The second update, is there still a monthly pass? Can you support Rollo a little bit more?

Lantau Island, a large island in the southwest of Hong Kong Island, is the choke point of the Lung Gu Waterway that controls the flow of the Pearl River. Since the Qianlong period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Guangdong Navy Division has built the Tung Chung City in the Tung Chung area of Lantau Island, with 6 large general cannons to control the nearby sea traffic, and it is also the station of the Guangdong Navy Division Dapeng Right Battalion.

The establishment of the green battalion in the Qing Dynasty was very chaotic and not standardized, and the so-called "one battalion of soldiers" was sometimes more and sometimes less, with more than 2,000 and as little as 1,200. The number of people on the books of this Dapeng Right Battalion stationed on Lantau Island should be 518, which is about the same as a battalion of the modern Western-style army. However, the green battalion soldiers are completely different from the modern army, they are the "world military system", that is, the kind where the father dies and the son replaces, and the soldier has to be a soldier for a lifetime. Moreover, the salary of the green camp is meager, and the officials have a lot of deductions, which is not enough to support their families. Before the Opium War, the right battalion of Dapeng on Lantau Island was prosperous for a while, because at that time, the opium smuggling ships entering and leaving the Pearl River had to provide them with supplies, even if they were ordinary soldiers, there were also good fields and beautiful houses on the land of Guangdong. If you want to make up for the right battalion of Dapeng as a soldier, you can't do it without one or two thousand taels of filial piety.

However, after the Opium War, the right battalion of this Dapeng quickly weakened. Not only is it because during the Opium War, the officers and men of this battalion were almost wiped out, but more importantly, the reason is that the Western merchant ships entering and leaving the Pearl River no longer pay attention to the anti-smuggling ships of the Guangdong Navy Division off the coast of Guangdong, just to give bribes, and they will also pay after entering the Pearl River.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the right battalion of Dapeng stationed here had no choice but to seek some way to survive. There are not many soldiers on duty here in Tung Chung City. Those who still did not go out to look for money in Tung Chung City except for the officers were some old soldiers, and the green battalion of the Qing army implemented the world military system. The service period is extremely long, and these veterans have served in the right battalion of Dapeng for many years. During the Opium War, he was too old to go to the battlefield, so he survived. The reason why these people are still serving as soldiers is actually to seek a protective umbrella for their family industry - although the green battalion soldiers are not as valuable as the masters, they are still quite brave in group fights. The local squires did not dare to oppress them, otherwise the family and the green camp would be suspected of pulling the flag and rebelling.

Although still in the barracks. But these veterans neither trained nor patrolled, but set up gambling tables and shouted and drank every day.

On November 8, 1846, the old man Du Si, who stayed on Tung Chung Island to take the head of the camp, Wang Jinbao and Wang Da Master, was taking the lead in gambling here. His hand was smooth, and the winning bets had been piled up on the table, and it was when he was in high spirits, and the family members at the bottom ran over with a roll, and shouted panting from a distance: "Master, master." Oh no! ”

Master Wang was in a bad mood and glared at him, "Your master and I are fine!" , big things will wait until I'm done gambling on them! ”

The family thought to themselves. When you're done gambling on this, it's too late to run for your life. Thinking of this, he hurriedly reported to Wang Jinbao: "Li Ashui from Tai O Village sent someone to report. It is said that hundreds of vicious pirates are landing, and three Western armed merchant ships have been found in the bay north of Tung Chung City! ”

"Hundreds of pirates! Three Western-armed merchant ships," Wang Dusi jumped up. Even the gambling table was brought down, and the chip gambling equipment was scattered. Several veterans who had gambled with him heard the news. They all exclaimed in surprise and ran outside. Wang Jinbao shouted: "What are you panicking about!" Aren't they just hundreds of pirates? Can they still break through this Tung Chung city? ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a bang, and someone seemed to be putting a gun in the distance. Immediately afterward, the gunshots rang out. As soon as Wang Jinbao's legs were weak, he was about to sit on the ground, but his family helped him, "Master, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" ”

"Yes, yes, we must keep Qingshan!" Wang Jinbao took a deep breath and listened to the direction of the gunshot, "The pirates are coming from the west, and the sea route is also blocked, so we can only go through the south gate and hide in the Dadong Mountain." Several of his veterans breathed a sigh of relief, and they all flew out of the house and ran to the south gate, regardless of the silver dollars scattered on the ground.

