Updated: 202-0-05

On the afternoon of this day, Wu Jianzhang and Lin Shenhe came to the Qing army camp outside the south gate of Shanghai to ask to see Gilhang'a.

During this time, the knife will set up a formation, constantly inviting battles outside the camp, and often put some cold guns and cannons. In the morning, Liu Cunhou, the director of the Criminal Department, was on the way to inspect when he was unfortunately hit by a cold shot and fell in a pool of blood.

Gilhang'a is surrounded by his subordinates, the general Hu Songlin, the general Qin Ruhu and others in the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss the military situation. When it came to the cold guns and arrows of the knife club, everyone looked at each other and was at a loss. Everyone can't help but think of Liu Cunhou, who just died, and it is inevitable that there is a feeling of sadness for the rabbit and the fox.

After reporting outside the tent, Wu Jianzhang asked to see him, and Gilhanga waved his hand to let everyone disperse.

Wu Jianzhang and Lin Shenhe entered the tent and saluted to Gilhanga, who invited the two to sit down and served tea.

"Daopu," Gilhanga called Wu Jianzhang's trumpet with a spring breeze on his face, "I heard that you have attended a gathering of foreigners last night, do the consuls of various countries have anything to say?" ”

If you want the horses to be good, you have to give the horses more grass. After Wu Jianzhang was trained yesterday, he immediately worked hard, and Gilhanga was naturally very polite to him.

Wu Jianzhang shook his head, scolded Britain and France for their hypocrisy, strictly adhered to neutrality on the surface, seized the Shanghai Customs, seized the rights and interests of the concession, and now wants to promote the revision of the treaty and obtain greater benefits.

"Fortunately, the American consul is very upright and has always been good friends with me. He sympathized with our Knife Suppression Society, and was limited to the principle of neutrality, and could not directly assist us, and specially recommended to me a firearms expert. As he spoke, he pointed to Lin Shenhe behind him. This Lin Shenhe, Mr. Lin is the instructor of the foreign gun team in the concession. He was originally a native of this dynasty, and he had traveled to Western countries for a long time, proficient in firearms, familiar with Western military affairs, and his fists and feet were also very powerful, and he was invincible all over the concession. ”

Lin Shenhe was dressed in a Western military uniform, standing behind Wu Jianzhang, and Gilhanga had already noticed him.

"Warrior?" Gilhanga touched his beard under his chin and looked Lin Shenhe up and down.

"See Futai-sama." Lin Shenhe, who was wearing a fake braid, stepped forward and made a thousand.

Wu Jianzhang said: "Mr. Lin is a native of Shanghai, although he has traveled to the West for many years, he admires his homeland, sacrifices his family for righteousness, and is willing to serve the imperial court. As he spoke, he stepped forward and handed over a silver ticket of five thousand taels and a quotation. The quotation is a description of Lin Shenhe's physiognomy and characteristics, as well as the names and origins of the five generations of his ancestors.

"Nowadays, knives will be rampant, and it is the time to employ people, so I am ready to invite Mr. Lin to teach for the military preparation of the Dao Yamen Dao Biao Battalion, so as to contribute to the encirclement and suppression."

Five thousand taels of silver, this gift is not light. Although Lin Shenhe's dress as a Western sergeant made Gil Hang'a a little disliked, this person was still more interesting. Gilhanga nodded slightly, took the silver ticket and stuffed it into the sleeve cage. He asked a few questions, and Lin Shenhe naturally answered them like a stream. Finally, Gilhanga asked, "Now that the war is difficult, can you teach me?" ”

Lin Shenhe didn't think twice, "Although the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are strong, the knife society is all composed of bandits, and they have obtained countless firearms from foreigners, and the city of Shanghai is strong and towering, so the extermination of bandits can only be considered in the long run." ”

As he spoke, Gilhanga nodded repeatedly.

Lin Shenhe continued: "Lord Fang Jin is worried about the ferocity of the knife and foreign gun, I have heard of this kind of firearm, the range is long, and the firepower is fierce, but I don't think it is enough to worry. ”

"Not a cause for concern?" Gilhang's eyes widened suddenly.

