"What's going on over there?" Colonel Lin Shuo, commander of the heavy tank battalion directly under the Second Armored Division of the Ming Army, poked his head out of the turret hatch of his car and looked suspiciously at the side of a small forest not far away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There was a large group of about 100 British prisoners of war who had laid down their arms, holding their heads in their hands, looking frightened, and huddled together. Around them, dozens of Ming paratroopers with cigarettes in their mouths and weapons in their arms were pushing and shoving them together.

Before Lin Shuo's inquiry could be answered, the paratroopers on the other side of the woods had already pulled the trigger of the weapons in their hands and knocked the more than 100 British prisoners of war in a pool of blood.

“...... Go over and ask, what's going on! Lin Shuo was not a pedantic person, killing prisoners on the battlefield was common, and he had no intention of standing up for these British. It's just that this kind of massacre of prisoners on a large scale, if it is poked out, is likely to be targeted by the gendarmes. The Ming army is a force that attaches great importance to military discipline.

More than 1,000 of Lin Shuo's men were marching on the road next to this grove, and many of them could see the movement of the paratroopers slaughtering prisoners of war clearly, and he had to explain to his subordinates. The military discipline of the Ming army should not be taken lightly.

"Sir." The adjutant quickly ran back from the paratroopers, shouting, "The paratroopers say that many of the bodies of the paratroopers have been found burned to death in the town not far from where the captives are stationed. They are avenging their comrades. ”

"Hmm." Lin Shuo nodded, not paying any more attention to these captives. This kind of revenge on the battlefield is a matter of course, and his eyes look at the town in the distance, "Forward!" ”

The Ming landing operation against the British went very smoothly. The first wave of Marines and Army handpicks managed to break through the defenders' defenses on the beaches of Dover after brutal fierce fighting, supported by Army tanks.

After taking control of a beachhead nearly five kilometers deep, a large number of follow-up troops came to British soil. After all, it is only a little more than 30 kilometers from Calais to Dover, and the landing craft can run a round trip in a few hours.

By night, the Ming army had landed in the Dover Beach area with more than 50,000 men, and hundreds of heavy vehicles of all kinds. This is already a formidable force to be reckoned with.

On the night of D-day, several old destroyers of the Ming army forced their way into the port of Dover, and more than 1,000 officers and men got down from the warships and rushed to the docks, quickly crushing the defenders who had no intention of fighting, and took control of this port, which was not very large, but was extremely important at the moment.

In just one night, the Ming army used ferries and cargo ships to unload at the wharf and other ways to send nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers and a large number of vehicles, heavy equipment and various military supplies to British land, greatly strengthening the strength of the front-line battlefield, especially those powerful armored forces, which played a decisive role.

On this crucial night, the Royal Navy, which had drained almost all of Britain's home, did little to play. Its surface fleet forces consisted of only a few dozen small warships stationed nearby, and in a tragic manner, launched a senseless and decisive attack on the Ming fleet, and finally sank them all.

However, the large warships stationed in various ports did not make any movement, especially the capital ships of the home fleet in Scapa Bay, and had neither the idea of going south to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, nor the idea of immediately escaping for the United States. Just stay quietly in Scapa Bay, protected by countless anti-aircraft guns, as if the war had nothing to do with it. Even the British government did not know exactly what these navies were trying to do.

Throughout the night, the only bright spot of the British Royal Navy was the tragic rush of several submarines into the Ming army's fleet under the cover of night. Before being finally sunk, these heroic submarines sank a number of Ming ships, and at one time caused great confusion to the Ming army's shipping, forcing the Ming army's shipping to stop for nearly two hours.

Compared to the inaction of the navy, the performance of the British Army was even worse. Due to a lack of adequate training, the British Army's counterattack at night was a complete mess. Many of the units scheduled to participate in the counterattack were not able to reach the designated starting positions.

Coupled with the blockage of the Ming paratroopers, only a small part of the troops that were originally scheduled to counterattack carried out counterattack operations at night. Because of a massive attack by the Ming aviation during the day, the British suffered a heavy blow to their armored forces and artillery, and they did not achieve any decent results when they counterattacked at night. Several charges were defeated by a dense rain of bullets and a surprise attack by the armored forces of the Ming army.

