Beiyang new warlord

This city entry ceremony was grand enough. Amidst the sound of footsteps in batches, the Ming army quickly filled the gates and buildings of the city of London like a divine soldier descending from the sky. It never occurred to me that such a strong army could come out of the British who was still in the semi-feudal era. The coalition army who was still leisurely commemorating the painting was caught off guard, and in the smoke of gunpowder, they were stupidly standing at the gate of the city. French musketeers or Spanish conquistadors rushed to the ground first.

Up to now, the standard muskets of the Ming army have been changed to the sixth generation, all rifled guns, pointed hollow bullets that are close to the unified standard, muskets gradually replaced bows and arrows, because of their excellent armor-piercing ability, even the most meticulous craftsmen in Milan The agamethasone plate armor made could not withstand this shot, and the front of the city gate had become a massacre.

Fortunately, before the start of the war, the officials at all levels have explained that they will not kill the generals when they fight against the West. The feudal nobles in the West are sometimes more effective than one more regiment. In the hail of bullets, Prince Philip, Marshal Gilles, Duke Andrew, and a group of big The nobleman escaped from the birthplace in shock.

Seeing the corpses of the French Guards laying dead in front of the London port gate, his eyes were red, like a gambler who lost his money, Gilles picked up Philip's collar with two rows of pure gold buttons, roaring furiously He said: "Didn't you Spaniards mean that the army was blocked in the New World and couldn't come to Britain? Could it be that the thing on the wall came out of hell?"

The Spanish elite also died all over the place, and Philip also threw his hand away in a rage, roaring without aristocratic style: "The information provided by Spain is that South America has always been in the hands of the Holy Kingdom of Spain. But I stopped the Ming army in the New World without saying anything. How does this king know how the Xu army flew over? Besides! Don’t you French always boast that the army is the best in the world? This round of defeat is scary, you French What a coward!"

This is the reason why Europe can't form a unified empire. Before the war started, the two senior commanders pinched themselves first, and there were still gunshots behind them. A bear hug hugged the two of them together, and yelled against their heads.

"The British also have colonies in North America! Maybe they came here by land and then by boat. Now the focus is on how to kill the heretic Mingren. After the battle, you will fight again!"

When they heard the duel, the two noble boys were all scared. They looked back at the city wall left by the ancient Romans. The Ming army was still shooting and suppressing the port area. The French marshal finally cheered up and turned around to face each other. The French battleships shouted orders loudly.

"Fire, bombard the heretics!"

The order was conveyed to the battleship through the flustered messengers, but just now this giant-level war machine was also used as the background by a group of noble children. Amidst the furious and anxious urging of Si, the French sailors were sweating profusely and lifted the anchor and hoisted the sails. A few minutes passed before the dark cannon barrel protruded out of the gun bay belatedly.

However, at this time, there was a bang like a muffled thunder, and it suddenly fell at the mouth of the narrow Thames River. In an instant, the heat wave transpired, debris flew, and there was a click, which cost the capital ship Champagne who did not know how much manpower and material resources A large hole was opened in the mast of the ship, and the mast creaked and fell to the ground. The rookie-level French sailors were like fertilized ducks, quacking and fleeing in all directions, but the cannon was still not fired after all.

If it was just panic for the French on the shore, it would be an out-and-out disaster for Curt who hurriedly fled back to the Victory. On the sea level, four black smoke columns rose high. It has always been his nightmare, and now this nightmare has come again for real. Seeing the four ironclad ships leading the battle, and the mighty Ming Royal Navy, for a moment, Curt even forgot to breathe.

He really couldn't figure it out, how did the Ming army bypass the Spanish South American colony with such a huge fleet without anyone noticing?Spaniards lied?They have turned against the Ming army?impossible!The rise of Ming Dynasty was at sea, and the first victims were not the Netherlands, but Spain!The interests of the two countries are in conflict!

