"Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang!"

Two gunshots rang out suddenly, and then immediately another Mini gun was replenished, and a Wu soldier fell to the ground in a pool of blood with a scream, and his companions were agile, and they all looked for cover to hide in the first place, and with their experience, they shot at the location where the gunshots came, and someone immediately threw a grenade bullet.

It's a pity that the grenade deviated slightly, failed to hit the back of the broken wall where the Taiping soldiers were hiding, and exploded in front of the wall and failed to receive any effect, and the five Taiping soldiers hiding behind the wall also moved flexibly, and immediately fled to the direction of the three archways in the west, leaving the two Taiping soldiers who had not shot before and turned around to shoot in the escape, and miraculously wounded a Wu soldier soldier, the Wu army soldiers pursued angrily, but the terrain of the house courtyard and the streets and alleys was too complicated, and these Wu soldiers had never been to these places before, Soon, the five Taiping soldiers who were familiar with the terrain were thrown away by the cover of walls and houses, and the pursuit failed to achieve any results.

"Second brother! Second Brother Shen! You hold on, I'll bandage you, I'll bandage it right away! Hold on, your mother-in-law doll is still waiting for you to come home! Waiting for you to get home! ”

The tearful shouts of his companions and the rescue of his hands and feet failed to save the life of the Wu soldier who was shot, and before his companion could stop his bleeding, the Wu soldier who was hit in the carotid artery by a cold gun had already tilted his head and closed his eyes forever. The companions next to him wept one after another, and the grassroots generals of the Wu Army who led the team also wiped their eyes, choked and scolded: "Shen Er, you are too much of a melon baby, you have been with us since Sichuan, it's okay to fight many battles in Sichuan, it's okay to fight Peng Ze, fight Anqing and Taiping Mansion, and it's okay to take down the long-haired nest, you can't fucking last day?" You melon baby didn't hide yesterday? Your mother-in-law doll is still waiting for you to come home! ”

Hundreds of soldiers of the Wu army were killed by the cold guns of the Taiping army without seeing the enemy at all, and many of them were veterans of a hundred battles who fought with Cao Yanzhong into Sichuan, and their fathers, husbands and sons who could go home to reunite with their families.

The serious lack of familiarity with the terrain became the fatal wound of the Wu army in the street battle, and the Taiping soldiers who fought flexibly in the army were like fish in water in the dense alley lanes, constantly shuttling guerrillas, relying on the Mini gun with high shooting accuracy in their hands to constantly harass and attack the Wu soldiers, which seriously delayed the advance speed of the Wu army's street battles, and also caused heavy casualties to the invincible Wu soldiers in the field.

Although Liu Kan has divided a large number of troops to protect the flanks, but still can't parry the elusive sneak attack of the Taiping guerrillas, the flanks are constantly passively beaten, and there are often troops of the Taiping Army wandering and sneak attacks behind them, and there are more heavy troops and strong barricades of the Taiping Army blocking the road in front, and there are mines secretly buried by the Taiping Army before the war from time to time under the feet, and the enemy is attacked on all sides, embarrassed, and the first day of the street fighting is fought from the morning to the sunset, and only barely won half of the long street of Willow Lane.

When it was slightly dark, not to mention Cao Yanzhong and Liu Kan who were in the city, even Wu Chaoyue, who was hiding in a safe area outside the city, did not dare to fight any further, so he could only quickly order a temporary stop to the attack, hold the occupied position, and prepare to rest for the night before continuing to advance the battle. However, even so, there were still sporadic gunshots in the city of Nanjing at night, and the Taiping soldiers still wanted to be ghosts, constantly wandering around the positions of the Wu army, shooting and sneaking attacks at every opportunity, and fleeing for their lives if they had no chance.

