Under the night, Toulon Harbor is busy.

Previously, the French army installed explosives on some warships and prepared to sank them before leaving. As a result, before they could detonate, the entire Toulon naval base was occupied by the Tang army.

The Tang army airborne regiments arranged layers of defense around the base. The Tang naval officers and hundreds of soldiers who were airborne at Toulon Airport rushed to Toulon Port and began to take over all the French warships anchored in the port.

More than 100 French main warships are anchored in the port. Since the fall of Paris, France, all French warships have fled south to Toulon Port. Now it is a huge wealth and any country will be jealous.

Among these more than 100 warships, the French Navy's essence since the Fearless Age, among which the Tang Army focused on four main aircraft carriers of the French Navy, the "Test", "Bayan", "Xiafei" and "Banlvi". Among them, the two aircraft carriers, the "Test" and the "Banlvi". The two aircraft carriers, the "Test" and the "Banlvi", were modified on the basis of two unfinished Normandy-class battleships. The full load displacement is 25,000 tons, the speed is 30 knots, and the carrying of about 40 aircraft. The French Navy was constructed in 1933 at the Royal Navy aircraft carrier battle group of the rising Tang Empire in the Pacific Ocean. It was just completed and completed the sea trial, and it was still not possible to deliver it to the French Navy for service. The two aircraft carriers had a full load displacement of 30,000 tons, a speed of 32 knots, and a carrying of about 50 aircraft.

In addition to being most interested in these four aircraft carriers, the Tang army also had a special liking for the traditional maritime overlord battleships. After all, battleships are still recognized by the world as maritime overlords. Only countries with battleships are allowed to be called naval powers. The Tang Empire has no battleships to serve, but many Tang naval officers and soldiers still look forward to their navy having battleships in their hearts.

There are twelve battleships in the Port of Toulon, of which nine of which have been in service with the French Navy. One training battleship and two under construction battleships. The nine battleships are the Brittany, Lorraine and Provence of the French Navy's Brittany-class battleships, the Colbert, Paris, the Dunkirk-class battleships of the French Navy's Dunkirk-class battleships, the Lissilio of the French Navy's Lissilio, the Jean-Bar, and the other two Caescoin and Clermontsor in the Toulon Shipyard have been launched, but the superstructure has not been completed. Only one main gun is installed.

The Brittany-class battleship is an old battleship of the French Navy. Construction started on the eve of World War I. Five dual-mounted 340mm caliber main guns were all arranged along the longitudinal central axis of the hull. From 1932 to 1935, the Brittany-class battleship was modernized and modified, replacing a new steam turbine with a power of 43,000 horsepower, increasing the speed to 21 knots, and renovating the main mast and bridge. Eight 138mm caliber secondary guns and torpedo tubes were removed. Eight 100mm anti-aircraft guns and 6 47mm anti-aircraft guns were replaced.

The Colbert class battleship is the oldest battleship of the French army. Among them, the Ocean has been changed to a practice ship, with no military equipment on it, and only the 28,000-ton displacement of the USS Paris and the Colbert battleships, which are also equipped with 12 305mm main guns, continue to serve, but they are old and become the warning ships in the Port of Toulon.

In 1932, France started construction of two Dunkirk-class battleships to fight the rise of the Italian Navy. In fact, the two Dunkirk-class battleships were products of the influence of treaty restrictions and France's insufficient funds. After completion, they were actually loaded with 35,000 tons. They were equipped with two 4-unit 330mm main guns, with a speed of 28 knots. They were only 280mm armor protection, with neither fast nor slow speed, nor thick nor thin armor. They were battle cruisers under the Treaty era, but the French called them battleships.

However, Japan was soon defeated on the Pacific battlefield. After the Japanese Navy was rebuilt, it started to build Yamato-class battleships. The Tang Empire claimed to build Chiyou-class battleships. As a result, the Pacific Rim arms race began, and Britain, France, the United States and Italy were also involved. France was forced to start construction of four Richelieu-class battleships to compete with them.

The Richelieu-class battleship is the real super battleship of the French Navy. Its competitors are the Japanese Yamato-class battleship, the American Iowa-class battleship, and the Italian Vittorio-class battleship. Although it was ultimately unable to compare with Yamato and Iowa due to financial difficulties, it still suppressed the Italian Vittorio-class battleship, with a displacement of 50,750 tons, three triple-mounted 406mm 50-caliber main gun, 360mm armor protection, and a maximum speed of 30 knots.

The Tang army took over the two super battleships, Lisailiu and Jeanbar, and was very happy. At the same time, they did not let go of the unfinished Kescoin and Clermontsau, and planned to tow away the two battleships that had not completed the superstructure.

The remaining French warships were not as excited as before for the Tang army, but they would not let them go. The French Navy's Dekena, Tourville, Suffern, Foch, DiPlex, Algeria's six heavy cruisers, the French Navy's Truan, Lamot, Primougate, Galiconie, Vienna, Legge, Marseille, Glory, Montcalm, and Bertin's ten light cruisers.

