Early October 1943, Dover, England. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the British Navy was defeated by the Ming Expeditionary Fleet hundreds of years ago, Britain has been in a state of collapse. Although for hundreds of years, countless British people have been fighting hard and doing whatever it takes to be able to rise again. But under the constant pressure of the Ming Dynasty, there has been no great improvement.

After the defeat of the naval fleet, the British urgently built a large number of coastal fortresses in an attempt to block the attack of the Ming Expeditionary Force. However, the powerful Ming Expeditionary Force is not something that a group of fortresses can resist. The Ming Expeditionary Force, which was tracing up the Thames River, attacked London, defeated the British Army, and then forced the British to sign the Treaty of London, which humiliated the country. Since then, a large number of colonies have been acquired on the south bank of the Thames, turning Britain, the country with the most fierce resistance to the Ming Dynasty, into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal place.

The British have never given up the idea of getting rid of the control of the Ming Dynasty for many years, and they are willing to give everything for this. When the anti-Ming war that swept the world broke out, the British, who finally found a chance, were ecstatic to recover everything that was taken away by the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Just a few years later, the Ming dynasty, who had been forced to leave the continent of Europa, made a comeback. At this moment, when tens of millions of Ming troops were stationed on the other side of the English Channel, the British once again felt the crisis of national annihilation.

In fact, the British, who had a strong sense of crisis, had already sensed the danger as early as when the Ming Dynasty had just begun to counterattack the European continent, and they had already begun to build coastal fortifications on a large scale at that time in an attempt to block possible landing operations.

The British may have guessed the beginning of the story, but their end was predestined. Want to use the urgently built fortifications to stop the powerful offensive of the Ming army? It's a good idea, but it's not a good idea.

"Knock knock~~~" The anti-aircraft artillery of various calibers equipped by the British army in the Dover area is desperately spitting tongues of fire into the sky, and from the ground, the entire sky seems to be filled with a rain of bullets like long whips. Although the resistance of the British was fierce, it was nothing compared to the fierce attacks of the Ming army.

Zhang Cheng, who comes from a modern time and space, knows very well how the superiority of air power has a decisive impact on warfare in the age of technology. When the Ming Dynasty in this era had the world's unrivaled industrial production capacity and scientific research capabilities, Zhang Cheng was very easy to blow up the sea of planes on a large scale.

In fact, Zhang Cheng is quite satisfied with being able to travel to this time and space. The Ming Dynasty of this era is countless times stronger than the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China period in modern time and space history. The Ming Dynasty in this era can produce anything, and it will not be as depressed as if there is no industrial capacity in the mainstream time.

1943 was the year of the explosion of Daming's industrial production capacity. Although Daming already had a strong production capacity before, it was not until Zhang Cheng completely leveled all the opposition forces in the country that Daming's industrial production capacity really broke out. In the first ten months of 1943, the Ming Dynasty produced more than 100,000 aircraft of various types. In other words, the monthly output of Daming's aircraft has reached as many as 10,000 aircraft!

With its many hydropower and thermal power stations, Daming produces more electricity annually than the rest of the world combined. The strong power supply ensures the electricity demand of many large power consumers. For example, the production of airplanes requires a large amount of electrolytic aluminum, which consumes a lot of electricity. The planes produced by Daming are not the kind of simple wooden planes, they are all metal planes in the real sense.

After Zhang Cheng decided to cross the sea to attack the British, the Daming Army Aviation dispatched a large number of fighters to bomb the British targets all day long, clearing obstacles for the landing operation.

With the advent of landing day, the bombing of Britain by the Ming air force reached a super level. Thousands of sorties are made every day. The targets chosen by the Ming army aviation were all military targets, such as military camps, communication centers, headquarters, fortifications, large storage sites, and so on. The Ming army had no plans to attack civilian targets.

It's not that Zhang Cheng is unwilling to attack civilian targets, but that Zhang Cheng doesn't feel the need to attack civilian targets. Because what he wanted was a direct landing of a large army to push Britain. He had not even thought about the bombing of civilian targets to force Britain to surrender. Because Zhang Cheng didn't think about accepting the surrender of any country from the bottom of his heart.

The British built a large number of fortifications from Dover to Portsmouth, mainly a variety of coastal guns from 152 mm to 233 mm caliber. Most of these guns were built by the British themselves or received assistance from the Americans. There are more than 2,000 of them.

