"Of course, Your Excellency General, there is another point. If you choose to retreat, once we find that your army has such signs, we will immediately fire incendiary bombs, so you'd better not have such thoughts." This officer
He pointed at the plane circling overhead and said with a smile.
General Pierre and his officers were stupid. They were not even allowed to run, and were only given two ways to surrender or die. Isn't this a clear sign of bullying?
"Your Excellency General, you don't have much time, please hurry up and make a decision! And I need to remind you that the thick smoke when burning crude oil is highly toxic, but we did not deliberately use poison gas bombs, so there is no violation
In the case of the Beijing Convention, because any burning will produce smoke, this is just an inevitable physical phenomenon." The officer continued.
Pierre couldn't help but shudder, because he knew that Yang Feng's identity would definitely not allow the Chinese Army to actively use gas bombs, so none of his French troops carried gas masks. Such things in the hot and humid Vietnamese jungle
It is undoubtedly an annoying additional burden for the soldiers. If this is the case, the entire area around Cam Ranh Bay will almost become a dead land.
Their consideration did not last long. In fact, these French commanders knew very well that France had already lost this war. Even if they could escape, they would just continue to Saigon and wait for the same choice again, and attack China.
The fleet surrendered, especially in such a desperate situation. There was nothing dishonorable about it. After the one-hour deadline was up, the entire 35,000 French troops in Cam Ranh Bay, including the Far East Fleet, formally surrendered to the Chinese fleet.
.
The French soldiers of one division walked out of their defense lines in an organized manner, and then lined up and put their weapons aside. As the commander, Pierre led the division commanders including Jia Fei.
Handing over his saber, this scene will remain in the history forever. After the United States of America, the second great power was defeated by the Chinese Army.
At the same time as the army surrendered, the French coastal defense troops also walked out of the forts and lined up outside to wait for the Chinese soldiers who rushed to receive them in small boats. On the sea outside Cam Ranh Bay, the Far East Fleet had two battleships and four battleships left.
The protected cruiser, twelve destroyers, and eighteen torpedo boats, also under the supervision of the Chinese soldiers who boarded the ship, fired all the torpedoes towards the seaside, installed the cannon covers on the guns, and then filed out of the mine channel and drove to the open sea under the escort of the Chinese fleet.
Sailing to Yazhou Military Port.
When the news reached Singapore, Delcasay could only sigh helplessly. He really didn't understand why a victory, even a small victory, was so difficult for France, but the defeats became more and more huge.
As for the smile on Zhang Quan's face that gets brighter every time we meet, in this situation, no matter how talented he is, he has nowhere to display it. As for the French army in Saigon, they are in panic, which means
Soon it will be their turn to face the Chinese.
On the same day, in the distant waters of western Morocco, Africa, the French merchant ship Petrel, which had just sailed out of the Strait of Gibraltar, was slowly sailing south. Its destination was Dakar, Africa. There was some French cotton on board.
Products such as red wine still use old-fashioned steam engines, and the fastest speed is only a little more than ten knots. A shipping company belonging to Paris was originally supposed to take the English Channel route because it was worried about encountering the Chinese fleet that was said to be bombarding the coast of France. So it
Changed to Marseille for shipment.
But obviously this rumor is wrong.
"Captain, look what that is?" The observer on the mast screamed, waking up the captain Clement who was talking to a lady. He also had a group of guests on board, including several female passengers.
, all went to the colonies to visit their husbands, and even brought their children with them.
Clemont quickly picked up the telescope and pointed in the direction he was pointing. In the sky, a biplane seaplane was slowly flying over. As the distance got closer, the golden badge on the wing could be clearly seen.
Two dragons embracing the sun, the national emblem of the Chinese Empire.
When he saw the nationality of the plane, Captain Clermont's face immediately turned green. He rushed into the cockpit without hesitation and shouted at the helmsman: "Quick, turn around and go to Real. Damn it, what are the Chinese doing?"
Will appear here."
Of course Lin Taizeng has no interest in running to the coast of France to tangle with those destroyers. It would be great to block the merchant ships coming out of the French Mediterranean route outside the Strait of Gibraltar, and even the merchant ships coming out of the English Channel will be blocked anyway, as long as they are going to the coast of western Africa.
All merchant ships have to pass through this area, including those heading to South America. Those coal-fired merchant ships have to refuel at West African ports before sailing directly to Brazil. The Haiyan was his first prey after arriving.
