At the same time when the Taiping army of Tongling surrendered to the Wu army, it happened that Hong Xiuquan personally ordered the Taiping army to reinforce Li Kaifang, and fought a decisive defeat, the main force of the Taiping army Gu Longxian who sent troops north from Ningguo was attacked by the Wu army Cao Yanzhong's corps in the suburbs of Taiping City, the Wu army beheaded more than 2,000 people, the Taiping army generals Zhou Deshun and Yu Shilin were both killed, Gu Longxian himself was also injured, the army was completely dispersed, and the local recruits took the opportunity to flee and surrender innumerable, Only a small number of veterans protected Gu Longxian and fled to Gaochun for the time being.

During the fierce battle, Li Kaifang once went out of the city to assault, in a vain attempt to receive the Ning army into the city, the Wu army that had no choice but to intercept was the elite of the Wu army Daye Corps led by Huang Yuanbao, the Taiping army Li Kaifang not only failed to receive the friendly army into the city, but also was taken by the Wu army to kill heavy casualties in the field battle, and the strength was hit hard, not to mention that the remnants of the army continued to go out of the city to counterattack, even the defense of the city was not enough. In desperation, Li Kaifang could only send an envoy out of the city again, and once again asked Hong Xiuquan in Nanjing and Shi Dakai on the north bank of the Yangtze River for reinforcements.

Shi Dakai's current location is not far from the Taiping Mansion, just in Yuncao Town on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the straight-line distance from the Taiping Mansion City is less than 100 miles, at the same time, the soldiers and horses currently commanded by Shi Dakai are still the nest soldiers of the Taiping Army in Luzhou and Fengyang, with a total strength of more than 40,000 people, and the equipment is not too bad, but because there is no water advantage, he does not dare to risk crossing the river under the nose of the main force of the Wu Army's naval division, so Shi Dakai can only watch the Wu Army attack the city and plunder the land on the south bank of the Yangtze River, killing people and setting fires. Besieged the city and sent reinforcements to kill several reinforcements of the Taiping army one after another, and successively killed the main forces of the Taiping army in southern Hui.

At such a depressed and worried moment, he suddenly received the bad news of the shameless rebellion of the Tongling Taiping Army and the death of Huang Wenjin and He Yunlong, Shi Dakai was of course angry and unbearable, not only flipped the table for the first time, but also yelled with red eyes: "Dog thief! Zhao Jinfu dog thief! If I don't slaughter you dog thief with my own hands, this king will not be a man! ”

Zhang Suimou, Zeng Jinqian and other strategists frowned, hung their heads and did not dare to speak, only Shi Dakai's father-in-law Huang Yukun opened his mouth and said: "The Wing King is eight thousand years old, and he surrendered with the army, this is the first time that such a thing has happened in our heavenly kingdom, we must not spare Zhao Jinfu's traitor, we must find a way to kill him as soon as possible!" Otherwise, if any more generals follow suit, then our heavenly army will be in danger. ”

Shi Dakai, who was angry, nodded directly without thinking about it, and asked Zeng Jinqian, who was in charge of the intelligence system, "How is the situation of that dog thief Zhao Jinfu now?" Feng Sanbao's demon soldiers, did he let him go east with the army? ”

"His Royal Highness the Returning Wing King, there is no news for the time being." Zeng Jinqian shook his head, and said cautiously: "But the Wing King, Xiao Ke thinks, compared with getting rid of Zhao Jinfu's traitor, the most important thing for us now is to consider how to defend Wuwei City, otherwise, if the demon soldiers take Wuwei again, we will no longer have a way to harass and cut off the food route of the demon soldiers, and the support of the main force of the demon soldiers will be unimpeded, and it will inevitably take Tianjing directly, directly threatening the safety of the Heavenly King himself." ”

"This king is afraid that Feng Sanbao's demon soldiers will not come to fight and do nothing!" Shi Dakai roared angrily: "Wuwei is on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and it is far away from the riverbank, and the steamers and gunboats of the demon soldiers cannot threaten us. ”

Zhang Suimou and Zeng Jinqian looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and then Zhang Suimou said cautiously: "The Wing King is eight thousand years old, forgive the student for reminding you, if Fengtianhou Gu Longxian has not been hit hard and still contains the demon soldier Cao Yanzhong on the south bank, then we will still have the strength to fight against the southwest demon soldiers led by Feng Sanbao alone." But now Fengtianhou has suffered a heavy defeat, the army is almost wiped out, and the army of King Jing Chitose (Li Kaifang) is also greatly damaged, there is no heavenly army on the south bank that can threaten the demon soldier Cao Yanzhong, Wuhu is not far away from Wuwei, Cao Yanzhong's demon soldiers, it is impossible to watch Feng Sanbao fight alone, right? ”

"I'm afraid that the demon soldiers are already planning this." Zeng Jinqian added: "The two demon soldiers joined forces to attack Wuwei in the north, and also took the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with us, first taking down Wuwei and defeating us, and then calmly turned around and attacked the Taiping Mansion to threaten Tianjing City." ”

Shi Dakai was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he had forgotten this fatal problem in his rage - the Cao Yanzhong Corps of the Wu Army, which had no worries on the south bank of the Yangtze River, could now cross the Yangtze River north at any time under the cover of the superior water division, and join forces with the Wu Army Feng Sanbao Department to attack Wuwei, and also join forces to fight a strategic decisive battle with himself. At that time, the self-army with the second-line army as the main force will not be able to defeat the Wu army and keep the city of Wuwei, and whether it can protect itself is probably a big problem.

