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Chapter 52 K5E railway gun, bombarding the battleship Fuso

“Boom…Boom…Boom…Boom…”

Two Fuso-class battleships stayed in the outer waters of Jiaozhou Bay, with their hulls lying across the water, and launched a fierce bombardment on the island city area.

Although the army suffered the greatest losses in this wave of bombing, their navy only lost a few planes and dozens of large and small transport ships.

But the army suffered heavy losses ultimately because their navy failed to provide adequate cover.

The two Fuso-class battleships did this to vent their anger.

They have no way to deal with the bomber fleet of the Renaissance Army, so is there no way they can deal with the civilians of the ancient country?

Secondly, through this bombardment, the Fuxing Army was made aware that the island city was now within the coverage of their naval guns and was not a place they could come to.

If the Renaissance Army dares to attack, they will launch indiscriminate artillery attacks.

To put it bluntly, it is to make the Fuxing Army retreat and not dare to attack the island city.

After all, the 39th Brigade has suffered heavy losses and the island city is short of troops.

Now they only have a battalion of more than a thousand Marines, plus the remaining troops of the 39th Brigade, which is exactly the strength of a regiment.

But the navy and the army are not in harmony, so how could the army possibly obey the navy's command?

So they are actually still fighting each other.

There are two Fuso-class battleships, namely Fuso and Yamashiro.

Among them, the Fuso uses a twin-mounted 356mm 45-caliber main gun with three guns in the front and three guns in the rear, while the Yamashiro uses a twin-mounted 356mm heavy gun with two guns in the front and six guns in the rear.

A total of 24 356mm main guns launched a fierce bombardment on the main urban area of the island city.

It was an unexpected disaster for the people in the city who had not had time to evacuate.

The falling of a 673-kilogram shell was no less devastating to the people in the city than a landslide and an earthquake.

One shot can flatten all buildings within a radius of hundreds of meters.

If this is the case with buildings, what about people?

After several rounds of shelling, the urban area of the island city was in complete chaos.

Countless people fled in panic.

The originally spacious streets were now crowded with people and vehicles.

Frightened, confused, helpless...

They didn't know why they were suddenly bombarded, and they didn't even know where the shells came from.

Then he died in the retaliatory bombardment of the Fuso Navy battleship.

"boom....."

A shell landed in one of the crowded streets.

Accompanied by a deafening explosion, the buildings on the street were instantly reduced to ruins, and countless pieces of rubble and bricks shot into the sky.

The street that was originally crowded with people has been replaced by a huge bomb crater, and the original crowd has been torn into pieces by the huge explosion.

At least hundreds of people were killed in one bombardment.

This is the power of naval guns, which is far beyond the reach of land guns.

"boom....."

The news of the retaliatory shelling of the Fuso Naval Island City was quickly delivered to Jiang Hua's desk through the Air Force Reconnaissance Unit and the 7th Mechanized Division.

When Jiang Hua heard the news, he was immediately furious.

"Assholes, beasts are indeed beasts, I will make them pay a heavy price.

I guarantee that none of the Fuso fleet will escape."

Blood debts must be repaid with blood, and Jiang Hua wants them to pay double.

Thinking of this, Jiang Hua immediately opened the interface of the branch base.

Now the vanguard of the 7th Mechanized Division has occupied the towns around the island city and has completely controlled the Jiaoji Railway section between Beiwei City and the island city, so many heavy weapons can be mobilized.

Since the Fuso people rely on their giant ships and cannons to deal with the innocent people in the island city, Jiang Hua will also let them taste the power of giant cannons.

Unfortunately, the French cannon in the base building is just a fixed turret, but he still has weapons that can deal with them.

K-5E railway gun!

The K-5E railway gun is an improved model of the K-5 railway gun, which replaces the original 310mm caliber deep rifled gun with a 283mm caliber smoothbore gun.

When using tail-stabilized bombs, the maximum range can reach 150 kilometers.

Moreover, it is not heavy, weighing only 218 tons, and can be towed around by a locomotive.

It does not require nearly a month to assemble like the Gustav cannon, and can basically be fired at any time.

It is precisely because of its superior performance and actual combat performance that it has become the most popular cannon.

If you want to deal with Fuso battleships, then this gun is very suitable.

Not only does it have superior performance and a long enough range, it is also very cheap.

At a price of less than 20 yuan per vehicle, Jiang Hua produced 9 of them in one go.

But there is a problem.

That is, there is no railway in Donglai City, and there is no branch line connecting to the Jiaoji Railway nearby.

So he simply moved the branch base and placed it around Laiyang City, about 100 kilometers away from the Jiaoji Railway. In this way, he only needed to build an armored factory next to the railway, and the K5E railway guns produced could be used directly.

The Fuso Navy stopped after several rounds of shelling and remained in the sea outside the port.

In the view of the Fuso Navy, for a battleship, its presence here is a deterrent.

The situation was just as they expected. Even though the vanguard of the Renaissance Army had arrived at the vicinity of the island city, they did not dare to launch an attack on the island city.

Major General Takizo Kojima, commander of the 2nd Squadron of the 1st Fleet, was very satisfied with this result.

