"How—how is that possible?"

William was shocked and frightened, for the first time he had seen such an advanced musket in the world, he did not need to charge gunpowder and projectiles from the muzzle of the gun, and could directly pull and push to achieve continuous shooting.

"What the hell is this? How can you hit it so far? ”

William didn't know it was called a patriotic rifle, and he didn't have time to think about it, a cannonball whistled in, only to hear a loud bang, which instantly lifted him away.

Burst!

William's head was down, and a dog snatched and fell to the ground, eating a mouthful of mud and sand, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and losing two front teeth.

"Why is there such a powerful artillery fire!"

William's front teeth are gone, and his speech is breathless, so his words are not clear.

However, no one heard William because the guns were too loud.

Of course, even if someone hears it, they won't bother William. Originally, these foreigners from Europe and the United States joined the so-called Concession Self-Defense Force in order to plunder the common people of Shanghai, but now the Concession Self-Defense Force was surrounded and annihilated by the Shanghai army.

In an instant, the battle formation of the Concession Self-Defense Force was in disarray, and no matter how the regular officers and soldiers of Britain and France organized it, it was useless.

At this moment, adventurers from all over the world scattered and fled for their lives, which intensified the defeat of the Concession Self-Defense Forces.

Bang bang!

The gunfire was getting closer and closer, and the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army were in a neat formation, holding patriotic rifles and steadily advancing.

Raise the gun, aim, fire, pull the bolt to return the cartridge case, pull the bolt to load the bullet, and then aim and fire.

This series of actions was uniform, and the high efficiency of the Patriotic Rifle's firing speed and hit rate were brought into full play at this moment, so that these foreigners from Europe and the United States were powerless to fight back, and they fell to the ground one by one. Heavy casualties.

"Stop fighting! I give up! ”

Finally, some foreigner adventurers began to succumb and surrender to the oncoming Shanghai army.

However, what awaited them was a merciless barrage of bullets and bayonets.

"What did he just say?" A Shanghai soldier asked.

"He said you'd kill him if he kindened!" The comrade-in-arms next to him replied.

"I'm a foreign devil with mud horses! Dare to call Lao Tzu! Go to hell! When the soldier heard this, he immediately pulled the bolt of his gun. The bullet was loaded, and the slamming shot blew the head of the foreign devil who was about to surrender.

More foreign adventurers began to shout surrender, but most of them did not understand Chinese and begged for mercy in the chaotic language of various countries, but what was waiting for them was still a bullet head-on.

"Kill!"

"Kill foreign devils!"

Accompanied by the chaos of the Concession Self-Defense Forces. The soldiers of the Shanghai army quickly rushed up and engaged in a close-range white-knuckle battle.

Except for some regular British and French troops who resisted fiercely, other adventurers from Europe and the United States were completely vulnerable.

The battle ended in five minutes, and in the face of the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai and the powerful attack of the thunderous army in the fourth town of the Shanghai army, William's temporary formation of the Concession Self-Defense Force, more than 10,000 foreign soldiers were annihilated.

On the Hongkou Heights, Chen Liang clearly saw all this through the telescope.

"Good! Slash hard! Hack these damn foreign devils to death! That's great! It's fun! ”

Chen Liang shouted, and the members of the command around him looked at each other one by one, but soon they all smiled.

Is there anything more satisfying than killing foreign devils!

"The 13th Regiment was ordered to quickly attack the concession through the Suzhou Bridge, and the 15th and 16th regiments outflanked the French concession from Nanshi and Huangpu respectively. Destroy all the foreign devils who dare to resist! ”

Chen Liang quickly issued an order, since the concession self-defense force was settled, then all that remained was to quickly capture the British and French concessions and completely eliminate the resistance forces in the concession.

"Report—"

At this moment, a report suddenly came, and Chen Liang looked back, but it was Du Erniu, the head of the 14th Regiment.

"Speak!"

Du Erniu hurriedly said: "Report to the division commander!" The Fourteenth Regiment asked to go to war! ”

Chen Liang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "By the way, forget about your regiment, hurry up and clean up the battlefield!" This time the guns wasted a lot of ammunition. I don't know if the oil and water on these dead foreign devils can be replenished! ”

Du Erniu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Report, please ask the division commander to let other regiments clean up the battlefield!" Our 14th Regiment should not be used as a reserve, we are also the main regiment. We're going to fight the concession! ”

Chen Liang suddenly scolded: "You girl, Lao Tzu assigned tasks, do you dare to talk back?" Dare to pick and choose with Lao Tzu? ”

"Please allow our 14th Regiment to attack the concession with the division commander!" Du Erniu shouted, fearlessly insisting on his position.

