Chapter 760: Landing in England
Chapter 760 landed in England
When three super-battleships appeared like mountains in the English Channel, the British were collectively shocked. www.hunhun.net/ mixed * mixed * small * said net / advertising full text txt download
"No, where did they get the super battleships?" Marshal Pound's eyes were about to pop out at this time.
At the beginning of the Battle of New Jutland, they suffered the loss of false information, and the British paid special attention to it. The situation of the main German battleships was constantly monitored by the British.
Originally, it was discovered that only one H41-class Prussian super-battleship remained in Germany, so the British took over the American Atlantic operation, but now two super-battleships suddenly appeared to catch the British by surprise.
With one move, one Yamato-class battleship left behind by the British was powerless to resist in the face of three German H41-class battleships. Other pre-World War II battleships could not cope with this unequal confrontation of steel at sea.
"Maybe it's a copycat?" The chief of the General Staff of Alain next to him said bitterly.
This out-of-the-box copycat has been a perfect match for the Germans.
There are constantly new equipment installed in Germany, and the huge manufacturing capacity has made the strength of the German team begin to surpass that of the United Kingdom.
In addition to copycats, the two super warships that suddenly appeared, Alain couldn't think of any country that could support Germany like this.
He guessed half right, the original H41-class battleship was the product of the joint development of Germany and the cottage company plus Huaxia, the Germans built two at the beginning, and Huaxia also built it through the cottage company, which is now the two that suddenly appeared.
Meng Xiang already has a super battleship built by the base in his hands, and the power of the third-class battleship is not inferior to that of the H41 class, and the cost is cheap, Meng Xiang has no intention of producing other battleships at all. The two super battleships, which nominally belonged to Huaxia, were actually reserved for the Germans.
Sure enough, after seeing the power of the H41-class battleships, the Germans were very interested in Huaxia's intention to transfer the two battleships of this class that were commissioned to be produced by the copycat company. After another transfer of machinery and technology, the Germans gave the two new super-battleships to the British for a surprise attack. www.hunhun.net/ mixed * mixed * small * said net / advertising full text txt download
The British disdained to use weapons made in other countries, but Britain began to fall after the First World War, and the largest caliber fortress guns of the two newly installed fortresses were only 17 inches of 431 mm caliber, which could still be supported against the Yamato-class battleships, but in the face of the 480 mm naval guns of the H41 class, they were completely speechless.
Naval artillery can blast open the country, and this British thing that the British were best at was playing out on themselves at this time.
The three super-battleships cruising in the area where the Channel had been cleared of mines was enough to deter the British warships that rushed up one by one. In addition to the main guns, which are constantly clearing land targets, only 12 150-mm secondary guns need to be dispatched to clear the approaching threats to the landing craft.
"Those landing ships must be overturned, or we'll be finished!" Benjamin, who was in command of the defense of Dover, knew very well that if the Germans landed successfully, it would be more difficult to expel them from behind. The most critical thing about landing is the moment of landing, where the intersection of water and land is often a gathering place for death, and it is also the best opportunity for defenders. However, a well-established defense system starts from the water.
"Don't be afraid of their super battleships, they're clumsy!" Benjamin finally found a weakness in the supership and encouraged his subordinates.
But soon, the appearance of three Scharnhorst-class battleships made it impossible to deploy the British tactics of killing elephants by ant colonies.
"Aren't there only two?" Benjamin said with a pale face. The dexterity and great power of the Scharnhorst had already spread among the British, who treated the two Scharnhorst-class battle cruisers as if they were the Hood, and treated them as real battleships.
This time, in the intelligence of the British, there was already a battle patrol of the Scharnhorst following in the Atlantic. Unexpectedly, the remaining Gneisenau became three at once.
Although the 283 mm main guns on the top were slightly worse against the land fortresses, the 12 150 mm secondary guns and 14 105 mm anti-aircraft guns were enough to sweep away all the lightly armored ships on the sea.
The British, of course, could not guess that the orders of the same Chinese cottages would be converted into new arrivals from the Germans after receiving huge benefits. Of course, it is impossible to guess that even many of the landing ships that are now in service with the Vanguard Army have been traded to the German ** team.
