Updated: 202-07-0

The cannon roared in the direction of the northern city, and the people in the city were all nested in their homes, and almost no one walked on the streets and alleys. The herald sent by Liu Lichuan walked like a fly, and he quickly walked through the streets and alleys. When he came to the gate of the Hujiang Opera Garden, the herald was about to break in, but the two gatekeepers stopped him, "There are important military affairs in the theater, and no one is allowed to enter or leave." ”

"I was sent by the Generalissimo, and the Generalissimo summoned General Zhou to the north gate to discuss urgent military affairs."

Bao Desheng took a few henchmen and was in charge of the guard outside the theater, and he hurriedly walked over, "We know, General Zhou will go over immediately." So saying, he sent the herald back.

The herald didn't win at all, he jumped up in front of the gate of the Hujiang Opera Garden, "I have to see General Zhou." This is an order from the Generalissimo, and your bullshit military affairs can be greater than the marshal's military affairs? ”

This herald is Liu Lichuan's little fellow countryman, and he has a little distant relationship with Liu Lichuan, and he has always liked foxes and fake tigers. Although the information has been delivered to the Hujiang Theater, the herald felt that he had worked hard to pass the order tonight, and he didn't see Zhou Xiuying, and he didn't enter the gate of the Hujiang Theater, so he was very unhappy.

Shanghainese people are the most lively, and if someone scolds and fights in normal times, they will already be surrounded by a group of people. But on this night when the cannon roared, there were almost no people on the streets around the Hujiang Opera Park. The herald shouted twice, and there was not a single person around.

Bao Desheng was upset by the herald's words, and he stepped forward and stretched out his right hand to grab the herald's neck.

The herald has a lot of eyes, he knows that Bao Desheng is a fierce Zhang Fei, and Zhou Xiuying's temperament is like fire. scolding in front of the theater garden will definitely not be pleased. So when Bao Desheng stepped forward, he turned around and wanted to slip away, just to let go of Bao Desheng's right hand.

Bao Desheng followed with his left hand and grabbed the herald's neck, and the herald struggled to move forward. The two guards on the left and right immediately came up to help, and the three of them immediately grabbed the herald into the theater garden and pulled him into the corner of the wall.

"You still dare to arrest me, you have the courage to fatten you!" The herald was in a hurry, "Hurry up and release me, if not, the generalissimo will cut off your heads!" ”

Bao Shengxin said, who will cut off whose head first at this time. He took the dagger out of his bosom and, with a "poof", plunged the knife directly into the herald's heart. The herald felt a huge pain in his chest, and he let out an "ah", shook it twice, and fell to the ground on the spot.

Bao Desheng pulled out his dagger and wiped it twice on the corpse, "TNND, you little rabbit cub is still arrogant." ”

"Plop!" The sound of objects falling to the ground could be heard from the other side of the fence.

Bao Desheng immediately shouted: "Who! So saying, he ran out of the gate and looked. I saw a figure get up from the ground, pull out his legs and run in the direction of the small east gate.

Bao Desheng fixed his eyes, as if it was Li Shaoxi.

"Chase!"

Li Shaoxi originally wanted to take a few people to the concession at night. After dinner, listening to the sound of cannons in the direction of the north gate, the leaders of the Jiaying Gang lost their interest in playing, and Li Shaoxi was also a little uneasy. So he asked the others to go back to Xiaodongmen first, and went to the marshal's mansion to inquire about the situation.

Li Shaoxi took a turn in the Generalissimo's Mansion, the war was tense, Liu Lichuan, Chen Alin and others didn't have time to pay attention to him, they all rushed to the north gate. Li Shaoxi was not in the mood to go to the north gate for a stroll, so he went back to the small east gate alone.

was about to pass by the Hujiang Opera Garden, Li Shaoxi suddenly remembered Zhou Xiuying. Li Shaoxi has always coveted Zhou Xiuying's beauty, although Zhou Xiuying is very spicy, but Li Shaoxi's bones are a little cheap, and he always wants to go around again when he is scolded for a few words, which day Zhou Xiuying didn't scold him a few words, he was uncomfortable.

Li Shaoxi thought that he hadn't arrived at Zhou Xiuying that day, so he couldn't help but turn his legs in the direction of Hujiang Theater. was about to arrive at the opera garden, and Li Shaoxi was far away when someone was shouting there. Although the night was very dark and the shadows were not real, he could still hear the voice of Liu Lichuan's herald.

