African Nationhood

In order to make the city of Lisbon even more chaotic, the Huang family captured some civilians to serve as leading parties, and asked these leading parties to lead a platoon of soldiers to release the criminals imprisoned in the prison.

Their platoon will stay in the city and specialize in wreaking havoc, causing the entire city to fall into complete chaos.

Huang Youcai and the others found an outlet called "Portugal General Savings Bank" in the northeast of Lisbon. When they opened the bank, they only found some Portuguese banknotes, but no gold at all.

The Huang family, feeling greatly unlucky, immediately left with the leading party. They could not attack the city directly yet, and letting the city become chaotic would be conducive to fishing in troubled waters.

Huang Youcai, who returned to his base camp, asked his men who knew Portugal to interrogate the leading party, and then drew a detailed map of the city, focusing on marking the banks and the home addresses of the rich.

Then Huang Youcai asked his men to slow down their attack on the target, while he went back to catch up on his sleep.

The rumbling artillery stopped, and both sides fell into a brief calm.

The fighting on land slowed down, and so did the fighting at sea.

After the captain of the 10,000-ton battleship discovered that both cruisers were about to be sunk, he did not dare to hold on any longer and directly retreated to the harbor.

Ou Haiwa did not pursue it. After all, without destroying the coastal defense artillery, it was impossible for the warship to gain any advantage under the attack of the coastal defense artillery.

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At night, the Nanhua mercenaries discovered that there was a fire burning in the city of Lisbon.

The Huang family just smiled. The team he had left in the city had worked.

The fire burned quickly and very loudly, and the entire night sky was illuminated red.

Ou Haiwa at sea also discovered the fire in Lisbon. After hearing the news, Minister Cucero ran to Ou Haiwa regardless of wearing pajamas and asked him to give orders to the attacking troops on land and let Huang Jiacai's troops enter the city to put out the fire. .

Ou Haiwa looked at the long-faced Portuguese minister as if he were a fool.

"I'm sorry, it's difficult for us to fulfill this request. We can't guess what the situation is like there now. We can only wait until dawn to see."

Minister Kusero looked at the red city with a look of sadness on his face, but he was helpless.

……

At this time, Huang Jiacai's troops had already invaded Lisbon city.

When the Republican garrison outside the city saw a fire breaking out inside the city, they couldn't possibly hold on any longer, so they dispersed long ago.

After discovering that the defenders were dispersed, Huang Youcai led another 1000 people into Lisbon at night, following the daytime route.

They were all specially dressed and wore hoods instead of military uniforms.

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The city was in complete chaos, with fighting and gunfire everywhere.

People's cries and howls can be heard everywhere, and many civilians are organizing firefighting.

Huang Youcai and his group killed all the rioters they encountered along the way.

The fire in the city was started by the Nanhua mercenary squad. However, as the fire burned more and more fiercely, it was not the responsibility of the Nanhua mercenary squad.

The fire fueled the crimes and desires of the mob. If their troops wanted to fish in troubled waters, they had to take advantage of tonight. It would be too late tomorrow.

They said to their men: "Everyone try not to show our accents during the operation, and collect antiquities and property in the city according to the map drawn during the day.

Things need to be done cleanly and neatly, no one is left alive, and the property earned is divided into accounts 3:7.

It is now 8 o'clock in the evening, we will gather here at 4 o'clock in the morning, and anyone who is late will be subject to military law! "

"Yes!"

After Huang Youcai gave the order, he led a battalion under his command and headed southwest.

The city of Lisbon originally developed along the harbor of the Tejo River, so the best buildings in the city are all on the side of the Tejo River.

The north side of the city is the civilian area, and the real rich and powerful live on the south side of the city.

The fire in the city directly blurred the boundaries between civilian areas and wealthy areas, and they were easily confused as they rushed into the night. The target of Huang Youcai's team was a museum founded in 1884.

Located on the banks of the Tejo River, this museum occupies two eighteenth-century buildings, the palace of the Counts of Alvor and the Convent of San Alberto.

Because we had to avoid rioters and be prepared for fire, the eight hours was quite stressful.

They didn't forget to collect transportation along the way. It would be best if they could meet a carriage.

It took them nearly 2 hours to travel from the northeast to the southwest of the city. When they arrived at the museum, they found that everything here was in good condition and the fire had not burned here.

Huang Youcai directly ordered his men to take action. He took an explosive bag and placed it at the gate of the museum and lit the fuse.

After the "chichi" sound, there was a "boom~" explosion, and a big hole was blown out of the wooden door.

There were anxious scoldings and the sound of firecrackers coming back from the museum.

The soldiers under his command did not need to give any orders, they just rushed into the museum with their guns in hand.

"Bang bang~"

The sound of gunshots was heard constantly. Huang Youcai waited at the entrance of the museum for a while, and then one of his men brought a bald Portuguese man in a suit over.

"Where is the collection?"

Although the bald grape man was frightened, he still understood English, "I can tell you, please let go of my and my family's names."

"Okay, take us there."

Soon the bald Portuguese led the soldiers to open the door of the vault, and the paintings and some antiquities were carefully stored.

Huang Youcai looked at the exquisite blue and white porcelain in the box. At this time, he finally understood why Chairman Shi asked him to collect antiquities.

These Chinese treasures have wandered into foreign lands, and it is time to take them back.

As for some Japanese and European-style paintings, he didn't know much about them, but that didn't stop him from taking these collections away.

There was also a carriage in the museum, and his soldiers began to hitch the carriage, and then moved the museum's collections to the carriage one by one.

The few remaining Portuguese were tied up, strictly prohibited from speaking, and imprisoned in a room.

As time passed, two hours passed quickly.

The collection was almost done moving, and the soldiers gathered all the corpses in the museum together and burned them together with the collection that could not be moved.

Huang Youcai also carefully ordered his soldiers to break some porcelain.

After the main part of the museum burned down, Huang Youcai's team carefully drove the carriage back towards where they came from.

When they arrived at the meeting point, they found that they still had some time to spare.

Huang Youcai directed his men to use the previously bombed bank branch as a warehouse to hide the moved antiquities. While counting the harvest of each team, he also counted his men.

An inventory found that the soldiers sent out lost more than ten people.

Most of them were beaten to death by the guards of the rich families, and each team brought back the bodies of these sacrificed soldiers.

Huang Youcai comforted him and then checked the harvest of each team.

Because it involves antiquities, the specific value is difficult to calculate, so we can only list the items.

This time, a total of 10.24 ounces of gold and 2413 pieces of antiquities were harvested, including various types of porcelain, gold and silver utensils, and paintings.

The largest number of these antiquities are paintings, European oil paintings and Asian paintings, and the other is ancient oriental porcelain.

After reading this list, Huang Youcai felt slightly happy, thinking that he should be able to make a deal.

Next, they only need to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive. At dawn, the follow-up troops set out to enter the city. (End of chapter)