There are three medium-sized hot air balloons floating off the coast of Dover.
These three hot air balloons were released from the Daqi European Fleet. Their purpose was to direct the firing angle of the naval guns and observe the impact point of the artillery shells. There were several people on the hot air balloons, some were responsible for observation, some were responsible for calculating the angle, and some were responsible for calculating the angle.
Responsible for hoisting flags and commanding the artillery of the ironclad below.
Under the hot air balloon, under the command of the hot air balloon observer, the ironclad's naval gun shells hit the heads of the British beach defenders like raindrops.
There were explosions everywhere, and black smoke and shock waves enveloped the area. Basically, there was no complete place on the beach. More than fifty ironclad ships concentrated all their firepower on this beach, and the defenders could not find any safe place.
place.
The ironclad ship opened fire five miles away in the offshore sea. Due to the bumpy waves, the hit rate was not particularly high. However, there were nearly a thousand naval guns on one side of the more than 50 ironclad ships, and the firepower was too dense. The naval guns fired every thirty seconds.
Calculating the speed, any part of the coastal defense trench will be hit by one shell every two minutes.
Although the ironclads use conical explosive shells, not shrapnel, the fuzes of these conical explosive shells have been improved in recent years. They are trigger-type and can explode when they land. Conical explosive shells can often pierce beach trenches.
The sand layer in front will directly hit the inside of the sand layer. If you are lucky, it will explode directly inside the trench.
The six-mile-long beach defense line was bombarded by nearly a thousand naval guns for ten minutes. The coast was already full of potholes and holes blown by the shells. Looking at it from the perspective of Navy Commander Lu Hu, the British
All the golden sand can no longer be seen on the beach. The entire beach is covered with brown sand, which was blasted out from the lower sand layer when the artillery shells exploded.
I don’t know how many British defenders were killed among the sand. British corpses were everywhere, some were exposed on the beach, and some were buried under the sand. The explosion of naval gun blasting bombs was very strong, and some British soldiers
All the limbs were blown to pieces and torn apart.
The blood mixed with the sand, turning the sand into something sticky like soil.
Lu Hu suddenly saw a huge fireball flashing from the pine forest behind the beach.
Then there was a deafening roar, which almost shocked Lu Hu's ears. The fireball engulfed the entire pine forest in an instant, and the flames devoured everything. Then after a few seconds, countless black smoke suddenly appeared in the middle of the fireball.
.The black smoke gathered into black clouds, and Lu Hu saw a huge mushroom cloud rising from the sky above the pine forest.
Obviously, the British army's ammunition depot exploded. The pine forest was originally the British army's ammunition depot and supply point, but under the bombardment of explosive bombs, the gunpowder hidden in the pits by the British army was detonated.
Lu Hu laughed loudly, patted the captain of the fleet next to him, Shi Dingping, and said, "I'm afraid I'm going to win the battle for the beach now."
Shi Dingping looked at Lu Hu and said seriously: "Commander, there is no suspense about victory. The only question now is whether the British army will counterattack on land after we land."
Lu Hu was choked by Shi Dingping and felt a little embarrassed. However, Lu Hu was a very good-tempered person. He had always felt that based on his abilities and skills, he was not confident enough to be the commander of the navy. And Shi Dingping was Lu Hu's most powerful person.
He relied on capable subordinates, so even if Shi Dingping spoke directly or even a little rudely, Lu Hu would never get angry.
Lu Hu patted Shi Dingping on the shoulder and said seriously: "Shi Dingping, what you said makes sense, our victory is no longer in suspense!"
Shi Dingping nodded and looked towards the coast.
After bombing for so long, the barrel of the naval gun became a little hot, and the armored ship temporarily stopped bombarding.
One thousand Marines put down the sampan speedboat from the ironclad ship and began the first stage of landing. These one thousand people were wearing steel helmets, new-style body armor, and holding rifles in their hands. They were tied to their waists They had grenades, mortars on their boats, and even scopes on their rifles, so they were armed to the teeth.
There were more than 8,000 British infantrymen on the opposite coast, and it was unknown how many were killed. Lu Hu did not expect these 1,000 marines to break through the British defenses. Now his intention was to open a landing zone at the forefront of the beach.
More than seventy sampan speedboats were equipped with internal combustion engines at the rear and driven by propellers, with a speed of up to 25 kilometers per hour. These sampans charged from the sea five kilometers away and quickly reached the beach.
However, the expected British counterattack did not appear.
When the Marines rushed to the beach, jumped out of the speedboat and started to open up a position, they did not encounter any attack. In fact, the Marines vaguely felt that the British on the opposite side had given up resistance.
The Marines quickly established a battle line on the beach, dug trenches, and prepared to provide a bridgehead for subsequent landing personnel. Although the Tigers were capable of breaking through trench defenses, for the Europeans, trenches equipped with a large number of mortars were basically useless. solution.
However, after waiting for a long time, until the second batch of landing personnel arrived in speedboats, the Marines did not encounter any artillery or attacks from the British army.
There were 2,000 people in the second batch of landing people, and a full 7,000 people in the third batch. It took a full seven hours for the third batch of people to land. However, once the third batch of 7,000 people landed, the natural dangers of the English Channel were basically Even if it is captured.
Lu Hu and Shi Dingping were a little confused when they led the third group of people ashore. Neither of them understood why the British did not have any counterattack tactics. Are the British luring the enemy deeper? They even suspected that the British were gathering the main force to prepare He wiped out 10,000 Tiger and Ben troops on the beach at once.
Lu Hu was a little nervous and ordered the sailors to unload the heavy weapons from the ship overnight, hoping to hold on to the bridgehead at all costs.
However, the British were always quiet. Lu Hu did not hear a single gunshot all night. In the early morning of the next day, the sentry outside suddenly fired a warning shot. Lu Hu raised his telescope and saw a group of British MPs.
The British secret guard next to Lu Hu whispered to Lu Hu that the person walking at the front was Cromwell, the British ruler.
Cromwell, wearing only a white shirt in the cold weather, walked towards here with his hands raised. A cabinet member beside him, an old man with white hair and a beard, held a white flag.
Shi Dingping and Lu Hu looked at each other in surprise.
The British surrendered.
And the surrender was so complete that Cromwell, the consul, came to surrender himself.
Cromwell walked a mile in front of the marines and stopped to accept inspection by the Chinese naval soldiers. Then Cromwell walked up to Lu Hu under the surveillance of the soldiers and bowed to the Chinese naval commander.
Cromwell had obviously not slept well for a long time, and his face was haggard. His body was shaking a little because of the cold, and he surrendered with a long list of words expressing respect and humility.
The translator next to him said: "Commander, the British have decided to surrender unconditionally. All the armies of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland will lay down their weapons within three days. If the commander needs it, we can send all the 430,000 British troops to surrender."
The earth is dissolved."
"As soon as the commander accepts our surrender, the British cabinet will be dissolved immediately."
"All London's outer defensive fronts have been removed, and the Han army can control the city of London at any time."
"Cromwell represents the British acceptance of Chinese rule. We are willing to learn Chinese, we are willing to accept Chinese laws and systems, and we are willing to make the Chinese Emperor Li Zhi our emperor."
Lu Hu looked at Cromwell and laughed.
He touched his beard and said with a smile: "Cromwell, our fleet will transport more soldiers to Britain. I will not reply to your surrender before we capture London, because we want to see what Britain is like.
Do you really surrender unconditionally, or do you want to use surrender to defraud better terms?"
