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Since Lu Wei and thirty team members were captured as fishermen in the afternoon, they have been waiting at the dock, and the real fishermen have all been evacuated last night, the British people's high disregard for the Chinese community directly led to the smooth replacement of this time, for these hardcover fishermen Chinese men, the British are very happy, because these people are good laborers, with them can definitely get twice the result with half the effort. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In order to collect most of the Chinese captured by these coolies, the British could save the so-called transportation fee by capturing the Chinese, and then they could also fine the captured Chinese, and the British were very shrewd.

Stephens, a lieutenant colonel in the army, can say that even air-dried beef jerky can squeeze out oil, and he will not let go of a chance to collect money, although the warship that came this time is flying the flag of the empire, but the battleship is Qing Guo, so the material handling fee and fuel cost, water fee, etc. are naturally indispensable, and the previous effective communication with the reasonable Qing State officials, the only thing that makes him angry is that he only received 39,700 silver dollars, but he has to sign the bill of 130,000 silver dollars?

Stephens had always thought he was the most ruthless, and now it seemed that he was a fucking honest and devout Puritan compared to the officials of the Qing Kingdom.

Lu Wei wiped a handful of soot from his body, and then wiped the soot on his face, the sturdy physique and bronzed skin of the marines are almost the same as those of fishermen, the only difference is that they need to constantly pay attention to their words and deeds, and restrain their aggressive momentum and murderous spirit.

Lu Wei was a little nervous, but the dozens of British sentries not far away seemed to be chatting with nothing to do, Lu Wei could understand English, but his oral level could only be said to be average, Lu Wei would be a little annoyed, if he knew the British look, he shouldn't have taken the risk of leading thirty team members to mix in, and Lu Weiye didn't expect that the British would actually transport a large number of Chinese coolies from Singapore?

In an open house vacated by the British in the town, Tang Jiayao, Long Kelong, Helda, Xu Changshou and others sat in the middle alley.

Tang Jiayao looked around and said, "It's simple! No wonder this Yangyi always looks like he is drinking blood, you look at what kind of steak those aristocrats of theirs eat? Dripping blood? It was actually used as a delicacy to entertain guests? It just doesn't make sense. ”

Long Colon said indifferently on the side: "When my Ama followed my grandfather to release the army, not to mention raw meat, I even ate maggots on dead people in order to survive, people! If he doesn't go hungry for a few days, he doesn't know what happiness is and what sin is! When you are hungry, you are the black nest head who eats grain and mixed noodles, and you eat the same thing! ”

Long Kelong said energetically, the faces of several people on the side were a little wrong, Tang Jiayao said coldly: "Long Kelong, it's time to eat, are you intentional or do you want to do something?" ”

When Long Kelong saw that Lord Tang was really angry, he smiled and said, "I'm offended today, everyone, how about I put a table of Tianbazhen when I go back to Beijing?" ”

Helda was disgusted with a stinky expression on his face for his woman at night, and when he heard Long Colon boasting about Haikou, he immediately questioned in a disdainful tone: "Tianbazhen? You're really big enough, when the master is a little girl who has never opened his face? Nine Flying Twelve Heavens, Nine Wings of the Dragon Pattern, Have you ever heard of it? Qianlong Ye didn't get the treasure for his 60th birthday, eat a bowl of longevity, three bowls of belly and white hair turn black, the whole world is not the king's land, who dares to eat a bite and not cut off your dog's head today, who do you want to fool? ”

Long Kelong suddenly didn't point at Luo Guo, his face immediately turned red, and he was about to scold when he got up, but Xu Changshou suddenly yelled: "Translation, your mother!" Is such a dilapidated house without a roof for beggars to sleep in? Isn't it a trick to surround a fire pit? ”

The interpreter hurriedly ran over and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this place is Singapore, which belongs to Nanyang, this is this kind of custom, this is a big alley for entertaining distinguished guests, and ordinary idlers are not allowed to enter, and their major ceremonial memorials and worship must be held here. ”

Tang Jiayao waved his hand with satisfaction and said, "Whether it's true or not, your little mouth is really good, come on!" Fifty taels! ”

Tang Jiayao has been rich in money since he went to the UK, and it is naturally not a problem to be generous, everyone in the officialdom understands a truth, when your official position is in a position, naturally someone will support you and surround you, because it is beneficial to follow you! Those who are promoted, those who are rich! If you don't do anything, even if you become an emperor, no one will want to carry your sedan chair, and it won't take two years to definitely pull you off the horse, after all, what is the official plan for thousands of miles, and there is only money left in the future.

