As a result, as soon as the words came out, Su Yu immediately choked back, "Pull it down, you said that these were built in the Victorian era in the eighteenth century three hundred years later, and now, you can also look at a few classical-style churches." ”

Yang Pingfan was completely speechless, the tour of London ended in a hurry, and the group fled out of the city of London in embarrassment, the air was really terrifying, even if the outline of the city could no longer be seen, the group even felt that there was still a lingering stench between their noses, and decided to go to the sea to breathe.

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On the other side, when the news came out that Henry IV had accepted the Ming fleet, the European continent was furious and decided to organize a fleet, intending to attack the Ming fleet from behind.

The fleet set off from the Baltic Sea home port, taking advantage of the fog to approach the Daming fleet, and just happened to meet Yang Pingfan and his party who came out to breathe.

Yang Pingfan immediately made a decision, and immediately took everyone to slip away, returned to the camp and told Zheng He.

The battle is definitely going to be fought, but the selection of the commander is a bit of a problem, the generals of the fleet are all land generals, and several armed conflicts in the Western Ocean of the fleet are also resolved on the shore.

At the critical moment, Su Yubao promoted Chen Zuyi as the commander of the army, and everyone was shocked. But surprisingly, there were not many objections, after all, since the surrender of the old port in the first battle, Chen Zuyi's performance along the way is obvious to all, taking the scout ship through life and death, exploring the route for the fleet, Zheng He groaned a little, and boldly handed over the command of the Ming fleet to him.

A naval battle took place in the North Sea.

The fleet organized by the Europeans had more than twenty large Galen ships with bow superstructures lowered, moved into the hull, and even placed in the first hanger, which should have been invented more than a hundred years later, but appeared in advance because of the indiscriminate incursions of Yang and Su, and its structure was very suitable for naval artillery warfare.

In addition, there were forty armed merchant ships, and more than one hundred and fifty other ships, all equipped with short-range short-barrel cannons.

At dawn, the fleets of the two sides faced off for the first time in the English Channel.

Although the ships of the Ming army were twice as large as those of the other side, after deducting the ships such as troop carriers, horse ships and cargo ships, the actual number of warships that could fight was less than that of the European Combined Fleet, so although there was a technical advantage, the number was greatly insufficient, so Chen Zuyi did not dare to choose to go head-to-head, but constantly looked for opportunities in the periphery.

Because of the information provided by Yang Pingfan, the Ming fleet took the lead in occupying the upper hand, taking advantage of the long range of the Ming artillery, and constantly harassed the European Combined Fleet, while the European Combined Fleet formed a solid half-moon formation, and also continued to approach the counterattack, intending to outflank the Ming fleet, and the two sides fell into a chase battle, and neither side caused big losses to the other party on the first day.

In the evening, the combined European fleet was the first to break away from the battlefield, escape through the fog, and anchor in the port of Calais.

Yang Pingfan, who was flying in the sky and following him, told Chen Zuyi the news, and that night, the Ming fleet used the same fire attack tactics that appeared countless times in Chinese history, using suicidal fireship attacks.

With the help of the north wind, the port quickly turned into a sea of fire, and the combined European fleet anchored at the Calais anchorage was caught off guard, some were burned, some fled in a hurry, and the flagship "Saint-Martin" even escaped by cutting the anchor line directly.

The next day, in the sea near Gravoline, Chen Zuyi commanded the fleet to seize the T-position and launch a close-range attack, because of last night's sneak attack, the European Combined Fleet did not complete the supply on the way to escape, and the artillery shells in the stock were not even enough for three bases.

The sturdy half-moon line-up of the Combined European Fleet, which had caught fire in the fire, had crumbled, but they still did not give up, the sails were raised to the maximum, and the oarsmen paddled desperately, trying to rush into the Ming fleet for a broadside battle.

Chen Zuyi commanded the fleet to control the distance, and only used artillery to greet him, and white smoke rose out of the fleet in the whistling sound, and the fire dragon that only appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty was poured out by the two traversers.

The fire dragon out of the water, as the name suggests, uses five feet of thatched bamboo, goes to the knots, and scrapes it thin with an iron knife, and a wooden dragon head and dragon tail are installed on the front and back.

Under the dragon's head, on both sides of the dragon's tail, a half-kilogram powder keg is installed on each side, which gathers the four rocket fuses together and connects them with the rocket fuzes in the belly of the fire dragon.

In water warfare, in the face of the enemy ship, three or four feet away from the water, ignite the four powder cartridges installed on the dragon's body, this is the first stage of the rocket, it can push the fire dragon to fly two or three miles away, and when the first stage of the rocket is burned, it will automatically ignite the rocket in the dragon's belly, which is the second stage of the rocket, at this time, several rockets are shot from the dragon's mouth, directly to the target, and burn the enemy ship.

All kinds of firearms with poor technology made the United Fleet cry wolf, and it was severely damaged before even touching the opponent.

The lower-level sailors of the Combined Fleet were all temporarily recruited, and their level of education was low, and when they saw this scene, they thought they were fighting against the devil, and their morale was shaken, and they saw that a mutiny was about to occur, and the commander of the Combined Fleet had to order a retreat.

The opponents fled, and Chen Zuyi followed closely behind, forcing them not to return to their home port in the Baltic Sea, and had to retreat to Spain by detouring to the north and west of the British Isles.

In the Atlantic, the Combined Fleet was hungry, thirsty, and stormy, forty ships sank at sea, and at least twenty ships ran aground on the rocky shores of Scotland and Ireland, and the fleet was almost completely wiped out.

As a result of the complete defeat in the naval battle, the Europeans suffered a heavy blow mentally and materially, but they still did not give up, pinning their hopes of victory on the land battle.

In November of the ninth year of Yongle, under the leadership of the English advance officer, the Ming army landed in Normandy, and the European coalition forces knew the landing location first, and laid an ambush behind the coastline.

But on the side of the Ming army, there is a bug-like existence of Yang Pingfan, who acts as an aerial scout and sees the movements of the European coalition forces clearly.

The flagship commanded by Zheng He rushed directly to the shore and bombarded it from a long distance with artillery, the front line of the coalition army was cut off by the waist, Wang Jinghong commanded the cavalry, and with just one charge, the amputated troops of the coalition army were crushed, and the troops behind the line of fire fled in a hurry, like pigs that ran away, and could not be caught.

Considering the expedition of the fleet, it is necessary to fight quickly to avoid falling into a war of attrition. Therefore, after the Normandy landings, Zheng He commanded the Ming army to abandon the consolidation of positions, but instead drove straight into Paris.

Due to the extremely fast advance of the Ming army, the defensive line hastily organized by the European coalition forces collapsed at the touch of a button, and it could not be stopped at all, and the Ming army approached the city of Paris more than ten days later.

The two sides will face off on the outskirts of Paris!