Chapter 197 Capture of the British Concession

"What, the Hunan Han sent cavalry to attack Wuxi and wanted to break into Suzhou Mansion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Helping Li Hongzhang stay in Songjiang Mansion in Suzhou is Wu Changqing, the general of the Huai Army, Wu Changqing may not be known to many people, but when Yuan Shikai is mentioned, there will be an image, Wu Changqing and Yuan Shikai's adoptive father Yuan Baoqing are sworn brothers, and later Yuan Shikai joined the army under Wu Changqing.

Wu Changqing immediately sent people to the front line in Wuxi, he didn't know the news that Yang Dongfang flew across the Yangtze River to capture Zhenjiang, thinking that Zeng Guofan was going to turn around and attack to grab the territory.

And the fact is that the Hunan army chased after him from Changzhou and approached Wuxi with great momentum, which made him do the worst news.

"Where is this?"

"Dashuai, the reconnaissance platoon reported that this place is called Dahe Town, we arrived at the north of Hehu Lake, in front of Changshu, and in the past it was a mixed mountain."

"So we're too far away from Suzhou!" Originally, Yang Dongfang wanted to go through from Wuxi and go to Suzhou City for a walk, but he didn't expect to turn left and right to Changshu.

According to the explanation of the common people, there is less water network in the east of Changshu, and the road is easier to walk, and the west is either this lake or that lake, and you have to get lost again.

"Lay down Changshu tonight, go directly to Taicang to rest, hit Jiading tomorrow, and then go directly to Shanghai."

So Yang Dashuai's new artillery class started again, the cavalry dismounted to play artillery bombardment, Yang Dashuai taught by hand, and even eight doors and sixteen guards also made a cameo appearance as an instructor.

In the evening, the New People's Army hit Changshu and bombarded it, and smashed down one shell after another, calling Feng Zicai on the side to shout about the loser.

How can there be such a training of new gunners, they will not know anything and will live ammunition, you see, you see, they all flew to his grandmother's house.

The cavalry fired artillery, and the posture was indecent, but the results were still very impressive.

Changshu has just been taken from the Taiping army for a few months, and the city wall that was originally blown down by the Huai army has not been repaired, and it is full of sandbags piled up randomly.

With a gap, Feng Dazhao immediately commanded the cavalry to rush in, it was impossible to put all of them into it in one go, and the rest rode their horses to rush forward for a while, and then split their way to both sides to shoot and cover, and then circled back to the home team from the wing, and so on.

The guards here are all veterans of the Huai army, and the marksmanship is taught by foreigners, who are quite level, experienced in a hundred battles, and organize people to plug the gap on the one hand, and shoot with muskets at the same time.

After holding on for two rounds, the cavalry that killed and injured the main attack was defeated and unable to support it after losing thirty or forty people.

Breaking through the gap, the New People's Army entered the city, and the Huai Army in the city was quickly defeated, and they originally wanted to fight back according to the rank, but soon they found that the New People's Army had a grenade, which was specially designed to deal with things hiding in houses and street corners.

Dozens of them were blown up, and the veterans of the Huai Army, who had tasted the bitterness, were also a little disappointed, so they had to flee from the south gate.

But how can two legs outrun four legs, and soon these fleeing Huai troops were caught up, and the Huai army saw that there was no way to escape and wanted to counterattack, but their opponents also had breech guns, and they shot with horse rifles at a long distance, and the bullets penetrated through the back of the Huai army, and fell row by row.

As soon as the distance is close, immediately change to a war knife and slash.

Changshu City is not big, and it can't accommodate many soldiers, so the Huai army guarding here is only more than a thousand points, and the whole army was wiped out, Yang Dongfang didn't let go of any of them, and they were all veterans of the Huai Army when they hit here, so naturally they could kill as many as they could. Killing Li Hongzhang's living force is the first choice.

Because the Hunan army will not cross the border to pursue, Yang Dongfang will not be allowed to run away from the scourge of the territory.

And Wu Changqing didn't know that Yang Dongfang was coming, so he only thought that it was the Hunan army attacking and provoking, so he naturally focused on Wuxi, and almost clashed with the Hunan Han. So much so that Changshu did not react when it was captured, so Yang Dongfang and the others went straight to Taicang without any obstruction, and Taicang was broken faster than Changshu at dawn.

Because the city gate was to be opened in the early morning, the Green Camp Palace, which was on duty at the city gate, yawned and was rushed in by the cavalry before he could figure out what was going on.

Taicang is the outpost of Shanghai, then Jiading is one of the main fronts of Shanghai, the Taiping army attacked Shanghai, many times in Jiading and the foreigners have fought, here is the Huai army to defend Shanghai's barrier, lost here Shanghai will be broken in half.

Taicang and Changshu were broken one after another, and the new militia soldiers came to Shanghai, which finally aroused the vigilance of the Huai army in this area, and the Huai army guarding Shanghai rushed to Jiading, and even the British and French panicked.

Because they had just sent a provocation to Yang Dongfang, threatening Yang Dongfang not to cross the Yangtze River, and asking him to go to Beijing to plead guilty to Yixun.

The night before yesterday, two warships that had just arrived in Shanghai docked, escorted Hu Lili and Aunt Thirteen ashore, and sent them to the concession, but not to the French concession, but to the British territory in the public concession.

The French Counsellor Blonay met with the British Minister Bruce with his supposed captivity.

The French minister had a secret meeting with Bruce for a long time, and Bruce fully agreed with Boldemy's idea, expressed his support for Yixun and Xianghan, made a different decision from Luo Shimin, and behaved more explicitly, and at the same time instigated Li Hongzhang to buy more weapons to fight against the New People's Army.

