Chapter 373 Air Raid and Sunset(1/2)
This is a naval battle without prisoners.
The Ming fleet finally stopped after all the coalition warships were sunk.
The Royal Guards of the Ming Dynasty, who had been staying inside the Qinhuang aircraft carrier, and the two thousand soldiers of the First Marine Corps, finally had the opportunity to appear at this time.
The Qinhuang aircraft carrier, which is nearly the world's number one, makes them feel as if they are standing on a stable ground.
Raise your gun and aim easily.
Wu Yan no longer needed these defeated people to go back and promote how powerful his Ming Empire's military power was, nor did he need to use these prisoners to bring them back so that the people of the Ming Empire could feel that their national military attacks were invincible.
Because he has a camera.
Beichen used his superpowers to control the camera floating at the highest point of the Qinhuang aircraft carrier, the battleship and cruiser hull, and recorded this naval battle that lasted only ten minutes almost completely.
The sinking of more than 300 coalition warships and the great victory of the Ming fleet without any damage, even hundreds of years later, no one would doubt it.
At least two-thirds of all the people of this generation of the Ming Empire can see the grand occasion of this battle and the prosperity of the royal naval fleet of the Ming Empire.
From the next generation of people of the Ming Empire, everyone can see this naval battle that has truly changed the world pattern.
Since this battle, the Royal Navy Fleet of the Ming Empire will inevitably become the undisputed world's No. 1 navy.
However, although Wu Yan let the Ming fleet sink all the warships of the coalition forces and ordered his soldiers to fight the "water ghosts", not all the coalition navy that participated in the war were dead.
The entire army was wiped out in such a naval battle.
Unless Wu Yan is willing to dispatch his fighter planes, those small Clippers responsible for delivering messages will still have enough time to leave the waters where the naval battle is located and return to the British Empire port to land.
The speed of the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation, compared with the speed of the naval fleet of any country in this era, can be described as crushing.
However, the small Clippers that use steam power can crush the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation due to their size and tonnage.
The people who were already scared to death drove the fast ship and ran away without looking back. They did not even go to rescue the naval soldiers who fell into the water, and this was one of their originally supposed tasks.
When a warship sinks, due to its size, warships of the same level are difficult to approach, either easily hitting or miscalculated the sinking speed of the warship, resulting in an accident similar to hitting a reef.
The boat actually cannot get close to it, because when the warship sinks, it will produce a whirlpool with strong suction due to the space inside the warship.
What they were originally going to rescue were those naval soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the vortex.
But now, they don't look back.
When they finally arrived at the port and stepped on the land with their feet, the panic in their hearts did not subside at all.
Because they had seen how far the range of artillery of the Ming Fleet was.
8 kilometers.
This is still not the true range of the Ming Fleet artillery, but it is enough for them to try their best to escape the port.
It is true that they have to escape to an area eight kilometers away from the port.
"The whole army was wiped out, the whole army was wiped out."
However, many people stopped them. This military port located in the British Empire gathered a huge group of people.
In addition to the people of the British Empire, there were also representatives of the seventeen countries participating in this naval battle.
Before the Clippers came back, they were in a state of joy, and even prepared food and wine like they were holding a dance party.
But now, they heard a message that they could not believe at all.
"What are you talking about?"
"How could it be that the entire army was wiped out?"
"Has the Ming fleet been wiped out? Is it? Are they wiped out?"
Noisy sounds appeared in the crowd.
They still retained their last expectation in their hearts, but looking at the panicked expressions of the people who came back and their bodies that were extremely frightened and trembled, they actually did not give any hope.
"No, it's us. Our entire army was wiped out. Our coalition fleet was wiped out. More than 300 warships were all sunk by the Ming fleet."
The port suddenly became quiet.
The horrified voice continued.
"We can't hit them, our warships and our artillery can't hit them at all, but they can hit us."
"Fifteen minutes? No, ten minutes?"
"We'll be wiped out."
"Their artillery range is eight kilometers, and their artillery is like a perfect shot. I saw one of our cruisers with my own eyes. They were hit by one shot and were directly sunk."
"It's over, we're over, our fleet is over."
"They are coming, and their fleet is not damaged at all. They are coming, run quickly, and you must run eight kilometers away. No, run ten kilometers away, otherwise we will die."
