In Lu Shunde's second letter to Zhou Tenghu, of course, he first introduced the reason why he suddenly moved to the Puxi battlefield - Li Xiucheng suddenly gave this order, and Lu Shunde didn't have time to take the heads of Gao Yongkuan or Chen Kunshu to prove the sincerity of surrender, so he didn't dare to act in a hurry.

At the same time, Lu Shunde got the news through Huang Zilong's channel, knowing that Li Xiu wanted to send someone to arrest him directly to Puxi to punish the crime, but because of Huang Zilong and other Tengxian generals' hard pleading, Li Xiucheng changed his mind and decided to give himself another chance to atone for his crimes, so Lu Shunde temporarily changed his plan and took the army to Puxi first. As a result, relying on the intercession of other Taiping army generals, although Li Xiucheng really did not kill Lu Shunde, he still beat Lu Shunde with fifty army sticks, and forced Lu Shunde to lead the army to be stationed in front of the road in the Wu's Qibao stronghold, acting as cannon fodder for attacking fortifications.

After introducing the reason for the transfer of the station, Lu Shunde told Zhou Tenghu very frankly, saying that not only did he hate Li Xiucheng deeply, but he also had no way out, and he still had to try to kill one or two generals of the Taiping Army, surrender to the Wu Army in Shanghai with his descendants, and asked Zhou Tenghu to be ready to respond.

After carefully reading Lu Shunde's letter, Zhou Tenghu did not rush to speak, but walked to the map sand table of the Shanghai battlefield, looked at the Taiping Army camp marked on the sand table and pondered, and said softly in his heart: "If Lu Shunde really surrenders, the opportunity is too good." ”

The opportunity is indeed very good, between the Qibao camp of the Wu army, which is about to receive heavy reinforcements, and the camp of Li Xiucheng's direct army, there is only Lu Shunde's camp on the main road now, if Lu Shunde gets out of the way, the Qibao Wu army can suddenly kill in front of Li Xiucheng's camp! If Lu Shunde can help Wu Jun open the door of Li Xiucheng's camp again, the Wu Army's generals and sergeants will drive straight forward and directly take down Li Xiucheng's head!

"Fighting a war is an adventure! Don't go to war if you don't dare to take risks! ”

"Steady! I am the commander of the Shanghai rebel army, and with a single thought, it is possible to make thousands of heads fall to the ground! There is no way to confirm whether Lu Shunde's surrender is true or not, suddenly appearing in such a good position, it may also be a deliberate arrangement of long hair, if I am fooled, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Even though Wei Wencheng, the head of the Wu Army's spy in Shanghai, quickly sent accurate news to prove that after Lu Shunde was transferred to the Puxi battlefield yesterday, he was indeed beaten by Li Xiucheng's fifty military sticks, Zhou Tenghu still resolutely gave up the tempting idea of joining forces with Lu Shunde to attack Li Xiucheng's camp, and just asked the army messenger to bring a letter to Lu Shunde, agreeing that Lu Shunde would surrender to the Wu army of Qibao with one or two Taiping army generals, and once again emphasized that Lu Shunde would only accept Lu Shunde's surrender during the day.

After making this choice, considering that Qibao was far away from the county seat of Shanghai, and there was no telegraph line to communicate with him, when Meng Wei came to bid farewell to him, Zhou Tenghu secretly told Meng Wei about Lu Shunde's secret surrender, so that Meng Wei had a bottom in his heart to prepare in advance, and also clearly told Meng Wei that the truth of Lu Shunde's surrender could not be distinguished at present, and Meng Wei was required to accept Lu Shunde's surrender only during the day, and must not surrender at night, giving the Taiping army a chance to play tricks.

"Don't worry, the last general will definitely see clearly and accept that Lu Shunde's surrender, he won't risk opening the door directly, the long hair dares to play tricks, and the custody will make them come and go!"

Meng Wei patted his chest and assured Zhou Tenghu, but his eyes involuntarily glanced at the map sand table next to the lobby, and said in his heart: "Lu Shunde's new camp with long hair is right in the middle of Qibao and Li Xiucheng's big long hair camp, if he really surrenders, then the opportunity is not too good?" ”

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When Meng Wei led three battalions of elites to the Qibao battlefield, the five Shanghai gang bosses who were eating on the wharf of the Huangpu River, each with five of their best subordinates, came to the door of Wu Lao comprador's mansion with trepidation, and met the highest-ranking veteran in the Shanghai Youth Gang congregation, Wu Jianzhang Wu Lao comprador.

What flattered the gang bosses who came to Wu Mansion together was that Wu Lao Comprador actually came to the door of Wu Mansion to greet them in person, and bowed to them as soon as they met with a smile on his face, so frightened that these five gang bosses all fell to their knees, kowtowed again and again and said that the juniors did not dare to be, and Wu Lao comprador helped them up one by one, smiled and comforted them with kind words, and politely invited them into his own flower hall to sit down, and ordered a banquet to be entertained.

