If it weren't for Cixi's old witch's sister making trouble, Wu Chaoyue would have broken his virgin body in this era!

When returning to the station from the Liangjiang Governor's Palace, Wu Chaoyue took a moment to visit the little widow Ning Fu, and roughly introduced the incident to the little widow who had restored her original name Fu Shanxiang, and then Fu Shanxiang of course burst into tears, knelt down in front of Wu Chaoyue, and vowed to repay Wu Chaoyue's kindness to her with his life, and he had calmly told Wu Chaoyue her heart in his words.

It's a pity that Wu Chaoyue failed to seize the opportunity to check whether Fu Shanxiang was really a widow, and her ex-husband couldn't touch her before he lost his breath, so he could only patiently comfort Fu Shanxiang, and promised to visit her again in the evening, and then hurriedly went to the city wall to take up his post - Wu Chaoyue offended not one or two Jiangning bigwigs, if they caught the handle, the trouble would definitely be more.

got the promise that Wu Chaoyue would come to visit again at night, and understood the lewd desire that Wu Chaoyue couldn't hide in his eyes no matter what, Fu Shanxiang also resigned himself to the fate and began to prepare to serve Wu Chaoyue, boiled hot water and prepared to serve Wu Chaoyue to take a bath, changed new sheets and quilts, and carefully prepared a few specialty dishes, and secretly hid a piece of white cloth under the pillow. However, at this time, Hui Zheng sent his youngest daughter Yehenara Wanzhen over to death, and directly sent Wanzhen into Fu Shanxiang's room, announcing to Fu Shanxiang Wu Chaoyue's previous promise to her daughter, asking Fu Shanxiang to serve his daughter as a maid.

When Wu Chaoyue knew about this, it was already dinner time, and although he gritted his teeth with hatred in his heart, Wu Chaoyue had to invite Hui Zheng to enjoy the dinner carefully prepared by Fu Shanxiang with him. also pretended to thank Hui Zheng. Hui Zheng waved his hand and said frankly: "Comfort Pavilion." You and my brother still need to be so polite? And I have to thank you for that, you know. This morning, Changmao fired a cannon at the inner city, and a cannonball hit the yard next door to Wanzhen's borrowed bannerman, which scared Wanzhen a lot, so there was no way, the foolish brother could only send Wanzhen over, please help me take care of it. ”

"Longhair is firing at Chaoyang Gate, what is the current situation in the inner city?" Wu Chaoyue asked curiously.

"Well, what else? Isn't it that chickens are flying and dogs are jumping, and the whole city is uneasy? Hye-jeong sighed. Hate said hatefully: "Foolish brother doesn't understand, why can't the eight-thousand-pound cannon over there be a long-haired cannon?" I heard that those cannons with long hair are still the old cannons that Wu Sangui's traitors secretly hid in Yuezhou more than 200 years ago, how come they are farther than our current cannons in the Qing Dynasty? Hit accurately? ”

"Nonsense, who told you dogs to deliberately suppress the development of firearms for our Han people?" Wu Chaoyue muttered in his heart, but asked on his lips: "Then brother, what can the defenders of the inner city do to deal with?" This let the long hair continue to bombard the inner city, which has a great impact on the morale of the army? ”

"What can they do?" Hui Zheng is full of anger. Hate said: "They don't have the courage to go out of the city to raid the fort outside the Chaoyang Gate, and the artillery can't be bombarded, some people heard that the artillery in the area of the Shence Gate is accurate, and it is recommended to transfer the gunners from the side of the Shence Gate to operate the cannon and the Long Hair to bombard." Xianghou not only did not agree, but also scolded the person who came up with the idea for being a fool, saying that once the Han people were put into the inner city. The Han people will definitely take the opportunity to open the gates of the inner city and let the long hair into the inner city! ”

Don't exaggerate. History is even more exaggerated, during the First Opium War. The British warships sailed into the Yangtze River and approached Zhenjiang, and Hailing, the deputy commander of the banner man guarding Zhenjiang, decided that the Han people would definitely collude with the British to betray Zhenjiang, and sent flag soldiers to massacre innocent Han people.

