The animal world of the head of the village

Chapter 490 Capture of Shanghai
Huang Xiaohu's army was stationed in Hangzhou. At the same time, Suzhou, Yangzhou and Changzhou each sent [-] troops to garrison, and also implemented the New Deal in time, that is, recruiting new soldiers and replenishing the source of troops on the spot.

This time Gu Quan needed to stay in Hangzhou, so Huang Xiaohu also delegated the power to Gu Quan and asked Gu Quan to designate Suzhou, Yangzhou and Changzhou as the assistant defenders.

Gu Quan's several generals were all promoted. Among them, Gu Quan's younger brother Gu Ming was in charge of guarding Yangzhou, Gu Quan's deputy Wan Ancai was in charge of guarding Suzhou, and one of Gu Quan's generals, Wang Hong, was in charge of guarding Changzhou.

In order to stabilize the defense around Hangzhou, Huang Xiaohu directly led the army to capture Jiaxing, and then sent a regiment-level general Fu Huan to guard Jiaxing.

Huang Xiaohu's 5000 troops, together with Gu Quan's 8000, lost a few thousand, and Jia Lin took away [-], leaving about [-] left.

In order to get in touch with Anqing as soon as possible, Huang Xiaohu mobilized [-] troops to attack Tongling, and captured Tongling in two days.

Then Huang Xiaohu secretly sent a message to Wei Zhijun, and directly led the troops to attack Anqing.

Sure enough, Wei Zhijun turned his back on the battle and led more than [-] soldiers to join Huang Xiaohu.

After Huang Xiaohu captured Anqing, he was not in a hurry to garrison. Instead, after two days of rest, he took Wei Zhijun with him and withdrew his troops and returned to Hangzhou.

At this time, Huang Xiaohu left all the soldiers and horses to Gu Quan, and he and Wei Zhijun just returned to Tianjing City with two thousand soldiers.

After returning to Tianjing City, Huang Xiaohu summoned Zhang Chaojue and Wei Zhijun alone to discuss the next steps.

Huang Xiaohu said: "Originally I planned to let Wei Zhijun lead troops to attack Bozhou, but because the military situation was urgent, I notified Ji Wu to lead troops to attack Bozhou in advance. Now that Bozhou has been captured, what do you think, Wei Zhijun?"

Wei Zhijun said: "Master Zhang has already made it clear to me that since someone Wei is willing to join the Dragon Society, he will naturally follow the orders of the President."

Huang Xiaohu said: "I have heard that General Wei Zhijun is also a strong general, so I discussed with Mr. Zhang that General Wei Zhijun will personally lead the army to fight. I wonder if you have any suggestions?"

Zhang Chaojue said: "General Wei, now is the time when Shenlong will employ people, and someone Zhang tried his best to recommend General Wei to the chairman. I hope General Wei will not disappoint the chairman!"

Wei Zhijun knelt down and said, "Please rest assured, my lord, I will never disappoint you."

Huang Xiaohu thought for a while, and then said: "Well, General Wei, you should go and garrison Anqing. I will give you [-] troops, is that enough?"

Wei Zhijun said: "If it is stationed in Anqing, I am afraid that 2 people are not enough."

Huang Xiaohu asked: "How many troops does General Wei need?"

Wei Zhijun thought for a while and said, "At least [-] troops are needed."

Seeing that Wei Zhijun was so cautious, Huang Xiaohu felt relieved, but he didn't want to directly give Wei Zhijun too many troops, so he fell silent at this time.

Zhang Chaojue already understood what Huang Xiaohu meant, so he knelt down and said, "My lord, Mr. Zhang is willing to recommend General Wei Zhijun. Although [-] soldiers and horses are indeed a lot, we really need enough troops to attack Tongling and Anqing and garrison Anqing." Soldiers and horses will do."

