Wu Chaoyue asked the Wu army in the city to slow down the attack, give priority to preserving the army, and retain physical strength to prepare for the night battle, and at the same time asked the Wu army in the city not to show flaws, not to let the Taiping army see that the Wu army was deliberately staying strong, although the requirements were difficult, and a bit contradictory, but it was difficult to find Cao Yanzhong, who was already an old sparrow on the battlefield, taking the opportunity of being blocked in the attack, Cao Yanzhong decisively asked the front army to stop the attack, and carried the artillery forward to supplement the firepower, which justifiably let the front army get out of the battlefield of musket shooting, and also took the opportunity to delay a lot of time.

Then, of course, the heavy artillery bombardment, according to Cao Yanzhong's request, the Wu artillery not only extended the preparation time for the artillery fire on the Taiping army's position, but also aimed the muzzle of the cannon at the houses on both sides of Liuxiang, and bombarded the worthless courtyards of the houses in the city, pretending to be completely angry. At the same time, Cao Yanzhong also vigorously strengthened the attack on the flank enemy, and divided a large number of troops to clear the Taiping army squads on the flanks, which not only further delayed time, but also strengthened the protection of the flanks, and also made the Taiping army believe that the Wu army was annoyed and angry by their guerrilla cold gun tactics, and gave priority to the combat force to deal with their street fighting squads, without the slightest suspicion that the Wu army was deliberately staying strong and deliberately slowing down the attack, so he did not rush to report the situation to Li Xiucheng, on the contrary, the battle report sent to Li Xiucheng was all going well. The self-army fought effectively and firmly blocked the frantic attack of the Wu army.

If he was on the front line of the battlefield, then Li Xiucheng, who was also a veteran of the battlefield, might still be able to see through Cao Yanzhong's bluff tricks, but unfortunately, Li Xiucheng was neither on the front line of Liuxiang, nor did he have much time and energy to talk about the situation on the battlefield in Liuxiang. At the same time, in order to further confuse the Wu army, Li Xiucheng never ordered to stop the construction of the city wall, and the city wall construction site between Taicheng and Qingliang Mountain has been under intense construction, creating the illusion that the Taiping army intends to defend the city to the end in Nanjing.

Another incident happened in this scene, that is, Li Shuxiang found that the Nanjing Taiping Army under the command of Meng Shiyong and Qin Rigang carried too many vehicles, and was worried that it would affect the speed of the breakthrough and retreat, so he ran to Li Xiucheng to make a statement, suggesting that Li Xiucheng intervene in this matter. However, Li Xiucheng shook his head and said: "There is no need, first of all, this matter must be the meaning of the Heavenly King, I don't dare to interfere with Meng Shiyong and Qin Rigang without taking it upon themselves to bring so many vehicles, and secondly, it is good for them to bring more vehicles, and they may be able to get miraculous results at the critical moment." ”

"What does King Chung Chitose mean is that he deliberately gave up some vehicles at a critical moment, and let the demon soldiers rob the gold, silver and jewelry on those cars, so as to delay the pursuit of the demon soldiers?"

Li Shuxiang understood what Li Xiucheng meant, Li Xiucheng smiled and nodded, and said: "The silver is white, the eyes are black, seeing so much silver, no matter how strict the military law of the demon soldiers is, how can someone be greedy, as long as someone is greedy, someone will follow suit, and when the demon soldier's team is in chaos, it will be much easier for us to retreat." ”

Li Shuxiang agreed, and quickly praised Li Xiucheng for his foresight and foresight, but Li Xiucheng waved his hand, unwilling to continue on this topic, and frowned and said: "The key is to go out of the city, after leaving the city, everything is easy to do, but if the demon soldiers block our way out of the city, our army will not be able to spread out in the city gate, and the battle will be difficult to fight." ”

Seeing that Li Xiucheng was sad, Li Shuxiang suddenly had an idea when he tried to think about it, and hurriedly said: "Zhongwang Chitose, this method may work, do you remember that when we were studying together, we once read the section where Tian Dan used the fire ox array to break the Yan army?" ”

"Fire Bull Formation?" Li Xiucheng's eyes lit up, his face was suddenly swept away, and he patted his legs and said happily: "Clever plan, this trick will definitely work, go and prepare, tonight we will use the fire ox array to open the way, and the demon soldiers will be caught off guard!" ”

Finally came up with a way to break through the blockade of the Wu army, Li Xiucheng was no longer worried, and immediately arranged for people to collect ploughing cattle and prepare to learn the trick of a field order, and at the same time made every effort to arrange the breakthrough affairs at night and arrange the strategy of attacking the west and the east, and he left the affairs of the Liuxiang battlefield behind him even more in his busy time. The Wu army is also on the battlefield in the north of the city step by step, slowly advancing, retaining physical strength to prepare for the night battle, the battlefield in the north of the city has always been full of guns, but it is always thunder and rain, and there are no twists and turns.

