"Report to the army! Brothers killed a soldier in black and also grabbed a repeating musket!"
"What? Hurry up and take a look!"
In an empty field two miles north of the company, Lieutenant General Supervisor Biao, who had escaped from the dog hole, was overjoyed when he heard that a musket from Beihai Town had been seized.
When his men brought the stolen musket, the lieutenant general of the Chinese Army was stunned and thought to himself: Why is this gun so short and heavy?
The standard shotgun of the Green Camp of the Qing Army is six feet and one inch in length, which is more than two meters, and the Beihai Town "musket" in his hand is only more than three feet long including the "dagger" at the muzzle.
Let's talk about weight. The net weight of the Qing army's standard shotgun is only six kilograms, and the barrel and bolt are made of cast iron; and the "musket" in his hand obviously weighs more than six kilograms.
Under the light of the surrounding torches, the bayonet still stained with blood under the barrel looked murderous. The deputy general of the Chinese army touched it with his hand and was suddenly shocked. He found that the barrel and bayonet were actually made of steel!
After the deputy general asked the soldier who had grabbed the gun in detail what had happened, he decided to reward him heavily.
"A reward of five hundred, no! A reward of eight hundred taels of silver!"
Following the order from the deputy general's mouth, the surrounding sergeants shouted in unison: "The army has a reward! Eight hundred taels of silver!"
What is the concept of eight hundred taels? At present, one hundred and sixty kilograms of rice is worth one tael and six cents of silver. Eight hundred taels can buy 80,000 kilograms of rice. You can buy three sets of two-entry yards on the edge of Guangzhou city. You can buy nearly two hundred acres of water outside the city. land.
Although not all of the money will fall into the hands of Bing Yong, even half of it is still a big deal! Most of the green camp soldiers at the bottom will never see dozens of taels of silver in their lifetime.
"Young man, thank you to the army! I am willing to die for the army!" The soldier brought over by Mr. Qian knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank him.
"Well done! When this battle is over, you can come to my side and be a soldier!" The lieutenant general of the Chinese army smiled, holding the rifle in one hand, and stretched out his hand to pat the soldier's shoulder.
At this time, the surrounding green camp soldiers' eyes were reddened by the eight hundred taels of silver reward, and someone shouted: "Brothers! Kill the traitors!"
"Kill the thief and get the money! Let's go~~"
The deputy general of the Chinese army couldn't help but nod and smile when he saw that his men were all being stirred up and going crazy like chicken blood. He thought in his heart that the traitor who was damned actually forced me to dig into a dog hole. I will not be a human being until I protect this revenge!
Ever since he knew that the superintendent's office had been captured, the deputy general went crazy with anxiety. Not to mention anything else, if any of these second- and third-grade officials make a mistake, no matter how many heads they have, they won't be able to chop them off.
Thinking of this, the deputy general raised his sword and shouted: "Bang the drum! Attack!"
"Boom~" Following the blast of a trumpet, there was a sudden shout of killing on Tongwen Street.
"Kill!"
"The rebels will die!"
"Don't let the bandits go!"
"Bang bang bang~~!!" "Da da da!!!"
"Master Qian was beaten to death! Everyone, run away!"
The farce-like attack lasted only a few minutes, and in a blink of an eye, no one was left on the street. The deputy general was so angry that he almost vomited blood after hearing about it. He ordered his soldiers to form a supervising team, and anyone who dared to retreat would be killed!
As for being on the front line in person? The deputy general of the Chinese army is not that stupid. The guns of the soldiers in black hit fast and far, and if they get caught, they will die.
"Quick! Put these people into the building! Quick!" Zhao Xin, who was standing at the corner of Baixiongxing for cover, loudly ordered his men and changed another magazine himself.
On the road from the public office to Baixiong, which was no more than two hundred meters away, more than a hundred Qing troops were killed or injured. The few soldiers who stayed behind in the business building also went up to the roof. As long as there were Qing troops emerging on the street, they would immediately shoot at them with random shots.
Sun Shiyi, who was pushed and escorted to the White Bear House, felt happy and afraid when he heard the shouts of killing coming from outside.
He was happy that he had successfully trained his troops, and the troops were able to launch successive attacks without fear of death; what he was afraid of was that Zhao Xin jumped over the wall and killed all his men.
Frankly speaking, since Sun Shiyi became the acting governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the combat effectiveness of Guangdong Green Camp has been significantly improved. The folk customs in Guangdong have always been fierce, and foreign pirates often come ashore to plunder. Therefore, after he took office, he petitioned to train green battalion soldiers and horses in various places in Guangdong and Guangxi, strictly enforce discipline, and get rid of old habits.
In the history of another time and space, it was precisely because of his large-scale military training that he effectively improved the combat effectiveness of the Green Battalion in Guangdong and Guangxi, so that the Tiandihui rebellion in Taiwan and the subsequent Battle of Annan were successfully put down.
