The British sent the "Queen Elizabeth" to North America, which of course brought tremendous pressure to the Americans, but on the other hand, it also greatly weakened their power in Europe.

And this situation immediately brought changes.

On the day Nelson's fleet attacked Savannah, a French fleet appeared outside Cardiff Port. This is a powerful fleet including the "Inbrador" battleship and the "Caesar" battleship. After the "Queen Elizabeth" went to North America, there were no warships of the same class in the British Navy for the time being.

However, the Royal Navy still plucked up the courage and sent a small fleet composed of two armored cruisers to approach the French fleet, and used semaphores to ask the French what they were coming from.

"They asked us where we came?" On the bridge of the "Inbrado", Marshal Treville said with a sarcasm, "Tell them that we are sailing freely. On the sea, where we want to go. Just go there. It's their shit!"

So the French fleet was just three nautical miles away from Cardiff Port, set up the battle line, arranged the bombardment formation, and practiced the tactics of bombarding the port.

Then the French fleet turned around and left Cardiff, crossed the Strait of St. George, and swaggered towards Liverpool. The British navy's fleet naturally came from all directions, following the French fleet to watch the French sailing freely.

The French fleet proceeded at a speed of about six knots indifferently until it reached the port of Liverpool, and then sailed freely there again, leaving Liverpool, sailing east, and then sailing freely outside Dublin. Put.

In the process, more and more British ships followed them. From the beginning there were only two armored cruisers, and now, almost the entire British navy has gathered.

With more and more British ships behind him, the French began to feel the pressure.

"Okay, we should leave here. Otherwise, people will really have bad thoughts." Admiral Treville said. The Irish Sea is a relatively closed sea area with limited scope. If the British are really allowed to transfer all the remaining naval fleets here, maybe they will emerge from the favorable terrain of Li Yong here and fight off the idea of ​​this French fleet.

So Admiral Treville looked at the British fleets that followed his fleet, and checked the movements of the British fleets observed by spies in various British ports. (The information was first sent back to France with carrier pigeons, and then the fleet was notified via radio, which was still kept secret.) After estimating the possible transfer of the British, they ordered to leave the Irish Sea.

With an order from Marshal Treville, the fleet turned to the south, and quickly accelerated to sixteen knots-which was the highest speed the "Inbrador" and "Caesar" could achieve.

As the French fleet accelerated, the British fleet that followed them began to split. Except for the latest cruisers, the other warships couldn't keep up.

The French fleet rushed southward at full power. This move surprised the British. Because the British did indeed have the idea of ​​concentrating on one guy to kill the most important ship of the French fleet when it came to this relatively closed sea area. Of course, this idea has not received enough support from the government. But this is indeed one of the possible options. But this move of the French made this possibility suddenly impossible.

Before the British fleet was concentrated in the Irish Sea, the French fleet once again crossed the Strait of St. George, returned to the Atlantic Ocean, and then turned westward toward the west coast of Ireland.

At this time, even the armored cruisers of the British could not keep up with the speed of the French fleet. The French fleet quickly dumped the British fleet, and then appeared on the sea near County Clare. The Port of Carroll here is the largest port under the control of the Irish Independence Army. However, the British have always deployed a squadron consisting of four armored cruisers in Galway, and used this fleet to blockade Port Carroll.

Now, the British army has begun to counterattack in Ireland, and Ireland urgently needs more supplies.

Several merchant ships filled with supplies urgently needed by the Irish have arrived in the waters near Port Carroll, but they were unable to break through the British navy's interception by themselves and send these important supplies ashore.

Now the French fleet will reconcile with these merchant ships and come directly towards Port Carroll.

Today there are two British cruisers "maintaining a presence" outside Port Carroll. Suddenly they noticed a row of smoke plumes appearing on the horizon. Then a group of murderous French warships appeared in the vision of these two cruisers.

The commander of these two cruisers, Colonel McDuffy, when he saw the posture on the opposite side, knew that it would be very difficult to stop them today. Because the number or quality of the ships on the opposite side, neither of the two cruisers in his hand can compete.

But he commanded the two cruisers to greet them, and shouted to the other side with high-powered loudspeakers imported from France: "You are about to enter the British territorial waters, turn away immediately!" But the Frenchman hung on the top of the mast. A "d flag" was raised. The British know that in the French semaphore system, the d flag means: "Our ship's steering gear is malfunctioning, pay attention to avoid it."

To put it more clearly, hanging the d flag, the more real intention is to play bumper boats. As long as the d flag is hung, it can directly hit and try to stop the British ship. That means: "If you don't give way to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kill you!"

To say that this move ~lightnovelpub.net~ is also a commonly used method in future ocean competitions. Later generations have modern frontier poems saying:

Today, the sky is clear and blue and the waves are high, and the d flag is flying on the leading ship's mast.

The barbarians were ordered to evade quickly, and I didn't care about it.

This is the practice described.

Saying that all the ships hung the d flag, they rammed the two British cruisers directly.

If the British are more sober, they should be able to quickly determine that they have no chance of winning in this bumper boat game. But the British did not dare to fire the gun, nor did they dare to actually play bumper boats with the warships of the French fleet. After all, you only need to take a look at it. This is definitely not fun.

But the Royal Navy never had the habit of turning in front of the enemy. So they could only keep on guarding the channel while continuing to shout: "You are about to invade the territorial waters of the United Kingdom, please turn immediately...please turn..."

Then there was a loud bang, "Boom!"