Chapter 1141

"Fire!"

Looking at the red shirts in Cape Town, Liu Chen roared out an order.

"Boom boom..."

Forty two warships opened fire at the same time. In an instant, warships lined up in a straight line on the sea made waves in the sea.

Smoke and huge fire came out of the muzzle, and with the sound of the cannonball, the southernmost coast of Africa was full of flames.

"It's a place that's easy to attack but hard to defend." Liu Chen gently picked his eyebrows, which he thought about the last time he passed by Cape Town.

Right in front of the fleet is the mountain range known as table mountain.

This is also the most remarkable sign of Cape Town. This mountain range, which stretches for more than ten kilometers, is called God's dining table in Europe. It looks like a smooth tabletop from a distance.

Under the mountains is Cape Town, which is close to the sea. All the buildings in the colony seem to be crowded on the beach.

For such a place, the north side is hard to break, but only a strong navy in the South can guarantee that it will not be attacked from the sea.

In the past, the British warships were unmatched, but now this era is over.

"Boom boom..."

Round by round, shells kept flying to Cape Town, as if endless. More than 600 guns on 42 warships plowed the whole Cape Town like farmland.

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

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

It can be said that as long as we control Cape Town, we will control the African routes. Because of this, Britain stationed more than 8000 people in little 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 be seen from the volcanic ash fortress on the coast.

"Land!"

After the shelling, Liu Chen continued to give orders, and the Marines immediately went down to the landing craft just built by the Empire.

This kind of landing craft is not big, it is a rectangle as a whole, but this kind of landing craft is designed for landing preparation, focusing on defense and attack.

Therefore, in addition to the steel hull of the landing craft, there is a special machine gun shooting position in front of the landing craft. The most important thing is that the landing craft is the first small ship driven by internal combustion engine.

Nowadays, it has been four or five years since the rise of automobiles in the Empire, and the research of various internal combustion engines has become more and more proficient. Of course, some technologies have also been applied to the construction of ships.

The diesel powered landing craft was an attempt by shipyards. When the technology matured, it was used to build small ships in the Empire.

As for the Empire's large warships, they would abandon coal and adopt the power structure of oil fired boiler and steam turbine.

"Buzz..."

All 120 soldiers entered the landing craft. With the popularity of diesel engines, the landing craft went to the beach faster and faster.

All the soldiers in the landing craft huddled behind the steel hull to prevent them from being shot on the shore. On the high shooting platform on the right side of the ship, the machine gunners were staring at the shore through the gaps in the machine gun protective armor.

”Oh "

although he had been on the landing craft for many times, Lu Han was still not adapted to the bumpy high-speed course of the landing craft. Not long after he got on board, he fell on the boat and vomited.

The soldiers in the landing boat were wiping their rifles. They couldn't help laughing when they saw this. One of the soldiers said, "Lv Han, next time let the company commander prepare a boat for you to row. You can't sit in this advanced boat like landing boat."

"Well, he's gone a long way. When he gets ashore, we'll all have dinner after the war. "Another joke.

There was a burst of laughter in the landing boat.

Lu Han vomited for a while and felt much more comfortable. He scolded: "fart your mother. Even if I rowed and landed, I would kill more enemies than you. "

as soon as he finished, there was a clear sound of metal strike, and the soldiers on the ship immediately put away their smiles.

Lu Han also squatted down, "these Englishmen have become mice one by one. Now they specially drill holes in the ground. Such heavy artillery fire has not killed them all."

"Nonsense, the artillery is all solved. What else do we need? Get ready to work." The company commander on the landing craft warned, "check the equipment and ammunition, and get ready to fight."

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

At this time, the machine gun sent out "daddada "The sound of the sound, bullets like string of beads to fly to the shore, the British soldiers who resisted.

On the beach.

Chapman, the governor of Cape Town, peeped out of the ditch, covered in dust and blood, panicked.

The trench is full of the bodies of British soldiers, many of them are incomplete, and the wailing of the soldiers and the strong smell of blood continue to diffuse.

Staggering on a bench, Chapman leaned out his head and looked at the sea. He saw nearly a hundred boats galloping on the sea like horses galloping on the grassland.Hundreds of meters of sea surface is just a flash for these strange boats.

The living British soldiers are shooting at these ships, but from the density of the gunfire, he can hear how much they have suffered from this round of shelling.

"Don't flinch, fight to the last one!" This is what the queen of India demanded of the army after the war.

All those who retreat will be killed, whether they are soldiers or officers.

It is under such high pressure, even if they live in fear, they still want to fight to the end, but at this time his roar appears too weak in the battlefield.

"Daddada..."

As the intense shooting swept by, Chapman's body seemed to solidify, and then blood came out of his chest. His eyes gradually lost color and fell down slowly.

In his last sight, the enemy ship stopped on the shoal, the head of the ship opened, and the imperial soldiers rushed out of the ship.

”Hurry up, hurry up!

at the moment when the landing craft stopped, Lv Han and other soldiers were driven off the ship, and the machine gun group and mortar group quickly built fire positions under the protection of scattered soldiers.

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

Thousands of soldiers landed, and the British army, which had been badly damaged by the artillery fire, was quickly annihilated after weak resistance.

Soon, the imperial dragon flag began to fly in Cape Town.

On the warship, Liu Chen showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, and the war went very smoothly, but he understood that a large part of the factors were determined by the position of Cape Town.

Because there was no danger in this place, but at the same time, the growing military strength of the Empire was also very important.

www.novelhall.com , the fastest update of the webnovel!