General Steelin forgot the concession because there were Qing troops outside Songjiang and Qingpu, and there were Brigadier General Yilu in Longhua. The Taiping Army had no wings, so naturally it would not fly over these two lines of defense.

Brigadier General Yilu would not think about the concession. He was the battlefield commander, Wall's foreign gun team, French Marines, and thousands of Qing soldiers to cooperate to raid Songjiang. The direction of Songjiang was invisibly the safest. The line between Shenjingtang and Sijing was fierce again. Although the Qing army in Shenjingtang and Sijing kept complaining, with the support of the reinforcements he sent, he probably wouldn't collapse immediately even if he could not win completely. Therefore, his attention was naturally focused on the counterattack against the Shanghai rebels for a while.

As he gradually increased troops to the shore, the rebels' arrogance was quickly suppressed, and the war gradually evolved into a fierce artillery battle between the two sides.

On the battlefield, everything is impossible, and luck and arrogance are closely linked to failure. Lin Haifeng took advantage of General Steel's hope to first eliminate the threat of the Jiading Heavenly Army, and then encircle the Tianjun attacking Qingpu, and stuck the arrogant Steel firmly in Jiading City. The target he really wants to attack now is nothing else, it is the concession in the northern suburbs of Shanghai.

A few miles away from Longhua, the teaching brigade was undertaking a brief rest before the war. Chen Yucheng gathered all the officers above the company and mobilized again, "Brothers, everyone saw it, and the headquarters was immediately followed. What they met was the arrogant and arrogant British Royal Navy. Needless to say, everyone knew that these bastards were doing evil in our country, running rampant and guilty. Don't think that Songjiang won easily and did not take them seriously. Songjiang's victory was first unexpected, and second, they encountered only a temporary mob."

He smiled, and then raised his face, "Now I order the spy company to be in the middle, the first battalion, the second and third battalions are located on both wings, and the fourth battalion is cut off, and the police guard artillery battalion will suppress artillery fire on foreign devil warships along the river. Remember, except for the artillery battalion, each battalion must not fight in the first place, and the remaining foreign devils will be responsible for clearing. Second, a breathless foreign devil is not allowed to be missed in the open passage to ensure the safety of His Highness An and the headquarters personnel. Third, no stop after entering the city, and go straight to the concession. Our ultimate task is to take down the concession and occupy all consulates. Fourth, I announce the list of several criminals in the concession. If any criminals leak the net from whom, the consequences will be borne by themselves..."

After the whole story was finished, Chen Yucheng smiled and looked at King An who was leisurely smoking his pipe.

"Very good, I don't say much, I just remind everyone to pay attention," Lin Haifeng knocked the ashes in his pipe. "In the concession, except for armed personnel trying to resist, we must not hurt people, especially the officials of consulates in various countries, who must be captured alive. Of course, we must also pay attention to certain etiquette. Didn't people say that we are a country of etiquette? In addition, I think the fourth battalion does not have to cut off the rear, and it is more appropriate to follow the third battalion behind the right wing. You can kill more foreign devils and relieve the pressure on friendly forces. Minister Zeng and I are here to cut off the rear for you. Don't worry, we will never abandon a wounded person who fell in front."

"Your Highness, if I were the first to enter the concession, would I still name my company as the 'Concession Company'?" Chen Tingxiang smiled, "This name doesn't sound good."

"Concession?" Lin Haifeng laughed, "As long as you complete the task as planned, the teaching brigade will receive the honorable title of "Shanghai brigade". The word "Concession" will become a permanent history under the feet of the brave Red Army, and our humiliating memories on this land."

In the British Consulate, the sound of cannons from afar did not affect Aliguo, Mashali, and Aitang's interest in talking about things. In fact, Lin Haifeng had forgotten that today was the first day of 1854. The Chinese called it New Year's Day. Aliguo and they didn't call it that way, just because this was a new beginning of the year after all, and they felt that it should be a day worth celebrating. What's more, there will be good news from all walks of life soon, and there will be triumphant generals with dust.

The peddlers from the East India Company in the consulate were busy, busy inside and outside, preparing for a grand evening cocktail party. The great powers completely intervened in the armed conflict in Shanghai, and it won’t take long to go Shanghai again, and Shanghai will become a quiet world and a holy place for gold mining. Since the master is happy, the peddlers will be complacent.

