The cohesion of Wu Jianying's team is not bad, Wu Jianying is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot while waiting, several middle-level and grass-roots generals who participated in the rebellion plan finally arrived one after another, and finally no one disappeared or lost contact, and quietly ran to find other Taiping Army generals to inform. However, after learning that his accomplice Wang Zhaoqiang suddenly disappeared and was likely to go to Li Rongfa's camp, several of Wu Jianying's henchmen suddenly changed their faces, and they all exclaimed in a low voice: "Brother Wu, Wang Zhaoqiang's dog mongrel shouldn't have run to tell the truth, right?" What if he sells us? ”

"Brother Wu, you have an idea!" Gao Dong, who was the first to know the situation, urged, and said: "If Wang Zhaoqiang's son of a bitch really sells us, and King Zhong and Li Rongfa take the lead over there, we will be all finished!" ”

"Don't panic! Don't be afraid! ”

In the end, it is the role of the long-term commander of the army, although the situation is critical, Wu Jianying, who is usually a little indecisive, seems calmer than anyone else, and said in a low voice: "Regardless of whether Wang Zhaoqiang's dog mongrel betrayed us or not, now we still have a chance, immediately transfer your army, quietly go to the gate of my residence to wait for orders, and when the person I sent to contact the king of Zhennan comes back, I will do it immediately!" ”

The generals hurriedly agreed, and then another general asked, "Brother Wu, what should I do if the mobilized army is discovered by others?" There are so many people in the camp of the Chinese army, and there are people from Songtianfu Chen Defeng staring, we bring the army over, even if we don't shoot torches, it is difficult to hide from other people's eyes? ”

"Someone asked, just say that I received news that there are demon soldiers secretly assembled outside the city, and your army is sent over to wait for orders." Wu Jianying was forced to find an excuse for his subordinates to move the army overnight, and said: "Say the same to the people below you, don't let them know the situation first!" ”

The generals agreed, and then hurriedly went out to assemble and mobilize the troops under their command, Wu Jianying refused to rest assured, and asked Gao Dongduo, who was the most loyal, to send more people to closely monitor the movements around the garrison of his army, and then Wu Jianying made up his mind again, and arranged for two pro-soldiers to invite his two deputies Liu Yulin and Fang Youcai to come to see him, and said secretly in his heart: "Brother Liu, Brother Fang, I'm sorry, although our relationship has always been good, but things have come to this point, in order to prevent you from bringing the army to make trouble for me, I can only be prepared to be sorry for you. ”

While busy preparing, the army of several middle-level and grass-roots generals quickly hurried to Wu Jianying's command department to wait for orders, and with a few barely reliable troops by his side, Wu Jianying felt a little at ease. However, to Wu Jianying's great surprise, the two pro-soldiers he sent to invite Liu Yulin and Fang Youcai to meet him actually returned empty-handed, and the pro-soldiers who went to contact Fang Youcai reported that Fang Youcai had a bad stomach and was having diarrhea, so he asked Wu Jianying to forgive and forgive, and wait for him to be a little better and come to see him to apologize; Liu Yulin replied that he was inspecting the night defense on the city wall, and he couldn't come for the time being, so he asked Wu Jianying to wait for him for a while.

"What's going on? Why don't you come to see me? Fang Youcai ate stinky salmon and ate a bad stomach? Damn, when I was in Anhui with Lao Tzu, I ate a meal every day, why have I never seen him have diarrhea? Why did Liu Yulin make an excuse for me to wait for him? How did it happen so coincidentally? ”

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was wrong, the more he pondered, the more he felt panicked, and under the great fear of the East Window incident, Wu Jianying almost wanted to take the army to the Shence Gate immediately to kill Xu Lianfang directly, and forcibly open the Shence Gate to leave the city. However, considering that he had not yet made contact with Wu Jun, and there was no Wu Jun outside the Shence Gate, Wu Jianying did not dare to make up his mind at all-not to mention whether he could quickly kill Xu Lianfang's army, which occupied the fortifications, was the army that was currently waiting in the command department, and Wu Jianying did not dare to guarantee that everyone would follow him.

Therefore, Wu Jianying had no other choice but to wait, wait for the messenger he sent out to get in touch with Wu Jun, and wait for Wu Jun's side to arrange the army to receive as soon as possible......

