The news from the European side, this time came very slowly, Yang Meng deceived the four-color stick into the Buddhist hall on the seventh day, only to wait for the belated news, not good news, the British and French combined fleet had already set off fifty days ago, calculating the time, it was almost time to reach the Indian Ocean.

This news is too slow for Yang Meng, but this is also a helpless thing, the commercial investigation team, although it is an espionage organization under Yang Meng, but after all, their number is too small, and Britain and France have kept the transfer of warships secret, and the commercial investigation team has gotten the news of the departure of the fleet more than 20 days later.

If it had been directly connected to the Telegram network across India, this news should have arrived a month ago, but the news obtained by the commercial investigation team was several hearsay messages, and in order to verify this news, the commercial investigation team spent more than 20 days, and the result was still a mess!

The number of people was too small, and many people had difficulty in contacting the British and French military leaders, which became a big failure for the commercial investigation team, but fortunately, the news still came back, although it made people look a little confused, but Yang Meng could roughly guess the number of the British and French combined fleet.

"Commander, the news on the French side is accurate, about twenty warships, it is not much of a difficult task for France, as for the English side, there are a total of four messages, two are more than ten warships, and the other two are more than twenty warships.

England has the largest number of warships in the world, and there should be four or five hundred warships of all kinds, and sixty to eighty warships should be the number of fleets that Britain will dispatch this time. They are for the previous failure. Probably due to an accident. About a hundred warships should be the upper limit of the Anglo-French combined fleet this time.

After all, it is conceivable that England dispatched Indian warships last time, and it was replenished by the mainland!

However, England still has two colonies overseas, and Australia and Canada are likely to be involved in this war, plus these two colonies. The Anglo-French combined fleet, the most warships that can be deployed, should be around one hundred and fifty!

Commander, how about we let the British and French forces go down the old path again? Let's be near Jinkou, let them do it again? ”

The third master's words, Xu Ziwei only listened to the second half, scratched the top door that grew inches of burrs because he was too busy with government affairs to take care of it, and he smiled bitterly.

"Third master. You have repeatedly reminded the generals below to take the Anglo-French alliance seriously. Not to mention France, which almost dominated Europe, just talk about England!

During this time, the governor also learned about England, the territory of the Qing Dynasty was at least 30 times that of England, and the population was 20 times that of England, but it was this small country on the sea, with a population of 20 million, that controlled a hundred times the number of colonies and ten times the population of the mainland.

Third master, the English can lay such a foundation, it is not a fool! The matter of Dagukou, let's play it once, it's called attacking it by surprise, and playing it for the second time, it's called showing your eyes!

If the British and French forces are stupid enough to do this, can they still make the third master so distracted? ”

Seeing others as fools, his own level is not much higher, some words, Xu Ziwei is not easy to say, can only indirectly pass guò's comments on the area and population of England, to explain that the English people are not simple, and the Anglo-French alliance is not simple.

"Eat a trench and grow a wisdom? Not necessarily!

For the way of war, Britain and France misunderstood, the naval division of the Qing Dynasty, for the British and French coalition forces, not to say that it is a fleet, that is, three or five warships can run rampant in the maritime frontier of the Qing Dynasty, and the sailors dare not show their heads, why did they send a combined fleet? And not counting on the combined fleet to contribute to the war?

These more than 100 warships, sailors, navy, and as many as 350,000 people, if the land battle is unfavorable, do you need support or retreat? Let's lure the enemy deeper again, it's not impossible!

As long as we can let their land army land near Beijing and Tianjin, as long as our new army can withstand it! Surrounded! We can't afford to score another brace!

The number of artillery pieces in the European armies is far inferior to that of the new armies, and as long as we can induce the Anglo-French forces to move the artillery from the ships again at the beginning of the war, there is almost hope for this!

There are also our mines, during this time, the Guangzhou shipyard was not idle, there should be 350,000 anchor mines, right? With these 350,000 anchor mines, we can make the combined fleet of Britain and France trapped in the Bohai Sea, and if they want to highlight the Bohai Sea, I am afraid that they will not be able to do it without the support of land routes!

