Historically, there were many people who wanted to conquer the British Isles, such as Philip II of Spain, Emperor Napoleon of France, and then Hitler, the former two hoped to conquer Britain with the navy, and the latter tried to bring Britain to its knees with air force bombing, but in the end, all of them came back in vain.

On the contrary, it was the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans who pulled the army mightily, drove the cavalry to the British Isles, and finally achieved the status of conquest through a decisive land battle, so although the navy of the European coalition was strong this time, it was the French Army and the Spanish Army that played the leading role this time.

The rapid landing on the beach in the rumbling artillery fire of the sea, because the 30,000 vanguard troops went ashore first in the port area of the Thames River in London on the other side, plus the losers, the enemy troops gathered here were only more than 70,000 close to 80,000, but this number was still enough to be called a heavy army group, and although the European aristocracy was abolished, but after the baptism of thirty years of war, middle and lower officers and a large number of professional troops were still elite.

In the shouts of commanders at all levels, in fourteen minutes, at the forefront of the beach, the first row of Morris phalanx, which was the most widely used in the war thirty years ago, has been placed, three rows of eight columns of spearmen and halberders in the middle are mixed, four columns on both wings, and three rows in the back row are all musketeers, the largest increase in firepower, the field eagle guns snatched from the ship are pushed into the gap, and in the middle of the call, the heavy phalanx shouted the trumpet to form the first line of battle, and anxiously surrounded the flank of London.

But they hadn't marched for a few minutes, another thick black line had already appeared in their pupils, and on the only slightly undulating Gasden Heights in the south of London, six corps of troops, an expeditionary force composed of the Liaodong Storm Legion, had been waiting there for a long time, and there were 20,000 British Parliamentarian troops and 5,000 iron cavalry left behind by Cromwell.

As for the Ming army troops on the New World, Liu Zongmin's department did not appear here, Snake River developed a large number of granges, after sharing manpower from Mexico, the remnants of the Chuang army were already intoxicated with the development of large farms and pastures, and had no intention of fighting, while Li Dingguo's Great Western Army only came with 500 cavalry, and the combat effectiveness of the two last peasant rebel armies was no longer enough here.

In addition, Mao Xingjian's pro-army Ninth Corps also arrived on the battlefield, and this unit was guarding the walls of London at this time.

The number of field troops of the Ming army outside the city was less than that of the European coalition army, but the coalition army did not completely reorganize the military formation at this time, the battle line of the two armies was almost the same length, and the sudden Ming army army was obviously unexpected by these Western elites, but after many years of fierce military career, they continued to move forward without fear after a short period of shock.

The telescope looked at the dense Western army, although it was the first time to fight with their family, but at this time Mao Xingjian was also as calm as an old man, there was almost no emotion in his eyes, he gave orders gloomily and softly.

"Fire!"

After the reform of King Gustav of Sweden, the heavy mortar and siege artillery were gradually abandoned, replaced by a variety of short and flexible, most importantly light weight field artillery, which made the attack flexibility of the phalanx greatly improved, in this regard, the Ming army seems to have gone to the back, from the Songjin War, Xu Guangqi and other Western artillery introduced, the Ming army's artillery has been heavy red cannons as the main force, the emphasis is still on lethality, to Mao Jue here, not too much emphasis on range and accuracy.

However, Daming now has the technology!

The wide application of the steam engine makes the hydraulic power make the artillery forging technology to a higher level, the raw steel of the cannon can be forged to one-third of the original volume like the steam forging machine under the heavy hammer of the steam forging machine, the forged steel is more than half lighter than the casting cannon, and the compressive resistance is not as good as that, and now the caliber of the 1,000-pound field heavy artillery of the Liaodong Corps has reached 12 pounds, which is comparable to one or two tons of cannons in the West at the same time.

In the thunderous cannonball, the heavy conical cannonballs showed a parabolic arc, and threw them fiercely on the heads of the marching Chinese and Western fronts, and the heavy cannon sound made the French infantry and Spanish infantry who advanced with the beat of the drum all frightened, but the military discipline tempered in the thirty-year war made them still have a compact pace and a lineup that was not chaotic.

However, the tight lineup just gave the Ming army artillery the best play situation, and all along, Mao Jue's cannon was not a point kill, but a face kill!

In the booming sound, the cone shell overhead actually came to the second explosion, with a bang, and the smaller shotgun with a whistling sound rushed into the queue in the Western Army, it was really an instant, the infantry scrambled to the ground, the Italian-made dome helmet and plate armor could not resist the power of this thing, not to mention the arquebusiers who lacked armor, rows and rows of overturned infantry abounded, a French colonel was slammed to the ground, he was lucky, On his head was wearing a fifty-practice helmet carefully forged in Italy, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and he sat on the ground in a daze for more than ten seconds before he took off the helmet in horror.

A pill-sized, heavy steel egg was firmly embedded in his blood-soaked helmet, and when he looked back, the artillery crew pushing the field eagle cannon not far behind him was even completely annihilated, all of which were blown up by the iron rain.

