Although Luzhou is not as big as Tianjing, it is a state city after all, and after Yang Xiaoshan has 12,000 people in his hands to encircle it, the siege force seems a little thin.

After trying to attack the city a few times, Jiang Zhongyuan's defense did have a set, and Yang Xiaoshan didn't want to take Luzhou at too much cost. He told the earth battalion to hurry up and dig tunnels, trying to blow up the walls before launching a general attack.

Hu Zhizhou was overjoyed when he knew that the Taiping army's attack had been frustrated, and hurriedly sent his master to Yang Xiaoshan to negotiate.

Once born and twice cooked, this time the master is not as scared as last time. The Taiping army couldn't attack for a long time, and he seemed to be a little bolder, and put forward Hu Zhizhou's request to Yang Xiaoshan.

"It's already extra gracious to let you live, and you still want to take your family property with you? Dream! Chen Yucheng listened anxiously and said loudly.

"Yucheng, let him finish." Yang Xiaoshan shook his hand and motioned for Chen Yucheng to step back.

The master was still a little scared of Chen Yucheng, and only after seeing him retreat did he say: "As long as the military master agrees to our conditions, my master is willing to steal the south gate of the city tomorrow night and welcome you into the city, what do you think of this condition?" ”

Compared with these people's family property, Yang Xiaoshan feels that the lives of his subordinates are more valuable, and if he can win Luzhou like this, it is of course the best choice. He nodded and agreed: "Yes, after the city is broken, your Zhizhou can leave Luzhou with family property, this is our Taiping Army's zip sticker, as long as it is posted on the door, no one will harass you." ”

The master hurriedly took the sticker, put it in his arms, and saluted: "The villain will go back to report to our Zhizhou and say goodbye." ”

The master left the Taiping Army barracks, took advantage of the night to come to the south gate city wall, and sent a signal to wait for his own people above to throw the ladder for him. When he climbed the city wall, he was surprised, it was not his people around him, he was greeted by Jiang Zhongyuan and his guards. And the people of Zhizhou were taken down and knelt at the battlements of the city wall.

Jiang Zhongyuan pointed at him and said sharply: "Master Hu, it's so late, why did you quietly go out of the city?" ”

Master Hu, who has always been sharp-tongued, was speechless at this time.

"Come on, take him down and search for me!" Jiang Zhongyuan waved to his guards, and several people pressed the master to the ground, and searched for the Taiping Army's slip from him, as well as Hu Zhizhou's request letter to the Taiping Army.

"Okay, you people who eat things inside and out, you are still thinking about bandits at this time, and it is because of you moths that I have made this bandit so powerful!" Jiang Zhongyuan pointed at his master's nose and scolded.

"Come on, go to the Zhizhou Mansion to raid the house! Arrest Hu Yuanwei, a collaborator! Jiang Zhongyuan was a little scared after seeing the letter, if he hadn't personally patrolled the night and found something abnormal here, and tortured these people before he found out about Hu Zhizhou's bandits, otherwise he wouldn't have found out that he had been sold by these people.

It didn't take long for Hu Zhizhou, who was still wearing pajamas, to be tied up, and he said stiffly: "Why arrest me, why arrest me?" I'm the Zhizhou Lord of Luzhou. ”

Jiang Zhongyuan gave him two mouths when he went up, "You still know that you are an official of the imperial court!" He pointed to the master who was kneeling on the ground with his hand, and Hu Zhizhou collapsed to the ground, knowing that the matter was exposed.

Early the next morning, Yang Xiaoshan found that the heads of Hu Zhizhou and his master were hanging on the city tower, and knew that these two had failed. Sighing, in fact, he didn't have a good impression of these two people, and felt that they should also die, but the plan to siege the city now seems to be impossible to achieve in the short term.

After more than 20 days of fighting in the earthen camp, the Taiping army finally dug several tunnels leading to the city wall.

So Yang Xiaoshan began to arrange the team again and launched a siege.

