Seeing the British and French fleets annihilated under his nose made Li Yongji, who had single-handedly directed this qiē, feel very relieved, but before he could enjoy the afterglow of this pleasure, an urgent military message from the base camp of Yangxinju in Qingpu County came.

"The Jiangnan camp was broken? Heavy losses in the officers and troops? ”

Hearing the signal soldier's message, Li Yongji frowned, and then walked quickly to the communication room, picked up the communication radio, and directly talked to the people on the other side of the camp to inquire about the details.

The person on the other end of the phone reported the situation was Zhang Wei, who stayed in the base camp of the Jingwu Army, and when he heard that Li Yongji personally came to ask questions, he immediately cheered up and reported the situation.

It turned out that just last night, that is, when Li Yongji began to lead the fleet out of Tangjia Bay and enter Shatou Island, the Taiping army, which had been preparing for many days, took the opportunity to launch a general attack in the middle of the night, caught the Qing army in the Jiangnan camp by surprise, and in one day, completely captured the entire Jiangnan camp of the Qing army.

In fact, the Taiping troops from all walks of life arrived at the Jiangnan camp as early as the end of April and had a confrontation with the Jiangnan camp, but I don't know what the reason is, the Taiping army did not quickly launch a quick attack in early May as in history, but chose to confront each other.

This confrontation lasted for a month, during which both sides were constantly repairing fortifications and fortifications, and it seemed that they had no intention of taking the initiative to attack.

In the eyes of the Qing army, the Taiping army's continuous repair of fortifications was also meant to be defensive, which was also a normal behavior. After all, his side had already built stronger and more complete fortifications, and was more prepared, so the Taiping army would never take the initiative to attack them.

After having these thoughts, after seeing that the Taiping army on the opposite side was still repairing fortifications every day, this made the Qing army in the Jiangnan camp gradually slack off.

In fact, not only the Qing army, but even Li Yongji was confused by this situation, otherwise, he would not have stayed in Mojia Village in Tangjiawan for a long time to train divers and fight the Anglo-French fleet.

You must know that although it is important to destroy the fleet of the British and French forces, even if it is not successful this time, he still has a chance, it is nothing more than a little trouble, but the Taiping army is a threat close at hand, and if one is not done well, it is really possible to cause heavy losses to himself.

Therefore, the Taiping Army is the target that Li Yongji attaches the most importance to, and Li Yongji also attaches great importance to the intelligence collection of the Taiping Army.

As early as more than half a month ago, he sent his subordinates to open a number of grain shops near the Jiangnan camp under the pretext of selling grain to the Jiangnan Daying, and used these grain shops as a base to develop eyelines and collect information on the Taiping army and the Qing army.

Since the intelligence officers in these grain stores are equipped with radio equipment, although these people may not be very professional, in terms of the speed and secrecy of intelligence transmission, Li Yongji is definitely the strongest in the entire Qing Dynasty.

From then on, the intelligence of the Jiangnan camp and the nearby areas was transmitted to the rear almost in real time, so that Li Yongji and the base camp of the Jingwu Army could grasp the dynamics of the front at any time, which was also the biggest guarantee for Li Yongji to stay in Mojia Village in Tangjiawan with peace of mind.

Just like now, the Taiping army has just broken through the Jiangnan camp, and Li Yongji received information the next day, but at this time, the official government east of Changzhou Mansion still has no idea what is happening ahead, because the information has not been passed on.

Of course, because it happened too suddenly, the information obtained from the front is also very limited, and I only know a rough idea.

What can be known at present is that just yesterday, that is, on the night of June 6, the Taiping army suddenly advanced in five directions and took the initiative to launch a general attack. They first complained about the surrounding strongholds under the response of Neiying, and then broke through the surface from the point to attack the Jiangnan camp in one fell swoop, and then set fire everywhere and fought fiercely everywhere, resulting in the complete collapse of the Qing army that was not psychologically prepared.

Because the speed of the Taiping army's attack was too fast, the intelligence personnel planted by Li Yongji in the Qing army's Jiangnan camp also fell, but fortunately, this time the Taiping army seemed to be polite to the people, and did not embarrass those "grain merchants", so the intelligence officers were able to send information along the way. However, they were guarded in the name of being strictly investigated and spy, and only now they are put back to allow them to transmit information.

Speaking of which, Zhang Wei's information about the Jiangnan camp was finished, and after that, he just hoped that Li Yongji would return to the camp as much as possible to deal with this emergency.

