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Li Xubin saw that the army's morale was in turmoil, especially those miscellaneous troops, and he exclaimed in surprise, scattered and fled, and couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, could it be that the first time I led the army to go out, it ended in failure?

If you are unwilling, you will think of ways to save it.

Then he sent his own elite team of complete mastery and ordered them to serve as a wartime law enforcement team!

There were a thousand of them, all cavalrymen, and when they heard the order, they rode out, caught up with the fleeing enemy in the blink of an eye, and with the clatter of their swords, more than 1,000 heads fell to the ground, and the fleeing crowd swept back like a flood encountering a strong and tall dam!

The thousand-man law enforcement team shouted in unison: "Your Excellency has an order!

This move was powerful, and it stopped the rout of the brigade at once!

However, at most, this prevents the self-chaos of his own army, but it does not help the overall situation on the battlefield!

The army soldiers who rushed down from Bagong Mountain, and the generals of the water division who emerged from the bottom of the Jiuyou River, were all unstoppable, melting his troops every second!

You still have to run! The direction of running is only the direction that the rout just took just now, because the other three directions are "this road is impassable"!

Li Xuyi made a decision immediately, and the strong man broke his arm!

He discharged the last reserve, that is, he used it as his hole card, and never took part in a team of 10,000 men, ordering them to act as defenders and cover the escape of the others, and about 30,000 men in tatters.

He looked at the remaining miscellaneous army, there were about 6,000 or so people, gritted his teeth, and called Li Lu, who stayed on the defensive. Deliver them all to him, and secretly command them to be in the most dangerous place, until they are gone!

Therefore, Gilhanga personally went out and quietly came to the territory of the American concession. Interview with US Representative Clinton.

Clinton definitely belonged to that kind of wilting type, and as soon as he heard the request of this Manchu military attaché, he knew that he had no idea that these Yankees had surrendered long ago.

So, he calculated and understood the Qing army's thoughts clearly, and then told Sù Gilhanga that he would have two days to think about it, and then give him an answer.

Gilhanga went back to wait for news, and Clinton immediately came to look for Mai Ke.

On taking sides. Whether to follow Mai Ke's Heavenly Army or the Qing Army with Gilhang'a, Clinton had already made up his mind, and he would never choose the Manchu Dynasty.

To be honest, he still really doesn't look down on these Manchu generals.

"Thank you, Lao Ke! This information is very important! If you crush the Manchu conspiracy, I will give you a great credit!" Mai Ke praised this Lao Mei without hesitation, and gave him a hope.

"Haha! Thank you for recognizing my credit! My old ke also wants to make a big difference!" he happily accepted the old gram that Mai Ke called him.

With this new situation. Mai Ke called the immediate leader over, mainly Liu Lichuan, Yang Xiuqing, and Yang Xiutian. and Lin Zexu, who is already here, to discuss how to eat these Qing soldiers who are still in the dark.

The goal is to eat cleanly and thoroughly, while avoiding casualties among one's own people.

Mai Ke did not participate in the formulation of these specific steps, with Old Man Lin and Yang Xiutian, there was no problem with language communication.

Mai Ke looked at Clinton and felt in a trance.

Not long since. This Yankee was still sitting there watching the tiger fight, one moment saying that he was on the side of the Manchus, and the other he said that he was on the side of the rebels.

He gave both sides hope that he would help them; But he didn't help anyone, and from time to time fanned the flames on both sides, prompting the rebels and Qing soldiers to continue fighting.

After the uprising of the Little Knife Society, Liu Lichuan repeatedly told the consuls of the great powers in Shanghai that the purpose of the Little Knife Society was to bring down the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and outsiders did not need to be disturbed.

In fact, the foreign missionaries and merchants in Shanghai City were all protected by the Little Knife Society, and Qiu did not commit any crimes.

At the beginning, Britain, the United States and France declared "neutrality" one after another, waited and saw what happened, and also publicly stated that they "do not help each other".

Since the area of the French Concession in the south of Pidgin borders the north of the county seat, after the establishment of the concession, it has always been a market business area in Shanghai, where Chinese and foreigners are mixed and business is quite prosperous.

The Little Knife Society occupied the county seat of Shanghai, and some foreign firms and traders still used guò as a channel to continuously import food and materials to the county seat, smuggling foreign guns and cannons, and even foreigners volunteered to help the Little Knife Society fight.

The knife will capture a large amount of silver taels from the Daoku, which will be enough to pay for the purchase for a considerable period of time.

The rebels were not only imported from abroad, but in the Pidgin area, the Knife Society rebels often came here with weapons to purchase, and the French Concession did not prohibit it.

A foreigner named Lan Ling observed and concluded that if the concession had not left a way to transport all kinds of supplies to the county seat of Shanghai at that time, the officers and soldiers would have been able to suppress the rebels more quickly.

For this reason, the Qing army was extremely dissatisfied with the practice of the French Concession, and often used excuses to provoke incidents, which broke out the "Battle of Mud City" in history.

After the Xiaodaohui rebels occupied the county town of Shanghai, they dealt a heavy blow to the foreign invaders and the reactionary rule of the Qing Dynasty. The consuls of Shanghai, Britain, France, the United States and other countries, in order to seize the sovereignty of Shanghai Customs, decided to use force to force the Qing government to comply, so they provoked and triggered a battle of mud city.

