The two days passed quickly, and during this period, the concession sent a group of representatives to negotiate with the KPA on the terms of surrender, still hoping that the concession would maintain a certain degree of independence and autonomy. Moreover, this time, three Chinese operating in the concession were added to the concession negotiators, hoping to use the feelings of the same nationality to get the East China government to make concessions.

In fact, most of the Chinese businessmen operating in the concession do not want to change, because the Chinese who can operate in the concession have considerable assets and have good relations with foreign businessmen, even if the current environment can make them profitable, of course, they do not want to change, and at the same time they are afraid that the war will cause great damage to the concession, so this group of people also strongly oppose the People's Army's attack on the Shanghai concession from the bottom of their hearts.

Therefore, in the last two negotiations, the concession side was basically dominated by Chinese businessmen, and they tried their best to make a case to Luo Yue and Li Songchen that the war would only destroy the peace and prosperity of the concession and harm the interests of Chinese businessmen in the concession, and the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the Industry Board of the Concession also made concessions, saying that they could allow Chinese people to join the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the Industry Board and participate in the management of the concession.

However, these demands、Concessions in Luo Yue、 Although most of the three businessmen had a certain friendship with Li Songchen, Li Songchen also unceremoniously rejected the demands of these businessmen, directly pointing out that the East China Government's demand was to completely abolish the concession and completely incorporate the concession into the management of the East China Government and completely under the control of the East China Government, and said that under the rule of the East China Government, the concession area would not only continue to maintain prosperity and development, but also that the interests of the Chinese businessmen in the original concession could also be guaranteed, and they could completely get rid of the control of foreign capital and develop independently。

After listening to Li Songchen's words, the three Chinese businessmen were also silent, and of course they could hear the meaning of Li Songchen's words. The net worth of the Chinese merchants in the concession may not be counted, and there are no lack of wealthy businessmen, but in essence, they all belong to comprador businessmen.

In China's modern history, compradors are a special group of merchants, whose function is mainly to act as intermediaries and managers for foreign businessmen in China's trade activities. Although after the Opium War, China's door was opened by Western guns, due to language, customs, environmental and other reasons, foreign businessmen operating in China need a group of Chinese to assist them in their operations, on the one hand, to sell the industrial products of Western countries to various parts of China, on the other hand, to purchase various resources, minerals, and even real estate, real estate and so on from China.

And because these Chinese are protected by foreign powers, they can not be bound by Chinese laws, and in addition, they collect employment fees between China and foreign trade, and some even operate independently, so some of them have also accumulated rich wealth, so they form a comprador group.

On the whole, the comprador group is quite destructive to the development of China's national capital, and they sell the industrial products of Western countries to various parts of China, squeezing the development of China's own products; and when they help foreign countries purchase Chinese products, they try their best to lower prices, and some people do not hesitate to resort to the vicious means of deception and deception. As a result, China's wealth has been plundered, national capital has been suppressed, and the people's lives have become increasingly poor. Therefore, in the old time and space, the ancestors of the time-travelers called compradors, feudal bureaucrats, and capitalists the three mountains of old China.

However, it cannot be said that every comprador businessman is a traitor or a villain, after all, the formation of the comprador group is mainly due to the incompetence of the Qing court itself, which is unable to protect China's national interests and national assets. Moreover, the comprador group still has a certain positive significance, not completely negative, because the comprador has been in contact with foreigners for a long time, has a better understanding of the outside world, has a broader horizon, and is more politically progressive, some people have even become thinkers, and some of the businessmen have accumulated wealth, expelled from the control of foreign capital, operated independently, and developed industry to become national capital, which has played a certain positive role in the development of China's national capital.

Most of the Chinese businessmen operating in the Shanghai Concession are independent businessmen, and some of them have started industries, but their main business is to help foreign businessmen carry out trade activities in China, so they are still comprador businessmen in essence, and their interests are basically tied up with the interests of the concession, to put it mildly, they are completely dependent on foreign businessmen, of course, they hope that the concession will be retained forever, and the concession side is also very aware of this, so they are willing to let these comprador businessmen enter the Ministry of Industry Bureau and participate in the management of the concession.

However, for the East China government, the comprador group, like the landlords, must be eliminated, not a little concession can be changed, of course, if there are comprador businessmen willing to transform into industrial businessmen, the East China government is also willing to provide them with some help, but if they refuse to change, but also to stop the East China government, naturally it will not accept.

