Chapter 0073 Occupy Shanghai Bang!

The gun rang out, and Zhou Lichun was about to rush out of the encirclement, but he was suddenly shot and fell off his horse.

"Your Excellency is mighty!"

"Your Excellency is mighty!"

Li Jiajun resounded with deafening cheers, and his morale was greatly boosted, because this shot was fired by Li Weiguo, using the rifled guns of his own soldiers, which directly hit Zhou Lichun's heart and killed him on the spot.

Zhou Xiuying, who had just rushed out of the encirclement, saw that her brother was killed, and angrily wanted to go to Li Weiguo for revenge, but the generals around her couldn't dissuade him, so he knocked him unconscious and then took him away, fleeing all the way.

The cavalry of the Little Knife Society was destroyed, which made Liu Lichuan, who had seen hope, fall into a desperate situation again.

At this time, Liu Lichuan still had more than 7,000 people in his hands, but the way to retreat to the county seat of Shanghai had been cut off by Li Jiajun, so Liu Lichuan decided to give up the attack and retreat to the Huangpu River instead, wanting to cross the river and flee to the Chuansha Hall.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Lichuan ordered to retreat to the riverside, his soldiers fell into chaos, and fled to the riverside one by one.

Li Weiguo had just eliminated Zhou Lichun's five hundred cavalry, and he was still apprehensive at the moment, worried about whether there would be other reinforcements arriving at Xiaodao, considering that there were still more than 7,000 soldiers and horses in Liu Lichuan's hands at this time, it was a little difficult for the Li family's army to encircle and annihilate the other party, Li Weiguo was worried that the trapped beast was still fighting, and the desperate Xiaodao would probably frantically counterattack and cause unnecessary casualties to the Li family's army, so he was hesitating whether to continue to encircle and annihilate the other party, but he saw that the other party had begun to disperse, and he was immediately overjoyed.

"Attack!"

Li Weiguo gave an order, and the military band sounded the drums and trumpets in unison, playing a loud charge horn.

"Kill!"

The soldiers of the Li family army burst out with a completely earth-shattering shout, quickly pushed forward, and drove the knife congregation all the way to the Huangpu River like ducks.

However, the ships were not enough, Liu Lichuan only took less than 1,000 people, and the remaining five or six thousand people either jumped into the river to resign themselves to fate, or knelt on the ground and begged to surrender, and only a few old members of the Little Knife Society were unwilling to surrender and turned around to fight with Li Jiajun.

Liu Lichuan saw that the tens of thousands of troops he had worked so hard to pull up were finished like this, and he hated it in his heart, vowing to seek revenge on Li Weiguo.

An hour later, corpses were strewn all over the Huangpu River, and half of the river was stained red.

Li Jiajun captured nearly 5,000 prisoners, then rested for an hour, and then marched outside the north gate of Shanghai County again at noon.

At this time, there were still 25,000 Xiaodao troops in Shanghai County, which were temporarily commanded by Xu Yao and Chen Tao, the core members of the Xiaodao Society. Xu Yao was in charge of the defense of the city wall, and Chen Tao was in charge of besieging the Li Jiajun in the AIIB building and the Gulou area, so that it could not form an internal and external attack.

After a battle outside the city, Liu Lichuan led an army of more than 20,000 people to be defeated, and was killed by the Li family army and fled to Chuansha.

Soon, Li Jiajun finished resting, and there were still ten large phalanxes in front, and the rest were in the back as reserves, and the soldiers who were killed or wounded on the front line were transferred to the reserves, and the vacancies left by them were filled by the reserve troops.

Knock knock!

Artillery rang out, shells whistled and fired at the city, and the battle broke out again.

The soldiers of the Li family army stepped on the drumbeat of the military band, marched in orderly steps, stopped at a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the city wall, and then fired a volley of muskets at the head of the city.

The Little Knife Army had learned from the past, and they didn't dare to show their heads again, and they hid behind the women's wall in fear one by one.

Seeing this situation, Li Weiguo suddenly frowned, Shanghai County is different from Baoshan County, there are a large number of trees around Baoshan County that can be cut down to make siege ladders, but there are no trees around Shanghai County to cut down, so Li Jiajun has been standing under the city and firing guns and artillery, killing and injuring the enemy, waiting to meet with the Li Jiajun in the city.

However, the Xiaodao army was huge, with tens of thousands of people, and they obviously knew this, so they surrounded the Li family army in the city with heavy troops, and surrounded them in the AIIB building and drum tower, although they could not attack for a while, but they also had no spare strength to counterattack.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and Li Weiguo saw that the Li family army in the city could not cooperate with the action, so he could only adopt the most primitive method and hit all the artillery to bombard the city wall.

Flowering shells are effective in killing soldiers, but bombarding the city walls requires solid bullets.

The artillery team of the Li family army then replaced the solid bullets and concentrated its fire to bombard the city wall fiercely, preparing to open a gap.

After all, the city wall of Shanghai county only belongs to the county-level scale, and it is not as strong as a strong city like Jinling in terms of height and thickness, coupled with the fact that the Qing army's armament is slack, it has not been repaired for many years, and it has been washed by heavy rains and typhoons all year round, so the city wall has become very fragile.

