Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 217

In order to reduce casualties, after weighing the right and left, Colonel Ferrad had no choice but to agree with the advice of Admiral Haydris and ask the fleet for help.

In the command module of the Trikupis, Cantoriotis met with Admiral Hydris who returned to the flagship in a rubber dinghy overnight.

After learning that the Marine Corps encountered the enemy occupying favorable terrain during the landing, and waiting for work, and needed the fire support of the fleet, he fell into contemplation.

Hedris looked at the silent naval commander with trepidation, and felt uneasy in his heart.

The Greek warships that make up the quick-response fleet are the elites of the Greek Navy in recent years, all new warships, and the absolute main force of the Greek Navy.

These warships have also conducted a small amount of live ammunition target shooting training, and more of them are simulated tactical drills, although they are under the control of navy soldiers during the exercises on weekdays.

For no other reason, the training cost of the Navy is too high.

Aside from the maintenance of warships, the salaries of high-quality naval personnel and other factors, let’s just talk about the 12-inch (about 305 mm) main guns equipped by the Invincible-class battlecruisers in the Greek Navy.

Two Invincible-class battlecruisers in the Greek Navy, Trikupis and King George, each armed with eight quadruple 12-inch guns, all imported from England.

The purchase price of each gun is 80,000 pounds!

The equivalent of the Greek drachma is two million!

What is the concept?

The annual income of a worker in Greece is about one thousand drachmas.

What is the lifespan of such an expensive gun?

The lifespan of each gun is about 100 to 110 rounds.

That is to say, such an expensive artillery can be scrapped after firing 100 shells.

A 12-inch cannon shoots a shell, and the damage of the cannon alone is about 20,000 drachmas, the annual income of 20 Greek workers.

To use such expensive artillery to deal with a few hundred Ottomans guarding the island on Limous Island, there is some suspicion that the artillery can hit mosquitoes.

The imaginary enemies of the two Invincible-class battle cruisers are the two former dreadnoughts imported from Germany by the Ottoman Navy. The expensive life of the artillery is unnecessary.

The Greek Navy is far from having the luxury of using battlecruiser main guns to deal with land targets.

Cantoriotis hesitated: “Is it necessary?”

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Seemingly seeing the commander’s hesitation, Hydris explained: “The artillery calibers of the destroyers in the fleet are all below 150 mm, and they are used for shelling on the opposite shore. Even if the enemy is prepared, even if they are replaced with high-explosive shells, the effect will be reduced. Not obvious”

The larger the caliber, the higher the power of the artillery.

The invincible-class main gun has a caliber of 305 mm and a shell weight of 300 kilograms. It is naturally easy to deal with the Ottoman army lurking around Mudros Bay.

Cantoriotis analyzed all the gathered intelligence, thinking of the order from the General Staff of Athens at home, requesting to complete the strategic requirement of blocking the Dardanelles and the coastal shipping of Asia Minor as soon as possible.

According to the intelligence, the Ottomans were under strong pressure from the Balkan Alliance in the direction of Macedonia after the war due to backward domestic traffic and limited land transportation capacity. They urgently needed to mobilize personnel and materials from the Asian part of the Ottomans to the European part.

The port city of Thessaloniki, because it is far from the control area of ​​the Ottoman navy, has been blocked by the Greek navy since the start of the war. Naturally, Ottoman ships did not dare to enter Thessaloniki from the Thermaic Gulf.

However, these ships were close to the coastline, and after exiting the Dardanelles, they traveled north along the coast of Thrace and could still send supplies and personnel to Macedonia to support the Ottoman army in Macedonia.

After all, the Ottoman navy still has a certain deterrent power. Before the quick reaction fleet annihilated or severely damaged the main Ottoman fleet, the Greek warships approached the coast of Thrace to fight, which was more dangerous.

Therefore, the safety of these Ottoman supply ships sailing closely along the Ottoman coastline is still guaranteed.

The General Staff naturally did not want more Ottoman soldiers to enter Macedonia, because this meant that the power of the Asian part of the Ottoman Empire was likely to be used against the Greek army.

It is the Navy’s top priority to occupy the strategically important island of Limous as soon as possible so that the fleet can free up its hands and be careful to guard against the main Ottoman warships.

So, even at some cost, it’s okay.

Having figured this out, Cantoriotis agreed to the request for fire support from Staff Officer Hydris.

After 1,500 Marines spent the rest of the night on the frigid shores of Mudros Bay, it was finally bright.

At about 6 o’clock in the morning, the fleet received the commander’s order to target the main artillery shelling points of the two invincible-class battle cruisers, and the entire fleet bombarded the coast of Mudros Bay to provide fire support for the Marine Corps.

At 6:10, the entire fleet of ten warships, two battle cruisers, and eight destroyers fanned out around Mudros Bay to complete the preparations for the attack.

The two invincible-class warships opened fire first, only to see the eight 12-inch double-mounted turrets installed by the two war monsters aiming at the target, the ferocious and sturdy artillery muzzles slanted towards Mudros Bay, and a deafening unison sounded loudly. Afterwards, the muzzle spewed thick smoke, mixed with orange-red flames.

“… chirp”

The three-hundred-kilogram high-explosive bomb made several bright arcs in the air with a strong air-breaking sound.

After a brief silence, more than a dozen splendid sparks rose from the hills and woods of Mudros Bay.

After several main battery shells exploded, the visible targets pointed the way for the other destroyers, and the eight destroyers also tilted metal storms toward the enemy positions.

After Ferrard heard the artillery fire~www.mtlnovel.com~, he quickly took a telescope and observed the surrounding hills and woods where the enemy was hiding.

I saw the strong energy aroused by the explosion of the cannonball, which lifted all obstacles that hindered the advancement of the Marine Corps.

The swirling sawdust, broken stones, and messy weeds mixed together, causing Mudros Bay to fall into chaos.

During the whole hour of artillery bombardment, the jungle around Mudros Bay was bombarded in a carpet-like manner. The explosions came one after another, and the dust in the sky blocked the view and enveloped the entire position.

Fedra looked at the fierce shelling in front of him, and estimated in his heart that the 305mm naval gun, when using high-explosive shells, would generate violent air waves after the explosion, even if the soldiers were not directly hit by shrapnel and hid in the bunker , was not directly shocked to death, but also seriously injured.

Around seven in the morning, the artillery bombardment of the fleet stopped, and half an hour later, the dust shrouded above the position disappeared, revealing its true appearance.

Colonel Ferrard took a deep breath.

In the dense grass around Mudros Bay, trees were sparsely distributed, dotted with several exposed rocks.

After the artillery bombardment, it was a mess, the trees and grasses were completely gone, the ground was covered with a layer of grass debris, the messy rocks were completely exposed, and the entire position was ravaged by artillery beyond recognition!

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