Dinghai County is located on the shore of the Yangtze River estuary, hundreds of islands are scattered around, located in the middle of the Chinese coast, the sea distance is just located in the middle of Hong Kong and Beijing, the surrounding is close to the Yangtze River estuary, Hangzhou Bay Canal Estuary and other navigable large river estuary, the sea traffic is developed, the strategic location is very important.

The Anglo-French forces urgently needed a springboard for attacking Shanghai and a supply depot for attacking Beijing, and the most suitable place to set up a headquarters was Dinghai.

Therefore, since 1840, the British have repeatedly launched attacks on Dinghai County, showing a strong coveting of the islands around Dinghai County.

This time it was still the case, 200,000 British and French troops were divided into two groups, and the first batch of 50,000 troops arrived in the Mopanyang sea area under the escort of the British and French combined fleet, preparing to launch an attack on Dinghai County.

The British army captured Dinghai County many times, and was extremely familiar with the waterways and mountainous terrain around Dinghai County, but this time the British army leading the way miscalculated, accompanied by a violent underwater explosion, a British Royal Navy frigate was sunk, and more than 100 British troops in the cabin were drowned before they had time to escape.

"What's going on?"

Jimmy, the commander of the British advance fleet, shouted that the inexplicable sinking of two frigates was enough to put him on his back a big punishment, and his military career might be over.

"Major, it seems to be an underwater bomb! Just now our warship hit them and immediately exploded! ”

"What?"

"How can there be a bomb underwater? What an international joke. ”

Jimmy suddenly felt that his brain was a little insufficient, because he had never seen underwater bombs and thought it was incredible.

At this time, a sailor on Jimmy's battleship shouted: "Major, come and see, what is in this water?" ”

A group of British sailors gathered on the port side of the ship, staring at a large black spherical shadow in the water, curiously analyzing what it was.

Jimmy walked over and saw that there was indeed a spherical object in the sea. It was black and covered with long thorns, like a curled hedgehog, provided of course that the hedgehog could swim in the sea.

"It's a sea monster!"

"Leave it alone, beware of the Kraken going berserk and eating you!"

Jimmy didn't care what the monster in the sea was, he just wanted to know how the warship was sunk by the bombing, and the reasonable explanation was that it was sunk by the Shanghai army's shore defense shells, but he didn't hear the Shanghai army's artillery before the explosion, and the Shanghai army's artillery couldn't hit so far, and there were still more than a dozen nautical miles from the shore.

What the hell is going on!

Jimmy was torn.

Soon. The surviving British sailors on the British ship that were sunk by the explosion were rescued one after another, and Jimmy immediately interrogated them.

Until a British sailor said in fear: "Major, I don't know what's going on, but at the moment of the explosion, I once heard someone shouting that they were going to hit a sea monster." ”

"Sea monsters? Could it be the black ball covered in thorns? ”

Jimmy instantly remembered that his crew had just discovered the sea monster, and he subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction where the sea monster was, only to see a few fucking British soldiers holding long poles excitedly stabbing the sea monster, and some of them had to shoot at it.

"No, stop it!"

Jimmy shouted, but it was a second too late.

There was a loud bang of "pong". The "sea monster" exploded by itself, instantly stirring up a huge wave more than ten meters high.

The explosion fragments pierced the hull of the ship, and more than a dozen British sailors who were still watching the "sea monster" just now were all swept away by the air wave and fell freely everywhere.

The British soldiers and sailors on the deck were also shaken to the ground at the moment of the explosion. Many people were injured by the bump, and even Jimmy didn't stand firm and fell, touching a big red envelope on his forehead.

"Damn it! Protect the battleship! Medic! ”

Jimmy got up and cursed. He ordered someone to repair the damaged part of the battleship and called in medical guards to rescue the wounded, and he understood the truth of the matter. The sea monster was not a sea monster, because the water column caused by the explosion was black, which was clearly caused by the fact that the medicine did not explode sufficiently.

"Casualties and damage reports!"

"Seven dead, eleven seriously injured!"

"The hull of the ship was heavily damaged, and three holes were broken, but fortunately, the explosion of the sea monster was not very powerful, and we can repair the ship before it sinks!"

Hearing that the ship was fine, Jimmy suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not that the explosion power of the sea monster is not enough, but we took the initiative to detonate the sea monster, if our battleship collides with it like the previous Haina, our ship will be finished." ”

The soldier asked, "Major, what kind of sea monster is this?" Why did it explode? ”

Jimmy suddenly smiled bitterly: "That's not a sea monster, it's a bomb installed by the enemy in the sea, specifically to bomb our warship!" ”

"Is it really an underwater bomb?"

