Chapter 1671: The Battle of the English Channel (2)

The Sea King was bombarded with five shells, Rao was so, but it was not able to sink the Sea King, the Sea King was too big, too strong, although it suffered heavy losses, but it was still able to hold on, but the ship building was bombed, the mast was also destroyed, as the flagship, the Sea King could no longer continue to command, not to mention that Trafford was not the only one who was killed just now, and several generals also suffered heavy losses......

Without the Sea King in command, the English fleet was even more chaotic, and in the face of the double blow of the Ming fleet, it couldn't support it at all!

At this time, Princess Chrissy, another flagship of the English fleet, took over the command of the English fleet, and with the establishment of the Western fleet, each fleet will basically have a commander-in-chief flagship, a fleet commander flagship, and a two-tier command system, just in case the flagship and the commander encounter artillery bombardment and lose command, and can quickly take over the command of the battle.

Fleet Commander David Robinson took over the command and continued to command the battle, but the situation in front of him has been extremely severe, continue to fight, and the whole army will definitely be annihilated, and now the battle has lasted for an hour, and the English fleet has suffered nearly half of the casualties, retreat, must retreat, avoid the edge of the Ming fleet!

"Order, turn the bow of the ship, retreat to the northeast, return to the Portsmouth military port, with the help of the artillery group in the military port to fight, if the French fleet can arrive in time, maybe we still have a chance to turn the tables, quickly, retreat immediately!"

David Robinson gave an order, and the England fleet began to turn around and flee, but now the Ming fleet has bitten the English fleet to death, and if you want to run, where is it so easy? Although the military port of Portsmouth was only two or three hundred miles away from the site of the naval battle, it was not so easy to reach Portsmouth safely.

Le Ravre, the fleet of the Kingdom of France, almost all stay here, here is the first military port of the Kingdom of France, guarding the mouth of the Seine, along the mouth of the Seine, ordinary warships, can even trace all the way from the Seine to Paris, close to the French capital, so Le Ravre's strategic position in France can be said to be too important, there is no doubt that the strategic military town, and the Tianjin Wei of the Ming Empire has similarities.

An English warship rushed frantically towards the military port from a distance, and had already turned its speed to the fastest speed, and quickly approached the military port of Le Lavre.

"Battleships of England? What are they doing? Crazy push towards us? ”

On the watchtower, several sentries saw it clearly, and secretly wondered in their hearts, and began to wave their flags, signaling the English warships to slow down and not to approach the French military port at will.

"What, the English said that the Ming Imperial fleet came to the Western Ocean and launched an attack on the Western countries, and asked the French fleet to come to the rescue?"

The sentry's eyes widened, and he was overwhelmed with shock.

"Rousseau, quickly, immediately send a message to the commander of the fleet, General Bernard, the English warship warned for help, the Ming Imperial fleet is coming, please prepare for Bona's generals in advance!!"

A sentry hurriedly ran under the watchtower, flew on his horse, and went straight to the headquarters of the fleet on land, now there is nothing to do, the French fleet is resting time, who is okay and always stays on the battleship? The generals wouldn't do that anyway.

At this time, the English warship also came to the dock of Le Lavel, and came to a steady stop, and General Bernard, who had received the news, had already arrived on the pier.

"General Bernard, I, Captain Jefferson of the Imperial Navy of Great England was ordered to ask for help from your army, a few days ago, the British Empire received news from the North American garrison, saying that the Ming Empire is waging war in Central America and North America, and the whole of Mexico has fallen into the hands of the Ming Empire, so the main fleet was sent to prepare to rush to the aid of North America, and as a result, a large-scale Ming Empire fleet was encountered in the northern waters of Guernsey, with more than three hundred large and small warships, including many Western warships mixed in, launching a fierce attack on our main fleet, Our main fleet is passive in the battle, not an opponent, and please ask the French fleet to help! ”

Captain Jefferson said sharply to Bernard.

Bernard frowned and asked, "You said that the main fleet of the Ming Empire came to the Western Ocean?" How can it be? Now the Western Combined Fleet is fighting a war in the South Seas, and the powerful fleet is enough to destroy the entire Ming Fleet, how can their main fleet come to the Western Ocean? Isn't it your tricks? ”

Jefferson was about to kneel down in a hurry, "Admiral Bernard, it's true, at least three hundred warships are besieging our England fleet, and now our England fleet has less than two hundred warships because it sent its fleet to join the combined fleet, where is the opponent of such a huge fleet?" If the fleet of England is completely destroyed, then the next target will undoubtedly be the Kingdom of France, they are definitely here for revenge! Please also ask the general to rush to the aid of the army, otherwise, the English fleet will be completely annihilated! ”

Bernard's heart jumped, if it is true, then the Ming Empire fleet is definitely not good, annihilating the English fleet, their target is definitely Le Ravel or Amsterdam, in order not to fall into the situation of being besieged, their priority target is definitely Le Ravel, in any case, this time, to rush to the aid of the English fleet, the lips are cold, if the English fleet is not the opponent of the Ming fleet, then the French fleet is not the opponent of others!

"Order, all the French fleet will go to the battle, order all the fleet officers and men to return to the warship, and prepare to go to the battle, quickly, quickly!"

Bernard shouted sharply, and the staff officer beside him hurriedly agreed, and hurriedly ran down to give the order.

Bernard's face was solemn, and he shouted: "Immediately send an order to the Le Ravre military port battery group, let them immediately enter a state of combat readiness, prepare for battle, send a message to the direction of Paris, please give an order that all garrisons from Le Ravre to Paris along the Seine River should be put into a state of combat readiness, in case the Ming army lands and invades France!" ”

Fortunately, not many of the officers and men of the French fleet left the warship, most of them rested on the beach, Bernard gave an order, and within two hours, almost all the officers and men returned to their posts, and with Bernard left the military port of Le Lavre, heading into the distance!

Bernard is also worried about it, three hundred warships, the fleet of the Ming Empire is too large, and it is also, if the combat power is not strong, how can it defeat the powerful English navy? In any case, the English Navy can save it, if it can't save it, then keep its own strength, and use Le Ravel to deal with the Ming army, at this time, it must not be strong......

(End of chapter)