Chapter 320: Bad News from France
In the canyon leaving Hamna Tower, the group was talking and laughing, starting with a smug Ali and Han Xing, followed by a chagrined Sir Hansen and a gloating Roy. But in the end, there was one more fat man who was dejected and out of breath.
"Hahaha~ I have now learned the eighteen palms of dragon descending, and I am about to be invincible in the world! Whew, bang, bang~ hit" Ali's dark face was full of energy, and he waved his palms wildly in the air, and used his mouth to dub the sound.
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it! worked hard to trick Xiao Qianlong into handing over his world-famous martial arts, and actually cheapened Ali's old briquette! It's a pity, it's a pity! Hanschel, you say yes? Sir Hansen drooped his face and poked Han Xing's back door in a sly manner.
"Actually, I think it's okay! Anyway, I'm not without gains, it's nothing more than that I haven't learned the eighteen palms of the dragon, personal chance! Opportunism is not the right way after all! Han Xing put on a philosopher's face (qíng) and sighed.
"Isn't it because you don't have enough strength that you didn't learn to descend the dragon eighteen palms? You're a ranger-type warrior in the first place, and you haven't learned anything yet! How much can you see me? Roy was very happy, he was not interested in martial arts, but now that he was finally going back to the infinite space, he was naturally overjoyed. So he spoke out to comfort Sir Hansen.
"I'm a big loser! Where is this missing a world-famous martial art, it is even more uncomfortable than missing 100 million, missing your wedding, and missing your coronation! Eighteen Palms of the Dragon, I am so close to you, but you are so far away from me! It's just 1 o'clock, 1 o'clock! How can my strength be 14 points! Sir Hansen cried.
"You deserve it, who told you not to keep the free genus (xìng)?" Han Xing scolded with a smile.
"I knew that I would go out with more survival points, why should I buy so many dogs (pì) holy sailor grenades and holy water! I only have 10,000 survival points! ”
"10,000, isn't it just right?" Roy asked, surprised.
"Don't forget that you still need 1000 to study!" Han Xingyou (qíng) reminded.
"When I didn't ask, the festival mourned and changed!" Looking at Sir Hansen with a handful of snot and a handful of tears, Roy was afraid that he would treat him as a handkerchief, so he hurriedly distanced himself from him.
"Hansen, listen to me! As far as your hands are thin and tender (ròu), they are also used to rub sunscreen for girls on the beach, but it is far from practicing the eighteen palms of the dragon! Ali took Sir Hansen's hand, swung it from side to side, looked and looked, and then commented.
Then he took out his hand, shook it in front of Sir Hansen, and said, "See, you have to be like me to practice this kind of masculine martial arts!" Ali had a few calluses in his palm, and the whole was black and shiny, apparently because of Qinlian's two-handed weapons.
"Forget it, don't talk nonsense with you, I'll go first! If I am careless in making friends, when I meet you villains, my self-confidence will be shattered! I have to go back to find comfort, bye-bye~ you guys! Sir Hansen sighed and chose to return.
"You seem to owe me a boat! You sold my Bucks in the first place, and I haven't settled this account with you yet! Han Xing suddenly thought of this stubble, and hurriedly shouted to Sir Hansen.
"Hahaha~ It's late! Goodbye~ You! Sir Hansen said proudly as he looked at the rising white light from his (shēn) and said with an arrogant expression.
"I'll go, won't I pay the bill? Ali, help me hold down this creditless scum! Han Xing tugged at Sir Hansen's sleeve as he said to Ali behind (shēn).
"Go, go, don't make trouble! Hey, why am I still here? Sir Hansen looked at the white light of his Zhou (shēn) in surprise, and jumped in place twice, looking confused as a monk.
"Hahaha, this space is helping me! I want you to pay off your debts before you can go back! Han Xing laughed proudly.
"I remember, it looks like when we first came in, there was a hint in the space that it would take an hour to prepare for the return!" Roy said suddenly.
"An hour?" Sir Hansen's face turned green when he heard this, and on the contrary, Han Xing and Ali had vicious smiles on their faces, "An hour, hey, hey!" I'll see where you're going! Han Xing rubbed his hands and said.
"I just wanted to find someone to try the Eighteen Palms of Dragon Descending that I just learned!" Ali looked at Sir Hansen with a malicious gaze, and wisps of white mist even rose from his right hand because of the operation of his true qi.
