Montoban raised this question, which embarrassed all the judges present, but no one dared to make any constructive comments, and they had acquiesced in this fact.

That is, as the most reliable ally of the French Empire, the Russian Expeditionary Force has been abandoned by the French Expeditionary Force, and their life and death have nothing to do with the French, and now all the French can do is pray to the Russians.

Prayers are destined to have no effect, more than 30,000 rainbow troops have now abandoned France, the most formidable opponent, and used all their energy, sharpness, ammunition and supplies on these Russian garrisons scattered in countless villages and towns, their largest stronghold is only half a battalion in size, and the siege of the rainbow army is definitely not less than an infantry brigade, in this case, no amount of sacrifice and courage and blood can change the fate of these Russians.

It's just that the French don't want to bear the cross of betraying their allies, and in the end only one priest stood up: "That's a heretic!"

Montoban finally found an excuse to turn his back on the Russians: "Yes, it is just some infidels, I must first consider the interests of the French, according to the temporary ceasefire agreement between Captain Milley and the Chinese, we can transport the wounded back from the front and transfer them to Shanghai in the rear, I feel that in order to win a compromise with the Chinese, I can make a great sacrifice." ”

He knew that his military career was over, and neither His Majesty the Emperor nor the War Department would have mercy on a defeated general on the Eastern battlefield, knowing that this defeated general had sent 20,000 Europeans to the end of defeat, and although he had brought many French to his homeland, the injustice of turning his back on the Russian allies had always followed him.

He even suspected that he might go to court-martial, and there would be many journalists who were very interested in the defeat of the French army, and their guns must have been directed towards the commander of Montauban, only after despair, Mentoban relaxed. He was willing to do more with the expeditionary force and the French in the city.

"Tell the Chinese that if they want, we can sell them the heavy artillery in our army that cannot be shipped back to the mainland at a reasonable price in exchange for their chance to live peacefully with us."

In fact. Meng Toban has already considered selling all the equipment that the expeditionary force can sell to the Chinese, so many weapons, ammunition, and weights cannot be brought back to China with the ship, and under the current situation, it is better to sell them to the rebels to obtain enough hard currency.

He did not consider the question of prolonging the war, because the French officers had said that the French had shed enough blood.

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Western merchants in Shanghai, although there were no telegraph lines. But their keen judgment of the battlefield situation even surpassed that of the Rainbow Army, which had telegraph lines.

In fact, it was only the news that the French army had suffered a heavy setback was sent to Shanghai, and the price of the Hongjun bonds in the Shanghai bond market rose by 40% in a row, and the next news made the Hongjun bonds continue to rise sharply, and the news is that the French army and the Hongjun army have reached an armistice.

Although it is not clear what kind of armistice agreement it is, whether it is a temporary or permanent armistice, whether it is a partial or a total armistice, but the fact that the armistice alone is a shot in the arm for the already extremely low public debt of the Hongjun. Later in the evening, more definite news came, including the details of Montoban's unsuccessful attempt to tear up the armistice and attack the rainbow army, as well as certain legends of the unanimous demand of the French officers to stop the war.

For this reason, the British consul expressed concern about such an unexpected victory for the Rainbow army. These British diplomats felt that the Chinese seemed to be a destabilizing factor in the Far East, only until then the entire Shanghai Westerners welcomed the victory of the Hongjun with great enthusiasm. The good days returned, and Mr. Ryan's British foreign firm had long maintained good relations with the French, but tonight he had already preached in his salon the organization of a British volunteer army to intervene in the civil war of the Chinese, and many British businessmen who had originally held a neutral position also stood by his side and strongly welcomed this suggestion.

On the other hand, the shares of the Demons railway joint-stock company, which had been nearly worthless, were now remembered that the company had privileges in some of China's railways. Many were already talking to De Mons about the specifics of the project, and De Mons was thinking more than just the railroad company, and he, like Mr. Ryan, declared that if the French and Russians did not withdraw from the expedition, they, the righteous Europeans, would organize a volunteer army to give the French a good look.

More and more news has been gathered in Shanghai, the city of adventurers. One has to admire the courage of a British businessman who led a makeshift British steamship into the river just after the armistice was signed, and transported nearly 100 wounded Hongjun to Shanghai for treatment.

