"Boom, boom, boom......"

The British artillerymen, hidden behind a ridge near the robbers' beach, finally had the courage and cheekiness to fire 6-inch (152 mm), 3.7-inch (94 mm), and 2.75-inch (70 mm) shells at the "fine" Ming ironclad ships and ironclad vehicles on the beach.

The reason why it is said to be "bold" and "cheeky" is because the British-Australian regiment assigned to the Brisbane militia these guns are too small in caliber and too few in number. The largest caliber guns were only 6-inch guns, and there were only 12 guns in total, and a little more than 3.7-inch and 2.75-inch guns, with 24 guns each. Together, these guns are 60 guns, and they are not used to support one of the robbers' beaches, but also to support the three thieves' barracks deployed on the Murderers' Beach, the Arsonists' Beach, and the Kidnappers' Beach.

In addition, each of the four battalions is equipped with twelve 3.2-inch (81 mm) mortars to provide fast, efficient, and accurate fire support for front-line infantry.

To tell the truth, a brigade-level combat unit equipped with 60 barreled guns and 48 mortars cannot be said to be weak in firepower. Even if the artillery doctrine is pursued, and the artillery firepower of the mixed brigade of the Ming army, which also suffers from the phobia of insufficient firepower passed down from King Zhuge Wuzhong, is actually like this. If you don't count the more than 200 armored vehicles of various models armed with 120-mm mortars, 30-mm rapid-fire guns, 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns or 7.5-mm ordinary machine guns......

However, using these 108 cannons and mortars to bombard dozens of square miles of Ming warships that have not yet "become fine" and dozens of ironclad ships that have "become fine" and have climbed onto the beachhead can really only be described as bold and thick-skinned.

But these brave and thick-skinned British artillery guns were quite accurate! Shells rained down on the robbers' beach, then exploded on the soft sand, kicking up puffs of sand mixed with shrapnel and gunsmoke, and from time to time a shell hit a "fine" ironclad ship with a standard displacement of 2,000 tons and a full load displacement of more than 5,000 tons. These beached ironclad ships were actually vehicle landing ships of the Ming army, with only very thin armor...... If you encounter the armor-piercing shells fired by the enemy's naval artillery, you don't need 150 mm first-class guns, 120 mm and 100 mm, and the 75 mm and 60 mm first-class naval guns used to hit torpedo boats are enough to hit them all over the body.

But that had to be used to shoot armor-piercing shells with cannons, and the Brisbane "Thief Army" brigade of the British Army was not equipped with long-barreled cannons at all, nor did it have armor-piercing shells - there were no "tracked water tanks" in these years, and the army was equipped with long-barreled cannons and armor-piercing shells with relatively small charges...... Most of the bunkers can be destroyed with 2.75-inch mountain guns.

Therefore, the 108 cannons and mortars of the British army fired high-explosive shells, except for the few high-explosive shells fired by the 6-inch guns that can cause some damage when directly hit, other small and medium-caliber high-explosive shells cannot hit those "fine" ironclad ships at all.

As for the ironclad vehicles that were "spit out" by the ironclad ships, because they were moving targets, the probability of being hit by the unguided munitions fired by the curved guns was very small. However, the infantry who rushed out of the "bloody mouth" of the ironclad ship with the ironclad car was hit by the fragments of high-explosive shells that fell from time to time. However, their losses were not too great, because over the Robbers' Beach, more than 100 Ssangyong-2 reconnaissance bombers with 8 25-kilogram bombs were circling!

These small biplanes were also thieves, and they did not bomb the British positions on the looter's beach, but waited for the British artillery to fire. The mobility of artillery in these years was very poor...... People push horses, how can this mobility be good? And now there is no counter-battery radar, if you want to fight an artillery counterattack, in addition to letting artillery observers sit in balloons and airships to go up to the sky to see, probably only by using the method of sound measurement to calculate, and these two methods are not very reliable, the former is a little difficult to transmit information, and balloons and airships are also easy to shoot down. And the accuracy of the latter is very problematic, and whether you play or not has to find a completely casual fate.

