> "The red thief suffered a small setback in Lujiazhuang? ”

As soon as this news came out, the leaders of the regiment below were all eager to try, and some people had already taken the initiative to jump out and ask for battle: "Zhao Daotai, now it's time for us to build Qixun, the red thief is now just a forward to Huzhou, and there are Huayang reinforcements from Shanghai to send troops to Jiaxing Mansion, why don't you take advantage of their setbacks to attack back and forth and break the enemy in one fell swoop!" ”

"That's right, I heard that when they fought Lujiazhuang, the corpses and wounded dragged more than a dozen carriages, so if we take the opportunity to fight, it is certain!"

In the face of the following emotion of asking for war, coupled with the stimulation of Shanghai reinforcements, Zhao Jingxian himself was a little uncontrollable, but he was scheming, and immediately shouted: "Nonsense, how much knowledge can you hairy children have, the red thief is thousands of miles away, swept the whole province of Zhejiang, and caused disaster to Jiangxi and Fujian, how can it be so easy to clean up, a small Lujiazhuang, even if he has great skills, he can't let the red thief suffer a heavy setback, and he will guard his own territory!" ”

It's just that he still has to calm off the belligerent mood: "As long as we hold Huzhou, it will be a great credit, and now the whole province of Zhejiang is lost, and only Huzhou is left!" If the lake county exists, Zhejiang Province will not be lost! ”

Speaking of which, it is because of this reason that Huzhou has lost an astonishing population in history, and among the several state capitals in Zhejiang, Huzhou has the most serious population loss. {./Book Friend Upload Update}

When the Taiping army attacked Zhejiang, because Zhao Jingxian defended extremely tenaciously, Huzhou was defended for almost a year, which was almost one of the last cities captured by the Taiping army, and when the Qing army counterattacked, the Huzhou defense battle was the bloodiest and most cruel battle. The Taiping army's withdrawal from Huzhou also marked the loss of the whole of Zhejiang.

And the battle of Huzhou in this time and space has also brought a little bloody taste.

Lujiazhuang.

"Bring all the men of the Lu family up!" Lin Mengchu shouted: "Take a good look, this is the end of the fight against our Rainbow Army volunteers!" ”

Lujiazhuang is a well-known Haoqiang in the vicinity for several miles. The style of martial arts is extremely strong, so he also took advantage of the troubled times to gather together to defend himself, and tried to obtain a step into the body.

But yesterday's battle announced that all the plans of the Lu family had been shattered, and the dozens of Lu family men who were pulled out and beheaded today even represented that the bones of the Lu family had been broken.

From old men in their seventies and eighties to young people in their teens, all the men of the Lu family who have appeared in the group brave. Now they have all dragged it up, allowing the villagers and fools of dozens of miles nearby to watch the fate of the landing family.

"Kill!" With Lin Mengchu's shout, dozens of heads flew out, and the bloody situation on the scene reached the extreme. But the revenge has just begun, and Juton has already announced the next step: "There is the Huzhou Lu clan, resisting the righteous teacher, and the group has resisted for a long time, in view of this. confiscate the property of the Lu clan as official, and all men and women of the Lu clan will be demoted to the punishment camp and will not be released from the ......"

Juton's disposition is for the powerful families in these places. It simply broke their bones, both in substance and situation. It all means that such a big family as the Lu family has become history.

Many of the little heroes in the township are inhaling the cold air, and the Lu family's arrogance seems to be yesterday. They are known as dozens of village joint guarantees, not only the sons of good martial arts, but also the foreign guns and cannons brought by Zhao Jingxian.

But the result was that it was over after only one day, and now that the Lu family has become history, these little heroes are thinking about how to fill the vacancy after the fall of the Lu family, and at the same time, they are also secretly considering the benefits and disadvantages of confronting the red thief.

They quickly figured it out, although these red thieves claimed to be thieves, and their troops were not many, but they were all brave people, and there was no need to offend them - Zhao Jingxian was Zhao Jingxian, he was himself, and Zhao Jingxian's friendship with him had not yet reached that point. ..., and the red thief has already used actual combat to tell them, don't think about fighting the red thief or acting as a wall grass, a strong team training like the Lu family only lasted one day, and ordinary group warriors couldn't even hold on for half a day.

In the past few days, the Dragon Lance Brigade has cut off hundreds of heads in Huzhou, and the results of killing on the battlefield are even more than this.

If you don't fight against the red thief, it's a group of real strongmen!

But the bloodshed in Huzhou, compared with the full camp in Zhapu, is with too much warmth.

The current Zhapu Manying has become a hell on earth, and the entire Manying camp is shrouded in raging fire, and there are fires everywhere, even if it is more than ten miles away, you can see the sky-high fire and thick black smoke.

And accompanied by the light of the fire was the sound of fighting, gunfire, and shouting, and there were still a few garrisoned Eight Banners in the camp holding the shotguns in their hands to make the final resistance to the officers and soldiers of the Hong Army, and the Hong Army also responded with dense guns.

Now it is unclear who first lit this fire, whether it was the fire attack of the Hong officers and soldiers who attacked the city, or the ** of the full camp flag people, or both, and even the parties involved were no longer clear.

