Seymour has been serving in Europe, and he is familiar with the main generals of the other three countries this time, and he is reluctant to speak first, so he gives Rose a look. Ross served in India, so he didn't care so much, and said directly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the two fleets of this Chinese country have been defeated twice by the expeditionary force of our British Empire, and they have suffered heavy losses, and the remaining dozens of warships have completely dared not engage us at all, and fled to Guangzhou City. They must have wanted to use the coastal defense of the forts on both sides of the river to deal with us. However, how many routes are there to Guangzhou, in order to completely annihilate the enemy's warships, the generals discussed how to send troops? ”

Seymour immediately interjected and chimed in: "Yes, the big river leading to Guangzhou is called the Pearl River, we have done a detailed investigation in the United Kingdom, the river system is abundant, and now it is the season of abundant water in the upper reaches, and the channel on the river is very deep, that is, this battleship with a displacement of 5,900 tons under our feet, it is no problem to drive to the city of Guangzhou through the main channel." However, now that our four countries have a large number of warships, if they swarm up, the order will be chaotic, and the narrow river will not be able to be used, and it may even injure friendly troops by mistake, which will not be beautiful. Why don't we divide our troops and go to attack Guangzhou from different channels? ”

The commander of the Ottoman Expeditionary Force, Awuzheoğlu, and the commander of the Dutch Expeditionary Force, Johann, glanced at each other, and the two showed a meaningful smile, then nodded: "That's true." We are all assisting your country in the conquest of the East, and General Seymour will arrange it. ”

Seeing the two of them say this, the commander of the Portuguese expeditionary force next to him, Jia Duosu, could only nod his head in agreement. However, his intention was not to assist the British in their conquest of the Chinese Empire, as the other two said. As the former Portuguese governor of Macao, although he was not in his hands by the Chinese Empire to take back Macao, but as a Portuguese soldier who had served as the governor of Macao, he shared weal and woe, and if he took advantage of the great opportunity of the British army to attack the Chinese Empire, he would permanently occupy Macao and force the Chinese Empire to sign a cession treaty with Portugal, which would undoubtedly be his glorious achievement. Therefore, his mind was on the occupied Macao Peninsula.

Now Macao is because the Chinese Empire has evacuated all the soldiers and civilians stationed there, and the entire Macao area is empty, but Jia Duosu is worried that now that the combined fleet of the three countries is gone, Macao will be occupied by the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, what Jia Duo thought was to first send his fleet and soldiers to Macao, completely occupy the Macao Peninsula and other places, send a part of the troops to stay behind, and then send the fleet to follow behind the fleets of Britain and other countries from afar, so as to reduce his own desperate losses to the Chinese Empire's batteries and fleets before his death, and to wait for them to defeat the Chinese Empire, and go to grab some spoils of war himself.

However, the deputy commander of the British Navy, He Bo, was a little skeptical: "Generals, although our coalition is strong, there are still many warships in the fleet of the Chinese Empire, especially the opponent's artillery power and range are very good, and there must be a reason or even something to rely on without engaging in the slightest battle. In any case, I suggest that it is better for all fleets of our coalition forces to be under unified command, and even if they attack in separate directions, they must support and cooperate with each other, so as not to break through each enemy. ”

Seymour immediately picked up and said, "Everybody's right. Now that everyone is united, I have been added as Naval Commander of the British Expeditionary Force as commander of this joint military operation. Now I will assign the task of this troop dispatch. ”

Seymour had a good idea and took command in his hands in a few words, but his intention was not to let the fleets of other countries rush to the front to fight the vanguard, but to transfer the soldiers of other countries or put them behind. After all, judging from the conquest along the way, the army of this eastern country is vulnerable, and now that so many warships of the British Empire have been dispatched, how can there be a reason why it cannot be attacked? His only thought was that as much of the booty as possible in Canton and its surroundings would fall into the hands of the British army, rather than half of it to the other three nations, as had been previously agreed upon by London.

In his opinion, the British Empire's expeditionary force was sufficient, and he should not have asked other countries to help in the war in the first place, let alone promised to give them half of the captured spoils. Since he became the battlefield commander of the expeditionary force, he was obliged to reverse this wrong decision.

Therefore, he directly ordered someone to take the map, pointed to the mouth of the Pearl River, and said: "This Pearl River in China has a large amount of water, and there are many waterways leading from the mouth of the Pearl River to the city of Guangzhou. As you know, these hateful Chinese, cowardly and treacherous, fled in all directions, and in order to completely annihilate the Chinese fleet and prevent them from hiding like cunning loaches, we must divide our forces and clear all the waterways so that they have no place to live.

As soon as you enter the estuary, there is a Hengmen waterway, leading to the area of Xiangshan and Shunde, until the upper reaches of the city of Guangzhou, where there is only one fort called Xiaoyin, which is not large, and the Ottoman expeditionary force led by General Awuzheolu is in charge.

Our British Empire has already reconnoitred in advance through intelligence personnel, and the main force of the British Empire Expeditionary Force fleet is still in accordance with the war route of the capture of Guangzhou 18 years ago, divided into two fleets from the main channel of the Pearl River to conquer the Humen Fortress first, and the Shajiao Fort and Dajiao Fort of the first portal, as well as the upper and lower rungs of the second portal and the Yong'an, Weiyuan, Zhenyuan, Shawei and other forts, need a large number of artillery and ground infantry to cooperate.

There are two rivers called Jiaomen Waterway and Shawan Waterway locally, which eventually lead to the county seat of Shunde, and then up is the upstream waterway to the city of Guangzhou, and the enemy has no forts and military defense along the way, so General Jia Dosu and your Portuguese expeditionary force are in charge.