In less than an hour, a section of the city wall on the east side of the northern city could not withstand the shelling and collapsed, and the gap opened.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The artillery team of the Li Jiajun changed to flower shells and scattered bullets, and continued to hit the gap with firepower, eliminating the defenders of the knife club at the gap.

After a few rounds of shelling, the infantry column of the Li Jiajun began to move towards the breach.

"Attack!"

I saw that the soldiers of the Li family army marched neatly towards the gap, and at the same time, they were shooting round after round during the march, so that the Xiaodao army could not repair the city wall at the gap.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The dense bullets hit the past, and another group of Knife Soldiers fell, and in the face of such a powerful firearm, the already demoralized Knife Soldiers suddenly gave up the gap.

The Li army took advantage of the situation to occupy the gap, and quickly consolidated the defense, and then launched an attack on the periphery to expand the results of the battle.

Xu Yao saw that the city wall was breached, and saw that the Xiaodao army was already like a frightened bird, and he had no will and courage to fight at all, knowing that the general trend had gone, he immediately ordered the Xiaodao army on the city wall to quickly withdraw and start a street battle with the Li family's army, and retreat to the south gate while fighting.

Li Weiguo found that street fighting was not conducive to Li Jiajun's advantages of muskets and artillery, because the alleys were narrow, and the soldiers of Li Jiajun took the advantage of platoon gun firepower, and could not spread out their formation in the alley, and the firepower of platoon guns was limited. On the other hand, the Xiaodao army had a large number of cold weapons, and they were very flexible in walking the streets and alleys, and after several small-scale encounters, although the soldiers of the Li family army repelled the other party, their own casualties were not small, and they did not take advantage.

Li Weiguo has never made a loss-making deal, and immediately ordered the soldiers not to chase too closely, as long as the other party was driven out of Shanghai County.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Jiajun attacked the Drum Tower in Zhongjie and joined up with the 2,000 Li Jiajun guarding the Drum Tower and the AIIB building.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Chen Tao hurriedly led his men to join Xu Yao and withdraw from the south gate of Shanghai.

Li Weiguo knew that the poor should not be chased, so he could drive the knife club out of the county seat of Shanghai, and after reoccupying the four gates of the county seat of Shanghai, he began to focus on cleaning up the remaining enemy troops in the city.

By the evening, the remnants of the Xiaodaohui in Shanghai County were basically wiped out, and a total of more than 13,000 Xiaodaohui rebels were eliminated before and after, and more than 9,300 people were captured, and the more than 60,000 rebels brought by Liu Lichuan lost more than 10,000 people in the previous battle with Peng Wenyuan, and the remaining less than 50,000 people fought with the Li family's army, and finally fled back to Chuansha with less than 5,000 people, and lost nearly 45,000 people, of which nearly half of them were captured strong men. And Li Jiajun itself only paid a small price of more than 300 casualties, which can be described as a great victory.

In addition to a few streets near the AIIB and the Drum Tower, most of the other areas of Shanghai County were sacked by the rebels of the Little Knife Society, among which the banner people were almost killed, and the rich Han landlords also suffered heavy losses.

This is exactly what Li Weiguo wants to see, if he had sent troops to reinforce Shanghai earlier, these landlords and rich families would not have known the importance of Li Weiguo to them if they had not been harmed by the rebels of the Little Knife Society, and they would not have attached so much importance to it, let alone bloodletting.

Of course, what Li Weiguo was most concerned about was the gold and silver treasures obtained by the rebels of the Little Knife Society who sacked the county seat of Shanghai last night, and you must know that Shanghai County is much richer than Baoshan County.

However, when Li Weiguo sent someone to count the booty, he found that he had only obtained gold and silver treasures worth less than five million taels of silver, and it was expected that the rest of the gold and silver treasures had been taken away by the rebels who had fled in the chaos.

Although there was a fly in the ointment, another piece of news made Li Weiguo happy.

"Young master, I just sent someone to see, those banner people near the big east gate have been killed, they occupy a lot of good land in Shanghai County, especially one of them surnamed Lan, most of the good land in Jiangwan Town is theirs, it is the land that the young master wants to expand the industrial zone."

Hearing Zhang Xiaoliu's report, Li Weiguo was very happy, a lot of the land he was optimistic about was occupied by those banner people, and the other party either didn't sell it, or asked for a sky-high price, and hated Li Weiguo's teeth, and now they got rid of them with the help of the Little Knife Society, and a large amount of land in their hands naturally fell into Li Weiguo's hands for free.

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "Very good, notify Wu Yong to come over and re-measure the land under the jurisdiction of Shanghai County, rearrange the terra nullius land, and sell the general land to the people in the future, and keep the good land for ourselves." ”

Zhang Xiaoliu smiled bitterly and said: "Young master, you forgot, Wu Yong just went to take over Baoshan County, I'm afraid he is busy in Baoshan now." ”

Li Weiguo patted his head, and then remembered that he had just asked Wu Yong to deal with Baoshan affairs.

"Forget it, I'll take care of it! Go and call all the officials of the yamen in Shanghai! ”

Zhang Xiaoliu took the order to leave, Li Weiguo sighed, and said to himself: "It seems that we have to quickly find some people to govern the place and come back." ”