All kinds of coincidences, the Shence Gate side was infiltrated by the Wu Army's spy system like a sieve, and it is not false that the Taiping Army generals guarding the Shence Gate are scrambling to defect to the enemy, but Li Xiucheng has long expected that the Wu Army is preparing to move in the northwest of Nanjing City, and the elite forces and mobile troops of the Taiping Army are deployed for the battlefield of Xiaguan and Shence Gate, so can the Wu Army use the power of the Taiping Army traitors to break the city in one fell swoop, and whether the Taiping Army can block the loophole of the Shence Gate in time, Killing the traitors of the Taiping Army, such as Wu Jianying and Xu Lianfang, who were scattered and killed each other by mistake, was unknown from beginning to end, and the Wu army did not dare to say that it had won the battle, and the Taiping army could not say that it had lost.

Therefore, we have to go back and look at the situation of Li Xiucheng and Wu Chaoyue.

Let's take a look at the situation on Li Xiucheng's side first, really speaking, in fact, Li Xiucheng has not only been prepared for the night great changes on the side of Shence Gate, but also quite well-prepared, the reason is that the Wu army has already made a vigorous feint attack on the dragon's neck, and it is expected that Li Xiucheng, who is bound to attack the northwest of Nanjing, has already calculated that the time for the Wu army to move will be within these two days; Second, Li Xiucheng carefully studied the combat habits of the Wu army, and knew that whenever the Wu army attacked a fortified position, it either secretly started in the middle of the night, or prepared to open up a road to the city with artillery fire during the day, and then really exerted its strength at night. Therefore, the Taiping armies in the northwest of Nanjing City have long been prepared with torches, dry food and other things for night battles, and there are special contingency troops waiting for the day, ready to go to the battlefield of the city wall to participate in the battle and rescue emergencies.

Of course, Li Xiucheng also made a serious mistake, that is, he should not have summoned his loyal godson Li Rongfa to his Zhongwang Mansion in the evening, and inadvertently missed the opportunity to learn of Wu Jianying's rebellion in the first place. And the reason why Li Xiucheng suddenly summoned Li Rongfa to meet was also very annoying, that is, because Li Rongfa's corporals occasionally committed lawlessness and clashed with the Nanjing Taiping Army under Qin Rigang, and the narrow-minded Qin Rigang sued Li Xiucheng again, and Li Xiucheng, who did not want to clash with the friendly troops in Nanjing, called Li Rongfa to the front to reprimand, and forced Li Rongfa to restrain military discipline and strictly deal with the soldiers who provoked and made trouble.

"Do you say to yourself, is it right or wrong that your people are doing today? Your soldiers left their posts without permission and quietly went down to the city to fish in Xuanwu Lake, and the people of King Yan found out that they were blocked, and your people not only did not listen to them but also scolded and fought, and they also shot at the people of King Yan, almost killing people! How do you discipline your soldiers? Do you think this is Suzhou and Hangzhou, with my protection and petting, your people can do whatever they want? This is Tianjing, the capital of our heavenly kingdom, if it makes a big fuss, I can't protect you! ”

Even when it was about to get dark, the angry Li Xiucheng was still scolding his righteous son, but Li Rongfa was depressed and repeatedly admitted his mistakes, but Li Xiucheng still refused to give up, and scolded: "Also, I haven't had time to settle accounts with you the day before yesterday, Wu Jianying and Song Tianfu were drinking in the camp, how did you know?" Did he quietly send someone to spy on Wu Jianying? Who gave you the power to put eyeliner next to Wu Jianying? ”

"Father-in-law, wronged, I didn't." Li Rongfa hurriedly shouted and said: "That incident was discovered by Shun Tianyi's people, and Shun Tianyi's people found that Xu Lianfang left his post without permission, and quietly ran to Wu Jianying to drink, and then found that Song Tianfu not only didn't care about it, but also went together, so I went to Wu Jianying with Shun Tianyi to settle accounts." ”

"Who told you to take care of this?" Li Xiucheng was even more furious when he heard this, and shouted: "Shun Tianyi is the supervising army, he is justified in managing this matter, you are neither the supervising army nor the boss of Wu Jianying and Chen Defeng, what are you doing in this matter?" Do you think that your enemies are too few, Wu Jianying has already whispered to you and still doesn't let him go, and still wants to make enemies with Chen Defeng? Chen Defeng recruited you to provoke you, you see that Wu Jianying is not pleasing to the eye, why should you drag him into the water? ”

