Chapter 221: The Battle of Shanghai (5)

"Marshal, could it be that the French want to blow up the concession. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info "The 'night' in the eighteen guards couldn't help but say a word, everyone looked at him, he was a little embarrassed, his eyes dodged and said: "People don't have to hide it at night, Fa Mao doesn't dare to hit Ying Mao openly, it's always okay to beat the stuffy stick with ease." ”

"Do you think everyone is like you, everyone does things secretly, and they are empty-handed, and they are dedicated to the beams of the house."

"Wait. It's really possible. A lightning bolt struck, Yang Dongfang's eyes lit up, his heart chuckled, and he exclaimed, "Hurry up. . . The people of the public concession were informed to evacuate from the Huangpu River to the west. ”

Yang Dongfang immediately rode into the British concession, collected all the artillery on the artillery position, and retreated more than two miles away with his own people.

Sure enough, the cruiser with the skull flag began to shoot at the concession and opened fire, and for a time the British concession near the Huangpu River was blown up into the sky, and the shells hit the house, causing the raging fire to quickly burn.

Fortunately, the artillery had already been evacuated, otherwise it would have suffered.

After the cruiser was blown up, the gunboats came in, cautiously approached, and gradually extended the shelling inland to the concession, and then continued to bombard until the French concession.

But the strange thing is that after the bombardment, the gunboat and the cruiser retreated and disappeared.

It turned out that the scale of the French warship sortie this time was only one-third, and Li Weili only wiped the effect, and the French army in the Pudong area had not really advanced to the corner state opposite the confluence of the Huangpu River and the Suzhou Creek.

"Fack! Damn Gallic chickens, how dare they bombard the concessions of the British Empire. ”

The most upset about this matter was the British Minister Bruce, Yang Dongfang occupied the concession, and it can be said that he had a fate and an excuse.

Mani, what do you mean by the French attacking our concession, if you defeat the New People's Army in a normal war, and people shrink to us, you come to rescue us, and you have to bombard, it is reasonable.

It is absolutely not permissible to bombard a concession in vain without doing anything now.

So he let out a roar of protest.

Stunned that the French army had taken a bold step, and the next battle had to return to the Huangpu River, Yang Dongfang suddenly felt that this was not a bad thing, so he took the initiative to meet Bruce: "Your Excellency the Minister has been doing these days. ”

Bruce has fully changed from the initial arrogance to resentment, and gradually looked at Yang Dongfang calmly: "Thank you Yang Dashuai for today's reminder, and Miss Hu for saving our people, I didn't expect the French to be so frustrated and bombard our concession." ”

How to say it, the British and the Americans have a common problem, when people and animals are harmless in front of you, they are very gentlemanly, you do what is good to them, they are very grateful to you, but once you touch their interests, they will immediately reveal their true colors.

So when Yang Dongfang said: "Your Excellency, please pay attention to the language, this is the place of the Chinese, not yours, and the people I treat you are only moral, it does not mean that I will let those opium dealers go." ”

Sure enough, Bruus's face turned hideous, although he was a little afraid, mainly because he was afraid that Yang Dongfang's people would beat him, but he didn't see Huang Feihong's shadow, so he was a little more courageous, and said with a tough attitude: "No!" Yang Dashuai, the concession belongs to our British Empire, we legally obtained it from the Qing Dynasty, we have terms, and our subjects have extraterritoriality in China, even if they commit crimes, they should be judged by the laws of our country, you can't. ”

Legal, your sister? Do you dare to be reasonable? Believe it or not, let Feihong come out in minutes.

Yang Dongfang was extremely disdainful, and with a cold snort, Bruce was frightened, throwing all his years of diplomatic cultivation into the Pacific Ocean.

"Bruce, I still regard you as a diplomatic minister, you have to understand how you opened the door to China, how you killed our people with artillery fire, as for what the traitorous clause you signed with the Manchus has to do with us, and what does it have to do with our Han nation."

"Well, if you British insist on being the enemy of our New People's Army, you can write to Robert and ask him to hang up the pirate ship as well, rush into the Huangpu River, and then shell the French Concession, and I will send him a bunch of French heads."

Bruce shook his head with a dark face, of course he couldn't do this kind of thing.

Yang Dongzhu then continued: "Our Han Dynasty is not the Manchu Qing Dynasty, our New People's Army is not the Eight Banners, we China is about to stand up and open up to the world, we will not be closed to the country, closed and arrogant, we welcome people from all over the world to do business with us, trade and exchanges, in the future, not only Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and other places you Westerners can come to do business, other places can also, and there will be more and more places."

As long as you abide by the rules of our new national army, you can go back and forth as in other countries of Western Europe, but we do not welcome opium dealers, we do not welcome those with bad intentions, and we can set up embassies for each other in the future, but there will be no concessions. As long as it is a legitimate business dealing, state affairs are reciprocal, we can talk, we can send people to learn from each other, send students to each other, I am an enlightened person, I understand you in the West, I am not completely exclusive to you, because whether it is an Oriental or a Westerner, they are all human beings, there is no difference. ”

"Ugh! Uh-uhhhhh Bruce looked stunned and shocked, he didn't expect to hear such words from Yang Dongfang's mouth.

The amount of information Yang Dongfang revealed was too large, and a lot of information he could not hear from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Li Hongzhang, the Huai army of Zeng Guo or the Hunan army, etc.

As a minister, he knew that the Manchus and his bureaucracy were in their hearts and minds trying to exclude the West, otherwise they would not have used all kinds of means to pry open the door to China.

In the final analysis, they came to China to make money, and they have a clear plan for China's strategy, which is to gradually encroach on the surrounding areas from west to east.

For the land south of the Yangtze River, the hinterland of China, it is still most important to trade and dump goods, and then proselytize and develop believers.

"Think about it, Mr. Bruce, we don't want to be your enemy, but we are not afraid of any of our enemies, especially from far away Europe, you know? You are too far away from us, and even if your empress were to go on an angry expedition to the East, it would take a year and a half to go, and you would lose money and money, and you would get nothing in the end, would you? Yang Dongfang continued to fool, using all favorable factors to increase Bruss's resistance to retaliating against the New People's Army.

He still needs to cooperate with Britain on some things, after all, he can't offend all the Western countries now.

Bruce is not a fool, Yang Dongfang said this, they understand better, if it weren't for the long distance, it would take a long time to run to China, they would have wanted to occupy this rich land and colonize it directly, where would they still need an agent.

If the New People's Army can really do what Yang Dongfang said, it will be good news, and from a business point of view, it will definitely make all those who smell crazy flock to the East. (To be continued.) )