The port of Naha in the Ryukyus faces west, and the once busy trade routes are long gone, and the empty sea has become a place for the French fleet to show off its might.

When the French fleet passed through the Miyako Strait, it adopted a swallow-wing formation from south to north, in order to drive away and destroy the merchant ships and fishing ships that affected the battle on the sea.

However, when the fleet officially entered the stage of firing at the port, the formation had already become a flat circle, and the eight battleships formed a closed circle connected from end to end on the sea, and the battleships had two chances to shoot each time, and the port and starboard sides alternately fired in dense volleys, which was a unique attack method in the era of sail battleships, which made the defenders of Naha miserable.

"Starboard salvo...... Left full rudder...... Okay, I'm going to give you credit, show your professionalism, and open the eyes of these barbarians..."

When a fort on the Seven Stars Mountain outside Shuri Castle finally collapsed, Molière jumped on the deck with excitement, pointing at the port of Naha and yelling.

"Barbarians of East Asia, don't think that because you know some of the latest Western technology, you think you are invincible...... Today I want to teach you a good lesson, the war is fought to the end by people, and by the soldiers' suzhì......"

"Is it great to use reinforced concrete? No matter how heavy the shell of a turtle is, it will be broken one day...... Don't forget that we also have it in France, and will you inferior people use such advanced weapons?"

"Warriors of France, elite fighters of the navy, do not skimp on ammunition, fire, fire, fire..."

The Glory had just finished drawing an arc on the sea, and now the loaded port guns were ready to fire, and when Molière's roar rang out, countless orders to fire rang out from the firing deck.

Boom Boom Boom ...... A flash of fire suddenly appeared on the hull of the Glory, and in the thick white smoke, black shadows went straight to the port battery, but this salvo was not good, the original target was the battery on Qixing Mountain, but in the end, most of the shells smashed into a warehouse area in the port.

In the rumbling cannons, Captain Bruce is not as crazy as Molière, as an envoy from Paris, he can freely show off his feelings, even if he is really a sinister pervert, there is nothing anyone can do about him.

But he must remain calm in the war, because he is the head of this fleet, a first-class military commander. The battle was won, and Molière had to take the greatest credit, but once he lost, Bruce didn't even have to think about it, thinking on his heels that he knew he would be a scapegoat.

It was under this pressure that Molière commanded more and more carefully, and the arms of the flag bearers on the Glory were about to break during this time, and Bruce's orders did not stop at all.

"Inform the Lyra, there is a problem with his position, why is he so prominent in the ring array? Waiting for the enemy to bomb it......?

"What is the Roma doing? Why is the firepower of this salvo so weak? Immediately troubleshoot the artillery......

"Waste...... The sail crews on the Poseidon should all be shot, does it take so long to change the side sails? You've slowed down......"

Bruce's eyes were red now, and the fire with the harbor batteries had been going on for an hour and a half, during which time the ships had suffered damage of varying degrees, especially the sails, which had been riddled with holes under the enemy's heavy blows.

Now the speed of the entire fleet has been reduced by 30%, some of the warships have reached the point where it is impossible to change the sails, and only two of the ten batteries guarding Naha Port have been destroyed so far, and the cannon closest to Shuri Castle has been baptized by five salvos, but it still stubbornly continues to resist.

"General Bruce, do you have any questions?Why do I hear a hint of trepidation and uneasiness in your tone??, do you have doubts about our victory?" asked Molière suddenly and coldly.

Bruce didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said with a smile, "Your Excellency, of course France is bound to win, but I hope that on the road to victory, we can reduce some casualties......"

"Your Excellency, do you see if we are withdrawing for a while...... Some sails need to be replaced, and many guns are overheated, so they need to be checked in case they blow up......"

"No, no, no, we have to maintain the density of fire, we have to put the most pressure on the enemy, because only then can we drag the enemy as many enemy troops as possible in the harbor......" Molière vetoed Bruce's request on the spot.

"General, please remember that our punitive journey is not simply a matter of firing a few rounds of artillery, destroying a little wealth will be considered a complete task, our goal is to completely destroy Xiao Lotian's foundation in the Ryukyus...... And this qiē has to be put into our Marines, we have to step on it......"

"We will take Shuri Castle, we will kill all those who resist, and we will seize the Ryukyus and go to Shotai, the poor young king, who must give me a letter of submission to France..."

Molière suddenly became excited at this time: "I didn't know what the purpose of our visit to East Asia was, but when I arrived here and saw Ryukyu with my own eyes, I suddenly found that our France was going to have another colony..."

"The location of this chain of islands is really good, if it is transformed into a military base belonging to us, we can completely use this place to control Japan, Korea and even the Qing Dynasty...... And the treasure island we saw before we came, Taiwan, such a large island is completely undeveloped, isn't this a gift from God to His Majesty the Emperor?"