The elite naval soldiers who were supposed to be trained in an orderly manner now looked panicked, but they looked like ordinary people who didn't even dare to kill fish. They saw with their own eyes that 10,000 people were massacred in front of him, and their bodies were gradually submerged.
The panic spread with these panic sounds.
Most of the people gathered to celebrate and turned around and ran away in an instant. They knew very well what the eight-kilometer range meant.
The heavy artillery set up in this military port is not even eight kilometers away.
In other words, when the Ming fleet appeared in the waters near the port, they could only be bombarded by the Ming fleet's artillery, but they could not cause any damage to the Ming fleet.
Someone ran away directly, which triggered more people to turn around and leave.
The British Empire staff, who were originally confident, also ordered to evacuate immediately as if dead.
The Royal Navy fleet, which helped the British Empire to forge the title of Sun never set, was destroyed by the naval fleet of another country?
What about the future of the British Empire?
Without the navy, would the British Empire have to live on this island?
No, so what if there is a new navy?
That is an invincible naval fleet composed of 15 battlecruisers and 50 battleships and cruisers.
"You stay here to defend, I'll go back and arrange support for you now."
It is impossible to let everyone escape. The importance of military ports is self-evident. Without any defense, the army of the Ming Empire could land directly.
Even if the Ming Empire did not carry too many troops in the fleet, it was not enough to pose a sufficient threat to the British Empire, which had magical power.
But what afterwards?
If this port is lost, it means that the Ming Empire will only take half a month to transport a large number of army soldiers to the territory of the British Empire.
The crowds of people who were preparing to participate in the celebration immediately fleeing from a port in the English Channel toward London.
In their opinion, the Ming fleet would obviously occupy the port where they are now, because the distance is very close and the defensive power here has basically been destroyed, leaving only the port artillery.
But what they didn't know was that when they rushed to London.
The Ming fleet was also unscrupulously passing through the English Channel, with the goal being the Dover Channel. Once it reaches here, it can directly pass through the estuary of the Thames River to reach London, the capital of the British Empire.
As for the current Thames, can the aircraft carrier formation be opened to navigation?
This question is not important, because Wu Yan never planned to drive the aircraft carrier formation into London, he just needed to shorten the distance between him and London.
When the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation arrived at the Dover Strait from the English Channel, the closest distance to the land on both sides was only more than ten kilometers.
On the left is the British Empire and on the right is the French Empire, both of which were declared war by Wu Yan.
Compared with the speed of aircraft carrier formations sailing in the sea, the speed of sending messages on land is much faster.
Both the British Empire and the French Empire have learned the navigation direction of the Ming fleet and judged the target of the Ming fleet.
"I will not return until the enemy's capital is destroyed. This is his original words. He is coming to attack our capital. Just like he did to Japan, he directly led the fleet to the port of the capital, and then sent the army to land and fight."
British Empire, London.
Buckingham Palace.
Victoria, the Prime Minister, Cabinet members, Members of Parliament, and representatives of all countries gathered together.
Everyone's expression is very solemn. He is in the safest place in this country in theory, but he cannot bring any comfort to their hearts. Many of them actually want to leave directly.
However, they can't leave.
If the British Empire falls, they will be the next one.
"How many warships do we have?" Victoria asked.
"It's useless. Our guns are not as far apart as their range and they can't hit them at all. If we continue to send a fleet, we will only be like before..."
Victoria asked again: "Can we hit them before they reach the Strait of Dover? Where are the French people? Can you hit them?"
The Military Minister replied: "We cannot hit them, and France cannot hit them. Their fleet will inevitably pass through the central area, which is more than ten kilometers away from our coastline and the coastline of France, which is beyond our artillery range."
"Where are hot air balloons? We also have hot air balloons, bring shells, fly over their heads and throw them into the air?"
"We did prepare a lot of hot air balloons, but the accuracy of bombs dropped on the hot air balloons cannot be guaranteed. This is not like when we fought the land battle with the Ming Empire before, the military bases were fixed and their fleets were in a mobile state."
"The question I care about now is whether they have hot air balloons?" someone asked worriedly: "If they have hot air balloons, just like the war in the Ming Dynasty, fly directly to our heads and throw bombs, what should we do?"
The British Military Minister said: "Don't worry about this, we also have hot air balloons. If their hot air balloons are about to fly over, we have enough time to fly into the sky and knock out their hot air balloons."
To be continued...