Dinghai County is located on the shore of the Yangtze River Estuary, with hundreds of islands scattered around the surrounding area. It is located in the central part of the coast of China. The sea route is located in the middle section of Hong Kong and Beijing. It is close to the Yangtze River Estuary and the Hangzhou Bay Canal Estuary. It has developed maritime transportation and its strategic location is very important. ≤≤Small≤Say,

The British and French coalition forces urgently needed a springboard to attack Shanghai and a mid-way supply station to attack Beijing. The most suitable location for setting up a headquarters is Dinghai.

Therefore, since 1840, Britain has repeatedly launched attacks on Dinghai County, showing a strong desire for the archipelago around Dinghai County.

This time, the same was true. The 200,000 British and French coalition forces were divided into two groups. The first batch of 50,000 people arrived at the Mopanyang Sea first under the escort of the British and French joint fleet, preparing to launch an attack on Dinghai County.

The British army captured Dinghai County many times and were very familiar with the waterways and mountainous terrain around Dinghai County. However, this time the British army led the way miscalculated. With a violent underwater explosion, a frigate of the British Royal Navy was sunk. More than 100 British troops in the cabin were unable to escape and were all drowned.

"What's going on?"

Jimmy, commander of the British advance fleet, shouted. The two frigates sank inexplicably, enough to make him take a big punishment, and his military career may have ended.

"Major, it seems to be an underwater bomb! Our warships exploded immediately when they hit them!"

"What?"

"How can there be bombs underwater? What an international joke."

Jimmy suddenly felt that his brain was a little too short because he had never seen an underwater bomb and thought it was incredible.

At this time, a sailor on Jimmy's battleship shouted: "Major, come and see what is in the water?"

A group of British sailors gathered on the port side of the ship, staring at a huge black spherical shadow in the water, and curiously analyzing what it was.

Jimmy walked over and saw that there was indeed a spherical object in the sea, black and covered with long thorns. It looked like a rolled hedgehog, of course, the premise was that the hedgehog could swim in the sea.

"It's a sea monster!"

"Don't worry about it, be careful that the sea monsters get angry and eat you!"

Jimmy didn't care about what the monsters in the sea were. He just wanted to know how the warship was sunk by the bomb. A reasonable explanation was that it was sunk by the shore defense shells of the Shanghai army, but he didn't hear the sound of the Shanghai army firing before the explosion. Besides, the Shanghai army's artillery could not be so far away, and it was still more than ten nautical miles away from the shore.

what is going on!

Jimmy was struggling.

Soon, the surviving British sailors on the British ship that had sunk in the explosion were rescued one after another. Jimmy immediately interrogated them.

Until a British sailor said in fear: "Major, I don't know what's going on, but I heard someone shouting to hit the Shanghai Monster at the moment of the explosion."

"Sea Monster? Is it the black ball covered with thorns?"

Jimmy instantly thought of his crew just discovered the sea monster. He subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction where the sea monster was. He saw a few fucked British soldiers excitedly stabbing the sea monster with long poles, and he might as well shoot him.

"No, stop!"

Jimmy shouted, but it was one second late.

With a loud "pong", the "sea monster" exploded, instantly causing a huge wave more than ten meters high.

The explosion fragments pierced the hull. The dozen or so British sailors who were still watching the "Sea Monster" were all blown away by the air waves and fell freely everywhere.

The British soldiers and sailors on the deck were also knocked to the ground in the instant of the explosion, and many people were injured due to the bang. Even Jimmy fell down without standing firmly, and a big red envelope was touched on her forehead.

"Damn it! Protect the battleship! Medical soldiers!"

Jimmy got up, cursed angrily, ordered people to repair the damaged area of ​​the warship and called medical staff to rescue the injured. He understood the truth. The sea monster was not a sea monster. Because the water column stirred up by the explosion was black, it was clearly caused by the insufficient explosion of Hey O's medicine.

"Report of casualties and damage!"

"Seven people died, eleven people were seriously injured!"

"The hull was severely damaged and three holes were broken. Fortunately, the explosion of the sea monster was not very powerful, so we can repair the ship before sinking!"

Hearing that the ship was fine, Jimmy immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not that the sea monster's explosion is not powerful enough, but that we took the initiative to detonate the sea monster. If our warship hit it like the previous Hainer, our ship will be finished."

The soldier asked, "Major, what kind of sea monster is this? Why did it explode?"

Jimmy immediately smiled bitterly and said, "That's not a sea monster, but a bomb installed by the enemy in the sea, specifically bombing our warships!"

"It's really an underwater bomb?"

"Even we don't have this kind of technology, how can the enemy have it?"

"What should I do? The enemy has underwater bombs, so our warships are in danger!"

"Oh my God, I don't want to die!"

The British troops on the ship were in an uproar and complained one by one.

"Shut up! Many of you have experienced the Crimean War. The Russians invented anchor radium and once bombed Turkey's warships. I think since all the Russians can invent anchor radium that exploded underwater, it is not surprising that the Qing people invented this kind of underwater bomb. We defeated the Russians, so we can also defeat the Qing people. We can defeat the Qing people once, and defeat them twice, or even more times. The British Empire is invincible!"

"Invincible!"

"Invincible!"

After Jimmy's encouragement, the British sailors regained their confidence. Under Jimmy's calm command, warships gave up their sails and used the minimum horsepower steam engine to push forward, reducing the speed to the lowest level. At the same time, they sent small boats to open the way and pay attention to the "bombs" in the sea.

