Admiral Sanwich's flagship was the iron-clad "King of the Sea". The "King of the Sea" was famous, because it was indeed the largest ship at that time when it was completed and launched in 1637, and had the most artillery. The second was that this ship caused the fall of a king. Although there were many reasons, this ship, with a total value of more than 40,000 pounds, really caused public resentment.

After Charles II ascended the throne, this giant ship might not be so auspicious, but it was impossible to sink it to the bottom of the sea. Charles II was the first to build a ship. The iron armored ships of this era were all mounted on wooden hulls and decks, or laying iron sheets, so the iron armored ships of the "King of the Sea" did not encounter any big obstacles. After all, after more than forty years, this ship, which was 150 feet long, was no longer the largest ship, and the armor used was within the scope that Britain could bear. However, after the trial voyage, they still removed some artillery. All the artillery of the "King of the Sea" totaled 135 tons, plus iron armor - the ship could hardly move.

However, in order to ensure firepower, the original artillery has been updated several times, and the current eighty artillery are the most powerful firepower now.

But as I complained to Cunningham, even though the steam engine and boiler of the "Sea King" had been adjusted several times, the power they could provide was still incomparable to the French, thanks to the rubber found by Louis XIV's wizards. Rubber was abundant in Brazil, a place that was once a colony of the Portuguese, but was later taken away by the Netherlands. After the fall of the Netherlands, it was resold to Portugal by France at a discount.

Portugal and France are now in-laws, so of course it is impossible to argue with Louis XIV on the rubber trade. They also want ironclad ships, and sufficient quantities and high-quality rubber flowed into France quickly. Although there is Sumatra, a place called the rubber island, the British have not mastered or stole the method of vulcanized rubber. The problem of rubber bonding and melting at high temperatures cannot be solved and cannot be directly applied to hot and humid boilers and steam machinery.

Without rubber seals, steam will consume a large part of it in vain during transmission and operation, which is why the speed of ships in the other two countries is never comparable to that of French ironclad ships of the same ton.

When the British fleet in Portsmouth arrived in the opening waters, it was already mid-sky. The scorching sun seemed to illuminate the black smoke. The French fleet poured shells into the mixed fleet of Cunningham, who was almost powerless to fight back. Oh, no, they can't be called the mixed fleet now. Even if there are small fleeing ships, they dare not be involved in the battle of the ironclad ships again.

Cunningham suspected that the French ship might have carried a ton of shells.

Fortunately, Portsmouth's fleet finally arrived at this time, and it doesn't matter how to seize the t-head position. The net set up by the French fleet is two columns parallel to the English Channel, sandwiching four British ironclad ships into it, like a multi-layered sandwich. Portsmouth's fleet set out from the port and is perpendicular to the French fleet near Seine Bay. In other words, this is originally a t-head position and there is no need to change direction again.

The French were like beasts biting their prey in their mouths, greedy and unwilling to give up, even though the Portsmouth fleet was far more numerous than them - when their ironclad ships turned sideways and quickly, Admiral Sanwich's face became a little gloomy - it was the first time he fought with the French, and then he noticed that their ironclad ships were more flexible than their ironclad ships when they turned.

The French were so arrogant, because at this time the French fleet entrenched in Brest had arrived. There were no ironclad ships in this fleet, but there were twenty first-class battleships, second only to the Dunkirk fleet. Their shells were as powerful as the ironclad ships, and they combined three ironclad ships (the other two still besieged Cunningham) to curb the attack of the Portsmouth fleet.

Admiral Sanwich felt a little irritated, and Charles II knew very well that someone was waiting for his failure, and because he could not bear any failure, even if the war had just begun, his too great investment could make him restless. He only wanted good news, but after several encounters, the French fleet did not seem to have the intention of going to war head-on with the British fleet, and as long as they were willing to evacuate, the British ironclad ships could not catch up with them.

Some people are suggesting that they should send troops to Dunkirk or Calais... Of course, every British person thinks, thinking about it is almost crazy, but Charles II hesitates - he cannot leave his guards, so after repeated weighing, they decided to use the old method, that is, the private licensing system that began in the era of Elizabeth I, and first bite a few pieces of fat and good meat from the giant whale in France.

Private, or the profits obtained from public robbery, have been appeased by both the court, the parliament and the people, but this appeasement is based on a constant victory - not to mention the baoli machinery of a country directly faces innocent people, the British will only be proud and talk about it - of course, if they fail, they will cry again and curse the abominable French or any enemy as barbaric, cruel, and ruthless.

With such a premise, General Sanwich must be very careful. He did not want any brilliant victory. He was old, his passion had long been condensed, and his wealth was very rich. His original hope was to force the French to abandon their prey. Anyway, he was not the one who failed the robbery, but Cunningham, a newcomer.

To his disappointment, even though he saw the iron armored ships lined up on the sea level and spitting out black smoke, the French fleet did not show any timidity. They did not retreat but advanced, and played a dazzling good situation with a few good cards. In the end, what made General Sanwich decide was a golden red fireworks - almost covering up the sunlight.

One of the four ironclad ships in Cunningham exploded, and they were both ironclad ships. Even though Charles II's scholars and craftsmen finally developed a steam engine that could drive the ironclad ships under the double pressure of heavy rewards and gallows, they still couldn't ingeniously change the boiler room and the cabin where the steam engine was located to another place. It was not difficult for the French to find the key points of the attack.

The most feared thing was Cunningham, whose flagship had been opened to a deadly gap. He shouted loudly, asking his crew to drive the ship out of the attack range of French ships as soon as possible, but if they could, they would have done so long ago, "We were stopped!" said his chief mate, pointing to a three-masted ship that lies in front of the "Charles I".

