Chapter 1672: The Battle of the English Channel (3)

Bernard led the French fleet on an expedition and soon discovered the routed English fleet.

Although Bernard had some understanding of the combat power of the Ming fleet, when Bernard saw the defeated England fleet, he was still frightened and almost turned around and ran!

The English fleet, in the world, the super fleet second only to the Dutch fleet, even if it was because of the expedition to the Ming Dynasty, more than a hundred warships were transferred, there are still more than 200 warships in hand, and the veritable super combat power is more than a step stronger than the French fleet!

However, is the England fleet in front of you still the England fleet that was famous and invincible at the beginning? The English fleet of 200 warships now has less than 100 warships left, and even if there are less than 100 warships, there are still many warships that are still smoking and blazing, constantly collapsing above the sea!

In just such a short period of time, the English fleet was beaten so badly, so how strong must the Ming fleet be?

I can't help but be afraid of Bernard, the French fleet is not weak, but it is only not weak, and the strength of the French fleet today is similar to that of the Spanish fleet, and it is even slightly worse, after all, Spain was the hegemon of the sea, with a deep heritage, and the skinny camel is bigger than a horse, after dispatching dozens of warships to form a joint fleet to the South Seas, the Spanish fleet still has hundreds of warships, but the French fleet now has less than 100 warships, how can this be the opponent of the Ming fleet?

Seeing the arrival of the French fleet, Xu Yifan frowned and shouted: "Lao Cha, the order, the fleet turns, let go of the English fleet, and approach the French fleet, just right, annihilate the French fleet on the spot!" ”

The Ming fleet pounced on the French fleet!

Bernard looked horrified, wiped it, why did they all pounce on my fleet, damn it, this is a head-on collision, how can Lao Tzu's fleet be the opponent of the Ming fleet?

"Quick, hurry up and ask the English fleet to rush to the aid of the army and fight side by side!"

Bernard snapped.

On the mast tower, the signal soldiers kept waving their flags, asking the English fleet to fight side by side, but the current English fleet has already been frightened, who dares to rush up and fight against the Ming fleet? Two hundred warships were half annihilated by the Ming army in World War I, what a fart? If you continue to fight, the casualties will be even heavier, run!

Bernard saw that the English fleet had no intention of turning back, and almost broke his belly, grandma, Lao Tzu was kind enough to send troops to help, you guys are so good, throw Lao Tzu to meet it yourself, there is no humanity, it's too inhuman, Lao Tzu is not finished with you!

The distance between the Ming fleet is getting closer and closer, and it is less than ten miles away from the French fleet. Fart? That's a self-defeating trap......

"Order, the fleet immediately turns around and withdraws to Leravel, quick, quickly withdraw to Leravel!"

Bernard roared sharply, and the French fleet turned around frantically and fled in the direction of Le Lavre, not daring to fight at all, but the two fleets were only ten miles apart, and the huge fleet turned around, where was there such a fast speed? I can only watch the Ming fleet approach step by step!

Finally, when the two fleets were only three miles apart, the French fleet made a U-turn and retreated at full speed into the distance.

Cha Shu stomped his foot fiercely and said angrily: "Fuck, this fleet is too slippery, it's really fast!" ”

"What's the hurry?"

Xu Yifan looked at the investigation bolt and said: "Order, mobilize the First Fleet to chase the French fleet until Le Ravel, don't rush to attack, wait for the order, the Second Fleet escorts the land from Uistreon to land, advance from the land in the direction of Le Ravel, on both land and water, and flank Le Ravel!" ”

Xu Yifan knows that with the help of the French fleet, and then with the help of the battery, he wants to take Le Ravel, but it is not so easy, if at this time, the Dutch fleet makes a move, then the Ming fleet will not have any chance of winning, at this time, the most important thing is to dispatch the army, first take Le Ravel, and then divide the troops to Paris and Amsterdam on two roads, as long as they take the capital of France and the Netherlands, they can't surrender if they want to!

The First Fleet, under the leadership of Zheng Haotian, continued to pursue the French Fleet, while the Second Fleet began to advance in a southeasterly direction, and soon came to Uistreon, a small seaport in the northwest of France, with a small population, because it was only a few dozen miles away from Le Lavre, and there were no troops stationed here, which could be said to be the best landing place.

The First Fleet covered the landing of the troop carriers behind one by one, and the troops of the second and third towns of the Tianxiong Army landed one after another, which lasted for a whole day, and 50,000 troops completed the landing and began to assemble.

Tan Guilin personally led the elite army of the two towns, and went straight to the French city of Caen in the south, and occupied Caen without bloodshed, with 50,000 elite troops, more than 200 artillery pieces alone, and Caen's troops were only hundreds, where could they resist?

After taking Caen, Tan Guilin led the army across the river and went straight to Le Lavre, from landing to arriving at the Le Lavre military port, it took less than three days to come to the port and begin to launch a fierce attack on the Leravel military port!

50,000 troops besieged the fort of Le Lavre, not to mention the garrison of Le Lavre, even the entire Kingdom of France, can not make up 50,000 elite army, the army of the Kingdom of France is only 60,000 people, and more than 20,000 people were transferred away from the expedition to the South Seas, only 30,000 troops remained, and the entire Le Lavre army is only a few thousand army, and the remaining 20,000 army forces are stationed in various military fortresses of the Kingdom of France.

At the same time as the Tianxiong army launched an attack, the Ming fleet also launched an attack on the French fleet in the port of Le Lavre, and the French fleet tried its best to resist the Ming fleet, but could not withdraw to support the Le Lavre battery group.

The 50,000 Tianxiong army pulled out all their artillery and launched a fierce attack on the fort, Tan Guilin personally commanded the operation, where could the defenders of the fort withstand the attack of such a strong force, in less than a day, the Le Lavre battery was lost, occupied by the Tianxiong army, the Tianxiong army aimed all the artillery on the fort at the French fleet outside, and began to launch a fierce attack on the French fleet, nearly 200 shore defense guns were put into the attack at the same time, the French fleet was unlucky, there was no way to worry, and it was beaten miserably!

At this critical juncture, the Dutch fleet finally arrived belatedly and rushed to Le Lavre to aid France!

(End of chapter)