Mai Ke thought that he was fast enough, but when he reached the summit of the Delhi Mountains, he saw not a single enemy, only an iron bucket-like thing, which was leaning in a cave in front of the mountaintop.

Mai Ke smelled the residual smell of gunpowder, so he followed the vine and quickly found the cave.

When Mai Ke came in, he saw that the cave was half natural, and half of it had traces of artificial excavation.

Mai Ke was checking, and a squad of Heavenly Army soldiers ran over, also following the sound of cannons.

It turned out that the Celestial Army had placed garrisons in this Delhi mountain range, but the number was not large, and it was impossible to cover everything.

Mai Ke asked the soldiers to carry this bucket-like thing out of the hole, and then carefully searched the hole, but found nothing special, it is estimated that the enemy fired a cannon, even if the task was completed, and left.

Mai Ke came to it and carefully observed the bucket-shaped object, especially the traces of gunpowder on the inner wall, and basically determined that the huge cannonball was fired with this thing!

But this technology, this power, just thinking about it makes people's scalp tingle!

The bucket-shaped launcher resembles a grenadier in later generations, and this cannonball is equivalent to a heavy artillery!

Does India have such a level of arms manufacturing?

If not them, who are they? How did they get here?

Whoever it is, it's true that it's a big threat to the Celestial Army, and it's definitely bad news for the new regime here!

How could Mai Ke tolerate such a force?

A bad feeling rose in his heart, because he looked at this grenadier with déjà vu.

I was puzzled in my heart. While making up his mind to find out the person who shot the cannon.

So, he talked to Peter and Xiao Chaogui on the phone, telling them to continue to finish the conference, and he himself dispatched troops to carry out an intensive search.

Mai Ke approached the commander of the garrison and asked him to send effective troops to conduct a large-scale search, and at the same time, block the roads in and out. Conduct an inventory of people who come and go.

Mai Ke also sent Da Niu and other guards out. Let them rise high into the air and carry out a larger search.

At the same time, through the Guò Jonah fish, Mai Ke also gave instructions to those Ganges crocodiles. Let them find people in the waterways.

Explosion not so long ago. Crocodiles are also victims. Unfortunately, more than a dozen were killed by the explosion, and the guys who hated these bombs had received instructions from Mai Ke. In the middle of it, they immediately dispersed and went to find these enemies.

Whether it can be found now or not is not to say, in the future, these people who are worried about crocodiles will not expect to swim in the water of the Ganges.

Not to mention going into the water, even on the shore, or even crossing the river by boat, you will be attacked by crocodiles.

Mai Ke believes that such a three-dimensional search by land, water and air will not be able to escape from the people who fired the artillery!

While waiting for everyone's feedback on the search results, Mai Ke once again observed the bucket launcher and suddenly remembered the two gunboats in the water battle!

The cannon-builder who had been a lawyer, since he could build gunboats specifically to carry that super-powerful heavy artillery, would definitely be able to make this kind of grenadier.

Mai Ke clearly remembered that the lawyer-turned-engineer was the famous William Armstrong, the iron guy who caused heavy casualties to the Celestial Army.

Mai Ke also remembered very well that the last time he exchanged prisoners, he had already negotiated with Rong Hong, whether it was people or products, Rong Hong arranged to transfer them to the Heavenly Army, and he also agreed not to build any new weapons.

Could it be that something happened to Rong Hong?

What Mai Ke didn't know was that although his guess was not true, it was not far away!

It's not that Rong Hong betrayed his beliefs, and it's not that he deliberately didn't abide by the agreement with Mai Ke, but that he was controlled by Zeng Guofan and had no freedom to do as he pleased.

Technology and foreign exchanges let him do it, but Zeng Guofan did not relax for a moment in the control of people, especially for this kind of murderous weapon, he kept in mind the lesson of the last heavy machine gun Beilian Woduan, and sent a large number of detectives openly and secretly, staring at it the day before yesterday.

As a result, these people not only stared at all of Rong Hong's subordinates, but even Rong Hong himself;

Since the last time he returned from Gwangju to the north, this Yung Hong ordered to stop William's research on weapons, and also ordered the production of Armstrong heavy guns and gunboats, which had been successfully produced, to reduce production until production was stopped.

In addition to this, he also packed the finished products and parts of the machine, as if to transport them away, and they all knew that there had been no recent military action at all, and they planned to use them.