As for General John of the Dutch Expeditionary Force, your unit has three capital warships and six small warships, together with the main force of our British Expeditionary Force.

After the capture of Humen Fortress, the main channel along the way is called Shiziyang, which is divided into two waterways in the north and south after Changzhou Island, the south road is to the south through the new construction, and then go north through Dahuangjiao to reach the white goose pond in the southwest of Guangzhou City; The north road is through Liede, Ershawei to the south of Guangzhou. After the secret investigation of the British in the early stage, there are dozens of forts on this road, focusing on the fort groups based on Cheung Chau, Shalu, Yuzhu, Niushan and Pinggang Dongshan, etc., the strategic location of these five fort groups can look at each other, the firepower covers each other, each other becomes a horn, and the whole Pearl River is fortified, blocking the entire Pearl River main north-south channel river surface, the Chinese call it 'five tigers capture the ocean', the goal is to prevent our attack. ”

"It seems that these Chinese have learned the lesson of their fiasco 18 years ago, and have added a lot of batteries, and even more so many artillery pieces, if it had been 18 years ago, it would have been a hard bone for my British Expeditionary Fleet. However, now 18 years have passed, our British fleet is not the beginning, and this time the East is aggressive, encroaching on the territories of European countries in the East Indies, the queen and the prime minister are furious, and the parliament is sensational. What's more, we also have a large number of troop carriers that have sent a lot of infantry to participate in the battle. Many of their batteries had a fatal flaw, and that was that they only defended the river, and as long as our warriors went around the rear of their batteries, they could break through and occupy them. ”

I have to say that Seymour is worthy of being a vice admiral, and the intelligence is very carefully probed, and the plan is also very detailed. However, what no one may have thought is that the reason why he let the Dutch Expeditionary Fleet follow the British Expeditionary Force on the main channel was not because of the large number of Dutch warships, but because he befriended John, the commander of the Dutch Expeditionary Force, and let them follow the British Fleet to get some benefits. As for the numerous batteries he mentioned, it may be a little troublesome, but it is by no means a trouble, I believe that under the fire of the British Expeditionary Force's Invincible Armada, and nearly 14,000 marines and infantry participated in the battle, there is no fortress or city in the world that can be defended.

Finally, Seymour suddenly said: "Generals, fight hard!" By the way, at the request of everyone, and at the same time to stimulate the enthusiasm of the officers and men, several generals of our British Expeditionary Fleet decided that the spoils captured by the various detachments and soldiers should be disposed of by themselves. Let's let go of our hands and feet and work together to defeat these eastern armies. Also, I have a friend from London, who is engaged in ocean trade, and can buy some loot for you, and if you need it after the war, I can introduce you to it. ”

Rose nodded, "It's a wise decision!" I believe that when the soldiers of various countries hear this news, they will be overjoyed and bravely go forward to fight regardless of their lives! ”

The commander of the Dutch Expeditionary Force, John, must have been greeted by Seymour in advance, and he quickly agreed: "This is a good note!" ”

The three of them talked to themselves, and soon finalized the principles of the distribution of the spoils. In fact, it is a sentence that as long as the place is captured, you can freely loot the property, and whoever you seize will go to whomever you want.

It seems that this is a completely laissez-faire state, and the purpose is to make all the soldiers who participated in the war a large amount of war money, which is naturally much better than handing over all the captures. Naturally, no one will object to such a decision.

After negotiating the matter, Seymour chatted a little more about the attack on the fort, then ended the meeting and directly ordered the division of troops to go north and attack Guangzhou!

Soon, the combined fleet of the four-nation expeditionary force went its own way.

The first to leave was the Portuguese fleet. Jadosu casually made an excuse that the fleet was infested by rats and needed to find dozens of cats in the harbor to catch mice, so he left first.

Seymour didn't care whether the Portuguese fleet was really infested with rats or making excuses, anyway, Portugal only sent a total of 5 warships and 6 troop carriers, and there was not much difference between them and them, and there was also a team less to divide the spoils, so he was naturally happy, but he still instructed that the Jiaomen Waterway and the Shawan Waterway should be cleared up by the Portuguese fleet as soon as possible, and if there was a large group of enemy troops, the British fleet would be notified to support.

Naturally, Jia Duosu did not really go to clean up the Jiaomen Waterway and Shawan Waterway, but directly reversed direction and rushed to the Macao Peninsula, where Portugal's fundamental interests lie.

The expeditionary fleet was not in a hurry, adjusted its combat state all the way, and arrived at the river outside Humen at dawn the next day.

Perhaps the Chinese had already made arrangements, and the merchant ships were originally shuttling back and forth on the busy Humen River, but there were no empty ships, presumably because they had been prepared and issued a war alarm, and all the ships had already taken refuge.

Seymour didn't care. It doesn't matter if you hide or not, let's capture these forts in Humen Fortress first. Anyway, as long as the river is blocked, these ships will eventually either be sunk by their own fleet or captured. Unless they are small enough to flee somewhere inland upstream of the river.

was about to arrange the offensive formation and assign combat missions, but Seymour did not expect that in addition to the Dutch fleet he arranged to follow the British Expeditionary Force fleet, the Ottoman Expeditionary Force that should have crossed the Lingding Ocean and left the main channel before entering the Humen waters and entered the Hengmen Waterway next to it was still the same as the Dutch fleet, following his British fleet far away, and couldn't help but curse secretly: "Bastard!" Since they have to follow the British Fleet and want to divide the fruits of our victory equally, I need not be polite to them. Someone came, sent a message to the Turks, and put them in the front as the vanguard to attack the fortress of Humen. ”