The most unfortunate of all may belong to Tang Sara, who was ridiculed as the general of the glass heart, because he wanted to leave the field work, but was told that he might be entrusted with the important task of being the commander of the army to aid Vietnam.

Vietnam, the Qing Dynasty, and even the name of the country was set by Emperor Jiaqing. At that time, it was 1802, and Vietnam, like the Central Plains, was constantly changing dynasties, and by this time, Nguyen Phuc Anh destroyed the Tay Son Dynasty and changed the name of the year to Gia Long, establishing the Nguyen Dynasty. He asked the then Qing Emperor Jiaqing Emperor to be named the king of Nanyue, probably because the ancient Nanyue Kingdom originally included most of Guangxi, Guangdong and a small part of Fujian, so Emperor Jiaqing thought it was inappropriate and renamed it "Vietnam".

During the Second Opium War, due to the war between France and the Qing Dynasty, the French, who had no scruples, let go of the attack on Nam Ki (the capital was Saigon) in southern Vietnam, and after succeeding, they signed the Treaty of Saigon with the Nguyen Dynasty, and Vietnam was forced to cede Bien Hoa, Dinh Huang, Gia Dinh and other places.

Nguyen Chang Zuo, a reformer who had stayed in France, proposed to the Vietnamese king Si Duc to learn Western technology and improve the government's Su zhì, although it was noticed by Emperor Si Duc, but was opposed by officials in the DPRK and China. After the news of the Qing Dynasty's determination to reform spread, the Vietnamese courtiers began to sprout in their hearts, and even the boss was reformed, so we can't be idle, right? Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qing Dynasty to start another war with France, Vietnam appointed Nguyen Chang Zuo as a special envoy to Beijing to meet with Guo Songtao, the Qing Auxiliary Minister, and asked the Qing military to assist the French colonial army, which was becoming more and more aggressive.

The southern tip of Vietnam is separated from Malaya by only one Gulf of Siam, a thousand kilometers, and at the speed of the East India Company Navy, it can be reached in about 24 hours, the problem is that there is no surplus army to occupy, and it is not necessary. Since Vietnam has taken the initiative to ask for help, it can be considered that driving the French out of the South Seas is also beneficial to strategic security.

At this time, France was immersed in a joy and self-confidence, because after the painstaking research of the French scientist Claude Bernard, penicillin, a military hospital killer, was successfully mass-produced by him, although its cost and purity are much worse than those produced by Windsor Pharmaceuticals, but after all, it has broken the monopoly of the Windsor consortium, and the entire NATO is happy, because all military experts with a little vision know the terrible role of the therapeutic output role in the war, and the great Frenchman actually broke through the technological blockade of Windsor Pharmaceuticals. It's really a timely rain after a long drought and a sweet rain.

President Lincoln, King William I of Prussia, and Tsar Alexander II of Russia all sent congratulatory messages to Napoleon III, praising the great achievements of the French, which brought unprecedented light to NATO's counterattack against technological hegemony.

The French spies in Hue, the capital of Vietnam, had also heard a little about the imperial court's rescue of the suzerain, and took advantage of this God-given opportunity to once again throw a wink at the Dutch and persuade the Netherlands to join NATO in order to join forces against the enemy.

French Indochina (the region between India and China, including Vietnam, Siam, Khmer, Laos, Myanmar, Malaya, etc.) is naturally not far from Malaya, one of the technology centers of the Windsor consortium, and the Dutch colony of Indonesia is directly bordering Malaya. In New Guinea, the Windsor Empire has already shown wolf ambitions, and I am afraid that it is not a day or two that the whole of Indonesia is coveted, not to mention that the oil fields in northern Borneo, which should belong to Indonesia, have been seized by the greedy Windsor consortium, don't the Dutch people feel violated? The Netherlands should have prepared early. (For the latest chapters, please visit wèn)

The French were enthusiastic about wooing the Dutch, because the passage of the Strait of Malacca was no longer safe, and if the strategic points such as the Riau Strait and the Sunda Strait on the Indonesian side were blocked, then the French Indochina would be dumplings. Reuters reporters were arrested by the authorities for exploring southern Vietnam, and the British East India Company's offshore cruisers appeared from time to time in the northern part of the Gulf of Siam, and tensions in the South China Sea grew.