In such a short period of time, all of South America fell?It's impossible!Don't say how difficult it is to fight a battle in the tropical rainforest. If the South American colony can't support it, the Spaniards will probably immediately call on the entire Western European Catholic countries to support it.

Could it be that the Ming army really could not fly?

In fact, if there are another few decades of industrial progress, and the steam engine is transformed into an oil-burning internal combustion engine, maybe Mao Jue can really tinker with the plane, but now the Ming army really can't fly.

However, there are two kinds of road construction efficiency in later generations, one is called foreign road construction, and the other is called Chinese road construction. This paradox also works in this era. In five months, the West built 95 main warships in Toulon Mao Xingjian dug a [-]-kilometer route to the Pacific Ocean on the shore of Lake Nicaragua. The main fleet of the Ming Dynasty that set off in the middle of last year happened to pass through the newly navigable Nicaragua Canal, and then arrived at the British thirteen colonies along the North American continent. After a round of supplies there, it was along the coastline of Greenland. When Toulon swore to expedition to Britain, Ming's fleet had already arrived in Britain.

The roaring siren of the ironclad ship finally woke up Kurt. No matter how the Ming army came, the war must continue and must be won. If you lose, you will lose everything!

A gloomy haze finally appeared in the pupils of the old guy. He leaned on his crutches and turned around. He tremblingly ordered to the Dutch captain of the Victory: "Use the Victory as the vanguard, charge up and sink the ship!" These four bright ships!"

"Sir?"

I couldn't believe my ears, looking at the four ironclad ships that were walking while the four cannons were spraying bombs on the port, the captain asked in horror.

His face was completely darkened. Seeing his panic, and after being silent for a few seconds, Curt said with difficulty.

"For Holland! For Freedom!"

This time, without saying anything, after a salute, the Dutch captain returned to the rear bridge in person, took the rudder with his own hands, and sailed into the North Sea from the warships crowded in the port. With a kind of sadness, the 71-meter , the battleship representing the highest level and glory of Dutch shipbuilding, tragically met the iron-clad battleship spraying black smoke and speeding forward.

It's just that standing in the observation bulletproof glass of the second main gun, the commander Sun Chun didn't even look at it. The iron-clad flagship, which was renamed the Luzon after the Battle of the Cebu Sea, just went straight forward. Hit it.

Kacha~

Just like an ax splitting wood, the 180mm thick armored, 50-meter-long ironclad battleship slashed straight into the bow side of the Victory. Amidst the crackling sound, the wood chips splashed, and the Dutch sailors in the gun bay followed the heavy ship in horror. The naval guns flew upside down together, crushed by several tons of artillery fire, everywhere they went was filled with hideous blood.

"Dutch, attack!!!"

On the side of the ship, after the huge impact, the sailors who fell all over the ground were led by the chief officer, and heroically held up the sailor's scimitar and short fire blunderbuss, and swung along the cables to the iron-clad ship of the Ming army. Some hacked and smashed the front deck, and some were carrying axes, desperately hacking at the sealed cabin door. Even in front of Sun Chun, a few Dutch sailors slammed the trigger on her bravely, and after the bang bang, A large string of pockmarks appeared on the surface of the thick bulletproof glass.

After looking at it irritably, Sun Chun ordered loudly into the megaphone: "Full power, run over!"

Under the cabin, in the boiler room, the sweaty coal-filler was shirtless, and more frantically threw high-quality North American lump coal into the coal stove. The four huge steam engines were fully activated, and the huge bearings drove the gears. The propeller was several times faster in an instant, and the Dutch captain who was controlling the rudder obviously felt like a giant deep-sea monster shaking the hull fiercely, the Victory was obviously pushed back backwards, and the cracks of the cracks One after another appeared on the front deck of the ironclad warship with its bow wedged in.

During the rapid acceleration, the Dutch sailors who climbed onto the ironclad ship fell into the water like lice. A dozen people screamed in fear and were swept into the back of the ship by the turbulence. Immediately afterwards, a pool of hideous blood rushed flooded out.

