A water battle broke out on the river, and some merchant ships along the Yangtze River turned around. Just kidding, the Manchu Qing Division besieged the British merchant ships, this is to start the rhythm of the Sino-British war!

The Jiangnan Navy Division really deserves to be the first sailor of the Qing Dynasty, and he even dares to do this kind of thing. Although some of the Chinese merchant ships avoided it from afar, it did not hinder their outpouring of admiration. And Lord Manshenman, the commander of the Jiangnan Navy Division, unknowingly became the true hero of the "belt seed" in the mouth of everyone.

Amid the roar of artillery fire, a British merchant ship was pierced through a large hole near the water line, and the clear river water poured in, and the hull of the ship slowly tilted.

The other two merchant ships were apparently frightened, and they turned their bows and fled in confusion to the sound of cannon fire from the Jiangnan Naval Division.

Boom!

A cannonball hit the steam chamber of a British merchant ship, damaging the ship's power system, and the large ship that had fled lost power and slowly stopped.

The last one escaped from the encirclement in disarray, ignoring the remaining two merchant ships, and fled at full speed towards the mouth of the sea with the roar of the whistle.

The merchant ships that were damaged in the steam chamber eventually raised the white flag as well.

Xie Zhihai breathed a sigh of relief, this damn encounter was fortunately won, otherwise the trouble would have been even greater.

"Get people on board at once! The big ship drove away, leaving a few small boats for these foreigners! The head of the foreigner is brought up, and I will interrogate it carefully. "For the treatment of foreigners, Xie Zhihai did not kill them all, not because he didn't want to kill, but because he didn't want to affect Hong Tiangui's plan, and he didn't want to completely anger the foreigners, because it was in Shanghai, Hong Tiangui didn't kill many foreigners, most of them were imprisoned.

Xie Zhihai understood Hong Tiangui's thoughts, but he was more curious about how his side leaked, of course, he would never bring these troubles back to Tianjing City.

The merchant ship that was tilted into the water did not sink, but because of the excessive flooding, the speed of the ship dropped greatly, and it was impossible to escape, so it was forced to fly the white flag.

The warships of the Jiangnan Navy Division were also damaged, but fortunately they were not fatal, and the Manchu warships were not steam-powered, so the speed of the ship did not affect much.

Soon, a bearded Englishman was brought up, his face full of anger. He muttered in English.

"Lord Liu, find someone who can speak foreign language, I want to know how he found out about us." Xie Zhihai said in a deep voice.

Such people are not difficult to find, in recent years, English and French have become popular in Shanghai, giving birth to many foreign translators, and Chen Liang is one of them. His original name was Chen Xiaoer, a native of Shanghai, and later Shanghai set up a concession, in order to make a living, and a foreign missionary to learn English, maybe he really had the talent in this area, Chen Xiaoer really learned, and changed his name to Chen Liang. As a communication talent, he was also forcibly sent on board by Hong Tiangui.

"Are you going to war with the British Empire?" The British bearded man yelled.

"We don't want to go to war with you, but we're not afraid of war, who are you, why did you take the lead in attacking our merchant ships." Xie Zhihai said in a deep voice.

"That's not your merchant ship, it's Rus's ship, you're a robber." The bearded man yelled.

Xie Zhihai was stunned for a moment. Turned his head to look at Liu Mingchuan.

"My lord, this merchant ship is indeed named Ross, as for whether the owner of the ship is called Ross, my subordinates don't know."

Xie Zhihai nodded and said in a deep voice: "Even if this is the Ross, it is also a merchant ship legally hired by us, why did you attack us for no reason." Xie Zhihai said coldly.

"Ross is a miser, the ship was bought with all his net worth, and he won't leave his ship unless he's dead. And we are a group of people who came to the Far East, and we have a code word that is connected to each other, and I couldn't contact him before, so knowing that he is not on the ship, it means that something must have happened to him! The bearded man said loudly. Even if he was captured, he did not have the slightest intention of begging for mercy, he was sure that Xie Zhihai and his party would not dare to kill him, because although he was a businessman, there was a powerful British Empire standing behind him.

Xie Zhihai was a little speechless, it turned out to be because of this reason. It seems that they think they are acting strictly, but they don't want to make mistakes everywhere.

Xie Zhihai didn't kill the bearded, he had lost a ship before, and the news must have leaked, so it was better to hurry up and leave than to kill the bearded man to vent his anger.

An encounter ended in the victory of the impostor Jiangnan Marine, who dragged two merchant ships and trophies up the Yangtze River.

The news of the Yangtze River water battle was quickly reported to Nantong County by the Qing Dynasty's coastal defense artillery team, and Nanzhi County was shocked and immediately reported to the Tongzhou prefect, who was also frightened and half dead, and hurriedly sent it to the capital for 800 miles.

At the same time, on the open sea, more than a dozen warships flying the British flag appeared on the southern ocean, this is the British Far East Fleet, a total of 13 new warships launched in the past two years, each of which is nearly 80 meters long and 20 meters wide, the ships are mainly wooden, and the hull is inlaid with thick iron sheets. During this period, the Western navy was still dominated by warships covered with thick iron sheets, and the all-steel warships were still under construction, and the sea was still dominated by wooden warships.

The British Far East Fleet sailed from India and carried 5,000 British troops and 8,000 Indian soldiers, accounting for one-third of the British forces in the Far East.

Since the East India Company that colonized India was canceled by the British, India was completely reduced to a British colony, in order to suppress the Indian rebellion, the British have always maintained a high military strength in India, and in order to make up for the shortcomings of the British army, the British began to recruit a large number of Indians as soldiers. India has a large population, life is difficult, being a soldier is a way for Indians to live, although the strength of Indian soldiers is not strong, but there is an invincible British army, Indian soldiers are fighting smoothly, and they can still be stationed in a place.

The British warship appeared on the surface of the sea and was immediately spotted by General Steveli, who was stationed in Jinshan County, and he had people take small boats to intercept the British fleet and guide it to land from Jinshan County.

Soon, the British troops on the ship entered Jinshan County with weapons, and joined the coalition army of General Steveli, with 6,000 remnants of the army and 13,000 Anglo-Indian troops, with a total strength of nearly 20,000 troops.

Now they have 7,000 British troops, 8,000 Indian troops and 4,000 Huai troops under their command, and their combat effectiveness absolutely exceeds that of the enemy.

The Anglo-French forces were drawn again, and with the weapons and ammunition replenishment of the British naval fleet, their momentum swelled again, especially the Huai army, which had been expanded to nearly forty battalions before, but was lost thirty by the Wehrmacht in World War I, and the ten battalions that were reorganized were not yet formed, and the number of people in the small Jinshan County was too small to replenish many people at all.

Shanghai, Shanghai, take Shanghai, weapons and equipment and military resources will be guaranteed.