(2nd Update)

Of course, Ye Kai will not be as unmeasured as Shen Shoukun thought, with the current strength of the Chinese Navy, even if he gambles on all the belongings of the Jiang Defense Fleet, he will not be able to stop a British Far East Fleet, not to mention the warships mixed with the French. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Good Governor, the British and French ships are heading to the shore, and we can't catch up." Standing beside Ye Kai, captain Cheng Biguang reported to him with a telescope.

In the field of vision, the warships of the British and French fleets have already sailed in the direction of the coastal water, and it seems that they are going to land at the concession wharf, and in Ye Kai's mixed fleet, except for the Haiqi, which has a speed of 24 knots, the other old ships generally only have a speed of more than a dozen knots, and this kind of technical generation difference cannot be made up in any case.

"It seems that the foreigners are going to land in Shanghai and resolve this conflict by force."

Ye Kai shook his head and expressed his pessimistic view to Cheng Biguang, and at the same time he also noticed that there were no troop carriers in the British and French fleets, which means that the number of troops transported at one time would not exceed 3,000, so it was basically certain that this invasion was a demonstrative landing, in order to put pressure on the Chinese government, but even so, it had touched Ye Kai's bottom line.

"Good Governor, what should we do now? If we let the foreigner's ship go ashore, it will be very disadvantageous to us! Tang Qianming took a step forward and said to Ye Kai.

Ye Kai is clear about this reason, but now he has no better way, the matter is so big, Beijing should have been informed, maybe at this time, Yi - Liang Zheng sent people to fight with foreigners in Dongjiaomin Lane.

"Back in Hong Kong, they want to land, let's follow, it's a big deal, let's fight him in a street fight!"

Ye Kai's words really boosted morale, even the Governor took the lead, and their group of sailors were naturally brave and fearless, their lives were still in Jingui, could they still have the Jin Gui of the Governor.

"Full speed back!"

Cheng Biguang gave the order, and the herald issued a flag to the ships behind him to return to Hong Kong.

Ye Kai didn't go back to the cabin to rest, he stood on the bridge, looking at the traces of the British and French fleets from afar, and slowly remembered the conflict just now, and now he still has some lingering palpitations. At that time, the two British ships rushed at him at full speed, relying on the advantage in speed to press forward step by step, until the last moment to leave with the right rudder full, the two passed by, and the nearest point was less than ten meters, and almost the double main gun hole on the British armored cruiser could be seen.

Only this time, the British figured out the strength of Ye Kai's fleet, most of which belonged to the old ships of the last century, and while the British mocked these old antiques, they showed off the piloting skills of the British Navy in front of Ye Kai.

In contrast, Ye Kai's response was a little weaker, he ordered someone to turn the direction of the main gun to warn, of course, the result was not painful, the British and French fleets turned on full horsepower and left straight away, and Ye Kai naturally would not really hit a giant ship like the Soviet Navy in the future.

The confrontation between the two is inseparable.

However, this scorching spark has also spread to the whole of China.

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After hearing the news that the foreigner's warship had arrived in Shanghai, Yi was almost furious, he urgently summoned the Minister of the Navy, and ordered him to immediately telegraph to the Jiangfang Fleet, don't go wrong, if the foreigner wants to land, he will land, and the central government will deal with it, of course, his pace is one step slower, Ye Kai has already led the ship to sea.

Immediately afterwards, Yi Xuan mobilized all the personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from the minister, the deputy minister, to the counselors in charge of various countries, in short, he went to the British and French legations to spy on intelligence, however, the response he received was all unaware, obviously this was embarrassing Yi Xuan.

When asked why he sent warships into China, British Ambassador Zhu Erdian's answer was quite mysterious, "I think some officials of the Chinese government need to cool down well, and it just so happens that the cold water bath is good, which is more than 100,000 tons." ”

The British and the French are not easy to provoke, if there is another Gengzi change, the Qing Kingdom will not be finished immediately, and he, the prime minister of the cabinet, will not step down, for the sake of the future, is to calm the anger of the British and French as soon as possible, and calm the people.

"The British said how can they withdraw if they don't?" Yi-Liang asked Liang Dunyan, but the latter had a closed door at Zhu Erdian's place.

"Zhu Erdian pretended to be confused, saying that this was a decision made by the British mainland, and he, the ambassador to China, did not know about it."

"Humph! Old fox! ”

Zhu Erdian has been an ambassador in China for more than ten years, with a high position and a wide range of connections, how could the British government not inform him of such a big matter, maybe this is the armed demonstration he requested.

"The French?"

"Ma Shili said that there was a 'law and order crisis' in the concession a few days ago, and they sent troops this time to simply protect the expatriate."

"It's all a pretext!"

"By the way, you just said 'law and order crisis', what kind of law and order crisis?"

"Mashley said that the governor of Shanghai had arrested several French merchants, and that he seemed to have crept into the concession and kidnapped a few Chinese who had broken the law, and they said that this was completely intolerable, and that if the Chinese government could not solve such abuses, they would have to send their own people to protect them."

"The Governor of Shanghai? Liangbi? It's this good guy again! Yi-Xuan slapped the table hard, "He is deliberately unable to get along with the old man!" ”

Yi-劻 was like being lit, trembling all over, since this Liangbi arrived in Jiangnan, he either reached out to ask for money, or the idea of beating foreigners, what did he want to do, could it be that this was to take revenge on the old man?

What a woe this man is!

"And the prime minister, the Russians, the Japanese, also said that they would send warships to Shanghai to protect their expatriates." Liang Dunyan continued.

"They're taking advantage of people's danger..."

Yi Xuan no longer had the strength to shout at this moment, and he sat in his seat depressedly.

"If you don't get rid of it, anything may come out."

Yi Qian waved his hand tiredly, and finally instructed Liang Dunyan: "You go and tell the British, the French, as long as they withdraw their troops, they will agree to any conditions." (To be continued.) )