Chapter 664： Defeated

Henry VII was outraged this time and wanted to wipe out the French army. So, this time he gave the main fleet commander Baron Turnbull a death order-except for those carrying grain ships and artillery ships, all other manned ships were sunk, do not capture!

This trick was very vicious. If the enemy was captured, and if the French paid, Henry VII had to obey the rules and redeem the person. However, if these people were redeemed by the French, even if they lost money, as long as the people were still there, the French still threatened the British.

So, after consulting with the same venomous stepfather, Earl Thomas Stanley, Henry VII decided to burn the French ships with them. Let the enemy be buried in the sea of ​​fire, or sink into the sea with the boat ...

As a result, the French will lose a lot of elite. Although they would lose a lot of ransom without captive, Henry VII was concerned about the safety of England, not the ransom. Therefore, as long as the French soldiers were burned to death or sink into the sea, the French could not redeem those soldiers even if they were willing to pay. It takes ten or twenty years to train a knight or an officer. During this time, the French are going to die ...

As for the French accusation afterwards? so what? Let ’s say that French soldiers are good, and refuse to surrender. Can you go and pick up the bodies of French soldiers sinking into the sea and confront them in court?

Based on the orders of Henry VII, after encircling several transport ships in the southwest corner of the French fleet, General Turnbull was all manned at first sight. It's all lit, and it's too late to put out.

Then General Turnbull smiled brutally, watching several French ships sink into the sea. Even if the French officer on the French ship was willing to surrender, he did not accept it. Some French soldiers who jumped into the sea were also ordered to shoot with a long bow ...

Just as he had disposed of several French transport ships in the southwest, preparing to continue eastward, 82 French main battleships led by Earl Valgery arrived. These French warships were lined up and blocked in front of the British fleet ...

"Hehe ... I'm going to find you, but I didn't expect to send it to my door ..." General Turnbull sneered. He knew very well that as long as the battleship formation in front of him was eliminated, the French navy was finished. Because the thousands of sailors trained by the French for the navy are all in this fleet. Once this fleet is eliminated, the French Navy will become history ...

"Arrow!" Turnbull ordered. Suddenly, the English longbowmen in the fleet shot, and the rocket landed on the French warship like raindrops.

Of course, this is not very useful, because the sailors on these big ships are abundant. In addition, the fleet is not surrounded, and the sailors still have time to extinguish the flames when the arrows are not from all sides. Even the sails of the entire boat will be wet with sea water and difficult to ignite. The same is true on the deck, filled with water ...

The French fleet just wanted to stop the opponent and did not take the initiative to move forward, just stopped there. When the British shot arrows, they were busy with sailors carrying wooden boards to avoid bows and arrows, and were busy putting out flames. The other sailors hid in the cabin. Even Earl Valjeri, who had just stood on the bow to boost morale, temporarily retreated into the captain's room to avoid the arrow rain ...

Therefore, although the British arrows shot at the French warship like raindrops, except for some of the unlucky sailors who extinguished the arrows, everyone else hid and naturally did not suffer much damage ...

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At the same time, on the east side of the transport fleet, thirty or forty small English warships are still attacking the French transport ship that fled east. At this time, it was probably the last command of Earl Valgery. Some ships transporting grain and grass, rushed forward without any doubt, blocking the small English warships, and in order to cover the eastward retreat of the ships carrying the knights, won enough time ...

Because they are full of war horses, weapon armor and knights, the transport ships that carry knights are not fast. It is conceivable that after the French transport ships carrying grain and grass were solved by the 30 or 40 small English warships, the ships carrying knights and war horses could not run away ...

At this time, on the ships carrying knights and war horses, knights are arguing fiercely:

"Frank, what are you doing?" One knight yelled at the other knight with red eyes.

"At the order of Count Valjeri, in order to increase the speed of the ship, push all the war horses into the sea!" The knight named Frank said expressionlessly.

"You bastard! Don't you know that warhorse is the second life of a knight? No warhorse? What are we knights? Infantry wearing plate armor?"

"Barrett, don't you understand? A fully loaded vessel can't run fast. If the speed is too slow, we can't escape at all!"

