Iron Dynasty

Fire!

Looking at the red-shirted army in Cape Town, Liu Chen roared and issued an order.

Boom boom boom...

Forty-two battleships fired at the same time, and in an instant, the battleships lined up in a straight line on the sea swayed in circles of ripples in the sea.

Smoke and huge flames erupted from the muzzle, and with the sound of shells breaking through the air, flowers of flames rose from the southernmost coast of Africa.

It's really a place that is easy to attack and hard to defend. Liu Chen raised his brows slightly, thinking about it the last time he passed by Cape Town.

Now directly in front of the fleet, the mountain range known as Table Mountain is clearly visible at a glance.

This is also the most prominent symbol of Cape Town. This mountain range, which stretches for more than ten kilometers, is called God's table by Europeans, and it looks like a smooth tabletop from a distance.

Beneath the mountains is Cape Town, facing the sea, and all the buildings in the colony seem to be crowded on the beach.

For such a place, although the north side is difficult to break through, only a strong navy on the south side can ensure that it will not be attacked from the sea.

British warships were unmatched before, but now that era has passed.

Boom boom boom...

The cannonballs flew towards Cape Town continuously, as if it were never ending. A total of more than 600 artillery pieces on the forty-two battleships plowed the entire Cape Town like ploughing fields.

Tens of thousands of shells were fired in a row, and Liu Chen ordered the shelling to stop this time.

It's not that he wants to waste cannonballs, but as the southernmost British colony in Africa, Cape Town's location is very important.

It can be said that as long as it controls Cape Town, it controls the African route. Because of this, the British stationed more than 8,000 people in the small Cape Town to control the colonies here and around.

In order to guard against the empire, Cape Town has obviously been transformed in the past two years, which can only be seen from the fortresses built with volcanic ash on the coast.

Login!

After the shelling, Liu Chen continued to give orders, and the marines immediately descended on the landing craft that the Empire had just built.

This kind of landing craft is not big, and the whole is a rectangle, but this kind of landing craft is specially prepared for landing, focusing on defense and offense.

Therefore, in addition to the steel shell of the landing craft, there is a special machine gun firing position in front of the landing craft. The most important thing is that the landing craft is the first small boat powered by an internal combustion engine.

Now that automobiles have emerged in the empire for four or five years, the research on various internal combustion engines has become more and more proficient, and some technologies have naturally been applied to ship construction.

The diesel-powered landing craft was the shipyard's attempt, and as the technology matured, it was used on the Empire's smaller ships.

As for the large warships of the Empire, they will abandon coal and adopt the power structure of oil-fired boilers and steam turbines.

Buzzing...

One hundred and twenty soldiers all entered the landing craft, and with the humming reputation of the diesel engine, the landing craft moved towards the beach with increasing speed.

The soldiers in the landing craft all huddled behind the steel hull to protect themselves from fire on the shore, while on the raised shooting platform on the right side of the ship, the machine gunner stared intently at the shore through the gap in the machine gun protective armor.

vomit……

Although he had been on the landing craft many times, Lu Han was still a little uncomfortable with the bumps in the high-speed heading of the landing craft. Not long after getting on the boat, he lay on the boat and vomited.

The soldiers in the landing craft were wiping their rifles. Seeing this, they couldn't help laughing. One of the soldiers said, Lu Han, next time, let the company commander prepare a boat for you to row. You can't sit on such an advanced boat as the landing craft.

Then he can go far, and when he gets ashore, we will all finish the battle and eat. Someone else started a joke.

There was a burst of laughter in the landing craft.

Lu Han vomited for a while and felt much more comfortable. He scolded: Fuck your mother's farts, I'm just rowing a boat and landing, and I'll kill more enemies than you.

Just after he finished speaking, a crisp sound of metal slamming suddenly sounded, and the soldiers on the ship suddenly put away their smiles.

Lu Han also squatted down, These British guys have all become mice, and now they are digging holes in the ground. Such fierce artillery fire did not kill them all.

Nonsense, the artillery is all settled, what else do we need? Get ready to work. The company commander on the landing craft reminded: Check the equipment and ammunition, and prepare for battle.

The landing craft continued to gallop in the sea, getting closer and closer to the coast, but more bullets hit the hull.

At this time, the machine gun made a sound of da da da..., and the bullet flew like a string of beads to the British soldiers who were stubbornly resisting on the shore.

on the beach.

Chapman, the Governor of Cape Town, poked his head out of the ditch dismal, covered in dust and blood, panicked.

The ditch is full of the corpses of British soldiers, many of which are already incomplete.

Staggering on a bench, Chapman stuck his head out and looked towards the sea, only to see nearly a hundred boats galloping on the sea like horses galloping on the grassland.

The sea of ​​hundreds of meters is just a fleeting moment for these strange boats.

The British soldiers who were still alive were shooting at the ships, and it was only in the density of the gunfire that he could hear how much the shelling had cost them.

Don't back down, fight to the last person! Chapman shouted in a deep voice, this is the queen's request to the army after the war in India.

Anyone who retreats will be shot to death, be it a soldier or an officer.

It was under this kind of high pressure that even if they lived in fear, they still had to fight to the end, but at this time his roar seemed too pale on the battlefield.

Da da da……

Intensive shooting swept across, Chapman's body seemed to freeze, then blood came out of his chest, his eyes gradually lost color and slowly fell.

In his last sight, the enemy ship stopped in the shoal, the head of the hull opened, and the Imperial soldiers filed out from the boat.

Hurry up!

The moment the landing craft stopped, Lu Han and other soldiers were driven off the boat, and the machine gun and mortar teams quickly built a fire position under the protection of the skirmishers.

Intensive fire suppressed the British soldiers in the ditch, and the soldiers rushed towards the ditch under the cover of machine guns.

Thousands of soldiers landed, and British troops, already battered by artillery fire, were quickly wiped out after weak resistance.

Before long, the dragon flag of Cape Upper Empire began to fly.

On the battleship, there was a smile on Liu Chen's mouth. The battle was going on very smoothly, but he understood that a large part of the factors were determined by the status of Cape Town.

Because this place is really safe, but at the same time the growing military power of the Empire is also important.