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Bang!

When the gunshot was heard, Zhou Lichun was about to rush out of the encirclement, but suddenly he was shot and fell off his horse.

"Majesty!"

"Majesty!"

The Li family army heard deafening cheers and their morale was greatly boosted because this shot was launched by Li Weiguo. He used the rifled rifle of his personal soldiers around him to directly hit Zhou Lichun's back and shot him to death on the spot.

Zhou Xiuying, who had just rushed out of the siege, saw that her brother was killed, was so angry that she wanted to seek revenge for Li Weiguo. The generals around her could not dissuade him, so she knocked him out and took him away, fleeing all the way.

The Xiaodao Cavalry was destroyed, causing Liu Lichuan, who had originally seen hope, to fall into a desperate situation again.

At this time, Liu Lichuan still had more than 7,000 people in his hands, but the way to retreat to Shanghai County had been cut off by the Li family army. So Liu Lichuan decided to give up the attack and retreat to the Huangpu River, wanting to cross the river and flee to Chuansha Hall.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Lichuan ordered to retreat to the riverside, his soldiers fell into chaos and fled to the riverside one by one. There was no military discipline or formation at all, just like a pile of loose sand.

Li Weiguo had just eliminated Zhou Lichun's 500 cavalry, and was still worried about whether Xiaodao would have other reinforcements. Considering that Liu Lichuan had more than 7,000 troops in his hands at this time, it was difficult for the Li family army to encircle and annihilate the opponent. Li Weiguo was worried that the trapped beasts would still fight, and Xiaodao, who was in desperate situation, might counterattack in a crazy way, causing unnecessary casualties to the Li family army. Therefore, he was hesitating whether to continue to encircle and annihilate the opponent, but he saw that the opponent had begun to disintegrate and was immediately overjoyed.

"attack!"

At the command of Li Weiguo, the military band drums and trumpets sounded and played a loud charge.

"kill!"

The soldiers of the Li family army burst into a complete shout of killing, and quickly advanced forward, driving the Xiaodao congregation to the Huangpu River like a duck.

However, the ships were not enough. Liu Lichuan took away less than a thousand people. The remaining five or six thousand people either jumped into the river and left the fate, or knelt down to beg for surrender. Only a few veteran members of Xiaodaohui were unwilling to surrender and turned around to fight with the Li family army.

Seeing that the tens of thousands of troops he had worked hard to get together were over, Liu Lichuan felt very angry and vowed to seek revenge on Li Weiguo.

An hour later, corpses were everywhere on the Huangpu River, and blood flowed into a river, dyeing half of the river red.

The Li family army captured nearly 5,000 prisoners, then took a short rest for an hour, and at noon, they again arrived outside the north gate of Shanghai County.

At this time, there were 25,000 Xiaodao Army troops in Shanghai, and were temporarily commanded by Xu Yao and Chen Tao, the core members of Xiaodao Society. Xu Yao was responsible for the defense of the city wall, and Chen Tao was responsible for besieging the Li family army in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building and Gulou area, so that it could not form a force of internal and external attacks.

After a battle outside the city, Liu Lichuan led more than 20,000 troops to be defeated and was killed by the Li family army and fled to Chuansha in a very embarrassing manner. All this was clearly seen by the other members of the Xiaodao Army standing on the top of the city. They were so scared that they were extremely depressed.

Soon, the Li family army was rested and there were still ten large formations in front. The rest of the soldiers who were killed or injured in the front line were transferred to the reserve team, and the vacancy left by the reserve team was supplemented by the reserve team's source.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The sound of cannons sounded, and a series of cannonballs roared at the top of the city, and the battle broke out again.

The soldiers of the Li family army stepped on the drums of the military band and advanced in neat steps, stopped twenty or thirty meters away from the city wall, and then fired volleys at the muskets on the city wall.

Xiaodaohuijun has learned from the past, and he dared not show up again, and they hid behind the female wall in fear.

Seeing this situation, Li Weiguo frowned. Shanghai County is different from Baoshan County. There are a large number of trees around Baoshan County that can be cut down to make siege ladders, but there are no trees around Shanghai County. Therefore, the Li family army has always stood in the city and set off guns and cannons to kill the enemy, waiting to cooperate with the Li family army inside and outside.

But the Xiaodaohui army was huge, with tens of thousands of people, and they obviously knew this, so they surrounded the Li family army in the city and surrounded them in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building and the Drum Tower. Although they could not attack for a while, they did not have the energy to counterattack.

The battlefield situation changed rapidly. Seeing that the Li family army in the city was unable to cooperate, Li Weiguo could only take the most primitive method to hit all the artillery and bombard the city wall.

Flowering bullets are effective in killing soldiers, but bombarding the city walls requires solid bullets.

The Li family artillery team then replaced the solid bullets, concentrated their firepower to bombard the city wall violently, preparing to open a gap.

After all, the city walls of Shanghai are only at the county level, and are not as strong as those of Jinling in terms of height and thickness. In addition, the Qing army's military is in a sluggish manner, and has not been repaired for many years and has been washed by heavy rains and typhoons all year round, so the city walls have become very fragile.

