Reinhardt, translated into English, is actually a lion's heart, which is supposed to be used to describe a particularly brave person or thing.

Of course, not all people or things named Reinhardt are very brave.

During the battle at the Lung Kwu Channel, the Oxford collided with the Vora, the Harvard collided with a second British ship, and the Stanford rushed towards the third ship, but the third ship ran to the mud flat on its own, becoming the only surviving ship.

The lucky third ship was called Reinhardt.

The captain and crew of the Reinhardt were greatly affected on this day, and after running away from the battlefield to the mud flat, they watched the whole battle from the perspective of a third party, and saw how the Chinese hit the big ship with the big ship, and how they jumped to the British ship to fight with the British soldiers and sailors.

Unfortunately, the battle turned out to be that the Chinese had the upper hand, driving all the brave British into the sea and capturing the three ships that were trapped, including warships such as the Wola.

"Mr. Captain, what shall we do, shall we also run away by jumping into the sea?" asked the first mate of the Reinhardt.

"Hell, what are you doing by jumping into the sea, what are we going to do with our ship?" said the clever and selfish captain angrily.

"Then we also went to war?" the first mate asked knowing that it was wrong to ask such a question, but he still asked in a ghostly manner.

"If you go yourself, I'm going to protect the ship for the shareholders of the company. The captain said angrily.

The first mate knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he couldn't help but be silent, but after a while, he couldn't help but interject.

"Then we should at least raise the white flag, if those pirates rush over, it will be bad. ”

The captain thought seriously for a moment, but still shook his head and said, "Pirates don't necessarily have time to deal with us, let's see the situation first." ”

The venerable captain's heart was actually full of bitterness, just now in the moment of life and death, he just instinctively ordered to rush to the mud flat to avoid the collision, but he temporarily saved the ship, but what will happen next, then God knows.

Mr. Captain had the intention of hoisting the white flag to convey to the pirates that he was unwilling to continue fighting, but he had some scruples about doing so.

During the previous battle, the Reinhardt ran to the mud flats by herself, which was equivalent to being a deserter on the battlefield, and Mr. Captain could predict how the other captains would criticize him when he returned to Hong Kong.

If the white flag is hung up at this time, it is difficult to say whether it can increase security, and it is true that the chance of being troubled by other merchants will be greatly increased.

After a few hours, the pirates moved forward to control the situation, and then sent small boats to the Kowloon Peninsula north of the waterway, landed ashore, and then dug in the ground with shovels and shovels.

"These pirates are determined to leave all their ships here and run straight to land. The well-informed captain immediately saw through the pirate's thoughts and sighed.

At the beginning, the British consul personally decided to use a merchant ship as a bait to attract pirates after releasing false news, and then more than 30 merchant ships attacked from the east and west directions to surround and destroy all the pirate ships.

At the time, I thought it was a clever plan, but now I think it's stupid.

The place where the bait boat was intercepted by the pirates is at the entrance to the east side of the Yonggu Waterway, and it is a joke to try to surround the pirates in this place.

These pirates themselves are Chinese, and may even be pretending to be the Chinese Navy, and once they find themselves likely to be surrounded, they will go ashore on the Kowloon Peninsula and abandon their ships, and the British fleet surrounding them will have no way at all.

Of course, in more extreme cases, it would be a bit more than one might have imagined for pirates to block the waterway as they are now, and then in turn to besiege and destroy the blocked warships and merchant ships.

The captain of the Reinhardt could not believe until now how these pirates dared and could have come up with such an idea, which in turn inflicted huge losses on the British fleet.

Mr. Captain knew that although the pirates now had the upper hand, the strength of the British fleet was still superior, which meant that the original six ships of the pirates and the captured decoy ships would eventually fall here, and they would not be able to take them away.

Three thousand-ton ships, one four-hundred-ton ship, and two three-hundred-ton Chinese boats, worth more than 35,000 pounds.

However, the losses on the British side were only more severe, one warship and three thousand-ton ocean-going ships, including the loss of officers and soldiers, and so on, and it is estimated that this fiasco was enough for the consul and seven or eight senior officials below to lose their jobs.

Mr. Captain only hoped that his Reinhardt would not be on the loss list.

After a while, a dinghy carrying a dozen Chinese sailors rowed towards the Reinhardt.