It's just that soon the drug wholesalers in Shanghai found themselves in the middle of heaven and hell, the two sides in this battle have amazing losses, the inventory of the entire Shanghai port has been exhausted for their large spending, the price of drugs has risen by a full forty percent and is still in the market, and they found that the inventory in Hong Kong has also been swept away by some peers, looking at such an amazing order but unable to eat, some smart people of the pharmaceutical company has been tossed in the laboratory.

The prestige of the French Empire had fallen to an all-time low, the value of the gold franc had fallen by more than 10 percent, and many merchants had refused to accept the French team's credit or payment in francs, and had to demand the payment of hard currency or silver dollars, and the most embarrassing thing for the French merchants was the wounded who kept coming back.

There were a large number of seriously wounded who had returned to the arms of the Lord before they even made it to Shanghai City, but now the number of seriously wounded people admitted even exceeded the limit of the entire Shanghai Traditional Chinese and Western Hospital, and at the peak of the period, fifty to one hundred seriously wounded people became victims of this war, and even after a few days the situation stabilized, twenty or thirty seriously wounded died every day.

In this case, the Westerners in Shanghai were angry with the French, and the journalists were even more powerful, and they had not found a better subject since the Opium War, and their reports were destined to be published on the front pages of the continent.

"Another Waterloo!"

"Joan of Arc at the stake!"

"The glory of the Crimea and the loss of Montoban: 8,000 French soldiers were killed and 10,000 wounded!"

"Ten Thousand Crosses: Montoban vs. His Private War!"

"It's not Waterloo! The road of no return for 10,000 French soldiers. ”

All the news reports were in pursuit of sensationalism, and the casualties of the French army were several times the actual losses, and in fact the number of French casualties, including those who were seriously wounded and evacuated, was only 1,200 after the battle, although it would increase in pieces, but it was definitely not the same figure as in the news reports.

But both the French and the British in Shanghai clearly understood that the French expedition was over, and even the death figure of 1,200 was a loss that the French citizens could not accept, but everyone deliberately made a little abrupt.

That is, up to now, the French have indeed imposed a temporary truce with the Chinese, but the Russians have not.

Until now, there are still nearly 2,000 Russian expeditionary forces besieged by tens of thousands of rainbow troops in the final fight to the death, and they have shed their last drop of blood for the good of the whole of Europe. But despite having the same skin color and believing in the same God, the Westerners in Shanghai forgot about these suffering Russian compatriots, and even the French, who withdrew to Shanghai under the mercy of the Hongjun, turned a blind eye to what happened to the Russians, and the only thing they did was to disarm the troops left by the Russian expeditionary force in Shanghai, but such an action was unanimously praised by the entire Chinese and foreign circles in Shanghai, and unanimously considered it the best measure to maintain peace in Shanghai.

At least in the previous operation, the Rainbow Army did fulfill the armistice agreement with the French army, and the French army withdrew to Shanghai City almost without hindrance, but the Russian Expeditionary Force became the biggest victim, and the entire Russian Expeditionary Force almost did not withdraw, and was under the full siege of the Rainbow Army.

"You can't solve the French, and it's not bad to solve the Russians!" Liu Chang looked at the double eagle flags hanging in the villages and towns in the distance, and smiled at the officers of the Rainbow Army: "The reason why the French dared to set off a storm in Shanghai before, of course, was that they had 10,000 soldiers and horses, but the Russians sent these thousands of expeditionary troops also boosted their courage, and now as long as these thousands of Russians are destroyed, Meng Toban will not even want to move a finger." ”

"His Royal Highness King Yan is very right." Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "What I said is that when Meng Toban encounters such a big setback, how dare he raise troops again if he breaks the arm of the Russians." ”

It's just that for Li Hongzhang's praise, the cadres of the Hongjun have questioning eyes, this person is too slippery, and he knows enough about foreigners, if he stays in Shanghai, I'm afraid it's not a good thing, and Zhou Xiuying directly pointed to the double-headed eagle flag standing in the smoke of gunpowder: "Your Highness, Guan Jian has cleaned up these Russians......

Liu Chang looked at the battle flag meaningfully, and finally gave the order: "Tell the Russians that this is their last chance, and if they don't surrender now, they will no longer accept any form of surrender from them in the future!"

"Tell them that the French have abandoned them." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )