In the face of the pressure of the Qing army, Chen Alin, the largest force in the Xiaodao Society, still made a compromise, acquiescing in the Xiaodao Society to be attached to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although he did not approve of it, he did not openly oppose it.

Liu Lichuan raised the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, proclaimed himself the generalissimo of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and sent people to Nanjing to deliver a letter to Hong Xiuquan who was willing to return. In addition, Luo Outline ordered that all members of the Little Knife Society must hand over all the money they robbed and use it uniformly, and those who are unwilling to continue to follow the Little Knife Society to defend the city will be given ten taels of silver to go home, but the robbed money must be left.

Chen Alin took the initiative to cooperate with this policy, of course, Luo Xuan also did insider trading with him, he handed over the 200,000 taels of silver he had stolen to Liu Lichuan, and then Liu Lichuan returned the money to him for the reason why the military salary had been paid. However, the money handed over by other small gang leaders will not be refunded, and some ill-gotten gains will be confiscated directly.

In this way, after Luo Xuan's rectification, the military discipline in Shanghai County took on a new look, and although some members were lost, those who remained were those who wanted to do something in their hearts and rebelled against the Qing court, and those speculators took the initiative to choose to leave.

It is said that Li Xianchi made a fortune by selling hostages, 3,000 taels of silver for military salaries, and 5,000 taels of silver he planned to swallow privately. But as soon as Luo Outline arrived, his dream could not come true, and he secretly sent his cronies to the concession wharf to buy a ferry ticket, ready to leave with the money.

But he never expected that Yang Xiaoshan got in touch with Luo Outline in the city through Ah Fu Agui, and told Luo Outline about Li Xianchi's money. Luo Xuan waited for Li Xianchi to hand over the money every day, but he didn't pay it for a long time.

That night, Li Xianchi and several of his cronies secretly fled out of Shanghai County and came to the concession, preparing to flee back to his hometown in Fujian.

The sky was bright, and he couldn't wait to board the ship to Quanzhou.

"Li Xianchi, where are you going?" Li Xianchi never expected that Yang Xiaoshan and Luo Xuan, who were outside the city, had already set up people to monitor his movements.

waited until he was ready to board the ship, and arrested one of his stolen goods. Because Li Xianchi is a gang leader after all, to prevent the people below him from being dissatisfied, there must be ironclad evidence to deal with him.

At this time, the human and material evidence gathered, and his cronies confessed that Li Xianchi planned to escape with the money, and the 5,000 taels of silver tickets in his arms and the ferry tickets to Fujian were ironclad evidence.

Luo Xuan presented the evidence to his men. His men were indignant, and they couldn't imagine that their gang had hidden so much money and left them alone. The angry crowd rushed up and punched and kicked Li Xianchi, shouting "Death penalty!" ”

So Luo Outline complied with everyone's wishes and cut Li Xianchi in public to enforce military discipline.

After some rectification, the members of the Little Knife Society finally united, but soon the Qing army's sailors first arrived at the Xiaodongmen of the county seat of Shanghai.

This Qing army, led by the general soldier Bo Chengsheng, had more than a dozen warships, including four or five gunboats, intending to blast open the small east gate.

Luo Xuan, who was born in the navy, did not show weakness and led the small boats of seven or eight rebels to fight. He was very composed, commanding the small boats to quickly intersperse among the large ships of the Qing army, and throwing fire bottles.

The Qing warships were in thick smoke, suffered heavy losses, and hundreds of people fell into the water. The remaining ships were lured into range of the Knife Society's battery, and several more were sunk.

This time, the Qing army's fleet was completely chaotic, and Luo Xuan seized the fighter plane to counterattack again. Heavily damaged Qing warships and captured a gunboat.

The general soldiers of the Qing army really had no choice, so they led the remnants of the defeated army to flee to the foreign docks, and only then did they escape. But after this battle, the Qing army's navy was killed and completely lost its combat effectiveness, and it could no longer fight alone.

