Chapter 1466： Blood and Fire Hell II (1/2)
Chapter 1466 Blood and Fire Hell (2)
The first shell was nearly missed. It entered the water less than 7 meters away from the Marseille. The violent explosion directly tore a ten-meter-long crack in the side line of this poor transport ship! Even the hull of the hull was lifted off by a large chunk, and the Marseille, which was already under heavy load, quickly tilted.
”Push water immediately! Open the sea valve! Pour water into the compartment full of ammunition, and don't let the German shells detonate here!” A French officer roared loudly at the sound-transmitting tube on the ship, but his orders could never be passed. It was executed, because in just a few tens of seconds, a 12-inch shell accurately landed on the deck of the battleship, and then penetrated all the way, igniting thousands of tons of shells and propellant placed on the bottom of the hull!
Thus, disaster occurred! The entire port area was instantly shrouded in flames! A huge fireball rose from the Marseille’s berth and quickly spread to the surroundings! It is expanding so fast! In less than a second, powerful shock waves and flames swept over an area of hundreds of thousands of square meters around. Everything in this area, whether it’s ships, buildings, machinery, or anything else in this area, The flames of the doomsday are all blown to pieces, and the fragile creatures such as human bodies or horses are directly turned into ashes! With just a hit, one-third of the ports were completely destroyed!
After the shock wave swept across, the entire coverage area turned into a sea of fire. The crackling whistle and bright fire light turned the surrounding into a day, and the updraft generated by the fire made it difficult to control even the aircraft that provided orthopedics in the air. As for the pilots, they had to raise the altitude.
”It took us about 10 minutes to complete the task that was scheduled to take more than an hour to complete. This port has been completely abandoned. Even when flying at an altitude of several hundred meters, we can feel the heat waves on the ground. We must have destroyed an ammunition ship just now, and the destruction of this ammunition ship also brought at least three nearby ships! The entire berth has been destroyed, and even the nearby breakwater and trestle bridge have been blown to pieces. ”A German seaplane pilot recalled the scene like this.
”All the main guns attacked warehouses, military camps, and French vehicle parking areas far away from the port, and the secondary guns continued to attack units around the port!” As the attack progress was greatly advanced due to the accident, Count Spey restarted to adjust his attack targets . The Allied fleet approached the target further, so that the 6-inch artillery could fully exert its power!
The output of the fleet that enters full shooting is so terrifying, the entire fleet is like an active volcano moving on the sea, thinking of the distant target tilted with a rain of destruction. Every minute, more than 10 tons of ammunition tilted in this area, and the Germans used precise calculations and precise artillery to guide the fierce artillery fire into an area. The originally small town and the parking lot next to it were targeted. Every shot of the main artillery shell could wipe out the target within thousands of square meters! Thousands of carriages, cars, and tens of thousands of lives were wiped out under fierce shelling. The small town was quickly broken into ruins.
After hitting the high-explosive shells for half an hour, Earl Spey decisively ordered the fleet to switch to incendiary attacks. The shells filled with a large number of inflammable agents landed in the target area, allowing the fire to spread around at a faster rate. At the very beginning, the French tried to put out the fire, but soon they knew it was futile. Under the blowing of the sea breeze, the fire here was chasing north like an army of flames, swallowing everything they could encounter. everything of!
Flying shrapnel, flames, and anger kept harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Allied Powers. In this unexpected attack, the port of Herezos and the nearby town were almost completely wiped out. Until after the war, the French did not know how many people died in this catastrophe. In the end, they could only come up with a vague number. In this catastrophic massacre, 9,000 to 12,000 soldiers, auxiliary personnel, or other Allied troops were killed on the battlefield, or lost their lives due to severe burns and poisonous gas. .
With the passing of these lives, the Allied Powers also lost nearly 9,000 tons of various materials, hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles, and more than 700 trucks, tractors and other materials! By the way, there are more than 200 various artillery pieces!