Henry sat on the deck of the ship and cried bitterly, he felt that he was in hell these days, when he was in the cage of the Chinese, he was still calm, but now he could not suppress the emotions in his heart, there were surprises, excitement, all the emotions that should be there, but in the end it became a huge grievance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Chinese fisherman's boat was a big foreigner's boat, with a fisherman and a Chinese soldier on it.

Henry saw a sailor taking aim with his rifle out, and he stopped the man, who would not have been here without the Chinese boatman and the Chinese soldiers. And he said to the sailors, for God's sake, spare the two wretched men.

The sailors were still a little unhappy, because they had just quarreled with the Chinese soldiers, because the Chinese asked them to come up with a hundred taels of silver, otherwise Henry would not be allowed to board the merchant ship of the foreigners. In the end, everyone scraped together more than 100 silver dollars, and the Chinese soldiers allowed the small boat to approach the merchant ship.

The merchant ship of the foreigners is much faster than the fishing boat, because this ship is the latest steam engine and sailing ship design, with sails when downwind, and steam propellers when headwind, and the flowing water design of the ship type is already the peak of the post-sailing era, applying all the new technologies since industrial civilization, and the result is that they arrived in Guangzhou at ten o'clock at noon.

The news of Henry's return to Guangzhou City shook quite a lot, he had been missing for more than half a year, and the officer had even written his name on the death notice and sent it back to China, who knew that he appeared alive, although he was skinny and bleak, but he came back alive, this is a legend.

Ordinary soldiers watched and discussed enthusiastically, and the officers also attached great importance to this, urgently met with Henry, asked Henry about everything that happened to him, they sympathized with Henry's previous experience in Guangzhou City, and said that they would start to investigate, but they were more concerned about the stronghold of Chinese Xiangyong in Henry's mouth.

In the afternoon, word of Henry's plight spread throughout the British army in Canton, and the ordinary soldiers were very angry and insisted on seeking justice for Henry.

Zhu Jinglun was also very angry, he knew that Lin Fuxiang planned to use Pasha Li to lure the enemy, but Lin Fuxiang's specific plan would never tell him, if he had known earlier, he would never accept Lin Fuxiang's plan to let a foreign soldier return to Guangzhou City.

"Are you going to kill me?"

The anger accumulated in the long-term cooperation with Lin Fuxiang exploded, and Zhu Jinglun loudly reprimanded Lin Zhuang.

Lin Zhuang explained: "We have interrogated many times, and the soldier has long since remembered the situation in Guangzhou City. Calm down, they were captured by you when they just entered the city, and they were not familiar with Guangzhou City at that time, and after such a long time, it is impossible to remember where Zhang's mansion is! ”

Lin Zhuang's explanation still makes sense, Henry and several other British soldiers were caught by the eldest lady of the Zhang family on the first day of entering the city, and then they were imprisoned for nearly a hundred years, and then they were sent out of Guangzhou City, and they did not know much about Guangzhou City, even if they were placed in Guangzhou City, it was difficult to find the location of Zhang's family from the six hundred streets of Guangzhou.

Zhu Jinglun sneered: "It's not a matter of remembering or not, the problem is that you didn't take my life in your eyes at all, and the situation explained by the British soldier is very likely to expose the Zhang family, and if you expose the Zhang family, you will expose me." ”

Lin Zhuang was also a little annoyed: "How can you do big things without dying, your life, my life, how much is it worth?" ”

Yes, the life of a soldier is worth a few dollars, and there are no fewer secret agents who have been arrested in Guangzhou City, but Lin Fuxiang or Huang Zonghan still keep sending people into the city secretly, just to post a notice, sometimes three or five people will be caught, where will the lives of these people be in the eyes of those adults.

If you want to say that it is valuable, it must be able to dye the red top of Lin Fuxiang and others to be valuable, otherwise it is really worthless.

In the eyes of literati and doctors, how have they ever pretended to be small people for thousands of years, even if they are the top group of scholars, they only have the country in their eyes, only the country, only the country, only the world, the so-called "I plan for the world, how can I pity the small people", eternal unchanged.

Zhu Jinglun knew that he was at risk of being exposed, and might even be recognized by the British soldier, so he did not run away at the first time, but went to Zhang's house, telling the Zhang family that he should quickly find a way to move, whether it was to go out of the city to seek refuge with relatives or to take refuge, but he couldn't stay in the city, and told them that a foreign soldier who was captured in Zhang's house had fled back.

The housekeeper Daniel Zhang immediately panicked, and the second young grandmother was also panicked, at this time, it was the eldest young grandmother who had been eating fasting and chanting Buddha had a lot of ideas, and he said that he had to wait for the young master to come back.

Referring to the young master of the Zhang family, Zhu Jinglun decided to look for Hurd again, but at this time he couldn't even see Hurd's face, and many British soldiers appeared outside the general's mansion, they were all unusually angry, gathered together to make a fuss, faintly a bit of mutiny, Zhu Jinglun listened to a few words casually, and knew that these people were dissatisfied with what happened to the soldier Henry, and strongly asked the commander to give them an order to go out of the city to retaliate against Xiang Yong.

There were more than just village warriors, these people were angry when they saw the Chinese at this time, and Zhu Jinglun felt that more than one British soldier was glaring at him.