According to Zhang Wei's prediction, the Qing army in the Jiangnan camp was beaten very badly this time, even if many people escaped, but the defeated army was difficult to speak of, and then the entire southern Jiangsu region would be under the front of the Taiping army.

In other words, the day has finally come when their elite army will be tested, and at this time, Li Yongji, as the commander of the army, can no longer be free.

"Don't worry, I'll go back immediately! You will order martial law for the whole army, and no one will be allowed to leave the camp, and you will wait for me to come back to talk about anything!" ”

After speaking, Li Yongji put down the phone and sighed softly: "It's really non-stop, either you don't come, or you want to come together, this is to busy me, can't you give me some vacation time?" ”

said so, but Li Yongji still ordered to return to the ship immediately, directly back to Mojiagang in Tangjiawan. By the way, Mojiagang was originally called Pearl Harbor, but Li Yongji was unlucky, so he re-established Mojiagang.

In this way, under Li Yongji's order, the entire assault fleet immediately turned around, did not go up to observe the results of the battle at close range, and then played the game of shooting and strafing by the way, which also increased the number of survivors of the British and French forces a lot.

You must know that according to Li Yongji's original plan, he waited for the ship of the British and French combined fleet to explode, and then they went up and shot and beat the water dogs, just like what the Japanese fleet did to the Qing army in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle in another time and space.

Although this act was cruel, it was able to kill and injure the enemy to the greatest extent, and it could also reduce the number of survivors of the Anglo-French army to the greatest extent. After all, it is impossible to get rid of all the personnel of the British and French forces by relying only on this kind of explosion, and there will always be some survivors.

But now, time is pressing, and Li Yongji doesn't need to delay himself for such a trivial matter, so let's do it first.

Not to mention, it is Li Yongji's benevolence, the total number of survivors of the British and French forces in this bombing incident is as high as 2,000, and most of them are sailors and non-combatants who know how to swim, while the Marine Corps and most of the senior officers were basically killed.

For example, the British minister James Bruce, that is, the Earl of Elgin Jr., the commander-in-chief of the British army, General Grant, the French minister Baron Gro, and the commander-in-chief of the French army, Montoban, etc., were all killed in the explosion, and there was no one left.

Although there were different opinions about this mysterious explosion after the fact, such as the explosion of the ammunition depot, as far as the result is concerned, it is equivalent to abolishing the main essence of Britain and France in the Far East, and it is no longer able to interfere in the changes in Asia in the short term.

Moreover, because the losses of the British and French forces were too great this time, the reasons were also confusing, not only did the situation in the entire Asian region change because of this, but even Europe was affected, resulting in a series of chain reactions, and its impact was very far-reaching.

Let's say that after Li Yongji led the team back to Mojiagang, the intellectuals of the entire Mojia Village were very excited, if it wasn't for Li Yongji's gag order early in the morning, they were not allowed to talk about it, and they couldn't wait to shout at everyone who knew about it.

That is to say, only a small number of people in Mojia Village really know the inside story of this attack, such as those members of the special combat team who participated in the attack, and other crew members, as for the rest of Mojia Village, they don't know the inside story of this matter, otherwise, Li Yongji would not have secretly gone to sea at night, he is not to guard against outsiders, but to guard against those who don't know about Mojia Village.

Although Li Yongji himself knows that with the current arrogance of foreigners, even if the people from Mojia Village go up and say to their faces that they carried out this attack, the foreigners will not believe it, they will only think that you are crazy.

However, just in case, Li Yongji still issued the most severe gag order, and all those who knew the inside story were strictly guarded, and they were not allowed to go out at will, which was no different from being detained.

Of course, these Mojia Village intellectuals also understand this matter very well and are willing to take it seriously, after all, they also know that this matter is a big matter, and once it is leaked out, the consequences will be unimaginable, so there is no need for Li Yongji to say more, they themselves first made a gag order internally.

And the so-called detention is not uncomfortable for them, after all, they don't have to go to sea, they can stay in the village with good food and drink to live a good life, and even those who participate in the operation can continue to serve by Li Yongji's side, which is also a great thing for them.

Li Yongji intends to completely seal the truth of this attack and never decrypt it, and he wants to turn the destruction of the British and French forces into a mysterious event similar to the Tunguska explosion.

In short, want to know the truth about the fall of the Anglo-French fleet? Then use your brain and try to guess.