It took Ding Ruchang a lot of effort to get the messenger who came to the Wu army's camp in front of Chen Yucheng. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the reason for the effort is that there are still many Chen Yucheng's generals who want to grab this credit, and there are two reasons why they have to grab this messenger from their colleagues, one is that the future cavalry general Ding Ruchang is only 18 years old at present, and his blood is strong, and he is in a hurry to build a miraculous reputation and prestige. And another reason is that Ding Ruchang is full of curiosity about the transcendent demon who became famous all over the world at the age of seventeen, and wants to take this opportunity to take a good look at what this notorious young Qing demon looks like, is it like the legend with three heads and six arms, red hair and green eyes are as ugly as a pig?

With endless curiosity, without alarming the scouts of the army in the slightest, Ding Ruchang, who had accumulated a lot of night travel experience in actual combat, successfully left the defense area of the army, and quietly entered the scout patrol range of the Wu army, originally Ding Ruchang also wanted to take the opportunity to test the night defense ability of the Wu army scouts, but in doing so, Ding Ruchang almost lost his life - the soldiers of the Wu army, who had been deployed in Tianjia Town for a long time, had already set a large number of traps on the remote road, and Ding Ruchang, who was sneaking on the path, accidentally stepped on the rope sleeve, was immediately hung upside down by the rope in the air, and the hidden bow was immediately shot with an arrow, thanks to Ding Ruchang's very experienced, he dodged in time, otherwise he would be pierced through the chest by the dark arrow on the spot.

tasted the power of the Wu army's trap, Ding Ruchang no longer dared to use his life as a joke to show off his night stealth ability, honestly shouted for help, summoned the Wu army scouts who were patrolling nearby, honestly handed over the weapons and were bound, and explained his intention, so he was escorted into the Wu army camp under the condition of being tied up by five flowers, and was soon personally received by Wu Chaoyue.

What appeared in front of Ding Ruchang was a young man in plainclothes who was yawning all day, thin as firewood, not amazing in appearance and gentle in temperament, if it weren't for the soldiers of the Wu Army who saluted him together, Ding Ruchang would never believe that this kind and thin young man in front of him could be a famous and famous monster whose hands were stained with the blood of the soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the most hated and feared man-eating demon of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the kings of all sizes and generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

"The sin general Ding Ruchang, meet Lord Futai, the sin will ......."

Next, something happened that made Ding Ruchang even more surprised, he had just reported his true life, and he had been yawning all the time, but the little demon who had been yawning suddenly turned his mung bean eyes into a copper bell, and pointed at him and screamed like a pig and asked, "Ding Ruchang?" You said your name is Ding Ruchang?! ”

"Lord Huifutai, the sin will be called Ding Ruchang." Ding Ruchang replied inexplicably.

"And are you working as a long-haired sailor?" Beyond the little demon asked an even more ridiculous question.

"No, the sin will be a general in the land division of the Taiping Army, serving under Chen Yucheng, the thirty inspectors in front of the palace." Ding Ruchang shook his head and replied honestly.

Wu Chaoyue, who had a sparse history, was disappointed, and felt that it was just a coincidence with the same name and surname, Wu Chaoyue immediately lost interest in Ding Ruchang in front of him, and said regretfully: "It turns out that you are not Ding Ruchang of the water master, then forget it, let's say, as a long-haired thief general, why did you come to me late at night to ask to see this official?" ”

"Lord Huifutai, the crime will be entrusted by the Shangguan inspector Chen Yucheng to come to visit, and there is a confidential letter to report to you. Chen inspected him because he opposed Shi Dakai's insistence on going west to take revenge regardless of the overall situation, and was scolded and humiliated by Shi Dakai, Chen inspected him angrily, and knew that Shi Dakai would be defeated sooner or later, so he gave birth to the ...... of abandoning the darkness and turning to the light. ”

