Yang Xiuqing's ecstasy array successfully deceived everyone in Jiangning City, including Wu Chaoyue, who had just picked a beautiful little widow. Capture Wu Xiaoyou's slogan, Wu Chaoyue, who had suspected that the Taiping Army was going to attack Shence Gate, was taken aback again, and really thought that he had beaten the Taiping Army too badly, which backfired and completely angered the Taiping Army, so the Taiping Army was determined to fight to the death with himself to avenge the Taiping soldiers who were brutally killed by themselves.

The members of the Heaven and Earth Society, allies of the Taiping Army in Jiangning City, are also very powerful, and they have been very rampant during this time, constantly posting various notices to intimidate and shake the hearts of the Jiangning Army and the people, and spying on the various military situations of the Qing Army and sending them out of the city to the Taiping Army through special channels. After receiving the order of the Taiping Army, the members of the Heaven and Earth Society also spread a large number of rumors that the Taiping Army would inevitably set foot on the Shence Gate to find Wu Chaoyue for revenge, and the soldiers and civilians in the city believed it to be true, causing a large number of ordinary people near the Shence Gate to flee, Lu Jianying and Xianghou were also frightened to send Lian Yong to the Shence Gate again to help defend it, Qi Suzao proposed to transfer Wu Jun Lian Yong back to the city as a general reserve, but Lu Jianying, who was also frightened, categorically refused.

Under such circumstances, Wu Chaoyue of course thought that it was difficult for the self-army to break through and escape from the Shence Gate battlefield, and immediately started the idea of escaping from other city gates, and immediately set his eyes on the Taiping Gate on the right side of the Shence Gate, and ran to the Taiping Gate under the pretext of patrolling the city, exploring the terrain there to find an escape route, and also taking the opportunity to make friends with the Qing army guards on the Taiping Gate. However, when Wu Chaoyue invited Chen Xinli, the guard of the Taiping Gate, to have dinner at the Shence Gate, Wu Jun Lian Yong came over to report that the Taiping Army had another change, and Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to return to the Shence Gate in a hurry to preside over the defense.

Returning to the Shence Gate to the north, the situation on the side of the Taiping army is indeed wrong, the new from the Xiaguan Wharf, in addition to building a barracks, and a detachment of troops to demolish the houses outside the city, widen the road to the Shence Gate under the city. Wu Chaoyue was even more bitter when he saw it, and said that the Taiping Army was to facilitate the direct transportation of large-scale siege weapons to the city, and Geng Huan, who had some military experience next to him, also saw that something was wrong, and said to Wu Chaoyue: "Brother Wu, Changmao took the initiative to help us demolish the house, I'm afraid it's not a good intention, what should I do?" ”

"Of course it's not Ann's kindness."

Wu Chaoyue replied angrily, and when Geng Huan asked the Taiping Army why he did this, Wu Chaoyue couldn't answer, but just thought about it and said: "The intelligence is insufficient, and I can't guess the true intention of Long Hair, but if an army goes out to rush and test the reality of Long Hair, maybe you can find some clues." ”

"Then you take your Lian Yong out to rush." Geng Hua immediately suggested.

"I'm not going to fight anymore?" Wu Chaoyue said even more angrily: "My ammunition is bought from foreigners, there is no way to replenish it here in Jiangning, the bullets are gone, when it comes to Changmao's attack, what will I fight?" ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue said to Geng Huan again: "Brother Geng, shouldn't you move?" The long hair that demolishes the house must be an auxiliary soldier, and the combat effectiveness is relatively poor, and if you take the army out to rush, the chances of success should be great. ”

Geng Huan shook his head when he heard this, and said again and again that he didn't have the guts, it was that the green battalion soldiers under him were really unreliable, and he was the guard of the Shence Gate, and according to the rules, he couldn't go out of the city to fight without Lu Jianying's personal dispatch. As a result, when Geng Huan and Wu Chaoyue modestly pushed each other, someone suddenly said behind the two rats who were greedy for life and afraid of death: "General Geng, Master Wu, if you don't mind, I am willing to send my subordinates to practice Yong out of the city to fight Changmao." ”

Geng Huan and Wu Chaoyue were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly turned back to see who had such great courage, but saw that it was Zhang Jigeng, a gentleman of the Preparatory and Defense Bureau who had come to Shence Gate, standing behind them. ”

