Seeing that he was shot to death by Liu Lichuan, although Lin Afu's soldiers did not dare to shoot at the gang boss to take revenge, they all threw themselves on Lin Afu's corpse and cried, but Liu Lichuan didn't even look at the sworn brothers, and led his own soldiers to rush directly to the west gate of Shanghai.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the water on the ground can already cover the instep, but the battle in Shanghai still shows no sign of stopping, the shouts of killing and gunfire are continuous, resounding throughout the city, and there is a fierce sound of artillery at the east gate of Shanghai, and it is obvious that the Qing army has begun to bombard the city of Shanghai. Hearing these chaotic noises, Liu Lichuan, who was wet all over his body, had no expression on his face, and just went straight to the West Gate of Shanghai in the rainy night with a black face and a pistol.

"Stop! The city gate is heavy, and you must not approach it! ”

The rain extinguished the torches in the hands of the soldiers, and they couldn't see Liu Lichuan's appearance clearly, of course Lin Afu's subordinates who were guarding the city gate stopped Liu Lichuan who rushed over, but the soldiers who stepped forward to block him received a heavy slap because of their loyalty, "Blind your mother's dog eyes!" Even Lao Tzu dares to stop it?! ”

It took a lot of effort to recognize that the person was Liu Lichuan, and the soldiers who stepped forward to stop him quickly knelt down on one knee to ask for guilt, but Liu Lichuan ignored him anymore, and just rushed directly into the city gate with a black face, and the city gate official who led the army to guard the city gate hurriedly came up to salute, Liu Lichuan waved his hand and shouted: "Excuse me!" Go, open the gates! ”

"Open the gates?!" The city gate official was stunned at first, and then exclaimed: "Check, the sky is so heavy, the rain is so heavy, it is dangerous to open the city gate?" What if there is a Qing demon in ambush outside and takes the opportunity to kill it? ”

"Less nonsense! Lao Tzu told you to open the door, open the door, and then say that Lao Tzu killed you! Liu Lichuan roared with red eyes.

The city gate official opened his mouth more and more, and said tremblingly: "Liu Checkpoint, the small one doesn't dare to open it, General Manager Lin just sent someone to give an order, saying that no one is allowed to open the city gate without him being present in person." Violators will be beheaded! ”

Liu Lichuan was too lazy to ramble with him, raised the revolver and pulled the trigger directly on the loyal city gate official, but the gun did not go off, the rain had soaked the paper shell bullets in the revolver, Liu Lichuan was furious, smashed the revolver bought at a high price on the ground, snatched the rifle in the hands of his own soldiers, aimed the bayonet at the city gate official, and shouted: "Open the door immediately!" That's an order! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will stab you to death! ”

Seeing that Liu Lichuan was really here, the city gate official who was lucky enough to pick up a small life was greedy for life and afraid of death, hesitated, and really ran to the door lock and opened the door lock with a key, and ordered his subordinates to remove the door latch and open the city gate, and then quickly retreated to the side, Lin Afu's subordinates present all looked at each other, and they didn't understand what was going on.

Striding to the front of the door, Liu Lichuan personally opened the city gate to the maximum, and tried to look at the rainy night outside the city, but the Qing army did not disappoint Liu Lichuan, seeing the torch light in the city gate after the city gate was opened, and soon a large number of figures appeared on the stone bridge across the moat. Liu Lichuan was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly shouted: "Come here!" I'm Liu Lichuan, I'm Liu Lichuan, I surrender! I've opened the gates! I give up! ”

"Surrender?!" There was an uproar among Lin Afu's subordinates, countless people screamed, and the city gate official blurted out: "Check, you want to surrender to the Qing Demon?" ”

Liu Lichuan didn't bother to pay attention to the shouts of these people, but just at this time, another group of people rushed over, crying and shouting: "Brothers, in order to surrender to the Qing Demon, Liu Jian killed Mr. Lin!" He killed Lin Afulin with his own hands! He's going to surrender to the Qing Demon! ”

The screams rang out again, but Liu Lichuan didn't think so, just yelled: "Call a JI bark? Shut up Lao Tzu! Listen, Lao Tzu has already told the official army master that we will surrender, all of us will not be killed, and we will all follow Lao Tzu to enjoy happiness! ”

No one responded to Liu Lichuan's call, on the contrary, some people shouted: "We will not surrender!" We don't share the sky with the Qing Demon! We do not surrender! ”

"Who calls not surrendering? Who calls not surrendering? Stand up for Lao Tzu! Liu Lichuan was furious, holding a bayonet and shouting at Lin Afu's subordinates: "Who dares to shout again and not surrender, Lao Tzu killed him with his own hands!" ”

