Although Xue Zhiyuan and Yang Youqing, the two Erwuzai, unanimously decided to surrender to the Wu army with the army, but because they were seriously brainwashed by the cult, even under the command of Xue Zhiyuan, a slave with three surnames who had become accustomed to opposing water, there were many Taiping soldiers who refused to lay down their arms, and the traitors of the Taiping Army who were loyal to Xue Zhiyuan drew their swords and fought fiercely, and would rather die than surrender to the Wu army.

The situation on Yang Youqing's side is even more serious, at least three or four percent of the soldiers under his command refuse to surrender, even if Yang Youqing detains the generals they lead, it is useless, the order to lay down the arms has just been issued, and immediately many Taiping soldiers jumped out and scolded, resolutely opposed, and then mutinied, and Yang Youqing's cronies who came to suppress the fight turned the world upside down, and even once relied on the numerical advantage to rush into the Chinese army camp, directly turning the Taiping army's Pukou camp into a huge battlefield, frightened Yang Youqing quickly sent people to the Wu army for help, Ask Wu Jun to help him suppress these traitors.

But fortunately, there is no other Taiping army on the north bank of the Yangtze River to provide reinforcements to these diehards, under the joint attack of the Wu army and the Taiping army traitors, the mutiny launched by the Taiping army diehards was completely suppressed that night, countless loyal Taiping soldiers died tragically under the traitor's butcher's knife, in order to show loyalty to the Wu army, the traitors in addition to rushing to help the Wu army soldiers chase and kill their comrades who refused to surrender, the slashing room is more ruthless and more vicious than the Wu army soldiers, Even brutally slaughtered many friendly comrades who remained neutral in the mutiny, and the Jiangbei Taiping army, numbering more than 40,000 people, also completely collapsed overnight, the Wu army easily captured Jiangpu County, and the Taiping military camp in Pukou, a military stronghold, was also burned to ruins.

At the same time, with the complete fall of the Jiangbei battlefield, the Taiping army Liang Fengchao and Fu Zhenggang, who were trapped on Jiuhuanzhou by the Wu army's naval division, also completely became rootless, and could no longer see any hope of escape.

When the news reached the south bank, of course the Taiping army was in an uproar, and their morale plummeted, Li Xiucheng's face was pale, his hands and feet were cold, and he couldn't believe that the scout's report was true, and Hong Xiuquan was furious and ordered the family members of Yang Youqing and others to be brutally executed, while sending envoys out of the city, asking Li Xiucheng to find a way to reverse the situation as soon as possible and save the defeat. As a result, Li Xiucheng almost cried when he heard this, and screamed in despair in front of the messenger, "The battle has reached this point, what else can I do?" What else can be done? ”

"Chung Wang Chitose, but the only person we can count on in Heaven now is you." The messenger said pitifully: "If you don't hurry up and come up with a way to stabilize the situation and people's hearts, our kingdom of heaven will really be finished." ”

Li Xiucheng stopped talking in a gloomy manner, and after thinking for a long time, Li Xiucheng said to himself: "I can only fight when the demon soldiers land, so I can win a battle first and boost the morale of the army." ”

"Although the method of attacking halfway is good, but the artillery advantage of the demon soldier water division is so great, we still have no hope of fighting with the demon soldiers on the shore?" Li Shuxiang said with a sad face.

"Not necessarily." Li Xiucheng said coldly: "As long as we can find a way to let the demon soldiers land where we want, then relying on the mines, artillery and ambushes we have arranged in advance, it is not without hope of severely damaging the landing army of the demon soldiers." ”

"Then how can we get the demon soldiers to land where we want them to be?" Li Shuxiang still didn't have much confidence, and reminded: "Transcending the little demon has always been known for its treachery, and if you want to rely on some tricks to lead the demon soldiers led by him into the trap, I'm afraid there is little hope." ”

Li Xiucheng was silent again, and after thinking hard for a long time, Li Xiucheng suddenly spoke: "Let our sailors come forward to lure the enemy, our sailor fleet pretended to go to Jiuhuanzhou to transport troops across the river, and lead the demon soldiers' sailors to attack, and then our sailors fled from the Sanchai River into the Qinhuai River, and then let our Sanchai River garrison also flee in defeat, the demon soldiers and sailors coveted the favorable terrain of the Sanchai River, and will definitely seize the beach and land on the beach, and seize the Sanchai River camp that we have abandoned, as long as they go ashore and enter our ambush circle, we have hope of winning this battle." ”

Considering that the morale of the Wu army was in full swing and it was most likely to make the mistake of lightly advancing the enemy, Li Shuxiang clapped his hands and agreed with Li Xiucheng's clever plan to lure the enemy, and the master and slave immediately discussed the specific tactical plan, and quickly sent people to the garrison of the Sanchao River and the remnants of the sailor division who had fled to Qilizhou, so that the garrison of the Sanchai River immediately started to lay ambush mines, and let the remnants of the sailor division attack to lure the enemy that night, and at the same time arrange for the elite troops to prepare for the night battle, and then rush to the Sanchai River to set traps after it gets dark. Try your best to avoid being detected and discovered by Wu Jun in advance.