But one thing is clear, that is, there are now countless charred corpses in the camp, and the two sides are still firing on the battlefield.

"Woohoo!" The gunfire never stopped, and many women and children had been forced to rush to the city walls by the fire, but the fire behind them still spread mercilessly.

They jumped like dumplings towards the city wall, but few of them survived such a jump, and even if they were lucky enough to escape to their deaths, they still faced a hail of bullets from the rainbow army.

Although Li Guanglei, the command position of the battalion commander, was a little far away from the full battalion, the scorching heat from the opposite side made his face feel hot, and he could only sigh: "A general will become famous and ten thousand bones will wither, it is exactly like this, the inspection said that Ci is not in charge of the army, it is really the most reasonable life!" ”

The cadres behind him also looked at this fire purgatory, and also sighed a lot: "In this battle, we have nothing to gain!" ”

The garrison of the Eight Banners of the Zhapu Full Battalion can be said to have used all their strength to resist the attack of the Rainbow Army, and every step forward of the Rainbow Army must pay the price of blood, and the battle has been until now, the first battalion of the entire independent infantry has suffered more than 100 casualties, and in the history of the entire infantry battalion, this is also the most important sacrifice.

If it weren't for the devastating blow suffered by the British in the Opium War, and had not recovered until now, perhaps the losses of the 1st Independent Infantry Battalion would have been heavier.

But compared to the thousands of bannermen who were wiped out, the loss of the first battalion of the independent infantry was not heavy, Li Guanglei ruthlessly watched the battalion of women and children on the head of the city fall like raindrops, and faced the rain of bullets and bullets of the rainbow army, and finally sighed: "Ci is not in charge of the army, it is really Ci is not in charge of the army!" These thousands of bannermen were all burned, and the anger of the brothers was almost gone, so if you can raise the muzzle of the gun, raise the muzzle! ”

Such an expression finally brought a little warmth to the entire Agni Purgatory, but Li Guanglei and the first battalion of independent infantry had the effect of children's night hooves in the entire Zhapu and even the entire Jiaxing Mansion, and for the banner people, as soon as they heard Li Guanglei's name, the first thing they did was to scold: "That butcher!" ”

But for this big battle, it was just an inconsequential episode.

When Bao Meiying got the battle report, she didn't come to this fire purgatory in person - even when she got there, she could only show the same warmth as Li Guanglei, so she just said: "Very good! Tell Li Guanglei that although they have suffered more than 100 casualties, the standard of the dragon lance battalion has always been two-thirds of the casualties, and the morale is still high, if they want to be the second battalion of the dragon lance, come up immediately! "..., now that he has captured the Zhapu Manying camp and solved the nail inserted in his back, Bao Meiying has confidence, although there are many Qing demons who come, but the front is the Qing army, it is said that it is the commander of the Songjiang prefect of Jiangsu Yanyun, and the combat effectiveness is not strong - this is a very normal phenomenon, in Shanghai, this kind of commercial atmosphere is extremely strong, you don't expect any troops like the dragon spear battalion and the Nanxi battalion, often only the poor mountains and bad waters can produce strong troops.

Although the foreigners in the back claimed to have as many as 400 and carried a large number of foreign guns and cannons, Bao Meiying firmly believed that as long as the Qing army in front was broken, the foreign gun team behind would collapse without a fight - if they had the courage to fight against the Hong army, it should be the foreign gun team to fight the vanguard, and the Qing army to wave the flag and shout in the rear.

Therefore, she wrote a battle report to Liu Chang by hand: "The battle in Jiaxing Mansion is going well, if you need support, please check and reinforce a reinforced infantry company to Jiaxing Mansion!" ”

When such a report appeared on Liu Chang's desk, Liu Chang also relaxed: "Captain Bao is very confident, it seems that we can continue to implement the second phase of the spring offensive!" ”

The so-called second phase of the spring offensive refers to the subsequent southern Jiangsu campaign, which will be the highlight of the next battle of the Rainbow Army compared to the battle march to capture Hangjiahu.

Originally, when the Shanghai Qing Army and the foreign rifle team came to the aid of Jiaxing Mansion, Liu Chang and the commanders of the entire headquarters decided to temporarily suspend the execution of the second phase of the offensive, and temporarily set the final goal of the spring offensive as Huzhou Mansion.

Not only that, Liu Chang had already decided to transfer the main brigade of the Nanxi Brigade to the direction of Jiaxing Mansion, but Bao Meiying's report in Jiaxing Mansion gave Liu Chang full confidence: "The situation in Jiaxing Mansion seems to be good, otherwise, the captain of the Bao Detachment would not only ask for reinforcements of a reinforced infantry company, in this case, ......."

As soon as he arrived, someone outside had already reported: "Consul Fumar is here, it is our good friend in Ningbo, His Excellency Consul Fumar, he said that he wants to come to see the inspector!" ”

"It seems that His Excellency Fumar will give an answer to our conditions on behalf of the British side!" Liu Chang immediately ordered: "Open the gate, prepare a military band, and welcome His Excellency Fumar!" ”

The reaction of Britain to the appearance of the Rainbow Army near Shanghai will be relevant to the implementation of the second phase of the spring offensive.