After laying anchor mines, the offshore sea is the safest, but the offshore sea is also conducive to our live mine attack! In order to seek the safety of warships, the army is a force that the British and French combined fleets cannot give up no matter what, if there is no support from the army on land, the navy wants to approach the sea route, and has to ask whether our live mines will agree! ”

Yang Meng also had a whim, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was feasible, if he cut the combined fleet of Britain and France again, in the short term, the sea frontier of the Qing Dynasty would be safe!

"Third master! Although the anchor mine is good, it is not an impregnable wall after all! The poisonous snake has a broken tail, and the strong man has a broken wrist, what if the British and French ships make a way out of the sea?

Besides, although this anchor mine is good, it is a big trouble to dismantle! During this time, Yang Fuliang's fleet has lost nearly 100 lives in order to dismantle the anchor mines in the Bohai Sea channel!

Winter water cold! Even if it is an old sailor who crisscrosses the sea frontier, he may not be able to get out alive when he goes down to two or three feet of water, it is easy for us to lay mines, and it is easy for the combined fleet of Britain and France to wade through the minefield, and in the future, for these anchor mines, we will have to pay thousands of casualties!

If this anchor mine is not removed, the channel of the Bohai Sea is dangerous, and the depth of the mine is set according to the draft of the British and French warships, but this depth is also the depth of most merchant ships carrying cargo. ”

Because he has handled a lot of military affairs during this time, Xu Ziwei is also very familiar with the performance and shortcomings of the anchor mine. Directly by boat. In fact, I couldn't lose a few ships. The inability to lock the sea area is a major weakness of the anchor mine, and it is also a loophole in the plan of the third master!

In order to clear mines in the Bohai Sea, more than 100 people have died on Yang Fuliang's side, and the sea water in this winter is also a heavy ghost gate for the old sailors, and no one knows if they can come up alive after going to the sea.

"A hundred and ten people died for demining? Why doesn't Lao Tzu know? ”

I heard that more than 100 people died because of demining. Yang Meng's focus has also shifted suddenly, he has a solution to this matter, for this death and injury of more than 100 people, it is not worth it!

"The third master was busy with military affairs in the early stage, so I will suppress this matter!"

"The people of Xishan are stupid! Isn't this a good thing to solve? Is our Xishan able to produce latex tubes?

According to the practice of latex tubes, just make a latex wetsuit, use a latex tube to link to the boat, add a wind box, and you can't drown if you don't go down the water!

Come on, come on. Lao Tzu will draw you a drawing, hasn't Li Mingfu from Guangzhou Shipyard come yet? Let him arrange this first!

Stupid thing! Even if you get an iron bucket, you can do it! There are only two or three zhang in total. Add a glass cover, and get a big knife that can cut the anchor rope outside!

Urge Li Mingfu and let Yang Fuliang stop clearing mines, what kind of brain, he can't think of this method by mixing on the water all year round, the lord's pension is so easy to earn? ”

Wetsuits and simple submarines are not much difficult for Yang Meng, Xishan, and Guangzhou shipyards, just because they lost their lives because of the lack of a sentence, not to mention the loss of their lives, the silver lost is enough to build a hose factory or a simple submarine processing factory.

"The third master still has a way, he knew ...... earlier"

"When you encounter these difficult things in the future, ask more questions, you see, we used a stick of incense to solve it!

Sometimes people have to die, but where people shouldn't die, no one can die! The sea water in this winter is very cold, not to mention people, even the fish are frozen and can't sting, and the people who use people to go to the sea to clear mines in the winter are so worthless?

Reprimand Yang Fuliang, this thing is not done properly, that is, use a boat, this anchor mine, it is not impossible to discharge, get a shallow draft sea ship in front, drag a few sunken piles behind, plow three or five times on the sea, this anchor mine itself will explode, we lay anchor mines, the depth is the same, it is not complicated, many methods can be demining, why use people to clear mines?