"Even we don't have this kind of technology, how can the enemy have?"

"What can I do? The enemy has underwater charges, then our battleships are in danger! ”

"Oh my God, I don't want to die!"

The British troops on the ship were in an uproar, and one by one they complained.

"Shut up! Many of you have experienced the Crimean War, the Russians invented the anchor radium, once blew up Turkish warships, I think since the Russians can invent the anchor radium that explodes underwater, then it is not surprising that the Qing people invented this underwater bomb, we have defeated the Russians, so we can also defeat the Qing, we can defeat the Qing people once, we can defeat them twice, or even more, the British Empire is invincible! ”

"Invincible!"

"Invincible!"

Encouraged by Jimmy, the British sailors regained their self-confidence, and under Jimmy's calm command, they abandoned their sails and used the smallest horsepower steam engine to push forward, reducing the speed to a minimum, and at the same time sending small boats to open the way in front of them, paying attention to the "bombs" in the seawater.

At the same time, Jimmy also sent a small boat back to report the situation to the coalition fleet.

Ergin and Glo were discussing the military situation on the flagship, waiting for Jimmy's advance reconnaissance fleet to bring back defensive information about the perimeter of Dinghai, because the previous "spy operation" led to the arrest of British and French spies in Dinghai, and the information could not be sent to the coalition headquarters in time, so they had to send a small fleet to "test the firepower".

However, Jimmy's men brought back bad news, which shocked the coalition command.

"Underwater bombs?"

"What's the joke? It's not April Fool's Day! ”

"Four years ago, the Russians successfully developed electrolytic trigger water radium, which sank a number of Turkish warships, and our British Empire warships were almost hit. I think that's what Jimmy and they came across. I just don't know how the Hu army got this thing! ”

"That's not good! At that time, the Russians installed anchor radium everywhere in the harbor, so that our warships did not dare to approach and launch an attack, and if the Shanghai army also deployed a large number of such similar weapons in the coastal areas, it would be a great threat to our fleet! ”

"What is the intelligence for? Why didn't we get this news at all? ”

Inside the headquarters, the coalition commanders roared.

"Enough, a few anchor radiums will scare you like this, and you will throw the face of the empire into you!"

Ergin roared, well hiding the nervousness and uneasiness in his heart, in fact he was more worried than anyone else, as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. If he loses this war, he will not be able to eat and walk around. The arsenal was bombed and the grain was burned, forcing Ergin to adopt the tactics of a quick battle, but at this time it ran into the anchor radium, and if the fleet could not get close to the coast for artillery support, then the greatest military advantage of the coalition forces would be lost.

"It's too early to say that, wait for Jimmy's news to come back," Glo said. But we'd better call the weapons experts to discuss what to do and see how we can get rid of these anchor lei hidden in the water. ”

Ergin immediately agreed: "That's right. As long as we have a way to deal with Anchor Radium, then don't worry! ”

Here, the coalition command gathered a large number of munitions experts and began to study the anchor radium, and Jimmy on the other side was also carefully avoiding the water radium in the sea. A little closer to Dinghai Island.

On Luotou Mountain, an outer island of Dinghai Island, a reconnaissance platoon from the 29th Brigade of the 15th Town of the Shanghai Army was lurking here, secretly monitoring the British fleet.

"Platoon commander, the warship of the foreign devils has found another water radium for us!"

". This water radium who laid it was so easy to be discovered! ”

The platoon commander immediately complained, and the other fighters in the platoon looked at the other two. At first glance, these two men looked no different from the others, both wearing army green uniforms, except for their yellow epaulettes, which belonged to the sapper army.

I saw that the faces of these two little sappers suddenly darkened, and they were scolded by others for having problems with the water radium they had laid out, so naturally they would not have a good face.

At this time, the platoon commander observed through the binoculars that the enemy had sent a large number of small boats carrying British soldiers to explore the way in front.

Since the depth of the anchor radium of the Shanghai army is only about five to eight meters, as long as the light on the sea surface is good, the position of the anchor radium can be easily seen on the sea surface. (PS: The sea water in this era is not polluted, it is a blue drop of tile blue wa, crystal clear O(∩_∩)O...... ）

"No, the foreign devils saw the mines at a glance, how can this blow them up?"

"You two, go and make the water radium in the back deeper, and save it for these foreign devils to find out!"

The platoon commander ordered, and this was the response he thought of.

However, the two little sappers snorted coldly, unmoved.