"You're still energetic, aren't you?" Chen Liang saw that Du Erniu was not convinced, and he suddenly lost his temper and wanted to beat someone.

Then. Chief of Staff Hai Mingze hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Lao Chen, you stop the fire, doesn't this Du Erniu also want to make meritorious contributions!" These other regiments have all participated in the war, and their regiment is used as a reserve, can he not be blushing? ”

Chen Liang turned to Hai Mingze and said, "If you want to make meritorious contributions, you dare to argue with Lao Tzu!" Jealous? What is the red eye? Lao Tzu asked him to take the 14th Regiment to clean up the battlefield, that's a fat difference, it's good if others don't look at him, he still wants to look down on others? ”

Du Erniu is a fierce general under Chen Liang, and the 14th Regiment is also the elite main regiment of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army, so that the most powerful main regiment is used as a reserve, which is also a continuation of the operational ideas of Li Weiguo, the commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Army.

I only heard Du Erniu pouting and said: "Let's not clean up the battlefield, please hand it over to other regiments, we want to kill foreign devils!" ”

Chen Liang suddenly said angrily: "You're still on your face, aren't you!" Believe it or not, Lao Tzu pumped you! ”

"That's it! All right! Seeing that these two people were stubborn, Hai Mingze hurriedly stopped Chen Liang.

Hai Mingze glanced at Du Erniu, and saw that the other party still had an expression of a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

This Du Erniu is Chen Liang's most distressed and most relied on general, the 14th Regiment is also the pillar of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army, in the previous annual military exercises of the Shanghai Army, the 14th Regiment has repeatedly played a majestic role for the Fourth Town, known as the Tiger Regiment of the Shanghai Army.

This bullish regiment commander really has a bullish temper, and he dares to fight the division commander.

Don't look at Chen Liang and Du Erniu's quarrel, the relationship is still very iron.

Hai Mingze, who knew this well, persuaded Chen Liang: "Old Chen, let's join the battle with Regiment Commander Du, the main force will clean up the battlefield, and it will also damage the prestige of our fourth town!" ”

"That's it!" Du Erniu snorted when he saw the stitches.

Chen Liang glared at Du Erniu fiercely, and said to the chief of staff: "Lao Hai." Good steel is used on the blade, and these so-called Concession Self-Defense Forces are nothing more than a motley army in my eyes. I am now hiding the 14th Regiment, which is ready to fight to the death with the main forces of the British, French, and American forces. Of course, you can't take it out now. ”

Hai Mingze said with a smile: "Lao Chen, I don't think you should have too much hope, since the commander-in-chief has agreed to let our fourth town attack the concession, then I am afraid that the battle of the British, French and American forces in the concession will not be our turn, and this Shanghai county has the first town of the First Army." Commander Zhang will not give the main attack to our fourth town, it must be the first town. ”

"So what?" Chen Liang was unwilling, and still had a glimmer of hope.

Hai Mingze said: "Commander Song Yunhan of the town guarding the mansion, his second town has made a lot of efforts, and in order to lure these foreign devils out, they have paid a lot of price. If we clean up the battlefield and don't give them some benefits, I'm afraid it will be difficult to ask him to do things in the future. ”

Chen Liang said: "What do you mean, chief of staff?" ”

Hai Mingze said with a smile: "Leave the matter of cleaning the battlefield to Division Commander Song, the equipment and treatment of their second-line troops are not as good as ours, we only need to clean the battlefield in the concession!" ”

Chen nodded and said, "That's right." Let's hand over the battlefield here to Song Yunhan first, and he will run to the concession to share dividends with us when the time comes! ”

It turned out that Chen Liang was worried that Song Yunhan would ask him for more benefits, so he simply handed over the battlefield in front of him to Song Yunhan, and Song Yunhan of the province intervened in the concession.

In this way, the 14th Regiment did not have to clean up the battlefield.

Soon, Chen Liang gave Du Erniu an order, ordering him to lead the 14th Regiment into the battle to attack the British and French concessions.

At this moment, the battle for the concession has begun.

There were not many foreign troops left in the British and French concessions, and more than 20 frigates of the Shanghai army entered the Suzhou Creek and Lujiabang rivers, and the naval guns bombarded the British and French concessions fiercely. Destroy the houses of foreigners.

Among them, the British Legation was the focus of care, and in less than three minutes, hundreds of shells were bombarded, and the entire British Legation was on fire and thick smoke was billowing.

It stands to reason that the Shanghai army should not attack the British legation. Because according to European and American international law, the legation should be protected, but unfortunately the Qing Empire was not a signatory party, which made the Shanghai army dare to blatantly shell the British legation.