Without Wu Chaoyue's trouble, Ding Ruchang successfully said his intentions, and presented the secret Chen Yucheng's fraudulent surrender letter, and then just as Chen Yucheng and Zhang Suimou warned beforehand, the treacherous Wu Chaoyue was really full of suspicion, and after blinking his triangular eyes and thinking for a long time, Wu Chaoyue suddenly shouted: "Come on, drag this Ding Ruchang out and shoot him!" ”

sang the promise left and right, and immediately set up Ding Ruchang and walked out, Ding Ruchang struggled and shouted loudly, "Wronged!" Treat unjustly! Lord Futai, what will the sin do wrong? Why kill me? Why kill me? ”

"Why did you want to kill you?" Wu Chaoyue's face was full of ridicule, and he first signaled his soldiers to pause, and then sneered and said: "Boy, do you want to hide such a superficial trick from this official?" Are you as stupid as you are to be a long-haired official? Let me ask you, your main force is coming from the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the troops are on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Since you are so interested in Banbi Mountain, why don't you cross the Yangtze River downstream early and take the road on the south bank to hit Banbi Mountain? ”

"Damn treacherous little demon, it's really testing me."

Ding Ruchang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied: "Lord Futai, the guilty general is a humble position, although I don't know the specific reason, but I have also heard Chen Jian say that half of the mountains on the south bank of the Yangtze River are mountainous for hundreds of miles, and there is a Chihu barricade (real terrain), but it looks relatively close, but when it really walks, it is far from the open terrain on the north bank and easy to walk, so our Lu Division took the road on the north bank and left the camp on the north bank. ”

first explained the reason why the main force of the Taiping Army chose the route of marching, Ding Ruchang said: "As for why you want to cross the Yangtze River to fight Banbi Mountain, Chen Jian Dian told the criminal general the specific situation, Shi Dakai found out that you have few troops on the south bank, so he decided to send a partial division to fight Banbi Mountain first, of course it is best if the partial division can be defeated, and if Shi Dakai can't defeat it, he will continue to increase troops to the Banbishan battlefield, forcing your sailor to fight or transport troops across the river to reinforce Banbi Mountain, and then Shi Dakai's sailor division will have the opportunity to launch a decisive battle on the Yangtze River battlefield." ”

Listening to what Ding Ruchang said, Wu Chaoyue, who really didn't know whether Ding Ruchang had surrendered by fraud, blinked his triangular eyes and thought about it again and again, and finally waved his hand to let go of Ding Ruchang, and then said: "In this way, the official may have misunderstood you, but the official still has a question, when are you going to do it?" ”

"Go back to Futai, the sooner the better." Ding Ruchang replied: "Shi Dakai led the army to come from afar, the foothold is not stable, and the fortifications have not yet been built. As soon as you send troops, we will immediately start to prepare, and when the battle is stalemate, Chen Jian will suddenly attack with the guilty generals, or set fire to Shi Dakai's army, or directly storm Shi Dakai's Chinese army camp, Shi Dakai will be captured! ”

"Good!"

Wu Chaoyue slapped the table and applauded loudly, hurriedly apologized to the frightened Ding Ruchang, and ordered his own soldiers to loosen the ties for Ding Ruchang, brought wine and food to entertain him, and continued to comfort Ding Ruchang with kind words, and also kept inquiring about Chen Yucheng's determination to defect, Ding Ruchang answered one by one according to Shi Junmou's instructions for the conspiracy, vividly describing Chen Yucheng's various conflicts with Shi Dakai when he was young and vigorous, and decided to surrender to Wu Jun at the moment of boiling blood, and there were almost no flaws during the period.

