The British on the armored train had noticed that the rails in front of them had been damaged, so the train began to slow down, and at the same time the infantry on the train began to prepare for a battle.

The wheels of the train creaked against the rails, and the train trembled and slowed down sharply, and the soldiers on the train grabbed something else around them to keep their balance.

The armored train braking well, slowly coming to a stop close to the damaged section of the railway, and the soldiers were ready to get off the train for battle. At that moment, a string of cannons rang out.

Two long-barreled guns of 40 mm caliber of the Independence Army were the first to fire. Their target was the power car of the British armored train. Armored trains are not the same as ordinary trains, and the power cars are generally in the middle position. In order to avoid damage to the most important power vehicle due to the pressure on the mine.

But in the face of artillery, this arrangement was of little use. Two 40-mm armor-piercing rounds easily pierced a thin layer of armor hanging from the outside of the engine car's cylinder to withstand rifle bullets, and were as fragile as a layer of paper in the face of 40-mm armor-piercing shells.

After the cylinder was pierced by a shell, the cylinder burst open, and high-pressure steam suddenly gushed out, including the driver's cab of the train, enveloped in white steam. Later, when cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers of the Independence Army found that the driver and boilermaker in the cab were directly steamed by steam.

After the 40-mm guns opened fire, several other guns also opened heavy fire on the armored train. When using a 60-mm stub, the penetration of a 60-mm shell is far inferior to that of a 40-mm shell because of the relatively low muzzle velocity. But the 60-mm armor-piercing anti-personnel projectile is still enough to penetrate the crew compartment of the armored train, and can only withstand the armor of a rifle bullet.

The French army has begun to equip high-explosive shells, but high-explosive shells are still very expensive, so the Irish can still use high-explosive shells, and they don't need high-explosive shells. Armor-piercing anti-personnel shells, because they mainly rely on the fragments of the shell that fragments themselves after breaking through the armor, do not require fuses and explosives, in comparison, they are much cheaper.

The armored train of the British had a total of six carriages, the middle two of which were power cars and coal water wagons. At each end of them are passenger cars, each of which is a firepower car equipped with two cannons.

According to the plan, an important task of the artillery of the Independence Army was to strike at the crew compartment before the British soldiers got out of the car. According to the results of the experiments on the French side, if one or two rounds of armor-piercing anti-personnel shells could be fired at the crew compartment before the British soldiers got off the train, the troops in the carriage who had not had time to get off the train could be completely incapacitated almost immediately.

In fact, just as the results of the experiment on the French side, several guns fired several salvos at the crew car, and then a few British soldiers were seen running down from above, covered in blood and lost souls.

The British didn't even have a gun, they just ran around, forgetting that there were minefields all around, and many British soldiers stepped on the mines themselves.

At this time, the British fire compartment reacted and began to fire at the artillery of the Independence Army, but because of the haste of the shooting, several shells failed to hit effectively. At this time, the infantry of the Independence Army, brandishing their guns, pounced on the British armored train that was paralyzed and unable to move.

A few guns on the fire compartment alone could not stop the infantry charge. Because of their inability to form a continuous firepower. The combat effectiveness of armored trains largely depends on the infantry carried in the carriages. But now it became clear that the infantry could not be counted on, so soon the soldiers of the Independence Army rushed to the front. Entered the dead end of the guns on the fire car.

The soldiers were about to throw their grenades at the stubborn enemy. But suddenly they found that the sound of enemy artillery stopped, a white shirt was picked out with a bayonet, and it shook towards them, and they also heard a voice shouting: "Don't shoot!" Don't shoot! We surrender! ”

The British surrendered so simply, much to the surprise of the soldiers. Generally speaking, the fighting ability and fighting will of the authentic British army far surpassed that of the security army. Rarely have they surrendered so briskly.

But when the soldiers entered the crew compartment and saw the damage caused by the armor-piercing bullets, everyone understood why the British had surrendered so easily.

"It was so miserable inside that (the passenger compartment). The cannonball pierced the iron armor on the outside, and when it entered, it shattered, like a shotgun bullet. Oh no, this thing is much more powerful than a shotgun. Each bullet fired from a shotgun is equivalent to a maximum of one bullet fired from a revolver. But this is a shell, and after it has penetrated the armor, it produces even small fragments that can penetrate one person and then kill another. The larger fragments were able to penetrate several people, and even after three or four people had been penetrated, they could bounce back on the armor plate on the other side, and they could kill and injure one person.

The carriage was so crowded that when it was shelled, the people inside had no place to hide. The continuous shelling also made it impossible for them to even get out of the train, and in one carriage, most of the British, except for a limited number of people, were killed or seriously wounded in the shelling. It can be said that in those few rounds of shelling, at least three-quarters of the more than three hundred soldiers in the two British carriages lost their combat effectiveness. It can be said that this round of rapid fire will determine the success or failure of the battle.

The soldiers of the Independence Army left the dead or wounded Britons in their place, destroyed the armoured train with explosives, and left the railway line with prisoners and booty.

Over the next month, the Independence Army deployed more than 100 battalions to launch raids on various railway lines throughout Ireland. Succeeded in uprooting hundreds of British strongholds, killing and wounding more than 6,000 British troops, destroying thirteen armored trains, and seizing a large number of weapons.

