Li Xiao held Cao Wenzhao's telegram in his hand, and the expression on his face was very helpless.

I really didn't expect that rough people also know how to put their minds.

For the officers of the 3rd Division, military merit is everything to them. In order to reap military merit, they are fearless.

It has to be said that this is also a kind of institutional problem.

The military merit system, like any system, has its advantages and drawbacks.

"Marshal, how did you reply to the telegram from the Third Division?" This kind of stupid question can only be asked by Zhao Liangdong.

"Does it make a difference whether you go back or not? They all want to fight with all their strength, and they all rely on military merit to get promoted and get rich, and they are not fart without military merit.

Let's send a telegram back and tell them to pay attention to the casualties of the soldiers.

If the casualties are small, I will not hold them accountable for starting the war without permission. But if the casualties are too great, hehe! I definitely won't give up, in our Ming army, no one is allowed to dye their official hats with the lives of soldiers! ”

"No!" Zhao Liangdong got Li Xiao's instructions and immediately went to send a telegram.

At this time, the Gibraltar front was already in one piece.

I don't know who fired first, anyway, all the departments of the Ming front claimed to have been attacked by the British army. Own troops, just fire back again.

Fortunately, washing the ground with shells has become a common tradition in the Ming army.

The bombardment, which has already tossed the artillery of Gibraltar to the point of dying. So when the Ming Dynasty first started shelling, Gibraltar did not fight back for a while.

It also makes them miss the best time to fight back!

Because the incident happened suddenly at this time, there was no shadow of the Ming plane in their sky at all.

By the time the British artillery reacted, the figure of Kunpeng had already appeared in the sky.

The giant Kunpeng did not carry bombs on it, but kept hovering high in the air.

They observed the landing of shells on the ground, and then reported the location of the British artillery positions to the Ming.

The British army in Gibraltar did not have such good conditions.

In fact, the British army in Gibraltar had quite a strong firepower configuration, and there were not only hundreds of guns of various types in the bunker.

Even in the place of the main battery there were three huge guns of 480 mm.

This gun was originally intended to be installed on battleships, but Gibraltar needed it to block the entire strait, so it was prioritized here.

Although it is not like the main gun on the battleship is triple-mounted, this 480 mm giant cannon is also absolutely powerful.

The shells alone hit the weight of one ton each.

When a cannonball falls, a huge amount of dirt is kicked off the ground. Even a reinforced concrete bunker ten meters underground could not withstand the bombardment of such shells.

Even if it doesn't blow you up, it's not a problem to shock you to death.

Fortunately, the biggest drawback of this artillery is the insufficient rate of fire.

The theoretical rate of fire of this large-caliber howitzer is one shot every five minutes.

But this is only in a completely ideal theoretical environment!

In actual combat, a gun crew that can fire a round every ten minutes is already an excellent gun crew.

For the vast majority of artillery crews, it takes 12 to 15 minutes to fire a shell.

These 480-millimeter giant beasts had just roared three times before they were detected by the Kunpeng in the sky.

A series of codes directly reported the location coordinates of the giant cannon to the Ming artillery command.

The Ming army immediately transferred a 970-mm giant mortar!

This mortar was brought from the Ming Dynasty and was the first time it participated in the war. And this thing, which is also the largest caliber artillery in the world, is not one of them.

Because it is so heavy, this mortar can only run on railroad tracks.

The guns arrived in Spain two months earlier on a transport ship and over the course of a month and a half.

It took another ten days to transport, and it was just assembled yesterday, and it didn't even have time to shoot the school gun.

After Kunpeng reported the coordinates, the giant mortar quickly adjusted its angle.

Its maximum range was only thirty-five kilometers, and if the British in Gibraltar were to find out, these giant mortars would be dead.

All it takes is a cover shot to turn these steel monsters into scrap metal.

Luckily, however, the British did not find the cannon.

They didn't even know that there would be such artillery in the Ming army.

"Pass ......!" With a loud bang, Mortar No. 1 fired first.

Then there were two loud bangs, "Tong" and "Tong", and the No. 2 and No. 3 mortars were fired one after another.

The shell, weighing two and a half tons, under the impetus of huge gunpowder, flew directly into the sky.

It then takes a parabolic freefall and smashes into distant targets.

Other mortar shells, because of the small muzzle velocity and long flight time of the projectile, are easily affected by the wind. Even mortar shells can deviate from the target at a great distance because the wind is too strong.

But these three 970-millimeter shells were different, one of their shells weighed two and a half tons.

Such a heavy shell is basically not affected by the wind, and the accuracy is much improved.

The shell hit the ground with a whistle, and the time-delay fuse ensured that the shell hit the upper level of the reinforced concrete fortified bunker and smashed directly through the roof of the fortification, which was up to one meter thick.

"Boom!" The huge explosion directly lifted the one-meter-thick reinforced concrete roof into the air.

The huge explosion made the soldiers inside the bunker vaporize in an instant, and there was not much bone residue left.

As for the 480-millimeter cannon, the long barrel was instantly bent and twisted, twisting like a twist.

The artillery crew of the giant cannon was blinded, and they did not understand that they were being attacked by something.

How could an airplane in the sky carry out such a precise strike at such a high distance.

Besides, it's so powerful, how big the bomb is.

Before the British artillery commander could react from his bewilderment, two more giant mortar shells fell.

Then the three 480-mm guns that the British were proud of were finished.

Such a powerful artillery shook the nerves of the British. They never imagined that there would be such a frenzied artillery on the opposite side of them.

Fuck it, is it for people?

Even if an elephant enters the explosion range of 50 meters, it will be shocked to death by the powerful explosion.

Before it got dark, the British artillery had already lost forty percent.

Most of the remaining artillery pieces are small and medium-caliber artillery. These artillery, both in terms of range and firepower, were no match for the Daming artillery at all.

In particular, the 970-mm mortar played very well in practice. The bunkers of the British front line, no matter what they were, even those with steel roofs, could be easily penetrated by shells with huge kinetic energy.