After receiving the report from the seaplane, the Soryu-class cruiser Chaofeng immediately broke away from the formation and rushed towards the target at a high speed of 35 knots. The poor Haiyan was holding back the billowing smoke and running desperately towards the Spanish Port Real. This
A giant ship of more than 4,000 tons stood in front of it with murderous intent. The black muzzles of its eight 152mm main guns were aimed at the merchant ship, and then the sailors on the ship played flags.
"This is the Chinese Navy's American Fleet cruiser Chao Feng. It is currently executing a naval blockade against France. All French merchant ships and warships will be sunk. All crew members of your ship are ordered to leave the ship immediately. Captain, what should we do?" Haiyan
The first mate on the ship asked Captain Clermont with a sad face after reading the semaphore.
"What should we do? What else can we do? Abandon ship, this damn war, I really don't know why those guys in Congress like those Vietnamese monkeys and the damn navy so much, why should we pay to support them? Let them get hit.
At the door, tell them that we still have passengers on board and ask them to provide two more sampans!" Captain Clermont roared through gritted teeth. He knew that his boss should go bankrupt now unless the insurance company was willing to pay for his losses.
Pay the bill. As for who will pay for the insurance company’s losses, it’s hard to say.
After receiving the answer from the Haiyan, the Xiaofeng quickly put down two rubber boats, and then four sailors rowed over to help get all the passengers on the boat to the Xiaofeng. Then the eight main guns fired in one round.
The shot sent the Haiyan and the cargo on board to the bottom of the sea.
However, Captain Clermont and the captured crew and passengers were well accommodated. Not only were they not treated in any uncivilized manner, but after enjoying a meal of oriental delicacies, they were specially sent to neutral Spain by the Wind Rider.
port real and then handed it over to local officials.
The sinking of the Haiyan officially kicked off the naval blockade of France. Lin Taizeng chose a sea area that was very beneficial to him. He parked four battleships and supply ships on the sea not far from the Funchal Islands, and then
All six cruisers were released, even reaching the Azores Islands, establishing a maritime blockade from the Azores Islands to Morocco. With the help of seaplanes with a search radius of more than 500 kilometers, they intercepted and sunk all
The French merchant ships heading south from this sea area are like a steel wall blocking the road to France from West Africa and the Americas. Even French merchant ships on the American route are not immune.
He doesn't need to care about the threat of the French navy at all. The nearest military port in France is more than 2,000 kilometers away. A slow old cruiser is suicidal. Everything is rubbish in front of the 280 main guns of the Taihang and Wuyi.
Their only two remaining Joan of Arc-class ships were destined to die. The only ones that could pose a substantial threat were those imitating Soryu-class destroyers, not to mention whether such a 500-ton small ship has a range of 2,000 kilometers.
Combat capability, even if it has this ability, it will basically be slaughtered in front of those late-model Soryu-class cruisers with the same speed of up to 35 knots.
His naval blockade plunged the French government into a real panic. This blockade had little impact on ordinary French people. Even the crew and passengers of the Haiyan who returned to Paris by train were still praising the gentlemanly demeanor of the Chinese navy.
, for them, this experience brought them more novelty and social showoff capital, but it brought real losses to those capitalists. In the following week, Lin Taizeng’s fleet continued to
Four French merchant ships were sunk, including an oil tanker returning from the United States. This week alone has severely damaged the French economy. Because of the Vietnam War, they have lost the Asian market, and now even the markets in the Americas and West Africa have also been lost.
lose.
Amid the angry denunciations of those capitalists, the French Navy finally had the courage to organize a fleet and dispatched their only two Joan of Arc-class cruisers and more than thirty destroyers. As for those old warships
There is really no point in sending them out, especially those seemingly majestic armored ships. Letting them go out is really suspected of murder.
But in this way, they faced an unavoidable problem. Those destroyers definitely did not have a combat radius of two thousand kilometers. In fact, the maximum range of such destroyers was only two thousand kilometers, especially at high speed, it was even less than two thousand kilometers.
Kilometers, let alone firing, we can't reach our destination. The Chinese Navy dares to let destroyers follow the ocean operations, that's because they have six large 15,000-ton supply ships. The French don't have such things, that is
They said they needed supplies midway, and the Spaniards would definitely not help. Canovas was almost wearing the same pants as the Chinese, so it was good that they didn't do anything dirty.
As a result, the only option for the French is Portugal.
But the question of how much it costs to buy Portugal is a headache. (To be continued...)