On Kinmen Island, it's starting to get a little embattled. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info not only the soldiers at the bottom, but even the generals have begun to seek a way out.

It's right to think about it! Many of the chief soldiers of Kinmen Town were originally from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, to be precise, most of them came from Tong'an and Xiamen. As a soldier, he didn't care so much, he was just trying to eat, rushing to get promoted and make a fortune, but now he saw that the Manchu and Qing dynasties were unstable, the entire south, Liangguang was occupied, the Yangtze River was captured, and even the city of Nanjing was lost, and now Fujian has begun to be unstable. It's time to think about a way out. Many people who feel that they have a vision begin to think about the way forward.

Chen Dingao, the chief soldier of Kinmen Town, is such a person.

Chen Dingao is nearly 50 years old, and his family has a 70-year-old mother and several children and grandchildren. I thought that after defeating the naval division of the capture army from Guangdong, I would be able to go back to my home on Xiamen Island to rest, but I never thought that Xiamen Island would be occupied by the rebel army of the Little Knife Society.

The most odious thing is that these heinous bandits and hooligans actually colluded with the Guangdong thieves in Guangdong, and unexpectedly took all their family members and relatives hostage and used them to threaten themselves, which is really despicable.

At Chen Dingao's age, he can see everything very clearly, nothing matters, only family members are the most important.

Think about it, as a military general, a high-ranking official of the second grade, he is almost at the end of his life among the Han people, and he cannot be promoted. But now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to fall, he can't be destroyed with it.

As a last resort, Chen Dingao secretly sent two personal guards, holding a secret letter written by him, to sneak to Xiamen in a small boat, to contact the captive army, preparing to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty, respond to the captive army, and only seek to treat their families well and retain their official positions.

The next morning, Luo Xuan received a secret letter from Chen Dingao.

It was learned that Chen Dingao, the chief soldier of Kinmen Town, was willing to surrender. Luo outline is overjoyed! After calling two guards to reward and encourage them, he sent one guard as a secret envoy to return to Kinmen Island with Chen Dingao's two personal guards, and persuaded Chen Dingao to do something for the forts on Kinmen Island, and agreed to lead the naval division of the captive army to attack the naval division of the Qing army in Kinmen two days later.

He hurriedly ordered people to treat Chen Dingao's mother, children and grandchildren and other family members special and take good care of them.

In the morning, the foreigner came to see him again.

Since there are no warships in Xiamen at present, there are only two armed merchant ships, which are docked in the bay between Gulangyu Island and the concession, guarding to prevent them from being mixed into the civil war between the Qing army and the captive army. The more than 100 British soldiers in the concession area were also strictly patrolled.

The highly nervous British consul in Xiamen, Leighton, the US consul in Xiamen, Bailley, the Norwegian consul in Xiamen, and the chargé d'affaires of Tak Kee and Hutchison, which were founded by British businessmen in Xiamen, were afraid that the rebels and others would attack the concession along the coastal flats along the inner harbor of Xiamen Island that they had just leased last year, and that the begging army was also stationed in Xiamen.

Luo Outline and Lin Fengxiang met with these foreigners headed by the British Consul Leighton, and Layton submitted a note to Luo Outline.

Leighton was a China expert, and he asked someone to present a box of gifts, and then respectfully proposed: "General Luo, please restrain your army and assist our soldiers in guarding the concession, and be sure not to let the mob infringe on the interests of other countries." ”

"Mr. Consul, your Minister Mr. Wen Han has already made an agreement with my Holy King, so please rest assured Mr. Leighton. The soldiers of the captives will not encroach on the concessions of the countries, nor will they riot the city of Xiamen. However, as for the matter of guarding the concession, then I am sorry, my captive army has never received rent, so I am not obliged to help your country defend the concession. Luo Xuan replied neither softly nor hard.

Layton's face turned ugly. However, Luo Xuan's next words, and then he had a smile on his face again.

"Mr. Consul, if you can convince the gentlemen of all nations to sell some surplus weapons, such as muskets and ammunition, to my brethren, I think they will be happy to help you defend the concession." Luo Xuan's loyal face revealed a bit of cunning, and he smiled: "You know, my brothers, without weapons, they can't defeat the mob. ”

"No problem! I'm going to ask them to sell some weapons at a low price. As soon as Layton heard about the business, he became normal.

In the afternoon of the same day, the consuls of various countries squeezed out more than 600 Brown Bess flintlock muskets from the arsenals of their respective guards, and sold them to Luo Xuan at a price of 10 taels of silver each. Luo Xuan handed over all these foreign guns that had been obtained by accident to Lin Fengxiang in accordance with the principle of concentration of firepower that Feng Yunshan said, and asked the First Division A to assemble them.

Lin Fengxiang also purchased enough ammunition primers from the consuls of various countries, which not only replenished the ammunition consumed by the 1st Division A, but also added a lot.

It is a pity that the consulates of Xiamen countries do not have artillery stocks. It was Luo Outline, who set his sights on the cannons on the armed merchant ship, but the foreigners refused to sell them, but in the end, they couldn't resist Luo Outline's domineering, and sent dozens of shells before they were willing to rest.

Two days later, Luo Xuan and Liang Peiyou led nearly 300 warships to attack the Kinmen Town General Military Office again.

Chen Dingao, the commander-in-chief of Kinmen Town, had already made good preparations and quietly removed all the Qing troops stationed at the forts on Little Kinmen Island, and then used the two forts on the Great Kinmen Island to fill the barrels with mud, sand and gravel, making it impossible to open artillery.

Then, when the appointed time came, Chen Dingao led more than 70 large and small warships and nearly 3,000 Qing army soldiers to quietly sail out of the water village and go north.

At the same time, two teams of water divisions, the 5th Division A and the 5th Division B, surrounded Xiaojinmen Island, one south and one north. Unloading an infantry regiment and an artillery regiment of the 1st Division of the 1st Division, the battery on the island of Little Kinmen was quickly occupied.

At this time, Shi Degao, the commander of the Fujian sailors on Dajinmen Island, had received the news that the Cantonese thief sailors were attacking again. He immediately raised his account and ordered troops to prepare for battle. However, he was told that Chen Dingao, the chief soldier of Kinmen, led his men to drive the warship to the north.

Shi was tall and shocked! He immediately realized that something was wrong, announced that all the Qing soldiers in Kinmen Town would be replaced, and sent his own guards as a supervising team to urge the Qing soldiers of the other three towns of Moswan, Haitan, and Funing to resist.

By the time he led the rest of the three towns warship fleet out, the naval division of the captured army had already attacked in front of him. The two sides were engaged in an artillery battle, although there were many ships in the naval division, but they were generally small red single warships, and there were not many artillery guns, and Luo Xuan returned to Nanao because of the damage of two Western warships, and this time the other three warships were put behind, so in front of the three towns warships of the Fujian Naval Division, they were slightly weak.

However, Luo Xuan himself was not prepared to fight hard with the Qing army's sailors. (To be continued.) )