After the second watch of the night, there were still a few large and small warships of the Taiping Army sailors according to the plan, with some transport ships left the port and sailed, pretending to rescue the Taiping soldiers trapped in Jiuhuanzhou, the scout clippers of the Wu Army Sailors quickly found out and issued a warning, and then led the army to stay in Jiangxinzhou Wu Army Sailor General Xu Lai was really fooled, in order to kill the dying Taiping Navy Sailor in one fell swoop, the sailor brigade including two steam gunboats was dispatched overnight to intercept the river, and the Taiping Navy sailor fled to the direction of the Sanchai River. The Wu Army's naval division, which had a huge advantage, was in hot pursuit, and was gradually lured to the battlefield of the Sanxia River.

Then the Taiping army still staged a land and water drama, the sailor fleet shouted and fled into the Qinhuai River, the Taiping army's Sanchai River garrison pretended to open artillery to cover, after the Wu army's sailors fired back, the Taiping army of the Sanchai River quickly defeated and gave up the fort, the Wu army saw that there was an opportunity, so they immediately sent troops to land to seize the fort, as a result, the Wu army sailors just rushed to the riverbank, not far away from the Taiping army camp is a big chaos, the soldiers shouted that the demon soldiers have gone ashore to flee for their lives, pretending to be demoralized and dare not fight with the Wu army.

The excellent situation of successive battles and victories completely blinded the eyes of the Wu army soldiers, greedy for the great merit of seizing the military land of the Sancha River in one fell swoop, and the generals of the Wu army sailors who led the team decisively increased their troops on the shore, so that the landing army directly hit the enemy camp, and then naturally, when hundreds of Wu soldiers rushed into the ambush circle of the Taiping army, the tragedy came, the mines laid in front of the underground Taiping army exploded one after another, and the mountain splitting cannons pre-arranged by the Taiping army in the dark also shot scattered bombs one after another, and at the same time, the elite of the Taiping army ambushed around in advance also killed left and right. The Wu army was defeated, and they could only flee back to the shore to board the ship. However, the well-prepared Taiping Navy suddenly came out of the Qinhuai River, attacked the Wu army's big ship with a clipper full of gunpowder, and used other warships to deal with the Wu army's boat, and the Wu army's sailor was also defeated by the Taiping army, and it was very rare to lose at the same time on the water and land battlefield, and the loss was very humiliating.

According to post-war statistics, more than 200 soldiers were killed or missing in this battle, a red single boat was seriously injured by the gunpowder ship of the Taiping army, and more than 20 sampan boats and clippers were lost. Although the casualties were not large in general, and only the fur of the Wu Army's sailors was injured, Zhou Chengrui, the general of the Wu Army's Sailors who was defeated by the enemy, still let his own soldiers tie himself up with tears, and took the initiative to cry in front of his boss Xu Lai, and Xu Lai, who stayed in Jiangxinzhou, also hurriedly sent someone north to report to Wu Chaoyue, asking Wu Chaoyue to punish himself and Zhou Chengrui.

"It's nothing, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. In the battle last night, Xu Lai didn't do anything wrong, so he didn't need to ask for guilt. Zhou Chengrui is mainly responsible for being greedy for merit and underestimating the enemy, but he is not guilty of death, according to military law, he can do what he wants, and there is no need to increase the punishment. ”

Xu Lai and Zhou Chengrui's luck is not bad, although Wu Chaoyue is ruthless and decisive, but he can barely be regarded as a clear reward and punishment, and he was not furious because Xu Lai and others were unexpectedly defeated in a good situation, and wiped this matter with a wave of his hand, and then Wu Chaoyue also said to Wu Junwenwu who was present: "It is also a good thing for us to eat this defeat, at least it can sound a wake-up call for our soldiers, so that our soldiers understand that although our advantage is great now, if we underestimate the enemy, It is still possible to capsize in the gutter, so how we lost this battle, because of what we lost, we must let the officers and men of the whole army know, and sound a wake-up call for all of us. ”

The generals of the Wu army agreed, and then Wu Chaoyue quickly revealed his true form, and said: "Of course, this revenge must be avenged, and it must be avenged as soon as possible, Changmao spent so much effort to arrange this trap, the goal is only for the small army we ventured to land, the purpose is clear is to boost morale and stabilize the morale of the army, we can't let them get their wish, we must give Changmao a heavy one as soon as possible, and give me the morale of Changmao's military spirit again, so that all Longhair knows that they are dying, No matter how desperate we struggle, it is doomed to be useless, so that our battle will be better to fight, and it will be easier to bring down those wavering long hairs! ”