Getting back to the point, hearing Hui Zheng's words, Wu Chaoyue was secretly angry and secretly happy, wishing that the Taiping army would attack Mancheng as soon as possible to carry out their historical mission. Then, Wu Chaoyue, who knew that Jiangning City was running out of time, whispered against his will in order to leave Hui Zheng, a speaking channel that went straight to the ears of Emperor Xianfeng: "Brother, it's still the same sentence, once the situation is wrong, don't care about anything, come over and meet me immediately." ”

Hui Zheng nodded, and also said in a low voice: "Brother Xian, when the time comes, I will ask you for everything, Jiang Ning's situation, the foolish brother is completely dead." ”

As if to verify Hui Zheng's judgment, Hui Zheng's words had just been finished, and there was a loud cannon fire on the neighboring Shence Gate City, and the sound of alarm gongs came and went, which frightened Fu Shanxiang and Wanzhen, who were chatting in a low voice. Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to hurriedly finish the leftovers in the bowl, leaving Hui Zheng to take care of the two weak women, and led his own soldiers to the city to inspect the situation.

The reason why the defenders of Shence Gate opened the cannon made Wu Chaoyue so angry that only a few dozen Taiping soldiers shook around the city, and the defenders of the city were so frightened that they hurriedly opened fire. In addition, although a large number of red lanterns appeared on the side of Dazhuang Mountain, as if the Taiping army was gathering, but after Wu Chaoyue carefully observed it with a telescope, he was extremely suspicious that the Taiping army was tying lanterns to trees or donkeys and horses, and used a small number of troops to drive out donkeys and mules to march, creating the illusion of preparing for a night attack, and tricking the defenders of Shence Gate to waste a lot of precious ammunition.

The Taiping Army's bluff is actually directly helping Wu Chaoyue, at least so that Wu Chaoyue does not have to worry about being transferred by Lu Jianying and Xianghou and others from the safest Shence Gate, so Wu Chaoyue has never broken the tactical intentions of the Taiping Army, and at the same time, he also secretly began to prepare a retreat plan, under the pretext that the war needs to let the soldiers prepare a large amount of dry food for the march, and strictly prohibit the waste of shotgun bullets, and quietly prepare some red cloth, so as to pretend to be the Taiping Army to confuse the enemy when needed.

In the next two days, it rained heavily for two days in the area of Jiangning, which had been sunny for many days, although it seriously affected the combat effectiveness of Wu Jun's training and bravery, but fortunately, the Taiping army did not seize this opportunity to launch an attack on Shence Gate, but only seized the time to completely raze the courtyard of the obstructive house outside Shence Gate, which made Wu Chaobai worry for two days - the firing pin guns and revolvers that used paper shell bullets, and the Minnie guns that flint fire, but what they were most afraid of was the rain.

The heavy rain in the past two days also helped the Taiping army a great favor, that is, it seriously affected the reconnaissance effect of the Qing army in Jiangning on the tunnels of the Taiping army -- Zhang Jigeng, a hardcore traitor who always suspected that the real target of the Taiping army was Yifengmen, took a lot of effort to persuade Qi Suzao and Shangyuan County to order Liu Tongying to dig a deep pit in Yifengmen, bury a water tank and arrange it to listen. Let the Qing soldiers with sensitive ears sit in the tank and listen quietly, so as to find the location of the Taiping army's tunnels. As a result, due to the heavy rain in the past two days, the ground hearing has become a fictitious thing. (Historical facts.) The heavy rain in Jiangning in the past two days did exist. ）

In the end, with the joint help of Wu Chaoyue and God, and the hard work of the Taiping soldiers day and night, the Taiping Army finally succeeded in digging three tunnels from Jinghai Temple to Yifengmen. The situation was reported to Yang Xiuqing, the military commander of the Taiping Army, and Yang Xiuqing did not hesitate to be overjoyed, and immediately summoned the generals of the Taiping Army to arrange the siege plan, and set the time for launching the general attack two days later - the tenth day of the second month!