Lin Shenhe nodded and said; "Yes, because this musket requires a high quality of the user, and it must be well maintained every day, otherwise the musket will be damaged and explode. Men like the Knife Society, who know a lot of things, will have fewer and fewer muskets after a few battles. Moreover, this musket required bullets and fire caps, all of which needed to be shipped from the West, and required a lot of silver taels to buy. I'm sure the Knife Society has a lot of guns and ammunition in the city. As long as we let the foreigners stop selling these many things, and use straw boats to borrow arrows to consume their guns, this musket will naturally not be a concern. ”

Hearing this, Gilhanga nodded again and again, "Mr. Lin is really worthy of being a firearms expert. But I don't know what kind of plan Mr. Lin has for the siege? ”

There are three strategies for attacking Shanghai City, one is to block, the second is to borrow troops, and the third is to train troops. ”

"I want to hear about it."

"The blockade is to build a wall outside the north gate of Shanghai to cut off the connection between the city of Shanghai and the suburbs and the concession. Build a wall in sections, stretch for several miles, and the knife will run out of food and ammunition in a few months. However, this plan is huge, and the mobilization of elite soldiers to protect the people who build the wall is still secondary, and if it is to succeed, the relevant sections of the concession must also obtain the consent of foreigners. This is the biggest expense of the strategy. If all goes well and the Knife Club is successfully exterminated, it will also get early next year. ”

"What about the transfer of troops?"

"I heard that there are 30,000 imperial troops under the city of Shanghai, and it is said that the siege is enough. However, the knife will be fierce, and 30,000 soldiers and horses will be difficult to stop. Troop transfer is to borrow troops from foreigners, knives will have foreign guns, let's go to foreigners to borrow foreign guns and cannons, Western firearms are hugely powerful, indestructible. The siege was just a matter of time. However, borrowing troops from foreigners is not a small expense, and the consent of the imperial court must be obtained.

As for military training, it means organizing and training a strong army. Although there were many soldiers in the imperial court under the city of Shanghai, there were not a few firearms. However, most of them do not use firearms. Adults can buy foreign guns and foreign cannons, train 3,000 people, practice foreign guns and foreign cannons, and eliminate the foreign gun team of the Little Knife Society. Through the siege of the city and the suppression of bandits, a strong army is trained. ”

"Sir's strategy is to train the soldiers?"

"Lord Futai, my strategy is to carry out three strategies at the same time. Blockade is false, training is real, and troop deployment is supplemented. First of all, we bluff to build a wall, and the knives will inevitably keep attacking to break our encirclement, and we will prepare muskets and artillery to do it. After several impacts, the ammunition of the knife club is bound to wear out countless amounts and is unsustainable. At the same time, we purchased a large number of foreign guns and cannons in the concession area, recruited and hired five or six Westerners who were familiar with firearms as soldiers to teach them in the army, and according to the essentials of firearms warfare, we organized and trained a division of tigers and wolves, which became an army in January, an army in two months, and a siege in March. Capture the city of Shanghai, and destroy the Little Knife Society. Through siege training, and when the Little Knife Society is exterminated and Shanghai City is taken, the adults will be able to command a tiger army to go straight to Jiangning and capture the Cantonese bandits alive. ”

Lin Shenhe's words made Gil Hang'a very relieved, and he immediately asked Lin Shenhe to temporarily take the place of the Daobiao battalion guerrilla, and assigned all the more than 600 people recruited by Liu Cunhou to Wu Jianzhang's Daobiao battalion, and appointed Wu Jianzhang to use the customs tariff money to purchase foreign guns and cannons.

Xiao Bailang had already prepared the Migne gun and smoothbore cannon there. The next day, Lin Shenhe took the recruited Hua Er and other big noses to practice the Dao Biao Camp day and night.

A few days later, the capital issued a holy decree, and Lin Shenhe was officially appointed as a guerrilla of the Daobiao Battalion.

The time has come to the end of September, in order to build a wall to block the passage, the Qing army and the knife wrapped in red cloth will fight for days, all of them are desperate battles. Having finally survived the battlefield, the Qing army was all exhausted and fell asleep early after dark. In the camp, snoring came and went, and more than a dozen Qing army sentries stood at the camp gate, fighting with their eyelids.

In the early hours of the morning, several black shadows touched the reeds on the other side of the pidgin river outside the Qing army camp, Fu Baichen skillfully set up a mortar, aimed at the direction of the general soldier Hu Songlin's camp and fired two cannons.

