If Britain is still a sea, it is a first-class and huge thing, then its army can’t be good. It didn’t belong to the British Empire before 1916.
Due to short-sightedness, the development of the British military was quite short. It was not until 1912 that Britain established the Royal Flying Corps, which was composed of the Army Air Wing and the Navy Air Wing. Until the outbreak of World War I, the British aircraft manufacturing industry was still in a bleak state. There were less than 56 aircraft in Lu Haijun, and the aircraft types were also colorful.
The late development is not the only shortcoming of British aviation soldiers. Newton and Faraday appeared. The British seem to feel more about it than they do about it. They are more accustomed to thinking in images, but they organize flight squadrons. Therefore, different types of fighters can be mixed, which is almost a disaster for the efficiency of flight squadrons. Moreover, the low production capacity of British aircraft manufacturing industry is appalling. Until the end of 1916, British domestic aircraft production still needed no sum and consumption and could be imported from France.
When the way of thinking still stayed, the British pilots encountered the machine gun and hid the Fokker E5 fighter behind the propeller. The British quickly panicked. Before the close combat, four slow-flying single-seat fighters were killed by the Germans. The Royal Flying Team J Ο ng and the British turned their heads and fled with full horsepower. Although the Fokker E5 high-speed was not good and 15 kilograms of bombs were hung, two slow-flying British fighters were left behind.
With the experience of the first two times, the last wave of the war was somewhat uneventful. After the machine gun of Fokker E5 fired, the legs and feet were not smooth. The fighter plane was abused by blood. The high-speed plane stepped on the gas pedal and fled. The German naval aviators once again won a considerable victory.
Although a lot of fuel has been consumed, the glory gate to Greater London has been opened to young German naval airmen. The special squadron J: ng and the British have set up knives and forks to kill their mouths, when an accident happened.
When the fleet was flying in the river with the pungent smell of the industrial age, a fire suddenly appeared in a small forest by the river.
"It’s a bang gun!" Hannah Shaw changed her face, Se.
Because the so-called pop gun is a British 1-pound gun equipped with a 37 mm metric system and a high elevation bracket, the famous Maxim machine gun is enlarged. Thanks to the painful lessons of the Boer War, the British navy and army are equipped with this weapon in large quantities. For example, the British navy purchased a large number of 1-pound guns and named them K1 and K2 pop guns to kill small ships, reconnaissance balloons and airships at close range. The army also adopted this weapon with high speed and considerable lethality, mainly for defense and fire support to the ground.
Clouds of black SE smoke and low-flying Fokker fighters exploded. After the war, an Otto strasser landline was hit by several roaring shells. The three-story wooden wing suddenly splashed out several pieces of broken canvas skin, scattered sawdust and thick black SE smoke, which were planted in the river.
Strasser!’ Hannashaw’s heart trembled and he couldn’t wait to reach out and grab Otto strasser’s landline.
There was a boom, a foul smell and an unusually dazzling flame on the river. The quality of soldiers forced Hannah Shaw to calm down and not record the crash site. He had a more cruel mission to complete.
Hannah Hong Xiao swooped toward the river with her eyes clenched, and the machine gun fired at her own people. With Hannah Shaw’s low roar, the river floated and burned, and the wreckage of Otto strasser’s plane destroyed mechanical parts, canvas skins, wood ammunition and metal bodies together.
Breathing the increasingly strong and choking smell of smoke, Hannah Shaw finally pushed the ā vertical bar to make the plane climb high. The British civil air defense firepower is indeed fierce, but Hannah Shaw can get rid of the annoying popping gun if he wants to fly high.
Maxim’s machine gun enlarges the boom gun, although its speed is considerable, but after all, it is aimed at airships and reconnaissance balloons with slow flying speed, but it is slightly more powerful for fighter jets with flying speed far exceeding that of airships. Moreover, the boom gun has no special shotgun, and the existing projectile can easily penetrate the canvas skin of the aircraft without exploding. Finally, although the boom gun has a range of more than 45 yards, its initial velocity is 367 meters seconds, so it is difficult to deal with high targets.