"Boom!" Finally, a gap in the city wall was blown up, and Yang Xiaoshan commanded the team to prepare to attack the gap, but Jiang Zhongyuan seemed to have been prepared, and there were suddenly a lot of sandbags at the gap, and the gap was filled again.

This time, the Taiping army was blinded, but they didn't expect the Luzhou defenders to move so quickly, so that the gap that was finally blown up failed. Yang Xiaoshan didn't expect the Qing army's reaction to be so fast, and he was annoyed.

Yang Xiaoshan found Lu Guojin in the earthen camp and proposed: "Guojin, can you let the bomb explode twice, once to blow up the city wall, and when the enemy surrounds to fill the gap again, let the bomb explode again, so that the defenders want to save but dare not save, as long as they move half a beat slowly, we will have a chance to attack the city." Yang Xiaoshan was inspired by the terrorists in his previous life, and those terrorists used this trick to hurt many police officers who came to EOD.

"Shizi, let me think about this." Lu Guojin didn't agree on the spot, but his eyes lit up and he seemed to have found a new solution.

A few days later, Lu Guojin personally greeted Yang Xiaoshan and asked him to appreciate his newly created serial bombing. He dug two tunnels under the city and planted two layers of explosives. Detonate the upper layer first, and when the Qing army comes to plug the gap, then detonate the lower layer of gunpowder to cause a second blow.

This small change put a lot of psychological pressure on the defenders, and if they were not saved, the Taiping army would rush directly into the city; If it is saved, then Yang Xiaoshan directly detonates the second layer of explosives and kills the people who came to the rescue. False and real, real and false, so that when the Qing army encountered a gap in the back, they were all frightened, and they did not dare to step forward and throw sandbags to plug the gap, even if Jiang Zhongyuan desperately urged, they had to slow down for half a beat before going up.

Outside the city, Liu was trapped by Li Xiucheng and could not support, and the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu was defeated by Qin Rigang, retreated again and again, and was almost beaten out of Anhui.

Yang Xiaoshan knew that it was time to launch a general attack, and the defenders of Luzhou had been overwhelmed by the Taiping army's serial explosion tactics, and they were afraid. Jiang Zhongyuan's eyes were also bloodshot, and he was thin and sharp, but he did not give up and still stuck to his post.

Although Jiang Zhongyuan tried his best, under Yang Xiaoshan's fierce fighting style, he was finally rushed into the city by Chen Yucheng from the gap in the night of a month later, and then a large number of Taiping troops entered, and the city of Luzhou was broken.

Jiang Zhongyuan led his troops to resist in the streets and alleys of Luzhou, but in the face of more and more Taiping troops rushing in, the defeat was irretrievable.

"That's it, the city of Luzhou is broken, and the criminal minister Jiang Zhongyuan should be martyred." Jiang Zhongyuan was about to draw his sword and kill himself, but was stopped by his own soldiers.

One of the Du Si picked up Jiang Zhongyuan, who was already seriously injured, and prepared to break through and escape. Jiang Zhongyuan bit his ear violently, broke free and continued to fight with the Taiping army. But at this time, he was powerless to return to the sky, and after his subordinates were killed one after another, he fell into the ancient pond in despair and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.

The next day, Yang Xiaoshan asked his body to be retrieved from the ancient pond, but Jiang Zhongyuan still maintained his fighting demeanor. Xiang Yong, who surrendered to the Taiping Army, cried bitterly when he saw it, which shows that Jiang Zhongyuan has won the hearts of these soldiers.

"Jiang Zhongyuan defended the city for the Qing Demon, which was really foolish and loyal, but he resisted my heavenly soldiers alone, took the lead, and forgot to die. Although he thought he was an enemy, he was not disrespectful. Return his body so that he can return to his homeland for burial. Yang Xiaoshan also respects Jiang Zhongyuan, if he didn't do things for the Qing Demon, the two might still be able to become friends.

In this way, Jiang Zhongyuan, the leader of the Hunan army, died in Luzhou, and the Taiping army finally went to a big enemy, but this was only temporary, and a large number of Hunan generals who were as outstanding as Jiang Zhongyuan sprung up, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was about to usher in greater challenges.