Li Rongfa hung his head again and didn't dare to say anything, fortunately, Li Xiucheng was not too unrelenting, and after scolding Li Rongfa a few more words, he said: "Go back and re-handle the few soldiers you committed today, and then ask King Yan for a crime tomorrow, and forget it." Please be sincere when you sin, King Yan is your elder and can afford your great gift. ”

Li Rongfa resignedly agreed, and hurriedly proposed to say goodbye in order to avoid being scolded, but seeing his beloved son Li Rongfa's low-voiced appearance, Li Xiucheng suddenly softened his heart, waved his hand and said: "Don't go yet, I've had too many things recently, and we haven't eaten together for a while, so accompany me to have dinner and then go back." ”

Hearing this, Li Rongfa knew that his father-in-law's anger had disappeared, and hurriedly agreed happily, Li Xiucheng also ordered someone to prepare a meal, and while having dinner with his son, he told Li Rongfa to prepare for night defense and always prevent the Wu army from sending troops to attack the city wall. At the same time, considering that the military situation was in full swing, Li Xiucheng urged Li Rongfa to hurry back to the camp after a hurried dinner, Li Rongfa agreed, and was about to get up to say goodbye and leave, but he never thought that at this time, Wang Zhaoqiang's matter came-Song Yongqi suddenly came to report, saying that Wang Zhaoqiang was killed by assassins on the way south with him to inform, and he did not have time to reveal the name of the traitor before he died.

"The assassin fled in the direction of the dragon's neck? No way! The brigade commander named Wang Zhaoqiang is stationed in the western section of the Shence Gate, even if the traitor is found to be either in the Shence Gate or in Xiaguan, the assassin who killed him ran in the direction of the dragon's neck, it must be just a trick, I want us to think that the traitor is out of the dragon's neck! In fact, the traitor must be in Shimonoseki or Shencemen! It's most likely to be out of the Divine Gate! ”

Song Yongqi really underestimated his brother-in-law's ability to distinguish and judge, and just after listening to Song Yongqi's blind assassination of Wang Zhaoqiang, Li Xiucheng saw through the intentional misleading of his brother-in-law Song Yongqi at a glance, and immediately deduced a correct conclusion, and shouted to Li Rongfa: "Rongfa, the traitor may jump off the wall in a hurry, take my token back to Liuxiang immediately, and take your army to the Shence Gate to help defend!" Whoever makes any changes, kill them immediately, and I'll allow you to cut them first! ”

Li Rongfa agreed, quickly took Li Xiucheng's order and rushed out of the door, hurried back to Liuxiang to organize the army to go to the city, Li Xiucheng drank the order endlessly, and sent people to Yifengmen Street on the spot, so that Ji Qingyuan, the henchman general who led the army stationed there, immediately sent troops to the city to prevent possible traitors from jumping over the wall and the Wu army taking the opportunity to attack the city. At the same time, he also sent people to send orders to Wu Ruxiao, Huang Chongfa, Yuan Dehou, Fang Haizong and other generals to let the mobile response troops led by them assemble and wait for orders, ready to reinforce the wall section that may be flawed. In addition, he sent people to contact Chen Decai, the general guarding the Dragon Neck battlefield, as well as Meng Shiyong and Qin Rigang, who commanded the Taiping Army in Nanjing, so that their troops could also enter a state of full alert.

It was still when Li Xiucheng finished issuing all the orders and sat down to rest for a while, Song Yongqi, who had long had bad intentions, came to Li Xiucheng and said in a low voice: "King Zhong, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not, now the people in Tianjing City are panicking, and those with different aspirations are like carp crossing the river, we can prevent it once and can't prevent it forever, if there is something wrong with it suddenly, let the demon soldiers kill into the city, what should we do?" ”

"What to do? Cold! Li Xiucheng said angrily: "If the demon soldiers really enter the city, they will either fight to the death with the demon soldiers, or they will protect the king of heaven and break through to the death, otherwise what else can they do?" ”

"Chung Wang Chitose, what about your mother, wife and children?" Song Yongqi asked again, and said in a low voice: "Auntie, she is so old, she worked hard to pull you up, my nephew, your son is only seven years old, and you also tell them to fight to the death with the demon soldiers?" Bullets and bullets, can we break through with them? ”

Thinking of his biological mother who worked hard to bring him up, and his seven-year-old son Li Xuefu, Li Xiucheng's heart suddenly sank, but after thinking about it again, Li Xiucheng shook his head and said: "Let's talk about these things slowly, the most important thing tonight is to guard the city first and find out the traitor." Oh, by the way, Yongqi, didn't you help Rong Fa with military affairs? Why don't you go back and help Rong Fa? Fast....... ”

"Boom ——!"

