The flames that rushed to the sky suddenly rose into the air, like a huge red iron fist, and suddenly smashed into the night sky dozens of zhang high, dazzling and eye-catching, and the dull roar was like the roar of a wild beast, which shook the soldiers of the two armies inside and outside Hukou City are eardrums buzzing, even if they were far away outside the city, many of the soldiers of the Wu army who were charging forward felt a tremble under their feet, as if the ground suddenly jumped.

Outside the city, no soldier of the Wu army could tell what was happening in the city, let alone know why the huge explosion started and who did it. But it doesn't matter, just seeing the eye-catching flames is enough, even the stupid Wu soldiers saw such a violent explosion suddenly in Hukou City, and immediately understood that the opportunity had come, and there was already great hope for breaking through the Hukou Fortified City in one fell swoop, and the morale was suddenly greatly boosted, the speed of the charge suddenly accelerated, and the voice of the shout was more confident.

"Kill ——!"

In the shout, a series of flying ladders are like rolling waves, one after another on the head of the lake, the Wu soldiers with melee weapons in their hands roared to step on the ladder, climbing up at a faster speed than usual training, risking the risk of accidentally injuring their companions and struggling to throw grenades to the city, the Wu army shooters on the ground kept pulling the trigger, accurately shooting the defenders of the city in the very weak light, the sappers just touched the city wall and couldn't wait to start digging, and the demomen even rolled and climbed to the city gate in the distance, Go for the opportunity to blow up the passage into the city directly.

The Taiping army on the city wall was directly caught off guard by the Wu army, no matter how well prepared for the battle, it was not able to stop the Wu army's sudden outbreak of high morale, the fierce attack like a flood, and the sudden huge explosion in the city also seriously hit the morale of the Taiping army, worried that under the great changes in the city, many Taiping soldiers could not fight with all their strength at all, and naturally they could not stop the Wu army soldiers from sacrificing their lives. One of the warriors of the Wu army was the first to rush to the city wall.

"Hit! Beat! Defeat the demon soldiers! ”

The commendable quality of individual soldiers delayed the defeat of the Taiping army, in the case of extreme panic, there were still Taiping soldiers roaring and rushing to the Wu army in the city without hesitation, with red eyes and knives and axes, the warriors of the Wu army who took the lead in the city did not even have time to see the situation in the city clearly, they were cut down and chopped down by the Taiping army that swarmed and pounced, screaming and falling in a pool of blood. At the same time, many Taiping soldiers reacted quickly after a short period of panic, grabbed a large number of sheep's head stones piled up on the city wall and smashed them at the Wu soldiers on the flying ladder, shot and hit the ladder, threw ash bottles, and even ignited the lead for emergency use and smashed down the city wall, causing huge casualties to the Wu soldiers at the same time, they also barely withstood the unexpected fierce attack of the Wu army, and did not allow the Wu soldiers to quickly rush to the city wall position.

Inevitably, the previous thunderous sound is still like a thousand boulders, heavy pressure on the hearts of the Taiping soldiers, the city is still burning in the sky, but also let the Taiping soldiers always worry about their hearts, dare not forget the back of their minds, even if it is in the life-and-death battle of the city, there are also many Taiping soldiers from time to time to look back at the situation in the city, worried, "What's wrong?" How could there be such a big explosion in the city? That blew up? ”

At the same time, in Hukou City, Lin Qirong had personally rushed to the vicinity of the explosion site with his own personal army, and what made Lin Qirong's soul fly was that the underground warehouse where the Taiping Army stored ammunition and weapons had indeed turned into a huge burning pit, the flames were soaring to the sky, the smoke was rolling, the ground was full of rubble and rubble stained with flesh and blood, and the cries of despair and fear rose one after another in the smoke of the fire, which was as tragic as Shura Hell.

Seeing this scene, Lin Qirong almost fell down again, and after holding his own soldiers to stand firm, Lin Qirong yelled frantically again, "Find!" Go to the people guarding the ammunition depot and ask what the hell is going on? ”

The soldiers rushed into the fire and rummaged in the room, and a Taiping soldier covered in blood was quickly carried in front of Lin Qirong, Lin Qirong threw himself on him and shouted loudly to ask the cause of the explosion, the soldier groaned and took a lot of effort to come back to his senses, and replied with a crying voice: "Zhen Tianhou, there are traitors, there are traitors who killed our brothers...... smashed open the door of the ammunition depot, and blew up our ammunition depot ....... ”

"Who is the mole? Over there? How many people are there?! ”

Lin Qirong yelled and asked, but the seriously injured Taiping soldier shook his head with difficulty, and said in a weak voice: "The little one doesn't know, the little one just heard the shouting and killing, and saw some of our soldiers running out of the ammunition depot, and then ......, and then ......, and our ammunition depot exploded ......." ”

"Where did those people go?"

