Twenty Ming warships intersected around the St. Nicholas Fortress, constantly dropping shells at the entire St. Nicholas Fortress, and the entire St. Nicholas was blooming with gorgeous fireworks as if they were celebrating a grand festival.

Huge waves on the sea surface were rising, and the fire exploded in the thick black smoke. At the same time, shouting like thunder. The morning of Marseille Port, which should have been calm, can only be described as the scene is intense and lively.

The Ming Marine Corps tried to forcibly attack the fortress, driving a fast assault boat, holding artillery and assault muskets, approaching the fortress in the fire, but was attacked by artillery fire from the fortress in a complicated arrangement. These French defenders obviously made sufficient preparations and poured shells into the sea for no time.

The Ming Marine Corps was not only attacked by artillery groups from the St. Nicholas Fortress in the front, but also attacked by artillery groups from the rear of the Saint Jean direction. As a result, the Ming Marine Corps was in a position of being attacked by both sides and back, which seriously hindered the attack process. In order to avoid too much casualties, the Marine Corps had to huddle behind the giant ship.

However, the Holy Fortress is progressing very smoothly.

Nearly a thousand naval special forces selected from the Marine Corps were basically controlled at the frontier position of the Saint-Jean Fortress. The water gate of the fortress was directly opened, and the deputy commander of the fortress, Napoge, was also captured.

The Ming naval fleet entered the periphery of the Holy Rang Fortress without a single shot, but when entering the inner encirclement, it was still discovered by the defenders at the head of the inner Neihe Fortress. However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty's naval guns were just above their height and directly flattened the fortresses with one shot.

The naval special forces took advantage of this and found the artillery base of the French Saint Jean Fortress on the east side, which was concentrating on attacking Saint Nicholas. Under machine gun strafing and grenade bombing, thousands of artillery soldiers were all knocked to the ground, and the artillery attack of the Saint Jean Fortress stopped directly.

The pressure on the Marine Corps in the direction of St. Nicholas suddenly decreased. At this time, the Ming flagship, who was responsible for commanding the attack on St. Nicholas, immediately issued an offensive order. The Ming Marine Corps immediately rushed out like a tiger, and used fierce firepower attacks to quickly seize the frontier position of St. Nicholas.

The defenders of St. Nicholas Fortress did not understand why the direction of St. Jean fortress stopped attacking, but they also became anxious. While sending people to inquire, they retreated into the gate and threw burning objects and explosives to prevent the Ming Navy from further attacking.

However, the artillery on the Ming Dynasty ship launched another shelling, forcing the defenders of the entire St. Nicholas Fortress to retreat to the stronger fortress and use artillery to fight back against the Ming fleet and the Marine Corps. The entire sea landing war at the St. Nicholas Fortress was trapped in endless artillery fire.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty's naval special forces had temporarily acted as artillery soldiers in the direction of the Saint-Jean Fortress and began to debug the direction of the artillery, and landed shells one by one on the Saimen and the fortress of Saint-Nicholas.

A loud explosion sounded, and the towering water column mixed with wood chips rushed into the sky.

The defensive officer of Fortress Saint Nicholas looked gloomy. Without thinking, he could know that Fortress Saint Nicholas was occupied by the army of the Ming Empire. Otherwise, how could the artillery there suddenly turn against him and attack him? Now, the entire Fortress Saint Nicholas was facing an enemy from both sides.

The Marine Corps took advantage of this large-scale landing and successfully landed around the 10th of the morning.

At this time, the entire St. Nicholas and St. Jean were occupied by the Ming Navy, and the portal of Marseille Port was opened, and tens of thousands of marines surrounded the city of Marseille.

The defenders in Marseille were tactful and knew that the fortress was lost, so they could not stop the attack of this powerful Eastern army, so they immediately raised the white flag.

Marseille Governor Jidam went out to surrender himself.

At this point, the Ming Dynasty officially occupied the Port of Marseille, and the gateway to the inland Western Europe suddenly opened.

In fact, the French authorities also knew the importance of Marseille and paid attention to the defense here at all times. However, because they are paying more attention to the direction of Switzerland, they are negligent, which allows the Ming Navy to conquer Marseille in only half a day.

Less than two hours after the Marseille conquered, the Ming army had been transported to Marseille one after another. The Seventh Army and the Twentieth Army, the elite cavalry units of Jiao Lian's troops, arrived at the port of Marseille, had already been prepared for three days and was immediately rushed towards Paris and Lorraine, France, as if a sharp blade was stabbed into the heart of France.

According to Zhu Youxiao's temporary military command reorganization plan, the Seventh Army and the Twentieth Army did not have to attack the Lyon and Dijon cities on the low-lying belt of France and Marseille, but quickly penetrated into the Lorraine Plateau, occupied Bern in Switzerland by diving, and then joined forces with the Third Artillery Army that was still shelling the Swiss defense line at this time, and destroyed the main force of the Western European Union Army in Switzerland by double-sided attack.

In addition to the remaining two and a half armies, a total of more than 200,000 troops, were directly swept the western plains of France, and strived to destroy Switzerland and annihilate the main force of the Western European Union Army when the Eastern Front Group formed by the Seventh Army, the Third Army destroyed Switzerland and annihilated the main force of the Western European Union Army.

Jiao Lian became the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front Group at this time, and was fully responsible for the command of the entire Eastern Front battle.

Fu Dahai commanded the Western Front Group, who was responsible for sweeping France and preparing for attacking the Francophone.

Not only that, Liu Wenxiu and other 100,000 Marines also drew 50,000 troops from the Ming Navy to cross the Strait of Gibraltar and transported them directly to the Isle of Wight, England, from the Ming Navy.

The Isle of Wight was a colonial area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. Governor Li Dingguo had been operating here for several years, and the troops were also garrisoned with 30,000 elite troops from the sea and land. Now, according to Zhu Youxiao's order, he combined with Liu Wenxiu's troops to form a Nanxing Group, crossing the English Channel, and achieving a strategic trend of north-south advancing from the north-west region and the Western Front Group.

It can be said that France was doomed at this time.

At this time, France was ruled by Louis XIV, the Bourbon dynasty. This king, known as the very talented in French history, was the time for him to build his French Empire into the most powerful country in Europe. Unfortunately, he encountered the attack of the Ming Dynasty, the Trustee Empire, which had entered industrialization in advance.

Louis XIV's dream of dominating the entire European maritime powers and even competing for maritime interests with European maritime powers such as Florence and England will also be interrupted.

But he still doesn't know that the Port of Marseille, which he worked hard to manage, has been lost.
Chapter completed!