In less than an hour, a section of the city wall in the east of the North City could not withstand the shelling, and collapsed in a blast and the gap opened.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Li family army artillery team changed the flowering bullets and shot bullets, continued to hit the firepower bombardment gap, and eliminated the knife at the gap and would defend the defenders.

After several rounds of artillery attacks, the infantry platoon of the Li family army began to move towards the gap.

"attack!"

The soldiers of the Li family were walking in neat steps and heading towards the gap. At the same time, they were marching one round after another, making the Xiaodaohui Army unable to repair the city wall at the gap.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The dense bullets hit, and another piece of Knife Army soldiers fell down. Faced with such a powerful firearm, the Knife Army, who was already depressed, immediately gave up the gap.

The Li family army took advantage of the situation to occupy the gap and quickly stabilized the defense, and then launched an attack on the surrounding areas to expand the results of the battle.

Seeing that the city wall was broken, Xu Yao also saw that the Xiaodaohui Army was like a frightened bird, and had no will or courage to fight. Knowing that the situation was hopeless, he immediately ordered the Xiaodaohui Army on the city wall to quickly retreat and start street fighting with the Li family army, retreating to the south gate while fighting.

Li Weiguo found that street fighting was not conducive to the Li family army's advantages of muskets and artillery. This was because the alley was narrow. The Li family soldiers took the firepower of platoons as their advantage, and could not form in the alley, and the firepower of platoons was limited. On the other hand, Xiaodao Huijun held a large number of cold weapons and was very flexible in walking around the streets. After several small-scale encounters, although the soldiers of the Li family defeated the other party, they suffered a lot of casualties and did not take advantage of them.

Li Weiguo never made a loss-making business, and immediately ordered the soldiers not to chase them too hard, just drive them out of Shanghai County.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Li family army attacked the Gu Tower in Zhongjie and joined with the two thousand Li family army guarding the Gu Tower and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building.

Seeing that the situation was over, Chen Tao hurriedly brought his men to meet with Xu Yao and withdrew from Shanghai County from the South Gate.

Li Weiguo knew that the enemy would not be chased, so he could drive Xiaodao out of Shanghai County. After re-occupied the four gates of Shanghai County, he began to focus on cleaning up the remaining enemy troops in the city.

By the evening, the remaining power of Xiaodaohui in Shanghai County was basically eliminated. A total of more than 13,000 Xiaodaohui rebels were eliminated, and more than 9,300 were captured. The more than 60,000 rebels brought by Liu Lichuan lost more than 10,000 people in the battle with Peng Wenyuan, and less than 50,000 people were left to fight with the Li family army. In the end, less than 5,000 people were left to escape back to Sichuansha, and nearly 45,000 people were lost. Nearly half of them were captured men. They had already run away when they saw that the situation was not good and turned into missing people. The Li family army itself only paid a small price of more than 300 casualties, which was a great victory.

In addition to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and several streets near the Gulou, most other areas of Shanghai county were robbed by Xiaodaohui rebels. The bannermen were almost killed, and the rich Han landlords and families also suffered heavy losses. When they learned that the Li family army had regained the Shanghai county, they all gave various gifts to thank Li Weiguo, and at the same time they killed pigs and sheep to reward the Li family soldiers.

This is exactly the result that Li Weiguo wanted to see. If he had sent troops to reinforce Shanghai earlier, these landlords and wealthy families would not have known the importance of Li Weiguo to them before they were harmed by Xiaodao's rebels, and would not have attached so much importance to them, let alone bloodshed.

Of course, what Li Weiguo is most concerned about is the gold, silver and treasures obtained by the rebels who looted Shanghai County last night. You should know that Shanghai County is much richer than Baoshan County.

However, when Li Weiguo sent someone to count the spoils, he found that he had only obtained gold and silver treasures worth less than five million taels of silver. He thought that the other gold and silver treasures were taken away by the rebels who escaped in the chaos.

Although the lack of the best is the best, another news made Li Weiguo happy.

"Young Master, I just sent someone to see it. All the bannermen near Dadongmen were killed. They occupied a large amount of good land in Shanghai County, especially one of them, the one with the surname Lan. Most of the good land in Jiangwan Town belongs to their family, which is the land where the young master wants to expand the industrial zone."

When Li Weiguo heard Zhang Xiaoliu's report, he was very happy. Many of the land he had expected to be occupied by the bannermen. The other party either refused to sell it or asked for a sky-high price. He hated Li Weiguo's teeth. Now, he used the Xiaodao Society to get rid of them, and the large amount of land in their hands naturally fell into Li Weiguo's hands for free.

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Very good. I informed Wu Yong to come and re-surface the land under Shanghai County, re-arrange and compile the land without any borders, and sell the common land to the people in the future. Let's keep the good land ourselves."

Zhang Xiaoliu smiled bitterly and said, "Young Master, you forgot that Wu Yong had just taken over Baoshan County. I'm afraid he's busy in Baoshan now."

Li Weiguo patted his head, and then he remembered that he had just asked Wu Yong to handle Baoshan affairs.

"Forget it, I'll deal with it! Go and call all the officials from all the yamen in Shanghai!"

Zhang Xiaoliu took the order to leave, Li Weiguo sighed and said to himself: "It seems that we have to find some people who manage the local area to come back."
Chapter completed!