"Just arrived." Zhang Jigeng smiled and showed an official document and said: "Lu Zhitai Constitution Decree, let His Majesty lead 600 practitioners to come to Shence Gate to help guard." Chief Wu, from now on, we will be comrades-in-arms fighting side by side. ”

"Welcome, welcome." Wu Chaoyue already knew something about Zhang Jigeng from Hui Zheng's mouth, and knew that Zhang Jigeng brought out Lian Yong had some courage to carry it head-on with the Taiping Army, and he was one of the few reliable troops in Jiangning City, so Wu Chaoyue really welcomed Zhang Jigeng's arrival. However, after the welcome, Wu Chaoyue suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Bingyuan, isn't the group training you handled already ...... outside the Jubao Gate, that, why did you have six hundred Lian Yong in your hand?" ”

Mentioning the matter of Jubaomen, Zhang Jigeng's expression couldn't help but dim for a moment, but he quickly cheered up again and said: "The regimental training handled before Xia has indeed been wiped out, but Xiaosheng scattered all his family resources to recruit Lian Yong, and persuaded some Jiangning gentry and wealthy families to donate to support the army, and in the past few days, he has recruited 600 new Lian Yong to continue to serve my Qing court." ”

"What a hardcore traitor." Wu Chaoyue was disdainful in his heart, but he said: "Mr. Bingyuan, since you are willing to fight, then you can rest assured, I will definitely take Lian Yong to cover you on the city wall, and guarantee that I will never repeat the mistake of Jubaomen." ”

Zhang Jigeng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Wu Chaoyue, and couldn't wait to ask Geng Huan for an order to fight. After making arrangements quickly, Zhang Jigeng really sent his three hundred Lian Yong to the city, and used rudimentary weapons to attack the Taiping soldiers who were demolishing houses and opening roads.

Not to mention, Zhang Jigeng really has a set of coaches and bravery, although the training and equipment brought out are extremely poor, the morale and fighting spirit are quite high, and he has the advantage of being familiar with the terrain.

The reaction of the Taiping army was a little unexpected by Wu Chaoyue, seeing that Jiang Ning Lian Yong went out of the city to fight with their engineers, the Taiping army, which had only moved from Xiaguan this morning, did not send troops to reinforce, but only continued to build camps and establish camps, on the contrary, the camp of Li Kaifang's Taiping Army, which had been stationed before, sent reinforcements, and it didn't take much time to beat Zhang Jigeng's Lian Yong to the ground, and fled to the city in embarrassment to seek Wu Jun Lian Yong's fire cover.

Then, although the Taiping army also launched a pursuit, they only chased a few distances from the city wall and stopped, and then quickly retreated and turned back, covering the sappers to continue to demolish the houses. Seeing this scene, Wu Chaoyue always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember what was wrong for a while, but Geng Huan next to him felt sorry and scolded: "Fuck it, Long Hair has also learned to rape, and he doesn't dare to come over and send him to death." ”

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, hearing Geng Huan's words, Wu Chaoyue's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly turned to Geng Huan and asked, "Brother Geng, what did you just say?" Help me say it again. ”

"I said that the long-haired apprentice was a traitor, and he didn't dare to come and die." Geng Huan repeated in confusion, and asked again: "Brother Wu, is there anything wrong with what I said?" If Longhair dares to rush over, won't your brother have a chance to shoot? ”

"Shoot?!"

Wu Chaoyue finally found out that something was wrong - the Taiping army that defeated Zhang Jigeng Lian Yong only chased a mile away and stopped, obviously knowing how far Wu Jun Lian Yong's musket range, and knowing that chasing after him would only give Wu Jun Lian Yong as a live target to practice marksmanship in vain!

As a result, some new questions also appeared in Wu Chaoyue's mind, why didn't the Taiping Army use the new transfer of the new force outside the Shence Gate to reinforce the street fighting battlefield? Why do you want to use the old army that has already fought bravely with Wu Jun to reinforce the street fighting battlefield? With the ability of the generals of the Taiping Army to fight well, it is impossible not to even understand the truth that the enemy's physical strength is consumed by taking turns in battle, right?

"Could it be that there is something wrong with this Taiping army who came this morning?"

Wu Chaoyue suddenly thought of this important question again, and hurriedly raised his binoculars to carefully observe the new Taiping army, but unfortunately, the distance was too far to see the specific situation of the new Taiping army, let alone what equipment and age the new Taiping soldiers were. However, Wu Chaoyue carefully found that although the number of new Taiping troops was huge, the construction speed of the camp did not seem to be as fast as the previous Taiping army.