Molière grabbed General Bruce's shoulders and said excitedly, "For the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, for the interests of France, even if we all die here, what is there to fear... Credit, this is a great credit, General Bruce, as long as you have such credit, the Imperial Military Department of Paris will be your paradise for retirement in the future..."

Bruce responded with excitement on his face, "Yes, Your Excellency, for the sake of the emperor, for the sake of the empire, I will not hesitate to die..."

Although he said this, he pondered in his heart, "Is it really so easy? Don't talk about it far away, just rush at the 280-caliber cannon in Shuri Castle, I know that this Xiao Lotian is not an easy person to deal with...... Emperor, Emperor, the more I look at you now, the more wrong you become, and you have shown your loyalty to Napoleon III too many times along the way, thousands of times?"

Bruce speculated so maliciously that he even suspected that this Molière had an improper relationship with His Majesty the Emperor. Oh, my God... There are a lot of things like this in Parisian social circles, and Bruce's speculation is true.

Molière was not a reckless martial artist, he had already formulated a set of plans for darkness, there were two light cruisers in the expeditionary fleet, the Wave Crusher and the Quickwalker, the two cruisers with the smallest tonnage, which were the two missing warships that Xiang Ying said in their mouths, and they were also the protagonists of Molière's sneak attack plan.

In the war of dominating the seas, the battleship, as the ultimate hegemonic weapon with the largest tonnage, the most fierce firepower, and the highest defensive power, is of course the embodiment of a country's strength. But in practical applications, small and medium-sized warships sometimes play an equally large role.

Although the two light cruisers only have a single firing deck and only have a combined number of more than 40 guns, these two battleships also have their advantages, that is, they are flexible, fast, and have a relatively shallow draft, and can sail in some dangerous reef areas or shallow seas.

Now the two warships are moving rapidly north in the Pacific Ocean on the east side of the main island of the Ryukyus, and in the eyes of the sailors, the island is just a black line in the distance, and no one can hear the earth-shaking cannon sound on the harbor at such a distance.

The deck was not only busy with sailors, but also full of marines, two reinforced companies of nearly 300 soldiers, sitting quietly on the deck to accumulate their bodies, and they would be greeted by a beach-rushing landing.

This is a group of French Army in red uniforms, each of them has more than ten years of military service, they are the lobster soldiers laughed at by later generations of military fans, they are also the European power army that was poured into the soul of the army by Napoleon himself.

From the beginning of the Napoleonic era to the Second World War, although France experienced many chaos and military defeats in the middle, the prestige of the French Army has always been very high, and its strong combat effectiveness is recognized by the world.

The willingness is actually very simple, that is, the victory won by Napoleon I was too brilliant, the expedition to Egypt, the destruction of the anti-French alliance, the conquest of Germany, and the expedition to Tsarist Russia, if it were not for the fact that the Russian winter was too cold, I am afraid that even the polar bear would not be able to withstand Napoleon's footsteps.

It was from that time that the French Army, wearing red uniforms, became one of the most powerful armies in the world at that time, and even the British Empire did not dare to steal the limelight of the French Army.

Today, don't look at Molière who only brought more than 1,000 marines, but these elite veterans who originally came from the army sequence, their combat effectiveness is simply not what these backward countries in East Asia can imagine.

Look at their mental outlook... The veterans of the two companies on the deck did not feel the slightest nervousness, some were calmly wiping their weapons, and some were bowing their heads and closing their eyes, as if the coming battle was a leisurely walk for them.

The two battleships pierced the waves, the full sails of the wind held the wind, and two long white waves were drawn on the blue sea of the Pacific Ocean, and when the battleship sailed to the North Mountain area, the two captains shouted almost at the same time.

"Left full rudder...... The gunners are ready to shoot...... Marines ready for landing ......"

The warship drew a large arc of white waves on the surface of the sea, and went straight to the sea outside Kunigami Village, the northernmost point of the main island of the Ryukyus and the weakest area of the Ryukyu Kingdom's defenses.

In Molière's plan, the two cruisers were all replaced with accurate and fast breech-loading rifled guns, and forty of the most advanced guns were enough to provide fire support to the marines, and those two companies did not need to go deep alone, as long as they firmly occupied the village of Guotou and established a solid landing position for the follow-up army.

Molière was very confident that the Ryukyu Kingdom was only a small island country after all, with no strategic depth inside and no sea reinforcements outside, as long as his warships blocked all the island's outlets and destroyed all the ships, then the Ryukyu island would become a dead fish.

At that time, the French army, with the support of battleship artillery, can slowly control the island, anyway, Molière does not rush for time, Napoleon III has not set a deadline, and Xiao Lotian in Prussia wants to rush back to rescue, and it will take three months to travel by sea alone.

When Xiao Lotian returns to the Ryukyus, I am afraid that by then King Shangtai will already be loyal to France.

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