After learning more about the specific performance of the Mini gun, Zhang Jigeng of course hoped that Wu Chaoyue could divide this advanced weapon into some of him and the banner soldiers of the city, originally Wu Chaoyue's Mini gun in his hand was quite surplus, and it didn't matter how many to Zhang Jigeng, but since Zhang Jigeng mentioned the Eight Banners Uncle himself, Wu Chaoyue naturally also learned from the Xianfeng Emperor, and flatly refused under the pretext of insufficient weapons, and did not give one, just promised to have the opportunity to help Zhang Jigeng buy from foreigners in the future.

After Zhang Jigeng said goodbye and left with great regret, an order was sent to the Shence Gate -- Lu Jianying ordered that flags be planted all over the gates of Jiangning, more gongs and drums should be set up, and the people should be organized to go to the city to beat day and night, and the Preparatory and Defense Bureau should organize the people to constantly shout on the streets, and beat the ground with branches to create dust, saying that it was to create the illusion that there were many soldiers in the city and a wide range of generals to intimidate the Taiping army outside the city.

Wu Chaoyue thought with his toes and knew that Lu Jianying's empty city plan would not work, because the telescopes of this era had been quite popular, and the telescopes imported from foreigners did not dare to say that they were popularized to the battalions, and the middle-level generals of the Qing army, such as garrisons and guerrillas, were basically available to everyone, and the Taiping Army must have captured a lot after fighting with the Qing army for nearly two years. The Taiping army sent a scout at random to touch the city wall with a telescope and look closer, and you can know the truth from the fake. In the end, not only did it not play any role, but on the contrary, it only exposed the weakness of the city's defenders, which was seriously under-manned.

Knowing that it doesn't work, there is no way, Wu Chaoyue's current official position is too small, not to mention disobeying the governor's orders, it is quite difficult to see Lu Jianying to express his opinions, so there is no way, Wu Chaoyue has no choice but to toss around with Lu Jianying. But fortunately, Geng Huan, the guard of the Shence Gate, who got along with Wu Chaoyue very well, did not send this drudger to Wu Jun Lian Yong, and with a wave of his hand, he kicked all these things to the waste dim sum Lian Yong sent by the Preparatory and Defense Bureau to help the war, and he continued to pull Wu Chaoyue to drink wine and eat meat, chatting with Dashan.

Of course, Lu Jianying's empty city plan that he racked his brains to figure out failed to deceive the experienced Taiping army, but the Taiping army's bluff plan scared the inexperienced Wu Chaoyue half to death - early the next morning, when Li Kaifang came to the north of Jiangning City with more than 40,000 Taiping army soldiers, he immediately began to rush to build the camp, and also built 24 camps in one go, and a full ten of the 24 camps were built in the north of the Shence Gate, together with the Ji Wenyuan Department of the Taiping Army that had moved to the outside of the Shence Gate before, He tightly controlled the large and small roads and various supreme points outside the Shence Gate, and cut down a large amount of timber on the Great Spectacular Mountain to build siege weapons, and repaired the forts on the mountain to prepare for the deployment of artillery.

In addition, Li Kaifang's main camp flying the banner of Li Zi was also set up ten miles northwest of Shence Gate, and the intention of using Shence Gate as the main battlefield for attacking the city was very obvious.

Seeing this scene, don't say that Lu Jianying, Xianghou and others all believe that the Taiping army will launch a main attack on Shence Gate, after all, Wu Chaoyue, who is still young, also fully believes that he has beaten the Taiping Army too much, so Li Kaifang launched the main attack specifically against Shence Gate, so Wu Chaoyue, who was still afraid that Lu Jianying would transfer the self-army away from Shence Gate, also immediately changed his mind and began to pray to heaven that Lu Jianying would transfer the self-army away as soon as possible, otherwise if he continued to stay in Shence Gate, it would be difficult to run - Wu Chaoyue had more confidence in the practice of Yong under his command, But he didn't have the confidence to take more than 400 Lian Yong to successfully kill the encirclement of Li Kaifang, a famous general of the Taiping Army.

