Chapter 121: Partition of England

The Tang Navy besieged the British Navy at the Portsmouth base, bombing and harassing it on a daily basis, forcing the British Navy to rush out of the harbor for reinforcements on its own.

On the night of three days later, the German Army concentrated more than 600 ships and crossed the English Channel under the cover of a fleet of nine battleships and six heavy cruisers of the Datang Navy, preparing to land in Britain at Dover.

Although the main fleet of the British Navy was besieged by the Tang Imperial Navy and could not get out of Portsmouth, the British Navy had a huge number of warships, and in addition to the main fleet, there were also a large number of light cruisers and destroyers patrolling near the British Isles.

In the vicinity of Simon Bay, a submarine of the 19th British Patrol Fleet spotted the large Don-German alliance fleet and immediately alerted the British headquarters.

The British Navy urgently ordered the nearest 19th Patrol Fleet to attack the Allied troop carriers and prevent the Allied landing.

The light cruiser Ettley, the flagship of the British 19th Patrol Fleet, quickly headed for the predetermined sea area with seven M-class destroyers, preparing to attack the Allied troop carriers.

The Tang Imperial Navy was responsible for escorting the ship, and naturally wanted to protect the safety of the German transport fleet, so it immediately went into battle to prevent the British Navy warships from approaching.

In the darkness of the night, nine battleships and six heavy cruisers, which the Don army had captured from the French, came into play. Although the officers and men of the Tang Navy had no experience in operating battleships and heavy cruisers before, the Tang Army itself had light cruisers and destroyers for combat practice. For the well-trained officers and men of the Tang Navy, it is not a difficult problem.

Previously, the light cruisers and destroyers of the Don Army were only aircraft carriers to protect the core, and now they are just aircraft carriers replaced by German troop carriers. Therefore, the Datang Navy immediately launched a tactical formation.

"Knock knock!"

The cannon roared, the Tang battleship Richelieu took the lead in firing, and the three triple 406-mm main guns opened fire in mournful manner, the muzzle fire shone brightly, and a shell weighing a thousand catties roared and shot into the distant sea, stirring up huge water columns hundreds of meters high, and the sea water splashed. The waves are surging and spectacular and amazing.

It's just that it is difficult to accurately hit an enemy ship by firing at night. The British patrol fleet consisted of light cruisers and destroyers, which were relatively fast, and most of the artillery fire of the Don Army hit the sea.

However, the Don Army had nine battleships and six heavy cruisers, and their firepower was extremely fierce. And the British fleet had only one light cruiser and seven destroyers. Although they couldn't hit them, they didn't dare to approach easily.

In the course of the battle, the officers and men of the Tang Dynasty continued to explore how to operate battleships and heavy cruisers, which were behemoths of tens of thousands of tons, and for the purpose of protecting the German troop carriers, the Tang Army did not rashly take the initiative to attack, so the battle between the two sides was imminent and lasted for several hours until dawn.

At dawn, visibility gradually turned in favor of the Don Army, whose battleships and heavy cruisers had high accuracy of artillery fire. Long range, sinking with a British destroyer being shot. The British 19th Patrol Fleet chose to evacuate.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Allied fleet arrived off the coast of Dover, and at this time the British had already prepared, and the coastal fortress artillery opened fire to prevent the Tang Navy and German troop carriers from approaching.

Soon, more than 800 German Junker bombers from France and Belgium arrived and bombed the British in Dover.

Three days earlier, German bombers had been bombing Dover indiscriminately, and at this moment they had effectively destroyed a large number of British coastal fortifications, causing huge casualties to the British army.

Soon, the Datang Navy took advantage of the cover of the Luftwaffe to sail into the inner bay, and nine battleships and six heavy cruisers lined up in turn, forming a battle line, with their guns raised, ready to shell the British fortifications on the coast.

At 8:20, as the main guns of the battleship Richelieu opened fire, eight other battleships and six heavy cruisers of the Don Army also fired in turn.

In an instant, the sound of artillery was deafening, and one after another large-caliber shells roared and fell towards the British coastal fort positions and exploded, splashing earth and rocks, blazing fire, and sand and dust filled the sky like a storm.

Fifteen large battleships of the Tang Dynasty quickly took control of several landing areas with overwhelming firepower superiority and covered the advance of the German landing force.

Half an hour later, the first batch of German landing troops successfully cleared the dense mines, mines, and anti-landing obstacles along the coast, and were able to land on the beach.

The British fought back desperately, and wave after wave of counter-charges inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, who were repulsed again and again, leaving hundreds of corpses on the beach.

