Yi Zhishu glanced at Bao Shichen with some surprise, and didn't understand what this meant for a while? Hai Ling and Xiao Shunwu have been killed by Monk Greenqin in front of the shopkeepers of the Yuanqi Zhenjiang Branch, and the head has also been sent to Chen Hongming, the second regiment stationed in Changzhou Mansion, what else can he do, after all, there are no casualties in the Zhenjiang Branch, and there is no loss of money. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, after a slight change of thought, he reacted, what was Bao Shichen worried about, the matter of Zhenjiang, Monk Greenqin killed decisively, handled it cleanly, and intentionally or unintentionally increased Yuanqi's prestige, but why did Monk Greenqin do this? The reason is very simple, the battle of Jiangning is inseparable from the support of Yuanqi at the moment, not only in terms of financial support, but more importantly, Yuanqi's team training!

If it weren't for the fact that the five thousand elites of the Yuanqi regiment were stationed in Jiangsu, it would have the most direct impact on the success or failure of the Battle of Jiangning, and this matter could have been another result! Even if it is dealt with according to the normal situation, he will stand up to the sky, that is, Hailing and Xiaoshun Wu will be dismissed, and the lock will be taken into Beijing to ask for guilt, even if he is dissatisfied, he will not be able to find a thorn.

Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, the reason why this matter can have such a satisfactory result is completely based on Yuanqi's strong financial resources and Yuanqi's strong combat power, these two foundations are indispensable, if it is Jiangning's battle, Yuanqi's strength will be greatly damaged, and it will collapse, what will happen to Yuanqi? This is a wake-up call for the helmsman of Yi Zhizhi, who is content with this yuanqi!

After smoking a cigar silently, Yi Zhizhi said, "If Mr. has something to say, you might as well say it clearly." ”

Seeing that he was silent for a long time before he spoke, Bao Shichen didn't go around in circles, and said straightforwardly: "The battle of Jiangning can be said to be a ....... that Dong Weng tried his best to promote. ”

Yi Zhizu nodded and said, "Sir, don't worry, this matter will not affect or change Yuanqi Tuanlian's attitude towards the battle of Jiangning." ”

Hearing him say this, Bao Shichen sighed, "It's not easy to grasp this degree..... ”

Yi Zhishu smiled secretly in his heart, not only is it difficult to grasp, but he can't grasp it at all, the war is together, how can he think, the imperial court, the British army, and the local government, one side is out of control, this battle is out of control, even if it is Yuan Qi under his control, he doesn't dare to say that there is no accident, Zhenjiang matter, if Seng Lingqin handles it properly, he doesn't dare to guarantee that he won't get angry, after all, this kind of thing has touched his bottom line.

Baoshan County Ya, lobby.

Bartley, a major general of the British Army, who leaned over to check the map, picked up the cup casually, and as soon as he drank a sip of water into his mouth, he noticed an unpleasant fishy smell, and immediately spit it out, and said dissatisfiedly: "What kind of water is this?" Can you drink it? Call Captain Brown for a trip. ”

Captain Blanc was in charge of logistics, in fact, there was still a little storage of clean fresh water, but he didn't dare to use it, so it was prepared for the wounded and sick, and he walked quickly into the lobby, and he saluted: "General-." ”

"Tell me, Captain, what kind of water is this?"

"General, this is river water, and it is the only water we can drink now." Blanc hurriedly said: "The entire Wusong county, including Baoshan County, has now found unclean water sources, and all wells and rivers have been polluted. ”

"It's these tricks again, damn pigtails." Bartley scolded angrily.

Blanc continued: "General, not only fresh water, vegetables, fruits, and fresh meat will be cut off from today, but those who go out to buy, whether it is soldiers or local people, will have no ..... to return. ”

Bartley realized the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly asked, "How many soldiers have you lost?" ”

"Report to the general, I heard that two groups of soldiers did not return to ...... for more than a day." Blanc said softly: "There are more than one hundred and sixty people who have diarrhea because they have drunk unclean water. ”

Bartlet's face was a little ugly, the fresh water is not a big problem, although the river water in Haikou smells a little fishy, after all, it is barely drinkable, but it is cut off from fresh vegetables, fruits and meat, this is not a small trouble, the fleet is attacking Jiangning along the river, God knows how long it will take, a month or even two or three months is possible, there is no fresh vegetables, fruits and meat for such a long time, his soldiers will be likely to be infected with terrible scurvy on a large scale.

