In this summer of 1776, the northern half of the thirteen colonies in North America was furious.

  Because the Continental Army issued the "Declaration of Independence" in early July, the already very hot battlefield was directly poured with gasoline from a tanker, and the raging war suddenly increased countless times again.

Stimulated by the "Declaration of Independence", Major General William Howe, who had succeeded Major General Thomas Gage as the commander-in-chief of the British Army in North America on October 10 last year, began to fight his life. He led 320,000 British troops with the cooperation of the British fleet. The Continental Army under the command of Mr. Watsonton scrambled.

  In the past August, the British army led by Major General William Howe has begun to gradually approach New York. If nothing happens, the British army will seize New York in November this year...

  This was the case in the early or first stage of the War of Independence. The British on the other side of the ocean firmly suppressed the American Army on the battlefield.

   And the Continental Army is not unable to fight back. They rely on their familiarity with the terrain to deal with the powerful British in the northern battlefield in the form of guerrilla warfare. They have some of the style of the former Chinese grandfather against the old Chiang army.

   But all this has nothing to do with Shi Xiong. He just sits in the capital of Norfolk while participating in the Carlos test while arranging things on the Beijing side via radio.

  The war of independence was still in full swing north of New York at this time, but it was still very calm near the James River.

  Although the Continental Army will harass Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown from time to time, no one dares to go to Norfolk to provoke the Cherokee.

  Without him, on one day in early August, both the British and the Continental Army enjoyed a free large-scale "firework show" in the distance. They were completely frightened by this free large-scale firework show.

  On the day before this day, three sailing battleships without any flags entered the Chesapeake Bay and then headed north along the bay. Upon arriving at Yorktown on the south bank of the mouth of the York River, shelling was launched on Yorktown, which was guarded by the British.

However, these three sailing battleships did not achieve any good results. After all, Yorktown is now an important port city for the British in the south-central. The heavy fortress guns near Yorktown alone are enough to prevent the three sailing battleships. Shelling close to Yorktown.

  The three sailing battleships saw no results from the shelling, and ran away in the dark.

  Unexpectedly, the next day, these three sailing battleships quietly entered the James River through the Simbulshur Strait, and then went upstream along the James River and launched a bombardment on Jamestown...

One of the three sailing battleships is a second-class sailing battleship, and two third-class sailing battleships. Although these three ships do not fly any national flags, the stone bear standing on a hot air balloon suspended at an altitude of 500 meters still glances through the telescope. It was obvious that these three sailing battleships came from that country.

  From the appearance of the three sailing battleships, the stone bear recognized their nationality-France.

  To say that the French nowadays just dig out the dung spoon and go to the head of the spoon-a shit-stirring stick.

  Since the loss of New France and French Louisiana in the New World of North America in the Seven Years' War, the French have always wanted to get back their face and at the same time find a way to get back the lost colony.

  Unfortunately, the French had no chance for more than a decade before the outbreak of the war alone. However, the French did not do little tricks in the 13 British colonies. Many of the protests that took place in the 13 British colonies before the outbreak of the War of Independence were followed by the French.

  After the outbreak of the Independent War, although the French have not publicly announced that they will stand on the side of the Continental Army and join the war, they have already begun to help the Continental Army behind their backs.

  These three sailing battleships are obviously the French Navy preparing to fish in troubled waters. Taking advantage of the fact that the main British forces in the north did not have time to take care of the central and southern battlefields, these three French sailing battleships were intended to bombard several important British seaport cities in the Chesapeake Bay, thereby restraining the main British forces from the side.

  It’s a pity that the French people’s brains really don’t seem to be good enough. Didn’t they think of it before they shelled Yorktown and Jamestown? Why did the Continental Army only harass the two seaport cities, and did not dare to attack frontally? Isn't it the defensive artillery of the two seaport cities?

  Do you really think those fortress guns that are eight-inch and ten-inch at every turn eat dry food?

  This kind of large-caliber mortar placed at a relatively high altitude, although the range and accuracy of shooting are very speechless, the power of this thing is really not covered.

The caliber of the    eight-inch mortar is equivalent to the later 203 mm cannon, and ten inches is equivalent to the 254 mm cannon.

  Although the range and accuracy of these mortars are far from comparable to later artillery, in this era, such large-caliber fortress guns placed on fixed turrets are really scary.

  As long as one shot of this thing hits the target, it is enough for the sailing battleship to drink a pot.

  Don’t forget, those guns installed on sail battleships at this time are not guns on steel battleships of later generations. The guns of this era are no different from those fortress guns in terms of effective range or accuracy.

  So, although the three sailing battleships bombarded Jamestown, they were useless, and they were still scared off by the Jamestown fortress guns.

  If you say that you can't beat the British, just forget it, just run back to the Atlantic and continue cruising. You are sailing battleships, and maintaining speed and maneuverability is what you should do.

As a result, Shi Xiong did not expect that he had just watched the battle between a sail battleship of this era and a fortress gun from a long distance on a hot air balloon. As a result, the three sail battleships turned their guns at their mouths. In Norfolk~lightnovelpub.net~ the ghost knew if the commanders of these three sailing battleships had water in their heads. They could obviously return to the Atlantic Ocean, but they did not do so.

Perhaps it was because the commanders of the small fleet were upset by the ineffective shelling of the British harbor, or they saw Norfolk wanting to find some face in Norfolk, so they passed by the mouth of the Elizabeth River. At that time, the three sailing battleships turned a turn and rushed towards Norfolk along the Elizabeth River.

  The commander of the coastal artillery positions established on both sides of the Elizabeth River immediately warned the three ships with semaphores. As a result, the three sailing battleships continued to move forward regardless of whether they were asked.

  So after consulting Dahe, the commander of the coastal defense artillery position decisively issued the bombardment order on the three sailing battleships.

  The three sailing battleships are driving in the middle of the river. The width of the mouth of the Elizabeth River is more than four kilometers. They must be driving in the middle because they think that the shore defense artillery can't hit them.

  As a result, what the French did not expect was that the coastal defense guns built on the banks of the Elizabeth River were not the large-caliber mortars used by the British to fire solid rounds. Although the caliber of the Yanhuang tribe’s coastal defense artillery is far from comparable to that of the British’s large-caliber mortars, it is a 105 heavy artillery capable of firing explosive rounds!

  The most important thing is that these Frenchmen simply cannot imagine how high the effective range and accuracy of these 105 heavy artillery are!