Chapter 1689 Beach Battle
"Well!"
Queen Christina grabbed the war horse that suddenly became a little irritable. It was a pure white horse. In order to win the queen's favor, the Minister of the Swedish Privy Council presented the white horse to the queen and became the mount of the young queen.
The white horse seemed to feel the arrival of a war, running around uneasyly, and not very obedient.
"Marson Torstenson has led the main force to attack the Jutland Peninsula of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Kingdom of Denmark still has no strength to resist and dares to hide in the bastion to hold on. It seems that the Holy Alliance has completely abandoned the Kingdom of Denmark and placed the main force in Dunkirk, which is their breakthrough." A Swedish general reported to the young queen.
Queen Christina has just taken power. She had no prestige at first, but her father was Gustav II, the northern lion of Europe. She defeated the Holy Roman Empire army many times in the Thirty Years' War, started modern European military changes, and at the same time made Sweden the number one strong country in Nordics. Many people in Sweden have a little hope that Christina should be able to inherit the talents of her father.
At this time, Christina and Sophia are now two queens of European powers. With their influence on the continent, Sweden may be more than England during the reign of Charles I.
However, after Sophia's transformation, it was the second leader of the Holy Alliance, and England's influence on the continent gradually surpassed Sweden.
"Do they want to defeat our European coalition in Dunkirk and then support Denmark with the momentum of victory?" Christina tweaked her light blonde curly hair.
"It is most likely that. The Holy Alliance has very few troops. They only have the army of the two countries, China and England, with combat effectiveness. However, China is half a year to a year away, and their troops are insufficient, so they can only concentrate their troops to defeat each one." The Swedish general said.
"But we have to rescue the place they attacked, and Dunkirk is located in a place that can be reached by all countries, so we can concentrate our troops to defeat them."
Christina was afraid that the mount would be out of control for some reason, so she led the white horse back to the barracks.
William of Brandenburg, Prince of Great Conde, came to visit, and they were going to discuss with the young queen how to defeat the Holy Allies in the outer waters of Dunkirk.
The people in power here are very young, Christina is less than twenty years old, Duke of Brandenburg, and Prince Condé are only in their 20s. They almost all become commanders with their prominent aristocratic status, and at the same time they accumulate military achievements and experience in leading troops to fight.
Prince Rupert was about the same age as them. Western systems have their own characteristics, and it is hard to say whether it is good or bad, because the nobles have a large number of resources, they received education since childhood, and grew up faster in war than civilians.
"The infantry and cavalry of the Holy Alliance landed on the nearby beach. We can be on the beach and drove them into the sea." Prince Louis II de Bourbon, the noble figure of the Bourbon dynasty, looked at General De Melo of Spain, "Dunkirk is the territory you run. Where do you think you should fight them?"
Demero pointed to a beach northeast of Dunkirk on a parchment map: "This beach has enough space for us to spread 24,000 people to force them to fight us here. After defeating them, we can enter the Dunkirk Fortress and meet with the defenders inside."
"Fight at the beach? Our soldiers will not be attacked by their warships with artillery?" Christina asked.
"There are sand dunes dozens of meters high by the beach. The troops deployed on the back slope of the dunes to avoid the artillery fire of enemy warships." De Melo said.
"Then we will act quickly, I am afraid that Dunkirk will be captured quickly by them." Prince Conde said.
"I heard that your French and the Netherlands fleets have been defeated, why did they fail so quickly?" Christina asked again.
"The Admiral Trop of the Netherlands reported that they encountered ironclad ships and could not penetrate their armor at all, so the navy was defeated. The enemy occupied the waters and could block the port at any time, and they could do whatever they wanted." De Melo said.
"Iron-clad ship..." Christina muttered. There were very few ships suitable for combating the Atlantic Ocean in Sweden, and could only rely on the fleets of France, the Netherlands and Spain.
Now the fleets of France, the Netherlands and Spain are powerless to do anything about the Holy Alliance fleet, and she can only place her hope on the army.
A 24,000 reinforcements were observed on the outside of Dunkirk and the number of the Holy Allied troops besieged Dunkirk Fortress. They found that the other party had too strong ability to send troops by ships to send troops, and could easily send an army of 18,000 to Dunkirk to siege the fortress.
After taking control of the sea, you can really do whatever you want, and the coastline is threatened by the fleet.
Sun Chuanting and others discovered that the European Allies had arrived. They discovered that there were only more than 20,000 people on the other side, and troops from all over the country were still arriving one after another.
"Let the Indian Turkish soldiers continue to siege Dunkirk to prevent reinforcements and defenders from joining. The rest follow me to defeat their reinforcements." Sun Chuanting took advantage of the fact that the continental alliance had not yet assembled more troops, so he also allocated troops to take the lead in defeating their reinforcements.
In addition to the 4,000 Tubon soldiers who left the besieged city, Sun Chuanting led 8,000 infantry and artillery, 6,000 cavalry, a total of 14,000 people, and 24,000 people from the continental alliance set up camp on the beach in the northeast of Dunkirk.
More than a dozen warships that can approach the coast appeared near the beach, providing naval gun support to Sun Chuanting and others.
The left wing was the 5,000 army of the German princes, most of which were mainly cavalry, with the army of Prince Conde and Spain in the middle, while the left wing was the army of Queen Christina of Sweden, who used sand dunes to block the threat from coastal warships.
Cao Bianjiao led the Imperial Guard Brigade, two Royal Infantry Regiments, three English Infantry Regiments, and one Royal Artillery Regiment, about 8,000 people were used as the central army. Prince Rupert led two Royal Cavalry Regiments, and 4,000 people were used as the right wing, while the left wing was the two Imperial Cavalry Regiments adapted by the Far West Expeditionary Army led by Sun Chuanting.
The armies of both sides are arranged perpendicular to the coastline, and each phalanx unit is neatly arranged on the beach to face the enemy. The fronts of both sides seem to be impeccable, and the battle seems to be an arduous tug-of-war.
"How powerful are the troops from the East?" Queen Christina of Sweden led the Swedish cavalry after thirty years of war training. Opposite her were 2,000 Eastern cavalry led by Sun Chuanting.
Chapter completed!