Chapter 157: The thunder is not as powerful as it can be hidden

Three minutes before the 406-mm shells came, it was said that Jin An, the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, as well as Zhang Guoliang, the governor of Jiangnan, and Yu Bin, the governor of Haiphong, were woken up early in the morning, and just wanted to scold his subordinates, when they suddenly heard dense gunfire outside, and they were so frightened that they immediately got up from the *******, and got dressed after dividing five by two.

"The Taiping army has attacked the city?"

Prefect Jin An asked with a sneer on his face.

The subordinate guard Gold Standard shook his head quickly.

"Who is that?"

"Lord Prefect, we don't know, the clothes they wear are very strange, and the spears in their hands are even more powerful than those of foreigners. Our brothers on the city wall, five or six hundred meters away from them, many of them were shot in the head. ”

Jin Biao hurriedly explained.

"Where's Admiral Zhang?"

Jin Biao shook his head again, extremely uneasy in his heart, "Lord Zhang hasn't gotten up yet." I've sent someone to inform him. It's the same with Lord Yu. ”

"Let's go! Let's go to the city walls and have a look. Since it's not long hair, what are we afraid of? ”

In Jin An's consciousness, only the Taiping army could threaten them. For the strange soldiers who appeared out of thin air and fell from the sky, they didn't pay attention to it at all. Gold Label tried several times to explain, but finally held back.

"Master Zhang, what's going on?"

Zhang Guoliang's rank as the governor of Jiangnan was even higher than his own, and Jin An held his breath, and for the sake of face, he had to take the lead in saluting Zhang Guoliang with his fists.

At this moment, there was a long, rapid roar in the sky.

Everyone looked up, and a black shadow flashed. Immediately afterward, a huge explosion was heard from the castle tower of the East Gate.

A gatehouse that had stood for hundreds of years was flattened in an instant, leaving only a huge gap, filled with billowing dust and smoke.

One by one, they stood there dumbfounded, as if time had stood still, and they forgot to react.

The next moment, the Qing soldiers on the city wall, scrambling, poured down from above like a tide.

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"What about the right battalion of the Admiral and the men of the city guard?"

Li Taiguo suddenly found that Luo Shan seemed to have missed a very important question, and asked anxiously.

It's Luo Shan, since he followed the English, although he is just a servant who can't get on the stage. Not to mention the people in the right camp and the city guard, even the Daotai himself bowed his head in front of the foreigners, so he looked down on these people in his heart. On the contrary, he was so afraid of the Knife Sharpening Club and the old scum that they were so afraid of death that they were afraid of death, maybe they would sink themselves into the Pujiang River if they were not careful. So as soon as I ran back, I subconsciously reported this.

Luo Shan suddenly came to his senses and said: "Director Li, the more than 1,160 people in the right battalion and the city guard camp of the Admiral Benbiao have long been wiped out. ”

Hearing this, the hope that had just risen in Li Taiguo's heart was ruthlessly destroyed in an instant. Come to think of it, even they can't beat these Qing soldiers, let alone deal with those heavily armed tiger troops.

40 Uko Blue Type 59 130-mm guns, covered with camouflage mesh, were lifted and unloaded from the battleship Puhai and pulled to Pudong Liujiazui. The two customs and revenue offices that Wu Jianshuo temporarily opened two years ago have become temporary arms warehouses. With 100 light and heavy mortars of 81 mm, a huge artillery array was formed in eight directions.

The Type 59 130 mm gun has a maximum range of 27.5 km and a minimum range of 9.3 km. Plus two types of mortars, targets within a radius of 54 km are under fire cover.

At the time of the opening of the port, the total population of Puhai, including the concession, was only about 250,000. After 15 years of development, plus more than 20,000 people in the concession, it is only about 430,000. Even the more than 2.8 million people in Taicang Province and the more than 3.1 million people in Songjiang Province add up to only more than 5.9 million people (Pujiang belongs to Songjiang Province), which is far less dense than the more than 20 million in the 21st century.

On April 6 next year, the Taiping army captured Changzhou. In May, Zhongwang Li Xiucheng attacked Suzhou and conquered it on June 20. The ban on plundering women for 6 days was imprisoned in Yuan Miaoguan. At the same time, acquire a large number of weapons, among which are muskets. This somewhat affected Ye Tan's plan.

