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"Isn't that just deception?"

The black dog sighed.

Zhu Jinglun didn't answer, didn't have time to delay, and immediately ordered down.

"Scar is guarding the captives. Curly hair also stayed to defend the city, and Hou Jin was in charge of you. ”

"Fang Shan, you take my documents and a letter and hand it to Yang Yide, the capital of Kowloon. The document was left as evidence, and the letter was sent to the British by Yang Yide. ”

Before the First Raven War, Kowloon City was just a fort just a stone's throw from Hong Kong Island, just across a bay. After the Crow War, the Qing army built a walled city on Jiulong Mountain, the original site of the fort, for the purpose of coastal defense. The city circumference is 199 zhang, built by stone masonry, there is a government office in the city, and the vice general of the Dapeng Association and the Kowloon Inspection Department work here. A 170-meter-long, 8-foot-high, and 3-foot-thick wall was also built on the mountain behind the Walled City to defend against the British army.

There are a total of 250 soldiers stationed in the city, and there are 32 cannons on the east, south and west sides of the city, including one 5,000-kilogram cannon, one 4,000-kilogram cannon, four 3,000-kilogram cannons, six 2,500-kilogram cannons, two 2,000-kilogram cannons, and two 700-kilogram cannons, most of which are still moved from Xin'an City.

Historically, after the Second Raven War, the British seized the Kowloon Inspection Division, but allowed the Qing government to keep the walled city. Until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Kowloon City was under the jurisdiction of the Qing government. After the fall of the Qing government, the British did not obtain the management of Kowloon City, resulting in it becoming a three-regardless zone, after the founding of New China, China and Britain have never reached an agreement on the jurisdiction of Kowloon City, until before the return of Hong Kong, an agreement was reached, and the British government of Hong Kong demolished it and built a park.

A few years ago, Li Wenmao, the leader of the Taiping Army, and Chen Kai, the leader of the Tiandihui, led troops to revolt near Guangzhou, and later divided their troops to capture Kowloon City, and finally was recaptured by Yang Yide, the head of the Kowloon Capital.

Zhu Jinglun believed that Yang Yide and the British government in Hong Kong must have been tired of guarding this place, and Hong Kong is a smuggling distribution center, colluding with Hong Kong and Britain to seek huge profits, and there is no psychological burden on the military attaché, and if he does not earn this money, he will be sorry for himself.

Collusion is collusion, Zhu Jinglun believes that Yang Yide did not dare to rebel against the Qing government, so he wrote a letter to him, Yang Yide must know what to do, and at the same time, Yang Yide also has a way to forward the letter to the British.

In the letter to Yang Yide, Zhu Jinglun would tell Yang Yide that he had taken Xin'an City lightly, and in the letter, Zhu Jinglun painted a vivid description of how his troops shot and how they forcibly captured Xin'an City, trying to give him the illusion that he was very powerful, and told him that he was also ordered to attack Hong Kong, and attached a letter of persuasion to Yang Yide to hand it over to the British.

I believe that Yang Yide will relay the information he heard to the British government in Hong Kong, and the British government in Hong Kong will definitely misinterpret it, they don't know how Xin'an City was taken down, and they will never think that they surrendered without firing a single shot, and now that Hong Kong is empty, they must be nervous.

When the time comes, it will be logical to send people to the manhole to ask for help, and Zhu Jinglun will complete the task of rescuing the manhole.

As for Zhu Jinglun himself: "The black dog is the pioneer, take your battalion to Kowloon City." I followed Brother Kui as a backup and drove in slowly. Fight more flags along the way and create momentum. ”

Assign tasks to a halt and get into action.

Half an hour after the black dog set off, the flags that Zhu Jinglun pulled indiscriminately were also ready, red, black, and yellow, and the flowers and greens were extremely eye-catching. There are also ten infantry cannons in tow, and these cannons are not brought to fight, if there is a war, the cannons on the Jiulongshan Fort are more useful. The purpose of bringing these cannons is to prove that they are really going to attack Hong Kong and increase the panic in Hong Kong. Once the war really started, Zhu Jinglun would not hesitate to throw away these cannons as soon as possible, because no matter what, these cannons would not be able to bombard the British batteries on Hong Kong Island, not even the Kowloon City Forts, so the British dared to put the Kowloon Fort under their noses and did not demolish it, because they were confident that a firepower cover would make this fort dumb.

Go out of the city and cross the Shahe River, cross the Shenzhen River through Futian Village, go all the way south, the momentum is very large, and constantly send people to contact the surrounding villages, telling everyone that we are going to fight Hong Kong, and welcome all villagers to participate in the grand event. All the way through Yuen Long, Sha Tau Kok, Tai Po and other villages, each has some people's strong convergence.

