Seeing that the lady of the Xie family was about to lead the women and children in the family to kneel for herself, Shen Xingshi immediately stopped her "performance". "Your house, and what are your belongings, how much is it worth in total, you quote the number!"

Shen Xingshi has now become the incarnation of the God of Wealth in the eyes of the lady of the Xie family, who immediately became smiling, and began to count them to Shen Xingshi one by one. "My house was just started last year, when the material labor cost more than 80 taels, and this year everything is in a hurry to increase the price, this material labor ......"

Shen Xingshi really didn't have the patience to listen to her trembling there, and urged: "I still have something to do, you just say what the total is!" ”

"Yes, yes! Don't dare to delay the work of the military master! The lady of the Xie family stretched out her right hand and spread five fingers, "A total of five...... Five hundred ......" saw Shen Xing's uncertain face, and immediately withdrew two roots, and changed his words: "Three hundred taels!" ”

Shen Xingshi looked at the ruins and shook his head, "I don't think it's worth that much, right?!" Although it is an established policy not to let the masses suffer, it is also not possible to be the "wronged leader".

The lady of the Xie family immediately called out "Hit the sky", "Master Jun! I'm telling the truth! My family is really worth more than 200 taels! If I tell a lie, I will choke to death by eating meat, choking by drinking, and falling to death on horseback every day! "The lady of the Xie family made a vow with a gambling curse, but the vows were all played with the eyes of the heart, and it was impossible to achieve it.

Shen Xingshi didn't bother to grind his teeth with this greedy woman, and turned his head to enlightenment, "You are the head of the family, or you come to it!" ”

Of course, Xie Wu will not be as ignorant as his wife, and he also knows that greed will not end well, so he replied honestly: "The general is benevolent and righteous, how dare the villain be insatiable." The Han family's house belongings are worth more than one hundred and forty taels. ”

Shen Xingshi silently calculated in his heart, felt that the price was more reasonable, took three ingots of fifty taels of official silver from his subordinates, and asked others to take photos of the ruins for archiving, and then handed over the silver to Xie Wu. "This is one hundred and fifty taels, which is the compensation given to you by the Guangfu Army, and the more should be compensated for the fright that your family has suffered. Oh, you're going to open a receipt for me! ”

Xie Wu took the silver with both hands, thanked him again and again, made a gesture to kneel, and grabbed the former when he was moving. "You don't have to thank me. It is a matter of course to compensate for the damage to other people's property, and we will never let the people suffer losses for the sake of the country and the people. You can tell the neighbors that if they have any property damage just now, they can ask us for compensation. But ......" said this, Shen Xing's tone intensified, "If anyone dares to fish in troubled waters, we will also punish them severely!" ”

Xie Wu nodded yes again and again, and then there was a thousand thanks. At this time, a noise not far away caught Shen Xingshi's attention, and two indigenous soldiers approached with a white civilian. The white man kept trying to explain something to the soldiers, but the two soldiers did not listen at all and simply drove him forward with bayonets. It wasn't until the three of them got closer that they heard the foreigner's fluent northern official dialect clearly. He vigorously explained that he was an American, not a British, and that he should not be treated this way. However, the Mandarin level of the indigenous soldiers is still at the level of only being able to understand some simple commands, and the two sides are typical chickens and ducks.

When the three of them passed by, Shen Xingshi suddenly asked, "Are you an American?" ”

This sentence was tantamount to the sound of heaven to the white man, and he hurriedly grabbed at this life-saving straw, "Yes, yes, Mr. Officer, I am an American." But your soldiers don't listen to me. ”

Shen Xingshi looked at the two indigenous soldiers, basically the soldiers knew him, "You give this person to me, and I will tell your company commander about it." After the soldiers left, he said to the whites: "They don't understand the official language, they don't know where America is, and in their eyes, all Caucasians are one country." "As the director of the Political Department. All the Liberation Army is theoretically its own subordinates. So it's up to you to maintain them.

"My God!" The American drew a cross on his chest, "It's good to meet a reasonable person like you, General." ”

"It's the Colonel." Seeing the puzzled look on the American's face, Shen Xing said another English word, "colonel." ”

"Mr. Colonel, I am a citizen of the United States, and as a citizen of a third country that is not a belligerent, I demand that I be treated fairly." Meet a reasonable person. The Americans have a bit of confidence again.

Shen Xingshi looked at the self-proclaimed American with interest, "So, Mr. American Citizen, what about your identification documents?" ”

The American immediately took out a small notebook from his coat pocket and handed it over, although he had never seen a nineteenth-century American passport when he applied for it, he still knew the word passport. He opened the first page, "Tom B. Brown? ”

"Yes, Mr. Colonel." Mr. Brown nodded.

"The passport says you're 'not at home,' but I remember that California isn't a member of the Union, so why do you have a U.S. passport?" Shen Xing sold the information he saw from Fat Zihua a few days ago.