"Why should we run away? We are knights, fearless knights!" The knight named Barrett retorted with his neck stuck in his neck.

"Idiot, do you know what you are doing?" Frank Knight yelled at the battleship team on the west that was ushered in by the British Army's arrow rain:

"Master Count Valjery, in order to cover our retreat, personally took the fleet forward to stop the British pirates! What is he doing so in disregard of his life? Not for us to return safely to France! Without us knights, France The army will die in name only! We, Count Valjeri, can't let them die in vain! Stupid, do you understand? "

"However, we can't abandon the horses that have been following for years? They are our best partners ..." Knight Barret retorted in a low voice.

"I know, you feel uncomfortable, why am I not? My Ciri (name of the warhorse) has followed me for eight years, and I have treated it as a family for a long time. But, for all of us to survive, I ... I want Push it down into the sea by hand ... but I have to do it ... "Before he finished, Frank Knight was already in tears.

After wiping away his tears, Frank Knight took off the reins of his horse and led the horse to the edge of the deck. After hugging and kissing his own horse, Frank let out a desperate cry:

"what--"

He violently pushed his beloved horse into the sea ...

"Siri, I'm sorry for you! But ... I have to do this for France ..." Frank knelt on the deck in tears, looking at his own horse in the sea, desperate and helpless ...

Although horses can swim, there is no landing place in the vast sea. Even if they can swim and are pushed down the sea, the horses will be exhausted.

Now, what Frank Knight hopes most is that the British ship can salvage his own warhorse. At least, to keep his horse alive ...

With the lead of Frank Knight, the other knights also silently took their own horses and came to the edge of the deck ...

After saying goodbye to their own horses, these knights, with tears in their eyes, gave a desperate cry, pushing their most beloved horses hard, and pushed them down the sea ... the men did n’t cry, because they did n’t arrive. Sad. Nowadays, in order to escape, the knights need to push the life-and-death horses into the sea by their hands. What kind of suffering is it for their hearts? Many strong knights knelt on the deck and cried into tears ...

War horses attached to their masters, even if they were pushed down into the sea, they still struggled to paddle the water, swimming chasing the boat the master was riding. However, after throwing away the war horses and some unnecessary weights, the hulls were much lighter. Along the west wind, the ship travels farther and farther, leaving the mourning of the war horse over the sea ...

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At this time, on the west side of the battlefield. After finding that archery was invalid, General Turnbull, commander of the English fleet, became impatient. As a result, after the ships of both sides approached ~ www.novelhall.com ~ a large number of English sailors carrying sailor scimitars, either jumped on the gang, or passed ropes, boarded the deck of the French warship.

The original intention of Count Valjeri was not to fight each other with the British army that had an absolute advantage, but to delay each other. So, the French sailors retreated into the cabin and resisted tenaciously ...

Turnbull found that the English sailors who boarded the French warship set fire to the ship after finding that he could not afford to attack for a long time ...

Seeing that the ship was burnt, and the sailors who had put out the fire on the deck were all cleaned up by the British army ... In desperation, Count Valjery had to rush out with the French sailors, fighting with the English sailors ...

In the end, the French sailors were outnumbered and killed in battle. The British army originally wanted to capture the "big fish" of Earl Valjeri, but Earl Valjeri refused to surrender. After taking a knife in the body, the loyal Earl fell to the deck weakly before he died. He looked at the South affectionately and refused to close his eyes ...

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In the end, the naval battle ended with the French defeat. The powerful fleet of hundreds of ships that the French worked hard to prepare was completely wiped out by the British ...

As for the large transport fleet, most of them were captured by the British. Many transport ships carrying infantry were directly and viciously led by the British army into the sea. Only a group of transport ships carrying knights fled to the east under the desperate cover of other ships ...

The British had to catch up with those ships, so they had to salvage the war horses of the French knights who had been tired from swimming, and took them back as loot ...

But in any case, the French were a big loser this time. The French navy did not say anything, but also lost a Earl of the French King's family. With a lot of supplies such as grain load and artillery, the British can be considered a profit ... ) !!