Chapter 1927: Blocking Plan

At this moment, on the other side of Egypt.

On Jiang Xuan's front line.

The French main force had already withdrawn from the majority of the area.

Jiang Xuan's troops were still advancing like a hot knife through butter, but as the offensive pushed deeper, the resistance the Longyan army encountered would only grow greater.

Jiang Xuan had no choice but to stop, changing their pace of attack into a standoff.

This forced Jiang Xuan to adjust his supply lines.

Now, the region of the Nile River Basin had already been occupied by the Longyan Navy, and the British troops had no time at all to deal with this matter. They were currently busy expanding their own colonies in other parts of Africa.

In Africa today, many French colonies had already been occupied by Britain.

This gave the French a massive headache, but they were helpless to do anything about it.

Their current combat centers were one in Australia and one in America.

They simply had no capacity to handle the struggle for colonies here in Africa.

Under such circumstances, the Nile River Basin was occupied by Longyan.

The French troops, who originally still had hope of defeating Longyan, now had no hope left at all.

Once the Longyan supplies arrived, they changed their current mode of operation.

Changing from Lightning War to Protracted War, and the result of this situation was that the French main force would be continuously depleted by Longyan.

Those Longyan weapons and those unfathomable combat methods had already exhausted these French troops to the point of collapse; if it came down to a war of attrition.

There could only be one outcome for them, and that was certain defeat!

In order to reverse this combat situation, Dawn could only choose to ambush the Longyan supply ships on the Nile River.

As long as the Longyan supply line was cut, Jiang Xuan would only have two paths to choose from: one was to choose to withdraw his troops.

The other was to return to the previous method of fighting, War-Nourished Warfare.

But now that the French main force had been freed up, the method of War-Nourished Warfare was no longer effective; if they really continued to fight like this, the only path awaiting Jiang Xuan was failure.

But Dawn had overlooked one thing: the Longyan general he was fighting against was Jiang Xuan.

The ships he was about to attack were also Longyan's, and among the most powerful fleets in the entire world.

The Longyan supply ship was a battleship, and it was also a supply ship.

It possessed armor and firepower that French battleships did not have.

At this moment, on the Nile River.

The Longyan supply ship was not even hiding its tracks, sailing along the Nile River in such a swaggering manner.

And at this time, the French troops had long since made preparations.

Upon seeing the supply ship on the Nile River.

They immediately launched an attack, and over a hundred cannons already prepared on both banks fired in a deluge.

Blasting the Nile River, layer upon layer of water waves were kicked up.

But the supply ship remained as steady as Mount Tai, maneuvering and moving wantonly on the churning water surface.

After encountering the shelling, the supply ship also immediately launched a counterattack!

The secondary guns on the supply ship were all top-tier Longyan land cannons.

Neither in range nor in power could they be compared to the cannons of the French troops.

Under the bombardment of these cannons, the French troops suffered heavy casualties.

However, with such a large hull, to the French troops, the supply ship was like a moving target.

As long as their cannonballs did not go too far astray.

They could basically hit it; as long as the number of attacks was high enough, the Longyan supply ship could be destroyed by them.

But they overlooked one point: the supply ship was a steel ship, and the ship was made from Longyan's Synthetic Metal.

They had forgotten the sturdiness of such a hull, and the tragic battles their own battleships had faced when confronting Longyan supply ships.

Their cannons basically did not cause much damage to the supply ship.

On the contrary, the Artillery Unit of the French troops suffered heavy casualties.

But the French troops' attack plan did not rely solely on the Artillery Unit.

Just at this moment, on the surface of the Nile River, three massive French Merchant Ships sailed in.

These Merchant Ships were made of wood, and their construction cost was not that expensive.

But the three Merchant Ships were now charging toward the supply ship as if they had no regard for their own lives.

Dawn looked through his Telescope at the naval battle on the Nile River and gave a cold smile.

The attack by the Artillery Unit was merely to pin down the speed of their supply ship...

These Merchant Ships were their trump card!

Dawn watched the ongoing naval battle and asked his Deputy: "Do you think the blocked Nile River can still provide supplies to Jiang Xuan?"

The Deputy laughed: "No, General, and Jiang Xuan's troops will also be surrounded and killed in our Colonial Area!"

"No supplies, no reinforcements."

"In a situation where there is nothing, they cannot die."

"This will be their greatest despair!"

Dawn nodded, very satisfied with his Deputy's answer.

And just at this moment, these three out-of-control giant Merchant Ships did not stop under the bombardment of the supply ship, but instead collided violently with the moving supply ship.

The current on the Nile River stopped flowing, shaken by the collision of these four giant ships.

Boom—!

The river surface surged, and huge waves blasted the fish from the deep bottom of the river into the air!

The French Soldiers on the shore hurriedly protected their heads, but they were still drenched in water.

They did not care about this, but instead watched as four ships connected together in a crisscrossed, misaligned fashion on the wide sea surface.

Three giant Merchant Ships blocked the entire river surface.

"Oh, my god."

"This is the most magnificent scene I have ever seen in my life..."

The French officer snorted coldly, watching the Supply Ship that had collided, thinking that the Longyan army's supplies would now be very difficult to reach.

As for clearing the river surface, under such circumstances, it would take an unknown amount of time to clear the Nile River.

That Longyan Supply Ship should have already been destroyed under such a collision, right?

That was what they were thinking.

But the scene that happened next made them feel a chill from the soles of their feet to the tops of their heads!

The Supply Ship actually moved; it swam out from the wreckage of the three giant Merchant Ships that had collided with it.

And looking at the current state of the Supply Ship, only the outer shell had undergone slight deformation.

The damage caused to it by the huge collision was very limited.

Seeing this scene, the French were all stunned, then took another look at the giant Merchant Ships that had already turned into wreckage on the sea surface.

"This... what kind of monster have the Longyan created?"

"It actually wasn't destroyed; this is too terrifying. My god, has the Longyan level of technology already become this advanced?"

The French commander, seeing this scene, took off his hat.

The astonishment on his face had already turned to numbness.

And Dawn, who was observing the battlefield from afar, watched everything happening on the battlefield.

Seeing the giant Supply Ship swim out from the wreckage of those Merchant Ships, and seeing the Supply Ship's shell with almost no damage, he fell into complete shock.

This was something that should not have happened at all, but now it was truly presented before his eyes.

And the crew on the Supply Ship had already prepared themselves before receiving the huge impact.

No major accidents occurred.

And inside the cabin of the Supply Ship after the collision, they felt a wave of dizziness.

Although before the collision, they had already stopped the advancing Steam Engine and turned on the reverse

Steam Turbine, attempting to reduce the force of the collision to a minimum.

Clearly they succeeded, but the residual force had already made them feel the turbulence.

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