He was exhausted with all his strength, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and the blood vessels on his arms were swollen as if they were about to burst at any time. Roaring, the Dutch captain desperately moved the rudder, so that the Victory could withstand it for a longer time. Unfortunately, his efforts were in vain after all. Amidst the huge cracking sound, the ironclad ship advancing like a bull broke off the five-meter-long bow of the Victory, and the cable was dragged in the east, and the foremast snapped. Losing balance, the heavy boat was thrown out for a few laps, and then the bow of the boat fell heavily into the water, and Gudu Gudu began to sink.

However, before Sun Chun could heave a sigh of relief, the next western battleship ran straight towards her without fear of death, and even she staggered due to the huge impact, and once again, slightly bent the bow of the armored ship. Jammed into the hull of another Western battleship.

The West is not without heroes!

Several battleships scrambled to come over. Although the iron-clad ships were powerful, there were only four of them. Among the damaged capital ships, they couldn't get out for a while. They looked helplessly at the French and Spaniards waving cold weapons at themselves. Sun Chun shook his head with a headache and gave orders helplessly.

"The signal flare is sent, the ironclad ship is trapped, let Admiral Pang Pang fight on his own!"

On the raging waves of the North Sea, a large ship was trapped in the middle, and the remaining two navies finally collided fairly. The tactics were almost exactly the same. The outer battleships surrounded and surrounded, and used long-range fire to kill and injure the enemy ships. The main fleet collided and intersected like cavalry. Within 200 meters, whether it was the Ming army or Western European gunners, they all waved their sabers with red eyes, knocked down the flintlocks fiercely, and the heavy shells Spewing at each other, amidst crackling explosions, large pieces of bloody wood fragments peeled off the hull of the ship.

Just when the main battleships were fighting in the sea, those auxiliary troop carriers on the coast were also crazy, regardless of their full sails, they rushed straight to the beach. With the existence of ironclad ships, the western navy is destined to lose the upper hand. , So the Allied Forces of the Fourteen Nations pinned their hopes on the powerful army again. Amidst the cracking sound of the bottom of the ship, groups of French army, Spanish conquistadors, and Prussian mercenaries fearlessly jumped from the damaged ship. Jumped off, formed an array on the beach, and immediately marched towards the side of the city of London.

They are really desperate, and there is no way out!

But on the horizon, facing them, the same black line was slowly revealed, and brightly colored war flags fluttered in the wind. Riding on horses, as the commander, Mao Xingjian, the dignified Prince of Ming Dynasty, was dressed in black war flags. Robe, also came to the front line.

Behind him, there is an expeditionary force composed of the most powerful troops in the entire Ming Dynasty drawn from various towns in Liaodong. The highest army achievements in the East and the West, on this English plain, are about to collide brilliantly together!

Chapter 9 Nine. The Black Prince

In history, there are many people who wanted to conquer the British Isles. Philip II of Spain, Emperor Napoleon of France, and Hitler, the war madman of later generations, the former two hoped to conquer Britain with the navy, and the latter tried to subdue England with air force bombing. , but in the end, all of them failed.

On the contrary, the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans pulled the army mightily, drove the cavalry to the British Isles, and finally won the conquest status through decisive land battles. Therefore, although the European navy is strong this time, it can play the leading role this time. It is the French Army and the Spanish Army.

In the midst of the rumbling artillery fire at sea, they quickly landed on the beach. Since the 7 vanguard troops landed first in the port area of ​​the Thames River in London on the other side, plus the losses, the number of enemy troops gathered here was only more than 30 close to [-], but this number is still enough to call It has become a heavy military group, and although the European nobles have been abolished, they have experienced the baptism of [-] years of war, and the middle and lower-level officers and a large number of professional troops are still elite.

