My son A Fei has the appearance of a sword master

Chapter 162: Capturing Great Britain and Madagascar by chance

Folkestone is a seaport city, close to the coast, less than 300 meters from the coast.

The artillery originally placed on the city wall could provide fire support when the enemy landed on the beach.

But now the Ming army fired artillery 1200 meters away from the coast, completely destroying the coastal defense system. Naturally, the artillery on these walls had no use.

The British soldiers in the city looked at the earth-shattering explosion on the coast, and they could not help but tremble, with despair on their faces.

The British troops on the coast were stunned in an instant. They had never faced artillery fire before, and they didn't even know how to avoid such artillery fire.

Although explosive ammunition was also used in land battles, with the power and scale of artillery in this era, it was simply impossible to form artillery coverage.

Hundreds of British troops guarding the coast were wiped out in an instant, and more than thirty forts were also destroyed.

Huge bronze cannons lay scattered among the ruins. Their fate was to become materials for the Ming army.

Each of these coastal defense guns weighs six tons, which is two hundred tons of material.

The cities in Europe are completely different from those in China. In addition to the architectural style, the biggest difference is the city gates.

Outside the city gates of important cities in China, there is usually an urn city, that is, a semicircular or square wall is built outside or inside the city gate to surround the city gate.

The space inside the Wengcheng is usually very narrow. Once the enemy troops rush into the Wengcheng, they will be baptized by arrows from the four walls. This means "catching turtles in the urn", hence the name Wengcheng.

There is no barbican in the western city gate, because the city gate is directly located in a castle, and the style of the castle is quite similar to the bunker during World War II, and it is a composite bunker.

In other words, the bunker itself evolved from this kind of Western castle.

There are many windows on the castle, and each window is a shooting port. A large number of soldiers can also be arranged on the circular stairs of the castle, and both sides of the castle are connected to the city walls.

Compared with this design and the urn city in Middle-earth, one cannot say which one is better. Each has its own advantages.

But the same thing is that, no matter in the east or west, city gates are the most difficult places to break. During a siege, few troops will directly attack the city gates.

Unless it is a city without urns and castles.

Climbing a city with ants on long ladders is the same method of siege in both the East and the West.

But today's Ming army has obviously completely abandoned that kind of war model, and the city wall has no meaning in their eyes.

No matter how strong the city wall is, it cannot withstand the bombardment of cannons.

Wang Zhi moved his eyes away from the telescope and sighed: "Don't mention it, this Western castle is quite beautiful. I really can't bear to blow it into ruins."

"But if it doesn't explode, it will definitely pose a threat to the soldiers. This will be a bit difficult to handle."

Wang Lianhua smiled and said: "What's so embarrassing? Just rebuild after the explosion."

Wang Zhi said: "That's what I say, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive after all. How about blowing the city wall down and then trying to send people to persuade them to surrender?"

Wang Lianhua said hesitantly: "To persuade us to surrender, we need to send a translator who understands English. What if the Lord of Folkestone is a fool and kills the translator?"

Wang Zhi winked at the side and said with a grin: "Aren't there some French experts here? Let them go soon?"

Wang Lianhua's eyes lit up and she said happily: "This is a good idea."

The two of them looked to the side, with one eye still closed and the other eye leaning on the telescope, with a dull and shocked face.

Wang Zhi cleared his throat and said to Count Pursi: "Your Excellency, I don't want to destroy this beautiful castle, but I don't want the soldiers to be injured or killed. Do you think it's possible to persuade the soldiers defending the city to surrender?"

The translator translated these words to Count Pursi.

Count Pursi came back to his senses, pondered for a moment, and said: "It's very possible, but I'm afraid you will have to show your strength again to further undermine the morale of the British army."

Wang Zhi said happily: "No problem."

Wang Lianhua immediately turned around and said to the messenger: "Go ahead and order the Tiangang to fire at the left city wall and the Tianji to fire at the right wall, each destroying a section of the wall."

"Yes."

After receiving the order, the two warships immediately prepared to leave.

"Boom"

A few minutes later, the two warships opened fire respectively. The walls of Folkestone City were immediately splashed with bricks and stones. The entire city wall was shaking, and the tiles on the city walls were shaken and fell off.

Twenty cannons are concentrated on bombarding a section of the city wall. How many hits can it withstand?
After only three rounds of bombardment, the walls on both sides of the castle collapsed. A section of ten meters of wall was destroyed on the left side and nearly ten meters on the right side.

