Sometimes, it's just so frustrating. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoJust as the war on the entire Southeast Peninsula and on the island of Luzon had stopped, fighting broke out in another place.

Hong Kong, an important financial base in the south of the Ming Empire and one of the most important industrial cities, was shelled from the sea.

Just when almost all the battlefields in the world stopped shelling, there was a sudden rumbling of artillery here.

Balek? Admiral Lem looked through his telescope at the huge harbor across the sea, and at the countless huge chimneys that spewed smoke, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He had come to the Ming Empire five years ago and studied here at public expense for a year. This is a process that almost every senior admiral of the British Empire has to go through, and it also makes Balek? Admiral Lerm knew the Ming Empire very well.

In those days, he had been to the city in front of him, where he saw the backward but huge industrial system of the Ming Empire, which made people vomit blood.

At the same time, he also saw the prosperity of the coastal economy of the Ming Empire, Guangzhou and Shanghai, and the coveted Gyeonggi region.

The streets here are paved with huge stones, and the buildings here are even decorated with all kinds of precious materials that other countries are reluctant to use.

Marble and other things, which seem to be the most common things here, precious gold and silver jewelry, worn on the bodies of dignitaries as numerous as the sea.

Unlike the nobles of the British Empire, although they also wear gold and silver, the bureaucrats and nobles here may be called real nobles.

Walking in the streets and alleys here, the most down-and-out aristocrats you see seem to be much more decent than the Grand Dukes in the London neighborhood.

Five years ago, when Balek? When Admiral Lerm saw the giant gantry crane in Canton City, which was about the size of the largest gantry crane in the British Empire, he was deeply shocked by what he saw.

From that point of view, Balek that year? Admiral Lem felt inferior. It was a kind of inferiority complex that his own nation could hardly surpass, which made his heart inexplicably bitter.

So, as a commander of the British Navy, he, like Genghis Khan, thought of using the most simple and crude means to break everything in front of him.

In the face of a brilliant and brilliant excellent civilization, the inferior complex buried deep in their hearts makes their hearts not learn and accept, but cruelly destroy and cover up......

Now, as if to confirm the oath of the year, Balek? Admiral Lem has returned, with a mighty naval fleet, back here five years ago.

He led this fleet to defeat a strong opponent off the coast of Luzon and completely annihilated the most powerful Nanyang fleet of the Ming Empire.

It is precisely because of this that now he has the pride of victory, buried the inferiority complex in his heart, and stands here proudly, using the cannon in his hand to greet the city that once made him ashamed.

"Keep firing! Let them see what the world's largest navy of the British Empire looks like! "Put down the binoculars, Baalek? Admiral Lem commanded with his chin held high.

"Boom!" The 381 mm caliber naval guns spewed dazzling light, the huge impact shook the heavens and the earth, the huge shells flew into the distance, and the huge battleship was still breaking the waves.

The few destroyers in the port of Hong Kong had only the masts left at sea at this time. These tiny warships, when the enemy attacked, tried to break out of the harbor heroically.

But their efforts came to naught in the face of the opponent's dense 150 mm caliber naval guns, and in the end they could only use sinking to repay the motherland that built them.

Originally, he hoped to go deep into Guangdong Province and shell Guangzhou, which had a more developed industry and a larger population, but the coastal defense of the Ming Empire was too good, so he lost the courage and determination to take risks.

Balek? Admiral Lerm feared that after his fleet entered Guangzhou, the warships of the Ming Empire would come from all directions to block his retreat.

The main reason why the new British battleships were able to gallop on the sea was that they relied on their terrible speed, so that they could maneuver flexibly and avoid reality.

If the cruisers and destroyers of the Ming Empire were desperately blocked in the narrow sea, it would be just a battery attack and a sneak attack by torpedoes, which would destroy this not very large fleet.

So, Balak? Admiral Lem changed the target of his attack to a battlefield close to the open sea, where his fleet could retreat at any time.

To bombard Hong Kong, he only had to pay attention to the batteries deployed from several surrounding islands, and as for the small warships from the near sea, his fleet did not pay attention to them at all.

Another Jean Balek? The reason why Admiral Lem was cautious was that he had seen the new aircraft of the Ming Empire near Luzon. Admiral Lem even surpassed the shore defense batteries in his heart.

"Boom!" The Ming Empire batteries on the South Island were also desperately firing back. Although these batteries were fixed targets compared to the warships of the British Empire, they were so numerous that they could not be completely wiped out in a short period of time.

Compared with the open-air forts of the past, compared to the forts deployed in Chittagong, the forts of the Ming Empire in Hong Kong are much more modern.

The 356 mm gun was mounted on the same turret as the battleship, which allowed for all-round rotary aiming and firing, and was even equipped with a mechanical semi-automatic loader.

Such a coastal defense gun turret has a fast rate of fire and heavy armor protection, so it is also more powerful in combat. They kept firing, and for a time they were on par with the British fleet, which had 381 mm guns.

More so that Balek? Admiral Lerm was a little laughable that there were also 400-millimeter guns like Chittagong on the South Island batteries in Hong Kong, and there was more than one......

On more modern batteries, 400 mm caliber cannons were armed with as many as 8 guns. The guns were hidden in heavy reinforced concrete fortifications, which gave the British fleet a headache.

The shelling has been going on for 20 minutes, and although not a single shell has landed on the deck of the British Navy, the British Navy has found that the artillery fire of the other side has not weakened.

This makes Balek? Admiral Lem is irritable, the civilization he wants to destroy is behind a strong defensive line, and he seems to have the ability to tear through the opponent's defenses now......