With the in-depth promotion of Fu Yunlong's sneak attack tactics, the French fortresses were broken by the Ming army's special forces, and in less than half a month, the French fortresses in the entire Pyrenees Mountains were all broken by the Ming army!

I have to say that this is a miracle, since the birth of the fortress, it has not been so easily breached, even the Ming army used armored combat vehicles in the Siberian Plain did not do so quickly. Fastest updates

The reason for this is mainly the suddenness of a tactic, because no one expected that the Ming army would use this trick.

Of course, this is also related to the negligence of the French army, after all, West France and France are in-laws, and the queen of King Philip IV of Spain is the sister of King Louis XIII of France, and the two countries will not go to war unless absolutely necessary.

The Ming army launched a sneak attack without any warning, which was in line with the essence of surprise and unpreparedness in the art of war, and the success was not accidental.

Of course, this tactic was not all smooth sailing, and on several occasions the Ming special forces encountered particularly cautious French generals, and the losses were quite heavy.

In the most difficult one, the three special forces squadrons of the Guanning Army went to attack the No. 8 fort where there were still 3,000 French troops, and as a result, the French defenders were quite cautious, and the prisoners who surrendered to Cheng not only did not deceive the city gate but were also beaten into a sieve by the defenders inside, and many officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army were also injured in the first round of guns.

Subsequently, they began to attack hard, and the first layer was taken relatively smoothly, and the Guanning army suffered less than 500 casualties.

However, it was more difficult to hit the second floor, and the French garrison knew to let people remove the bed and door panels to block the grenades!

At this time, the explosive power of gunpowder is equivalent to the gunpowder of firecrackers in later generations, and the gunpowder in the grenade cannot blow up the bed board and door panel at all, and in the absence of artillery support, the bed board and door panel are really the nemesis of grenades.

If the grenade did not work, the special operations squadron of the Guanning Army was embarrassed, and could only use sniper rifles to cooperate with kerosene bottles and gasoline bottles to attack.

It would be nice if they had enough kerosene and gasoline, but the problem was only a small bottle per person, which was mainly used to set fires, and it was not enough to siege the city.

This battle was carried out quite hard, and the three special operations squadrons of the Guanning Army can be said to have suffered all casualties, and in the end, although the fortress was taken, less than 300 of the 3,000 people survived, and they were all wounded!

I don't know if the Guanning army was particularly unlucky or what happened, they could encounter hard stubble almost every time, and several times they suffered the greatest casualties among all the legions participating in the battle.

This time they actually met the most cautious and powerful general of the French army, if it were not for the French flintlock pistols and the advanced Ming army, it is estimated that they would not have been able to take this fortress even if they died.

In any case, the fortresses in the Pyrenees were all taken by the sneak attack tactics of the Ming army's special forces, and the French army lost nearly 100,000 horses, while the Spanish regained control of the entire Pyrenees.

King Philip IV of Spain was naturally overjoyed, but what did King Louis XIII of France, or the Duke of Richelieu, the de facto controller of France, think? What's going on with them? It's all like this in front of them, and they don't even react at all!

In fact, they can't be blamed for this, the Ming army has a telegraph communication system, but they don't have it, they are still in the stage where communication basically relies on roaring and transportation basically depends on walking, and the transmission of information is quite slow.

In fact, after the first batch of grain and grass was looted, the local officials already knew about it, because none of the middle-aged laborers they sent out to transport the grain and grass returned.

However, knowing is knowing, they can't do anything but report.

It was reported layer by layer, and by the time the news reached Paris, it had been almost ten days.

At first, Richelieu didn't pay much attention to it, because it didn't mean anything about the robbery of a batch of grain and grass, and he also thought that the rogues had done it, and it would be strange if the defenders couldn't clean it up.

It wasn't until the news of the looting of grain and grass came later that Richelieu realized that something was probably wrong, and at this time, half a month had passed.

When he sent someone to inquire about the news and came back, twenty days had passed.

It didn't take twenty days for the Ming army to take all the fortresses in the Pyrenees, and the news he came back naturally was that the entire defense line was occupied by the combined forces of Spain and the Ming Empire!

At this time, the whole of France was shocked, crossing the Pyrenees Line, there were almost plains behind it, if the Ming Empire transported the armored combat vehicles, it would be over, and the combined forces of Spain and the Ming Empire would definitely be able to hit Paris directly!

For the first time, Richelieu was completely panicked, he couldn't understand how the combined forces of Spain and the Ming Empire had taken down so many fortresses in the Pyrenees in such a short period of time.

You know, it's a mountainous area, and the armored combat vehicles of the Ming Empire can't get in at all, relying on people, it is estimated that it is difficult to pile up a million troops!

Could it be that the Ming Empire invented any new weapons?

The unknown is the most terrifying, Richelieu was so frightened that he hurriedly mobilized nearly 200,000 troops to the southeast.

Now, not only did the south side have to be defended, but also along the Mediterranean coast, because it is unlikely that the armored fighting vehicles of the Ming army could be transported through the Pyrenees, but it was quite easy to land through the Mediterranean coast.

If the ports along the Mediterranean Sea are lost, then France will really be finished, and then the Ming army will transport armored combat vehicles by ship, and in front of the rolling iron stream, what fortresses, city walls are scum!

Now his plan was completely disrupted, he originally wanted to use the sea advantage to transport the army to the Gold Coast, and grab all the Portuguese colonies in Africa, but now it was all in chaos.

After the expansion of the French army, there were only about 500,000, and the Pyrenees lost more than 100,000 at once, and then sent 200,000 reinforcements, plus the original more than 100,000 defenders along the Mediterranean, and the army was left with more than 100,000.

That is to say, including Paris, the entire central and northern parts of France, as well as the northwest coast, there are more than 100,000 people left to garrison the huge place, where can they still send men and horses to attack the Gold Coast.

Zhu Cijiong also did not expect that the harassment and sneak attack tactics in the south of France would achieve such an effect, at the beginning, he just wanted to consume France's manpower and material resources, after all, the territory of the Ming Empire is unimaginably vast, and the population is more than 100 million, whether it is the consumption of the army or the consumption of materials, France and even the entire anti-Habsburg coalition have to kneel!

Now, not only has the consumption of French troops and supplies increased rapidly, but it has also helped Spain occupy the entire Pyrenees, making it more difficult to defend the southern border of France.

Most importantly, it also disrupted Richelieu's expansion plans, depriving France of the best opportunity to expand its colonies.

This is not as simple as one plus one equals two, the reason why the great powers have achieved hegemony has a great relationship with the plundering of the colonies, and the great powers without the colonies are equivalent to weaned wolf cubs, and if they want to develop and prey everywhere, I am afraid there is no chance!