"Is there anyone on the boat ahead who can speak Chinese?" a young man got up from the dinghy and shouted to the people on the Reinhardt in heavily accented English.

"I can speak something Chinese, what do you have to say?" asked the captain, hiding behind the ship's side, shivering with nervousness.

"I am Chen Guangsheng, the second lieutenant of the Qing State Naval Division, you have broken into the war zone, whether you want to fight or make peace, give me a clear word. The young man said loudly.

Mr. Captain's Chinese is actually not very good, and it took me a long time to understand what the other party meant.

"We entered here by mistake, and we don't want to fight you, so how about we not attack each other?" the captain shouted with suppressed excitement when he understood that there was a play in this matter.

Chen Guangsheng was silent here, as if he wanted to digest the news, and it seemed that he wanted to discuss something with others.

"It's okay for us to complement each other, but I want your ship to lower the sails and hoist the white flag.

If you do both, we will let you go and strike you no more, or else we will sink you immediately. Chen Guangsheng threatened.

"We can lower the sails as a sign of sincerity.

But how about not having to hang a white flag?

You also see that our ship is grounded, and there is no threat to you at all, and it doesn't matter if you fly the white flag or not. "The captain's merchant instinctively wanted to bargain with the pirates, so that he could lose face a little.

As long as the white flag is not hoisted, the captain can insist that his sailors have accidentally driven the ship to the mudflats, causing the ship to run aground, and he is bent on killing the pirates, but he is unable to return to the sky.

If the white flag is hung up, this set of arguments has little credibility.

Chen Guangsheng was silent for a short time before making a decision.

"The British ship in front of it must lower all its sails and at the same time hoist the white flag.

This is international practice, and if this order is not complied with, we will reserve all rights to attack the ship. Chen Guangsheng shouted loudly.

"Damn, these inflexible ruffians. The captain of the Reinhardt cursed.

However, after thinking for a while and unable to come up with a better idea, the captain ordered the sailors to lower the sails and at the same time hoist the white flag.

He may be criticized if he flies the white flag, but at least keep the ship until then, the captain secretly decides.

Chen Guangsheng then commanded the dinghy to go back, and felt that this errand was done neatly, even the back of the British ship was also very tense.

After a period of rest, Li Xian's side began to get busy again.

First, a company of escorts landed on the Kowloon Peninsula to build positions and prepare for land warfare.

Theoretically speaking, neither the British army nor the Qing army was friendly with Li Xian's Leizhou forces, and they must all be guarded against.

When the temporary positions were erected, the wounded and all kinds of captured goods were to be transported to land, ranging from artillery, muskets, gunpowder, and bullets to silver dollars, valuable goods, and dozens of prisoners.

The Vora had 28 guns, Li Xian's own fleet had more than 40 guns, and the average ocean-going ship had five or six guns, all of which had to be brought ashore.

The commercial artillery is better, and many of the 30-pound guns on the Vora are big things that weigh 5,000 pounds, and it is very difficult to carry.

When all these useful things were moved to the shore, the boats in the waterways were to be blown up or burned, and in any case there was nothing useful left for the British.

After nightfall, Li Xian held a meeting and gathered all the important people in the escort team and the warrior team to discuss the evacuation.

Li Xian's team is either a martial artist with high martial arts, or a well-trained escort team, and the number is only more than 400 people, if there is no drag, just walk around with a firearm, and you can withdraw to a safe place casually.

It's just that this time a large amount of property and artillery and other things were also seized, and the silver dollars and the like were directly divided, but the artillery or other things could not be thrown away locally.

Li Xian had made it clear that he wanted to transport these artillery pieces back to Donghai Island, especially those military artillery pieces must not be left behind, so it would be a lot of trouble.

Everyone discussed how to borrow oxen, mules and horses from nearby villages to transport these things, and then looked for various heroes near Bao'an County to find ships or something to transport things away safely, and discussed a lot of practical plans.

The key to this matter is how to hide from the government and transport these contraband out, but with the connections and connections of these people present, this thing is not very difficult to do.

In fact, with the force they have at their disposal now, even if the government stops them, it is not inconceivable to fight all the way back to Leizhou by land or water, but then there is no beauty at all.

After discussing these things, Li Xian proposed one thing.

"Even if the evacuation matter is negotiated, in addition to these, I want to go to the British side tonight and blow up the only remaining British warship, the Warren, I don't know who would like to go with me?"