The sky finally got a little dark, and Cao Yanzhong, who didn't dare to fight at night yesterday, took the opportunity to collect his troops and temporarily ended the battle in Beicheng. As a result, when Li Rongfa and others happily sent the results of today's street battle to Li Xiucheng, Li Xiucheng vaguely noticed that something was wrong, and said suspiciously: "What's the matter?" Haven't the demon soldiers already increased their troops in Willow Lane? Why did you fight slower today than yesterday, and you didn't break through Liuxiang after a day of fighting, and hit Baiziting? ”

No one could answer Li Xiucheng's question, but the Sect Leader Hong sent someone to urge, asking Li Xiucheng to make the final preparations as soon as possible, so as to launch a breakthrough operation on time during the second watch, Li Xiucheng, who was afraid that the Sect Master Hong would change his fortune, had no choice but to completely forget about the matter of Liuxiang, free up his hands to arrange the final retreat preparations, and at the same time secretly ordered the Fifth Army of Beicheng to inform the news of tonight's breakthrough, and asked Li Rongfa, Fang Haizong, Chen Decai and others to obey Ji Qingyuan's dispatch and command, and finally retreat from Nanjing City.

Li Xiucheng's worries soon became a fact, when his secret order was sent to the chief general of the five armies in Beicheng, not to mention Fang Haizong, Chen Decai and others, whose qualifications and merits were on par with Ji Qingyuan, even Li Xiucheng's godson Li Rongfa was also full of complaints, complaining: "Why do you want Ji Qingyuan to be the head?" Give him back the title of king? The street battle in the past two days is mainly because I am fighting, Ji Qingyuan has been hiding next to me to preserve his strength, and he also lost three city gates in one go, what qualifications do you have to command me? ”

Godson Li Rongfa is still like this, Fang Haizong and Chen Decai and other outsiders are of course complaining more behind their backs, and they all said: "There is a good show to watch, look at it, the surname Ji must have asked us to be in front and told his army to go first!" Whether we can break out of Tianjing City alive or not, only God knows. ”

Being in Nancheng, Li Xiucheng of course did not know the dissatisfaction and complaints of the generals on the front line, but according to the plan formulated before the war, he ordered the defenders of Jubaomen to move on time, creating the illusion of leaving the city from the south gate, luring the Wu army to concentrate their mobile forces outside Jubaomen, and also trying to lure Feng Sanbao to send troops to reinforce Jubaomen, further reducing the pressure of the Taiping army to break through.

In the middle of the first shift, according to Li Xiucheng's order, the Taiping army on the Jubao Gate deliberately used ropes to put down many straw men covered with black cloth, faking the illusion of a sneak attack out of the city, luring the Wu army outside the city to shoot, and the Wu soldiers who patrolled outside the city were really fooled, just saw the straw man appear and couldn't wait to shoot, issued a warning, and Bi Jinke, a young general of the Wu army who was ordered to block the treasure gate, also immediately sent troops to the city gate to reinforce, but before the reinforcements arrived, the patrol Wu army had already found that the shooting target was fake, Quickly stopped wasting ammunition.

At the same time, the Taiping army on the side of Shuiximen and Hanximen also successively laid down straw men to lure the enemy, and all of them succeeded in deceiving the Wu army to shoot and fire, alarming the army blocking the gate to attack overnight. After the news was reported to Li Xiucheng, Li Xiucheng was overjoyed, and believed that his tricks had succeeded, so that Wu Jun had noticed Xicheng and Nancheng.

Li Xiucheng's real killing was still at the third quarter of the first watch, according to Li Xiucheng's requirements, the Taiping army on the side of Qingliangmen suddenly opened the city gate, sent more than 500 elite soldiers out of the city to attack, the Wu army soldiers guarding in front of the city gate were unceremoniously, immediately opened fire to intercept the enemy, the Taiping army with an urn city to rely on was not in a hurry to retreat into the city, quickly entered the sheep and horse wall positions on both sides of the city gate, and fired at the Wu army across the moat, at the same time, the Taiping army artillery on the city wall of Qingliangmen also exploded one after another, and fired shells at the Wu army's blocking position one after another, Pretend to be ready to cover the brigade out of the city. Not to mention the result, in order to prevent accidents, the officers and soldiers of the Wu army who were on duty outside Qingliangmen not only immediately dispatched and quickly entered the blocking position, but also sent Pegasus to report the situation to Wu Chaoyue at the first time, saying that the Taiping army might break through at Qingliangmen.

