Singh, an Indian, has been very busy lately, because there are always people who ask him about being taken away by the Chinese, ask him if the Chinese are fierce, ask him if the Chinese eat people, and ask him if the Chinese beat people. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Singh is the Indian soldier who was exchanged for Xiao Aqiao, and he has lived a good life with the Chinese, so he doesn't mind telling this story to his companions often, but when he has to tell it dozens or hundreds of times a day, he doesn't bother to open his mouth no matter how good a story is.

But when the elders asked, he was too lazy to tell this story, and he had to tell him carefully and carefully about what happened to him in Chinese. The Chinese told him to eat a lot of things that he had never eaten before, showed him many temples with statues of gods, and listened to people with painted faces singing. Tell him the story of Tang Seng learning scriptures.

Why is this happening?

Because there were so many leaflets in the Indian barracks lately, and there were new leaflets almost every day, the British officers tried to prevent the Indians from reading the leaflets, but they quickly gave up, because the Indian soldiers had learned to hide them secretly after getting the leaflets.

The British also tried to keep leaflets out of the barracks, but it was difficult to do so. Because there are many ways for leaflets to reach the Indians, sometimes the Indian soldiers are patrolling the streets, and suddenly a person throws a bag from the alley, which is full of various leaflets, and the Indians will pick it up and take it back.

Sometimes there are even children who see Indians running up, stuffing a bunch of leaflets into their arms, and then quickly running away. You can't stop this kind of thing.

The contents of these leaflets were divided into categories, telling them the news of the great Indian uprising, which the elders had actually heard to some extent, and there was never a shortage of Indian sailors on merchant ships from Hong Kong, and these Indian sailors spread the news of their homeland to the ears of these elders in bits and pieces.

They knew that the soldiers in their native Punjab and Delhi were fighting against the British, that Bahadur Shah had been elected emperor of all India, and so on. But in a foreign land, these Indian soldiers really didn't know how to fight against the British, and they still needed to rely on the British to live and get all kinds of supplies. In addition, the Indians themselves do not have a strong sense of statehood, so they do not have too strong desire to rebel. There are also dissatisfactions, because there are rumors that the bullets they use are soaked in butter, and the Sikhs don't care about this, they eat beef and mutton, but the ordinary Indian soldiers are very dissatisfied, and the officers repeatedly assure them that they are not butter, but they are still very uneasy.

The news from their hometown can only let them know that rebellion is also a way, but no one chooses it. But the threat from the Chinese and the co-optation of them are still more or less concerned, the Chinese tell them that the friendship between China and India has a long history, everyone is Oriental, it is not right for Indians to fight China with the British, Chinese do not want to fight with Indians, as long as the Indians do not fight the Chinese, the Chinese do not fight the Indians, and hope that the Indians will not fight the British army.

It is obviously impossible not to fight the British army, and refusing to fight is tantamount to rebellion. But the seeds have been planted in their hearts, and the Indians are no longer so active in fighting. It's not that they realize their long-term friendship with China, but that all kinds of gossip make them have to think about the consequences of defeat, and they need to know whether the Chinese will abuse them if they capture them once they are defeated.

Compared with the Indian mercenaries who have an average will to fight, the most powerful combat force in the city at this time is none other than the French army, they have a complete infantry regiment and 500 combatants, which is a force that should not be underestimated. However, the 500 French army was divided into two parts, there were 300 people in the southern city, and there were 200 people on the northernmost Zhenhailou fort, and these 200 people controlled the high ground on Guanyin Mountain, and the villagers could not defeat it at all.

Zhu Jinglun had already mastered these circumstances, which made him unable to see the hope of surrender of the British and French forces, although the two warships outside the city were shot away by the cannons on the batteries, but the appearance of the British warships had already made the British and French high-level see hope, and the two warships conveyed a message, a British man who always paid attention to the information of Guangzhou, let them know that they were not abandoned.

The British only had Indian soldiers and coolies in their hands at this time, and the coolies had already made trouble, and the Indian soldiers were not so reliable, so the French became the most reliable army, and the action of dividing and disintegrating the French Zhu Jinglun has also been doing, but the effect is not great, and it is just a rumor that some French people are in contact with the Chinese outside the city, ordinary soldiers will spread it, and the top level cannot believe it at all.

Substantial contact with the French must be sent.

It was time for him to be urgent, and Zhu Jinglun immediately asked Hou Jin to send a message to Bai Gui, asking Bai Gui to cooperate with him to do something as soon as possible.

It is already difficult to pass on the news, because rumors are spreading in the city, the British and French troops have increased the blockade of the city, blocking several secret passages one after another, and the city gates are also closed, it is really difficult to communicate with each other.

But the French received a letter, which was received by a French interpreter, and he had just gotten up in the morning and found a letter in his bed, which surprised him inexplicably, and soon the French came to the dormitory and searched it carefully, but found nothing else.

