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86_86661At this moment, the French fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin is closely monitoring the movements in the South China Sea. Vice Admiral Francis www.biquge.info Francisby, commander-in-chief of the Tokyo detachment of the French fleet, immediately reported the situation in the South China Sea to the French naval headquarters after learning that the Hainan Fleet had damaged the "Silang" of the British Far East Fleet.

Vice Admiral Lisby believes that the "Silang" incident in the South China Sea will certainly arouse extreme dissatisfaction in Britain, and the British will certainly send a fleet to the South China Sea to retaliate against the Hainan fleet.

Therefore, Vice Admiral Lisby believed that their French fleet could directly occupy Hainan by mediating the friction between the Hainan fleet and the British fleet.

After receiving the telegram from Richby, some of the French advocated preventing the British fleet from participating in the war in the South China Sea, and let the Hainan fleet and the Japanese consume each other, so that the combat effectiveness of both of them in the South China Sea would be greatly reduced, so that France could reap the benefits of fishing in the South China Sea.

However, there are also some voices that support Lieutenant General Lisby. They believed that the final result of the Hainan Fleet's face of the two powerful fleets of the British Far East Fleet and the Japanese West Sea Fleet was conceivable, and the Hainan Fleet had no chance of winning at all. If they are still holding a wait-and-see attitude, then in the future, it will be the flags of Britain and Japan that will be planted on Hainan soil. When that time comes, the French will never have a chance again.

While the French were arguing, France received new news from the French military base in Vietnam: they found that a force of nearly 100,000 Hainan ground troops was operating on the Sino-Vietnamese border, and it seemed that it was possible to attack the French military base in northern Vietnam at any time.

In addition, the French Concession in Guangzhou Bay also sent a telegram saying that it seemed that there were 10,000 or 20,000 more Hainan troops in its vicinity overnight, and they were setting up camps around Shamian Rental, and it seemed that they were going to set up camp in the surrounding area.

At this time, Lishby also received a handwritten letter from General Li Chuang, chief of the Hainan General Staff. The general content of the epistle is:

Dear Lieutenant General Lisby,

Our Hainan Fleet is fighting with the Japanese West Sea Fleet in the South China Sea, and our side is fighting for the safety of Hainan, your country's bases in Vietnam, and Guangzhou Bay.

China's Hainan [War Coordination General Headquarters] specially allocated 100,000 troops to assist the French army in the defense of this area on the Sino-Vietnamese border and at Guangzhou Bay.

If there is a special change in this area, our Hainan army will definitely force its way into this area to help the French army maintain the safety of this place!

Destroy any armed force that dares to destroy this region!

Chief of Staff of the Hainan War Coordination General Headquarters

Admiral Li Chuang

Thirty years of Guangxu.

After receiving the handwritten letter from General Li Chuang, Lieutenant General Lisby was furious. The lieutenant commander of the French fleet shouted loudly: "Hainan, a small land, dares to challenge my great French fleet!" It's so arrogant! General Ben gave an order, and within half a day, our army could land on Hainan Island! ”

Just as this conceited Vice Admiral Richby was eager to try and gear up, he received an order from King Charles XI ordering his Tokyo fleet not to act rashly! Don't get involved in this fearless battle in the South China Sea.

Lisby angrily threw down the telegram in his hand and shouted: "These pigs who have eaten and drunk all day long know that in the luxurious palace they fantasize about romance, without a little enterprising, and the dignity of my French Empire will one day be buried by these boring and comfortable literati!" If we in France have you comfortable pigs, sooner or later we will perish! ”

On the flagship of the British Far East Fleet, General Fremantle looked at Hainan Island from afar with a telescope. He asked the British Navy Headquarters to send large warships to support the Far East Fleet, and the Navy Headquarters basically responded.

However, the officers of the British Navy Headquarters were constantly complaining about Philimant's fuss. They believed that Hainan, a small place with the size of a sesame seed, did not need to transfer huge warships to the aid of the past, and a Far East Fleet of the British Empire was enough to destroy Hainan.

Moreover, Hainan is at war with Japan, and now Hainan is empty, and the Far Eastern Fleet can solve it by itself.

However, the headquarters of the Navy was almost stunned when they saw the data from Philmantle describing the Hainan fleet. What these officials of the Navy Headquarters did not expect at all was that this mysterious Hainan fleet had already possessed the world's advanced technology of large-tonnage ironclad ships.

Therefore, before receiving the king's final decision, the naval headquarters promised to send two cruisers of the Indian fleet of more than 6,000 tonnage, "Goddess" and "Georgia", to the South China Sea to help in the war!

After receiving this news, Philimantle quickly adjusted his fleet and headed for Hainan at full speed.

According to the order of the British Navy Headquarters, the Chinese fleet of the British Far East Fleet will join forces with the Japanese West Sea Fleet to flank the Hainan Fleet in the front and rear, form an encirclement, and finally completely annihilate the Hainan Fleet.

However, Philmantle believed that the Hainan Fleet had moved away from Hainan Island, and at this time, Hainan Island must be very empty.

Therefore, he wanted to learn the Chinese art of war, the method of encircling Wei to save Zhao, to attack Hainan, forcing the Hainan fleet to retreat in order to rescue Hainan Island.

In this way, the British ships could encircle and annihilate the Japanese West Sea Fleet on the way back from the Hainan Fleet.

As a result, Admiral Philmantle ordered his fleet to approach Hainan Island at full speed, and he wanted to save face for the Far East Fleet and take the most brutal revenge on Hainan.

At this moment, the "Hurricane" and "Iron Lion" of the Hainan Fleet also received an order from General Chen Fangzheng and immediately moved closer to the main fleet of the Hainan Fleet!

This move of the Hainan Fleet made Philimantle feel extremely puzzled, and he could only think that the Hainan Fleet was just a group of pirates who did not know any art of war.

On the coast of Hainan, hundreds of artillery batteries had been erected a few days ago, and thousands of shells had been prepared.

After receiving the order, Li Chuang personally supervised the battle before the battle, but the British General Philmantle did not know that thousands of shells were waiting for them on Hainan Island!

The Hainan Fleet, which was advancing at full speed, received a telegram from Li Chuang: The British Far East Fleet was approaching Hainan Island at full speed and was approaching the artillery range of our ground forces.

After reading the telegram, Chen Zhong said to Chen Fangzheng: "General Chen, order our fleet to advance towards Hong Kong at full speed, and after Li Chuang fires the first cannonball, our fleet will start to attack Hong Kong directly!" ”

General Philmantle led this fleet and soon came within the range of the cannons of the Hainan artillery unit.

General Li Chuang, after receiving the news of the British ship in front, decisively ordered the artillery unit to aim all the guns at the flagship and open fire!

General Philmantle was stunned by this sudden blow and immediately ordered the fleet to disperse and move backwards.

After the "Hurricane" and "Iron Lion" returned to the team, the Hainan Fleet, under the leadership of the "Zhennan Ship," sailed to the vicinity of Hong Kong Island at an extremely fast speed.

Chen Zhongdao: "General Chen Fangzheng, give an order to your fleet, aim the guns of our Hainan fleet at Hong Kong Island, I will sink Hong Kong!" ”。

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