In the eyes of the white believers, the Hindus are vanquished and slaves, and they only climbed the high branches of the British, and were willing to make cattle and horses for the British, so as to get rid of the control of the Mughal Dynasty. [Ran^Text^Library] [www]. [774] [buy]. [com], the latest chapter of the visit wèn:.

In the eyes of the Hindus, the Baibai religion is an aggressor, the doctrine is 'radical', greedy, cruel and murderous, and the desire for expansion is endless, and the history of enslavement for hundreds of years has long turned into hatred in the blood, and it is precisely because of the arrival of Western colonizers such as Britain that they liberated themselves, so the banana people in Hinduism have an undisguised good impression of the British.

"Humph!" Zhang Xi's 'female' king snorted lightly, and twisted his head aside with disdain, quite a kind of sword plucking and crossbowing.

At this time, "Bang! A huge explosion suddenly sounded in front of him, which was not the same as the sound of a mine being simply detonated, but the sound of some kind of object being shattered, and the people on the ship poked their heads one after another.

It was a minesweeper fishing boat that was bombed, and the powerful explosion shattered the entire ship, and within five zhang of the explosion point, the river surface was sprinkled with debris of wood.

Huishi and Lambert glanced at each other, and both shook their heads, they didn't take it too seriously, the so-called often walking by the river, how could they not miss it, the minesweeper was blown up by the mine, it was normal, including everyone who thought so, this can only be blamed for being too careless.

Zhang Feihu scolded: "'Milk' and 'milk', which dog mongrel is thinking of a long life, and is in a hurry to reincarnate, right?" ”

But the voice just fell, "Bang! "There was another loud bang, this time everyone saw it clearly, a minesweeper was instantly broken into two, and inch by inch, the debris of the hull was thrown into the sky, and those with good eyesight could even see a few arms and big 'legs' falling fiercely and smashing into the river!

"Bang Bang Bang~~" explosions sounded one after another. Although a considerable number of mines that were empty were detonated, in just a few minutes, more than a dozen minesweepers were blown up.

Zhang Feihu stood up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

On the ship ahead, a pirate leader shouted, "Boss, we don't know." The brothers were very careful, it was impossible for them to put themselves on the mines! ”

Lin Zexu once said to Daoguang: I don't know that the Yi military ship is cumbersome, and the water depth is several zhang, and it can only win the ocean, and it is his long skill to break the 'waves' and ride the wind.

1840s. The displacement of the main battleships of the British army is generally about 1,000 tons, and the draft is quite deep, and the Suzhou Ordnance Bureau has finally set the depth of the deep-water anchor mine between one and two zhang after repeated tests and calculations. In the absence of effective demining equipment, there is no attempt to clear them.

The deep-water anchor mine is not one in the east and one in the west, but is placed in a centralized manner according to the level of the river, which makes it not one bomb, but several bombs to blow up at the same time, and the special "door" is used to greet the five large warships of the British army.

The mines hit by the minesweepers were about two feet above the water on average, and the turbid 'waves' of the Yangtze River at the end of the Qing Dynasty were rolling. Even at a depth of two feet, you can't see the bottom of the water.

Zhang Feihu had no choice but to remind: "Give Lao Tzu a bright spot!" ”

On the Duke Wellington, Lambert took a puff of cigarette and said slowly: "I always feel a little strange, is there something we don't understand about the Democratic Alliance?" ”

After all, the first time in history was the Crimean War, when the anchor mine was used by Russia for harbor defense. Britain and France had just declared war on Russia in March this year, and the war had not yet developed into a period of tug-of-war, and Russia had not yet reached the point where it had to use anchor mines.

Mines are generally developed when the navy is insufficient. For defensive operations, such as Russia and Germany, the navy is strong enough but will not place mines casually, it is purely uncomfortable for themselves, and they will only vigorously study mine-sweeping technology, so as a member of the British army, which has the most powerful navy in the world, it is normal for Lambert not to understand.

Huishh didn't answer, his eyebrows tightened, he puffed one cigarette after another, and looked straight ahead.

In the following time, nearly twenty more minesweepers exploded, and the rest of the ships unconsciously stopped advancing, Zhang Feihu secretly felt his scalp tingle, and hurriedly said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, there is something strange down there!"

Qing Dynasty officials such as Gilhang'a, Wu Wenrong, and Wu Jianzhang all knew that they were not in charge, and they all set their eyes on Hui Shi, and the translator relayed the past, and Hui Shi sank a little 'groan', and said: "Let that pirate leader send a water ghost into the water." ”

"Yes, sir!" The interpreter rushed to the side of the ship and loudly conveyed the order.

Zhang Feihu didn't know what to do, so he held the mentality of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, shouted loudly, and commanded each boat to send people into the water.

The pirate's water 'sex' is all first-class, and in the splash of water 'flowers', the figure of the Taoist jumps into the river, and a fierce man disappears.

Time passed slowly, from time to time someone poked his head out to breathe, and Lambert also took out his pocket watch from time to time to look at it, although Huish looked the same, but the pace of 'smoking' was slightly faster, and it was obvious that his heart was quite anxious.

