Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 860 A Normandy Landing

Thousands of warships from the Ming Empire have come across the sea to Europe!
Hendrick, Prince of Orange, was not slow to receive the news. On the third day after the Ming army entered the harbor of Lisbon, the fleet that fled from the Azores rushed to the Cabourg naval base in Normandy.

The problem is that it's useless after he received the news, because the fleet he led was not at all the opponent of the Ming Empire's naval fleet.

According to the description of the fleet commander who escaped, the Ming Empire had hundreds of ironclad warships alone, and several of them were super giant ships like castles on the sea.

Eleven iron-clad warships of the Ming Empire can hang their thousands of ordinary warships to fight, and hundreds of iron-clad warships can definitely wipe out the entire fleet under his hands!
What's more, there are thousands of other warships in the Ming Empire, how can he fight against others with less than a thousand warships under his command?

He had no choice but to ride to Paris again on a fast horse to discuss with the Duke of Richelieu.

During this period of time, he has traveled back and forth to Paris three times, and he didn't know how much time was wasted on the way.

To be honest, he had already vaguely felt that the Duke of Richelieu could no longer command from Paris by remote control. The problem was that the old fox stayed in Paris, and he couldn't do anything about it.

The Duke of Richelieu was very polite to the little Dutch prince. As soon as he heard that he was coming, he immediately left everything at hand and ran to greet him in person.

The two had just met, and he was still smiling and wanted to greet him, but Hendrick, Prince of Orange, said anxiously: "Your Excellency, it's not good, the naval fleet of the Ming Empire has come to Europe."

what?
The Duke of Richelieu was really taken aback when he heard this.

However, he was not panicked yet, and even on the surface he pretended to be calm and said: "Don't worry, speak slowly.

When did the naval fleet of the Ming Empire come, and how many warships did they come? "

I'm in no hurry?
Do you think they still have the size of a dozen or so ships!

Hendrick still said anxiously: "The naval fleet of the Ming Empire arrived at the Azores five or six days ago, and it probably stops at a port in Spain or Portugal right now.

They have thousands of battleships coming, there are hundreds of ironclad battleships alone! "

what?
This time the Duke of Richelieu couldn't pretend anymore.

He couldn't help being shocked and said: "Are you sure?"

Why am I lying to you about this kind of thing?
Hendrick said helplessly: "Of course I can be sure that all the fleets we stationed in the Azores escaped back, and they brought back the news."

Big trouble now.

Thousands of warships came from the Ming Empire Navy, and their superiority at sea was gone!

With the maritime advantage gone, if you go to fight against Portugal, you will be looking for death. The fleet of the Ming Empire is very likely to be stationed in Portugal!
How to do it?

It seems that they can only switch to defense.

The Duke of Richelieu frowned and pondered for a while, and then said decisively: "Go back quickly and let the fleets of various countries gather in Cherbourg, Cabourg and Le Havre. Don't leave these three ports. I will send people to build more Fort, protect these three ports."

Are you asking us to hold the coastline northwest of Paris for you?
Hendrick said rather reluctantly: "What if the Ming Empire goes to attack our Dutch coastal ports?"

You still want these for a fart!
The Duke of Richelieu asked back: "Do you think that sending back your remaining over [-] warships in the Netherlands will be able to withstand the attack of the Ming Empire Navy?

They have thousands of warships, not dozens or hundreds, and your remaining hundreds of warships are useless in front of other people's fleets.

Only by concentrating all our warships to guard the three strongest fortresses and cities in the Normandy area can we repel the fleet of the Ming Empire.

Don't worry about what will happen to the Netherlands.

As long as we defend Normandy, it is impossible for the Ming Empire to cross over and attack your Netherlands. "

Well, it's really useless for him to go back with a hundred warships. Now only by defending Normandy can it be possible to block the Ming Empire's fleet.

Hendrick thought for a while, then slowly nodded and said: "Okay, hurry up and send someone to build the fort!"

If they can build enough forts, they can really block the fleet of the Ming Empire.

The problem is that France is not the Ming Empire, and their reaction speed is quite slow.

Although the Duke of Richelieu controls the whole of France, it is also authorized by King Louis XIII. If he wants to mobilize the army and mobilize enough artillery, he has to discuss it with King Louis XIII.

Moreover, their military factories are not like the military factories of Ming Dynasty, which are almost all built in port cities by the sea. Their military factories are almost all inland, so it is very troublesome to mobilize artillery.

They just started to prepare, and Taichang had already transferred Zheng Hongkui who was stationed in the Strait of Gibraltar back.

This time, the number of Aegis ships under his hands reached another one hundred.

In the study room in the front hall of the Emperor, Taichang stared at Zhang Yuanfang and Zheng Hongkui for a while, and then asked, "Yuanfang, have you finished unloading the supplies?"

The supplies they brought were not a little bit. There were a large number of simple cranes at the port terminal on the side of the Western Yin Capital City. They had been loading them for nearly three days. Naturally, they could not unload the goods so quickly here by relying on people.

Zhang Yuanfang made a rough estimate, and then said cautiously: "Your Majesty, there are roughly [-] merchant ships whose cargoes have not been unloaded at this moment. I will estimate that it will take at least two days."