Wu Chaoyue knows very well how loyal Chen Yucheng is to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, but Wu Chaoyue also knows that the current Chen Yucheng is not very good, and it is not that there is no possibility of impulsive negative qi to descend. So after listening to Ding Ruchang's introduction, although Wu Chaoyue maintained a high degree of vigilance and didn't dare to easily believe a word, he still couldn't help but have such a thought, "It would be great if Chen Yucheng could really surrender to me, this is a general who can stand alone." And this Ding Ruchang, if it is really the Ding Ruchang of the Beiyang Naval Division, he can also be reused by his mother - as long as this guy doesn't let this guy fight a naval battle. ”

After understanding the situation that should be understood, Wu Chaoyue first asked his own soldiers to lead Ding Ruchang out for a while, and then asked Zhao Liewen, who had been accompanying him but had not said a word: "Huifu, how is it?" Is it true or false? ”

"Like you, can't judge." Zhao Liewen replied truthfully: "The intelligence is insufficient, and I don't know much about that Chen Yucheng, so I really can't distinguish the truth from the fake." ”

"It's troublesome, I can't guess the truth or falsehood, how can I calculate it?"

Wu Chaoyue frowned a little, but fortunately, Wu Chaoyue was also very good at empathy and reverse thinking, so he asked Zhao Liewen again: "Huifu, then let's think about the worst first, assuming that Chen Yucheng is really a fraud, then what is the purpose of Changmao's use of fraud and surrender?" How can you take things out of it, steal chickens and dogs? ”

When it was Wu Chaoyue's turn to behave here, Zhao Liewen did not disappoint Wu Chaoyue, and replied after thinking for a moment: "If this is really Longhair's trick and we also step into the trap, then we must first have troops to attack Longhair's camp and lure the snake out of the hole to lure our main force to attack the attack, which should be the primary purpose of Longhair." ”

"Next, if we are in the middle of the plan, Longhair does have a lot of opportunities to steal chickens and dogs, or hide in ambushes in the hidden places of the mountains and forests, and suddenly kill when we are tired of attacking the old man for a long time, or the sailor suddenly returns to the aid battle, or takes the opportunity to storm our main camp or sailor fleet with the sailor, forcing us to return to the army to rescue, it can cause us a lot of losses and create a chance for them to win."

Wu Chaoyue nodded silently, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Then how to deal with it?" ”

"There are two best options." Zhao Liewen raised two fingers and said: "First, send troops but don't take risks, leave enough troops to defend the main camp, and when you arrive at the Wuxue battlefield, you can adapt to the situation, feint to attack the long-haired camp to fight the long-haired ambush, find out the long-haired ambush soldiers, concentrate the troops and draw sharply, and force the long-haired to make adjustments to take advantage of it." At the same time, the sailors were on strict alert and made every effort to protect the iron cable defense line and not give the long-haired sailors a chance to break through quickly. ”

"Second, a road to the dark! Really go all out to storm the long-haired camp, set up the north far away from the river bank and not give the long-haired sailors a chance to return to the army to cover their land division with artillery fire, relying on our gun superiority to attack with all their might, Chen Yucheng is really the best inside, even if he surrenders by fraud, we still have another army ambushed in the long-haired camp, we can still take the opportunity to attack, and we should join forces inside and outside to kill us into the long-haired camp! ”

After that, Zhao Liewen added: "Of course, in addition to these two options, there is another option that is not bad, that is, to hold the troops for the time being, and design to test whether Chen Yucheng is really surrendering or fraudulently, and then we can make a move after figuring out this problem, and we can be much more sure." ”

Wu Chaoyue was a little shaken for a while, and wanted to adopt Zhao Liewen's prudent suggestion, first find out whether Chen Yucheng surrendered, but after considering another important issue, Wu Chaoyue dispelled this idea again, and after weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Wu Chaoyue quickly made up his mind, smashed the table and said: "One road to the dark!" Really send troops, really go all out to storm the long-haired camp! We had already made up our minds to make a quick decision before, and now no matter whether Chen Yucheng surrendered or faked, the long-haired sailors would definitely leave their camp temporarily, such a good opportunity, it was hard to come by! ”

"Comfort Ting, you have to think about it." Zhao Liewen reminded: "Even if we have an advantage in weapons and equipment, even if we can't break through the long-haired camp on land, we won't suffer much loss, but our main camp and sailor division will be in danger, if the long-haired sailor takes the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, we will be in a dilemma." ”

