The official was sweating profusely, fell to his knees with a thud, and shouted: "My lord, something is wrong, Songjiang County was attacked by bandits at night and lost!" ”

"What?" Xu Naizhao suddenly felt that the world was spinning for a while, just mentioned Songjiang, and was about to remind the defenders to strengthen their vigilance, Songjiang was lost, ninety percent of the food and ammunition in the army were in Songjiang, and the city was lost, which meant that he would run out of food before the knife would run out, and he himself would run out of food first, and more importantly, it was a blow to the morale of the army!

"How can it be lost? How many bandits are there? Xu Naizhao also instantly sweated on his face and asked urgently.

Lu Da did not miscalculate, the Songjiang garrison is indeed only a thousand people, although there are few people, but it is a heavy place to put grain and grass materials, Xu Naizhao did not dare to be slow, not only every soldier is equipped with a flintlock gun, but there are more than a dozen Hongyi cannons in the city, even if it is besieged by 10,000 people, he is sure to defend until the reinforcements come, but it is lost.

"My lord, because of the late night, the number of bandits is not clear, but the situation at that time was like this" Since Wang Feng only blasted one city gate, and a considerable part of the Qing army fled from the other three city gates, the process of breaking the city was not a secret, and the official truthfully told the situation he inquired about.

Tong guò translation, Wen Xian and others also understood the roughly, their faces were calm, and they seized Songjiang County in a sneak attack, which did not match their impression of the Taiping Army's style of fighting hard, obviously the leading generals of this army were difficult to entangle, and the unexpected loss of Songjiang County also disrupted their plan to cooperate with the Qing army to encircle and suppress the Little Knife Society, as an exchange condition for controlling the customs revenue of the Qing State, that is, to exterminate the Little Knife Society!

Several people began to discuss countermeasures, but Alice was in a trance, and a young face inexplicably appeared in front of her eyes, the Chinese with extraordinary temperament, fluent English, talking and laughing, answering fluently, and having a strong sense of mission for China's future, and left a deep impression on her!

'Wang Feng, could it be you?' Oh~~ My lord, can you sue me? Out of a woman's intuition, she had a keen premonition that the loss of Songjiang County might be related to Wang Feng, so she couldn't help but draw a cross on her chest, closed her eyes and muttered.

Due to the lack of first-hand information, it was impossible to discuss the reason in a short period of time, and the interpreter of Ali Guotong Guò said to Xu Naizhao: "Lord Xu, you go back first, understand the situation clearly and we will discuss, you can rest assured, our governments and people of the United States, France, and the United States are the most sincere friends of the Qing Dynasty, if you need it, we will consider giving assistance." ”

"Thank you!" Xu Naizhao was so anxious that he didn't care about being polite at all, so he hurriedly arched his hand, and took Wu Jianzhang and the translator and left in a hurry.

In the city of Shanghai, the county government hall was brightly lit, Liu Lichuan was on the top, and there were nearly ten people sitting on both sides, a considerable number of whom were injured, and the atmosphere was extremely solemn.

"Fuck it!" Marshal Zuo Chen Alin said hatefully: "I didn't expect the foreigners to get involved with the Qing Demon so quickly, if it weren't for the French foreign spear team to block the attack this time, maybe we would have rushed out to Tianjing!" ”

"Humph!" Liu Lichuan snorted coldly: "It's not surprising that foreigners colluded with Qing demons, that Wu Jianzhang was robbed by foreigners, and I think the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also has bad intentions towards us, saying that it is good to send troops to respond, but now there is not even a shadow, yes, he can't go from the Yangtze River, can't he come by land?" The Jiangnan Prefectures are weak in troops, who dares to stop him? It's obviously just a gesture for the world to see, not to mention what more than 100,000 people in Tianjing do? I think there should be a desire to let us and the Qing Demon lose both, so that he can profit from it! ”

Right Marshal Lin Afu took it over and said: "The generalissimo is right, Hong Yang and the others started by relying on the cult, look at what they are doing after occupying Nanjing?" If we break through and join the Taiping Army, I am afraid that there will be no good result, and we will have to find a way out! ”

"Alright, it's too early to say that!" Zhou Xiuying, the head of the women's battalion, frowned and stopped displeased.

Zhou Xiuying's status in the Little Knife Club is similar to Su Sanniang, eighteen years old this year, born in a family of knife arts, a Daguan knife makes the water impenetrable, she launched an uprising with her father Zhou Lichun a while ago, and after the defeat and the death of her father, she led the remnants to vote for Liu Lichuan.

Zhou Xiuying's phoenix eyes swept away, and said: "Our problem now is that we are besieged by Tuantuan, and it won't be long before we run out of ammunition and food, and if we don't wait for the Qing Demon to attack, we won't be able to hold it ourselves, if you want me to see, the Qing Demon will probably not blindly attack the city, but will build an earthen wall to cut off my contact with the outside world, and trap us alive!" ”

"Alas~~" Lin Afu sighed heavily: "Otherwise, we will learn from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and we will also make a holy treasury and collect the materials of the whole city for unified use." ”

"No way!" Zhou Xiuying denied: "If you really do this, the people of Shanghai still don't hate us to death?" What's more, how many people are there in Shanghai County? What happens after eating? And what to eat? ”

"Bang!" Chen Alin slapped the table and shouted: "Left is not successful, right is not successful, don't stare here, simply break through at night, fight with the Qing Demon again, fight one is enough, fight two to earn!" ”

Silence, the whole hall answered him only silently, not to mention that compared with the foreigners, their equipment is a grade worse than the Qing army, mainly spears, bows and arrows and arquebuses, flintlock pistols only have a hundred rods, and there is no artillery, and there is no one, and if you break through with all your strength, someone must be able to get out alive, but eighty percent of the soldiers may not see the sun tomorrow, and the price is too great.

After a long time, Liu Lichuan muttered: "Actually, Afu's construction can be considered, if we hold on for one more day, there will be more hope, the Qing demon has been surrounded for a long time, maybe he will have a mess, for example, in two or three months, if there is a typhoon landfall, our opportunity to break through will come." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes lit up, but Zhou Xiuying subconsciously stopped and said: "Marshal, please be cautious!" When Xiuying and her father led the villagers to revolt, it was precisely because the government was insatiable in collecting grain and did not give the poor a way to live. What is the significance of my father's death? I'm afraid that his old man will know that the spirit of heaven will not be able to rest! ”

"Eh~~" Liu Lichuan waved his hand and said: "Xiuying, I understand your feelings, I also have great respect for Old Man Zhou, but our nearly 10,000 brothers want to eat, and if they don't collect food from the people, they will starve to death, or because they don't have the strength to defend the city, they will be caught by the Qing demon and Ling Chi on the street, this is what you want to see?" ”

"This" Zhou Xiuying's face showed an obvious look of pain, the palm of her hand was meat, and the back of her hand was also meat, she didn't know how to choose, and she couldn't help but cast her eyes on the dark sky outside the hall.

Not only her, but Chen Alin also sighed heavily, the pride of the original uprising has long been annihilated, and the cruelty of reality makes them have to put survival as the first priority, but can the forced requisition of the people's food convince their hearts?

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