What's even stricter is that Zeng Guofan has clearly instructed that this is an extraordinary time, and we must do our best to develop new weapons and produce more efficient weapons, and Rong Hong's seat is simply contrary to Zeng Dashuai's requirements!

This kind of anomaly soon reached Zeng Guofan's place, causing his Yan zhòng to pay attention, this piece must not be a problem!

However, Rong Hong was one of his eight great qincha xiangli, and he could not deal with it lightly after all of them were hung up by the emperor, and now all the qiqi were only suspicions, and there was nothing fait accompli.

Zeng Guofan took two measures.

He issued a ban on Rong Hong, the recent situation is strict, without his order, no Qin Cha Xiangli is allowed to leave the Northern Meridian!

Although he gave an order to all eight Xiangli, only Rong Hong was really targeted, because he could issue an expatriate order to others, but not Rong Hong.

The second measure was to send an assistant to Rong Hong, Zhang Qiang, who was formerly the prefect. This prefect was reused by Zeng Guofan, of course, because he had rich experience in officialdom and was able to do things, but the main reason was not because of him, but because of his son - Zhang Zhidong!

By chance, Zeng Guofan saw Zhang Zhidong, and he didn't know how to say a few words to him on a whim, but he didn't expect that the thirteen-year-old boy already had the appearance of learning things!

In particular, he clearly put forward the principle of "middle school is the body, Western learning is for use", which won the praise of Zeng Guofan, and it is exactly the same as the conclusion he has come to after thinking about it!

It's just that he didn't generalize it so highly.

Therefore, Zeng Guofan did not care about the difference in age. immediately made friends with Zhang Zhidong's peers.

In order to keep him with him at all times for consultation, Zeng Guofan took great pains to transfer his father from the position of prefect of Guizhou Province to Beijing and became one of his staff.

Therefore, this appointment, on the surface, is Zhang Qiang's appointment, but in fact, the father and son are combined, and in Zeng Guofan's heart, he is full of expectations for Zhang Zhidong.

And the secret instruction of this father and son. Zeng Guofan made it clear. On the surface, Zhang Zhidong obeyed his father, but in fact, Zhang Qiang wanted to look at his son's horse.

This hole is indeed extraordinary, as soon as he arrived. Immediately take William's command in his hands. And he also used his knowledge and personality to make William happy and convincing him.

Don't say anything else. Zhang Zhidong's level of English, even when discussing the most specialized scientific and technological issues, made William sigh to himself.

Even Rong Hong, a first-generation international student. also admired Zhang Zhidong's English level, admitting that there is indeed a genius in the world, and he is even more powerful than him, a genuine international student.

Zhang Zhidong had the support of Zeng Guofan, like a fish in water, he would not confine himself to a weapons research project, and soon he became familiar with the forces in China of various countries.

His familiarity is not only at the official level, but also at the non-governmental level.

To put it bluntly, they are playing against the rulers of those countries; they have come to China to seek support, but of course their demands have failed, and there are many people who are suspected of retaliation.

In the past, the Manchu authorities could not even cope with their own headaches, so where could they take care of the troubles of neighboring countries?

But Zhang Zhidong is different, he sees these as opportunities, even help! So, he quickly established contact with these people, and even reached some cooperation and mutual assistance agreements or something.

At this time, Zhang Zhidong's language genius was revealed!

Once, he had scheduled to meet with a representative of the people in Dongying two days later, but he still didn't know anything about the language, so he spent a day studying.

As a result, after meeting with the representative of Dongying, that Miss Sanjo still wanted to show her Chinese level, but she was stopped by Zhang Zhidong's fluent Dongying language!

What this Dongying said is even better than her pure Dongying person!

Sanjo Youyou has just reached sixteen, and he is already petite and slender, while Zhang Zhidong, although he is less than fourteen, looks personable and very calm, but due to age limitations, he can still see some childishness from his speech and demeanor.

Miss Sanjo immediately fell in love with this little brother!

What she didn't know was that the little brother was actually the little brother, and interestingly, even when her real age was later known, she insisted that calling him brother was not based on age.

While Mai Ke was searching, three people were hiding in a cave where Mai Ke had found the grenadier.

These three people, one is Zhang Zhidong, one is Sanjo Yuyu, and the other is William's apprentice, who has obtained the true inheritance of his mechanical manufacturing and use.

