Chapter 665: Post-war

"Pap-pap-pap-pap ..." Not a clapping sound, nor that kind of voice, but Wallace's lieutenant Jackson was slapped by the English fleet commander Turnbull. Jackson's left and right faces were swollen, but Turnbull still didn't want to let him go ...

"You idiot, why didn't you intercept the ship carrying the French knight?" General Turnbull slapped two more times and continued to growl:

"I let you salvage the warhorse! Let you salvage the warhorse!"

After the fight, General Turnbull pointed at Jackson's nose and scolded:

"What is your special pig? Is the French knight important or the war horse important? With the noble French knight master not going to hunt, but stopping the boat to fish the war horse, I have never seen your shortsighted officer!"

General Turnbull was mad, and Jackson ’s forty small warships were the only British forces at the time on the east side of the French fleet. If Jackson scrambled to stop the ships full of knights who had fled to Calais, then this time, England could kill at least a few thousand French knights. As long as these thousands of French knights die, the French army will not be able to slow down for many years. Because those French knights with strong martial arts and literacy are the backbone of the French army. Drowning them in the sea is equivalent to breaking the backbone of the French army. The French want to restore their vitality, it is impossible in ten or eight years. If at this time the rivals of the French, such as Spain and the Habsburgs, take the opportunity to send troops, it is possible for France to be disabled.

However, in front of this idiot named Jackson, when he saw the French knight pushing the battle horse down the sea, he could not run immediately ...

A warhorse is worth hundreds of gold coins. The French pushed thousands of warhorse down into the sea, and the sea was full of whimper. According to Jackson from the merchant family, it was not more than seven thousand horses, but more than 700,000 gold coins ...

So, out of businessmen's nature, in order not to drown the horses of horses, Jackson quickly commanded his men to salvage the horses ...

When General Turnbull defeated the French fleet led by Earl Valjeri, who was in the lead and arrived with the main fleet, he found that Jackson was taking his boat and was struggling to salvage the warhorse ...

Turnbull was directly mad. At this time, the ship carrying the French knight on the east side had already ran away, and he could not catch up. After all, everyone is a Kirk sailboat. The opponent ran for so long early, and then dropped the horses and a lot of light weight to go into battle, the main fleet could not catch up with them.

Before that, if Jackson's fleet, which was on the east side of the battlefield, could control those ships, until the main force arrived, at least half of the French knights could be killed ...

But this hapless Jackson didn't look at the big picture. When he saw the valuable war horses, he went directly to catch the horses, and he couldn't care about the boat that chased the French knight. By the time the British main fleet arrived, everything was too late.

General Turnbull, who was violently throbbing, directly caught the stupid hat of Jackson and slammed it, but he still couldn't help it ...

Captain Jackson was actually wronged too-I got so many "gold coins" up, how about hitting me? This is more than 700,000 gold coins ...

It's really not surprising that Jackson's head is originally from the family of civilian merchants, and is only Wallace's deputy. It can only be regarded as a low-level officer. Where can you have a strategic vision like the top?

Seeing a pair of "gold coins" swimming in the sea, Jackson didn't care about it. Moreover, most mercenaries of this era will make the same choice as Jackson.

For example, in the "Battle of Fornovo" played by Charles VIII and the Italian Allies, Charles VIII did just that. In order to prevent the army from being entangled by the enemy, Charles VIII ordered that most of the treasures robbed from the Kingdom of Naples be scattered on both wings of the French army, and then led the army to retreat. The six thousand cavalry of the Italian Allied Forces, which was originally responsible for outsourcing the French army, saw the treasures on the ground and could not care about chasing the French.

The Earl of Valjeri ordered the knights to push the war horses into the sea. In addition to reducing the burden on the transport ship, there was no intention of attracting the attention of the British army. After all, this is also learning from the former Fawang ...

