Chapter 597

Henry Antoine was a brigadier general of the French fleet in Guadeloupe, but he was not the top commander of the fleet.

At the end of the seven-year war, France was defeated. In order to keep the sugarcane plantations and sugar factories in Guadeloupe, the French king reluctantly ceded French Louisiana and New France in the new world of North America.

In fact, even if Louis XV did not cede French Louisiana and New France, the British had long coveted these two vast colonies. The French were defeated in the seven-year war. It would be foolish for the British not to want these two places.

So, on the surface, it seems that the French ceded French Louisiana and New France in order to save Guadeloupe island. In fact, everyone knows that Guadeloupe island is the last pair of trousers for the French.

But Guadeloupe is finally saved. At least the sugar that the French nobles eat every day is guaranteed, isn't it?

After seven years of war, the French are much more honest. For the time being, they were unable to confront the more powerful British, so they had to send a fleet of three second class windsurfing battleships, seven third class windsurfing battleships and a number of fourth class windsurfing fast ships to Guadeloupe.

The sugarcane plantations and sugar factories in Guadeloupe are something the French must not give up.

However, as the Americans began to struggle in the British colonies, the French found opportunities.

The French know very well that the seven-year war has made a lot of trouble for them, and the British also feel bad. Otherwise, the British would not increase their oppression on the thirteen British colonies and eventually lead to the outbreak of the war of independence.

Although they had just defeated the seven-year war for only 14 years, the French could not sit still when they saw the time coming.

It's just that they can't stand on the side of the U.S. Army now, but it's OK to help the U.S. Army quietly.

As a result, Henry Antoine was given such a task, that is, to lead a sub fleet composed of a class II windsurfing battleship and two class III windsurfing battleships to go northward from Guadeloupe island without flying the national flag, to bombard the British port cities as pirates at the right time, so as to restrain the British.

So Henry Antoine came to the east coast of the new world.

The flotilla had been cruising the upper Atlantic Ocean for more than three months, during which they had docked in the army controlled Philadelphia for some time, but as the British went south to attack New York, Brigadier General Henry Antoine led the flotilla out of Philadelphia.

At the same time, according to the agreement with the army, they went south to prepare to bombard Yorktown, Jamestown and other port cities controlled by the British, so as to contain the attention of the British.

After leaving the port of Philadelphia, the sub fleet went down the south of Delaware and down the east coast of demava Peninsula to Chesapeake Bay, and then began shelling Yorktown and Jamestown.

But the effect of the bombardment disappointed Brigadier General Henry Antoine. The British built defensive positions in these two port cities that they could not break through with just three windsurfing battleships.

And Brigadier General Henry Antoine didn't want to risk losing his warship to attack the two ports. His purpose was to contain them.

However, two successive shellings did not achieve good results, which made Brigadier General Henry Antoine very unhappy.

Windsurfing battleship is a weapon used for attack. If the attack has no effect, it will certainly upset the commander.

I came here from a long distance, but I didn't even kill a dog after several rounds of gunfire. Everyone would be upset if it was someone else.

Especially when the shelling of Jamestown was fruitless, Henry Antoine heard from his first mate that just a little inside the mouth of the Elizabethan River, there was a large tribe of Cherokees, and this large tribe was on the Bank of the river.

The news has interested Antoine in the future.

You know, in the seven-year war, Antoine had been stationed in New France for a period of time. After the defeat, although France ceded New France to the British, Antoine did not leave New France immediately.

So Antoine, then a colonel, had heard of what happened on the Mississippi River.

As a Viscount, major general Claire's military fortress on the Ohio River was beaten down by the Cherokee and cut off the channel of the Mississippi River, which made major general Claire very angry.

But because of the defeat, the French military strength in the new world was not as good as before, so even with the strength of the local colonists, there was nothing they could do with the Cherokee.

It can be said that the French suffered a great loss from this native Indian tribe.

Although it had nothing to do with Antoine, he was a Frenchman and a French high-ranking officer. Now he learned that the Cherokee tribe, which had made France suffer a great loss, had a large tribe nearby. Antoine immediately decided to revenge for Viscount Clare, who had been promoted to lieutenant general.

In Antoine's view, it's just an aboriginal tribe. There is no way for our fleet to take the British Fort guns. Can't we have a native tribe?

Three windsurfing battleships are approaching, and a few rounds of Volley are enough to flatten the tribe!

Antovance had no doubt about this.

These three windsurfing battleships have a total of 80 32 pound guns, 30 18 pound guns and 82 12 pound guns!

Even if the volley can only have half of the artillery fire, it is definitely not a native tribe can resist.

It's funny that after entering the mouth of the Elizabethan River, those damned natives still use flag language to warn!

I didn't expect that these aborigines could understand the common flag language of European powers

Looking at the smoke area in the distance, Antoine was also curious about how the smoke came into being.

Are these indigenous people also engaged in industrial production? Are these indigenous people still engaged in industrial production?

And what's that ball floating in the air in the distance? How did that thing fly in the sky?

But just as Antoine was pondering over the smoke and the floating ball in the distance, a sharp and piercing howl suddenly sounded in the sky.

The next moment, these sharp whistling over the top of the head, and then a close to 10 meters of water in the river not far from the fleet suddenly burst out!

This, Antoine immediately woke up.

"Damn it, it's artillery! Sound the alarm at once Antoine roared at once.

As soon as Antoine's voice fell, there was another shrill whistling sound in the sky, more than one. The next moment, under Antoine's gaping gaze, the front deck of the king's Knight class III windsurfing battleship in front of him suddenly burst out a dazzling light, and a large group of huge sparks accompanied by smoke suddenly appeared from the front deck of the king's Knight.

When the fire rose, the front deck of the 1480 ton King's knight had become a fiery prison. One third of the front deck of the king's Knight has disappeared completely. It seems that the front deck of this class III windsurfing battleship has been bitten down by an invisible beast!