The Tang officers and men on the battleship showed their disdain, the German army was obviously not as strong as the Tang army in the landing operation, and the British army's counter-charge and beachhead position of this scale were not as fierce as the Japanese army, and if it was replaced by the Tang Army marines attacking, it would soon be able to take it.

After more than 30 strong attacks, the Germans finally established a solid beachhead at the No. 3 beachhead, repelled many frantic attacks by the British army, and became the first bridgehead of the German army in Dover.

However, this bridgehead had just been built, and a huge shell of 406 mm caliber fell.

With a loud bang, the bridgehead position was destroyed, and more than 20 elite German soldiers were bombed to pieces.

"Damn, how did the Don warships fire at us?"

In the distance, a German commander was happy to seize the first bridgehead, but was bombarded by a Tang battleship, and suddenly thundered.

Soon, he got an answer that it was the Tang Army who let the battleship Bar do it, and that it was the artillery firing instrument that failed, and the number of mistakes was made.

"Mistakes?"

Many German commanders rolled their eyes, this kind of mistake is not only this time, in fact, the battleship guns of the Tang Army often bombarded the German army, causing a lot of casualties to the German army, so that the German army was bitter but helpless, they could not do without the support of the fleet's artillery fire, so they could only hope that the Tang artillerymen would show mercy.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, under the fierce bombardment of many batches of German planes, under the cover of the artillery fire of the Tang fleet, the German army finally seized more than a dozen beachheads, and German armored tanks came ashore one after another, and the British defensive position of Dover was torn apart one by one.

Three days later, Dover fell, and the British army was unable to hold Dover after paying the heavy price of more than 70,000 killed, and the German army of thirteen divisions landed in Dover one after another, highlighting the strong operational efficiency of the German army.

There was a panic in London, and the Germans captured Dover, and it only took two days to drive directly to the city of London. Although Churchill also laid out a defensive line outside London and deployed 100,000 British troops to defend it, the fall of Dover and the strength of the German army made the British army frightened, and a large number of British defeated troops on the front line disturbed the morale of the defending troops.

One took ten, ten took a hundred, and when the German armored forces marched towards London, less than five thousand of the 100,000 British defensive forces remained, and they were crushed by a single German charge.

On 9 March, the Germans captured London, and before that, Churchill led some British government officials to evacuate London.

Churchill wanted to continue to resist, but the British Army was not much, and its combat effectiveness was not strong, the main force of the Air Force was gone, and the main force of the Navy was blocked in the port of Portsmouth by the Tang Army.

On the morning of the 10th, the Scottish Parliament announced its unconditional surrender to the German army, followed by the Welsh Parliament the next day.

Hitler was very happy, and immediately demanded that Churchill and the British army stop resisting and surrender to the German army, he did not think that the British army should surrender like the Don Army, after all, the Don Army only had a navy and did not send an army.

However, on the night of the 11th, the 1st Airborne Corps of the Don Army, with the help of 500 Great Bustard transport planes, carried out large-scale airborne operations in Portsmouth and the island of Ireland, respectively.

After the two airborne brigades of the Tang Army landed around Portsmouth, they quickly marched into Portsmouth and disarmed the 30,000 British troops there as soon as possible, and at the same time, the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Navy also broke through the obstacles and entered the port of Portsmouth, capturing more than 500 British ships of various types in the harbor.

That night, six aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, one battle cruiser, 18 heavy cruisers, 37 light cruisers, 123 destroyers, and seven submarines of the British Navy's main fleet were all sailed out of Portsmouth Harbor by the officers and men of the Tang Navy, and joined the main force of the Tang Army's Atlantic Fleet, preparing to sail directly back to the mainland of the Tang Empire.

According to the goal of the Tang Army, these British warships will be refitted in the Tang Empire itself, and then expand the strength of the Tang Empire's navy.

When the Germans felt Portsmouth the next day, they saw that it had been occupied by the Tang Army, and immediately reported it to Hitler, who was so angry that Hitler scolded his mother and scolded Zhang Meng for being too shameless and once again staged a tiger's mouth.

However, Hitler and Zhang Meng had an agreement before, and whoever grabbed it was whoever grabbed it. When Hitler called Zhang Meng to reason, Zhang Meng argued that he had nothing to do.

However, Hitler's occupation of Britain was a huge victory in itself, and the benefits obtained were no worse than the Tang Empire's acquisition of the entire British Navy's main fleet.

Hitler didn't argue with Zhang Meng for too long, and he didn't want to turn his face with Zhang Meng, because at the same time as the German army landed on the British mainland, Hitler had already ordered the German army on the Eastern Front to execute Barbarossa, and the German army's center of gravity was to blitz the Soviet Union and needed the support of the Tang Empire and China. (To be continued......)