Chapter 362: Combined Fleet?!
Almost every piece of sail was no longer complete, and one mast after another slowly toppled onto the deck with an unpleasant wooden cracking sound, and the chain balls stirred up a storm of blood between the decks of the battleship, and by the time they struggled to turn, two more battleships had completely lost power, and the remaining two were desperate to find that a large number of speedboats were pouring out from behind the reef of Jute Point, like the most terrible and cruel soldiers in the Amazon jungle.
Fearlessly, they chased after the wounded beast, gnawing at their solid skin, muscles, veins, and even internal organs until they were a dead skeleton with no signs of life.
It took only a very short time, and even many British Royal Navy soldiers died before they could figure out who their opponent was, and in a short, less than half an hour, the detachment was completely defenseless, and the commander could only stand on the tail tower under the protection of the soldiers, waving a white silk scarf in horror to signal that they were willing to surrender.
"Leave enough manpower to put those British prisoners of war in Lao Tzu's custody, and pull all those battleships to the beach for me first, it would be a pity to save it from sinking. The other warships immediately headed for Liyumen. Standing on the stern of the flagship Black Shark, Shi Xianggu, who observed the other party's request to surrender, the corners of her mouth curled lightly, and she gave an order to the queen guard beside her.
Today, she is wearing the beautiful navy uniform designed by Liang Pengfei, which makes her look more British. The cloud-like green silk was tucked into the brim of the hat, but could not hide her beautiful style, and soon the main fleet of thirty three-masted warships left the bay of Jute Horn and drove straight towards the carp gate.
At the other end of Kowloon Bay, the rapid water gate had already been mine-laid after receiving the signal, and Chen Tianbao also led a fleet of similar numbers to Shi Xianggu's side, and stood firm outside the rapid water gate.
Listening to the abrupt sound of the cannon, Chen Tianbao let out a long sigh, it seemed that the other party had let Shi Xianggu clean up, and he could only continue to be in a daze here.
However, although he was in a daze, Chen Tianbao was still very satisfied with the place where he was in a daze, because he was on another third-class warship, the Red Shark, which was his flagship, wearing the tall and tall naval uniform, standing on this tall and majestic battleship, Chen Tianbao felt that even being in a daze on it was a kind of happiness.
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Yes, although Chen Thiam Bao was forced to join the piracy business at the beginning, after all, he is an excellent person with a very sense of responsibility, adhering to the principle of doing one line of work and loving one line, and soon became an excellent pirate leader from a small soldier, and later became a national civil servant who could get a allowance and did not need to do it himself.
However, he had already fallen in love with the feeling of driving a battleship and fighting on that sea, but he never dreamed that he would leave Annan, who originally wanted to live for the rest of his life, and returned to the Qing Dynasty, and became Liang Pengfei's subordinate, acting as a horse boy for this young man who was nearly thirty years younger.
This official who is dressed in the skin of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, is calculating the Manchu Qing court all day long, and it doesn't seem to be eye-catching on the surface, but in fact, his current power has included the entire Nanyang, and even Annan is already under his control.
What's more, Liang Pengfei actually continuously crippled those Western countries that occupied Nanyang and had a lot of strength, and even played those ruthless and cunning Westerners around, and the important thing is that he has been very persistent and moving towards his predetermined direction.
Before Chen Tianbao became a pirate, his only ideal was to be able to eat a full meal and have meat every day, but when he became a pirate, what he longed for was to have a peaceful nest and not be afraid all the time.
Later, after being appreciated and reused by Nguyen Van Hue, his state of mind also changed, and he longed to leave a mark in the history books of Annam, recording his great name as a Qing Chinese.
And now, Chen Tianbao found that he might become an anti-Qing Dynasty and restore vision, uh, no, Young Master Liang has never been interested in restoring vision, it should be said: "In order to restore the glory of the Chinese nation, for our nation to rise again as the top of the world's nations, even if we use our own blood and even our lives to sprinkle on this land that has nurtured and continued the Chinese civilization for thousands of years, we are willing to eat." Because, history will remember our name, and the whole world will tremble because of our strength, and we are the masters of this world! ”
The above words are what Liang Pengfei has said on many occasions, and every time he thinks of these words, Chen Tianbao can't help but have an urge to draw a knife and howl, yes, this is indeed very inflammatory, but it is undeniable that in the heart of every Chinese man, why does not have such desire and ambition?
