Liu Ting received the compliment, her pink face turned slightly red, and she looked a little shy like a child.
Chen Zikun thought that although this girl was not as good-looking as the two ladies Yao and Chen, she had an unknown intellectual beauty.
It was a pity that rabbits could not eat grass beside their nests.
After taking over the house, we will lose a capable secretary.
Yan Su said: "Secretary Liu is indeed well-read.
The military book you are looking at is probably the military armament ambition of the Ming Dynasty.
It records a lot of naval and defensive firearms.
Unfortunately, it was later banned during the Qing Dynasty, and China's hot weapons also stagnated for a period of time.
These outdated weapons from hundreds of years ago can only harass enemy troops, but they cannot cause fundamental harm."
Having said this, he sighed and asked Chen Zikun sincerely: "Commander, please don't be in a situation where you are riding a tiger and it's hard to get off."
Chen Zikun said: "Now the arrow is on the string and has to be fired."
Yan Su said: "In this case, we can only force it and arrange the engineers to build a few more fake artillery positions so that the British can't figure out our true and false positions, so we spread suspicions, real and fake, and create an empty city strategy."
Liu Ting interrupted: "Chief of Staff Yan, since you know Wu Beizhi, you must know the underwater Dragon King Cannon."
Yan Su thought for a while and suddenly smiled: "Xiao Liu, you are really good at this."
He turned to Chen Zikun and said: "There is no other way, we have to use local methods.
The underwater Dragon King Cannon that Secretary Liu mentioned is a kind of underwater dragon king cannon."
Floating on the bottom of the water For thunder, gunpowder is loaded with cow urine, ventilated with goose feather tubes and sheep intestines, and incense is ignited.
If the black gunpowder is replaced with yellow explosive, and the original incense fuse is replaced with a detonator, as long as the amount of medicine is increased, the effect will be very good, but " "Nothing."
Chen Zikun's eyes were bright.
"But it takes someone with good water skills to drag the underwater Dragon King Cannon under the British ship before it can be put to use.
It's a life-threatening job."
Yan Su sighed.
"It doesn't matter, the Marine Police Corps has a lot of free money."
Chen Zikun said.
Without further ado, manpower and material resources were organized that night to produce the underwater Dragon King Cannon.
This thing is an offensive weapon.
It does not require a lot like bamboo strip mines.
A few are enough for the British to drink a pot, but the quality requirements are very high.
Everyone mobilized.
Liu Ting ran home and rummaged through the boxes.
Her parents were woken up by her.
They rubbed their sleepy eyes and got up to ask what was going on.
When he heard that his daughter said she wanted to find military books to make weapons to deal with the foreign devils, Liu Cunren immediately became energetic and lit a kerosene lamp to help rummaging through.
I found a woodcut version of the Military Bei Zhi from the Tianqi Period of the Ming Dynasty from the pile of old papers, put on my coat, and accompanied my daughter to the office.
Yan Su gathered together a group of skilled craftsmen, including cobblers, carpenters, and craftsmen from the provincial capital, engineers from the army, technicians from the repair shop, physics professors from Jiangdong University, and lecturers from the mechanical school.
Zhuge Liang, not to mention these talented people from all walks of life.
Everyone knew that this thing was to deal with the British, so they became more dedicated and worked together.
Based on the Ming Dynasty underwater Dragon King cannon, they spent one night to develop a new generation of underwater Dragon King cannon. .
This new type of Dragon King cannon is made of waterproof plastic and detonated by a detonator.
It is more waterproof and reliable.
It also eliminates the need for an intestinal airway and is more concealed.
The heroes of the Marine Police Corps were also summoned.
Zeng Jiao introduced the water-based cannon The best brothers formed three formations, with two Dragon King Cannons in each team, always on standby.
The next morning, John Walker went to the telegraph room in the provincial capital to send a telegram to the Nanjing Consulate.
The contents of the telegram were quickly sent to the Commander's Office, but no one could decipher the British diplomatic code.
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However, there was no need to decipher it at this time.
According to the British With his arrogant temper, he will definitely start a war.
Chief of Staff Yan quickly made arrangements.
The artillery along the coast evacuated the main position and moved to the backup position.
The original position still had cannons, straw men, flags, etc. camouflaged by trees.
