I can't die

Isn't it?In addition to making waves in the Pacific Ocean, the British were not idle in the concession in Shanghai.Originally, there was a British army stationed in the suburbs of Shanghai. Hearing the news, he immediately marched into the British Concession in Shanghai and surrounded the British Concession to prevent suspicious personnel from entering and leaving. something happened.

The admiral of the British Army Garrison in Shanghai, Sir Defoe, surrounded the British Concession with a large army and blocked external communication. He immediately discovered that many British factories in the British Concession at this time had almost become empty shelves.Isn't it?The former director of the British Concession, Brad, was recruited by Li Hongzhang to recruit a large number of veteran skilled workers before he left his post. In addition, the concession has been infiltrated by people from the Green Gang and Water Transport in recent years.Once the British Concession squeezed out the Chinese and lost the members of the Qing Gang supported by the Qing government, many factories entered a predicament that was difficult to maintain, and even workers could not be found.

The British factory in China is getting more and more difficult, and the capitalists who came here to open the factory have repeatedly protested, but obviously, this time, the board of directors of the British Concession has learned the previous lessons, and has greatly increased its resistance to pressure. Unlocking the foreign blockade of the British Concession, on the contrary began to persuade the British businessmen in China to keep their own place recently, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed the news that the Qing court and Britain were about to go to war.

The British capitalists seemed very calm when they heard that Britain was going to war with the Qing court again. Obviously, in their eyes, the Qing court had no chance of winning. The result of the war could only be that Britain gained interest again, and they also To get benefits, therefore, although the atmosphere in the British Lease was a little tense, it was still calm after all, and no one took the Sino-British war to heart.

As night falls, the British Concession in Shanghai is still singing and dancing. At this time, Shanghai still has places similar to the nightclubs of the Republic of China. Compared with being prostitutes, the dancers in these nightclubs are more free, after all, they don't need to sell themselves.This also became a very special kind of atmosphere at that time.

In the "Gran" ballroom, the pillars are singing a cheerful melody.Rich businessmen and foreigners in the concession swayed on the dance floor with their favorite girls in their arms. The laughter and singing seemed like a paradise in this world.At this moment, an explosion sound was suddenly heard outside the ballroom, and the roaring explosion even overwhelmed the singing and dancing in the ballroom.

"how?!"

The manager of the dance hall heard the explosion sound from outside and hurried up to inquire, but the person who greeted the guests at the door shouted anxiously: "No, someone broke into the concession?"

"Into the concession?"

All the guests felt incredible after hearing the news. Who has the guts to break into the foreign concession?The foreigners were even more surprised.But he heard the visitor say: "A person from the imperial court?"

People from the imperial court?When did the imperial court have the courage to break into the British Concession?

Of course, it is better to act first, and then to suffer.At this time, Britain had already broken skin with the Qing court of the United States. The British Concession was stuck at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and now it was garrisoned by the British Army.

Li Hongzhang dispatched [-] elite soldiers from the Jiangbei camp to enter Shanghai via the Suzhou Creek, and together with the foreign gun team connected to Huaer, entered the British Concession at night.The soldiers stationed in the British Concession also seemed to have talked about the possibility of an attack by the Qing court and the Americans, and had already set up roadblocks in the major fortresses for defense.

This kind of attack and defense between cities is mostly based on gun battles.The Qing court took advantage of the number of people and the number of guns, and fired at the British army, and the British army did the same.

Both sides were covered by roadblocks, and in the gun battle that started, no matter how powerful the bullets were, it would be difficult to cause any real damage.

Seeing this, the leading generals of the Qing court knew that going on like this would only waste reality.With a heartbroken heart, he ordered the soldiers under him to use the newly-invented weapon of the Anqing Nei Ordnance Institute-grenade.

Hand grenades have a long history and were first invented by the Chinese. Hand grenades filled with black powder appeared in Europe in the 15th century, and were mainly used for fortress defense and prisons at that time. In the middle of the 17th century, some European countries equipped their elite troops with field grenades, and called soldiers specially trained to use such ammunition grenadiers.By the 19th century, with the development of guns and the reduction of castle battles, grenades were once neglected.

The British Army Admiral Steve saw long black tubular objects flying towards them, and then fell to the ground and exploded a large piece of rubble, so he immediately hid aside in fright.He also did not expect that in the Qing court, he would encounter such a weapon that was quite rare in Europe.But I have to say that grenades play a huge role in this kind of civil war.

Due to the use of the grenade, the huge explosive force caused serious damage to the buildings near the street, and also turned the British roadblock that was bombed into wreckage.Seeing that the roadblock was cleared, the Qing court scholars were overjoyed and hurriedly rushed towards the British Concession.

The British army was originally small in number, five or six hundred people could already be regarded as a large regiment. Now that they had lost the roadblock, they were immediately defeated by tens of thousands of Qing soldiers and the foreign gun team, so they had to retreat in a hurry.The Qing army pressed on step by step with sweeping momentum, and finally drove all the British soldiers stationed in China to the Huangpu River on the Bund.At this moment, the disciples of the Green Gang and Water Transport have been waiting here for a long time, attacking back and forth, like catching a turtle in a urn, and catching all the British.

Li Hongzhang couldn't help laughing when he heard the battle report from the front line: "Very good, so that we can sleep peacefully, explain it, capture alive is the best, and quickly press into Jiangbei Prison, don't be too preferential treatment, and don't be too harsh. And keep them as hostages."

What happened tonight did not only happen in Shanghai, the British garrisons in Ningbo, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Tianjin and other major trading ports were all captured by the Qing army tonight. The success of the raid was reported.

All the Qing Dynasty people who had long been dissatisfied with the British couldn't help cheering here. The court finally won a foreign war, and even those in the court who had reservations about the ban on smoking and fighting against the British swallowed their voices .

At the same time, after the British warships in Ryukyu were wiped out, the Chinese and American navies headed towards Choshu, Japan together, intending to take Japan's western region back under control.