"Then just hit it!" Cunningham said, gritting his teeth, "We are an iron-clad ship, equipped with iron-clad corners!" Anyway, the French have done so.

The first mate hesitated for a moment, but surrendered before Cunningham's red eyes. He ran out of the cabin and carried out the captain's order. The copper bell hanging on the cross-mast was ringed, and the crew members who were sending the order shouted "Fix yourself, prepare for impact!" Everyone who heard it immediately searched for the surrounding stability, such as masts, guardrails or iron anchors, and fixed themselves with easy-to-get ropes and belts.

The "Charles I" suddenly crashed into the three-masted ship responsible for intercepting them. As Cunningham said, it crashed into the wooden three-masted ship. The black iron hit the other side's back as the British expected. The three-masted ship actually moved nearly a hundred feet across the sea before slowly stopping. A sailor fell into the sea, and the water was also flowing wildly into the cabin. The artillery on the bow was knocked down from the turret.

The French's embarrassment made the British laugh, but they froze after only a few minutes... The "Charles I"... could not be pulled out.

The coal in the boiler was still burning, and steam flowed to the cylinder, pushing the piston repeatedly to one end, driving the paddle wheel to fly. The paddle wheel twitched the sea water, and the sound made was deafening. Piles of foam dissipated and piled up, piled up and dissipated - but the Charles I didn't move, or in other words, it could only carry the three-masted ship about eighty or ninety feet in length, because the impact angle was stuck in the latter's cabin. After destroying one-quarter of the hull and half of the artillery and capturing nearly a hundred lives, the Charles I had such a burden that could not be shaken off.

Logically, this should not have happened. The ship's angle-collision tactics have lasted for hundreds of years. They are more skilled in how to build and use angle-collision craftsmen and captains than how to treat artillery. The angle-collision is located at the bottom of the bow, and it looks like a spear tip, but there is no rod behind the tip, which means it suddenly expands into a huge obtuse angle - so how is it stuck? But Cunningham didn't want to know at this time, and he asked the workers to increase the kinetic energy - even if the steam engine is destroyed, it doesn't matter. The steam engine can be rebuilt and reinstalled, but his flagship must not fall into the hands of the enemy.

"It's OK," said the worker. "But sir, the machine may explode."

"…I don't think fate is so harsh on us," Cunningham said.

As soon as his first mate returned to the deck, he asked Cunningham to leave the Charles I and move to another ship. Cunningham shook his head and refused, "It seems that I cannot return to England again. If the goddess of fate is so cruel to me, let me sleep here with Charles I."

He looked up and touched the short gun on his waist, because the "Charles I" is now equivalent to a ship deeply embedded in the enemy. After a brief chaos, the French and the British had already begun to fight on the sidelines, and the musket bullets roared around the air, and crew members also drew out short swords or daggers and used cold blades to taste the enemy's blood.

"But what is Admiral Sanwich doing?" Cunningham murmured.

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"Prepare the 'White Queen'," said Admiral Sanwich.

People all know that the Tudor dynasty in Britain is the red and white roses. The red roses represent the Lancaster family and the white roses represent the York family. When Henry VII of Lancaster married Elizabeth, the princess of the York family, to obtain the orthodox nature of the right to inherit the throne. Therefore, Princess Elizabeth, also the later queen, was also called Queen of White Rose.

But the White Queen mentioned by Admiral Sanwich is not the White Queen.

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"White Phosphorus Bomb!"

"The British used white phosphorus bombs!"

Admiral Victor, the commander of the Brest fleet, frowned, but was not surprised. When they were hungry to improve this plan in the king's reception hall, Louis XIV mentioned the white phosphorus bomb. First, it was not someone else who used the white phosphorus bomb, but the Sun King himself. He used it twice, once against the Flanders Black Wizards who might have been suspected of murdering Louis XIII, and once against the Azap infantry who were Ottoman Turks. The former was because the black wizards had strange abilities that ordinary people could not match, and the latter was because they wanted to break the number of Ottoman Turks.

Their king also admitted that the threat and lethality of this ammunition when it targets flesh and blood is unprecedented, and what must be said may even reverse a inevitable defeat, but if he can, he hopes to seal this ammunition and never appear in the world. However, with his knees, he knows that such a thing is impossible. Even if Louis XIV is willing to have that kindness, his enemies, Leopold I or Charles II, will not miss such an opportunity.

Because the second use of the white phosphorus bomb was during the General Assembly, it was no secret that Leopold I was developing the white phosphorus bomb, just as he was also building his own iron-clad fleet. Charles II - Britain is rich in coal resources, but like iron ore, they found enough phosphate resources in the colonies of Afilica. Although France had colonies in Afilica, just like America, France was one step behind the countries in the initial colonial craze, and it was still very passive today.

Louis XIV is not too naive. Whether it is a wizard, an alliance with pagans, or a white phosphorus bomb, he can gain an advantage, and others will not be slow to maintain a passive attitude - like a steam engine. Although Charles II could not steal the secrets of Louis XIV, he could offer a high reward. Smart people are not just in France. Not long after, several engineers developed machinery similar to the steam engines made by Mr. Papan. After all, steam driving can be traced back to the first century AD.

The technical content of the white phosphorus bomb cannot be compared with that of the steam engine. It has a low ignition point and will naturally come into contact with the air, so there is no need to detonate. The smoke and steam emitted are poisonous. The only thing that needs to be carefully studied is how to ensure that it continues to stick to a certain object - otherwise, the white phosphorus bomb does not have much effect when facing people that have never gathered together.
Chapter completed!