At this time, Dakar could not be regarded as a real military fortress, and the French army only had a division of garrisons here, and in addition, all the French troops in the vast land of French West Africa were concentrated, and more than 30,000 people were pieced together, but for the French, this place must also be defended to the death, and they can hold it for as long as they can. Because even if the Chinese capture Lagos, without this most important transit point on the African coast, it will be difficult for them to go directly north to Spain, and there is at least more than 6,000 kilometers to sail north from Lagos, even with China's shipping capacity, it is unthinkable that there is no port in between.

Therefore, for the French, they must hold on to the Dakar no matter what, not that it is impossible to hold it, but to hold it for as long as possible, at least not less than two months, only in this way can they make their own turtle shells stronger, there are no reinforcements, and the Dingzhen formation will not allow the French army in Europe to go south, so this difficult task can only be handed over to the 30,000 French troops.

The French commander of the Dakar, Gan Molin, was about to cry at this time, he was Xia Fei's cronies, after Xia Fei stepped down, he was thrown here, he originally thought that he could bully the until the end of the war, but he didn't expect that now he has become the mainstay of the entire Entente bloc, but the question is how can he defend it? At this time, the Dakar was not the one that made the British disgraced during World War II, and now there are several coastal defense batteries in this place at best, and the artillery used is relatively old, and it is difficult to say whether the strength can catch up with the American coastal defense fortresses during the Spanish-American War. Now he had to face two aircraft carriers, two super battleships, and more than twenty battleships and battlecruisers, and according to his estimation, it would be a miracle that he could hold out for a week.

After the battle of Lagos, he even shortened the time to four days, so this guy simply took an alternative approach, he sealed the entire Gorée Bay with mines, and the ship was sunk if there were not enough mines. The merchant ships in the harbor were not all scuttled, and the latter happened to be used as a fixed battery, complementing the shore defense batteries of Gorée Island and Dakar, and then handed over the task of defending Dakar to the navy and the defenders of the fortress, and he withdrew directly from the city with the main French army.

Certainly not running away.

Lin Yongsheng's fleet, which had arrived here from Lagos, had taken bombers and 380 main guns to bomb several large-caliber coastal defense guns on Dakar and Gorée Island into slag in less than an hour, and then more than 100 bombers went into battle and burned the French warships sitting in the harbor into soldering iron with solidified qiyou shells.

Immediately after that, the landing fleet washed up on the beach from the north shore.

"No one?" Fu Cixiang was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, Commander. Except for those forts, the entire Dakar was not defended by any French army, and these cowards all ran away, and did not dare to engage us at all. The commander of his first regiment said proudly.

Fu Cixiang always felt that something was wrong, but his 1st Marine Division did not encounter any resistance during the subsequent landing, including the attack on the west bank of Gorée Bay, except for the defenders of the batteries and the French navy that was barbecued in Gorée Bay, there was no French soldier to be found, and in the end, even this guy himself thought that the French army had completely abandoned this last stepping stone on the Atlantic. However, after dark, he knew he was wrong.

Because of the need to clear the port as much as possible, the minesweeping and salvage of sunken ships in Gorée Bay continued until nightfall, and the Chinese fleet carried large minesweepers. It's nothing more than wasting some time at sea, and as for salvage, it's even simpler, the wrecks here are not big ships, and the divers go down and tie up the pontoons and inflate them and hand them over to the battleship to tow them directly. The powerful power of 200,000 horsepower, not to mention the pontoons, can drag these small boats with a displacement of 1,800 tons to the side without pontoons.

Fu Cixiang was standing on the shore with a group of subordinates watching the battleship Huaxia dragging a small steamer of several hundred tons, when suddenly a series of fires shone in the darkness on the east coast. He subconsciously roared: "Shelling! ”

Then the shells whistled, blasting a column of water in Gore Bay, and even two minesweepers were shot, this kind of warship did not have any armor protection, and the incoming shells were all 155 level, both ships were slightly injured, and at this time the enemy shells were still falling, and seeing that the situation was not good, the minesweepers quickly withdrew from Gore Bay.

At the same time as the shelling began, the 1st Marine Division was suddenly attacked by a large number of cavalry on the outer defensive line, because of the lack of vigilance, the 1st Marine Regiment was almost scattered, but fortunately, those amphibious personnel carriers repelled the cavalry with machine guns, but also caused more than 200 casualties, which was already a very serious casualty for the 1st Marine Division, which had been beating the enemy violently.

