Chapter 195: Great Suffering
This attack on the French army was not intended to land, but there is such a good opportunity for meritorious service, of course the commander will not miss it, they left 20 warships to guard the estuary, continue to go deep into the canal, looking for a suitable landing site, if he takes the port of Windsor in one fell swoop, he will become a combat hero of France and even NATO! A rush of blood rushed to the top of his head, "Where are all the enemy's warships?" The doubts were left behind. (For the latest chapters, please visit wèn)
Later, the captain of the Marine Corps who successfully landed in the depths of the canal discovered the information that made the commander tremble all over his body - the legendary airship Air Force One was discovered! The ultimate boss of the Windsor consortium is in the port of Windsor and is besieged!
As for why the airship didn't fly away, the squad leader thought that "it might be because of lack of fuel".
The great joy overwhelmed the commander's mind, and he ordered all the marines to land with all their might, and the vanguard even dug trenches at key points in order to consolidate the victory.
When Napoleon III heard such astonishing news, he was so excited that he showed his domineering spirit, and instructed the commander of the fleet not to harm the Italian emperor, after all, he had been a friend. Eugenie was quite puzzled, who was Tangning? You can't lose so much, right? But her husband is on the rise, and she can't spoil his excitement.
The increasingly excited French emperor revealed this great news to the ministers, defeating the Windsor consortium, can take away the world's largest wealth, France will be the world's first power, and he Napoleon III can also be called Napoleon the Great!
When the emperor sent a telegram directly to the Emperor of Italy, saying, "I will not hurt him, please rest assured that he will lay down his arms and not resist", Downing suddenly felt unaware of the urgency, and could not understand the telegram, so he took it to the two masters Ma and En to discuss, "What does this mean?" ”
Even god-level scientists can't understand the telegram, Ma can't understand it, and they all say that it is very profound.
The excitement of the French monarch has affected the French media, and the French newspaper suddenly broke the news: "The Italian emperor passed by the port of Windsor, and was unexpectedly besieged by the French Mediterranean fleet, between life and death!" ”
As soon as this article came out, the vote of the entire Windsor department quickly depreciated, and the public debt of the Great Qing Kingdom was instantly unsold.
The French believed that with the fire support of superior naval guns, the East India Company troops in Windsor Harbour could not break out of the encirclement, but it was not easy for the French to capture Windsor Harbour, and asked for domestic reinforcements.
The Mediterranean Fleet is once again mobilized on a large scale, this time with a large number of marines to knock on the gates of the new Mediterranean city of Windsor Harbour and establish immortal deeds.
At this time, Prince Albert was finishing the first laser treatment at the Windsor Hospital in London, and it seemed that the effect was not enough, and the couple was grateful to Tangning, so they sent a telegram of condolences to Tangning as soon as possible. Downing responded, "I'm fine, the French emperor promised not to hurt me, and the worst is not much worse!" The latter sentence was a joke, and he couldn't say that it was a trick to lure the enemy, otherwise the two of them would blame him for sabotaging their plan, which in Tangning's opinion was too similar.
Queen Victoria issued a statement, saying that Downing Windsor is an irreplaceable scientist in the world, and asked the French emperor not to go too far for the sake of the prosperity of the scientific and technological world.
Wow, as soon as this statement came out, the whole world blew up, and it seems that a certain arrogant emperor is really going to be deflated.
Tang Ning really couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't respond to these caring guys anymore. The response to his wife was, "I'm safe, don't read it." ”
The French people were discussing how the British would treat Napoleon the Great, on an isolated island, and they were discussing the location. The Russian mainstream media said that our Siberia is vast, bitterly cold, and uninhabited, and is more suitable for holding felons than St. Helena, and that Windsor the Great does not know Russian at all, and that the escape methods of social engineering are not suitable for Russian prisons at all.
The Dutch, while glad that they had just become NATO observers, did not want god-level scientists to be owned by any one country, and set up a prison under the joint management of NATO, and kept the location of the detention secret.
Only President Lincoln reminded the French that there was something wrong with the war situation, based on the artillery elements that came out of the East India Company's naval capture of Granada.
At this time, the Mediterranean Fleet came with exciting news that the Suez Canal had been completely opened! The Canal Company actually concealed this great news from the French and British shareholders, which is really condemnable! There were finally a few British East India Company cruisers at the end of the Red Sea, and those two "exploration ships" turned around and ran, so there were no more details.