"Is Xiuying a little too spicy this week! Liu Lichuan's heralds also dared to offend. Li Shaoxi's footsteps stopped, since Liu Lichuan's heralds could not enter the Hujiang Opera Garden, he felt that he would not please him now.

Li Shaoxi was hesitating against the wall. The herald's shouting died down at once. Li Shaoxi stretched his neck, there was no one at the entrance of the theater, and the sound of struggle was faintly heard inside the wall. Then all of a sudden, there was no sound, and then there was the vicious voice of Bao Desheng.

Li Shaoxi heard Bao's victory clearly, and he suddenly shuddered. No way! Bao Desheng dared to kill the generalissimo's heraldsmen, is this a rebellion! Li Shaoxi couldn't help but take two steps back, tripped over a stone, and fell to the ground with a "plop". Xiaodongmen is the closest to here, Li Shaoxi doesn't care about 3721, he gets up from the ground and runs desperately in the direction of Xiaodongmen.

Bao Desheng and the others chased a few steps, and saw that Li Shaoxi was about to run into the small east gate. Bao Desheng spat fiercely on the ground, "Count him fate." He led the people and hurried back.

Li Shaoxi was like a lost dog, and as soon as he ran into the small east gate, he was so tired that he collapsed on the ground.

The brothers of the Jiaying Gang hurriedly stepped forward to support him and asked him what was going on.

Li Shaoxi was out of breath, he finally adjusted his breathing, and scolded fiercely, "Damn Bao Desheng, damn Zhou Xiuying!" ”

Hearing Li Shaoxi scolding several leaders of the Qingpu Tiandi Society, the brothers guarding the door thought that the plague had spread, and hurriedly stepped forward to inquire about it.

"What? Pestilence! After talking for a long time, Li Shaoxi understood what happened. He suddenly realized that these people in Qingpu were going to walk against the water.

The force of Zhou Xiuying's gang, Li Shaoxi knew, he secretly thought that this small east gate was very unsafe, and the Qingpu people would be killed at any time, so he immediately decided, "Qingpu and these people are very dishonest, and there is no plague in the city at all." Defend the city well, and I will personally report to the Generalissimo. ”

Jiaying's gang is not stupid, they all panicked when they got to Li Shaoxi to slip away under the pretext, "We are not the opponents of the Qingpu Gang, what if Zhou Xiuying and them kill them!" ”

"Zhou Xiuying, if they are killed, you should run quickly." Li Shaoxi glanced at the city tower, "There are thousands of jin gates guarding the city." You put down the stone gate of the city gate now, as long as you drop the jack gate, the city gate will not be in any danger for the time being. ”

Li Shaoxi ran back to the Generalissimo's Mansion in one go, and he ran back and forth a few laps this night, but he was tired enough.

He finally met Liu Lichuan in Dianchun Hall, but Liu Lichuan knew Li Shaoxi's conduct well, and didn't believe Li Shaoxi's words at all, "Zhou Xiuying has a grudge against Qing Demon to kill her father, how could she turn against the Little Knife Society!" ”

"Generalissimo, I have seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears." Before Li Shaoxi finished speaking, more than a dozen gunshots rang out in the direction of Xiaodongmen.

"It's not good, Zhou Xiuying has already moved!"

Is Zhou Xiuying really reversed?! Could it be that a year's thinking has been in vain?! It is difficult for Liu Lichuan to imagine this fact.

Marshal Zuo Chen Alin is a Fujianese, and there are not as many Cantonese people in the Little Knife Society as Fujianese, so Liu Lichuan is always afraid of the instability of military and political power. In order to absolutely control the military power and recruit powerful subordinates, Liu Lichuan spent a lot of thought. Since Zhou Xiuying took the remnants of the Qingpu Tiandi Club from Jiading to Shanghai City, Liu Lichuan was defeated by Zhou Xiuying's brave and good battle. So Zhou Xiuying proposed to buy muskets and ammunition, and Liu Lichuan met almost all her requirements. But now ~~~

Liu Lichuan pushed open the carved wooden window facing east of Dianchun Hall with his hand, and in the dark night, there was almost nothing in the direction of the small east gate.