Xu Changshou saw that Long Colon and Helda were not arguing, and was slightly proud of what he had just done, so he teased again: "Everyone! Ladies and gentlemen, do you know that the origin of the names of our five warships is extraordinary! ”

Tang Jiayao frowned slightly, the name of the ship came from the Beiyang Yamen, and it was naturally designated by the people above, but there are many small Jiujiu in the Qing Dynasty, and there are also special things in small things, and there are also top supports in big things, and those who can know that others don't know the news must be able people with connections in the court! So I listened humbly.

The rest of the people also knew that Xu Changshou's background was very hard, and seeing that Tang Jiayao didn't squeak, they all put on an open face, they all had some virtue after being an official for a long time, and they were not afraid that he would be hard backstage, but they were afraid that you would not know the backstage of others.

Xu Changshou cleared his throat and arched his hand and said: "First of all, the two ships of Nanyuan and Changfu are the names of the ships given by the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, the Baturu is inscribed by Lord Wang of the Military Aircraft Department, the Zhefeng is the inscription of Lord Zeng, the Governor of Zhili, the Minister of Beiyang, and finally the Baturu is inscribed by Prince Gong, and the origin of the names of these five ships is not trivial!" The seven ships returned from Russia were all submitted to the Military Aircraft Department by the Beiyang Yamen, and they were only read by the two palaces. Even the future Admirals and Governors will probably come out of you! ”

Xu Changshou's few words said that Long Kelong, Helda and others were so hot in their hearts, and the most important thing for the Manchurians was face, so they raised their glasses to each other!

Tang Jiayao's singing and dancing on this side was so unsatisfactory, and Xi Xun and Li Weiguo on the Baturu and Zhefeng were also in high spirits at the moment, and personally arranged the vigilance and cruising of the whole ship, in order to coordinate the route of the two ships, Li Weiguo also went to the Baturu to discuss with Xi Xun, which made several henchmen of Xu Changshou who stayed on the ship almost didn't laugh off their big teeth, and publicly said that Li Weiguo was born to suffer hardships and cheap lives.

In the captain's room of the Baturu, Li Weiguo lit a cigar and said to Xi Xun with some excitement: "How is it?" ”

Xi Xun took a deep breath cautiously, then took out a red silk scarf and said: "The weapons have been distributed, but they are all short guns, and the long guns are in the hands of the sentries, except for more than 20 hardcores and unstable elements surnamed Ha, there are a full third of our people, and the rest I believe that they will definitely be overwhelmed by then, and the problem of seizing the ship is not big, but the Baturu will also lose its combat effectiveness, because our people are simply not enough to ensure the manpower of the battleship's gun position, but the navigation problem is not big!" ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "According to the information in the wax pill, we are ready to start at twelve o'clock tonight, and it is best for you and me to be at the intersection of the two ships when they are cruising and intersecting, and once one of them has a problem, we can support each other." ”

Xi Xun nodded, but said with a little worry: "This plan was formulated a year ago!" Is there a solution? If they solve the three ships of Haidongqing, Nanyuan, and Changfu? What if we can't solve it? Needless to say, the battle in the end would rather sink itself than let the Qing court recapture the battleship. ”

Li Weiguo thought for a while and said: "Who said that it is not, we have not been able to get in touch with the outside world during the voyage, and in order to protect us, the contacts are all one-line contact with the outside world, and in the face of the rapidly changing situation, we use the plan we made a year ago, which is really enough to hang?" ”