And to the surprise of these five gang bosses, not only did the banquet of the old comprador Wu have their seats, but even the twenty-five water-based experts they brought in had a seat, and the thirty-one people of the old comprador Wu sat at four tables. Then when the old comprador Wu ordered the food to be served, the delicacies of the mountains and seas and the aged wine filled the four tables in the blink of an eye, but the old comprador Wu still said apologetically: "Don't blame you, the time is in a hurry, and the family has no time to prepare any good dishes, so we will eat some coarse tea and light rice." ”

"Old lady Shuang, do you blush when you say this? If you also call it coarse tea and light rice, then what we usually eat can only be regarded as pig and dog food. ”

While quietly slandering the old-timers in the rivers and lakes, the five gang bosses also knew that today's meal was definitely not so delicious, and after exchanging a few glances with each other, the five gang bosses said together: "Old lady Shuang, your old man called the little ones, do you have any orders?" Please say it directly, the younger generation will go up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire, and never frown. ”

"Don't worry, eat the meal first. Come on, come on, the old man will fill you up. ”

Old comprador Wu smiled and took the wine jug, and wanted to personally pour wine for everyone present, but the result also frightened the five gang bosses and their subordinates so much that they all got up and knelt down, and said nonsense: "Old lady Shuang, don't torture us juniors, how dare we?" How dare you? ”

"Old lady Shuang, if you have anything, just say it, the younger generation will go to the soup and fire, three knives and six holes."

"Everyone, please get up quickly, please get up quickly, the old man has something to ask you, but don't worry, let's drink the wine first."

Old comprador Wu hurriedly put down the wine jug to help everyone, but none of the five gang bosses and the subordinates they brought dared to get up, and they all begged Old comprador Wu to make it clear first, and Old Comprador Wu was helpless and said: "Okay, it's okay to make it clear first, so that you don't have to blame the old man for getting you drunk and letting you talk about wine in the future." ”

"The juniors don't dare, the juniors don't dare." The five gang bosses all kowtowed like chickens pecking rice, and they all said: "Old lady Shuang, if you have anything to say, please say it, and the younger generations will work hard." ”

"Get up and go with the old man."

Ordered everyone to get up, Wu Lao comprador brought the five gang bosses and twenty-five gang thugs into the second hall of Wu Mansion, and what made these thirty or so gang characters gasp was that the incense wax paper candle in the second hall of Wu Mansion was hung with red flowers and green leaves and white lotus roots, and the three old gods of Qian Pan were the three elders of the Green Gang Xiangtang.

"See clearly? Isn't it the incense hall of our Green Gang? ”

Old comprador Wu asked, and after seeing that everyone in the gang nodded, Old comprador Wu lightly ordered: "Set up a seat." ”

The servants rushed in and put the twenty-five chairs in the middle of the incense hall and arranged them into five rows of five seats, and the old comprador Wu also instructed the twenty-five gang thugs: "You guys, all sit down." ”

The twenty-five gang thugs were stunned, thinking that they had heard it wrong, and no one dared to move, while the old comprador Wu urged: "Sit down, rest assured, the old man will give you a chance to choose." ”

The twenty-five thugs still didn't dare to move, but their boss saw that the situation was wrong and opened his mouth to threaten, and the twenty-five thugs stepped forward in cringe and sat down cautiously. Old comprador Wu personally went to the incense altar and lit two pillars of incense, and then walked to the twenty-five gang thugs and stood still, making the appearance of preparing to bow.

"Worship life and death! The life and death of our Green Gang! ”

The boss of the Blackfish Gang was the first to wake up and asked in exclamation, "Old lady Shuang, do you want to bow down to our men for life and death?" ”

"Yes, it's life and death."

Old comprador Wu nodded calmly, and said in a calm tone to the thugs who had already changed their faces: "Little ones, listen well, you can get up and stand aside now, the old man will not blame you, because what this worship represents, the old man and you both know." ”

"You can also stay, sit and be worshiped by the old man, and the old man will take care of your family for the rest of your life, and ensure your prosperity and wealth! However, after receiving the old man's worship, your life is the old man's! ”

After calmly saying this, the old comprador Wu said again: "Okay, choose now, those who are willing to be worshiped by the old man will stay, and those who are unwilling can leave now." ”

Twenty-five gang thugs didn't dare to say anything, but they just quietly went to see their gang boss, but they all saw their boss desperately looking at each other, forcing themselves to accept this worship, and none of the thugs dared to move. Old comprador Wu asked again: "Have you thought it through?" After the old man's worship, your life is the old man's, the old man can use it as much as I want, how I want you to die, how you have to die, and now it's too late to regret it. ”

The twenty-five gang thugs all dared not say anything, but the five gang bosses said one after another: "Old lady Shuang, please salute, they are all our disciples, they dare to regret after receiving your life and death, don't need to make a move, old lady Shuang, let's use family law to make them regret being born in this world!" ”

After waiting for a while, there was still no gang thug getting up and leaving, Wu Lao comprador nodded, and then raised the two pillars of incense, two thumbs crossed, eight fingers intertwined, knelt down on both knees and bowed to the thugs three times, then got up and flipped the back of his hand, knelt down and bowed three more times.

When the old comprador Wu knelt down and kowtowed, the twenty-five gang thugs all sat motionless on their chairs, and their minds were even more blank, unable to think, and forgetting to be afraid, as if they heard the sound of the collision of black and white impermanence chains............