Colin received the letter fifteen days later, and he thought about it all night.

This letter for help made Colin's heart very complicated, but most of it was excitement and excitement, because he saw a huge opportunity in it, an opportunity to create a miracle.

He couldn't help but think of the story of the Battle of Plassey in Bengal, when Bengal had 70,000 troops, 53 cannons and 40 French gunners given to them by the French East India Company. Clevour's army consisted of only 900 British soldiers and 2,000 Indian soldiers, and with such a huge disparity in strength, Clevau still chose to fight without hesitation.

Winning a battle with a disparity in strength is enough to attract Colin, and what makes Colin even more excited is the harvest after Clevau defeated the prince of Bengal, he personally plundered hundreds of thousands of pounds of huge wealth from the treasury of Bengal, and Colin's desire for wealth is not strong, but after this battle, the result of Britain controlling the whole of Bengal made Colin excited.

Forty years have passed since the Battle of Plassey, and the British now have a full understanding of the value of this battle, and it can be said that the reason why Britain has the advantage in the Eastern world today is all due to this battle, and Clevau has become a hero and received a knighthood.

Meritorious service is the strongest attraction to the children of nobles like Colin, of course, it is also good to be rich, what is a nobleman if there is no money.

The reason why Colin thinks of Klevu is that he thinks that his current situation is very similar to that of Klevu, who is facing the Mughal Dynasty of India, and Colin is now facing the same ancient Qing Dynasty of China.

When he thinks of Guangdong, he immediately thinks of tea, silk, porcelain, and endless wealth.

The only difference between him and Clevau is that Clevau was not only the commander of the British army at that time, but also the governor of Bangladesh, and now he is only the commander of the British armed forces in China, but he has no other identity, but if he wins this battle, it will be different, and what will he get at that time? The Governor of Canton, no, should be the Governor of China!

The thought that the opportunity he was now given would be to become the most powerful Englishman in the whole of the East could not help but be excited.

He had no doubt about this, because this letter of request for help was written by Magalny, and Magalny, who had placed all the imagination of the British people in the past two years, personally wrote to ask him for assistance, and once he succeeded in helping Magalny, he knew that his merits would be transmitted directly to the highest levels of Britain, and would be directly placed in front of the British Parliament, the British Prime Minister, and the British Cabinet, and there would be countless dignitaries discussing his merits.

As for the King of England, oh, that's a fool, but the picture of touching the top of his head to canonize him as an earl is just as beautiful.

As for whether he could win the battle, Colin did not have the slightest doubt in his heart, he felt that he was now more powerful than Klevu, who had less than 2,000 troops, while Colin now had a strong force of more than 4,000 men, 1,500 mercenaries composed of Europeans and Indians, and more than 3,000 Chinese soldiers he had successfully recruited, which was enough for him to defeat 100,000 Chinese troops.

After a night of excitement, Colin calmed down, and immediately ordered the army to prepare for sailing, and at the same time he sent someone to contact Zhou Lang in Tagu Harbor.

This surprised Zhou Lang.

Colin is going to Guangzhou, which is not unexpected, this is the result of Zhou Lang's plan to break the kettle, and it was designed from the beginning.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to completely expose his identity in front of the Manchu government, in order to drag the British into the water.

Let the Guangzhou government start with the British in Guangzhou, with Zhou Lang's understanding of the Manchu government in this period, he knows that those who are officials are not reasonable masters, and the situation after the Opium War is completely different, at this time the attitude of the Manchu officials towards the foreigners is full of disdain, and the situation of the Macau county order to beat the Portuguese governor's board has been since the Ming Dynasty, as for the British, only the British themselves take themselves seriously, and few of those officials know the British.

So as long as the Canton officials knew that it was the British who participated in the Taiwan rebellion, then they would definitely act, and the Manchu officials of this era were dismissive of the British and the British, but with the strength of the British, the British had begun to form their own unique pride, believing that they were the most special one in Europe, and it was impossible to be slaughtered.

Zhou Lang estimated that the probability that the Manchu government would arrest the British for interrogation was more than 80%, and the British refused to stand still, and the probability of taking resistance measures was also as high as 80%, that is, there was an 80% chance that the Guangzhou government would have a conflict with the East India Company.

After the conflict, two equally arrogant guys, and never willing to bow to each other easily, then there will definitely be a wave of expansion of the situation, and they will choose to confront each other-for-tat, the Manchus needless to say, their forces in Guangdong are very strong, but the army that Britain can mobilize in the East, the nearest is in Taiwan, they don't mobilize the army in Colin's hands, who else will they transfer?

Therefore, all this was completely planned by Zhou Lang, and now it is also according to his plan, as for the final development of the situation, whether the opium war will break out in advance, Zhou Lang can no longer take care of it, and the meaning of breaking the kettle is here.

