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On the wall of Shanghai County, Mr. Peng Wenyuan was covered in blood on his face and leaned tiredly behind the female wall. He was about to close his eyes and rest for a while when suddenly the shouts of killing under the city started again.

Peng Wenyuan stood up and looked out of the city. He saw that Xiaodaohui had gathered hundreds of ladders again, and it seemed that he was about to prepare for a new round of siege.

After three days of fierce fighting, Xiaodaohui's offensive not only did not weaken at all, but gathered 50,000 people (willing refugees). On the other hand, after three days of fierce fighting, more than half of the official troops controlled by Peng Wenyuan had died or injured. In addition to the battalion of troops brought by Peng Wenyuan himself, the combat effectiveness of other temporary government troops was extremely poor. Smoking smoked smoke for many years has greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the official soldiers, and it is not as good as the temporary strong men.

This was the 20th attack by Xiaodaohui. Peng Wenyuan knew that if there were no reinforcements, he would not be able to defend the Shanghai County.

"Does the security team of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank still refuse to come to help defend the city?" Peng Wenyuan asked his personal soldiers around him.

The personal soldier shook his head and said, "Sir, don't count on them. They just don't help them. I think the adults are giving them a face. It's better to let the young man lead the soldiers to force them to defend the city!"

"What do you know?" Peng Wenyuan smiled bitterly, "Do you think this security team is a servant of the landlord family? They are formally trained troops. Although they have never seen them fighting, I see that their neat military appearance hides a huge will to kill. Li Weiguo has invested a lot in training them, and their combat effectiveness is definitely not low. If the foreign guns they equipped are much stronger than us, if you catch them, I think you will definitely be disappointed."

The personal soldier said, "But our battalion brothers fought against British foreign devils back then, and it is not an exaggeration to be considered the most elite army of the Qing Dynasty. Can the army he trained in just one year be stronger than us?"

Peng Wenyuan sighed and said, "This is the gap between people. What you have learned for ten years is not as good as reading books for a few months. If you have practiced martial arts for ten years, it is not as good as practicing for three days. Li Weiguo was a magistrate of Chongming County at a young age, and Lu Jianying was disgusted by his face. He is definitely not an ordinary person. Although his Li family army has only been built for a year, we all know at a glance that the other party's combat effectiveness is no worse than us, and even surpasses us."

The personal soldiers did not understand and asked, "Since this is the case, why didn't the lord ask Li Weiguo to send troops to reinforce the Shanghai county?"

Peng Wenyuan smiled bitterly, pointed to the top, and said, "One of the way, Lu Jianying would not let me let Li Weiguo go to Shanghai, and secondly, Li Weiguo could spit out blood by making Lu Jianying plot, which is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp. He was extremely ambitious. If he asked him to come to Shanghai, Shanghai would be his."

The personal soldier said: "But I heard from the soldiers of the Li family army of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank that Li Weiguo has been appointed as the magistrate of Shanghai County by the imperial court? Are we okay to do this?"

Peng Wenyuan sighed: "Who can explain that kind of thing clearly? We can only believe Lu Jianying's words, who made Lu Jianying our immediate boss?"

At this time, Xiaodao will complete the assembly and launch another attack.

Seeing the knife rushing overwhelmed by the sky, Peng Wenyuan's face was heavy. He knew that the Shanghai County Town could not be defended, so he said, "There are not many brothers in our old camp left. Lin Yao, you have been with me for twenty years. Now I will give you a task. You can immediately take the brothers in our old camp out of the West Gate and cross the river from the French Concession to seek help from Li Weiguo."

Lin Yao frowned when he heard this and said, "How can that be done? Without our old camp brothers defending the city, how can the lord and this group of mobs resist the fierce attack of Xiaodaohui?"

Suddenly, Lin Yao realized something and immediately said worriedly: "Sir, you shouldn't want it..."

"Okay, there's no time. This is my last order. Remember, Li Weiguo will achieve great things in the future. You will have a future with him in the future. I am old and will be the world of you young people in the future. Go, I have my home."