On the afternoon of the eighth day of February, Yang Xiuqing held a military meeting in Xiaguan Shuizhai to arrange a siege plan for the congregation. It was decided to launch a full-scale feint attack on the 13th Gate of Jiangning on the ninth day of the first month of February, consuming the little artillery ammunition left by the Qing army, and further exhausting the physical strength and spirit of the Qing army.

The generals of the Taiping Army present were all experienced in a hundred battles, so Yang Xiuqing only explained the steps of the plan, and did not care about the details, and the details were left to the generals to play on their own. Only on the side of the Shence Gate, Yang Xiuqing spent some effort to care. Ji Wenyuan, the general of the Taiping Army who was in charge of feints to attack the Shence Gate, instructed: "Deputy Prime Minister Ji, in the two days of the war after tomorrow, the battlefield will count your burden the heaviest, and this king doesn't want you to really be able to capture the Shence Gate." But he must bite and surpass the little demon for this king, forcing him to transfer all the demon soldiers under his command to the city to fight, and he can't let him withdraw to reinforce other battlefields. He also had to consume a lot of ammunition for his foreign guns, which was the most crucial. You have to do it! ”

"And." Yang Xiuqing added another sentence and said, "This king knows that it is not easy to deal with the transcendent little demon. So this king doesn't care how much it costs you! ”

"The last general will obey the orders of the East King!" Ji Wenyuan clenched his fists and agreed loudly, and couldn't wait to ask: "King Dong, can you add some more soldiers to the last general?" The day after tomorrow, after the army of the Heavenly Kingdom broke through the city, if the Transcendence Demon broke through and escaped from the Shence Gate, the last general was worried that it would be difficult to wipe out the Transcendence Demon and his demon soldiers with only the three thousand soldiers in his hands. ”

Yang Xiuqing nodded, and just began to think about how many soldiers should be added to Ji Wenyuan, but Wei Changhui, the king of the North on the side, stood up first, and said: "King Dong, there is no need to supplement the soldiers for Deputy Prime Minister Ji, when the day after tomorrow is attacked, this prince will lead three thousand elites to escort the deputy prime minister of Ji, help Deputy Prime Minister Ji to completely annihilate and surpass the little demon, and avenge the death of Deputy Prime Minister Lin and the fallen soldiers of my heavenly kingdom!" ”

Yang Xiuqing was not very willing to accept Wei Changhui's volunteer, but considering that this attack on the famous city of Jiangning, it was Yiwang Shi Dakai who was in charge of the southern line, and Li Kaifang, his confidant Li Kaifang, who was in charge of the northern line, and it was really unreasonable not to give the 6,000-year-old Wei Changhui of the northern king a chance to make contributions. So after thinking about it for a long time, Yang Xiuqing still nodded reluctantly, and agreed that Wei Changhui would personally lead the army to serve as a reserve for Ji Wenyuan. But Yang Xiuqing was still a little uneasy, and told Wei Changhui again: "King Bei, beware of the cold spear that surpasses the little demon. Our army has fought with the little demon several times before, and the first person to be shot is the general of our army, you are 6,000 years old as the king of the north, and you must be the first choice for the demon soldiers. ”

"Don't worry, of course I know that." Wei Changhui said with a relaxed expression: "If he really dares to break through from the battlefield of Shence Gate, this king guarantees that he will be wiped out!" ”

