The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 279 The Second Battle of London

High-spirited, Duan Qirui, who defeated more than a dozen British troops in England one after another, launched the Battle of London in the middle of the 15th year of the Era of Sauron.

Although the dozen or so British troops were temporary recruits formed after the public mobilization order was issued, the number of troops is there, and the local military forces in England have been almost wiped out, so Duan Qirui is already in England at this time. It's a bit of an orthodox lord.

Half a year later, London was once again ravaged by the Beiyang warlords. Although Duan Qirui, who attacked this time, did not have as many artillery pieces as Yuan Shikai's last time, he also had no machine guns. The weapons were degraded to the point where they were made in Hanyang.

But the pressure on the London government far exceeds that of Yuan Shikai last time.

This is not only because Duan Qirui brought a full [-] troops, but more importantly, the way to defeat Yuan Shikai can no longer be used by Duan Qirui.

Duan Qirui is completely different from Yuan Shikai. Duan Qirui has a stable rear. The dozens of British troops before have consumed the potential military strength of the British government. Qirui launched a sneak attack from the rear.

This is also the reason why Duan Qirui was not in a hurry before, and beat up all the British troops one by one.

In this way, it is impossible for the British government to expect Duan Qirui to retreat due to lack of ammunition. It can only go head-to-head with the Beiyang government led by Duan Qirui until one party fails.

To this end, the city of London, which has not yet been rebuilt, has been transformed into a huge defensive position.

The broken buildings became natural bunkers, and the ravines and complex terrain formed by the rubble on the ground formed intricate trenches.

Fortunately, the concept of trench warfare has not yet appeared in this era. The trenches are not deep, and are often accompanied by parapets and sandbags.

Machine guns did not become popular, and the breech-loading artillery shells of the Beiyang warlords also ran out, so the tactical significance of trenches was not great, and naturally they were not developed.

To put it bluntly, trench warfare was prevalent in Yuri's previous life, all of which were forced out by the firepower of advanced artillery and machine guns. The artillery with larger and larger calibers forced the infantry to hide in deeper and deeper trenches...

Now that the Beiyang warlords have not brought out so many heavy artillery, the British government will naturally not waste manpower and material resources to build some trenches.

Ordinary trench barricades and parapet sandbags are sufficient.

The Second Battle of London determined the true ownership of England. At this time, the destruction of the war and Duan Qirui's sweep had completely destroyed the foundation of the British government's rule in England.

Duan Qirui wiped out almost all the local dignitaries and military leaders who were loyal to the British government. Only local nobles like Yuri who did not respond to the call of the British government managed to retain their strength.

However, Yuri did not respond because he was a fake British earl. If it were a real British nobleman, who would not know that once the British government falls, their good days will come to an end?

Now the British government is headed by Queen Victoria, which naturally represents the interests of the aristocracy. Those British nobles must support the British government instead of Duan Qirui out of reason and reason!

The more powerful the British local nobles were, the more they had to support the British government, because those British local dignitaries knew that even if they took refuge in Duan Qirui, Duan Qirui's Beiyang government would not allow them to continue to control large areas of land and population.

Therefore, all the prominent British nobles responded to the call of the British government in the previous battles and formed a coalition of nobles, and then were wiped out by Duan Qirui like chopping vegetables and melons...

Only those small nobles with small territories, ambitious and short-sighted ambitions did not respond to the call of the British government and dreamed of continuing to be emperors...

Yuri, the British Earl, is already the highest and only one among the local nobles who have not responded to the British government...

For this reason, the British nobleman that Yuri pretended to be famous, but in a way that will last forever...

Yuri expressed no pressure on this, since it is not his own name that is famous anyway...

Not only was the whole family slaughtered by Yuri, but even the reputation of this noble family impersonated by Yuri was completely destroyed in the end, which is really sad enough.

Of course, even Yuri, a fake British earl, was insignificant in the face of the Second Battle of London.

Even the Second Battle of London stimulated Scotland and Ireland.

Zhang Zuolin and the Scottish Revolutionary Organization in Scotland, as well as Zhang Xun's version of the Qing Empire and the Irish Resistance Organization in Ireland are all aware of it.

After the Second Battle of London, England and Wales will re-emerge under one common master.

Even though these two areas were terribly damaged due to continuous wars, this is after all the industrially developed area of ​​the British Empire itself, with a strong foundation!
Once there is a co-lord, with a little recovery, you can sweep across Scotland and even Ireland.

Even the two outsiders Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xun understood this truth, let alone the natives.

Therefore, before and after the outbreak of the Second Battle of London, several large-scale battles broke out in Scotland and Ireland.

In Scotland, Zhang Zuolin personally led the main force to mop up and suppress the Scottish Revolutionary Organization. In Ireland, cities under the control of Zhang Xunqing were besieged by Irish resistance organizations with the strategy of "surrounding cities from the countryside".

Not surprisingly, Zhang Zuolin gained a decisive advantage, and the Scottish nation retreated steadily. If the Scottish Highlands were not covered with jungles, the revolutionary organization would have been wiped out long ago.

But this time Zhang Zuolin also played a ruthless hand and adopted a very spicy implicated system.

A rebel guerrilla group appears in a mountainous area. If the local people cannot lead the way to the guerrilla lair, all the people will be massacred!

After this move came out, the mountain people in Scotland went to two extremes.

Some became Zhang Zuolin's running dogs under the butcher's knife, while the other part actively joined the Scottish Revolutionary Organization under the butcher's knife.

The two sides have entered the stage of life and death.

On the other hand, in the Irish region, due to the perverse actions of Zhang Xun's troops, the policy of wooing the Irish natives was too rough and inadequate, coupled with a series of anti-human policies such as leaving hair but not hair...

As a result, Zhang Xun fell into a position of betrayal, and the Qing Dynasty retreated steadily under the siege of the Irish rebel organization, losing several big cities!
Zhang Xun had to gather his troops and defend his last home base of Dublin!
Before leaving, Zhang Xun's troops also kidnapped a large number of young and strong people, and commanded the puppet army of the Qing Dynasty to carry out a brutal massacre of the people who did not want to leave!

Dozens of towns and cities with a population of over [-] were turned into ghost towns by Zhang Xun's Qing Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)