Sun Shiyi carefully calculated the strength of the troops at hand. He felt that if the Eight Banners garrisoned in the city were dispatched, Zhao Ni and others would definitely not be able to escape.
Indeed, there are more than 1,500 Eight Banners troops stationed in Guangzhou City, most of whom are musketeers, and the opponent also has artillery. Once these people came out of the city, Zhao Xin could only run away.
But the problem is that more than a hundred of the Eight Banners soldiers in Guangzhou City were transferred from the capital this year, and most of these people were prisoners of Beihai Town. When Zhao Xin and others launched the attack, these people heard the gunfire outside the city and quickly realized that it was a series of rapid fire shots from Beihai Town.
Oh my god, this is too much to live with! We have all taken refuge in Guangzhou, why are these plague gods still here? !
Now that General Guangzhou is away, Zuo Dutong is the most powerful. The Zuo Dutong heard a lot about the inside story of last year's Shuangchengzi War, and coupled with the descriptions of those guys transferred from the capital, he was immediately frightened.
After much deliberation, Mr. Zuo Dutong finally gritted his teeth and decided to let the Eight Banners garrison strictly guard the city walls and city gates. As long as the thieves did not come to attack the city, they would never step out of the city gate!
Out of town? joke! Who knows if that big white boat is parked outside the Pearl River Estuary again? What if someone comes in and bombards Guangzhou City later? What if Guangzhou City is lost? Our whole family, old and young, all live in the city!
Therefore, no matter how the Supervisor Biao Chinese Army outside the city appealed, the Eight Banners inside the city would not open the city gates and would not send any reinforcements. The angry deputy general of the Chinese Army yelled, saying that the Eight Banners soldiers were a bunch of fucking cowards!
At Baixiongxing, Liu Zheng looked at the more than 20 Manchu and Qing bureaucrats being escorted in front of him, and thought to himself, this is too easy, isn't it? The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, a minister-level figure!
However, when he thought about the scene where these people used Qiu Hou Wenzhan to threaten him a few days ago, Liu Zheng felt that he finally breathed a sigh of relief. So he showed a proud look on his face and giggled at a room full of prisoners sitting on the ground.
"You guys, you guys, are going to have this day too!"
Just as he was feeling proud, he heard the people fighting outside getting angry again.
"Grandchildren! Come on! Fuck me!"
Zhao Xin was also fired. He adjusted his automatic rifle to burst fire and fired continuously in the direction of the office, quickly emptying a magazine.
After a few minutes, when no more white shadow could be seen in the sight of the scope, Zhao Xin turned around and entered the store. Liu Zheng was choked by the smell of gunpowder smoke on Zhao Xin's body and coughed, and asked in a low voice: "How is it?"
Zhao Xin whispered: "You're all crazy! This is a hornet's nest. We have to evacuate before dawn, otherwise it will be too late."
"What to do with these prisoners?"
Zhao Xin turned over his hand, showed a mobile phone, handed it to Liu Zheng and said: "Take a photo and keep it as a file, scare them to death!"
Liu Zheng was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, what is this?
It is said that the first recorded photo in the modern history of China was taken by the French missionary Nanglun in 1844 in Qiying, the then governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Because early camera technology was immature, the photos they took were not good-looking, so it was difficult to popularize them. Due to the backwardness of scientific knowledge, people regarded photography as a black art. Until the early Republic of China, some people still believed that photography could absorb people's vitality and soul.
But when Sun Shiyi was taken out of the house and his back was against the wall, he had no idea what Zhao Xin was going to do.
"Zhao Xin! If you want to kill me or cut me into pieces, please do as you please! I am a second-rank official of the imperial court and a Jinshi in the 26th year of Qianlong's reign. I cannot tolerate being humiliated like this by you!"
Looking at Sun Shiyi with angry eyes, Zhao Xin first signaled Liu Zheng to start taking pictures.
Liu Zheng deliberately turned the sound to the loudest, so he only heard a "click", and the first photo of a Qing Dynasty official in this time and space was born ahead of schedule!
Zhao Xin then said: "Sun Zhitai, I have a question, how did you discover me?"
"Huh~ The law of heaven is clear, and retribution is not good. You thought you could hide in the market, but you didn't know that the imperial court had already painted you and made it clear to all the states and counties in the world. I advise you to still..."
"Master Sun, please speak human language!"
"You are nothing more than a clown, stealing the name of the former Ming Dynasty, resisting the heavenly soldiers, and harming the border people! I wish I could eat my flesh and sleep on my skin!"
Forget it, Zhao Xin took the phone from Liu Zheng, pulled up the photo he just took, and then held it in front of Sun Shiyi. When Sun Shiyi saw himself in the small box in Zhao Xin's hand, he was stunned! Immediately afterwards, the old man began to tremble all over.