When the trick of striking the west and the east was almost used, the time had already arrived, and the second watch of the night was approaching, and he silently watched the hands of the pocket watch in front of the lobby of the Zhongwang Mansion to arrive at nine o'clock in the evening, Li Xiucheng first sighed deeply in a complicated mood, and then said lightly: "Send a signal, do it." May Heavenly Father bless us and let us break through smoothly. ”

After that, Li Xiucheng sighed secretly in his heart again, and said: "Farewell, Tianjing City, I'm sorry for the brothers who sacrificed to defend Tianjing City over the years." ”

According to Li Xiucheng's orders, three red fireworks rose from the Zhongwang Mansion one after another, flew into the sky and exploded, and issued an order to the whole city army to abandon the city and break through, seeing the fireworks, Li Xiucheng's son-in-law Cai Yuanlong immediately ordered someone to open the Hongwu Gate, drive the cattle with sharp knives tied to each cow's horns out of the city, and ignite the firecrackers on the cow's tail before the Wu army could react more.

Chaoyangmen's side is basically the same, the only difference is that Li Xiucheng's other son-in-law Huang Jinai is the pioneer here, and there are more cattle than Hongwumen's side. At the same time, the Taiping artillery on Chaoyang Gate and Hongwu Gate also exploded together, desperately bombarding the Wu army's position.

Not to mention, the Wu army really didn't guard against the Taiping army before the war, and was suddenly killed in a hurry, and in a hurry he couldn't think of any good way to crack the Taiping army's fire bull formation, so he could only quickly shoot at the cattle and fire grenadiers, but the vitality of the cow is very tenacious, even if it is hit by a bullet, it will not be able to breathe for a while and a half, except for a part of the frightened cattle that were blown up by the Wu army's shells and grenadiers. There were still a considerable number of frightened cattle who rushed into the blocking position of the Wu army, disrupting the defensive deployment of the Wu army and causing some casualties to the officers and men of the Wu army.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Wu army's blocking position being rushed by the frightened bulls, Cai Yuanlong and Huang Jinai's two armies of course immediately killed, shouting and rushing towards the Wu army's blocking position, the eager roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and it was still clearly audible in the continuous artillery fire, "Kill!" Fight your way out! ”

"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”

The roar of new artillery suddenly sounded, and in the darkness, the light flashed in the distance on the two wings of the Wu army's blocking position, and one after another bitter acid shells were fired, and the shells were still like having eyes, and they basically bombarded the exit of the city gate, and the bitter acid shells exploded on the ground, and the Taiping soldiers who were charging out of the city also screamed and fell to the ground in pieces, leaving countless burning corpses at the exit of the city gate in the blink of an eye.

The matter was not over, when the Taiping soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the bombardment of the Wu army rushed across the moat, there was a sudden explosion of mines at the end of the bridge, and the Taiping soldiers were caught off guard, and they were suddenly blown up and staggered, with heavy casualties, and they could no longer maintain a cluster charge state, and naturally there was no way to effectively threaten the Wu army's position that had been disrupted by the frightened bulls.

It must be said that the above situation appeared at the same time on the two battlefields of Chaoyangmen and Hongwumen, and at the same time beat the army of Li Xiucheng's two sons-in-law to the point of crying wolf and dizzy!

The artillery bombardment of the Wu army has been continuing, and the soldiers of the Wu army, who have eased up in the blocking position, have also returned to their posts to shoot, firing grenadier shells to bombard the stone bridge across the river that is illuminated by the bitter acid flames, and the soldiers of the Taiping army, who are eager to flee for their lives, no matter how much they sacrifice their lives to charge and impact, they can't rush through the stone bridge that is covered by the crossfire of the Wu army, and they scream and fall on the narrow stone bridge one after another, even if someone occasionally gets lucky enough to cross the bridge, they are quickly killed by the snipers of the Wu army hiding in the blocking position. ——In view of the weakest strength of Feng Sanbao's corps, Wu Chaoyue has never returned to his pro-military camp that he temporarily lent to his father-in-law, so among Feng Sanbao's corps, the quality of Wu Jun's snipers surpasses that of other Wu corps.

"What's going on? How do demon soldiers seem to be well prepared? ”

Cai Yuanlong, who was the first to find out that the situation was wrong, but there was no way to find that it was wrong, and Cai Yuanlong, who was strictly ordered by Li Xiucheng to rush out of the city, could only force his soldiers to continue to charge, and at any cost to fight for the opportunity to cross the stone bridge and fight close combat with the Wu army, and at the same time send someone to contact Li Xiucheng and report to Li Xiucheng the important situation that the Wu army seemed to have been prepared for.

Cai Yuanlong is okay here, and Huang Jinai is even more miserable, because he knew some important secrets in advance, even if he also found that Wu Jun seemed to have been prepared, Huang Jinai didn't even have time to send someone to report the situation to Li Xiucheng, and yelled vigorously, "Quick!" Fast! Fast! Rush Rush! Rush out and fight the demon soldiers in close combat! No matter how fierce the firepower of the demon soldiers is, it can't last like this, they must be given to me! Fight your way back to Suzhou and Hangzhou! ”