Chapter 121 Carve up England
The Tang Dynasty navy besieged the British Navy in the Portsmouth base and bombed and harassed every day, forcing the British Navy to be unable to rush out of the port and go outside to reinforce.
At night three days later, the German Army concentrated more than 600 ships, and was covered by a fleet of nine battleships and six heavy cruisers in the Datang Navy, crossing the English Channel, preparing to land in Britain in Dover.
Although the main fleet of the British Navy was besieged by the Tang Empire Navy and could not get out of Portsmouth, the British Navy had a huge number of warships. Apart from the main fleet, there were also a large number of light cruisers, and destroyers were guarding and patrolling near the British Isles.
Near Simon Bay, a submarine from the British 19th Patrol Fleet discovered the huge Donde Alliance fleet and immediately warned the British headquarters.
The British Navy urgently ordered the nearest 19th Patrol Fleet to attack the Allied Marine Ship to prevent the Allied landing operations.
The flagship of the British 19th Patrol Fleet, the USS Aitley light cruiser, took seven M-class destroyers to the designated waters, preparing to attack the Allied Forces Transportation Ships.
The Tang Empire Navy was responsible for escorting, so naturally he had to protect the safety of the German transport fleet, so he immediately entered the battle to prevent the British naval warships from approaching.
Under the night, the nine battleships and six heavy cruisers seized by the Tang army from the French played a role. Although the Tang naval officers and soldiers had no experience in combating battleships and heavy cruisers, the Tang army itself had light cruisers and destroyers for combat practice. When introducing the Fubud-class destroyer from France, they learned about the combat operation technology of French warships, but now they had large caliber naval guns. It was not a difficult problem for the well-trained Tang naval officers and soldiers.
Previously, the Tang army's light cruisers and destroyers were just to protect the core aircraft carriers, and now they were just aircraft carriers instead of German troops. Therefore, the Tang Navy immediately launched a tactical formation.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
The sound of cannons was roaring, and the Tang army battleship Richelieu took the lead in firing. Three triple-mounted 406mm main cannons fired in a thunderous manner. The muzzle was shining, and a thousand-pound cannonballs roared and shot towards the distant sea, stirring up huge water columns hundreds of meters high, and the sea water splashed. The waves were surging, spectacular and amazing.
However, it is difficult to accurately hit enemy ships when fired under the night. The British patrol fleet is composed of light cruisers and destroyers, and is fast. Most of the Tang army's artillery fire hit the sea.
However, the Tang army had nine battleships and six heavy cruisers, with extremely fierce firepower. The British fleet only had one light cruiser and seven destroyers. Although they could not hit them, they did not dare to get close easily.
During the battle, the Tang army officers and soldiers kept exploring how to operate behemoths such as battleships and heavy cruisers that often had tens of thousands of tons of war. In order to protect the German military transport ships, the Tang army did not take the initiative to attack. Therefore, the battle between the two sides was close and fought for several hours until dawn.
At dawn, visibility gradually became beneficial to the Tang army. The Tang army's battleships and heavy cruisers had high artillery shooting accuracy and long range. As a British destroyer was shot, the British 19th Patrol Fleet chose to evacuate.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Allied fleet arrived outside Dover. At this time, the British were prepared. The coastal fortress opened fire and prevented the Tang Navy and German troops from approaching.
Soon, more than 800 German Junker bombers took off from France and Belgium arrived and violently bombed Dover's British troops.
Three days ago, German bombers were already bombing Dover indiscriminately, and at this moment they had effectively destroyed a large number of British coastal fortifications, causing huge casualties to the British army.
Soon, the Tang Navy took advantage of the cover of the Luftwaffe to sail into the inner bay. Nine battleships and six heavy cruisers lined up to form battle lines, with muzzles raised, and prepared to shell the British fortifications on the coast.
At 8:20, as the main gun of the battleship Richelieu opened fire, the other eight battleships of the Tang army and six heavy cruisers also fired in turn.
In an instant, the sound of cannons was deafening, and a large caliber shell roared and landed towards the British coastal fortress position, and exploded. Earth and rocks splashed, fire flew, and sand and dust filled the sky like a storm.
Tang's fifteen large warships quickly controlled several landing areas with overwhelming firepower advantages to cover the advance of the German landing troops.
Half an hour later, the first German landing troops successfully cleared the dense mines along the coast, and landmines and anti-landing obstacles were able to successfully land on the beach.
The British army fought back to death, and wave after wave of counterattack caused heavy casualties in the German army. They were defeated by the British army again and again, leaving hundreds of corpses on the beach.