"Murder! This space, an hour? He also deliberately highlighted me with white light, is this for fear that people will not see me? Help me! Sir Hansen looked at Ali's ill-intentioned smile, swallowed a mouthful of saliva (qíng) 不自 (jìn), and then turned (shēn) and ran, Han Xing and Ali glanced at each other and immediately chased after him.
Leaned less, Sir Hansen was held by Han Xing and Ali and slipped back, "If you have something to say, you have something to say, I will compensate, can't I compensate?" Remember the boat Roy and I were on when we came to Egypt? It's yours! Sir Hansen drooped his head like a defeated rooster and resigned himself to his fate.
"You mean the ????? that was spit out by your cat owner and still smells sour?" Han Xing felt a churn in his stomach when he thought about the smell he smelled on the boat when he first took the boat to Hamnata Tower.
"Don't underestimate the Ranger! It was a serious three-masted cruiser, 35 meters long and 5 meters wide, with two gun decks on the left and starboard sides, and 30 guns! The maximum speed can reach up to 20 knots (one section is 1852 meters, rounded 1800 meters, 20 knots is 36000 meters, and the speed of 20 per hour is equal to the speed of 36 km/h)! Sir Hansen said with a smug face.
"Well, it looks like I don't have a choice either!" Han Xing put on a helpless look. However, the heart is happy, this Ranger is a serious fast cruiser, and it can be called the existence of a wolf on the sea. Is he short of one such warship to go to the Caribbean world to find that Horst? Sir Limburg!
After everyone's (shēn), the fat man with a sad face was Yuan Tonggu, and the reason why he followed Han Xing and the others was for a reason - his Infinity Watch was gone! In other words, after he was resurrected, he didn't find his Infinity watch, but it was probably a good thing for him, because he could leave the infinite world and live here in peace.
With his timid and fearful character and fat material, it is not necessarily a bad thing to stay here. Han Xing promised to introduce him to Napoleon, who was named (ài) Guardian of the "Mule", and Ano, Napoleon, who was a Guardian of Scholars. With his knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language, it is not a problem to mix and eat under Napoleon, and he can even get mixed into a university to become a professor!
When Han Xing and his party came out of the canyon, they saw the French army who were busy cleaning the battlefield and treating the wounded. And his appearance is obviously very in line with the European imagination of angels, except that he is not a little child with light (pì) strands and wings, he is 100% a little angel!
So he was immediately welcomed by the French army, who had even seen monsters with wolf heads, and the presence of angels was not so unusual, wasn't it?
Through the words of the soldiers when they prayed, Han Xing probably deduced the end of the Reaper army, just like in the original drama (qíng), the endless Reaper army suddenly turned into yellow sand when it was still more than ten meters away from the French army, needless to say, it was because Han Xing killed the Demon Scorpion Emperor.
Han Xing followed the French army back to Cairo City, and also found the "Ranger" that Sir Hansen had paid for him in the port of Cairo City. The ship didn't look ornate, unlike the flamboyant and artistic French, British-built warships were usually plain and straightforward, and in the eyes of a pragmatic British shipwright, it was an idiot to spend time and energy painting and carving the stern and the ship (shēn)! Battleships are used to fight wars, what do you want so many patterns and oil paint?
Han Xing was generally very satisfied with the battleship, the smooth deck was polished like a mirror. There was no one on board, and the sailors had been dismissed long after Sir Hansen had arrived in Egypt. Han Xingbu (jìn) thought evilly, this guy Hansen can't be trying to deliberately fix himself, right? Maybe he's snickering on his chuáng right now: "Look how you get this boat away!" I'll see how the two of you drive a boat! You think you're Jack? Sparrow and Will? Turner? ”
However, this was not difficult for Han Xing, Han Xing opened the door of space, but in a few moments, the Ranger went to the Dragon Girl River to accompany the Running Wolf.
When Han Xing returned to Napoleon's headquarters in Cairo, he found Napoleon pacing the room anxiously like a hungry wolf at half past four in the afternoon.
"What's wrong?" Han Xing asked in surprise, and everyone in the room also looked pensive. Berthier frowned in contemplation. Murat pretended to touch his chin, this one was obviously indiscriminate. Marmont's face was solemn and silent.
