Updated: 202-06-0

Zhu Ziyi sent the news of the Shanghai Yangtze River Bureau, and Zhou Xiuying expressed his willingness to serve Daming.

"The news is unmistakable." Wang Xie Tang told Bai Baoxiang and Yunlan who rushed back to the meeting hall.

Since August, Zhou Xiuying bought rifles from Huafu Foreign Company and formed a 200-strong foreign gun team, and the knife will repeatedly gain the upper hand on the battlefield. But each rifle has only two hundred rounds of ammunition, and a battle consumes more than ten rounds.

Hang A adopted Lin Shenhe's suggestion and organized manpower and material resources to build a wall to block the passage out of the city of the Little Knife Society. The Qing army's North Gate camp was about two kilometers away from the North Gate, and the Qing Army recruited a large number of migrant workers to build a wall one kilometer away from the North Gate City Wall, trying to block the North Gate first.

In order to break the blockade of the Qing army, Xiaodao would mobilize elites to fight desperately with the Qing army, and repeatedly broke the blockade. By the end of September, the 40,000 rounds of ammunition had almost been exhausted, and the musket team under the command of Zhou Xiuying had to switch to knives and guns to continue fighting. Zhou Xiuying went to find Zhu Yangni in person, and like the reply from the messenger, Zhu Yangni was sorry to tell her that the guns and ammunition had not been shipped from Europe.

In October, Lin Shenhe was transferred from the Daobiao Battalion guerrilla to the Shanghai City Garrison Commander, and the number of men and horses expanded from the original 600 to 1,000. He let Wall, Zomamanchonski and other big noses train newcomers; He took the 600-man foreign gun team that had been trained and drove to the north gate to protect the migrant workers who had been recruited to build the wall.

"The whole battalion is under my command."

Outside the camp at the north gate of the Qing army, under the command of Lin Shenhe, 600 people were divided into 4 sentry posts and 2 teams, lined up in a horizontal 50 people, 2 rows in a vertical line, and three six-pounder guns followed.

"Forward!"

Two hundred meters away from the position of the Little Knife Society, the city garrison stopped. Lin Shenhe ordered the formation to be adjusted, and the four sentinels lined up, and the team of 600 people quickly assembled into a three-line long snake formation. Three six-pounder guns were placed in the assembly section between the posts.

“fire!” With the command of Bai Siwen, a foreign devil taught by the artillery team, "Boom~~~~" The three smoothbore cannons spewed out black mist respectively, and black sand, broken iron pieces, etc. were sprayed out together with the black powder, and the knives guarding outside the city to destroy the walls would suddenly fall.

Wall, Zuomanchonsky, and Bai Siwen were once officers in the United States, France, and Russia respectively, and after retiring from the army, they came to Shanghai to pan for gold, and were recruited by Lin Shenhe to serve as a camp teacher.

"Round Shot Forward!" With Lin Shenhe's command, the team began to move.

Xu Xinghe stood in the first row of queues, and he opened his mouth and shouted: "Stand, hold the gun, aim, fire." ”

"Bang......" A line of gunpowder smoke passed from the front of the queue.

Xu Xinghe then ordered, "Take a step to the left and set the load." ”

The troops in the back two rows passed through the gap between the soldiers in the first row, and Xue Min in the second row ordered: "Stand, hold the gun, aim, shoot." …… Take a step to the left and stand loaded. ”

After the soldiers of the third and first rows passed through the gap, they did the same.

Xu Xinghe and Xue Min were originally employees of Banxue Company, Xu Xinghe was a foreign language major, and Xue Min was a history student. Because the two of them were tall and strong, they were sent by Yunlan to assist Lin Shenhe in his work. Now all of them are in Lin Shenhe's Shanghai City Garrison as a thousand general positions.

Lin Shenhe's team shot in a row, the fire was fierce, the rhythm was bright, and after a few rounds of guns, the knives would die, the wounded, and all those who could run withdrew to the city.

Under the powerful attack of Lin Shenhe's 600 guns, the Little Knife Society, which went out of the city to destroy the wall, suffered heavy casualties and returned defeated. The advantage gained by the Little Knife Society some time ago disappeared at once, and the balance of war began to tilt in favor of the Qing army. The wall blocking the north gate was taking shape day by day, although the knife would always use the night as a cover to go out of the city every night to wreak havoc. But the pace of building walls is much greater than the destruction.

