Sent away Ergin and Pashali, the two bastards, Yang Meng was also full of anger, this England is really difficult, in just a few months, the passive situation was reversed by them, and the next passive should be himself.

"Commander, send a fold to the imperial court, Humen victory, 20 British warships brazenly invaded Guangzhou, I, Humen officers and soldiers, unanimously to the outside world, after a day of artillery battle, destroyed four British warships, heavy damage to seven, the rest of the warships were also wounded by Yanzhòng, killing and wounding more than 1,000 British soldiers!

The Humen artillery battle, showing my great Qing Shenwei, more than 100 casualties in Humen, and 18,000 taels of silver! ”

This is the first passive situation that Yang Meng has to face, if you let the court know that the Humen artillery battle costs more than 1.5 million taels a day, I am afraid that the matter of the imperial obscurity can only be thought about in a dream, and the court will choose to make peace very decisively.

"Third master, the moisture of this fold is not small, there is a loophole in this statement!"

Make up lies to deceive the court, Xu Ziwei is the master of the masters, he understands what Yang Meng means, but he can't say that.

The artillery battle consumed a lot, more than 100 people died, and 20 British warships were destroyed and damaged, costing 18,000 taels of silver, and the imperial court was afraid that it would not believe it.

"Tell me about your Captain Xu's ingenious height!"

Yang Meng's mind was a little confused, there was something wrong with this, Yang Meng couldn't find it himself, so he could only let Xu Ziwei ask and answer himself.

"It can be said that Humen damaged three British ships and destroyed one, and the rest of the warships were all destroyed and damaged by mines!

Master Pan has made mines in the light year, Master Pan has not made any achievements in Guangzhou over the years, and if he can't get the court, he will have to change people! Catch the mines. Let's make some merit for Master Pan. Second, you can reduce the cost again.

Twenty of them. It cost 8,000 taels of silver, destroyed and damaged 16 British ships, so that our merits are also available, and the credibility is also high. This is the first time it has ever happened! ”

Xu Ziwei's statement is good, Yang Meng nodded and agreed, but Xu Ziwei's words were very attractive to Yang Meng.

"It's been there for a long time, when is it early?"

Waiting for Nobel to come to develop mines, it is too late, maybe within one or two months, the English will start to work on the five major commercial ports, and the object that his old Taishan asked Renlei to develop is not very practical. If you go on your own, maybe you can learn from some experience.

"During the Jiajing period of the former Ming Dynasty! One of the armaments of the Imperial Wake. The records in the "Martial Arts" are very detailed. ”

Xu Ziwei also just knew about this, Ding Taichen collected information on mines, and Xishan sent it over, so he glanced at it and remembered it in his heart.

"! It's a thing that existed hundreds of years ago, the Great Qing Dynasty of the Dog Day, when Lao Tzu entered Beijing, I have to give you some embarrassment!

Let's give Taichen a trip! ”

Today, he was angry in front of Erjin and Pa Xiali, and Yang Meng's temper was also extremely irritable, how good would it be if these things could be carried forward? But......

Fooling the people and weakening the strength of the Han people, to put it bluntly, this Huaxia was dragged into the bottomless abyss of shame by the Manchus.

"Third master, do you want to listen to the mine?"

For Ding Taichen, Xu Ziwei also had to stutter, and when he sent someone to pass through, this one gave Ding Taichen a breath.

"Hmmm! Let's talk about it in detail, I'm afraid that England is going to trouble the ports of Jiangnan in the near future! ”

"Good! Master Pan asked Renlei to develop mines before that, in addition to being in the fire. There are some unique things in medicine, and the others can't catch up with the mines of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Mines sound domineering, but in fact they are just a cannon battle, and it is true that Renlei is familiar with firearms, but it is really funny that he can develop efficient mines with his ability.

"Speaking of types, they are all the same as Renres's, either pulling strings or lighting incense?"

The limitations of such mines are too great, and what Yang Meng wants to see is triggered mines.

