On the river, the small steamer and Chen Cun's ship were exploring the road in front, and then a few hundred meters apart, there was the Duke of Wellington and one frigate on the left and right, three ships in parallel, and the other two frigates were in formation, and the momentum was incomparably magnificent, and these five warships alone were enough to sweep across the sea surface of China's Qiē River.

At the back are troop carriers, 100 large merchant ships, carrying 40,000 Indian soldiers, 30,000 Hindus, 10,000 Baibai, all equipped with mini guns, of which the Hindus use lard-coated bullets, and the Baibai's bullets are coated with butter, and there are 50 land cannons on board, which will be the main force to attack Baoshan.

"Fuck it!" Lu Dayou slammed the wall, and said angrily: "When will it be the turn of the British to be arrogant in our Chinese rivers?" Fucking blow up Lao Tzu, blow up one and see if he dares to go on a rampage! ”

Yang Shuijiao was also obviously a little anxious, and shouted in disappointment: "Just let them come over so easily, none of those deep-water anchor mines exploded, maybe they were all swept away." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said helplessly: "There is no way, Bray is just resigned to fate, and if he blew it up, he hit the jackpot, and if he can't blow it up, there is no loss, at most, after the war, we will spend more hands and feet to clear the mines, Wang Feng, do you say yes?" ”

Wang Feng did not answer, but turned back to a reporter accompanying the army and instructed: "You write another manuscript and send it back to Suzhou, titled "British warships are rampant on the Yangtze River, when will we have our own warships in China?" Remember, the content should stimulate the people's patriotism and hatred of the enemy, and vaguely reveal a little bit of hope that the business community will donate money to build warships, but it can't be written explicitly, and you can grasp the scale. Don't let the people have the illusion that the military is reaching out for money, after returning to Suzhou. You can give Miss Fu another review. ”

"Yes!" The reporter simply responded.

Although Wang Feng is not short of silver for the time being, the construction of the navy is extremely expensive. From the formation of the army to the merger, the Beiyang Naval Division spent nearly 200 million taels of silver in the decades before and after, which is undoubtedly a sky-high price, and the Beiyang warships are bought with money, one hand to pay, the other hand to deliver, and the Democratic Alliance cannot buy ready-made warships, must take the road of independent research and development, various costs plus research and development expenses. Even taking into account the factor of inflation, if you want to reach the scale of the Beiyang Naval Division, the cost will definitely be far more than 200 million taels of silver, you know, independent research and development is a bottomless pit, it is possible to invest a lot of silver into it, and you can't see the results of a penny!

It's not Wang Feng bragging, with the right materials and equipment, he can assemble a simple aircraft. However, they don't know anything about building warships, which will cost human lives, so in line with the principle of saving a little is a little, I hope that the rich and large families can provide some support.

Sheng Xuanhuai immediately understood what Wang Feng meant. "Wang Feng, when I go back, I will tell my grandfather that our Sheng family will donate 100,000 taels of silver first." ”

"How's that going to work? Your Sheng family's manpower has been fully utilized by me. Why am I embarrassed to ask for your family's money again? Wang Feng pretended to excuse himself.

Sheng Xuanhuai smiled and went over with his ears. whispered: "This is easy to do, you are embarrassed to take the money, you can secretly return it to us afterwards." Anyway, your purpose is just to have a demonstration effect, why don't we have to help you co-star in a play? ”

"Go, go!" Wang Feng immediately waved his hand: "Are you embarrassed to leave if you donate it?" You think you're a kid playing at home, huh? ”

When it came to money, Wang Feng was not ambiguous, and the stinginess of the landlord Lao Cai appeared on the spot, and Sheng Xuanhuai suddenly lost a very disdainful look.

At this time, Lu Dayou said: "Commander-in-chief, it seems that the British warship cannot be blown up, but he must dock, I, Lu Dayou, ask for orders to go to war, and take some brothers to forcibly take it!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Feng was tempted, if it was at sea, there must be no way, but in the river, it was not impossible.

Wang Feng's gaze burned for a moment, and then he waved his hand and said, "To capture the British warship, we must think long-term, let's see the situation first." ”

As soon as Wang Feng's words fell, there was a sudden muffled sound on the river, and I saw that the frigate on the left side of the Duke Wellington burst out violently, and in the skyrocketing water column, it was separated from the hull by bombing, and the hull of the second half of the ship sank suddenly, and then it was upside down in the river at a very fast speed, and slowly sank, the mast and chimney were broken one after another, as if the sky was falling apart, and the guns and personnel on the ship, together with the planks and some other fragmentary parts, smashed into the river.

Obviously, this frigate unfortunately triggered a deep-water anchor mine!

Generally speaking, with the same amount of charge, the anchor mine of the ship is much more powerful than the drifting mine, because it is completely surrounded by the special medium of water, so the energy of the explosion will not leak a fraction, and all of it is converted into water pressure, basically one or two anchor mines can destroy a medium-sized warship.

