In fact, not long after the incident, Wu Chaoyue and Shengbao turned enemies into friends, Wu Chaoyue re-established the military writ, and Shengbao was determined to help Wu Chaoyue break through the city at any cost. ——The family is known as the deputy capital of Tong Jia's son Tong Jia's son of the Tong Half Dynasty, but he doesn't look down on Shengbao, the nouveau riche of officialdom, and of course he holds the thighs of the monks and princes of the generations of kings.

Our monk and prince's ability in the officialdom is much stronger than fighting, hearing Tong Jian's secret report, of course, Monk Greenqin immediately understood that Shengbao and Wu Chaoyue are ready to join forces, if Wu Chaoyue really takes the city out of the city within one day, then Emperor Xianfeng will definitely not pursue Shengbao too much under the great joy, and the big black cauldron of the Qing army's generals who lost harmony will be carried by themselves!

Therefore, after scolding Wu Chaoyue's despicable hypocrisy and Shengbao's shameless viciousness, Seng Lingqin did not hesitate, only thought about it a little, and immediately said to the secret envoy sent by Tong Jian: "Go back and tell Tong Dutong that Xilinghe and Shanlu, who Shengbao sent to help Wu Chaoyue, can fight for it, and ask him to contact these two people privately, so that they must not let Wu Chaoyue succeed." also clearly told them that the emperor had long been dissatisfied with the repeated defeats of Shengbao, this time someone imitated his handwriting to tell Changmao, and he committed a crime under the big tent of the Chinese army, and fought with the king in public, the emperor will definitely take advantage of this reason to withdraw Shengbao this time, and when the king takes over as the commander, he will definitely return their tops to them! ”

This time, the monk can be said to have pinpointed Shengbao's weakness and fought to the death, during the Shenzhou War. The Taiping army broke through successfully, and Xilinghe and Shanlu were ordered to serve as the vanguard and lead the army in pursuit. As a result, on the way to the pursuit, the front team led by these two masters set off first. Instead, he ran behind Katsubo's main buttocks, and Katsuho took off their hats in a fit of rage, making them guilty of meritorious service. So after Tong Jian made a promise for Monk Greenqin in private, although Xilinghe and Shanlu, who were also very dissatisfied with Shengbao, did not make any promises, they also smiled and asked Tong Jian rhetorically: "Tong Dutong, Changmao is fully prepared, Wu Chaoyue threatened to take the city out of the city within a day, do you think it is possible?" ”

"Of course not." Of course, Tong Jian's face was full of smiles when he answered.

The Taiping Army was not idle here, although they did not believe in the contents of the arrow book of unknown origin. However, for the sake of prudence, Ji Wenyuan still made every effort to strengthen the defense of the city, strengthened the fortifications and dug deep trenches, and also built a sheep and horse wall inside the fence with straw bags of soil according to the combat characteristics of the Wu army, and splashed water to freeze it, which was specially used to restrain the superior muskets of the Wu army. At the same time, after Li Kaifang received the news, he also arranged an elite army in Tianjin early to deal with the Qing army. If Wu Chaoyue really dared to attack out of the city, Li Kaifang would immediately send troops to attack the Qing army camp or Wu Chaoyue's auxiliary army, besiege Wei and save Zhao to share the pressure for Ji Wenyuan.

In the middle of the night, the wind struck. When the dark clouds opened and closed, there were snowflakes, and a heavy snow suddenly fell. The somewhat apprehensive monk Greenqin also laughed out loud, "God help me." God help me! With such a heavy snowfall, Wu Xiaomanzi wants to arrange the artillery in place tomorrow. There is a bitter endurance. ”

As expected by Seng Lingqin, although the heavy snow had subsided in the early morning of the next day, the snow as thick as half a meter had created quite a lot of difficulties for Wu Jun Lian Yong to transport artillery, and the Wu army artillery battalion led by Meng Yu took more than half an hour longer than expected to transport ten rear-loading rifled guns, ten mortar guns, and a large amount of ammunition to the front line. At the same time, because the temperature dropped again, Wu Junlianyong, who was almost all southerners, was also frozen in the room where the artillery was being operated in line to protect the artillery, and many soldiers had ice slag on their eyebrows and beards.

A detail must be explained here, but fortunately, Wu Jun Lianyong's main rifle is a Prussian production of the pistol gun, the Prussian army, which is located in a colder climate, in order to fight in winter, has extremely high requirements for the cold resistance of the weapon, so Wu Jun Lianyong's pistol gun will not be frozen so that he can't even pull the bolt, otherwise Wu Chaoyue will definitely have to cry without tears.