At the same time, Jimmy also sent a small boat back to report the situation to the coalition fleet.

Erkin and Gro were discussing military information on the flagship, waiting for Jimmy's advance reconnaissance fleet to bring back defense intelligence around Dinghai. Because the previous "spionage campaign" led to the arrest of British and French spies in Dinghai, they failed to hand over the information to the coalition headquarters in time, so they had to send a small fleet to "test firepower."

However, Jimmy's men brought back bad news, which shocked the coalition command.

"Underwater bomb?"

"What's the joke? Today is not April Fool's Day!"

"Four years ago, the Russians successfully developed electrolytic trigger water radium and sank several Turkish warships. Our British Empire warships were almost hit. I think Jimmy and the others encountered this thing, but I don't know how the Shanghai army got this thing!"

"This is not good! The Russians installed anchor radium everywhere in the harbor, which made our warships dare not approach and launch an attack. If the Shanghai army also deployed a large number of similar weapons in the coastal areas, it would be a huge threat to our fleet!"

"What is intelligence for? Why didn't we get this news at all?"

In the headquarters, coalition commanders roared.

"Enough, a few anchor radium will scare you like this. The face of the empire has been thrown into you!"

Erkin roared, covering up his inner tension and anxiety very well. In fact, he was more worried than anyone else. As the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, if he lost this war, he would be in trouble for him. He had already lost a game in Hong Kong before. The arsenal was bombed and the food was burned, which forced Erkin to adopt the tactic of quick battle and quick decision. But at this time, he encountered Anchor Ra. If the fleet could not approach the coast for artillery support, then the coalition's greatest military advantage would be useless.

"It's too early to say this now, wait for Jimmy's news to come back. But we'd better call on weapons experts to discuss countermeasures and see how to clear these anchors hidden in the water."

Erkin immediately agreed: "That's right, as long as we have a way to deal with Anchor Radi, then don't worry!"

The coalition headquarters here convened a large number of arms experts and began to study Anchor Radiation. Jimmy on the other side was also carefully avoiding the water radium in the sea and approaching Dinghai Island bit by bit.

On the Luotou Mountain outside the Dinghai Island, a reconnaissance platoon from the 29th Brigade of the 15th Town of the Shanghai Army was lurking here, secretly monitoring the British fleet.

"Platform leader, the foreign devil's warship has discovered another piece of water radium!"

"Damn, who has laid out the water radium, it's so easy to find it!"

The platoon leader immediately complained, and the other soldiers in the platoon looked at the other two people. At first glance, these two people were no different from the others. They were all wearing military green uniforms, but their epaulettes were yellow and belonged to the engineering army.

The faces of the two little engineers suddenly turned dark, and others called him a problem with the water radium he had laid out. Naturally, he would not have a good face.

At this time, the platoon leader observed from the telescope that the enemy sent a large number of small boats to carry British soldiers to explore the way forward.

Since the depth of anchor radium of the Shanghai Army is only about five to eight meters, as long as the sea surface is good, the anchor radium position can be easily seen on the sea surface. (ps: The sea water in this era is not polluted, it is blue tiles and blue drops. It is clear and see the bottom o(n_n)o...)

"No, the foreign devils saw the mines at a glance. How could they explode?"

"You two, go and put the water and radium in the back deeper to save these foreigners from discovering it!"

The platoon leader ordered that this was the solution he thought of.

However, the two little engineers snorted coldly and remained unmoved.

Seeing this, the platoon leader was furious and shouted, "I said, why do you two want to disobey?"

One of the little engineers curled his lips and said, "If you don't understand, don't pretend to understand! Put the water radium deeper? Can you still blow up the ship of the foreign devils?"

The platoon leader was stunned and asked, "What's wrong, it won't work!"

Another young engineer snorted coldly and explained: "The ship has a draft depth, and the water radium bao device is detonated by impacting the bottom of the ship. The largest first-class battleship among foreign warships is more than 8 meters in draft, and ordinary frigates have a much shallow draft. If the depth is lowered, it will not be blown up!"

The platoon leader also attended night school. Although he didn't understand the internal principles of water radium, he could understand it in general and knew that water radium was detonated by impacting the bottom of the ship.

He coughed twice in embarrassment, then turned around and said nothing.

When the other soldiers saw that their platoon leader was defeated, they all held back their laughter.

Seeing this, the platoon leader felt that he could not come to Taiwan, and immediately exhaled his anger on them.

"Damn, I'm trying to find a way, but you're watching the fun. I'll find a way for me. If the foreign devils are so easy to get close to Dinghai, there's no need to wait for the company commander. The brigade commander will come to deal with me. I'll fix you one by one first!"

No accidental disaster!

The soldiers of the entire platoon were in trouble and started to think of solutions one by one.

There are many people and great power, and there are many people who pick up firewood and high flames.

Soon one of the soldiers thought of a more reliable method, and he said: "Platform leader, foreigners' ships dare not hit our water radium, so I think we might as well let the water radium blow them up!"

The platoon leader's eyes lit up and he hurriedly said, "It's interesting, let's continue!"

The soldier immediately said with a smile: "Platform leader, I mean that as long as the foreign ships are close to the water radium position, we will take the initiative to detonate water radium."

"How to detonate?"

"That's not simple. Isn't there a sniper in our platoon? Just shoot and explode water and radium!"

"Yes, our sniper can hit the enemy's head at a distance of 200 meters. The water radium guy looks like a millstone and should hit it!"
To be continued...