Chapter 450: , Blocking the door

"Are you crazy? Don’t let your life go? Didn’t you see how large the British fleet is? Did you see that big guy? Queen Elizabeth! The cannon in our hands, even at zero distance, is not necessarily able to Her armor can be touched. Her armor is thick. Otherwise, why would the British give her the name of an old virgin? There are so many lovers of that "old virgin" and "virgin queen", and illegitimate children don't know how many. Hell, as long as we are hit by a cannonball from her, we have to play the egg completely. Besides, how long can we stop her? Five minutes can't stop it! I must be responsible for this boat and the lives of everyone on it!" Captain Song widened his eyes.
"Captain, even if it is only five minutes, more people will be able to escape because of this." Major Francis said.
Alençon wanted to retort: ​​"That's all Americans, it's a shit!" But after thinking about it, he still said: "You are right, we can't do nothing."
So he turned his head and ordered: "Speed ​​up, raise the Union Jack, and let the front main gun prepare. We are going to fire at Savannah... and fire a warning. Use the semaphore to inform the "Fengyue" and take the same action as us."
This is the limit they can do for Americans.
At this time, the British watchpoint had already spotted these two French cruisers with tricolor flags.
"Damn it, you can meet the French everywhere!" The captain of the Queen Elizabeth, Hardy put down his telescope and cursed. He knew that most of these two ships were the ships mentioned in the intelligence and sub-leased by the French to the Americans. So he wanted to jump on it, take a cannonball, and send these French guys into the sea to feed the sharks. But these two ships now have the French flag, which makes him a little uncertain about the identity of the two ships. What if, what if this is another ship that has not been chartered to the Americans?
At the time of departure, the British had already considered what to do if they encountered a French warship, or even if they were provoked by a French warship. If it were at the time of the Seven Years' War, of course this would not be a problem at all. But now, Britain is obviously out of weakness, because the cabinet requires the navy to be restrained and patient. As long as there is no substantial hostile action by the French, it is even more clear that as long as the French did not take the initiative to fire on the British, the British should not initiate attacks or even provocative actions to avoid the situation. complication.
"Now France has a very strong land force in Louisiana. Once they find an excuse and join the war, Canada will definitely not be able to keep it. Even Ireland, there will be changes. So the navy must exercise restraint and restraint!" When the fleet set off, Prime Minister Peter Pete spoke to the officers.
But then, the actions of the two French ships suddenly stunned the British. The two French ships actually raised the flag of Saint George. Well, it's not the St. George flag that represents the courage and despair of the warship, but the St. George flag that represents England! Isn't this pretending to be the British Navy in front of the authentic British Navy? Is there such an operation?
"The French don't want to fight us. They know very well that they can't fight us with two colonial cruisers. That's just to die." General Nelson also walked out of the cabin at this time. "I think they want to give The Americans in Savannah issued a warning that they hung our flag and fired a shot at Savannah. This is a creative approach. The French..."
"General, do we want to stop them? They openly pretend to be us, theoretically we can treat them as pirates." Captain Hardy asked.
"No, it's only 20 minutes at most anyway, this time can't change much. We don't need to make extravagances about this." Nelson replied.
As Nelson expected, two French warships with the St. George flag of the British Navy fired at Savannah. After firing two shots, they again lowered the St. George flag and raised the tricolor flag in front of the British.
"When the French can really shame, they must be shameless." Captain Hardy cursed.
"Hadi, in fact, to be honest, we are the same. The history of mankind is the history of struggles between shameless fools and shameless villains. The result of the struggle has always been shameless villains. A fool. There is no country that is not shameless.
Nelson exclaimed.
"General, to say so, the competition between us and France is to see who can be more shameless?"
"Haha, it's kind of true." Nelson smiled, "I hope we can finally say that the French are so stupid, hahaha."
On the cruiser Huayue, the soldiers had just put away the St. George flag and raised the tricolor flag.
"Captain, look, the American gunboat has left port!"
