Twenty Ming warships staggered around the fortress of St. Nicholas, constantly dropping shells on the entire fortress, and the whole area of St. Nicholas was like a celebration of a grand festival.

The morning of the port of Marseille, which should have been calm and waveless, can only be described as fierce and lively at this time.

The Ming Marines tried to force the fortress, driving fast assault boats, holding artillery and submachine muskets, braving the artillery fire to approach the fortress, but they were attacked by the uneven and complex arrangement of the fortress, these French defenders were obviously fully prepared, and poured shells into the sea without fatality.

The Ming Marines were not only attacked by the artillery group from the front of the St. Nicholas Fortress, but also by the artillery group in the direction of the side and rear, so that the Ming Marines were in the position of being attacked by the enemy on their backs, which seriously hindered the attack process, and in order to avoid too many casualties, the Marines had to cower behind the giant ship.

However, things are going very well on the part of the fortress of Saint-Jean.

Nearly 1,000 naval special forces selected from the Marine Corps had basically controlled the forward positions of the fortress of Saint-Jean at this time, the water gate of the fortress was directly opened, and the deputy commander of the fortress, Nabogui, was also captured.

The Ming naval fleet entered the periphery of the fortress of Saint-Jean without a single cannon, but when it entered the inner enclosure, it was still discovered by the defenders of the inner river fort in the inner encirclement, but at this time, the naval artillery of the Ming Dynasty was just condescending and directly bombarded these fortresses.

Taking advantage of this, the naval special forces had already touched the artillery base of the Saint-Jean fortress in France on the east side, which was concentrating on the attack in the direction of Saint-Nicholas, and under the bombardment of machine gun strafing and grenades, more than 1,000 artillery pieces were all knocked to the ground, and the artillery attack of the fortress of Saint-Jean was directly stopped.

The pressure on the Marines in the direction of St. Nicholas suddenly decreased, and at this time, the Ming flagship, which was responsible for commanding the attack on St. Nicholas, immediately issued an attack order, and the Daming Marines immediately used fierce fire attacks to quickly seize the forward position of St. Nicholas.

The defenders of the fortress of Saint-Nicholas did not understand why the attack had stopped in the direction of the fortress, but they were also anxious, and while sending people to inquire about it, they retreated inside the fortress gate, throwing incendiary materials and explosives in an attempt to prevent further attacks by the Ming navy.

However, the artillery of the ships of the Ming Dynasty launched another artillery bombardment, so that the defenders of the entire fortress of St. Nicholas had to retreat into a stronger fortress and use their artillery to attack the Ming fleet and marines, and the entire naval landing battle of the fortress of St. Nicholas fell into endless artillery fire.

However, at this time, in the direction of the fortress of Saint-Jean, there were already naval special forces of the Ming Dynasty who temporarily acted as artillery, and began to adjust the direction of the artillery, and dropped shells one by one on the inside of the Semen and fortress of Saint-Nicholas.

A loud explosion sounded, and towering columns of water mixed with sawdust corpses rushed into the sky.

The defender of the St. Nicholas Fortress had a gloomy face, and he didn't have to think about it, he could know that the St. Nicholas Fortress was occupied by the troops of the Ming Empire, otherwise how could the artillery over there suddenly turn against his side, and at this moment, the entire St. Nicholas Fortress was facing the situation of being attacked on the back.

The Marines took advantage of this large-scale beach-rushing landing, and all of them landed around midnight.

By this time, the entire two fortresses of Saint-Nicolas and Saint-Jean were occupied by the Ming navy, and the gateway to the port of Marseille was also opened, and tens of thousands of marines went directly to the city of Marseille.

The defenders of Marseille were also interested, and knowing that the fortress was lost, they would not be able to stop the attack of this powerful eastern army, so they immediately raised the white flag.

The governor of Marseille, Guidham, personally went out to ask for surrender.

At this point, the Ming Dynasty officially occupied the port of Marseille, and the gateway to the interior of Western Europe was also opened.

In fact, the French authorities also knew the importance of Marseille and kept an eye on the defense here, but because they were now paying more attention to the direction of Switzerland, they were somewhat negligent, so that the Ming navy was able to conquer Marseille in only half a day.

Less than two hours after the conquest of Marseille, the Ming Army had been transported to Marseille one after another, and the Seventh Army and the Twentieth Army of the elite cavalry of the army under Jiao Lian's department were the first to be transported to Marseille, and the Seventh Army and the Twentieth Army arrived at the port of Marseille, and immediately after three days of rest, they immediately stabbed into the heart of the center of France like a sharp blade, directly interspersed in the direction of Paris and Lorraine, France.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan for the reorganization of the provisional military command, the Seventh Army and the Twentieth Army did not have to attack the two cities of Lyon and Dijon on the extension line of the low-lying belt of Marseille, France, but quickly interspersed with the Lorraine Plateau, occupied Bern in Switzerland by dive, and then combined with the Third Artillery Army, which was still shelling the Swiss defense line at this time, to destroy the main force of the Western European Allied Army in Switzerland by means of a double-sided flanking attack.

In addition to the other main forces of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to staying in the newly occupied areas, the remaining two and a half armies totaling more than 200,000 troops directly swept the great plains of western France, and tried to destroy Switzerland and annihilate the main force of the Western European Alliance Army in the Eastern Front Group composed of the Seventh Army, the Twentieth Army and the Third Army.

Jiao Lian became the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front Group at this time, and was fully responsible for the command of the entire Eastern Front campaign.

And Tom Dae commanded the Western Front Group, which was fully responsible for sweeping France and preparing for the attack on the Franco.

Not only that, Liu Wenxiu and other 100,000 marines not only stayed at the fortresses, but also transferred 50,000 troops from the Ming Navy through the Strait of Gibraltar to the English White Island.

The Isle of Wight was a colony of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and the governor Li Dingguo had been operating here for several years, and the garrison also had 30,000 elite sea and land elites.

It can be said that France was already in a catastrophe at this time.

At this time, France was ruled by Louis XIV of Bourbon, and this very talented king in the history of France was at this time when he wanted to build his French Empire into the most powerful country in Europa, but unfortunately, he encountered the attack of the Ming Dynasty, which had entered the industrialization of the trust empire in advance.

Louis XIV's dream of dominating the whole of Europa and competing for maritime interests with European maritime powers such as Francois and England will also be interrupted by this.

But he still did not know that the port of Marseille, which he had painstakingly managed, had been lost.