Chapter 1143: Landing craft

"Fire!"
Looking at the red shirts waiting in Cape Town, Liu Chen roared and issued orders.
"Boom boom boom..."
Forty-two warships opened fire at the same time, and in an instant, the warships lined up on the sea waved waves in the sea.
Smoke and huge flames emerged from the muzzle, and along with the sound of shells breaking through the air, clusters of flowers of flame rose up on the southernmost coast of Africa.
"It's a place that is easy to attack and difficult to defend." Liu Chen raised his brows lightly, as he thought about it the last time he passed by Cape Town.
The mountain range known as Table Mountain is clearly visible right in front of the fleet.
This is also the most significant symbol of Cape Town. This mountain range stretching for more than ten kilometers is called the dining table of God by Europeans, and it looks like a smooth table from a distance.
Under the mountains is Cape Town, facing the sea, and all the buildings on the colony seem to be crowded on the beach.
For such a place, it is difficult to break through to the north, but only a powerful navy in the south can guarantee that it will not be attacked from the sea.
There used to be no rivals in British warships, but now this era has passed.
"Boom boom boom..."
The rounds of artillery shells continued to fly towards Cape Town, seemingly endless. A total of more than 600 artillery pieces on the 42 battleships ploughed the entire Cape Town like arable land.
Thousands of shells were fired in a row, and Liu Chen ordered to stop the shelling this time.
It is not that he wants to waste artillery shells, but as the southernmost British colony in Africa, the location of Cape Town is very important.
It can be said that as long as it controls Cape Town, it controls the African route. Because of this, the British stationed more than 8,000 people in the small 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, as can be seen from the fortresses built with volcanic ash on the coast.
"Login!"
After the shelling, Liu Chen continued to give orders, and the Marines immediately went down to the landing craft that the Empire had just built.
This type of landing craft is not big in size and is a rectangle as a whole, but this type of landing craft is specially prepared for landing, focusing on defense and offense.
Therefore, in addition to the steel shell of the landing craft, there is also 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 vessel powered by an internal combustion engine.
It has been four or five years since the emergence of automobiles in the empire, and the research on various internal combustion engines has become more and more proficient. Certainly, some technologies have also been applied to ship construction.
This diesel-driven landing craft was an attempt by the shipyard. After the technology became mature, this technology was used to build small ships in the Empire.
As for the large battleships of the empire, coal will be abandoned and the power structure of oil-fired boilers and steam turbines will be adopted.
"Buzzing..."
All one hundred and twenty soldiers entered the landing craft. With the reputation of diesel engines, the landing craft went to the beach faster and faster.
Soldiers in the landing craft shrank their bodies behind the steel hull to prevent shooting from the shore. On the elevated shooting platform on the right side of the ship, the machine gunner stared at the shore through the gaps in the protective armor of the machine gun. "vomit……"
Although he had taken the landing craft many times, Lu Han was still a little uncomfortable with the turbulence of the landing craft's high-speed heading. Not long after he got on the boat, he vomited on his stomach.
The soldiers in the landing craft were wiping their rifles. He burst into laughter when he saw it. One soldier said, "Lv Han, let the company commander prepare a boat for you next time. You can't sit on an advanced boat like a landing craft. "
"Then he can go far, and when he gets ashore, we will all have dinner after the war." Someone started joking again.
There was a burst of laughter in the landing craft.
Lu Han vomited for a while and felt a lot more comfortable. He cursed: "Fat your mother, I just land by boat and kill more enemies than you."
Just after he finished speaking, suddenly a clear sound of a metal strike sounded, and the soldiers on the ship suddenly put away their smiles.
Lu Han also squatted down, "These British guys have become rats, and now they are drilling holes in the ground. Such fierce artillery fire did not kill them all."
"Nonsense, the artillery is all solved, what do we need to do? Get ready to work." The company commander on the landing craft reminded: "Check the equipment and ammunition, prepare for battle."
The landing craft continued to gallop in the sea, getting closer and closer to the coast, but more bullets hit the hull.
The machine gun made a sound of "Da Da Da...", and the bullet flew like a string of beads to the stubbornly resisting British soldiers on the shore.
On the beach.
The Governor of Cape Town, Chapman, poked his head out of the trench with a sullen head. He was covered in dust and blood, panicking.
The ditch was full of the corpses of British soldiers. Many of the corpses were incomplete. The wailing of the soldiers continued to permeate the strong smell of blood.
Staggering and stepping on a bench, Chapman poked his head out and looked towards the sea, and saw nearly a hundred small boats galloping on the sea like a horse galloping on the grassland.
Hundreds of meters of sea facing these weirdness is just a moment.
The surviving British soldiers were shooting at these ships, but from the density of the gunshots, he could hear how heavy the shelling was.
"Don't back down, fight until the last person!" Chapman yelled deeply. This was the queen's request for the army after the Indian War.
All retreats will be killed regardless of whether they are soldiers or officers.
It is under this high pressure, even if they live in fear, they still have to fight to the end, but at this time his roar seems too pale on the battlefield.
"Da da da……"
Intensive shots swept across ~EbookFREE.me~ Chapman's body seemed to freeze, and then blood came out of his chest, his eyes gradually lost color, and he fell slowly.
In his last sight, the enemy ship stopped on the shallows, the head of the hull opened, and the Imperial soldiers filed out from the ship. "Hurry up!"
The moment the landing craft stopped, Lu Han and other soldiers were driven off the ship, and the machine gun group and mortar group quickly built a fire position under the protection of the skirmishers.
The intensive firepower suppressed the British soldiers in the trenches, and the soldiers rushed into the trenches under the cover of machine guns.
Thousands of soldiers landed, and the British army, which had been hit hard by artillery fire, was quickly annihilated after weak resistance.
Soon, the dragon flag of the Empire of Cape Town began to fly.
On the battleship, Liu Chen showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, and the battle went smoothly, but he understood that a large part of this factor was determined by the position of Cape Town.
Because this place is really insecure, but at the same time the growing military strength of the empire is also very important. 8)