Therefore, Ye Tan felt that he had come at the right time.

As soon as she put down her chopsticks, Bai Xueyan took the battle report and handed it to Ye Tan.

The battle situation is simply overwhelming, devastating.

At 7:35 a.m., more than 780 people, including Wang Di, the garrison, the general Qian, and the general general, were all captured alive within 4 minutes.

At 7:45 in the morning, the cunning Puhai Daotai Wu Xi, the first alternate Taoist Ding Quanzhong, and the alternate Taoist Fang Cai, hid in the underground secret room of the Daotai Yamen of the Great East Gate, but they were still recognized by Wu Ye, a Longya Marine who hid his identity, and turned them out of the secret room. Ye Tan remembered this place, which was revoked after Xinhai, and the address was today's Jin*Tanluji*Xian Village. The buildings of the Yamen have long disappeared into the dust of history.

Wu Yiyi, the previous garrison under his command, actually wanted to use his mantis arm as a car, and was shot and killed early.

As for the more than 380 soldiers of the Admiral's Right Battalion, who guarded the seven city gates, they were not vulnerable at all. After shooting six or seven people in front of him with his rifles, he and his staff, including General Shouchun, all laid down their weapons and raised their hands in surrender. Otherwise, the raid on the old scumbags by the Tigers would not have gone so smoothly.

At 8:56, just after 9 406 mm 50 caliber guns blew up the east gates of Songjiang Mansion and Taicang Mansion and other places, in addition to the more than 120 people who were killed and shot at the east gate, more than 4,600 people in the 8 gate city garrison and the battalion before and after the promotion abandoned their weapons and fled. Zhang Guoliang, the governor of Jiangnan, and Yu Bin, the same governor of Haiphong, both absconded in disguise and were captured alive.

The whole process, less than 8 minutes from the siege.

At the same time, the regimental training of Gao*chang County, together with the county officials and officials, were all arrested.

Putuo, Baoshan and other places also fell one after another. The reason why the speed is so fast is because the strategy of four-way attack was adopted, and the Suzhou River, Pujiang River, Kangzhou Bay, and Yangtze River became the best assault routes for the Tiger Army.

After counting, a total of 236,000 stones of grain, 6,503,289 taels of silver, 1,092,890 taels of gold, and 686 boxes of various jewels were seized. 2,189 cotton horses, books......

……

Li Taiguo, who was standing at the window, suddenly saw Wu Xi, the alternate Taoist, Ding Quanzhong, and Fang Cai, more than 20 officials, large and small, being escorted past his consulate.

There are also Jiangnan Governor Zhang Guoliang and Tongzhi Yu Bin, Songjiang Governor Jin An and others, these individuals he also knows, and he has dealt with a lot of people, but now he has become a prisoner.

"Wait... What time is it?! ”

Li Taiguo hurriedly took out a gold pocket watch from his pocket, and the time pointed to 10:38 in the morning.

"Sell melons! In less than three hours, the battle ended and occupied Taicang Province, Songjiang Province, Puhai County, Baoshan County, and Gaochang County, what kind of speed is this. ”

The more Li Taiguo thought about it, the more frightened he became, and his face was cloudy.

At this time, Midile also saw Zhang Guoliang and others. They know very well in their hearts that this is an invisible pressure, which is tantamount to telling them that it is time for the consulate to make a statement.

Midile and Li Taiguo glanced at each other tacitly and nodded to each other. Then they went down to the second floor together.

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"Chief Instructor, what are you going to do with these captives?"

Li Haipeng, who was on the side, didn't have a good impression of Qing Bing, and very much hoped that Ye Tan would hand over these people to himself.

"Li Haipeng, these people are free labor, we have to build roads and isolation belts, just to make the best use of people."

Ye Tan didn't care and said with a smile.

"Instructor, Consul Midile of England, Consul Mintiny of France, Consul Ma Hui of the United States, and Consul Alenbu of Pruss ask to see you."

Then, Li Haipeng handed over a message to Ye Tan.

"Oh, by the way, Li Haipeng, immediately let Bai Xueyan notify the various responsible persons and escort the generals of the Qing Dynasty back."