This three beautiful, not only as a representative of the Sanjo family, against the shogunate, came to China to find an alliance, but also is the first disciple of the largest ninja club in Dongying, "Deep Sea Turtles", not to mention other martial arts, stealth was learned by her superb, and the blue is better than the blue.

What is her unique contribution?

It's that she can not only make herself invisible, but also help the other two invisible!

After they finished firing the cannon just now, they immediately followed the original plan, did not go anywhere, and used stealth techniques on the spot!

Mai Ke's thinking direction at that time entered a blind spot, but he felt that the enemy would run away after doing bad things, and he didn't expect that they would hide on the spot.

Otherwise, he would concentrate his manpower and sink three feet into the ground, and no matter how powerful his stealth technique was, it would not help.

Although the three graceful stealth techniques were powerful, they also had limitations, and they could not go beyond a radius of two meters, so she was close to Zhang Zhidong, and that William's apprentice did not have this Yanfu, and put it in the farthest corner, almost a meter and a half away from the two.

Since they are invisible, of course, their vision and hearing are often blocked, so he doesn't know what the two of them say or do.

Zhang Zhidong was tightly squeezed, and his whole body was hot, and Sanjo Meiyu liked the current state the most, usually this little brother was good at everything, but it was a little unreasonable, especially for others, and he didn't know anything about it.

In fact, although Zhang Zhidong is young, he understands everything in his heart, although he is very open-minded in terms of the national economy and people's livelihood, but he is extremely conservative in his personal life!

He didn't want to have anything to do with an Oriental woman!

In his thoughts, Dongying is not the object of study, even in terms of "use", he only learns from the Western powers, and there is nothing to do with this small Dongying country.

Sensing that his companion's squeezing of himself was intensifying, he was now a little stressed, so he tried to talk to her to relieve it.

"Miss Grace, we won't be discovered, will we?"

"Big brother Zhidong, don't you still believe in the little sister, as long as we don't go to the door ourselves, absolutely no one will be able to find us. ”

"How long can that last?"

"With you, how long is it no problem!"

This answer seems a bit off-topic!

"I said, young lady, can you leave me a little bit? It's too crowded!"

"No! the place is too narrow, you and I have to huddle together!"

Zhang Zhidong vomited in his heart, lying is a woman's patent, and he is not working on drafts, obviously that person is fine more than a meter away from us!

Zhang Zhidong couldn't get rid of the current predicament, so he had to think about their plan of action this time and the next step.

It turned out that after Zhang Zhidong established relations with the hostile forces of the rulers of the surrounding countries, he soon found out that someone had played another big game of chess!

The strategy of this chess game is to occupy the neighbors and defend the center!

These four neighbors are the neighboring countries, the countries that have already been occupied are Southeast Asian countries, and the countries that are being occupied are Southwest Asia, India, Pakistan, and other countries.

If we wait for this chess game to be completed, it will be a matter of time before the center is occupied, and in the case that the four neighbors belong to each other, the high chess player will not be able to win this residual chess game.

Suddenly awakened, he specially asked Zeng Guofan for a deep talk.

Zeng Guofan is now doing his best to manage his group training, especially the Xiang army, after listening to Zhang Zhidong's analysis, he was shocked into a cold sweat!

If you don't form an evenly matched situation with your opponent in terms of layout, some skills and strength, even if you make a mess, are just accompanying the prince to study, and eventually become a wedding dress for others.

After conspiring, the two decided to set up an international column to search for hostile forces in various countries, whether they were originally opposed to the authorities or later opposed to the Celestial Army, with the aim of specifically opposing the Celestial Army's efforts in the world.

The team consisted of three graceful men and a gang of Indian tigers.

Under the full operation of Zhang Zhidong, with the great help of the three small streets and the LTTE, the actions of the Celestial Army in India were quickly determined, so they also decided to send a special operation team of the international column to sabotage.

The first target is the New Delhi Building, and the time is chosen at the inaugural meeting, striving to cause irreversible and devastating effects on the Celestial Army!

And their main means are this new grenadier canister and powerful shells!

This is a new product developed by William!

And all of this, Mai Ke doesn't know yet!

For the first time, the international development strategy of the Kingdom of Heaven has encountered a real challenge. (To be continued......)