"Boom, boom!" One by one, the shells fell down, and the fourth shell successfully hit the runway. In an instant, a deep pit 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 take off forcibly finally stopped. With the explosion just now, the entire runway was damaged!

It’s not just that big pit, with these explosions, the entire runway is filled with all kinds of blown-off pieces. At this time, it is easy to hit these pieces. If you accidentally encounter them, it will be a take-off accident!

The airport is already destroyed.

At the same time, in the port, several ships were ready to start after receiving the order.

Like the French Navy, they hurriedly got up, but the first thing they did was to ignite the boiler!

They cannot be able to move it immediately. They cannot move it until the water in the boiler is boiled and the steam pressure reaches.

This is the result of being attacked!

While they were anxiously igniting the fire, Dongfang slowly revealed the whiteness of the fish belly.

It's dawn!

At this time, these destroyers had not met the conditions for activation at all, and when they saw the French warships on the sea, they were desperate.

That is definitely the main battleship of France! All the big guys with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons are here.

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

And now, it's too late.

In the past battles, French warships were firing at fixed targets on land, but now, as dawn, they have noticed these British warships.

Think about it a day ago, when I was held in the port and was hit by the British fleet, but now, I can finally return it!

"Boom!" The Strasbourg battleship, with eight guns, shot into the port. The shells fell into the water and splashed water columns more than ten meters high. In the first round of volleys, a shell successfully hit an opponent's destroyer!

This time, the armor-piercing bomb was loaded, and the 330mm armor-piercing bomb was hit on the destroyer. What was the reaction?

The shell passed through the opponent's weak hull, as if it was tearing apart a layer of thin paper, easily tearing the hull of the destroyer.

This kind of armor-piercing bomb can tear apart a 300-mm thick armor, but now, there are destroyers on the opposite side that are not even 30-mm thick. This kind of warship is not used for bombing.

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

This is simply a scene like a tragic scene on earth!

The entire Gibraltar was bombarded by French naval guns, trembling and moaning.

"Where is the shore cannon? Our shore cannons will fire immediately!" Now, with dawn, finally, the counterattack of the British garrison is about to officially begin!

It is not only passive to be beaten on our side. You must know that the most important task of the British army stationed in Gibraltar is to block the Strait of Gibraltar when necessary.

So, they still have a lot of shore cannons!

Generally speaking, shore cannons are a symbol of passive defense. No matter how powerful the artillery is, no matter how good the artillery is, it cannot move. They can only passively wait for others to fight. They have the upper hand in the confrontation and the enemy cannot pursue them even if they retreat.

However, this understanding is absolutely one-sided. Although the shore artillery is tactical, it can be completely offensive strategically. One of the important significance of its existence is to liberate the fleet.

The fleet cannot be separated from the port. If the port is raided, the fleet will lose its support and collapse without fighting. Therefore, no activity of this fleet can be far away from the port.

The port is protected by a fort, and the fleet can perform various tasks away from the port.

At the same time, another use of shore artillery is to block the straits. Not only Gibraltar here, but also the Port of Sed in the United Kingdom, the Bosphorus and Tatarnier in Turkey, the Hanko Fortress in the Soviet Union, the Sharm El Sheikh Fortress in Egypt, etc., all of which all play this role.

For example, in Gibraltar, Rock Mountain is a huge fortress. With Rock Mountain as the base, the British deployed some shore artillery here, and the largest caliber was two 356mm cannons.

From the perspective of caliber, this kind of shore gun is larger than the French fleet's naval gun and has a longer range. At the same time, shore guns have some outstanding advantages over naval guns.

The naval gun is installed on a warship and will sway. Each time you shoot, you need to adjust the shooting elements.

And the shore cannon is no longer needed.

The shore cannon is a naval cannon installed on a continent that will not sink, without any weight or volume limit. It can also form a shore cannon group based on the advantages of the terrain.

Since it is originally fixed, the coordinates of the channel within the control range can be calculated in advance. When you see the target, you can open fire after directly binding the elements. There is no limit on ammunition inventory.

The accuracy advantage, observation advantage, standing high and firing far, etc. make the shore cannon a very powerful weapon. It can be said that as long as there is not a big generation difference, the shore cannon is generally the shore cannon group to teach the enemy's fleet to be human.

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

Because their shore cannons have a disadvantage, they are reloading.

After all, it is embedded in the mountains, so it is not easy to dig a shore cannon bunker. If you use an automatic bomb lifter, there is no doubt that it will take more space.

Therefore, their shore cannons are loaded manually, so that a shell can be loaded for at least twenty minutes.

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

Brigadier General Eddie insisted on this point of view, so he did not let the shore guns fire. It was not easy to aim in the dark, and now, it was dawn and it was finally time to fire!

His orders were quickly passed to the shore artillery force. At this time, the shore artillery force was still anxiously waiting for the power to recover.

Why hasn't the emergency generator started yet?

If there is no electricity supply, would they have to load it manually? What a terrible question that would be!

You should know that the shells of the naval gun are packaged. Even so, a warhead weighs half a ton. It is simply fatal to stuff it into the cannon chamber by manpower.

Wait a little longer, wait a little longer!

In fact, they were gathered when the French bombardment began, but after that, they had been waiting, waiting, and until now, they had not yet waited for the power supply to recover!

"Can't wait any longer. The Governor ordered us to open fire and load it manually immediately!" Finally, the commander in the gun position shouted.
Chapter completed!