The Tang army officers and soldiers on the warships all showed disdain. The German army was obviously not as powerful as the Tang army in landing operations. The British army's counterattack and beachhead positions of this scale were not as fierce as the Japanese army. If it were the Tang Marines who attacked, they could be taken down soon.
After more than 30 consecutive attacks, the German army finally established a solid beachhead position at the beachhead of No. 3, repelled the British army's many crazy attacks, and became the German army's first bridgehead in Dover.
However, the bridgehead had just been built and a giant 406mm caliber shell fell.
With a loud bang, the bridgehead position was destroyed, and more than 20 elite German soldiers were bombarded.
"Damn it, why did the Tang army warships open fire at us?"
A German commander in the distance was happily capturing the first bridgehead, but was shot out by a gun from the Tang army battleship and was immediately furious.
Soon, he got a reply, that the Tang army asked the Battleship Bar to do it, that the artillery fired the instrument failed and the number of storage errors.
"Missue?"
Many German commanders rolled their eyes. This mistake was not only this time. In fact, the Tang army's battleship artillery fire frequently bombed the German army, causing considerable casualties to the German army, which made the German army complain but helpless. They could not do without the support of the fleet's artillery fire, so they could only hope that the Tang army's artillery soldiers would show mercy.
At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, under the fierce bombing of multiple batches of German aircraft and under the cover of artillery fire from the Tang fleet, the German army finally snatched more than a dozen beachhead positions, and German armored tanks came ashore one after another. The British army's Dover defense positions were torn apart one by one, and then a large number of German troops came ashore. The British army mobilized a large number of troops to counterattack, but they failed to work.
Three days later, Dover fell. After paying the heavy price of more than 70,000 people killed, the British army still failed to defend Dover. The 13 German divisions of the troops landed in Dover one after another, highlighting the German army's strong operational efficiency.
There was panic in London. The German army captured Dover and it only took two days to drive directly to the city of London. Although Churchill also arranged a line of defense outside London and deployed 100,000 British troops to defend, the fall of Dover and the strength of the German army were scared out of fear. A large number of British defeated troops on the front line disrupted the morale of the defensive forces.
One took ten, ten took one hundred. When the German armored troops marched towards London, there were only less than five thousand British defensive troops left, and they were defeated by one charge of the German army.
On March 9, the German army captured London. Before that, Churchill led some British government personnel to evacuate London.
Churchill wanted to continue to fight, but the British army had not much and was not strong in combat. The main force of the air force was gone. The main force of the navy was blocked by the Tang army in Portsmouth Port. Faced with the German steel torrent, the British army suffered repeated defeats, and their morale was extremely low, and Churchill was unable to make up for the situation.
On the morning of the 10th, the Scottish Parliament announced unconditional surrender to the German army, and the Welsh Parliament followed closely and announced unconditional surrender the next day. The England region controlled by Churchill soon announced its surrender under pressure, requesting the German army to stop attacking and destroying the city, and stop burning, killing, looting and abusing women in the city.
Hitler was very happy and immediately asked Churchill and the British team to stop resisting and surrender to the German army. He did not think that the British team should surrender like the Tang army. After all, the Tang army only had a navy and did not send an army.
However, on the night of the 11th, the Tang Army's First Airborne Army carried out large-scale airborne operations in Portsmouth and Ireland with the help of 500 Great Buster transport aircraft.
After two airborne brigades of the Tang army airborne around Portsmouth, they quickly drove into Portsmouth and immediately disarmed the 30,000 British troops there. At the same time, the Tang Navy Atlantic Fleet also broke through the obstacles and entered Portsmouth Port, capturing all more than 500 British ships in the harbor.
That night, six aircraft carriers, twelve battleships, one battlecruiser, eighteen heavy cruisers, thirty-seven light cruisers, one hundred and twenty-three destroyers, and seven submarines were all driven out of Portsmouth Port by the Tang naval officers and soldiers, and joined the main force of the Tang army's Atlantic Fleet, preparing to sail directly back to the land of the Tang Empire.
According to the Tang army's goals, these British warships will be modified on the Tang Empire and then expand the strength of the Tang Empire's navy.
When the German army felt that Portsmouth the next day, they saw that it had been occupied by the Tang army and immediately reported it to Hitler. Hitler was so angry that he cursed his mother and scolded Zhang Meng for being too shameless and once again staged a tiger-mouthed robbery.
However, Hitler and Zhang Meng had an agreement before, and whoever got it would be his will. When Hitler called to argue with Zhang Meng, Zhang Meng tried his best to make him have no choice.
However, Hitler's occupation of Britain was a huge victory, and the benefits he received were no worse than the Tang Empire's main fleet. Although the Ireland Islands were returned to the Tang Empire according to the agreement, Hitler still made a lot of money.
Chapter completed!