Chapter 2722: "Ordinary" Victory

Generally speaking, a battle between battleships is a fight between gods and gods, and the little ghosts should stay away, otherwise the little ghosts' lives will be lost.

A cruiser is a brat. The cruiser's guns hit the battleship to tickle the battleship, and the battleship's heavy artillery can destroy the entire cruiser with a few shots. Therefore, in the battleship line battle of the battleship, the cruiser dare not Get within range of the opponent's shells to avoid misfortune.

Major Roland's adventure was successful, not only was he promoted in the field, but also became a viscount, and was specially treed by a big tree, becoming the protagonist of "Song of Roland" in the new era!

"Song of Roland" is a French heroic epic, a representative work of martial arts songs in the Middle Ages. The story takes place in the era of Charlemagne of the Franks. Charlemagne sent troops to Spain. When the troops returned home, General Roland led the rear team. When Roland's army marched to Stranglethorn Valley, they were ambushed by the Moorish army. Roland led the army to fight bravely, but unfortunately died in battle, becoming a legend of the Frankish soldiers.

In order to praise him, the French created the poem "Song of Roland", which was passed down from generation to generation.

The new "Song of Roland" belongs to the naval captain Roland during the period of Louis XIV. He was loyal, brave, fearless against powerful enemies, and not afraid of danger.

It also implied that Charlemagne had the old Roland, and I, Louis XIV, had the new Roland. The old Roland died in battle, and the new Roland survived. French heroes came out in large numbers, and one generation is better than the next!

The sea battle is fierce!

The number of battleships in the French fleet was inferior to that of the Nanhua Fleet, but the French were united, and for a while the Nanhua Army couldn't beat them.

As the days passed, the decline of the French gradually became apparent. The Nanhua warships with outstanding capabilities destroyed the bulwarks of French warships in large numbers, smashed them, pierced them, and pulled out holes in them, some of which could even pass through people. The bullets of the soldiers of the South China Army continued to shoot in, and they were rewarded from time to time.

It's not just a matter of small numbers. In the French army, the battleships in the rear guard fleet led by Earl Ernie are relatively old, with few artillery pieces, and most of them are domestic sailors (highly skilled and expensive mercenaries are mostly in the front and center. Army), under the name of Earl Ernie, 7 battleships could not withstand the enemy and withdrew from the battlefield, but they did not lose their ability to sail.

At this time, Nanhua's rearguard fleet set off a storm-like attack under the leadership of Admiral Cheng Yu. Cheng Yu, the famous "half-human" admiral, marched with drums in person, and his fleet concentrated on attacking the French rearguard. Fleet, shells are raining down on the French fleet!

The battleship Indomitable, which was the last ship in the rearguard fleet, was hit by multiple shells fired by the Chinese and caused a fire. For "pull the wind".

"Fight for God!"

The French tried to cheer up, and they rose again under the call of religious slogans. All the people aroused their fighting spirit, regardless of sacrifices or injuries, they fought back and forth with the Nanhua Fleet!

Religious belief plays a big role in wars. As devout Catholics, the French believe that it is the duty of Christians to go forward in battle. It is the duty of Christians to drive out the heretics. Killing the enemy can be used as a penance. Invincible, the souls of those who died for the teaching will ascend to heaven!

During the battle, the French showed the fanatical, brave and resolute side of Christians, but because their forces were too weak (15vs25), their attacks could not destroy the Chinese battle line at all. By 5 pm, the naval battle had already begun After 8 hours, Earl Ernie finally saw that the enemy was about to surround him, so he ordered the rear guard fleet to withdraw from the battle line!

When they first withdrew from the battle line, a chain reaction was triggered. Admiral Jean d'Esterre greeted, and the Chinese fleet immediately dispersed, while Vice Admiral Abraham Duquena of the vanguard fleet had more energy than he wanted, and the same Order to withdraw troops.

He has the ability to organize the French forward fleet, retreat in groups, and cover alternately, which is quite lawful!

Even Siresma, the militant vanguard of the South China Army, did not rush to attack the French vanguard fleet, but joined forces with the Chinese army to attack the French central fleet.

The Chinese did not advance aggressively. They used first- and second-tier battleships to attack the French third-tier battleships, causing the French "Marquis", "Furious" and "Lucky" to fall into the net of the Nanhua Fleet. The French ship's firepower was insufficient, and it could not cause much damage to the capital ship of the Nanhua Fleet. The bulwarks of the Nanhua capital ship were strong, and the French ship's artillery below 24-pound guns could not break through the defenses. He had already lost everything under the successive attacks, so he could only use guns to attack, which was better than nothing, and watched himself being beaten to the point where he was gradually unable to fight back.

They were angry, they prayed, but they did not expect God's rescue, but the incendiary bombs of the South China Fleet!

At this time, the three French ships became "dead tigers", and the South China Army arranged for cruise ships to step forward and throw incendiary bombs, that is, lit fire oil tanks, at them.

Well, in this battle, the battleships on both sides only used guns, and did not use any rockets and incendiary bombs.

After an in-depth evaluation, everyone feels that rockets and incendiary bombs have good lethality, but they are also easy to kill themselves---the battleships in the sail period are full of flammable materials, and using rockets and incendiary bombs is probably useless. It is too risky to kill the enemy and burn himself first, and no one will use them until the critical moment.

Battleships are valuable military supplies. Even if a battleship has an accident, no one can take responsibility lightly.

As for cruisers, you can still afford to lose them, but be careful with rockets and incendiary bombs.

Three French ships were burned, becoming the only battle damage on both sides in this naval battle.

The 67 battleships of the French army had to be shed, but many of them were damaged, and several of them were smashed into hulks, so they had to be withdrawn to the naval port for repairs.

Once counted, the number of casualties was more than 2,500.

The loss of the Nanhua Fleet was much less than that of the French Army. None of the battleships were sunk, and the damaged battleships were almost fully recovered after a night of emergency repairs.

More than 300 people were killed and more than 1,000 people were injured.

The Nanhua Fleet believes that compared with previous naval battles, the Battle of Brune is an "ordinary" victory.

The French, on the other hand, publicized that their fleet was not afraid to face a strong enemy, and they fought evenly against the enemy. lottery.

In the Palace of Versailles, King Louis XIV of France and his ministers walked on the avenue lined with flowers.

"Your Majesty, our fleet is still capable of fighting!" Minister of the Navy Colbert announced the good news to Louis XIV.

"That's right! Our fleet showed a fearless will to fight, and they surprised the pagans!" Minister of War Lou Foy also praised.

"Okay, okay!" Louis XIV was very happy, and ordered to reward the fleet heavily, and ordered the fleet to step up maintenance of the battleships, and vowed not to give up until they won a complete victory!

War is indeed the best catalyst for technology. There were not many dry docks in Europe before, but now there are eight dry docks in France alone. When the fleet returns, all the dry docks will work at full capacity immediately. Let’s talk about Jean d’Esse Admiral Trey was really diligent in his affairs. Before the water in the dry dock was drained, he was already observing the injuries under the hull of the third-class battleship "Laurel", which suffered the most losses.

Seeing that the admiral of his family cares so much about the fleet, the French sailors' perception of him has also improved a lot!

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