There are more than a hundred pieces!

"We won, we won the battle to defend Nanjing!"

Before the masses could react, the reporter from the Express was the first to shout out!

The preconceived voice made everyone believe that last night, Governor Liu used a surprise weapon to defeat two British gunboats that were intended to blow open the Nanjing city gate.

The arrogant British were defeated, and then, on December 1, the body of British envoys was hung at the gate of the Governor's Office in Nanjing!

Of course, only a few people were hanged out. Long Hao and Liu Kunyi were still a little rational after all. They knew that if more than 30 corpses were hung out for the city to watch and throw away debris and filth to smash them, I am afraid that the country where the corpses belonged would go crazy, and the world's public opinion would turn to sympathize with the UK.

Therefore, the corpses of the Hang Zhan were mainly composed of several British envoys, and more than ten Qing soldiers who were "Heroic Defending" the Governor's Office were also given...

In short, with the hard publicity of the Governor's Office and the long-printed newspapers of the "Fux Newspaper", the massacre on last night turned into a story of British envoys who wanted to cooperate with each other, captured Nanjing and occupied the Governor's Office, but their conspiracy was exposed, and they were stopped by the brave Qing soldiers. After the fierce battle, they were all shot dead.

The Express also set a tone. The blame for this Sino-British conflict is entirely on Britain. The whole incident is the British conspiracy against the Nanyang Navy and the Alchemy King! The Nanyang Navy and the Alchemy King were forced to fight back. I hope that justice internationally would provide support, face the facts, and not let China become a victim of the British conspiracy.

Don't let the war burn on this ancient land again!

The power of public opinion is powerful. In other words, Long Hao's arrival has released the inherent energy of public opinion in advance.

When the international superstructure began to pay attention to this Sino-British naval war that occurred in China, the wind of public opinion was already leaning towards China and the weak, advocating British conspiracy theories.

The public opinion media took the first two Sino-British wars as examples, comparing Britain to a 'insatiable' robber and a 'despicable' conspirator, and repeatedly, repeatedly, extending his sinful claws to this ancient Eastern power!

The view held by the public opinion media is that Britain tries to enslave the world as its colony. History has proved that whenever its own domestic contradictions are prominent, it will turn the focus of the contradictions that the domestic people are concerned about abroad. This was the case in the first two Sino-British wars. This is the case, and this time, due to the outbreak of the Three Emperors' Alliance War in Europe, the British also experienced the political turmoil of the empress being under house arrest and Prince Edward ascended the throne. In order to stabilize the situation, ease domestic conflicts, and shift the people's focus, the British side "shamelessly" shifted the contradictions and chose China.

After all, who made China and the Qing Dynasty so easy to bully?

The UK believes that you can get huge benefits from China at just a small cost!

In this way, Edward VII's wisdom ascends the throne, and the British people temporarily forget that queen.

...The power of public opinion and media is strong, let’s not talk about anything else. At least this time, under the media offensive that Long Hao has fully implemented, the international condemnation of China is not strong!

Or, it's not urgent.

This is not surprising. The great powers are now busy at the end of the European war, and their attention to East Asia, or the Far East, has actually dropped to the lowest point in nearly twenty years!

The Sino-British naval battle that Long Hao provoked was to see this window period.

I have to say that Long Hao sincerely thanks Joseph I and Edward VII...

The Sino-British Naval Battle in Nanjing took place too quickly from the cause to the end, and it only took ten days in total. The Qing court in Beijing did not react, and the Hundred Ships War was over!

After this naval battle, the Nanyang Navy, which had just been expanded, was taken to the sky and suffered heavy losses. The remaining gunboats also fled in a hurry. I believe that when this storm is over, the Navy will probably rebuild it.

This also provides excellent material for public opinion to sensationalize and hype from the side.

However, no matter how powerful the public opinion is, it is necessary to bow to the facts and kneel to the strength.