No one was afraid of Liu Lichuan's threat, and in the chaos, several people shouted at the same time, "Avenge President Lin!" Kill this Liu Lichuan! Kill Liu Lichuan! Avenge Brother Fu! Kill! ”

The crowd was furious, and there were really many of Lin Afu's subordinates who rushed towards Liu Lichuan with guns and knives, and one of the Lin soldiers who guarded the city gate and did not get damp with muskets also fired a shot at Liu Lichuan, and between the gunshots, the bullet shot into Liu Lichuan's abdomen, causing Liu Lichuan to scream loudly, "Up!" Kill these bastards for me! ”

Several of Liu Lichuan's personal soldiers rushed up to meet the battle, but more Liu Lichuan ran out of the city, and the angry Lin soldiers hacked several of Liu Lichuan's dead friends to death in three strokes, and rushed over to cut Liu Lichuan, Liu Lichuan saw that the situation was not good, and quickly ran out of the door, when the Lin soldiers chased out of the city, they met the Qing soldiers who had rushed to the city gate, and the two armies fought fiercely together.

Originally, the hand-to-hand white-knuckle battle, the Qing soldiers could never be the opponent of the Taiping Army, but there was no way, it happened that the army of Liu Lichuan's general Lin Afu was on duty at the West Gate, and the combat effectiveness was inferior to the authentic Taiping Army, and the Qing army in order to ensure the success of the door, the vanguard was the relatively most capable elite soldiers, and the short group was tall, how could it have some combat effectiveness, so in the white-knuckle battle, the Qing army was still quite impressive, not only was not killed by the soldiers of the Lin army, He also successfully withstood the impact of the Lin soldiers and touched the edge of the city gate.

In the fierce battle, the soldiers of the Lin army soon exposed a major weakness - the dragons were leaderless, the direct boss Lin Afu had been killed, and the boss Liu Lichuan had taken the lead in the rebellion, and there was no one to command and hurriedly meet the battle, and after the anger of avenging Lin Afu disappeared, they soon began to be weak and timid, and quietly retreated. And Hu Songlin, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army who commanded this battle, kept shouting in the crowd of Qing troops in order to seize the city gate, "Rush! Rush! Rush to Lao Tzu! Take Shanghai City and enjoy it for three days! Three days away! ”

The temptation of breaking the city and looting was in front, the Qing soldiers really took out the courage to rush and fight, taking advantage of the chaotic opportunity of the Liu army soldiers to successfully enter the city gate, Hu Songlin saw the great joy, and quickly sent people to destroy the city gate, not giving the Taiping army a chance to close the city gate again. After receiving the accurate news of Liu Lichuan's dedication, the main force of the Qing army in the back also immediately set out in a big way, braving the wind and rain to kill the west gate.

At the same time, the main force of the Taiping Army, which still did not know the situation at the West Gate, was still fighting fiercely with Liu Lichuan's main force, and relying on the advantage of white-knuckle warfare, it had already killed in front of Liu Lichuan's command department. and Zhou Lichun's side, who also killed close under the response of the Taiping Army, and attacked the side gate of Liu Jun's headquarters with all his might.

In the end, when he received the news that Lin Afu's personal soldiers were crying and sending, Zeng Lichang, who was shocked, hurriedly ordered to stop the attack on Liu's army, and instead concentrated his forces to save the West Gate first, but at this time, the West Gate of Shanghai had been opened by Liu Lichuan for nearly half an hour, and the leaderless Lin soldiers scattered one after another, and the occasional resistance was sparse. By the time the Taiping army hurried to the Ximen battlefield, the Qing army had completely controlled the city gate and the corridor, and seized several street fortifications that were voluntarily abandoned by the Lin soldiers, and successfully climbed the Ximen city wall.

In order to recapture the city gate and seal the gap, the Taiping soldiers followed one after another, holding various cold weapons and constantly frantically attacking the Qing army's position, once entering the city gate. Although the Qing army was frightened, it could not withstand Hu Songlin's repeated urging and the threat of the sword and axe of the supervising team, so it could only fight hard with the Taiping saber and sword, and stubbornly defended the city gate and no longer retreated, and at the same time, the Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall desperately threw stones from the city, condescending to hit the Taiping soldiers, forcing the Taiping army to divide their troops and seize the city wall.