Seeing this, the platoon commander immediately became angry and shouted: "I said that you two want to disobey the order, how can you drop?" ”

One of the little sappers pouted: "Don't pretend to understand if you don't understand!" Do you take the radium a little deeper? Can you still blow up the ship of foreign devils? ”

The platoon commander was stunned and asked rhetorically: "What's the matter, no!" ”

Another little sapper snorted coldly and explained: "The ship has a draft, and the water radium lifting device is detonated by hitting the bottom of the ship. Among the foreigners' battleships, the largest first-class battleship has a draft of more than 8 meters, and the draft of ordinary frigates is much shallower, and if the depth is lowered further, it will not be able to explode! ”

The platoon commander also went to night school, don't look at him, he doesn't understand the inner workings of radium, but he understands it to the effect, and knows that radium is detonated by hitting the bottom of the ship.

He coughed twice in embarrassment, then turned away from speaking.

The other fighters saw that their platoon commander was deflated, and they forced a smile one by one.

Seeing this, the platoon commander felt that he couldn't get off the stage, so he immediately poured his anger on them.

"Damn, Lao Tzu is trying to find a way, but you are watching the excitement, all for Lao Tzu to find a way, if you let the foreign devils get close to Dinghai so easily, you don't have to wait for the company commander and brigade commander to clean me up, Lao Tzu will fix you one by one first!"

What a calamity!

The soldiers of the whole platoon were suddenly hard, and they hurriedly began to think of a way one by one.

There is great strength in numbers, and the flame is high in the crowd collecting firewood.

Soon one of the soldiers thought of a more reliable way, he said: "Platoon commander, the foreigners' boats don't dare to hit our water radium, then I think we might as well let the water radium blow them up!" ”

The platoon commander's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "It's a little interesting, keep talking!" ”

The soldier suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "Platoon commander, I mean that as long as the foreigner's ship is close to the position of the water radium, we will take the initiative to detonate the water radium." ”

"How did you detonate it?"

"That's not easy, isn't there a sniper in our platoon? Shoot the water radium! ”

"Also, our snipers can hit the enemy's head at a distance of two hundred meters, and the water radium block is like a grinding disc, so it should hit it!"

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

The platoon commander rolled his eyes in anger and slapped several fighters with ideas on the head one by one.

He looked like he hated iron but not steel, and reprimanded angrily: "Your bullets can shoot seven or eight meters underwater? Eater! It's all rice buckets! Usually let you read more, mothers know how to eat, know how to sleep! ”

"Platoon commander, you can't blame us for this! We also want to read, but we get sleepy when we read them! ”

"That's right! Platoon commander, let's just be a soldier and shoot guns, those books are all that should be learned as an officer, and we are not officials, so learn from him! ”

The platoon commander was speechless, as if a ferocious punch suddenly hit the air, which was called a sense of powerlessness.

"By the way, how did the anchor radium stay in the water?"

The little sapper replied: "There must be air inside the anchor radium, otherwise the poison will not be able to explode if it does not burn." We calculate the size of the reserved air based on the explosive yield of the anchor radium......"

"Stop!" The platoon commander hurriedly stopped: "I know that you sappers are powerful, so you don't need to show off those professional terms, we don't understand, you just tell me if the anchor can move in the water?" ”

The little sapper had one less chance to show off his knowledge and show off his strength, and he was a little unwilling, but he still answered the platoon commander's question.

"Of course, the reason why the anchor radium is called anchor radium is because there is an iron anchor hanging under the mine, and the anchor radium is fixed to prevent it from moving, as long as the iron anchor is lifted, it can move in the water. Of course, if you are in a sea area with ocean currents, if you don't anchor, it will become a drifting radium, because the drifting radium can drift everywhere with the ocean current. ”

The platoon commander didn't listen to the rambling words of the little sapper at all, and he suddenly asked: "Is it feasible for us to hit the battleship of foreign devils with a rope pulling the anchor radium?" ”

The little sapper thought for a while, nodded and said: "It is theoretically feasible, but the rope must be long enough, at least thirty meters, if it is short, the anchor radium will explode, and the warrior in the water will be injured or even killed." ”

"No problem, that's it! Didn't the foreign devils hide from our radium, then we will take the initiative to send it to them and blow them up! ”

The platoon commander set a plan of action, and the fighters quickly began to prepare, and then began to operate.

With the cooperation of two engineers, three water-based fighters dived into the sea and slammed into the British fleet with a water radium each through a long rope.

Because the British army was worried about running into water radium, the speed was very slow and slow, which gave the three Shanghai soldiers an opportunity.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

With three loud bangs, Jimmy's advance reconnaissance fleet lost three frigates again.

Jimmy, who had only six frigates in total, had now lost four, which made him collapse.

"Retreat!" (To be continued......)