The British destroyer formation originally consisted of three ships.
One of the ships encountered a mine and its bow was damaged, and had to retreat to Nanjing.
The remaining two ships fired brazenly at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
The 127mm shells roared and landed on the Jiangdong Army's artillery position, exploding in clusters.
Smoke and tree trunks straw man.
The artillery regiment immediately launched a counterattack, and all mountain artillery and field guns opened fire at the same time. 75-caliber Krupp, 57-caliber Gruson, and even 60-mm mortars also joined the bombardment.
The British ship was a smaller destroyer, not a heavily armored cruiser. , facing the secret Concentrated artillery fire bombardment, while fighting back, while avoiding home-made mines, maneuvering left and right, trying to get closer to the north bank, but they were hit by Maxim heavy machine guns on the high ground on the north bank, so that the sailors did not dare to take the lead.
The captain hurriedly ordered to separate the side The broadside shell bombarded the north shore.
The gunfire was rumbling on both sides of the Huaijiang River, and a fierce battle was going on.
The Jiangdong Army's fighter jets came to help.
Chen Zikun's lifeblood was airplanes, and he did not dare to use them to risk his life.
He just flew high over, dropped two small bombs, and exploded two bombs near the warship.
A tall water column came.
Although it caused no harm, it frightened the British sailors.
After a fierce battle throughout the afternoon, both sides suffered damage to each other, and the British ships temporarily retreated.
In the evening, Diplomat Walker broke into Chen Zikun's official residence and lodged the strongest protest with him, demanding compensation for losses and punishment for the officers who fired without permission.
Chen Zikun said solemnly: "It was your side that provoked the conflict first, which caused great casualties to our side.
I haven't come to you to protest yet, but you came first.
This is in compliance with an old Chinese saying that evildoers should complain first."
Walker was furious: "Sir, do you know the consequences of doing this?
All the British warships sailing on China's inland rivers will come to the Huaijiang River and blow your city into ruins.
This is the result of angering the British."
Chen Zikun sneered: "We'll see and see the guests off."
The atmosphere of war continues to spread in the provincial capital.
The wealthy families have almost fled, and the foreigners are also evacuating.
Walker is a very responsible diplomat, because there are no foreign consulates in Jiangdong, and the expatriates from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy also asked him for help. , Walker did his best to contact them with ships and vehicles to leave the provincial capital, but he had to face a problem, that is, no Chinese were willing to help them.
That night, two British destroyers riddled with bullets were anchored on the river fifty miles east of the provincial capital.
They encountered unprecedented resistance and more than ten sailors were injured.
They are now waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
As soon as the cruisers arrive, the Chinese will try To the bitter fruit.
The searchlights on the ship were scanning the river back and forth.
There were sailors patrolling with guns on both sides of the ship.
They would shoot at any suspicious objects they encountered.
The Chinese were too cunning and had to be on guard.
At zero o'clock, both sides of the river were silent.
There was not a single ship on the river.
The mines that had been flowing down the river in the past few days were also gone.
Suddenly there was a bang, and the destroyer's huge body of 1,500 tons trembled, followed closely by another sound.
Another warship not far away also exploded.
The siren sounded.
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The sailors jumped up from their bunks and carried out damage control work in an orderly manner.
The captain looked at the damaged location of the warship with a livid face.
It was below the lateral waterline.
Fortunately, it was not next to key locations such as the ammunition depot and engine room.
After intense rescue efforts, the breach had been blocked, but the hull had tilted 15 degrees.
"Captain, there's an urgent call from the consulate."
The signal soldier handed over the telegram.
After reading it, the captain took a deep breath and said, "Evacuate."
The two injured British ships dragged their sloping bodies and black smoke downstream, and several swarthy men on the shore grinned.
"Dragon King Cannon, easy to use" Diplomat Walker slept very uncomfortablely on the Chinese-style bed in the hotel.
He had no sleep all night and fell into a deep sleep in the early morning.
He was woken up by the noise again in the morning.
He got up and went to the window to see that the Chinese people on the street were in high spirits and seemed to be celebrating something. .
After calling Agui to ask, he found out that the Chinese were celebrating the victory of the water battle, and the British warship ran away with its tail between its legs.
