In April 1840, the spring breeze was blowing, but the European merchants from Macao to Hong Kong were in a state of fear and apprehension. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the British Navy announced that it would seal off the mouth of the Pearl River and not allow any Chinese ships to enter the sea through the Pearl River, there have been five or six missing incidents.

First it was a British ship and an American ship, then a tea ship returning to Europe from China, and then several disappearances.

The waters between Macao and Hong Kong have always been too peaceful, and neither Chinese sailors nor pirates have the ability to loot ocean-going merchant ships of more than 1,000 tons, which is why so many disappearances are so conspicuous now.

At first, the merchants thought that this was the revenge of the Chinese sailors, and that the British sealed the mouth of the Pearl River, and the Chinese navy robbed the British merchant ships, both legally and logically, which was beyond reproach.

However, after some inquiry, the merchants realized that the Chinese government was not at all aware of the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the ships, and was as confused as the foreign merchants.

This time the businessmen were really surprised.

Under normal circumstances, even if a pirate plundered a merchant ship, one or two lucky sailors would jump out of the sea, but these accidents, however, did not have any survivors, making the well-informed foreign merchants more and more suspicious.

To this extent, it is either a sign that the people responsible for these accidents have very good organizational skills, or more likely, these merchant ships are assisted by internal ghosts, which makes the merchants wary of each other, and wary of any living or acquaintance who approaches them.

Of course, there are also those who attribute these disappearances to the occult, there are demon whales that are more than 100 meters long who swallow these boats, some say, no, it was made by an octopus monster hundreds of meters long, others insist, no, it was a ghost ship that carries the dead to pull these boats, there are Chinese fishermen who have seen those undead monsters, and some people insist on this view.

As for what kind of force did these things, Li Xian and his subordinates and allies had a good idea of what kind of force did it, because they all did it and its cases.

Robbery is also a snowballing business, and Li Xian's experience during this period just proves this assertion.

It turned out that Li Xian only had three ships of more than 300 tons, and he had to be careful in doing things, but after the first success, Li Xian had the ability to use two thousand-ton ships and three small boats, and even had the ability to plunder the merchant ships head-on on the high sea.

When you have more ships, you will have more resources, more weapons from artillery and muskets to grenades, more detailed information, and the ability to pick up any merchant ship that is traveling alone.

The most noteworthy thing is that the young warriors of Guangdong also began to join this great cause of cleaning up foreign merchant ships.

With the British almost declaring war, these warriors had no resistance to plundering British merchant ships, not to mention that this kind of raiding could make them extremely rich in rewards and give people a feeling of blood boiling.

This raid was originally carried out by Li Xian with the escort team, Zuo Shaoqing had to join in order to redeem himself, then Wang Jiuxuan and more than 20 Sanyuanguan disciples led by him, and then Qiao Daqing, Ling Huzhan and Lin Pingzhi, three Donghua Sword Sect disciples.

Relying on these martial arts warriors, Li Xian's troops could easily jump to the ocean-going merchant ships, seize the ships and drag them to Leizhou Bay, and even more spare to send people to monitor the water and underwater, so that any fish that jumped into the water would have the opportunity to dive out and tell Li Xian's secrets.

After these warriors joined, other warriors who were invited to play on Donghai Island were also persuaded by Li Xian to participate in this sea feast.

Like Yang Tianming, after discovering that Qiao Daqing, Wang Jiuxuan and others were missing, he became suspicious, inquired carefully, and then discovered their secrets, and when he understood the situation, he cried and shouted to join in, saying that it was such a fun thing How could he be missing him.

The advantage of Yang Tianming joining is that there is one more grandmaster-level combat power when he jumps to fight, and Yang Tianming has summoned dozens of Mingjiao masters to fight and train together, and at the same time, he also actively asks to join in the sale of looted property.

The strength of the Ming Sect in the underworld and the white path is extremely huge, and Yang Tianming himself wants to compete for the next Ming Sect leader, and he also needs to obtain all kinds of property to maintain more subordinates, and he is very concerned about making money.

Since Yang Tianming joined in, Ren Yingying, the Holy Aunt of the Ming Sect, naturally got the news, and then said that she was very willing to join in and have a long experience.

Yang Tianming was followed by Wumeiguan, and Wu Sanniang, as a disciple of Wumeiguan, showed an extraordinary interest in such a thing as looting, and brought his junior sister Yilin in, and also pulled dozens of female disciples from Wumeiguan to come over to help.

However, no matter how extraordinary Li Xian was, he didn't want to take a group of nuns to rob money, so he only agreed to the people of Wumeiguan to go to Donghai Island to engage in some logistical and administrative affairs, and resolutely disagreed with these heroic women to be pirates, so he did not hesitate to fight with Wu Sanniang three times.

Wang Jiuxuan to Yang Tianming and Wu Sanniang are all the most outstanding martial arts disciples of this generation in the land of Liangguang, with them as role models, whether they are members of the original musket team or warriors of the vampire hunting team, they are willing to follow, and they also find ways to recruit friends to come over and make a fortune on Donghai Island together.

In short, after a period of accumulation, Li Xian had eight or nine second-order peak masters under his hands, as well as more than forty second-order masters and more than a hundred first-order martial artists, and the group of martial artists he mastered suddenly became huge.

If these people were all martial artists of the Mixed Yuan Sect, then with more than a thousand escorts, Li Xian could easily defeat any sect or gang other than the Sanyuan Temple, and even fight with the Sanyuan Temple.

It's a pity that these warriors come from more than a dozen sects, and they can only become temporary allies of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and it is impossible for them to join in directly.

After many plunders, Li Xian's men had nearly ten 1,000-ton ships available, so that no ship in the sea of Guangdong could escape his plunder.

On this day, Li Xian received information from Qian Dafu from Macao, knowing that a British merchant ship would go from Macao to Hong Kong in the near future, and this merchant ship had six guns, more than 70 sailors, and the most important thing was that the ship was loaded with 150,000 or 60,000 yuan in silver dollars, and because the captain did not believe in the news of any monsters, he would set off from Macao to Hong Kong waters alone.

After hearing the news, Li Xian took three thousand-ton ships and three small boats to lay an ambush near Lantau Island in the west of Hong Kong.

These six ships are loaded with more than 150 warriors and more than 300 elite escorts named as commandos, and the armed force is extremely large, even if any unexpected situation occurs, it should be easy to suppress.

At first, the raid went well.

Most of the ships under Li Xian's command were Western ships that had been transformed by shipbuilders, and Li Xian had his men approach the merchant ship full of silver dollars in the clothes of foreign sailors.

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