Chapter 1993: Confused Command

The French Army, attacked by the Longao Army, sent out a signal requesting support at this moment.

However, the nearby units were all holding their positions firmly.

The disappearance of Delu directly resulted in the French Army's various units having no Method to adjust their operations.

This led to the French units originally located at Sydney Port being unable to support adjacent units due to a lack of orders.

The distance between the two units was less than three hundred meters.

Such difficulty in coordinating troops is the current pain point for the French Army.

Coordinated combat between French units has become extremely difficult; when Delu left, the mission he left them was to protect Sydney Port well.

Therefore, their units dared not act rashly.

The French commander opposite, observing that their troops had been attacked, said directly: "Hold your positions."

"The Longyan Army cannot possibly only have this little bit of force!"

His judgment was not wrong; French officers who had traded blows with Old General Li all knew of his cunning.

Especially after seeing the French enemy forces opposite encounter a bitter battle.

The opponent had only dispatched a very small portion of troops, yet they had dragged their French units into a tragic battle.

And in this commander's view, this was the tactic the enemy habitually used.

First, using small squads to pull and drag, then dispatching other units to launch an offensive against them.

He was simply too familiar with this way of fighting.

Old General Li, seeing the support signal sent by the French Army, secretly thought it was bad.

He had originally wanted to use a surprise attack to quickly take a Sydney Port, then hold it, destroy the French supplies, and let the French Fleet fall into a disadvantage in the sea battle.

But now, after failing to take down the French units in the first instance.

They had already lost the initiative in the operation.

If this war continued to be fought, it would become extremely passive.

If he had not discovered that the French Fleet was fighting against some unknown force on the sea.

He would have long since withdrawn his troops, but now that he had discovered the French Fleet was in battle.

And the opponent was in a situation of life-and-death with the French Fleet—although Old General Li did not see the situation on the battlefield, he could feel the intensity of this battle from the returning French warships.

Now, if they were to give up this opportunity at the port, who knew when the next chance for battle would come!

Old General Li personally led his troops to join the battlefield.

He led his own personal guards from the north side to raid the rear of the French Army.

The French units in the reserve area were effectively surrounded by the Longao Army.

The intensity of the battle went a step further.

The surrounded French units had nowhere to escape; Old General Li led his only personal guards, riding War Horses to launch a charge.

This was their only Cavalry, composed of Old General Li's personal guards.

Launching a charge at the port, they soon smashed the French units into pieces.

After encountering such an attack, the French units no longer had the ability to continue fighting the Longao Army.

Their units were dismembered, and the soldiers were trampled by the iron cavalry.

Their units were torn to pieces by the Longao Army's attacks, while the Longao Army encountered the desperate resistance of the French units.

The three-thousand-man team, after being surrounded by them, was compressed into a formation a hundred men thick.

After the people on the outside fell, it exposed the French Soldiers fighting inside.

The Longao Army's offensive was terrifying to these soldiers who had no way to retreat.

They watched with their own eyes the wailing of the soldiers beside them before death, and their own people dying in pools of blood.

And the next one to die would be him!

Such encroaching fear finally crushed their nerves; against such an attack, the French units could only fight with all their might!

Only one could survive between them and the Longao Army.

And at this time, the Longao Army units also suffered great trauma.

Under the desperate offensive of the French units, the Longao Army's west and southwest units suffered heavy casualties.

The line-shaped formation bore the maximum extent of the French units' shelling.

They were just like targets, being crushed by the French units.

Even Old General Li, who was charging into the fray, sustained injuries on his body.

However, the scales of victory were still leaning toward them in such an urgent battle.

Relying on excellent command ability, the Longao Army completely crushed the French units.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the Longao Army beheaded the last French soldier, and the corpses of three thousand French soldiers were piled on the wharf.

Old General Li ordered them to be thrown into the sea to feed the fish; this was not because he was cruel.

It was because the French soldiers had no reason whatsoever for him to sympathize with them.

The Longao Army was formed by immigrants and natives, and they had only endless hatred for these French soldiers.

After these hateful French soldiers landed, they committed unforgivable crimes on this land; their relatives and their homes were all plundered by these French soldiers.

For these soldiers, the Longao Army had a deep-seated hatred!

After the battle ended, Old General Li ordered the troops to rest in place, but to hide on the Merchant Ships.

They did not know what country was clashing with the French Fleet on the sea, or what their background was.

They just wanted to create some trouble for the French Fleet; this port was the largest port in Australia, even though the main force at the port had already been eliminated.

But the French Army still had other units in ambush; the support signal just sent by the French Army had confirmed this point.

In order to hold onto the fruits of the battle, Old General Li decided to stay here.

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At this moment, on the coast of Australia, cannons roared.

The main force of the Longyan Navy and the main fleet of the French Fleet were locked in a desperate battle.

The strike groups on both sides were deadlocked.

The French Fleet deployed ten naval fleets to besiege three Supply Ships, five Yinzhou ships, and their patrol strike group of the Longyan Navy.

The battle had lasted for nearly three hours, and the main forces on both sides remained deadlocked.

The advantage of the French forces lay in their possession of more ships.

Their patrol ships were not yet equipped with steam power, so they could not compare to the Longyan Fleet in terms of speed, but they won by sheer numbers.

Even if the Longyan Fleet destroyed one French patrol ship with a single Cannon shot, it would still take a very long time.

Furthermore, the hit rate of cannons at sea was inherently extremely low.

As for the other Battleships of the French Fleet, they had clashed with the Longyan Fleet several times, and by relying on their numerical advantage, they were not at a disadvantage for the time being.

However, this advantage was gradually being eroded by the Longyan Fleet.

Relying on their powerful propulsion and firepower, the Longyan Fleet launched close-quarters attacks on the French Battleships; to prevent their own ships from being destroyed, the originally protective strike groups had no choice but to move away from the Supply Ships and launch attacks against them.

Yet such attacks had almost no effect and would even result in being sunk by the Longyan military's strike group.

Once the Longyan Supply Ships closed in on the French fleet, they would adopt this shameless tactic of firing point-blank, bringing their hit rate to nearly one hundred percent.