After two days, the concession still had no intention of surrendering to the KPA. It turned out that after the second group of delegations returned to the concessions, the managers of the two concessions also understood that the KPA would not compromise, and the concessions would either surrender unconditionally or resist to the death. As a result, the Public Concession Bureau and the French Concession Board of Directors also gathered to discuss the choice of the concession.

However, at this time, there were also serious differences within the concession, and a group of people advocated accepting the conditions of the People's Army and surrendering to the People's Army, which would not only save everyone's lives, but also ensure that the concession would not be destroyed, and Britain and France had already decided to send troops, so that when the coalition forces arrived in the Far East and defeated the People's Army, order in the concession could be restored. Of course, the underlying argument of this proposition is that if the Anglo-French forces cannot defeat the People's Army, then the demise of the concession is inevitable, and it is better to save your own life first.

There was also a group of people who were resolutely opposed to surrender and advocated holding the concession and fighting a decisive battle with the People's Army. The thinking of this group of people is still stuck before 1900, the Chinese army is not very striking, and the white race is more than the yellow race, and of course it cannot surrender. Although Colonel Frank, the military commander of the concession, was very pessimistic about the war, the commander of the British army, Colonel Martin, was full of honey confidence, believing that the Chinese army was completely vulnerable and that the army in the concession was completely capable of resisting the attack of the People's Army.

Colonel Martin's attitude became the backbone of the main battle faction, and as a result, the two factions quarreled all day in the building of the Ministry of Works in the Public Concession, but neither could convince the other, and in the quarrel between the two sides, the time left by the KPA for the concession had run out.

What happened in the concession was transmitted to the headquarters through the intelligence personnel who were lurking in the concession arranged by the East China government, and Luo Yue was quite speechless when he learned about it, it was 9160 years, and there were still foreigners who equated the East China government with the Qing court. However, it seems that it is impossible to settle the concession peacefully, and it is impossible to occupy the concession without a war, and although a war will certainly cause some damage to the concession once it starts, it is also unavoidable.

So Luo Yue ordered the People's Army on the south, north, and west sides to launch an attack on the concession.

At this time, the People's Army on three sides was ready for battle, and after receiving Luo Yue's order, they immediately launched an artillery bombardment on the defensive line of the British and French troops. Although this time the KPA did not carry artillery with them, they did bring mortars, so the mortars used to bombard the British and French troops this time.

Although the power of mortars is not as good as conventional artillery, but it is still enough to deal with the British and French troops, after all, the defense line composed of the British and French troops is a temporary arrangement, mainly composed of sandbags, wooden frames and some buildings, under the artillery bombardment of the People's Army, the British and French troops were suddenly killed and wounded, except for a few soldiers who used the building as a cover, the other soldiers retreated to the concession, and the defense line also collapsed.

After more than 10 minutes of shelling, the KPA launched an attack on the British and French troops, taking advantage of the retreat of the British and French troops and entering the concession.

However, the soldiers of the People's Army have all undergone severe training in the Northeast Battlefield, and although they cannot be said to have experienced a hundred battles, they have all seen blood and fire, and the soldiers of the British and French armies themselves are all second- and third-rate soldiers in China, and it is impossible for them to experience any major wars in the concession, so they cannot even guarantee normal training, and of course it is impossible to resist the attack of the People's Army. Moreover, the British and French troops were far less numerous than the KPA, so that only 30 minutes after the start of the war, the organized resistance in the concession was largely wiped out or dispersed by the KPA. On the one hand, the KPA was developing in the depth of the concession, and on the other hand, it also left a small number of soldiers to defend the occupied street areas.

Luo Yue was in the command headquarters, constantly receiving feedback from the battlefield, either occupying that street, or seizing a certain building built by Guanjian, and the staff officers were also busy according to the news received, putting the small red flag marking the occupation on the sand table model of the concession, and someone kept whispering: "Quick, bring two more red flags, ** Street has been occupied......" "This place is also occupied, so fast." ”

Occasionally, the red flag was placed in the wrong position, but immediately there was new news on the battlefield that the position had been occupied by the People's Army, so there was no need to change it.

Luo Yue and Li Songchen stood side by side on the edge of the sand table and watched the staff officers busily place red flags in the sand table, but they didn't say anything. Although Li Songchen did not understand military affairs, it can be seen from the sand table model that at this time, most of the outer periphery of the concession had been occupied by the People's Army, and at the same time, two groups of the People's Army had penetrated deep into the hinterland of the concession. Therefore, Li Songchen can basically be sure that this war has been won. And he looked at his watch again, and the war had only been more than 1 hour old.