It should be said that it is a large watermelon, which is only a little smaller than a bucket, and there is an iron anchor with a handle led by a thin iron chain of a certain length. This is the gift that Liang Pengfei prepared for those British: mines.

Liang Pengfei is well aware of the strength of this British colonial fleet, although Liang Pengfei has the confidence and ability to defeat this British East India Company's colonial fleet with his own fleet, but he will definitely pay a great price.

An important point is that these excellent warships, in the course of the battle, will definitely lose a lot, and Liang Pengfei is the last thing he wants to see is precisely this, in his mind, even if all the British on these battleships die, it doesn't matter, but the battleships are best preserved intact.

Since a frontal battle will cause great losses, and besides, these British navies are indeed the best navy in the world in this era, if they really want to escape for their lives, I am afraid that there will really be a lot of fish that slip through the net.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Liang Pengfei was planning how to receive this huge British colonial fleet as much as possible, of course, this difficulty coefficient is indeed a bit good.

But fortunately, Master Liang, who has always liked to play intrigue and tricks, has a bad stomach, and has been thinking about how to pay the least price and occupy the most appropriate place after a long period of consideration, he gritted his teeth and decided to temporarily suspend the construction of Kowloon Bay, the old Liang family fleet base under construction, and set it as the main battlefield to clean up the British colonial fleet.

First, through intelligence, Liang Pengfei already knew that the British had coveted these for a long time, and it seemed that whether it was at this time or in another time and space, the British Yankees' desire for Hong Kong Island seemed to be so obsessive.

Second, after the victory of the British, they will certainly not immediately pat their butts and leave, and finally bite a piece of fat from this huge empire that they have been in awe for many years, even if they don't eat it, they have to pounce on it and lick it and smell it.

Third, the successful development of mines made Liang Pengfei's plan more perfect, and there was no need to arrange a large number of batteries to block one end and one end of Kowloon Bay, which was very likely to arouse the vigilance of the British, and even let these British fleets escape as a result.

There is no need for Liang Pengfei to use the fleet to block the two exits of Kowloon Bay, in that case, there will still be a lot of battles and soldiers, in Liang Pengfei's eyes, the surnames of those pirates and soldiers who have been in battle for a long time are very precious.

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It is important that the laying of mines is very simple, as long as the depth of the water can be measured in advance and the length of the thin chain between the anchor and the mine can be determined, as long as it is a short time, it is enough to completely block the two exits of Kowloon Bay with mines.

And no matter how powerful the British battleships are, no matter how good the British sailors are, they can't tread water and carry the battleship across the two exits blocked by mines, right?

The battleship is blocked in it, unless these Britons are all living Lei Feng, well, no, all of them are Wang Cheng in "Children of Heroes", who has the courage and determination to die with the enemy. Then, in the end, all Liang Pengfei could get in this Kowloon Bay was a pile of broken wooden planks.

However, judging from the history of Western wars, Westerners never rush to kill, nor do they have the courage to kill, at least Liang Pengfei has learned a lot of examples of Western naval warfare from the mouths of those Westerners, whether it is the naval battle between the Spanish Armada and the British, or the naval battle between the Dutch and the British.

Generally, after the other party has an advantage and the other side has no possibility of winning, it will choose to surrender very wisely, and it is for this reason that Liang Pengfei was able to capture so many warships and prisoners of war in the first battle of King Crab Island.

Therefore, after the research, analysis and deduction of Liang Pengfei and his subordinates who were overflowing with bad water, they came up with an almost perfect battle plan, and the code name of the battle plan was Please Jun into the urn.

The reason why it is called almost perfect is that the British colonial fleet was divided before entering the Kowloon Bay Lei Yue Mun, and a detachment of five warships had to bypass Hong Kong Island and enter Kowloon Bay through the other entrance to Kowloon Bay.

The reason for the demonstration to the pirates entrenched in this area, to announce to the Qing pirates that this place will become a colony of the British Empire, and our fleet is so good, you guys had better stay away, or else, you will be killed, wounded, and crippled.

However, this small regret could not stop Liang Pengfei's inner happiness, after all, the main force of the British colonial fleet had completely drilled into the pocket, and as for the detachment composed of five three-masted warships, it really did not pose any threat to Liang Pengfei, unless the number was increased tenfold.

And Liang Pengfei and his entourage stood on the top of the Guanyin Mountain and observed the every move of the British colonial fleet, and waited until the main force of the British colonial fleet drove into Kowloon Bay, and the detachment turned a corner, and went straight around the Shuangsimen waterway between Goujizhou and Naluozhou, Liang Pengfei nodded to Monk Chen beside him. "Let's get moving."

