Yang Xiaoshan was also shocked into a cold sweat, and he was almost fooled by this Qian Rengui. It turns out that this is not just a matter of military discipline, this guy actually wants to take refuge in the Qing Demon! There has never been such a traitor among the high-ranking generals who led the troops after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its own capital Tianjing, and this Qian Rengui almost succeeded under his nose.

"Old Wu, you follow him to the prison to have a look." Yang Xiaoshan held back his anger and pointed at Luo Guozhong and said to Wu Ruxiao.

"Yes, King Dong!" Wu Ruxiao followed Luo Guozhong to Changshu Prison to see if this was the case.

After a while, Wu Ruxiao returned to the palace with more than 500 old hairs, and these 500 old hairs were on fire when they saw Qian Rengui, first scolding angrily and then punching and kicking, Qian Rengui was beaten unconscious, and was spit out all over his body.

"Pull him down and deal with him according to military law!" Yang Xiaoshan looked at Qian Rengui with disdain, and was sentenced to death by "lighting a sky lantern" according to military law.

"Your name is Luo Guozhong? When will the Qing Demon come to Changshu? Yang Xiaoshan asked Luo Guozhong, who was terrified next to him.

When Luo Guozhong saw Qian Rengui like that, how could he dare to hide it, and honestly shake out Qian Rengui's plan.

"Three days later? Li Hongzhang is likely to come? After listening to Luo Guozhong's explanation, Yang Xiaoshan's eyes lit up, and a plan suddenly rose from his heart.

It is said that Li Hongzhang received a letter of surrender that was more expensive than Wang Qian Rengui, and his general Luo Guozhong came to his camp as a messenger to express his willingness to accept Zhao'an, and Li Hongzhang was overjoyed. During this time, many long-haired people have surrendered, but they are all small leaders, this is the biggest than the king, and they also have Changshu City. Although Changshu City is small, it is located in the hinterland of southern Jiangsu and is a part of the encirclement of the important city of Suzhou, which is very important to the Huai army at present.

Of course, Li Hongzhang also conducted an investigation on Qian Rengui and learned that this person was greedy for money and lustful and was not an old brother of Liangguang, so he was convinced of his surrender and promised Luo Guozhong that as long as the surrender of the city was successful, they would be given the post of chief soldier.

Li Hongzhang wanted to go to Changshu in person to recruit security, but he didn't expect that he had to deal with the situation in Suzhou, so he arranged for his younger brother Li Hezhang and Ai to pass on Liu Mingchuan to hold a surrender ceremony.

Three days later, Li Hezhang arrived outside Changshu on time.

Liu Mingchuan was cautious, and a little uneasy: "Lord Li, is this bandit really going to surrender?" Could it be a scam? ”

"Mr. Liu, my brother has already investigated, this Qian Rengui has a straw bag, he can't play any tricks, he just wants to be rich and noble. Let's take this city without a single soldier, there are not many opportunities like this, and my brother sent you here to pick up a piece of credit for nothing. Li Hezhang said disapprerovitically.

"My lord, let's be careful。。。。。。 Liu Mingchuan also wanted to speak.

"Look, their gates are open, let's go and see." Li Hezhang pointed to Changshu City, and at this time, the east and west gates opened at the same time, and thousands of people walked out of it without weapons.

"Mr. Liu, you go and accept Ximen's long hair. I'll go to the east gate. Li Hezhang saw so many unarmed long hairs walking out, his heart finally relaxed, they had learned about Changshu City, and there were only thousands of defenders, and now that they all walked out, they had nothing to worry about.

Liu Mingchuan also saw this scene, and he and Li Hezhang had the same idea, dispelling their previous suspicions.

When Li Hezhang arrived at the East Gate, according to the usual process of surrender, he generally had to first commend the sincerity of the other party, salute, and then lead his troops to take over the defense of Changshu.

The other party came Luo Guozhong, and the two met in Li Hongzhang's camp, and Li Hezhang was much more down-to-earth, and walked over completely unguarded.

"Are you more expensive than Wang Qianren?" Li Hezhang suddenly asked after greeting a few words, he never thought that Luo Guozhong would run away.

I saw a large number of Taiping soldiers killed in the east gate, holding foreign guns in their hands, and gave Li Hezhang a row of bullets when they raised their hands.

Li Hezhang shouted, knowing that he had been tricked, he quickly turned around and ran. It's a pity that he was hit in the thigh by a bullet from the Taiping Army, if it weren't for the guards around him desperately carrying him to break through, he almost became a prisoner of Yang Xiaoshan.

Liu Mingchuan of Ximen kept an eye on it, with his many years of experience on the battlefield, he always felt that there was an indescribable murderous aura in this city, which made him dare not approach. Until the gunshots rang out at the east gate, a large group of Taiping troops also rushed out of the west gate at the same time. Liu Mingchuan's surrender turned into a battle, although he had an embankment, he didn't expect that there would be so many soldiers with foreign guns in the city. I only brought 3,000 people, and I was still ready to come over to take over the defense.

Yang Xiaoshan ordered his subordinates to open the north and south gates, and the cavalry rushed out to surround the Qing army that came to surrender.

The Qing army did not adjust their mentality for a while, and they were unprepared and were beaten by the Taiping army, half of the 6,000 Huai troops who were surrendered were killed, and Li Hezhang and Liu Mingchuan escaped by luck.

"It's their East King Yang Xiaoshan! We must pay the debt with blood! Li Hezhang pressed the bleeding thigh, gritted his teeth and said, the original effortless credit is gone, and he has fallen into the long-haired trick, and after he goes back, he will become the laughing stock of others.

Yang Xiaoshan led his troops to chase for a while, before Ming Jin withdrew his troops, although this time there was no complete annihilation of the Qing army, but also let them suffer heavy losses, the most important thing is that they will not easily believe in the Taiping army's surrender in the future, which is more important than defeating these Qing troops.

What Yang Xiaoshan didn't expect was that in Suzhou City, a larger-scale rebellion appeared.

Li Xiucheng attaches great importance to Suzhou, and his loyal palace was built in Suzhou, and Tan Shaoguang, the most loyal general of the heavenly kingdom, was allowed to defend it. Although the city defense of Suzhou is not as strong as Tianjing, it is also very strong, the city wall is high and thick, and a stone wall of ten miles long has been built outside the city, the height and thickness of the stone wall are all with reference to the standard of the Suzhou city wall, built according to the waters of Taihu Lake, and it is covered with gunhole forts, which is already impregnable.

But this time to attack Suzhou the main force is Wall's victorious army, his heavy artillery damage beyond the imagination of the Taiping army, several rounds of concentrated heavy artillery bombardment, Suzhou's outer city stone wall was still blasted open more than a dozen gaps, Tan Shaoguang led the Suzhou defenders and the invading Huai army for several days of fierce fighting, both sides paid a heavy price, after five consecutive days of repeated tug-of-war, in the end still could not withstand the strong firepower of foreign devils, Suzhou outlying strongholds were lost.

Although there are still tens of thousands of defenders in the city of Suzhou, in the face of a steady stream of Huai troops, everyone understands that it is a matter of time before the city falls, so the largest group of traitors in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom appeared, they are: Nawang Gao Yongkuan, Biwang Wu Wengui, Kangwang Wang Anjun, Ning Wang Zhou Wenjia, Heavenly General Fan Qiqi, Zhang Dazhou, Wang Huaiwu, Wang Youwei and others, only Mu Wang Tan Shaoguang is still in the dark.