So in the earlier Battle of Adrianople, the barreled artillery of both sides was rarely used by the other

The artillery was knocked out. Therefore, the British army did not pay much attention to the mobility of artillery...... Of course, they just wanted to improve the mobility of the artillery, and they did not have this condition, so they could only put more effort into the concealment of the artillery positions.

But no matter how the British artillery is hidden, as long as the cannon is fired, it will not be able to avoid more than 100 pairs of eyes looking down in the sky!

Before the 60 guns of the British army had finished firing half of the base, more than 100 planes in the sky roared down and dropped bombs...... One plane dropped 8 bombs, and more than 100 planes dropped 1,000 smaller bombs of 25 kg, and they were dropped by diving at a 40-degree angle!

1,000 25-kilogram bombs were dropped, and the British artillery positions were suddenly in a sea of fire, and it was not a "one-time sea of fire", but a "fire" several times. After these "fires" were over, there were no more complete guns on the British artillery positions, and most of the artillery was blown into parts! Even those good guns with excellent "guns" could not be fired, because the artillery suffered all casualties, and those who did not suffer casualties also ran away. Moreover, the ammunition piled up around the artillery position was also blown up, and for a long time after the Ming army's Flying Dragon 2 carrier-based aircraft dropped bombs and flew away from the battlefield, the British artillery positions were still overfiring over and over again, and the shells were continuously detonated one after another, and they exploded for another five minutes before they gradually stopped......

At the same time that the British artillery positions were under fire over and over again, the Ming army's wheeled armored vehicles had already passed through the soft sand and began to lead the armored infantry with assault rifles to launch an assault on the British positions next to the robbers' beach.

The dozens of "fine" ironclad ships opened fire fiercely with 120-mm short-barreled howitzers mounted on the ships, tilting the 120-mm high-explosive shells onto the positions held by the British "thieves".

After a burst of artillery fire, the armored car rushed straight up. Although they are not tracked, but wheeled. But the impact power is by no means comparable to that of the infantry! Those barbed wire, which are fixed only by the winding of wooden stakes, are very vulnerable to such wheeled armored vehicles. Moreover, some of the charging wheeled armored vehicles also had a crash bar in front of the front of the vehicle, which could knock the latter down with a few slams against a wooden stake wrapped in barbed wire.

There were also logs hanging from the back of the carriages of some armored vehicles, and when the British trenches blocked the way, the infantry who followed them would remove the logs and put sandbags on them, and they would soon fill in a few paths.

In the face of this seemingly unstoppable ironclad car, the British thieves were so anxious that they were about to go crazy, desperately firing at these steel monsters with six wheels with rifle and machine guns in their hands. Machine guns and rifles were crackled, and bullets clanged and sparks burst above the chariot. But these steel monsters are still advancing! Not only are they advancing, but they are also using their 30mm rapid-fire guns, 120mm howitzers, 13mm anti-aircraft machine guns and 7.5mm ordinary machine guns to fire wildly to suppress the fire points of the "thieves". The "thieves with the army" on the entire front are flying with flesh and blood! Shells burrowed into the machine-gun firing point, followed by an explosion of human stumps and weapon parts. The fate of the "thieves" in the trenches was not much better, they were repeatedly ravaged by the various anti-infantry fire on the chariots and the fire of the armored infantry following the chariots, and soon the corpses of the "thieves" were filling the entire trench.

And the "thief army" that did not turn into corpses could not bear such casualties, and the whole line began to collapse! In just one hour, the Brisbane 3rd Riflemen Battalion, which was holding on to the Robbers' Beach, was in complete collapse!

Faced with such a situation, the British commander on the Brisbane front had completely lost his opinion, so he had to send a telegram to Admiral Gough in Sydney for instructions - the ironclad ship went to the beachhead, and he opened his mouth to spit out the ironclad car, there were planes in the sky that bombed you that you didn't negotiate, and there was still a large fleet of dozens of square miles on the sea...... How is this battle going to be fought? Commander-in-Chief Gough, hurry up and think of something!