Soon the landing reinforcements of the Mediterranean Fleet were about to arrive, and the commander, in order to occupy the entire Suez Canal, immediately sent a large number of warships south to capture Suez City on the Red Sea. Of the 30 warships left at one end of Windsor Harbour, only 10 patrolled the canal.
Rumors are always short-lived, and the 10 warships guarding the estuary are just right to match the 8 White-class and 2 King-class cruisers that have been hidden by Marne.
Finally, the vampire duke's flag fluttering high on the first King-class heavy cruiser came into view of the French army. The graceful shape of the King-class heavy cruisers, and the sight of the sharp, streamlined bow of the battleship will make the hearts of battleship enthusiasts feel like they have seen a great beauty who has captivated the country and the city, which represents the confidence of the Singapore shipyard in its sturdy welding technology. On the other hand, the ironclad ships of the French army are like a village girl who does farm work every day, stupid and coarse and black.
Of course, the color of the warship could not be as aesthetically based as the Great Eastern, it was a grayish-white color that closely resembled the mist at sea, in order to delay detection by the enemy as much as possible. The kings are all named after the theory of statecraft, for example, this time the flagship is called the "invisible hand", which refers to the market theory discovered by Adam Smith that capital operates efficiently.
The Invisible Hand led 10 warships to slaughter it, lined up in a herringbone shape like migrating geese, and drew graceful white waves.
At 18 km, the two sides spotted each other, and the French battleship reported to the commander: "10 battleships were found, about 20 km away, all turret structures, from the Italian direction." At this time, the French still thought that it was reinforcements sent by the Royal Italian Navy.
The Apennine Peninsula is embedded in a large part of the Mediterranean, and the direction of Italy is the same as that of France, and the reason why the fleet of the Invisible Hand appeared in this direction is that it circles from the direction of the Arabian Peninsula in order to block the retreat of the French fleet.
The navy is reluctant to expose its combat effectiveness, so the old rule is to cut off the opponent's long-range wireless telegraph before the start of the network war, and the old routine of "losing contact" has become a sign of a turning point in the war.
The equipment sold by the Swiss telegraph company to the French was divided into two modes of communication, beyond 100 km, it was transferred to long-range communication to ensure the stability of the signal, and within 100 km, direct communication was used. Remote communication is sent and received through the signal tower, and the control is completely in the hands of BT, which can be easily suspended. In fact, the French can keep in touch with the headquarters through the Egyptian embassy, but the French do not understand this.
As a result, the French Mediterranean fleet, which had been full of good news, suddenly lost contact. Napoleon III's good mood came to an abrupt end, and an ominous premonition grew in his heart.
This time, the new Napoleon the Great felt right, and the Invisible Hand fleet cleared the Mediterranean Fleet's warships at the mouth of the river like a cannonball. The first round of 10 shells salvo solved one, which was a constant linear motion and slow motion, after which the enemy ships that were startled by the grass were not so easy to get along, and they scattered at full speed, trying to maneuver with the battleships, so that the friendly forces in the canal could quickly rush to help.
The friendly forces really came fast enough, however, unexpectedly, dozens of coastal defense fortress guns that had been dumb fire were resurrected, and the accuracy was better than in the past, and what was even more unexpected was the cycle of firing the fortress guns, which was absolutely a complete tactical deception, and it was originally a shot in two minutes, but now it was a shot in more than ten seconds, against the sky.
With the 20 warships of Hanoi coming out to meet the battle, the superfortress was completely torn off its camouflage, and it turned out that there were not only dozens of shore defense guns, but hundreds. Now it's not a matter of resurgence, it's simply the feeling of a zombie siege.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the French warship immediately turned around and fled to the other side of the canal, which was exactly what the Marne and the two wanted, and now, 70 of the 80 ships were blocked in the canal, becoming a grand buffet. The two are internationalists, and it is not their goal to kill the enemy, but to capture the enemy amicably. There is only one destination for this buffet - the Great Bitter Lake in the middle of the canal.
Before the completion of the Suez Canal, the Great Ku Lake was located in a salt-covered valley, and when the sea water was introduced, it became a huge saltwater lake, and the small Ku Lake connected to it covered an area of 250 square kilometers.
Of the 30 French ships guarding the estuary, 12 were sunk by 12-inch guns and 6-inch guns, 3 were captured, and half of them fled into the depths of the canal, hoping to escape on the other side.
The width of the canal is 135 meters, and at most two ships are opposite, so the 50 warships at the head of the most advanced French "Ocean" ironclad ship want to make a breakthrough at the other end, it is not easy, and the other side only needs a few to guard the estuary, just like the sword pavilion of Shu Road.