"You've figured it out!" Wu Chaoyue was categorical and said: "First give the sailor an order, once the long-haired hairs break through the iron cable defense line, then immediately flee to Weiyuankou, first keep the fleet, and then think about how to counterattack, the long-haired sailors will not chase so far." As for the main camp, anyway, our grain and grass are mainly hoarded in Qizhou, and the main camp can be guaranteed, and it is not counted if it can't be kept! It's a big deal, let's go back to Qizhou directly to get food! It doesn't matter if the broken iron cannons on the fort are lost, there are Daye iron ore in hand, and there are iron mold casting cannons, you can take a moment to cast as many as you want! ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue added a sentence extremely shamelessly, and said with a smile: "Even my teacher suffered a big defeat in front of Shi Dakai, and it is not a shame for my student to lose to Shi Dakai again." ”

Zhao Liewen laughed when he heard this, and said: "Okay, since you are ready for this, then I won't stop you, do you want to send a letter back to Chen Yucheng, encourage him to let go and work hard, and give him or the people behind him peace of mind?" ”

"Okay." Wu Chaoyue agreed, and said: "The tone is as sincere as possible, I really hope that Chen Yucheng can really surrender to me, and tell him that if he can really help me break through the long-haired camp and break the stone Dakai, I will go to the court and ask for a six-grade top for him!" 100 taels of gold and 1,000 taels of silver! ”

Zhao Liewen agreed, immediately put pen to paper, and wrote a very sincere welcome letter to Chen Yucheng for Wu Chaoyue, saying all the good things to encourage Chen Yucheng to rest assured and boldly defect to vote, maybe under Wu Chaoyue's promised heavy reward and swore that he would definitely fulfill Chen Yucheng. Wu Chaoyue was very happy when he read the letter, and said: "Good Wencai, if I were Chen Yucheng, even if I really had any different intentions, seeing such a sincere letter, I would definitely really come to surrender to me!" ”

Zhao Liewen rolled his eyes a little, and said secretly: "Weiting, don't scold me, just your writing is still so praising my literary talent, and others have to be the same as me and you." ”

Even if it is determined that it is only the same name and surname, but Wu Chaoyue, who is currently eager to consolidate his talent base, still showed sincerity to treat Ding Ruchang, and promised Ding Ruchang a seven-grade top and gave a reward, and in the end, Wu Chaoyue also took Ding Ruchang's hand regardless of the danger, and said sincerely: "General Ding, it is very dangerous to launch an internal attack at the time of the war, but you must give this official back alive, this official has not long been the governor of Hubei, and his command is in urgent need of a battlefield warrior like you who can fight well, I will never treat you badly, the first general of the Taiping Army who voted for me anyway, and I will not get back! ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue also untied his revolver from his waist, and solemnly put it in Ding Ruchang's hand together with the holster, and said with a smile: "Ruchang, this gun has followed me for many years, accompanied me to the north and south, and fought in the east and west, I also once took this gun to protect my grandfather to go to Beijing on business, and ventured to negotiate with the Dagukou Fort controlled by foreigners, which has a special meaning for me, and it is also my most beloved revolver." Today, I give you this gun meeting gift, but also to make the significance of this gun more important, to commemorate you, the first general of the Taiping Army who abandoned the darkness and surrendered to me. ”

Holding the revolver that was full of bullets and had long dreamed of getting one, Ding Ruchang was a little stunned, and he didn't even notice the vigilant action of Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers next to him pressing their hands on their waists, and his heart was turning over and over with the same thought, "I'm here to cheat, why are you still so good to me?" If I do surrender, ......? ”

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Wu Chaoyue's sincere letters and actions backfired, not only failed to make the future famous Chen Yucheng shake at all, but on the contrary, made Shi Dakai and Zhang Suimou and others laugh proudly. When the sky was twilight, when Ding Ruchang returned to the Taiping Army camp with the letter and the old gun that Wu Chaoyue had used for many years, Shi Dakai and the others, who had been looking forward to it, had just asked what had happened, and after seeing Wu Chaoyue's sincere letter, they couldn't help but laugh wildly......