This is the tactic of Ganmalin, giving up the defense of Dakar, fighting within the coverage of the 380 naval guns is no different from suicide, only by getting out of the coverage of the naval guns can you save yourself to the maximum, and then take your subordinates to find some places to hide and avoid the blows of the carrier-based aircraft. Don't show up during the day, only act at night, use the horses he requisitioned from Muslim to carry out raids, plus a small number of trucks with cannons, and it is impossible for carrier-based aircraft to go out at night anyway, so that they have at least close to ten hours of activity. The cavalry attacked the Chinese garrison, the artillery attacked the minesweepers in Gorée Bay, and as long as the mines could not be cleared, the port was useless, and even if they could clear the mines, they could attack the transport ships in the port in this way.

Anyway, if you run away at dawn, even if you are attacked by Chinese carrier-based aircraft, it is much more cost-effective than squeezing in Dakar with a single 380 shell and killing a bunch of them.

His shameless tactics made Fu Cixiang furious, and the next day, after the carrier-based aircraft discovered the traces of the French army, this guy immediately gathered the entire 1st Marine Division and an infantry division that came with him to go over to fight, but without the cover of naval artillery, it was difficult for him to achieve a decisive advantage by relying only on air support. After fighting a positional offensive and defensive battle with the French army defending in danger, although it was considered to have killed and injured the French heavily, the 1st Marine Division also suffered hundreds of casualties, this kind of work is not what they elites need to do, Fu Cixiang, who was sober-minded, immediately retreated to Dakar, and then urged the landing ship to hurry back to Lagos to pull the South African servant army over, this kind of desperate work should be done by them.

While waiting for the South African army to go north, the mine-clearing work in Dakar continued, but under the sneak attacks of the French army from time to time, the mine-clearing progress was seriously delayed, because there was no time to wait for the mine-clearing to be completed here, and there was no need for the entire fleet to be piled up here, Lin Yongsheng simply left the Zhiyuan aircraft carrier and four battle cruisers here to continue to provide support for the 1st Marine Division, while he led other warships to directly bypass the Dakar and go north to Spain.

The distance of more than 2,000 kilometers is nothing more than a voyage of less than three days for this fleet, and when the two super battleships Huaxia and Yanhuang sailed into the Spanish military port of Rota, the Spaniards who came to admire were stunned by these two largest warships ever built by man. Moreover, at the invitation of the Spanish Navy, the two battleships also performed a shooting show, using a decommissioned Spanish armored cruiser as a target, and the battleship Huaxia sent it to the bottom of the sea 10 kilometers away with two 380 piercing bombs in the first salvo.

This scene completely shocked the Spaniards, after all, the worship of giant ships and cannons by this maritime people is deep-rooted.

"This is also the former overlord of the sea!" Looking at the Spaniards on the shore who looked at him with worshipful eyes, Lin Yongsheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"It's just the past, there were more overlords in the past, but now it's us sitting here." Wu Shixun shrugged and said, at this time, an officer came over and handed him a telegram, he glanced at it very casually, and then immediately said with a smile: "Commander, the order of the General Staff, the emperor's holy decree asked us to go to the British coast to fire a few cannons, and say hello to the British first." ”

"Britain? Didn't they block all the coastal ports with mines? And there are thunder curtains in the English Channel and St. George's Strait, and there are also thunder curtains in the North Sea, how can we get in? Lin Yongsheng said suspiciously.

"The mine layout of the English Channel Mine Curtain was sent later, as for the minefield of the Plymouth military port is not large, the British used all the mines on these mines, according to the intelligence of the General Staff, we can shell this port at the maximum elevation angle on the periphery of the Plymouth minefield." Wu Shixun said.

"That's it, order the fleet to prepare to set sail." Lin Yongsheng immediately said that the main guns of the Huaxia and Yanhuang ships have a firing range of 36 kilometers, and at this time, it is true that very few military ports will arrange mines so far, especially the bay outside the Plymouth military port is very open, and it is normal for this situation to occur, the key is to block the thunder curtain of various straits, the big thunder curtain in the North Sea has been laid a long time ago, and the thunder curtain in the English Channel and St. George's Strait has been laid since China entered the war.

Under the puzzled eyes of the Spaniards, the Chinese fleet, which had just arrived at the port of Rota, immediately set sail, and then headed north for England, and as soon as they saw their course, the Spaniards immediately understood where their goal was, and before Lin Yongsheng's fleet arrived, the news that the Chinese navy was going to attack the British mainland had been flooded in the newspapers, and the whole of Britain was immediately panicked. Although the British government is already using mines to protect itself, everyone understands that it is only to prevent landing, and besides, can they deploy mines 500 kilometers away? The combat radius of carrier-based aircraft on an aircraft carrier is more than 500 kilometers, and it makes no difference to ordinary people whether it is a bomb or an artillery shell that falls on their heads, and even the latter is even more terrifying, and the shells will not shoot outwards to solidify qiyou shells. (To be continued......)