When the shouts of killing in the urban area of Dakar became more and more intense, the Zhiyuan also began to consider the port. Now that there was no threat from the fort, the Zhiyuan had used the cannon as a bayonet, directly under the enemy's nose.
"Report to the captain! Two orange fireworks have just been launched at the pier. Our troops are already present at the pier. Please stop shelling the pier..."
"Very good, order Lin Zhen to extend the shooting, focusing on covering industrial areas and military camps..."
Boom boom... The Zhiyuan shook violently twice more, and two more clouds of fire and smoke rose in the industrial zone of Dakar in the distance.
From the late 19th century to the 20th century, ironclad battleships have always been a country's strategic weapon. In an era before aerial bombs appeared, the main guns of ironclad battleships represented the most powerful representative of a country's military firepower output.
To use an inappropriate analogy, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the strategic position of steel battleships was no less than that of nuclear weapons in later generations. In many cases, steel battleships were a powerful deterrent force for a country. They often did not need to participate in wars and only conducted one global war. Diplomatic travel can deter other countries from using their brains at all, just like the United States' Great White Fleet.
Strong ships and powerful artillery are more than just words. Each of these four words is full of the blood of a failed nation.
In the Battle of Songhu, which is known to Chinese people in later generations, the Japanese army actually barely won. If it were not for the strong support of the Japanese navy, history might have been rewritten.
I will not discuss the specific historical reasons and various data here. I will only give one example, which is the No. 3 ship of the Japanese Kongo-class battleship, the Haruna.
This is the most powerful battleship among the Japanese navy that participated in the Battle of Songhu. The main gun caliber has reached a terrifying 356 mm. You can use a ruler to compare it to see how wide 356 mm is.
A very simple comparison, look at the computer keyboard in your hand. If you cut off the small numeric keyboard on the far right, the remaining length is basically 356 mm. To put it bluntly, this caliber is already larger than what you see in the supermarket. The watermelon I bought here is even bigger.
Not only is the caliber huge, this kind of artillery shell is as tall as an adult when standing up. It is simply impossible to load this kind of ammunition manually, and a mechanical loader must be used.
Such a terrifying artillery shell would be a real killer even in the 21st world, let alone the early days of World War II.
It is conceivable that when the national army attacked the enemy battalion by regiment, almost all the blood was shed to capture a factory and a commercial building.
Just one shot of the Haruna's 356mm main gun can level the buildings that the Chinese soldiers spent hundreds of thousands of troops to recapture.
The lives of hundreds of thousands of people are less than one shot. This is not a fantasy, this is living history, a real battle that took place on our land.
The failure of the Battle of Songhu was not because the Chinese soldiers were not brave enough, but because their industrial strength was too far behind. Japan, which had battleships at the time, went to war with China. In fact, it was the same reason that the United States, which had nuclear weapons in later generations, bullied Iraq and Libya.
Generational differences in science and technology, industrial strength, concepts of war, and information... The backwardness in all aspects has naturally resulted in the situation of being beaten.
Today's Zhiyuan has completely turned history around. The French army began to tremble under the firepower of the Zhiyuan. Although they have a numerical advantage, the most powerful firepower is in the hands of the Chinese.
Every time the 210-caliber main gun is fired, the water in the entire harbor will shake. The blast from the muzzle rushes in all directions. The flames ejected from the muzzle are more than three meters high, dazzling in the dark night.
Each shell can destroy several buildings. The factory building was collapsed in the explosion. There was no living room in the area of tens of meters in diameter around the explosion point. The land burned by the fire exuded black smoke and a burnt smell. water vapor.
In the era without radios, communication between various units was a very troublesome matter, especially the coordination of infantry and artillery, which was an insurmountable difficulty for any army.
Under normal circumstances, the Marine Corps has entered the city and started a melee, so the Zhiyuan should leave and stop artillery fire to prevent accidental damage, but the smart Chinese actually thought of a brand new way of communicating information.
"You... I'm talking about you! Get over here..." Liu Anchen and Jiang Yuheng kicked open the door of an adobe house and escorted a family of black people out from inside.
Liu Anchen put his pistol against the middle-aged black man's head and shouted, "Do you understand French? Do you understand English? Answer me, do you understand it? If you don't understand, I will kill your whole family immediately..."
"Yes, I understand French...Dear sir, please don't kill us, we are poor niggas, we don't have any property..." A family of black people threw themselves on the ground and cried all over their faces. tears.
France has informed the Senegal region for more than 200 years, and French is now the official language here, so there is still no problem in communicating with each other.
Liu Anchen put down his pistol and stuffed a red fireworks stick into the hand of the middle-aged black man. "If you want your family to survive, just obey me... You take this fireworks stick and pretend to be an escaped refugee. How can you cross a block?" There are two companies of French troops..."
"Don't worry, they won't doubt you, because you are the black people they have ruled for more than two hundred years. It is safest for you to go... Close to these French troops, you tear up the wax seal on it... See Is it? It’s just this white layer!”
"There are three bursts of fireworks. After they are all lit up, you run back! Do you hear me? Run as hard as you can. Do you understand running wildly... I know you black people are the best at running. As long as you can Risk your life and escape, and your family will survive!"
Uncle Hei had never done such a thing before. He was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with snot and tears streaming down his face. "God help me, I don't dare, I really don't dare... Please let me go!"
Liu Anchen sneered and put the pistol on Uncle Hei's son's head, "Don't ask me, you ask yourself! Complete this running task, and your whole family can survive..."
At this point, Liu Anchen took out a handful of shining gold francs from his pocket, and as soon as he handed them over, they all clinked on the ground. "Success, not only will your whole family survive, these gold coins are also yours!"
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