But the result was that the six cruisers came in circles, like maggots on the tarsal bones, and the two cruisers of the French, like cows harassed by lions, left their destroyers in grief and went to meet them alone, but these two cows must have taken care of the twenty-nine calves, and while the two cruisers were leading them away, the remaining four rushed up and killed the two destroyers.

After understanding that if this continued, there would be no need to wait for the Chinese battleships to be faced, and their own fleet would be lost, the French commander resolutely shifted the target, even if he could not take out the Chinese battleships, killing these cruisers would also be a good result, and the remaining huge fleet immediately swarmed up to prepare to solve them first.

As soon as they pounced, the six undisciplined cruisers did not hesitate to speed up and escape, and in the process of escaping, they also killed a destroyer with their tail guns, and it was only then that the French hit them with a shell, although it was a 240 shell, but because the distance was too far away, the power was weakened, and it was directly catapulted into the sea by the solid alloy armor of the waterline.

The enraged French pursued them relentlessly, and more than 20 warships circled around the six Chinese warships on the sea like a huge net that had been opened, but unfortunately, under the radio guidance of those reconnaissance planes circling and following in the sky, with a high speed of 35 knots, those cruisers always easily got rid of the encirclement and interception of the French, and even occasionally picked one or two destroyers that were easier to attack and ravaged them, and chased them into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean for more than an hour, and the French not only failed to catch up with them, but lost one destroyer.

There were also French planes in the sky, and the two Joan of Arc class also carried a seaplane purchased from China on each of them, and one of them was also scouting in the sky at this time, and at first the pilots of the two sides raised their hands to each other very friendly when they encountered, but when they found out the value of the other party in this battle, they immediately changed their faces, and the backseat pilot of the French plane quickly pasted up. Then he took out the pistol he was wearing and aimed it at the Chinese pilot dozens of meters away, of course, it would be a miracle to be able to hit it in such a situation, and this shot was a normal miss.

However, after reacting, the two Chinese pilots were immediately enraged, and the backseat pilot in charge of reconnaissance took out a submachine gun from behind the seat to shine a shuttle on the French plane, although it also did not hit the pilot, but made several holes in the wings of the plywood, this export version of the aircraft was not of very high quality, and the French pilot was so frightened that he suddenly accelerated and dived to dodge, and as a result, one wing flew off directly. The entire plane lost control and crashed into the sea, and mankind entered the era of air warfare.

The French then took off a spare one, but at this time the two Chinese planes in the sky had already seen the cheapness, and before the plane could climb up, they immediately rushed up at the same time, one left and one right, and the two backseat pilots raised their submachine guns equipped with drums to strafe, and the backseat pilots on the French planes also returned fire with pistols, and this very funny primitive air battle ended in the defeat of the French, and the French plane that was also shot in the wing had to land on the sea.

The French fleet, which lost aerial reconnaissance. It is impossible to catch up with those six Chinese cruisers, and if they continue to pursue at high speed, the transmission system of those destroyers will not be able to stand it, after understanding this. The French commander had to give the order to stop the pursuit, and by now he had lost six destroyers, two sunk and four seriously wounded, if continued. The other side will definitely come back, and the game of eagles catching chickens will be played out again, and it is clear that such a battle is meaningless for the French Navy. So he reluctantly asked the country what to do.

After learning the news, the French cabinet, which had been looking forward to the news of the victory, immediately breathed a sigh of relief and directly ordered the fleet to withdraw to Portugal. Besides, now France has returned these warships that can go to war, what will they do after they are lost? The perfect battleships in the dockyard will not be in service for at least two years, and those ironclad ships with a speed of more than ten knots must not be allowed to protect French maritime interests!

A week later, the peace talks in Singapore finally ended with the French accepting all the conditions put forward by China, acknowledging their defeat, recognizing the independence of Vietnam and returning all its colonies, including Da Nang and Nam Chi, returning all the leased lands to China, and paying the Chinese government 500 million gold francs, including military expenses and ransom payments for captured warships. However, it refused to acknowledge that the French army had killed the Vietnamese king and compensated the Vietnamese royal family, but in exchange for not prosecuting the Vietnamese for the atrocities committed by the Vietnamese against the French expatriates during the war, the Vietnamese government would also not prosecute the French army for crimes against Vietnamese civilians. In addition, the Chinese and Vietnamese governments jointly reaffirmed their respect for the French government's right to protect the Khmer and Laos, thus officially ending the Franco-Vietnamese War and the Sino-French War.

