Seeing that there was no response from the Prussian side, Lone Pull ordered an attack, and with the sound of the "Ocean" group of cannons, the other French ships were not to be left behind, and opened fire one after another. After receiving the ultimatum of the French army, although the Prussian defenders had strengthened their defenses, the Kiel battery, which was on standby, immediately returned fire when they heard the sound, but the fierce artillery battle lasted only 5 minutes, and the three batteries in the port of Kiel were quickly destroyed, and the battle turned into a decisive battle against the main battery, at 8:45, the north side of the Kiel main gun was hit and caught fire, the Prussian army failed to control the fire, and at 9 o'clock the battery powder magazine exploded violently. Under the heavy bombardment of the 270-mm and 240-mm guns of the French ironclads, the batteries of the Prussian army were surrounded by fire and smoke, and in the earth-shattering explosion, the stumps of the burning human body flew into the air, like dolls torn to pieces, and fell along with the shattered and twisted barrels. The defense of the Keel Harbour battery group failed, and it took less than half an hour for the lone warship to clear the outer defenses of Kiel.

After destroying the shore defense batteries in the port of Kiel, the French warships, led by Gu Ba, drove in and attacked the Prussian naval ships anchored in the harbor.

The Prussian naval ships in the harbor, in the face of the sudden attack of the French ships, hurriedly launched their own fighting back, fighting on such a narrow water, it was like a white-knuckle fight, the French warships had already seized the lead, although they received a timely notice from the defenders of the battery, the Prussian warships have anchored, ready to give go with the French ships, but everything seems too late.

With a displacement of 10,933 tons, the Prussian Navy's flagship ship "Könitz Wilhelm" had many cannons, so it became the key target of the French Navy. Under the heavy bombardment of four French ironclads, the huge hull of the "Cornish William" soon became a honeycomb, and less than 10 minutes after the battle began, the flagship of the Prussian Navy sank in agony. When the "Cornish William" was attacked by French naval fire, the Prussian cruiser "Herta" was ready to approach the "Cornish William" to help the flagship resist the artillery fire, but before the "Cornish William" could be helped, the "Cornish William" had already sunk. In the fierce artillery battle at close range, the shooting cannonballs fired by the French warships smashed the gun decks of the Prussian warships to the ground. Faced with overwhelming artillery fire from the enemy, the Prussians were simply powerless to fight back. The French warships bombarded the "Herta" with almost 100 rounds of artillery fire at close range, and the cruiser "Herta" exploded in the ammunition compartment and soon sank.

The French ships fought the Battle of the Port of Kiel almost instantaneously, and the tactics adopted by each other were also their own battles. When the order to start an artillery battle was given from the ironclad ship "Ocean", three French cruisers, including the "Embernaiber", which had long been gearing up, immediately fired a salvo at the Prussian warship with their broadside guns. In the face of a surprise attack, the two gunboats "Essen" and "Hamburg" had not had time to cut the anchor chain and sail upstream to rendezvous with the main force of the "Cornish Wilhelm" according to the predetermined battle plan. The "Essen" was sunk in the first salvo of the French cruiser, and after the sister ship "Bremen" withstood the first round of shelling, the hull was so badly damaged that the captain ordered the ship to cut the anchor chain and retreat downstream, and finally burned near the side of the channel. The hull of the ship was badly rolled, and the "Hamburg", which was sailing with a blazing flame, intended to die with the French ship, but was unfortunately sunk by a round of gunfire from the French ship "Refus".

In this battle, Prussia lost 7 warships and more than 1,600 killed, while the French lost no ships, only 26 killed and 72 wounded.

According to the orders of the French government, the real task of the battle was to occupy the port of Kiel and clear the way for the landing of the French army. And the annihilation of the Prussian Navy was a pre-preparatory activity for the capture of Kiel. To the surprise of the French army, no trace of the Prussian army was found, and various Prussian fortifications fell into the hands of the French army one after another. The French entered the city of Kiel, but still found no trace of the Prussian army, and Kiel fell into the hands of the French.

Unbeknownst to Gubba and the French army generals, the fact was that there were not many defenders of Kiel before they attacked them. Due to the fierce fighting on the Franco-Prussian front, the Prussian army suffered too many casualties, and the number of troops was seriously insufficient, the Prussian government had no choice but to transfer troops from all over the country to replenish the front, and the defenders of Kiel Port were naturally not spared.

As a large number of troops were transported by train to the French front, Prussia's defense forces in various parts of the country were very empty. In many places, the number of troops has dropped to terrible proportions. As an important military port in Prussia, the defenders of Kiel were so weak that other cities can be imagined.

At the same time as Guba occupied Kiel, two other French armies, under the cover of the navy, landed at the port of Ader and the mouth of the Elbe, respectively.

The fall of the port of Kiel completely discouraged the Prussian monarch from continuing the war, and negotiations ensued. Since Bismarck's peace conditions were too harsh for the French side to accept, the French army continued to advance inland into Prussia after occupying Kiel, conquering the important town of Hamburg in one fell swoop. After the French army captured Hamburg, it actually cut off the connection between Schleswig-Holstein and the Prussian interior, and while dividing his troops to hold Hamburg, Guba sent troops to sweep all the way south, successively capturing Hyde, Husum, Flensburg and other cities, and the French navy was not idle, and successively attacked and occupied the port cities along the Prussian coast, until February 10, 9071, that is, the 13th day after the start of the Franco-French peace talks, the whole of Schleswig- Holstein was already under the control of the French army under the command of Guba. After receiving the emperor's order to "go on the offensive", Guba geared up in Hamburg, regrouped his troops and horses, and ambitiously prepared to attack Berlin.

The news of the fall of Hamburg sent a great shock to the whole of Prussia. When the Prussian officers and soldiers on the French front heard the news, their morale suddenly became low. They were so not because the war had left them without hope, but because they feared that their homeland and loved ones would be trampled on by the French.

When the news reached King Wilhelm's ears, he also felt unable to sit still, and when the Prussian officers and soldiers at the front learned the news, panic quickly spread throughout the army.

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