Amidst the shouts of commanders at all levels, at 4 minutes, at the forefront of the beachhead, the first row of the Morris phalanx, which was the most widely used in the war 30 years ago, has been placed, with three rows and eight rows of spears in the middle Hands and halberd soldiers are mixed, four rows on the two wings, and the three rows in the back are all musketeers. The largest scale of firepower is enhanced. The field eagle guns snatched from the ship are pushed into the gap, and the heavy phalanx shouts. They lined up in the first line of battle, and anxiously surrounded the flanks of London.

But within a few minutes of their march, another thick black line appeared in their pupils. On the only slightly undulating Gosden Heights in south London, there were six regiments, and the expeditionary troops from Liaodong Storm Corps were already there. I have been waiting for a long time, and there are 2 British parliamentary troops and [-] iron cavalry left over from Cromwell.

As for the troops of the Ming army on the New World, Liu Zongmin's department did not appear here. Snake River developed a large number of farms. After getting the manpower from Mexico, the remnants of the Chuang army have been obsessed with the development of large farms and ranches, and have no intention of fighting. Li Dingguo's Great Western Army only came with [-] cavalry, and the combat effectiveness of the two last tent rebels is no longer enough here. In order to save precious space, Mao Xingjian originally didn't plan to take any of them, but Li Dingguo did it because he was not convinced. Forcibly followed.

In addition, Mao Xingjian's pro-army Ninth Corps also arrived on the battlefield. At this time, this army was guarding the city wall of London.

The number of field troops of the Ming army outside the city was less than that of the European allied forces, but the allied forces had not completely reorganized their formations at this time, and the front lines of the two armies were almost the same length. It's just that after years of tough military careers, they continued to move forward without fear after experiencing a brief shock.

Looking through the binoculars at the densely packed western army, although it was the first time he had fought against their family, Mao Xingjian was as calm as an old man at this time, his eyes were almost emotionless, and he gave orders gloomyly and softly.

"fire!"

After the Swedish King Gustav's reform, the heavy mortars and siege cannons were gradually abandoned and replaced by various short and flexible, most importantly, light-weight field artillery, which greatly improved the attack flexibility of the phalanx , In this regard, the Ming army seems to have come to the back. From the time when Xu Guangqi and others introduced Western artillery during the Pine Brocade War, the Ming army's cannons have always been heavy red cannons as the main force, and the emphasis is still on lethality. When it comes to Mao Jue, Not too much emphasis on range and accuracy.

However, Daming has the technology now!

The wide application of steam engines has brought water power to the next level in artillery forging technology. Under the heavy hammers of steam forging machines, the raw steel of cannons can be forged to one-third of its original volume like a zijia. The forged steel is more than half lighter than the cast cannon, and the pressure resistance is even worse. Today, the caliber of the [-]-jin field heavy artillery of the Liaodong Corps has reached [-] pounds, which is comparable to the one or two ton cannons of the same time in the West. .

Amidst the roaring cannons, the heavy conical shells presented a parabolic arc and slammed fiercely at the heads of the advancing Chinese and Western fronts. The heavy cannons made the French infantry and Spanish infantry marching with the drum beat helpless. It's not that they are frightened, but the military discipline tempered in the 30-year war made them still keep a tight pace and a stable lineup.

However, the tight lineup just gave the Ming army's cannons the best performance. All along, Mao Jue's cannons did not kill at one point, but all over the place!

Amidst the rumbling sound, the conical shell above the head actually exploded for the second time. With a clatter, the smaller shells with a whistling sound plunged into the queue when the Western Army was caught off guard. In an instant, the infantry scrambled. Fell to the ground, the dome helmet and plate armor made in Italy couldn't resist the power of this thing, let alone the arquebus gunners who lacked armor. Rows and rows of overturned infantry abounded. A French army The colonel was suddenly knocked down to the ground. He was lucky. He was wearing an Italian well-forged Fifty Training helmet. His mouth and nose were bleeding. He sat on the ground in a daze for more than ten seconds. Take off the helmet.

A pill-sized, heavy steel egg was solidly embedded in his blood-stained helmet, and looking back, the artillery crew pushing the field eagle cannon not far behind him was even wiped out. Headshot by this iron rain.