Updated: 202-06-24

On October 25, 54 AD (2695 in the Republican calendar), although the direction of Shanghai City rang out from time to time with rumbling cannons, there were still hundreds of boats competing on the Huangpu River.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, an extremely ordinary sand boat on the Huangpu River left the wharf of Huafu Foreign Bank in Pudong Machinery Factory and went up the Huangpu River. The sand boats passed by many galleons moored in the middle of the river and hoisting the flags of various countries, let go of the small sampans swaying on the river, passed through the British and American warships cruising at the mouth of the Suzhou Creek, and approached the river outside the Xiaodong Gate of Shanghai.

Fu Baichen walked out of the cabin of the sand boat, he scanned the river with a telescope, "Everything is normal, dock!" ”

The ship had just docked on the dock outside the small east gate, and on the fort, a few small knife members immediately came down. The leader is Tan Fusheng. "Brother Fu, are our goods here?!"

"Of course, you have what you want. But 'the scriptures are not preached. That's what the Buddha said. Fu Baichen jumped from the bow of the boat to the dock alone, and he arched his hand with a smile, "Vice General Tan is okay!" Why didn't General Zhou and Bao Xianfeng come? ”

"Brother Fu, I'm here." Bao Desheng came running from behind, "The bullets from the musket are on the boat, right?" Let's unload the cargo first! ”

"Tang Sanzang learned scriptures from the West, and he had to go through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties." Fu Baichen shook his head with a grin, "The bullets for the musket can't just be given to you." ”

Tan Fusheng said lightly: "Money, not a cent will be missing from you." ”

"What is money, what we want is your sincerity."

"Our sincerity?"

At this moment, the cannon sound in the direction of the north gate of Shanghai City began to rumble again. Since the siege of the city by the Qing army, such sporadic shelling has been carried out countless times in more than a year, and the soldiers and civilians in the city have long been accustomed to it.

Tan Fusheng turned his head in the direction of the north gate, turned his head and asked, "What sincerity do you want?" ”

The sound of the cannon at the north gate startled the four water birds on the river, Fu Baichen immediately took out two imitation 54-style pistols from his arms with both hands, aimed them at the birds in the air, and "popped and papa" was the four guns, and then blew the gunpowder smoke on the muzzle of the gun respectively, and put the gun into his arms again.

Tan Fusheng, Bao Desheng and other members of the Little Knife Club were surprised that the four water birds fell into the river from the sky and were speechless for a long time.

"Let's go, you don't count." Fu Baichen smiled and said, "I'm going to go into the city and talk to you General Zhou Xiuying in detail!" ”

As soon as he spoke, he turned back to the people in the boat and said, "Be careful of the boat, and I will come as soon as I go." ”

In a large mansion inside the East Gate, Fu Baichen saw Zhou Xiuying, "General Zhou, four thousand rounds of ammunition are on the boat outside the Little East Gate, but we have to show your sincerity first." ”

"Four thousand rounds?" Zhou Xiuying was very surprised.

"It's too little, 4,000 rounds of bullets are hairy!" Bao Desheng on the side shouted, "Sincerity and sincerity, you have no sincerity in the first place." ”

"Four thousand rounds are enough, and these guns and ammunition will be used tonight." Fu Baichen was very frank, "These muskets you use are very poor, and if you join the Ming army, you will have better muskets and bullets." ”

Zhou Xiuying bit her lower lip with her teeth and didn't open her mouth for a long time.

Fu Baichen stepped forward with a smile and said in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, my brother asked me to take him to say hello to you!" ”

Zhou Xiuying suddenly blushed, took a sip, and aimed her eyes at Tan Fusheng, Lin Aming, Bao Desheng and other cronies who were standing aside.

Fu Baichen said to several leaders of the Qingpu Tiandi Society in the house: "I am an envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty. My Ming Dynasty's warship has arrived outside Wusongkou, and tonight it will be stationed outside the Xiaodongmen, you must take the opportunity to make a decision, lead the loyal people who admire the Ming Dynasty, throw themselves into the Ming Dynasty, and break off with the Little Knife Society and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. ”

"Can we think about this again!" Tan Fusheng and the others whispered.