Seeing this, Huang Xiaohu had no choice but to agree, after all, he was a suspect who didn't need it, and the employer didn't doubt it.Since Huang Xiaohu decided to recruit Wei Zhijun, he naturally had to trust him, so Huang Xiaohu said to Wei Zhijun: "I can give you [-] soldiers and horses, but if you lose An Qing, it will be a matter of losing your head." .”

Wei Zhijun said: "My lord, please don't worry, with [-] troops, Anqing will definitely be able to defend."

Three days later, Huang Xiaohu personally dispatched 2 soldiers from the barracks to Wei Zhijun. At this time, there were only less than [-] soldiers in the barracks. The recruits recruited earlier, including [-] soldiers, were all recruited.

Wei Zhijun led an army of [-] to Tongling again, and Huang Xiaohu led [-] soldiers to Bozhou to join Ji Wu's army.

After Huang Xiaohu arrived in Bozhou, he learned that the British and French allied forces had won and planned to attack Beijing. At this time, Huang Xiaohu suddenly thought of the historical event of burning the Old Summer Palace, so he didn't want this tragedy to repeat itself, so he made an important decision , That is to attack Tianjin.

Although the British and French allied forces were small in number, they had strong ships and strong guns. Naturally, Huang Xiaohu would not fail to understand their combat effectiveness, so Huang Xiaohu was also fully prepared for the attack on Tianjin this time.

Huang Xiaohu personally led an army of 8000, and then Ji Wu led [-] as backup.

But all the way north, they kept fighting with the Qing army, and there seemed to be no signs of the Qing army's defeat.

After capturing the prisoners, Huang Xiaohu personally interrogated them, and only then did he know the truth.

It turned out that after thousands of British and French allied forces fought several battles with the Qing army in Tianjin, they forced the Qing Dynasty to sign a treaty, and then withdrew directly.

Huang Xiaohu is not familiar with history, although Zhao Yali is familiar with this period of history, but it would be too troublesome to ask Zhao Yali at this time, so Huang Xiaohu decided to take down Tianjin.

However, the Qing army defending Tianjin seems to have gotten the news and directly sent [-] troops to garrison. Therefore, Huang Xiaohu saw that he did not have an advantage in numbers, and spent too much energy to take down Tianjin. In the end, it was difficult to hold it. The soldiers withdrew to Bozhou.

Huang Xiaohu asked Ji Wu to garrison Bozhou with an army of [-], while he returned to Tianjing with only a few thousand soldiers.

After arriving in Tianjing, Zhang Chaojue came to report the good news that Tongling had been captured by Wei Zhijun again, and now that Wei Zhijun was besieging Anqing with heavy troops, it was probably only a matter of time before Anqing was captured.

After taking down Bozhou, it is also very beneficial for the Shenlonghui, because the siege of Weiyang has been lifted, so the army in the barracks between Weiyang and Panlong County can be drawn out.

According to Huang Xiaohu's wishes, Jia Lin personally mobilized [-] soldiers and horses, and then brought all of them to Daliang Town Barracks for final training.

A month later, Huang Xiaohu personally led the [-] troops to set off again, with the goal of Shanghai.

After arriving in Jiaxing, Huang Xiaohu learned that Gu Quan had captured Shaoxing and Wuxi, and was leading the army to attack Ningbo, so without delay, Huang Xiaohu sent troops directly to Nantong to assist Gu Quan in taking all the areas around Hangzhou.

An army of [-] attacked Nantong and broke through the city in three days. Then Huang Xiaohu's army spent two days in Nantong to repair.

Huang Xiaohu received good news in Nantong, saying that the defenders of Huzhou actually surrendered and surrendered to the Dragon Society. Gu Quan asked Huang Xiaohu how to deal with these surrendered generals. into the army.

After two days of rest, Huang Xiaohu's army began to attack Shanghai.

Huang Xiaohu's army captured Zhoushan in three days and approached Shanghai.

Gu Quan even led the army to solve Pinghu and captured Wujiang.

