Lin Fei hurriedly smiled and said, "I'm really sorry, I just asked casually, and I didn't want to spy on your country's secrets." ”

Claros smiled, said "It's okay," and asked, "Is there anything you did this time here?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled, "I'm here to visit you, nothing special." Lin Fei and Claros exchanged a few words of greeting and said goodbye and went back.

The time soon came to February 3, at ten o'clock in the morning of this day, the second group of British troops arrived at the port, as soon as the British troops arrived at the port, someone reported the news to Lin Fei, Lin Fei hurriedly asked: "How many new British troops are there?" ”

"Report to Your Majesty, conservative estimates, more than 3,000 people, and thirty light mountain cannons."

Zhang Chuang said to Lin Fei worriedly: "Your Majesty, the British army is close to 6,000 people, and it has been replenished with sufficient food and ammunition, and the Dutch in the city may not be able to hold it." ”

Lin Fei was also worried, the British army in previous wars, rarely would gather so many troops in such a small place, in the second opium war between Britain and the Qing State, the British army fought all the way from Guangzhou to Beijing in the Qing State, the total strength was only more than 5,600 people, and now the British army has gathered 6,000 troops in the small Pontianak, can the Dutch and the natives be able to stop it? If you can't stop it, it's troublesome.

Zhang Chuang saw that Lin Fei was silent, and he also knew that the situation was strict, so he didn't dare to speak more, and looked at Lin Fei in a daze, Lin Fei thought for a while, and said: "It seems that if you want to ensure that the British army can't defeat Pontianak, you can only sell weapons to the Dutch." ”

"Selling weapons? This can't be done..."Zhang Chuang exclaimed in surprise, and the other soldiers also persuaded Lin Fei one after another: "Your Majesty, how can you be smart and confused for a while? If we had sold weapons to the Dutch, the British would have known that we were behind our backs. ”

Lin Fei smiled and waved his hand, calming everyone's discussions, "Only the weapons that we can develop must not be sold, if we want to sell, we must sell those weapons that others can also develop." ”

These words confused everyone, and they all discussed: "There is such a weapon? ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "My brother who fought the Spaniards on Ibayat Island must remember the barrel cannon, right?" ”

"Barrel cannon" is the first weapon developed by Lin Fei, this weapon is a large wine barrel, put gunpowder in it as propellant, put a large bag of explosives in front, and add stones, iron pieces and other things to increase the lethality of the explosives bag.

Everyone suddenly realized, Lin Fei invited everyone out of the tent, and began to write to Xie Mingfeng, asking him to sell the barrel cannon to the Dutch, Lin Fei also specially instructed Xie Mingfeng at the end of the letter, this time the asking price is...... Thirty thousand taels of gold, one less is not sold...

After Lin Fei finished writing the letter, he ordered someone to send the letter to Xie Mingfeng's hands, Xie Mingfeng saw the letter and immediately went to Governor Sumanville, at this time Governor Sumanville was upset about the increase of British troops, he had already received the news that the British army had transferred another 3,000 troops, and the strength of the British army had now become close to 6,000 people, and the mountain artillery had increased to forty-five... Governor Sumanville felt a wave of despair, and Pontianak could not hold on.

At this time, Xie Mingfeng asked to see him, and Xie Mingfeng had already recruited Governor Sumanville twice, so this time Governor Sumanville met directly with Xie Mingfeng, and Xie Mingfeng smiled when he saw Governor Sumanville: "The British army has increased its troops, and now the British army has ......."

Governor Sumanville waved his hand, "Mr. Xie Mingfeng, don't say this anymore, I know all this, you can just say it." ”

Xie Mingfeng smiled: "I'm here to teach you how to win..."

Governor Sumanville frowned, "What is the winning strategy?" ”

Xie Mingfeng said with a smile: "I have brought you a brand new weapon this time to ensure that you will win a complete victory against the British army..."

Governor Sumanville smiled disdainfully, "Not to mention whether your weapons are as powerful or not, it will be too late to say that it is too late, the British army is already preparing to attack in the port, and in a few hours the troops will be under the city, how can you have time to transport weapons to us?" ”

"Mr. Governor, you can make this weapon yourself."

"Don't be kidding, Mr. Xie Mingfeng, if you hadn't sued me for using the natives to block bullets and delay payment, I would have knocked you out when I heard what you just said, it takes a long time to make weapons by ourselves, how can we have so much time?"

"Time is not an issue, Mr. Governor, our weapons are very fast to make, and it only takes an hour for you to have dozens of them."