It didn't matter that the armed merchant ship hadn't finished unloading.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then said decisively: "You go and prepare, and lead a dreadnought ship, 30 Aegis ships, and [-] merchant ships back tomorrow morning, and go to take the remaining [-] soldiers first. "

Zhang Yuanfang hastily cupped his hands and said, "The general will understand."

After that, he bowed and retreated.

Taichang raised his hand again and said to Zheng Hongkui: "Hongkui, come, take a look at this map."

Hearing this, Zheng Hongkui hurriedly approached carefully and carefully looked at the map on the table.

This is the map of the entire European continent. It should be drawn by the Spaniards. The areas of Spain and Portugal are clearly marked on it, while other places only have some simple place names, cities, roads and so on.

Taichang then pointed to the map and said: "This is the Normandy region of France, roughly equivalent to a small province of ours.

Tomorrow morning, you will set off with a dreadnought, twenty aegis ships, and two dragon warships, and go to this coastline to investigate.

Remember, try not to exchange fire with them, just use a telescope to scan the general situation near the coastline from a distance.

What city and fortress do they have, you can probably mark the location.

Most importantly, you have to take a good look at those places that are suitable for building temporary docks for landing. "

Historically, there was a Normandy landing during World War II. This proves that the Normandy area should be the most suitable for landing.

Therefore, he decided to also land in Normandy, occupy the coastline northwest of Paris, and then hoard hundreds of thousands of troops to scare the French.

Normandy is only three or four hundred miles away from Paris. With such a scare, the French will definitely mobilize a large number of troops to defend between Normandy and Paris.

In this case, the southern French defense line will definitely be severely understrength, and Spain probably should be able to take the opportunity to enter the French interior from the south.

Then it will be wonderful.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yuanfang and Zheng Zhikui set off with their respective fleets.

Zhang Yuanfang's journey was to pick up people, so I won't show it for now.

Zheng Zhikui is going directly to the coastline of northern France, the stronghold of the anti-Habsburg alliance. What will they encounter?

They sailed along the coastline for three or four days, but they didn't encounter anything!
You know, from Lisbon to the north, it only takes more than a day to bypass Portugal and Spain and come to the coastline of eastern France.

They wandered around the coastline of eastern France for two or three days, and wandered all the way to the coastline of northern France, but they were still ignored!
What's going on here, do people want to lay an ambush and surround them from all directions?
To be honest, Zheng Zhikui is really not afraid.

Because they are all wooden warships, it is impossible to surround them with more than 20 iron-clad warships.

People wanted to surround them from all directions, so he aimed directly at one direction and rushed over. Even with a bump, he could break through their encirclement.

What's more, the firepower of twenty Aegis ships is already quite terrifying. Even if there are one or two hundred warships in each direction, they can still open the way through the barrage, gods block and kill gods, Buddhas block and kill Buddhas, trying to surround They, there is simply no door.

Therefore, even though the situation was a bit weird, Zheng Zhikui did not panic at all. He even drew all the cities and terrains near the eastern coastline of France.

After the fleet entered the waters of northern France, the situation seemed to be the same.

There are obviously cities and ports near the coastline, but there is no defense of a warship.

What is going on here?
Did the French give up resistance, or did they want to lure the enemy in?

How did he know that it was the Duke of Richelieu who ordered the warships of the anti-Habsburg alliance not to leave the three port cities on the Normandy coastline, lest they be sunk by them when they went out.

This weird situation continued until the fifth day.

This morning, Zheng Hongkui had just led his fleet around the east side of a large peninsula and entered the Normandy area. In an instant, he saw a huge fortress and hundreds of warships moored in the port below the fortress.

These guys were hiding in the Normandy area!
It seems that people also know that they are likely to land in Normandy.

This information is very important.

Zheng Hongkui simply ordered the fleet to anchor in an area about ten miles away from the fortress and port, and scanned it carefully with a large telescope.

As for the [-] or so warships moored in the port, he really didn't panic.

These warships will be launched as soon as they are ready, and the Thor II artillery on the bow is ready. As long as they dare to leave the port, it will be five rounds of wild bombardment.

At this moment, he has twenty Aegis ships and one dreadnought ship under his command. The Thor II artillery on the bow adds up to nearly 130 guns, and after five rounds of bombardment, there are more than 600 shells.

Even if the hit rate is less than half, it can kill more than a hundred warships.

He ordered the fleet to turn around again, and then five rounds of violent bombardment, the three hundred or so warships of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance Alliance were basically useless.

Now, the iron-clad battleships of the Ming Empire are just so powerful, and there is no problem at all with a dozen or fifteen!
Naturally, the warships of the anti-Habsburg alliance did not dare to leave the port.

Last time, thousands of warships went to besiege eleven other armored warships, but they all killed more than 100 ships.

This time they only have more than 300 warships, and if they go up to fight with 21 other ironclad warships, it is no different from courting death!
The two sides just looked at each other strangely, and neither of them had any intention of doing anything.

Zheng Zhikui checked the situation carefully before ordering the fleet to continue heading west.

(End of this chapter)