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Wu Jianying's side is not well prepared and the strength is not enough, and he does not dare to rush to act immediately, which is undoubtedly great news for the Taiping army, as long as Song Yongqi can quickly bring Wang Zhaoqiang, the traitor of Wu Jianying's team, to Li Xiucheng as soon as possible, the Taiping army will immediately nip Wu Jianying's upcoming rebellion in the bud, not only can it be captured, but it can also be directly said to be easy. At the same time, in fact, after Song Yongqi left Li Rongfa's camp with Wang Zhaoqiang, he did get into a carriage with Wang Zhaoqiang, and hurried to Li Xiucheng's Zhongwang Mansion under the protection of several Song Yongqi's personal soldiers.

Li Xiucheng's Zhongwang Mansion is located in the south of Nanjing's Neiqiao, which is located in the northwest of Nanjing, Liuxiang is a long way away, on the way south in the same car, Song Yongqi of course asked Wang Zhaoqiang about the specific details of Wu Jianying's rebellion, Wang Zhaoqiang was foaming, and introduced his pretending to surrender to Wu Jianying's before and after, and kept saying that he had been loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from beginning to end, and was loyal to Hong Xiuquan and Li Xiucheng, and pretended to agree to participate in the rebellion in order to deceive Wu Jianying- took the opportunity to find out all of Wu Jianying's comrades.

Listening to Wang Zhaoqiang's introduction, Song Yongqi of course nodded again and again, constantly praising Wang Zhaoqiang's loyalty to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and repeatedly promised that he would make more good words for Wang Zhaoqiang in front of Li Xiucheng, and asked Li Xiucheng to reward Wang Zhaoqiang, Wang Zhaoqiang was overjoyed when he heard it, not only thanked Song Yongqi repeatedly, but also eagerly hinted at the assurance, saying that he would definitely have Song Yongqi after receiving Li Xiucheng's reward. Song Yongqi smiled when he heard this, and said: "General Wang is too polite, I personally led you to see King Zhong's Chitose, and it was all out of loyalty to the Kingdom of Heaven, how can I still share your reward ......, huh?" What is that? ”

As he spoke, Song Yongqi suddenly pointed to the darkness outside the carriage, and when Wang Zhaoqiang hurriedly turned his head to look, before he could see why Song Yongqi was surprised, one hand had already covered his mouth, and then a snow-bright sharp knife suddenly plunged into his heart, and when Wang Zhaoqiang looked down in shock, he was even more surprised to see that the dagger that suddenly stabbed into his chest was actually in the hands of Li Xiucheng's brother-in-law Song Yongqi!

Expressionlessly, he pulled out the dagger and tightly covered Wang Zhaoqiang's mouth, until it was confirmed that Wang Zhaoqiang had lost his breath, and then Song Yongqi pushed away Wang Zhaoqiang, who was staring at him, and ordered the carriage to stop. After the carriage stopped, Song Yongqi jumped out of the carriage and said to the accompanying soldiers: "Just now, an assassin rushed over and suddenly assassinated General Wang Zhaoqiang Wang, have you seen it?" ”

"Back to Wangzong, we have all seen it." Several of the pro-soldiers replied together.

"It's good to see it, remember clearly, the assassin in black went in the direction of the dragon's neck." Song Yongqi continued to command, and called his own personal soldier captain Guo Laosi to the front, and whispered in his ear: "You go to see Wu Jianying immediately, have a showdown with him, and tell him that I have helped him kill Wang Zhaoqiang, and Zhongwang Chitose is there, I will say that Wang Zhaoqiang died before he could say the name of the traitor." Then tell him that as long as he listens to me, help me open the city gate to welcome the army of the king of Zhennan into the city, and after the success, in front of the king of Zhennan, we will share the credit equally. ”

"Understood, now we finally have an army available." Guo Laosi agreed with a knowing smile, and asked in a low voice, "Wang Zong, what should you do?" ”

"I'll go to see King Chung Chitose and report to him about Wang Zhaoqiang's assassination." Song Yongqi smiled and said: "I also took the opportunity to persuade the loyal king Chitose, the hearts of the people in the city have been completely dispersed, take advantage of the fact that we still have some capital in our hands, hurry up and negotiate with the king of Zhennan." ”

"I hope that King Zhong can listen to Wang Zong's persuasion."

Guo Laosi smiled and nodded, and at Song Yongqi's request, he quickly went north, and hurried back to Shence Gate to represent Song Yongqi and Wu Jianying for a showdown, but it was also after Guo Laosi had already gone far away that Song Yongqi said to his remaining few pro-soldiers, and several pro-soldiers understood and shouted: "There are assassins!" There are assassins! Catch the Assassins! ”

By the way, on the confidential list of Zhang Dejian, the head of the Wu army's spies, there is a relative of Li Xiucheng named Song Yongqi. In history, Song Yongqi not only secretly negotiated the surrender with the Hunan army under the sign of Li Xiucheng, but also directly persuaded Li Xiucheng to surrender to the Hunan army......

