Chapter 140: Fighting the Eagle Army

The captain of the Mi warship woke up at dawn and shook his head before remembering last night's events. Even if there was a small pile of gold in front of him, it was as if he was still in a dream. It's terrible that such a warship, with hundreds of people on it, actually let people slip onto the ship like this!

When he came to his senses, he hurried out of the bedroom and went up to the deck to see that it was not a dream! As for the lost guns, with all the gold, he wasn't worried.

Looking at the closer and closer entrance to the sea, he decided in his heart that after solving the problem of losing guns, he would immediately retire and return to China to live in peace. This mysterious and dangerous East will never come again in this life.

Li Shucheng got down from the Mi warship, swam from the water to the vicinity of the Eagle State warship, and quietly jumped onto a warship, without even making a splash. In the water, the true yuan covers the whole body, and the clothes are not stained with a drop of water, and the speed is very slow when it jumps, so it naturally does not bring a splash. It took a few breaths to finish the guards before slowly searching for bullets.

After searching a warship, not even the bulky cannon was spared, and only then did it leave the water.

Back in the city, Li Shucheng resumed his Taoist dress and met with Jiang Mingyue.

"Get back 300 guns, and eight cannons. Li Shucheng said, "How do you divide these guns?"

Jiang Mingyue thought for a while and said, "It's not suitable in the cannon city, but the gun is okay." Several gangs in the city were brightly lit up tonight, all worried about the Eagle Army coming in. These guns are given to them, and if the Eagle Army comes in, they can also resist it. As for giving the guns to the Qing army, Jiang Mingyue didn't think about it at all, even if they took these guns, they might not dare to resist, and maybe they would return the guns to the Eagle Army in a hurry. Although these gangs are not righteous and good people, they are still bloody and dare to fight hard when protecting their families and property.

In this case, Li Shucheng went over with a bullet.

Wu San was discussing with the leader of the gang when a younger brother came in and said, "Gang leader, there is a Taoist priest outside who asks to see you." ”

"Daoist?" Wu San said, "What is the Taoist priest doing at this time?"

A small leader said: "Since he is a Taoist priest, it is better for the helper to invite him in, just so that he can divinate the good fortune." ”

Wu Sanyi thought that this was indeed the case, so he said, "Please." ”

Li Shucheng entered, glanced at the small room, looked at Wu San and said, "You are Wu San, the leader of the Tiger Gang." Can't you sleep tonight?"

The little leader who spoke just now hurriedly bowed his hand and said respectfully: "The red-haired ghost outside the city has fired guns and cannons, and he is scared to death." I also asked the master to help me wait for a hexagram to measure whether it was good or bad. ”

"Hehe! The name of the master is generally called a monk, for the Taoist, you should call me a real person, don't call me a mistake in the future. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "As for what you ask, you don't need to divination, it must be fierce!"

"What do you say?" Wu San asked.

"When the Eagle Army came over a few days ago, not a single shot was fired at the batteries along the river, but the Eagle warships were not fast. Li Shucheng said, "Then they occupied the forts along the river, and the warships drove to the outside of Guangzhou, and now they finally tested the reality of the governor's yamen and the governor's yamen, and they will naturally attack the city tomorrow, how could they let go of such a good opportunity?"

"Those people in the yamen grew up eating?" another strong little leader scolded, "If the red-haired ghost dares to come, he will be killed, everyone is riding on his neck to, and if he doesn't fight, it's worse than a girl!"

"Well, the people of the yamen are unreliable. Li Shucheng said, "These red-haired ghosts are barbaric and cruel by nature, and they will definitely burn, kill and loot after attacking the city." You're in the city, have you figured out what to do?"

"What else can I do, isn't it just to pick up a knife and fight with them. Wu San said, "Although we are not good people, we are not soft bones. ”

"Backbone, bloody!" Li Shucheng praised, and then said, "But bloodiness alone is not enough, the weapons are too backward, and it is not good to fight with others." Outside, I pulled a cart of foreign guns used by the red-haired ghosts, and if you want them, I'll give them to you. ”

"There's a foreign gun? that's great!" Wu San said excitedly, "I heard that the foreign gun is very powerful, and with this thing, we dare to do it with the red-haired ghost!"

Although Wu San's words were arrogant, after the guns were moved in, none of them knew how to use them! Li Shucheng smiled bitterly, and could only teach them to use guns now.

In addition to the Tiger Gang, Li Shucheng chose two more gangs, each with a hundred guns. It's all just started, don't think about accuracy, but these 300 guns, 4,000 rounds of ammunition, if you're lucky, you can still kill some red-haired ghosts.

When the guns were fired, the city was left to fate, and the two went out of the city at night, looking for a place to set up the cannons, and waiting for the war to start.

The sky was not yet bright, and the two saw that the warship flying the flag of the United States was busy for a while, and then turned the bow of the ship and left quickly.

