Because a man named Guo Xing'a flapped his wings, Li Xiucheng was allowed to relieve the siege of Tianjing more than a month later than in history. In the first battle of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, the elite of the 80,000 Taiping Army lost their soldiers, and they did not gnaw at more than 1,000 people in Guoxing's district, which made Hong Xiuquan and Hong Renji brothers distrust Li Xiucheng very much. It took Li Xiucheng a lot of effort to persuade Hong Renji and support him to attack Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It was only today that Hong Xiuquan agreed to his plan to relieve the siege of Tianjing.

Li Xiucheng slept very heavily at night, and today he was in a rare mood, and drank some wine for dinner. But before the fourth watch, the crescent moon was still hanging in the sky, and a rush of footsteps woke him up.

"The King of Heaven urgently beckons His Highness to see you!" The old servant ran out of breath.

"What's wrong?" Li Xiucheng hurriedly got up under the service of several maids.

"The old slave doesn't know! However, the female officer sent by the Heavenly King was very anxious! The man on the old servant's forehead kept dripping. It has been almost ten years since Tianping Heavenly Kingdom was set as the capital Tianjing, but the blood in the capital has not been done on this day, and I don't know what happened in the middle of the night. The old servant was also very nervous, if Li Xiucheng had three longs and two shorts, he and his family would not be able to escape death, and it was the rule of heaven that chickens and dogs were not left.

Li Xiucheng, who was neatly dressed, hurriedly called a few guards and followed the female officials sent by Hong Xiuquan to the Heavenly King's Mansion. Something big happened in such a hurry, and Li Xiucheng, who was sitting on the horse, was also anxious. A gust of wind blew, which seemed to faintly bring the sound of some guns and cannons, and some shouts of killing. This voice is a little distant, if there is nothing, but Li Xiucheng, who has been in battle for a long time, firmly believes that he will not hear it wrong.

"Where did the sword soldiers move?" No one could answer Mr. Lee's question.

Li Xiucheng, who hurried to the Heavenly King's Mansion, heard the sound of falling things and Hong Xiuquan's hoarse roar before he entered the main hall. Li Xiucheng didn't see the angry Hong Xiuquan, so he was stopped outside the hall by Hong Renji.

"An extremely powerful Qing demon raided the northern defense line of Tianjing, and in less than an hour, it broke through seven camps outside the city in a row, and now it has captured the outer urn city of the Shence Gate. The defenders of the Shence Gate are still trying their best to counterattack, but the Qing Demon is extremely strong, the situation of the Shen Ce Gate is critical, and the King of Heaven let the loyal king not have to see the driver, and immediately go to the Shen Ce Gate to command the battle! Hong Renji's face was anxious and sweaty.

"Good!" Li Xiucheng didn't care about saying more, turned around and left.

Li Xiucheng knew where the guns and shouts of killing came from, Shence Gate was in the north of Tianjing, close to Houhu, far away from the Tianwang Mansion and his own mansion, no wonder the sound was a little erratic. Hechun's Jiangnan camp is located between Gaoqiao Gate and Cangbo Gate in the outer city of Nanjing, almost diagonal to Shence Gate in Nanjing, and the main direction of attack of the Qing army has always been concentrated in the southern city, who would have thought that the Qing army would bypass half of the capital city to launch a sneak attack! Including Li Xiucheng himself, he believed that if the Qing army attacked Shence Gate, it would definitely come from the direction of Pukou in Jiangbei, and there would be no danger if Jiangfang did not lose a few city gates in the north.

When Li Xiucheng rushed to the Shence Gate, the situation had deteriorated further, the Shence Gate Tower had been lost, and the defenders suffered extremely heavy casualties. The walls of the city were littered with the corpses of Taiping soldiers, as well as a large number of wounded soldiers in pain*. The sun in the east has already revealed a little bit, and along the drainage hole in the inner urn city, blood is constantly flowing, as if a blood rain is falling on the city. Li Xiucheng put on a heavy armor and walked up to the city under the escort of more than a dozen guards. The scene on the city wall could no longer be described as miserable, everything was already red as far as the eye could see, everything was already red with blood.