After the signing was completed, the Chinese troops entered Saigon and Haiphong respectively to supervise the retreat of the French army, and the blockade of Kampong Son Bay was lifted, and the trapped French fleet sailed to Singapore, and after the first batch of 200 million francs ransom was paid, the captured Far East Fleet also sailed out of Yazhou Harbor and sailed back to Singapore as well, where it joined the remaining warships of the expeditionary fleet and sailed back to France together.

The establishment of the Far East Fleet of the French Navy has been abolished, and the main fleet will no longer be retained in East Asia, but some river gunboats will be left in Phnom Penh to suppress the resistance of the Khmer and Laotian people along the Mekong River, which means that France has officially withdrawn from the battlefield of hegemony in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

In the original history of East Asia, Japan, the United States abolished, France withdrew, Germany for their friendship with Yang Feng, in this area has no longer taken offensive, now William's main target is Central America and Africa, although the Russians have the heart but powerless, in front of China's huge fleet can only take a defensive position, the same is true of the British, China's position as the hegemon in the whole East Asia has been formally established. Shortly after the signing of the Sino-French Treaty of Singapore, Emperor Yang directly announced that he would be the guardian of the king of Vietnam, and before he reached the age of eighteen, he would replace the king, who was not yet one year old, to directly administer Vietnam, and then hand it over to him when he reached the age of eighteen.

Well, this is indeed shameless, even ordinary people know that in history, monarchs like this kind of adult who take over the power usually have a very high chance of dying, and even if they can take over, most of them have to go through a bloody battle, considering that the strength of the two sides is not comparable, then it is not difficult to guess the fate of the Vietnamese king.

However, there was not much reaction in Vietnam, and those who dared to react were basically martyred, and the rest were all worn out by the bloodshed of this war, and now they just want to live in peace and stability, and even many people welcome it. Because Emperor Yang was too busy to waste his energy on running Vietnam, he was prepared to transform Vietnam in accordance with the constitutional monarchy, which was the dream of the Vietnamese reformers.

Of course, like North Korea, Vietnam will no longer retain its army, and the security will be the responsibility of the Chinese garrison, but it will only need to pay a military expense, but unlike North Korea, Vietnam is still an independent country and is not a member of the Chinese Federal Empire, so it will definitely not have seats in the Imperial Parliament, unless the Vietnamese voluntarily join the Federal Empire, then they can have seats as members of the Empire, and the laws of the Chinese Empire cannot be used in Vietnam, Vietnam has its own laws.

In addition, the supreme ruler of Vietnam is still the king, or the current king's guardian of the Chinese emperor, so Vietnam's constitutional monarchy is also different from China's constitutional monarchy, and in fact, it cannot be regarded as a constitutional monarchy, because they do not have a constitution, in Emperor Yang's own words, he is just a watchman for the Vietnamese royal family, and this kind of change of state system has no right to make his own opinions, and he needs to wait for the king to decide whether to change to a real constitutional monarchy when he becomes an adult.

That is to say, the current Vietnam is still an absolute monarchy, as for the parliament is only a public opinion body, for all the decisions of the parliament of the king or Emperor Yang has the right of veto, of course, including the prime minister they elected and the laws decided, as for the prime minister of Vietnam and the government he leads, it is just an agent of the emperor, instead of the emperor Xià to manage Vietnam, and to be supervised by the emperor sent by the minister in Vietnam.

This set of very dazzling things is essentially a shell of a constitutional monarchy for the Vietnamese, but it is still an absolute monarchy, and it is the autocracy of the Chinese emperor over Vietnam, and Vietnam is also deprived of military and diplomatic rights, and they have no right to intervene in the politics of the Chinese Empire. Of course, it is very simple to change this qiē, learn from Korea and the Ryukyus to directly apply to join the Empire of the Federal Republic of China, the Chinese government and the Emperor Xià will agree, in fact, this is the goal of Emperor Yang, force them to join themselves, of course, this is a matter of the future, no need to worry, there are still eighteen years!

In short, whether it is autocracy or democracy, Vietnam has completely fallen into the hands of the Chinese, and the Chinese Army has an additional Vietnamese garrison in the formation sequence, the headquarters is located in Saigon, and the commander Admiral Liu Yongfu has also added an additional Cam Ranh Bay Defense Command in the Chinese Navy establishment sequence, and large-scale construction has begun here, because this is the future home port of the Nanyang Fleet, including the railway from Nanning to Hanoi, and the construction of the railway connecting Saigon has also begun.

Of course, the tens of thousands of tons of crude oil in Cam Ranh Bay must be cleaned up first. (To be continued......)