In the next two hours, Marten's operations became more and more skillful, his combat efficiency became higher and higher, and his courage grew. Relying on the advantages of power and control, he constantly grabbed the t position and beat the three British steamships out of power in one breath-not only the paddle wheel was destroyed, even the mast was fired at close range by chain bullets. Interrupted—the insatiable Marten left these immovable British frigates, and went on to attack the remaining still movable warships—he wanted to keep all the British ships in one go.

However, the facts have proved that it is not a good habit to accept without knowing how to see well. Just as Marten was about to make a big effort to make a big victory, a big ship appeared in their sight-it was the Tier 3 battleship that had been behind.

As soon as this big ship appeared, the British, who had almost fallen into despair, suddenly got a lot of energy. They all entangled with Marton desperately, desperately protecting the wounded warships. And Marten paid attention to the distance between the two sides. He estimated that before the battleship approached, it would be too late to deal with the British, so he scolded fiercely: "I hate the most, the kind , Here comes the old things."

After cursing this sentence, Marten took another look at the approaching British warship, and added this sentence in his heart: "What is even more hateful is that this old man, we really can't beat it."

A battleship, even the lowest-tier third-tier battleship, has sixty to seventy cannons. On each side of the ship, there are more than thirty cannons, each of which is heavier than the shells fired by Marten’s guns. Greater power and longer range. Taking into account the stability advantage of the battleship itself, the shooting accuracy of each of these cannons is also higher than that of Marten. Considering that the strong defenses of battleships simply cannot be gnawed by a 12-pounder gun.

Marten estimated that before the battleship arrived, if he took a risky move, he might still have a chance to sink a British ship. However, it may also damage your ship. If you are unlucky and damage key parts, maybe you will be here because you are eager for success.

That being the case, Marten immediately felt that he could no longer waste shells on these British ships. Keeping shells to hit those bait, wouldn't it be good to deal with those flying shears?

"Retreat, we won't play with them anymore!" Marten ordered.

Therefore, after passing the t position of the British frigate for the last time, Equality did not look back, but sailed all the way at high speed, and soon disappeared into the vast sea.

In this battle, the British lost no more warships except for the loss of bait. Of course, half of the steam frigates were hit hard, and the conditions of the remaining three were not particularly good. These ships almost have to be towed back by that Tier 3 battleship.

But in this battle, the British did not get nothing. They spent a lot of shells and gunpowder on Marten. After getting rid of the British ships, Major Marten checked his cargo hold and found that he had consumed almost two-thirds of chain shells, one-half of ordinary shells, and three in the previous battle. One part of the grape bomb. Considering the spare weight that must be left when returning home, there is not enough ammunition that can be used for hunting!

"If these shells were used on those flying shears, how many flying shears should be knocked out! This is really..." Malten couldn't help but sigh.

In the next few days, the British showed very high efficiency. They have realized that their "steamboat" is almost an era behind the French similar products. Even in the battle of one more fight, they have no advantage. If you encounter unfavorable weather conditions, even catastrophic consequences may occur.

And in this battle, the "Equality" was at full speed in the final attack stage, and it has shown a high speed far exceeding that of the British steamship. In other words, even in the most difficult circumstances, the French at least Time to retreat.

In other words, the "whaling ship plan" is fundamentally impossible to succeed. On the contrary, the bait released may become something for others to eat in vain.

So the British quickly recalled the hunting squads and decoys, so that the "Equality" only caught a flying shear ship that hadn't been notified and ran away.

Since the French steamship cannot be dealt with, it means that the blockade of Ireland has failed completely. So the British ordered the British army in Ireland to enter a state of full alert, while again considering making peace with the French.

This time the conditions of peace proposed by the British are much more pragmatic. The British once again made a peace offer to the French through the Dutch.

The British proposed that peace should be restored immediately between Britain and France. Britain gave up its blockade on the French coast and recognized France's special interests in the Netherlands, Rhine and other regions. France should recognize British rule over Ireland and stop supporting Irish rebels. At the same time, France should also recognize the special interests of the British in Hanover.

This requirement is much lower than before, and there is obviously room for negotiation. After discussing with the two brothers, Napoleon also believed that France also needs a period of peace for the time being.

"We need peace now in order to transfer more resources to production activities and improve people's living standards." Joseph said, "In addition, obtaining a peace that is more beneficial to France will also help increase your support in the hearts of the people. Degree. Conducive to our'Rome Plan'. However, there are several principles that must be grasped.

First of all, on the issue of Ireland, we cannot abandon Ireland. This is our most powerful means to contain the British. Moreover, the Irish themselves are very competitive, very useful and worthy of support. A peace that can be torn at any time, and a little brother who can fight, the value gap between this is really too big.

Second is Hanover, which must also be under our control. "

"Do you still need to talk about it?" Napoleon shook his head disdainfully, "We are the victorious country, at least the one that has the upper hand. Where is the reason for concessions in these places? Talk nonsense!"

Joseph ignored him and continued: "In addition, we should insist on such rights. Of course, these can be'equal' and given to each other. We should ask Britain and us to open their doors to each other. ', the markets of the United Kingdom and its territories should be open to us, and our market is'equally' open to them. This market refers to not only ordinary commodities, but also literature, art and news."

"Open the market to each other? Well, are you sure we can take advantage?" Napoleon asked.

"Of course," Joseph said without hesitation. "What are their steam-powered and water-conservative textiles against our electric textiles? Of course, they don't know this. I guess they have access to the news and art markets. After all, Lucien did a good job in the Ministry of Truth during this period of time, and beat the feudal scum who opposed us. The British may be a little worried. We first proposed opening the news and art market to each other. Demand, and then exchange for mutual opening of common commodity markets.

Well, Lucien, those British newspapers and so on, are of good level. You will not only defend the European continent, but also burn the flames of war to England. Well, you won't be beaten up by the British and flee back in disarray, right? "

"How is it possible?" Lucien curled his lips. "As long as the British do not use violent means to deal with our propaganda, any minister of the Ministry of Truth, with the support of the entire European power , And can't do the English newspapers that are as stupid as pigs, then he should have been stuffed into a large cannon without hesitation, and shot toward the sun at the speed of light!"

Therefore, the French side sent a delegation headed by Foreign Minister Talleyrand to hold talks in the city hall of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

This is a difficult negotiation, and there are two obstacles in the negotiation. Because of these two problems, many times, everyone seems to be going to shoot and break up.

The first obstacle was the Irish issue~lightnovelpub.net~ The British strongly accused France of brutal trampling on the British internal affairs, and demanded that France immediately stop all ties with the Irish rebel organization.

The French said that the essence of Ireland’s problem is the shameless plunder of the Irish people’s wealth by the British and their cruel persecution of Irish Catholics. Talleyrand put on a posture of a humanitarian and a devout Catholic and said:

"Respect for sovereignty is of course the cornerstone of exchanges between countries. However, according to the foundation of our country and the concept of the Declaration of Human Rights, we believe that human rights are a higher standard than sovereignty and are the basis of sovereignty. When human rights are unbridled When trampling, we don’t think that any country with a sense of justice should be silent because of the restrictions of sovereignty. If the British really want to solve the Irish problem, there is only one way, and that is to honestly respect the Irish people. Innate human rights, respect for the Irish people’s property and religious freedom. In short, the French legislative principles and the foundation of the country made her unable to remain indifferent to this humanitarian disaster, especially the humanitarian disaster that happened to Catholics."

The British naturally know that an empty "peace" is impossible for the French to give up their most important bargaining chip. But bargaining, so the British raised the question of Hanover, and this question immediately became a new obstacle.