The members of the 3rd Company and 1st Platoon of the 2nd Battalion protected two Englishmen and two interpreters in search of coal mines throughout Quang Ninh Province. The platoon commander who led the team is called Jin Niu, who has a relatively smooth personality, is good at observing words and feelings, and has more experience in the rivers and lakes.

They searched for three days in a row, but they did not find a coal mine, and no Vietnamese came to interfere, which made the team a little at a loss. There are so many of them, digging everywhere in a foreign country unscrupulously, not only no one is obstructed, but the locals see that there are foreigners in their team, and they are also far away, so they can't complete the task, they don't even have an opponent, how can they quarrel and cause friction!

The exploration work could only continue, and on the fourth day there was still no discovery, and the wind was still calm.

On the fifth day, when the willows finally dawned, two Englishmen dug a few shovels in a mountainous area, and dug out black lumps of coal, and dug deep all around, and there were coal seams dug out, and it was certain that this was a coal mining area, and it was an open-pit coal mine that was easy to mine.

The coal mine was finally found, and the Taurus and his team members were halfway done, and he immediately sent two members of the team to contact the scouts on the periphery to report their specific location and the news of the coal mine.

But the Vietnamese are not strong, it's been so long, why haven't the local officials reacted yet? The golden bull held his cheeks and thought for a long time, but he couldn't think of a reason, so he could only order the team members to set up tents, settle down here, and wait for the opponent to come to the door.

At this time, some local mountain people saw them camping, curious to come to inquire what was going on, Taurus suddenly had an inspiration, he immediately said to the mountain people: "We are a prospecting team hired by the British, we have found coal mines here, I hope you can help us find local people to work here, the more people who come, the better, the wages will definitely be enough."

But this mountain man didn't understand what a coal mine was, and the translator explained to him for a long time before he roughly understood that he could work here to earn money, which must be good news for the local people.

Vietnam is located in the tropics, the local people do not have the habit of burning coal for heating, and the firewood used in ordinary times can be found everywhere, because the whole of Vietnam has not yet developed coal resources, because Vietnam has no industry at all.

Beginning the next day, there were local people who came to inquire about the work, and the golden bulls all agreed to come down, telling them that the work would officially start here at the beginning of next month, hoping that more people would come to work.

As soon as the news spread, it finally brought the long-awaited Vietnamese local officials to the Golden Bull. I saw a Vietnamese who looked like an official and came over with a dozen officials and a dozen officials, but when they saw that there were foreigners here, their momentum immediately weakened a little, and they pretended to scold that they were not allowed to dig here, and asked the foreigners to quickly lead the team away.

The Vietnamese officials saw that their side was weak and weak, and it was useless to be upright, so they withdrew with their men and quickly reported to the top to move the rescuers.

This time the Vietnamese were much more efficient, and the next morning, hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers surrounded them, and the golden bull ordered the team to protect the two British in the middle, make a predominantly British appearance, and continue to confront the Vietnamese.

This time, the Vietnamese who led the team were tougher, and when they saw that the other side did not listen to the advice, they immediately ordered his soldiers to rush up and try to subdue the other side. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Golden Bull immediately ordered the brothers to give up resistance, and the Vietnamese officials immediately took them all away.

This group of Vietnamese soldiers was obviously from Quang Ninh provincial capital, because of the golden bull they were taken to Hongji City, probably the Vietnamese did not dare to offend the foreigners, so they were just placed under house arrest in a courtyard, and food and water were also provided, and they were not embarrassed.

Because of the involvement of foreigners, the officials of Quang Ninh Province did not dare to call the shots, and had already sent people to Hue to ask for instructions on how to deal with the matter.

At this point, the matter has entered the plot directed by Liang Jiajun, and now we will look at the performances of Liang Jiajun's various departments.

The second battalion commander, Huang Qiying, took all the members of the second battalion (missing a platoon) to Hongji City at night, and the scouts had already contacted the special combat team ambushed in the city, and agreed to start early tomorrow morning, and the special combat team would open the city gate first, and teach the second battalion to attack the city directly.

The special combat team discussed that Li Zishan secretly put the drug prepared by Huang Bingkun into the drinking water of the Vietnamese soldiers, and the Vietnamese soldiers who drank the water slept more than dead pigs, and the special combat soldiers took over the city gate directly in the second half of the night, and the soldiers guarding the city gate were tied up, even if they were tied, they were still sleeping soundly, so that the team members were amazed that Huang Bingkun's drug was really powerful, and it seemed that they could not offend this guy in the future. Otherwise, you will definitely die an ugly death.

At dawn, Huang Qiying led the second battalion to enter Hongji City smoothly, leaving an engineer platoon to guard the city gate, and the rest of the soldiers divided into several routes, under the leadership of the special combat team, to capture the military camp, the government office, the government treasury and other important places.

In the barracks of Hongji City, the soldiers had not yet gotten up, the sentry posts at the gate were squinting and napping, and were quietly subdued by the special combat troops, and a large number of escorts immediately rushed into the barracks, first collected their weapons, and then took care of the Vietnamese soldiers, and several Vietnamese officers who looked like officers tried to resist and were immediately killed.

Huang Qiying ordered these Vietnamese soldiers to tie their hands behind their backs, and then sent Luo Zhongshun, the commander of the second company, to escort these prisoners back to Hainan with the infantry of the second company.

At this time, Ye Qin, the commander of the third company, came to report that there was a lot of silver in the treasury of Hongji City, as well as a large amount of food and materials. Huang Qiying immediately asked Luo Zhongshun to wait for a while, and just took the silver and grain back to Hainan by the way.

After counting, there were 250,000 taels of silver in the treasury, and the officials of the government also found more than 50,000 taels of silver, and more than 10,000 quintals of grain.

Now those captives no longer have to be tied up, they have become the main force of carrying food, and the copper coins, iron tools and other materials in the treasury have also been carried away.

Hoang Qi Anh, who had arranged the transportation affairs, went to the officials of the government and asked them to send a message to the royal city of Hue, informing them of the fact that the capital of Quang Ninh Province of the Nguyen Dynasty had been captured, demanding that the Vietnamese government compensate the British company for the losses and military expenses, and that the British company be allowed to exploit the coal mines in Quang Ninh Province.

Since Hongji City had been taken, it was no longer meaningful for the special combat team to stay here, so Huang Qiying sent them to the first teaching battalion where Young Master Liang was located, and asked them to report the battle situation here by the way.

Hue city has been a little chaotic these days, the royal city of the emperor Nguyen Phuc Shi brain is even more chaotic, first received a report from Quang Ninh Province that a British company is secretly mining in the place, has been caught, please ask the court how to deal with it, the Vietnamese court has been frightened by the French, several provinces in the south have been de facto ceded out, and now the British have emerged in the north, it is said that the British are more powerful than the French, then it is even more impossible to offend, and hurriedly sent someone to pass the decree, quickly release the British and apologize, as for the British to come to mine, It's still negotiable.

Unexpectedly, just two days later, the second group of messengers came to report the news, and sure enough, the British had sent troops to capture the city of Hung Kyi, the capital of Quang Ninh Province, and demanded compensation.

At this moment, the Vietnamese court was in chaos, some were filled with righteous indignation and demanded a desperate battle with the British army, some said that they could no longer offend the British, and that things should be calmed down, and most of the officials sighed with sad faces, as if the Nguyen dynasty had come to an end.