The country of the Netherlands, once a model of commercial civilization, has the nickname of the coachman of the sea, but they have two major disadvantages: first, it is a low-country country, crisscrossed by complex waterways, and the industry with railway bridges as an important condition cannot develop; Second, it had a traditional windmill operating system, so there was no need to use a steam engine, which made it miss a second opportunity to develop industry.

At sea, they were outnumbered by the Royal Navy of England, and on the European continent they were caught between the two great powers of France and Prussia, and the miserable Dutch were weakened throughout the 19th century. When Prussia, another of the Dutch's strong neighbors, also urged it to join NATO, the Dutch, impressed by the might of these two traditional powers, finally sent their foreign ministers to Paris to negotiate with France and Prussia.

The anti-Windsor consortium front celebrated the news, believing that this was another sign that NATO and the Windsor consortium were at odds with each other. Look, the friendly countries that participated in the coronation of the Italian Emperor Rome have joined NATO, which will further isolate the WTO countries diplomatically.

When the Netherlands officially became a NATO observer, Tang Ningjian yì Dutch East India Company was officially dissolved, and the friendly division of money, from then on, the road to the sky, each side. It is said that the Netherlands has developed well over the years, and the shareholders really broke up amicably, and it will be a matter of the future when they fight again. The Windsor consortium wanted to save face and pay attention to credibility, and even the war reparations given by the Qing Dynasty to France were not paid because of another war. That's also because the Windsor consortium has self-confidence, and when this battle is over, it will be counted with interest.

On the same day that the East India Company was dissolved, French Indochina began to lose telegraph contact with the suzerain. Napoleon III angrily sent a telegram of questioning to Downing, who said lightly, "Something is going on over there, you see." ”

How could the number one power on the European continent (as the French people thought they were) allow the rats to run rampant? After consulting with senior generals, the French Navy is preparing to launch an attack on another wonder of the world, the emerging city of Port Windsor, at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.

As an industrial country slightly later than Britain, France likes to use innovative technology the most, and the first ironclad ship is a French initiative. Of course, Britain quickly built better ironclad ships by virtue of its superior shipbuilding technology, and now it is building more advanced warships with acetylene welding technology provided by Downing.

If Britain's shipbuilding technology is first-rate, then France is second-rate, the United States is third-rate in the north, and fourth-rate in the south. Everyone thinks that the shipbuilding technology of the Windsor consortium is super-first-class, but after all, it is a company rather than a big country, so it lacks sailors, and it may not have an advantage in really fighting, which is why the national financial resources of the four NATO countries are not as good as the Windsor consortium, and NATO dares to take a tough attitude towards the Windsor consortium.

In fact, the East India Company's navy does not seem to have expanded on a large scale, and the number of warships is not large, but no one expected that the automation brought by mechanical computers greatly makes up for this disadvantage, and the same tonnage of warships, others need 200 sailors, only 50, and the operation is more perfect.

With the pride of the second most powerful navy in the Mediterranean, the French Navy dispatched 80 warships of all classes at a time to march towards the port of Windsor, including the world's first ironclad ship "Glory", which is coveted by both the American and Northern armies.

In the Crimean War, these ironclad ships were glorious, except for them, no other warship dared to rush into the range of Russian fortress guns to kill themselves, and the Glory was a great achievement. Since then, there has been a rule in the standard naval tutorial: don't hit a fortress gun with a naval gun, unless you are an ironclad.

At this time, it happened that Downing came back from his honeymoon in New Guinea, passing through Port Windsor, and was fortunate to witness this naval battle, and now in Port Windsor are Marx and Engels, Marx is in charge of strategic planning, Engels is in charge of tactical command, if the two can't decide, it will be handed over to the boss for ruling. After Tang Ning got off the airship, he cordially greeted the officers and soldiers at all levels guarding this strategic place and shook hands with them one by one.

Downing really happened to pass by, he and Lincoln's strategic thinking is the same, he really doesn't care about the victory or defeat of a specific battle, anyway, his entire empire is a superpower built by high-tech and capital prehistoric behemoths, in his opinion, there is absolutely no possibility of defeat.

He got out of the airship, but when he came down from Air Force One, Sissi was already pregnant, so she shouldn't be frightened, so she took the Honeymoon back to her parents' house directly, and Wallace and the others went back to London directly to stay away from right and wrong.