"Beyond the little demon, I didn't think you would have today, you have played us so many times, this time it was finally played by us, writing such a sincere letter is not counted, and you actually gave us a gun that you have loved for many years."

After laughing to the fullest, Shi Dakai decided to act on the spot the next day, and ordered the soldiers to hurry up and repair the strong camp fortifications, so as to meet Wu Chaoyue's strong attack the next day, and then couldn't wait to discuss the tactical details with Zhang Suimou, Hu Yihuang and others, and at the same time casually ordered his soldiers to lead Ding Ruchang down to rest and reward gold and silver. Ding Ruchang thanked him, timidly pointed to the revolver that was still in front of Shi Dakai, and asked cautiously: "The Wing King is five thousand years old, what should I do with that gun?" ”

Through the purchase from foreigners and the seizure on the battlefield, Shi Dakai still had a few revolvers in his hand, so naturally he would not rob Ding Ruchang of the pistol that he deceived from Wu Chaoyue at the risk of his life, and only glanced at the revolver, and casually ordered: "You take it, this is what you took the risk to get, and it should belong to you." ”

"Thank you, Winged King, 5,000 years old!"

Ding Ruchang, who was about to stretch out his claws in his throat, was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the revolver, but he didn't think that Hu Yihuang next to him took the first step, picked up the revolver first, and said with a smile: "I heard that the little demon family is rich and rivals the country, it seems that the rumors are true, even the handle and holster of the gun are inlaid with gold, which is very good, much stronger than the broken guns in this waiting guard, Lvshuai Ding, how about it, send me?" ”

Ding Ruchang's face changed a little, but fortunately, Shi Dakai next to him said in time: "Protector Hou, this is what Ding Lvshuai earned back by tying his head to the belt of his trousers, don't ask for him, right?" ”

"It's not in vain, I'll reward him with silver to compensate." Hu Yihuang smiled, flashed his arm to Shi Da again, and said: "Wing King, you know me, my right hand has been injured and I can't use my strength, so it's just right to use this weapon." ”

Hu Yihuang's arm was indeed injured, Hu Yihuang, who was born in Wu Xiucai, had already passed all the qualifications when he took the martial arts exam, but he wanted to break the bow and hurt his right arm when he put the last arrow, and he was slightly disabled and could no longer pull the bow and release the arrow. Shi Dakai, who is a fellow villager of Hu Yihuang, knew this very well, and saw that Hu Yihuang really liked the beautifully decorated revolver, Shi Dakai also changed his mind, and said to Ding Ruchang: "Lvshuai Ding, since the Marquis of the Protector likes it so much, then you can give him it, and this king will reward you with twenty taels of silver as compensation." ”

Hearing this, Ding Ruchang seemed to have fallen into the abyss, and he was struck by lightning, but he didn't dare to snatch back the revolver that he had earned with his life, so he could only honestly thank Shi Dakai for his reward, and left Shi Dakai's Chinese army tent in frustration.

Coincidentally, when Ding Ruchang was about to leave the camp of the Chinese army with a depressed expression, he happened to meet Liu Mingchuan, a fellow villager of Luzhou Mansion who was stationed in Shi Dakai's Chinese army, and saw that Ding Ruchang's expression was wrong, Liu Mingchuan, who was originally enthusiastic and had been helped by Ding Ruchang, was very curious, so he stopped Ding Ruchang and asked, "Brother Ding, what's wrong?" You are stationed in the front camp, how can you run to the Chinese army camp and your face is still so ugly? What's wrong? ”

"Sixth Brother Liu." Ding Ruchang barely squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said, "It's nothing, it's just a little thing." ”

"What's going on? Tell me, we are fellow countrymen, we have to help each other if we have something, let's walk, come to me and sit down, tell the sixth brother about you, and the sixth brother will see if he can help you. (To be continued.) )