The fleet quickly climbed the position of the British civil air defense artillery, and soon it was thrown behind and passed over an iron bridge again. After that, the fleet had gone deep into the Thames, Hannashaw lowered the flying height of the fighter plane and fired a "Ziyó u fire" signal flare.
The Thames is not open, and several ships of less than 1,000 tons are being evacuated.
"I can’t come!" Hannashaw smiled coldly, slowly lowered the flying height and dropped three 5 kg bombs in succession.
These civilian oil tankers and cargo ships are equipped with temporary guest bombers, Fokker-type three-wing fighters, which can bomb their prey at low altitude. The aerial bombs are modified from the pointed armor-piercing bullets of naval guns. One after another, the river bursts with stormy waves. From a high altitude, it feels magnificent. Unfortunately, it is 1915, and low bombing is still a gamble, but the goddess of luck does not like Hannashaw as always.
"Brothers, I have to return. Good luck!"
The purple baron’s green face could not conceal his disappointment. The young man turned his head and looked at the right wing of the landline. A little smoke rose, and with a wry smile, he typed the sign language "Our plane took the lead in retreating".
"And good luck to Hannah Shaw …" To be continued.
The second gun Chapter 7 Guild Wars The Times (2)
When the Fokker E5 fleet swept away all the attacking civilian ships in the depths of the Thames, the raiding fleet clenched its fists and severely beat the weak chest of the British.
The sudden attack on the fleet has cornered two reconnaissance fishing boats flying the Mizi flag off the Thames, which are far away from the Thames estuary protected by mines. The maximum speed of the reconnaissance fishing boats is no more than one knot and they are heading north. Obviously, they can’t escape the speed of more than three German destroyers.
After the pre-jǐng report was sent to the naval headquarters in London, two reconnaissance fishing boats rushed to the coastline of Britain north and south, which was the only chance for the reconnaissance fishing boats to save their lives. Because of the cover of the fifth destroyer detachment of the mine-sweeping fleet, a large destroyer had shed its thick artillery clothes and showed the strong muscles of the ocean fleet. Experienced German gunners also pulled apart the bolts of the mm main gun and the 45 mm auxiliary gun. It is conceivable that hesitation may lead to metal storm killing.
Reconnaissance fishing boats rushed to the beach with difficulty, and shells rained down. Reconnaissance fishing boats were like duckweeds being hit by towering water columns all night in the sea of Wang Yang. Two ships were not far from the coastline. Sailors came to pick up the fishing boats and the rice flag flew high. The two captains reached the order to abandon the ship and commanded their warships to rush to the beach. The sailors and officers dispatched by the Admiralty jumped waist-deep like dumplings, and the sea water rushed to the land.
German destroyer guns awakened Great Britain.
Even though the spies lurking in Port William and more than half of the information of the coastal reconnaissance planes indicate that the real goal of the Germans is not Scarpa Bay but the capital London, the Admiralty has vowed to guarantee and blindly believe in the empire, so that the soldiers defending the Thames choose to ignore all this.
The coastline watchtower militia stared at the foul-smelling Thames estuary maritime junction, where there were twelve strange-looking minesweepers strutting in line at the entrance of their British homes, and six similar minesweepers and light warships to cover their positions at any time. A little further away, there were five big guys and four warships with smaller tonnage eyeing up. If these militia were more careful, they could also find five guys with larger tonnage cruising back and forth in the open sea.
"I have a hunch that today may be the glory of the ocean fleet!"
Major Martin Bowman, commander of the mine-sweeping fleet, let go of the telescope and the simple bridge of minesweeper No.2, and said a battle declaration that went down in history.