The trouble caused by the thick snow to Wu Jun Lianyong made Seng Lingqin smile, but the scale of Wu Chaoyue's troops surprised Seng Lingqin - Wu Chaoyue only dispatched three and a half battalions to attack the Taiping army out of the city, and another one and a half battalions stayed in the camp, resting like no one else, cooking and supplying the front line. So after receiving this news, Monk Greenqin, who originally planned to hide in the camp and drink with his concubine in his arms, also changed his mind and brought a team of cavalry wearing thick sable fur furs to the front line to see Wu Chaoyue's siege with his own eyes.

When Seng Lingqin came to the front line, Shengbao had already personally urged the 4,000 Qing troops to come over to help Wu Chaoyue, but because of the strong encouragement of Shanlu and others, the 4,000 Qing troops did not cross the canal to the east bank to line up, and chose to set up a position on the west bank of the canal, which had been covered with thick ice, ready to wait for the fighters to launch an attack. And Li Kaifang's side was also-for-tat, and immediately sent 1,000 troops to the southwest corner of Tianjin City to line up, ready to intercept the Qing army of Shengbao at any time.

At this time, Shengbao finally saw Wu Chaoyue's dispatch situation clearly, and in shock, Shengbao hurriedly pulled Zaiyuan and hit the horse directly in front of Wu Chaoyue, and asked Wu Chaoyue as soon as they met: "Weiting, what are you crazy about?" You have made a military order in front of me, why haven't you sent all your troops out of the city yet? ”

"That's enough, huh?" Wu Chaoyue said with some doubts: "Xiaguan has carefully measured, the length and width of the long hair out of the city are one hundred and fifty steps, and there are only four thousand troops at most, to deal with such a little long hair, the strength of the three battalions dispatched by the lower official is enough?" ”

"Even if your practice is brave and you can fight, but Long Hair has fortifications to protect you! It's still quite a strong fortification! Sheng Bao hurriedly reminded again.

Wu Chaoyue smiled and said: "Thank you for the reminder, but please rest assured, Xiaguan's artillery will be in place immediately, and it won't be long before Dashuai can see how Xiaguan used artillery to bomb the long-haired fortifications into a pile of ruins." ”

When he suspiciously went to see Wu Jun's artillery training, what puzzled Shengbao was that only ten of Wu's 20 artillery pieces were adjusting their gun positions and preparing for battle. The other ten thick and short guns were hiding behind and holding their ground, while the gunners of the Wu army were also pointing at the Taiping army with their thumbs out. I don't know what the hell I'm up to. Seeing this scene, Shengbao was even more confused and worried. simply didn't rush back to the west bank of the canal to return to the team, so he stayed by Wu Chaoyue's side and watched the battle of the Wu army with Zaiyuan.

At about 9:30 a.m., after the hard work of the officers and men of the Wu army's artillery battalion, ten Wu army's artillery pieces with ultra-long range were finally arranged in place, but at this moment, the Taiping army's artillery out of the city suddenly opened fire first, hitting more than a dozen solid shells near the Wu army's artillery array, stirring up snowflakes in the sky. Take the lead.

But fortunately, the snow up to half a meter thick stood on the side of Wu Jun Lian Yong at a moment, and the snow absorbed the impact of a large number of solid shells, so the solid shells fired by the Taiping Army did not bounce much, only smashed and injured two particularly unlucky Wu Jun gunners, Wu Jun Lian Yong was not flustered, and just continued to load and carry the wounded in an orderly manner, and some of the gunners also took the opportunity to measure the distance with the clock method, which further ensured the shooting accuracy of Wu Jun's artillery.

9:35 a.m. The Wu army was all arranged, the artillery battalion was in front of the center, and the two battalions were lined up left and right, slightly behind. Half a battalion of personal soldiers and snipers was placed behind the artillery battalion. Assume the responsibility of the Chinese military. Seeing Wu Chaoyue's arrangement, Shengbao of course frowned even tighter, and Seng Lingqin was dazzled and smiled. I didn't stop saying in my heart: "The dog has long hair, fight for some anger." Send your cavalry out to make a detour behind the attack on Wu Xiaoman, and you can win a big victory by keeping it! ”

9:37 a.m. Wu Chaoyue sent an envoy with a white flag in his hand to step forward and shout loudly outside the Taiping army out of the city, demanding that Ji Wenyuan go out of the city and surrender, promising that Rao Ji Wenyuan would not die, and Ji Wenyuan replied with guns and bullets.

At 9:45, after confirming the Taiping Army's refusal to surrender, Wu Chaoyue, who had saluted first and then been benevolent and righteous, did not hesitate any longer, waved the command flag in his hand, and personally issued an order to open fire on Meng Qi, "Fight!" Let Longhair see how good we are! ”

Seeing Wu Chaoyue's signal, Meng Wei immediately waved the command flag in his hand, and gave a loud order to fire, and the Wu gunners immediately pulled the gun rope, and the ten shells that were hit by the bottom fire made a loud noise almost at the same time, whistling and spinning and flying towards the Taiping army out of the city, two of the shells hit the snow in front of the city, five shells hit the civil wall of the city, and the other three flew into the inside of the city.