"The floating thunder that is lit is called the underwater dragon king cannon, which needs to be released when encountering enemy ships, and it is easy to get wet.

There are also rope pullers, which are called underwater thunder, but this underwater dragon king cannon and underwater thunder, the masters of the previous Ming Dynasty have made improvements, and they can also be triggered. ”

Ding Taichen's statement, Yang Meng didn't listen to it much, but he heard the three words trigger clearly, since he had a good method in the previous dynasty, I believe that this mine is not very difficult to make.

"Are there any drawings?"

"Xishan has been drawn, and I am asking the Guangzhou shipyard to try it out!"

"Good! I'll take a look at the drawings. ”

With Xu Ziwei's reminder, Ding Taichen prepared very well, and several drawings were immediately placed in front of Yang Meng.

"The underwater dragon king cannon can't be used, the location of this thing is not fixed, and it is also a threat to the merchant ships of various countries.

Don't we have tinplate? Let the iron factory make a sealed iron barrel, which can be used as both a pontoon and a medicine barrel, and let Qin Ziqi measure the draft of the English warship and the merchant ships of various countries, whichever is the shallower, and arrange this anchor mine at the mouth of the Pearl River.

We also have a primer, but it's not so difficult to renovate the structure, right? ”

After reading the drawings, Yang Mengle was happy, in the end, the ancestor of the Han people, this design drawing is very detailed, as long as there is a floating barrel and a trigger device, at the level of Guangzhou shipyard, this thing can be mass-produced within a few days.

"Third master, don't you want to give it a try?"

"The test is a must, immediately put into the test, within ten days of success or not, the last batch will be produced, just 10,000 pieces!"

Yang Meng's mood is very urgent, some things, as long as they are about the same, as for the test, let the English warship do it!

"Third master, within ten days, I'm afraid that even the tinplate bucket won't be able to produce 10,000!"

"Then get on the machine, I can't wait, and I can't help it.

In addition, Taichen, you have to recruit a group of old shipwrights who have a family that can't eat, Lao Tzu has to take money to buy his life, and the price is arranged by yourself. ”

Many things have to be done when they come to mind, and as for benevolence, righteousness, morality, etc., they are ranked after the results.

"Third master. How are these people going to be used? ”

As soon as I heard it, I bought my life with money. Ding Taichen's face also changed. This hurts the hearts of the people!

"In the near future, a large number of small steam engines will be prepared, which can be installed on ordinary fishing boats, fill the fishing boats with local medicine, and put triggering devices on the bow of the boats, which are much more accurate than mines and cannons!"

For Ding Taichen and Xu Ziwei, Yang Meng didn't hide anything, and directly said his own method, terrifying. Raid. How to hit.

"Third master. It's a good idea, but it's ......."

"There's nothing to do, now is the time of the three eyes, the large population is our advantage, tell those people, for every British warship blown up, Lao Tzu will reward five thousand taels of silver, so that our cost will be smaller.

With a consumption of more than 1.5 million a day, we really can't afford to spend it!

Taichen, have you forgotten what I said earlier? In this world, you have to eat people without spitting out bones. The old boatmen can no longer earn money, for their families. It's a burden, rather than dying of old age, it's better to die in battle, and Lao Tzu will give them a monument in the future!

And this method of living thunder, does not necessarily have to die, as long as the timely jump, not only can blow up the battleship, but also save life, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, starting today, train them to drive steam ships to avoid artillery fire, half a month later, send these people to other commercial ports, this is the most timely, most effective, the most cost-effective way to resist the British warships.

Humen artillery battle, let's experience it once is enough, each of the five major commercial ports comes once, that is, 10 million taels of silver, this 10 million taels of silver, how much grain can be purchased?

Hurry up and do it! ”

Saving money and killing the enemy efficiently, this is what Yang Meng wants to implement, as for the price, as long as it can be accepted, what kind of price can't be paid?