Yang Fuliang, isn't he trying to harm Lao Tzu? Let the shadow people check, if this Yang Fuliang is slack, give this bastard to Lao Tzu and sink into the sea! ”

The more Yang Meng talked about this, the more angry he became, he could come up with three or five of them in a while to clear the mines, all of whom were people who had been messing around at sea all year round, and they could drag the anchor mines up with fishing nets.

Thinking of Yang Fuliang, Yang Meng also thought of his wolf nature, could it be that this guy wanted to run away with people and horses and ruin his reputation on the ship? If this is the case, then Yang Fuliang will not be able to stay, now the Yang family's fleet is not what it used to be, more than 70 warships in service with the British and French forces, nearly 100 ironclad ships that are being refitted, if it is time, the world's largest fleet, it is the Yang family, if Yang Fuliang, the bastard, is pulled away, Yang Meng must not cry to death?

"Third master, you misunderstood Fuliang about this, it is precisely because of the arrival of the British and French coalition forces that they use this method, after all, those anchor mines can still be used when they pull them up, if they hit the right anchor mine, they can destroy a warship, in this matter, I agree with the Ding steward in Guangzhou, yes!"

Xu Ziwei and Ding Taichen are also responsible for this matter, not that Yang Fuliang wants to bring disaster to Yang Meng and the Yang family, for the sake of war, Ding Taichen and Xu Ziwei also killed people without blinking.

"You're all bastards! Can't you ask more about this? How much the is an anchor thunderbolt worth? The Yang family controlled by Lao Tzu has nothing else, but there is silver!

The output of anchor mines is insufficient, Lao Tzu can continue to build factories, the output of the tinplate factory is not enough, build two more iron factories, the output of this pharmaceutical factory is not enough, and ten more pharmaceutical factories will be built!

For this, you threw 100 lives into the sea, not to mention the things to deal with at sea, this alone is not worth the loss!

If you do this, what do you think of the Yang family? What do you think of Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu's opinion is still like that, no one can die less than one who should die, and no one can die more than one who should die!

Damn it! The one hundred and ten people, one additional two thousand taels, this matter is Lao Tzu's negligence, since the person is dead, Lao Tzu can't be saved, so they can only make their families live better!

Bastard! Inform Ding Taichen that if the output of anchor mines is insufficient, an iron plant will be built when an iron plant should be built, and a pharmaceutical factory will be built when a pharmaceutical factory should be built! Exchanging human lives for anchor mines, this thing can't be done!

Don't be afraid to spend a lot of money, even if you invest tens of millions of taels of silver, there will be no next time for such a thing! ”

Yang Meng kills people without blinking, but he won't kill people who shouldn't be killed, now whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Yang family, they are not poor ghosts, there is no need to fill human lives for a few anchor mines, this matter is smaller, that is, he Yang Meng's weapons are not successful, and he regards human life as a mustard! To put it bigger, that is, the Qing Dynasty or the future Yang family is not atmospheric enough, and does not have the bearing of a great country!

"Third master, let's do a bad job in this matter, let's not talk about it, let's talk about the British and French combined fleet, right?"

"it! There's a! Let's talk about it later! What you just said is right, if the combined fleet of Britain and France uses the method of cutting off the tail of poisonous snakes, we will be helpless at all!

Supervise Li Mingfu these days, do this! Let you sons of the devil die! ”

In the matter of the Anglo-French combined fleet, Xu Ziwei said well, he Yang Meng was a little naïve, but in the matter of exchanging human lives for anchor mines, Yang Meng felt that there was a bit of a nest, the Yang family, the net worth of tens of billions of silver, and now the Qing Dynasty has two or three hundred million silver, and for the anchor mines of dozens of taels of silver, nearly 100 lives have been taken, which is similar to the long table banquet back then, Yang Meng is full of wretchedness! (To be continued......)