"Sir!" Lin Yao's eyes were filled with tears. He had been following Peng Wenyuan since he was a teenager. Now he has been twenty years old. He knows Peng Wenyuan's temper very well. He kowtowed to him respectfully, and then broke through from Ximen with the old brothers who also followed Peng Wenyuan for many years.

Not long after Lin Yao led hundreds of old brothers in Pengziying to break through from the west gate, the north gate and the south gate were successively broken by Xiaodaohui. Peng Wenyuan was responsible for defending the territory and resisting the war, so he had to give the court an explanation and eventually died in the battle.

The defender was killed, and the remaining Qing army had no fighting spirit and immediately turned into birds.

Liu Lichuan was very happy to see the Shanghai city breaking. Three days ago, he had not been able to capture Shanghai County. When he learned that Baoshan County was lost and was occupied by Li Weiguo, he was very nervous at one time. He was worried that the retreat would be cut off and planned to withdraw his troops and retake Baoshan County. However, he soon learned that Li Weiguo had no intention of reinforcement in Shanghai. He also heard the proposal of Chen Tao, and divided his troops to attack Jiangwan Town, which was an industrial zone built by Li Weiguo. Once attacked, Li Weiguo would definitely not attack Shanghai again, but to reinforce Jiangwan Town. Xiaodao would take the opportunity to take down Shanghai County first, and then fight against Li Weiguo to compete with Jiangwan Town.

Liu Lichuan followed Chen Tao's advice and immediately ordered Chen Tao to lead three thousand troops to Jiangwan Town. At the same time, Liu Lichuan began to attack Shanghai County.

When Li Weiguo learned that the Xiaodaohui army appeared in Jiangwan Town, he immediately mobilized a large army to go out of Baoshan County to reinforce. Chen Tao led his army to Jiangwan and saw that there was a defense of Li Weiguo's two thousand foreign gun teams, which was difficult to capture for a while. His ability was to be ordered to restrain him, so he did not attack desperately.

Liu Lichuan learned that Li Weiguo had indeed sent troops to Jiangwan Town, so he took the opportunity to step up the attack on Shanghai County, until today he broke through Shanghai County. He breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Liu Lichuan soon became confused again. He suddenly received a report that a total of two thousand foreign gun teams were stationed around the AIIB in the Drum Tower area in the center of Shanghai County.

Liu Lichuan knew that there must be no foreign army in Shanghai County. When he went to see it, he immediately found that although the other party was wearing a military uniform similar to that of foreign soldiers, the military emblem on the military cap had the word "Li". Needless to ask, it must be Li Weiguo's army.

"Li Weiguo, you're actually causing trouble for me!"

Liu Lichuan cursed because he knew that Li Weiguo's main army had arrived in Jiangwan Town, where Chen Tao had only 3,000 troops, so he would not last long. Liu Lichuan was eager to reinforce Chen Tao, but if he didn't get rid of the two thousand Li family troops near Gulou, he would be attacked from both sides, so he could only grit his teeth and ordered the entire army to attack Gulou.

The Gu Tower is a small city tower with a brick and stone structure. Because it is used to look at the enemy situation outside the city, it is built higher than the outer city wall. Five hundred Li Family soldiers rely on the Gu Tower to defend. Five hundred Li Family soldiers are stationed in the AIIB building, relying on the eight-story reinforced concrete building and the Drum Tower to support each other. Around the Drum Tower and the AIIB building, there are also a thousand Li Family soldiers who built a large number of circular fortifications with sandbags. The soldiers hide behind the fortifications and defend with foreign guns.

Whether it is the Drum Tower or the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building, they are the only commanding heights in Shanghai County. The Li family army relies on these two buildings to support each other to defend against each other, which has gained a geographical advantage. In addition, the surrounding streets are not conducive to the attack formation of Xiaodao, which is more suitable for the use of the firepower advantage of foreign muskets, so the soldiers of the Li family army are very relaxed in defense.