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Song Yongqi's secret help didn't seem to help Wu Jianying much, because on the way north of Song Yongqi's personal soldier Guo Laosi, Wu Jianying's eyeliner around the Chinese army camp suddenly found that there was suddenly an abnormal movement in Fang Youcai's camp next to it, and a large number of soldiers hurriedly came out of the room to assemble, as if they were going to make some big moves. And after the news was quickly reported in front of Wu Jianying, thinking of Fang Youcai's previous refusal to come to see him and Wang Zhaoqiang's sudden disappearance, Wu Jianying was completely panicked no matter how calm he was, and several accomplices represented by Gao Dong next to him were even more frightened, and scrambled to say: "Brother Wu, what did Fang Youcai suddenly assemble the army for?" Isn't it ready to attack us? ”

"There's no way, we have to gamble!" Forced to helpless, Wu Jianying could only make a difficult decision and shouted: "Go to the city gate!" Let's just say that Xu Lianfang rebelled and was ready to open the Shence Gate to welcome the demon soldiers into the city! Kill him and take down the Divine Gate! ”

Knowing that there was no turning back when things came to this point, Gao Dong and the other party had no choice but to hurry to Shence Gate with Wu Jianying. As a result, Wu Jianying, Gao Dong and others were fortunate that they had just rushed out of the Chinese army camp with the army, and there were many torches on the side of Youcai behind them who rushed into Wu Jianying's Chinese army camp and officially announced that they were going to do something to Wu Jianying! Wu Jianying and the others were even more panicked when they saw it, and rushed towards the Shence Gate faster, and in order to speed up the process, they also directly shot out many torches to illuminate their attitude.

Xu Lianfang's reaction was far faster than Wu Jianying and others expected, and before Wu Jianying's army could kill the inside of the Shence Gate, the Shence Gate was already full of fire, and the army was in place, and as soon as he saw Wu Jianying's army approaching, he immediately shot decisively. Wu Jianying was even more panicked when he saw it, although he didn't understand why Xu Lianfang reacted so quickly, but in order to survive, Wu Jianying still decisively ordered: "Rush forward!" Grab the gates! ”

"Boom!"

The sudden thunderous sound in the rear made Wu Jianying subconsciously turn around, but it was okay not to look back, as soon as he turned around, Wu Jianying was completely dumbfounded, and the location of the fire was clearly where Wu Jianying's gunpowder magazine was! Wu Jianying was inexplicable and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?" What's going on? I don't think I had time to send someone to blow up the powder magazine? Why did my powder magazine explode inexplicably? ”

"Brother Wu, it's not right over there at the Shence Gate!" Gao Dong, a sworn friend, suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "Xu Lianfang's army, it seems that they are fighting?" ”

Looking back in even more disbelief, without raising the binoculars to take a closer look, Wu Jianying had already clearly seen that the inner city of Shence Gate was indeed in flames, and it was obvious that the defenders were shooting at each other, and at the same time, the tower of Shence Gate also raised fire smoke on its own. Wu Jianying was extremely dumbfounded when he saw it, and exclaimed: "I grass! What's wrong? Why did Xu Lianfang's army fight on its own? I don't have an army there, do I? ”

Unbelievable things followed one by one, the city wall west of the Shence Gate suddenly shook the sky, Liu Yulinjun, who was in charge of guarding the city wall tonight, rushed down the steps, Wu Jianying thought at first that Liu Yulinjun was preparing to fight with him, and his heart suddenly raised his throat and eyes, but after taking a closer look, Wu Jianying couldn't help but rub his eyes and scolded, "I grass!" What's going on? Why did Liu Yulin also go to fight the Shence Gate? ”

Wu Jianying was not mistaken, Liu Yulin's army who suddenly went down to the city did kill directly to the inside of the Shence Gate, and at the same time killed the Shence Gate from the two roads above and below the city, and the defenders of the Shence Gate who were in the civil war were even more chaotic, some people ran and some shouted, and the fire in the Shence Gate tower also expanded even more, and quickly turned into a huge burning fire.

"Kill!"

The shouting and killing of Fang Youcai Army in the rear also quickly approached, Wu Jianying hurriedly turned around and prepared to command the army to meet the battle, but carefully Fang Youcai's charging path, Wu Jianying couldn't help but rub his eyes - because Fang Youcai Army actually rushed directly to the direction of Shence Gate from the side and rear, not from behind to attack Wu Jianying's army!

