A horizontal four-cylinder reciprocating steam engine, plus ten large round boilers, a full speed of 16 knots, plus a new pointed hull made of the latest alloy steel.

The two new warships, the Tanghe and the Deng Yu, jumped out of the port of Liverpool like Godzilla monsters, and several of the British Navy warships docked in the port of Liverpool were directly knocked over before they could react.

These English naval officers and men were also dumbfounded, when had they seen such a large ironclad ship, almost without any orders, they ran to the shore in a panic.

Fortunately, the navy on the shore was able to support it and rushed to the battery, ready to use artillery to counterattack.

Due to the influence of the sea breeze and the low accuracy of shooting from the far side (there were no precision-guided missiles in this era), the guns of the two fleets could not completely hit all the shore batteries, but they also caused great damage to these shore batteries.

Thousands of pounds of artillery rolled into the black sea with the fragments of human limbs, and the artillery under the billowing black smoke on the side of the Ming warship was still spewing tongues of fire and bombarding Liverpool's seaside buildings.

The British Royal Navy collapsed directly and escaped from the combat area, and after a round of shelling, the Tanghe and Deng Yue successfully reached the port of Liverpool and continued to shell the port of Liverpool.

In an instant, countless Gothic buildings collapsed and turned into rubble, and many Liverpool residents fled frantically, but countless English were still killed.

Liverpool's English officials had already fled Liverpool, and in their opinion, the royal troops had been evacuated by such heavy shelling that there was no need for them to die here again.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty only used two fleets.

"Lord Li, take your people to occupy Liverpool, let's rest here for a few days first, and see how England reacts, if you still refuse to give in, we'll play a little bigger!"

After Heiwa said, Li Dingguo nodded: "Don't worry, this group of Westerners, I don't know if there is anything in the crotch of my pants, I heard that our cannon is running faster than the turtle grandson, and it is not difficult to occupy this Liverpool." ”

Not long after Li Dingguo said that, Heiwa ordered the transport ship to dock, and Li Dingguo and one of his brigade of army elites rushed ashore.

After several months of training in marine adaptation, Li Dingguo's brigade did not have any unsuitable symptoms after a long ocean voyage, but rushed directly into Liverpool with high spirits.

Liverpool is considered a military town, so there are many defenders, but the combat effectiveness is obviously much weaker than Li Dingguo's inner factory brigade.

Seeing that firearms were being fired from these ruined buildings in Liverpool, after several soldiers were wounded, Li Dingguo quickly ordered to rely on some buildings as covers, and clamped up small Ming mortars, using the parabolic principle to blow up one enemy firepower concentration point after another.

At the same time, Li Dingguo personally rushed over with people, and the main station weapons in their hands had already been replaced by rifles, with a fast rate of fire and a fast frequency, almost so that these defenders who were still resisting in England could not raise their heads.

Within a quarter of an hour, the defenders raised their white flags.

Li Dingguo's Inner Factory Brigade successfully occupied Liverpool.

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Here, when Cromwell was also torturing Wang Guangting with a soldering iron, his guards broke in and told him that a large fleet was coming to Liverpool.

Cromwell was shocked when he heard this, thinking that it was Franc or the Netherlands who had come to attack his British Empire, and he had sent a large number of spies and ships to monitor the movements of these two countries, but he did not expect that the fleets of these two or one of them would suddenly arrive at Liverpool.

Cromwell didn't care about interrogating Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen at this time, and rushed towards Liverpool non-stop.

However, as soon as he left the outskirts of London, he learned that Liverpool had been lost, and it was also confirmed that a group of Ming troops had captured Liverpool.

This made Cromwell refresh his predictions once again, he never imagined that the Ming army would suddenly appear and occupy an important town in his British Empire in an instant.

Cromwell was busy stabilizing himself, and calmly inquired about the specific situation, knowing that the Ming army was only more than 6,000 people, he couldn't help but be very relieved, and hurried back to London, preparing to meet Charles I, in order to obtain Charles I's will to gather heavy troops to annihilate this Ming army.

Charles I also learned of the war in Liverpool at this time, and like Cromwell, he was not frightened, and Charles I, who had tasted a lot of imperial power in recent days, couldn't help but slap the table angrily: "Even six thousand men dare to attack my dynasty, Cromwell, I order you to immediately command the whole army, and be sure to destroy this invading enemy within a month, so that they can all understand that my land of Great Britain can come as soon as it is said!" ”

After receiving military power from Charles I, Cromwell was as vigorous as his anti-smoking campaign, and soon mobilized 30,000 heavy troops to rush to Liverpool in the hope of recovering Liverpool and fighting a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty's inner factory brigade.

Here, Jin Yiwei had already informed Li Dingguo of the news in advance, and Li Dingguo did not stick to Liverpool City after knowing the news.

According to his understanding, he brought the people of Neichang to attack England, not to conquer the territory and occupy it for a long time, but to demonstrate the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and protect the opium trade, so Li Dingguo felt that it was better to destroy its vital forces and reduce its national military strength than to defend one city after another, so as to achieve the goal that His Majesty is eager to resume the opium trade.

Therefore, Li Dingguo did not care about the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and left Liverpool City immediately after replenishing supplies on the third day of the occupation of Liverpool, and continued to attack other cities in England under the leadership of Jinyiwei.

However, the countries of Europa have always been longer than naval battles and shorter than land battles, and the scale of land warfare is not large, and most of them are still stuck in a situation where the two armies are fighting in a simple position, and they are not as good as the army army of the Ming Dynasty, which has experienced thousands of years of accumulation of military ideas on land warfare and especially the accumulation of tough battles, coupled with the superiority of weapons, Zhu Youxiao's military reform and military actual combat in the past ten years or so have more frequency, so even if the British army makes some progress, it will only be passively beaten.

What's more, what Li Dingguo is playing now is the strategy of fighting the weaknesses of the other with my strengths, using the siege to occupy one town after another to exhaust you, but he will not fight you in a decisive battle with your phalanx on the plains until you are tired.

In less than three days, the British town of Warrington was occupied by Li Dingguo's inner factory brigade!

Then, two days later, Wideness was occupied again!

Cromwell had to reroute his army to recover Widnes, but Li Dingguo suddenly went north and occupied this important city of Manchester in only half a day.

And then there's Matlock!

And then there's Stoker!

And then suddenly it's a derby again!

Just when Cromwell was struggling to cope, news came from Birmingham, an important town second only to London, that it had been occupied by the Ming army.