Mr. Brown explained with a calm face: "As a correspondent of the New York Times in the Far East, it is normal to have a U.S. passport. ”

Tom B. Brown's identity as an American and journalist reminds him of a colleague of the former eighty years later, and perhaps he could do the same. So he instructed his subordinates, "You take Mr. Bu Shineng to Minister Jiansen and let him be in charge of entertaining." Also, remember to report to Director Lu Renjia! ”

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The British attack from the Chai Wan area was once again repulsed. Of course, more than 10,000 army units could not be stationed in one place, and although the area of Hong Kong Island was not very large, there was still a large amount of open space for the British troops to camp. In addition to the more than 3,000 troops stationed at the Admiralty Barracks and the Governor's Palace, there were troops stationed at Wan Chai Pier, Chai Wan, Fortress Hill, Mount Davis and Stanley, with a number of 1 or 2,000 troops, which also facilitated the Liberation Army's breakthrough one by one.

The Liberation Army did the same, and also learned from the British who built barricades on the streets. It is a pity that the British did not have the ability to penetrate and attack the fortifications like the Liberation Army, and the bayonet charge would only break the head and bleed, and the artillery was knocked out by the Mortars or bazookas of the Liberation Army as soon as it was pushed up, and after spending hundreds of lives, it could not move forward.

"This won't work!" Seeing the troops retreat again, Colonel Longman, the commander of the defenders of Battery Hill, shouted. He was an old soldier in his early forties, six feet six inches tall, and his last name matched. It's because his height is too conspicuous, and he was targeted by snipers as soon as he appeared. If it weren't for the fact that the ghost made God bow his head at that time, he would have returned to the cup of the Heavenly Father by now. Now bareheaded, he summoned several battalion and company commanders who had returned to the front. "I now demand that you all accept my command!" The troops gathered here belonged to several different regiments, and because of the shelling they had either lost contact with their superiors or because of the casualties of their commanders, they had lost their command, and they only instinctively moved closer to the governor's palace. After several hours of hard fighting, some of the troops were completely scattered, and there was no logistics to provide them with food, and the soldiers were tired and hungry.

"You can't do things like this anymore. I ask everyone to take my command! Langman reiterated his demand, and no one objected, so Langman gave the first order - the troops were repaired in place, the stragglers who had lost their formation were incorporated into the troops, and the troops were sent to find a way to infiltrate behind the Chinese lines.

This area is a British settlement, although the British do not have armored vehicles to break through the walls, but there is still a way to find an unknown shortcut. So a major and two companies of soldiers went into a tavern. According to the sergeant who led the way, the back door of the tavern was in a remote alley, and the exit of this alley was behind the Chinese lines, which the average person did not know, let alone the Chinese.

Led by the sergeant, the soldiers of the two companies easily reached the alley, and the sergeant walked at the forefront with a dozen veterans. When they were about to reach the entrance of the alley, they all slowed down, and the sergeant tiptoed over, crouched down in the corner, and then slowly poked his head out of the alley.

Li Weizhi took advantage of the break in the battle to prepare to release water by the wall, but before he could take out the "faucet", he heard the platoon commander scolding: "Pee and pee, get away!" Want to smoke people to death? Li Weizhi's behavior was despised by everyone, and he only had to run two more steps and choose the position of C at an alley far away from the position. As soon as he took out the man's "weapon", he heard a chattering sound from the corner, and he subconsciously turned around to look.

As soon as the British sergeant poked his head out of the alley, he felt a burst of fishy hot water shoot on his face, irritating him so much that he could not open his eyes, making him think he was blind, rolling on the ground with his eyes covered, and letting out a terrible scream. The two men who followed him hurriedly dragged him back, while the rest of the people rushed towards the alleyway.

Li Weizhi was also taken aback, he didn't have time to let the bird go back to the nest, a tactical move of the Type 56 automatic rifle on his shoulder was held in his hand, and without hesitation, he pointed at the alley is a shuttle, and several British soldiers rushing towards the alley were immediately knocked to the ground. Not knowing how many enemies there were in the alley, Li Weizhi learned to use the rebound of the wall in CS, threw a grenade into it, and then immediately retreated and hid behind the porch pillar of an apartment.

The strafing of the automatic rifle made the British behind hesitate. After a few days of fighting, most of the British army already knew that charging at rapid-fire weapons was almost the same as looking for death, so they subconsciously hesitated for a few seconds. Unexpectedly, Li Weizhi's grenade was thrown in again, and the grenade landed at the feet of several people, knocking down three more on the spot, and also ruining the only chance for the British army to counterattack.

Hearing the movement, a squad of the Liberation Army immediately rushed to support, under the double pressure of automatic weapons and grenades, the British army had no possibility of rushing out of the alley, so the major who led the team retreated with the rest of the troops very barelessly, and even the corpses and seriously wounded were abandoned.

This incident also sounded the alarm bell for the Liberation Army, and almost made people copy the back road, teaching the commander of the third company to report to his superiors while sending several squads to block the surrounding alleys. Each team consisted of two survivors with automatic weapons and five natives, which was enough to hold an alley three or four meters wide. This small battle was just a "small episode" in the whole battle, but since then, the story of "Li Weizhi's bukkake British army" has also become a big legend of the Liberation Army.