It is said that Marshal Chen used some ancient weapon passed down by Zhuge Liang to sneak attack the warship and teach the British a lesson.
If it weren't for the commander's virtuous attitude towards life, neither of these two British ships would have survived.
Walker was greatly shocked.
He really couldn't believe that Great Britain's warships would be defeated by the backward Chinese.
However, the Chinese people's happiness was not fake.
The Huaijiang Newspaper that day even ran a special issue, which published a picture of a British ship towing a heavy Smoke escape cartoon.
"It's nice of you."
Walker thought fiercely.
The British Empire has always been vengeful in its strategy to deal with backward countries.
The Boer War was a precedent.
No matter how brave and good you are in fighting, you can win once or twice, but victory will always be there.
Belongs to Great Britain.
The first day passed, and the multinational joint fleet that Walker expected did not appear.
The next day passed, and the British cruiser did not come to take revenge.
The third day passed without even a trace of a destroyer.
Walker felt something was wrong.
He went to the front desk of the hotel and asked if he had his telegram.
The receptionist glanced at him sideways, lazily took out a telegram from the counter and slapped it on the counter: "Take it."
When I saw the date, it turned out to be three days ago.
I was furious and asked why I didn't send the telegram to my room in time.
The receptionist said rudely: "You didn't ask, so why should I send it to you?"
Walker knew that the whole of Jiangdong was now filled with xenophobic sentiments, and it was not the time for theories.
He muttered something, took the telegram back to the room, took out a Dickens novel from the suitcase, and translated the telegram word for word.
He was stunned when he saw it.
The consulate informed that xenophobic incidents had occurred in various cities along the Yangtze River.
Warships rushed everywhere to protect British property and evacuate expatriates.
The British Empire's armed forces in China were stretched thin and had no time to take care of Jiangdong.
Walker was asked to return to Nanjing quickly and have other tasks.
Emotions of anger, frustration, loss, anxiety, and fear hit John Walker's heart one after another, giving him a feeling of doomsday.
Could it be that as he expected, the timetable for the British Empire to withdraw from China began to count down?
The British concessions in Hankou and Jiujiang were forcibly taken back by the Chinese, and the anti-British wave grew stronger and stronger.
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However, none of this was formed in one day.
From the distant Opium War to the recent May 30th Massacre and the Shaji Massacre, The British have to swallow the bitter fruits they have sown.
For a moment, Walker suddenly felt that what Chen Zikun said was very reasonable.
No one can stop the giant wheel of history.
Not hundreds of thousands of Beiyang troops, not the gunboats of the British Empire, not even the second secretary of the small British Consulate. .
Walker took out a bottle of Scotch whiskey from his suitcase and drank it.
He spent the whole afternoon in a daze, and finally chose to accept the reality.
The next day, Walker led the last group of Western expatriates to evacuate the provincial capital.
There were no foreign ships on the river, and all Chinese ships were unwilling to carry them, no matter how much money they paid.
The stubborn Walker chose to take the land route.
He asked Agui to spend money to hire several mule carts and set foot on the road to Nanjing with the expatriates.
In order to guard against possible robbers and rebels on the way, the expatriates were equipped with weapons for Wen.
Chester shotgun, Walker also took out the Webley revolver deep in the trunk, loaded it with bullets and inserted it into his waist.
The mule train traveled across the land east of the Yangtze River, and along the way the Chinese people looked at them with curiosity and indifference.
Both the expats and Walker felt like they were walking in the American West, with crises and enemies everywhere.
After only walking fifty miles, the mule cart pullers stopped working, clamoring for more money.
Walker was arguing with them when more than a dozen trucks roared past, raising a burst of choking smoke.
Walker covered his nose with a handkerchief.
Looking over, he saw that the car was full of soldiers wearing helmets and holding bayonets and guns.
He was so frightened that he quickly turned around.
Unexpectedly, the convoy stopped not far away, and the soldiers jumped out of the truck and walked over, cursing.
The rickshaw drivers who clamored for more money did not dare to make any noise, the expats were trembling with fear, the women hugged their children tightly and sobbed softly, and the men were terrified and helpless.
John Walker took a deep breath, straightened his tie, and bravely stepped forward
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