The foreigner cried when he was killed, not because he was obedient, but because he felt that he was not being detained at this time, but was taken to Guangzhou City, because he saw the familiar street outside the window and could see the British warships docked by the river.
Mr. Mountain outside the door also heard the cry inside
Although he didn’t understand the foreign language, he didn’t know that someone was calling for help, but he could hear that he was anxious and panicked. He was satisfied because someone was really dealing with Ba Gui.
Of course, four foreign soldiers also heard the sound. Two foreign soldiers immediately pushed the door, but the door was locked inside.
Entangled with Fangshan, two foreign soldiers got nervous and wanted to throw Fangshan in the past to help, but Fangshan took the opportunity to rush inside and let the two foreign soldiers get away at one time. One of them was so anxious that he hit Fangshan with a butt.
In the end, the door was hit. Four foreign soldiers almost swarmed in, but they saw a shadow jumping from the front window. They ran to the window and saw a man who had already jumped to the building. A pile of sacks was carrying a blond foreigner and threw a carriage. The blond foreigner was wearing their chief Parkes’s clothes and shouted for help. Unfortunately, the foreigner was put in the front of the building. Not only could he not see clearly, but he could not even hear his face.
But all this does not prevent the four foreign soldiers from raising a common idea at this time. Their chief has been hijacked!
Watching an China man jump out of the carriage and four foreign soldiers make a hullabaloo about and let the other side live, an anxious man put his gun out of the window but was stopped by another soldier.
"Be careful to hurt Mr. Parkes!"
Yuexiang Building is not a high-rise building, but the second floor is four or five meters from the ground. Four foreign soldiers can’t manage that much in a hurry. One of them has climbed the windowsill. Just when the carriage was just starting, he jumped into a sack, but then he fell to the ground and cried out that his leg was broken.
Several other foreign soldiers didn’t dare to take risks and watched that the carriage had gone more than a dozen paces. They finally woke up except shouting for a while. A foreign soldier, probably an officer, immediately ordered them to rush out of the room under his command.
Two immediately rushed out of the moon fragrance building, and one grabbed the mountain and fainted on the side, and also walked outside the moon fragrance building.
After running out of the gate, I saw that the carriage had rushed out of the hundred meters and was still speeding up and running wildly in the street.
The carriage attracted the attention of many people and a group of patrol soldiers, but when they saw the carriage galloping, they swore a few words and didn’t chase it.
Two foreign soldiers ran after each other and met their companions, both street patrol soldiers and street soldiers. At the same time, they sent people back to the city to move reinforcements. At that time, the scene in the center of Yuexiang Building was chaotic, and chickens flew and dogs jumped everywhere, and foreign soldiers ran and avoided passers-by
Yuexiang building is also a mess. Everyone doesn’t know what happened. I went to the Muqin room and saw Muqin’s cross-legged bed in a mess. Muqin people haven’t faded yet and are sleeping with a face of satisfaction.
Besides, no one else in the room, even the box, is still locked in good condition.
The window is on the window, that’s the pile of sacks. The rice shop next door refuses to accept the rice mixed with sand. At this time, no one is watching a group of rags. The poor are fighting for these rice. They have to pick it up and go for it. Some rice bags are torn and scattered all over the floor. Some rice bags are full of rice stalks instead of rice.
People in Yuexiang Building don’t know what happened until a foreign soldier angrily left Yuexiang Building with a China person. Even if they don’t know what happened, most people know that this place is not in a hurry to leave Yuexiang Building for a long time.
There was a man who had a rest and looked at it before he was forced to leave the Yuexiang Building. The plan was successful, and he went to Zhu Jinglun to call me back.
His front foot was away from his back foot, and a group of foreign soldiers surrounded Yuexiang Building. Then the building became more lively. Men roared and women cried. Both men and women were finally arrested by foreign soldiers in Guangzhou City Prison. During the day, Yuexiang Building was still very lively. At night, it turned into a ghost building. People went to the building door and posted seals.
Section 34 Snake Head
All government offices have entered a state of emergency, including Zhu Jinglun’s translation in the governor’s government office, and they have also been ordered to work overnight without orders.
All the city gates, including the south gate, are closed urgently, and the streets are full of rushing troops, which is even busier than the siege of the township outside the city a few days ago.
It can be said that the emergency response capability of the British and French allied forces is still good. This management level is indeed much higher than that of the Qing government, but there are still some shortcomings. It is not perfect or detailed enough than the modern emergency response capability. So far, although Zhu Jinglun and others have been ordered to stand by overnight, he is still doing everything in the governor’s office, but the translators in the general office are already busy. This is obviously a huge manpower wave. It can be said that the British and French allied forces have not formulated specific emergency plans. All these are temporary measures.