"Quick, Generalissimo, what shall we do now?" Li Shaoxi stepped forward and whispered to Liu Lichuan, "Generalissimo, we can't let Chen Alin and other Fujianese laugh at him. ”

Fujianese people laugh at themselves secondly, if the Qing army has collusion with the Qingpu people, then they will rush into the city! Thinking of this, Liu Lichuan suddenly shuddered, and he shouted loudly, "Someone, go and pass Pan Qiliang to find out the situation at Xiaodongmen." ”

Not long after, Chen Alin hurriedly ran in. As soon as Chen Alin entered the door, he told Liu Lichuan, "Generalissimo, Zhou Xiuying is reversed, she has already led people to control the small east gate." ”

"It's the opposite, Zhou Xiuying is really the opposite!" Liu Lichuan looked a little dazed, and collapsed on the chair in a moment, but within a few seconds, he jumped up from the chair again, "What is the situation of the Qing demons, they didn't enter the city, right?" ”

"Pan Qiliang's team is blocking the area of the Xiaodongmen City Tower, and the other city gates are normal for the time being."

"Someone! He ordered the brothers who were guarding the rest of the towers to guard against death. Liu Lichuan's face was hideous, gritting his teeth, "I'll go to Xiaodongmen now, I want to see Pan Qiliang take Xiaodongmen and drive Zhou Xiuying out of the city." ”

Chen Alin fully understood Liu Lichuan's mood, "Okay! I went to gather the rest of the troops and then to support. ”

In the Hujiang Theater, Zhou Xiuying didn't wait for the guns and bullets to be distributed, so she led people out and went straight to the small east gate. Jiaying helped this group of people just dropped the jack gate on the city tower, and the Qingpu rebels rushed over.

Bao Desheng rushed to the front, he saw that the city gate hole was unguarded, the jack gate had fallen, and many figures on the city tower were shaking, so he immediately pulled the bolt of the gun and opened fire, and the brothers followed suit. The people who were guarding the city were so frightened that they ran directly from the top of the city wall to both sides. When Bao triumphed, they rushed up the city tower along the racetrack, and there was no one on the city tower.

When Zhou Xiuying went up to the city tower, Bao Desheng hurriedly reported to her, "General, these Guangzai have put down the stone gate!" The jack gate is very heavy, and it is easy to put this thing down, but it is difficult to pull it up. In less than half an hour, it was difficult to pull up. ”

Fu Baichen followed behind Zhou Xiuying, and he bared his teeth and grinned: "It's still Shenye who thinks thoughtfully, so I let me bring two pairs of rope ladders with the bullets." ”

On the castle tower, two sets of rope ladders were put down, one on the left and one on the right. Bao Desheng asked Zhou Xiuying, "Are you going out of the city now?" Zhou Xiuying looked back at the city, seemingly a little reluctant.

Fu Baichen kept urging Zhou Xiuying, "There are Qing demons outside the city, and there is a small knife club inside the city, and this place has become a place of right and wrong." Let's get out of town! ”

Zhou Xiuying didn't speak, her eyes stared in the direction of the Marshal's Mansion from afar. On the castle tower, the Qingpu rebel brothers also all looked back at the city where they had been fighting for more than a year, and their faces all showed a look of reluctance.

It didn't take long for Tan Fusheng to send a message to Zhou Xiuying on the city tower, Tan Fusheng was in charge of the guard after the break, and he found that Pan Qiliang's men and horses had approached the small east gate.

Zhou Xiuying didn't want to have any more conflicts with the knife, she hurriedly ordered, "Quick!" Get down the rope ladder and get out of town! ”

When Liu Lichuan arrived at the Xiaodongmen, Pan Qiliang had already led the brothers to occupy the Xiaodongmen Tower. At this time, the Qingpu rebels had already gone out of the city through the rope ladder, and the iron cable that pulled the jack gate was also destroyed for them.

Liu Lichuan knew the power of foreign guns, he didn't dare to stand at the head of the city and watch the movement under the city, but just crouched on the battlements and glanced at the city a few times. Only the French Concession to the north, far away from some lights. Xiaodongmen Street outside the city has long been set on fire by the Qing army, leaving only some ruins and piles of bricks and rubble. The forts built on the ruins were swarthy and devoid of light.

Although Liu Lichuan didn't know anything, he knew that the south was a Qing demon, the north was a Frenchman, and the front fort and riverside wharf were all in Zhou Xiuying's hands.

"If the jack gate is not lowered, maybe Zhou Xiuying can be forced into the river." Li Shaoxi on the side regretted a little, "But this rope ladder has not been destroyed." ”

"There must be an ambush outside the city, Zhou Xiuying will not be unprepared." Pan Qiliang didn't want to go out of the city to catch up, and fought side by side for more than a year, and he had a good impression of Zhou Xiuying. Although the Qingpu people's backlash made him very disdainful, but if it was not necessary, Pan Qiliang would not let his brothers fight with Zhou Xiuying's men and death.