Of course, in addition to the British legation, the French legation did not escape doom. Because the French legation was as crazy as the British legation, it was built on the riverside, directly within the range of the artillery fire of the Shanghai warships.

Whether it was the British Concession or the French Concession, there were not many remaining troops, less than a thousand in total, and they were all temporarily served by adventurers from the European Union, because the regular armies of the British and French protectors of the legation were pulled out by William.

The 15th Regiment of the 8th Brigade of the 4th Town of the Shanghai Army took the lead in attacking the British Concession, followed by the 16th Regiment entering the French Concession, and by the time Du Erniu's 14th Regiment arrived at the Concession, the battle was over.

Whether it was the British Concession or the French Concession, all the foreigners were arrested, imprisoned, and the first foreigner concentration camp in Chinese history was established, the location was the Gomery Church School in the British Concession, and the entire playground held more than 30,000 foreigners, most of whom were women and children, because many of their men joined the Concession Self-Defense Forces and died on the battlefield.

The foreigners who were imprisoned came from all over the world, and although there were voices of protest one after another, they soon all chose to give in under the bayonets and fists of the Shanghai army.

"I ask to see Li Weiguo!"

At this time, a voice attracted the attention of the Shanghai soldiers.

"My name is Pete, I am a friend of Li Weiguo, please take me to meet him, I have something important to tell him!"

This person is Pete, he did not rent the world with William, but stayed to defend, but unfortunately that person could not defeat the wolf-like Shanghai soldiers, he surrendered directly.

At this moment, the concession has been completely occupied by the Shanghai army, and William has not been seen back with his troops for a long time, and Pete has already understood that William has been defeated, so he must meet Li Weiguo immediately, because he is worried that Li Weiguo will massacre tens of thousands of foreigners in the concentration camp, after all, this is not Europe, and the rules of Europe have no binding force on Li Weiguo.

However, Pete was saddened, and when he said that he was a friend of Li Weiguo, he was greeted not by the preferential treatment of prisoners of war, but by two rifle butts.

Woohoo!

Pete's head was bleeding and he was knocked unconscious.

After the two Shanghai soldiers knocked Pete unconscious, they spat and were about to leave.

At this time, a foreigner's voice stopped the two of them again.

"Two chiefs, forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, is your commander-in-chief Li Weiguo the Chongming County Commander five years ago?"

The speaker was an Englishman, with a thin yellow face and sharp beak, who spoke in Chinese and had a respectful attitude.

The two Shanghai soldiers glanced at the British, nodded in unison, and asked at the same time: "That's right, what are you asking our commander-in-chief for?" Do you also want to say that you are a friend of our Commander-in-Chief? ”

"No, no, no! Don't get me wrong! I don't mean which! When the British saw the two Shanghai soldiers raise the butts of their guns, he immediately knelt down in fright, but he saw that the two Shanghai soldiers directly smashed Pete's head and fainted to the ground.

"Count you as acquaintances! We're at war right now, you'd better be honest, or else—" One of the Shanghai soldiers raised the butt of his rifle again, and the threat was obvious.

"Understood, understood!" The Englishman nodded hurriedly, but he couldn't help but say again: "Actually, I am really a friend of your commander-in-chief, and I also know your commander-in-chief's wife, her name is Shen Ziyan, right, I am her ophthalmologist!" ”

The two soldiers of the Shanghai Army, who were about to leave, suddenly stopped, turned their heads, and the muzzles of two guns were pressed into the heart of the Englishman's head at the same time.

"Do you recognize the second lady of our family?"

"You're her ophthalmologist? What's your name? ”

The Englishman was so frightened that he peed his pants, and hurriedly said: "I am really Miss Shen, I should be the second lady in your mouth, I am her ophthalmologist, and your commander-in-chief took Miss Shen to my optical shop to check her eyes five years ago." My name is Ba Weisi, as long as you tell your commander-in-chief or Miss Shen, they will remember me. ”

"Our second lady does have a problem with her eyes, I heard that I am going to find a foreigner doctor to do surgery, but there has been no news!"

"Is this Ba Weisi the foreigner the commander-in-chief is looking for?"

"I wonder if it's true? If it's true, we've done a great job! ”

"Now a lot of foreigners are lying that they have something to do with our commander-in-chief, if they get out again, they will blame them, and our brothers will be punished!"

The two soldiers of the Shanghai Army, you look at me, I look at you, some doubts, asked each other questions, and then looked at Ba Weisi, a little hesitant.

"If it's fake, really, please trust me!"

"Also, the sunglasses you were carrying, I, Ba Weisi designed them myself!"

When the two Shanghai soldiers saw Ba Weisi say this, they immediately believed eight points, and the two looked at each other and made up their minds at the same time.

"Take him out!" (To be continued.) )