At the same time, on the hillside outside the south gate of Tung Chung City, Zhu Jishi and Su Yuniang had just trotted over with three companies of infantry. After landing at Tai O Fishing Village, the 12 companies of the Chai Shi Army marched east along the coastline. Divided into two in the east of Tung Chung City, Han Si commanded three infantry companies, one light infantry company, one artillery company, and one engineer company to deploy on the west side of Tung Chung City, personally led three infantry companies to detour back to the hillside outside the south gate of Tung Chung City, and let Lao Peel and Zuo Zongtang command three companies to lurk outside the east gate of Tung Chung City. Just waiting for the Qing soldiers in the city to be scared out by Han Si.

"Are they really going to abandon the city?"

The soldiers below were still lined up, Zhu Jishi stood under the shade of a tree, stretching his neck and looking at the city of Tung Chung - the city wall is not high, but it is a stone city, built with large stones, the 9-pounder cannon brought to the island by Jishi Army this time is only afraid that it will not move, if you want to take a ladder to attack the city, the loss will not be small. As long as the Qing soldiers defending the city are not stupid, they will not abandon the city and drill into the mountains, right?

"Grandpa, you just put 120 hearts, the Qing soldiers in Tung Chung City will not defend but will run away." Su Yuniang arranged the formation of the following three companies, and respectfully guarded Zhu Jishi's side. This woman is now a member of Daming Mountain, and has sworn allegiance to obey Zhu Da's thief. Moreover, he was also a lieutenant colonel officer under Zhu Jishi, and she led the operation of Jihua to attack Lantau Island. Before formulating Jihua, she had been on Lantau Island and conducted a make-up reconnaissance of Tung Chung City, and she had already had a thorough understanding of the troop strength inside.

"There will be no more than 200 defenders in Tung Chung City, and the generals and guerrillas are not here, only one is led by the commander. In addition to the 6 old cannons, there are only shotguns and knives and spears, and the cannons are aimed at the sea, so they can't hit us. Even if those Qing soldiers take the wrong medicine and have to hold on, their subordinates can take down with a charge, and they will keep it for you to spend the night in Tung Chung City tonight. ”

Zhu Jishi glanced at the beautiful woman who was wearing a gray military uniform and still couldn't cover her graceful demeanor, and said in his heart, the night is long, it would be good if there was a beauty to accompany him.

"Come out, grandpa, the Qing soldiers are out of the city!" Su Yuniang's shout pulled Zhu Jishi's mind back to the battlefield. He fixed his eyes and looked, sure enough, the south gate of Tung Chung City had been pushed open, and dozens of people wearing the clothes of Qing officers and soldiers were running out in a panic, most of them did not bring weapons, it seemed that this battle was really easy to win.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot!" Su Yuniang shouted, "Get on the bayonet, rush up, catch it alive!" After giving the order, she turned her head and smiled at Zhu Jishi, and explained: "The veterans in Tung Chung City all have some net worth, and if they catch them, they can exchange money, and a veteran has at least a thousand taels!" ”

It's really a Gu family! Zhu Jishi thought unexpectedly that such a haode woman could not let her stay widowed forever (Su Yuniang was a widow), and he must take the responsibility of taking care of her......

"Brothers, follow me!"

Su Yuniang didn't know what her allegiance to Sir Zhu was thinking, her whole energy was on the battlefield, and when she saw that the soldiers of the three companies below were all holding the smoothbore guns with bayonets on them, she also pulled out her saber, walked quickly to the front of the queue, and took the lead in the charge!

"Master, it's not good! We've got it! ”

Wang Jinbao Wang Dadusi was running down the hillside in a daze, when he heard his family roaring again, and when he looked up, he saw that in the woods not far ahead, I don't know when three teams of soldiers poured out! A gray military uniform, a gray military hat (you don't wear a straw hat when you arrive in Hong Kong), all with foreign guns in their hands, and bright bayonets!

"Master, run back!" The family said in a trembling voice. "There are thieves ahead!"

Wang Jinbao said with a crying voice: "I can't run, master, I really want to be loyal to the court this time......" As he spoke, he was about to reach out and pull out his waist knife, which meant that he wanted to wipe his neck and commit suicide!

"Sir! Where there is life, there is hope! The family grabbed Wang Dadusi's arm and cried: "This court doesn't have much kindness to you, it's not worth taking your life on the line!" ”

"I'm waiting to surrender! We'll surrender! Grandpa Haohan, I'm waiting for ...... surrender" Just when Wang Dadusi was about to die, the old Qing soldiers who ran in front obediently knelt on the ground one by one and begged for mercy, and listened to the heroes of the Jishi Army who came up and tied them up with ropes and prepared to "sell them for money". There were also a few Ji Shijun who rushed over to Wang Jinbao with rifles, and when this Lord Dusi saw this, he didn't commit suicide, and obediently knelt on the ground and became a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued......)