1825 My New Daming

Chapter 471 Admiral Goff, His Majesty the Emperor orders you (subscription please, monthly ticket please)

The armored chariot troops ran over the trenches, destroyed the fortifications, and wiped out all the British "rogue troops" who dared to stand in front of him.

After a day of bloody battles, the fighters of the first mixed brigade and the second mixed brigade of the Ming Army who landed had already made a deep and wide gap in the beach defense line of the Brisbane militia.

Although many armored chariots broke down on the battlefield or got stuck in the sand and trenches.However, an advance detachment composed of more than 100 armored vehicles of various types has been advancing in depth, including the "invulnerable" wheeled assault gun vehicle that Yang Xiuqing is in!
The British army guarding Brisbane hastily transferred a battalion of reserves and some cavalry artillery from the rear area, and also deployed several companies from Murderer Beach, Kidnapper Beach, and Arsonist Beach in an attempt to counterattack or block the attack. gap.

But they were all repelled by the firepower of the armored chariot.After a night of fierce fighting, the "thieves and soldiers" threw corpses along the way, and a large number of technical weapons were destroyed.

A cavalry artillery detachment drawn from the Brisbane Fortress happened to collide with the advance team of wheeled armored vehicles of the Ming army on the way to the front.Immediately there was a one-sided massacre, and the British cavalry artillery detachment had no time to deploy, and was attacked by wheeled armored vehicles!

In less than half an hour, the last mobile artillery of the British army in Brisbane was completely annihilated.

Dead people, dead horses, and broken cannons were piled up in disorder on the road that the armored chariots had charged over.It seems to herald the sunset of the British Empire and the fiasco of Emperor William!
The advance armored fighting vehicle detachment had already rushed to the Brisbane Fortress at three or four o'clock in the morning the next day.

Several companies directly under the Brisbane Fortress Headquarters and the headquarters' mechanical soldiers relied on the fortifications of the old-fashioned bastion for desperate resistance.

However, the armored fighting vehicle detachment was not in a hurry to attack the city wall.

Instead, they just blocked several key passages in and out of the fortress, and then waited for the arrival of follow-up troops.

And in the early morning of this day, the Ming army fleet of tens of square miles on the sea once again launched a landing operation!

This time they landed at Murderer's Beach-this beach is next to Robber's Beach, and the former has been completely controlled by the Ming army.Therefore, at the same time as the sea landing was launched, the Ming army, which had already landed on Robber's Beach before, also deployed a mixed reinforcement battalion to launch a side attack on the "thief troops" stationed on Murderer's Beach.

Enemies from the front and back, coupled with the digging out of the old nest, not only the defenders of Murderer's Beach are unwilling to fight, but even the defenders of Arsonist's Beach and Kidnapper's Beach collapsed together.

The road leading from these three beaches to the Fortress of Brisbane has become an out-and-out road of death, with interceptions in front, chasing soldiers in the back, and plane bombing in the sky.And the [-] thieves below had nowhere to escape, and in the end they could only turn into piles of corpses, lying quietly in the Australian wasteland, waiting to rot!

At this time, the front line of the British army in Brisbane almost disappeared, and the only thing they could rely on was the Brisbane Fort itself-several long-range artillery deployed on this fort could cover nearby Port of Brisbane.

Therefore, as long as the Ming army could not take or destroy the Brisbane Fortress, they would have no way to send a large number of supplies and troops ashore through Brisbane.

Then their logistics will not be smooth!
And once the Brisbane Fortress falls...the Ming army will come in a steady stream!
At this time, the British army was in a panic.

Their original plan was based on the fact that the Brisbane Fortress could be held for a long time, and the Ming army who landed at the same time could not obtain supplies on the spot.

But now the Brisbane British army's beach defense line collapsed too quickly, and there was no time to fortify the wall and clear the field.This caused many farms around the Brisbane Fortress to be completely captured by the Ming army-more or less food and fodder were stored in those farms, and there were many valuable livestock!
With these things, at least the Ming army would not have to worry about food and drink.

And the loss of the British army in Brisbane is too great!The four infantry battalions guarding the beach and one infantry battalion serving as a reserve, plus two artillery battalions, were almost wiped out.And the remaining troops are too small, even if all the female exiles and elderly exiles from Escape Fortress are incorporated into the army, there will not be much cannon fodder...

If the Ming army wants to launch a strong attack next, the Brisbane Fortress will not last long at all.

In addition, the situation of the armored chariots of the Ming army reported by the British army in Brisbane made General Hugh Goff, who is very sensitive to new weapons and new tactics, aware of the great danger!
The armored chariots of the Ming army look very powerful...Can the cavalry of the British Australian army deal with them?

That armored car...can it be knocked over with a cavalry spear?

If the British cavalry could not deal with armored vehicles, then Hugh Goff's plan to fight the Ming army in mobile warfare would come to nothing.

Can't fight mobile warfare... Do you want to wait for reinforcements from the United Kingdom in the big fortress of Sydney?
General Hugh Gough, the commander-in-chief of the British Australian Army, who felt that something was wrong, even ignored the British Army's tradition of obeying the command of the government and the Parliament, and directly made suggestions to Emperor William and the Duke of Wellington in a telegram sent to London. ——Either negotiate peace with Daming as soon as possible, and hurry up while you still have enough bargaining chips!
Or take the risk of sending more British and Indian troops to Australia with the Royal Navy!
Otherwise, Australia will not be able to persist until the heart of the British Empire is that a large number of battleships are launched into service.

And once Australia falls, the British Empire will have very few bargaining chips left...

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"No, now is not the time for peace talks! I will never accept the peace conditions of losing Australia and dividing India... The British Empire on which the sun never sets absolutely cannot accept such conditions, let alone give up its glory and dreams! Otherwise, the British Empire will It will exist in name only, and it will never be a great country again!"

In St. James's Palace, Kaiser William was furious.

The telegram from Hugh Gough was almost driving him to a corner... Kaiser William is the real emperor!Of course he knew how much a blow to his imperial power would be if he went to Australia?
He knew that Victoria could get married, and he made the old man a reason no one wanted!

Once the British Empire was forced to sue for peace, his emperor was done.

For Emperor William, who had tasted the sweetness of power, there was not much difference between losing imperial power and killing him.

In order to keep his position, William IV immediately called the Duke of Wellington and Sir Hardy to his palace together after receiving Gough's telegram.

Then in the palace, the two big bosses of the navy and army of the British Empire made it clear that they would refuse the peace talks and would fight to the end!
"Your Majesty, the current situation..."

"Duke, what do you think?" Emperor William interrupted Sir Hardy who was about to change the topic, and directly threw the question to Duke Wellington.

The Duke of Wellington had thought about this for a long time, so now he replied with certainty: "From now on, please give orders directly to the Marquis of Gough...no matter what your order is, the British government and the army will still Even the Royal Navy will support you unconditionally!"

Emperor William looked at Sir Hardy again, and Sir Hardy hurriedly stood at attention: "Your Majesty, the Royal Navy is waiting for your order!"

"Very good!" Emperor William felt that he was still in power, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "Then order Marquis Gough to send troops!

He must fight the Ming army according to the original plan... This is my order! "

(End of this chapter)