"Brothers, come with me!" A pawn commander with gauze wrapped around his head brandished a waist knife and led more than a hundred people to launch a decisive charge towards the main city tower again.

Gunshots rang out like popping beans, and the brave soldiers fell one by one. The walls were too narrow, and the formation of their charge was so dense that a single bullet could pierce the bodies of several people. Like moths, the fearless soldiers rushed towards the Qing army, and then shed the last drop of their own blood. They were brave and fearless, but they didn't even see the face of their enemies before they returned to heaven.

"It's now!" Another commander jumped up, this time with nearly two hundred soldiers following him and charging along.

Li Xiucheng's nose is a little sour, the so-called Ci is not in charge of the army, but how can such a picture not make people sad. Obviously, the defenders of Shencemen have gradually figured out the law of the Qing army's firearms, and the first batch of charging Taiping troops never thought that they would survive, they just went to die. They used their lives to fight for a gap in the firepower of the Qing army for their companions behind them, and they used their lives to exchange a smooth road for their companions to charge.

The firepower of the Qing army was indeed empty, and the firepower of the Taiping troops in the second wave of charging was much weaker, and they were already able to get within 100 meters of the enemy. However, the firepower of the Qing army suddenly became fierce again, and their muskets kept "snapping" as if they didn't need to be loaded. It was only the last step away from the Qing army's defensive line, but the last Taiping army fell.

"Don't let the brethren die in vain!" The third commander jumped up, and more Taiping troops launched a third charge.

Li Xiucheng didn't expect that this was the real offensive, and even the second wave of people was just a stepping stone for his companions. The firepower of the Qing army recovered somewhat, but it was still slightly sparse, and after the Taiping army fell some men, it gradually approached the Qing army.

"Boom!" The artillery of the Qing army began to fire shotguns flat, and on the narrow city walls, the charging Taiping army was almost swept away.

"Goxing!" Li Xiucheng remembered the most battle he had ever fought, and that opponent was very similar to the Qing demon on the opposite side. The lone army goes deep behind enemy lines, launches a sneak attack at night, has extremely strong firepower, and is very good at defensive operations with muskets and artillery, everything shows the identity of the enemy on the opposite side.

Li Xiucheng retreated from the city wall, and at the same time ordered the defenders to stop the counterattack and strictly defend the inner urn city. After Li Xiucheng's Dragon and Tiger Battalion battle, he has been thinking about another question, what to do when he encounters Guoxing'a. After pondering and meditating, Li Xiucheng found that all the tactics he was familiar with seemed to be unable to help Guoxinga, and it seemed that only by being more powerful than Guoxinga could he suppress this demon rookie.

Jinchuanmen sent news from outside the city, and the Taiping army in the camp outside the city was also counterattacking Shence Gate, but there were also heavy casualties and no progress. Li Xiucheng was not in a hurry, he summoned the defenders of the Shence Gate and the generals of the Taiping Army outside the city, and he wanted to figure out the current environment first.

"The Qing Demon sneaked over just after the third watch, I don't know what method they used, and they were not found in several camps. At the third watch, they suddenly moved, and the brothers in several camps killed them while they were still asleep. The Taiping generals outside the city had begun to weep bitterly.

"And then!" Li Xiucheng can conclude that it is Guoxing'a, Huang Daping and Li Xiucheng said that Guoxing'a captured the battle of Little Nanjing, basically using this method, and the divine soldiers suddenly killed in front of the defenders of Little Nanjing. Li Xiucheng regretted sending Huang Daping to monitor the Qing army near Ningguo, it would be much better if Huang Daping was there, and he knew more about Guoxing's tactics. Li Xiucheng didn't know that Huang Daping had died in the hands of Guo Xing'a.

"They killed with such a great deal of skill that the men of the seven barracks killed them all without a word." The generals outside the city cried even more.

"How did they break through the Outer Urn City?" At first, Li Xiucheng thought that the Qing army had captured seven camps outside the city, but he thought that the other party was like an assassin and quietly killed all the defenders of the seven camps. But it's not hard to think about it, there are only two hundred defenders in each barracks, and most of them are asleep. With mental calculations or unintentional, two or three hundred assassins started at the same time, and it didn't take long to kill all seven people.