Although he noticed some flaws, Wu Chaoyue still didn't dare to be sure of the suspicion in his heart - the tens of thousands of Taiping troops who came today are probably the old and weak rear army who are bluffing!

However, when he was in a dilemma, Wu Chaoyue thought of a verification method, and hurriedly used the telescope to look at the road between the new camp and the Great Spectacular Mountain, and then, a bigger flaw appeared in Wu Chaoyue's telescope - when these new Taiping soldiers were transporting the timber to establish the camp, the height of the wood on the car was obviously a little low! This means that those Taiping soldiers are probably unable to load more wood into their cars because of their lack of physical strength!

After discovering this problem, Wu Chaoyue's heartbeat of course began to speed up, and he vaguely guessed the real purpose of the Taiping Army's bluff on the side of the Shence Gate. Then Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate, immediately pulled Wu Da aside, and whispered in his ear: "Select two reliable Lian Yong from our army, let them prepare to go out of the city late at night, and tonight, put them down from the city with a rope, and let them touch the new camp of Long Hair to show me the situation, especially pay attention to the weapons and equipment of these new Long Hair Arrivals, as well as their age." But remember, top secret, no one but ours are allowed to know about it! ”

When Wu Dadao nodded in agreement, Zhang Jigeng, the hardcore traitor over there, had already found out that Wu Chaoyue was whispering to Wu Dada, so he asked with a smile: "Master Wu, what are you talking about quietly?" Did you think of a clever plan to break the enemy? If you have one, you must remember to bring Xiaosheng a hand, Xiaosheng is bankrupt for the country, but I am looking forward to the military merit reward for landing on Taiwan to subsidize the military. ”

"It's your business!" Wu Chaoyue scolded secretly in his stomach, but said with a smile: "Mr. Bingyuan misunderstood, is it so easy to think of a strategy to break the enemy?" I rescued a poor homeless woman last night and promised to take care of her, so I asked my captain to rent a house for her and buy clothes. ”

Zhang Jigeng did not doubt that he had him, and said that he would continue to observe the enemy's situation, and let his fighters return to the city bravely, Wu Chaoyue also remembered the beautiful little widow Li Fu he saved last night, and decided to take time to take a look at her situation later.

The plan did not change quickly, when Wu Chaoyue was preparing to go down to the city in the evening, Lu Jianying, Qi Suzao and others suddenly came to the city to inspect the military situation, Wu Chaoyue had to stay and accompany him, and finally sent these plague gods away, but the sky was already dark, Geng Huan was cheeky and had to go to the Wu army camp to eat, Wu Chaoyue had to give up his plan to visit Li Fu today-Geng Hua is not a good bird, if he sees Li Fu's appearance, then maybe new trouble will come.

So it wasn't until the early morning of the next day, Wu Chaoyue took the time to visit Li Fu's, and was led into the small courtyard next to the garrison by his own soldiers, before he knocked on the door, he saw through the window that Li Fu's was watering a few pear trees in the courtyard, when it was the early spring when the pear blossoms bloomed, and Li Fu's pretty flowers, who had resumed women's clothing, were sprinkled with white petals, like a rain of flowers, Li Fu's long hair fluttering, white skin and red lips, and picturesque eyebrows, as if comparing beauty with flowers, which immediately gave Wu Chaoyue a sense of amazement, and also made Wu Chaoyue can't help but stop. I couldn't bear to break this beautiful picture, and the image of Brother Pig appeared on my thin and ugly face, and I scolded again in my heart, "! Why a widow?! ”

In the end, it was the voice of Wu Chaoyue's own soldiers that broke the silence, and the alarmed Li Fu looked up and saw Wu Chaoyue standing outside the window peeking at him, the confused expression on his thin face was the same as the common hooligans and scoundrels on the street, Li Fu couldn't help but show shame, and at the same time secretly wondered, "Why did he come to see me now?" ”

In fact, as early as the time when he took the initiative to show his true face to Wu Chaoyue, Li Fushi was already mentally prepared to be bullied and humiliated by Wu Chaoyue, because Li Fushi knew very well in his heart that if he continued to wander on the streets, even if he was not found by his vicious in-laws, he would never end well, and he would probably starve to death. So Li Fu had already quietly made up his mind at that time, if Wu Chaoyue really made any shameless demands on her, she also gritted her teeth and endured it, committed herself to Wu Chaoyue, and took the opportunity to let Wu Chaoyue take her in forever - although Wu Chaoyue was ugly, he was not bad, and he was a person worthy of Li Fu's personal promise - at least Li Fu himself thought so.

