It was Zhou Tenghu and Jin Anqing who planned and organized the sneak attack on Pudong, but it was Meng Qi, a veteran of the Wu Army, who came to the front line to command the battle.

When picking up this heavy burden, Meng Wei faced two problems, one was that he had to use picric acid weapons and firing pin guns and bullets as sparingly as possible, and the other was because the Taiping army was also mobilizing troops at night, Wu Jun could not find out the detailed deployment of the Taiping army, and Meng Wei could not know whether the Taiping army Lu Shunde division on the Pudong battlefield had divided troops, and when would the other two Taiping troops be able to send reinforcements to Lu Shunde's side? There is no way to know oneself and the other, so you can only rely on experience and intuition to play on the spot.

Fortunately, Meng Wei now only lacks firing needle gun bullets and picric acid weapons, and does not lack battlefield experience. In view of the serious shortage of advanced weapons of the self-army, Meng Wei simply gave up long-range gun warfare, and selected more than 100 melee experts to form an assault team, and used the primitive tactics of touching the sentry and robbing the camp to sneak attack the camp camp of Lu Shunde, responsible for blowing up the camp gate to open the way for the main force to advance. At the same time, an elite battalion was arranged to serve as a mobile team, carrying the best weapons and waiting alone, responsible for entertaining the Taiping reinforcements.

Zhou Tenghu and Jin Anqing's pre-war layout helped Meng Ji's department a lot, although the Taiping Army's night defense has always been tight, and Lu Shunde's army, which has been entrenched in Songjiang for many years, also found that the Shanghai Wu Army had signs of preparing for war during the day, but the generals of the Songjiang Taiping Army led by Lu Shunde seriously misjudged the target of the Shanghai Wu Army, and determined that even if the Shanghai Wu Army had any conspiracy, it must be troublesome to find Tan Shaoguang's tired division. Naturally, he was immediately caught off guard by Wu Jun.

The overly negligent Taiping Army sentries only dozed off, and they didn't notice that the Wu Army soldiers had sneaked up on the gate of the camp of the Wu Army, and it was only when the Wu Army commandos put the picric acid explosive bag at the camp gate and lit the fuse that the Taiping Army sentry, who was barely alert, rang the gong to call the police. However, it was too late, too late, after a loud bang, the gate of Lu Shunde's main camp suddenly opened, and the Wu army commando team charged into the camp, while brandishing melee weapons to slash and kill the helpless Taiping soldiers, while setting fire to the facilities in the camp, the Taiping army suffered from a serious lack of preparation, and it was impossible to gather troops to meet the counterattack in a hurry, so naturally it could not stop the Wu army commando from killing and setting fire, and the Wu army brigade swarmed into the camp.

If it weren't for the reluctance of the Wu army in Shanghai to use more picric acid grenades, then in less than half an hour, the camp of Lu Shunde's army would definitely be leveled by the Wu army! But even if the Wu army was fighting with primitive black powder weapons and setting fire to it with watering cans and oil, under the favorable circumstances of seizing the opportunity, the Wu army in Shanghai still burned the camp of the Taiping army everywhere, and the smoke rose to the sky, and also killed the Taiping soldiers who got up in a hurry to meet the battle in all directions, and the wolves rushed to the pigs, and Lu Shunde was also forced to order to stick to the camp of the Chinese army with all his might, and did not dare to command the army to launch a counterattack.

Then, when Lu Shunde's cousin Lu Rifa hurriedly returned to the vicinity of the self-army camp with the army, the elite mobile team arranged by Meng Wei before naturally came into use, although the Wu army mobile team did not know what the situation of the enemy who came to reinforce in a hurry was, but in order to let the self-army brigade kill the enemy with confidence, the Wu army mobile team still did not hesitate to use the best weapons, and smashed a large number of grenadier shells on the head of the Taiping army team that had just returned from the pontoon crossing. He also spilled a storm of bullets from his pin gun on the enemy on the other side.

Although there are not many Taiping soldiers who have just returned from the pontoon crossing, they happen to be the elite soldiers in Lu Shunde's army, and they were killed and injured extremely badly by the advanced weapons of the Wu army, which also made Lu Rifa, the general of the Taiping Army, mistakenly think that he had stepped into the encirclement of the Wu army to send reinforcements, and took the initiative to lead the army to withdraw from the battlefield in order to preserve his strength.

