The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement occupied Nanjing in 1853. From now on, his expansion has slowed down. Britain and France have also secretly negotiated with Nanjing, hoping to establish a cooperative relationship with this emerging regime.

However, I didn't expect that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's xenophobia was even more serious than the Qing Dynasty. They closed the door to cooperation and expanded to Shanghai, which gradually threatened the security of the Shanghai Concession.

European immigrants in Shanghai organized a betrayal and formed a volunteer team composed of Europeans and Chinese!

This completely Western-style armed force launched a long-lasting battle with Xiaodaohui and the vanguard of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the American Wall is the commander of this civilian armed force!

In the initial battle to protect the Shanghai Concession, Wall's foreign gun team actually did not have an advantage. At that time, it was the heyday of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's power. Xiaodao would attack fiercely in Shanghai, so Wall could only retreat step by step!

When the war situation was most critical, all the areas in Qingpu, Shanghai and Jiading were captured by the Taiping Army!

Wall knew that it was impossible to fight against the Taiping Army by relying on the people to organize it alone. In order to reverse the situation, he asked the allied forces invading China, Britain and France for help. The two sides hit it off. The British and French Army could not draw out people, but the navy began to give Wall a lot of support!

Not only on the Yangtze River, the Huangpu River provides fleet firepower support, but even draws sailors to land in cooperation in cooperation. As for weapons and equipment, it is given priority to supply Wall's foreign gun team!

It was with the support of the British and French coalition forces that Wall's foreign gun team had soared. In 1861, the troops had grown to 2,000, and by 1862, it had exceeded 5,000.

The powerful foreign gun team finally blocked the attack of the Taiping Army, and the Qing government had to pay attention to this force. In 1862, the imperial court named the Changsheng Army and was officially incorporated into the Qing army!

That is, in 1862, when Gordon completed the exploration and design mission in the Tianjin Concession, he was sent to Shanghai to officially enter the ever-winning army sequence as a British professional officer.

Of course, at that time, his command ranking was behind Americans Wall and Bai Qiwen, and he belonged to the third commander!

But just after he arrived in Shanghai and entered the Eternal Army, an important battle that changed his life took place!

In the spring of 1862, Li Xiucheng, the king of the Taiping Army, led 30,000 elite troops, and advanced to Shanghai with the cooperation of the Xiaodao Society, and stationed in Bailongtan!

After Li Xiucheng arrived in Shanghai, he began to build a fort, set up camps, and prepare military supplies!

At that time, the official name of the Shanghai court was Songjiang Prefecture City, which was where the Shanghai Yamen was located and also a place that foreigners focused on!

Li Xiucheng gradually built a huge siege outside Songjiang Prefecture City, preparing to launch an offensive against Songjiang Prefecture in the summer. He built thousands of ladders alone!

The situation in Shanghai changed three times a day, and the city was panicked. The foreigners in the concession boarded the ship and fled outside the ship without having to. The tickets for leaving Shanghai to go to Hong Kong were quarantined three times!

It was at this most critical moment that Gordon began to carry out civil engineering operations against Li Xiucheng to counter the siege!

At his suggestion, the Changsheng Army continued to harass the Taiping Army and delayed their siege operations, and made up their minds to burn all the houses in Caihuajing to Zhuganhui outside the city, and all burned them to white ground, using the ruins to block the Taiping Army's attack!

Wall, Bai Qiwen and Gordon did turn the tide at that time and tried their best to destroy the strategy of King Zhong Li Xiucheng. It was delayed until June, and Li Xiucheng did not complete the preparations before the siege!

The ever-winning army's harassment and sabotage strategy has achieved great success!

Later, it was simply God's help from Shanghai. The famous Thirteen Kings in history returned to Tianjing in this year, and among the Thirteen Kings, there was the loyal King Li Xiucheng!

It turned out that Zeng Guofan's army had approached the city of Tianjing, and the pioneer was the famous nine general Zeng Guoquan!

Zeng Guoquan's heavy troops were approaching Yuhuatai, Nanjing, and Tianjing City was shocked. Hong Xiuquan ordered King Zhong Li Xiucheng to return to Tianjing three times a day!

Li Xiucheng, who could not hold on to the pressure, had to give up Shanghai and withdraw his troops with his elite troops!

When the news came, the people of Songjiang Prefecture were calm and the concession was filled with joy... But just when Gordon breathed a sigh of relief, something that no one could have thought of happened!

In late June, the Taiping Army took the initiative to withdraw, but Huaer and Bai Qiwen, the Changsheng Army, had different thoughts!

As soon as the Taiping Army left, the Changsheng Army began to rob troops on the grounds of lack of money!

At first, they extorted food from rice shops, and then ransomed property from merchants across the city. This was not enough. In the end, they even took over the treasury and looted all the imperial court's official silver!

During the entire salary robbery incident, the Changsheng Army plundered a total of 350,000 taels of silver, and Gordon was stunned!

Although he is a soldier who absolutely believes in colonialism and his hands and feet in the colony are not clean, he has never done such a blatant robbery of the government!

After this incident, each of the five thousand soldiers of the ever-winning army was given thirty taels of silver, which was a total of 150,000 taels!

Other middle-level officials separated 50,000 taels!

Then he used 50,000 taels to repay part of the loans of foreign merchants. In the end, Wall, Bai Qiwen and Gordon divided up a total of 100,000 taels of silver!

Wall was divided into 40,000 per person, Bai Qiwen and Gordon each had 30,000 taels!

This is the first large-denomination black money Gordon earned in his life, and this money comes too easily!

Gordon is not a gentleman. He has no psychological burden for robbing the colony. He just feels that he has robbed the government directly, and his eating habits is a bit too ugly!

After all, he also graduated from the Royal Military Academy!

And Wall and Bai Qiwen are just American gangsters!

But no matter how hard he struggled, he still took the money and transferred money to his account in London through the British bank in Shanghai.

This robbery incident ended up in vain. Wall and Bai Qiwen were very smart. They have become a Chinese master!

These people understand how to deal with Chinese government and the people!

First of all, they robbed but did not hurt people, robbed money but never touched women!

This lowered the situation, because in the society at that time, passing the army was like a flood, and the people had already adapted to the robbery of the army!

As long as you don’t hurt people and kill people, don’t insult women, isn’t it just a silver? Just think of paying an extra tax. As long as you don’t snatch all my principal away, I will endure it!

Even the government's treasury was stolen in vain. Some local officials had the means to seek the common people to collect intensive taxes and make up for the deficit!

After all, this robbery is equivalent to levying an extra 350,000 taels of silver for the people of Shanghai!

It is this routine that the Changsheng Army played very well. In the later counterattack against the Taiping Army, the Changsheng Army would rob each time they conquer a place!

Gordon gradually enjoyed it from the beginning when he was discomfortable!

Wall died in the battle in late 1862, and since then, the sharing of the spoils of the ever-winning army has become a private matter between Gordon and Bai Qiwen!

How could Gordon and Bai Qiwen have such a deep personal relationship?
Chapter completed!