The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 273

Originally, these impoverished working-class people were not of one mind with the London City Government. They were just lowly pariahs who lived to survive. gun, and wrapped a cheap red cloth around his arm, and became an honorable soldier in the London Guards.

The reason why London's nobles and bourgeoisie are willing to pay is entirely because the sudden appearance of the enemy army has been confirmed to be Yuri's summoned army.

Yuri's summoning army is unreasonable. At this time, Zhang Xun in Ireland and Zhang Zuolin in Scotland have no news of cooperation.

Therefore, the London dignitaries who were worried that their wealth and lives would be taken away by Yuri's summoned legion naturally had to start exerting their efforts.

In this era, there is no international consortium. If you want to leave a country to develop in another country, you must first ask the local bourgeoisie of the other country whether they agree.

No matter how rich you are, if you don't have the original official connections, it's really not difficult to kill you with the degree of black-bellied collusion between officials and businessmen in this era.

The cake of society is so big, wouldn't you earn less if you went to some local snakes?
With the foundation of the first industrial revolution, the market has become one of the interests that the bourgeoisie in various countries are frantically competing for.

As for the bourgeoisie that dominates the city of London, which one does not have an official protective umbrella?

At least half of the reason why their industry has grown so big is because of the support from the British government!

Without the support of the British government, they would be a rich man at best.

The most important thing is that everyone knows that Yuri's summoned army kills people without blinking an eye and does not compromise at all.

If the summoned army facing Yuri is defeated, even the rich man will not be able to do it...

With the support of all classes of society, the government of London, the heart of the British Empire, exploded with terrible force.

Due to the continuous obstruction of the British army outside London, Yuan Shikai's progress was far slower than that of Zhang Xun and Zhang Zuolin, even though Yuan Shikai's army was better equipped and had more advanced weapons.

The troops are even equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns and two 75mm rapid-fire cannons!
But the British army that Yuan Shikai encountered was really too tenacious, and under the encouragement of defending the capital, they broke out all their combat power.

The efforts of these British elites were not in vain. Their sacrifices quickly expanded the number of London Guards to over [-], and most of the citizens of the London Guards learned how to shoot and reload.

Finally, after Yuan Shikai invaded the city of London, under the cover of complex streets and a large number of buildings, he encountered seemingly endless London guards armed with money and patriotism!
Of course, there is no lack of regular British troops among them.

The difficult battle to defend London officially started, and soon rose to the ranks of the world's worst urban street battles, which were ten times more brutal than the Paris street battles when the British army attacked the revolutionary government in Paris!
The reason is simple. Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army used a large number of machine guns and advanced artillery in urban street battles.

In just three days since the Battle of London started, one-third of the buildings in the city of London have been destroyed by various methods. It is impossible to count the casualties, but one-third of the London Guards, whose number has already exceeded [-], have been wiped out. two……

There were only a few thousand remnants of the regular British army surrounding London to resist...

However, even so, Queen Victoria still insisted on staying in London, with no intention of retreating. A steady stream of British troops and temporary armed recruits poured in from the other side of the city, filling the defenders of London with a steady stream of vitality.

Of course, this kind of behavior only caused more blood to be shed by Londoners. In the face of advanced machine guns and cannons, the numerical advantage became insignificant even in street fighting.

Just when the victory was decided, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang army suddenly fell into extreme embarrassment.

The most powerful, the two 75mm rapid-fire guns that became the main force in the siege battle ran out of shells!
Then, in the next few days of siege, when the Beiyang army smashed [-]% of the city of London into ruins, the breech-loading guns of various calibers they owned fell into paralysis one by one, and became useless!

After a week of defending London, even the ammunition for the Maxim heavy machine gun ran out!
The offensive intensity of the Beiyang army, which had lost almost all its heavy weapons, suddenly dropped, giving Queen Victoria a precious breathing space.

This is actually the result of a comprehensive analysis by the British government.

No matter how strong Yuri's summoned army is, it still has a fatal flaw—zero logistics!
Logistics such as eating, drinking, and lazing are not difficult for Yuri's summoned army. They can just get food on the spot, and there will be no shortage of eating and drinking for the officers and soldiers of the trial army in places with people.

But ammunition resupply was out of the question, especially after the British government learned that this time Yuri's summoned legion was using weapons they had never seen before.

Of course, the British government and Queen Victoria bet right!
Although the British government paid a terrible price in the Battle of London, it finally waited until the moment when the enemy's ammunition ran out.

After Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army only had advanced rifles left in their hands, the battle had already decided the outcome.

However, Yuan Shikai was very unwilling to see the victory so close at hand, and the ruthlessness that belonged to the trial army also made him choose to continue fighting.

Even without heavy weapons, Beiyang officers and soldiers can still fight with rifles in their hands, not to mention the officers and soldiers of the trial regiment are all brave and fearless. Yuan Shikai firmly believes that victory will eventually belong to him.

It's a pity that Yuan Shikai underestimated the organizational capabilities of the British government, and at the same time ignored the support of the British army in the surrounding areas.

The Battle of London lasted for a whole month. Since the loss of heavy weapons, the Beiyang Army has never achieved a decent record in street fighting, because the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army always have to face enemies five or six times as many as themselves or even more. military!

Moreover, this place is located in the industrial heart of the British Empire, and its reserves of weapons and ammunition and its productivity are astonishingly high.

The one-month defense of London completely turned the Beiyang warlords into the Minie Rifle Corps. In the end, even the ammunition captured by the Minie Rifles was in short supply, so they could only use the flintlock guns everywhere...

After the weapons are reduced to the same level, the only competition between the two sides is morale and numbers.

The lack of morale was made up for by the British government with military force, and Queen Victoria won the unanimous support of the British upper and lower classes because she never fled London, and her personal prestige reached the peak of the British royal family in all dynasties!

Moreover, the tragic casualties in the defense of London also gave Britain an elite team that crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood!

(End of this chapter)