Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 568 Attacking the Port of Marseilles in France
Although Switzerland, which had just gained independence from the Holy Roman Empire, had always pursued a policy of neutrality, it had no choice but to end its policy of neutrality when the Ming army came under pressure, and formed an alliance with France and France to deal with Ming.

Originally, England wanted to join, but the naive English Stuart Dynasty adopted a policy of appeasement, imagining that the Ming Empire, which already had trade exchanges with him, would not target him, but he really did not want to see the Ming Empire destroy France, Franz waited for the empire, so he wanted to be a mediator.

However, the Ming Empire ignored his mediation, Franji and other countries were also quite disappointed with the Stuart dynasty, and there were already conflicts before, so they ignored Yingjili's good intentions.

While the Ming Empire digested the occupied areas of Europa and was resting, France, France, France, Switzerland and other Europa alliances were also urgently strengthening their defenses.

Switzerland lies near the Alps in the south, so there are many mountains in the south, and there are rolling mountains from Innsbruck to Grenoble, so it is easier to build fortifications, and it can be regarded as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After occupying the three cities of Varese, Biela, and Bergamo in the north of Milan, the frontier troops of the Ming Army had to stop, because they would have to attack from the front. Even if they could occupy the entire territory of Switzerland, they would have to pay Higher military costs.

The Western European Alliance has also assembled more than [-] troops in this area to prepare to fight against the Ming army, and is also equipped with cannons, firearms, and chemical weapons. It can be regarded as a strong army that Ming has had to pay attention to since its expansion.

After all, Franchi and France can be regarded as relatively advanced countries in this era, especially Franji. Now that there is no United Kingdom to frustrate his spirit, he is still the number one ocean power in Europe, and France is ruled by Louis XIV. Next, the national power is booming, and it can be called the strongest overlord of Europa on land!
However, after learning that Frangji had added a batch of troops to Switzerland, Emperor Zhu Youxiao decisively instructed Fu Dahai to consider the strategy of avoiding the real and attacking the false, that is, bypassing the Swiss defense line, choosing other locations to attack, and then detour Surrounding the defense line in southern Switzerland made the army of more than [-] in the entire Western European Union a trapped beast.

In this regard, Fu Haihai convened the staff of the general headquarters overnight to formulate a new combat plan.

Fortunately, although the whole of southern Switzerland is mountainous, especially the border with Italy, there is a low-lying area in the southeastern part of France, which extends from Marseille to Lyon and Dijon, almost across the whole of France. low lying areas.

That is to say, if the Ming army launched an attack from Marseilles, it would be able to sweep across the whole of France to the central part of France. Then it could enter the central plateau of France and directly threaten the city of Paris in the Western European plain, enter the Lorraine plateau in the east, and attack Switzerland from the northern Swiss plain. , to achieve the effect of central flowering.

When Zhu Youxiao thought of this, he naturally knew that the German army's lightning attack on France in later generations was also the reason why they used large movements and detours to bypass the Maginot Line and reap miraculous results. Now that Ming has a powerful navy, it can do the same.

All the generals admired Emperor Ming's ingenuity, but because of this, the key to the war situation was placed on the navy.

Of course, here, Fu Dahai still sent part of the troops to carry out a feint attack on the Swiss defense line, and even launched shelling every other hour like the Swiss defense line without money, so that the Western European Union army on the Swiss defense line had to hide in the cave and mistakenly thought that Ming This is what it looks like to attack with a large army.

In order to realize the strategy of exploding France's chrysanthemums and then starting from the center, the Ming Navy dispatched the most elite fleet under the jurisdiction of Heiwa to attack the southeastern coastline of France. Take charge personally.

In terms of the navy of the Western European Union, the most powerful are Francois and England. At this time, France did not have a strong navy, but now England adopts a policy of appeasement and neutrality. At this moment, for fear that the Ming navy would directly bypass France and attack the headquarters from Corsica or even the Strait of Gibraltar, it ignored helping to protect France, and put the main force of its own navy on defending the local waters.

France also had to face the attack of the strongest naval fleet of Ming Dynasty alone.

Marseille, France's second largest city and largest seaport after Paris, is located in the Mediterranean sea, with deep water and wide harbor, no rapids and dangerous shoals, suitable for berthing large ships, so there is no need to worry about being stranded when Ming's huge fleet attacks Marseille port .

However, since it was incorporated into France more than 100 years ago, it has been the most important seaport military base in France. Especially after Louis XIV suppressed the local rebellion, two fortresses, Saint-Jean and Saint-Nicolas, were built here in an attempt to hold France Ocean gate.

Therefore, if Heiwa and Liu Wenxiu want to occupy Marseille Port, they have to conquer the two fortresses of Saint-Jean and Saint-Nicolas.

According to the information provided by Jin Yiwei, the two fortresses are equipped with a large number of arsenals and ships, and rely on cannons on the shore to form land and water defense facilities. The port of Marseille is guarded in it.

At dawn, the French defenders in Marseille got up early, yawning and stretching their waists. Because the Ming Navy often harassed the coast, they had to step up their vigilance. When will the Navy come over.

A few French defenders who were on guard at night came to the coast with their muskets up as usual, whistling leisurely while unbuttoning their pants and urinating in the sea, a sharp knife quickly wiped their necks , while his mouth and nose were tightly covered.

Only ten seconds later, these French defenders were killed. At this time, a special soldier of the Ming Dynasty whistled, and a submarine relying on steam power emerged from the water and sailed into it with a sudden leap. As soon as the hatch opened, dozens of steamboats were released from the submarine hatch, and a total of thousands of marines drove the steamboat into the Fort Saint-Jean.

But at this time, violent shelling took place at the St. Nicholas Fortress at the same time.

According to Hei Wa and Liu Wenxiu's arrangement, the Ming Navy's combat plan for the Marseille landing battle is to directly attack the two fortresses of Saint-Jean and Saint-Nicolas with two fists at the same time. Nilas adopted an open attack to achieve the purpose of attracting the enemy's firepower to concentrate on St. Nicholas.

In this way, the French defenders of the entire Marseilles will concentrate on Fort Saint-Nicolas, and the firepower of Fort Saint-Jean will also concentrate on attacking this area, providing conditions for the Ming submarine and naval special forces to surrender Fort Saint-Jean.

(End of this chapter)