As he was pondering, Yilu walked in quickly with Navy Captain Sean, and as soon as he entered, Yilu asked directly: "Captain Brown, I heard that fresh vegetables and fruits and clean fresh water are no longer available in the barracks?" ”

"Yes." Blanc saluted and said calmly: "It is better for the river water to be precipitated before boiling, and according to reports, there are a large number of rotting corpses upstream, including human and animal ones." ”

Hearing this, Bartlet suddenly felt like vomiting, and Yilu said in a deep voice: "Can't you think of a way?" ”

Blanc closed his mouth tightly, this kind of thing was not within his scope of responsibility, Yilu turned his head to look at Captain Sean and said, "Can you send a battleship to clear it?" ”

Sean hesitated for a moment before he said, "The rotting corpse area should be in the shallow water area." The Army may be more convenient. ”

Wujia Village is not far from the upper reaches of Baoshan County, it is also seven or eight miles away, there is a large area of rotting corpses on the river, there are pigs, cattle, sheep and fish and some of them are human corpses, some drift down from the upstream, and some are from the battlefield, carefully observe, you can also vaguely see that these rotting corpses are tied with ropes, and they are also circled with fishing nets around them, which is to prevent them from being eaten by fish.

The weather was very hot, and the corpses soaked in the river emitted a foul smell that could be smelled from afar, and not far from the river, a volunteer with a circle of weeds on his head was lying in a simple trench and looking out with a telescope.

In the slightly shady trenches hidden by wooden planks, a group of volunteers held guns and chatted without a word, "Will those foreign devils take the bait?" It's afternoon. ”

"That's it, this smell is too bad, foreign devils don't take the bait, and our crime will be in vain."

"What's the hurry? If you don't come today, you will come tomorrow. Company commander Weng Yousheng took the grass root in his mouth and said, "Wusong's foreign devils can only drink the water ..... in this big river now." He raised his chin to the river and said, "Is that water drinkable?" ”

"Isn't there still the Huangpu River?"

"You're smart?" Weng Changsheng said angrily: "There are rotting corpses in the Huangpu River. ”

"Company commander, here, here." The sentry shouted softly.

Weng Changsheng hurriedly bent over and took a look at the binoculars, and sure enough, a group of British troops were rushing towards them, and after watching for a while, he commanded in a low voice: "Observe carefully and see how many people come." With that, he hurried back and said in a deep voice: "Prepare for battle, remember, no orders, no heads, no shots." ”

Smelling the smell of corpses from afar, Captain Paul, the British captain who led the team, raised his vigilance, and when he saw clearly the large area of rotting corpses on the river surface from the telescope, he couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach, and the water they drank was the river water downstream of this rotting corpse!

"Be on guard!" Shen Sheng commanded, he just looked around, such a large piece of rotting corpses, it must have taken a lot of energy, the other party could not be unguarded, however, except for a dozen scattered mounds of large and small on the riverside, there seemed to be nothing abnormal, he especially paid attention to the trenches, but he didn't find that the terrain here was flat, at a glance, there was nothing to obstruct, if there were trenches, it could definitely be seen at a glance.

"Someone." Paul instructed, "Go and check the mound." ”

In the trenches, the sentry reported softly: "Company commander, more than 200 people are here, it should be two companies." ”

As soon as they heard that two companies had come, the atmosphere in the trenches suddenly became a little solemn, and many volunteers looked at the company commander Weng Changsheng with some timidity, in the battle in the northern suburbs of the county, they knew that these British troops were not muddy, and their combat quality was not a little bit higher than them.

Seeing the expressions of everyone, Weng Changsheng said disdainfully: "Let Lao Tzu play with his hands and feet, this trap has been laid for several days, but we are not the only ones who are even here." ”

More than a dozen British soldiers cautiously stepped forward and circled around the dozen mounds, but they didn't find anything, and immediately made a safe gesture to the back, what's going on? Is there no one to guard this area? This doesn't make sense! Paul wondered, looked around, and then led the bulk forward.

The British army of the brigade was able to walk in front of the largest mound, and Weng Changsheng shouted, "Fight!" ”

With this loud shout, the volunteers in the trenches lifted the planks above their heads, and a musket stretched out from the trenches, and before the British troops came to their senses, the dense gunshots rang out, and at a distance of 100 meters, the volunteers who had experienced a real battle played much stronger this time, and a round of salvo fire, they knocked down twenty or thirty.