However, the crisis in the county seat of Shanghai was still not resolved, and the Qing governor Gil Hang'a and the general soldier Hu Songlin led more than 10,000 Qing troops to surround the county seat of Shanghai.

And launched an attack in the northwest of the county, the vanguard of several hundred people shouted and charged at the rebels, throwing a large number of fireballs and other projectiles, and then set up a ladder to climb the city, seven or eight people have climbed the city wall, and at the same time a large number of Qing soldiers rushed out of the barracks, with silk guns, guns and other weapons to shoot at the city wall. The rebels sounded the trumpet and fought back bravely under the command of Luo Xuan and others, throwing firebombs, fire pots, ash packets and boulders at the enemy, and the battle was very fierce.

Many of the enemies who had landed on the city fell down, and the enemy troops who had already reached the city wall were outnumbered, and several people were killed on the spot, and the rest saw that the situation was not good, and jumped off the wall and fled. Under heavy fire from the rebels, the enemy had no choice but to retreat. Echoing the Qing army in the northwest, the Qing army in the south also launched an offensive, bombarding the city with heavy artillery, destroying many battlements, and firing rockets to set fire to the rebel tents on the city.

At the same time, the chief soldier Bo Chengsheng led the remaining warships to attack the rebel battery in the area of Xiaodongmen Wharf. The rebels returned fire with artillery fire, which continued for several hours, until finally the enemy ships retreated to the mouth of the Suzhou Creek.

On this day, after a bloody battle, the rebel army repelled the enemy's attack from three sides and kept the county seat of Shanghai.

However, the Qing army was unwilling to fail, and secretly built a fort in the Siming Office in the west of the city, and transported cannons with strong firepower. At the same time, the Qing army also built many high platforms in the camp, which were as high as the city wall, and made an inclined plane on the top, so that these high platforms could be placed on the side of the city wall to ascend the city during the battle. The Qing army also practiced attacking on high platforms, which were actually a kind of relatively stable ladders. After some preparation and planning, the Qing army began a large-scale continuous siege of the city.

After the installation of the fort of the Siming Gongsu, the Qing army launched an artillery bombardment of the city, and at the same time attacked the city outside the north and south gates of the county seat, and the rebel army resisted stubbornly and repelled the enemy's attacks again and again, killing 19 enemies and wounding many people.

The next day, the fog was filled, the Qing army carried a ladder and a spray canister, preparing to attack the county seat by the fog, and the rebel army also disguised itself as the Qing army to attack the fort of Siming Gongsuo, the two armies met and started a fierce battle, and the rebel army retreated while fighting, until the fog cleared at sunrise, and then returned to the city. In this battle, the rebel army killed Chen Zhenchuan and others, wounded dozens of people, and suffered some losses of their own.

For several days in a row, the Qing army launched an all-out attack on the county seat of Shanghai from the north, west, and south, and exhausted all ammunition within two hours. Under the attack of dozens of times more enemies than themselves, the rebel army heroically held its position, launched several charges against the Qing army, and finally repelled the attack of the Qing army.

The Qing army attacked for seven days and nights in a vain attempt to seize the county seat of Shanghai, and under the tight defense and fierce counterattack of the rebel army, the Qing army suffered repeated defeats.

The Qing army was angry and burned and looted on the outskirts of the city, committing heinous crimes. The eastern suburbs of Shanghai County were originally a prosperous commercial area, and the private houses and shops were connected to each other. Gilhanga commanded the Qing army to set fire to more than 2,000 houses in the area from the small south gate to the big and small east gates. The eastern suburbs, which used to be densely populated and very rich, have become a bleak and uninhabited area. The Qing army took advantage of the fire to loot, and a large number of stolen goods were shamelessly seized by them, and a war fortune was made.

After so many days of fierce attack, the Qing army could not break through the county seat of Shanghai, through the tempering of the battlefield and the command of generals such as Luo Xuan, the rebel army of the Little Knife Society also grew rapidly, no longer a weak team, but an army with a firm will and can fight tough battles.