"Of course, Your Excellency, there is one more point, if you choose to retreat, then once we find such signs in your army, we will immediately fire incendiary bombs, so you had better not have such thoughts." The officer said with a smile as he pointed to the plane hovering overhead.

General Pierre and his officers were stupid, they were not even allowed to run, and only surrendered or died on two roads, isn't this a clear bully?

"Your Excellency, you don't have a lot of time, please hurry up and make a decision! And I need to remind you that the smoke from the burning of crude oil is highly toxic, but this is not a deliberate use of poison gas bombs, so there is no violation of the Beijing Convention, because any combustion produces smoke, which is only an inevitable physical phenomenon. The officer continued.

Pierre couldn't help but shudder, because he knew that with Yang Feng's identity, he would definitely not allow the Chinese army to take the initiative to use poison gas bombs, so none of the French troops under him carried gas masks, and this thing was undoubtedly an annoying extra burden for the soldiers in the hot and humid Vietnamese jungle, if this was the case, the entire area around Cam Ranh Bay would almost become a dead place.

Their consideration did not last long, in fact, these French commanders knew very well that France had lost the war, and even if they could escape, it would be nothing more than to continue to go to Saigon and wait for the same choice again, and surrender to the Chinese army, especially in this kind of desperate situation, there is no shame, after the one-hour deadline is up, including the Far East Fleet, the entire Cam Ranh Bay 35,000 French troops officially surrendered to the Chinese army.

The French soldiers of one division after another walked out of their own lines of defense in formation, and then lined up to put their weapons aside, Pierre as the commander led the division commanders, including Xia Fei, and the brigade commanders handed over their sabers to the Chinese generals led by Nie Shicheng, this scene is forever left in the lens of history, after the United States of America, the second power was defeated by the Chinese army.

At the same time as the surrender of the Army. The French coastal defense units also walked out of the fortresses and lined up outside to wait for the Chinese soldiers who rushed to receive them in small boats, while on the sea outside Cam Ranh Bay, the remaining two battleships, four protective cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 18 torpedo boats of the Far East Fleet, also under the supervision of the Chinese soldiers who boarded the ships, fired all the torpedoes to the sea, the guns were loaded with gun covers, and then the fish sailed out of the mine passage and sailed to the open sea to the Yazhou military port under the escort of the Chinese fleet.

When the news reached Singapore. Delcasse could only sigh helplessly, he really didn't understand why a victory, even a small victory, was so difficult for France, but the defeat was bigger than the other, so that every time they met, they could see the smile on Zhang Quan's face a little brighter, in this case, even if he was talented, there was nowhere to show, as for the French army in Saigon, it was panic, which meant that it would not be long before it was their turn to face the Chinese.

On the same day. Far away in the western waters of Morocco, Africa, the French merchant ship Petrel, which has just sailed out of the Strait of Gibraltar, is slowly heading south, its destination is Dakar, Africa. The ship was loaded with some French cotton cloth, red wine and other goods, and still used an old-fashioned steam engine, and the fastest speed was only a little more than ten knots. A shipping company belonging to Paris was supposed to take the English Channel route for fear of encountering a Chinese fleet that was said to be bombarding the French coast. That's why it was loaded in Marseille instead.

But it is clear that this rumor is false.

"Captain, look at what that is?" The exclamation of the observers on the mast woke up Captain Clermont, who was talking to a lady who was carrying a group of guests, including several women, all of whom had gone to the colony to visit their husbands, and even their children.

Clermont quickly picked up the binoculars and headed in the direction he was pointing, a biplane seaplane was slowly flying in the sky, and the golden badge on the wing could be clearly seen as the distance got closer.

Double Dragon Hug Sun, the national emblem of the Chinese Empire.

When he saw the nationality of this plane, Captain Clermont's face immediately turned green, and he did not hesitate to rush into the cockpit and shouted at the helmsman: "Quick, turn around and go to Real, damn it, how can the Chinese appear here." ”

Of course, Lin Taizeng is not interested in going to the coast of France to entangle with those destroyers, how good it is to block the merchant ships coming out of the French Mediterranean route outside the Strait of Gibraltar, and even from the English Channel, anyway, as long as the merchant ships going to the west coast of Africa have to pass through this area, including those going to South America, those coal-burning merchant ships have to be refueled in West African ports before they can sail directly to Brazil, and the Haiyan is his first prey after arriving.