"Well, I don't know how accurate I am."

Before Monk Lingqin's sneer was finished, a hideous smile had already solidified on his face, because the place where Wu Jun's ten shells landed was full of flames, and ten loud noises broke out one after another. Monk Lingqin also immediately secretly shouted, "Blossom cannonball!" Foreigners' flowering cannonballs! ”

What made Seng Lingqin even more dumbfounded was still behind, and at the same time, what stunned the Taiping soldiers who rarely came into contact with flowering shells was that the explosive power of Wu's artillery shells was not only far greater than they imagined, but the flames that erupted immediately ignited all nearby combustibles, including the wooden city walls, which ignited skyrocketing fires.

"Splash water! Fire suppression! ”

The Taiping army also knew that the biggest weakness of the wooden out of the city was the fear of fire, so they prepared a large number of fire extinguishing appliances early, and Ji Wenyuan was not scared by Wu Chaoyue's paper tiger, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to splash water to extinguish the fire. However, when the soldiers of the Taiping Army quickly poured cold water mixed with ice cubes on the fire, the heart-rending screams immediately came into Ji Wenyuan's ears, "Splash can't be extinguished!" Beyond the little demon has a demon law, his fire can't be extinguished with water! ”

"What?!"

Without waiting for the frightened Ji Wenyuan to check the situation in person, something that made him even more distracted happened again, and the Wu army's artillery, which had just fired a salvo, opened fire again in less than two minutes, and bombarded ten shells, and because of some proper fine-tuning, all ten shells hit the wooden wall of the Taiping army's exit from the city, and there was a deafening explosion again.

Seeing this scene, not to mention that Ji Wenyuan and Li Kaifang in Tianjin City were stammering, none of the Qing generals and soldiers such as Shengbao, Seng Lingqin and Tuo Ming'a did not open their mouths to fit two eggs, and the exclamations came one after another, "Why is it so fast?" What kind of artillery is that, and how did it fire again so quickly? They don't want to fill up gunpowder? Do not clean the barrel to extinguish the embers? ”

The third salvo of the Wu army's artillery was faster, and it was only about a minute before ten cannons fired again, and the third time it hit the Taiping army's exit from the city, and after the three rounds of salvo, the front of the Taiping army's exit from the city had already become a sea of fire. Smoke billowed everywhere and flames rose to the sky. Not to mention the wooden walls and dense antlers that repelled the horses and ignited the skyrocketing fires, even the two snow that were hit by the Wu army's flowering shells. It was also a flame that was soaring into the sky, ignoring the existence of rapidly melting snow.

The front of the Taiping army, which was originally well-guarded, was already in chaos, and the soldiers ran to pour water to extinguish the fire, and the screams and screams were endless. In the Qing army's formation, the cheers gradually rose, not to mention that Tuo Ming, who was more obedient to Shengbao, was very happy, and even Xilinghe and Shanlu, who were ready to deliberately pull Wu Chaoyue's hind legs, began to waver, and said secretly: "If Wu Chaoyue can really break the long hair and go out of the city, let's rush hard, and pick a cheap one first!" ”

Cannon roared. The Wu army's breezed rifled guns roared incessantly, and continued to extend the fire into the interior of the Taiping army's exit from the city, so that the interior of the city quickly ignited into a skyrocketing fire. The Taiping army artillery in the city fired back with a wave of Wu Chaoyue's thin hand, and thirty Wu army camp soldiers stepped forward quickly with ten grenadiers on their backs, and ran to the Taiping army's exit from the city with their waists, and accurately shot at the Taiping army's artillery with grenadiers. After each fired down, the Taiping artillery quickly completely muted, and two more guns were hit during the charge, igniting the gunpowder and causing the explosion. The gunpowder of the Taiping Army was used to kill and injure many Taiping soldiers.

At 10:10 a.m., in order to save expensive rear-loading shells, Wu Chaoyue ordered to stop firing. At the same time, the grenadier squad at the front was withdrawn. But even then, after just over twenty minutes of shooting. The Taiping army's exit from the city was still shrouded in a sea of fire, and the antlers and wooden walls on the front were all on fire. The inside of the city was also full of fire and smoke, and the Taiping soldiers in the city were completely in chaos, and the screams and noises could be heard clearly for miles.

Neither Shengbao nor Zaiyuan questioned why Wu Chaoyue had stopped the shelling, because they had clearly seen through the binoculars that the wooden wall of the Taiping army out of the city had been burned red, and it gradually began to collapse in smoke, and it would burn itself without Wu Chaoyue's continued shelling. Therefore, Katsubo did not hesitate to laugh wildly, and immediately sent people to give orders to the generals on the west bank of the canal, asking them to attack immediately when the Taiping army gave up fleeing from the city, and there was no need to ask him for orders.