After waiting for a while, they even found a few familiar translators, who told Zhu Jinglun that Hurd had been in a meeting.

Henry's return to the city made the British army nervous, Hurd was urgently discussing with several officers, and was holding a military meeting, so he had no time to see Zhu Jinglun.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Jinglun understood that it was inevitable for the British to go out of the city to fight, although the process was not the same as they expected, the main purpose was not to save Pashali, but the bigger reason was that Henry told the story of their four British soldiers being abducted and persecuted, which aroused the anger of the entire British army, and they thought it was a great humiliation. Of course, the upper echelons of the British army may have valued Pashali's status more, but the anger of the soldiers had reached the point where they had to give an account.

In the face of the angry British soldiers, I am afraid that Lin Fuxiang could not follow alone, Zhu Jinglun immediately found Lin Zhuang.

"The British are angry, and Lord Lin now has two choices, the first is to hide with Pashali, and the second is to go all out to fight the British army to the death. I strongly suggest that you immediately find the support of Lord Huang and gather all the military forces outside the city to ambush the British army, otherwise there will not be much success. Finally, I warn you that if you have any plans for the future, it is best not to hide it from me. ”

Lin Zhuang sighed: "This matter is non-negotiable, Lord Huang will definitely not agree to the whole army taking the risk of ambushing Yangyi." But don't worry, my family has a chance to succeed. ”

Zhu Jinglun looked at Lin Zhuang with contempt: "What's the success?" ”

He had to ask Lin Fuxiang to give him a secret, and he was always too passive to be hidden from them.

Lin Zhuang hesitated for a long time, and finally spoke: "I believe in you, and you have to believe in us, because we are completely prepared......"

Hurd's emergency meeting was finally over, and the initial topic was indeed about Pashali, and the officers were generally more concerned about Pashali, not only because Pashali was more important as a person, but because of Pashali's identity, Pashali was the minister of Canton, and here in Canton, he represented Britain.

As a result, this British representative was shamefully abducted by the Chinese, which was a humiliation to the British Empire, and now that they knew where Pashali was, they had to do something.

After the British and French troops invaded the city of Beijing, the reason why they chose to burn the Old Summer Palace was that the Chinese official caliber of later generations said that the British and French troops were robbers for the purpose of robbery, and the British and French explained that the commanders at that time saw that the exchange envoys who were seized by the Chinese were abused, and even some returned them to the British and French forces in the form of parts, and they felt that the Chinese had detained the ministers, abused the ministers, and insulted the two countries, so it was necessary to teach the Chinese a lesson, and they burned the Old Summer Palace in retaliation.

Regardless of whether this explanation is reasonable or not, even if the Qing government had not detained foreign consuls, perhaps they would still have robbed. But the reason why these two robber states can be explained by this reason is that the diplomats are very important in their perceptions, so that after knowing the position of the Pashali, they must do something.

It's just that the French did not support them at this time, and the reason of the French was very realistic, if the troops of Guangzhou were transferred to rescue Pashali, once the Chinese took the opportunity to attack the city, there would be no defensive forces at all.

The defensive strength of Guangzhou City was mainly the British army, and even if the coolies hired by the British were excluded and the Indian soldiers were excluded, the British still numbered more than 500, which was not inferior to the French. Once the British went all out to rescue Pashali, they would not be able to defend a large city like Guangzhou with French forces alone, but the interests of Guangzhou were not entirely British, and the French also wanted to develop interests here, so they unilaterally opposed the British sending troops to rescue their ministers or appease the anger of the soldiers.

The biggest disagreement between the two sides since the formation of the Anglo-French forces broke out.

While the senior officers were arguing, the British staff officers and some middle-level officers were not idle, and they actively worked out battle plans.

According to the information they now have, plus the intelligence of a British merchant ship as a reference, they quickly confirmed the location of Pashali's captivity, first according to the log records of the merchant ship, check the nearby temples against the map, this alone is certainly not enough, because there are too many temples for the Chinese, and the news reported by Henry only tells the British where they were held, it seems to be a temple, a very large temple, but it is not clear what temple it is, However, Fang Shan, who was in prison before, happened to confess that Lin Fuxiang's secret stronghold was a large temple not far from the river, and the British judged that the location of Paxiali was the Polo Temple in Miaotou Village near the Huangpu Wharf.

Judging from the information they currently have, there are no large-scale Chinese township warrior activities in the vicinity of the area, and the largest military force is the local villagers' self-protection of the strong men, as well as the guardians of the nearby landlords' homes. Therefore, the staff of the British army believed that if 500 regular troops could be dispatched, one day would be enough to sweep the place, and with the distance and preparation time, the battle time would take two days at most.

The battle plan was successfully drawn up here, and the results were finally discussed at the top of the side, and both sides made concessions, the French firmly disagreed to withdraw the defensive forces from the city, the British compromised, and the French agreed to exclude their navy from British operations.

Obviously, the two sides decided that as long as the city of Guangzhou was not lost, their navy had absolute sea supremacy, and there was no force on the water around Guangzhou that could threaten their navy, and they could come and go freely, so it was relatively safe to dispatch their navy.

Time was pressing, and after the military meeting, the British and French forces immediately moved, and an hour later, four British warships and two French warships lit fire and anchored, and drove to Polo Temple overnight.