Let the great powers enter the country, is the beginning of the disaster, famine, is the biggest weapon to strangle the population, rather than starve to death tens of millions, it is better to use human lives now to seek a tactical advantage, since. Kill. Although the attack is despicable, at this time, it is definitely a cost-effective and efficient battleship killer, which is much better than any mine or torpedo, which is not much different from a smart missile!

"Also, let the people of the Guangzhou shipyard try the effect of installing vertical medicine in the stern, after all, the cost of a small steam engine is dozens or hundreds of times higher than that of vertical medicine, if you install horizontal medicine in the stern of the ship, it can support the wooden ship to travel five miles at high speed, then use vertical medicine instead of steam engine."

Thinking of missiles, Yang Meng thought of erection medicine, this thing should be feasible to do temporary power, although it is inconvenient to operate, but the speed is faster than the steam engine, the cost is lower than the steam engine, and it is also easier to manufacture and less trouble-free, as long as there are sufficient raw materials and wooden boats, Yang Meng can make countless artificial envoys of the water missiles.

"Got it, I'll do it, mainly with vertical medicine!"

Seeing that the third master acted in such a hurry, Ding Taichen could also guess the result of the talks, I am afraid that the English people have already made up their minds to attack the five major commercial ports, otherwise the third master would not be so unscrupulous.

"Quick! Hurry up! Faster! It is best to prepare this live mine within three or five days, so that our people can recruit old shipwrights in the five major commercial ports in advance, and as for the method of making live mines, it will be kept strictly secret! ”

Although Yang Meng has the confidence to temporarily protect the five major commercial ports, he is confident that this thing is neither strength nor means, and only when the strength and means arrive, can these five major commercial ports be firmly held in his hands.

As for other areas along the southern coast, no matter how the British army lands and goes ashore, the British army is not so terrible, fighting a land battle, Yang Meng can't kill them, and now, the number of the English army is too small, there are no thirty or forty thousand people, Erjin probably won't fight a land war, after all, the Qing Dynasty is a local war, with the lesson of Humen last time, what Ergin has to do recently is to ask for more troops in the Far East, in addition to attacking the five major commercial ports.

But harassment is also war! During this period of time, Yang Meng wanted to create an impression that the imperial court was vulnerable, and mines and live mines were also necessary.

I don't know if the design of the previous dynasty is perfect, or Yang Meng's luck is good, the trial production of more than 30 multi-point trigger iron-shell anchor mines is very successful, whether it is the depth of entering the water, or the sensitivity of the trigger device has reached Yang Meng's requirements, the design and development of a successful molding, this is also a miracle in the arms industry, right?

Although this kind of iron-hulled anchor mine has yet to be tested by war, the number of real yàn is still quite convincing.

As for the erection of live mines, although they encountered a little trouble, they are still generally available, and the trouble lies in the short range and fast speed, only one or two miles away, which undoubtedly reduces the possibility of survival of the live mine operator, as for the counterattack of the British warships, it is enough to make up for the number, one may be able to be lightly defeated, but ten or twenty ships or more?

The cost of this live thunder is very low, only a dozen taels of silver, counting the shipwright's pension may be higher, and then counting Yang Meng's bounty, it may be a little higher, but compared to the British warship, five thousand taels of silver destroyed one, this transaction is definitely Yang Meng's big money.

As long as this live thunder is within two miles of the battleship, the fate of the battleship is basically decided, and a few hundred catties of soil medicine are enough to blow up a big hole that cannot be blocked at the position of the waterline.

After a few simple trainings, the five major commercial ports, in half a month, there were thousands of live mine operators with a salary of ten taels of silver a month, once the British warship was discovered, what was waiting for them was a sea killing weapon that could automatically turn and aim.

Multi-point trigger anchor mines, also in the Guangzhou shipyard began large-scale manufacturing, although in a hurry, but as long as a few hundred anchor mines have played a role, it is enough for the British Empire's girl to cry out of snot. (To be continued......)