Chapter 412 Naval Artillery Salvo

The 406mm naval gun has a range of more than 40 kilometers. At this distance, it is difficult to visually detect the target.

Therefore, the battleships were equipped with seaplanes, which were mainly used to guide the naval gun attacks of the battleships.

And now, on the ocean, the huge battleship Bismarck is receiving the reconnaissance signal of its own seaplanes.

"Attention, all 406 naval guns, reload the shells." Captain Liedman, the captain, gave the order.

Load the shells!

Bismarck, since the completion of construction, the naval guns have not been fired in a salvo. After all, the naval guns have a barrel life, and a few hundred rounds will be scrapped.

And this time, just in time!

Inside the triple-mounted turret, the automatic loader was busy, and the huge shells and cartridges were loaded into the barrel in turn.

Then, the turret turned slowly.

Different from history, the naval guns of the Bismarck have been changed to 406 mm caliber. At the same time, the number has also changed. Previously, there were four double-mounted turrets, but now, there are three triple-mounted turrets.

There are two in the front and one in the back. All the turrets are turning towards the right side of the warship. The black muzzle is aimed at the land dozens of kilometers away.

"Cannon 1, test fire," Lindeman shouted loudly.

"boom!"

Following his order, the 406mm naval gun in the middle of the No. 1 turret on the bow issued a huge roar, and with the sound of the gun, a large group of flames emerged from the muzzle, the front of the flame, It was a high-explosive warhead weighing several hundred kilograms, which appeared at the front of the flame and flew forward quickly!

As the flames slowly dissipated, smoke enveloped the entire battleship.

This is a test shot, it's so frustrating!

The shells traced a graceful trajectory in the air and flew towards Mainland, the British Fleet Headquarters south of Kirkwall.

"Boom!" The cannonball landed on the open space not far from the headquarters. This is a basketball court. When the bomb fell, the entire ground seemed to have suffered a major earthquake.

With the loud explosion, a shock wave was transmitted. Wherever it went, the cement on the ground flew up one after another, and the ground in the distance also cracked.

When the smoke of the cannonballs dissipated, a large pit with a diameter of several meters appeared in the middle of the basketball court. If there were people on this basketball court, they would never survive!

In the sky, the reconnaissance plane was visually observing the impact point, and then sent an instruction to the Bismarck, 100 meters away from the target, the elevation angle increased by one degree, and the left deviation was two mils!

The 406mm naval gun is quite powerful, and at the same time, every shot cannot be wasted. As it is now, use one shell to test fire. After confirming the impact point, the next time, it will be a covering blow!

All the gun barrels are erected, and the sight of the Bismarck is quite spectacular.

"Boom!" The remaining eight barrels fired together without hearing the sound of the interval. Although there was actually a sequence, only one sound was heard.

This sound made everyone's eardrums tremble, and within a few minutes, their ears were buzzing.

Almost at the same time, hot flames emerged from the muzzle, and the flames of the eight naval guns instantly dyed the right side of the warship red, extending forward for dozens of meters! If you count the volume, the volume covered by these flames is larger than the entire Bismarck.

At the same time, the firing of the naval guns caused huge recoil. The Bismarck, with a full load displacement of up to 50,000 tons, could not withstand such recoil, and was pushed sideways to the left by more than one meter!

The right side of the warship is full of splashes, showing the huge lateral movement of the warship. If the displacement of the warship is not enough, the broadside salvo can even overturn the entire warship.

The flames that emerged lasted for more than ten seconds at sea before disappearing, turning into thick black smoke, which surrounded the entire Bismarck, and in front of the flames, a huge grenade flew forward.

The target is the British fleet base!

"Boom!" With the test firing just now, the salvo was quite high, and a shell accurately hit the main building in the British fleet base, the fourth-floor command building.

This building has been bombed by Stuka bombers and is in ruins, but it is still standing. Now, this cannonball has completely changed the fate of this building.

When the explosion happened, only the middle of the building could be seen, with a heat wave facing the outside, and then, like a directional blast, it collapsed from top to bottom, like a domino.

After the explosion, the entire building no longer had any skeleton standing upright, and all turned into flat ground ruins, but it was only more uplifted than the ground on the side!

"Boom!" A cannonball hit a barracks next to the building. During the explosion, the tents in the barracks were like leaves in a typhoon. All of them were lifted up in an instant! The air waves spread to dozens of meters away!

One after another shells fell from the sky, and the reconnaissance plane in the sky calmly reported to the rear: "The entire headquarters has been destroyed."

With one salvo, the headquarters of more than 30 Stuka bombers that had not been blown up was flattened. This is the power of the 406mm naval gun!

Lindeman was quite satisfied. Since the start of the war, the main battleship of his own side has not shown his power yet, but now, a salvo has destroyed the opponent's headquarters, which is a good record.

However, Lütjens on the side was obviously dissatisfied.

For any German navy, this place is a disgrace. The original Rainbow Operation made this place the tomb of the German fleet, and now, the naval guns have only completed a salvo. How can this be enough?

"Aim for Kirkwall, second salvo," said Lütjens.

Hearing this, Lindeman was taken aback for a moment, Kirkwall, that is the city, firing at the city, isn't this hitting the civilians?

Kirkwall is a city, but it is not an ordinary city. It can be said that the important purpose of this city's existence is to serve the British naval fleet.

Now, it's about blowing up their city!

Don't say that war is for the military and has nothing to do with civilians. Only the most naive pacifists would believe such nonsense.

The soldiers are in the front, what are they doing in the back? We are giving the soldiers on the front line weapons and growing food! At the end of World War II, Allied bombers still bombed major cities in Germany.

Now, to beat their Kirkwall is to let them know that the German navy is already strong, and the British must surrender!

Although Lindemann was the captain, Lütjens was the commander. Lindemann wanted to listen to Lütjens, so he gave the order: "Reload, high-explosive bombs, reconnaissance aircraft, indicate the target."