The sound of artillery and gunfire outside the city suddenly intensified, and it did not come from one direction, as if there was fighting in all directions, and it was a mess. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Zhu Jinglun's heart moved, and Hurd's eyes also moved, and both of them knew that the general attack of the Chinese had begun.

On the night more than half a month ago, Xiang Yong had already attacked Guangzhou once, and that time he also successfully attacked the city wall and entered the city, this time it was different, they began to attack the city in broad daylight, obviously they had more confidence after experience, or more decisive.

Hurd finally spoke, his unswollen cheeks affecting his accent and appearing a little slurred.

"Zhu, the treaty has been signed, why do you Chinese still attack the city?"

The situation of the Tianjin Treaty is now clear to both sides, although the official text has not yet been decided, and the exchange of treaties has not been completed, but according to the habits of foreigners, the two sides have entered a state of armistice.

Zhu Jinglun said: "The treaty has been signed, why haven't you withdrawn your troops?" ”

The Treaty of Tientsin stipulated that after the completion of the indemnity, Britain and France would each withdraw from Guangdong, mainly from the city of Guangzhou.

Hurd said: "Before the compensation is paid, we have a reason not to withdraw the troops. ”

Zhu Jinglun said: "Maybe our court thinks that before you don't withdraw our troops, we also have a reason to attack the city." ”

Hurd was silent again, and the gunfire everywhere became more intense, and it sounded closer.

At this time, in the western military camp of Xiezhen, Guangzhou, near the small market street, the soldiers with yellow faces and thin muscles had great opinions, and they gathered in groups to complain.

"Tama, Lao Tzu stood in the city all night, ate a night of cold wind, and gave two smoke cannons, what is enough for him?"

A big smoker who had just put down his cigarette gun, still with his mouth open, yawning, and obviously not having a good time, said to his partner who was still swallowing clouds and spitting fog next to him.

"Damn, don't look at me, I'm only two!"

The guy who was smoking scolded for fear that his companion would snatch his own cigarette bubbles.

It was a barracks, but it was transformed by the coolies into a smoke house, and everyone was lying on their couches and spitting smoke.

Most of them are listless, but there are a dozen or so guys in one corner, but they seem to be in good spirits.

One was lying lazily on the bed, and there were people waiting next to him, unspeakably hated, but no one dared to hate, because he was a leader in the coolie team, and there were more than twenty brothers under him, and even foreigners usually did not provoke him.

"Big brother, Teng Ghost has just come back and called all the foreigners to a meeting."

A teenager with extremely heavy dark circles under his eyes, but the coolie with dark eyes nodded and whispered in the dragon's ear.

The dragon head smiled: "It's still you, a clever ghost, who can do things." ”

After speaking, he opened the small box next to him, and his box seemed to have endless smoke cannons, not only more than the smoke bubbles issued by foreigners, but also much more energetic.

The clever ghost looked at the faucet without blinking, stretched out his hand and felt a handful of cigarette bubbles, there were four or five of them, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Seeing the faucet throw it at him: "Take it and smoke it!" ”

The smoke bubbles were scattered all over the ground, and the clever ghost not only did not get angry, but showed a look of ecstasy and gratitude, lying on the ground and hurriedly picking it up, for fear that it would be slow to pick it up, and it would be snatched away, and he would not care about it, and his tears and snot could not stop ticking.

A circle of ill-intentioned eyes swept over from the side.

The dragon head snorted coldly and stood up, exposing his chest, revealing his dark muscles, and the hideous dragon head tattoo on it.

"This is Lao Tzu's reward, which of you dares to make up your mind and weigh your own weight!"

After a few cold words, everyone shifted their eyes and didn't dare to look at the side of the dragon's head.

The clever ghost was busy thanking Dade: "Thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother." ”

The faucet swept around coldly, and then looked at the clever ghost: "Go back to your cigarette, do things with Lao Tzu, and I won't treat you badly." ”

The clever ghost should have run back to his dampest bed in the corner.

Then the dragon shook his shoulders, and immediately some of his men clothed him and put him on.

After putting it on, the dragon head swept to everyone again: "You have thought about it, and when it comes to tonight, Lao Tzu will not wait for you." ”

After speaking, he strode out, and everyone on the side followed.

The British officers were in a meeting, a total of about thirty people, and their leader, Captain Temple, had just returned from a meeting in the General's Palace, and they were assigned military tasks to lead their troops to fight in the city, and they had to assign the tasks as soon as possible.

This is a good opportunity, the opportunity that the leading brother has been waiting for, he walked straight to the warehouse, not the granary, not the arsenal, but the warehouse where the tobacco is stored, and the guards are also coolies, but this group of coolies has been bought by him, and they go straight into the smoke warehouse.

Soon there were shouts in the barracks, and everyone shouted: "Walk the water!" ”

There were about 2,000 coolies, divided into thirty-two teams, each team was commanded by a British officer, and they all gathered together for a meeting at this time, and when they heard the voices in the barracks, they temporarily interrupted the meeting and came out, but they saw smoke rising from the side of the cigarette storehouse, and the coolies ran around in a mess without command, and shouted wildly.

