The county seat of Shanghai was captured by the Qing army!

The pressure on the Shanghai business district has increased suddenly!

Shanghai's defensive posture is probably that the county seat of Shanghai bears the brunt of the attack, blocking the enemy from the west and north, and the position of the county town in defensive operations is like a closed city in the interior city. If the attacking side wants to take the city, it must first conquer the city before launching an attack on the main city.

A green flag was erected on the head of the city, marking the capture of the county seat. The flag of his own army appeared at the head of the city, which greatly inspired the morale of the Qing army. Tens of thousands of people shouted in unison and swarmed in the direction of the county seat. It doesn't matter if you're a creek or a ditch, just hug it.

As far as the eye can see, the tens of thousands of green flag soldiers of the Qing army are pressed by black, and they spread, north, west, and south, in three directions, like a flood.

Under the banner of the general of the weaving golden dragon and the general of Pingnan, Luck Dehun stood on his horse. Although it took a day of hard fighting to capture the county seat of Shanghai at night, based on his assessment of the combat effectiveness of both the enemy and the enemy, this result was relatively good. At least he can accept it.

"Passed on to the order of the great general. According to the rewards awarded before the war, those who go to the county seat first will be rewarded! Break the city first, the chief officer will be promoted to one level, the general will be promoted by two levels, the battalion officer will be promoted to three levels, and the soldiers will be rewarded! ”

"All battalions and towns are on alert! Beware of the Nanban night sneak attack! The artillery team dragged artillery into the county town and built forts outside the city, preparing to attack the trade area tomorrow. ”

This night, the Ming and Qing dynasties were a sleepless night.

Both sides are desperately building fortifications, reinforcing them, and sending small groups of scouts to sentry. There were people and heavy trucks transporting gunpowder, cannons, projectiles, arrows and other materials to the firing line at a similar price.

The artillery teams on both sides were desperately trying to repair their gun emplacements, stockpiling shells and gunpowder.

On this night, the positions of both sides were brightly lit, and they rushed to work overnight. Countless bonfires and lanterns illuminated their positions in the daytime, and from time to time burst out with short and fierce firecrackers, sword strikes, screams, and vanishing groans, which were short and tragic encounters between small forces on both sides.

After the front-line positions, the armies of both sides were resting and eating.

"Damn, Nanban eats so well!"

The two Green Flag soldiers on duty twitched their noses greedily in the darkness, sniffing the aroma of food coming from the direction of the trade area.

Accompanied by the night wind, the smell of food from the trade area and the smell of blood on the battlefield, the smell of burnt corpses, the smell of fireworks from the burning wet wood, and the intermittent moaning that vaguely came from which corner. It became a mixed impression of hearing and smell peculiar to the battlefield.

But what could be more appealing to two hungry hapless eggs than the smell of food wafting from afar?

"The taste of stew!"

"Salted fish stewed with chunks of fatty meat."

"The vats of white rice are so delicious!"

The people who fought on the battlefield did not have too many requirements for diet, the oil and water should be large enough to meet the consumption of fat and protein by physical strength, and then they should be salty enough to meet the requirements for salt. The rest, that is, it should be large enough to be eaten open.

Looking at the shadows in the distance, under the light of the lights, several board cars and more than a dozen pickers picked up large barrels of food, and the soldiers of the Hongwu Army lined up to receive their meals, and bursts of fragrance wafted in, and the two Green Flag soldiers felt even more hungry. couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and quietly turned his head to look in the direction of the county seat.

The county seat is even more noisy.

Dinner is being organized in all battalions and towns.

"Donkey Ball!"

"Don't rob us Lao Tzu!"

"You are an ancestor!"

In the midst of the cursing, hundreds of people frantically gathered together, surrounded the firehead army impenetrable, and countless hands stretched the dishes and chopsticks into the food burden.

There, too, there are big vat of rice. Unlike the food supply of the Ming army, the food of the Qing army was much better. The Ming army marched and fought, and ate a lot of food. This kind of food is steamed with rice, then put in water to dry, repeated several times, and finally some dry rice, a bit like the compressed biscuits of later generations.

