PS: A lot of harmonious words, changed and changed, finally passed the review, uploaded late, sorry

The Self-Defense Force of the concession rushed to the concession area, and seeing that the Shanghai army on the opposite side was defeated like a mountain, these foreigners suddenly became excited, and one by one they chased after them as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

"Look what this is? It turned out to be one yuan! Get rich! "An Englishman picked up a note on the ground, a one-yuan denomination.

Foreigners who have lived in Shanghai for a long time know that this is a hard currency, and the purchasing power is strong.

"What are you? See what this is? Someone next to him heard it, and immediately shook a banknote in his hand, attracting a group of foreigners to watch.

"It turned out to be a five-yuan denomination! That's a month's worth of my salary, you're really shit lucky! Someone suddenly said enviously.

"I didn't find any money, but I picked up a pair of military boots, which are not bad, and can be sold for a few bucks!"

"I also picked up a musket, and although it was damaged, it could still be sold for a lot of money!"

Everyone said a word, and they all talked about the loot they had picked up, and they were triumphant one by one.

"Look, there's a lot of good stuff up ahead!"

At this time, someone shouted, pointing forward, only to see those Shanghai soldiers who were fleeing keep throwing away their money, which suddenly made these foreigners excited, and chased them even harder.

If it were a regular army, this would never have happened, most of these foreigners were unemployed in their own countries, and they had come to the Far East to seek benefits, and they joined the Concession Self-Defense Forces just to put a fig leaf on their robber minds as a legal robbery.

At this moment, the Shanghai army was defeated on the surface, but in fact it was feigning defeat, deliberately leading these foreigners into an ambush circle, and then gathering and annihilating them.

Coming out of the Suzhou Creek in the British Concession, they will soon arrive at the county seat of Shanghai, and the foreign soldiers can't wait.

At this time, Song Yunhan's troops had already withdrawn to the Hongkou River.

Report. I received an order from the headquarters and ordered our troops to hold the Hongkou River and not let the enemy advance a single step! ”

After hearing this order, Song Yunhan breathed a sigh of relief.

"There's no need to retreat. If I want to go back like this, I'm going to go crazy! ”

"Pass my order, the whole army quickly build fortifications, rely on the Hongkou River, and teach me a hard lesson to these foreign devils!"

Song Yunhan gave the order. The soldiers of the Shanghai Army under his command are also relieved, don't look at them as second-line troops, but they have all become members of the Shanghai Army after strict selection, they are all arrogant, they have obviously beaten the foreigners but want to retreat, they have long been dissatisfied.

At this moment, they were ordered and applauded.

"Hit me hard!"

"Let these foreign devils know how powerful we are!"

One by one, the soldiers shouted, turned their guns, and relined themselves to meet the foreign enemy.

Seeing the retreating Shanghai army regrouped. Even lined up to prepare for a counterattack, the foreign soldiers who were pursuing the Shanghai army were also stunned.

However, they did not take it to heart, and some profit-hungry foreigners continued to rush forward.

"Fire!"

When the order was issued, gunfire erupted, and a dense number of bullets were fired, and a large number of foreigners were immediately shot, and the casualties were not small

Not to be outdone, the foreign soldiers thought that this was just the last resistance of the Shanghai army, so they all loaded their ammunition and opened fire on the opposite Shanghai army. It's just that the formation is a little scattered, far less rigorous than the Shanghai army.

The battle became more and more intense, and in just ten minutes, the two sides fell into a white-hot fierce battle. At first, the foreign soldiers thought that the Shanghai army was vulnerable and wanted to defeat the Shanghai army in one fell swoop with a ferocious charge, but in the end they did not succeed and paid huge casualties.

"What's going on?"

William, who arrived later, was taken aback, he never imagined how the Shanghai army, which had already retreated on a large scale, could quickly stabilize its position and plunge into a counterattack.

As a commander. He had a vague sense that something was wrong, but he quickly calmed down.

"Line up! Lined up! Re-queue! ”

It has to be said that the cultural level of foreigners played a huge role at this moment, and only one officer and a few regular army soldiers were needed to quickly organize these temporarily conscripted foreigners, which was difficult to do if this happened in the general illiterate Qing Empire.

However, this does not change anything, although the second town of the Shanghai Army is a second-line army, there are tens of thousands of people, and although William's concession self-defense force has 1,000 British and French regular troops, more than 9,000 people are temporary conscripted foreign adventurers, and the combat effectiveness is not much higher.

The fierce exchange of fire between the two sides suddenly filled the battlefield with gunsmoke, and no one could help anyone in a short time.

William's face gradually sank, as a commander, his combat experience and combat knowledge were very rich, and his sense of crisis became stronger and stronger. If it weren't for the fact that he looked down on the army of the Qing Empire from the bottom of his heart from the beginning, if he hadn't fought with Pete to raise the bar, he would not have underestimated the enemy.

"The Shanghai army is a little abnormal, this kind of combat effectiveness is not at all like a rout!"

"It's a fraud!"

William's heart suddenly pinched, and he immediately sent sentries to investigate in all directions.

This investigation didn't matter, when the sentry came back to report, William was immediately frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Report - a large number of Shanghai army troops are moving towards us in the southeast, with a scale of about 3,000 people!"

"Report - a large number of Shanghai army troops are moving towards us in the northeast, with a scale of about 3,000 people!"