Unexpectedly, this trick is really good. Jackson's fleet, which was originally responsible for intercepting the French transport ship that was out of the fleet, immediately forgot to pursue after seeing the full of valuable French warhorse on the sea, and went directly to salvage the warhorse ... because his fleet was small It ’s impossible to install so many warhorse. After the arrival of the main British fleet, Jackson still fooled and greeted the friendly warships to fish the French warhorse ...

Not to mention, many grassroots officers and ordinary sailors in England are particularly tempted ...

Turnbull couldn't catch up with the French Knights' transport team that could not be seen by the sails, but he was helpless to let the fleet go to catch the French warhorse. After all, this is also a seizure, and it is the big one in seizure. However, Jackson, as the initiator, is inevitably drawn ...

What's more, after the war, Jackson didn't want to be rewarded. Whether he was punished or not, it was all luck ...

However, this time the materials seized by the English fleet are really rich ...

The French defeated more than 7,000 cavalry horses, hundreds of bronze artillery pieces, a total of more than 30,000 people supplying 20,000 armies and more than 10,000 people, and more than 7,000 horses. Clean grain ...

Seeing these ships and ships of grain, Turnbull understood that the French had prepared the grain for the Northern Expedition of the English army, and they still had a lot of surplus ...

In addition, Turnbull also seized more than 90 large French warships (including those hooked French warships), and hundreds of French transport ships.

Originally, this fleet still had thousands of French infantry, but in the previous engagements, most of them were ordered by Turnbull, and even the boat took the people to the sea ...

Today, in addition to the abundant materials, the fleet has only left French captives with surrender of less than two thousand people, and more than six thousand French civilians ...

Turnbull had planned to kill the French soldiers, but after knowing that the French knights had escaped, he stopped the slaughter of those French infantry. Because, it makes no sense ...

Henry VII wanted to kill the French knights as the backbone of the French army, not the infantry. Infantry can be recruited from the private sector, and training for two or three years is very good. The Cavaliers are different, they need to train for more than ten years, and they need a lot of investment.

Therefore, for those infantrymen, it doesn't matter whether they are killed or not. Because people are the most indispensable in France. It is a large group of infantry who randomly grab some strong men from the people to train. Only by killing those knights can France hurt its bones ...

So, after Turnbull counted the results, he took the fleet back with pleasure ...

The reason why he is so interested is because he knows that he failed to meet the requirements of Henry VII this time. Although it is a small contribution, it is still much worse than the French knights who killed all. According to the Navy Secretary Johnson ’s previous account, if he could kill the French Knight ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ he might not be promoted to Earl. Today, this is unlikely. Therefore, he was only interested in slacking ...

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Sure enough, Henry VII was happy, but not very excited after learning the results. For Turnbull, who commanded the victory of the fleet, Henry VII only rewarded some money and land. As for the promotion of the knighthood, there is no mention ...

As for the unlucky Jackson, he is still a civilian, and he has not become a nobleman because of his military achievements. Because the mistakes he made were enough to offset any of his credit ...

Instead, Wallace brought his **** fight, because he was entangled with the French fleet, and he got the title of Baron. It was just that, dragged by Lieutenant Jackson, Wallace ’s enclosure was only 600 acres, about the size of a knight collar ...

Because he could not catch the French knights, Henry VII was too lazy to harm the French infantry who had surrendered. For those infantrymen, Henry VII shut them all up, waiting for Louis XII to send them to redeem them ...

On the side of Hastings, when Turnbull led his seized French ships to the vicinity of Hastings Port, and swayed around, the French commander Abel of Hastings knew that the trend was gone, So he surrendered altogether. Because, the 5000 French infantry he led has completely become a lone army, there is no hope. In addition to surrender, there is no other choice ...

Henry VII didn't embarrass him, anyway, they were all infantrymen, and it was good to exchange some pocket money with Louis XII ...

As for the seized French military supplies and a large number of war horses, Henry VII was also skewed. With so many supplies and more than 7,000 strong French horses, it is definitely a fortune for the trenches. It is worth the financial revenue of England for several years. How can we not make Henry VII happy? ) Download the free reader !!