Xi Xun looked at Li Weiguo and said, "Then do you have any good ideas?" ”

Li Weiguo glared at him and said, "What can I do?" The soldiers will block, and the water will come to the earth! If there is no response at midnight on the port side, how about our side take matters into our own hands and immediately sail the battleship to the Imperial Fortress? Getting two ships is not much more cost-effective than sinking two ships! ”

Xi Xun hesitated for a moment and said: "Now there is only this way, if the port is really successful, and the main fleet of the Imperial Navy comes to respond, it is naturally better, once the action changes, we can't wait any longer, this is our last chance, in case we get to Dagukou, I'm afraid that the cucumber vegetables will be cold, with the cunning of the Qing court, I'm afraid that our lives will be difficult to protect, and only one of the hundreds of people will break through, then all of them will be implicated." ”

Li Weiguo nodded and confirmed: "At midnight, when the two ships converged, they slowed down and slowed down, and all the personnel knew that the Manchu loyal dog occupied the battleship!" Seize control, then defend the engine room, ammunition depot and other important departments, and then immediately hang out a red light to indicate that the ship has been successfully captured, and you are waiting for an opportunity! ”

After Li Weiguo and Xi Xun broke up, the two began to secretly deploy notices, on the Baturu and Zhefeng, the red silk scarves were quickly passed along with short guns, and those who were left on the ship for so-called surveillance also gathered in a pile to drink the so-called scolding mother from the kitchen, Xu Changshou, Long Kelong, Helda and even the female surnames of Tang Jiayao's family also suffered in vain.

Li Weiguo and Xi Xun didn't know that fifty nautical miles away from them, the main ships of the Chinese Empire's navy were all sailing with their lights on, it can be said that in this era, not to mention night battles, even night navigation is a great challenge, especially this kind of concentrated navigation of large formations, although this voyage has been repeatedly inspected several times, but still no one dares to take it lightly, because the battleships they pilot and command are piled out of silver!

Lin Haijiang stood calmly on the bridge of the Hainan, although he was the head of state, but Lin Haijiang was not the first responsible commander of the fleet after all, so the position where Lin Haijiang was standing was behind the captain Xia Xue, and every light on the sea near him was actually a warship of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Haijiang is already ready to send at this moment, what is the current situation of Lu Wei's commando? No matter how worried Lin Haijiang is, he can't exert half of his strength, the backwardness of the means of communication makes it impossible for the means of obtaining information for special operations to play a role at all, and the special forces rely on accurate intelligence support to carry out surprise attacks behind enemy lines in small detachments, and without these intelligence supports, the operations of the special forces are likely to become moths to the fire, and let their carefully built special operations detachments carry out such tasks? Not only would Lin Haijiang not give such an order, but he would never sit idly by, even if he was a bystander.

Especially after the 500 special forces commandos were released like kites this time, Lin Haijiang immediately regretted it, because once the operation failed, the huge losses would be unbearable for the Chinese Empire! The seemingly meticulous plan, under the influence of the changeable external environment and factors, can only rely on human immediacy in the end.

At the same time, in the governor's yamen of Wuhan, there is also Zeng Guofan, who is also sleepless tonight, Zeng Guofan is standing on the map with his clothes draped and holding a gas lamp in the route of the fleet returning to China, moving little by little, and finally stopped at the position of Singapore, taking Southeast Asia can be said to be a dangerous road, although there is the flag of England to protect him, but who will know what Lin Haijiang that Lin madman will do to shock the world?

Alas! Zeng Guofan sighed slightly, the weather in Wuhan is extremely hot in summer, but it is extremely cold in winter, Zeng Guofan always feels that his bones are chilling, recalling today's very unpleasant meeting with Monk Greenqin, Zeng Guofan is angry, Monk Greenqin can be said to have ridiculed Zeng Guofan fiercely by virtue of his identity as a prince, who is Zeng Guofan? Originally, he was not going to deal with Monk Greenqin, but Monk Greenqin's chatter made Zeng Guofan a little annoyed in the end!