Of course, the Wu army was not without gain in the street battle on the first day, relying on the overwhelming superiority of weapons, and the terrain was not conducive to the Taiping army's guerrilla street fighting, Cao Yanzhong personally led the Wu army into the city still succeeded in taking the three city gates of Jinchuan, Zhongfu and Yifeng, and successfully received the Wu army's Qian Wei Department into the city, and opened three new roads for the Wu army to enter the city in one go. However, Cao Yanzhong's troops also suffered a lot of losses in the street battles, and the sky was already dark after advancing slowly and taking these three city gates, so Cao Yanzhong failed to achieve the established tactical goal of defeating the Taiping Army's Jiqing Yuan Division, and what was waiting for the Wu army was still a difficult and painful battle in the city.

On Wu Chaoyue's side, although Wu Chaoyue was also mentally prepared to face a difficult battle before the war, the slow advance speed of the Wu army and the huge casualties seriously exceeded Wu Chaoyue's expectations, so that after the casualty figures were reported in front of him, Wu Chaoyue frowned in the case of a steady victory, and was very worried that the mobile force in his hand would be difficult to achieve the goal of severely damaging the defenders in the city, and he wanted to force himself to send the besieging army into the city for reinforcements.

There is also bad news, Wu Jun sent a report at night, and reported to Wu Chaoyue that the Taiping Army was organizing tens of thousands of people to repair the city wall, and after roughly understanding the specific situation of the city wall and the progress of the project, Wu Chaoyue inevitably complained a little bitterly, and said: "If you can't take the willow lane within tomorrow, you can't build a barely usable city wall with long hair the day after tomorrow, and then we will have to fight a tough battle." ”

"King Zhennan, you should urge Liu Kan." Dai Wenjie suggested: "Tell him to break through Liuxiang within tomorrow and take the two highlands in the city, Taicheng and Jilong Mountain, so that the city wall built by Changmao can be rendered useless." ”

"It's that easy." Wu Chaoyue frowned and said: "I know the situation in Jiangning City, the further south you go, the more houses and courtyards there are, and the more difficult it is to fight street battles. Taicheng is a stone city wall, and it is difficult for our Dana explosives to collapse, and Jilong Mountain is the highest point in the middle of Jiangning City, Changmao must have built fortifications and deployed heavy troops to protect it there, and he took it down in one day, Liu Kan was not sure. ”

"King Zhennan, students don't know if there is a sentence that should not be said." Dai Wenjie said with some hesitation: "The student thinks that you can't blindly consider saving mobile forces, and when you should be ruthless, you still have to be ruthless." After all, our primary goal is to take Jiangning City, and then we will completely annihilate the long hair in Jiangning City, if we can't take Jiangning City, the long hair in the whole annihilation city is just an empty word. ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded slowly, and after thinking for a while, Wu Chaoyue made up his mind and said: "Send someone to Cao Yanzhong to order, and tell him to lead the army to reinforce Liuxiang at dawn tomorrow, and help Liu Kan break through Liuxiang with all his strength and take Jilong Mountain and Taicheng." On the side of Xiaguan Sanmen, hand it over to Qian Wei to be responsible, and tell Qian Wei not to rush into the city to fight in the streets, first guard Xiaguan Sanmen and block the road for Changmao to flee north. ”

Dai Wenjie sang a promise and immediately sent someone to convey Wu Chaoyue's tactical orders to Cao Yanzhong, and Wu Chaoyue muttered a few words to himself, saying: "The mobile force is still too small, don't dare to fight it all at once." It would be nice if Longhair could break through the encirclement at this time, and the long-haired army would be flustered after the front block, and the battle would be much easier. It's a pity that Li Xiucheng is not a fool, and he wants to count on him to commit this fool, unless it is blessed by the long-haired heavenly father and brother. ”

…………

Wu Chaoyue was worried outside the Shence Gate, but Li Xiucheng was smiling in his own Zhongwang Mansion, because Li Xiucheng had never thought that the performance of the Wu army in the street battle would be so embarrassing, and the performance of the Taiping army soldiers in the street battle would be so brave.