Lin Qirong asked again, but unfortunately the Taiping soldier fainted with his head crooked, and he could no longer answer Lin Qirong's question, Lin Qirong was furious and roared: "Quick, go and find, go to our wounded soldiers, and find out the traitor for me!" ”

When the soldiers continued to search according to the order, a group of Taiping Army female battalion soldiers who were responsible for patrolling the streets of the city came to Lin Qirong and brought Lin Qirong an important piece of information, saying that they saw some Taiping soldiers hurriedly fleeing the explosion scene after the explosion and went to the direction of the north gate of Hukou. When Lin Qirong hurriedly recalled the garrison situation in the city, he suddenly remembered that the only Raozhou Taiping Army in Hukou City, which was not his own descendant army, Ji Rongxian, was stationed near the north gate of Hukou!

"Could it be them? How can it be? Why would they do it? Could it be that Ji Rongxian really secretly surrendered and surpassed the little demon, and the inside and outside should be combined to surpass the little demon to attack the city? ”

Countless questions flashed in Lin Qirong's mind one after another, and after a little calculation, Lin Qirong immediately made a decision and ordered: "Go and give Ji Rong an order first, and tell him to come to see me immediately!" Again, notify the north gate and the west gate, and block the city gate immediately! No army is allowed to approach the gates without my orders! ”

Lin Qirong was obviously living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and when the soldiers rushed to the north and west gates of Hukou with the token to give orders, a Taiping army with a Hubei accent rushed to the vicinity of Lin Qirong's location, and loudly reported that he came to see Lin Qirong on the order of Ji Rongxian, Lin Qirong ordered to summon him without thinking about it, and the herald sent by Ji Rongxian came over to salute and said: "Honorable weather, when there was an explosion in the city just now, our brothers caught a few suspicious people near the barracks, Mr. Ji asks you to come and interrogate him personally. ”

Without thinking too much, Lin Qirong rushed in the direction where Ji Rongxian's camp was located, but after running a distance, Lin Qirong suddenly woke up and said secretly: "At this time, how can I still go to Ji Rongxian's camp in person?" If he really has any suspicions, I take such a few people to his camp, isn't it a sheep into the mouth of a tiger? ”

Thinking of this, Lin Qirong immediately stopped, first grabbed a personal soldier casually, and whispered in his ear to order Wei Chaocheng, telling Wei Chaocheng to immediately rush to the north gate with the reserve to surround Ji Rongxian's camp, and then called the herald sent by Ji Rongxian to the front and asked, "How did you catch the suspicious person?" Tell me about the situation! ”

"It's ......." The herald was a little embarrassed, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Sunny weather, the little one doesn't know, the little one just heard that we caught a suspicious person." ”

"You are Ji Rongxian's personal soldier, right by his side, how can you not know?" Lin Qirong asked sharply.

"Zhen Tiantian, the little one is not the personal soldier of the Ji General System." The herald replied truthfully: "The little one is a soldier under Xiao Sima, and the captain of the personal soldiers of the Ji General System was ordered to report to you, but he couldn't come with a stomachache when he went out, so he asked the little one to come instead of him." ”

The truth is basically revealed, although there is no conclusive evidence, but just because it is not Ji Rongxian's personal order, Lin Qirong has enough reason to suspect that Ji Rongxian's invitation is a trap, and he is ready to trap or even trap himself! Knowing this, Lin Qirong casually grabbed one of his own personal soldiers and ordered: "You go to Ji Rongxian's camp immediately, and say that I will see him in person immediately and ask him to interrogate the spies he caught first!" ”

Of course, Lin Qirong did this to temporarily stabilize Ji Rongxian and buy time for himself to mobilize the army to encircle and suppress Ji Rongxian's rebels, but Lin Qirong soon found that he still seriously underestimated Ji Rongxian's cunning and viciousness, Wei Chaocheng had just come over with the reserve team to join Lin Qirong, and before the Taiping Army reserves could make any moves, the direction of the camp where Ji Rongxian's army was located was already full of fire, and there were gunshots and shouts of killing.