Xiaodaohui launched more than a dozen fierce charges in succession, but unfortunately, his flesh and blood body was hit hard by rows of muskets in the Li family army, and he suffered heavy casualties and did not capture an inch of land.

Only then did Liu Lichuan realize the strength of the Li family army and regretted his absoluteness that he should have withdrawn, but now he is unable to get rid of the tiger and can only force this bone.

"I don't believe that I can't open a hole when I transfer the general's cannon on the top of the city!"

Liu Lichuan was anxious and ordered people to transport down the artillery of the Qing army general on the outer city walls and bombard the Drum Tower and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The Qing army general's artillery was very bulky, and it weighed thousands of pounds from the city wall and then carried it to the near Drum Tower, which was particularly time-consuming.

After a morning, Xiaodaohui finally got two doors and placed them in the middle of the street to target the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building and Drum Tower.

At this time, the problem arose again. No one among the members of the Xiaodao Club could fire the fire. He found a few two knives and studied them for a long time. He finally put too much gunpowder in it, and he exploded the two general cannons.

Then Liu Lichuan got two more general artillery pieces, and he finally made it difficult to shoot, but his accuracy was too poor and he fired more than a dozen shells but failed to hit them.

At this time, Yang Ping, the commander of the Li family army, who was in charge of commanding the AIIB building and the Drum Tower, realized the danger of Xiaodao being able to get cannons, so he took the initiative and took the opportunity to launch a counter-charge. Liu Lichuan always thought that the Li family army could not stand, so he did not react. As a result, a sudden counter-charge of the Li family army was disrupted. Not only did he lose thousands of troops, but the last two general artillery were blown up by the Li family soldiers with gunpowder.

Liu Lichuan was so angry!

He hurriedly dispatched troops to attack, but as a result, the Li family army charged and exploded the cannons of Xiaodaohui and retreated and continued to defend. Xiaodaohui failed to charge and paid a huge price for casualties of a thousand soldiers. Liu Lichuan was so angry that he cursed his ancestors for eighteen generations, but there was nothing he could do.

At night, Liu Lichuan carried out multiple sneak attacks, but unfortunately they were all shot back by the powerful muskets of the Li family army. They suffered heavy casualties and had to stop attacking and rest on the spot.

Since Xiaodaohui was unable to put all his troops into the battle between the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Gulou District, the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers entered the city and began to burn, kill and loot the landlords and wealthy families in Shanghai, causing chaos in the city.

Originally, Liu Lichuan could prevent the excessive killing of innocent people, but he was unable to attack the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for a long time and was furious. Seeing that his morale was very low by the Li family army, he accused of the soldiers' looting behavior in order to increase morale and prepare for the war in the future.

At the same time, in Jiangwan Town, Li Weiguo also learned that the city of Shanghai was destroyed. He knew that Peng Wenyuan was killed and there was no Qing official in Shanghai that was higher than Li Weiguo's official position. So Li Weiguo no longer chose to defend, but took the initiative to launch a fierce attack.

Originally, there were two thousand Li family defenders in Jiangwan Town. Li Weiguo left 3,000 people to guard Baoshan, bringing 4,000 troops, and a total of 6,000 troops, and equipped with ten 16-pound cannons. Another six 24-pound cannons were left at the head of Baoshan for defense and use.

The Li family army's musket team, with a high morale of 6,000, took neat steps and advanced step by step under the cover of ten artillery fire, and immediately beat Chen Tao's troops to overturn. Three thousand soldiers and horses persisted in less than an hour and more than half of them were killed or injured. In the end, Chen Tao was forced to give up the task of restraining the Li family army and fled to Shanghai with the remnants.

The Li family army took advantage of the victory and arrived outside the north gate of Shanghai County in the second half of the night.

The scout returned to the report: "The report, the investigation found that the gunfire in Shanghai County was very dense, proving that my troops guarding the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank still resisted again!"

Li Weiguo nodded, everything was in his plan, so he said, "Very good! Send the order, rest for half an hour, and launch an attack at dawn!"
Chapter completed!