On 21 July, when the Germans in the English Channel, according to the mine clearance force and the submarine force's long-time reconnaissance of the mine arrangement, at once cleared three safe passages for the passage of German warships, and began to connect the European continent with the island of England, the Germans gathered more than 5,000 large and small landing warships and began to start the landing operation under the escort of more than 600 large and small warships.
The number of German officers and soldiers involved in the landing reached 250,000.
On the 20th, the turbid waves basically subsided on the 21st, and although there were still cumulonimbus clouds in the sky, it was a rare God to help the Germans once, and the storm never visited the English Channel again.
In front, the German warships led by super battleships were cleaning up surface targets, and more than 50 German Seawolves were escorting and following under the water, and more than 30 submarines of various types of the British were cleared and expelled at the first time.
The planes in the air continued to roar, and on the 21st, a day of good weather, the largest air battle in history broke out between Britain and Germany again.
Because of the landing of the Germans, the British stockpiles and reserves were dispatched together, and over the English Channel, the two sides were entangled with more than a thousand warplanes at the most.
The dense fleet of planes was congested in the narrow area, and the accident rate suddenly increased, and many planes were even directly knocked down.
The planes in the sky kept falling like dumplings, and the battle on the ground exploded as if flames were burning everywhere.
Many Crocodile-class landing craft rushed directly to the beachhead by inertia, ran aground there, and did not even think about returning again.
"I occupied the British!" Reinster, the first German soldier to land in the knee-high water through the gap in the released springboard, shouted this sentence excitedly, and fell under the machine-gun bullets of the British.
Countless landing ships will experience the baptism of machine guns when they dock.
But the many fallen and floating corpses could not affect the figure of the soldiers rushing up one after another in the rear, almost the moment the springboard was put down, there would be countless soldiers who were huddled together to write down the landing ship, even if it was machine gun fire, it could not penetrate the dense figure of the soldiers.
The roar of the 12.7mm machine guns on the landing ships did not stop for a moment, and occasionally the roar of 20 or 40 mm flat-fire anti-aircraft guns suppressed the fortifications of the British on the opposite side.
The British artillery on the shore was able to fire at this time, smashing tons and tons of steel mixed with flames into the sea, and making the landing ships full of soldiers armed to the teeth as the primary target of destruction.
Flames rose in all directions on the surface of the sea, and the screams of falling water even pierced through the sky with the screams of shells and the explosions of surface ships.
The guns on the ground that sprayed flames also became the target of the German naval guns' counterattack, and the plumes of smoke and dust that rose shattered the Nimbocumulus clouds in the sky, and the shells on both sides were also dense and collided from the sky from time to time to burst into bursts of fireworks.
A drizzle finally fell in the air.
The coldness of metal seems to be more pure in the rain, and it is more and more disregarded for human life and **.
The corpses piled up on the beach as a new line of defense for the landing soldiers to hide, and the bloody mud and bloody water attracted the many schools of fish in the water, and soon a layer of fish corpses floated on the surface of the water in the roar of the explosion, mixed with the floating corpses to hide the color of the water. Even the splashes that accompanied the screams and the screams of the cannonballs were the color of blood for a moment.
The blood on the land was still oozing from the many corpses, mixed with the rain to merge into streams, washing away the corpses that had begun to turn white, and returned to the embrace of the ocean.
The landing battle showed its brutal side.
The short distance of tens or even tens of meters from the submerged knees to the land often becomes a place of death full of floating corpses, and the first line of defense on land has also become the closest place to hell under the ploughing of saturated artillery fire.
The collision of sea and land entangles Britain's coastline for hundreds of miles, not just in the closest places to the English Channel, such as Dover.
"The Germans were airborne from the Isle of Wight!" On the 21st, at the same time, another piece of bad news came to the British.
Lao Xi is arrogant, but not brain-dead, and he will not pin all his hopes on the navy.
Ge Fat Man will never let go of this opportunity to express himself, the battlefield of the Air Force is not only in the sky, more than 30,000 small white flowers bloom in the sky of the Isle of Wight.
When the British fighters reacted and began to intercept, the Hellcats that had taken off from two new German airplanes in the English Channel rushed up and began the first German escort show.