The thickness of our monk's skin is also very worthy of admiration, seeing that the Taiping army's exit from the city is already doomed, Monk Greenqin did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the Chahar cavalry under his command to dispatch, come to his own place to assemble and listen to the order, just wait for the Taiping army to abandon the city and break through, and immediately send troops to pick up the cheap and grab the credit.

At the same time, seeing the skyrocketing fires inside and outside the city on the city wall, and seeing the chaotic appearance of the soldiers in the city, Li Kaifang also completely died to keep the mind of leaving the city, while ordering the soldiers who had already gathered out of the city to retreat to the vicinity of the south gate, and lined up in the west of the south gate to protect Ji Wenyuan's retreat road, while sending someone to Ji Wenyuan to give an order, "Give up leaving the city immediately!" All withdrawn to the city of Tianjin! ”

If it weren't for the enemy he faced this time was Wu Chaoyue, Ji Wenyuan would definitely refuse to accept the retreat order, and he would definitely personally lead the army to launch a charge, and fight to the death with the Qing army who has mastered the mysterious new weapon! But there is no way, the enemy on the opposite side is Wu Chaoyue, how strong Wu Jun Lian Yong's ability to attack fortifications Ji Wenyuan is not clear, how terrible Wu Jun Lian Yong's hollow hedgehog array is, but Ji Wenyuan has already learned more than once. So after hearing Li Kaifang's order, although he was extremely unwilling, after hesitating again and again, Ji Wenyuan still gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "All withdraw to Tianjin City!" ”

It's okay, because he knew that Wu Chaoyue was difficult, Ji Wenyuan had been prepared in advance to give up leaving the city before the battle, and the four thousand Taiping Army soldiers who retreated in a hurry were in an orderly manner, and they did not collapse in chaos as the Qing army hoped for, trampling on each other. At the same time, the 1,000 Taiping soldiers who were the first to leave the city also preemptively lined up on the east side of the south gate of Tianjin to prevent the Qing army from taking the opportunity to launch a surprise attack from the east.

At this time, seeing that the Taiping army had finally given up leaving the city that had been shrouded in flames, Xilinghe and Shanlu, who were arrayed on the west bank of the canal, couldn't wait to run to their boss Tomin A to ask for orders, asking to lead the army to charge, raid the retreating Taiping army Jiwen Yuan, and quarrel over who could be the vanguard or as Tomin A - there is no better battle than a tailwind battle, and of course no one in Xilinghe and Shanlu want to miss this opportunity to get back the top.

As a result, Tuo Ming'a had just ordered Xi Linghe to be the vanguard, and Shanlu, who was anxious to grab the merit, had a fever in his head, and even directly told Tuo Ming'a, saying that Tong Jian had secretly contacted Xi Linghe on the order of Seng Lingqin, and asked Xi Linghe to deliberately pull Wu Chaoyue's hind legs on the battlefield. Tomina was furious and immediately revoked the order, and instead let Shanlu pick this cheap, and the angry Xilinghe naturally immediately pointed out that Shanlu also had a part in this matter! It's also a raccoon dog! In the end, Tomin'a, who was angry, simply led the army to charge in person, leaving Xilinghe and Shanlu in the rear to accuse each other of treachery, and almost didn't fight on the spot like Shengbao and Seng Lingqin.

When the furious Tomin personally led the army to charge, the monk Lingqin on the other side immediately personally led more than 1,000 Chahar cavalry who had just left the camp to charge, outflanking the defeated flanks of the Taiping army on the left and the right. Seeing this scene, Shengbao of course scolded the monk Greenqin for his brazenness, and Zaiyuan was also furious, and swore that he must fold the bullet to impeach the monk Greenqin for deliberately stealing merit - to attack first and seize the road, and not to give the real enemy hero Wu Chaoyue a chance to brush his head.

In fact, Zaiyuan doesn't need to be so angry at all, Wu Chaoyue himself still wishes that someone would fight hand-to-hand combat for him, reduce casualties among soldiers and save valuable ammunition, and at the same time give more Taiping warriors a chance to escape for their lives - to be able to fight all the way from Yangzhou to Tianjin in such a difficult environment, and kill so many Eight Banner parasites during the period, Wu Chaoyue is full of respect for the Taiping soldiers under the command of Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan!

So after shrugging his shoulders very easily, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate, and immediately knelt down to Sheng's knees, and said loudly: "Marshal, Xiaguan Wu Chaoyue was ordered to attack Changmao and go out of the city, fortunately he was not dishonored, and he won the battle!" Please check the results of the official battle! ”

His hands trembled a little and picked up Wu Chaoyue, and Shengbao's voice was choked, and he said: "Weiting, if you come to my command early and help me kill Long Hair, why is Long Hair so rampant?" (To be continued.) )