On the night of the next day, a regiment of the 40th Division's vanguard successfully reached the island city and completed the landing.

This also means that Takizo Kojima completed his mission and bought enough time by using two battleships to bombard the island city.

Facing Lieutenant General Ichiro Shichida, Commander-in-Chief of the 20th Division, Kojima Takizo said proudly: "Only huge cannons can terrify the enemy. It is obvious that the Restoration Army has developed a fear of our huge warships and cannons.

If your army wishes to attack, I am happy to provide you with the necessary assistance."

Facing the complacent Major General Takizo Kojima, Lieutenant General Ichiro Nanada snorted coldly in dissatisfaction.

"Then why did my troops suffer heavy losses in the bombing by the Restoration Army?

I heard that your ship-borne attack aircraft didn't dare to charge at the Restoration Army's bomber group."

Upon hearing this, Kojima Takizo's face suddenly turned dark.

What Shichida Ichiro said was true.

When the Restoration Army bomber group flew over the island city, more than a dozen Type 3 carrier-based attack aircraft launched by the Fengxiang had also arrived.

But when they saw the overwhelming number of bombers and then looked at the Lightning planes wreaking havoc in the port, they wisely did not launch an attack.

Because in their opinion, this is no different from committing suicide.

Compared with the army, the navy was more deeply influenced by Western ideas because it was taught by John's Royal Navy. Therefore, in this regard, it is much more rational than the army's idiots who only know how to charge mindlessly.

But that's not the case for the Army.

This is cowardly behavior and is deeply despised by them.

"Humph!"

Major General Takizo Kojima left immediately in dissatisfaction.

He swore to get back at the place.

When he returned to the fleet, he ordered in a very bad mood: "Launch five more rounds of artillery bombardment on the island city. Let those deer see how powerful we are."

If you are unhappy, you should vent it, so Kojima Takizo issued this order, and at the same time it also opened the eyes of the army idiots.

“Buzz buzz buzz…”

Above the clouds, an RB-17G high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft appeared in the sky over the sea off the island city.

Because they were flying very high, they looked like a small black dot when viewed from below, so the Fuso Navy did not notice anything.

Besides, it wouldn't matter even if they found out.

Because at this altitude, their Type 17 carrier-based fighters could not threaten the powerful RB-G reconnaissance aircraft.

What's more, they can call for support at any time.

The purpose of this reconnaissance plane being here is to provide precise coordinates to the artillery group behind and to correct the landing point.

On the railway about 30 kilometers away from the island city, there is a K10E railway gun with its muzzle raised almost every two kilometers along the 5-kilometer line.

There are still four railway guns under production, one of which can be produced every two hours and can arrive at the site and be set up for firing within one hour.

That means there will be a new cannon here every three hours.

"Focus on the battleship Fuso first!"

Since there are only five guns now, if the bombardment is dispersed, the accuracy will not be ideal due to the dispersion of firepower.

So Qi Lei, the commander of the first artillery regiment, decided to concentrate his fire on one ship first.

What's more, it's not just them who are participating in the attack this time, there is also the shore-based aviation force that is increasing its troops.

This battle is just a trial for them.

With the precise coordinates provided by the RB-17G reconnaissance aircraft on the front line, the five 5mm caliber cannons quickly completed the setting of all parameters.

"put!"

With the command, the K5E railway guns let out a series of earth-shaking roars.

As the muzzle fire gushed out, the ground shook.

5 The nearly 300-kilogram fin-stabilized armor-piercing projectile was heading towards the Fuso battleship more than 1120 kilometers away at a speed of 60 meters per second.

A distance of 60 kilometers is only about one minute for a shell with an average speed of more than one kilometer per second.

At this moment, the battleship Fuso was also pointing its guns at the island city area more than 20 kilometers away.

Who knows how many civilians will die if they continue this round of shelling.

Fortunately, after the shelling in the previous two days, all the people who could escape from the city had done so.

Compared to property, life is more important.

"Woooooooo..."

"what sound?"

After hearing a faint buzzing sound in the distance, the observation post on the island of the battleship Fuso raised its head curiously, looking for the direction of the sound source.

Soon a Fuso observation post discovered where the sound came from.

"Bombardment! It's bombardment!"

Five black spots in the distant sky were roaring towards them.

It doesn't take much to tell you that this is a cannonball fired from a cannon.

So he quickly sounded the battle alert.

But the speed of the shells was so fast that while they were still wondering what was happening, shells fell one after another on the Fuso's side.

“Boom…Boom…”

The first round of shells did not hit the Fuso, but fell in a fan-shaped area between about 120 meters and -200 meters in front of it.

As the five shells fell, a column of water shot up into the sky.

When Major General Takizo Kojima, commander-in-chief of the 2nd Fleet on the bridge saw this scene, his eyes widened and his face was full of disbelief.

They were bombarded by large-caliber coastal artillery.

It is not difficult to judge from the water column stirred up by the exploding shell that it is a cannon with a caliber of at least 280 mm.

But the island city is under their control, and the coastal artillery positions are also under their control. Where do the cannons come from?

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