The Rise of the European Emperor

Although he knew that Henry VII planned to attack France, Marin did not know that Henry VII also planned to put Edward in England to fight. Therefore, according to the original plan, Marin sent a fleet to destroy the British warships in the Irish Sea.

And Marin himself began to set off and boarded the warship to Newcastle...

At present, the spring ploughing has basically ended. Because of the abundance of cattle, the spring ploughing in the Grand Duchy of Beihai ended very early. In normal times, Marin might arrange for people to reclaim more land in the newly controlled provinces of West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland. But now, because of the attack on England, Marin can't care.

At the same time that Marlin was on board, a fleet sailed west at the same time to attack English ships in the Irish Sea...

When approaching the Strait of Calais, the narrowest between Britain and France, Admiral Kidd, following Marin's orders, deliberately sailed close to the French side. Also, no flags were hoisted.

The French did not stop it, because the French Navy had already received the news that a fleet from the Grand Duchy of the German North Sea would pass here.

The British also discovered the fleet, but because the fleet was clearly on the French side and there was no flag to identify it, the British mistakenly believed that the fleet belonged to the French. After all, if it weren't for the French fleet, the French would certainly have intercepted it.

The fleet was attached to the French side, all the way to the 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 three-decade war of red and white roses, and the red rose is the symbol of the Lancaster family. The white rose is the symbol of the York family.

In fact, Henry VII was not a direct descendant of the Lancaster family, but a side branch of the Tudor family. It was only because the Lancaster family had no male direct line members that Henry VII, a relative, became the head of the Lancaster family.

After taking the throne in 1485, Henry VII married Princess Elizabeth of the York family, integrated the Lancaster family and the York family, and used the red and white rose with red as the family emblem to indicate Lancaster The Sturt family and the York family have merged into one.

However, Edward obviously did not think so. He believes that the York family was violently annexed by Henry VII. As the only direct male of the York family and a former crown prince (Richard III made Edward the crown prince after the death of his son), it is necessary to revive York family. Therefore, the flags of his army are all white roses.

Kidd's fleet played the white rose flag, obviously indicating that it was going to play for Edward.

However, in Henry VII's Tudor Dynasty, playing the banner of the White Rose is absolutely outrageous and is a treason.

But the strange thing is that after the White Rose flag was launched, Kidd's fleet went all the way smoothly. After waiting for a while, there were no English ships to pursue...

"As expected by the Grand Duke..." Kidd let out a long sigh of relief.

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

If the British sent their ships out to hunt down Kidd and the others with all their strength, it would show that Marin was wrong, and the naval battle in the Irish Sea might be more difficult. And if the other party ignores it, it shows that Henry VII is indeed preparing to ambush the French fleet. As a result, the British will be very restrained at this time and will not surround and destroy his fleet. Even the British will be very restrained in naval battles in the Irish Sea...

As expected by Marin, the British fleet in the Channel Islands was very restrained this time. After listening to his subordinates report that a fleet from France had displayed the white rose flag, the fleet commander Hunter laughed and said:

"Your Majesty is wise, the French really want to attract us to hunt down this fleet... Well, I have to express it, otherwise it's too fake..."

Then a dozen small fishing boats were sent out of Guernsey,

Pretentiously pursued Kidd's fleet for a while. However, at this time, Kidd's fleet had 30 200-ton Clark sailboats 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 I bought the Clark sailboats that were bought from Spain. Anyway, it is not surprising that the French use Spanish boats. After all, France and Spain border, and the southern Mediterranean coast of France also uses Clark sailboats more). The pursuit of the dozen or so small fishing boats that Hunter sent out seemed to be a death sentence... In fact, the fishing boats pretending to be chasing this time were really fishing boats, and they were all ordinary fishermen... They were forced to To chase after Kidd's fleet... Even if it is eliminated, Commander Hunter will not feel bad...

However, Kidd did not turn around to destroy the opponent, but continued to follow the "script", first directing the fleet to turn north, turn to the coast of England, and then slowly go west, walking and stopping, as if waiting for something people……

It seems that this is specially designed to provoke the English Navy and induce the enemy to pursue and kill...

The English local army on the coast has rushed the news to London...

"Hehe, that's true! You actually want to induce us to chase and kill, you really want to transfer the main force of England's navy..."

Then, Henry VII gave the order:

"You go and send some more slow boats to pretend to chase after a while, but didn't catch up on purpose..." Henry VII was also afraid that the other party would see his intentions, so he planned to send some boats to pretend to chase.

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

As a result, the fleet led by Kidd, under the "escort" of a large group of English boats, headed for the Irish Sea...

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

At this time, Kidd took out the "script" given by Marin, and according to the instructions of the "script", timely divided a Clark sailboat and sailed to the coast of France... The reason for this is to show the British - you Look, we sent a ship to "return to China" to report the effect... It seems that it really attracted a lot of British ships to pursue it...

Seeing that the "French Fleet" split up a ship to "return to China to report a letter", Wallace, the commander of the British navy team, did not split the ship to intercept, but laughed, showing a smile of successful trickery...

At this time, a strong wind was blowing from the west sea. The little English boats sent in pursuit seemed too small, swaying from side to side by the strong westerly wind. Even a small fishing boat was directly overturned...

Suddenly, the British "fleet" was in a hurry... Wallace, who was in charge of leading the team, had an idea and took this large group of small fishing boats to the shore to take shelter from the wind... In this way, they had a reason to stop chasing - you see, scraping The wind is strong, and the boat can't hold it...

Seeing that the English "fleet" stopped chasing, the "French Fleet" who was "leading" in front seemed to be in a hurry, and even stopped to wait for the British fleet to continue to pursue, but Wallace ignored it. "In desperation", Captain Kidd had to slowly continue to sail to the Irish Sea with the fleet...8)