Wang Lianhua said solemnly: "Cease fire."

The messenger immediately picked up the communicator and said loudly: "This is the Tiankui. The commander-in-chief has ordered that the Tiangang and Tianji cease fire immediately."

Wang Zhi looked at Count Pursi, smiled and asked: "Your Excellency, is it okay now?"

Earl Pursey took a deep breath, nodded slowly and said: "In this case, Folkestone no longer has the ability to defend the city, and they should surrender."

Wang Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, but I have to ask His Excellency the Earl for help with this matter. The translators under my command are all literati and not proficient in martial arts, and the soldiers do not understand English. I'm afraid they won't be able to handle this matter well."

Earl Pursi understood instantly, and without a word, he immediately said: "Alfred, please go for a walk."

"Yes."

The swordsman who had killed the English soldiers before responded, turned around and walked to the rear.

Soon a sampan was put into the water, and Alfred drove the sampan towards the coast in the same way as Paul and the others.

More than an hour later, Alfred returned, tied the sampan's rope to the Tiankui, and jumped directly onto the battleship deck.

Count Pursi asked: "How is the situation? Is the city lord willing to surrender?"

Alfred shook his head, and when Wang Zhi and Wang Lianhua's expressions darkened, the translator translated Alfred's words.

"There is no need to persuade us to surrender. When I arrived at the city, there was no one on the castle or the walls."

"I went into the city to investigate and found that the city lord had taken his family, the soldiers guarding the city, and all the nobles to escape from Folkestone. Now there is no resistance in the city."

Wang Zhi and Wang Lianhua's expressions turned gloomy.

Wang Zhi smiled at Count Pursey and said: "Your Excellency, according to the agreement between King Louis and I, the south of Manchester belongs to France, and this city should be occupied by your army. Why don't you go back now and ask the king to send troops."

"But I have a small request. I hope that after your army captures Folkestone, they will not treat the English civilians here harshly, so as not to trigger their resistance and cause instability in the rear."

Pursi said happily: "Ambassador, please rest assured that as long as the English civilians do not take the initiative to resist, we will not treat them harshly."

"I have seen with my own eyes the combat effectiveness of your army. I have no doubts about defeating the British army. I will go back and ask the king to send troops."

"Ambassador please send someone to the city first to stabilize the situation. Our troops will definitely arrive within three days." Wang Zhi said happily: "No problem, I will send a warship to see you off."

……

Originally the most brutal beach landing battle, the price paid by the Ming army was only a few artillery shells.

In terms of casualties, there was only one Marine. When he jumped off the boat, he accidentally stepped on a conch shell and injured his foot, becoming the only casualty in this battle.

After the Marines successfully landed and built defensive positions, the Navy also carried supplies and began to land.

They carried mortars and heavy machine guns, and this combination was enough to crush the British army.

Not to mention that the fleet can provide long-range fire support at any time. Once Folkestone is captured, it will be impregnable.

The Ming Dynasty had a division of three guards and more than [-] soldiers. Only two guards went ashore, and the remaining guard stayed behind to guard the ship.

They will then cooperate with the French fleet to sweep all coastal cities in England and completely stabilize the rear.

As the army advances steadily northward, it ensures the smooth flow of logistics transportation lines.

During the war against Britain, the Ming army's logistics were completely guaranteed by France. The Ming army only needed to fight with peace of mind and did not need to use the food on board.

During this period, the Kingdom of England had a total population of only 350 million and an army of only more than 1000. Two guards and more than [-] Ming troops beat them, which was simply bullying.

Even if England faced the danger of national subjugation, it would never be able to defeat the Ming army if it launched the Patriotic War mode, recruited a large number of troops, and recruited 50 ragtag troops.

More than 300 Maxims and more than 200 mortars are directed at that one, coupled with more than 8000 AK47s and more than 3000 98Ks, it is directly an unparalleled lawn mowing mode.

What's more, they are not fighting alone, they also have France as an ally.

France has a population of 1600 million, more than four times that of England, and an army of more than [-], more than three times that of England.

Even if they only send half of their troops for this war, it will still be enough to withstand the rabble who were recruited temporarily.

This is also the reason why the English army's combat effectiveness is so much stronger than that of the French army, and why France has still survived for a hundred years.

