All the yamen tolerances have entered a state of emergency, and the interpreters in the governor's yamen, including Zhu Jinglun, have also been urgently ordered to work overnight, and they are not allowed to leave without orders. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

All the city gates, including the south gate, were urgently closed, and the streets were filled with hastily mobilized troops, even busier than the storming of the city by the countryside outside the city a few days ago.

It can be said that the emergency response capability of the Anglo-French coalition is still good, and the management level is indeed much higher than that of the Qing government, but there are still deficiencies, and the emergency response capability of modern management is not perfect enough, or not meticulous enough. So far, although Zhu Jinglun and the others have been ordered to be on standby overnight, he is still doing nothing in the governor's yamen, and the translators in the general's mansion are already busy. This is obviously a huge waste of manpower, and it can be said that the Anglo-French forces did not formulate a specific contingency plan, and all this is only a temporary measure.

Zhu Jinglun was trapped in the governor's yamen, he couldn't even contact Hou Jin, let alone contact Lin Fuxiang outside the city, although he didn't expect this situation, but it was planned, to be honest, his emergency preparedness was much more adequate than that of the British and French forces, and he had already considered what to do if he couldn't get out.

Although trapped in the governor's yamen, hundreds of British soldiers were sent outside to guard it, but I could still feel the uneasiness of the city, the noise came from all directions, not only the movement of soldiers, but also the panic of the common people, after the city gate was closed, many people in the city panicked, trying to escape from the city.

The Anglo-French forces did their best to maintain law and order, but what they were most worried about at this time was that the townsmen outside the city would take the opportunity to attack the city, and most of the troops would be transferred to various important places to defend, and the troops to maintain law and order were simply not enough, and the five hundred Chinese and foreign policemen in close proximity were simply not enough, so the situation in the city could not be suppressed at all for a while.

Not only did some people act inappropriately because of panic, but there were also some unemployed vagrants who took the opportunity to rob and steal. The British and French forces had no way of distinguishing these criminals who stole and robbed and even set fires, and they even suspected that these people were sent in advance by the villagers outside the city to make trouble, so they suppressed them everywhere, and the guns rang out continuously.

The whole city is in chaos.

The Occupation Committee, the authority of Canton City, was in full swing, but it was still powerless, and the original committee was decided by three major members, namely the British Consul Pashali, the British Colonel Thomas Holoway, and the French Captain Martine de Schäné. Since only Pashali understands Chinese and is a China expert, his opinion on previous decisions is very important. Including the French captain after the war, they all recalled that Pasha Li played a huge role during their occupation of Guangzhou.

However, they did not feel that Pashali was an indispensable figure, and it was not until Pashali was suddenly abducted that they realized how important such a China expert was to them, or how much they had relied on this person before. Because of the presence of this person, they entrusted almost all the work of communicating with the Chinese to Pashali, resulting in their own no experience with the Chinese.

They were not interested in understanding the Chinese, so after the Pashali was kidnapped, they have been acting in their own way, such as the British colonel and the French captain suspected that the Pashali was abducted as a precursor to another attack by the Chinese, so they chose to block the city gate at the first time and sent troops to the city wall and artillery batteries to standby, which caused chaos in the city and caused an uncontrollable situation.

Only then did they know how difficult Pashali's past work had been, and how difficult it was to communicate with a group of strange peoples in a strange country who were full of resistance to them. But they lacked the corresponding experience, and still acted in their way, that is, suppression, where there was a riot, they went to suppress it, but the troops were difficult to deal with, only the fire on this side was extinguished, and the fire on that side rose again.

There are also angry people who clash with the British and French forces from time to time, and they dare not move the large-scale army, but three or two soldiers who have taken off the single are likely to suddenly disappear after entering a certain alley.

This has to be attributed to the brutal rule of the British and French coalition forces during this period, especially in the past two months, the coalition forces outside the city have become more and more organized under the unity of Huang Zonghan, the minister of the Imperial Mission, and harassed the city of Guangzhou at night.

The Anglo-French countermeasures were to demolish and burn down houses during the day where there were village warriors at night.

The response of the Anglo-French coalition can be said to be extremely stupid, because this is what the rural Yong outside the city wants to see, according to Huang Zonghan and other officials, "Tuan Yong's main purpose is to make the coalition army uneasy and tired."

A few days ago, the Anglo-French forces captured some Xiang Yong who had infiltrated the city, seized some information, and Hurd personally translated it, only to find that "Xiang Yong killed foreigners and fired rockets into the city, and the British would go to pick up houses, so that the people in the city would be forced out of the city, and Xiang Yong would be able to attack the coalition forces without harming his own people."

After discovering the plot of the villagers outside the city, the British and French troops immediately issued a notice, stating that they would no longer pick up houses and hoped that the people would stay in the city.

The two sides fought with wits and courage, who said that the officials of the Qing army were stupid, and they were not bad at all.

And they did succeed, and despite the notices posted by the Anglo-French army, too many houses had been demolished. The British and French forces not only sent coolies to demolish the houses near the city gate and any houses that obstructed the view, "the houses in the area of Daxin Street in the new city and the area around Guanyin Mountain near the inner city were completely demolished", but also burned down the houses near the attack site as a kind of retaliation.

Although only a small part of the houses demolished by the British and French forces were demolished, these residents had lived in the city for generations, and the number of relatives in the city was extremely large, and it was not known how many people were offended. These people usually can't afford to provoke foreigners to hold back, but as long as there is an opportunity, there are always people who want to take revenge and dare to take revenge.

The Occupation Committee was plagued by all sorts of confusion, and an emergency meeting was held to discuss it for a long time, but there was no clue.

As Zhu Jinglun thought, Hurd's status really rose, he had been appointed as a deputy by Pashali because of his outstanding performance, this time Pashali was hijacked, and Hurd was invited by the other two giants of the Occupation Committee to participate in military discussions to discuss how to deal with it.

Hurd had worked hard in China for so many years, and in terms of understanding the Chinese, he was no better than Pashali, so he really put forward a constructive suggestion, that is, to cooperate with the Chinese officials in Guangzhou City at this time!

In desperation, the military commander of the Occupation Council agreed.