The animal world of the head of the village

Chapter 491 Fierce Battle at Yangshan Port
In order to continue to win over Harbot, Huang Xiaohu once again gave Harbot's wife Dove valuable gold and silver jewelry, which finally moved Harbot completely.

With Harbot's matchmaking, Huang Xiaohu finally has hope to buy a first-class combat ironclad ship.

In order to cultivate his own fleet, Huang Xiaohu also reached an agreement with Harbot to send 1000 people to the German shipyard to learn the technology of manipulating battleships. For this reason, Huang Xiaohu also took out 100 taels of silver, which is regarded as the daily expenses of these people .

After Huang Xiaohu conquered Shanghai, he had already collected the treasury silver of the Qing army, and seized official silver everywhere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, taking up a lot of the wealth of many wealthy and gentry families, so it was enough to buy several battle ironclad ships.

However, the Anglo-French allied forces soon made a move. They actually docked in Shanghai and showed off their might in front of Huang Xiaohu.

Huang Xiaohu didn't intend to fight against the British and French allied forces at first. After all, the situation in Shanghai has just stabilized, and Huang Xiaohu still wants to do some business with Britain and France. field chaos.

The British and French thought that Shenlong would not dare to do anything to them, so after taking advantage of it, Shenlong would personally apologize to them.

Seeing that the situation had become like this, Huang Xiaohu simply stopped covering up and declared war on the British and French allied forces, and wiped out more than 2000 people in one fell swoop, and captured two combat ironclad ships.

Shenlong declared war on the British and French allied forces, which directly led to Huang Xiaohu killing all the British and French in Shanghai. Except for these two countries, the rest of the foreigners still treated each other with courtesy.

Harbot was worried that the British and French allied forces would make a comeback, so he kindly reminded Huang Xiaohu to pay attention and not to be too public.

Huang Xiaohu had no way out at this time, so he could only find someone to set up defenses at the port as soon as possible. There were many forts, and he also specially transported dozens of cannons to help out.

One month later, 1000 people carefully selected by Shenlong Club have gone back with the German cruise ship, and they will receive more than a year of training in the operation and maintenance of combat ironclad ships in Germany.

More than a month later, the British and French allied forces attempted to land in Shanghai, and a fierce battle broke out with the defenders of the Dragon Society at Yangshan Port. Shenlong will sink directly.

After repelling the British and French allied forces, Huang Xiaohu knew that Shanghai was in trouble now, because this place was a port, and as long as the British and French allied forces wanted to land, they would attack Shanghai, so Shanghai's port defense is very important.

Huang Xiaohu has been stationed in Shanghai for more than two months. He is very concerned about Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan, so he can only order Jia Lin to take over Shanghai's defense.

After arranging everything, Huang Xiaohu led an army of five thousand and returned to Tianjing City.

The journey was smooth, and good news came frequently along the way.First, Gu Quan has completely cleared the obstacles around Hangzhou and Shanghai, which means that this area has all become the forces of the Dragon Society; and Wei Zhijun has captured Anqing, and has resisted the Taiping Army three times in a row. It is a big victory over the opponent.

After Huang Xiaohu returned to Tianjing, he immediately returned to Tianwang Mansion, and then spent the spring night with his two beautiful wives.

For several days in a row, Huang Xiaohu never left the Heavenly King's Mansion until one day Guo Yi came to ask for an audience.

It turned out that Guo Yi was responsible for the promotion and planting of new food crops, and now he has completed the task very satisfactorily, so he wanted to find Huang Xiaohu, hoping to arrange another job for him.

Huang Xiaohu thought of the four first-class ironclad battleships he had ordered from the German Harbot, so he entrusted Guo Yi to go to Shanghai and continue to negotiate with Harbot, trying to bring the four battleships back as soon as possible.

After Guo Yi took the order to leave, Huang Xiaohu went to Luo Hongfan and Zhang Chaojue to hold a meeting to discuss the next thing.

Huang Xiaohu said: "The Dragon Society has already launched a war against the British and French allied forces. If we encounter them next time, we will kill them!"

Luo Hongfan said: "This foreigner was going to fight Beijing, but the chairman himself declared war on the foreigner. This will definitely cause the group of foreigners to get entangled, and maybe they will attack Shanghai with all their strength."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Let them fight. Anyway, I have no choice but to declare war this time! There are not many people who can lead troops to fight now. If we just accumulate strength and lack actual combat experience, the troubles and problems we will encounter will be even worse. many."

Zhang Chaojue said: "The Qing court will not stop here, but foreigners are not so easy to deal with. However, since the chairman feels that he wants to start a war with foreigners, it is better to do it more thoroughly."

Huang Xiaohu asked curiously: "How to do it more thoroughly?"

Zhang Chaojue said: "A truce with the Qing court, and then unite against the foreigners."

Luo Hongfan said: "This can be considered, after all, fighting on two fronts can only make Shenlong suffer."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Okay, Lord Luo will handle the propaganda. In short, we must let all the common people know that our Shenlong will fight foreigners this time, the purpose is to defend the country and drive away the invaders!"

