In the early morning, the wharf of Guangzhou Port was full of noisy people, and the fishing boats that did not stop at the shore carried baskets and baskets of fish and shrimp ashore, Lin Haijiang knew that this was the harvest of those fishermen who drifted all night with lights on, although those fishermen looked very tired, but their fatigue was mixed with joy, or the vision of the future life was more appropriate.

However, Lin Haijiang also knows that the five surnames of this fisherman's family are all giant bandits in the South China Sea, and the Guangdong sailors have suffered big losses several times in the levies, and they are all happy by deceiving the superiors and subordinates.

After Lin Haijiang, who boarded the Zhenyuan ship, returned to the Daya Bay wharf, he immediately ordered the leaders of the six battalions to send 100 soldiers each to prepare to participate in the sea escort and eliminate the pirates on the route.

As soon as they heard that there was an action, almost all of the soldiers who were already screaming in the barracks bravely signed up first, except for these young men who had confidence in themselves and the foreign guns in their hands, because almost all of them believed that as long as they hit the pirates, Lord Lin's reward would definitely not be less, how could they let go of such a good opportunity?

Since the several batches of firearms ordered in Prussia had not yet arrived, Lin Haijiang's six battalions were trained with the guns on the original Taishan and Huashan ships, and five or six kinds of firearms, that is, ammunition, allowed Wang Dongxu to run more than a dozen foreign companies.

Lin Haijiang has always firmly believed in a truth, that is, sharpshooters are piled up with bullets, so the ammunition consumed by his six battalions for a month's training is the annual consumption of the entire Guangdong Navy Division and the Han Army, the Eight Banners, and the Green Battalion.

Lin Haijiang's entire financial resources are supported by the old port, and Lin Haijiang also wanted to show his skills in the South China Sea, but the situation in the South China Sea is extremely complicated, and the British Far East Fleet is located here, but now the situation is different, on October 20, 1853, a long-lasting and famous war broke out in Europe because of the struggle for control of the Balkan Peninsula, which Lin Haijiang had been waiting for a long time, the Crimean War.

In the war, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, the Free French Republic, the Kingdom of Sardinia and other countries successively declared war on Tsarist Russia, and the war will continue until 1856, and at this moment the main force of the British Far East Fleet has been drawn nearly sixty percent, and the British Far East Fleet, which has been rampant between Singapore and Hong Kong, has retracted to Hong Kong because it has not yet established a fortress in Singapore.

This also caused pirates to flock to all the routes from the Strait of Malacca to the South China Sea, and the plundering ships of the British East India Company even appeared off Quanzhou? These pirates are unscrupulous and crazy on various routes, while also swallowing and tearing each other apart.

Everyone knows very well that if there is no interference from external forces, soon after the annexation and integration of pirate forces, there will inevitably be several giant bandits with unprecedented expansion in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea, and the pirate forces will be redivided, and the original mechanism that has been formed will be completely destroyed.

He sent a telegram to Lawrence, asking the Dingyuan, Taishan, and Huashan warships to join him in the South China Sea, and to bring all the trainee sailors and some marines, and Lin Haijiang to vigorously carry out a large-scale military training on an unprecedented scale.

For the so-called compradors of this era, in Lin Haijiang's view, it is tantamount to a way to make a living, people want their lives to be better, and it is necessary to pay sacrifices for this, but this kind of sacrifice cannot be defined as betraying the interests of the nation, people are dignified, no one is born willing to be a slave to others, and a slave is still a slave in glory, if he can defend his dignity, then I believe that no one will be willing to be a slave lackey, or even a Han anniversary, a traitor.

But the reality is often extremely cruel, when people are powerless to defend their dignity, some people choose to be unyielding, some people choose to be silent, and some people choose to become slaves, Han annihilation lackeys, traitors, maybe they are also excusable?

Lin Haijiang didn't know, and he didn't want to know, after all, heroes are always a very small number of people, and it is obviously unrealistic to ask everyone to have the determination to kill themselves, even the old Yuben Empire with a bite of 100 million jade in later generations, after surrendering, it is just that the two or three kittens who feel that they have committed heinous crimes and cannot be forgiven have committed suicide and martyrdom.

Rather than being hanged as a war criminal, it is better to solve yourself yourself, it seems that you can still be heroic, at least you can shout a few slogans! In Lin Haijiang's opinion, it is ridiculous.

For the development of the old port, Lin Haijiang has been committed to sending talents there, but unfortunately there are too few talents who meet his requirements, the Chinese people of this era are either ignorant, or holding the thick legs of the Qing Dynasty, and have become the lackeys of foreigners at the enlightened point, Lin Haijiang is very helpless, he is now very worried about who will command the fleet he bought back with a lot of money?

Although he had sent 300 students to study at the Prussian Naval Academy in Hamburg, could he quench his thirst? You can't rely on foreign devils as officers forever, right? After all, it is not my race, and its heart will be different.