The huge lethality of the heavy artillery made the panic magnified many times at once, the originally calm drum beat was three or four times faster at once, and it was not necessary to save the physical strength of the infantry, the distance was still one kilometer, and the Western army had already begun to trot and charge, however, rushed to a distance of about five hundred meters, the second round of more violent artillery fire was rushing to the face, and at the same time of not abandoning the heavy artillery, Mao Jue also equipped his troops with field artillery, and the proportion was not low, a regiment of 8,000 people, ten heavy artillery, and forty field artillery, Six corps of three hundred cannons sprayed with rage, and four or five thousand shotguns, large and small, bombarded the Western coalition forces more intensively, and this time, thousands of people fell.

Fortunately, after surviving this terrible blow, it finally entered the range of the Western coalition forces, and the French artillery and Spanish gunners who arrived at the range finally ignited the artillery fire in fear, and the roaring shells fell in the Ming army lineup, which also brought casualties to the Ming army.

And this ascension began to gradually increase, and finally sprinted into a hundred meters, the Western arquebusiers at the front couldn't wait to knock the trigger, and the crackling bullets jumped straight to the same neatly lined up Storm Legion expeditionary force, some sergeants burst out of the chest of a white smoke, but they held the gun stiffly, and some of the thighs or arms poofed a bloody hole came out, groaned and fell down, and suffered a round of gunfire in vain, but the Ming army did not fight back.

"Their firearms are not as good as ours, attack, fire!"

This scene made the lieutenant generals at all levels, the colonel, who actually commanded the troops, ecstatic, waving the command knife forward, one after another excited shouts were endless, and the morale of the inspired arquebusiers was also even higher.

In this round, dozens of people were shot and fell, but the Ming army, who relied on their bodies to resist the bullets, still did not shoot back.

Fifty meters, thirty meters, step by step, the Ming army held up four rounds of shooting, two or three hundred people were knocked down in a pool of blood, dragged behind by the medical soldiers with red gourds on their sleeves and did not return fire, until the distance between the two armies was close to twenty meters.

How many years later, the survivors of this war still remember that scene clearly, they have been calm and unmoving, wearing black armor, just like the famous general of the British Black Prince, the Ming Prince is like a statue that came to life, and suddenly he waved out the command knife, neatly like a person, in the sound of the first row of tens of thousands of bayonets and flintlock pistols were put down violently, and the white gun smoke filled the entire battlefield, followed by the second row, the third row, this is no longer a war, it has become a complete massacre, In this round of guns, 10,000 to 13,000 Western infantry were killed on the spot, the spearmen in the front two columns were almost completely annihilated, and in an instant, the thick European array was flattened by three or four columns.

In the incredulous eyes of those arquebusiers, the expeditionary force with bayonets did not even reload, so they charged down directly, and some French musketeers did not even have time to pull out their thin swords, they were already pierced to the ground by bayonets, and on the entire front, the four corps put into the battlefield had a thin lineup, and the expeditionary force of only 20,000 people had the upper hand in the phalanxes of each battlefield, pressing more than 40,000 people on the other side.

In the fierce attack, the Saxon mercenaries on the edge of the coalition forces who were slightly less combative, and the Italian mercenaries were already the first to begin to retreat.

Fortunately, the Western coalition still has the last axe, the reason why France was able to defeat Spain in the Thirty Years' War is that its strength lies in their cavalry construction, led by the enthusiastic French sword-wielding nobles, and the cuirassiers armed with arquebuses and French swords are full of tens of thousands of horsemen One step later, they also launched an attack, and the French commander's offensive target was very skillful, he did not attack the main formation of the expeditionary force, and participated in the melee that had been completely clashed together, but turned to the side, the ally of the Ming Dynasty, the parliamentary army array.

Britain's unique and unique geographical environment allows it to get out of the complex and fierce conflicts in Europe, but it also makes the British army lack of war training, and as the main force of the Iron Cavalry is also because of Cromwell's assassination, now the people are panicked and full of anger, this blow, really hit the soft underbelly, the fierce French knights in the British frightened roar, also staged a round of queue shooting, thirty meters away, carbines fired in unison, the extended spear phalanx was immediately knocked down a large area, and then took advantage of the chaos along the gap, The cuirassiers, wielding sabers and swords, wedged into the infantry array, and as their horses galloped, their sharp swords slashed through the air, and rows of British soldiers fell down with their throats clutched, and some even lost their heads altogether.

It had only been seventeen or eighteen minutes since the confrontation, and the British army was already in a tendency to rout.

Eyebrows raised slightly, looking at this scene through the telescope, Mao Xingjian waved his hand slightly in disgust, on the side, looking at the blood-boiling battlefield Li Dingguo, who was already full of blood, and Song Yongzhong, who was also dull and calm, bowed neatly on the horse and stroked his chest, followed behind, Mao Yuer, who was also wearing the cotton armor of the Ming army generals, but still looked clear-eyed, hugged her fists even more excitedly, she, the eldest brother of the prince, finally fulfilled her dream of joining the army and galloping on the field.

The horse's hooves were hurrying, and the Ming cavalry, who had been supervising the battle in the right rear, was also rumbling and rolling iron hooves!