While Zhu Jishi, the crown prince, and a few of his cronies were drinking at the Hot Spring Palace, it was still night in St. Louis, in the Confederate States of America, and the fierce fighting here continued. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThere are also a lot of buildings or miscellaneous things burning, and there are fires everywhere, which makes tonight's battlefield look a little more tragic.

Sun Mei and more than a dozen men from Bai's Trading Company have been on the front line with rifles since the St. Louis incident. The wooden fence at the entrance to Chinatown is long gone, and it is unknown whether it was broken up by artillery fire or destroyed in hand-to-hand fighting. Now all that remains are a few positions made of sandbags and furniture, door panels, stones, etc. However, it was not these thin lines of defense that really stopped the Ku Klux Klan's attack, but the tall buildings on both sides of the street, including the HSBC Bank building and the warehouse of the Pak Trading Company, were all solid buildings framed by reinforced concrete - this era was the era of reinforced concrete and steel structure buildings, and architects were always used to raising the insurance factor to avoid getting out of the basket, so the buildings built were not as strong as they were, like fortresses.

Hundreds of Ku Klux Klans formed an offensive formation again and began to press on the Chinese lines, with two rear-loading guns on the ruins in the distance. It was a former wooden house that had been set ablaze in a previous firefight and was now home to Ku Klux Klan artillery positions. Two 75 guns produced by the French company Schneider have been firing non-stop, and the copper shells of the surrounding shells have been piled up on the ground. When the flames cleared, we saw that the walls were full of gray-white shallow craters -- even the 75 guns had been pulled out. What the hell are these guys under the Ku Klux Klux Klan brand, I can really figure it out with my heels.

Sun Mei carried the body of a Type 1862 machine gun to a window on the third floor shirtless. It used to be an office. It has now been converted into a point of fire. The glass had long since shattered, and there was no trace of the window shelves, except for the boxy openings, and the thick wooden furniture and sandbags were piled up together to form a bunker at the place of the window.

"Quick, get the shelves up." Sun Mei yelled. Three Chinese youths followed him into the room, one carrying a gun stand, and two carrying a large bag with bullets loaded inside!

They had just been transferred from another point of fire, since the beginning of the engagement. The machine-gun team led by Sun Mei constantly shifted between several firing points, and cooperated with the other two machine-gun teams to block the route of the Ku Klux Klan's offensive with firepower. At the same time, there are also some snipers who rely on this building and constantly inflict casualties on the opponent with accurate marksmanship...... The border conflicts between Donghua and the American Empire have been fought for seven or eight years, and the Indian War has lasted for more than two years. And these militias in the Union State with the Ku Klux Klan signboard have not fought for more than a decade, and they are certainly no match for the "veterans of the Riot China". It was clear that it had an advantage in numbers and firepower, but it was never able to achieve victory.

"Click......

Sun Mei aimed the muzzle of the gun at the Ku Klux Klan under the building, and shook the handle vigorously to shoot a fierce shot. Bullets rained down and swept over the Ku Klux Klans who were charging. Swept them down, the rest either lay down or looked around for cover and then returned fire with their Glass rifles—a French rifle, not a good thing, but a modified version of the old Chasepol firing rifle. Napoleon III upgraded the French Army's rifles after the last North American War, modifying the obsolete Chasebo rifles and selling them to a few of his younger brothers in France, while the Confederate States of America also bought a lot. Used to equip the militias of the states. It's just that the firepower of this rifle is not strong, and it can only fire one 11mm caliber metal bullet at a time, and the recoil is greater than that of the Jason 1873 rifle that uses 7.92mm caliber bullets, so the accuracy is naturally worrying. However, several white rifles were fired together, and the outer wall of the HSBC bank was full of bullet holes. Then, two cannons and several machine guns of the Ku Klux Klan also discovered this new point of fire, and shells and bullets rained down! Although Sun Mei and the others were not hit, they were still forced to shift their positions.

The Ku Klux Klan, who had suffered heavy casualties from this machine gun, took advantage of this short gap in firepower to jump up one after another and shout and charge. The bayonet of the rifle reflected the fire, shining brightly.

The reserves of the Chinese militia also rushed out of various hiding places, they had nowhere to retreat, the Chinatown of St. Louis was already surrounded by the Ku Klux Klan, and now Donghua was in a state of war with the Confederates, once they left St. Louis Chinatown, which had been turned into a fortress, they would face the danger of losing their ground. They can only hold on to the end now.

However, the Donghua Consul and Guan Yuanbao and other overseas Chinese leaders who were in charge of the defense were slightly strange, a small St. Louis Chinatown, although it was strong, it was not to the point of being impregnable, right? Why can't Lao Mei beat it with all her strength? Although the Confederate States of America are weaker, it won't be like this, right?

Sure enough, the counterattack of the Chinese militia had another effect, and the Ku Klux Klan charge was quickly repulsed, and the machine guns placed on the upper floors of the HSBC and Bai's trading warehouses rang out again. The Ku Klux Klan, who had lost their spirit, rushed out and ran away, and retreated to their starting positions in a gloomy manner. They also left a corpse and a wounded man still breathing on the front line of the battle between the two armies, and the screams rang out.

Guan Yuanbao and Donghua's consul in St. Louis, a veteran officer named Li Qingyun, supervised the battle not far from the front line. There were also some older men and young women gathered around them, and of course, everyone had foreign guns in their hands, ready to fight desperately...... The Ku Klux Klan has been besieging for almost 20 days, and although it has not broken through Chinatown, it has also caused considerable losses to the Chinese militia who are holding on. After the young man was damaged, only the old man and the woman were left to fill it! As for the children who did not reach adulthood, they followed the St. Louis Chinese School to Kansas.

"Fought back again!" Consul Li Qingyun let out a sigh, but his brows did not loosen at all.

"Lao Mei is a feint!" Guan Yuanbao's tone was very certain. He didn't fight a lot with the True God cultists in the Western Qing Dynasty! This kind of siege tactic, he himself doesn't know how many times he has used it.

"I know, I know...... They want to lead the Donghua Army to a decisive battle on the plains of Missouri! ”

It's obvious! Missouri is easily accessible here and the terrain is flat. It was connected by railroad to the eastern part of the Confederate Empire, and by railroad and canal to the American Empire, and it was also a grain-producing area, so there was little pressure on the supply of the army. No number of troops can be transported quickly!

So it's a joke that you can't beat a St. Louis Chinatown, and it's not easy to send tens of thousands of troops to storm under the cover of heavy artillery?

"What shall we do?" Guan Yuanbao paused, "After all, we are expatriates...... Can you ask the French side to come out and mediate? There are several times more white people in the Confederate States in the hands of our king than there are Chinese in St. Louis, right? ”

Li Qingyun shook his head, "It's useless...... Don't you see the Americans under the banner of the Ku Klux Klux Klan? ”

Guan Yuanbao took a breath full of the smell of gunsmoke. If the United States is flaunting the banner of the Union State, it will be an act of war of the state. The massacre of civilians is not a good thing to do publicly...... Now the Confederate states are in the hands of Donghua, and there are far more whites there than there are Chinese in St. Louis! If the Allied government forces openly massacre Chinese expatriates, Donghua could naturally retaliate justifiably (this was the rule in the 19th century!). At that time, the governments of the allied countries will not be able to account to the people. But if the Ku Klux Klan were to attack, King Jujuan would definitely have to retaliate, but the government of the Confederate States of America has something to say to the people...... (To be continued......)