The French have no advantage in arms exports, so they don't have too many requirements to get Taiwan's approval, they just want to kill Yang Dongfang and his new Nationalist army.

"Your Excellency the Duke, in this way, Yang Dongfang's great devil has arrived at the Yangtze River, and is now in Yangzhou."

"Yes Bellone, this eastern devil attacked too fast, it took half a month from Beijing City to Yangzhou, I just heard that he also defeated Xuzhou, a very important city of the Qing Kingdom, and also made a big fuss about Huai'an, the residence of Huainan King Li, he is a great man, from a military level he is a Satan."

Bruce said from the bottom of his heart, he felt that this was a miracle, whether it was the Eastern Battlefield or the Western Battlefield, no one had ever been able to do this.

Baldemi shrugged at this: "Satan is powerful and has the cross that imprisons him and the devouring flames. ”

"So, you brought the cross that imprisoned him."

"Of course, we found out that this person made a big fuss in Guangzhou for Hu Lili, an ordinary woman, do you know? He set fire to an inner city that nearly burned the whole of Canton, something only the devil would do. ”

"Well, it's like back then. When the Qing Dynasty attacked the Ming Dynasty, there was a general who surrendered as angry as a red face, don't ask me why I know, recently I have been fascinated by Oriental opera, although the singing is not good, but there are many stories. Bruce said jokingly, and Baldemi laughed a few times before saying:

"Let's talk about business, I think we will directly let Yang Dongfang go back, and not allow him to attack Nanjing and cross the Yangtze River, it is best to let him go and apologize to our partner Prince Gong and the current Emperor of the Qing Dynasty and disband the army."

"That's a good idea, but what if he doesn't listen to us."

Bolone said very proudly: "Let him go crazy once, does he dare to come to Shanghai?" Haha, our French 10,000 army and naval fleet are about to arrive in Shanghai, no matter how good his subordinates are, when we have so many elite soldiers with the Qing Dynasty and the Hunan Han, we can directly pinch him to death, just like pinching an ant. ”

The two of them were talking vigorously, laughing and laughing, when suddenly a gunshot broke the peace, and the next moment the British non-commissioned officer rushed in and said to Bruus: "Your Excellency, there is a Qing man who has slipped in quietly, he came in behind the Bellone guard, I wanted to save those two women, but he has been beaten away by us, his jumping ability is very strong, his feet are so fast, he escaped over the wall." ”

"What! And that kind of thing. ”

Bruce was taken aback, originally they had discussed and deliberately hid the second daughter in the British Concession, so that even if Yang Dongfang secretly sent someone to rescue him, he would only go to the French Concession, and he would not think that the second daughter was locked up in the British Concession, which was a good intention, but it was discovered by Huang Feihong.

So Bolone was also surprised, and then asked about the situation just now, nodded and said: "It seems that Your Excellency the Minister has been exposed here, this person who just escaped, his martial arts are very powerful, and the ten of us may not be able to beat him, he escaped in Hong Kong, I didn't expect to follow him to Shanghai, damn, he must have been mixed with the battleship, we didn't even find out." ”

Looking at Bolone's look of annoyance, Bruce could only say: "If this is the case, then Yang Dongfang's woman can only be locked up in your French Concession and transferred overnight." ”

"Okay."

Huang Feihong finally found an opportunity to sneak in and untie the rope of Hu Lili and the others, but when he left, because there was no killer when he came in, he was knocked unconscious, so a French soldier woke up very early, and the gun alarmed the surroundings.

He couldn't take his second daughter with him, so he could only go over the wall alone, and according to the news given by Hu Lili, he found a liaison shop of MI2 in the Shanghai Station Concession.

"Is Yang Dashuai really coming to Shanghai soon? Otherwise, we will save it ourselves, and we will be afraid that life will change when it is too late. Huang Feihong anxiously persuaded the people from the second department to follow him to save everyone, but the military intelligence department had regulations that naturally would not be so reckless, just gathered the people scattered in different places, and then waited for the wooden box to disappear, Yang Dongfang received the news as soon as possible, and sent the order over.

At about ten o'clock in the afternoon, Huang Feihong and others, who were waiting impatiently, suddenly heard a commotion on the street outside the store, with the sound of horses' hooves and the sound of exclamation.

The people from the military intelligence department looked out and exclaimed: "It's the big handsome!" The marshal entered the concession. ”

"Where is MI?

"Shanghai stands here and obeys the orders of the marshal."

"Take your men and give instructions to the brothers of the cavalry battalion, seal the public concession for me, and anyone who dares to stop it will be killed."

"It's handsome!" Tong Da arranged for several platoon commanders in the battalion to divide their troops into multiple routes, and quickly followed the people from the Military Intelligence Department to kill each main street entrance.

"Where is Huang Feihong?"

"Yang Dashuai, this young master is here, hurry, let's go save the junior sister." Huang Feihong didn't expect Yang Dongfang to suddenly arrive in the concession, his blood was boiling, and he rushed out and shouted after dropping his coat.

"Good! Huang Feihong leads the way in front, let's save people and kill me! ”

"Kill!"

Just when Yang Dongfang was galloping on his horse and murderous, the long-lost system prompt sounded:

"Ding! If it is detected that the host intends to capture the concession with soldiers, the Imperial Mode taskbar will be opened, and the host will be limited to completing the occupation within one day, and the limit is limited to holding on for more than 10 days, and completing the recovery of the territory can obtain 500,000 prestige points. Failure of the mission deducts all prestige points, and downgrades to 4, clears the last rage bonus attribute, loses the qualification to advance to the sixth level, and the permanent attribute is up to 5 levels. (To be continued.) )