The second Humen confrontation with the British army was basically a foregone conclusion. The Pearl River Estuary was blocked and was subject to the Humen Fort. Whether it was attacking Guangzhou or landing in Humen, it was impossible for the British army to not pay a considerable price.

Focusing on attacking the Pearl River Estuary, with the cooperation of Wooden Displacement City and Humen Fortress, if there are sufficient mines, the losses of the British army will be immeasurable. With twenty warships, it is at least impossible to break through the Humen defense line today. As for what happens in the future, we have to fight again to see the results.

Similarly, the Humen Fort is subject to the number of artillery and the flexibility of warships. If you want to give a flexibly roaming warship, you will have too much luck and barely protect yourself. This is the current situation of Humen.

Without going through war, there will be no actual experience. The Humen artillery battle is also a warning to Yang Meng. He originally wanted to threaten an English fleet with more than 500 artillery guns from Humen. Today, he looked at this idea a bit naive and naive.

The turret is a dead object, and its range and angle of shooting are limited after all. The warship is a living object, wandering around and avoiding flexibly. Even if there is no obstruction of the fog of war, it will be quite difficult for the Humen turret to defeat a fleet.

The tentative battle has lost its meaning until now. If it is delayed, it will only increase casualties. This time, Yang Meng didn't know what the Englishman got, but for him, the gains were great.

The establishment of the shore defense defense system is imminent, the accumulation of practical experience of the new army takes time, and the research and development of new shore defense weapons also takes time. The most important point is that Yang Meng must control the Qing Dynasty in the near future. Without a unified and peaceful country, it is basically impossible to start a national war with England or Eros. The country does not have considerable strength, and it is impossible to last for a long time by relying solely on war and strong military strength.

"Let Wang Fengyou let go of the fight! The ammunition stored in Humen will not be used up in one or two days. Do your best to damage or destroy the English warships."

Although it has reached the stage of increasing casualties, it is still the law of the army to attack the enemy, and the warships will be more damaged. The next war will be postponed by one point. Only when the real sword and gun are started will you know how inadequate you have prepared.

The British commander may have had the same idea. The artillery battle in Humen continued until the evening before slowly stopping. The night battle was much more beneficial to the Humen artillery. Even the fog of war could not cover the flames when the warships fired. If the British army wanted to fight at night, it would be what Yang Meng couldn't ask for!

"I inform the people along the way and count the damage to the British warships. Let Wang Fengyou and Wu Yuanyou report the consumption and damage of the Humen together!"

The tentative battle has been fought so far, and it is time to summarize. How much consumption is needed for such a large-scale battle? How much damage is it? It is very important for Yang Meng. Even if this kind of artillery battle is close to the Humen in Guangzhou Shipyard, it will not last for a few days. If such artillery battle lasts for more than ten days, the artillery artillery of Humen will be retired on all sides. Moreover, whether the artillery shells can be supplied in time is also a big question. To be honest, Yang Meng cannot afford such a war of attrition!

"San Ye, Humen Fort, 573 artillery guns, a total of 26,846 flowering bullets, 3,532 solid bullets, and 2,260 barrels of foreign medicine, 11,800 kilograms.

More than 1,700 flowering bullets were destroyed by British artillery, more than 200 barrels of foreign medicine, 216 artillery doors were damaged, and more than 1,700 soldiers were killed and injured!"

"Mr. Master of the Ministry and the Guangzhou militia, more than 400 brave men died and injured, destroyed twenty-three artillery pieces, consumed more than 3,000 flowering bullets, and consumed more than 2,000 kilograms of foreign medicine."

The battle losses between Wang Fengyou and Wu Yuanyou were reported quite carefully. After hearing this consumption, Yang Meng frowned and Yu Shi was so tight that he spent too much! I am afraid that the loss of this battle would be at least 500,000 taels, which was only one day of consumption. What if it was ten days? It was a terrifying loss!

"Make a list for me, and reward my brothers who have survived it, and give me some kind of mercy to the deceased! Build a cemetery after the Humen Fort! The blood of protecting the country cannot be emptied. Leave some things for future generations to admire!"