“…… This is a matter of course, the biggest advantage of the demon soldiers is that the guns are fast and fierce, and they can indeed fight in close combat compared to us, but after entering the city, in the streets full of houses and courtyards, the demon soldiers' rapid-fire guns are not as good as our accurate long-shot foreign guns (firing needle guns), and the demon artillery is too cumbersome and difficult to transport, and it also does not play much role. Moreover, we only need to shoot cold guns from a distance, give full play to the expertise of our Jiangsu and Zhejiang troops who like to use firearms, and avoid the advantage that demon soldiers can fight bayonets. Therefore, the street battles in this city are destined to take advantage of us, and the demon soldiers will suffer a big loss. ”

The results are gratifying, Li Xiucheng's favorite think tank Li Shuxiang also pointed out the country, his eyebrows flew and danced endlessly, and he was like Zhuge reincarnated. Li Xiucheng, who was in a good mood, also completely forgot that Li Shuxiang had been depressed these days, sinking and depressed, and nodded in agreement again and again, or after Li Shuxiang finished speaking, Li Xiucheng asked: "How is the city wall from Qingliang Mountain to Taicheng built?" ”

"King Zhong, rest assured, everything is going well." Li Shuxiang replied with a smile: "Because our soldiers have been spreading the news, saying that the demon soldiers will slaughter the city to get money after breaking the city, and the people in the city are very hard to survive, the trench has been dug to a depth of five feet, and the wall has been built almost four feet high. ”

"Good, good!" Li Xiucheng nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "If nothing else, the demon soldiers should also know that we are rushing to build this city wall, if my expectations are correct, the demon soldiers should go all out tomorrow to storm the two key points of Jilong Mountain and Taicheng, so that our newly built city wall will be useless." This is the key to whether we can stop the demon soldiers in the northern city, we must not be careless, we must defend. ”

"If the demon soldiers want to take Jilong Mountain and Taicheng, they must first take Liuxiang and Baiziting, your subordinates think that we can continue to fight on the battlefield of Liuxiang as we do today, Baiziting should do more things here, it is best to transfer Yuan Dehou's army to Baiziting in advance to garrison, and rush to bury mines overnight, how much ...... can be buried."

"Loyal King Chitose, Mo Qiuguan asks to see."

The guard's report interrupted Li Shuxiang's eloquent conversation, Li Xiucheng nodded casually and agreed to the meeting, and then continued to listen to Li Shuxiang's defense suggestions, but when Li Shuxiang said it, before Li Xiucheng could consider whether to adopt it, the superintendent Mo Shixuan strode into the main hall of Zhongwang's Mansion, holding a bright yellow holy decree and said: "Zhongwang Chitose, there is a will, long live the king of heaven wants you to prepare to abandon the city and break through, and leave tomorrow night." How to go, go in that direction to break through, I want you to make a plan and report to the king of heaven as soon as possible. ”

"What?!" Li Xiucheng was stunned and exclaimed: "Long live the Heavenly King, have you made up your mind?" ”

"I have made up my mind." Mo Shixuan nodded and said: "Just now in the Golden Dragon Palace, when the Heavenly King Long Live personally handed over this holy decree to the lower officials, he also shed tears, saying that he was sorry for the Heavenly Kingdom soldiers who sacrificed to capture Tianjing City before, and even more sorry for the Heavenly Kingdom soldiers who sacrificed to defend Tianjing City before, but there was no way, the situation has reached this point, Long live the Heavenly King, he can only decide to abandon the city." ”

"Then there's no need to be in such a hurry, right?" Li Xiucheng blurted out: "Can you wait a few more days, we fought beautifully in the street battle, wait for a few more days, and force the little demon to send a besieging army into the city, and then abandon the city to break through is more certain?" ”

"It's ......." Mo Shixuan was extremely embarrassed, and said hesitantly: "Chitose Zhongwang, this can only ask you to go and say to the Heavenly King in person, Your Majesty really doesn't have the guts." Also, the Heavenly King's Mansion is already preparing to abandon the city. ”

"I'm going to see Long live the King of Heaven now!"