"Boom! Bang! Two earth-shattering thunderbolts sounded, and the snoring of the Qing army camp disappeared at once, and they were awakened from their dreams one by one, "What movement?" What's moving? The whole camp was in an uproar, and some people heard what was just now sounding as if it was a cannon sound, and shouted loudly, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ”

"Boom, boom" were two loud bangs, and the battalion was even more chaotic, shouting "Enemy attack!" everywhere. Enemy attack! Some people even shouted, "The Tiger Army Gate is dead, and the Tiger Lord is killed." ”

Due to the tiring day of confrontation with the knife, the nervous spirit of the soldiers has not relaxed. Coupled with the continuous fighting, many brothers fell beside them, and their emotions were almost tense to the limit.

As soon as I heard that there was an enemy attack, the Tiger Army Gate was dead! Many of them had just been woken up and could not figure out what was going on, so they drew their knives and immediately rushed out of the camp, and all the figures in sight were probably enemies.

This slashing inevitably injured Brother Paoze, and after a few screams, the others began to draw their knives at each other. The clanging of swords and guns resounded everywhere in the camp, and the Qing troops began to attack each other. Many thousands of generals always shouted, "Calm down, calm down!" "But the situation is under control. There is revenge, there is revenge, the soldiers take their fellow villagers as a gang, get close to each other and start a melee, those who usually oppress the soldiers have always become the number one target, everyone is calculating their own accounts in the chaos, and those who should repay their debts can't run.

Gilhanga was awakened by the sound of the explosion, and heard shouts everywhere outside, wondering if the knife would come in.

Luo Xixian, the general manager of Qian, led more than 40 soldiers to run in a hurry, "Dashuai, the camp has been bombed!" Hujunmen also died. The soldiers were all fighting each other, and it was really impossible to control it. ”

When Gilhanga heard this, he was immediately shocked. Once the camp is bombed*, the generals will die and have no place to be buried, because after all, the soldiers are part of a group of violent groups, and they are usually trained to kill people.

"Put down your weapons, and return to your tent, and no noise, and those who violate it will be killed." At this moment, there was a chorus from the direction of the Daobiao Battalion, and the soldiers shouted in unison.

"Bang bang bang" A row of guns rang out in the air, Lin Shenhe rushed out of the camp tent of the Daobiao camp with a team of musketeers, and Wu Jianzhang followed behind on a big horse. The neatly lined musketeers shouted in unison as they advanced.

Some of the red-eyed soldiers were brave and did not believe in evil, and rushed over with their swords and guns held high. "Bang Bang Bang" didn't rush a few steps before he collapsed in a pool of blood.

Many villagers were afraid of firearms and hid in their tents early. There were also some soldiers of the Green Battalion who suffered a big loss, and under the leadership of a few thousand generals, they rushed towards the musketeers with shouts, and the result was that they fell in rows.

Qin Ruhu rushed over on a horse unkemptly, followed by more than a dozen guards.

The musketeers shouted in unison, "Put down your weapons, go to your tent, and make no noise, and those who violate them will be killed." ”

Lin Shenhe shouted loudly, "This is Yingxiao, General Qin, you immediately dismount and stand aside, otherwise you will be killed." ”

The bullet flew over Qin Ruhu's head with a "whoosh", and he hurriedly jumped off his horse and flashed to the side of the road.

When the musketeers walked over, Qin Ruhu grabbed Wu Jianzhang's horse, "Lord Wu, what are you doing, you want to kill me?" ”

Wu Jianzhang rode on his horse and sneered twice, "General Qin, if you can't restrain the soldiers in time, you will suppress the camp and delay the extermination of the Little Knife Society, and we will all lose our heads!" ”

There was a roar in the camp at Nanmen in Shanghai, with countless casualties. The news was quickly sent to Beijing by 600 miles.

In the south study of Qianqing Palace, Xianfeng sat on the dragon chair with a red face, and several military ministers bowed their heads, "The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry"

Xianfeng's name is Aixin Jueluo? Yisu, he also had smallpox when he was a child, leaving a pockmarked face. When he was a prince, he hunted from Nanyuan, galloped away from a group of beasts, and fell from a horse and injured his stocks. Although he was treated by the imperial doctor, he was still left with a disability and difficulty moving. Although his sixth brother Yixin was superior to him in both civil and military affairs, he won Daoguang's favor by disguise, and finally defeated the sixth brother and became the emperor. After pretending to be for many years, he finally sat in the big seat, and he was still a little resentful in his heart. In particular, since he came to power, "internal troubles" and "external troubles" have occurred one after another. In the first half of the year, the imperial court tried its best to destroy the Northern Expeditionary Army. Recently, the army in the Huai River area has been making chaos again, blocking the Cao Yun. This made Yi Su very annoyed.