The officers immediately went into action, organized the coolies to put out the fire, and the fire was extinguished, but when they saw the smoke bubbles in the cigarette store, they knew that the fire was premeditated, because all the smoke bubbles were poured out of the cigarette box, put firewood and burned, and some residue was left unusable.

The investigation is not difficult, a coolie team rebelled, but the people were gone.

The people had already arrived at an inn next to the Five Immortals Gate, which was not far from the barracks, but everyone knew that the British did not have the troops to search for the whole city.

At this time, the dragon head boss, who was still majestic just now, was like that clever ghost, nodding and standing beside another person with a flattering face.

"Brother Hou, everything is done. What do you think you have here? ”

It was Hou Jin who was sitting next to the faucet and drinking tea, and he had not seen him for a few days, and the spirit on his body had already been refreshed, as if he had the momentum of a superior person.

"Do it well, do things with me, you should be clear, and you will be rewarded for your merits. Here are a thousand taels of silver, and let them be divided among your brothers. ”

Hou Jin said, his eyes swept over a cloth bag on the table, the cloth bag was bulging, and the outline indicated that it was a silver ingot.

The leader didn't touch the silver, and said with a smile: "Doing things with Brother Hou is not greedy for silver." ”

Hou Jin didn't even look at him: "Then what do you want?" ”

The dragon leader laughed and said, "Don't dare to open your mouth with Brother Hou." It's just that this smoking addiction is really scratching, and the tobacco and soil given by the devil are adulterated, and they are not used at all, and the brothers are not tired of working. ”

Hou Jin sneered: "It's useless!" Oh, I've already prepared it for you. ”

Glancing at the window, a standard cigarette box was placed, and at first glance it was the kind of box specially filled with tobacco on a foreigner's ship, and the seal had never been opened.

The leader couldn't help but smile.

Hou Jin stood up: "Keep the big smoke, and take the silver." Brother Hou never calls people in vain. ”

The leader flattered: "Brother Hou is polite, the brothers all know that Brother Hou is a particular person." ”

Hou Jin walked out of the door as he spoke, and the leading boss followed in small steps, just half a step ahead of Hou Jin, not daring to take a step beyond Lei Chi at all.

Hou Jin continued: "The backyard of this inn has been packed, and you will live there temporarily. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and he will go to Heiya's house to find some powder, and he should also let your brothers be happy, so he said that it was called by Lao Tzu, and Heiya said that it was okay. ”

Guangzhou's skin and flesh business, the hierarchy is clear, the lowest is not called a special name, it is called "home", the more elaborate is called "room", only those high-end green buildings have a special name, such as what pavilion, what building and so on. The Black Tooth Family is the largest skin and meat shop near the Five Immortal Gate, raising dozens of powdered heads, and the price is cheap, even the coolies in the neighborhood often go where to consume.

When the leader heard that there were still women, the sycophants slapped one after another.

When he walked out of the door of the inn, Hou Jin felt so cool in his heart, it was good to be rich!

It's ridiculous that when I just found those dragon heads, they were still too high to take themselves seriously, and they couldn't bear it after only a few days. This black dog is sensible, and the first to react is to hug his thigh, so there is silver, and there is a big smoke. As for the other dragon heads, Hou Jin knew that they would come to beg for him.

On the side of the barracks, the coolies were already dissatisfied with the recent supply of tobacco and soil, that is, they gave little, and they had no energy, and they would not get money for a while and a half to work with foreigners.

The foreigner officers were one head and two big, and Tengpur took people and money to look for tobacco shops all over the city, and they didn't find much tobacco and soil after sweeping it, but if they sent money, they were afraid that at this critical moment, these coolies would flee after taking the money, and they were in a dilemma.

When Zhu Jinglun came out of the general's mansion, it was already noon, and he didn't get much useful news, but he saw more foreign soldiers going south, and he felt that they planned to abandon the old city and retreat in the south city (new city) surrounded by four city walls. This is a wise move, they do not have the strength to defend the entire city of Guangzhou, you must know that the city wall of Guangzhou is fifteen miles long, and their soldiers are scattered on the city wall, hand in hand, they can't be connected, so they can only shrink the defense, it is possible to hold it.

It's just that the General's Mansion is the key here, and he has to give up, obviously the situation is worse than Zhu Jinglun expected, and the foreigners are shrinking more resolutely than Zhu Jinglun thought.

The General's Mansion and the Governor's Yamen are on the same street, which is Huiai Street, the east-west axis of Guangzhou, and the General's Mansion has given up, so the Governor's Yamen probably belongs to the place to give up, Hurd asked Zhu Jinglun to pack up and follow the foreigners to retreat to the new city, and Zhu Jinglun rushed back to the Governor's Yamen under the pretext of excuse.

Bai Gui knew more than Zhu Jinglun, but he told Zhu Jinglun that Xiang Yong had attacked Beicheng, and the foreigners had abandoned the entire old city except for the area around Zhenhailou.

Bai Gui was unusually anxious, and after thinking about it repeatedly, he planned to run!