"Divide two battalions to guard the west gate, and you must not let Ji Rongxian's army open the city gate!"

While yelling and dividing troops to guard the west gate, Lin Qirong urged the division to rush forward and rushed straight to the north gate of Hukou with the reserves, but the result was not as Lin Qirong expected, he had just arrived near the north gate with the reserves, and immediately saw a large group of Taiping soldiers with red turbans attacking the north gate that had not had time to block, Lin Qirong saw the great urgency, and hurriedly ordered the attack, and asked Wei Chaocheng to take the reserves to help the defenders of the north gate to attack the Ji Rong army who suddenly rebelled.

Of course, the poorly equipped Ji Rongxian rebels could not be the opponent of the elite reserves of the Hukou Taiping Army, Wei Chaocheng led the army to charge with only one charge, and directly defeated the Ji Rongxian rebels who tried to seize the city gate, and drove the rebels everywhere in the streets and alleys. However, when the street fighting began next, the trouble came - the Hukou Taiping army had no way to distinguish between friend and foe! Can't tell who the soldiers in the streets, who are also wearing red turbans, who are their own people? Who are the rebel soldiers?

On the contrary, Ji Rongxian's rebels were obviously prepared, and in the melee, they kept shouting that I am my own person, and at the same time viciously shot and slashed at the Hukou Taiping Army, knocking down many Hukou Taiping Army soldiers who were afraid of accidentally injuring friendly troops and cutting them down in a pool of blood, and at the same time, the rebels were also very vicious while fighting and setting fires, creating more chaos, and also indirectly sending a signal to the outside of the city, beckoning the Wu army outside the city to hurry up and attack the north gate.

In the end, after the white cloth strip tied to the left arm was found on several dead bodies, the Hukou Taiping Army finally found a way to distinguish between friend and foe, but the shamelessness and viciousness of Ji Rongxian's rebels once again exceeded the imagination of the Hukou Taiping Army, and just after discovering that the Hukou Taiping Army had found a way to distinguish between friend and foe, the generals of Ji Rongxian's rebel army shouted and ordered, asking the soldiers to tear off the white cloth strips on their arms, preferring to accidentally injure their comrades in the melee than give the Hukou Taiping Army a chance to quickly eliminate Ji Rongxian's rebels. As a result, the area around the north gate of Hukou fell into a complete melee, and the enemy and the enemy were intertwined, and it was difficult to distinguish the identities of each other.

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At the same time, the Wu army scouts had also discovered the turmoil at the north gate of Hukou, and reported the situation to Wu Chaoyue as soon as possible. As a result, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate, and immediately ordered Liu Mingchuan to lead his troops and horses back to the north gate of Hukou, open up the third battlefield and attack the north gate, and at the same time, Wu Chaoyue took precautions and explained to Liu Mingchuan early: "You have to prevent Hukou Changmao from pretending to be Rao Governor Mao to surrender to you, and tell Changmao, who is about to surrender, to lay down his arms first, otherwise he will be killed!" ”

After Liu Mingchuan hurried to the north gate with the people of his headquarters, an urgent report came from the tunnel, saying that the Taiping Army had dug through the tunnel connecting the Wu army's tunnels and was attacking the Wu army's engineers with poisonous smoke tactics. ”

"King Zhennan, the long hair in the city is already messed up, so there's no need to dig tunnels anymore, right?" Devon asked suspiciously.

"To be on the safe side, Lin Qirong's long hair is too tenacious, so he has to keep a few more hands." Wu Chaoyue shook his head cautiously, not daring to pin all his hopes for breaking the city on the one method of combining inside and outside.

At this time, there was a sudden loud noise on the south gate of Hukou, the fire burst out in front of the city gate, Wu Chaoyue hurriedly raised the telescope to take a closer look, but it was very regrettable to see that although the south gate of Hukou had been broken, it did not collapse and shatter, and the road into the city was not exposed.