Captain Alençon looked towards the port and saw two small steamers slowly coming out of the port. This kind of ship is a small gunboat built by the Americans for patrolling near ports. The displacement does not exceed 400 tons, the speed does not exceed 10 knots, and it is equipped with a small 76 mm cannon. The gun was fixed on the foredeck in the open, completely unobstructed.
Captain Alençon had seen this small gunboat the last time it was anchored in Savannah. The Savannah Port Anti-Smuggling Team has five or six gunboats of this type, and two of them are always in a state where the boiler is on fire and is ready to move. But this is useless, such a ship, let alone facing the British fleet. Even compared with the French colonial cruisers, it is a trivial thing.
At this time, Huayue had changed its flag, but Captain Alençon still ordered an acceleration to avoid the two small things leaving the port. Although he estimated that as long as the people on the two little things were not blind or fools, he should have noticed the forest-like plume of smoke that appeared to the east, and saw that the French flag was raised again, so he naturally knew that he had just played The two crooked guns were not meant to bombard the city, but to warn that the British fleet had arrived.
But considering that, just relying on such two small boats and two small cannons, I dared to rush out. There must be a bunch of iron and hank on this. What if they just fired at themselves without understanding what was going on? Therefore, Captain Alenzon's order is completely justified.
The two Tie Hanhan did not chase the French, but raised the signal flag to express gratitude to the French. It seems that Tie Hanhan above can still understand the actions of the French. Then they rushed towards the smoke column forest. Obviously, when the two small gunboats came out of the harbor, the target was the British fleet.
"This is to send them to death. The British wiped them out, and it didn't even take two or three minutes. The time they could gain was too late for the ships in the harbor to escape." Captain Alencon said.
At this time, the British fleet was getting closer. This time is useless at all. Most of the steamships in the Savannah port are in a flameout state. The boilers are fired and pressurized until the ships can move. It takes less than an hour to think about it. As for those sail-powered merchant ships, most of their sailors are not on board. At this time, there are not a few hours, and don't think about finding enough sailors enough to drive the ship out for life. Therefore, Tie Hanhan rushed forward, it was useless at all.
What happened later was exactly the same as Captain Alenzon had expected. Rows of water columns suddenly appeared around the two iron and hanky gunboats. Immediately afterwards, the first gunboat was hit by a shell.
This shell directly destroyed the steam engine of the small gunboat, and the small gunboat collapsed on the sea. In about half a minute after that, it suffered five or six shells. The whole ship tilted over and soon sank. Go down.
The second Tie Hanhan was slightly stronger, and he barely fired a shot. Of course, this shot missed anything and was torn to pieces by the British fire.
At this time, both "Hua Yue" and "Feng Yue" had already gone some distance. The two boats began to slow down, preparing to watch the battle. Yes, in this era, watching naval battles is really a very common thing.
"Captain, are we really doing nothing?" Major Francis asked.
"No, of course we can't do nothing." Captain Alençon said, "We are going to watch this battle next to us. When foreign warships are onlookers, some of their actions may be able to curb a little. Well, mine. Friends, you know, if we rush up to fight the British, we will not last longer than those two gunboats~EbookFREE.me~ But if we stay and watch, their brutality may be enough It will converge a little bit."
"Oh, those two American ships are really... too brave. But they died too tragically." Copa sighed, the first officer on the side.
"Oh, Copa, did you know that I met a Mexican priest in New Orleans. He said a very interesting thing to me. He said that all people will die, just different ways of death, meaning It’s not the same. Some people’s death is as important as the Rocky Mountains; some people’s death is as light as a feather. In fact, warships are also the same. All warships have a time of death. Whether it is dying on the battlefield or in a shipbreaking plant. But a warship, if it dies for the benefit of the people, is heavier than the Rocky Mountains; if it is to work for the feudal ruler, to exploit and oppress the people People die, they are lighter than feathers."
"The priest you are talking about is a heresy of revolutionary theology, right?" Copa said.
"Ah, who knows? Anyway, there are people who believe in revolutionary theology everywhere in Mexico..."
During their conversation, the British fleet had already formed a formation outside the port, blocking the exit of the port. No boat can leave the port of Savannah now.