There is no other way. Since I can't speak properly, I can only threaten.
"Sun Shiyi, I have collected half of your three souls and seven souls. Did you see? Now I want you to live, and I want you to die. Die. As long as I have this, you can't commit suicide! Now I ask you again, Who told the secret?"
Seeing Zhao Xin seriously threatening Sun Shiyi with photos on his mobile phone, Liu Zheng almost couldn't hold back his laughter. He quickly turned sideways and pretended to cough a few times before covering it up. He thought to himself, this is okay? !
This works!
Looking at his clearly identifiable face on the small square box in Zhao Xin's hand, Sun Shiyi was really scared now, even if he was a Jinshi with a wealth of knowledge, it would be useless.
It is said that in the "soul-calling case" that affected half of the Qing Dynasty in the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign, countless people from the court to the local government fell into panic. Qianlong, who thought there was rebellion, personally ordered a nationwide campaign of suppression; but the people were at a loss as to what to do and tried every possible means to find ways to combat the witchcraft. A few months later, tens of thousands of people were treated as "demon party" and purged, and nearly 200 officials were punished.
Scary, right?
Now I understand why those people were frightened when Zhao Xin said at the gate of the Supervisory Office that he wanted to cut off their braids, and then they became honest, right? The ancients really believed this!
So Zhao Xin soon learned from Sun Shiyi that the reason why he was exposed was the man named Fu Ming'a. However, after the subsequent interrogation of other people, it was discovered that Fu Ming'a had been shot to death when the soldiers rushed into the flower hall.
So...so Zhao Xin is also quite helpless, damn "he's here already", the four tolerances are really harmful!
Liu Zheng still underestimated the power of photos. Among the subsequent officials, some were so frightened that they burst into tears after seeing their photos, while others foamed at the mouth and fainted; even worse, Guangdong Customs Supervisor Fo Ning simply urinated.
In the eyes of these people, the "soul calling" back then may not be true; but the current photos are living proof that they have really been possessed by others.
So under Zhao Xin's intimidation, Yao Jiantai, who had scolded Zhao Xin angrily, was sent out to negotiate with the green camp outside. If he dared to attack again, all the officials in this room would not be able to survive.
The lost Yao Zhengtai staggered on the dark streets, feeling miserable in his heart. Not long ago, I witnessed the other party performing "dark magic" on me. Now that I have lost one of my three souls, do I really want to be a puppet for these monsters in the future?
"Who! Stop!"
"I am Yao Tiesong!"
There was muttering in the darkness for a while, and suddenly a voice asked: "Is it Mr. Yao from Anchasi?"
Yao Fen smiled miserably and said, "That's exactly me. Take me to see Vice General Sun quickly."
Zhao Xin didn't know what Yao Zhengtai said to the deputy general of the Chinese army. Half an hour later, the observing soldiers on the roof came to report that the surrounding Qing troops had withdrawn to the north of the public house, and now everyone in Beihai Town had to do something. The only thing is that everyone evacuated.
"What to do with these officials?"
"Take them away and let them go when we are safe!"
Liu Zheng pinched his nose and said, "The guy who pooped his pants is also wearing it?"
Zhao Xin rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't mind the smell, bring it with you."
"Then forget it."
At this time, the sky outside the house was already turning white. When Zhao Xin looked at the time, it was already past four in the morning.
After everyone cleaned up and sent another telegram to Beihai Town, it was already five o'clock in the morning. Several soldiers, under the cover of machine gunners, carried a rubber boat to the ferry at Mulujian.
This is the place where you board the ferry boat from the merchant ship anchored in Huangpu. It is also the starting point for daily visits to Haizhuang Temple. On weekdays, day and night, large boats packed with passengers often set off from here or dock. Boats of all sizes can also be seen on the river constantly coming and going, and sometimes they can even cover the entire river.
The continuous gunshots in the first half of the night scared away the ships moored at night, and the flower boats outside the oil boom gate also disappeared without a trace. Now there is not a single boat at all near Mulujian Ferry. Even if there are boats coming and going, they always stick to the south bank.
With the rumbling sound of the motor, the black assault boat rolled up layers of white waves and drove towards the watermelon boat on the other side.
"Brother Ya Shui, someone is coming from the other side!"
Li Yashui poked his head out of the cabin and looked at the approaching black speedboat in surprise. What kind of boat was this? How could he run so fast?
"Are they from the Zheng family of Hongqi?" A soldier from Beihai Town asked in a low voice on the assault boat.
"Yes." Li Yashui nodded blankly.
"There are dozens of people behind us. Let's go as soon as they're all here!"
"Master Jun." Li Yashui shouted hesitantly: "There are so many of you, it's not going to be easy in Humen!"
The soldier who spoke first smiled and said: "Don't worry, we have amulets. If the officers and soldiers dare to stop us, they will be shot!"
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