Indeed, the East India Company Navy sent only six white-class cruisers to guard the exit, which was enough for the French Mediterranean fleet.
The brave Ocean kept rushing forward and was sunk 3 kilometers from the mouth of the river, blocking the shipping lane. By the time the navy had cleared the channel, the other side had fled to the Great Bitter Lake.
The Mediterranean Fleet, which was berthed at the Great Bitter Lake, was full of bitterness, it was over, it was all over, the historic victory of the capture of the Suez Canal became a historic laughing stock, and the commander who had seen the power of the opponent's artillery was like a zombie without a soul. At this time, the results of the battle at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea came out, and the zombie commander fell into a deep loss.
In response to the accusations made by France and its allies about the equipment of the telegraph company, the Swiss telegraph company said that it was a measure taken to prevent volatility in the financial markets before the disclosure of the heavy dà incident and apologized to the French customers.
The so-called heavy dà incident remains unrevealed, and the French landing fleet has approached the silent port of Windsor. The French emperor, unwilling to believe that the battle had been lost, ordered the fleet to move on.
With the intelligence support of the airship reconnaissance plane, the Invisible Hand once again repeated its old tricks, leading the fleet in a circle in the direction of Damascus to the back of the landing fleet, and attacking "from the Italian direction".
However, this time the opponent only had 16 warships, and Engels adopted a simple tactic: when the opponent entered the shore defense artillery about 5 kilometers into the net, the fortress artillery was the main attack, and the cruiser was responsible for catching the fish that slipped through the net.
These 16 warships were responsible for transporting troops, and more than 6,000 French marines suffered extremely heavy casualties in this battle, nearly half of them drowned in the vast Mediterranean Sea, and only one of the warships responsible for chasing and fleeing lost their strike accuracy due to program failures, allowing one escort warship to flee and becoming the only fish that slipped through the net in this Suez Canal naval battle that shocked the world. Panicking and lost, the fish slipped through the net and went to Greece to report the tragedy of the annihilation of the army to the French Emperor.
Of the 96 best French ships, only one remained, and the result was terrible. In the vast sea, it is quite difficult to sink the other side, and the battle of the Hampton anchorage that took place not long ago took four hours of fierce fighting in the south to defeat two enemy ships, which is already a victory that boosts the morale of the whole army, and the defeat of the French Mediterranean fleet is an absolute national disaster.
Just after the National Day of the invention of the penicillin mass production method, France ushered in a national disaster, and its ups and downs are not enough for outsiders.
Announcing the final results: "An important message from the Admiralty of the British East India Company: Recently, the largest battle since the NATO military bloc declared war on the East India Company took place in the emerging city of Windsor in the Mediterranean. The French Mediterranean Fleet launched two incursions with a total of 96 warships to the port of Windsor, intending to occupy a strategic point on the Mediterranean side of the Suez Canal.
As we all know, the East India Company is not a commercial company in the general sense, but an international organization with an army and a government dominated by the British, since the industrialist Mr. Downing Windsor led the decision-making of the East India Company, attaches great importance to the innovation of military science and technology, relying on the leadership of the British shipbuilding industry, the East India Company has manufactured the world's largest 10,000-ton heavy cruiser, as well as offshore cruisers, its automatic coaling technology, specially constructed engines, propellers, automatic naval gun control systems, leading positioning systems, Make it ahead of the world in terms of speed, range, armor, firepower, range, intelligence, etc. (http://.)。
In the spirit of humanitarianism, the East India Company's fighters never raised their butcher's knives to the troops that had surrendered, but it was a great pity that in this battle, the great and heroic French navy showed their indomitable fighting spirit and was forced to sink 20 of the opponent's warships with superior warships, and caused the death of more than 5,400 soldiers of the opponent. The East India Company lowered its flags at half-mast for the WTO member states to observe a moment of silence in memory of the fallen soldiers.
Of the 96 warships that invaded the Suez Canal, except for 20 that were sunk, only one was able to leave the battlefield, and the rest of the soldiers surrendered. The Military Staff reaffirmed its commitment to the treatment of prisoners in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.
At the same time, the battlefield in Indochina had also come to an end, the French Indochinese territory surrendered after a battle with few casualties, and the East India Company announced a full takeover of South Vietnam, as for whether to return power to the Vietnamese government, pending an agreement between the two sides.
In both battles, the East India Company soldiers had a certain number of wounded, but no one has been killed so far, thank you for your concern. ”