Li Xiucheng didn't think about it, so he raised his leg and walked out, but just after taking a step, Li Xiucheng stopped again, and a solemn look appeared on his face. Li Shuxiang next to him was strange, and hurriedly asked: "Chung Wang Chitose, aren't you going to see Long Live the Heavenly King?" Why didn't you go again? ”

"I'm worried it's going to backfire." Li Xiucheng said with a serious expression: "Long live the king of heaven finally made up his mind to abandon the city and break through, I went to persuade him to suspend the breakthrough at this time, the reason is that we fought very well in the street battle, and there is hope to stop the demon soldiers, but I am afraid that after hearing this, the king will give up the idea of letting the city not leave, and force us to fight to the death with the demon soldiers in the city, then we will be in big trouble." ”

Li Shuxiang and Mo Shixuan nodded together, all believing that with the bear temper and repeated personality of Sect Leader Hong, this kind of thing can definitely be done!

"Chitose Chung, what should we do then?" Li Shuxiang asked again.

"Do as the king wills." Li Xiucheng made up his mind and said: "Although we fought beautifully in the street battle today, it was because we surpassed the little demon Gu to protect his mobile forces, and did not dare to let his demon soldiers fight and rush violently, so the fight was steady and slow. And even if we block the demon soldiers in the street battle, it is not a way to trap the lonely city for a long time, it is better to take advantage of the long live of the king to make up our minds now, and it is the best policy to break through the city as soon as possible. ”

Li Shuxiang nodded again, and also felt that it was important to take advantage of the great sect leader Hong to quickly make up his mind and quickly flee back to the rear of Suzhou and Hangzhou University to enjoy the blessings. And although Li Xiucheng was forced to make up his mind, he was still full of regret in his heart, and said secretly: "It would be good if the Heavenly King made up his mind a few days later, as long as he could continue to fight like today, at most two days, he would have to make adjustments to surpass the little demon." ”

Li Xiucheng regretted in his heart, but he didn't know that the Hongda Sect Master he was loyal to was actually even more regretful, at this moment in the Heavenly King's Mansion, although Meng Shiyong was indeed commanding the female soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom and the Nanjing Taiping Army to prepare to abandon the city and break through, but our Hongda Sect Master was still crying and choking in the Christ Temple, and kept crying bitterly......

"Why? Why? Why did I pray three times to God the Father and the Heavenly Brother Jesus to send down the divine revelations, all of which were to ask me not to leave the city and abandon the city to break through? I really can't bear to go to this day! Heavenly Father, Heavenly Brother, why do you have to let me go? Why do you have to let me go?! ”

It's useless to cry bitterly, when I'm sick, I dream of the Emperor God and create the God Worship Sect, the Hong Great Sect Master, who can not listen to anyone's words, but the words of the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother, the younger brother of the Boss, the Hong Great Sect Master, will never dare not listen! So there is no way, the retreat preparations of the Nanjing Taiping Army have been continuing, and Li Xiucheng, who is afraid of the change of the sect leader of Hongda, is honestly studying and arranging the plan of abandoning the city and breaking through, and at the same time, the news that the sect leader of Hongda has decided to abandon the city and break through the siege has also spread rapidly in Nanjing through open and secret channels, and it has also quickly affected the morale of the army......

"Did you hear that? Long live the king of heaven ready to abandon the city and break out? ”

"Really? Didn't we stop the demon soldiers in Beicheng today? Why are you going to leave again? ”

"What are you lying to? The word has spread in the city, and the Tianwang's Mansion is now full of soldiers, who are moving the things in the holy treasury to the carts, and the grain depot is also full of ox carts and donkey carts, which are loading grain on them. ”

"Really? If it's true, we still have to fight the demon soldiers with all our might? It's important to save your life first. ”