Although a small group of rice can be turned into a large pot after boiling in hot water, of course, it does not taste good, and it needs to be served with salt, vinegar and other materials. It can fill the stomach, but the nutrition is very sorry.

What the Qing army gave to the soldiers was steaming rice. Although it was impossible for the Liuzhuji to supply the military rations with the best japonica rice, most of the rice they took out was old brown rice, or even broken rice. However, after all, it is also a new meal, and it is much better than those meals.

"Don't make noise! Don't rob it! One piece of pickles per person! Who dares to rob indiscriminately, Lao Tzu's big stick doesn't know him! "The old pickles were used to accompany the meal, cut haphazardly, pieces of different sizes, one for each soldier, and used to serve the meal. It's much better than eating with salt.

Even if it is salty salt, it may not be that every Ming army can eat it. The moon salt of the Ming sergeant has two catties of family. There is no one catty, but the various departments of the Ming army are deducted, that is, the sergeant's monthly salt, and the peak must also be half of it, or more than half of it. Since a large amount of southern salt appeared on the market, the salt factories along the coast have gradually closed down, and no longer sell salt to the mainland, this benefit has gradually disappeared. Therefore, it is also a pleasure to have some salt to accompany the rice when eating rice.

Compared with the days when he was in the Ming Army, the quality of life is naturally much higher now.

In addition to rice and pickles, there were other things for these Qing soldiers.

Several Qing soldiers sat in front of a half-burned house, and took out a bag wrapped in lotus leaves and oiled paper with three layers inside and three layers outside from their pockets, "This is the wind chicken I bought on the road, just for dinner." ”

"I have that too! Turned out from a Nanban corpse, meat porcelain jar! Mother's hands and feet are slow, otherwise you can cut off his head, strip his clothes and receive the reward! Now I grabbed a meat porcelain jar! ”

"That's it! Just snicker! Anyway, you still have the life to eat other people's meat porcelain jars, the one who cut off people's heads, wasn't he picked up in the air by a few fire guns in the blink of an eye to drink the wind?! ”

A few Green Banner soldiers were about to start enjoying the chicken and meat porcelain jars, and there was a commotion not far away.

"The general has appreciated the wine!"

"The general has a reward!"

More than a dozen officers of the Eight Banners, dozens of soldiers of the Eight Banners, and hundreds of people came with a burden of one foot deep and one foot shallow, and at a glance they knew that the burden was very heavy.

The half-human height of the jar exudes the smell of wine from the outside, and the small box made of white wood nailed attracts people's attention.

"The general said that you played well during the day, and you were very helpful. He rewarded the wine, one bowl per person, which can warm up the body! Good tomorrow and the barbarian continue to fight! Silver dollars, everybody! The general said, "The Eight Banners officer led by him was about to go down, but was gently pulled by the Green Flag general next to him, and his face was full of "You know" smiles, and the Eight Banners officers immediately stopped talking.

"The general said! This Shanghai county is just a piece of cake, and the real fat is right in front of you! Tomorrow, everyone will contribute to the general and take the trade area, and the silver is there! ”

"Line up and get the general's bounty! Officers and soldiers separated! Under the shouts of the generals and officers of the battalions and towns, and under the fists and toes, the people quickly lined up in two crooked ways.

"Soldiers, pikemen two pieces each! Three pieces per sword! Five pieces of money! ”

Someone shouted at the front of the queue, and the soldiers were quite happy, and even the most worthless cannon fodder pikemen had two silver dollars in their hands each. As everyone knows, this is another trick. The bounties awarded by Luckedhun, whether it were pikemen or sword and shield soldiers, were all three silver dollars per person, and when they reached the hands of the soldiers, they quietly changed.

This trick can be regarded as an important part of the essence of traditional Chinese culture.

At the juncture of the Huaihai War in which the survival of the National Revolutionary Army was at stake, the former president Jiang Gong transported the silver dollars forcibly exchanged by Comrade Jianfeng in Shanghai to Xuzhou according to the standard of three silver dollars per person. And that's not even counting the vacancies.

