"The cannon stopped?" Wu Shigu raised his head and looked at the Qing army under the city wall in the twilight. I wondered if the other side had run out of shells, but in fact, this was not uncommon in the history of the Qing army. "Why don't you send someone out to find out what's going on?"

Several revolutionary soldiers behind him shrank their heads in fright, and said in their hearts that this master must have learned to be stupid from foreigners, and the torches and lanterns and the voices of people outside were obviously camping. The other party's cannon was not seen, but there was more than one electric gun that had just been suppressed and shot at the head of the city, and I went out to explore, and I didn't even see the other party's camp gate and went to the underworld.

"Where's the Kid's Camp?" Seeing that no one responded to his proposal, Wu Shigu suddenly remembered that he was said to be a rising star of Hongmen who was very famous in his teacher, and this child camp official had performed well in the early uprising, but it had been a little abnormal since yesterday. I haven't seen this child camp since this morning. Several soldiers of the self-improvement army around them stared at each other, and they didn't open their mouths, and Wu Shigu had no choice but to let the soldiers continue to be vigilant, and he turned around and went down to the city to go to the yamen to find several leaders of the rebel army to discuss countermeasures.

"What's going on?" Wu Shigu was very taken aback when he saw a row of more than a dozen corpses covered with white cloth in the corridor inside the gate of the Taizhou Mansion and Tong Huchen squatting on the side with dull eyes and blank eyes. When I left the yamen in the morning, everything was normal, how could I have suffered so many casualties without hearing the sound of gunfire.

"What's wrong, how do I know what's wrong! Do you know, just now my brothers and I were in Nanchengtou to observe the enemy's situation, and we didn't find anyone ambushing outside the city, and suddenly they came out of the ground like Tuxingsun, and there was a salvo of fire, which sounded like a shot, and our brothers fell more than a dozen times, except for me and one brother whose hats were knocked off, and the others were lying here, didn't you say that the Qing army had no soldiers to fight at all? This group of Qing soldiers is not a scumbag soldier like the Green Battalion Training Army at all, damn, even the elite of the three towns of Beiyang do not have this kind of marksmanship. Come, take a look, take a good look, this is what you said about the good deeds of those Qing soldiers who fled from the wind. Tong Huchen's anger that had been stored for a long time was finally ignited by Wu Shigu's question, and he didn't care to tear open the white sheet, pull Wu Shigu's arm, and press him down next to the corpses, forcing him to look at the corpses. Wu Shigu is bold, but he was also frightened enough by this row of porcelain grinning corpses, each corpse has a circular bullet hole in the head or the center of the eyebrows or the bridge of the nose, and some are eyeballs or mandibles are shattered, without exception, they are all beckoned to the head, all of them penetrate from the front, and one shot is fatal.

At this moment, Wu Shigu's hands and feet were also a little cold, if he was shot by one person, it could be said that there were one or two sharpshooters among the enemy, but more than a dozen of them were shot in the head at once, and it meant that more than a dozen soldiers on the other side shot at the same time, which was a little terrifying. Thinking of the performance of the soldiers of the self-improvement army around him when he patrolled the city in the morning, Wu Shigu's heart couldn't help but be heavy, his morale was low, and the soldiers had no heart to fight, and the fire of the uprising in Taizhou City probably wouldn't last long.

"Have all the sniper posts been withdrawn?" Wu Chenxuan put down the binoculars and asked.

"It's all back, Boss, I don't know anything." Wu Luzhen probably couldn't see through Wu Chenxuan's deployment, if the head office could command his subordinates to directly attack Taizhou City, he naturally didn't have a second word, but now he obviously has the ability to besiege but not attack with one drum, which really makes Wu Luzhen, who advocates attacking, very depressed, and finally can't hold back and ask.

"Shouqing, let's not care how many enemy troops there are in this Taizhou city, even if the other party has a target, I believe that if you command, you can recover Taizhou last night, and the casualties may not exceed one percent. Right? ”

"Boss, the lower officials don't care about boasting, but if they took advantage of the shelling last night to attack the city directly, the other party really doesn't have much chance of defending the city."

"What's next? Let's go into the city, catch and kill some self-strengthening troops and revolutionary parties, and ask for rewards for meritorious service, and the court can reward three melons and two dates, but I am afraid that it may not be enough for the ammunition money consumed by the artillery. ”

"Could it be that the general seat plans to besiege the city and use the bandits to suppress the whole city?" Wu Luzhen rubbed her hands against each other, the smile on her face was obviously not trying to stop Wu Chenxuan's thoughts, Wu Chenxuan was very depressed, it turned out that what a good baby she was, she let herself be ruined, and even the idea of blatant robbery was born, sin and sin, Amitabha.

"You have such shallow eyelids, I really don't know what to say about you." Wu Chenxuan was not laughing or "You use your brains, you are openly robbing big families here, and Qingliu over there can bring the lawsuit to Lafayette, since we have eliminated the bandits, what is the court polite to us?" ”

"Cunning rabbit dead lackey cooking?" Wu Luzhen already understood a little, "Then do we want to raise Kou self-respect." ”

"Cole? It always has to be raised, rather than letting others raise it, it is better for us to raise it ourselves, at least obediently. By the way, what do you think of this Huai River Basin? ”

"Yes, the land is fertile and the water is beautiful, and the people are abundant."

"That's why Taizhou City is worth a few dollars, we don't want dead things like gold, silver and jewelry, we want territory."

