668 Massacre of the Consulate General of Japan
What Wei Zelong didn't expect was that the 240 mm caliber shells fell on the Qing army's position, which completely changed the situation of the war, and the Qing army dug a lot of bunkers in the trenches in order to resist the artillery of the Huaxia army, which could withstand 75 mm caliber shells, and could barely resist 105 mm caliber shells, but in front of 240 mm caliber shells......
As soon as the 240 mm caliber shells fell, all the bunkers within 50 meters around the explosion point would be blown up, and the bunkers of the Qing army were generally dug very deep, and when they collapsed, they directly buried people in them.
If it was an ordinary Qing army, after this shelling, the people would run almost as well, but Luo Rongguang was a famous general of the Qing State after all, and the trained Qing soldiers were still elite, so although some people fled, there were still people who resisted stubbornly in the trenches, but the remaining people were only one-tenth of the original.
The shelling lasted ten minutes, and the Chinese infantry launched a charge, and twenty armored attack vehicles and one hundred armored trucks were assigned to four divisions, and the vehicles of each division lined up in front of the positions and rushed to the Qing positions.
Whether it is an armored attack vehicle or an armored truck, they are afraid of explosive weapons, such as grenades and explosive packs, and they are also afraid that bullets will penetrate the tires, which is one of the reasons why armored attack vehicles and armored trucks cannot replace tanks, but on this battlefield, the Huaxia army is bullying the Qing army without explosive weapons, and the Qing army will cry silently.
Armored attack vehicles and armored trucks advanced to the vicinity of the trenches, and machine gun shells, grenades, and mortar shells entered the trenches, shooting the stubborn Qing soldiers into sieves and blowing them into minced meat.
The Qing army laid two lines of defense outside Shanghai, the first line of defense was broken in two hours without support, Luo Rongguang was anxious, and sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang in Nanjing asking for support, but those telegrams asking for help were like mud cows entering the sea, and there was no response at all.
At this moment, the second line of defense came with the news of an emergency on the whole line, Luo Rongguang slapped the table fiercely, held the waist knife in his hand, and said loudly: "The snitch is powerful, and there is only one death today to repay the emperor's favor!" ”
Everyone in the command showed pathos, facing the powerful Huaxia Army and Lin Fei's troops, they had no choice but to choose to die and die for the country, and at the same time silently prayed in their hearts that they would not be enemies with Lin Fei in the next life.
Luo Rongguang pulled out the knife and was about to go out to fight with the Huaxia Army, when an officer rushed in and said anxiously: "My lord, Lord Zhongtang sent an urgent telegram." ”
Luo Rongguang snatched the telegram, and after reading it, his face changed drastically, and he yelled at the officer: "Who has read this telegram?" ”
The officer said in a trembling voice: "My subordinates have seen it, and the staff who translated the message have also read it." ”
"Go and get that staff member for me." The officer hurriedly ran out to call the staff member, Luo Rongguang threw the telegram into a ball, threw it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, swallowed it, and everyone was surprised, but he didn't dare to ask.
Luo Rongguang ate the telegram, waved his hand to call the deputy commander in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "At this time, Shanghai can no longer be saved, I want to lead the guard battalion to carry out a top-secret mission, you lead the troops, fight to the death and die for the country." ”
The deputy commander was Luo Rongguang's confidant, and he was as loyal to the Qing court as Luo Rongguang, and immediately agreed, at this time, the officer had already brought the staff who translated the telegram to Luo Rongguang, Luo Rongguang didn't say a word, and took the officer and staff straight to the guard camp, and after arriving at the guard camp, he only said one sentence: "Go to the warehouse." ”
No one dared to ask what happened along the way, and when he came to the warehouse, Luo Rongguang pointed to the stack of boxes in the warehouse with a knife and said, "Move these boxes down, don't open them yet." ”
The Qing soldiers did as they were told, Luo Rongguang held a long knife in his hand, and his face was so cold that he was afraid of people, so none of the people who were carrying the box dared to speak, and they were even careful to gasp.
At that time, more than a dozen boxes were moved, lined up, and placed at Luo Rongguang's feet, Luo Rongguang stretched out his hand and pointed at the officers and staff, "You guys come here." ”
The officers and staff walked up to Luo Rongguang tremblingly, Luo Rongguang picked up the long knife, one by one, and cut down all the officers and staff, and the two of them returned to the west with their lives.
The soldiers of the pro-guard battalion were shocked, although Luo Rongguang was majestic, he had always loved soldiers like sons, how could he kill two subordinates casually today?
Luo Rongguang ordered loudly: "Draw the knife!" ”
Everyone pulled out the waist knife one after another, Luo Rongguang suddenly grabbed his braids in his hands, slashed hard, and cut off all the braids, frightened everyone screamed, knelt on the ground, and the guards and battalions knelt in front of Luo Rongguang, and said in a wail: "My lord, if you cut off your braids, is it possible that you want to take us to join the snitch?" ”
Luo Rongguang sneered, shook his head and said, "The reason why I cut my hair braids is to become a soldier of the snitch. ”
Everyone was shocked and asked, "What does this mean, general?" ”
Luo Rongguang stretched out his hand and pointed to the box on the ground, and shouted "open", the soldiers stepped forward to open the box, only to see that it was full of Huaxia Army uniforms, Luo Rongguang pointed to the military uniform and said: "I just received a secret order from Lord Zhongtang, let me dress up as the Huaxia Army, and wash the foreigner consulate in blood, this matter is extremely important and cannot be known to outsiders, so I ate the telegram, killed the officers and staff who read the telegram, and now I will take my brothers to the bloodbath foreigner consulate." ”
In fact, Li Hongzhang's order was to let Luo Rongguang disguise himself as a Huaxia army and provoke the consulates general of various countries, and the "bloodbath" was Luo Rongguang's own idea, otherwise with Li Hongzhang's old spiciness, he would not have done such a ridiculous thing as bloodbathing the consulates general of various countries.