At the same time, Meng Wei had also asked for some important information from the Taiping prisoners he had just captured, and knew where Lu Shunde's ammunition storage was located, so he decisively ordered to strengthen the offensive, and under the leadership of the Taiping traitors, he hit near the ammunition convoy of the Taiping Army, and suddenly fired several grenadier shells containing picric acid explosives, which detonated the ammunition convoy of the Taiping Army in one fell swoop, which not only brought huge casualties to the Taiping Army, but also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Taiping Army, causing more Taiping soldiers to escape from the camp.

In the end, in the case of not being able to get reinforcements for a long time, Lu Shunde could only abandon the camp and flee with a small number of troops, and the soldiers of the Wu army took advantage of the victory to chase and kill, severely damaged Lu Shunde's department, captured countless military supplies, and burned Lu Shunde's camp to the ground. Lu Shunde's army was directly defeated and fled to the old camp of Lujiahui, and the baggage personnel suffered heavy losses.

After fleeing to Lujiahui like a lost dog, before he could collect the remnants of the defeated army, of course Lu Shunde had already sent someone to Jiang Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and angrily asked Tan Shaoguang and Huang Zilong why they didn't save them when they saw death, and didn't immediately send troops to reinforce themselves? Then there is an even more angry question, why is the information provided by Tan Shaoguang so unreliable, and he deceived himself to expose such a big flaw to Wu Jun?

already knew about the bombing of the pontoon bridge, of course Lu Shunde was dizzy and unreasonable when he questioned like this, and after calming down a little, he also regretted it a little. But fortunately, Tan Shaoguang, who was good-tempered and cultivated, not only didn't bother with him, but was also used by Wu Jun to apologize to him and admit his mistakes.

Huang Zilong, a fellow villager in Tengxian County, understood Lu Shunde's mood even more, and specially sent his son Huang Demao across the river to explain the reason to Lu Shunde, saying that he was definitely sending reinforcements to the Pudong battlefield at the first time, but he didn't expect that Wu Jun's sailors would blow up the pontoon bridge first, and the rescuers couldn't cross the Huangpu River, so they couldn't help the villagers in Tengxian County.

knew very well that the townspeople were not deliberately trying to save themselves when they saw death, Lu Shunde naturally accepted Huang Demao's explanation, and calmly admitted that he was indeed a little angry with others, but just when Huang Demao comforted Lu Shunde's uncle with kind words on behalf of Huang Zilong, someone suddenly came to report outside the tent, and said: "Prime Minister Lu, the demon soldiers let one of our captives come back, and let our captives bring a letter, and let our captives bring a letter, and let our captives say that the contents of the letter were sent to them by someone who did not know their identity during the day yesterday. ”

Saying that, the person who came also took out a letter and presented it, and the soldiers forwarded the letter to Lu Shunde, and when Lu Shunde took the letter and opened it, he saw that there was only a small note in the letter, and there was only one sentence written on the note - Lu Shunde had promised to send troops to help Tan Shaoguang this evening.

Seeing such a note, of course, Lu Shunde's face immediately changed, and he immediately felt that something was wrong. And Huang Demao next to him had already come up curiously, and his face changed color after just looking at it, and exclaimed: "What does this note mean?" Someone told the demon soldier and let the demon soldier know in advance about your secret dispatch last night, uncle? ”

"Literally, that's what it means." Lu Shunde hesitated and said: "But the demon soldiers have always been cunning, and they have to guard against their cheating." ”

On guard, Lu Shunde still felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't remember that it was wrong for a while. As a result, at this time, Huang Demao next to him suddenly said such a sentence and said, "Uncle, the words on this note are a little familiar, as if I have seen them somewhere." ”

Lu Shunde suddenly woke up, and finally realized that something was wrong there - the handwriting on the note really seemed to have been seen somewhere! And after recalling it carefully, Lu Shunde couldn't help but blurt out this sentence, "Why does it seem to be written by Jian Tianyi?!" ”

also had to be reminded, Huang Demao also suddenly woke up, and exclaimed again: "That's right! It really seems to be the handwriting of Jian Tianyi! How is this possible, though? ”

Out of familiarity with Tan Shaoguang's character, Lu Shunde and Huang Demao's first reaction was that there was no such possibility, and they didn't believe that Tan Shaoguang would do such a thing, but after thinking about it carefully, Lu Shunde and Huang Demao quickly remembered the foreigner's letter, as well as the possibility that Tan Shaoguang tried to monopolize Shanghai, and they were puzzled together......

"Come on, go and find Jian Tianyi's handwritten documents, all of them."