Cha Xuan smiled: "Wei Guogong rest assured, this matter will be handled by me, and I will guarantee to bring Cromwell to Paris for half a month!" ”

When everyone heard this, their faces were as pale as earth, and they secretly said in their hearts that the British were really going to be unlucky this time.

Tan Guilin stayed in Paris to assist Xu Yifan in presiding over the affairs of Paris, Zhao Xin stayed in Lisbon to control the situation in Portugal, and Cha Xuan personally led the main fleet and the elite of the two towns to England.

At this time, the British had already been in full battle, a large number of army elites were concentrated in the Portsmouth military port, together with the English fleet, were concentrated here, wanting to rely on Portsmouth's powerful battery group to fight a decisive battle with the Ming fleet, although the strength of the English fleet is now seriously damaged, but thirty or forty main warships plus a powerful battery group, in Portsmouth still has a fairly strong strength, if you want to attack Portsmouth head-on, it is definitely not so easy.

Cha Xuan sat on the deck, looked at Zheng Haotian and said: "Haotian, this time our fleet stormed Portsmouth, it is not an easy thing, according to intelligence, Portsmouth chokes the Strait of Dover in the east, and controls the exit of the English Channel in the west and is next to the Isle of Wight in the south, on Isle of Wight alone, there are four forts, more than fifty guns, the two peninsulas in the east and west of Portsmouth are only two miles apart, like a pair of pincers, sandwiching the Portsmouth military port in the middle, we want to break through from here and attack Portsmouth, There is basically no possibility of destroying the largest naval base in England in one fell swoop......"

Zheng Cai on the side said in a deep voice: "Lu Guogong, if you want to go down to the official, the best thing is to avoid the head-to-head confrontation in Portsmouth, we choose to land from this small dock in Brighton, here is fifty or sixty miles away from Portsmouth, it only takes one day for the Tianxiong army to march in full force, and the cavalry is half a day, and it will be able to arrive, and I will lead the second fleet to Portsmouth, attract the attention of the Portsmouth garrison, and then the first fleet will cover the landing of the Tianxiong army in Brighton, once the landing is completed, leave two large battalions to be stationed on the spot, Cut off the key point from Portsmouth to London, the main force of the Tianxiong army went straight to London, now the 20,000 main forces of the British army are all concentrated in the Portsmouth area, the London defenders are no more than 10,000 people, with our strength of more than 30,000 people, it is absolutely not a problem to take London, after taking London, if the British army surrenders, needless to say, if it does not surrender, the army will turn around, return to Portsmouth, land and water attack, and eat all the Portsmouth batteries and the English fleet in one fell swoop! ”

Cha Xuan's eyes narrowed, and he smiled: "Yes, Yu Gong, what you said is right, that's the idea, we just want to leave Portsmouth and deal with London directly, if it is a Western war, their land forces are not strong, they rely on the sea to win, but we are different, as long as we complete the landing, it is equivalent to their death!" Yu Gong, just deploy like this, this time I personally led the army to land and attack London! ”

The Second Fleet accelerated, rushed with all its might, approaching Portsmouth, the First Fleet protected the troop carriers and came to Brighton, a small port, there are only more than 20,000 people in the towns here, and now the British are facing a strong enemy, almost all of the troops have shrunk to Portsmouth and London and other important cities, ordinary places, where are the troops stationed?

In just one day, the Tianxiong army boarded the port, and Yin Shoushan, the general soldier of the third town, led an artillery team and an infantry battalion, went straight to Alton, occupied the main road of communication, and Cha Xuan and Xia Wanchun led the army to pounce directly on London!

Running wildly all the way, the only British troops along the way did not dare to resist at all, and retreated in the direction of London, more than 200 miles, and it took less than three days for Cha Shu to lead the army to the outside of London and surround London!

At this time, Cromwell was completely dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the army of the Ming Empire would give up attacking Portsmouth, land directly from Brighton, and attack London, such a tactic has never been seen in two hundred years!

When the Western countries are at war, they are all naval priority, as long as the navy wins, then the country will take the initiative to admit defeat, never to the time of the decisive victory with the army, and it is rare to see the countries of the European continent directly to the British Isles, there is no need, there is no need at all, the strength of the Ming Empire is not according to common sense at all!

However, it is useless to say anything now, yes, there are a lot of artillery in London, but there are few foreign invasions in Britain, at most in the civil war, some small fights, the largest battles, only mobilize 20,000 people, with London's defense, it is impossible to deal with the attack of 40,000 troops, not to mention that the artillery of the Ming army outside the city is all flowering artillery, once the artillery is fired, it will not be long before the city of London will be razed to the ground!

It doesn't matter so much, since you British are proud of the danger of the English Channel and refuse to admit defeat, then divide yourself on the battlefield, but you want to see how tough you British are!

At the sound of the order, the six artillery battalions all pulled up and launched a powerful offensive towards the city of London, and the shells continued to hit the city of London, and then exploded in the city, and the entire city of London was plunged into the flames of war!

It was so shocking that this time more than a hundred artillery pieces were mobilized, in addition to the six artillery battalions, there were also dozens of artillery guns transferred from France, and together, nearly two hundred artillery pieces were all rolled into the attack, and the whole city of London was full of terrible cries and howls.

As soon as it came up, it was a day of shelling, a day of continuous shelling, the barrels of the artillery were beaten red, and there were heavy casualties in London!

Cromwell only ordered the artillery in the city to return fire at the beginning, and a day later, the British artillery stopped, and the artillery on the city was destroyed by the flowering cannons of the Ming army, and completely lost its combat effectiveness!

"Fack! What exactly is the Army doing in Portsmouth? Why hasn't it been so long and you haven't returned to London? ”

After surviving the first day of artillery battles, and then surviving the attack of the Ming army for a day of cavalry, Cromwell really withstood it, and kept roaring in the palace.

"General, it's not that Portsmouth's army doesn't come back, but now Portsmouth is also caught in the fierce attack of the Ming fleet, and there is no time to separate it, an army sent by General Brinton was intercepted by a Ming army just after arriving in Alton, and the army fell into a bitter battle, and it was impossible to break through the resistance of the Ming army......"

(End of chapter)