In order to achieve his goal of controlling the Suhu area, Lu Jianfeng offended many people and even had their homes confiscated and their families exterminated.

In less than half a year, more than a dozen assassinations against him occurred.

Therefore, Lu Jianfeng deliberately strengthened his defense work.

In the past, when he traveled, he always wore bright clothes and an angry horse, rushing forward and backward, swaggering through the market.

Now he doesn't dare, and he also knows that there is a kind of gun that shoots very far, and he also got some from foreigners. Therefore, he now travels in a carriage. He also added iron plates to his carriage compartment.

It was now evening, and Lu Jianfeng suddenly missed Pan.

So someone drove him there in a carriage.

Because he was going to have a tryst with his brother's widow, Lu Jianfeng needed to keep a low profile as much as possible, and he brought much fewer guards than usual. He didn't have to leave the city anyway, so there must be no big danger.

Suddenly, Lu Jianfeng felt palpitations. Then, there was a violent crash on the carriage.

Lu Jianfeng reflexively wanted to lie down. Almost instantly, a cone-shaped bullet flew in along the damaged area where it had been hit before.

It only took Zou Hongxing less than a second to pull the bolt to replace the bullet. This would damage the bolt. In normal times, he would never do such a thing.

"Pfft..." A bullet penetrated Lu Jianfeng's shoulder. The cone-shaped bullet's kinetic energy was very strong, and it penetrated the shoulder and entered the chest.

He felt dizzy and had never been so close to death.

Lu Jianfeng used his last strength to escape from the carriage.

The guards also reacted and gathered around the carriage, pointing their guns outside, ready to shoot at any time.

At this moment, two rockets flew out of the building on the side.

He flew straight to the carriage.

"Boom..." Two violent explosions were heard.

There was not as much smoke in the explosion this time.

Because these are two rockets filled with a new type of explosive. They are more powerful and have less smoke. Dong Liang calls them smokeless gunpowder.

The carriage was overturned to the ground, black smoke was pouring out from the inside, and the decorations inside the carriage were set on fire.

Lu Jianfeng saw that there was no reason to survive.

Xiong Da and his brothers disappeared into Suzhou City according to the established plan before the sharp army could react.

In the south of Yangzhou City, the main force of the Jiangbei column was secretly transferred back from the front and secretly assembled here.

In the west of Jiading City, the merchant escort team is also gathering.

Dong Liang sat on the beach in the town, like a hunter, arranging his troops and preparing for the final blow against the sharp army.

To the northeast of Kunshan City, Pugang Village is located on the Liuhe River.

A battalion of the Fengrui Army is stationed here, specifically responsible for guarding against the Shanghai Merchant Corps escort team from Taicang.

Pan Qiliang, the captain of the first team of the Merchant Group's escort team, took advantage of the night to reach outside the Fengrui Army's military camp.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Following the sound of cannons, the Fengrui Army's barracks exploded into clouds of fireworks.

The sudden attack threw the entire camp into chaos.

"Kill." Pan Qiliang held a thick-backed broadsword in his hand and killed through the gap in the camp.

There are a total of 500 sharp troops stationed in the camp, which is equivalent to the number of soldiers and horses under Pan Qiliang.

The first team is the most capable team among the merchant escort teams.

Pan Qiliang was also the number one general under Liu Lichuan. This tall man was born to be a general.

Not only is he physically strong, he also has a strong personal fighting ability and is a good hand at training troops and commanding operations.

He was able to execute the Guard's drill very smoothly without any training from the Chinese military academy.

In Kunshan County, at night, a group of strong men, wearing black night clothes, quietly approached the city gate.

After a while, the sound of fighting came from the city gate.

There was even an explosion.

Such a big movement caused all the sharp troops in the city to react.

But the city gate was opened, and the escort team that had been prepared for a long time came in from outside the city.

These men in black are the servants of the merchants in the city. Those merchants can no longer stand the exploitation of the sharp army.

Businessmen, as a group, usually seem submissive and timid.

But once their interests are threatened and their bottom line is touched, these people's resistance is absolutely the craziest.

These are a group of people who want money rather than life.

Just like what Ma said, if there are 100% profits, capitalists will take risks; if there are 200% profits, capitalists will flout the law; if there are 300% profits, then capitalists will trample on the world's laws.

everything.

