"Damn, I can't back down at this time, signal the other three ships, and intercept this British ship together. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "At this point, you can't be afraid anymore, Li Xian gritted his teeth and gave an order.

As for the inextricable enmity with the British, I can't care about it at this time, and it is important to solve the matter in front of me first.

"Okay, I'll give them a flag. Wang Xiaoming didn't know about Li Xian's little Jiujiu, but said happily.

The British ship had already seen that the situation was wrong here, but because it couldn't turn around, it rushed over, and at this time it wanted to say, "We Britain are not the United States, if you want to rob the Americans, we will definitely turn a blind eye", but we can only fight a tough battle with the four ships here.

This battle is different from the battle just now.

At this time, ocean-going merchant ships would install five or six cannons on board to defend against pirates, and the British ship would use its guns first, hoping to fight a bloody way.

It's just that the waterway here is extremely narrow, and the distance between the two sides is also very close, and there are now four ships on Li Xian's side, and there are rifled gunners on the watchtowers on the mast who go up and shoot condescendingly, killing and wounding the sailors around the guns on the British ships, and suppressing the opponent's artillery fire.

And that's not even counting the fact that there were six guns on the Portuguese ship and six guns on the Cambridge, and seriously there were more guns on this side than on the other side, not to mention a lot of whaling guns, and the four ships approached and immediately made the British ship not move.

Then, this side is still the same as just now, using triangular grabbing, planks, wooden poles, etc. to set up on the side of the British ship, and then Li Xian jumped over with Zuo Shaoqing and some brave soldiers to eliminate the living force on the British ship.

By the time the British ship had been packed up and the ship in the hands of the convoy, another two hours or so had passed, and the sun was about to set in the west.

Li Xian commanded five ships to quickly evacuate the battlefield and set sail for Leizhou.

Fortunately, the road was relatively safe, and the situation that Li Xian was most worried about by Macao sending warships to chase after did not happen, so that the original three ships and the two captured ships could reach Donghai Island smoothly.

When the two ships docked at the port, Li Xian couldn't wait to take his men to take stock of the goods on the two ships.

The cargo on the Cambridge was similar to the previous intelligence information, the ship was supposed to go to Canton to unload the cargo, and then exchange it for tea and other goods from China, carrying about 25,000 pounds worth of silver (worth 75,000 taels of silver), and other Western goods worth 25,000 taels, such as mirrors, British cloth, spices, etc.

To this was added six artillery pieces, fifty or sixty rifles and pistols, and more than twenty prisoners.

Another British ship was to pull goods from Guangzhou to Europe, and the goods on board were mainly tea, plus a small amount of silk, porcelain and other commodities, worth about 30,000 pounds, but these things could be sold for a lot of money when they were shipped to Europe, and they could not be sold for much money in Guangdong, and they were not particularly easy to sell.

From this British ship, guns, muskets and a number of prisoners were also captured, so there is no need to repeat this.

Li Xian estimated that the two ships were worth about 20,000 pounds, the cargo was about 65,000 pounds, and the artillery and muskets added up to 3,500 pounds, which was converted into silver, and the total value was close to 90,000 pounds, that is, 270,000 taels of silver.

This is a huge fortune, but unfortunately this is only the market price of the goods, and it would be good to sell all these things for half the price.

For Li Xian, the most meaningful thing was the silver seized on the Cambridge, and the more than 70,000 taels of silver alone was enough for the Mixed Yuan Sect to survive the financial difficulties in the early stage of development.

Li Xian instructed his men to carry the goods to the island's warehouse, and kept all the prisoners in close guard, and gag orders were issued to all those who knew about the event, forbidding anyone to talk about it or leak it to outsiders.

"We're going to have to fight the British a few more times, and it would be bad if the news leaked and the British were on guard. Li Xian explained it this way.

Whether it was the original Zhao Hu and other stewards or the members of the escort team, they were blinded by a large number of seizures, and raised their hands in favor of keeping secrets, thinking that a few more raids of this kind of raid would allow everyone to run to the road of well-off, and the British must not be guarded.

Li Xian gave a generous bonus to those who participated in the operation, even if they did not participate in this raid, the guards and workshop workers who guarded the base camp on the island also received quite good bonuses, and their morale was greatly boosted for a while, and every day there were people asking Li Xian to fight to continue to rob the British ships.

Li Xian comforted his subordinates with good words, and issued a training order, asking the escort team to train desperately, threatening that only the escort with the best training performance could participate in the next operation, which greatly increased the training enthusiasm of the escort team.

"The snatching of the Cambridge was completed as planned, but unfortunately it was just a matter of adding to the problem, and in the end it provoked the British merchant ships.

This cause and effect will have to be paid back sooner or later, and the most important thing now is to see how the movement in Macao is. ”

Everyone, including Zuo Shaoqing, felt that this operation was extremely successful, only Li Xian understood what a big mistake had gone this time, and there was no other way at this time, while paying attention to the secrecy of his subordinates, he sent people to secretly lurk in Macao to find out the reaction of Macao.

Qian Dafu had been doing business in Macao before, and as early as the day Li Xian attacked the Cambridge, he followed Li Xian's instructions to turn from light to darkness and went into hiding outside Macao, and only sent some secret lines to inquire about the news.

Li Xian sent people from the past to contact Qian Dafu, get more detailed information, and bring Li Xian back.

After reading the information sent by Qian Dafu, Li Xian was a lot more relieved, and the situation was even better than he thought.

It turned out that Li Xian's attack on two foreign ships that day was very secretive, and there were no ships around to see the robbery, and neither Macao nor Hong Kong realized that two ships were missing.

After knowing that three or four days later, the people on both sides were shocked to realize that the two ships had disappeared without a trace, and sent ships and personnel to search each other, but unfortunately it was too late, and there was no trace to be found at all.

People on both sides naturally talked about the disappearance of these two ships, some said that they were sunk by sailors sent by the Qing government, some said that the crew of these two ships ran away with their goods, and some said that they were robbed by pirates.

Fortunately, I just thought that these two ships were robbed by pirates, and I didn't look at Leizhou with suspicion for the time being, after all, Leizhou has always been poor, and the rise of the escort team has been a matter of the past few months, and it is also a positive image of fighting pirates, no one thought that Li Xian would have the motive and ability to carry out such a shocking case.

After this operation, it is certain that sooner or later he will have to fight to the death with the British, but before that, there will be at least a safety period of one or two months, which can allow Li Xian to improve the strength of the Mixed Yuan Sect as much as possible.

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