"The Mediterranean Fleet is finished!" Napoleon sighed and replied.
"Finished?"
"That's right, Nelson chased after him, and more than fifty warships in Alexandria were wiped out by Nelson, and only four of them escaped." Napoleon sighed.
It should be noted that the Mediterranean Fleet was not actually under the control of Napoleon, although Napoleon had a higher military rank than the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, but he only existed as a passenger. However, given that the Mediterranean Fleet received an order to cover Napoleon's arrival in Egypt, they had to desperately protect Napoleon on the battlefield. This, coupled with the fact that Napoleon also had ships selected from the Venetian and Naya fleets, as well as the Vostok, led to his dominance of the entire Combined Fleet.
But that's all, with Napoleon's arrival in Egypt, his affiliation with the Mediterranean Fleet ended, and the French Mediterranean Fleet stationed in Alexandria repeatedly tried to break through Nelson's blockade and get in touch with the mainland. And then it all happened:
On that day, the wind was beautiful, the sky was cloudless, and there was not a single sail shadow on the vast sea, so the Mediterranean Fleet again sent two ships to break through, and halfway through, they suddenly encountered the entanglement of three British express ships.
Seeing the situation, the Mediterranean Fleet could not turn a blind eye, so they sent two warships to support. But all this was Nelson's plan to lure the snake out of the hole, and in this way, the warships of the Mediterranean Fleet added fuel one after another.
Eventually, when the Mediterranean Fleet was entangled with the British speedboats, Nelson's own heavy warships were killed. How is the Mediterranean fleet, dominated by cruisers, an opponent of heavy warships? At this time, it was too late to retreat, and in the end, only 4 of the more than 40 warships of the Mediterranean Fleet escaped from the encirclement, and the others were sunk or captured by Nelson.
"And news from the French side!" Napoleon pulled out another letter, slapped it on the table, and said.
"Good news, or bad news?" Han Xing asked subconsciously when he reached out to touch the letter.
"See for yourself!" Looking at Napoleon's cloudy face, Han Xing knew that nothing good would probably happen!
Sure enough, the letter said that Italy was back at war, and the reason was that the new king of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Giulio? Advance? Savoy, the duke who was rich in talent but ambitious (xiōng), has died! This Giulio? The Duke of Savoy played a decisive role in Napoleon's conquest of Italy, and if it weren't for him, the Kingdom of Sardinia would not have defected, and everything might have become what it was in history.
And now, his death also explains why in the original history, the Kingdom of Sardinia was only a truce with Napoleon, because at that time, the Duke of Savoy was no longer there!
After expressing his remembrance to this old friend, Han Xing set his sights on the following. Thanks to Julio? Advance? The death of the King of Savoy, who died without leaving a suitable heir. As a result, the throne of the Kingdom of Sardinia is now vacant. Coincidentally, in Giulio's father's generation, a brother married a Habsburg princess, and now, the descendant of the Punzhi family, with the support of Franz, intends to come to inherit the throne of Sardinia.
France obviously did not want this to happen, and it was foreseeable that if the nobles who were related to the Habsburgs inherited the Kingdom of Sardinia, they would certainly be politically biased in favor of Austria. The Directory preferred to prop up a native Sardinian nobleman to inherit the throne or to establish a Sardinian Republic altogether. Thus, around the question of the succession to the Sardinian throne, a battle for the succession to the Sardinian throne began.
Venice, Naya, and even the Pope's crown, which was already unstable, all contributed to the trouble. Now the Directory saw why "Italy can't do without Napoleon"! But they still didn't want to invite Napoleon, the plague god, back, for no other reason, Napoleon was too strong! They were so strong that they were afraid of it, but the truth was that they simply couldn't come up with the right people to lead the Italian army and defend Napoleon's victory. The "amateur generals" who were engaged in art and law were simply no match for the Austrians, and they were beaten and disarmed, and they were defeated one after another.
The letter came to Napoleon's loyal fan, Monsieur Kellermann, who continued to serve as a commissioner for the Italian Front, at the center of the battle, and the information was clearly first-hand.
"I need to go back to France as soon as possible!" Napoleon slapped the table and said, "The waste of the Directory is about to ruin the good things I have done in Italy!" ”