Governor Sumanville asked, incredulously, "Is there such a weapon in the world?" ”

Xie Mingfeng said "yes" categorically, and then stretched out three fingers, "I want 30,000 taels of gold, and I won't sell one less." ”

Governor Sumanville's face changed suddenly, 30,000 taels of gold is not a small amount, let Governor Sumanville take out so much money at once, it hurts more than cutting his heart, Xie Mingfeng said slowly: "Mr. Governor, last time I gave you a strategy to delay payment, and I didn't take a penny, which is equivalent to you buying two strategies with 30,000 taels of gold, what a value." ”

In the case of life and death, Governor Sumanwell had no choice but to say: "Okay, I can promise you, but I can make it clear, if your weapons are not good, I will not pay a penny." ”

Xie Mingfeng nodded and said, "You don't have to worry about this, our weapons are absolutely effective, I'm afraid that you won't keep your word and won't pay me gold." ”

Governor Sumanville said in a deep voice: "I am the Governor of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies, how can I deceive you? I will pay you five thousand taels of gold first, and it should be a deposit. ”

Xie Mingfeng agreed with a smile, and then told Governor Sumanville about the principle and technical parameters of the barrel cannon, and then said: "There are many ingenious Chinese craftsmen in the city, and there is absolutely no problem with asking them to make this barrel cannon." ”

Governor Sumanville was skeptical of the power of the barrel cannons, but there was no better way but to become a dead horse as a horse doctor, and hired craftsmen from all over the city to make barrel cannons, and there was no shortage of explosives and gunpowder in the wineries in the barrel city, and in just a few hours, more than a hundred barrel cannons were freshly baked and quietly transported into the trenches.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the British attacked again, and they fought in the same way as the last time, first bombarding the trenches with artillery, and then launching an infantry attack on the trenches, and they came to a hundred meters from the trenches and began to charge, this time they loaded their bayonets before the charge, and fought them as soon as the Dutch came out.

What the British didn't expect was that this time the Dutch didn't rush out at all, but moved out of the trenches one by one big cylinders, and before they could figure out what those big cylinders were for, they saw clouds of smoke spew out of the big cylinders, something flew out of it, and landed among them, and then, a deafening explosion sounded, and groups of British soldiers flew into the sky with the explosion...

There were also countless nails and stones in the explosives bag, and under the impetus of the shock wave, they flew in all directions like killing fragments, and the British soldiers died when they touched it, and they died when they hit it...

The Dutch army fired artillery one after another, the British troops in the charge suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat, the Dutch army saw the British retreat, their morale was greatly boosted, and they rushed out with strange screams, the British army hurriedly unloaded their bayonets and fired, and the Dutch troops were also killed a lot, and the two sides fought a scuffle and retreated.

The news of the failure of the British attack reached the ears of Claros, who was so angry that he rushed to the battlefield to personally supervise the battle, and the first thing he did after coming to the battlefield was to find the commander Thompson and scold him in front of a group of subordinates: "Incompetent to the extreme, even the little Holland can't win, I really don't know how you became a brigadier general..."

Thompson was so angry that his whole body trembled, his eyes breathed fire, and he called several subordinates to reprimand, and his subordinates were angry and took down the rank and spread their anger, and it was passed on to ordinary soldiers, just like that, the British soldiers were on fire and launched an attack on the Dutch army more ferociously, and the Dutch army immediately defended with barrel cannons, but the "cannonballs" of barrel cannons were not infinite, and the Dutch army could only fight hand-to-hand with the British army after running out of barrel cannons.

The Dutch army could not stop the British army, and was forced to withdraw to the city, the first thing the British army did after occupying the trenches was to look for those secret weapons that caused them heavy casualties, and soon found the barrel cannon, understood the principle of the barrel cannon, and the British army was furious, and our warriors of the British Empire were killed by broken wine barrels one by one...

The British army attacked the city as before, first bombarded with artillery, and then attacked the city, the Dutch army adopted the same response strategy as before, driving the natives to block the bullets, and counterattacking while the British army was exhausted, and the two sides immediately started a tug-of-war under the city, after each major battle, there will be patches of corpses left on the ground, natives, Dutch, British, countless, Lin Fei was elated.

On February 7, the tragic meat grinding tug-of-war lasted for four days, and the British and Dutch sides couldn't hold on, so on February 7, no one on either side fought again, Lin Fei was very regretful, and said with a silent smile in his heart, why did you both stop? Hurry up and fight, if you don't fight, how can I take Pontianak?

Lin Fei was immersed in joy, and suddenly a subordinate reported: "Your Majesty, Claros is here, he looks very angry......" Before the words fell, only Claros's roar came: "Damn Lin Fei, you get out of here..."

Lin Fei was taken aback, could it be that his secret help to the Dutch was discovered by the British? The three plans of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, delaying the payment, and selling the barrel cannon were seamless, and only the matter of ordering the Dutch not to fight in the field might have been problematic, did they notice it?

Lin Fei didn't have time to think about it, Claros had already rushed in front of him, pointed at his nose and scolded: "Lin Fei, you bastard, our British Empire and the Dutch are fighting bloodily, you are secretly helping the Dutch, do you want to be the enemy of our British Empire?" Be careful that we send troops to Dayu City and Yanhuang City, and level your Chinese Empire like the Romans leveled Carthage. ”

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