The leaders of the Little Knife Guild know that the situation is very serious, and the passage in and out of the north gate will be completely blocked.

On the evening of October 22, the moon was dark and windy. In the middle of the night, the drums sounded in the north gate tower of Shanghai, and the bleak night suddenly boiled. The Knife will first use a large number of heavy artillery to bombard the city wall of Shanghai, and then send a large number of men and horses to attack, using firebombs and explosives packs to destroy the wall with all their might.

Lin Shenhe did not immediately go into battle, and the nine six-pounder smoothbore guns had already been placed two hundred meters away from the wall, and the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the walled wall.

“fire!” ……

Nine guns took turns blazing in the direction of the wall, and clumps of black sand spewed out of their muzzles, constantly plowing the land beneath the wall.

Wait until the barrel gets hot. Lin Shenhe ordered the drummer to start playing.

"Forward!"

Stepping on the drum beat of the march, 600 brave men lined up in three lines and marched forward neatly. Click! Click! Click! Click!

"Round Shot Forward!"

The fire flashed, and a row of smoke rose from the first row, followed by the second, then the third, and so on.

The wall is 20 meters ahead, but the original dark wall has become a broken wall, and there are still dancing flames on the ground.

Lin Shenhe gave the order, "Get on the bayonet!" ”

In the light of the fire, a row of bright daggers was loaded onto the rifles. In the dark, Bai Sensen's area is very terrifying.

The living knives would have run away a long time ago, and the ruins were littered with corpses. The soldiers, one foot high and the other low, roughly maintained their formation, and stabbed forward with bayonets.

"Ah~~" There are constant screams. Lin Shenhe shook his head, and turned his head to see that his team had been split into several pieces by broken bricks and rubble, and then the dark north gate tower in front of him. He thought to himself that his group of training soldiers had not experienced much night fighting, and if the cannon on the north gate tower sounded, although there was no threat, there should be no chaos.

Lin Shenhe was thinking of this, and the heavy artillery on the city tower in the distance really roared, and he hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat. At this moment, a flame flew from behind a section of broken wall with Sen Han's blade, and slashed straight towards Lin Shenhe.

The knife will go out of the city tonight to attack, and Zhou Xiuying's team is also in the ranks of the attack. Just when the crowd was destroying the wall, the entire wall was smashed to pieces. There was a loud bang, and the battlefield immediately fell silent, only to hear the sound of whistling in the air, and a ball of shotgun smashed violently on the area of the wall, and after a violent tremor of the city wall, the broken bricks and tiles were splashed in all directions along with the flying sand and stones, and the knife that broke the attack field broke the head and bleed, and the dead and wounded were everywhere.

The Knife Society's brigade was beaten to pieces, and those who were not injured and could still run all ran back. Zhou Xiuying has always been the first to take the lead, her situation is not right, and she immediately asked Tan Fusheng to withdraw with all the brothers first, and she stayed last.

There was a loud "boom", and a cannon smashed not far from Zhou Xiuying. Shrapnel flew all over the sky, and Zhou Xiuying, who was about to retreat, weakened her legs and knelt on the ground.

"General?!" Pioneer Bao Desheng and a few brothers were not far from Zhou Xiuying.

"I tripped over a brick, I'm fine!" Zhou Xiuying stood up from the ground, she waved her hand, "Hurry up and retreat." ”

When the brothers all withdrew, Zhou Xiuying took two steps back, and suddenly fell to her knees again. She had just been shot in her right leg, and her pants were covered in blood, and now she couldn't hold on anymore.

The cannon continued to roar, and Zhou Xiuying was raining bullets all around, knowing that it was difficult for her to withdraw, she was heartbroken, clenched the big knife of one hundred and twenty catties, and rolled into the broken wall.

The footsteps of the Qing army approached one after another, and Zhou Xiuying originally wanted to hide in the corner and pretend to be dead, but she heard the Qing demon constantly stabbing the corpses on the ground with bayonets, and the screams sounded from time to time. The muscles of her whole body suddenly tensed, and the anger in her heart burned, since she couldn't dodge, then kill one to earn back the capital. Zhou Xiuying raised her head slightly, and came to the rows of Qing demons pressed towards this side, and there was a demon head leading the team in the middle, which was not far from herself. Zhou Xiuying, she went to Lin Shenhe all of a sudden.

