Chapter 490: Into the City
The entire Taipingmen has become a pot of porridge. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoOriginally, Zhao Guanhou's troops were just making a surprise attack, and after the door was opened, they should have evacuated quickly. But what I didn't expect was that the Xia family brothers turned against the water, which actually brought about a chain reaction.
First of all, the Zhejiang Army, which was originally composed of a large number of old armies, began to build and rebel. Later, rumors came out that the fifth town had been stationed in Jiangning in large numbers and was going to break the city tonight. This time, even the Ning army had troops that began to fight back.
Officers at the level of pipe band and sentry officer are all officers of the new army and their original positions, and they lead their own original troops. Some of these people are not the same, some people support the reunification, the other part of the people have no good feelings about the reunification, they are just coerced and have to obey, and the other part is just dissatisfied with the salary reduction and joins the reunification, and they just want to make a mess of life and have no intention of sacrificing.
The rebels used to think that as long as they rose up to rebel, they would be paid. But when the five-color flag replaced the yellow dragon flag, the situation was different from what they thought. Jiangning, which is known as the southeast of Fujia, actually only issues tokens and does not issue silver oceans, which makes these soldiers who rebel for military pay full of resistance.
If it goes well, this kind of dissatisfaction and resistance will not cause such bad consequences. However, under the strong military pressure of the fifth town, the loss of all the fortresses outside the city, and the rumors of the Lu army entering the city, these untrustworthy intermediate groups chose to defect again. Officers lead their basic troops to rebel in front of the battle, or refuse to obey the command and adopt a wait-and-see attitude. Some troops began to take advantage of the opportunity to smash storefronts and rob the people.
The most serious anti-water is the Shanghai army. These thousands of Shanghai troops included not only the old military defense battalion stationed near Songjiang, but also the merchant group armed forces, as well as the Cao Gang brothers in the threshold.
Knowing that the fifth town was led by his own uncle, there would definitely be no loss if he defected to the past, so some troops defected in the form of a formation and turned against the water in the direction of Taipingmen. or they opened other gates and fled out of the city.
The original escape battle of Taipingmen turned into a positional battle, and the officers and soldiers of the fifth town did not kill them, and the soldiers who rebelled against the water in the city, and the officers and soldiers who came to suppress them, fought in a stalemate in the area of Taipingmen.
The troops that have returned to the official army are mixed and the structure is chaotic, and it is naturally impossible for this kind of rabble alliance to expand the results of the war. However, the bombardment force was unable to quickly extinguish the anti-water force, and the delay in controlling the city gate was enough to reflect the seriousness of the problem.
Zhao Guanhou came to the city tower where the gatekeeper rested, Sun Meiyao took his cloak, and then exclaimed: "Master, you have hung the lottery!" ”
"Don't shout! Look at Li Zongyun, every time he goes into battle, he gets injured, what do people say. It's just a hole in the bullet, and it doesn't matter. The projectile passed through and did not remain in the body, so don't be afraid, I took the medicine box and took out the penicillin I had brought. There is also a golden medicine in it, just take the medicine. Don't shout, the morale of those anti-water troops is not very high, once they know that I am injured, this battle will not be easy to fight again. ”
Under the city, the sound of gunshots and explosions was endless, there were no electric lights in the city tower, so I had to light a few oil lamps to illuminate it, Sun Meiyao's eyes were full of tears, and even the hand holding the needle was a little trembling.
Chen Lenghe screamed and ran over, but was then pushed by Sun Meiyao, "Stay away, you can't provoke these things!" It's not good to stay in the bank, what kind of date to go to, if I have three long and two short, you don't want to live! ”
"No...... I...... I just wanted to help. For such an unreasonable bandit, Chen Lenghe didn't have a good way, so he had to explain to her: "I have studied emergency care, I can help you......"
Zhao Guanhou smiled at Sun Meiyao, "Okay, what do you always scare her for, you can't blame her for this." In banking business, how can you deal with people less. Chen Wuwei is a master of inviting the God of Wealth, and she doesn't have your ability, so it is inevitable that she will be voted for. You can't blame her, she must have suffered a lot these days, so don't be her. Leng He, you come over and give Mei Yao a hand, I have gauze in the medicine box and take it out and wrap it. ”
Zhao Guanhou was shot in his left arm, but fortunately, the projectile passed through and did not stay in his body, which is a great luck. After dressing the wound, Sun Meiyao pulled out her pistol and said, "I'll go down and take a look!" Then he got off the road and went straight to the front. Chen Lenghe looked at Zhao Guanhou, but his tears were uncontrollable.
Zhao Guanhou smiled: "I rode a horse with a gun and rescued you from a group of kidnappers, is this romantic?" In Songjiang, we are short of a romantic date, and I will make up for it for you this time. Don't know if you're satisfied? ”
"Satisfied...... I'm satisfied......" Chen Lenghe slammed into Zhao Guanhou's arms, at this moment, whether it is Ge Ming's party or the ideal world, they have all gone with the wind, and the only thing that can make her care is the man in front of her.
Although Chen Wuwei was shot, he was not injured in the fatal part, and because of the timely rescue, by dawn the next day, he was already able to wrap a bandage and hang his arm with a triangular bandage to attend the joint meeting.
The twentieth town and the sixth town are against the water, and the composition of the Yan-Jin coalition army can be regarded as his immortal move to survive in the death, and the plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle is a success, and the Lu army will inevitably retreat. But unexpectedly, the situation in Jiangning is far worse than that in Shandong. All kinds of rumors spread in Jiangning City. For example, the three towns of Wuhan have fallen, Huang Changjie has been killed, and Ge Ming has failed again. Or the reinforcements of the two towns of the Beiyang Army are about to go to Jiangning and join the fifth town, which has become a place of death.
