Qin Riqing admonished: "Brother Wang, we are Chinese after all. Although Lin Qirong and the others are against us, they are Chinese after all, and they are our compatriots, and if we betray them like this by taking refuge in foreigners, we will always be ridiculed by our compatriots in the future, and we will not be able to turn back. ”

Shinichi Ando, who was next to him, immediately retorted: "What the adults said is wrong! Can the prince turn back now? Then Feng Yunshan can't wait to catch the prince as soon as possible, what kind of compatriot friendship is there? Now the prince can only take refuge in foreigners, and use foreigners to reshape a foundation in this America. Don't be lucky, lord. ”

Qin Rigang waved his hand and said in a deep heart: "Don't say it, this king has made up his mind!" Shinichi is right, there is no turning back. With the wealth in the hands of this king now, there is no place to live well. Now was a good time to leave, and tell the spy that the king was willing to sacrifice the city of St. Paul, and that he could tell them where the main force of the Hexi Army was, on the condition that it was $200,000 plus 10,000 hectares of land around Chicago on Lake Michigan, Illinois. ”

Qin Riqing was silent, while Cui Lunbu and Shinichi Ando looked happy.

However, Qin Rigang, who had made up his mind, was not relaxed, his face was solemn, and an invisible faint fear always surrounded his heart, which was difficult to eliminate. Let's hope that the land of the place called Chicago that the guide said is fertile.

The next day, the city of St. Paul was occupied by thousands of federal soldiers, and more than 600 soldiers from the Saga and Choshu domains shouted Long live the Chinese Empire, and put up stubborn resistance in the streets and alleys of the city, and finally all of them died heroically, causing the federal army that originally wanted to enter the city easily to lose more than 100 people.

Major Anderson, who was at the head of the Northern Union vanguard at the beginning of the fight against the Southern rebels in Fort Sumter, was promoted to brigadier general because he became a hero of the North, assisting the Northern Federation to encircle and suppress McDowell, the commander-in-chief of the Hexi United Army.

Brigadier General Anderson was shocked to learn that the betrayed Hexi United Legion soldiers were just peripheral mercenaries, but Japanese soldiers from a vassal state of the Chinese Empire. Even the foreign soldiers are so desperate, and when they really encounter the soldiers of the Chinese Empire, they are afraid that it will be even more difficult to fight.

On the third day, when General McDowell led the main force of the Northern Union Army to arrive outside the city of St. Pauli, he did not enter the city to rest, nor did he immediately send troops to attack, but met with Qin Rigang.

Seeing the depressed Qin Rigang, McDowell asked through the translator with some puzzlement: "Mr. Qin, can you tell me what kind of person the Chinese Empire Feng Yunshan the Great Emperor was?" I heard that you were once his closest subordinate, why did you betray him and end up in the land you are now? ”

After listening to the translation's words, Qin Rigang's heart seemed to be galloped by thousands of horses, but he didn't dare to offend McDowell, so he could only force himself to laugh and say: "The general said he was joking!" That Feng Yunshan can be regarded as a great emperor, he was just a down-and-out talent, a teacher in the mountain village, but he only grew stronger with the help of a group of old brothers at the beginning, and he would play conspiracy to kill the kings of heaven and the kings of the east, and even I, the king of Yan, were killed and fled here. ”

McDowell looked puzzled and had to shake his head: "It's a pity! The emperor of the East should not be so unbearable. So, Mr. Qin, now, what can you and I do for me? ”

Qin Rigang hesitated for a moment in his heart, and then said directly: "General, I know that the main force of the Hexi Army is stationed in a town 90 kilometers upstream at this time, waiting for supplies and me. Their leader, Lin Qirong, was also among them. ”

McDowell laughed and understood. He directly asked Qin Rigang to send a normal message to Lin Qirong, who was stationed at Lesur, 90 kilometers upstream of the Mississippi River, so he ignored Qin Rigang and the others, hurriedly dispatched troops, divided into two routes, and outflanked Lesur Town.

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Lesur is just a small western town in the upper reaches of the Mississippi River. Originally, there were only about 2,000 people in the town, and a street paved along the riverbank was full of shops selling dried fish and furs from the northern mountains. But at this moment, the entire street has been filled with dense military camps. The shops on the banks of the river have also closed their doors, and most of the people in the whole town have fled, except for a few women, children and elderly people who are physically incapacitated, still hiding in their wooden houses, looking out in horror from the cracks in the wooden houses to look at the soldiers of the Hexi United Legion outside.

In the past two days, their town has suffered a catastrophe. The morning before yesterday, a group of cavalry of more than 100 people broke into the town of Le Sur, and the mayor immediately organized the town's militia to come forward to stop it, and the two sides exchanged fire. Most of the people in the town were cowboys who had moved west, and many of them had weapons in their hands, and the cavalry did not notice it for a while, but they were wounded several people, and immediately retreated. Before the townspeople could celebrate, a large army surrounded the town, and dozens of residents tried to resist, but were shot into a sieve at once. The rest of the town's residents had to be honestly shot, and all but the elderly, weak, women and children, were driven out of the town and imprisoned. And all their food and belongings were taken away.

However, to the peace of mind of the townspeople, the soldiers of the Hexi Legion seemed to be quite disciplined, and did not do anything to the women, children and children, nor did they massacre them again, but only asked them about the situation around them.

At noon that day, the residents of the town who were being held suddenly heard bursts of gunfire, and it became more and more dense. Not long after, the sound of guns and cannons exploded, and it seemed that a large group of troops rushed over, shouting and killing.

The residents were very frightened, and they spent half a day in fear, and finally the gunfire slowly subsided. A group of soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the Commonwealth of America Army appeared and rescued them. Only then did they realize that the group of troops who had captured and imprisoned them was the main force of the rebel army known as the Hexi United Army.

Almost all of the 400 rebels guarding them were annihilated, but to their surprise, the number of soldiers on the side of the Union army was even more dead and wounded, reaching more than 600. Moreover, the most frightening thing is that none of the 400 rebels surrendered, and all of them were killed in battle.

When the inhabitants returned to the town, they found that the town was already in shambles, and it was clear that there had been more intense fighting on the streets of the town.

The wooden houses of the residents, which have been completely destroyed, are still smoking. The entire narrow street along the river was full of criss-crossed, densely packed corpses, and even some soldiers were slashing and killing each other with bayonets, which showed the tragedy of the battle.

These well-informed residents couldn't help but shudder. However, what they didn't expect was that the old and weak women and children in the town were safe and sound, hiding in those stone houses.

When asked, the women and children wept and said, "Actually, those rebels are not too bad. When the Union troops entered the town, they gave us the stone house, saying that the child was innocent. Moreover, some of them took the initiative to scramble to stay behind and cover the other part, and let the other part withdraw, which was embarrassing. The words made the residents of the town not know how to answer.

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