In this battle, there was also a situation rarely seen before, that is, in this battle, the British army greatly outnumbered the security forces, both in terms of casualties and prisoners. Many security forces avoided the war under the pretext that "the telephone was broken and could not be heard at all" (it is said that some security forces cut the telephone lines themselves, and then naturally the telephone lines were destroyed by the independence army so that they could no longer receive orders.) So they basically didn't suffer much damage, except for losing a lot of weapons.

However, in the battle reports of the British, their losses were still very staggering. Their teams, including Captain Jarvis, reported that they had been attacked by the Independence Army, suffering heavy casualties, and that almost half of their men were dead, or even a third dead. After all, the authentic British lords have all suffered so many dead and wounded, if the security forces are unscathed, then how can they explain to the British? Isn't that a clear statement that he is in collusion with the Independence Army? Therefore, they must say that their losses are great, which proves that when the British princes were besieged by traitors, they still traveled thousands of miles to help.

Of course, the dead Irish vigilantes are basically dead souls. In other words, they are all people who only exist on the payroll and do not exist in reality. They all have a common name: "Empty Pay." ”

The British again suffered setbacks and retreated to major cities. And not so long ago, Athlone, which had suffered a great loss to the Independence Army, began to be isolated. Although they were not besieged again, the constant destruction of the railway line made it increasingly difficult to supply the area.

"Damn, where is our fleet? If we can't stop the French support for the rebels, we will shed blood in the swamps of Ireland! Faced with the dilemma, the Duke of Norfolk turned on the pot dumping mode, desperately smashing the black cauldron on the head of the British Navy.

This is also no way, the situation is already close to getting out of control, if you don't shake the pot at this time, how can you mix it up in the future? Just like the king of later generations, as long as he falls behind in the polls, he will scold the rabbit, the more he lags behind, the more black pots are thrown to the little white rabbit, and the more imagination is needed.

Unbeknownst to the Duke of Norfolk, however, Nelson's fleet was in great danger at this time.

In order to keep abreast of the North American situation, the French Navy sent several cruisers with radio equipment to cruise in the Atlantic Ocean and serve as temporary radio relay stations.

Using this system, the French quickly learned about the British fleet, especially the "Queen Elizabeth".

"Joseph, you see the new information, the 'Queen Elizabeth' is badly damaged and cannot sail at high speed. The detachment is currently on its way back. Do you say we should ......?"

"Are you saying we should take advantage of the danger?" Joseph, who was telling his daughter a story, stopped to ask when he heard Napoleon's words.

"Dad, what happened to Snow White?" Little Alice asked.

"Ah, didn't I tell you? Did the prince and princess live happily ever after? Joseph said.

"And after that, how's it going?" The daughter didn't want it to end like this, so she asked again.

"Later? That's dead, of course. Joseph said.

"How did you die? Another witch gave her a poisoned apple? ”

"There are no witches, but people will always grow old and die. Bai Xuegong is mainly immortal, so she must also become an old witch! Joseph smiled and touched Alice's head, then said, "Okay Alice, the story is over." Well, you go play by yourself for a while, I have something to discuss with your Uncle Napoleon. ”

Alice ran out of the door and closed the door close.

"I want to send our main fleet out, intercept them, destroy them. As long as we can find them at sea and destroy them, we will gain a decisive advantage over the British Navy. And force them to make further concessions to us. ”

"Who is the commander of the fleet of the British?" Joseph asked.

"General Nelson. He has distinguished himself in a series of previous military operations. Napoleon replied.

Hearing the name, Joseph hesitated a little again. Although, according to Napoleon's ideas, the French fleet was much higher than Nelson's fleet in terms of tonnage and equipment. But the name Nelson alone was enough to make Joseph hesitate.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Joseph finally made up his mind:

"Our fleet relative to Nelson. We're bigger and better equipped. The state is also better, this is simply a flying dragon...... Bah, this kind of ruined character can't be nonsense. Thinking so, Joseph said, "You can try, but don't suffer." ”

The two of them talked for a long time and decided on the general principles. The next thing is Marshal Trevier's.

Seeing this plan, I got the blessing of the eldest brother. Well, Napoleon found out that he had more and more confidence in this operation.

"As we all know, Joseph is a coward, unsure of things, he won't talk nonsense." Napoleon thought.

Of course, France and England are still at peace. If you want to do it to the British, although everyone can see that you are taking advantage of the danger of others, you still have to find a reason and an excuse. If only Britain had a border with France, then the French could find a group of death row prisoners and dress them in the clothes of the British army......

However, this question also did not require Napoleon to use his brains, and let Lucien and Talleyrand discuss it.

After some discussion with Talleyrand, Lucien came back and said to Napoleon: "Let us send a warship, preferably of a relatively important one, to England, well, the kind of show of force." And then what, there will definitely be protests against us from the British. Then we let the ship explode in the port of the British, and sink as a result. Then we accuse the British of blowing up our warship, and then we make a whole bunch of demands that they could not agree to, and give them an ultimatum. Then it was time to go to war with the British reasonably and legally. ”

"What kind of warship do you think is needed?" Napoleon asked.

"Preferably a supercruiser." Lucien replied.

", you really don't know how distressed you are! Do you know how expensive a supercruiser is? Napoleon was dissatisfied, saying, "And the supercruiser is also an important force in the engagement, and it cannot be wasted like this." Well, just send an armored cruiser. Really, it's just an excuse anyway. Who doesn't know that's an excuse? Besides, as long as the British attacked our ship, even if it was only a patrol ship that sank, that would be enough excuse. ”