Seeing that Wei Changhui was still a little underestimated, but Yang Xiuqing, who did not have a good relationship with Wei Changhui in private, didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore, but turned to Li Kaifang, who was in charge of the main battlefield of Yifengmen, and admonished: "Prime Minister Li, I know that you hate to go beyond the little demon, but you must remember one thing, taking Jiangning City is our primary goal, so after blowing up the Jiangning city wall, you must not directly enter the Shence Gate for revenge, you can only give priority to guarding the road of our army into the city and opening the way into the city for my follow-up army!" ”

Li Kaifang sang the promise, and regretted that the Shence Gate was too unsuitable for the underground siege of the city - the underground water in the area of Xuanwu Lake was a good thing, so the only thing Li Kaifang could do was to pray secretly, "Beyond the little demon, don't run!" Fallen soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom, your souls in heaven must also bless me to avenge you with my own hands! ”

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Sneak attacks and surprise attacks are no more, and preparations for large-scale warfare can be launched without revealing the slightest clue, which even the US imperialist army in the 21 st century cannot do. So how did the Taiping army block the internal and external traffic of Jiangning City. They actively prepared for war and prepared to launch a large-scale attack, but they still could not hide from the eyes of some people in Jiangning City. Among them are not only Wu Chaoyue, but also the hardcore traitor Zhang Jigeng, who has battlefield experience and is still above Wu Chaoyue.

Wu Chaoyue and Zhang Jigeng both analyzed the preparation of siege weapons of the Taiping army and analyzed that the enemy was about to launch a full-scale attack. These days, in order to prepare siege weapons, the Taiping army has been cutting down timber near the barracks, transporting it to the camp day and night, and building thousands of flying ladders and bridge vehicles to cross the river. On the evening of the eighth day of the second lunar month, the Taiping army suddenly stopped this work, and at the same time, the amount of cooking smoke in the camp suddenly increased, and the duration was far longer than usual, showing signs that they were rushing to make dry food, and Wu Chaoyue and Zhang Jigeng immediately concluded that they were both sure. There is a good chance that the Taiping army will launch a large-scale attack the next day! Of course, due to a serious lack of intelligence support, neither Wu Chaoyue nor Zhang Jigeng could judge that the real general attack of the Taiping army would be on the third day.

Coming to this conclusion, Wu Chaoyue of course hurriedly asked Wu Jun to train Yong and actively prepare for the battle, and prepare for a breakthrough as soon as possible. Zhang Jigeng went to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion overnight to meet Lu Jianying to report the situation, and strongly persuaded Lu Jianying to immediately go all out to prepare for war, withdraw the most capable Wu army in Jiangning City to the city, use it as a general reserve, and at the same time strengthen the defense of Yifeng Gate. But it's a pity. Lu Jianying still didn't listen, and still refused to take these correct suggestions, Zhang Jigeng, who knew that his death was near, was so anxious that he cried loudly, but he was helpless.

The seventh night of the first month of February. After the third watch, he patrolled the city, from Shuixi and Hanxi to Yifeng. The day is clear. There were few defenders of the city, and none of the villagers went to the city. Cheng Sanguang, the general of the Green Battalion, was sleeping soundly in his tent. -- This is the original record left by Tang Yifen, the former deputy general of Yueqing in Zhejiang, who helped defend Jiangning City.

In such a lax situation, when the soldiers of the Taiping Army suddenly launched an attack on the Thirteen Gates of Jiangning at the same time. The haste and chaos of the Qing army in Jiangning are of course conceivable, before the Taiping army officially launched an attack, it has desperately opened artillery to bombard the open space, wasting gunpowder in vain but has no killing effect, Jiangning civil and military leaders Lu Jianying, Xianghou and Fuzhu Honga are all frightened to shrink at home, dare not go to the city one step, only the political envoy Qi Suzao is sick and boarded the Jubaomen to supervise the battle, but just in time for the Taiping army to arrange the artillery in the Bao'en Temple to bombard the city tower intensively, the dust and smoke are flying between the broken wood, Qi Suzao's heart is broken, he vomits a lot of blood again, and falls into a coma again.

