The fleet with crane-wing sails sailed northeast along the Bay of Biscay. For just one day and night, they could see the distant land before they had eaten at noon the next day.

Chen Jiujing was very careful in his sailing. This was not the first time he came to the French coast. When he last came, he led his fleet to the northwest of Brest, which was an important military fortress, and naturally returned in a defeat.

After learning from the lesson from last time, he lowered his goal this time.

Naturally, there were also some gains. There were almost no enemies on the coast. During the sailing, I encountered only one Calais ship patrolling. As a result, there was no doubt that the sailing warship that saw from the bow of the ship was full of paddlers' heads was no match for the first time. It was hit by the heavy artillery of the Rocca warship from afar. The paddler rowed for a long time but was surrounded before he escaped to the shore.

The two battalions of mercenaries of Juan and Franco were disembarked at the established target. One led three large teams of nearly a thousand people to scatter and pounced on the villages along the north and south coasts. The other had only one company but was well-equipped and well-equipped, and headed straight to the road to the east to find the villages and monasteries.

With a six-member ship as the core, five thousand-weight ships guarded, and more than 40 large and small shark ships were carrying Baishan Camp. The four Western Knights combined more than 4,000 troops continued to sail north.

In the following half day, they attacked two small shipyards and burned them; destroyed twelve large and small civilian ships, merchant ships, and warships found along the way, and were discovered by a castle garrison built on a cliff at night after the process was over, and then fought back against the fortress by the flagship Rocca and five thousand-capacity ships.

The fortress's shore defense stone cannons and mortar cannons are very powerful, but the range is not as good as the sixteen heavy cannons placed in the bottom warehouse of the Roches. The specially made large Franc aircraft has enough range but insufficient power. In the short-term artillery battle, the fortress was at a disadvantage.

In the dark night, Chen Jiujing couldn't even see the full picture of the fortress. He could only think that it was smaller than the common acropolis in the south of the Ming Dynasty and about the same size as the fortress in Japan, so he used the mentality of giving it a try and blasted five volleys with the guns.

After he realized that even if the fortress was broken, his men could not climb up the cliff to capture it, he stopped wasting ammunition and delayed time and continued to move northward.

The fortress will definitely send riders to travel overnight, and more and more enemies will receive news, which will be detrimental to his attack.

However, on the morning of the third day, the castle welcomed another wave of people who wanted to try their luck, the mercenary group of Juan, a camp of Xiyong under Chen Jiujing.

They plundered all the way, and the harvest was sent to the ship by cart, following Chen Jiujing along the water and land. As a result, they found an Earl Castle with half of the walls collapsed here. After a tentative attack, they found that even after the attack, there were only a few dozen defenders.

They caught up with a good time, and most of the Protestant nobles in this territory died in the Sixth Religious War. The young heir was summoned by the third son to Paris to join the Knights of the Holy Spirit, and indulged in the endless dinner with the Blue Belt Order.

Before the siege began, the defenders surrendered.

But on the other side of the harbour in western Bordeaux, the siege has just begun.

"The enemy received the news earlier than we planned. We had seven ships taking half of the enemy's fleet in the bay. Aji, you can support Carlos, Guzman, Salazar on the land from the land, make some noise outside the port, let their sailors leave the ship, and we can capture the port in one fell swoop."

The battle at the port has begun. The city of Bordeaux is connected to the northern harbor. It takes a 200-mile river channel of the Gironde River to go out to sea. However, there is another bay port in the west of the city, which is only 60 miles away.

The port that Chen Jiujing wanted to attack was this port. In the south of the port, he put all the mercenaries except Aji down the ship and asked them to attack the port by land. The fleet sailed to the bay. However, he suddenly discovered that when he was only thirty or forty miles away from the bay, the French suddenly found that for some reason, the French had stored thirty warships and armed merchant ships in this bay.

The large fleet turned around from afar with the advantage of telescopes, and assigned only one thousand-capacity ship to reach the bay, and fled westward in a short time after a short battle.

More than a dozen French warships chased after them.

Then he returned and unloaded the Aji mercenaries on the shore, sent more than ten ships with only sailors and no passengers to support the advance fleet, while most of the soldiers waited near the sea for a night.

The next morning, Carlos divided his troops on the land to dig trenches and siege the bastion to make a long-term siege. Another attacked the surrounding villages and cleared the fields and made false moves to prepare for the general attack. In just two hours, the defenders of the bastion were half more, and then they sent a message to the fleet docking near the sea.

The flagship began to lead the army into the bay, crashed into the warships, and bombarded the defenders with their naval guns.

However, the French also built a city wall fortress on the coast.

The French are not weaker than Spain in the work of building fortifications and making artillery, and even the art of building artillery is more serious than them. The reason why they lose more and win less is that there is a problem with field battles. According to Carlos, France has just begun to learn from Switzerland, Spain and Portugal to form a phalanx legion.

It’s not that the French themselves do not know how to use phalanx, mainly because of the soldiers. Their soldiers are different from the Spanish Legion soldiers. Infantry is trained around the core combat knights, rather than the legion infantry that uses professional soldiers as the core and cavalry as the auxiliary. Infantry does not have professional phalanx training, so when fighting, the knights are always bullied by phalanxes composed of muskets and spearmen.

Despite his noble status, if the Iron Shell Knights trained a large number of light cavalry in the Moorish War on the battlefield, they might not be able to win steadily.

But they still have enough abilities to guard the ground.

The artillery on the day before, as Chen Jiujing's troops rushed too close, six small shark boats were sunk, and two of the big shark boats were injured, so they had to withdraw from the range of the shore artillery. Before they could rest, the French fleet that went out of the sea the day before was chased and returned by the ships, and was then attacked in the bay by the front and back.

The destruction of the fleet caused their morale to be severely damaged. As the heavy artillery unloaded from the ship on the third day of the siege was transported by mercenaries from the coast, the defenders planned to break through.

If things are bad, they are broken down. The troops are not at the top of the road. They can still defend the fortress. Isn’t it because they are looking for a beating when they leave the city?

As a result, more than 400 people were defeated outside the city, and more than 300 defenders who remained in the castle were completely hopeless. Baishan Camp on the bay also disembarked and attacked in concert. He could not exaggerate the force and seized the port on the fourth day of the attack.

But in two days, before they could even load all the georgette, cured meat, wine raisins and some weapons and equipment that the port was preparing to transport out, Franco, the Xiyong Camp in the east, sent his elite cavalry back to the defenders of Bordeaux and came.

They appointed them to meet the commanders of these mercenaries.

The Ming army immediately prepared for war, and laid three defense lines on both sides of the forty-mile road between the port and the reinforcements of Bordeaux. At the end were more than 2,000 soldiers from Baishan Camp, Carlos and Guzman; in the middle were two thousand mercenaries from Aji, Juan and Salazar, one left and one right, with the road as the central axis twelve miles away, leaving the middle empty.

The front line of defense was naturally Franco's 200 people. Chen Jiujing did not go to the French formation to see it in person, which was too stupid.

He just asked someone to take the flag of the French pirates who sank the Caribbean Sea and sent his confidants to send it over, asking him to tell the French commander: send this flag to Paris and let Henry III know that this was the revenge of the Eastern Military Office of the Ming Empire for the actions of the French islands. Less nonsense and have the ability to call him.

At the same time, someone also sent an order to Franco: "West, run."
Chapter completed!