Moreover, at this time, the spies of the Ming army in various places also achieved great results, they not only destroyed many communication lines and communication arteries, but even instigated many British officials and officers to add trouble to the army, so that the British counterattack at night finally ended in failure.

After the perilous first night, Britain's fate was sealed.

Over the next forty-eight hours, the Ming landing force occupied a number of port areas near Dover. The landing channel of the army was greatly expanded, and the landing force of the Ming army also exceeded 500,000 people in a short time. At the same time, because of the mastery of a large number of ports, many heavy equipment of the Ming army were also successfully landed.

Having sufficient troops and a large amount of heavy equipment, the Ming army began to march towards London.

Lin Shuo's 2nd Panzer Division landed from the port near Hastings, and after the landing, they began to move north quickly, all the way to London under the help of paratroopers. Five days after D, the Ming attack force, with the 2nd Panzer Division as the vanguard, had already reached the area near the satellite city of Croydon, a suburb of London.

The rapid advance of the Ming army not only led to the fall of large areas of British territory, but more importantly, they greatly damaged the morale of the defenders and their belief in persisting in battle. Within a week of the day of landing, the Ming army had captured more than a million defenders!

That's a million soldiers, enough to fill thousands of acres of land if they're crammed together.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to arrive in London, the British, who were unwilling to be defeated, gathered all their strength and launched a desperate counterattack against the Ming army for the last time, trying to contain the fierce offensive of the Ming army. However, not long after the British's battle plan was formulated, information about this counterattack had already been sent to Zhang Cheng's desk.

At this moment, this total collapse, the morale of the national army is completely lost. It is conceivable what effect the counterattack forcefully pushed by the British can have.

According to the General Staff's operational plan, the 2nd Panzer Division was deployed in the area near the town of Mitcham, northwest of Croydon, and was ready to be used against British armoured forces that were about to launch a counterattack.

In fact, the British were defeated so quickly and so tragically that even the top brass on both sides did not expect the war to be fought like this. The main reason is that Britain has been deeply influenced by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and the Ming Dynasty has opened up concessions near London, the capital of the United Kingdom, for hundreds of years, which has had a huge impact on the whole of Britain.

In order to be able to get rid of the control of the Ming Dynasty, the British have been constantly oppressing their own citizens for hundreds of years, sucking blood from them to develop their own strength. For a long time, the British had some of the highest taxes in the world. Many ordinary British people were forced to die by the unscrupulous tax collectors, and had to sell themselves to work in the concession to survive.

Da Ming is also exploitative, but compared to the British, Da Ming is pure and kind, like an angel. Although life in the concession is hard, at least you can survive. The capitalists of the Ming Dynasty liked to build factories in the concessions and dump goods directly into European countries, which could save a large amount of high freight costs for transportation from the mainland. In this day and age, the cost of long-distance transportation is simply astronomical.

Coupled with the extremely cheap local labor, the huge difference in living between the concession and the British mainland had a huge impact on the whole of the United Kingdom. Many impoverished British people were able to return to their hometowns like dogs after escaping into the concession for a few years, not only with money, but also with the envy and jealousy of their fellow villagers, so that those bullying officials who were rampant in the countryside did not dare to touch the identity, second-class citizens of the Ming Empire!

The power of example is terrifying. More and more people want to become second-class citizens of the Ming Empire, and they are willing to give everything for this. Whether it is selling yourself as a slave or contributing your wife and children, you will not hesitate. Mandarin is even more widely spoken than the native language. Britain was the most influential country in the hundreds of years that the Ming Dynasty colonized Europe.

When this situation lasted for hundreds of years, the British no longer had the courage and idea to confront the Ming Dynasty in their bones. Although the elites at the top tried their best, at this moment, in the context of the Ming Dynasty sweeping the world, the British people's will to resist had begun to disintegrate after the successful landing of the Ming Dynasty.

There were even many leading parties in various places who took the initiative to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and there were also a large number of people in the rear who were instigated by the Ming spies to rebel. In such a situation, how could the British army not lose the battle?

However, the British were not resigned to their defeat, and gathered all the forces at hand to launch a massive counteroffensive against the Ming army in the southern area of London. It was also the last struggle and resistance of the British before the final destruction of the country. (To be continued.) )