After careful consideration, the British left some warships in Victoria Bay to guard, and the large force continued northward, first occupying Dinghai (Zhoushan), and then continuing to harass various cities along the Qing coast, and even to the northern waters, entering the Bohai Sea, and attacking as far as Tianjin.

The Qing army fought several tough battles with the British army in Tianjin, and then suffered repeated defeats, without a single victory, and even failed to cause any casualties to the British army, which made a lot of jokes.

When this result reached Guangdong, the officials in Guangzhou were in an uproar.

Although the Guangdong army fought with the British, it was also defeated and won less, but it was not so outrageous that it did not have the strength to fight back at all, and it also had some commendable performances in the Battle of Kowloon.

At least, the British naval commander Douglas was wounded many times by Guan Tianpei's sailors, and the two sides could be regarded as having contacts and dealings, not all one-sided wars.

What's more, Li Xian's results against the British army also spread at this time, and many people knew that there was a naval division in Leizhou, which fought to the death with the British army, and actually sank two warships, and sank several merchant ships.

Most of the officials and the common people did not understand the delicate relationship between Li Xian and the Qing army, and only knew that Li Xian was the head of the security regiment in Leizhou, so they naturally regarded Li Xian's achievements as the credit of the Guangdong government, and they were far less afraid of the British army than before.

In this case, there is almost no bright color on the Tianjin side, which is naturally surprising.

Many radical officials said that they wanted to write an excerpt to the emperor and impeach the officers and soldiers of Tianjin for their incompetence and mistakes, and finally some veteran and serious officials stopped them.

At this moment, Governor Lin secretly summoned Shen Baozhen over and asked him to go to a quiet small house to read the books inside.

Shen Baozhen didn't know what kind of famous hall his uncle was doing, so when he went in to read the books, he saw that all the history books were from the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of which were banned books, and they were reprimanded by the imperial court and could not be passed on.

Among them, there are also some loose notes and wild histories, some of which tell about the world's martial arts, including Lin Yuantu, who said about the Fuwei Dart Bureau, which is naturally not an advertorial written by Li Xian, but a real biography.

After reading these books, Shen Baozhen realized that the world of the imperial court was obtained by thirteen strangers, and it took countless strange means to support the Qing court at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Later, the competition between the martial arts and the masters of the imperial court, including the stories of Emperor Yongzheng and Lu Siniang, was described in more detail, and the agreement between Emperor Qianlong and the people in the martial arts was known.

After reading these books, Shen Baozhen felt that his three views were collapsing and the world was being destroyed, and he didn't understand what he was studying to be an official in order to be an official.

"Uncle, are these books true?" Shen Baozhen came out of the room, felt messy, and asked Lin Zexu.

It's just that Governor Lin didn't care about him, asked him to silence him, and then called a reliable subordinate to burn the house with the countless books inside.

"What you see and know in it is your own business.

People who are really in high positions in the officialdom know much more things than ordinary people, and then pass them on to their own children and nephews, so as not to make mistakes in future generations and encounter incredible dangers.

However, the rule of this line is that whatever you see and know is rotten in your own stomach, and you must never ask or say anything to others, and you must not talk to each other even if you are close to each other. Governor Lin said solemnly, and then asked Shen Baozhen to go back by himself, without giving him any chance to ask questions.

After Shen Baozhen returned to his mansion, he felt that his sky had collapsed, and his three views had collapsed, so naturally there was no need to elaborate.

On the other hand, the first troops sent by the British were rampant in China, even hitting Tianjin near Beijing, but this was not enough, and subsequent reinforcements were coming.

Soon, the second group of British troops arrived in the waters of Guangdong and assembled in Victoria Bay, Hong Kong, with a total strength of 13,000 men and more than 60 ships.

Originally, according to the history of Li Xian's side, this second batch of troops would not arrive until at least a year later, but perhaps because of the butterfly effect caused by Li Xian, this group of British troops arrived ahead of schedule, which greatly changed the balance of power between the Qing army and the British army in Guangdong, making the British commander more ambitious.

On the other hand, Emperor Daoguang was also annoyed by the war in Tianjin, and at the same time angered Lin Zexu, who caused the incident, and specially sent the minister Qi Shan to Guangzhou, and then demoted Lin Zexu to the fourth grade, asking him to go to Zhenhai, Zhejiang to listen to it.

As soon as Lin Zexu left, Qi Shan only wanted to negotiate peace with the British, remove all the defensive facilities that Lin Zexu had originally set up in Humen and other places, and disband the recruited soldiers, so that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army in Guangdong suddenly dropped by more than eighty percent.

This was not enough, Qi Shan also made eye contact with the British, revealing all the defense situation of Guangzhou to the British, thinking that the British would take into account their personal feelings and take care of them during the negotiations.

However, fools know that this is impossible.

In August 1840, negotiations between the two sides broke down, and the British army attacked Humen, and then took advantage of the complete destruction of the Humen fort defenses, and Qishan forbade the Qing troops in other places to support the defenders of Humen, so that the British army defeated the Qing army at a small cost of more than 30 wounds.

After that, Qishan asked for a resumption of negotiations, and the British agreed to a temporary truce.

A few days later, the British side announced the "Treaty of Piercing the Nose Grass", demanding the cession of Hong Kong Island and the compensation of 6 million silver dollars.

Because of the land cession involved, Kishan did not sign it (the treaty reached London, and the British government did not sign it because it felt that the benefits were too small).

As a result, the British army forcibly occupied Hong Kong.

Qi Shan originally planned to formally sign the "Nose Grass Treaty" with the British army, but the Guangdong gentry denounced Qi Shan, and the senior officials of Guangdong sided with Yiliang, so Qi Shan did not dare to sign the contract.

At this time, it also angered the British army, and finally decided to march into Guangzhou, teach the Chinese army in Guangzhou a lesson, and get compensation by the way.

Unexpected, a large-scale land battle between the British and Chinese armies began.

After the British army reached the outside of Guangzhou, it easily contributed many forts in the north of Guangzhou, and the Yongkang Terrace, which was the highest terrain of the headquarters, was commonly known as the Sifang Fort

These four-sided forts were only one mile away from the city of Guangzhou, and the artillery could directly bombard the city, so the British army set up Congreve rocket launchers, fired a large number of rockets and shells into the city, burned countless houses, and caused a large number of civilian casualties.

Under these circumstances, the commander of the Qing army, Yishan, and others sued for peace and signed the "Guangzhou Peace Treaty" with the British army, in order to pay the ransom fee of the British army and withdraw the troops from other provinces from Guangzhou, in exchange for the British army to return the fort and withdraw from Humen.

However, as soon as the peace treaty was signed, the British army, intoxicated by the victory, harassed the northwest suburbs, reached Sanyuanli, where Sanyuanguan was located, and the villages of Nicheng, Xicun, Xiaogang and other villages, looted and burned.

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