Although Zhou Xiuying said that her right leg was injured and she couldn't use her strength, this did not prevent her from exerting force with her left foot, and she jumped into the air at once. She was dressed in red and red pants, and her whole body was like a fire, and all the strength of her body was used on the steel knife, "whoosh", splitting the void, and quickly slashing towards Lin Shenhe.

Lin Shenhe was taken aback, he didn't have time to parry, and hurriedly flashed to the right. The guards around him blocked with guns, and were split in two by Zhou Xiuying with guns. Zhou Xiuying fell to the ground and shook twice, her face full of splattered blood. She gritted her teeth and made a "poof", and the blade cut diagonally towards Lin Shenhe.

Lin Shenhe's handsome little white face turned iron-blue, and he exerted all his strength to block Zhou Xiuying's big knife with a steel gun. "Bang dang", the steel knife was sealed. Lin Shenhe's strength was too great, Zhou Xiuying took two steps back, and the pain at the wound made her eyes dark, and she almost fell to the ground.

At this time, Lin Shenhe realized the appearance of the sneak attacker, and it turned out to be Zhou Xiuying, a red-clothed general known as "Little Mu Guiying". At the moment of his life, he didn't care about pity and cherished the jade, and slashed at Zhou Xiuying's neck with a knife, and hit Zhou Xiuying's carotid sinus with one palm, and Zhou Xiuying immediately fainted to the ground.

"A beautiful woman, why be a thief." Lin Shenhe walked up to Zhou Xiuying and shook his head and sighed, he picked up his rifle and was about to stab the bayonet into Zhou Xiuying's chest.

The bayonet pressed against Zhou Xiuying's plump chest, and Lin Shenhe's heart softened inexplicably.

Kill her? This week, Xiuying is also a heroine among women, and she has a little relationship with foreign companies, as if she is only a year old. Well, he's really handsome, but his face is covered with blood and he's too murderous, but I like it. This foot is not big or small, if it is a woman with small feet, then it will be stabbed to death. The girls in these years are very conservative, and Zhou Xiuying seems to have a good reputation, so she should still be a virgin.

Just when Lin Shenhe was thinking wildly, a general named Liu Daba walked over from behind, "Lord Shenrong, this female bandit is the leader of the Little Knife Society, and the adult killed her, but it is a miracle." ”

The beautiful dream was interrupted, Lin Shenhe was very unhappy, and the little white face sank suddenly, "I didn't ask you all to withdraw, why are you still here." ”

Liu Daba looked like a hippie smile, "I have few people here, so I'm here to help cut off my head." ”

This Liu Daba is an old pole, he has always been rampant in the camp, Lin Shenhe has long wanted to clean him up, he immediately pulled the gun back with both hands, and the handle of the gun smashed into Liu Daba's hip bone, and then quickly turned around, a thrust, and a sharp bayonet was sent into Liu Daba's chest with one blow.

"Adult~~~You~~~~"

"Malabarzi, I don't listen to military orders, and I want to rob Lao Tzu of his credit!" The little white face was full of hideousness, and his mouth was crooked.

Lin Shenhe's training is instilled every day with "obedience, obedience, obedience". No matter what strange orders he makes, his men must obey them. Queues marched through pidgins, standing in line under the scorching sun until they all fainted.

Seeing the murderous appearance of Lin Junmen, all the brothers in the city guard camp hurriedly ran back and stood in line.

It didn't take long for Lin Shenhe to come back with a jade bracelet in his left hand, he stood at the front of the queue and shouted, "What is the camp training of our city guards?" ”

Six hundred people shouted together, "Obedience, obedience, obedience"

"That's right! Only by prohibiting can we be invincible! Lin Shenhe nodded with satisfaction, "It's dark now, everyone be on guard." Wait until dawn, and then cut off the head of the thief and count the credit. ”

In the end, Lin Shenhe roared, "If you are tired or not, just one night, and have a good rest tomorrow, understand?" ”

"Understood!"

"General Lin, the marshal is looking for you!" At the gate of the camp, a Goshha ran towards Lin Shenhe.