At that time, the British opened a new park and racecourse in the east of the mud city. In the area of the new gate on the north side, there is the Qing army of Beiying led by the Qing Dynasty according to the inspection envoy Gil to resist Atong. On the west bank of Mud City, from north to south, the Qing army had three barracks and other military facilities.

One afternoon, Jolly and his wife of the British Xiangtai Bank were walking near the racecourse and clashed with the Qing army.

Seven or eight U.S. Marines and several members of the Shanghai "Volunteer Corps," that is, the International Merchant Group, rushed to the scene of the accident, opened fire on the Qing troops, and advanced to the Qing army's position.

The Qing army reinforced and fought back. Both sides fought for about half an hour, with casualties on each side.

Subsequently, British Consul Ali Guo and Vice Consul Wei Tuma respectively led a large number of British and American Marines and Shanghai "volunteers" to reinforce and attack the Qing army.

The Qing army fought and retreated, and the Americans launched artillery bombardment on the northern camp and burned down the Qing army's "Guanyintang Card Room". The cannon roared until dusk.

After the incident, Wu Jianzhang of Shanghai Province sent a letter to Ali Guo on the instructions of Gil Hang'a, acknowledging that the dispute was caused by the misconduct of the Qing soldiers, and saying that once the culprit was identified, he would be severely punished. It was hoped that the British Consul would assist in ascertaining the details at that time.

Ali Guo refused to accept the Qing government's apology. The situation continued to expand, and the acting consul of France, Ai Tang, and others held a meeting to prepare for the expansion of the conflict the next day.

At dawn the next day, the British ship "Enkangtu" shelled the Qing military ships anchored at the mouth of the Suzhou Creek and the Huangpu River. Except for one or two Qing warships that escaped, the rest were seized by the British.

Then, Ali held a joint meeting with the consuls and naval commanders of various countries, and decided to propose to the Qing army that all military camps close to the racecourse must be removed.

After the meeting, Ali Guo sent a circular to Gilhang'a. The barracks near the racecourse must be evacuated two or three miles before 3 p.m., otherwise they will be burned by force.

At the same time, Aleguo led more than 380 people from LinkedIn, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Shanghai "Volunteers" to the west of the Garden Lane to the eastern boundary of the racecourse, preparing for a big fight.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Gilhanga sent a reply and refused to move the Qing barracks. The foreign invaders immediately divided their troops into two routes and launched an attack on the military camps of the Qing army's general soldier Hu Songlin and Liu Cunhou, the head of the Criminal Department, near the racecourse.

More than 100 US troops were commanded by Captain Carrier of the USS Plymouth. Along the racecourse to the left, attack the front of the Qing army, and the British army of more than 270 people, led by the captain of the ship "Enkanto", Ogarahan, attacked the flank of the Qing army.

The U.S. troops crossed the racecourse and bombarded the Qing army under the cover of the graves near the pidgin and the mud city, and because they could not cross the mud city, they turned back and reunited with the British army. The British crossed the mud city and attacked the Qing army from the flank.

The Qing army was forced to return fire, but after nearly two hours of fighting under the flanking of the British and American troops, the Qing army was defeated. Retreat to the vicinity of Jing'an Temple.

The foreign invaders expelled the Qing troops near the racecourse and burned down the barracks.

In this battle, the Qing army suffered more than 300 casualties, and the British and American troops killed four and wounded more than 10.

After the Battle of Mud City, the Manchus were forced to sign 14 articles with the British, American, and French consuls on the "Shanghai Customs Taxation Rules" and the "Regulations on the Anglo-American and French Concessions in Shanghai", which further expanded the power of the concession and further undermined China's sovereignty.

The "Battle of Mud City" is important because this conflict became a turning point in the relations between all parties, including the relationship between the Knife and the Concession.

The concession side found that it could protect the concession with a small amount of force, whether it was against the Qing army or the Little Knife Society, so its attitude became increasingly tough.

In this battle, the Qing army knew that its skills were inferior to others and that it was not an opponent of the great powers, so its attitude towards the concession became more and more softened, and it focused more on collusion in order to jointly deal with the Xiaodaohui.

On the second day of the Battle of Mud City, Wu Jianzhang visited the British Consulate and said in a low voice that the two sides should be reconciled rather than confrontational, and that their enemy should be the Little Knife Society, and that the Qing government was willing to sell the rights and interests of the Shanghai Customs and Concession in exchange for the support of the foreign powers for their suppression of the Little Knife Society, which was approved by Anglo-American law.

Since then, the relationship between them has become closer and closer, and most of the negotiations between the two sides in the future have been about how to attack the county seat.

Unable to attack for a long time, the Qing army turned to the strategy of siege and blockade in order to achieve the goal of victory without a fight.

But to do this, the most important thing is to get the support of the French Concession, which is close to the county seat, and the French Concession is indeed actively cooperating.

After the Qing army discussed with the concession, the Anglo-American and French agreed to build a boundary wall between the French concession and the county seat, called self-protection, which was actually to besiege the Xiaodaohui, cut off the connection between the Xiaodaohui and the outside world, and block the material transportation channel.

Because the Qing government agreed to the French Concession to "lease the foundation forever" in the south of Yangjing Bridge, and hired people to forcibly demolish the houses here to clear the way for the construction of the wall.

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