Chapter 1351： The wire was blown (1/2)

The earth is shaking.

The entire turret was also shaking, and the chandelier above the head was shaking a few times, and it went out!

”What's the matter?” Georgi shouted loudly: ”Why is the power supply interrupted?”

The fort of each shore defense gun is a building tens of meters deep, and it is inseparable from the power supply, but now, it is suddenly interrupted, the internal lights are all off, and the exhaust fan has no buzzing sound. , This made the fort’s director Georgi quite anxious.

The location of the explosion was more than a thousand meters away from one's own side, which in turn deepened his worries. Could it be that one's side was discovered?

More than one thousand meters can be considered as the error of the opponent's naval gun when firing. The first round of firing was more tentative. In the second round, it would probably be overlaid on one's side.

Here, they can't see anything, and the situation on the sea depends entirely on the information from those observatories.

”Report lieutenant, it may be that our transmission line was blown up.” said Corrich, who is in charge of the power system.

The fort is far away from the city, and it is impossible to connect to the power line from the city. Their usual source of electricity is an underground diesel generator set two kilometers away.

The diesel generator should not be too close to them, otherwise the black smoke from the diesel engine will expose their location, which is also for safety reasons.

Corrich adjusted the circuit to the backup battery in the dark, and the light finally turned on. However, relying on the light of the battery, it can provide at most two hours of power supply. Moreover, the power of the backup battery is not enough to drive the shore. For the anti-cannon loading system, he must connect the power line.

”What are you waiting for? Go and investigate!” Georgi said, ”Watch out for the enemy plane above your head.”

At this time, the German planes were still flying over their heads. It was dangerous to go out to check the circuit at this time, but they couldn't wait that much. Their shore defense guns could not lose their combat capability because of the loss of electricity.

Moreover, he had a foreboding that the battle was coming.

”Fort No. 30 called the Observatory, asking for instructions on the target's position, and preparing to fight back.” Georgi had already prepared for battle after sending his own hands to repair the circuit. Even if it was filled by hand, he could not delay firing.

Now, he relies on the observatory to provide target bearing data.

But later, he received disappointed answers from one observatory.

”No enemy fleet was found at Cape Lucules.”

”No enemy fleet was found at the mouth of the Alma.”

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Hearing the data coming back from the observatories drove Georgi crazy: ”The No. 30 turret was fired by a large-caliber naval gun. Didn't you find the German fleet?”

Even if the German 460 naval gun has a longer range, which is beyond the reach of its own 305mm coastal defense gun, at least it must be seen by the observatory, right?

”Yes, Captain, but we didn't find it.”

Putting down his phone, Georgi suddenly felt uncomfortable.

It wasn't the airplane that was dropped, because the enemy's observation post did not see the opponent's aircraft passing by, it was the naval gun attack, but the enemy's fleet was not seen from the observation post. Could it be that they launched from a position below the sea level? How far is that?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!