It's a pity that after personally coming to the Shence Gate City to observe the enemy's situation, Lu Jianying not only didn't let Wu Chaoyue get out of the main battlefield of the northern front that was about to be bloody soon, but also reprimanded Geng Huan and Wu Chaoyue for a long time, asking Geng Huan and Wu Chaoyue to work together to defend the Shence Gate, the door is in the people, and the door is dead! Then, Jiang Ning Lianyong, who Lu Jianying had added another battalion to the Shence Gate, hurriedly went down to the city and left, looking anxious and timid, as if the Taiping army had already entered the Shence Gate.

Forced to be helpless, Wu Chaoyue had to rack his brains to consider how to resolve the imminent crisis by himself, and after careful analysis, Wu Chaoyue also came to a quite reliable conclusion - it is certainly true that the Taiping Army hates itself to the bone, but the Taiping Army is not a fool, and Li Kaifang is not a fool, as long as he comes up with tough means to let the Taiping Army know that he is not easy to mess with, and if he wants to start from Shence Gate, he will only break his teeth, and the Taiping Army may not change the direction of the main attack and go to find other soft persimmons to pinch.

Of course, Wu Chaoyue didn't know, in fact, Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai had already had a premonition that Shence Gate would definitely not be easy to fight here, and Li Kaifang was not allowed to attack Shen Ce Gate by name, and Shen Ce Gate was actually very safe here. But it is precisely because he doesn't know this that Wu Chaoyue, who has always been lazy and negative, rarely showed a little ruthlessness, and made up his mind to win one or two more battles, so that the Taiping Army knew that it was wishful thinking to attack the Shence Sect!

Then, the physical strength of the Taiping Army, which had been discovered by Wu Chaoyue before, also surfaced again - starting from Wuchang on the second day of the first lunar month, it took less than a month to fight under the city of Jiangning, such a high-intensity long-distance march, and a few battles on the way, no matter how the soldiers of the Taiping Army can fight well, this will definitely be tired enough, and the physical strength is reduced and the combat effectiveness is insufficient, which is a great opportunity to wait for work! So Wu Chaoyue came to the conclusion that the sooner he fights in the next battle, the better it will be for him!

The enemy's weakness has been found, and the best time to strike has also been discovered, but how to seize this opportunity is a big problem -- no matter how bold Wu Chaoyue is, he does not have the courage to take more than 400 Lian Yong to find Li Kaifang's more than 40,000 people desperately. However, after carefully calculating for a long time, Wu Chaoyue's treacherous triangular eyes quickly stared at the urn city of the Shence Gate! Shence Gate here is not the three urn cities that are perverted on the side of the treasure gate, but there is also a rather unique outer urn city, as long as you can trick the Taiping army into the urn city, let go of the rusty iron gate inside the urn city, and it is easy to kill the Taiping army in the city!

How to trick the Taiping army into the urn city on the contrary, it is easier, Wu Chaoyue, who is good at deception and abduction, did not spend much effort, and immediately came up with a trick to lure the enemy, and immediately found Geng Huan, suggesting that Geng Huan send people out of the city to deceive the surrender, and said that he was willing to offer the magic gate to the Taiping army, and deceived the Taiping army to go out of the city in the middle of the night to steal the city, and as soon as the Taiping soldiers entered the urn city, they immediately launched an ambush to annihilate the enemy.