The unknown is the most frightening, and the problem facing the more than 400 ships of the Combined Fleet at the moment is precisely the lack of clarity about what lies underneath.

"Boss, there's a mine down there!" After a few more minutes, a water ghost suddenly popped up, waving his arms and calling loudly.

Without waiting for Hui Shi's orders, Zhang Feihu immediately scolded and said: "Damn the Democratic Alliance, you actually put Lei Bu underwater, Lao Tzu grass you hang all the time, fish one up!" ”

"Yes, Boss!" Four or five water ghosts gathered together and dived down, on each boat, everyone looked in, and their expressions changed more or less, at least they were no longer as relaxed and comfortable as before, and the empty "swing" and "swing" river in front of them actually lurked an invisible killing machine.

"Bang~~" There was a loud bang without warning, a thick water 'flower' shot out, and a few pieces of broken 'meat' were thrown into the air, obviously accidentally triggered the mine, and a nest of water ghosts all died.

"Damn, look for it again! Be careful with Lao Tzu! Zhang Feihu scolded angrily!

But how easy is it to find an anchor mine on the wide river? Two-foot-deep underwater, all you can see is a hazy pale yellow shadow, and what's even worse is that with the reminder of the previous explosion, the water ghosts have become cautious, and the most intuitive embodiment is the decrease in efficiency.

Half an hour later, another anchor mine was discovered, this time, no one dared to 'hairy' hands and feet, but it was very easy to carefully 'touch' the rope, cut it to make the anchor mine float to the surface, and then gathered the strength of everyone, and even sailed a few boats to help, before the base of the anchor mine was fished up.

The base of the anchor mine is generally iron or stone, this one is fixed with stones, and it is easy to throw hundreds of pounds of boulders into the water, but because the stones will fall into the silt at the bottom of the river, it is extremely difficult to salvage.

When the stone was sent to the Duke of Wellington, everyone was silent, ostensibly to drill a hole in the stone and thread it into a rope to fix the mine, but such a simple device turned out to cause unimaginable trouble for the fleet.

After a while, Wu Wenrong said slowly: "Everyone, you have seen it, the short 'hair' is full of tricks, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the trap, and what is even more worrying is that there are not many such mines under the water, according to the speed of piracy demining, I am afraid that it will not be able to be completed in ten days and ten nights, I don't know what your good plan is?" ”

Gilhanga nodded and said: "What Lord Wu said is right, and at night, the short 'Mao' can continue to release mines, we will line up during the day, and he will release it at night, so won't we be stopped at the mouth of the river forever, and we can't get an inch?" ”

The translator translated the words of Wu Wenrong and Gilhang'a, and Huish and Lambert, as well as the four Indian kings, all had a change of face, and if they did not go ashore at Baoshan due to mines and went ashore in the concession instead, on the one hand, their own ships and artillery would lose their effectiveness and they would be forced to fight a decisive battle with the Democratic Alliance forces in a land battle method that the British were not good at.

According to the pre-war analysis, the Democratic Alliance Army will inevitably hold Baoshan, because he has no strategic depth, so he can only prevent an inch of land from fighting a positional battle, and the decisive battle site will be selected in Baoshan, and it is obvious that the new naval guns on the Duke of Wellington will play a great role.

On the other hand, if the Yangtze River cannot be controlled, the Democratic Alliance forces are very likely to take advantage of the night to 'touch' the darkness along the river and go down to the mouth of the sea to cast mines; you must know that from the northern part of the Yellow Sea to the East China Sea, there is a cold current that sticks to the coastline moving from north to south, and this can just push the mines laid at the mouth of the Yangtze River to the wharf of the concession, which will pose a great threat to the warships that are concentrated in the concession, and it is necessary to confine the Democratic Alliance forces to land and not give them a chance to launch in order to completely put an end to it, so no matter from which point of view, it is imperative to capture Baoshan.

Before they could reach the shore and the guns were not exerting their power, they encountered a thorny problem, and Huish and Lambert were already having a headache, and they also went to the heart of contempt for the Democratic Alliance, and for the first time they faced up to Bonham's advice, but how to solve it?

Just when everyone was at a loss, Wu Jianzhang's only remaining eye flashed with a fierce light, and he turned his head and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, Wu has a plan, you can ask Lord Yang to come forward and order the Black Flag Gang to use bamboo poles to probe into the water to open the way, which will expand the detection area by ten times, if you hurry up, you may not be able to land in Baoshan before dark." ”

"Huh?" Gilhang'a and Wu Wenrong's eyes suddenly lit up, and Gilhang'a couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "High, it's really high!" ”

According to the visual inspection at the scene, the explosion range of the mines of the Democratic Alliance Army is about two zhang, which is not the range of fragmentation, but the pure explosive power!

Put the wooden pole into the water to sweep the mine, because the pole holder must stand on the surface of the ship, when the mine is detonated, it will inevitably be exploded 'wave', and the resistance under the water surface is very large, take the bamboo pole in the water, too long will break, can not play the role of minesweeping, can only be controlled within two zhang, this is equivalent to taking life in exchange, every time a mine is detonated, the detonator has to pay the price of life!

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