On the empty grass in front of the consulate, a band was whimpering and repeatedly practicing several songs to be played at the dinner, "Song of the Stars and Stripes", "Queen of Heaven Blessing" and "Marseille".

At this time, the tune of "Song of the Stars and Stripes" came from outside the window. Masali listened carefully for a while and suddenly remembered a question, "Oh, gentlemen, our respected governor will also be invited to attend the dinner. Should we arrange a song of their music? Otherwise, the respected governor will be angry?" He said, dancing the cigar in his hand, laughing haha, and trembling all over.

"God, I really want to satisfy that difficult governor. Unfortunately, there seems to be no music on this land." Aliguo deliberately frowned and shrugged his shoulders, "I really can't understand what they produce?"

"Abundant production?" Masali took the letter from a missionary who had just come in, looked at Aliguo and Aitang, pretended to be thinking very seriously, and stretched out his two fingers to gesture, "The big braids of men and the three-inch golden lotus of women. I have seen the spoils that you warriors in Great Britain once exhibited, among which are the small embroidered shoes that women can't even stretch my fist."

Seeing Mashali and Aliguo laughing at their poor allies endlessly, Aitang disagreed. He smiled on the surface, but he looked down on this Mashali in his heart. This guy is really a hooligan habit. No wonder most of the Americans he saw are like this. He always thinks that everything is so naive, arrogant, and slick. Do you think that the parents are awkward, and those who have long braids treat us as monsters. You know that you are laughing at others, but you haven't heard what the Chinese people call us behind their backs? "Red-haired devils". Alas, the enemy is in front of you, friendship is the most important thing.

In fact, he looked down on Masali not because of this, but because of this military operation. He only sent more than 100 people, and there was no way to do it. He had no soldiers to send. That was it, and that was already a move. At present, there were only dozens of Marine soldiers left in his French Concession to defend the consulate. But Masali had three gunboats and thousands of soldiers did not move, but he put together a group of homeless people who recognized money and did not recognize people to make up for his numbers, obviously finding a way out for himself. He really couldn't understand when the American hooligan method was calculated.

Ever since he sent the Marines out, Aitang had an indescribable state of mind. Perhaps his French concession was closest to the Shanghai city gate, and he was worried that if the rebels in the city would turn against each other, he would be the one who would be the one who would be the one who would be the one who would be the one who would be in the brunt of the rebels. Seeing the American priest who came in, he knew that it was the messenger sent by Masali to negotiate with the rebels in Shanghai. So he quickly stopped Masali's laughter, "Dear Minister, let's see the rebels' reply first."

Aitang said that Masali was like a hooligan. Because he felt a little unreasonable about sending troops, Masali himself felt that he was afraid that Aliguo and Aitang would be dissatisfied, so he volunteered to send an envoy to the city to meet Liu Lichuan. In his letter to Liu Lichuan, he repeatedly claimed that the great powers did not want to intervene in the conflict in Shanghai, but did not want the troops coming from Tianjin to enter Shanghai at once, because, as far as he knew, the Tianjing government did not have a clear attitude towards the interests of the great powers in China. Of course,

After consultation with the Tianjing government, everything will naturally be resolved reasonably. As for the British bombardment of Shanghai Nanguan, it is purely what the British army did to cope with the Qing Dynasty. For the sake of Shanghai's own interests, he hopes that Liu Lichuan will not take excessive actions to avoid stimulating the great powers, which will be detrimental to the Shanghai defenders. As long as the Shanghai army still adheres to its promises to all countries and does not infringe on the interests of all countries in the concessions, the great powers will also firmly promise to remain neutral between the Shanghai defenders and the Qing army.

Now, he received a reply from Liu Lichuan. Liu Lichuan first blamed the British army for betraying the neutral promise and first threatened Shanghai by force. In order to defend itself, the Tianjun had to fight back. Then, Liu Lichuan used sincere words to advise all countries not to interfere in China's internal affairs. For the concession, Liu Lichuan promised that the Shanghai defenders would not use force there under any circumstances. Everyone should respect each other as the children of God. Finally, Liu Lichuan said that if all countries were willing to build a bridge of contact between the troops from Shanghai and Tianjing, he would be happy to declare to the Celestial Government for this matter, and to declare the neutral attitude of all countries in Shanghai, and had given the Shanghai defenders the assistance they deserve.
Chapter completed!