There are many reasons why the Wu army in Shanghai fell into a bitter battle, the first is that it was caught off guard by the Taiping army, and it was caught off guard and suffered a big loss. Burn? Wen Xiao?? Say???.? ｒ?ａ?ｎ?? ｅ?ｎ?ａ`ｃｏｍ

Wu Chaoyue also had to take the blame for this matter, before the Taiping Army suddenly moved, Wu Chaoyue had just used the Wu Army fleet to send a batch of military supplies to Shanghai, and clearly told the Shanghai Wu Army that he would use Shanghai as the advance base to launch the Northern Expedition by sea, which intentionally or unintentionally caused the Shanghai Wu Army to misjudge the enemy's situation, reduce the defensive psychology of the Taiping Army, and directly gave the Taiping Army a chance.

At the same time, the Taiping army also moved too suddenly, just received Hong Xiuquan's order, the Songjiang Taiping army, which had long coveted Shanghai's wealth, immediately turned its face, took advantage of the advantageous advantage of being in the upper reaches of the Huangpu River to suddenly attack at night, and was very cunning not to seize the city stronghold as the goal, but chose to attack the arsenal established by the Wu army outside the city in Shanghai, wanting to rob the Wu army's arms for their own use, and at the same time make the Shanghai Wu army no longer able to produce picric acid weapons on its own.

Thanks to Zhou Tenghu, Deng Siyuan and others who have never neglected the protection of the arsenal, the defenders still stubbornly resisted after the sneak attack, and did not let the Taiping army's attempt to steal the arms succeed, but several warehouses were set on fire by the Taiping army, the finished weapons and raw materials were almost burned, and the plant and industrial equipment were also greatly damaged, and they temporarily lost the ability to produce picric acid weapons and firing pin gun bullets on their own, and quickly fell into an ammunition crisis.

The second important reason is that Wu Chaoyue and the Wu army in Shanghai all seriously underestimated the degree of greed of the Taiping army for Shanghai, and just relied on the advanced weapons in the inventory to block the Lu Shunde division of the Taiping army in Songjiang, the Huang Zilong division of the Taiping army in Changzhou, and the Tan Shaoguang division of the Taiping army in Suzhou, and immediately came one after another, gathering nearly 40,000 troops to attack Shanghai. At the same time, Li Xiucheng, the current largest warlord leader of the Taiping Army, was also gathering troops in Hangzhou, and he could join the Shanghai battlefield at any time.

There was also a very absurd unexpected incident that also caused the morale of the Wu army in Shanghai to be frustrated, and the morale of the Taiping army was greatly boosted, that is, there was a retired British naval officer named Augustus Frederick, because of sympathy for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, he actually stole a British armed steam merchant ship on the dock of Shanghai and joined the Taiping army! While helping the Taiping Army to strengthen its water power, it also vigorously encouraged foreign foreigners in the concession to join the Taiping Army and stop supporting and helping the Wu Army in Shanghai.

At the end of last year, the Shanghai Wu Army also decided to form a naval fleet with six steam gunboats, but because it was too late in time, the steam gunboats ordered from the British had not yet been able to be sent to Shanghai, so the main warships of the Shanghai Wu Army were still five red single ships, and after the Taiping Army suddenly obtained a steam-armed ship, the Shanghai Wu Army naturally had no advantage on the water.

In terms of time in a hurry, the help that Britain, France, the United States and other Western powers could provide to the Wu army in Shanghai was also quite limited, although with the help of foreigners, foxes and fake tigers has always been the expertise of the old Wu family, and the consuls of the Western powers whose interests were damaged also made it clear that they supported the Wu army to resist the Taiping army, but the danger came too suddenly, and there were only less than 800 British and French troops in the whole Shanghai, and they also gave priority to protecting the concession land, so the Shanghai Wu army could only rely on its own strength to resist the Taiping army for a long time.

These situations are not particularly important, there are no picric acid weapons and shotgun bullets, the Shanghai Wu army can also use black powder weapons and other rifles to fight, the Shanghai Wu army is not enough to recruit temporarily, because of the war and the deformed and prosperous Shanghai area is a ragged poor and young man, as long as they are willing to spend money and food, how much cannon fodder there is!

The key reason that really plunged the Wu army into a bitter battle in Shanghai was that Shanghai's special situation, population, economy, and trade were all outside the city, and the county town of Shanghai was the most dilapidated and backward place! Therefore, if the Wu army of Shanghai wants to keep the essence and wealth of Shanghai, it must not only defend one city, but must protect the huge castle town and the concession where wealth is piled up!