When the battlefield on the mainland was fighting to the death, the British ******** hid in their own homes to repair fortifications. These guns were basically in a variety of solid reinforced concrete fortifications. Moreover, the British also dug a large number of anti-tank trenches and set up numerous landing obstacles. In addition, they were armed with train guns with many large-caliber guns for mobile combat.

Add to that millions of mobilized soldiers, a powerful royal fleet, and nearly 40,000 aircraft of all kinds. The home defense of the British was absolutely exceptionally strong. However, these are only scratching the surface.

Since the Ming army's jets debuted, the hundreds of thousands of piston-engine aircraft of all kinds in the Allies have become obsolete. They could not snatch air supremacy in front of the Ming army jets, and every time they took off to meet them, they almost meant that they could not return. At one point, the ratio of fighter planes exchanged between the two sides reached a terrifying figure of 1:10.

Although the British have tens of thousands of aircraft, because the Ming Dynasty invested a large number of jets, the British fighters have become decorations. While there was no shortage of brave pilots who tried to take to the skies to face formidable opponents, most British pilots refused to take to the skies. Because they know that even if they go to heaven, they will only die in vain.

The Ming produced new jets even faster than the British lost their fighters. Having lost air protection, everything on the ground of the British became a target for the Ming army. Almost every day, the elite Ming air force would go to important parts of Britain to report, destroying many of the British fortifications with ferocious bombardment.

Reinforced concrete fortifications could not withstand the bombardment of bombs weighing almost a ton. More than 2,000 coastal defense guns suffered heavy losses in the continuous bombardment of the Ming army, and by the time the Ming army launched a sea-crossing landing, less than 300 were still in normal use. These were very well concealed and did not be detected by the shore defense guns.

Because of the strength of the Ming Dynasty and the momentum of sweeping the world and about to achieve the final victory of the war, many Britons chose to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty in order to protect their interests after the victory of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Ming Dynasty colonized the British mainland near the capital London for many years, which had a great impact on the United Kingdom. In the days leading up to the Ming landing, the British government executed hundreds of British traitors, many of whom were in high positions and in the military.

The most famous mutiny was when a staff officer of a lieutenant colonel in the British Army serving in the Coastal Defense Command transferred the whereabouts of twelve 280 mm train guns to the Ming intelligence service. Only twenty-four hours later, the twelve motor train guns were reduced to scrap metal under the bombardment of the Ming army's army and aviation.

The British, though armed with millions of troops, had no real army tradition. The already weak army is simply unable to confront the elite of the Ming army head-on. This can be seen from the fact that all the tanks and armored vehicles in Britain combined were only twelve thousand, and most of them were light and old-fashioned models.

As long as the Ming armored forces can gain a firm foothold, these British mobilizers will collapse after a wave of flat pushes. The combat effectiveness of the two armies is not at all on the same level.

As for the mighty British Royal Navy, it does not dare to leave Scapa Bay in the north of Scotland at the moment. In this way, they were violently bombed by the bomber forces of the Ming Navy, and let them go out to sea to block the English Channel, or they would all be sunk in a short time. The power of aviation was on full display at this moment.

Almost everyone admires Zhang Cheng. Whether it's one's own people or enemies. Everyone was surprised and admired by Zhang Cheng's outstanding gaze, without Zhang Cheng's strong support and investment, the aviation power of the Ming army would definitely not be as strong as it is now. Especially in terms of scientific and technological strength.

If the allies are given enough time, they will also be able to build and train an air force strong enough to compete with the Ming air forces. It's hard to say where the war will go.

In the last days before the Ming army launched the landing, numerous minesweepers began to carry out large-scale minesweeping operations in the waters from Dover to Portsmouth. This is to lay the foundation for the official landing. And the British across the strait also discovered the Ming army's attempt. At night, taking advantage of the fact that the Ming army aviation did not attack, they sent many light ships out to continue laying mines.

In order to deal with these British mine-laying ships, the Ming army sent many destroyers to patrol the strait at night, and sank hundreds of British mine-laying ships in two days. The mine-laying operations of the British were greatly curbed.

On the French front across the strait, the first wave of Ming troops had already made the final preparations. They accepted a large-scale **** action before the arrival of D-Day, and many stars who rushed from China sent singing and dancing and blessings to the officers and soldiers in the barracks.

As time passed, when the Ming bombardment of the British mainland reached its peak, and when the meteorological department reported that the weather would be sunny for the next three days, Zhang Cheng signed the documents approving the landing operation in his temporary office in Paris.

D-Day, it's officially here. (To be continued.) )