After the British machine guns on the position were exposed, they soon ushered in a fierce bombardment by the artillery of the Huaxing Army.The harm of these machine guns is more serious than that of artillery, and when the infantry is attacking, it is very easy to cause the cross-design of the machine guns, forming an insurmountable fire network.The Maxim machine gun, known as a meat grinder during World War I, was hidden in the trenches and did not even need to be aimed directly at the enemy.Instead, it calculates the impact point of the enemy's impact and throws it into the sky.The bullets hit with a bang, and then quickly landed under the action of inertia, striking the enemy forces in the entire area.Even if the enemy is hiding in the trenches, bullets will fall from the sky, like a machine gun sweeping through the sky, quickly beating the enemy through the blood.The heavy machine guns used by the Huaxing Army evolved from the Maxim machine guns, and the machine guns used in Europe were also modeled after the machine guns of the Huaxing Army.Therefore, before the infantry of the Huaxing Army attacked, they usually used artillery to concentrate their firepower, and then the infantry launched an attack with the cooperation of ironclad chariots.The main objective of the ironclad chariot on the battlefield is also against the machine-gun position, and the infantry is usually only responsible for striking at the infantry that is about to collapse.After a burst of artillery fire, the positions outside Birmingham were basically defenseless.Six hundred ironclad chariots quickly moved forward, and a huge roar enveloped the entire position.The torrent of steel rolled in, crushing everything in front of it without resistance.After only two hours of fighting, the British positions began to crumble.Before dark, the Huaxing army quickly cleared the battlefield outside the city and formed a siege of Birmingham.The British army, whether it was a regular army or a militia, was killed, wounded, and the remnants fled into the city.Since the purpose of this battle was to deter the resistance forces in the north and south, it issued a notice to the city on the same day, asking them to lay down their arms immediately and stop resisting, otherwise it would be a devastating blow to Birmingham.The city is not an ancient city, but there is a small village that has developed on the coal mines, so there is nothing to loot, even if it is destroyed, there is nothing to feel sorry for.As soon as the announcement was issued, the resistance forces in the city panicked.However, the main battle faction still accounts for the majority, because most of the buildings in the city are high-rise, which is conducive to fighting street battles in the city.And everyone has a gun, and they are not afraid of the Huaxing army entering the city.The people here are fierce, and surrender is a shame for them.Therefore, after Huaxingjun made an announcement, basically no one responded.Yang Jincong didn't bother to waste time with them, and directly ordered the artillery unit to carpet bomb the city.Thousands of howitzers have not been used on a large scale since the beginning of the offensive.As soon as the above order was given, all the artillery immediately adjusted their orientation and aimed at the high-rise buildings in the city, and soon all opened fire after the commander gave the order.The howitzers assembled by the Huaxing Army are currently the most advanced artillery in the world, and the shells weigh 30 kilograms, which is powerful enough to blow up a bungalow.After the bombardment of thousands of artillery pieces began, the entire outside of Birmingham was like a catastrophe, and bursts of thunder broke through the air.Huge flames shot into the sky, staining the horizon red.Shells fell in batches in the city, and as soon as they landed, the ground shook and the mountains exploded.Houses soon collapsed under the roar of bombs, as if the end of the world had fallen, and the smoke and dust from the explosion completely obscured the sky.Birmingham was built on a coal pile, and after hundreds of years of digging for coal, the ground has long been empty.The successive explosions caused a chain reaction, and the entire city went from small upheaval to big upheaval, and soon fell into a constant collapse.The Huaxing army shelled the city for three days, during which the British broke through several times, but they were all wiped out by the Huaxing army.Hundreds of thousands of shells eventually landed in the city, and the whole city of Birmingham was like a dumpling, and after a violent collapse, the two sides completely closed to the middle, enveloping the city underground.After the infantry of the Huaxing Army rushed in with the tanks, the city was in ruins, and the resistance was quickly wiped out.There were still 700,000 inhabitants in the city, but in addition to 200,000 or 300,000 killed on the battlefield, the remaining citizens were killed and wounded in this collapse, and only a few survived, and there was no effective resistance at all.The battle of Birmingham soon shocked the northern cities of England.Originally, the southern cities surrendered one after another, and the northern cities despised one after another.As a result, the first leg of the Huaxing army's march northward was to wipe out a large industrial city in Britain, which terrified all those who resisted.Those who are familiar with history know that this is exactly how the Mongols played.Before the war began, a notice was issued to either surrender or slaughter the city.With new weapons, slaughtering cities has become much easier.The iron cavalry of the Huaxing Army was close at hand, and before the cities made up their minds to resist, the high-level and citizens did not know how much psychological struggle they had done.Previously, they had not been able to save the face of the British Empire, but now they have discovered that the glorious era of the British Empire has long passed, and now it is no longer the opponent of New China.After the war, the newly appointed Victoria III issued a statement to the northern cities, hoping that the interests of Britain would be put first, so that Britain could restore peace as soon as possible and stop making unnecessary resistance.Britain was plunged into an unprecedented ideological turmoil, and the main war factions and peacemakers everywhere quarreled.Some advocated obeying the king's orders and giving up resistance.Some advocated taking up arms and resolutely rebelling against this pseudo-king, and only Edward VII was their king.After the Huaxing army took Birmingham, because of the consumption of a large amount of weapons and ammunition, it was temporarily stationed here, waiting for logistical supplies.But the other front is still on the offensive.That was the ideological and cultural front, and Salisbury's capitulation government had seized on Edward VII's weakness and declassified a lot of peachy news about his former eating, drinking, and merrymaking.The news soon spread throughout the country through the newspapers, and Edward VII's reputation in England was already bad.As soon as the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar.I didn't expect that their high-ranking king turned out to be an out-and-out and shameless prostitute.And because of her feminity, she was easily knighted, and she was completely an out-and-out faint king.Prime Minister Salisbury has not only not been depressed, but has become more energetic these days, and has never been as happy as he is now.Edward VII has done too many immoral things, and he has the heart to remind that Edward VII has turned a deaf ear every time, making the government miserable.But now the weight is completely controlled by the government, although it is only a puppet government, but there is no constraint of imperial power, the prime minister's power is maximized, and he can do whatever he wants.He chose to turn against Edward VII, and he could only spare no effort to bring him down, otherwise as soon as Huaxingjun left, he would be the first to die.This idea is not just him, but a puppet regime organized by him.Since these people chose to surrender, they are naturally afraid of being liquidated in the future, so they can only go all the way to the dark and maintain their vested interests
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