After being carried back to the official office and being rescued, Qi Suzao, who knew that his life was not long ago, could still move, and hurriedly picked up the pen to write the testament to the Qing Dynasty and the Xianfeng Emperor to accuse him, but the testament had not yet been written, and suddenly heard that Lu Jianying and Fuzhu Hong Adu refused to go to the city to supervise the battle, and under the anger and worry, Qi Suzao, the only reliable boss in Jiangning City, suddenly sprayed a mouthful of blood on the testament, kicked his legs, and died on the spot!

In fact, Qi Suzao is already lucky, if he goes to the Shence Gate to supervise the battle, I'm afraid he won't even have a chance to be carried back to the official office, and he will be scared to death on the spot! The Taiping army is a feint attack on other city gates in Jiangning, only on the side of Shence Gate is a real onslaught, and Ji Wenyuan, the general of the Taiping Army, who was ordered to contain and consume Wu Jun's training and bravery, is simply at any cost, only one morning, launched six ant sieges to Shence Gate, and at the same time concentrated artillery fire to bombard Shence Gate, and fought with Shence Gate without building a fort.

If it weren't for the relatively reliable comrade-in-arms of Zhang Jigeng on the Shence Gate, Yang Xiuqing's goal of consuming a large amount of ammunition for Wu Jun's training would definitely be successfully achieved. It is also thanks to Zhang Jigeng, a hardcore traitor, who desperately defended the city, and ran around to resist with the Lian Yong he personally formed, and relied on his condescending advantage to meet the ant attached soldiers of the Taiping Army, Wu Chaoyue had the confidence to order his subordinates to prohibit the use of firing pin guns that could not be replenished with ammunition, and Minnie, who could barely get some supplies with ammunition, killed the enemy, and also bribed Geng Hua with silver shamelessly, so that Wu Jun Lian Yong snatched arquebuses from the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army to shoot, desperately saving the most important shotstone bullets.

There is also a very key point, that is, the British warships helped Wu Chaoyue train those Wu gunners for free, relying on these gunners to operate the artillery, the sixteen guns on the Shence Gate were able to show their full power, effectively disrupting the Taiping army's siege queue, so that the Taiping army could not give full play to the strength advantage of the army to intensively attack a certain section of the wall, and could only disperse the troops to attack in separate ways, which gave the defenders of the Shence Gate a little respite. However, what made Wu Chaoyue want to cry without tears was that because of the quality of the Qing army's artillery, the artillery fired too much in a row and the cannon body overheated, resulting in a sudden explosion of a cannon, killing a Wu gunner and two Qing gunners who were helping on the side, and also caused a big blow to the morale of the defenders of Shence Gate.

At noon, after finally repelling the sixth ant attack of the Taiping army, Wu Chaoyue ordered the soldiers to hurry up and drink water and eat, while he also quickly grabbed the water hyacinth and poured it into his mouth, and his eyes continued to look at the Taiping army outside the city vigilantly. And when he saw that the Taiping army still showed no signs of retreat, on the contrary, it was still actively deploying troops and preparing to launch the seventh attack, Wu Chaoyue immediately cried out, "Oh no, if you continue to fight like this, even if you can defend the Shence Gate, my physical strength and ammunition will have to be consumed a lot, and it will still be difficult to break through at that time." I have to hurry up and think of a way, first stabilize the Taiping Army temporarily, and buy a little more rest time for my Lian Yong. ”

After rolling his eyes a few times, Wu Chaoyue rushed to Zhang Jigeng and Geng Huan, who were also out of breath, and whispered to them the delaying plan he had come up with in a hurry. Although Zhang Jigeng and Geng Huan felt a little unbelievable when they heard this, they considered that their soldiers were already very tired from practicing bravery, even if it was a good thing to fight for a moment of rest, the two of them nodded after all, and both said, "Give it a try!" Whether it works out or not, let's get more rest time first! (To be continued.) )