Zhang Chaojue said: "Foreigners invaded the Qing court several times, but each time they forced the court to sign some contracts as victors. This time, the chairman defeated the British and French allied forces in Shanghai, which has greatly shocked the foreigners. I guess they will meet Shenlong." Carry out a new round of retaliation."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Actually, if they don't look for us, we will look for them. It's just that the battleship I ordered still has weapons that haven't arrived, so I need to be patient for a while."

After reaching a consensus, Huang Xiaohu returned to Tianwang Mansion, and then discussed the next thing with Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan.

Because Shanghai was the target of revenge by the British and French allied forces, Huang Xiaohu was worried about Jia Lin stationing in Shanghai alone. After discussing with Zhang Yalan and Zhao Yali, Huang Xiaohu led an army of [-] to Shanghai with his two beautiful wives.

After arriving in Shanghai, Huang Xiaohu first arranged for the two beautiful wives to live in the former British mansion, and also sent [-] imperial troops to maintain order and security.

Sure enough, the British and French allied forces came to retaliate. This time, more than [-] people came at once, and they landed from Songjiang, so Shenlong was a little caught off guard.

Huang Xiaohu decisively led more than [-] men, all equipped with firearms and artillery, to intercept the British and French coalition forces.

The British and French allied forces hardly encountered any obstacles in fighting in the Qing Dynasty, but this time there were some exceptions.Huang Xiaohu was familiar with the equipment and tricks of the British and French allied forces, so he didn't charge blindly like the Qing army, and even played positional warfare with the British and French allied forces.

Huang Xiaohu personally led [-] firearms elites and set up an ambush. When the British and French allied forces arrived, they secretly fired sniper shots, and then arranged for the army to attack from left and right.

After two days of fierce fighting, the more than 1 British and French allied forces were almost wiped out by the Shenlonghui, and this time Huang Xiaohu also captured a large amount of advanced weapons and equipment, and even a dozen warships that landed were robbed.

Huang Xiaohu asked someone to pull all the warships to Yangshan Port, and then arranged heavy troops to deploy defenses, mainly artillery and modified forts.

At the same time, Huang Xiaohu paid a lot of money to hire technicians who knew how to navigate ships. Although there were very few of them, it was better than none.

In this way, Huang Xiaohu personally stationed in Shanghai for half a year, repelled three large-scale attacks by the British and French allied forces, and seized a large number of weapons, equipment and ships. working technicians.

In order to train these ship-handling technicians, Huang Xiaohu spared no expense, and discussed with the German Harbot, invited excellent German ship technicians to come to Shanghai for practical guidance and training, and even sent 500 people to Germany again. Learn the art of sailing and handling this ship.

Unknowingly, it has come to 1859. In May of that year, a very interesting battle took place at Dagukou, Tianjin.The Dagu garrison defeated the Anglo-French fleet that invaded the inland river. This was the first time that the Qing Dynasty won the Opium War.

When the news reached Huang Xiaohu, Huang Xiaohu discussed the next historical event with Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan.

Zhao Yali said: "The Qing Dynasty won the battle in Dagu, and then the British and French allied forces will definitely not let it go. If I remember correctly, the next year, in 1860, the British and French allied forces will make a comeback and directly capture Beijing. Burn the Old Summer Palace It happened in 1860, and the exact time was either September or October."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Since the British and French allied forces will attack Beijing in the second year, did the emperor's escape happen at this time?"

Zhao Yali said: "It should have happened at this time. When the British and French allied forces attacked Beijing, Emperor Xianfeng ran away, and it seems that because the Qing Dynasty arrested foreign envoys and did not let them go, many died later, and the result was completely angered the Anglo-French forces."

Zhang Yalan said: "The Old Summer Palace is a national treasure, can this be prevented from happening?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "It's not impossible to stop, anyway, some of the technicians trained in Germany will come back by the end of this year. We now have so many ships and weapons in Shanghai, we must be able to fight the British and French forces. Wait until those technicians After we come back, we can even fight a naval battle with the British and French allied forces!"

Zhao Yali said: "There must be enough time. As long as we receive news that the British and French allied forces are attacking Tianjin, we can go directly to Tianjin to stop them."

Huang Xiaohu said: "I think we should wait until the emperor escapes before sending troops, and instead of going to Tianjin, go directly to Beijing. At that time, as long as we defeat the British and French allied forces, we can directly occupy Beijing."

Zhang Yalan said, "Huzi, you don't want to stay in Beijing, do you?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "I don't mean that. After all, Beijing is not as good as Shanghai. Besides, that place is also a place of right and wrong. The Dragon Society can send troops to garrison it, but we'd better not stay there."

Zhao Yali said: "Actually, I also want to go to Beijing. Isn't Shanghai very good? If not, Hangzhou is better than Beijing."

Zhang Yalan said: "Why don't we all stay in Shanghai, anyway, there is sea here, we can go out by boat."

In the end, Huang Xiaohu accepted the opinions of Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan, and took Shanghai as the political, economic and cultural center for the development of the Dragon Club, and vigorously developed Shanghai's port and shipbuilding industry.

When Huang Xiaohu was stationed in Shanghai, Anqing was attacked many times by the Qing army, but Wei Zhijun's ability was still outstanding, and he managed to save himself from danger many times, ensuring that Anqing was not lost.

(End of this chapter)