battleship" has a standard displacement of 29,330 tons/34,700 tons, a total length of 205 meters, a width of 28.65 meters, a draft of 8.7 meters, a total length of 212 meters (waterline length of 210 meters), a width of 33 meters, and a draft of 9.4 meters after refitting.
Armament: 12 twin 356 mm/45 x caliber guns; 16 152 mm/50x secondary guns; 4 76-mm anti-aircraft guns; 533 mm caliber torpedo tubes.
The "Kanegang-class battlecruisers", after being modernized and refitted, they were the famous Japanese "Kanegang-class battleships", which were later refitted and participated in World War II.
They were also modeled after the British "Lion-class battlecruisers", and in that order, they were "Kongo", "Hiei", "Haruna", and "Kirishima". Since they are about to become part of the future Chinese fleet, here are some of their more detailed data.
Standard displacement: 27,500 tons, 31,720 tons after modification; Dimensions: length 214.6 m / width 28 m / draft 8.38 m, modified length 222 m / width 31.7 m / draft 9.6 m armament: 8 twin 356 mm / 45 times caliber main guns; 16 (152 mm/50 x caliber secondary guns; 12 76-mm guns, 12 twin 127-mm anti-aircraft guns after modification, 24 25-mm anti-aircraft guns (94 in 1944); 533 mm torpedo tubes;
Crew: 1221-1118 people, the two warships are not much different, and both have the British "Lion-class battlecruiser" blood, all of which are new battleships launched around 1900~1905. In addition to them, there were 6 cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 3 ironclads stationed in the port of Qingdao, which had one-third of the total strength of the Japanese navy.
Due to the holiday, they did not go to sea, only three destroyers went out to patrol, and by this time they were already buried in the dense torpedoes dropped by the Benlei-type attack aircraft.
The warships in the harbor, no matter what kind of warships they are, are all dead fish in the harbor that are floating now. However, although the battleships could not move, this did not prevent them from using their naval guns. It did not prevent them, they organized the crews, sent them ashore in batches, joined the army, and desperately carried out an army counterattack against the landing China.
Unfortunately, they were not suitable for use as they could not be moved, and because they were used for artillery support for the defenders in Qingdao. In particular, the planes flying around in the sky did not allow them to have any observation posts on the mast. The defenders in the city also did not have any radios at all. As for the use of the signal flag, since the flag bearers were all killed, it was of little use.
The 152-mm secondary guns, which were really capable of creating a danger for the attacking troops, came in handy when the air assault troops easily stormed the fort on the top of the hill in the afternoon.
The huge cannon, when fired, made the hull of the giant ship sway from side to side, and out of the crimson flames, dark red ballistics flew out. The 356-mm shells were like some demons flying through the air, screaming and slamming straight towards the Wushan Fort.
The Japanese navy was worried that if the battery on Noon Hill was occupied, the warships in the harbor, which had completely lost the ability to move, would become live targets for the large artillery on the batteries at dawn.
Taking advantage of the darkness of dawn, the soldiers of the Air Assault Division broke into the Wushan Fort and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the Japanese artillery defenders in the fort.
In the tunnels, where the lights were all out, an unknown number of Japanese gunners were hidden. They made every step forward for the soldiers of the Air Assault Division to pay the price of blood.
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Fortunately, the excessive penetration of the Type 38 rifle caused most of the people who were hit to be injured, and there was no danger to life. After the search was blocked, the commander of the air assault division brought in flamethrowers, burned a section of infantry, and then moved forward to clear it, so that the process of capturing the battery became orderly.
But at this moment, the roar of huge cannons rang out from the warships in the harbor. The eagle-eyed observer overhead was also shouting in time.
"Enemy artillery fire, pay attention to Wushan!"
However, by this time it was already night. Shells from 352-mm guns fell on the noon hill. The battery was bombed as if it were the end of the world. The cement blocks were flying in all directions with a strange scream, and the "meteorites" that were hit were directly blown to pieces, and there was not even a trace left.
The soldiers searching in the alleyway were knocked to the ground in the violent tremors. The cement blocks above their heads fell like rain, and the soldiers who were hit by the cement blocks were crushed by the huge cement slabs one by one, and the injured soldiers let out a heart-rending scream.
Obviously, the gunners on the warship had no intention of attacking or defending the area alive.
But their so-called fierce counterattack was hit even harder. At this time, the dispatcher of the "Eagle Eye" in the air, who saw the heavy casualties of the air assault division, summoned planes flying in the sky.
"Dense attack on enemy ship conning towers......!"
As an order was issued, dozens of "sea sabers" pounced on the conning towers of two huge ships. Piercing shells from 12.7 mm machine guns and rockets were fired at the ship's conning tower.
Of course, such an attack would not do much damage to the battleship's thick armor. However, the intensive rocket attacks have long made the people in the command tower tremble. The attack of more than 100 rockets from dozens of planes completely set the control tower on fire, and thick smoke rose from the control tower.
The ship's guns, which had lost their command of fire, stopped firing, and they did not know where to fire their shells without instructions from the conning tower. In particular, when the battleship's radio channel, which had been blocked, suddenly came a telegram using the naval code.
The telegraph operator on the Japanese warship, who thought that he had reconnected with the Empire, was at first overjoyed, but when his men began to write translations continuously, his mood became more and more gloomy.
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