From another perspective, if the gunboat of the Nanyang Navy was vulnerable and was defeated by the British navy at once, even if the public opinion blew China's tragedy to the sky, it would probably not stop the other great powers who thought they were just coming to arbitration. However, when the war situation fell into a foggy deadlock, the Nanyang Navy and the British Navy in China were both injured, and whoever made a profit or lost could not be seen for a while, then the buffering effect of public opinion was highlighted. At least, in the concessions of many countries in Shanghai, there was no one-sided voice to denounce China's powers.

Representatives from the great powers in Shanghai, such as France, Italy, Germany, Spain, etc., are waiting and watching...the final result of this Sino-British naval battle.

Hey, you may ask, isn’t it already out?

Didn’t it end with the defeat of the Nanyang Navy and the fleeing of eight gunboats in a panic?

Yes, the Nanyang Navy lost almost all, but the British fleet did not expect to win a great victory, because the eight escaped Nanyang Navy gunboats seemed to have taken stimulants, came from Nanjing, ran all the way, and actually ran to Shanghai safely, and followed the British fleet and rushed into the East China Sea safely!

There is a saying in the Navy: "As long as the deck is still on the horizontal line, everything is possible!"

Yes, there are still eight gunboats that have not surrendered?

How can we judge that the British army will win a complete victory?

What they chased for were just fourteen injured warships.

Once both sides reach the open East China Sea, everything is possible... Don't forget that the alchemy king Long Hao, the Count of the North Sea, who is famous for destroying the US Navy, has not taken action yet!

Who knows how many ambush he has in the Pacific Ocean?

...

Okay, let’s put our attention back on the battlefield.

The battlefield is the cornerstone that determines the direction of public opinion.

And, this battlefield is Shanghai City and the East China Sea area outside Shanghai!

On the afternoon of December 2, eight gunboats escaped by the Nanyang Navy had a fierce exchange of fire with the fourteen British warships chasing them at forty nautical miles southeast of Shanghai.

The artillery fire and thick smoke, the light and black fog rose so that the whole of Shanghai could see it!

The fire exchange lasted for an entire hour, and none of the twenty-two warships on both sides sank. However, the surrounding sea water was rolling and shaking, just like the Dragon King on a patrol!

It even affected many fishing boats that could not be avoided.

The result of the fire exchange was in line with the expectations of the foreigners in the concession. The Nanyang Navy's gunboats were defeated. After firing a few guns, they fled in panic. However, what made the foreigners who had watched the entire battle with telescopes felt a little strange: there were clearly several of the Nanyang Navy's gunboats that had been hit by British shells, but the speed of escape was still amazing!

British warships can't catch up even if they want to!

There is no way, in the traditional drama of chasing and escaping, these twenty-two warships gradually disappeared from the sight of people on the beach.

It seemed that they only appeared to perform a fight under the noses of people in Shanghai. Now, after the play was finished, they had already finished.

Since it's an acting, then you just finished singing and I'll play. The whole show is about two hours after these twenty-two warships disappeared blindly, Shanghai City was attacked on the ground!

Liu Kunyi, the governor of the Liangjiang River, joined forces with the Alchemy King, sent troops from land to three groups and marched straight to Shanghai!

In the early morning of December 3, Shanghai City fell!

Well, maybe it is not appropriate to use the term fall. Although the alchemy country in the "invading party" is a foreign country, its king is a real Chinese. Moreover, in the post-war media propaganda, the first-rank official of the Qing Dynasty: the Governor of Liangjiang!

This is not called fall, at most it is called internal strife. If it is more serious, it is just a rebellion.

There is a saying that most of the strongest fortresses are broken from the inside.

The Qing officials in Shanghai never thought that they would be attacked by their own people!

A group of Qing officials in Shanghai went crazy. After being under house arrest, they scolded Liu Kunyi as a rebel, scolded him for colluding with outsiders, and scolded his family for not having a good death!

