Chapter 596

In the summer of 1776, the northern half of the thirteen colonies in North America was in a hot fight.

Because the United States Army issued the declaration of independence in early July, pouring a tanker of gasoline directly into the already hot battlefield, the flames of war suddenly rose countless times again.

Stimulated by the declaration of independence, Major General William Howe, who succeeded Major General Thomas gage as commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America on October 10 last year, began to play his life. He led 32000 British forces, with the cooperation of the British fleet, to beat the Continental Army under Mr. Watson's command.

Just in August, the British Army led by Major General William Howe began to approach New York. If nothing happens, the British will seize new York in November this year

This was the case in the early or the first stage of the war of independence, when the British on the other side of the ocean suppressed the American army.

The great army was not unable to fight back either. With their familiarity with the terrain, they fought with the powerful British on the northern battlefield in the form of guerrilla warfare. They had a certain style of dealing with the old Chiang Kai Shek's army.

But all this has nothing to do with the stone bear. He just sits in Norfolk, east capital. While participating in the test of Carlos, he arranges things in Beijing by radio.

The war of independence was still raging north of New York, and it was still calm near the James River.

Although the army would harass Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown from time to time, no one dared to go to Norfolk to challenge the Cherokees.

However, one day in early August, both the British and the army enjoyed a free large-scale "fireworks show" in the distance. They were completely frightened by the free large-scale fireworks show.

The day before, three sailboats without any flags entered Chesapeake Bay and headed north along the bay. On arriving at Yorktown on the South Bank of the mouth of the river, the British garrison was shelled.

However, the three windsurfing battleships did not achieve any good results. After all, Yorktown is now an important seaport city for the British in central and southern China. The heavy fortress guns near Yorktown alone are enough to make the three windsurfing battleships unable to get close to Yorktown for shelling.

The three sail battleships saw that the shelling was fruitless, so they ran away in the dark.

Unexpectedly, the next day, the three windsurfing battleships quietly entered the James River through the simble Shure channel, and then went upstream along the James River to launch artillery attack on Jamestown

One of the three windsurfing battleships is a class II windsurfing battleship, and the other two are class III windsurfing battleships. Although the three ships do not fly any national flag, the stone bear standing on the hot-air balloon suspended at an altitude of 500 meters can see at a glance through the telescope that the three windsurfing battleships are from that country.

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

If you want to say that the French today are just taking out a dung spoon and going to the head of the spoon - a dung stirring stick.

Since the loss of New France and French Louisiana in the new world of North America in the seven-year war, the French have been trying to regain face and try to get back the lost colonies.

Unfortunately, for more than a decade before the outbreak of the independent war, the French had little chance. However, the French did not make small moves in the thirteen British colonies. Before the outbreak of the war of independence, many protests took place in the thirteen British colonies, followed by French figures.

After the outbreak of the war of independence, although the French have not publicly announced that they are on the side of the army and join the war, they have started to help the army behind the scenes.

These three sailing battleships are obviously the French navy ready to fish in troubled waters. Taking advantage of the fact that the main forces of the British forces in the north have no time to take care of the central and southern battlefield, the three French sailing battleships intend to bombard several important British seaports in Chesapeake Bay, so as to contain the main forces of the British forces from the side.

It's a pity that the French really don't have enough brains. Didn't they think of it before they shelled Yorktown and Jamestown? Why did the army just harass these two seaport cities and dare not attack them head-on? Isn't it the defensive artillery of these two seaport cities that they are afraid of?

Do you really think those eight inch and ten inch fortress guns are food for dry food?

Although the range and firing accuracy of this kind of large caliber mortar gun installed at relatively high altitude are very speechless, the power of this kind of thing is really not strong.

The caliber of an eight inch mortar gun is equivalent to that of a later 203 mm gun, and that of a ten inch mortar gun is equivalent to that of a 254 mm gun.

Although the range and accuracy of these mortars can not be compared with those of later generations, in this era, the large caliber fortress gun installed on the fixed fort is really frightening.

This thing as long as one hit the target, then enough to sail battleship drink a pot.

Don't forget that the naval guns installed on windsurfing battleships at this time are not those on steel battleships of later generations. The naval guns of this era are no different from those fortress guns in terms of effective range and accuracy.

Therefore, although the three sailing battleships shelled Jamestown, they were still scared away by Jamestown's fortress guns.

You say you can't beat the British, just run back to the Atlantic Ocean and continue cruising. You are windsurfing battleships. Keeping speed and mobility is what you should do.

What stone bear didn't expect was that he just watched the battle between a sailboat and a fort gun from a long distance in a hot air balloon. As a result, the three sailboats turned around and aimed their guns at Norfolk.

Who knows if the commanders of these three windsurfing battleships are out of their heads. They can return to the Atlantic Ocean, but they don't.

Perhaps the commander of the small fleet was upset by the failure of shelling the British port, or they saw that Norfolk wanted to find some face in Norfolk, so when they passed by the mouth of the Elizabeth River, the three sailing battleships turned a corner and rushed to Norfolk along the Elizabeth River.

The commander of the coastal artillery position on both sides of the Bank of Elizabeth immediately warned the three ships with flags. As a result, the three sailing battleships went on regardless.

So after asking for instructions from Dahe, the commander of the shore defense artillery position decisively gave the artillery order to the three sail battleships.

The three sailing battleships were in the middle of the river. The width of the mouth of the Elizabethan river was more than four kilometers. They must have thought that the coastal artillery could not hit them.

As a result, the French did not expect that the coastal defense guns built on both sides of the Elizabethan River were not the large caliber mortar guns used by the British to launch solid bombs. Although the caliber of Yanhuang's coastal defense artillery is far from that of the British's large caliber mortar artillery, it is a serious 105 heavy artillery firing Huahua bomb!

The most important thing is that the French can't imagine the effective range and accuracy of these 105 heavy guns!