Not to mention, Geng Huan, who had already tasted the sweetness of joining forces with Wu Chaoyue, was really a little tempted, but he didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he could only go to Yifengmen to meet his boss Cheng Sanguang Cheng stationed there, and ask him to approve this battle plan, but he was not only rejected by a mouthful, but was scolded by Cheng Sanguang for being bloody. After Geng Huan came back in a gloomy manner, Wu Chaoyue still refused to give up, so he took the initiative to go to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion to meet Lu Jianying, wanting to beg Lu Jianying to approve this tactic, but what made Wu Chaoyue speechless was that the war had reached out to this point, and the men of the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion even stretched out their hands to Wu Chaoyue to ask for respect, otherwise they would not report for Wu Chaoyue.

scolded the current world for stuffing five taels of silver into Menzi, and the news of the request to see him was finally sent out, and then after waiting for a lot of time, Wu Chaoyue was finally called into the lobby of the Governor's Mansion. But unfortunately, the banner generals such as Xianghou and Fuzhu Hong'a, who had been at odds with Wu Chaoyue from the beginning, were also in the hall, so Wu Chaoyue immediately had an ominous premonition, knowing that this tactical plan might not be approved.

As expected, after Wu Chaoyue finished talking about his tactical plan, before Lu Jianying, the main master, could speak, Xianghou and Fuzhu Hong'a and other Eight Banner generals had already loudly objected, and Fuzhu Hong'a also questioned whether Wu Chaoyue was suspected of planning to sacrifice the city to the Taiping Army? However, it was okay, there was also Qi Suzao who had been pleasing to Wu Chaoyue from the beginning, and he defended Wu Chaoyue with his sick body: "Fu Titai, you suspect the wrong person, right?" In the past few days, Lord Wu personally hit Lin Fengxiang in advance, and defeated the enemy under the Shence Gate, killing more than 200 bandits, and he had already formed an enmity with the bandits, how could he still surrender to the bandits and sacrifice the city? ”

Blocking Fuzhu Hong'a's stinky mouth, Qi Suzao coughed again and said to Lu Jianying: "Lu Zhitai, the lower officials think that Wu's clever plan might as well give it a try, if it can succeed, it will definitely be able to break the bandits, boost the morale of the army in the city, and also frustrate the morale of the long hair, which will have infinite benefits for the next battle to defend the city." ”

"Sounds good, but isn't it too dangerous?" Lu Jianying was still a little worried.

"It doesn't matter." Qi Suzao instigated: "As long as we don't open the inner city gate, and there is a thousand catties of iron gates on the inside of the urn city, as long as the iron gate is put down in a critical situation, Changmao will not be able to come in." ”

This plan is indeed very dangerous, so after carefully thinking about it for a long time, Lu Jianying was still moved, nodded and said that he could give it a try, but Xianghou and Fuzhu Hong'a and other banner generals were anxious when they heard this, and quickly stood up and said: "Lu Zhitai, if you must take this risk, then we have no objection, but the city gate and jack gate must be guarded by our banner soldiers!" ”

Lu Jianying agreed, Qi Suzao did not object, and he couldn't wait to write a letter of fraud for Geng Huan in person, luring the Taiping army to come to attack Shence Gate tonight, Wu Chaoyue saw the great urgency, and hurriedly said: "Qi Fantai, this book of fraud cannot be written by you, Geng Shoubei is a military general, you learn to be rich and have five cars of neat handwriting, and the letter from Long Hair is fake at first glance, this book of fraud can only be written by someone who is not good at writing." ”

"It makes sense." Qi Suzao nodded in agreement, and asked left and right: "Whose pen is strong, like the writing of a military general?" ”

Everyone present looked at each other, originally Fu Zhu Hong'a really wanted to do it, but he had just written a few words with his pen, and Wu Chaoyue cried out again, "This Fu Titai, your brush writing is still too neat, and the words are crepe, and it doesn't look like a military general." Forget it, I'll do it. ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue really grabbed a brush and wrote a book of fraud for Geng Huan, but before he could write a few words, Fuzhu Hong'a and Xianghou and other banner generals laughed happily again, the reason is naturally that Wu Chaoyue's calligraphy is extremely rotten, and the brush characters written are more ugly than ghost paintings, and there are simplified characters that are considered to be typos. Wu Chaoyue, who knew that he couldn't do it in this regard, didn't mind, but continued to write hard, pretending to be Geng Huan claiming that he knew that Jiang Ning was destined to be unsafe, and he was willing to surrender in order to survive.