Major Wang Yang is not wild in the Far East. The mine-sweeping boat modified from a 15-class torpedo boat and a second-hand small cargo ship is completely new after being packaged by an imperial naval designer. At a distance, it looks quite old. There are lightning-proof pendants composed of floating barrels of different sizes hanging on both sides of the hull and in front of the bow. The water part of the floating bucket is large and the top is small. Most of the small floating barrels are filled with seawater, so they have strong lightning protection ability, while the medium and large floating barrels and the small floating barrels at the top are kept.
The attack and mine-clearing tactics are also the reason why Martin Bowman is confident. Twelve modified minesweepers have a dense formation to clear a passage of more than 12 meters in the high-density minefield, which can accommodate two or three main ships to sail side by side. However, this process is quite difficult-the steam engine is seriously aging, and the minesweeper can make a hard journey at a speed of less than knots per hour.
With the British scattered 14-inch heavy artillery shells, the bucket of the first mine empire mine-sweeping fleet came into close contact and then exploded violently. The muddy yellow Se water column flew to Tiangu, and the mine-sweeping boat jumped out of the ocean like a leaf.
This did not stop the imperial mine-sweeping fleet from advancing. They kept a distance of 1 km from the north bank of the trumpet-shaped estuary of the Thames in England, and the included angle was 45 degrees, so they cut into the Thames slowly.
1 km is quite embarrassing and uncomfortable for the British, because the width of the Thames is over 5 km. The only way to deploy the coastal guns on the south bank of Thames is to look at the ocean and lament the deployment of the main channel. Several submarines are trapped in the country and it is difficult to launch torpedoes to attack the coastal guns on the north bank. Only a newly deployed 14-inch heavy artillery and two 12-inch heavy artillery dismantled from old warships can get the imperial minesweeper, but 1 km is too far away, and they can’t hit these minesweepers without water protection well.
The sailors of the mine-clearing fleet saw that the north-south coastline was deeply sunken to the west, so they knew that the ocean fleet had invaded the Thames.
This is the pride of the German navy. During the Franco-Prussian War, the empire also drank the Seine River, but it was a brilliant family of the army. In April 1915, it was overwhelmed by the Royal Navy, and the ocean fleet was able to "drink horses" in the capital of another big country.
Excitement and pride only lasted for three or five seconds. As the fleet went deep into the estuary, the width was reduced by 3 kilometers, and the British coastal guns became fierce.
In order to avoid crossing hundreds of coastal guns on both sides of the Thames, the mine-sweeping fleet abandoned the water deeper and closer to the south bank of the main channel, and chose to approach the north bank and shorten the land distance of the fleet by 13 kilometers. The whole mine-sweeping fleet was suddenly exposed to deploy 14-inch and 12-inch heavy artillery and 6-inch coastal defense artillery on the north bank.
The Thames is boiling, and the large-caliber heavy artillery shells are full of industrial sewage. The river opens one stinking column after another, and gravity slams the floating bucket on the river, hitting the semi-submersible state continuously. After the anchor mine fuze is triggered, the ammunition department is detonated and the water explodes violently.
From a distance, the quiet Thames River was filled with smoke and the water column was turbid and yellow. Se mud was thrown to the sailors’ bodies, and the deck of the muddy river was wandering around. The imperial sailors didn’t erase their faces. The river was violently shaken and the hull was thrown to one side at will until the waist cable was stretched straight.
At 11: 19, a disaster occurred. A 12-inch mine-sweeping fleet with near-lost ammunition exploded on the north side. Fragments with strong impact directly destroyed the building of the northernmost No.211 mine-sweeping boat and the waterproof mine support on the starboard side. The mine-sweeping boat began to enter the water and capsized.
Tightly attacking minesweeping formations, the impact of mines is gradually loosening, and the service life is generally more than ten years. The hull of old ships seems to be distorted, giving off a series of heart-rending squeaks, which seems to fall apart in a second.
"Stay in formation!" Despite the stagger, the old captain of the No.2 modified minesweeper still grabbed the corner and shouted at his sailors, "Frye’s bow floating bucket pendant has been blown crooked. Go and fix it!"