Henry VII was ruthless this time and wanted to annihilate the French army. So, this time he gave a death order to the commander of the main fleet, Baron Turnbull - except for those grain ships and ships carrying artillery, all other manned ships should be sunk and not taken prisoner!

This trick was very vicious, if the enemy was captured, if the French paid for it, Henry VII had to follow the rules and let the other party ransom them. However, if these people were redeemed by the French, even if they lost their money, as long as they were still there, the French would still be a threat to the British.

So, and the same sinister stepfather Thomas. After the Earl of Stanley consulted, Henry VII decided to burn the French ships along with the men and the ships. Let the enemy either be burned or sink with the ship......

In this way, the French will lose a lot of their elite. Although they would lose a lot of ransom if they were not captured, Henry VII cared about the safety of England, not those ransoms. Therefore, as long as the French soldiers were burned or sunk into the sea with the ship, then the French would not be able to redeem them, even if they were willing to pay for them. It takes ten or twenty years to train a knight or officer. At this time, the French are about to collapse......

As for the accusations of the French afterwards? So what? Let's just say that the French soldiers are good and refuse to surrender, can you still go and scoop up the corpses of the French soldiers who sank into the sea and confront them in court?

Based on the orders of Henry VII, after surrounding several transports in the southwest corner of the French fleet, General Turnbull saw that they were all manned, and without saying a word, he asked his men to shoot rockets, and set all these ships on fire, and it was too late to extinguish them.

Then, with a cruel smile on his face, General Turnbull watched several French ships sink into the sea. Even if the French officers on the French ships were willing to surrender, he did not accept it. Some French soldiers who jumped into the sea were also shot with longbows by his order......

Just as he had disposed of the French transports in the far southwest and was about to continue eastward, 82 French capital warships led by Count Walgery himself arrived. The French ships lined up and blocked the British fleet......

"Huh...... I was about to go to look for you, but I didn't expect to send it to the door......" General Turnbull sneered. He knew very well that as long as the formation of warships in front of him was eliminated, the French Navy would be finished. Because, the thousands of sailors trained by the French for the navy who are good at fighting are all in this fleet. As long as this fleet is eliminated, the French navy will be a thing of the past......

"Shoot the arrows!" Turnbull ordered. Suddenly, the English longbowmen in the fleet struck one after another, and the rockets rained down on the French ships.

Of course, this was of little use, because, there were plenty of sailors on these large ships. In addition, the flotilla was not surrounded, and the sailors still had time to extinguish the flames when the arrows were not coming from all directions. Even, the entire sail will be wet with seawater by sailors, making it difficult to ignite. The same is true on the deck, which is watered......

The French fleet just wanted to stop the other side, and did not take the initiative to move forward, but just stopped there. When the British shot arrows, they were busy dodging the sailors with their bows and arrows on their boards and dousing the flames. The other sailors took refuge in the cabin. Even Count Valgeri, who had just stood at the bow of the ship to boost his morale, temporarily retreated into the captain's room to avoid the rain of arrows......

Therefore, although the arrows of the British rained down on the French warships, except for the arrows of the unlucky sailors who partially extinguished the fire, everyone else hid and naturally did not suffer much damage......

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At the same time, to the east of the convoy, thirty or forty small English warships were still harassing the French convoys fleeing eastward. At this time, it was probably the last order of Count Valgery. Some of the ships transporting grain, grass and baggage rushed forward without hesitation, blocking the small English warships, and buying enough time to cover the eastward retreat of the ships loaded with the knights......

Because they were loaded with horses, weapons, armor, and knights, the transports that loaded the knights were not fast. It is conceivable that when the French transports carrying grain, grass and baggage were disposed of by the thirty or forty small English warships, the ships carrying knights and horses could not escape......

At this time, on the ship loaded with knights and war horses and other baggage, the knights were arguing fiercely:

"Frank, what are you going to do?" One knight yelled at another with red eyes.

"On the orders of Count Valjeri, in order to increase the speed of the ship, push all the horses into the sea!" The knight named Frank said with a blank face.

"You bastard! Don't you know that the war horse is the second life of the knight? Don't have a war horse? What are we knights? Infantry in plate armor? ”

"Barrett, don't you understand? A fully loaded ship cannot run fast. If it's too slow, we won't be able to escape! ”

"Why should we run away? We are knights, fearless knights! The knight named Barrett retorted, straining his neck.