Not to mention, Wu Chaoyue's half-literate and half-white broken letter actually received a few words of praise from the world's famous calligrapher Qi Suzao, "Yes, at first glance, it looks like a military general who doesn't know much literacy, it's rare that you can imitate Master Wu so like, it's exactly the same." ”

It was also at this time that Lu Jianying, Qi Suzao and others remembered an important question - who would deliver the letter? Then although Qi Suzao suggested that a brave warrior be bribed with a lot of money to go out of the city to deliver a letter, Wu Chaoyue objected again: "Qi Fantai, you can't do this, the bandits are cunning, we must prevent them from interrogating and testing the messenger, once the messenger is not firm or shows flaws, we will be busy in vain." ”

"Then how do you send this fraudulent letter to the long-haired bandit?" Qi Suzao asked rhetorically.

"Simple, use the dead." Wu Chaoyue didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately said: "Let General Geng find a random person who doesn't know the inside story, promise him a heavy reward, let him go out of the city to deliver the letter, and then no matter how Long Mao tortures and tempts, that messenger will definitely not show any flaws." ”

Of course, death is a trick of lack of morality, but it doesn't matter, none of the dignitaries and dignitaries present will treat the people at the bottom as human beings, so after listening to Wu Chaoyue's yin tricks, even Xianghou and Fuzhu Hong'a and others couldn't help but shout hello, and Lu Jianying was even more amazed, and said: "Clever plan!" The wisdom of transcendence is comparable to Zhuge Kongming! ”

After a lot of effort, he finally made Lu Jianying and Xianghou and other fools accept their correct advice, Wu Chaoyue breathed a sigh of relief, and also secretly said in his heart: "The Taiping Army should be able to fall for it, right?" Well, it should be, the Taiping army hates me to the core, and the morale is strong in consecutive battles, and it is most likely to make the mistake of underestimating the enemy, and there must be great hope! ”

After returning to the Shence Gate, after handing over the letter to Geng Huan under the supervision of Xianghou's henchmen, Wu Chaoyue designated an unlucky guy for Geng Huan - a green battalion soldier who raped a civilian girl without receiving any punishment and smoked a lot. And Geng Huan executed it quite well in this regard, first deceived the unlucky guy in front of him to coerce and lure, promised all kinds of heavy rewards, and then fed the unlucky guy with the opium that Wu Chaoyue bought with money, and finally put the unlucky guy down in the city when it was just dark, and let him go to the Taiping army camp to deliver the letter under the cover of night.

It wasn't until after the unlucky guy was gone that Geng Huan and Wu Chaoyue began to arrange a night ambush, and Xianghou also personally brought five hundred flag soldiers to help, taking over important facilities such as city gates and jack gates, and at the same time, at the same time, under Wu Chaoyue's suggestion, he first arranged the escape methods of the soldiers who opened the door. In the end, Wu Chaoyue told Xiang Hou again: "General Xiang, remember to check the jack gate, I noticed that the jack gate has been a little old, to prevent it from rusting and not falling, you must first move the gate and put on more oil." ”

Xiang Hou casually agreed, but only urged Geng Huan and Wu Chaoyue to hurry up and arrange an ambush, and at the same time asked the banner soldiers to strictly guard the control switch of the city gate and the jack gate, not allowing any Han people to approach, and also forgot Wu Chaoyue's advice about the jack gate as soon as he was distracted.