But Luo Rongguang has a gritted hatred for foreigners, which is also one of the reasons why Luo Rongguang can become a famous general in the late Qing Dynasty, although he is extremely loyal to the Qing court, but in his bones he still feels that he is the descendants of Yan and Huang, those foreigners Consulate General did not bully the descendants of Yan and Huang, the Qing court was afraid of foreigners like a mouse and a cat, at this point, Lin Fei's Huaxia still made Luo Rongguang very respectful.
After Luo Rongguang finished speaking, he was the first to change into a Chinese military uniform, and then ordered his subordinates to change their clothes, these Chinese military uniforms were actually given to the Qing by the Americans, not because the Americans had the intention of pretending to be the Chinese army, but after the Nanyang World War, the United States set off a Chinese fever, and many young Americans took wearing Chinese military uniforms as fashionable, but later Lin Fei set off a trade war, and the status of Huaxia in the minds of Americans plummeted, and none of these military uniforms could be sold, so the US government bought them at a low price and gave them to Qingguo.
Luo Rongguang's subordinates also hated foreigners, and when they heard that there was an opportunity to wash the foreigners' consulate in blood, they were all elated, cut their braids and changed their clothes, and in order to make their hair more like the Huaxia Army, the Qing soldiers also took out razors and shaved all their hair.
When everyone was busy, the commander of the guard battalion knelt down in front of Luo Rongguang, kowtowed three times, saw blood marks on his forehead, and howled with a crying voice: "General, we must not do this matter." ”
"What? Don't you hate foreigners, foreigners are your father? ”
"General, please think twice, this matter is extremely confidential, the court will not spare us after we finish doing it, they will definitely kill people!"
Luo Rongguang kicked over the camp commander of the guards, and said angrily: "Alarmist, nonsense, the Holy Lord is the reincarnation of Yao Shun, and the Lord of the Middle Hall is in charge of Bao Rebirth, how can he do such a thing." ”
"General, since ancient times, the good general will not conspire with the ministers, if the general listens to Li Zhongtang's plan, he will suffer from it! You don't think about yourself, you have to think about so many brothers......"
Luo Rongguang was furious when he heard this, and the tiger roared: "How dare you talk nonsense and move the hearts of our army!" After that, he cut off the head of the commander of the pro-guard battalion, and soon everyone changed their clothes and shaved their hair, they didn't have a Chinese gun, so they only took a knife and killed the consulate of the Ben foreigners, and the first thing they killed was the Japanese consulate general.
There were two Japanese guards at the entrance of the Japanese Consulate General, and when they saw the Huaxia Army rushing to meet them, they hurriedly raised their guns to greet them, and Luo Rongguang led everyone to rush up and cut them into pulp.
Luo Rongguang entered the Consulate General, the people here are all Japanese, there are diplomats, clerks, and of course, Japanese spies are indispensable, Luo Rongguang led everyone to kill people when they saw them, during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese did not harm the Qing people, and the Qing soldiers could take revenge now, the Japanese consul general was dismembered by a knife, and several assistants of the consul general were cut off their heads.
The Japanese in the Consulate General were all killed by the Qing soldiers, Luo Rongguang waved his knife and pointed to the family area behind, and several Qing soldiers showed lewd eyes and asked: "General, those Japanese girls, can you ......?"
"Of course you can, Japanese people are all brutes, Japanese women are female dogs, do whatever you want, remember to kill when you're done."
The Qing soldiers cheered and rushed to the family area, at the door of the family area, they met the Japanese consul general, the-old lady who still exists, and the two daughters who are young like flowers, these three women are usually very arrogant, and treat the Qing people like pigs and dogs, especially the Qing servants at home, either beating or scolding, these Qing soldiers have heard of it, and now they finally have a chance to take revenge.
A large group of Qing soldiers rushed forward and pushed down the three women, so angry that the three women scolded in Japanese: "What are you going to do, what are you going to do?" ”
The Qing soldiers ignored their scolding, tore their clothes and did it, and the scolding of the three women quickly turned into sobbing and pleading......
Other Qing soldiers rushed into the family area, next to the house to look for the Japanese, killed men when they saw them, raped women when they saw them, and set fire to the houses after killing people.
The Qing soldiers did other things besides killing people, the speed was much slower, just after killing the Japanese Consulate General, a Chinese army had already entered the downtown area of Shanghai, Luo Rongguang saw that there was no time to kill the consulates general of various countries, so he ordered to set fire to the consulates of various countries, and then retreated, and when retreating, he happened to pass by the Korean consulate, Luo Rongguang saw that there was still some time, so he went inside to kill for a while, and then led his subordinates to retreat.