The villages here on the Kowloon Peninsula do not have a good impression of the foreigners in Hong Kong, for many reasons, before the Crow War, it didn't matter, after the British occupied Hong Kong Island, some landlords on the Kowloon Peninsula had land in Hong Kong and leased it to some tenants, but after Hong Kong ceded it, they sent people to collect rent, but the other party refused to pay the rent, and lost the lawsuit in the foreigners' court, so the gentry on the peninsula were extremely dissatisfied with Hong Kong. And these gentry are also the leaders of organizations such as regimental training, township bravery, and public bureaus, and they all have some soldiers in their hands.

By the evening, when Zhu Jinglun arrived outside the Kowloon Walled City, he had already gathered thousands of villagers from more than a dozen villages, plus his own soldiers, the number of 2,000 people, it was really a bit like attacking Hong Kong.

On this day, Zhu Jinglun marched slowly, and the Hong Kong government quarreled into a pot of porridge.

General Grant, who was in charge of Hong Kong's defense, and Governor Bao Ling, disagreed.

Grant is the commander of the army, but the British army has never had a high status in the navy, and it is subordinate to the navy, so the last attack on the East Fort in Guangzhou, and this attack on the manhole were all commanded by the commander of the navy, Sima Mi Li, but where is Grant's identity, he is in Hong Kong, and he should naturally be responsible for the defense of Hong Kong.

The quarrel between the two began after receiving the letter forwarded by Yang Yide, Bao Ling believed that Hong Kong was extremely important to the British, and was still the rear base of the entire expeditionary force, and could not afford to lose it, and advocated that someone should be sent to notify Sima Mi to return reinforcements immediately, and temporarily abandon the plan to attack the manhole.

Grant, on the other hand, believed that the Qing troops on the shore were just bluffing, but he agreed to recall some British troops to rescue Hong Kong, but he could not stop the attack on the manholes. He believes that it is very dangerous to let Shajing have a Qing army, and in the long run, it will be even more detrimental to Hong Kong. At the same time, Grant also had Elgin's sword of Shang Fang, and Ergin was the minister plenipotentiary to China, and before they went south from SH, Ergin advocated attacking. Therefore, after they returned, they chose to send troops to Guangzhou for the first time to teach the Chinese a lesson.

Due to Erkin's support, on the issue of Hong Kong's defense, Bao Ling, Grant and Sima Mi have always been jointly decided, but now Bao Ling and Grant have disagreed, and Sima Mi is not there. In the end, after arguing until the afternoon, neither of them could convince anyone, so they decided to write a letter to Xima Mi Li, and Xi Ma Mi Li decided whether to send part of the troops back to help, or give up the military operation and return the whole army to help.

For both of them, this compromise is acceptable to both of them. Bao Ling believes that if Sima Mi Li knew the importance of Hong Kong, he would definitely support him. Grant believes that Simamigoli, as a military general, will make his own decisions according to the situation on the battlefield. He believed that if the whole army of Sima Mi Li came to the rescue, then there was only one reason, and that was that he had completely destroyed the resistance of Shajing.

When Zhu Jinglun entered Kowloon City with a huge force in the panic of the Hong Kong people, the letters of Bao Ling and Grant had already been delivered to Simamil.

Zhu Jinglun needs to walk for a day, and people can get there in two or three hours, and his legs are really too unadvantageous compared with the British steamers.

Zhu Jinglun did not know the quarrel between the Governor of Hong Kong and Grant, nor did he know that all the decisions were in the hands of Xima Mi Li, let alone how the military operation to attack the manhole was going on in West Ma Mi Li, he only knew that Yang Yide was very optimistic about his plan to attack Hong Kong.

Yang Yide enthusiastically welcomed Zhu Jinglun into the yamen of his inspection department, but he complained vigorously, emphasizing the strength of the British and how sharp the forts on Hong Kong Island were.

This guy is obviously speaking for the British army, trying to discourage or delay the attack on Hong Kong, Zhu Jinglun does not think that this guy has defected, but his position is obviously wrong.

First, he has common interests with Hong Kong, and he came out of the diplomatic concept of Qing Dynasty officials that more things are better than less, and they are not very willing to provoke foreigners.

Zhu Jinglun couldn't beat the foreigners, so he walked away, and Kowloon City was broken, but he Yang Yide's loss. If Zhu Jinglun leads the seeds, defeats the British, and captures Hong Kong Island, it will not be good for him Yang Yide, and the credit will definitely be taken away by Zhu Jinglun.

Anyway, Yang Yide has a thousand and ten thousand reasons, and he doesn't want Zhu Jinglun to start a war with the British army here.

Zhu Jinglun listened carefully to Yang Yide's reason, and nodded incessantly, but he just didn't make a decision, he was waiting for a news.

And this news is closely related to the battle situation of the manhole, but no one knows that the manhole is already in danger at this time.