Kowloon Bay was about twenty miles long, and the speed of the entire British fleet gradually slowed down after entering the waterway, because they needed to see more about the harbor that would become their garrison in the future. Soon, however, a three-masted battleship at the forefront spotted an anomaly on the shore.

"General, the lookout in front of you has spotted a shipyard on the north side of George III Bay." The first mate hurriedly ran up to the rear tower and then pointed out to Major General Ford, who was chatting happily with Liang Sanhuai, Macartney and others, pointing out the scenery on both sides of the strait.

"Shipyard?" Rear Admiral Ford glanced at the first mate with some astonishment, and then laughed: "Interesting, who would build the shipyard here, could it be those pirates?" ”

"It should be, this is the area most frequented by Qing pirates, and this is also a forbidden area for the Qing navy, because they are afraid of encountering pirates from their own country and being wiped out by pirates." Staunton, the head of the East India Company, who frequented Canton and Macau, immediately came to his conclusion. After so many years of observation, he knows very well how useless the country's navy is, otherwise, he would not have become a radical main battle faction.

"General, there was a signal from the rear team, just now we passed by the Liyumen, we found a large number of small boats dispatched, look at the clothes and equipment on those people, it should be the pirates of the Qing Kingdom, they are throwing something into the sea, it seems to be a round black iron ball." Before Rear Admiral Ford could order the battleship to speed up and take a look at the shipbuilding stone, the news from the transports at the rear of the fleet made Rear Admiral Ford and the others stunned.

"Lost something?" Major General Ford was really confused. "Black Iron Ball?"

"Yes General, I don't know what it is, but it seems a little bit unpleasant, they dropped it almost all over the waterways of Lei Yue Mun."

"Tell Lieutenant Colonel Green to see what those Qing pirates are up to, throwing black iron balls, do they think they can use that kind of thing to block the entire waterway and make us unable to advance or retreat?" Major General Ford gave the order with his hands behind his back and looking to the east.

Soon, when the order reached Lieutenant Commander Green's battleship, which was located at the rear of the fleet, Lieutenant Commander Green immediately made his battleship make a beautiful white foaming arc on the blue sea, and sailed towards the carp gate.

"Quick, quicker, brothers, there are still two hundred steps to go, finish laying this place, and we can call it a day." Mo Guanfu, who was standing on the bow of the ship with a telescope and observing the movement of the British colonial fleet, saw that a warship was heading towards this side, and received the telescope unhurriedly, and shouted loudly at his subordinates.

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The sailors on the ship were quickly pushing the mines down the slope of the wooden planks into the sea, splashing one after another, like the white lotus flowers blooming in the blue water.

"What the hell are these Qing pirates doing?" Lieutenant Colonel Green's head was also full of mush, and he really didn't understand what kind of nerves these Qing pirates had, even if they saw that their battleship had turned around and opened towards the carp gate, they were still throwing that kind of black iron ball into the sea.

"Captain, did we fire a cannon to warn these Qing people?" The first mate, who was standing nearby, made a suggestion to Lieutenant Colonel Green.

"No, their ship is too small, and it is very fast, we only have two guns in the bow, there is no way to aim at this distance, besides, until you don't know the intentions of the other party, don't rush to use force first, remember, this is already the land and harbor of our British Empire, we must maintain our gentlemanly demeanor, don't scare those guys away, otherwise, it will be difficult for us to recruit enough laborers from here, although the Indian labor is also very favorable, but after thousands of miles of sailing, It's not an easy thing to do. Green explained, shaking his head.

At this time, the clippers of the Qing pirates, who had already completed the mine-laying mission, quickly turned and fled to the east when Lieutenant Colonel Green's battleship approached less than a mile from Liyumen.

"Sail, speed up, catch these hateful cowards, we can't just do nothing and just go back and tell the general that nothing has happened here." Lieutenant Colonel Green made the actions of these Qing pirates angry, and patted the side of the ship and gave the order loudly.

The white sails were blown up by the strong sea breeze, the battleship increased its speed again, the bow of the ship was like a sharp guillotine, cutting the waves again and again, Lieutenant Colonel Green faced the sea breeze, thinking about how long it would take to approach the clippers of those Qing pirates, when he heard a collision sound reached his ears, and before he could make any reaction, he heard a roar like a muffled thunder under his feet, and then he saw the front of his battleship suddenly rise high, It's like encountering a tsunami wave that pushes you head-on......

(To be continued)