After receiving the report of the seaplane, the Canglong-class cruiser Mocking Wind immediately broke away from the formation and pounced on the target at a high speed of 35 knots, and the poor Haiyan was holding back the billowing smoke and desperately running towards the Spanish port real, and this giant ship of more than 4,000 tons was murderously straddling in front of it, and the muzzles of eight 152-millimeter main guns were aimed at the merchant ship, and then the sailors on the ship waved the flag.

"This is the cruiser Mocking Wind of the American Fleet of the Chinese Navy, now carrying out the maritime blockade mission of France, all French merchant ships and warships will be sunk, and now order all the crew of your ship to leave the ship immediately, captain, what should we do?" The first mate on the petrel asked Captain Clermont with a sad face as he read the flag.

"What to do? What else can I do? Abandon ship, this damn war, I really don't know why those guys in Congress like those Vietnamese monkeys so much, and the damn navy, what are we paying for them for? Let the family call to the door, tell them, we still have passengers on the boat, let them provide two more sampans! Captain Clermont gritted his teeth and roared, knowing that his boss should go bankrupt now, unless the insurance company was willing to pay for his losses, and it was hard to say who would pay for the insurance company's losses.

After receiving the Petrel's answer, the Mocking Wind quickly lowered two rubber boats, and then four sailors rowed over to help bring all the passengers on board to the Mocking Wind, and then sent the Petrel and the ship's cargo to the bottom of the sea with a salvo of eight main guns.

However, Captain Clermont and the captured crew and passengers were well accommodated and not treated uncivilly, and after a meal of oriental cuisine, they were specially transported by the Mocking Wind to the neutral Spanish port of Real, and then handed over to the local officials.

The sinking of the Petrel officially opened the prelude to the French naval blockade, and Lin Taizeng chose a sea area that was very favorable to him, he parked four capital ships and supply ships in the sea not far from the Funchal Islands, and then released all six cruisers, even as far as the Azores, to establish a naval blockade from the Azores to Morocco. With the help of seaplanes with a search radius of more than 500 kilometers, intercepting and sinking all French merchant ships heading south from this sea area was like a steel wall blocking the road from West Africa and the Americas, and even the French merchant ships on the American route were not spared.

He didn't care about the threat of the French Navy at all, it was more than 2,000 kilometers away from the nearest military port in France, and the slow old cruisers were tantamount to suicide, and they were all scum in front of the 280 main guns of the Taihang and Wuyi, and their only two remaining Joan of Arc class ships were sent to death. The only destroyers that can pose a substantial threat are those imitation Canglong-class destroyers, not to mention whether this kind of 500-ton small ship has the combat capability of 2,000 kilometers, or even if it has this ability, it is basically the target of slaughter in front of those late-stage Canglong-class cruisers with the same speed of up to 35 knots.

His naval blockade has plunged the French government into a real panic, and this blockade has not had much impact on ordinary French people, and even the crew and passengers of the Petrel who returned to Paris by train are still praising the gentlemanly demeanor of the Chinese Navy. In the week that followed, Lin Taizeng's fleet sank four French merchant ships in succession, including one oil tanker returning from the United States, and the French economy was devastated in just one week, because they had lost markets in Asia and now even in the Americas and West Africa because of the war in Vietnam.

In the angry denunciation of the capitalists, the French navy finally had the courage to organize a fleet and send out their only two Joan of Arc-class cruisers and more than thirty destroyers.

However, in this way, they are faced with a problem that cannot be avoided, those destroyers certainly do not have a combat radius of 2,000 kilometers, in fact, the maximum range of such destroyers is only 2,000 kilometers, especially at high speeds, it is not even 2,000 kilometers, let alone hitting or driving at the destination. The Chinese Navy dared to let destroyers fight with the ocean, that is because they have six large supply ships of 15,000 tons, the French do not have this, that is to say, they need to be supplied halfway, the Spaniards will definitely not help, Canovas is almost wearing a pair of pants with the Chinese, it is good not to give the black hand.

In this way, the only option for the French is Portugal.

But the question of how much to buy Portugal is a headache. (To be continued......)