After everything was ready, after waiting patiently for a while, the third watch arrived soon, but the city was still pitch black, and there was no movement, but the Taiping army camp in the distance was still bright, and there were still many Taiping soldiers working overnight to build the camp. Seeing this scene, not to mention that Xianghou and other banner people were anxious, even Geng Huan, who had a good relationship with Wu Chaoyue, was also anxious, and couldn't help but ask Wu Chaoyue: "Brother Wu, are you sure of your plan?" Why are there three shifts, and I haven't seen any movement? ”

"There is no such thing as absolute certainty." Wu Chaoyue yawned and replied: "Also, it's normal if there is no movement, and Chang Mao is not a fool, of course he will try to be quiet when he comes to steal the city, wait patiently, it's almost there." ”

The pain was halfway through the third watch, and at 0:00 in the morning, Wu Chaoyue, who had been holding a Western pocket watch in his hand, did not hesitate, and immediately ordered someone to hang out three red lanterns to send out a contact signal, and at the same time, the two soldiers in the urn city also immediately opened the gate of the urn city. Xianghou also immediately ordered the flag soldiers to get ready, and then rushed to the wall to look at the city, and after seeing that the city was still dark, Xianghou suddenly couldn't get angry, turned to Wu Chaoyue next to him and scolded in a low voice: "Why haven't you seen the bandits?" What bullshit trick of yours, has it been seen through by the bandits? ”

Wu Chaoyue was too lazy to be reasonable, just nervously observing the movement under the city, and then not long after, three cuckoo calls suddenly sounded under the city, and many black shadows immediately burst out of the houses outside the city, quickly gathered into a group, and then rushed towards the urn city without hesitation.

It was also at this time that Wu Chaoyue's heart, which had been tightly held in his throat, was put back into his stomach, and Geng Huan was so excited that he hugged Wu Chaoyue, and Xianghou also patted Wu Chaoyue's shoulder excitedly, and then immediately rushed to the Qianjin Iron Gate to take command.

It should be completely believed in Geng Huan's fraudulent surrender, the Taiping army came very fast, and in a blink of an eye, they rushed across the moat, and rushed directly into the urn city without stopping, and the two Qing soldiers who opened the door followed Wu Chaoyue's instructions, first whispered to the Taiping soldiers to enter the city, and then slipped to the dark places on both sides of the city gate under the cover of night, looking for the ropes laid down on the city and returning to the city.

Wu Chaoyue's damage is not over, after the Taiping army rushed into the urn city, the flag soldiers inside the city gate deliberately knocked on the door lock latch according to Wu Chaoyue's instructions, pretending to be ready to open the door, and at the same time whispered, "Wait a minute, we will open the city gate immediately!" ”

Not to mention, the Taiping soldiers who were in a hurry to break the city were really obedient, not only did they not have suspicions, but the Taiping generals who took the lead in the charge also whispered: "Quick! The king of heaven has a holy decree, and General Geng is the right deputy prime minister of the Winter Palace, and those of you who open the city gate are all knighted, and each person will be rewarded with ten taels of gold and one hundred taels of silver! ”

The flag soldiers agreed and continued to pretend to shake the latches of the door locks, while the Taiping soldiers outside the city continued to pour into the urn city in an endless stream, rushing in hundreds of people in less than two minutes. As a result, when the urn city was about to be crowded with Taiping soldiers, the Taiping generals who led the team finally realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted: "No! Get out of town! ”

Bell bell! Before the words fell, the general attack signal had already sounded in the city, and while he personally slammed the gong, Xianghou couldn't wait to shout: "Put the jack gate!" ”

"Piercing!"

The flagmen who were so excited that their eyes breathed fire couldn't wait to move the mechanism, but after the mechanism moved, the jack gate was not moving, seeing this scene, Xianghou first opened his mouth, and then immediately regretted stomping his feet and shouting, "It's miserable!" I forgot to have someone check the jack brake! ”

When Xiang Hou roared with regret, the city wall was already shouting and killing, the stone ash bottle rained down on the city, and all kinds of muskets were placed indiscriminately under the city, but seeing that the jack gate did not fall, the Taiping soldiers who found the plan were shouting and rushing out of the urn city to escape, and Wu Chaoyue, who was holding two revolvers and shooting continuously, was also suddenly so angry that the blood in his chest was churning, and he almost spit blood in his mouth like Qi Suzao, and scolded: "**** mother! I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, I'm afraid of pig-like teammates! ”