There is also what makes Wu Chaoyue even more helpless, relying on the fighter plane created by the sudden explosion in the city, the southwest Wu army that was attached to the ant to attack the city once rushed to the head of the city several times, but as time went by, the southwest Wu army was even difficult to rush to the upper half of the city wall, and was completely suppressed under the city wall by the hail and rain of guns and bullets of the Taiping army, and it was difficult to advance half a step forward despite the continuous casualties. - But this is not surprising, compared with the experienced Hukou Taiping Army, the Southwest Wu Army, which was born from bandits, is obviously much inferior in terms of combat effectiveness and battlefield experience, plus the Hukou Taiping Army has a geographical advantage, and it is reasonable that the Southwest Wu Army cannot rush to the city wall.

"If the first wave of attacks had been sent to my direct corps, it would have been possible to gain a foothold on the city walls."

While regretting that he couldn't grasp the opportunity, Wu Chaoyue carefully considered whether he should immediately invest in his descendant elite, but after weighing it repeatedly, Wu Chaoyue dispelled this idea again, and said secretly: "Forget it, the fighter has been missed, and investing in the elite at this time will not play a decisive role, on the contrary, it may be frustrating and sharp." It's better to wait a little longer, look at Liu Mingchuan's side, and wait for Liu Mingchuan to contain the long-haired elite reserve team for me, and then it will be better to dispatch the elite. ”

In the continuous fierce battle of guns and artillery, with Wu Chaoyue's expectations, Liu Mingchuan's troops hurriedly returned to the north gate battlefield of Hukou, and did not hesitate to launch a frontal attack on the north gate of Hukou, but it is a pity that Wu Jun did not make much preparations at the north gate of Hukou in order to induce the Taiping army to break through, and the moat was not even built with a moat bridge car. Naturally, it was impossible to quickly form a strong threat to the north gate of Hukou City. Therefore, Liu Mingchuan had no choice but to command the soldiers of the Wu army to build a bridge across the river with the trench bridge vehicles brought by the army, and at the same time pray for God's blessing, so that the inner army in the city could hold on for a while longer, and wait until the army crossed the river and attacked the city in large numbers.

It was useless to pray, just after discovering that the Wu army was approaching the north gate, the experienced Lin Qirong had already commanded the reserve team to approach the city gate with all his might, while throwing troops into the city to strengthen the defense, while struggling to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and expelling the Ji Rongxian rebels wearing the same clothes, and also successfully did this before Liu Mingchuan's army attacked the city, basically cleared the Ji Rongxian rebels near the city gate and the steps to the city, laying a solid foundation for blocking Liu Mingchuan's army from attacking the city.

Two heavy trench bridge cars finally built on the moat with difficulty, a battalion of Wu soldiers carried the flying ladder and shouted to charge, quickly approaching the north gate of Hukou, but unfortunately, the Hukou Taiping army that had stabilized the situation was shot down, bricks and stones rained down, not only completely suppressed the momentum of the Wu army's charge, but also brought a lot of casualties to the siege Wu army, Liu Mingchuan scolded in annoyance outside the city, regretting the incompetence of the waste inside, Lin Qirong was relieved in the north gate city, and rejoiced: "Dangerous, If the demon soldiers come faster, the north gate will be in danger. ”

Fortunately, in order to prevent Ji Rongxian's rebels from attacking the north gate again, Lin Qirong did not dare to take it lightly, and decisively ordered the troops under the city to be on strict alert and not to give Ji Rongxian's rebels any chance to counterattack. But to Lin Qirong's surprise, more than ten minutes passed, not only did a large number of rebels counterattack the north gate, on the contrary, the gunfire in the streets around the north gate became more and more sparse, and it was obvious that the fighting was getting less and less.

"Strange? Killed all the rebels of Ji Rongxian's dog thief? Can't it be so fast? Yes! Wrong! ”

Puzzled by Ji Rongxian's rebels quickly disappearing from the North Gate battlefield, Lin Qirong suddenly shook his whole body, and subconsciously looked at the direction of the main battlefield of the South Gate, where the battle was most fierce in the south, his face was as pale as paper again, and his heart roared, "Won't it?" Ji Rongxian, that traitor, can be treacherous and vicious to this point?! ”

was guessed by Lin Qirong, and at the same time, on the streets in Hukou City, Ji Rongxian was really running in the direction of the south gate of Hukou with a large number of rebels, and shouted as he ran: "Quick!" Fast! Go to the south gate to pick up the main force of the king of Zhennan, the main force of the king of Zhennan is all outside the south gate, we fight from behind, and the main force of the king of Zhennan can take the opportunity to come in! If you want to be promoted and make a fortune, follow Lao Tzu! ”