For the people of Jiangning, the most terrible rumor is that if the fifth town attacks Jiangning, Zhang Yuan will take over with 10,000 braided soldiers. After entering the city, he will not seal the knife for three days, and he will do whatever he wants.
Braided soldiers are inferior in military discipline, and if they don't seal the knife for three days, the land of gold dust in the Six Dynasties will be determined to be a ghost domain in the world. The first people who couldn't sit still were the gentry and members of the Consultative Bureau in Jiangning City.
Originally, Chen Wuwei's method of using blank paper as a token seriously affected the income of these gentry, and in contrast, the good reputation of the fifth town made the gentry not disgusted with this Beiyang soldier.
When they saw the Anmin notice, coupled with those rumors, the position of these gentry was shaken again. The soldiers of the Fifth Town have already marched from the Fifth Town one after another, and the original Hundred Siege Plan has not played a role.
However, seeing that the Beiyang soldiers pushed all the twelve-pounder cannons into the city, they disagreed with each other, so they started street battles, and even planned to turn the city into scorched earth. Combined with the news that Jiang Ning saw before, Feng Yuzhang burned Hankou, and in order to win, turned a commercially developed city into a piece of rubble, which Jiang Ning obviously could not follow.
So the gentry went into their own way.
The first thing they met with was Michael Gao, the consul of Albiang in Jiangning, and hoped that he would intervene to mediate a temporary ceasefire between the two cities and resolve the conflict in Jiangning through negotiations. The Fifth Town was not firmly established, and the defenders in the city were also strong, and they were happy to use this time to build positions and reorganize their ranks, so they were allowed to do so.
However, Ge Mingjun's side had different opinions, Xu Shaozhen supported a peaceful settlement, and Chen Wuwei believed that he should immediately launch a counter-assault and expel the other party from Jiangning in a white-knuckle battle while the fifth town did not have a firm position. If things don't work out, turn to street fighting, and at the cost of Jiangning turning into scorched earth, the fifth town will also be expelled.
"Jiangning is an important commercial city, and neither the gentry nor the foreigners will allow us to really turn this place into ruins. As long as we put this posture in this position, the foreigners will come forward to mediate, and the Beiyang soldiers will definitely withdraw. This is a method of retreating as an advance, otherwise we cannot retreat to the Beiyang. If we negotiate now, the end result will be that we will lose the city. Jiangning is rare and easy to lose, and if we withdraw today, we don't know when we will be able to come back. ”
Lin Shuqing shook his head and said, "Governor Chen, I'm afraid your suggestion won't work, in Mi Gao's words, the smell of threat is very strong." If we do not follow his words for a ceasefire, the warship Albion will help it to achieve a ceasefire. That is, they may bombard us with artillery. ”
"If it's scary, there's no need to take it seriously, if you scorch Jiang Ning into scorched earth, he'll be the first to be unhappy." Chen Wuwei is very accurate about people's hearts, "Now our attitude is different from that of the Fifth Town, the Fifth Town is desperately trying to keep these bottles and cans, we don't care, it's good to stay, if you can't keep it, you will smash it, anyway, it's Wanyan's things, and you won't feel distressed if you smash it." In this kind of attitude comparison, we took advantage of it, and in my opinion, we fought the battle to the concession. Our artillery is inferior to his, but in the concession, only we have artillery to attack, and there is no reason for him to fight back. The hand he relied on was useless, but we could throw eggs and blow him up, so that there would be hope for the war. ”
Xu Shaozhen shook his head and said, "Isn't this equivalent to a scoundrel? ”
"What about the scoundrels, the soldiers are treacherous, and if they fight with Beiyang, they have to use methods they can't think of to win. Besides, during last night's fighting, three of our ammunition depots were bombed, resulting in a serious shortage of ammunition on the hands of the troops. This is definitely artificial, they do the first year of junior high school, and we do the fifteenth! ”
At this time, there was no concept of special warfare in the infantry drill code, and no one could say how the ammunition depot was attacked. Always from the point of view of speculation, there is nothing wrong with the analysis of what the Beiyang Army did, but for Chen Wuwei's proposal to use the concession as a barrier, he did not get anyone's support.
Zhu Duan said: "I am the first to oppose this method, if we fight like this, the foreigners will definitely not agree, and when the time comes, the Albians will send sailors ashore to assist, and everyone will not benefit." ”
"How many sailors does he have? really turned his face, first surrendered his sailors' weapons, seized his warship, and apologized to him in the future, I will bear the problem. ”
Lin Shuqing said: "I'm afraid you can't afford it!" Mr. Sun set out from Yankee and came to Jiangning to preside over the overall situation, if the Albians sent ships to intercept it, it would be unfavorable to Mr. Sun, can you bear this responsibility? ”
"Lin Shuqing, you are worrying about the sky, and the people of Albion don't necessarily look at Dajin pleasing to the eye, and they can't afford to sell so much for the people of the Wanyan family. It's nothing more than taking the opportunity to blackmail and ask for some benefits, you are so afraid of foreigners, what else are you doing. ”
While they were arguing, an orderly suddenly barged in and shouted, "Matsue is in a hurry! ”
Chen Wuwei saw that it was an urgent call from his own side, and hurriedly said, "Take it, I'll take a look." ”
Lin Shuqing said: "It's good to read it here, I want to see what news comes out of Songjiang." ”
The orderly swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva, looked around, and saw that most people supported him to read, he had read in the army, knew how to read, and recited aloud with his middle spirit: "This morning, Songjiang County has been controlled by the fifth town of Beiyang, and after the meeting of the Shanghai Military Governor's Office, Chen Wuwei will be removed from the post of Shanghai Military Governor, and Li Tiexian will take over. At the same time, Matsue declared that he would maintain a neutral status and not participate in this war ......" (to be continued. )