At the critical moment, when the Taiping army had taken the initiative to stop attacking, Liu Lichuan's sworn party led by Li Xianchi and Du Wenzao actually led the army to attack the back of the Taiping army, and at the same time set fire to the city to create chaos, forcing the Taiping army to continue to divide the troops to meet the battle, and the morale of the army was greatly affected, and the best opportunity to recapture the West Gate was completely missed, giving the Qing army the opportunity to continue to reinforce. Zeng Lichang was furious when he heard the report, but he had no choice but to command the army to meet the battle with all his strength and continue to consume valuable combat power with his former allies.

By the way, after receiving the news that Liu Lichuan opened the west gate to lead the Qing army into the city, Pan Qiliang, the heavy general of the Liu family army guarding the north gate, was furious, and immediately sent troops to join the battlefield and stormed the flanks of Li Xianchi and other armies.

The first to rush to the west gate to reinforce was the Qing army Qin Ruhu, seeing that the city gate was like an ant, Qin Ruhu was very smart not to join the already overcrowded city gate battlefield, chose to command the soldiers to climb the city with a flying ladder, and also relied on the Qing soldiers who had landed in the city in advance, and continued to successfully climb the city to seize a large part of the city's head position. The second wave rushed to the Qing army and the Chunbu remained unmoved behind the moat, paying attention to protecting the muskets and waiting for the rain to stop before launching an attack, and also ready to reinforce the Husong Forest Department at any time.

What really laid the situation was the third wave of reinforcements of the Qing army, the infantry commando team led by Feng Sanbao sent by Wu Chaoyue, although this commando team only had about 100 people, but all of them were equipped with machetes, spears and other melee weapons, and with oil-paper wrapped revolvers and grenades. Under the leadership of Wu Chaoyue's future father-in-law, Feng Sanbao, this assault team also used a flying ladder to climb the West Gate city wall more than two zhang high, and then did not hesitate to kill the Taiping soldiers who were constantly coming from the ramp of the upper city, slashing and stabbing the Taiping army in close combat.

Seeing Feng Sanbao like a tiger rampage in the crowd of the Taiping army, and seeing the Wu army commando slashing and stabbing the Taiping army screaming continuously, the Qing soldiers who were afraid of close combat also found the backbone at once, and subconsciously followed the back of the Wu army commando to fight a tailwind battle, suppressed the crazy impact of the Taiping army, and successfully stabilized the battlefield of the city wall, ensuring the Qing army's condescending advantageous advantage on the city wall.

Successfully stabilizing the position of the city wall, the Wu army commando team quickly rushed to the inner top of the city gate, tore the oil paper bag under the eaves of the city gate tower, took out a grenade to pull the lead, and threw the grenade into the dense crowd of Taiping troops under the city. And when the bitter acid grenades that fell from the sky exploded one after another in the crowd of Taiping soldiers, the Taiping soldiers suffered extremely heavy casualties, not to mention the fact that the attack momentum in the chaos was also greatly reduced, and the Qing soldiers launched a counterattack, successfully recaptured the entire city gate and Yongdao, and controlled the road of the main force of the Qing army into the city.

The fierce battle continued, and when the rain finally began to lighten, Liu Lichuan, who was shot in the abdomen, was also supported by his own soldiers in front of He Chun, the governor of Jiangnan of the Qing army, and learned about the situation in the city from Liu Lichuan, and Chun smiled very cordially, and said: "Hard work Liu Zhuangshi, rest assured, the promise made to you by this official and Xu Futai will definitely be fulfilled." By the way, how are your injuries? Does it matter? ”

"Thank you for your concern." Liu Lichuan hurriedly thanked him and said, "Don't get in the way, the bullet happened to hit the small rib, and it was dug out just now." ”

"That's good, that's good." He Chun nodded again and again, and said: "Come on, send Liu Zhuangshi to Wu Chaoyue Wu Zhentai, and ask Wu Zhentai to settle Liu Zhuangshi." ”

Liu Lichuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed Hechun's people all the way to Wu Chaoyue's camp, but only on the way, Liu Lichuan and his party met Wu Chaoyue, who was leading the army to reinforce him. The scene of the uncle and nephew meeting was also very touching, even if he was injured, Liu Lichuan also struggled to kneel down to Wu Chaoyue, and even said that he was guilty, and Wu Chaoyue personally hugged Liu Lichuan with both hands, and said: "Uncle Ayuan, you must not be like this, although this Shanghai War, although it was caused by you, but you lost your way and returned, the prodigal son turned back, and helped our army break through Shanghai and create a fighter plane to annihilate Changmao, the merits and demerits are offset, in general, you still have merit to the imperial court." ”

