War was bloody. Ever since the Vienna Government decided to launch the landing plan ahead of schedule, the fighting across the English Channel had grown ever bloodier.
Overnight, the Continental Alliance seemed to have changed its style of warfare. No longer concerned with troop casualties, it began playing a brutal game of trading pieces.
There was no technical sophistication to it, merely a contest of raw strength. Facing the whole of Europe alone, such a piece-trading game placed immense pressure on the British Empire.
London
"Since the end of July, the enemy has gone mad. They have launched attack after attack against us, and this time London is no longer their main target.
Coastal ports, large and small, have all suffered savage air raids. Even fishing-village docks have not been spared.
It is as though bombs cost them nothing. In the brief span of the past month, the enemy has dropped more than fifty thousand tons of bombs on England.
Judging purely by the direct results of the bombing, I seriously doubt their achievements were even enough to cover the fuel costs of their sorties.
Affected by the enemy bombing, the defenders we deployed along the coast have also suffered grievous losses. The losses in coastal artillery alone exceed three hundred guns."
War Minister Marcus spoke with a deathly pale face.
No matter how high the price the enemy had paid, England had suffered terribly. Thanks to geography, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales had escaped disaster.
More than fifty thousand tons of bombs had fallen on England alone. Including the earlier bombardments, England had already been baptized by over a hundred thousand tons of bombs.
From the ports along the English Channel to those on the Dover Strait, not one remained intact. They had either been directly destroyed by artillery fire