As for the food of the Ming army, it is also strictly enforced in the army on the other side of the strait as a traditional essence. The army on the other side of the river is famous, and the food in the canteen is of green and healthy food standards. The three meals are low in oil, low salt, green and healthy, and even if the "president" comes, it cannot break this rule and affect the physical and mental health of officers and men. Of course, those low-level officers and soldiers who could not understand the good intentions of the commanders were always pursuing appetites, and this naturally gave birth to the good business of the welfare cooperatives in the camps, and there were always fast food trucks called "little bees" by the common people outside the camps who followed the troops who were trained in the camp to sell sausages and pork finger cakes.

Think about it, eating such a low-oil, low-salt and strictly limited amount of green and healthy food every day, coupled with the meticulous care of the elders every day, asking you to drink 300cc of water in the morning, how can you not make the soldiers on the opposite side of the conditioning eyebrows clear and beautiful, just like the bean sprouts that have just come out of the water are so tender and so watery.

Sure enough, it is the essence of Chinese culture and tradition in Taiwan! What kind of drinking soldiers' blood, beating and scolding soldiers, and deducting soldiers' food, eventually led to the soldiers wanting to forcibly do anything to the neighbor's little sister, so as to prevent the occurrence of such serious violations of military discipline as a strong woman! Sure enough, it's a far-sighted vision, and everything is under control!

People use all kinds of tools they can find, bowls, teacups, teapots, saucers, plates, to hold wine, and then carefully go to the side, taste it in one sip, or pour it into the mouth, so that the taste buds in the mouth and tongue can experience the pleasure of alcohol.

"It's good to have wine every day!" The soldiers of the Qing army smacked the taste of wine in their mouths, full of unfinished anticipation.

"When you build a business area, you will not only have wine to drink, but also meat to eat! There is silver! Those who are not afraid of meat fat, who are not afraid of silver piercing their hands, will work hard to beat the southern barbarians tomorrow! "The officers hiccuped and shouted to and fro in the crowd, using wine and money to boost morale.

"That's right! In the opposite business district, mountains of silver and rivers of soju flowed! There are so many little girls like silk, satin, leather goods, water and flowers! It's up to you to dare to go in and enjoy it! ”

The noise and shouting and scolding, and the huge noise made the two Qing soldiers at the outpost even more hungry and unbearable.

"Huh! You see! A sharp-eyed Qing soldier pointed to a dark shadow not far away, and the two cooks of the Hongwu Army each carried a pair of picks and poured the contents of the bucket to the ground. That location, they had seen during the day, was a pit that was not too big or small.

"I've heard people say that these Nanban eat very well! Even leftovers are a lot of oil and water! Back then, in the capital, in order to grab their swill leftovers, even the masters of the Beijing camp did it. ”

"Let's go!" Without further ado, in the face of the temptation of food, the two Qing soldiers climbed over one after the other.

In the dark shadows, there were a few muffled sounds, a shout that was too late to be made. The two Qing soldiers were knocked to the ground and tied up like zongzi.

"Humph! Think you didn't find out? Tell you, don't think you're the only ones with the sentry! Lao Tzu has many more secret whistles than you! ”

The disappearance of the two secret posts will naturally not have a big impact on the Qing army, which has more than 100,000 horses. At most, it changed the fate of these two Qing soldiers.

After dawn, in the camp of the Qing army, the sound of trumpets came and went, and groups of soldiers and horses marched out of the camp, gradually forming an array, preparing to launch an attack on the trade area.

"Today, General Ben doesn't want you to fight in a fight, as long as you can attack and occupy a territory, General Ben will be rewarded!"

In his own formation, the general of Pingnan, Luck, conveyed his orders to the generals of the towns of the Green Banner Army with a dark face.

"If any town is greedy for life and afraid of death, cowering, fighting a good fight, working like the soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom in the past, and following other people's butts to find cheap, then just try the general's military method!"

"Obey the general's orders!" All the commanders, lieutenants, and generals bowed in awe.

At the sound of the trumpet, the flag grinds. The Qing army was densely packed in front of the county, gathered the whole team, and after being busy for half an hour, they came from the northwest and south sides of the black pressure and encirclement. The artillery corps was the same as in the past, in front of the formation, although it was all eight-pounder guns, big Buddha Lang machine and other artillery that was convenient for maneuvering, but it was clearly visible in the telescope of the Hongwu army, on the city wall, one by one artillery emplacements were built up with straw bags and bamboo baskets, and the muzzles of the 18-pounder and 24-pounder guns pointed to the commercial area.