Jiang Mingyue said with a smile: "These Mi troops must have been stupid by you last night, and they didn't dare to stop here when they woke up." ”

"It's useless for them to stop here. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "The guns are gone, although there are still a few cannons, but the shells are gone, and now they have no defense at all, and if they stay here, they will be captured if they are not careful." ”

As soon as the Mi warship left, there was also a commotion on the Eagle Country fleet, and the officers and men on one of the warships found that all the guns and cannons on the warship they were on were gone!

Admiral Sima Migoli of the Eagle Army, believing that it was because the guards of the warship were lazy last night that the enemy had touched the warship and stole the guns, first imprisoned the guards on the warship, and then sent them to court-martials after the battle had passed, and then ordered an attack.

The war was provoked by them, and even if this happened, they couldn't just retreat, otherwise it would provoke the Qing country's resistance.

The Eagle Army Fleet opened fire, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue also opened fire, the Eagle Army shelled the city walls and gates of Guangzhou City, and Li Shucheng shelled the Eagle Army Fleet.

"Boom" and "Boom" two shells exploded near the fleet, and the water splashed and fell on the deck, and Sima Migori jumped up in shock and shouted: "What's the matter? Where did the shells come from?"

"General, probably the cannons and shells that were stolen last night. An officer next to him said while pulling Xima Migori to dodge.

"Shit! Are you a pig! Even if the cannonball can be taken, how much does the cannon weigh, and they can take it from the warship?" exclaimed Simamigholi.

"Then they already had artillery before, just like the Jiang Defense Artillery a few days ago, but the Jiang Defense Artillery didn't fire. The officer said affirmatively, "In recent years, countries have done business with the Qing State, although our Great Eagle Empire has not sold advanced weapons to the Qing State, but other countries may not. Those countries on the fallen European continent and the countries of the United States, as long as they can make money, they can sell their parents. "The rise of the Eagle Country is to step on the countries on the European continent step by step, they are not friendly with other countries, and the first thing that comes to mind when they are attacked is these countries that have clashed with the Eagle Country.

After a cannon, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue readjusted the muzzle of the cannon, reloaded and fired again, the cannonball on Li Shucheng's side missed again, but Jiang Mingyue's side hit the target, the cannonball landed on the deck of a warship and exploded, crashing the four eagles nearby, one of them even flew two or three meters up and planted it into the river, and the other was closest to the explosion point, and its body was directly torn into pieces and flew in the air.

After two shots, the Eagle Army also discovered where the two men were, and fired back while moving the warship away. However, the two did not fire in the same place. The cannons that Li Shucheng brought back had already been scattered and installed, firing three cannons at each cannon, then putting the cannons into the space, and then going to the next cannon.

Although there were many cannons on the Eagle warships, they could not stop it, and the fleet could only stay away from the range of the cannons.

After driving two or three miles downstream, Xima Mi Geli ordered the fleet to stop and check the losses, and soon the ships reported that the Eagle Army had six dead and 24 wounded, and one warship was seriously damaged, and it was unknown whether it could sail back to Hong Kong, and two other warships were also damaged and needed to be repaired.

After seeing the losses, Xima Migholi called a meeting of the officers and said: "We have come to Guangzhou City this time to force the Qing government to revise the treaty. But this time we did not frighten the Qing Kingdom, but suffered our own losses, and six Imperial soldiers died. If you don't achieve your goal, what do you say next?"

"The Qing Kingdom didn't know where to get so many cannons, and we suffered losses because of our carelessness. An officer said, "But I have seen the Qing soldiers guarding the city walls of Canton City, they are all carrying bows, arrows, broadswords, spears and other backward weapons, if we get off the boat and bypass the cannons by the river, we will definitely be able to take the city of Canton and teach them a lesson." ”

With advanced spears and cannons, the people of the Eagle Country naturally looked down on the Qing army who were still holding bows, arrows, knives and spears, although they numbered less than a thousand people and had just been taught a lesson, but they still did not take the tens of thousands of Qing troops with bows, arrows, knives and spears in their eyes.

"I also saw that the weapons in the hands of the Qing soldiers were too backward, as long as we bypassed the forts by the river and attacked the city of Guangzhou, we would definitely be able to break through easily. Another officer also said.

After some discussion, it was determined that the Qing army was false and real, and Xima Mi Geli ordered to leave 100 people to guard the fleet, and the rest went ashore and went straight to Guangzhou City, taking Guangzhou City in one fell swoop.

The Eagle Fleet disappeared from view, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue put away their cannons, and Li Shucheng said, "The Eagle Fleet won't come again this time, right?"

"The fleet should not come. Jiang Mingyue said, "But they may not let go of Guangzhou City, this time they attacked Guangzhou City, because they proposed to the Qing court to revise the treaty The Qing court did not agree, so they wanted to attack Guangzhou City to force the Qing court to agree." If the goal is not achieved, how can they give up?"

"So, they will still attack Guangzhou?" Li Shucheng said, "If the fleet does not dare to come, then it can only go ashore, and I will go to investigate." ”

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