It was also a coincidence that as soon as Li Xiucheng remembered to urge Song Yongqi to return to Li Rongfa's camp, there was a faint roar in the north, although there was also the sound of Wu Jun's artillery on the dragon's neck in the northeast direction, but Li Xiucheng, who was old on the battlefield, heard the sound and identified the position, but immediately heard the source of the sound, and suddenly his face changed color and said: "It's not good, it's the direction of Shence Gate and Xiaguan!" There's something going on over there! ”

Song Yongqi didn't say a word, but quickly shrank aside and waited for the opportunity to continue to persuade Li Xiucheng to be a traitor with him, and Li Xiucheng really put the matter of urging Song Yongqi to leave behind, and immediately shouted: "Order, martial law in the whole city!" Call all the generals of the Chinese army to the palace of the king of Zhong! Contact Ji Qingyuan, Wu Jianying and Li Rongfa, and ask them to prepare more messengers and report the situation in the northwest at all times! ”

It was also roared here, Li Xiucheng suddenly shook his whole body, and suddenly remembered the details of the killed informant Wang Zhaoqiang as Wu Jianying's general, and suddenly wondered in his heart, and said secretly: "No, could it be that Wu Jianying is a traitor?" He once left my army temporarily, and when he came back, I asked him to continue to lead the army, is it too imprudent? ”

The mystery was soon revealed, when Li Shuxiang and the generals of the Chinese army came to Li Xiucheng to listen to the order, it didn't take long for a Pegasus to report from Liuxiang, saying that Wu Jianying suddenly led an army to rush to the Shence Gate, Li Xiucheng was furious when he heard this, and roared: "Wu Jianying! Dog thief! This king trusts you so much that you want to lead the troops again, and you dare to betray me! Betrayal of Heaven! ”

"What's the explosion?" Li Shuxiang was more careful, and hurriedly asked the messenger who came to report the news: "Also, are there any demon soldiers outside the city to answer?" ”

"I don't know." The messenger who came to report the news said: "The little one was riding a fast horse and was about to walk out of Willow Alley, only to hear a sudden explosion behind him, and vaguely saw the chaos in Wu Jianying's Chinese army camp. As for whether there are demon soldiers outside the city to respond, we haven't had time to determine yet. ”

"Strange thing, why did you first find out that Wu Jianying killed the Shence Gate, and then there was an explosion?"

Li Shuxiang smelled that the smell was wrong, but fortunately, this mystery was quickly solved, and before ten minutes passed, Li Rongfa's garrison on the other side of Liuxiang reported that there was a flying horse, saying that it was found that Wu Jianying's army was infighting, and Wu Jianying's general Fang Youcai suddenly led his troops into Wu Jianying's Chinese army camp, and also confirmed that it was Fang Youcai's army that killed Wu Jianying's Chinese army camp After Wu Jianying's Chinese army camp, a violent explosion occurred in Wu Jianying's Chinese army camp. Li Xiucheng was of course overjoyed when he heard this, and applauded: "Okay, the kingdom of heaven is still loyal in the end, Fang Tianyan has eliminated traitors for the country, as long as he succeeds, this king will never treat him badly!" ”

The cruel facts quickly swollen Li Xiucheng's middle-aged uncle's face, and with the continuous reporting of meteor scouts, Li Xiucheng and others, including Song Yongqi, who was also a traitor, gradually discovered that not only Wu Jianying may be a traitor and a traitor, but also a traitor and a traitor, Liu Yulin is likely to be a traitor and a traitor, and even Xu Lianfang, the goalkeeper of the Shence Gate who belongs to the Nanjing Taiping Army, is also likely to be a traitor and a traitor.

"What's going on here at the Divine Gate? What's wrong? How can there be so many traitors and moles? How can there be so many demon soldiers and spies? Is there a ghost or a demonic spirit in the Shence Gate? Will so many traitors and spies pop up all at once? ”

Fortunately, no matter how unbelievable and crazy anger he was, Li Xiucheng could still keep some calm, and after the roar, Li Xiucheng suddenly came back to his senses a little, and hurriedly asked the last messenger who came to report: "What about the demon soldiers?" Did you find demon soldiers outside the city? ”

"Back to King Chitose, I haven't found it yet." The messenger replied truthfully: "Also, the armies of Wu Jianying, Liu Yulin, Fang Youcai, and Xu Lianfang are still fighting each other inside the Shence Gate, and whoever encounters them is fighting, so we don't dare to confirm which of them is a traitor and who is a loyal servant of the Heavenly Kingdom." ”

"God help me!"