"Idiot, do you know what you're doing?" Knight Frank pointed to the fleet of ships to the west that was receiving a rain of arrows from the British army and shouted:

"In order to cover our retreat, Lord Count Valgery has personally led his fleet to stop the English pirates! What did he do with all this for his own life? Not so that we can return to France safely! Without us knights, the French army would have died in name only! We can't let Count Valgery die in vain! Idiot, do you understand? ”

"However, we can't abandon the war horse that has followed us for many years? They're our best buddies......" Knight Barrett retorted quietly.

"I know, you're uncomfortable, why shouldn't I? My Ciri {Warhorse Name} has followed me for eight years, and I've long since called it family. However, in order for us all to survive, I ...... I'm going to push it down into the sea with my own hands...... But I have to do it......" Before he could finish speaking, Frank Knight himself was already in tears.

After wiping away his tears, Knight Frank untied the reins of his horse and led it to the edge of the deck. After hugging and kissing his horse, Frank let out a cry of despair:

"Ahh

He violently pushed his beloved war horse into the sea......

"Ciri, I'm sorry for you! But...... For the sake of France, I had to do this......" Frank knelt on the deck with tears streaming down his eyes, looking at his own horse fluttering in the sea, desperate and helpless......

Although horses can swim, in the vast sea, there is no landing site, and even if they can swim, the horses pushed down the sea will die of exhaustion.

Now, what the Frank knights hoped for most was that the British ships would be able to salvage their horses. At the very least, to keep his horses alive......

With Knight Frank taking the lead, the other knights also silently led their horses to the edge of the deck......

After saying goodbye to their war horses, these knights, all with tears in their eyes, let out desperate screams, and pushed their most beloved war horses into the sea one after another...... The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, just because he hasn't reached the sad place. Now, in order to escape for their lives, the knights need to push the war horses that depend on life and death into the sea with their own hands, what kind of torment is this for their hearts? Many knights, who were as strong as mountains, knelt on the deck and wept into tears......

War horses are attached to their masters, and even when they are pushed out into the sea, they still struggle to paddle the water, swim and chase the boat in which their owners are riding. However, the ships were much lighter after throwing away their horses and some unnecessary baggage. With the westerly wind, the ships went farther and farther, leaving the wailing of war horses over the sea......

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At this time, on the west side of the battlefield. After discovering that the archery was ineffective, the commander-in-chief of the English fleet, Admiral Turnbull, became impatient. So, after the ships of both sides approached, a large number of English sailors, armed with scimitars, either jumped out of ship or by ropes, boarded the decks of the French ships.

The Earl of Walgery did not intend to fight with the overwhelmingly superior British army, but to delay the other side. So, the French sailors retreated into the cabin and put up a stubborn resistance......

When Turnbull found that he could not capture it for a long time, he directly asked the English sailors who had boarded the French warship to set fire to the ship......

Seeing that the ships were burned, and the sailors who put out the fire on the deck were all cleaned up by the British...... In desperation, the Earl of Valgery had no choice but to rush out with the French sailors and fight with the English sailors......

Eventually, the French sailors were outnumbered and killed. The British originally wanted to capture the "big fish" of Count Valgery, but Count Walgery refused to surrender, and after being stabbed several times, the loyal Earl fell weakly on the deck, and before he died, he looked at the south affectionately and refused to close his eyes......

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In the end, the naval battle ended in the complete defeat of the French. The powerful fleet of hundreds of ships, which the French had painstakingly prepared, was completely wiped out by the British......

As for the large convoy of convoys, most of them were also captured by the British. Many transport ships carrying infantry were directly viciously sunk into the sea by the British army. Only a group of transports carrying knights, taking advantage of the chaos, fled to the east under the desperate cover of other ships......

The British could not catch up with the ships, so they had to salvage the horses of the French knights, who were tired of swimming, and brought them back as trophies......

But in any case, the French were a big defeat this time. Not to mention the total annihilation of the French navy, it also paid a count who was a close confidant of the French king. Coupled with a large amount of food, baggage, artillery and other materials, the British can be regarded as earning......

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