In short, the talent of the eight-legged Jinshi shines at this moment.

Faced with the insult, Liu Kun looked like a cold iron and looked disdainful. He only said: "Shut up your mouth! I now suspect that you colluded with Britain and betrayed the information of the Nanyang Navy, which led to my Navy being attacked by the British navy and suffered heavy losses! You all saw yesterday's naval battle. It was the British chasing my Nanyang Navy's ship, and the iron evidence was as strong as a mountain! Humph, in addition, I have a lot of evidence to prove that the British intends to capture my Nanjing and plot against the Qing Dynasty. Don't tell me such a shocking conspiracy, you don't know!"

Liu Kunyi is worthy of being a veteran in the officialdom. He is a master of black and white. He can beat him back with great skill. He can easily get it. After saying this, the officials in Shanghai were experiencing a scalp and his body was like a sieve: What? We colluded with the British? They wanted to wipe out the Nanyang Navy and attack Nanjing City? We don’t know about this!!

"I'm unjust, Lord Liu, the officials are innocent!"

"I see, how could the British tell us about the actions? We don't know any of these conspiracies!"

...

"Ahem, since Lord Liu is here, the British conspiracy will definitely not succeed! I swear to follow the Lord to the death, and capture the British spies for the Lord!"

"Yes, yes, we fully support the adults and eliminate the remaining British remnants in Shanghai!"

The officials reacted very quickly, and a few eye contacts were made, and now they began to show their loyalty, willing to work with Liu Kun to search for evidence of the British planning a conspiracy in Shanghai and capture all suspicious people!

They thought: No matter how crazy Liu Kunyi was, the final plan would definitely fall on him. We were forced to follow the thief, and the punishment we received afterwards must be lighter. It is better than being killed and established by the right now if we don’t follow him!

These Qing officials in Shanghai were very happy and understood Liu Kunyi very well. Anyone who had the flesh in his heart would definitely go crazy if someone picked it!

What's more, that piece of flesh in my heart was the Nanyang Navy whom Liu Kunyi relied to survive in the officialdom!

The British ran to stab the hornet's nest, so don't blame Liu Kun for going crazy.

While understanding, these Shanghai officials were also wondering, and blamed the British for being so unscrupulous: if you have the ability, you will break Nanjing City and capture Liu Kunyi! As a result, they were counterattacked by others. When they came to Shanghai, they said that the world's number one navy, "Bah, I can't even handle the Nanyang Navy, and we will suffer together!" Foreigners are really unreliable!

With the cooperation of local Shanghai officials, Liu Kunyi's actions became smoother and he was rampant in Shanghai.

On the evening of December 3, Shanghai City announced martial law and no carriages were allowed to leave. During this period, several foreigners wanted to leave Shanghai but were stopped by Liu Kunyi's troops. These foreigners might not have expected that the Qing army would dare to act roughly towards themselves, and their words and actions remained presumptuous. The result was obvious that these arrogant foreigners were all tragic!

Faced with Liu Kunyi's unreasonable blockade against Shanghai, the Chinese people were fine, so they just wanted to accept it. They just hid in the house and didn't come out, but the foreigners from all over the concession were naturally very angry. That night, they organized people to fight back, preparing to use foreign guns and cannons to give the ignorant and backward Qing army a profound lesson.

In the eyes of foreigners in the concession, the Qing army was simply a vulnerable waste. They believed that although they had not many people, they could repel these stupid people who had braids and did not understand the slightest modern tactics. That was no problem.

Unfortunately, these foreigners who were used to being arrogant in the concession ignored one thing, that is, they followed Liu Kun and also came one by one, including Long Hao's Guards, that is, the National Defense Forces of the Alchemy Kingdom!

The National Defense Forces have been following Long Hao to China for more than a month. After this period of adaptation, they have reintegrated into their hometown. Moreover, their combat power is not comparable to that of ordinary Qing troops. Even if the elite Hunan Army and the Huai Army came, they are definitely not their opponents.