In this regard, Zhou Tenghu, the commander of the Wu Army in Shanghai, could only establish a large number of strongholds around Shanghai, guard the dangerous roads everywhere, and not give the Taiping Army the opportunity to approach the towns of Shanghai, and stretch the battle line by himself and dilute his troops. As a result, the Taiping army also immediately seized the weakness of the Wu army in Shanghai, constantly attacked the stronghold of the Wu army, which had a small garrison, forced the Wu army and the own army to fight a war of attrition, constantly consumed the strength and ammunition of the Shanghai Wu army, and also tried to lure the main force of the Shanghai Wu army to attack in a big way, and consumed the advanced weapons that the Shanghai Wu army could no longer produce on its own......

"Futai, Changmao launched an attack on our army's five camps in Xinzhuang, Sijing, Luojiagang, Zhoupu and Dongjiadu at the same time today, among which the Sijing battle was the most intense, Changmao invested a total of more than 3,000 troops in the Sijing battlefield, and attacked four times, more than 70 soldiers of our army were killed, and the ammunition consumption was huge. In addition, the fighting at Luojiagang was also fierce...... ”

Listening to the military intelligence summary report of the staff, Zhou Tenghu was always silent, his expression was very calm, but he was secretly worried in his heart, knowing that the Taiping Army wanted to fight a war of attrition with him, but there was no way, at this time, he rashly dispatched the main force to counterattack, making it clear that it would only give the Taiping Army more opportunities to consume the Shanghai Wu Army.

In the end, Jin Anqing, the deputy with the title of political envoy of Jiangsu, opened his mouth and asked: "What kind of long hair is it that attacked Sijing and Luojiagang today?" ”

"Suzhou long-haired Tan Shaoguang Department." The staff member in charge of compiling the military information replied.

"The son of a bitch, it's really a wheel war, yesterday Huang Zilong and today Tan Shaoguang, take turns to fight a tough battle, and if you don't drag us down, you won't stop."

Jin Anqing first scolded a dirty word, and then turned to Zhou Tenghu and said: "Fu, it is definitely not a way to go on like this, you have to find a way to crack the wheel war of long hair, and you can't let them go on like this." Otherwise, even our arquebus ammunition could be depleted by the long hair. ”

"Do you have any ideas?" Zhou Tenghu asked rhetorically.

"Can you make some fuss about the fact that the long hair doesn't belong to each other?" Jin Anqing replied: "We have found out the accurate information, Tan Shaoguang, Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde, the three big hairs, do not have a subordinate relationship, they all discuss and act in case of trouble, and they may be divided by us, if we can make them turn against each other and drag each other back, then not only can the pressure on the battlefield be much smaller, maybe there is also a chance to kill one or two of them at a small price." ”

Zhou Tenghu stopped talking again, and after a long time, Zhou Tenghu suddenly came out with such a sentence, saying: "The long-haired captives we caught have an explanation, saying that Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde, the two big long-haired people, are both from Tengxian County, Guangxi, and Tan Shaoguang is from Xiangzhou, Guangxi. ”

Obedient and listening, Jin Anqing's eyes immediately lit up, and said: "This can be used, as long as Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde believe that Tan Shaoguang is going to eat alone, there is no worry that the two of them will not join forces to deal with Tan Shaoguang." ”

"The key is, how to convince Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde that Tan Shaoguang is ready to eat alone?" Zhou Tenghu frowned, he was very troubled and couldn't think of a good way to divide the three major armies of the Taiping Army on the opposite side.

Fortunately, although Jin Anqing is inferior to Zhou Tenghu in terms of talent and knowledge, he is much stronger than Zhou Tenghu in terms of cheating, and soon said: "We will definitely not be able to directly attack the discord, and Changmao will definitely not be easily fooled, but if we come forward with the sign of foreigners, the grasp may be much greater." ”

"How?" Zhou Tenghu asked.

"Forged a letter from a foreign general in reply to Tan Shaoguang." Jin An Qingyin said: "Tell Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde through the mouths of foreigners, and say that Tan Shaoguang has secretly discussed with foreigners that he is ready to join forces to take Shanghai and divide Shanghai's gold, silver and jewelry equally." also hinted at Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde through the mouths of foreigners, Tan Shaoguang also planned to kill people with a knife, and use us to kill or drive them away, so that Tan Shaoguang could eat alone. ”

Zhou Tenghu finally showed a little smile, nodded, and said: "It's feasible, we have no loss if we fail, and if we succeed, we will make a profit, and I will leave this matter to you, the sooner the better." ”

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