Compared with the war, the Humen Artillery Battle was just a trivial small battle, with more than 2,000 casualties and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. How much does a real national war cost?

Maybe if you fight slowly, the consumption of Humen will be less, but if you fight slowly, the loss of soldiers will be greater, and it is difficult to decide between gains and losses!

With the worry of not being able to fight on a large scale, Yang Meng also returned to Guangzhou in a daze. For Yang Meng, the gap between ideals and reality is also quite large. His previous pride was shockingly consumed by Humen and he drew a fierce shot.

Now that I think about it, the Humen Fortress dealt with the three warships in Ximamiguli that day, the Humen Fortress was definitely a huge advantage. The three warships were moored at the estuary of the Pearl River. It takes time to avoid anchoring and time. The three white copper cannons are extremely high, and they must have a considerable accuracy in attacking fixed targets.

It is reasonable that the Marine Corps, which had no naval gun support, was completely wiped out when facing an enemy that was several times more than it was. From this point of view, the guy from Xima Miguel set a trap for Yang Meng with his life!

"San Ye, the damage to British warships has been clearly counted. In this battle, twenty British warships participated in the battle were sunk by mines, three were sunk by Humen's artillery fire, one warship was severely damaged, and the rest of the warships were also injured to a considerable extent. With the construction ability of the Hong Kong Island dock, these warships could not participate in the war again within one or two months, and the number of casualties of the British army is still unknown.

Today, Hong Kong Island has thirty gunboats. Most of these gunboats are medium gunboats of sixty to eighty guns, and three giant ships of one hundred and twenty guns."

Qin Ziqi's intelligence relieved Yang Meng's mood in the first half, but in the second half, it hit people a little. According to the artillery position, the firepower of the British army this time was only one-quarter of the total artillery position. If all these gunboats gathered in front of the Humen Fort, the firepower would be quite terrifying.

Of course, this is just an idea. If the fifty gunboats in England today gathered near Humen, Yang Meng would be laughing. So many warships gathered together. The targets were undoubtedly multiplied.

"Taichen. You can estimate the loss of Humen."

He handed the order of Wang Fengyou and Wu Yuanyou to Ding Taichen. When he saw the loss list of Humen, Ding Taichen frowned.

"Around one million and a half million!"

"What?"

"The price of the 24-pound flowering bullets given to us by the foreigners is fifteen taels of silver per one. Humen used nearly 30,000 yuan a day, worth 450,000 taels of silver. The value of foreign medicine is not very large. It can only be used as 200 taels. These more than 200 cannons are calculated in terms of 2,000 taels, 400,000! This is 900,000 taels, and the pension for personnel's 200 taels of militia, 1,000 taels of new troops, and more than 2,000 and 50,000 and 600,000 casualties is not outrageous!

These losses, even if the profits of artillery and shells were taken, were around one million taels."

I don’t know if this account is not counted. I was shocked when I calculated it. Yang Meng estimated that the 500,000 yuan was one-third of the actual consumption, even if he used his own artillery ammunition. This consumption was doubled.

Yang Meng had previously omitted the personnel's pension, which was also the basis for ensuring the combat effectiveness of the new army at this stage. Screaming slogans actually did not work. Now the ruling foundation of the Qing Dynasty has not yet completely defeated. It is either to protect its own land and to work for the soldiers, they can only spend money. Joining the army and paying for their lives is the foundation of the new army. In Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet, the Yang family may have some face, but the new army elsewhere can only be controlled by silver and food.

"This war cannot be fought! This Humen artillery battle also exposed our weaknesses in coastal defense. Just relying on the artillery, we cannot defend the estuary at all. The mines and wooden drainage city will also be sorted out.

Ziqi, have you ever used mines during the Crimean War?"

The cost was too great. One million taels of silver were wasted in one day. Even if there were clouds and smoke, Yang Meng could not afford to fight for a long war.

"I used it. Mines were used in Finland and St. Petersburg. They were invented by Swedish Alfred Nobel. We have not mastered the patent technology yet, but after the Crimean War, there was a problem with the funding of the Nobel family, and we can buy the patent smoothly."