"But this Huainan and Huaibei are the * territory of the two rivers, how can the imperial court let us occupy it."

"Occupy, can't, we are all loyal ministers of the court, how can we occupy the mountain as the king. What we want is to suppress the bandits, and what we want is to suppress the mobile rebel party and bandit army, since it is mobile, then if we withdraw to the Shandong territory, can these rebels be exterminated by relying on his new army in Liangjiang? Don't we have to do it in the end? Wu Chenxuan counted with a sincere face, "Our Wuyi New Army has 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it is really tight to rely on a little tax from the Chamber of Commerce and Shandong, and it is not our job to help suppress the two Huai, so we can't let us pay for it ourselves, the court can always understand our hardships, and when the time comes, the two Huai salaries are also the meaning of the question." ”

"What if the court doesn't understand us?" Wu Luzhen has already understood the abacus of the general seat, and dares to look at the boundary of Lianghuai, but Lianghuai has been a silver bag of the imperial court since ancient times, and salt merchants have gathered, and Caoyun has developed, so I am afraid it will not be easy to get it.

"I'm not afraid that the court will not be considerate, let's travel a long way from Shandong to suppress bandits, and it's not uncommon for this to have grain and grass to help. If the bandits take the opportunity to move, we can't let the soldiers chase after them hungry. When the time comes, the rebels will sweep the ground of Lianghuai, the rich merchants will be robbed, and the city will be washed, alas, we will not be able to do anything. In addition, if our eliminated projectile canisters are kicked upside down by unscrupulous profiteers and sold to bandits and bombarded Jinling, even if we want to exterminate the bandits, we will have more than enough strength but not enough strength. Wu Luzhen almost didn't laugh when she looked at Wu Chenxuan's compassionate performance, such a lack of virtue and smoke is what this general seat can only think of like a profiteer than a handsome, and the bad water in this family's brain is like Baotu Spring, muttering non-stop, anyway, the court can't play two Huai without the Wuyi New Army, see what else the court can do, even if you know that this must be the Wuyi New Army making trouble, you have to close your eyes and admit this pot of wine money, who makes the court have no soldiers to fight.

"What about the Beiyang New Army?" Wu Luzhen suddenly remembered that a town of the Beiyang New Army was also stationed in Henan, and if this town was mobilized, the revolutionary party of more than 1,000 people in Taizhou would have no chance to escape. "If the fourth town of Beiyang goes south, how should we deal with ourselves."

"Beiyang, hehe, if they dare to mobilize the Beiyang New Army, they will not be willing to move the Wuyi New Army far away. If you think about it, the rebel army in Taizhou City is wearing the gray skin of the Beiyang Army, and the imperial court sent Beiyang to suppress the bandits, so you are not afraid of being rebelled by the revolutionary party again. Don't worry, even if the two Huai are given to us, the imperial court will not dare to use the Beiyang Army, once the Beiyang changes, it is close to Gyeonggi, it will be a big trouble. Wu Chenxuan said with a smile, he had a clear understanding of the direction of the wind in the imperial court, how could he not be wary of the imperial court using Beiyang.

"Brother Yang Shihai is back." Just when the two were chatting happily, the ideas of harming the court and the revolutionary party were constantly being improved, and the evil nature of the two families was further exposed, Yang Shihai, who was dressed in a robe and horse coat, came back and was waiting outside.

"Brother Yang Shihai, what do those people in it say?" Wu Luzhen was very curious, and wondered if these revolutionary parties really regarded death as home.

"Report to the marshal, the captain of the Taizhou rebel army is called Wu Shigu, who is the director of the Manchurian League and a disciple of Mr. Qiao, and he does not agree to surrender to our army. However, "it can be seen that Yang Shihai is very entangled, he always feels that this is betraying the revolutionary comrades, but fortunately, he knows our strength well and has understood that if he does not persuade these revolutionaries to surrender now, he will only be dragged to the end of the vegetable market and be performed art." "However, before I left the city, the boy camp official in charge of the new army privately gave me three hundred taels of silver, and also expressed his willingness to return to the imperial court and make meritorious contributions."

"That's good." Wu Chenxuan does not mean that the people of these gangs seem to be righteous, but in fact, they are more of the ruffians of the gangsters in their bones, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and the most snobbish. "Let the people in the intelligence department contact him and tell him that only according to our arrangement can we ensure that he is prosperous and prosperous, and he will enjoy endless prosperity."

"Yes, Chief." He Minhan turned around and left the command post, no one knew how this poker-faced guy arranged the manpower, but it was certain that if the other party didn't agree, he would definitely not see the sunshine tomorrow morning.

"Boss, let's just enter the city?" Wu Luzhen was very puzzled, she said it was good yesterday, why did she plan to kill it all. "Behind that..."

Wu Chenxuan smiled, "It's not us who entered the city, it's the reinforcements of the rebellious party." We have a standard of three or four thousand soldiers and horses here, the chaotic party launched five thousand troops, coerced tens of thousands of people, the thieves are magnificent, although our department has repeatedly fought fierce battles, but in the end because of being outnumbered, annihilating the thieves, the rest of the people are wandering in the countryside, it is difficult to exterminate for a while, please send reinforcements to the imperial court, how about? ”

"This..."Wu Luzhen and Yang Shihai, who were stunned by the boss's shameless face, looked at each other, and really didn't understand which one the boss was singing.