"We have opened the gates and turned the land around the fortress into a swamp. There are swamps that help us block the enemy, and our Dunkirk Fortress is invincible."

The Spanish garrison and the French fleet commander Blaze were having dinner in the fortress, and were full of confidence in defending the fortress.

"General, the Holy Alliance has landed on the beach, their engineers are groping for passive roads in the swamp, and artillery are already using artillery to attack our periphery positions!" A Spanish officer came hurriedly to report.

"How could the attack be launched so quickly?" The Spanish guard stood up in disbelief and no longer had the mood to continue eating.

He and Blaze came to the chest wall of the basin. The smoke of artillery fired in the distance. The troops landing in Dunkirk indeed stepped through the muddy land and were trying to break through the outer defensive positions of Dunkirk.

They could hear sporadic sounds of artillery, and the offensive troops obviously planned to use artillery to take the lead in shelling the positions outside Dunkirk Fortress and first attack the morale of the defenders.

On the beach, paddle boats transport infantry and war horses to land, while soldiers who have already landed ashore gather on the beach.

Teams of engineers were paving pontoon bridges and looking for roads suitable for marching, and the cavalry found their respective horses. There was a little chaos on the beach.

Fortunately, the troops of the European Union countries have not yet gathered in time, and no one has stopped the Holy Alliance from landing.

Prince Rupert rode a black war horse, beside him a group of English cavalry.

"You have already started attacking the fortress?" Prince Rupert found commander Sun Chuanting and asked him.

"The Tubon soldiers recruited on the Indian Peninsula will conquer the periphery, then dig trenches and push artillery under their noses." Sun Chuanting pointed a group of soldiers wearing turbans with a horsewhip.

The Indian Turkish soldiers who took the lead in landing acted as the vanguard to capture the periphery of Dunkirk under the leadership of Chinese officers.

During their usual training, they were scolded by military sticks and demanded orders to be banned. In order to change their identities as lower castes on the Indian Peninsula, these people became cheap war machines. They held muskets and shot at the Spanish defenders on the periphery.

Spanish soldiers in the outer positions used wooden frames to support heavy mesh guns. When they saw the enemy wearing a turban and a little dark-looking approaching, they were frightened.

The smoke of black gunpowder filled the air, and from time to time, Tumen soldiers fell to the ground, and the rest continued to move forward.

The Spanish defenders on the outside never thought that even the snare-wearing minions were so tenacious. They evacuated the outer positions in advance before the Tubon soldiers rushed forward.

"The vassal army recruited from the Indian Peninsula is really useful. The main cost is to provide them with food and drink. Such vassal army can be transported at any time as long as we have food."

"Originally, Tubon soldiers were attracting the enemy's firepower, but their training and equipment had exceeded that of the Spanish..."

After Tubang soldiers captured the outer positions, Cao Bianjiao arrived with elite soldiers from the Imperial Guard Brigade. Before the Imperial Guard Brigade launched a charge, Tubang soldiers had already ended the battle early.

This result surprised the officers from China. They found that using Tubon soldiers to fight here is the most cost-effective.

"Now is not the time to be stunned. The engineers are in their seats and are ready to dig trenches and approach the city wall!"

As the commander-in-chief of Dunkirk fortress this time, Sun Chuanting commanded the engineers to start siege the fortress.

Chu Yun didn't have much time to stay in Europe, so he couldn't be blocked by these solid fortresses and wasted a lot of time.

This is why Chu Yun avoids going deep into the continental region. The continent is in a state of war every year. A large number of fortresses have been built on the borders of various countries. It takes time to siege the fortresses and put huge pressure on the logistics.

Under urging, engineers and ordinary soldiers built parallel trenches around the fortress and advanced around the Dunkirk Fortress.

The Spanish defenders of Dunkirk Fortress faced the pressing Holy Allied Army, 18,000 infantry and cavalry had successfully landed, while the army of the European Allied Powers was still gathering in a hurry.

"General Blaze, we seem to be in big trouble this time."

When the Spanish defender saw that the enemy quickly occupied the positions outside the fortress, he no longer had the same calmness as before, but was worried that the fortress would be quickly captured by the enemy.

"Have our reinforcements not arrived yet? I also don't know how our fleet is doing..." Blaze, the commander of the French fleet, was even more worried.

General de Melo from Spain in the Flanders region led the Spanish army to outside Dunkirk from Brussels.

Prince Conde, France, led a 10,000 French army on the border to quickly approach Dunkirk.

The Holy Roman Empire Ferdinand III ordered Brandenburg Elector Friedrich William to lead 5,000 German knights and mercenaries to the war.

Swedish Queen Christina personally led a 3,000-man Swedish cavalry and light artillery force to quickly move south from northern Germany to Dunkirk.

At this time, the main force of the Swedish Kingdom was still fighting again in the north and the Denmark Kingdom, and there were only a few troops in her hands.

As for the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Tsarist Russia were too far away. Even if they organized their troops, they could not cross a long distance to support the Dunkirk Fortress in the English Channel.

In the Kingdom of Poland, Tsarist Russia organized some cavalry to attack the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. However, because the Ottoman Empire was defeated by Chu Yun, it did not dare to send troops openly. Their Great Vizier participated in the continental war by secretly funding the Kingdom of France, Spain, the Netherlands and other kingdoms to launch wars.

The power of four kingdoms gradually gathered outside the Dunkirk Fortress, including Spain, France, Sweden and Germany.

The reinforcements reached an astonishing 20,000 troops, but it was still the premise that all the temporary troops convened by various countries could not arrive in time.

In order to prevent the fall of Dunkirk, the Continental Allies became the base camp for the Holy Alliance to peek at the Continental Europe, and even abandoned some heavy artillery and arrived in Dunkirk in a hurry with only 3 pounds of light field guns.

Dunkirk's position is very important. As long as you occupy this place and have a powerful navy or privateer fleet, you can plunder ships from all over the country that travel to and from the English Channel.

Spain and France want to reach the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, and Sweden want to enter the Atlantic Ocean, they have to pass through the English Channel.
Chapter completed!