Chapter 427: The Opium War in Goxinga

The foreigner who escaped was not engaged in armed drug trafficking, his mental quality and adaptability were too poor, and his marksmanship was not very good. The wound in the pool of blood was not serious, and the bullet grazed his right shoulder, although it took away his flesh and two taels, but it did not cause a fatal wound. This injury is not serious, but it is enough to make Shanyu lie on the ground and not get up.

"Fire, slaughter them! Send a signal! Request support from warships in the harbor! Shanyu was almost suffocated in pain, but his performance was not ashamed, and he endured the severe pain and gave the order to contingency.

"Gun, artillery!" Wu Lin only repeated Shanyu's order to fire loudly in Japanese, and hurriedly called someone back to the patrol boat to cast a signal for help.

The porters on the shore were all Koreans who had come to Dalian to eat, and when they could not find a serious job, they became the horses of British drug dealers. North Korea is a very strange country, their military is very weak, but the individual is extremely brave and aggressive, which is really strange. These North Korean workers were extremely fierce, and they dared to fight with short knives in the face of mercenaries armed with guns. Fortunately, Seon-ok's order was timely, and the soldiers raised their Schneider rifles in their hands and began to shoot at the North Korean workers.

With the sound of gunshots, more than a dozen North Korean workers fell to the ground, but many more rushed in front of them. Seonok was wounded and fell to the ground, the Japanese mercenaries lost their command and did not form a tight formation, and the soldiers who landed were only three squads, and Schneider's firepower was not enough to stop these brute Koreans.

In the face of the North Koreans rushing in front of them, the Japanese mercenaries did not put bayonets on their rifles, they threw away their rifles and drew out their own more accustomed *. The Koreans used short swords as a craft for group fighting, but the Japanese used the Shinto stream and the natural flow of the heart of the sword, and some of the people who practiced the Yin stream were even more spicy. In the battle of cold weapons, the amateur thugs of the Koreans, faced the professional thugs of the Japanese samurai, and the defeat was extremely miserable, and they had just come up with the idea of escaping, and they had already been killed by the samurai like chopping melons and vegetables.

Three or four medics rushed to the shore and hurriedly began to bandage Shanyu, and after a simple treatment, they carried Shanyu on a stretcher and tried to take him to the hospital in the city. Lying on a stretcher, Sun-ok wanted to see his victorious soldiers, and then he saw a scene that made him feel complicated. Not only were the soldiers killing, but they also started whipping corpses, and they brutally chopped up the bodies of North Koreans with *. A few North Koreans who were wounded but did not die even fell into blood mold, and several samurai gathered in a circle, constantly provoking the wounds of the North Koreans with *, or stabbing into non-vital places one at a time, so that these North Koreans could not survive and could not die. Shanyu can't say how he feels, the soldiers are avenging him, but it's too cruel. Many of Svenwen's faces were now full of beast-like hideous and terrifying expressions. And in the voice of the North Koreans, smiles began to appear on the faces of these soldiers, it was a smile from the bottom of their hearts, and they seemed to have a terrifying beast living in their hearts.

Wulin was the only one who didn't kill anyone, he always followed Shanyu, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead from time to time for Shanyu due to pain. He still holds a string of prayer beads in his hand, and after looking at Shanyu for a while, he will put his hands together and recite a scripture, as if praying for Shanyu's safety. Looking at Wulin's only nervous face, Shanyu felt a lot better, but there was still some disgust from the bottom of his heart, and he finally understood why the general hated the Japanese.

At the beginning of the battle, a wooden cruiser of the Bohai Fleet remaining in Dalian Harbor and a Seawolf-class destroyer assisted by the Beiyang Fleet pulled anchor and set sail to rush to reinforcements. Because they only saw the fireworks signal, everyone only knew that the Shanyu squadron was attacked, but they didn't know exactly what happened. The two warships that rushed to reinforce thought that the Shanyu squadron had encountered a large-scale pirate! Therefore, the two warships took the route of marching to outflank the waters of the incense burner reef. The Seawolf-class destroyer "Cuiliu", which had a fast sailing speed, sailed northwest to the southern shore of Barracuda Bay, intending to block the retreat of the "pirates". The wooden cruiser "Light Dust" plunged straight into the inland sea of Xianglu Reef, preparing to face the "pirates" and provide fire support to the Shanyu squadron.

As a result, halfway through, the "Light Dust" crashed head-on into a British merchant ship. Although Ding Shengping, the captain of the "Qingchen" Liuyang faction, did not know why there were British merchant ships here, because it was very close to Dalian Port, he did not think much about it, and directly regarded the merchant ships as passers-by. If the British ships had a good psychological quality, the two ships would definitely pass by, and then they would have escaped. However, the psychological quality of the British was not good, and they who had just escaped suddenly saw the warship of North Manchuria, and immediately panicked. The British ship was an armed merchant ship with more than a dozen front-loading rifled guns on board, so the panicked British chose to strike first. When the two ships approached, they suddenly gave the "Light Dust" a round of cannons, and the unsuspecting "Light Dust" directly experienced a flying iron ball in the sky.