In less than ten days, Gu Quan had already sent another good news, taking Kunshan and Taicang.

At this time, Huang Xiaohu's army had directly attacked Shanghai, engaged in a bloody battle with the Qing army, and also encountered a foreign spear team composed of foreigners.

Fortunately, Huang Xiaohu's army also has a firearms team, so they fought each other with the foreign gun team, and it was barely a tie.

Huang Xiaohu's army is numerous and powerful, and he has always been invincible, and his momentum has completely gained the upper hand.

The Qing army was obviously not Huang Xiaohu's opponent, and after Huang Xiaohu's army wiped out the foreign gun team, they had already forced the Qing army back into the city.

This is the prelude to a fierce battle of fortifications. After ten days and ten nights of fierce fighting, Huang Xiaohu's army has captured Shanghai and encountered attacks from foreign ships.

In order to ease the situation, in fact, mainly to buy some time, Huang Xiaohu took the initiative to send people to negotiate with foreign embassy personnel. While ensuring that they would not interfere with their behavior and ensure their personal safety, he had drawn up contracts with foreign embassies. .

In fact, Huang Xiaohu had no choice but to do so, because there were many foreign cruise ships moored in the ports, especially Yangshan Port, as well as many warships and warships.Huang Xiaohu is extremely greedy for these cruise ships and warships, so he doesn't want to drive them away, and also wants to buy a few more warships, so he can only temporarily compromise with the foreigners.

A few days later, the army of the Dragon Society completely captured Shanghai, and reached friendly agreements with foreign embassies, not only guaranteeing their safety, but also expressing that they would protect their rights and interests.

The Shenlong Society also made a show, so the foreigners felt that Shanghai could still be developed. They didn't evacuate immediately, but asked Huang Xiaohu to meet, hoping to reach some cooperation in some aspects.

Naturally, Huang Xiaohu never refused any requests from foreigners to meet, and mainly wanted to discuss with them the purchase of warships and warships.

After repeated communication and negotiation, Huang Xiaohu finally understood that, except for Germany, it seems that Britain and France are not willing to sell warships and warships to the Dragon Society, and the people in Britain and France are all very proud and arrogant. Put Shenlonghui in your eyes.

Of course Huang Xiaohu would not get angry with them, but secretly called the German Harbot to his army to discuss.

Accompanied by interpreters, of course, as well as Harbot himself and his wife Dove.

(The following conversations have all been translated into Chinese.)
Huang Xiaohu said: "Shenlong Society admires Germany's shipbuilding technology very much, and hopes to buy ocean-going combat ships, that is, first-class or even top-level ironclad ships. Can you communicate with me?"

Hubbert said: "I need to go back and discuss this, but it's not a big problem. I just don't know if the chairman has that much money?"

Huang Xiaohu asked: "How much money will it cost?"

Harbot said: "It is estimated that a battleship, that is, a first-class ironclad ship, will cost about 150 million taels of silver."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Money is not a problem, as long as you can help me settle it, I will naturally not treat you badly."

After saying this, Huang Xiaohu asked his subordinates to bring a box of gold and silver jewelry to Mrs. Harbot directly. The moment he opened the box, Dove's eyes lit up green.

Seeing Huang Xiaohu's generosity, Harbot immediately said: "Master President, please give me some time, and I will reply you as soon as possible. As long as you have enough money, let alone a first-class battleship, it is considered an aircraft." You can buy them all."

Huang Xiaohu knew that it was useless to buy the plane, because there was no suitable pilot, but the first-class battleship was different, and these could be very practical.

Ten days later, Harbot came to the barracks again to discuss this matter with Huang Xiaohu.

It turned out that Harbot was bullied by the French and wanted Huang Xiaohu to help him out.

Naturally, Huang Xiaohu knew how to do it. He secretly sent people to kill the French who bullied Harbot. Although the French and the British protested, Huang Xiaohu ignored it and said that he would investigate further.

(End of this chapter)