Zeng Guofan didn't know how to stop in moderation for Monk Greenqin, and was always angry with Li Hongzhang's defeat, and then he also pointed out Monk Greenqin's several temptations to the Chinese Empire, and it didn't matter if he lost thousands of men and horses, the key was that several of his Han army generals led people and horses to fight against Cheng Lin, which made Monk Greenqin extremely angry.

In Zeng Guofan's view, Monk Greenqin did not know the slightest sympathy for the deployment, and it was okay to be able to cover the eight banners of the Mengman, and it was almost inappropriate for the cavalry of the Han Army. Therefore, the cavalry of the Han army at the head of the two battalions in the back turned against the foreign spear team and rushed over to surrender to the enemy.

At this moment, Zeng Guofan was a little upset, he was completely sure that Monk Greenqin must have been provoked by some people today, otherwise as the prince of Monk Greenqin, he would never provoke and seek trouble for no reason.

But that's all there is to it, at this moment Zeng Guofan is most worried about the five warships returned from the British, and the seven that have returned from Russia seem to be safe and sound at the moment, and when these twelve warships converge, the Beiyang Fleet can rely on the Dagukou Fort that is gradually being built to block Lin Yi's attack from the sea.

Zeng Guofan's hand kept moving on the map, he knew very well that the coastline of the Qing Dynasty was very long, and the long coastline could be said to be a battlefield for the Lin rebel bandit army everywhere, and it was obviously unrealistic to fortify everywhere The Qing Dynasty did not have enough military strength and national strength, and at this moment it was impossible to follow the Kangxi Dynasty's relocation and forbidden sea, the Lin rebel bandit army was not a small scourge of Zheng Jing's lonely hanging Taipeng, and the Lin rebel bandit army had the strength to drive straight and invincible no matter where it landed, especially the marines of the Lin rebel bandit army, Its combat effectiveness is absolutely not negligible.

Zeng Guofan knew that Beiyang could not grow stronger in the war with the Lin rebel bandit army, and it must be implemented step by step, Zeng Guofan's purpose at this moment is to first stick to the main Dagu Pass, in case Gyeonggi is heavily threatened by the Lin rebel bandit army, because once Gyeonggi is threatened, the queen mother of the two palaces will definitely transfer troops to Qin Wang, if the front line of the force is reduced, then the Chinese Empire will inevitably have some conspiracy actions, then everything he operates in Wuhan will be in vain, if the threat in the direction of Dagu Pass is lifted, So even if he solves the worries of his Beiyang New Army, and is worried that his subordinates will rust after staying for a long time, Zeng Guofan is preparing to plan a big war, in order to drag all the soldiers and horses of Seng Lingqin into it, and greatly weaken the strength and prestige of Seng Greenqin through a big war, and finally achieve the goal of letting the imperial court transfer him away, and then his own power will be ordered by a general, Zeng Guofan believes that once the unified command is less elbowed, the situation of the entire front-line confrontation will change. The outstretched fingers will be withdrawn into a formidable fist.

Zeng Guofan was planning his fist and the defense of Dagukou, as well as the strategic policy of the future Beiyang Fleet, and on the other side of Jurong Island, hundreds of figures began to sneak along the low bushes, and Lu Wei, who was on the dock, looked at the Qing soldiers napping on the deck of the Haidongqing and secretly looked around, if it wasn't for the Qing soldiers who saw the Qing soldiers changing posts with his own eyes, Lu Wei would probably wonder if this was a trap of the Qing army?

Most of the British soldiers on the dock have long since disappeared, and the only one who is busy is the hard labor, more than a dozen absent-minded British soldiers snort from time to time to urge the hard labor to speed up, Lu Wei looked at the thirty people he brought had been divided into three groups and began to board the ship, took a deep breath, and he also picked up a bag of coal and stepped aboard the Haidong Qing!

(To be continued)