Chapter 280
The Ming army did not attack London, nor did it land anywhere in England.
This made the English people angry!
The British Isles are island nations surrounded by coastlines. If they wanted to defend, all the people of Britain would become soldiers, and it would be impossible to defend such a long coastline.
Although the vast majority of the British upper echelons knew that Britain had no chance of winning the war, the war had to end immediately.
But no one dared to say it!
No one wants to be a sinner to persuade Britain to surrender, and anyone who dares to say so will immediately be drowned in a sea of saliva.
His home would be reduced to rubble by mobs, and his family would be hanged from trees.
So, while some people know the right thing to do, no one dares to say it.
While the British were trembling, the Ming fleet moved north along the coast of England.
After London, it was Nottingham that was shelled again.
Nottingham was bombed so badly that even the port docks were devastated. Throughout the city, slightly taller buildings have been bombarded.
The most frustrating thing is that after some buildings were bombarded by shells, they did not fall for a while.
It looks good from the outside, but there is a huge hole in the side. The staircase and interior buildings inside were also blown to the ground.
It would be better to blow up such buildings, because there is no way to determine whether they will be inhabitable.
The Ming fleet went all the way north, and York and Edinburgh were shelled successively.
York, in particular, was bombed worse than Nottingham. In the miserable city of York, half of the houses were destroyed.
The most unfortunate was the railway station, where the rails were twisted by shells and sleepers flew into the sky.
The newspapers in London were filled with nationalist voices, calling on all men in England to take up arms and defend their country and territorial integrity.
clamoring for the Ming Empire to be completely destroyed in this world.
It is also said that the Ming Empire only dares to act on the sea, and once it lands on land, it is nothing.
The British Empire's strong army could crush any Ming Empire's attack.
There were even newspapers that published a letter from Her Majesty to all her subjects. Call on the subjects to fight the evil Ming people to the end.
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of Britons, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth had arrived in England's North American territory by ship.
That place, now called Canada.
What the British didn't know was that the elite of the English Army was in the trenches of Gibraltar at this time, wantonly destroyed by the heavy artillery fire of the Ming Dynasty.
The third 970-mm mortar was also erected, which was a nightmare for the British.
The offensive lasted four days, and the British artillery was almost completely destroyed.
Some were blown up by Ming planes, some were destroyed by Ming artillery fire. Some are even more ridiculous, because the ammunition is substandard and explodes.
After four days of fierce fighting, the British had less than five percent of their pre-war artillery available.
Moreover, these surviving artillery pieces were some small-caliber mortars. There is no large-caliber artillery like the Ming Dynasty!
Even these mortars have to look at the sky from time to time.
As soon as the Ming army plane came, it was immediately necessary to hide in the bunker.
If you retreat a little slowly, you will be spotted by fighter-bombers like falcons in the sky. And then......
And then there will be no then, and a five-hundred-kilogram bomb will fall from the sky. Both mortars and people will fly into the sky, and when they fall, only the twisted barrel can be seen, and the person who flies into the sky cannot be seen.
Those people have become many parts, and they have spread over a large area like rain.
The commander of the garrison of Gibraltar, John Brown. Douglas had telegraphed to London several times that he would have to surrender if there were no further reinforcements.
The answer will always be ......, hold your ground, and the British Empire will stand behind you.
John. Douglas tore up the telegram in hatred, gritting his teeth in anger. Those idiots in London have no idea what the fighters at the front are going through.
The large-caliber artillery of the Ming army dared to push directly to three kilometers in front of the position.
Yesterday, it even advanced to two kilometers.
The shortening of the distance greatly increases the accuracy of the artillery. At the same time, the reaction speed of the artillery increased significantly.
Even the opponent's mortar shells had just been unloaded, and they were locked by Daming's 120-mm howitzers.
A platoon of artillery came down, and the mortar would be engulfed in smoke in an instant.
The British soldiers in the trenches didn't even have a chance to shoot.
Because in front of the Ming artillery, there were rows of Ming tanks. Although these tanks are not numerous in number, they are quite useful as mobile pillboxes.
What's even more deadly is that the tank also has a fucking cannon on it.
Moreover, this cannon is still aimed directly, and the lethality within a thousand meters is very amazing.
The British infantry were in the trenches, in the bunkers, but no matter where they were. Even those shooters armed with special sniper rifles are not facing the Ming infantry.
It's a thick cannon barrel!
Sniper? Non-existent!
Da Ming is using a cannon to hit snipers, no matter how awesome you are, it will evaporate directly from the world.
They were all 120 mm guns, and behind these guns were 155 mm guns.
The power of this kind of artillery is even more amazing, and the half-meter-thick reinforced concrete bunker can collapse in one shot. It's like using a can opener to open a can!
The British felt that this was not a battle, but a massacre.
The soldiers didn't have a chance to shoot at all, and Da Ming just wanted to use artillery shells to kill all the British soldiers one after another.
Killing all the British soldiers is nothing more than 100,000 shells.
All the arsenals of the Ming Dynasty are operating at full capacity to produce artillery shells, and the problem now is not that there are not enough shells, but that the war is coming to an end, and there are too many shells to fight.
"Division commander, two more days of fighting, you can attack the core position of the British. That big guy doesn't need it anymore! The chief of staff looked at the three huge mortars in the distance with regret!
After the reinforced concrete fortresses, which were two meters thick, turned into huge potholes. Gibraltar has no targets worth shelling with 970mm artillery!
"If you don't have it, then retreat. Make way for the troops behind!
Tell the troops below to be aware of casualties.
The commander can turn a blind eye to us, but if there are heavy casualties, then we can't find the grave by crying.
Blow the wind to the hot-headed guys below, and it's impossible to say whose head the knife will fall on when the time comes. ”
"No! What the division commander instructed was that the offensive had been smooth in the past few days. There are already some bastards, thinking of attacking the main Gibraltar positions.
I went to make it clear to them that Gibraltar had to be eaten bite by bite like bread.
Anyway, these guys have been surrounded and can't fly. ”