The French captain read the letter, which said that they could negotiate with the French and release all the French out of the city, but they could not let the British go, and the letter said that the British had a feud with China, ceded China's Hong Kong, and if they did not return the country, the Chinese and the British were mortal enemies, but the Chinese had no hatred with the French, and did not want the French to stay in the city and die.

Captain Martine was very upright, and after reading the letter, he immediately showed it to the British. At the same time, a suggestion was put forward, whether they could take the opportunity to break out as a whole, they were trapped in this small place, and sooner or later they would be attacked by the Chinese, which was really too dangerous.

But the British refused, saying that even if they went out of the city, if the Chinese were deceiving, the boundless Chinese outside the city might be more dangerous, and the British warned the French to think about what happened to Pashali and others. The Chinese have even done such a thing as taking hostages, which is simply dishonorable and untrustworthy, and who dares to say whether this letter is a deception of the Chinese. Hurd also stood up for his side, telling the French that the Chinese were good at using deception, and that winning the war by deception was an honor rather than a shame. Sun Tzu, a Chinese military strategist, said that war is deceit.

Captain Martine was fooled away by a group of Britons in a daze, but he was not happy, he kept insisting on breaking through, it was the British who kept saying that their reinforcements would come, and now only sent two armed merchant ships to make a show and left, and the situation that has developed to this point, Martine thinks it is all caused by the stubbornness of the British.

At noon, there was a sudden loud bang, a corner of the city wall collapsed, and the Wuxian Gate, which had been engaged in artillery battles with outside the city, collapsed, and here faced the Haizhu Fort and the East Fort from both sides, and the collapse until now has shown that the Chinese's artillery skills are rotten. The city wall collapsed, and the British drove coolies to repair the city wall, which was another busy.

In the afternoon, suddenly the cannon on the north side of Zhenhailou rumbled, and it did not stop as soon as it sounded, listening to the sound Chinese have many cannons, and the sound of the cannons sounded like foreigners' cannons. The shelling lasted all day, and in the evening, Zhenhai Tower also collapsed, I don't know if the Chinese can capture Zhenhai Tower, where there are two hundred French soldiers.

During the night, Martine received news from the Chinese in another way, and the Chinese claimed that a final counteroffensive had been launched against Zhenhailou, and that they did not guarantee the safety of the French soldiers if the French did not surrender. If the French were willing to cooperate, they were willing to negotiate with the French soldiers in Zhenhailou first, and let the French soldiers there leave first. And allowed the French to send people to Zhenhai Tower to communicate with the French troops there.

Communicating with the soldiers in the north, Martine did not reject this at all, and immediately sent people to waive white flags, with interpreters, and lay down on the city wall, on the way the Chinese Xiangyong did not attack them, but followed them all the way to the northernmost part of the city wall, Guanyin Mountain, and watched them go up the mountain.

The officer who returned from Zhenhailou said that the situation was not optimistic, and the Chinese did not know where to get many very good artillery, the number of which was as many as dozens, and the caliber was also very large, which was no worse than the fortress guns on the Guanyinshan battery, so they bombarded Zhenhailou, not to mention, but also suppressed the artillery on the battery.

The forts on Guanyin Mountain have also been transformed by the British and French forces, and the artillery has also been replaced with British fortress guns, but the number is not much, only a dozen, because it is relatively less important than the Haizhu Fort and the East Fort on the Pearl River.

The Chinese artillery completely suppressed the Guanyinshan battery, which made the French judge that they were no longer able to hold the stronghold of Guanyinshan. However, Guanyin Mountain and the south of the city are now separated by the Chinese, and it is obviously an impossible task to let that group of soldiers break through the entire old city of Guangzhou.

Martine thought of what the Chinese had said about allowing the French on Mount Guanyin to leave first, and he felt the need to think about it.

So Martine seriously sent an officer to go out of the city with the interpreter Chen Qixin to discuss with the Chinese, which caused the dissatisfaction of the British and asked Martine to explain why he wanted to communicate with the Chinese in private. Martine said that it was for the safety of the 200 French troops on Guanyin Mountain, but the British expressed the hope that the French would continue to hold their stronghold.

quarreled and broke up.

On the other hand, the French representatives were received by the Chinese Xiangyong in a friendly manner, telling them that the Chinese were very willing to be friends with the French.

The Chinese agreed to almost all the conditions of the French.

The 200 French troops on Guanyin Mountain even took away their weapons, and with a competitive pace, they came down from Guanyin Mountain, then went out of the small north gate, and finally went down to the North School Field in the northeast outside the city of Guangzhou, and lived in the barracks left by the Chinese soldiers in the past.

The French army then immediately sent representatives to the south of the city at the request of the Chinese and reported their situation to Martine, saying that the Chinese had arranged barracks for them and had not placed troops around them, and had promised that the Chinese would not attack them as long as they did not approach the walls and attacked the Chinese.

The Chinese assured that if the French troops south of the city were also willing to withdraw, they would be willing to let the two French troops converge and would never attack them.