"I'm going to kill Wusongkou with a few thousand men and horses, do you have to think twice?" Fu Baichen couldn't help but sneer, "Tomorrow Shanghai City will be attacked by the Qing Demon, do you really want to live and die with the Guangdong Party and the Min Party that believe in Western cults?!" ”

Bao Desheng already had a plan in his heart, and he stepped forward, "General Zhou, we originally wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and now it is only natural to return to the Ming Dynasty." ”

Lin Aming: "Yes, those Cantonese and Fujian people were originally homeless people who came to Shanghai to beg for a living, and they swaggered and deceived all day long, and the gang didn't like them at all." Especially that Li Shaoxi is like a second-rate son, and he knows how to bully our brothers in Qingpu. ”

Tan Fusheng saw that Zhou Xiuying looked at him, took out a dry tobacco pouch and inhaled twice, the smoke was inhaled into his lungs, he coughed violently twice, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and then said, "I agree to return to Daming, although it is said that the head has lost a big scar, but as the leader of Qingpu, we can't bring our brothers into the ditch." ”

"That's decided?!" Zhou Xiuying looked at everyone.

Several people all nodded, "General, give orders!" ”

Zhou Xiuying bit her lip and looked at Fu Baichen, her tone was very firm, "Mr. Fu." My brother, the dependents of the brethren in the city, is now on the sand boat. We sincerely devote ourselves to Daming. ”

"Great! On behalf of the Ming Dynasty, I would like to welcome all of you. Fu Baichen grinned.

After the discussion, Fu Baichen immediately took out the walkie-talkie and reported the situation to the Yangtze River Bureau.

Gu Wusheng immediately sent someone to inform Lin Shenhe of the situation. And through the radio, Wang Tiezhui was informed of the situation.

Wang Tiehammer and two Western galleons were anchoring outside the mouth of the Yangtze River. He immediately ordered the anchor to be lifted and went straight to Wusongkou.

In the evening, artillery began to sound again in the direction of Shanghai. After the cannon rang off this time, it kept ringing unhurriedly. The sound of artillery reached Wusongkou, which made the officers and men of the Manqing Water Division who were having dinner suddenly have a great appetite.

Wusongkou is located on the west side of the estuary of the Huangpu River, north of Wusong Town. Wusong Town was originally a fishing village by the Huangpu River, where fishermen gathered, and gradually became a small market with "ten hotels and three hotels, two tides a day". After the ban on shipping in the early Qing Dynasty, its position became increasingly important because it was located in Wusongkou.

Since the Shanghai Knife Society uprising, the general soldier of Langshan Town, Bo Chengsheng, led the naval division to Wusongkou, and received two red single boats from Guangdong, towing plywood and other boats to patrol the Huangpu River every day to blockade Shanghai City from the waterway.

"This is our cannon again, right?"

"Of course. Our Daobiao battalion has already trained foreign spearmen, and there are many foreign artillery. The knives will have cannons, and if they borrow a few guts, they will not dare to fire. ”

"It's a war, it's a war, and the anti-thieves are going to be finished this time. The brothers on land have already opened fire, so it's time for us sailors to go up too?! ”

The soldiers were holding the rice bowls while talking about it.

The chief soldier Bo Chengsheng walked out of the room, looking far away in the direction of the cannon, and did not speak.

A staff member smiled and said, "Zhentai, this should be our cannon." However, listening to the sound of this cannon, it seems to be more fierce than the previous two days. ”

"That's some kind of cannon that the city defenders just bought, and they're probably going to attack the city tonight." The other guy next to Bo Chengsheng was a little puzzled, "The commander has sent an order, attack the city tomorrow morning, let us cooperate from the waterway." Why are they going to do it tonight? ”

"This Lin Shen general has a big appetite, and he wants to capture Shanghai City by himself." Bo Chengsheng snorted twice from his nostrils, "If Shanghai City was so easy to capture, it wouldn't wait until today." After dark, let's go upstream, whether we can capture Shanghai City or not, we always have to participate. ”

At this time, a signal came from the watchtower that the sentinel ship patrolling the mouth of the Yangtze River had returned.

On the river, a sentry ship is slowly coming from outside Wusongkou, and the speed of the sentry ship is not very fast, and Bo Chengsheng can't help but be a little suspicious. He raised the clairplane, and the guy standing on the bow of the sentry ship was the commander of the patrol, and he was immediately relieved, "Ask, what's going on, it's so slow." ”

Soon the lookout gave a signal to the sentinel ship.