"Brother Tim, what are you thinking?" At this time, someone walked to Chen Tianbao's side and pulled him back from his state of daze, Chen Tianbao tilted his face, and couldn't help but smile after seeing the person who came: "Brother Wencaixian, why did you come to me, don't stay on your battleship." ”
"Hehe, idle is idle, just come to this Red Shark to take a look, this kind of battleship, I really didn't expect it, we will have it too." Fan Wencai, who was also dressed in a straight military uniform, smiled and patted the envy on the side of the ship: "Brother Tianbao, if we had a warship like the Red Shark in the past, I am afraid that we would be able to go anywhere in the world." ”
Hearing this, Chen Tianbao couldn't help laughing: "You kid, what's the matter, you still want to be a pirate?" ”
"Hehe, pirates, we're not pirates now, we're regular troops." Fan Wencai straightened up his military hat, with a proud and complacent face. However, Xuan Ji said a little frustratedly: "I don't know what Liang Shao thinks, he actually let Brother Mo and them block both ends of this Kowloon Bay, now although those British can't escape, but we can't get in, and I don't know how long it will drag on before those British will surrender." The time has dragged on for too long, and when the time comes, the Qing court will know, and things will not be easy to handle. ”
"Don't worry, you don't want to think about it, since we followed our Lord Liang, when did we see that he would leave a loophole when he calculated others? Besides, the sea area around Humen Town originally belonged to his defense area, and besides, the matter of Yingyi's possession of Hong Kong Island has spread all over the world, and the sailors of Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang have all suffered a big loss under the hands of these British, do you think they will come here to slip away? Chen Tianbao smiled confidently.
"What's more, before the sailors said that their strength was not lost, they didn't dare to set foot in the area of Lantau Island, let alone here on Hong Kong Island, do they have the courage to do so now?"
Hearing Chen Tianbao's words, Fan Wencai couldn't help but subconsciously grinned: "If they really had that ability, they wouldn't have let us lead the Annan Navy Master to beat him into a shrunken turtle." ”
"Besides, on land, the adults have already made arrangements, and there are our reconnaissance ships all around Hong Kong Island for thirty nautical miles, and besides, because of this British ship, there are very few merchants who go to sea, so there is no need for us to hide at all. It's just that I don't know if these guys will come to our side to try to see if we can break out of this blockade. Chen Tianbao looked at the calm sea and smiled evilly.
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Disappointment, panic, sadness, anger, and a complex mood called the Trapped Beast cast a dark shadow in the hearts of the entire members of the British Imperial fleet.
"These despicable and shameless fellows have trapped our fleet in such a way, can't they fight us face to face like knights?" Staunton was like a trapped beast in a cage at the moment, and his anger was hard to suppress.
Yes, it's not just him, almost everyone is like him, just not as exposed as he is. Rear Admiral Ford's fingers tapped on the table, and through the porthole of the cabin, Rear Admiral Ford could see the sea in the distance and the sails fluttering high in the distance.
Battleships, many of them, and most of them were Western warships, and there were battleships similar to the Lion, and according to the reports of the soldiers on the fast gunboats who had reconnoitred in the direction of the Rapid Water Gate, there was also a fleet that was almost the same in quantity and quality as the fleet blocking the Liyu Gate.
In this way, two huge fleets, one after the other, completely blocked the fleet of the British Empire in George III Bay. However, if the other side only uses warships to blockade, Rear Admiral Ford believes that with the combat effectiveness of the excellent naval soldiers of the British Empire, he will be able to break through the blockade of the other side, of course, this will definitely pay a certain price.
But the problem is that, in addition to the fleet that blocked the two exits, the black iron ball that was thrown into the sea by the Qing pirates was what made Rear Admiral Ford feel constrained and unable to move an inch.
"I really didn't expect that these people would have such terrible defensive weapons, if we were attacking Humen, Guangdong, or attacking Zhenjiang, an important town on the Yangtze River, the other party had such sharp defensive weapons, we would not have achieved today's results." Macartney rubbed his brow, his expression very complicated, after the excitement of the sleepless night last night had been crushed by the weapon tentatively named a mine, Macartney felt extremely tired.
"Could it be a conspiracy of the Qing people?" Colonel Henry, as always, was stupid. No one was willing to answer his question, or such a stupid question that no one was in the mood to explain to him at this time.
"What can be concluded at the moment is that this is a combined fleet of Spaniards and Dutch, and their characteristic warship style can be seen at a glance." Rear Admiral Ford, who had long dealt with the old rivals of the sea, Spain and the Netherlands, knocked on the table again, and after attracting everyone's attention, Rear Admiral Ford expressed his reasoning.
(To be continued)