The gun emplacements were busy, and the auxiliary soldiers like workers and ants dug up the earth, filled the soil bags, built the gun emplacements, and carried gunpowder shells.

Finally, there was a loud bang on the ground above the city, and a twenty-four-pound cannonball roared and smashed heavily into the open space of the trade area, and a large iron ball weighing more than 20 pounds hit the hard ground of the street, bounced up vigorously, and rushed straight away, knocking a section of the wall into a big gap.

With this cannon sound, the battle in the trade area began.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of shells whistled in, constantly smashing on the positions of the Hongwu Army, low walls, trenches, and rejecting horses, and dense iron balls jumped and rolled on the ground of the streets of the trade area, and from time to time the soldiers of the Hongwu Army were hit by the shells. Several shells landed in the camp of the sanitary camp, hitting several vehicles, and the canopy caught fire.

With a loud "boom", a six-pounder gun erected on the gun emplacement in the trench was hit by an eighteen-pounder shell, and the gun was knocked down on the spot, and the iron ball flew with the gun wheel of the gun carriage, and the surrounding gunners were smashed to the flesh and blood.

"Damn! When will it be the turn of the short-tailed clear dogs to play with guns in front of Lao Tzu?! What about our cannons! The officers and soldiers of the Hongwu Army were in the trenches, and their faces were covered with dust in the caves, shouting and cursing loudly.

The shells on the two artillery positions of the Qing army came in three waves in a row, and gradually stopped, obviously the cannon chamber was hot, and it was necessary to stop to dissipate heat for a while. Only those big Buddha machines are still firing at the yin and yang guns, cheering for the Qing army that is about to attack.

Finally, the horn sounded on the Qing army's position, and the tidal wave of Qing troops rushed with shouts.

For a time, as far as the eye could see from the position that was more than ten miles long, the undulating waves composed of human heads, and the sea formed by flags and spears, like the rising tide of the sea, pushed the colorful garbage on the bottom of the sea to the trade area.

"Stay behind! The observers of the artillery team and the gunboats all sent a flag signal, the Qing army has entered the artillery firing range, please indicate whether to fire or not! ”

Pan Linsheng, the meeting manager of the Shanghai Camp Office of the Hongwu Army, asked Li Huabao for instructions.

"Wait a minute, inform the four gunboats on the river, wait for the Qing army brigade to move forward a little further, and after the forward enters the best range, fire first! Drive the Qing army on both flanks to the middle! Let the brethren on the front pay attention to the fact that the cannons, firecrackers, grenades, and spurs are all well prepared for General Ben! After the Qing army rushed into the range of the three-pounder gun, the artillery teams opened fire in echelons! Twelve-pound artillery suppressed the rear of the Qing army and did blocking shooting, eight-pound artillery bombarded the middle of the Qing army and did blocking shooting, and the rest of the small artillery, together with infantry guns, used shotguns and projectiles to greet the king with these short-tailed clear dogs! ”

Short-tailed clear dog, this is the nickname given by the Shanghai garrison to the Green Flag soldiers. It refers to the short time they shave their hair and keep braids, and the days of being the dogs of the Eight Banners are not long.

On the river, the double-deck gun windows of the four gunboats deployed on the two wings of the trade area were opened, and the upper and lower two layers of gun windows, plus the guns on the deck, there were as many as forty guns in one ship! This kind of inland river gunboat is specially used to protect several commercial and trade areas in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Originally, a few ships were prepared for Tianjin, but unfortunately the situation in the north was eroding too quickly, so this plan was canceled, and Shanghai was cheaper.

Looking at the signal flag waving in the hands of the signal soldiers, the pipe and belt officers of the four gunboats all showed a smile, the kind of smile that can be fought happily.

"Reload the gun emplacements! Get ready to fire! ”

"Fill the medicine package!"

"Cannonball loading!"

"The whole ship fires!!"