At this special fold drafted by the acting governor of Jiangsu, Gil Hang'a, Xianfeng stood up from the dragon chair at once, and burst out with a long-standing anger, "Suppress bandits, suppress bandits, a few shells blew up the battalion, and before the knife society attacked, their own people slashed and killed each other, and the general soldiers were also killed." This is a good errand for Gilhanga. As he spoke, he threw the fold out.

The little eunuch hurriedly picked up the fold from the ground. Standing in front of the courtiers, the sixth prince Yixin took over the fold from the little eunuch, "The emperor is angry, and the courtiers think that this time the camp of the south gate of Shanghai is roaring, and many soldiers have been injured and broken. ”

"Yixin, you ......" Xianfeng was stunned for a moment, and slowly sat back on the dragon chair, "Do you know if it's a blessing?" Tell me, what a blessing! ”

"Fourth brother, think about it." Yi Xin straightened his bent waist slightly, "Yingxiao, the armies of all dynasties and dynasties have it, and it is reported that the rebellion of the Cantonese bandits has also occurred. The barracks have always been sluggish, and the sergeants fight every day, and the pressure is huge, and the camp roar is most likely to occur at night. Hearing that there was a roar in the camp, everyone frantically swung their swords and threw themselves at the robe around them, and the sergeant could not stop until he was exhausted. This time the battalion roared, and the soldiers of the Shanghai battalion were brave, and only one stop was stopped out of ten, which was very gratifying. ”

Xianfeng sneered, "There was a camp roar, and countless officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, do we still want to celebrate?" ”

"That's not what my brother meant." Prince Gong said very respectfully: "If Gilhanga does not recall Wu Jianzhang, let him make meritorious contributions; If after Wu Jianzhang was reinstated, he did not recommend Lin Shenhe to serve as a guerrilla in the military preparation and Daobiao battalion; If Gilhanga hadn't allowed Lin Shenhe to train the foreign gun team, what would have been the result of this camp roar. The younger brother thought that this camp Xiao made us discover a Lin Shenhe, and found that foreign guns and foreign cannons are indeed useful. ”

After Xianfeng finished the fire, his anger was much smoother, and he nodded slightly: "This time in the camp, Wu Jianzhang and Lin Shenhe have indeed made great contributions. The governor of Liangjiang, Yiliang, and Gilhang Adu protected the two of them. ”

Yi Xin smiled and said, "Meritorious service will be rewarded." Your Majesty, now is the time to employ people, and the courtiers think that Wu Jianzhang is familiar with Yi affairs, is diligent in handling investigations, and is not afraid of arrows, so he can be officially appointed as Su Song Taidao; Lin Shenhe is familiar with firearms tactics, has trained troops well, and has made great contributions to suppressing the battalion, so he can be promoted to the post of general. ”

Xianfeng groaned a little and said, "Then let Wu Jianzhang act as the envoy of Jiangsu, and Su Songtai will be the truth; The guerrilla Lin Shenhe of the Daobiao Battalion was promoted to the rank of general of the Shanghai City Garrison Battalion, rewarded Eteheng Baturu with the name, and ordered to step up the training of the troops and not slack off. ”

The ministers sang in unison: "The emperor is sage! ”

Xianfeng said loudly, "To me, to the court, I will not lose." ”

Prince Gong Yixin continued, "Your Majesty, recently, in the Zhoushan area, 'ship theft' and 'ship theft' activities have been rampant, and Suzhou and Zhejiang shipping ships have been repeatedly robbed. The minister thought that he needed to choose another good minister, go south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and supervise Caoyun! ”

Xianfeng pondered for a long time and didn't speak. Although Yixin is now supple and humble everywhere, Xianfeng can't be completely reassured.

Su Shun, the servant of the Ministry of Works, flashed out from the side, and Yue Ban played loudly: "Long live Qiyu, Shao Can, the governor of Caoyun, is a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, and the minister thinks that Shao Can can be added to the post of minister of Zhejiang Supervision and Regimental Training, to clear out the boat bandits and supervise Caoyun." ”

Xianfeng relied heavily on Su Shun, since Yi Su became the emperor, Su Shun is an official every year, and now the official worships the cabinet bachelor, the commander of the Han army of the blue banner, the commander of the army, the Luan Yi envoy, the imperial guard, and the squire of the Ministry of Works.

Su Shun opened his mouth to protect the lift, and Xianfeng naturally agreed, "Quasi-play!" ”