After flipping through the booklet he carried with him, Qin Ziqi gave a reply.

"Lack of funds? OK! Send someone to contact the Nobel family. If they are willing to immigrate to the Qing Dynasty, I will give their family a living expenses of 500,000 taels per year in addition to building the required factory for them. If there are requirements in experiments, as long as it does not exceed 5 million taels per year, I can satisfy it!

Swedes? Let Patrick go there in person!”

Yang Meng knew the name of Nobel. The family of this guy is in a desperate situation. Although Yang Meng can't afford to fight in war, Yang Meng can still afford to pay tens of millions of taels of silver. Compared with the value of Nobel, even tens of millions of taels of silver is insignificant to Yang Meng. He can drive an era.

"Add to this sentence, if they come to the Qing Dynasty, I will spend two million to build a Nobel Academy of Sciences for them! The regulations are equivalent to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Europe!"

This is the value of a scientist who can establish a system. Nobel undoubtedly represents a scientific system. If Yang Meng gives such a value, he is not afraid that the Nobel family will not come to the Qing Dynasty.

The Nobel family is Swedes. Since they can serve Tsarist Russia, why can't they serve in the Qing Dynasty?

The establishment of a scientific system is the real top priority. Ge Shiyang from Xishan can only be considered a person other than two knives in this regard. If he can invite the Nobel family to serve him, no matter how much the price, Yang Meng is willing to pay. If he really can't do it, he will just use the private property of the Yang family. Such a person must not be missed!

"San Master, you can live within your means! I have no objection to 10 million in twenty years, but 5 million a year, such a cost is not a small amount of money for the current Yang family!

The Humen artillery battle consumed 1 million taels a day. In the next battle, our money was not enough to spend. Even if we used our old capital, we would not last for a year or two!

We already have a mountain of Xishan, and you do this to build another mountain of Xishan! To be honest, we can't afford such a cost!"

The Yang family can bear it even if one or two million a year. However, the Third Master invites the Nobel family to build another Xishan. The consumption of two Xishans will quickly emptie the Yang family's foundation.

"Taichen said it is right. Let Master Ge from Xishan go there instead of Patrick, and let him take the results of Xishan over the years, only bring the projects. For specific details, you are not allowed to go out of Xishan.

If the Nobel family comes, I can let them take charge of the West. When Ziqi talks, be more polite. You might as well mention our five-country shipyard, the world's largest industrial base. I believe the inventors are very interested in taking a look.

Taichen, to me, the Nobel family is worth this price. Now we are not inferior to our enthusiasm, but to our national strength!

Speaking of this national strength, Ziqi, this time I went to Europe, you also asked someone to collect the formulas of chemical fertilizers, urea, phosphorus fertilizer, potassium fertilizer, and nitrogen fertilizer, which we urgently need. With these, the yield of a mu of land can increase at least 30% or 50%, right?

Remember! It’s not enough to have a recipe alone, so I have to ask clearly how to use it. I don’t know how to use these fertilizers!”

Value, measured by value, is definitely worth the money to encourage the Nobel family to come to China. Speaking of this, there has been a breakthrough in grain production that has always troubled Yang Meng. As far as Yang Meng knows, Nobel seems to be a chemist, right?

If fertilizers can be popularized within one or two years, as long as there is enough food, many things will be easy to deal with. If the money is really not good, Yang Meng can also issue money. As long as the Nobel family can solve the problem of grain production, Yang Meng will be happy to pay ten times the price!

"I'll go there in person?"

"No need! Just rely on people. Never let Master Ge defect. If it is really impossible, kill him!"

Whether Qin Ziqi will go or not has no effect on the success or failure of this trip. Now Yang Meng needs Qin Ziqi more places, which involves the achievements of the West Mountain. Ge Shiyang, a loyal man, was also ordered to defect and kill by Yang Meng. After all, his hometown is hard to leave! When he goes to Europe, who knows what Ge Shiyang is thinking? If he dies, he can only blame him for having too many secrets! (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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