In Guangzhou, Lin Haijiang used the means used by the traffickers to deceive and sell piglets to Jinshan, and recruited a large number of young people with good physical fitness, the only difference is that the recruitment of people in Delong Pavilion is 20 yuan of Yingyang settlement fee for Bai Huahua, and the salary of 2 yuan per month is paid by his designated family members in Delong Pavilion on a monthly basis.

Lin Haijiang looked at the selection mode that was like a martial arts talent, and the smiles on the faces of those who were selected, Lin Haijiang also smiled, because he knew that in the next six months, these fools might not have a chance to laugh.

According to his memory, Lin Haijiang copied a training syllabus for the later Chinese People's Liberation Army Marine Corps, which included three months of queues, military manners, basic training in individual tactics, and three months of boarding a ship, live ammunition shooting, assassination fighting, field survival training, and so on.

Lawrence and the three hundred and fifty corporal instructors who had completed all the courses were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their new toys, three thousand marines, Lin Haijiang was so excited that he almost lost sleep at the thought of having three thousand Haijiang marines in the future.

There is another person who has the same insomnia as Lin Haijiang, that is Lawrence, a natural sadist, or he is more suitable for the commander of the new branch of naval infantry, Lawrence does not have many friends in the old port, most of those Prussian army instructors are still learning Chinese with translators, and the Prussian technicians are studying and discussing in addition to their work every day.

An Englishman does not seem to have much in common with the Prussians, and Lawrence is no longer what it used to be, he is the de facto supreme commander and decision-maker of the Old Port, and he must usually show the air of a so-called governor, and personally go to the streets every day to inspect the law, with at least a few hundred guards behind him, and the pirates of the Old Port fear and hate Lawrence.

Some pirates had planned an attack on Lawrence, but they had to give up when they heard that there was an even more unnamed Oriental devil above Lawrence.

Under Lawrence's deliberate management, a Krupp cannon representing an era was installed, disassembled and reinstalled, as if the Prussian technicians were doing magic for their Chinese users, adjusting the elements to cooperate with the shore defense artillery for live firing.

Although the Krupp cannon is very advanced, it is still an immature gadget for Europe and even the world at the end of 1853, and no one is willing to pay a high price for it, because of the limitations of production scale and technical conditions, the Krupp cannon is one-third more expensive than the Armstrong gun, but Lin Haijiang is very willing, so he became the first user of the Krupp cannon.

The advantage of being the first user was that Krupp was training technicians for him, and Lin Haijiang's cooperation with Prussia was very popular near the Strait of Malacca and in Southeast Asia, but in the eyes of the British Empire, it was nothing more than a fig leaf-like chicken rib for the Prussians.

The British regarded the scholars on the island of Sumatra as puppets of Prussia, and the ridiculous scholars went to the Qing to recruit soldiers?

This has become the biggest joke in the whole of Southeast Asia, and the British did not pay attention to the little tricks of the Prussians, because they thought that their Far Eastern Fleet could crush their opponents like mosquitoes at any time, not to mention that the Strait of Karimada, where the old port is located, just blocked the way for the Malacca pirates to flee west and east, which would reduce a lot of trouble for them, so why not?

On 20 November, the Zhenyuan warships commanded by Lin Haijiang joined the Dingyuan, Taishan, and Huashan warships in the South China Sea and were regrouped in a unified manner.

In Southeast Asian waters, Said, who had four sloops and a two-masted Spanish galleon, had more than 60 guns of various kinds, and many of Said's men were officers of the Spanish Navy, and these people were still used to calling Said's major.

Although the scale of the South China Sea is not in the top ten, but the combat effectiveness can be firmly in the top three, most of them rely on the power of the two-masted Spanish galleon, and in several firefights with Chinese pirates, they also rely on strong ships and perfect tactics and cooperation, and the opponent retreats from the sea.

What seems like an unlucky day for Redbeard Seid? The god and the god of the sea to whom he prayed in the past seemed to be on vacation? The rapid appearance of the four behemoths without warning made Seid's mood of the successful robbery fall into the ice cellar in an instant.

Two multi-pole third-class battleships, two menacing iron guys emitting black smoke? Seid couldn't think for a while that in the South China Sea, in addition to the British Far East Fleet, there was also a force with a third-class battleship? You must know that the so-called Spanish galleons that he relied on to rampant in Southeast Asia were just the standard of cruisers, but the British Far East Fleet did not have ironclad ships?

Syd suddenly remembered a man who had taken over Lawrence in the Old Port, and that guy seemed to have such an iron ship in his hands? But there was no reason for the Dutch to go so far to clean the waterways for the British? And the Dutch didn't have a third-class battleship, huh? Could it be that what agreement was reached between the Dutch and the British?

Could it be that the main forces of the Far East Fleet of the British did not actually leave, and they got nothing more than false information to lure the snake out of the hole? Seid broke out in a cold sweat at his own idea.

However, in any case, he must immediately disengage from an enemy whose absolute superiority is not yet known, and Said, a Spanish naval officer, still has basic tactical cultivation regardless of his character and behavior.

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