The entire Franco-Prussian War was simply a farce for France. Napoleon III's failure ultimately means that his energy was exhausted!

Look at the generals under his command, none of them are purely fighting battlefield wars.

The various marshals and generals of the army were careful to think one after another. Some wanted to preserve their strength for the French Emperor, some wanted to preserve their strength for themselves, and some even watched the political chaos in Paris every day.

Even the naval generals didn't have the intention to put all their thoughts on the battlefield. They always thought about something irrelevant, such as politics!

Why do you think about this? After all, they are still afraid of winning the war but losing politics. In the end, they not only have no credit but have sinned!

Just like these generals, even the Bonaparte family itself was in agitation. Haven’t you seen Queen Eugenie secretly packing and transferring property?

Even the Bonaparte family began to think about how to make a comeback after stepping down, so how could they blame ordinary soldiers such as Hoff?

In this naval battle, Hoff first made the mistake of underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly. He ignored the bad weather and advanced late at night without investigating the enemy situation. This was his biggest mistake!

Immediately afterwards, Hoff misjudged the intention of the British fleet. Hoff was actually a coward and a coward in his bones!

He insisted that the British were here to seize his way out and wanted to launch a sudden attack!

In order to prevent the British, he actually landed the army on Spicke Island. This late night and this weather made 30,000 troops land on the beach, which is a crime in itself!

The third mistake was to rashly divide the troops. He asked the cruiser to protect the landing merchant ships, leaving only six battleships to face the Zhiyuan. This arrogant arrogance directly caused huge losses to the French fleet!

The fourth mistake is that his will! From beginning to end, his attitude towards Zhiyuan continued to change, from the beginning to the end to the attempt to persuade surrender, and then he tried to sink in anger!

But when he heard that the commander of the Zhiyuan was a heir to the king, he began to be confused again. He was actually thinking about whether he would be subjected to endless revenge from the Xiang Ying family after Xiang Ying’s death!

Who can't see this kind of fence-bearing swaying like a fence? The morale of the military has completely collapsed since then!

But he still had to pretend to be tenacious and endless fighting spirit. He yelled in the command cabin like a roaring gorilla, not knowing that the people below had looked at him coldly!

"What a shitty king! France is not afraid of him... continue to fight, ignore the British, and sink the Zhiyuan!"

"Open fire...Open fire..."

The sound of cannons rumbling on the sea was like thunder, and the Duke of Newx kept slapping the buttons on his military uniform, while the naval officers around him said in unison, "Let's intervene! Do you really see Xiang Ying die here?"

"His Excellency Duke, if we rescue Xiang Ying now, it will be beneficial or disadvantageous to our UK!"

"Xiang Ying is not only the heir to the Far East, but he is also very likely to inherit Xiao Letian's position as prime minister. If such a person is good in advance, it will be of great benefit to our diplomacy in the future!"

"As for the French protests, we don't have to care at all! The French emperor may not be able to keep the throne this time, and they have no capital to fight against our Britain!"

"Get on the move! Rescue the Zhiyuan and the ship of men and drag the Zhiyuan back to our port. Our engineers will be so excited that they will go crazy!"

Newx, the Duke was actually already moved, but he still wanted to take a look. The Duke raised his hand and said, "Wait a little longer... Wait a little longer..."

The Duke of Newcastle looked at his pocket watch and it was already 4:50 in the morning and it would light up in less than an hour... Of course, the storm is still very strong now, but the storm on the summer night comes and goes quickly, and maybe the storm will stop in the early morning.

"Wait for another hour...it's six o'clock! If Zhiyuan can't hold on, we will intervene! We can't let the French take such a big advantage!"

At this time, all the officers and soldiers of the Zhiyuan were completely crazy, and the entire Zhiyuan ship, which had lost its power, had already realized the arrival of the last moment.

The coal shovelers, maintenance workers, chefs in the bottom cabin... all members of non-combat positions were also assigned weapons to rush to the deck to help the soldiers fight.

The grounding of the Zhiyuan is only twenty meters away from the coast. Rifles can easily shoot soldiers running away from the shore from the deck, and also shoot sailors struggling in the sea.

More importantly, every round of enemy artillery will cause casualties between gunners and heavy machine gunners, and fresh blood is needed at this time.

At the most intense moment, even the coal shovelers began to manipulate heavy machine guns and started shooting, and the rain of bullets tilted towards the crowd on the shore.

"Fire... Keep firing! Blow out all the ammunition on the ship!" Lin Zhen pinched a needle in his hand. He just gave himself another injection of morphine, which suppressed the severe pain and blood loss.

Every time the main gun around him fired, it was an earthquake. It made him dizzy and the sun and the moon were gone. At this time, he could no longer command the battle, and could only cheer up the brothers around him by roaring.

There was too much blood left. Although the pain was relieved after two injections of morphine, the dizziness increased a lot. He saw his head tilted and he fell to the ground with a staggering moment.

"Sir..." The soldier next to him was about to help him, but at this moment, the gunner suddenly pulled the rope, and the double-mounted main gun roared again.

Boom... With a muffled sound, the Zhiyuan's good luck was finally used up. The one on the left of the double-mounted main gun could not withstand the huge pressure of the explosion. After a muffled sound... it exploded!

At that moment, the energy of the medicine bag was completely released on the main turret. One-third of the barrel was blown through a large hole, and one-third of the barrel in the front hung on the deck.

Six soldiers, including the gunner, loader, aimer and other soldiers, were blasted and covered in bruises in the accident and lay on the deck in a row.

However, Lin Zhen fainted early and avoided the attack of fragments. However, the soldier who tried to help him was not so lucky. His chest was pierced by a shrapnel and he fell on Lin Zhen's body, using his body as the chief's shield.

"Xiao Wang...Xiao Wang..." Lin Zhen's consciousness was blurred. He shook his head desperately to wake up, but what he got was still dizzy!

"It's exploded! The Zhiyuan main gun exploded!"

The explosion at the head of the Zhiyuan ship alarmed everyone on the battlefield. When Hoff saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't believe it at first, and then he started shouting like a madman.

"Hahaha... it exploded! It really exploded! I just said that this warship is not omnipotent! He is also weak!"

"Hahaha... the greater the power of the naval gun, the higher the danger. Look... it's going to explode! Hahaha..."

Hoff made another stupid decision while laughing wildly!

"Send the order and stop the shelling! The weapon that the enemy's greatest threat has expired, let the army attack!"

"Capture this warship and capture this group of Chinese!"
Chapter completed!