Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

On the evening of December 1930, 12, the John Empire gathered more than 26 battleships, including 5 battleships and 12 heavy cruisers, to form the First Fleet.

Prepare to cross the English Channel and go test out the Hans Empire.

At the same time, just in case, the John Empire has reserved a fleet of the same size in the country, ready to support or coordinate the First Fleet at any time.

In the early morning of the 27th, the First Fleet arrived in the sea area of ​​​​Zandvoort and prepared to launch an artillery bombardment of Zandvoort.

Since the First Fleet did not hide the whereabouts of its own fleet, they had long been discovered by the Hans Empire.

Therefore, what greeted the First Fleet was the ferocious artillery attack from the Hans Empire, which was well prepared.

When the battleships of the First Fleet entered the firing range, the coastal defense guns installed in Zandvoort roared at the First Fleet.

The first round of attacks did not hit any battleships.

But close-in missiles were also formed, which shocked the soldiers of the First Fleet.

You must know that close-range missiles were formed in the first round. This not only shows that these artillerymen of the Hans Empire are rich in experience, but also proves that the Hans Empire has been well prepared and has already established a scale in the sea area.

However, until this time, the First Fleet did not feel anything was wrong.

After all, their current opponent is the number one army in Europe.

They have rich combat experience and a very high level of training, so one-shot range and close-range missiles are normal in the eyes of the First Fleet.

Moreover, the commander of the First Fleet, George Johnson, even felt that he was lucky to be able to fire all the coastal defense artillery of the Hans Empire in the first round.

Therefore, Johnson ordered the fleet to continue moving forward, and each ship could fire freely to attack the shore defense artillery position in Zandvoort.

On the Zandvoort side, the soldiers of the Hans Empire were desperately turning the cannon and reloading the shells.

Zandvoort has 16 large and small coastal defense artillery positions.

Among them, 10 forts are open forts, and the other 6 forts are inside solid fortresses.

Each fort has two coastal defense guns.

It is worth noting that the core turret in the middle of Zandvoort is equipped with two 280-caliber coastal defense guns imported from the Hans Empire and produced by Krupp.

This ultra-large-caliber coastal defense gun can only be placed on rails due to its heavy weight. This also makes this ultra-large-caliber artillery very easy to control.

However, how should I put it? Coast defense guns are just coast defense guns after all. Just because they are fixed turrets and cannot move is his fatal injury.

After all, battleships can be moved, but forts can only be fixed in a certain position.

Friends who often shoot guns all know that who is easier to shoot between a moving target and a fixed target?

When the John Empire's First Fleet approached a position 10 nautical miles away, the warships began to bombard the Zandvoort coastal defense artillery position.

Suddenly, the shells from both sides directly crossed the distance of 10 nautical miles and hit each other's head.

It has to be said that it is really difficult to hit a moving target, especially when the opponent is moving erratically, making it difficult for the coastal defense artillery to aim.

As for the First Fleet, just aim the muzzle at one location and hit it hard.

Suddenly, there were casualties on the side of the Hans Empire.

If things continue as they are now, Zandvoort's coastal defense artillery positions will be uprooted by the John Empire in less than one day.

But is it really that simple?

The Hans Empire knew that its naval strength was inferior to that of the John Empire, and also knew that the coastal defense artillery and warships would always suffer when the coastal defense artillery and warships bombarded each other. But why did the Hans Empire still choose to launch a war and annex the three lowland countries?

Don't they have any backup plan at all?

No, the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire are naturally preparing for backup, and the backup will be here soon.

Just when Johnson was commanding the First Fleet and fighting happily, observers on the ship's mast discovered that a large black spot appeared in the sky behind the coastal defense guns.

Because the distance was a bit far away, the observer couldn't see clearly, so he picked up the telescope and prepared to see what the group of black spots were.

However, when he picked up the telescope and looked over, he found that the group of black spots in the sky seemed to be a large group of airplanes.

Due to the long distance, the observer was unable to assess what type of aircraft the group of aircraft were and what their uses were. However, just in case, the observer reported the matter to Fleet Commander Johnson.

Hearing the news from the observer, he learned that a group of allies had arrived from the Hans Empire.

Johnson ordered the fleet to retreat quietly and put some distance between itself and the coastal defense artillery.

Johnson is not a proud and complacent person. On the contrary, he is very cautious.

Although, he couldn't figure out what it was like for a group of aircraft to participate in the bombardment between the navy and land-based shore defense artillery.

But this doesn't stop him from being careful.

This world is not full of brainless people. Everyone thinks they are smarter than others. Such arrogant people will never live to the end.

Moreover, Johnson also felt that with the strength of the Hans Empire, it was impossible to choose to be beaten passively. Therefore, he always believed that the Hans Empire would have a means to counter itself, but he did not know what this means was.

In fact, at this time Johnson had already thought of a possibility, that is, not all of those planes were bombers.

After all, the aircraft had already proven itself in World War I.

After the war, all countries worked hard to develop new weapons such as aircraft.

But the problem is that using aircraft to fight warships has a fatal and contradictory problem.

That is the problem of the bomb load of the aircraft.

At this time, aircraft research in various countries has made long-term development, and aircraft for various purposes have been developed.

Moreover, the aircraft's range, take-off load, firepower, and protection have all been greatly improved.

But the problem is, no matter how much the plane improves, he has a certain limit.

For a large aircraft, if the take-off load is a few tons, or even ten tons, it would be very impressive.

It is impossible for an aircraft to take off with a load capacity of 1930 tons. (Note, this is talking about the technology of the s, not the super-large transport aircraft of later generations.)

Let me calculate it based on the maximum load. An airplane can take off with a load of ten tons. According to the current John Empire's largest 500 kilogram-level aerial bomb, a plane can only carry twenty aerial bombs at most.

Even if you bring a hundred planes, it will only be 2000 artillery shells.

But in a modern naval battle, which naval battle would not involve firing thousands of cannonballs?

And since the role of aircraft has been demonstrated, which modern warship does not have air defense?

If nothing else, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship under Johnson's feet has 12 air defense turrets, which can completely achieve 360-degree air defense without blind spots.

In addition, what he brought this time was an entire fleet. How could it be easily defeated by a group of planes?

Johnson couldn't understand this at all, and he didn't know whether the group of planes in front of him were really the back-up force of the Hans Empire?