In addition, there are also the French Navy "Joan of Arc" training cruisers, the Pluto Blu cruisers, and the Tang army plan to take them away together.

The largest number is the French destroyer fleet, with a total of 57 destroyers. Among them, the Tang army's favorite is the six fantasy-class destroyers, Stubborn, Horror, Reckless, Vicious, and Triumph. They are the same level as the main destroyers currently in service in the Tang Navy. In addition, the five Jaguar-class destroyers, Jaguar, Jackal, Panther, Black Panther, and Bobcat, are also good. The Tang army accepted them all and took them away.

Since the Tang army had purchased large quantities of fuzzy-class destroyers built by France, many Tang naval officers and soldiers were trained in France and were very familiar with French and French warships, so they quickly controlled more than 100 valuable French warships.

At three o'clock in the morning, the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty drove French warships away from Toulon Port and headed towards the Portuguese coast. Transport planes would send the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Army Airborne Regiment took away heavy equipment from the transport plane. They carried anti-aircraft guns together on board, and fought along the way to provide certain air defense firepower. After all, the air defense artillery on the French naval warships was pitifully few, and the consequences would be unimaginable once they encountered the British bomber group.

According to Zhang Meng's plan, he planned to use these French warships to form an Atlantic fleet, but he had not decided whether to fight in the Atlantic Ocean or to drive back to the Pacific Ocean, because this matter would inevitably alarm both Britain and Germany. Britain would destroy this fleet at all costs. The duck that Germany had to say the words would fly away and would definitely be unhappy. He would ask the Tang Empire to argue, and Zhang Meng had not yet thought about how to dissuade the German Zhang Meng.

After dawn, the British fleet indeed blocked the Port of Toulon. More than a dozen warships bombarded the Toulon Naval Base. A large number of bombers flew in the air and bombed the Port of Toulon.

Before retreating, the Tang army took away all the French prisoners of the Anti-Japanese War in Toulon Port, buried a large amount of explosives in Toulon Port, and set fire to create a large amount of black smoke. There were also some old warships, supply ships, training ships, etc. in the port, which were disguised as warships by the Tang army. The British Air Force could not separate them and thought they were warships, so they dropped bombs.

After dawn, the German army a hundred kilometers away had received a report and approached Toulon urgently. By the time they arrived, Toulon had been completely blown up, all the ships sank, and a sea of ​​fire.

A day later, a large number of French warships appeared in the southern Portugal harbor city of Sebatul, and the Tang army safely delivered more than 100 French warships to Sebatul.

Since Sebatull was a military base lent to the Tang Empire by Portugal, after the Tang Empire was involved in World War II, the Portuguese government announced that it was neutral. When more than 100 warships arrived in Sebatull, the Tang Empire announced that more than 100 French warships surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and published photos of hundreds of French naval officers and soldiers, making the whole world believe that these Frenchmen drove the warships to the Tang military base to block the Germans' questioning.

The British naturally was unwilling to give up and immediately prepared to send a naval fleet to siege Saibatu. Unexpectedly, before the British army could take action, the Tang Empire announced that Saibatu was returned to Portugal, and Portugal seized all Tang troops and warships in Saibatu as a neutral country until the end of the war.

In this way, Britain would not dare to risk attacking Sebatu. After all, Portugal is neutral and easily attacking will be criticized by the world. Moreover, Spain is also in a neutral attitude. Attacking Portugal may lead Spain to an excuse to participate in the war. At this time, France has fallen. Britain is not easy to make too many enemies when fighting alone. In the end, Britain gave up attacking Sebatu.

In fact, this is just a tactic of concealing the world between the Tang Empire and the Portuguese government. The Tang Empire is ready to send an expeditionary force to Europe, in fact, to support more than 100 French warships.

The Germans also suffered a loss. They knew that this was a secret operation of the Tang Empire, but they were afraid of affecting the alliance relationship and could not ask the Tang Dynasty for these warships head-on.

However, Hitler still relied on his wise words. After talking to Zhang Meng on the phone, Zhang Meng agreed to send a fleet to Europe to assist the German Navy in attacking Britain. After all, the German Navy was too weak to compete with the British Navy. This was Zhang Meng's original intention, and he was killing two birds with one stone.

However, the question of how many warships the Tang Empire sent to Europe to participate in the war has been discussed many times in the Empire State Building. The most critical issue is that there is also a Japanese fleet in the Pacific region that threatens the Tang Empire. Onodera Wudi's aircraft carrier battle group will not be eliminated. Once the Tang Navy draws out its strength to go to Europe, it will probably make mistakes.

Based on this consideration, Zhang Meng finally decided to eliminate Onodera Wudi Fleet as soon as possible, and then send the fleet to Europe to participate in the war.
Chapter completed!