In the century-old Anglo-French war, the British army basically defeated the larger force with fewer troops, suppressing the French.

In the most famous Battle of Agincourt, the British army of 5900 defeated the French army of 36000 and was completely wiped out.

The battle also created an internationally recognized gesture.

At that time, firearms had not yet developed, and the most powerful unit of the British army was their longbowmen. These longbowmen were all composed of untouchables.

Before the war began, the French noble knights despised the English longbowmen, believing that they were of low status and unworthy of fighting against the noble knights.

French generals publicly declared that once they captured English longbowmen, they would cut off their index and middle fingers, which they used to shoot arrows, so that they would never be able to shoot arrows again.

As a result, these arrogant French noble knights were shot by English longbowmen to the point of doubting their lives, and were ultimately defeated.

After the war, the English longbowmen came to the French prisoners one after another. They raised two fingers and waved them very coquettishly, showing off to the French prisoners.

This is the origin of Victory Scissorhands "Oye".

But whether it is the English longbowmen or the current firearms troops, they are all garbage in front of the AK47, Maxim, and mortars.

……

In August of the 13th year of Chenghua, when Wang Zhi and Wang Lianhua attacked England, Shen Lang and Li Xunhuan also arrived in the New World again.

Another year has passed, and the Yuanchu City now truly looks like a city of the Ming Dynasty.

The population of the city has exceeded [-]. During this year, the original people promoted the original city everywhere. Aboriginal people from all directions nearby gathered in the original city and became the people under Li Tianxin's rule.

The construction of the city wall has also begun. The original city planned by Li Tianxin covers an area of ​​six square kilometers and the perimeter of the city wall is about three kilometers.

He planned it according to the scale of the prefectural city. With the advancement of development, the county-level city can no longer meet the demand.

In a few years, the original city will become a real city.

After the construction of the original city is completed, he will start to build the second city. From the second city onwards, he will use the names or titles of his partners as the name of the city.

For example, the second city is called "Tianxin City", the third is called "Feixian City", and the fourth is called "Shenzhou City".

Later there were Changle City, Panda City, Zhuifeng City, Xunhuan City, Shiyin City and so on.

The main focus is a sense of participation. Even if women will not become city lords, naming it after them can give them a sense of participation.

The base is also initially on the right track. At present, it is mainly a steelmaking workshop and a blacksmith workshop. The machinery workshop has not been established yet.

The food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be taken step by step. First, let the aborigines completely enter the Iron Age, and then slowly advance to the industrial age.

It is unrealistic to achieve success in one step. After all, it is impossible to directly enter the industrial age without sufficient resource support.

To give the simplest example, without machinery, you have to use manual labor to mine.

To use labor, you must have tools, so after initially obtaining a batch of iron ore, you must first make sufficient iron picks and hammers.

When the indigenous people used these tools to dig out more minerals and had enough resources, they could further transform those resources into machinery.

But it’s easy to say. If you want to truly bring the aborigines into the industrial age, you must have at least 10 young and strong laborers, and then accumulate it for ten or eight years.

After all, although the Aboriginal people are not starting from scratch, they are at most starting from scratch.

After all, Li Tianxin and others can only provide a small part of the initial support. If you want to develop, you have to rely on yourself. It is unrealistic to rely on transporting everything from the outside world.

Fortunately, it has been three years since Li Tianxin and the others came to the New World. The people from the original tribe can now basically communicate with them smoothly in Ming Dynasty Mandarin.

Li Tianxin used these people to lead the newcomers. After ten or eight years, the resources were almost accumulated and the language barrier basically no longer existed. It was the time when the New World entered a period of rapid development.

In March of the 14th year of Chenghua, Li Tianxin also took his three wives and four concubines back to the Ming Dynasty.

Coincidentally, he met Wang Zhi and Wang Lianhua in Madagascar, and it was a joy to meet old friends.

Great Britain had been conquered by them, and the Kingdom of England was declared dead.

Wang Lianhua left two guards to guard there, leaving [-]% of the remaining weapons and ammunition for them. She only brought [-]% for self-defense, mainly to guard against pirates.

The remaining ammunition is not enough to fight a war of national annihilation, but it is more than enough for self-defense.

After he returns home this time, he will send more troops and transport more weapons. The troops left behind only need to persist for half a year before they can receive ammunition replenishment.

(End of this chapter)