"Report - Suzhou Bridge is lost, and about 3,000 Shanghai troops are coming from the rear to our army quickly!"

Besieged!

William reacted immediately, the Shanghai army was defeated, because the concession self-defense force attacked, and then cut off the retreat and surrounded on all sides.

What a clever strategy!

William's face turned pale, and his heart tensed violently.

"Captain Jon, I'll give you three thousand men to quickly recapture Suzhou Bridge!"

"The other departments stopped attacking the Hongkou River, and the rear team changed to the front team and retreated to the concession!"

William didn't want to be dumpled by the Shanghai army, and knew that he had been ambushed, so he naturally had to retreat immediately.

In this regard, he did not hesitate.

However, how could the Shanghai army give these foreigners a chance to escape if they tried their best to annihilate the Concession Self-Defense Force composed of more than 10,000 foreigners?

At this time, the East China Sea Fleet of the Shanghai Army, which had not moved, appeared on the Suzhou Creek, and about 40 frigates of the Huangpu River patrol fleet of the East China Sea Fleet sailed into the Suzhou Creek.

It was this Shanghai fleet that suddenly appeared that bombarded the foreign defenders of Suzhou Bridge. With more than 3,000 troops of the 13th Regiment of the 7th Brigade of the 4th Town of the Shanghai Army, they seized the Suzhou Bridge with a thunderous force and cut off the rear road of the Concession Self-Defense Force.

On a high ground in Hongkou, the commander of the fourth town, Chen Liang, was dispatching troops. The officers and men of Shanghai in the fourth town surrounded the foreign army as quickly as possible, preparing to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

has done so much effort, just for the arrival of the Great Encirclement and Annihilation Battle at this moment, Chen Xiandang's excitement.

As a descendant of Chen Huacheng, he has a deep memory of the Opium War. Countless heroic sons and daughters paid with their precious lives to resist the invasion of the British army. Now that he finally has a chance to take revenge, Chen Liang smiled coldly, he tried his best to wipe out all the foreigners in the concession, and he could kill one more.

Although Li Weiguo repeatedly ordered that civilians should not be slaughtered, there are loopholes in any law, and Chen Liang's tactics are the best proof of this, not only 1,000 British and French regular troops have been brought out, but even the remaining 9,000 or so foreigners from Europe and the United States have also been drawn out.

"Kill me! Try not to take prisoners! ”

The order was issued, and the officers and men of the brigades and regiments of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army immediately launched a general attack. The 13th Regiment was responsible for blocking the enemy's retreat frontally, the 15th Regiment was responsible for outflanking from the left flank, the 16th Regiment was responsible for outflanking from the right flank, and the 14th Regiment was used as a reserve to fill in the gaps at any time and strive not to let go of any foreigners.

Knock knock knock!

The artillery regiment of the fourth town of the Shanghai army opened fire, and the 108 guns roared through the sky.

Bang bang!

The cannonballs whistled and fell into the formation of foreigners, and exploded with a bang.

In an instant, the earth trembled. The violent explosion was like the scythe of death, and the lives of the merciless reaper soldiers blew up on their backs, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere. Wailing all over the wilderness.

The sudden saturation bombardment immediately stunned the self-defense forces of the foreign concession, and for the first time they put themselves in the shoes of the artillery regiment of the front-line troops of the Shanghai Army.

In addition to the regular army of the British and French embassies, other temporarily recruited foreign soldiers were suddenly beaten to pieces by this formation, and the European and American adventurers who had always spared their lives were blown up and dodged shells everywhere. However, many foreigners were still blown up and suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, the regiments of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army had completed the encirclement.

As an attacking side, it was supposed to attack with a skirmish line, but there was no artillery with huge lethality among the surrounded foreign army (the previously captured artillery had no shells and was shaded), so in order to increase the firepower of the unit, the Shanghai army formed a dense formation in the shock formation, just like the previous musket team battle formation.

The firepower of the self-defense force of the self-defense force of the foreign concession can only fire two or three times a minute, while the platoon guns of the Shanghai army can fire 12 to 15 times a minute, and the gap is widened in an instant.

Bang bang!

The Shanghai Army's Patriotic rifles fired, and the sound of the guns was clearly different from the muskets, crisp and loud, because the range made the sound of a long voice, and the sound of whistling sounded.

The Shanghai army began to shoot intensively at a distance of 100 meters, and the accuracy was very good. At this distance, the Self-Defense Forces of the Foreign Concession could not do it, they could only wait until a distance of thirty or forty meters before they could open fire, and there was a difference of forty or fifty meters in the middle, and they suffered a big loss in an instant.

Seeing the rows of foreign soldiers being shot and falling, William was extremely surprised, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

"How is that possible?"

"How can the Shanghai army be so lethal at a distance of 100 meters?"

Originally, the ballistics of the front-loading smoothbore gun flew wildly, and it was difficult to hit the target, so it would form a dense formation, so that the soldiers were next to the soldiers, and now suddenly there was a weapon that not only had a stable trajectory and a high hit rate, but also could shoot from a long distance, which broke the balance at once.

In the past, the Western expansion of the colonies relied on muskets to crush cold weapons, but now it is the opposite, and the advanced rifles of the Shanghai army have completely crushed the muskets of Europe and the United States.

The casualties expanded rapidly, and the strength of the three regiments of the Shanghai army was slaughtered on all sides, and in less than half an hour, William's army suffered more than half of the casualties. (To be continued.) )