This sentinel ship patrolled at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and when it arrived at the galleon of the crossing regiment, it did not know whether it was dead or alive, and ran over to knock on the bamboo. As a result, it was raided, and Wang Xinglei, deputy captain of the coast guard, led people to take control of the sentry ship.

Wang Xinglei squatted on the deck of the sentry ship and kept looking in the direction of Wusongkou, and when he saw the flag coming from the lookout, he said leisurely, "If you don't want to live, you will say that you have been captured by the thieves and let the Qing army come to fight us." ”

There was a bayonet behind his back, and Mr. Qian, who was standing at the bow of the boat, hurriedly said, "Don't dare, this will definitely not dare." ”

"Quick, send them a signal that they have encountered a boat thief disguised as a merchant ship at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the ship has been damaged."

When the signal from the sentinel ship came, Bo Chengsheng was a little unhappy, "His grandmother's, the boat bandits are also here to make trouble." After the knife meeting, Lao Tzu swept away these small fish and shrimp in the mouth of the Yangtze River. ”

Soon another signal came from the lookout, and two Western galleons came outside, with the French flag on their masts.

The staff was dark, and there were no boats on the river, so he was a little worried, "It's so late, do foreigners want to sail the Huangpu River at night?" ”

Two galleons flying the French flag sailed quickly to Wusongkou in the twilight. The sailboat in front of it suddenly crossed the sentinel, and the other sailboat followed behind the sentinel and was about to overtake.

"Who can't guess the thoughts of foreign devils, let them go!" The sky had darkened, and the cannon sound in the direction of Shanghai City was like a sound, and he was anxious to gather the fleet and go to Shanghai City to get a ticket.

The two galleons soon sailed into the Huangpu River, and at this time the Qing troops on the Wusong pier were gathering in a procession, ready to board the ships.

It was dark, and the Qing army sentry at the lookout never dreamed that there were many people on the front deck of the first galleon who wanted his life. Shui Wuji, Tan Ke, McClain, and Kohler each held M40A sniper rifles and aimed closely at the sentry on the lookout. Because the ship shook quite badly and it was difficult to hit the target accurately, Wang Tiehammer specially arranged for these four backbones with first-class marksmanship to act as snipers. At a distance of 00 meters from the lookout, the four men pulled the trigger almost simultaneously, and the sentry on the lookout immediately fell.

At this time, the galleon was less than 200 meters away from the dock of the Qing Army's naval division.

"Quick, go straight through!" Wang Hammer immediately commanded Captain Johnson, who was at the helm. This foreign devil captain was downcast in Shanghai because of a shipwreck, and was recruited by Huafu Foreign Bank.

Captain Johnson immediately turned the rudder, and the galleon deviated from the course and collided with the Qing Army Wharf where the red single boat was moored. Li Da commanded the second galleon, which followed closely and crashed into the nearby Qing army dock.

00m~

50m~

The Qing army on the dock collided with two galleons separately and immediately panicked. The crowd on the dock was noisy and chaotic.

The first galleon was about to collide with the Qing army's red single boat, and Johnson made an urgent turn and ordered the sails to be lowered and anchored. The middle section of the sailboat smoothly crashed into the red single boat.

"Bump~", the galleon shook and stopped, and the soldiers immediately rushed out of the cabin with rifles, and while they were shooting, they jumped onto the warship of the Qing army and rushed to the dock.

Bo Chengsheng stood on the side of the dock, and the deputy general was gathering troops and preparing to board the ship, not wanting to encounter such an accident, he turned around and ran to the shore when he saw that the situation was not good. When the enemy army was like a wolf and a tiger, and people around him kept falling to the ground, the Green Battalion Marine Division immediately blew up the battalion, and the soldiers scattered and fled.

The horse pulled the reins of Bo Chengsheng's mount and galloped towards the sailor's dock with the two horses. Bo Chengsheng got on the horse's back, and when he turned around, he saw that the dock of the sailor was in a mess, and his men were beaten like falling flowers, when he heard a crisp gunshot, and the horse fell down in response, so frightened that he slapped the horse and went away.

The battle of the Ming army was extremely smooth, and in less than half an hour, almost all the Qingshui divisions were wiped out and all the ships were captured. Wang Tiehammer left Li Da to lead the reserve troops to hold Wusongkou, and he continued to go up the river with two sailboats.