The capitalists here refer to those businessmen who are only interested in profit. Their pursuit of interests is essentially the same.

Now these businessmen have dared to shake the powerful for their own interests.

At Guazhou Ferry, groups of convoys were boarding the ship, and their target was Changzhou Prefecture.

Attacking from both east and west, Dong Liang was preparing to swallow up the Suhu area in one go.

Dong Liang arrived in Taicang County on the second day of the battle.

"Führer, our army has left Kunshan and is heading towards Suzhou City." Liu Lichuan followed Dong Liang so that he could report to him at any time.

"In addition, the Red Flag Army reported that their march into Changzhou went very smoothly and they have now captured Changzhou."

Liu Lichuan followed Dong Liang like a secretary, asking for instructions and reporting everything.

"Commander Liu, you are the commander-in-chief of the former enemy. You don't need to ask me for instructions. You just need to inform me of the progress." Dong Liang waved his hand.

"It's hard for you, head of state, to come to Shanghai. My subordinates can learn more by staying with you," Liu Lichuan said.

Liu Lichuan is a veteran, and he is very discerning. This can be seen from the fact that he came to Shanghai from Fujian to develop.

He realized very early that Shanghai was a suitable place for rebellion.

The establishment of concession areas will weaken the government's local rule.

The influx of a large number of servants here is the most suitable target for mobilization.

When Sun Yanping called him to Fujian and saw the strength of the Guards, he joined the Guards very decisively and sincerely without any small thoughts.

This is why Dong Liang dared to hand over the Shanghai merchant escort team to him, and even the subordinates he had developed before were not dismantled.

This kind of trust also made Liu Lichuan's work in Shanghai go more smoothly.

"Haha, Lichuan, what can you learn from me? You must learn from practice. You must remember that the battlefield is the best classroom for a general." Dong Liang said meaningfully.

Liu Lichuan didn't spend much time with Dong Liang, so it was impossible to truly be convinced of this young youngster.

But this time Dong Liang stayed in Shanghai for a longer time, and during the process of getting along with each other.

Liu Lichuan gradually discovered that Dong Liang's way of dealing with things was more like a mature middle-aged man.

"Yes, Head of State, my subordinates have learned a lesson."

Liu Lichuan continued: "Führer, if we attack further, the water network will become more and more dense, and we will encounter the Taihu Navy. I wonder how the progress of the Second Fleet is?"

Commander Zhuo of the Second Fleet had a higher status than Liu Lichuan, so Liu Lichuan could only ask Dong Liang about the operational progress of the Second Fleet.

"Commander Zhuo is a veteran on the battlefield. You can rest assured and just launch the attack according to the established plan. This time, the Jiangbei Column has dispatched more than 7,000 elite troops to cross the river south. You will join them in Wuxi. Next, the entire Soviet Union

The southern region will become an area controlled by our Chinese people. Your escorts no longer need to wear the hat of a business group."

After such a long period of accumulation, Dong Liang has passed the stage of obscene development. Mainly because these businessmen in Jiangnan have gradually become bound to the Chinese.

At this time, the Chinese officially announced their control of southern Jiangsu and Jiangbei, and demonstrated their strength, which in turn strengthened the confidence of these people to go on with the Chinese.

Dong Liang had already started planning Zhejiang in his mind. After occupying the Suhu area, Zhejiang would become an isolated island.

Dong Liang was thinking about how to capture Zhejiang without mobilizing the main force from the south.

Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, was no idiot either.

He has been organizing and training militias in Zhejiang for more than a year. He even imitated Qi Jiajun and recruited militiamen from miners in western Zhejiang.

But this requires a lot of money and food.

Fortunately, the waterways are different, and Zhejiang's tax banks no longer need to be escorted to the capital.

However, Jiangnan Camp always reached out to him.

Huang Zonghan could only reach out to those businessmen and gentry.

This will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among these people. You must know that this group of people sold Ming Dynasty to the Manchu Qing Dynasty because of profit issues.

Now will they sell the Manchu empire to the Chinese for profit?

In the capital, Xianfeng held a memorial from Shanghai Road.

It said that Shanghai Road has taken back Chongming County and the sea road is about to be opened.
To be continued...