Although he didn't understand why a few seemingly traitors would fight each other to the death, Li Xiucheng was still overjoyed because of this, and roared happily: "It doesn't matter who is a traitor or who is a loyal minister, as long as they are still holding each other back!" As long as the demon soldiers haven't had time to send troops to respond! Quickly send an order to Li Rong, telling him to take down the Shence Gate and defend the Shence Gate no matter what! It doesn't matter which army it is, kill it if you get close! ”

"Besides, order Wu Ruxiao and Fang Haizong to immediately lead troops to reinforce Li Rongfa, seize the west wall section of Shence Gate, and don't give the demon soldiers any chance to attack the city!"

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Let's take a look at the situation on Wu Chaoyue's side, the messenger sent by Li Rongfa's general did not misreport the military situation, in fact, until Wu Jianying and Xu Lianfang and other traitors and traitors were already fighting in full swing inside the Shence Gate, Wu Chaoyue had not yet had time to send a soldier and a pawn to the outside of the Shence Gate to respond to the siege of the city, outside the Shence Gate, only Cao Yanzhong's general Hu Huaizhao, who was responsible for blocking the Shence Gate, more than 3,000 Wu soldiers and soldiers under the command of Hu Huaizhao urgently entered the combat state, and they never received the order of Wu Chaoyue or Cao Yanzhong to attack. Take advantage of the situation to seize control of the Divine Gate.

The reason for the big black pot of the delay of the fighter plane had to be carried by Wu Chaoyue in person, the reason is that although Wu Jianying, Fang Youcai and Liu Yulin and other traitors of the Taiping Army have successively sent messengers and successfully contacted Wu Jun, asking Wu Chaoyue to send troops to answer overnight, but in just over an hour, he has received four requests with basically the same content, no matter how treacherous Wu Chaoyue is, he will inevitably be a little dizzy, and he can't believe that there will be such a miracle on the side of the Shence Gate - the goalkeeper suddenly decided to defect on this night, The guard suddenly wanted to defect on this night, and the two deputies of the guard also decided to defect on this night!

Of course, so many coincidences come together, and there is no God's perspective to know that the Taiping Army's several traitors in the Shence Gate all surrendered sincerely, not to mention Wu Chaoyue, who has never had a good character, even if the moral gentleman and saint encounter such a situation in his second life, he has to be suspicious.

Coupled with all kinds of yin and yang mistakes, several traitors of the Taiping Army on the battlefield of Shence Gate acted too early, leaving Wu Chaoyue with insufficient time to respond, so when Wu Jianying made the first move, Wu Chaoyue not only did not decide to send troops to respond, but even only discussed with Zhang Dejian and others to analyze whether Wu Jianying and others had surrendered, and analyzed whether the miracle on the side of Shence Gate would be a trap arranged by Li Xiucheng to lure the enemy, wasting I don't know how much precious time, and I don't know how many precious fighters were delayed.

What is even more worthy of making Wu Jianying and other Taiping Army traitors vomit blood is that even the big traitor Fang Youcai ignited the powder magazine of Wu Jianying's army and officially issued a declaration of rebellion, after the news was reported to Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue's first reaction was still, "I grass!" Is it true or fake that there is such a big commotion so quickly? Could it be that the long hair is playing tricks and deceiving me, right? ”

In the end, it was still at about nine o'clock in the evening, Wu Jun's scouts clearly saw the sky-high fire rising from the Shence Gate Tower, and heard the gunshots in the Shence Gate City with their own ears, and reported the news to Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue came to the conclusion that Wu Jianying and other traitors were not fraudulent surrenders! At least one or two or three of them are not fraudulents!

And then, Wu Chaoyue regretted that he ordered the army to prepare for battle immediately, preparing to send troops to attack the city overnight, and at the same time couldn't wait to shout: "Take the token of this king, go and give an order to Hu Huaizhao outside the Shence Gate, telling him to send troops immediately, no matter what, we must take advantage of the situation to take the Shence Gate, guard the Shence Gate, and keep our way into the city!" ”

"Clearly tell Hu Huaizhao that the fighter plane is rare and successful, and this king will give him the credit for breaking the city! Thousands of innocent people in Jiangnan will also be grateful to him forever! ”