Everyone agreed again, and then led the army to protect Wu Chaoyue to land on the north bank Wang Fu stood up, arched his hand and said: "King Zhennan, if you want to take revenge, the last general proposes to take revenge on the battlefield of the Sanchao River, first, you can more effectively defeat the majesty of the long hair, second, the terrain of the Sanchai River is very conducive to our joint operations on land and water, and the third is that the location of the Sanchai River is important, and if we take the Sanchai River, we can not only directly threaten the Jiangning city wall, but also approach Yuhuatai along the Qinhuai River from both water and land at the same time, Rescue General Feng Sanbao, who was surrounded by long hair. ”

Not considering the enemy's deployment and directly attacking the Sanchai River, it is somewhat contrary to the original intention of the Wu army to stand on the north bank, so Wu Chaoyue did not rush to accept Wang Fu's suggestion, and said after thinking: "Let me think about it, we are not very clear about the enemy situation on the south bank, and it will take some more time to clean up the battlefield on the north side of the river, and we can't be too anxious. ”

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Wu Chaoyue decided to use the small setback of the Sanchai River as a wake-up call to warn the officers and soldiers of the Wu army, but Li Xiucheng was desperately advocating his victory in the Taiping Army, and boasted of the losses of the Wu Army's sailors to more than ten times without blushing.

But Li Xiucheng was not satisfied with this, and while desperately publicizing that the Wu army could be defeated, Li Xiucheng discussed with his confidant Li Shuxiang behind his back: "It's not enough to win a battle, we still have to find a way to strive to give the demon soldiers a heavy weight, so that we can completely boost morale, and we can also force the little demon to try to stabilize the battle as much as possible, and give us the opportunity to pull this decisive battle into a stalemate." ”

"Then what's the solution?" Li Shuxiang asked: "If you continue to use the trick of luring the enemy, I am afraid that the demon soldiers will not be fooled." ”

"No, you have to use a trick to lure the enemy." Li Xiucheng put up a finger and swayed, and said: "And we have to continue to make a fuss in the Sanchai River, lure the demon soldiers to launch a landing battle in the Sanchai River, take advantage of the various advantages that can be arranged first, concentrate the elite forces, and then give the demon soldiers a heavy blow in the Sanchai River." ”

"Attract demon soldiers to fight the Sanchai River again?" Li Shuxiang also has some ability, and quickly guessed Li Xiucheng's plan, and said: "Could it be that King Chitose of Zhongwang wants to provoke the generals, provoke and provoke the demon soldiers with the matter of the Sanchao River, so that the demon soldiers have the intention of taking revenge on the Sanchai River, and insist on fighting the Sanchai River again?" ”

"Those who know me are also scholars." Finally won a battle, Li Xiucheng's face also regained some smiles, and said with a smile: "As long as we can attract the demon soldiers to insist on fighting the Sanchai River, we will not only have the opportunity to ambush and severely damage them, but the arrangement and use of our army's defense and mobile forces will also be much easier." Otherwise, it will be very difficult for us to defend such a long river shoreline on Tianjing's side, and a little carelessness may give the demon soldiers a chance to land easily, and miss the best fighter plane that we can attack halfway. ”

Li Shuxiang nodded, and then suggested: "Loyal King Chitose, if we want to attract the demon soldiers to attack the Sanxia River with all our might, we can only directly attack the little demon." His Majesty suggested, Chung Wang Chitose, you might as well come forward in person this time and write a letter to ridicule the little demon, seeing that my grandfather and father-in-law were surrounded by us, and I didn't dare to rush us to fight head-on. On the surface, it is exciting to surpass the little demon to fight us as soon as possible, but in fact, it is actually lured to surpass the little demon to fight directly in the Sanchao River. ”

"Great idea, just do it!" When Li Xiucheng heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly wrote a letter to ridicule and insult Wu Chaoyue, ostensibly provoking Wu Chaoyue to launch a decisive battle as soon as possible without a stable foothold, but in fact it was to hint and lure Wu Chaoyue to attack the Taiping army's relatively easy to defend the Sanchao River stronghold.

Although Li Xiucheng and Li Shuxiang's psychological hints are ingenious, in the Taiping Army, which is seriously brainwashed by the cult, it is not difficult to find a dead soldier who dares to risk his life to send a letter to Wu Chaoyue, but it is a pity that Li Xiucheng and Li Shuxiang's agitation plan this time has the opposite effect, after the letter was sent to Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue just read the general content casually, and immediately laughed loudly: "You want to trick me into going directly to fight the Sanchao River to take revenge?" Such a carving insect trick also wants to deceive me? But it's okay, Lao Tzu just calculates the plan, and in turn gives you a heavy hair! ”