Zhu Jinglun was trapped in the governor’s yamen, and he couldn’t even talk to Hou Jinlian about Lin Fuxiang outside the city. Although he didn’t expect this situation, he did have a plan. Frankly speaking, he was much more prepared for emergency than the British and French Coalition forces. He had long considered how to get out by himself.
Although trapped outside the governor’s yamen and guarded by hundreds of British soldiers, we can still feel the uneasiness and noise of the city coming from all directions, not only the soldiers are mobilized, but also the people are flustered. After the gates are closed, many city people panic and try to escape from the city.
The British and French Coalition forces tried their best to maintain law and order, and what they were most worried about at this time was that the rural volunteers outside the city took the opportunity to attack the city. Most of the troops were transferred to various places to defend and maintain law and order. The troops were not close enough to 500 Chinese and foreign police, so the situation in the city could not be suppressed at the moment.
Not only did some people act improperly because of panic, but some industrial vagrants took the opportunity to rob and steal, and these robberies were very arson crimes. From the point of distinguishing them, the British and French Coalition forces suspected that these people were sent in by the villagers outside the city in advance to make trouble, so they suppressed guns everywhere.
The whole city is in chaos.
Although the Guangzhou City Power Organization Occupation Committee has been working hard, it still appears to be energetic. The original Committee was made up of three members, namely the British Consul Parkes, Thomas Holloway of the British Military Academy and the French captain Marty Desher. Because one Parkes knows Chinese and is a China expert, his previous decisions were very important, including the French captain who recalled that Parkes played a great role during their occupation of Guangzhou after the war.
However, they didn’t think Parkes was an indispensable person. It was not until Parkes was suddenly kidnapped that they found out how important such a China hand was to them or how much they had relied on this person before. Because of this person, they almost handed over all the communication with China people to Parkes, which led them to have no experience with China people themselves.
They are not interested in getting to know China people, so they have been acting in their own way since Parkes was kidnapped. For example, both the British military academy and the French commandant suspected that the kidnapping of Parkes was a precursor to another attack by China people. They first chose to block the city gates, send troops, walls and batteries to stand by, but instead caused chaos in the city and caused an uncontrollable situation.
Only then did they know how difficult it was for Parkes to work in the past, and how difficult it was to communicate with a group of strangers who were full of resistance to them in a strange country. But they lacked the corresponding experience and still acted in their way, that is, to suppress wherever there was riots, but the troops were unable to cope. The fire here was put out and the fire there started again.
There are also angry people who clash with the British and French Coalition forces from time to time. Large-scale troops dare not do it, but three or two soldiers who are separated from each other are likely to get into an alley and suddenly disappear.
This is attributed to the brutal rule of the British and French allied forces during this period, especially in the past two months, when the allied forces outside the city were unified by Huang Zonghan, an imperial envoy, and they harassed Guangzhou all the time. Perhaps Huang Zonghan, a scholar, borrowed Sun’s military strategy to tire out the enemy. Every night, there was a rural brave who quietly approached Guangzhou, "Shouting to put rockets into the city at the attached city will disturb the city’s troops" and constantly sent people to sneak into the city to post and create chaos.
The British-French Coalition forces responded by setting up a village activity place at night, and tearing down houses and burning them down during the day.
The response of the British and French Coalition forces can be said to be stupid, because this is why the township brave outside the city wants to see that according to officials such as Huang Zonghan, "the main purpose of the regiment brave is to make the Coalition forces restless and exhausted."
A few days ago, the British and French allied forces arrested some villagers who sneaked into the city and seized some information. Hurd personally translated this and found that "the villagers killed foreigners and fired rockets at the city, and the British would go to pick houses, so that the people of the city would be forced out of the urban and rural areas and they could attack the allied forces without hurting their own people."
After discovering the plot of the rural brave outside the city, the British and French Coalition forces immediately issued a notice not to pick up houses, hoping that the people would stay in the city
The two sides fought wits. Who said that Qing officials were stupid? Xiao Cong is not bad at all.
And they did succeed. Although the British and French allied forces posted notices, too many houses have been demolished. The British and French allied forces not only sent coolies to demolish the houses near the city gate, but also destroyed the houses near Guanyin Mountain near Daxin Street in Xincheng. They also burned all the houses near the attack site as a revenge.
Although the demolition of houses by British and French allied forces accounts for a small part, these residents have lived in Guangzhou for generations, so their relatives are more complicated than others. I don’t know how many of these people usually can’t provoke foreigners, but if there is an opportunity, there are always people who want revenge and dare to take revenge.
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