"Boom!" Loud artillery fire was heard again from the direction of the north gate. Lin Shenhe heard the sound of gunfire in the direction of Shanghai City, and knew that Zhou Xiuying had already started to lead people, so in order to cooperate with the Qingpu Rebels to go out of the city, he asked several twelve-pounder cannons to start shelling the western section of the North Gate City Wall again.

Liu Lichuan had just taken a breath at the small east gate, and hurriedly turned his head to deal with the threat in the direction of the north gate.

The ground shook and the mountains shook, and the smoke of gunpowder filled. The artillery of the Qing army outside the north gate kept bombarding, and one shell after another fell on the city wall. ，

This is going to break the city, right?!

Although it was already past nine o'clock, the Qing army besieging the city, the small knife club defending the city, the foreigners who played soy sauce in the concession, and the ordinary people of Shanghai, all of them had no sleepiness, and their eyes were almost all focused on the northwest corner of Shanghai City.

It was almost ten o'clock, and the city wall in the west section of the north gate shook with a loud sound, as if the entire city wall had jumped up, and a huge earth mist rose up, and the city wall was blasted out of a gap.

"The walls are falling!" "The walls have fallen!" "The walls are falling! There was a lot of shouting inside and outside the city.

"Don't panic! Everyone get ready, wait for the Qing Demon to come up, and concentrate on the firepower attack! Liu Lichuan knew that the collapse of the city wall would be sooner or later, and he had been prepared for it for a long time. In addition to the troops defending the rest of the city gates, Liu Lichuan focused all the forces in the city behind the earthen ramparts in the north gate of the city, waiting for the Qing army to rush into the gap.

Although there are many contradictions within the Little Knife Society, everyone knows what will happen after the city is broken. Therefore, all the men and horses who were ambushed in the inner trench of the earthen fortress in the north gate area were calmly lying there, waiting for the Qing army to come in.

Although the city wall was blown down, the shelling of Lin Shenhe still continued, the gap continued to expand, the shelling was still extending to the city, many houses close to the city wall were destroyed by shells, large pieces of bricks and rubble flew into the inner trench, causing many injuries, and a few shells even rolled in front of some earthen ramparts, posing a certain threat to the earthen ramparts.

Liu Lichuan's face turned pale, and his voice trembled a little, "Qing Demon doesn't want to bomb the North Gate with artillery." ”

"It's not so easy to blow up the north gate!" Chen Alin glanced at Liu Lichuan, he was relatively calm, "Tell the brothers that the Qing Demon doesn't have so many cannonballs, and besides, the cannon is fired too many times, and it is easy to explode." ”

But Lin Shenhe's cannon continued to extend inward, the houses in the city continued to collapse, and there were constantly screams in the houses and inner trenches, and soon the shells began to hit the earthen fortress, and the simple fortifications of the earthen fortress could not withstand the impact of the shells and collapsed immediately.

In front of the earthen rampart where Liu Lichuan and the other leaders of the Little Knife Society were hidden, there was originally a row of low houses, but now they have been destroyed by cannonballs into ruins. A cannonball flew over, and smashed right on the hard brick rubble, and the solid cannonball jumped up, rising and falling several times in succession, jumping over the broken wall and ruins, and jumping onto the earthen ramparts. The walls of the ramparts were smashed through in an instant, and the bricks and gravel clods were thrown into the air along with the blood of the Knife Society.

While the North Gate was still in a fierce artillery battle, the two boats that crossed the team slowly approached the Xiaodongmen Wharf, and after Zhou Xiuying and her brothers boarded the boat, the boats quietly sailed towards the lower reaches of the Huangpu River, and soon disappeared into the mist in the center of the river.

The artillery bombardment of the Qing army completely shattered the courage of the Little Knife Society defending the city, and by the time Lin Shenhe led the people to break into the city through the gap, the defenders in the north gate area had almost no combat power. Soon the rest of the Qing army passed through the north gate area controlled by Lin Shenhe, and advanced rapidly into the city and towards the rest of the city gates.

Before midnight, the noise in Shanghai will completely subside, the knife will be completely wiped out, and the Qing army will completely control the city. Gilhang'a sent fast horses to report the victory to the capital overnight, annihilated the rebels, and recovered the county seat of Shanghai.