Just when all the attention of the British army was focused on the front, and a trench seemed to be exposed out of thin air a hundred meters away on the left, Sun Zhankui, the commander of the eighth company of the third regiment, said in a relaxed tone, and said unhurriedly: "Give priority to the officers, they are all aimed at me to fight, and I can't let one slip through the net." ”

When he found a row of black muzzles on the left side, Paul was terrified, and for a while he didn't know how to organize a counterattack.

In the trench on the left, this company is the Yuanqi Regiment Training Three Regiments and Eight Companies, all with Mini guns, a distance of 100 meters, facing a row of stupidly standing targets, basically one hit and one accurate.

The guns in the frontal trenches were all overjoyed and calm, and under the orders of their respective squad leaders, they loaded their ammunition in an orderly manner, and soon, the guns rang out again.

Under the attack of the two sides, especially when the Yuan Qi regiment deliberately took care of the British officers, the two companies of the British army were beaten and broken before they could organize an effective counterattack, and the British army, which had lost its commander, collapsed and fled on its own in a blink of an eye, but under the care of the Minnie gun, none of them could escape.

In less than five minutes, the battle ended, and Sun Zhankui urged repeatedly: "Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, as long as guns and ammunition!" ”

Weng Changsheng asked, "What about the wounded?" Do you want to kill it? ”

Rolling his eyes, Sun Zhankui said: "Kill them all, use a bayonet to make up for the knife, and leave no one alive." As he spoke, he waved his hand, "All the corpses were thrown into the river, and the movements were numb, so we must evacuate as soon as possible." ”

After the order, Weng Changsheng said with a regretful face: "It's a pity, after preparing for so many days, it will be scrapped after a battle." ”

"Don't you kid..... Satisfy. He originally meant to be content, but in order to avoid being content, he temporarily changed his words, "Annihilate two companies!" How many of them are hurt? In the first battle in the northern suburbs, the British army only suffered 300 casualties, and the hard work of these days is not worth it? ”

Soon, the battlefield was cleaned up, and after the platoon commander reported in the dark clouds, he hesitated: "Do you want to cut off the head, this is all military merit!" ”

Sun Zhankui glanced at him and said, "Are you planning to repay the big shopkeeper?" Or do you want to repay the merits of the imperial court? ”

After a pause, the dark clouds hesitated and said, "This can't be repaid to the imperial court?" Two hundred and forty-six people, this is a great victory! ”

Sun Zhankui pointed in the direction of Wu Song and said, "What a big victory is this!" Where are there still five thousand British troops, nonsense, hurry up and withdraw from the battlefield! ”

Weng Changsheng slapped the back of his head and said angrily: "What are you still doing?" Evacuate quickly. So many guns and ammunition are not enough for you to repay the credit? ”

Baoshan County Ya Hall.

In the first battle of Wujia Village, two companies of British troops were completely annihilated, after hearing the report, Bartley was speechless for a long time, he really didn't expect that Yuan Qi Tuanlian was so bold that he dared to ambush under their noses, and completely annihilated his two companies in just a few minutes, and quickly transferred.

Yilu hurriedly walked in and said, "It only took a few minutes to hear the gunshots, and all the two companies were annihilated?" ”

Nodding his head, Bartlet said, "There wasn't a single one left alive." After speaking, he thought that he had suddenly come to his senses, and hurriedly shouted to the outside world: "Someone, pass my order, quickly inform all the teams outside, and all rush back to the camp." He was really a little scared, if he came out like that again, he wouldn't know how to explain it to Pu Dingcha.

Yilu's face was gloomy and silent, he was able to annihilate the two regular companies cleanly in just a few minutes, and the combat power of Yuanqi's regimental training was obviously not as bad as they thought, but in the battle in the northern suburbs of Shanghai, the combat power displayed by the other party seemed to be nothing more than that.

Bartley looked at Yilu and said: "Obviously, the other party is good at small-scale attacks, we can't send a small team out, I hope that the Dinghai defenders can provide us with a large number of vegetables and fruits, otherwise after a long time, the soldiers will suffer from scurvy." ”

Slowly shaking his head, Yilu said, "Impossible." The Qing army has all recovered Shaoxing and Ningbo, and now the defenders of Dinghai are facing the same situation as us. ”

Bartley was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Yilu silently, how to solve this situation now? Ten days and a half months is okay to say, you can't go without vegetables and fruits for a month or two, God knows how long it will take to fight Jiangning, and after a long silence, he spoke: "Or, in a few days send troops to rob on the other side?" ”

Yilu nodded and said, "It's best to buy it at a high price, these Qing people are mercenary." (To be continued.) )