Winston was still in bed when he was awakened by a huge shock. He drank a lot last night and slept very late.

Just when he was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt that the world was shaking.

"An earthquake?" Winston jumped up from the bed and shouted in horror.

"Sir!" The housekeeper also ran in in panic. Seeing Winston's appearance, he quickly picked up his coat and put it on for Winston.

"What's going on?" Winston asked while dressing and looking at the butler.

"I don't know sir, but it doesn't seem like there was an earthquake." The butler helped Winston get dressed while looking outside worriedly.

"Boom...!" There was another loud explosion.

Winston and the housekeeper were unsteady and fell on the bed together. The scene was very unsightly!

The butler jumped up like a bullet, and it was impossible to tell that he was already in his fifties.

"What's going on!" Winston no longer cared about getting dressed and hurried to the window to watch.

I saw huge plumes of black smoke rising into the sky from the city, and fires were already burning in many places.

This is not an earthquake, it is definitely not an earthquake.

Winston's heart skipped a beat, because he watched helplessly as a cannonball landed only five or six kilometers away from him.

As people screamed, a large number of buildings were blown into the sky. You could even see people and smoke flying into the air together, and then falling down with claws and teeth.

Winston was so frightened that he murmured: "It's over, it's all over."

He already knew that the Ming army had launched an attack.

God knows where the Ming army came from. Could it be that they have passed through Gibraltar?

Impossible! The Commander of Gibraltar once patted his chest and promised that the Ming Navy would have to clear mines for half a year.

What's more, Gibraltar has not yet been lost.

Large-caliber artillery still blocked the narrow strait. It was impossible for the Ming army to clear mines in the narrow strait under artillery fire.

There is only one conclusion. The Ming army crossed the Cape of Good Hope and bypassed the entire African continent.

I didn't expect that the Ming army would be so ruthless. They really came around from the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa!

So, the plane that attacked the British Royal Navy fleet was not a Portuguese plane, but one that took off from a navy aircraft carrier.

Now, this fleet entered the Thames River and reached the doorstep of the British.

Fight back?

As Lord of the Admiralty, Winston knew clearly that this was impossible.

The army's artillery fire cannot deal with the navy at sea.

As for naval artillery... there are only a few small ships left in the British Empire's navy.

Not to mention going out to fight, these small boats would be crushed into the bottom of the sea even if they were hit by Ming warships.

The Ming warships opened fire continuously, and the simple position of the British troops on the shore was quickly covered by artillery fire.

Especially the powerful 480mm howitzer. When a shell hits it, the crater is more than ten meters in diameter and can reach seven or eight meters deep.

Anyone who was twenty meters away from the explosion point had no chance of survival.

As for the people twenty meters away, they were shocked to death. The glass a hundred meters away was shattered into pieces in an instant.

No one knows how to dodge these shells because they don't know where the next one will hit.

The Ming army obviously did not have a map of the city of London, and their artillery shells were completely random.

Some shells hit the train station directly, paralyzing the train station for an instant.

Some shells hit the factory area. Although they did not cause many casualties, they paralyzed the factory.

Some shells fell directly into residential areas, and these shells were particularly deadly.

A falling artillery shell can even cause more than a hundred casualties.

Especially if the shell falls into the fleeing people, it would be a disaster.

There will be a bloody rain in the sky, and countless amounts of blood and human body parts and broken arms will fall from the sky.

As long as there is a living person, everyone is stained with blood.

It can't be described as shocking, it can only be described as horrific.

At the beginning, it was just battleships attacking with 480mm shells.

Then, the cruiser bombarded it with 370mm shells.

Finally, the destroyer sailed directly into the Thames River, and the 120mm howitzers on it kept firing.

Send artillery shells accurately to every place that looks like a military facility or factory.

The Ming Dynasty has not yet dispatched fighter planes from the aircraft carrier, and the British have no ability to fight back.

Winston watched all this in pain. As Prime Minister, he didn't know what to do.

Since the world entered the age of artillery, London has not been bombarded on this scale.

No country's warships have ever been able to sail to the Thames Estuary and bombard London.

There is only one place in London that has not been bombarded, and that is the Port of London.

Obviously, this was prepared for the Ming fleet to dock in the future.

It also shows that the Ming Navy looked down upon the remaining broken ships of the Royal Navy.

Now let alone the British Royal Navy, even if all the warships in Europe were gathered together, they would not be a match for the Atlantic Squadron of the Ming Empire!

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The bombardment lasted for two hours before the destroyers slowly withdrew from the Thames Estuary.

They did not continue their attempt to attack England. Instead, after a short supply trip at sea, they headed north along the British Isles and began a journey around England.

Winston watched helplessly as the Ming fleet withdrew. He was so angry that his teeth bled, but there was nothing he could do.

There is no other choice but to convene an emergency meeting to deal with the immediate emergency situation.

When Winston entered the conference hall, it was full of people.

Winston coughed lightly and sat in the middle seat.

"Gentlemen, we have been shamelessly attacked by the Ming Empire. Just this morning, the city of London suffered a huge blow.

Our people suffered heavy casualties and our factories suffered heavy losses.

Everyone, we have to discuss what to do here."

Winston looked at everyone present with a solemn expression!

No one spoke, everyone was looking at Winston. At this time, no one wanted to be the one who stood out.

Winston didn't speak, and neither did anyone else. The atmosphere in the venue was extremely awkward.

Lord Admiral Neville moved his lips, but ultimately did not say anything.

He had learned a lesson yesterday. The incident with General Haig made him aware of the power of these conservative forces.

If he dares to speak out at the meeting today, what awaits him will surely be endless pursuit by conservative forces.

Let alone him, there is no doubt whether the lives of his family can be saved.
Chapter completed!