Two Hundred and Twenty Sixth, the Road of Loyalty

Time is the most industrious and fair god in this world, no matter where the favored person is, he will never stop the pendulum and let everything come to a standstill.

On June 6, Halloween, dragging the wounded ship, was still slowly circling the coast of Barbados. Fort de France received a reliable message that a mixed fleet of seven ships was resting in St. George's Harbor on Grenada Island.

Judging from the bow markings, it is almost certainly the Halloween fleet that led the Lefrancois tragedy.

This information completely detonated the anger and panic of the Franco-Dutch combined fleet.

Judging from the situation on the battlefield, the fringe conflict between the two fleets is intensifying day by day. Recently, there have been successive small-scale naval battles. On the day when the battles were most intensive, there were three related battle reports.

This means that the distance between the main fleets of the two sides is already close at hand.

Just like two hurricanes moving towards each other, the closer the center of the air mass is, the stronger the disturbance of the cyclone will be.

The final decisive battle has reached the stage of gaining momentum. According to the map operation of the French and Dutch staffs, the main force of the British is very likely to wander within a hundred kilometers west of Grenada.

And at this moment, the evil and undoubtedly powerful force of the Halloween Fleet suddenly entered St. George's Harbor, like a jackal serving the battlefield of two lions.

What does it want to do?

Or think more deeply, Peter Parker, what on earth is this cunning Brit trying to do?

Fort-de-France urgently started the second round of deduction, and it was quickly concluded that the Halloween fleet would break through the outer defense line with a loss of two to three ships, and join the battlefield when the battleships of both sides were most vulnerable.

The twenty-four-pound heavy gun of the Andes will become a terrible battle killer. Under the escort of Jupiter and the Golden Deer, it will be difficult for the stalemate combined fleet to make effective containment.

This is an ambush that can change the victorious state of the battlefield!

The results of this deduction were soon spread to the flagship of the United Fleet, the Glory. Admiral Ramon, the admiral of the French New World Fleet and Admiral of the Franco-Dutch Combined Fleet, immediately convened a top-level deduction meeting, with the fleet staff as the team, to fully verify the French reliability of the Fort case.

As a result, there were no two arrivals.

The fleet's staff officers and senior officers generally believed that under the realistic situation that the battleships of the two sides were equal in strength and did not have absolute intelligence superiority, it was almost impossible to decide the winner through fixed-point artillery battles within a stable battletime. at zero.

This [stable battle time],

For top maritime powers like Britain and France, it is six hours.

Manpower is exhausted, and intense and meticulous micro-manipulation for a long time is a serious damage to the sailor's energy. Although their endurance and concentration can be improved through training, they always have their limits.

Once more than six hours, the influence of objective factors such as wind direction, sail surface, center of gravity, and ocean currents on the attitude of the hull will become more and more prominent.

The deformation of the ship's posture will lead to the collapse of the battle line, which will greatly affect the accuracy and power of the shelling. In order to maintain the offensive posture, the commander can only dismantle the battle line and seek short-handed mobile warfare and side-to-side combat.

This is the moment when a single ship is at its weakest against a formation, and the suppression is so great that it can cause a third-tier ship to capsize in a battle with multiple fifth-tier ships.

Not to mention, there is also the Andes equipped with a twenty-four-pound heavy gun in the Halloween fleet!

The commanders of the United Fleet suddenly discovered that Halloween, which annexed the defense fleet, was no longer just a sustenance of French hatred, it had been upgraded to a real threat, and its elimination had become an urgent issue for the United Fleet, and there was no delay.

"Lefrancois' victims must be avenged before the decisive battle!" Someone raised a new topic at the deduction table.

His reason is very good. The United Fleet is far superior to the Parker Fleet in terms of morale and combat power. Once Peter Parker is defeated and awarded the title, the Halloween Fleet, which has lost its admiral, will definitely flee away, maybe it will flee back to England.

At that time, it will be too late to avenge the soul of Le Francois. Once the British reorganize the fleet, the tragedy of Le Francois will become a headless public case, and there will be no more grievances. Snow possible!

A strong sense of mission instantly filled the minds of the gentlemen present. They represent justice, and what they do will be blessed by God.

A conspiracy against Grenada began.

On June 8, Fort-de-France announced that the joint Franco-Dutch fleet would go to Le François to mourn the dead as the representative of the colonial government of the French New World.

On June 9, in response to the declaration of the colonial government, the army moved ahead of the navy.

The two regiments of the Martinique garrison and the newly organized militia marched out of the heavily guarded defense line around Fort-de-France, singing the war song of revenge, and marched towards the Pele volcano area in the north of the island.

And before that, the big black Sander who was at the pier on the night of the tragedy disappeared without warning, and Charamon searched through all the fragmented corpses with his own hands, no one was alive or dead.

The slave army suddenly changed from dual-core to single-core.

Rachamon was weak in character, far less decisive than his companions, and could not bear the burden of the entire slave army.

He became withdrawn, and quietly gave up his dream of building a nation before leaving Le François, and led his followers with low morale to flee northward, with the goal of fleeing to the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Mount Perey.

In the evening, the United Fleet officially set off, posing as a gesture of abandoning the decisive battle between Britain and France, crossing the St. Lucia Strait, heading north to Martinique along the intersection of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and heading towards the mountains where the rebels gathered by sea.

No one noticed that in the dead of night on the sea, the revenge fleet formed in response to the tragedy had quietly left the main team under the leadership of the flagship Fury.

They went south at the exit of the St. Lucia Strait, pierced deep into the hinterland of the Atlantic Ocean, avoided the merchant ships that appeared along the way, sailed for four days, and appeared in the Grenadines Islands, the capital of Grenada, and the legendary headquarters of the Halloween Fleet. Only one day is left.

On June 11, the land troops fought against the slave army. In the outer suburbs of St. Pierre, the slaves who were not superior in equipment, training and morale retreated steadily.

The vanquished, dead or alive, were soon reduced to crucifixes as soon as they fell into French hands.

Thousands of shoddy crosses are paved all the way from Saint-Pierre to the hinterland of the mountain, from the beach to the smoky volcano, forming a new path, which the French call "Road of Loyalty".

On June 12, the Vengeance Fleet raided St. George's Harbor in Grenada in the morning light.

Legend has it that there are only two or three small fishing boats ready to go to sea in the remote commercial port that should have been filled with the evil ships of the Halloween fleet...

The pioneers on the island looked in horror at the cutting-edge third-tier battleship Fury, which came down like a mountain. They rang the town bell before the French fired, and they simply chose to surrender.

The Battle of the Windward Islands, following the British ravages of the Atlantic coast of Martinique, the French seized Grenada in a high-profile manner.

This is the beginning of the death knell for France.

On June 13, the United Fleet, which was sailing comfortably along the coast of Martinique, crashed into the battlefield created by Sir Parker unprepared.

Baspinte to Grand-Riviere, this calm offshore route belongs to France and belongs to Martinique, an overseas department of the Kingdom of France.

The United Fleet enjoys the days when there is no need to worry about it. While enjoying good wine and not too bad ship meals, it enjoys those damn slaves, and the end of the Halloween fleet that is even more damning than slaves.

They thought they had done a good job of turning the tiger away from the mountain, not only showing the muscles of France to the world, but also postponing the decisive battle with the British. They used a classic strategic deception to eliminate the Halloween fleet that was enough to become a variable in the decisive battle.

As everyone knows, all of this is just part of the sea fox Peter Parker's plan, that's all...

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