The 3,500 Qing soldiers led by the general soldier Hu Songlin were stationed in the northwest corner of Shanghai City. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info This unit is all brave soldiers recruited by Xiang Rong from Mubei, Sichuan, and chased the Taiping Army all the way from Guangxi to the south of the Yangtze River, and it is already one of the strongest troops in the green battalion.

Suddenly, two sentries rushed to report that a large number of men and horses had suddenly appeared on the wooden bridge over the Suzhou Creek, rushing towards their station.

Hu Songlin was shocked. At this time, where did the large number of troops come from? The imperial court had a tight supply of troops, otherwise they would not have been transferred to Shanghi to quell the rebellion. If it weren't for the forces of the imperial court, who would it be?

Hu Songlin's heart was suddenly shocked, could it be that the long-haired thief reinforcements from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were coming? But haven't you heard of the movement of the long-haired thieves marching in Taicang, Suzhou?

Hu Songlin was thinking about it, and a sparse burst of gunfire had already sounded!

When he turned his eyes, he had vaguely seen dozens of figures, holding muskets and cats bent over their waists, advancing step by step, looming in the smoke of gunpowder.

It's the enemy! Hu Songlin immediately woke up and hurriedly ordered the whole army to fight.

Hundreds of people had already rushed down from the wooden bridge, and there was a steady stream of rushing to kill them.

Hu Songlin has always been a leading general, at this moment, he brought more than 100 personal soldiers, and led more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers to cover the enemy army that attacked.

"Kill! Kill a rebel and get a silver prize! Brothers, kill Lao Tzu! Hu Songlin roared.

The morale was like a rainbow, and more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers rushed towards each other fiercely as usual.

"Bang bang, bang bang!" A dense barrage of gunfire rang out.

"Ahh Oh my mother, it hurts me. ”

"Ah, I was shot. Help me. ”

A series of cries rang out, and the people who were shot fell to the ground, some of them died directly, and some of them were still crying and screaming.

"It's dangerous! Luckily, the tall guy in front of me helped me block it, otherwise he would have shot me! What kind of musket can shoot so far? One of the lucky Green Battalion soldiers was still amazed and fell to the ground. I only heard a snap, and when I looked back, there was a person behind me whose chest was full of blood, and a blood hole was still smoking, and he fell straight down and almost hit him.

"Ahh Even if this lucky person who had been fighting for many years was hit by a smoking blood hole in front of him, he couldn't help but tremble all over. If he hadn't been clever just now, he would have climbed to the ground immediately, and at this moment, the blood hole would have opened on his chest.

There was a pause of a few seconds, followed by another series of gunshots. Immediately afterwards, the hundreds of people in the green battalion rushed to the front, and they were covered with blood holes, and they fell to the ground, rolling and struggling and wailing.

"How so!?" Hu Songlin's eyes were almost spurting blood: "What's the matter!?" What kind of musket can the enemy kill this far? He grabbed one of the marching horses beside him and roared.

"The military gate, small suspicions, most of the thieves are foreign guns. Moreover, it is still a very advanced foreign gun, which shoots farther than the foreign guns in the hands of those foreign soldiers in the concession, so it will have this power. The marching Sima leaned over, shocked and uncertain.

Bang bang! A few more bullets grazed past Hu Songlin, frightening his own soldiers to quickly surround him. Hu Songlin also hurriedly half crawled to the ground, and the resentment in his heart was endless.

"No, you can't just let the thieves fire." Hu Songlin stood up abruptly and shouted: "Brothers, hurry up for Lao Tzu!" rushed closer, give Lao Tzu a bloody fight, and the thieves will not work. The first one rushed to the thief array, and Lao Tzu rewarded him with a thousand taels of silver and promoted him as a general! ”

Hu Songlin's roar, the Qing soldiers who were originally trembling, under the lure and stimulation of the rich silver bounty and the high-ranking officials of the three grades, howled frantically, opened their blood-red eyes, accelerated their speed, and rushed towards the half-crouched thieves in front of them.

Bang bang...... Bang bang bang. The gunfire on the opposite side was rapid and intense.

At the cost of another four or five hundred casualties, the Green Battalion finally rushed within fifty paces of the enemy.

Hu Songlin, who has a lot of actual combat experience, only then did he order: "Order, the spearmen will slash forward, and the shotgunners will fire at the same time!" ”

Suddenly, the shouts of the Qing army became more violent, and the shotgunners also stood still one after another, igniting and shooting.