If the Light Dust is a foreign trade warship, although this iron ball is enough for it to drink a pot, it will definitely not lose its combat ability, and it can send the British ship directly to the bottom of the sea. It's a pity that the Qingchen is a warship of the former North Sea Fleet taken over by the Bohai Fleet, and the origin is Vladivostok. Not only is the design flawed, but the ship-building wood is also not up to par, and there are major quality problems of its own. After receiving seven or eight large iron balls, Ding Shengping just wanted to give the order to fight back, when the sound of clicking and clicking sounded on the Qingchen, and then there was more leakage in the cabin, and the hull of the ship was seriously tilted. There was also the Cuiliu with an amazing speed outside, the British would definitely not be able to run, or the lives of a boatload of people were important, Ding Shengping couldn't care about fighting back, and hurriedly ordered to rush to the shore at full speed, trying to save himself by running aground.

The British on the merchant ships were also stupid, they never thought that they almost sank the Manchurian warship with a very amateurish artillery fire. It seems that the huge Manchurian fleet is nothing more than a paper tiger, and it is not capable of real combat at all. The British ship, with the honor of the merchant ship inflicting heavy damage on the warship, rushed to the open sea at high speed, preparing to flee to Japan to avoid the limelight. But before it could break out of the bay, the Willow caught up.

The Light Dust did not have a radio, so naturally it was impossible to notify the Cuiliu that something had happened, but the British ship's artillery fire could still be transmitted far away in the relatively quiet sea. After discovering that the Qingchen had been beaten, Bian Changdi's love Hu Chaoxiu commanded the Cuiliu to chase after him. In order to slow down the speed of the British ship, Hu Chaoxiu ordered the bow main gun to shoot roughly at the British ship, but he did not expect that the new naval gun with an artillery rangefinder was too accurate, and it actually hit the British ship with one shot.

The wooden British ship had no armor and less than a thousand tons of tonnage, and at a distance of three thousand meters, it was hit by a 158-mm shell from a naval gun, and the consequences can be imagined. There was no flooding, no tilting, the British ship exploded directly on the sea, and what slowly sank was nothing more than the wreckage of the main hull.

After Tal went to visit Shanyu in the hospital, he made a detailed report to Changchun and began to further collect evidence of drug trafficking on British ships. However, before the Tahr side could come to a conclusion, the British consul in Changchun approached Zou Degui and strongly protested against the barbaric act of the Manchurian Navy in sinking the British merchant ship, and demanded that the North Manchurian government immediately apologize and compensate and severely punish the officers responsible. Zou Degui immediately rejected the British consul's request, and strongly protested against the British armed drug trafficking to North Manchuria, and the drug traffickers injured one captain officer in North Manchuria, seriously injured the warship in North Manchuria, and demanded that the British side immediately apologize and compensate.

The two countries also set up an investigation team to investigate the conflict in the Dalian area, and Tal certainly had the evidence ready. The seized opium and the wreckage of the salvaged British ship have all become evidence, and Shanyu, who is lying in the hospital, is the best witness. Of course, there is an even bigger piece of evidence, the Light Dust on the beach near the incense burner reef. The cruiser Qingchen itself had problems, and this time it almost disintegrated, and there was no need to rescue it at all, so after running aground, it was thrown on the beach, and no one touched it. When it was time for the winter, the nearby farmers needed firewood, and the wreckage of the Light Dust would naturally disappear, saving Taal a fortune in disposal costs.

The British consul was particularly eager to board the Light Dust to investigate, and the Manchurian side naturally agreed. It's a pity that all the weapons and power systems on the Light Dust have been dismantled, and they can only be analyzed through the internal structure. After boarding the ship, the shipbuilding experts disguised as diplomats judged that the Light Dust was a cruiser with a large number of heavy guns, which required a very complex and heavy power system to drive. However, the ship has a large number of design flaws, the ship design and weapon system, power system can not be adapted, and the materials used to build the ship are seriously unqualified. The reason why the Light Dust was severely damaged by a merchant ship was entirely due to its own defects, not so much because it was severely damaged by the merchant ship, but because of the decomposition of the hull caused by its own defects.

Through the investigation of the Light Dust, the British side made a judgment on the military strength of North Manchuria. North Manchuria, which is indeed a world leader in weapons design, already has the ability to manufacture advanced heavy artillery, but is seriously lagging behind in the manufacture of naval ships. Not only is it unable to design warships, but it also lacks a basic understanding of the materials used to build ships, and its naval power system is seriously lagging behind other countries in the world. The vast Manchurian Navy was only a façade, and its actual combat power was very limited, and it did not pose a challenge to the British Empire's hegemony in the Far East. The British believed that the British Empire had finally cleared the layers of fog of the military secrecy system in North Manchuria and saw clearly the actual military strength of North Manchuria.

So a month after the conflict, all 20 warships of the British Empire's Far East Fleet sailed off the coast of Dalian, preparing to give Goxinga an Opium War. There is no need to knock on the door of North Manchuria, this time the British Empire wants to knock on the door of the military field of North Manchuria. Although North Manchuria is the world's number one arms exporter, everyone knows that Guoxing has hidden its own weapons, and the most advanced weapons in North Manchuria are still invisible to outsiders. The Opium War of the British Empire was an attempt to force North Manchuria to surrender its weapons by blocking sea routes.

"It's a pity that General Grant of your country is not here, he knows me. I value my friendship with the British Empire, but I will never accept any insult from anyone. We will not close the channel for peace talks, but we will not accept any threats! In the face of the threat of the British consul, Goxinga only had such a reply, he didn't want to fight, but the British kicked his nose in the face.