This makes Zhou Lang have a certain psychological burden, because it means that he introduced British power into China in advance, and it is difficult to say what the fate of China will be, this is Zhou Lang's psychological burden, he does not think that anyone has the right to push the nation and the country into a dangerous situation.

For this reason, he can only comfort himself like this, after all, Britain's national strength is not as strong as it was during the Opium War, and India is not completely ruled by the British, they can use China's strength much less than during the Opium War, and China is not as weak as the Xianfeng period, Qianlong's personal ability is stronger than his son and grandson in the end, when the British strength has not developed to the peak, and the Manchu power has not been weakened to the valley, let them collide, maybe the result will be a little different.

Even if the worst-case scenario happens, that is, Britain wins the war, what will be the outcome, at most, like the Opium War, with land reparations, presumably the Manchus at this time will be more able to bear the losses than the Manchus decades later. What's more, there is also Zhou Lang, the Manchu Qing was weakened, but Britain could not defeat the Manchu Qing, let alone have the strength to rule China, Zhou Lang may have more space in the middle.

But all this is based on Zhou Lang's ability to succeed in the future, if he fails, then his current behavior is to lure the wolf into the house, and he will be even more shameful than Wu Sangui's behavior.

Just when Zhou Lang was in a complicated mood, Colin suddenly sent someone.

It is not surprising to send someone to Zhou Lang, because the army in Colin's hands nominally belongs to the China (East India) Company, as the head of the Chinese company in China, without Zhou Lang's consent, Colin's transfer of the army is not procedurally legal, unless Colin wants to tear his face, then he will come to ask Zhou Lang's consent, anyway, this is just a formality, Zhou Lang agrees of course, but if he does not agree, he will still move the army. In fact, Zhou Lang didn't know that Colin came to ask for Zhou Lang's consent, which was requested by Magalny in the letter, and an officer like Colin could not care about the justice of the procedure, but a diplomat like Magalny thought it was necessary, so he reminded Colin to ask for Zhou Lang's consent as much as possible, of course, Zhou Lang did not agree, Colin also wanted to send troops, but then he would tear his face with the Chinese company, which was a loss for Magalny.

To Zhou Lang's surprise, Colin actually asked Zhou Lang to send troops together, and he actually hoped that Zhou Lang could bring more than 1,000 soldiers here in Dagu Port to fight in Guangzhou with him.

This is what Zhou Lang didn't expect, with his understanding of Colin, this young and arrogant British military aristocrat is full of self-confidence, how can he still look at the little force in his hand.

And according to Zhou Lang's previous plan, he did not think that he would be involved in this conflict between the East India Company and the Manchu Qing government, the whole point of the plan was that the East India Company would get Colin away from Taiwan, and then make enough room for Zhou Lang to play.

But now Colin wants to go to Guangzhou with him, which makes Zhou Lang hesitate.

But he only hesitated for a moment, he decided to go to Guangzhou, or the hurdle in his heart could not be passed, he could not convince himself to push the nation and the country into the unknown risk, and he stayed out of the matter, so he wanted to go, although it may be useless for him to go, but he always felt in his heart that he could always do something when he went, to put it bluntly, it was for the sake of feeling better in his heart.

So Colin was preparing to set sail, and Zhou Lang also began to prepare to set sail.

Theoretically speaking, Zhou Lang could send all the attacking soldiers on the ship at one time, because he had a 500-ton Lucky in his hand, and if it was fully loaded with troops, it could squeeze out a thousand people at most, while Zhou Lang currently only had 1,200 soldiers under his command, and he had to leave the troops to defend Dagu Port, so he could sail all at once. Colin is not good, he now has three armed merchant ships, one of which is from Macao to report the news, the other two are the ones that have been left in the left camp before, they are all large ships with a load of 500 to 800 tons, and it is enough to load 3,000 soldiers at one time, but Colin has 4,000 people in his hands, in addition to the first 300 Chinese soldiers, there are 1,500 Indian reinforcements, and 3,000 new recruits, a total of nearly 5,000 people.

But in the end, both sides decided to carry it in two parts, the reason is very simple, even if Zhou Lang's current troops are no longer simple peasants with knives, but an army with a certain division of labor, there are infantry, there are artillery, if the necessary weapons and equipment and some supplies are pulled, one transportation will be too tight.

Zhou Lang decided to leave 300 people to defend Dagu Port, so he left more than 200 soldiers led by Zhao Wen, as well as half of the artillery trained before, and the other half of the 50 artillerymen, so that Chen Zhizhi led them to Guangzhou.

After three days of preparation, it was the end of January, and Zhou Lang finally ordered the troops to send to Guangzhou!