It's just that what Li Fu didn't expect was that after she took the initiative to wash off the mud on her face, although Wu Chaoyue's Lian Yong looked at her with their eyes shining, they all laughed in a low voice and said that Wu Chaoyue had picked up a big bargain this time, and Wu Chaoyue did show a lustful expression in front of her, but he never did anything to her once, and he didn't say a word of obscenity. didn't show her face once in front of her for a whole day, as if she hadn't thought about taking advantage of people's danger and forcing Li Fu to do something that she didn't want to do but couldn't do, the righteous man and gentleman had to make Li Fu dare not believe it, and it also made Li Fu suspicious of her appearance for the first time, "Could it be that this Master Wu doesn't look down on me?" ”

opened the courtyard door with a blushing face and invited Wu Chaoyue into the small courtyard, but the soldiers did not follow up with knowledge, but Wu Chaoyue didn't propose anything to bring Li Fu into the room to speak, just asked, "How is it?" Are you used to living here? ”

"Master Xie cares, and the little girl only asks for a tile to cover her body." Li Fu replied with a little blush: "The little girl is already overjoyed to have such a good yard to live in." ”

"That's good." Wu Chaoyue nodded, took out a few pieces of silver from his arms and handed them to Li Fushi, and said: "The military affairs are busy, I can't come to see you from time to time, and I can't manage your food and clothing, you take this bit of silver first, if you want to eat and wear, you can buy it yourself, and if you have anything, go to the station to find me." If I'm not there, I can also tell my Lian Yong about it, and they will report it to me. ”

"Thank you, sir." Li Fushi, who was penniless, took the silver with a blushing face, and took the initiative to say, "Master Wu, please sit in the room, and the little girl will go and make tea for you." ”

"Tea doesn't have to be." Wu Chaoyue shook his head and said, "Long hair besieges the city, I will get to the city immediately, so I don't sit down, I have to leave immediately." ”

"Leave when you meet? He really didn't have the slightest thought about me? Li Fushi, who urgently needed Wu Chaoyue's support, couldn't believe her ears, and seeing that Wu Chaoyue was really raising his leg to leave, Li Fu's heart was anxious, and he hurriedly said: "Master Wu, please wait." ”

"What else?" Wu Chaoyue stopped and asked.

"Master Wu, if you have any clerical matters to deal with, you can let the little girl serve you." Li Fushi blushed and said: "The little girl has been literate and hyphenated since she was a child, and the article is in small letters, and even the little girl's father who is the teacher of the hall often praises her, and the little girl notices that you don't seem to have any master staff, if you have any documents to write, you can always ask the little girl to write on your behalf, and let the little girl repay you for your grace." ”

"Okay." Wu Chaoyue was amused when he heard it, and said: "My biggest headache is to write official documents, since your writing is good, then when I want to write official documents in the future, I will let my relatives come to ask you for help." ”

"Aren't you coming in person?"

Li Fu was a little dumbfounded, but at this moment, Wu Da hurriedly came to Wu Chaoyue's side, first saluted Wu Chaoyue, and then leaned into Wu Chaoyue's ear and whispered: "Young Master Sun, the two Lian Yong we sent out are back, last night they ventured to get close to the long-haired camp, and found that the new long-haired ones were only a large number of people, but the weapons and equipment were very poor, and the soldiers were either old men or children, and even the people who patrolled at night were female soldiers and half-grown children!" ”

Hearing this, Wu Chaoyue's heart, which had been in his throat, was immediately put back into his stomach, and he waved his hand excitedly and said, "Okay!" That's it! As I expected, Long Hair was pretending to scare me! ”

"Longhair pretending to scare you?" Wu Dadao was confused when he heard this, and asked, "Young Master Sun, what does the long hair scare you?" ”

"I'll tell you again on the way, remember, that this matter must be kept secret, and go and tell the two brothers, that they may keep the events of last night in their hearts, and that they may not tell anyone! Let's go to town! ”

Speaking in a low voice, Wu Chaoyue didn't even forget to say goodbye, and led Wu Dadao and the others to hurry to the Shence Gate City, leaving Li Fu in a daze in the courtyard, muttering in his heart, "Completely when I don't exist?" Does he really look down on me? ”