Even if the anchor mines made by the Democratic Alliance are inferior to the anchor mines of later generations in terms of charge composition, but the British frigates are not the iron-hulled warships of later generations, they are still wooden-hulled ships, how can they withstand the shock wave of that moment?

The deep-water anchor mines were not placed alone, but a whole string of four or five exploded together, and it would be unreasonable for a frigate of only 1,500 tons not to sink again.

This time the explosion came too suddenly, many people were not psychologically prepared, except for a limited number of soldiers on the ship, most of them did not even have a chance to escape by jumping, the bow of the ship was shocked to death on the spot, and the rear of the ship, even if it was lucky not to die, the result was either smashed into the water from a high place, smashed into serious injuries and drowned, or simply stuffed in the cabin and could not escape, and sank to the bottom of the river with the desperate hull of the ship!

The huge volume of the frigate caused a vortex, the hull rotated, and the sinking speed gradually accelerated, until this time, Yang Shuijiao burst out and exclaimed: "Oh my God, I read it right, it's spectacular, I just said that it won't sink, but I didn't expect it to sink one, great!" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said disdainfully: "Sister Shui Jiao, this is also called spectacular? You haven't seen the Hermes sink, I tell you, at that time, the flames were soaring, and the explosions were bursting one after another, like a fireworks, and this ship didn't even spark, it was too far away! ”

Having said that, but Sheng Xuanhuai's immature face was full of excitement, this is a frigate after all, in fact, he knows that the anchor mine explodes below the surface of the water, there will be no fire, and even if there is, it can only be that when the hull is broken, the gunpowder is detonated by the boiler or engine, but this situation is not inevitable.

Wang Feng even turned his head and called: "You write another manuscript, "Our army's mines are mighty and sink a 1,500-ton frigate of the British army!" Remember, in addition to the number, it will be written immediately, and it must be issued in the whole territory tomorrow morning! ”

"Yes!" The reporter with the army almost shouted yes!

Among the Democratic Alliance troops, there was rejoicing, everyone witnessed the sinking of a frigate, and even people were shouting, blow up one more, blow up another!

It can be said that the hundreds of ships that have been blown up before are not comparable to this one, although the frigate is only 1,500 tons, which is almost four times less than the battleship Duke Wellington, it does not mean that its length is correspondingly shorter than four times, on the one hand, it is the result of the combination of length, width and height, and on the other hand, the Duke Wellington is more advanced in technology and more compact in structure.

The four frigates that attacked were about 45 to 50 meters long by sight, and the height above the water surface of the hull with the chimney was about 10 meters, which was already the second behemoth in the British fleet.

On the surface of the river, the atmosphere was so suffocating that it seemed to make people breathless, Gilhang'a, Wu Jianzhang and Wu Wenrong were all pale and trembling, which was less than a hundred meters by their side, they witnessed the whole process of a warship sinking to the bottom of the river, especially the painful feeling of the shock wave of the explosion hitting their faces, which made them feel the shadow of death.

The seemingly calm river has become dangerous again, and the frigate can be sunk, so what about the flagship that he is riding?

On the bridge of the frigate, in the same position, the miserable appearance of those British soldiers smashed into the water like dumplings came to mind!

"Stop, stop, fast, emergency stop!" Berant was the first to come back to his senses, and shouted in a hurry, and the standard-bearer hurriedly waved the flag, and a burst of hurried shouts rang out.

Brandt turned to him again and asked, "What do you think, Mr. Huish?" ”

Huish didn't answer, just stared straight at the river on the left, the frigate was raised high and the stern was no longer sinking, obviously touching the river, but it began to tilt back again, the angle became bigger and bigger, when Berrant's voice just fell, there was a loud bang, and the stern of the ship slapped heavily on the river, stirring up waves as high as five or six meters, in the waves, you can vaguely see the hull falling apart, scattered into pieces, some directly sinking to the bottom of the river, and some are still floating on the river with the waves rushing.

"Bang~~" with a muffled sound, the wave hit the flagship, swaying the ship's body from side to side, Huishi was shocked, instinctively grabbed the rope, and the whole person was like more than ten years old.

The Hermes, which was blown up and sunk in Bonham's hands, can be attributed to being alone, and the lone one one was attacked by the Democratic Alliance forces at night, but this frigate was bombed and sunk to the bottom of the river under a large-scale attack, under heavy protection, not a single shot was fired, not a single shot was fired, as the commander-in-chief, the responsibility lies with him, he could not explain to the Governor of India, he could not explain to the Parliament, and he could not explain to the more than 200 British soldiers and their families who died in battle!

If it is said that Chen Village's ship, the ship of the Black Flag Gang, was blown up and sunk, he was not distressed at all, but the sinking of this frigate cut his flesh, he understood that even if this battle was won, if he did not achieve heavy benefits, it would be difficult for him to deal with the harsh criticism of all parties, especially the Baoshan Wharf is still ahead, the soldiers have not yet landed, and it has not been officially opened.

Berlant also understood Huishi's mood, and did not urge, but just stood with him, looking at the chaotic river with a gloomy face. (To be continued......)