"The last general is incompetent! More than a hundred Qing demons who climbed the city wall like walking on the flat ground suddenly touched it, and a burst of random guns killed the soldiers on duty at night. When we reacted, the Qing Demon opened the gate of the Outer Urn City, and thousands of Qing Demons rushed in! "Now it's the turn of the general of the Shence Gate defenders to cry.

"How did you lose the main tower?" Li Xiucheng forced himself.

"The Qing demon broke through along the walls of the urn city, and our army struggled to defend the main city tower. Although the brothers suffered a lot of casualties at the beginning, they were able to withstand it, but the Qing Demon quickly transported the artillery onto the city wall, and the brothers suffered casualties in a burst of shelling. The artillery of our army is fixed on the gun position and cannot be moved, so it can only be beaten hard! The general of the Divine Gate stomped his feet angrily.

"How did the Inner Urn City hold on?" Li Xiucheng has already gritted his teeth.

"After the Qing demons occupied the main tower, they stopped rushing forward, they demolished the tower, built a wall on the city wall, and began to defend as if waiting for reinforcements." The guards of the Shence Gate were relatively upright, and admitted that the inner urn city was not defended by themselves, but that the Qing army gave up the attack.

"What is the current situation?" Li Xiucheng found the Qing army's actions extremely strange.

"The barrier of the Qing Demon is extremely strong, and the feather arrows and bullets are ineffective. Our army tried to shoot with the Qing Demon with a musket, but the Qing Demon marksmanship was excellent, the range of the gun was much farther than ours, and the reload was also very fast. The reinforcements from the city wall of Jinchuan Gate and Taiping Gate were also blocked by the barrier of the Qing Demon, and they couldn't rush over to converge! "The guards of the Shence Gate are very sad, and groups of elite soldiers can only rush up to their deaths in vain.

"The Qing demon has stationed our army's camp outside the city, and has also used the artillery on our army's artillery position at the head of the city to constantly bombard our army. The Qing army is still digging in the camp, and I don't know what tricks are there. "The few generals who came in from outside the city also did not enter.

Of course, Li Xiucheng knew what the Qing army was doing, they were building bunkers, and they were doing this in the Dragon and Tiger Camp. Li Xiucheng knew very well that the defense capability of Guoxing's troops was strong, and once the bunker defense line was repaired and the Qing army had enough food and ammunition, it would be difficult to gnaw them in a month or two.

"It is impossible to do without artillery, and the city is relatively small and relatively advantageous. You should quickly go and requisition the artillery, transport it here immediately, and send some reinforcements to Jinchuanmen and Taipingmen, only by blasting through the walls of the Qing army, can we have any hope of recovering the Chengguan. Li Xiucheng felt tired.

"Yes!" Several generals bowed down and left one after another.

"Your Highness, the last general sees that there seem to be some people hanging on the walls of the outer city." One of the generals outside the city retreated after a few steps, and he remembered a piece of information that didn't make much sense.

"Is it a non-commissioned soldier of our army?" Li Xiucheng still remembers Guo Xing'a's bad behavior of not allowing the corpses to be collected, and Guo Xing'a can definitely do it when he hangs the corpses of soldiers and even wounds soldiers.

"It's not like, and they're all living people who move freely, they seem to be doing something on the city walls!" The general only saw it from a distance, and the specific situation was not clear.

"Got it!" Li Xiucheng waved his hand and asked him to go about his own business.

Li Xiucheng still has too much to do, the Shence Gate is already in danger, and all the departments outside the city have to be mobilized. There were only one or two thousand people in total, and although it was very troublesome, even if he rushed into the city, he couldn't make any big waves, and one person in Tianjing City drowned him with a mouthful of spit. The Qing army outside the city is the key, and they must not be allowed to join forces with Guoxing'a, and the main force of the Qing army must be nailed to death.

Now if someone tells Li Xiucheng that Guo Xing'a came by himself without saying hello to anyone, Li Xiucheng will definitely kill him and don't believe it, but the truth is often a little bizarre and cruel. If he knew the purpose of Guo Xing'a's trip, Li Xiucheng would definitely be bored, because he didn't know that Guo Xing'a was just a rampant little psychopath now.