Chapter 647： Fleet departure

Although it is known that Henry VII intends to overpower France, Marin did not know that Henry VII also planned to send Edward to England. Therefore, Marin still sent a fleet according to the original plan, intending to destroy the British warships on the Irish sea.

Marin himself, too, began to leave and took the warship to Newcastle ...

Right now, spring cultivation has basically ended. Because there are enough cattle, spring tillage in the Grand Duchy of Beihai ended very early. If it is usual, Marin may arrange for people to go to the newly controlled provinces of West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland to reclaim some more land. But now, because of the need to attack England, Marin can't take care of it.

While Marin boarded the ship, a fleet sailed westward at the same time to attack the English ships on the Irish Sea ...

When approaching the narrowest Strait of Calais between Britain and France, the fleet commander Kidd, following Marin's order, deliberately sailed against the French side. Moreover, no flag was hung.

The French did not stop because the French Navy had long been informed that a fleet from the Grand Duchy of the German North Sea would pass here.

The British also discovered this fleet, but because the fleet clearly leaned on the French side and did not fly a flag that indicated identity, the British mistakenly thought that this fleet was French. After all, if it were not for the French fleet, the French would definitely intercept it.

The fleet touched the French side all the way west, and after crossing the Normandy Peninsula, the fleet suddenly raised the flag collectively, raising the white rose battle flag representing the York family.

Britain has experienced a war of red and white roses for thirty years. Red roses are a symbol of the Lancaster family. The white rose is a symbol of the York family.

In fact, Henry VII was not the descendant of the Lancaster family, but the collateral Tudor family. Only because the Lancaster family has no male members of the male lineage, Henry VII, a relative, became the leader of the Lancaster family.

After seizing the throne in 1485, Henry VII married Princess Elizabeth of the York family, integrated the Lancaster family and the York family, and used red and white roses in red as the family emblem to show that Lan Kai The Sturt family and the York family have become one.

However, Edward clearly does not think so. He believes that the York family was violently annexed by Henry VII. As the only heir to the York family, he was also the former crown prince (Richard III had set up Edward Hua after the death of his son. family. Therefore, the banner of his army is all white roses.

Kidd's fleet played the white rose flag, which clearly showed that he wanted to play for Edward.

However, in the Tudor dynasty of Henry VII, the banner of white roses was absolutely invincible and was treason.

Surprisingly, after playing the White Rose flag, Kidd's fleet went smoothly. After waiting for a while, there was no English ship to pursue ...

"Sure enough, as Grand Duke expected ..." Kidd breathed a sigh of relief.

Before, Marin had explained that when passing the Channel Islands on the west side of the Normandy Peninsula, the flag of white roses was deliberately played to stimulate the British. Because, in the Channel Islands, there is a British fleet. In this way, we can also test the attitude of the British.

If the British sent their ships into the nest and tried to kill Kidd, it would indicate that Marin made a wrong judgment and that the naval battle in the Irish Sea may be more difficult. And if the other party ignores it, it shows that Henry VII is indeed preparing to ambush the French fleet. In this way, the British must be very restrained at this time, and will not encircle his fleet. Even the British at sea in the Irish Sea will be very restrained ...

As expected, the British fleet of the Channel Islands was very restrained. After listening to the report of a man who said that a fleet from France was flying the white rose flag, Fleet Commander Hunter smiled and said:

"Your Majesty is wise, the Frenchman really wants to attract us to chase down this fleet ... well, I have to say it, otherwise it is too fake ..."

Then, a dozen small fishing boats were dispatched to Guernsey, pretending to chase Kidd's fleet for a while. However, at this time, Kidd's fleet had 30 200-ton Clark sailing ships equipped with a lot of bronze guns (For the sake of confidentiality, Marin did not use his own distinctive warships and armed merchant ships, but used them. In the past, Clarke sailboats were bought from Spain. Anyway, it is not surprising that the French used the Spanish ship type. After all, France and Spain border, and the southern Mediterranean coast of France uses Clarke sailboats more). The pursuit of dozens of small fishing boats sent by Hunter seems to be dead ... In fact, the fishing boat pretending to be chased after this time is really a fishing boat, and the boats are all ordinary fishermen ... They are forced Going to chase Kidd's fleet ... even if it is eliminated, Commander Hunt will not be distressed ...

However, Kidd did not turn back to destroy each other, but continued to follow the "script", first commanding the fleet to turn north, turn to the coast of England, then slowly all the way west, walk and stop, like waiting for something people……

It seems that this is just to provoke the English navy and entice the enemy to hunt down ...

The local English army on the coast sent the news to London ...

"Oh, that's true! Actually, I wanted to lure us to chase down. I really wanted to tune away the main force of England's navy ..."

Then, Henry VII gave the order:

"You go to send some more slow boats to pretend to catch up for a while ~ www.novelhall.com ~ deliberately did not catch up ..." Henry VII was afraid that the other party would see his intentions, so he planned to send some boats to pretend to catch up.

Anyway, the big ships in England were probably bought by the "French". At this time, it is reasonable to send some boats to chase. In this way, France is more assured.

So, the fleet led by Kidd, under the **** of a large group of English boats, sailed to the Irish Sea ...

It's just that the large group of boats seems to be deliberately unable to catch up, and sometimes the boats are left behind ...

At this time, Kidd took out the "script" given by Marin, and in accordance with the "script" instructions, split a Clark sailboat in time and sailed towards the French coast ... The reason for this is to be shown to the British-you Look, the effect of our report on sending ships back to China went ... It seems that it really attracted many British ships to pursue ...

Seeing that the "French Fleet" split a ship "Return to China", the commander of the British navy, Wallace, did not split the ship to intercept, but laughed, showing a scheming smile ...

At this time, a strong wind came from the west sea. The English boats sent to chase seemed to be too small, and were swayed by strong west wind. Even a small fishing boat was directly overturned ...

Suddenly, the British "fleet" was in a hurry ... The Wallace, who was in charge of the team, made a swift move and directly took this large group of small fishing boats to the beach to shelter from the wind ... So, they also have reason to stop chasing-you see, scratch The wind is so strong that the boat can't carry it ...

Seeing that the "fleet" in England stopped chasing, the "French fleet" in front of the "lead" seemed to be anxious, and stopped specially to wait for the British fleet to continue to pursue, but Wallace ignored it. "Unfortunately," Captain Kidd had to take the fleet slowly to the Irish Sea ... 8)