After saying sincerely, Wu Chaoyue hurriedly inquired about Liu Lichuan's injury, and learned that Liu Lichuan's injury was fine, and Hui Zheng's father and son were under the strict protection of Liu Lichuan's heart, Wu Chaoyue breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: "Uncle Yuan, the rain hasn't stopped yet, you can't stay here if you are injured." In this case, I will send someone to send you to see Xu Futai, you will rest and recuperate in Xu Futai's camp first, and when the war in Shanghai is settled, our uncle and nephew will get together again for a good drink. ”

Liu Lichuan was even more overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked Wu Chaoyue, a fellow nephew, and Wu Chaoyue was indeed a model of filial piety to his nephew, and immediately sent his own soldiers to send Liu Lichuan to the main camp of the Qing army in the west of the city, so that Liu Lichuan and Xu Naizhao, the honor of a province, could meet.

Xu Naizhao's attitude towards Liu Lichuan was kinder and gentler, not only picked up Liu Lichuan with his own hands to ask for warmth, asked about Liu Lichuan's injury, but also learned about what happened after Liu Lichuan left the city, and learned that Liu Lichuan had met with He Chun and Wu Chaoyue, Xu Naizhao also scolded: "This Hejunmen, and this Wu Zhentai, seeing that Liu Zhuangshi is so seriously injured, why do you still let him run around in the rain?" Come, come, send Liu Zhuangshi down to rest, and call the military doctor to treat Liu Zhuangshi. The companions brought by Liu Zhuangshi were all settled for the official, and more wine and meat were given. ”

Xu Naizhao's personal soldiers in the tent promised and came to invite Liu Lichuan to the back tent for treatment, and also brought Liu Lichuan's personal soldiers down to reward wine and meat. And after a period of time, the captain of the pro-soldier returned to Xu Naizhao's face, and presented the guarantee letter written by Xu Naizhao to Liu Lichuan in front of Xu Naizhao. ”

"Solved." The captain of the pro-soldier nodded and replied: "Liu Lichuan brought those people, and they all drank arsenic poisonous wine, and they did not encounter resistance during this period, nor did they alarm outsiders. ”

Xu Naizhao nodded with satisfaction, and while putting the guarantee on the candle and igniting it, he scolded: "The two slippery heads of the gods, if you don't want to get your hands dirty, you will push Liu Lichuan to the official, and let the old man carry the infamy of killing and surrendering." ”

"Lord Futai, why don't you push Liu Lichuan back to Lord He or Lord Wu? Let them do this? The captain of the pro-soldier asked curiously.

"You can't sleep too much at night." Xu Naizhao sighed, shook the burning guarantee in his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Without the permission of the emperor, it is a big crime to protect people from death in black and white, not to mention that this Liu Lichuan is still a criminal in the imperial court, the culprit of the Shanghai thief, if the emperor and the imperial court know that the official personally wrote a book to ensure that he does not die, the trouble will only be greater." So there is no choice but to quickly dispose of the safety. ”

After that, Xu Naizhao threw the guarantee that was about to turn into ashes to the ground, watched it completely burn with his own eyes, and then said lightly: "Liu Lichuan surrendered the city, and died of serious injuries after leaving the city, let the news out." ”

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Time turned back slightly, back to the moment when Xu Naizhao's personal soldiers stabbed the dagger into Liu Lichuan's heart, saw the dagger that was suddenly inserted into his chest, and saw the cruel smile on Xu Naizhao's personal soldiers' faces, Liu Lichuan was in disbelief, and suddenly remembered the scene five years ago, when he worshipped Chen Alin and Lin Afu five years ago, and the oath he recited in unison with Chen Alin and Lin Afu sounded in his ears............

"The emperor and the queen of heaven, Liu Guanzhang are the three gods, Liu Lichuan, Chen Alin, and Lin Afu are brothers with different surnames from today, and they share blessings and difficulties, and they cannot be born on the same day and month of the same year, but they want to die on the same day and month of the same year. If you violate this oath, the sky will thunder, and there will be no place to die! ”

Recalling the promise he had made, Liu Lichuan couldn't help but ask Xu Naizhao's personal soldier who was holding the dagger tightly: "What time is it?" ”

"What time is it?" The soldiers were stunned, but they still replied, "It's almost twelve o'clock." ”

Liu Lichuan smiled, his eyes gradually darkened, and he said softly: "Ah Lin, Ah Fu, I'm sorry for you, but, at least I did a little." If there really is an afterlife, I will be a cow and a horse, and I will thank you for ......, and I will ...... sin. ”

Weakly, Liu Lichuan's head tilted, and he died forever before zero o'clock, fulfilling his oath to die on the same year, month and day as Chen Alin and Lin Afu. (To be continued.) )