Because they are strong men who practice 13 sets of radio gymnastics, they are Chinese children who are used to using foreign guns and cannons. They are poor, but they wander overseas for several years and have an innate hatred and fearless courage towards foreigners.

What's more, there is the most important point, that is, they all admire Long Hao very much, and follow Long Hao's words and never hesitate.

Long Hao asked them to fight against foreigners. Even if they were bare-handed, they would not have any hesitation or ambiguity. Their awe of foreigners was zero. They were hunters and regarded foreigners as prey in their eyes.

Therefore, when the multinational coalition forces that were pieced together in the concession met Long Hao's National Defense Forces, the collision result never began, and it was destined!

The concession coalition was defeated on the morning of the fourth day. The arrogant and arrogant foreign devils could not believe that the enemy on the opposite side, who was not hit, had a light pace, and had a ghostly line, would actually be the Chinese army! It was not until they lost more than half of their manpower that they turned pale and shouted for surrender.

Long Hao was not a bloodthirsty person. When he saw Baiqi, he smiled and waved his hand to stop the attack. He ordered people to tie up all the foreign soldiers in the concession and take them all into the dark house to take care of them.

On the afternoon of December 4, the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty floated over the concession, and the national flags of various countries fell in shame. At this point, all the resistance forces in Shanghai disappeared, and Long Hao and Liu Kunyi completely controlled the Greater Shanghai.

It was not until he controlled the Greater Shanghai that, to be honest, Liu Kunyi became vaguely afraid.

He stood in a tall building, looking down at the mess in the concession, and the Qing officials in Shanghai who were bent over bent beside him, and his back was numb: Be good, I was confused, so I defeated the city of Shanghai? Moreover, it seemed that he had killed many foreigners, and they... were not all British!?

Liu Kunyi suddenly felt that he was used by Long Hao again, and he used his name as the governor of Liangjiang, and he used his own hands to easily control Shanghai.

After all, if it were not for Liu Kunyi, Long Hao would have been able to conquer Shanghai with the strength of the National Defense Forces, but his reputation was that the Alchemy Kingdom invaded the Qing Dynasty and had a very bad influence.

But with Liu Kunyi, the nature of the war changed, and it became an internal matter of the Qing Dynasty. The worst characterization was the rise of another Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and some people revolt to create a rebellion from the Qing court... In any case, this belongs to China's internal affairs, and can block the foreign powers' provocation from public opinion!

Liu Kun recalled carefully: I just wanted to defend Nanjing, protect my navy, and keep the official hat on my head, but in just a few days, I walked to this field now, but why did it seem to be getting further and further away from committing a meritorious service? Is this big thing, can the emperor still protect me?

"Your Majesty Hao, Shanghai has also been defeated. What should I do next?"

"Next? It's easy to deal with. Identify these foreigners, stay obediently, and send them to the trial if they are disobedient. In addition, expel all the British and resist, kill them without any hesitation. Lord Liu, you must not be lenient!" Long Hao glanced at Liu Kun, as if seeing through his uneasiness. After a smile, he said: "Our goal is to kick the British out of Shanghai, well, or to be precise, to kick the British out of China's territory! Remember, we have already turned against the UK, so we have to do it all the time! This boat can no longer go down!"

"Then, then, I always feel that we have done a little too much? Your Majesty Hao, forgive me for being dull. I didn't see how much help the capturing of Shanghai and arresting foreigners will be to rescue my Nanyang Navy ship?"

"Why is it not helpful? Controlling Shanghai means controlling the estuary of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Now, I can summon my ship to join the war!" Long Hao patted Liu Kunyi on the shoulder and smiled: "And, starting from Shanghai Port, it is easier to attack the British naval camp in the north of Ningbo, right?"

"You want to attack the British military base?" Liu Kunyi's face changed completely without a trace of blood.
Chapter completed!