"I'm grass! Why is there a talent to fight the gods? What is he going to do? ”

Wu Jianying was completely inexplicable, but Qing, a bystander from Gaodong, a sworn friend, suddenly thought of a possibility, and hurriedly said: "Brother Wu, Fang Youcai first burned our powder magazine, and then stormed the Shence Gate, could it be that he also wanted to open the city gate to welcome the army of King Zhennan into the city?" ”

Wu Jianying was completely stunned, and then, something even more unbelievable happened, in the flames, the left and right door openings on the inside of the Shence Gate actually opened by themselves, and some people set fire to the city gate, trying to directly burn the city gate and completely open the way in and out of the city gate! At the same time, at this moment, whether it was Wu Jianying's army, or Liu Yulin's army who killed from the west, and Fang Youcai's army who rushed to the Shence Gate from the flank and rear, no one touched the city gate of the Shence Gate! So Wu Jianying quickly came to an astonishing conclusion, it was the defenders of the Shence Gate who opened the city gate themselves and set fire to it, completely dredging the road in and out of the Shence Gate!

"I'm grass! I grass! I grass! Wu Jianying suddenly roared like crazy, "I understand!" I finally got it! ”

"Brother Wu, what do you understand?" Gao Dong, a sworn friend next to him, asked inexplicably.

"I understand why I felt wrong when I saw Xu Lianfang yesterday!" Wu Jianying clenched his fists with both hands and shouted excitedly: "When Xu Lianfang went to visit Chen Defeng yesterday, he and his two personal soldiers were empty-handed!" Why didn't I think at the time, when my subordinates went to visit an injured superior, how could my subordinates be empty-handed and not bring any gifts?! Also, Chen Defeng's expression reaction yesterday, and what he said, was obviously testing me! ”

"Brother Wu, what do you mean by that? Why don't I understand at all? Gao Dong, who was not a party to the party, became more confused the more he listened.

"Brother Gao, why are you stupider than me?" Wu Jianying laughed wildly and said, "Xu Lianfang is our own person!" Chen Defeng is also our own person! That's why tonight there will be a complete chaos on the side of Shence Gate, and Chen Defeng will invite me to discuss military affairs, and I haven't shown up when I have gathered the army and is ready to do it! Ah...... no! ”

Laughing wildly, Wu Jianying was suddenly stunned again, and exclaimed, "Won't it?" Could it be that Fang Youcai and Liu Yulin are also our own people? Otherwise, why would Fang Youcai burn my powder magazine and not fight me to fight the Divine Gate? and Liu Yulin, who also let me not fight, but ran to fight the Shence Gate? ”

"Brother Wu, who said that Fang Youcai and Liu Yulin didn't beat us?" Gao Dong said with a sad face: "You see, both of their armies are shooting at us? ”

As soon as he saw that Liu Yulinjun and Fang Youcaijun were indeed shooting at the self-army, but the intensity was not serious, Wu Jianying understood the reason after a while, and waved his hand and said: "It's not to fight us, it's self-defense, they don't know what we want to do when we come to Shencemen, of course they don't dare to let our army get close to them." ”

"Brother Wu, what should we do now?" Gao Dong hurriedly asked again.

"What else can I do?" Wu Jianying said with some tears and laughter: "Send someone to play a white flag to contact Liu Yulin, Fang Youcai, and Xu Lianfang, and tell them that we are all our own people, all of whom are the people of the King of Zhennan, and all of whom are ready to welcome the army of the King of Zhennan into the city!" Tell them not to fight, and first join hands to welcome King Zhennan into the city! ”

"I'm grass! It is worthy of the Shence Gate that the King of Zhennan has personally sat in, and without him doing it himself, this side has already become his people! ”

By the way, popularize history, Chen Defeng, in history, during the Nanjing War, he secretly communicated with the Hunan army, tried to conspire with Song Yongqi to sacrifice the city, was arrested and imprisoned after the incident, and was killed by the Hunan army after the city of Nanjing was broken, and was one of the few traitors among the old men in Jintian in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Xu Lianfang, in history, tried to dedicate the Shence Gate to the Hunan Army, but during the dedication period, the Hunan soldiers' guns went off and fell short, and he was later killed by the Taiping Army soldiers with a stone mortar! Liu Yulin and Fang Youcai hijacked Wu Jianying to surrender to the Huai army in history, and brutally slaughtered many Taiping soldiers in Wu Jianying's army who refused to surrender!

Therefore, compared with the actions of these masters, Wu Jianying is actually a loyal and righteous man of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.