"Boom, boom!" One shell after another fell, and the fourth shell successfully smashed on the runway, and in an instant, a deep crater with a diameter of more than 30 meters appeared on the runway.

A pilot who had just stepped onto the fighter plane and wanted to forcibly take off finally stopped, and with the explosion just now, the entire runway was damaged!

It's not just the big crater, with these explosions, the entire runway is full of all kinds of debris that has been blown up, and when you take off at this time, it is easy to hit these debris, as long as you accidentally bump into it, it is a take-off accident!

The airport, which has been scrapped.

At the same time, in the harbor, several ships, after receiving orders, were also ready to start.

Like the French Navy at the beginning, they hurriedly got up, and the first thing they did was to set the boiler on fire!

They are not immediately available, they cannot be dispatched until the water in the boiler is boiled and the steam pressure is reached.

That's what happened to be sneak attacked!

While they were anxiously lighting the fire, Dongfang slowly revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly.

It's dawn!

At this time, these destroyers did not meet the conditions for activation, and when they saw the French battleships on the sea, they despaired.

That's definitely the main battleship of France! The big guys with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons are coming.

Even if they can get moving, it will definitely not be to go out to fight, but to quickly slip away and save a destroyer, which is their greatest credit!

And now, it's too late.

In past battles, French warships had fired at stationary targets on land, and now, as the day dawned, they had noticed the British warships.

Think about the day before, you were held in the harbor and hit by the British fleet, and now, you can finally return it!

"Boom!" The battleship Strasbourg, with eight guns fired in unison, hit the harbor, the shell fell into the water, splashing a column of water more than ten meters high, and in the first round of salvo, there was a cannonball, which successfully smashed into one of the opposing destroyers!

This time it was loaded with armor-piercing shells, 330-mm armor-piercing shells, smashed on the destroyer, what was the reaction?

The shell passed through the weak hull of the opposing side, as if tearing through a layer of tissue paper, easily tearing through the hull of the destroyer.

This kind of armor-piercing bullet can tear through armor 300 mm thick, but now, on the opposite side, there are only destroyers that are not even 30 mm thick, and this kind of warship is not originally used for counter-bombardment.

"Boom!" The armor-piercing shell drilled into the opponent's hull, and then, with a huge explosion, the destroyer, directly from the middle, exploded into two sections, and it almost didn't struggle before falling into the water.

It's a human tragedy!

The whole of Gibraltar was being bombarded by French naval guns, trembling and groaning.

"What about shore artillery? Our shore artillery, fire at once! "Now, with the dawn, finally, the counterattack of the British garrison will officially begin!

On our side, we cannot only be beaten passively, you must know that the most important task of the British troops stationed in Gibraltar is to block the Strait of Gibraltar when necessary.

So, they also have a large number of shore guns!

Generally speaking, shore artillery is a symbol of passive defense, no matter how powerful the artillery is, no matter how good the defense of the battery is, it cannot be moved, it can only passively wait for others to fight, and the confrontation has the upper hand, and the enemy cannot pursue it if he retreats.

However, such an understanding is absolutely one-sided, and although shore artillery is tactically defensive, it can be completely offensive strategically. One of the great significance of its existence is the liberation of the fleet.

The fleet is inseparable from the port, and if the port is raided, then the fleet will lose support and collapse without a fight. So any activity of this fleet, it is impossible to stay far from the port.

And the harbor is protected by batteries, and the fleet can perform various tasks away from the port.

At the same time, another use of shore artillery was the blockade of the straits. Not only Gibraltar here, but also the Port Said fortress in the United Kingdom, the Bosphorus and Tatar Nir fortress in Turkey, the Hanko fortress in the Soviet Union, the Sharm el-Sheikh fortress in Egypt, etc., all play this role.

For example, in what is now Gibraltar, the rock mountain is a huge fortress, based on the rock mountain, where the British deployed a number of shore guns, the largest caliber, two 356 mm guns.

In terms of caliber, this shore gun was larger than the naval guns of the French fleet and had a longer firing range, and at the same time, the shore guns had some outstanding advantages over naval guns.

The naval guns are mounted on the warship, they will shake, and every time they shoot, they need to adjust the firing elements.

And shore artillery is not needed.

Shore guns are naval guns mounted on unsinkable continents, and there is no limit on weight and volume. Moreover, it can also rely on the advantages of the terrain to form a shore artillery group.

Since it is originally fixed, it is possible to calculate the coordinates of the channel within the control range in advance, and when you see the target, you can directly bind the yuan, and you can open fire, and there is no limit on the ammunition stockpile.

The superiority of accuracy, the superiority of observation, the ability to stand at an altitude and shoot far, and so on, make the shore artillery a very powerful weapon, and it can be said that as long as there is not too much generational difference, it is generally the shore artillery group that teaches the enemy's fleet to behave.

However, before the sun rose, the shore artillery group did not open fire, and at the same time, General Eddy did not order them to fire.

Because their shore artillery has a shortcoming, that is, reloading.

After all, it is embedded in the mountains, and it is not easy to dig up a shore artillery bunker, and if you build an automatic bomb machine, there is no doubt that it will require more space.

Therefore, their shore guns are loaded manually, so that it takes at least twenty minutes to reload a shell.

In other words, they only have a chance to fire a shot, and they must hit it with one shot! Because next, these Frenchmen will definitely escape!

Brigadier Addie insisted on this point of view, so he did not let the shore guns fire, aiming in the dark was not easy, and now, at dawn, it was finally possible to fire!

His order was quickly passed on to the shore artillery unit, which was still anxiously waiting for the power to be restored.

Emergency generator, why hasn't it started yet?

If there is no power supply, do they have to reload manually? What a terrible question that would be!

You must know that the shells of naval guns are divided into parts, and even then, one warhead weighs half a ton, and by manpower, it is stuffed into the bore, which is simply fatal.

Wait, wait!

Actually, at the beginning of the shelling by the French, they were assembled, but after that, they waited, waited, waited until now, and did not wait for the restoration of the power supply!

"Can't wait any longer, the Governor orders us to open fire and reload by hand at once!" Finally, the commander inside the gun emplacements shouted.