The thieves on the opposite side suddenly suffered a small number of casualties, and Hu Songlin was overjoyed, pressing the formation in the rear, urging the Qing soldiers to speed up and rush forward to kill.

At this moment, there was another fierce shout behind him, and a puff of dust rose from the sky. It turned out to be hundreds of righteous soldiers in Shanghi City, and when they saw that the reinforcements from outside the city had arrived, under the leadership of Xu Yao, Fan Dequan and others, they rushed over to the Qing soldiers who were rushing to the reinforcements.

The rebels in Shanghi City can also be said to be desperate.

Hu Songlin was shocked! I was caught between two sides.

But the facts tell him: that's not all!

Because at this time, in the west, there were bursts of shouts and killings.

Hu Songlin looked intently, and countless rebels wearing light green cloth hats and strange light green military uniforms attacked them. In the crowd, there were several flags fluttering, with the words "Taiping Holy Country-The Eighth Division of the Capture Army" written on them, fluttering in the wind.

It turned out to be a Cantonese bandit from the south! It's actually here!

Hu Songlin understood at once. These Cantonese bandits must have come by warship.

But what about the Qing Army's naval division, the Bo Chengsheng fleet and Wu Jianzhang's fleet on the Huangpu River?

I don't have time to think about it, because those Cantonese bandits have already gone on the offensive.

Bang bang! Gunfire, more fierce than the thieves rushing from the Suzhou Creek, rang out from the west side.

Hu Songlin turned sideways and saw the rows of brothers in the west falling to the ground. At this moment, it seems that the world is quiet, and I only see the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty falling to the ground, struggling, spurting blood, and rolling.

The soldiers around Hu Songlin were also constantly shot. There were fewer and fewer Qing soldiers, and at this time, they had just rushed to the side of the thieves by the Suzhou River. I saw that the rows of thieves threw away the foreign guns in their hands, pulled out the card knives on their waists, and jumped up like a fierce lion descending from a mountain, and slashed at the approaching Qing soldiers with a wave of their knives. The two sides collided violently and fought each other.

Finally rushed into the formation of thieves.

However, Hu Songlin did not have the slightest joy, and some were just chills!

Surrounded on three sides, although the rebels who rushed out of the city gate behind them were the weakest in physical strength and combat power, they were also fierce and abnormal. What made Hu Songlin's heart chill the most was the Cantonese thieves and thieves in the west.

The foreign guns kept firing, and they never stopped for a moment.

Hu Songlin saw that each of the thieves was a foreign gun, and they were divided into three strands, step by step, shooting in turn, intertwined into a non-stop fire, pouring on the bodies of the Qing brothers who had been killed and wounded.

No, it's a total slaughter. Hu Songlin suddenly realized that he had to retreat immediately, otherwise, he might even have to ride into it.

He hurriedly ordered a retreat! It's just that it's a little late! Because, at this moment, there are less than 2,000 of his 3,500 soldiers left, and they are fighting with the thieves in front of him, how can he say that he can withdraw if he withdraws?

And the hundreds of soldiers of the righteous army who rushed out of Shanghi City have also collided together. The Qing army had to convulsions, and hundreds of people fought with the rebels.

And to the west, it's a one-sided escape! Yes, it's just running away! There were about 4,000 officers and men of the Eighth Division of the Capture Army in the west, and the 2,000 people who rushed to the front opened the way, holding foreign guns and shooting continuously, and the Qing troops fled backwards one after another, evading.

Totally irresistible!

As the officers and men of the Eighth Division continued to advance eastward, the Qing army rolled eastward and fled.

A little further east is the French Concession near the Huangpu River!

At this moment, Hu Songlin can't care so much. With the support of more than 30 personal soldiers, he led the Qing army around him to flee eastward.

Before I arrived at the French Concession area, I saw the French Concession also bursting with gunfire.

A low wall in front of the French Concession has been torn down. Thousands of people lined up as a wall, surrounding the French Concession.

Hu Songlin's heart tightened, his eyes were half-squinted, and through the morning sun, he saw that the thousands of people were dressed in exactly the same military uniform as the Cantonese thief soldiers in the west just now!

It's also a Cantonese thief! Even the French concession is surrounded!

And he Hu Songlin is surrounded on all sides, and there is no way to live!