As a strategic location, the port of Windsor was defended by airships, so the 80 French Navy warships were still found far away. This is the second discovery, the first being a telegraph listening team secretly set up by Downing, called "The Wind Whisperers". Downing happened to be in Windsor Harbour because the Windtalkers were aware of the French Navy's plan of action.

It's a pity that the French, who are determined to break the technological hegemony of the Windsor consortium, also procured the products of the Swiss Telegraph Company, and the encryption algorithm was deliberately not high, and in just three days, the LCD computer dedicated to the Wind Whisperer could decipher it, and every Qiē operation of the French army was under surveillance.

The French Navy's Mediterranean Fleet arrived at the port of Windsor, but did not see a single battleship come out to meet it, and the commander of the French fleet believed that the port of Windsor was negligent in taking precautions. He found the direction of the fortress and prepared to go deeper and surprise the arrogant navy.

The advantage of the fortress gun over the naval gun is, of course, due to its large operating space, which allows it to be installed with large-caliber heavy guns to the fullest. Battleships were expensive, artillery was much cheaper, and the number of shore defense guns in Windsor Harbour was large enough to withstand the onslaught of 400 ironclads. This was the standard by which the fortifications of Port Windsor were built. Of the 80 warships that have come now, there are only 2 ironclads, and the rest are fragile wooden warships.

Downing was listening to the battle plan of the two strategic masters, and their main idea was to inflict a heavy blow on the French Mediterranean Fleet at one time, so that the French would permanently withdraw from the Mediterranean power. Of course, it is easy to repel these 80 warships, I am afraid that it can be done by a child, but if you want to encircle and annihilate them, you have to use the means of luring the enemy to go deeper.

The tentative attack of the French fleet began, and they sent five small warships to approach the port briskly, and came to an extremely close distance of 5 kilometers, but the other side still did not react.

3 km! The pioneers began to line up, and the 40-pounder guns on the side were aimed at the suspected shore defense gun turrets.

If you don't shoot again, it will be too weak, so a few coastal defense guns really fired first, it was a grenade, a very ferocious explosion, this is really not camouflaged, it is impossible for a 12-inch cannon to be downgraded to 6 inches, right?

Of course, you can deliberately miss to paralyze the enemy, so that they will think that their heavy artillery is only powerful and not accurate enough.

After only two or three shots, the five vanguard ships were frightened, and the waves from the huge explosion made all their crews have to find a place to hold them steady. "It's okay", the opponent's firepower seems to be insufficient, and there can be a fight.

After many rounds of bombardment between the two sides, the deliberately deflected shore defense guns still hit an enemy ship, and the powerful force blew a large hole in the wooden battleship, and the screams were directly transmitted to the commander of the French flagship. The feeling of a comminuted fracture in one shot is terrible!

Although there was a small setback, the French army was full of confidence, and the horseman's skills stopped there! The next wave will be a real offensive. 40 capital warships, including ironclads, received orders to storm the shore guns that had been exposed.

The adjutant reminded the French commander that the enemy's heavy artillery power and firing range did not match, and it was possible that it was a strategy to lure the enemy deeper.

The commander took this to heart, but judged that it was precisely because of the power that he had to approach before he could shoot, so his order was to continue the attack.

Nearly 1,000 guns of 40 capital ships bombarded 10 shore defense guns, and after half an hour of confrontation, all the 10 shore guns that counterattacked sporadically were silent, and just when the French army thought that the first battle had been won, 10 more guns were suddenly exposed behind the enemy, which caught the French army by surprise and hurriedly changed its formation. （http:／／.)。

The Suez Canal was defended in depth, and each subsequent battle with hidden shore guns retreated several kilometers into the canal, as if it had an infinite depth. Although the shore artillery was not accurate, it could not stand up to the great power, and there were still French warships that were sunk and even overturned by the huge waves stirred up by the explosion.

After two hours of fierce fighting, the French army achieved a lot of results, but also suffered a lot of losses, 8 ships were wounded, 3 of which were sunk.

At this time, the French fleet had unconsciously formed a long snake formation and entered the canal in an all-round way. By this time, the shore defense artillery had all been muted, and the French commander thought that victory was in his hands, and curiously sent two warships to search along the canal to see where the canal had been dug.

The French tried to send marines to land, but the port of Windsor was generally defended, and the number of troops on the shore was considerable, and the French landings were repelled many times with the help of the fortress, so that they did not gain an inch.