"It's not like there's no chance at all." Huang Yukun, who is not completely dependent on nepotism like Feng Sanbao, has a different opinion, and said: "Feng Sanbao's demon soldiers broke through Chizhou and Tongling, and annihilated Huang Wenjin's army. ”

Although there is little hope, but when things come to this point, no matter how small the hope Shi Dakai has, he must fight to catch it, so after nodding, Shi Dakai immediately asked: "Do you have any way to lure the demon soldier Feng Sanbao to land directly and fight Wuwei City alone?" ”

"This ......."

Zeng Jinqian, Zhang Suimou and other strategists were in great difficulty, and they really couldn't think of any good way to make Feng Sanbao careless and go ashore alone to attack Wuwei. As a result, when Zeng Zhang and the others were helpless, the young strategist Cao Crouching Hu came up with a more reliable method and said, "Wing King, how about surrendering?" Let Qi Tianhou Fan Yunde, who was guarding Wuwei City, come forward and secretly contact Feng Sanbao's demon soldiers, saying that he was willing to surrender the city, and asked Feng Sanbao to send troops to take over Wuwei City. ”

Shi Dakai was a little tempted when he heard this, and Huang Yukun next to him applauded and said: "Clever plan, Feng Sanbao has just tasted the sweetness of surrender, and seeing that he has the opportunity to directly take Wuwei City, he will definitely be tempted by his plan." And even if Feng Sanbao doesn't fall for it, it doesn't matter, we have nothing to lose, and we can calmly face other changes. ”

After carefully calculating for a moment, and finding that if the Wuwei defenders came forward to surrender, even if they failed, there would be no loss, let alone any danger, Shi Dakai nodded and said: "Just do it, a dead horse should be a live horse doctor, and immediately go to order Fan Yunde and tell him to act according to the plan." ”

Dead horses are live horse doctors, or after saying this, Shi Dakai, who was once captured alive by Wu Junsheng, suddenly found that he had no hope of directly defeating Wu Jun in a dignified manner, and could only pin his hope of victory on Wu Jun's decision-making mistakes, and he was suddenly greatly depressed in his heart, and sighed secretly: "No, it's really not good, I didn't expect that I would have such a lack of confidence." ”

As if to cheer up Shi Dakai and strengthen the confidence of victory for the Taiping army, on the day when Shi Dakai decided to let the Wuwei Taiping army surrender and lure the enemy, the ally Twist Army General Banner advocated Le Xing and suddenly sent good news, saying that he had found out that the Anhui governor appointed by the Manchu Qing court, Weng Xin, suddenly died of illness, and the Qing army entrenched in Lu'an and Yingzhou was leaderless, and immediately contacted the Twisted Army Zhuqi to prepare to take this road into Hubei, to make trouble Wu Chaoyue's lair to save Wei and save Zhao, and share the pressure for the Taiping army.

Of course, Shi Dakai knows very well how strong the flow ability of the Twist Army is, plus he knows that the main cavalry of the Wu Army is mainly concentrated in the Central Plains and North China battlefields, and the cavalry in Huguang is scarce, Shi Dakai is of course overjoyed, and applauded: "Okay, as long as Zhang Lexing takes the Twist Army into Hubei, even if he can't take any important cities and threaten the root of the Transcendence Demon, he can turn the Transcendence Demon's nest upside down, forcing him to return to the army to save the Hubei Nest!" ”

"The Wing King is eight thousand years old, you might as well think about using the remnants of the Qing Demon in Lu'an Yingzhou again." Zeng Jinqian suggested: "Now it is Weng Xincun's sons who are in charge of those Qing Demon remnants, and the Weng family and the Beyond Little Demon family are feuds, if we contact them and promise some benefits, it may not be impossible to say that the brothers of the Weng family also take the opportunity to send troops to Hubei to share more pressure for us." ”

After thinking about it for less than three minutes, Shi Dakai immediately adopted Zeng Jinqian's suggestion, nodded and said: "Go and try your luck, even if you can't say that you can move the remnants of the Qing Demon to take the opportunity to send troops to Hubei, at least you have to try to let the Weng family brothers borrow the way to the Five Banners of the Twisted Army, as long as you do this, the Five Banners of the Twisted Army will be completely disrupted and surpass the Little Demon Lair!" ”

Zeng Jinqian agreed, and immediately wrote a letter to the Weng brothers at the request of Shi Dakai. And naturally, Shi Dakai quickly remembered that the feud between Wu Chaoyue and the old Weng family was leaked to him by Wu Jun, and he once promised to help Wu Chaoyue take revenge, and he suddenly felt a little melancholy, and sighed secretly again: "The world is impermanent." ”

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Tongling is not far from Wuwei, and only a day later, the Taiping Army's Wuwei guard Fan Yunde's letter of surrender was sent to Tongling by a secret envoy, and quickly forwarded to Feng Sanbao, who was preparing to continue the eastward expedition. And then don't say it, because the Tongling Taiping Army had just been forced to take the initiative to lay down their arms and surrender, Feng Sanbao, who had already tasted the sweetness of surrender, was really a little moved, and couldn't help but start looking forward to the wonderful scene of the forced landing of the enemy's city one after another, as well as the great help for himself to establish his prestige. - After all, Feng Sanbao is also very clear about the key reason why he was able to rise to the throne quickly, and he is extremely reluctant to make people feel that he can have today because he has a beautiful daughter who married the right person.

Fortunately, Feng Sanbao is a person with a steady personality, and he kept in mind the repeated instructions of his son-in-law when he set off, so Feng Sanbao did not rush to agree to accept the surrender of the Wuwei Taiping Army, but first asked Li Hezhang and Ding Baozhen, the two resourceful accomplices, to carefully inquire about the secret envoys of the Taiping Army, and then temporarily brought the secret envoys sent by Fan Yunde down for hospitality, and finally asked Li Hezhang and Ding Baozhen: "How is it?" Is it true or false? ”

"Back to my uncle, my little nephew can't tell the truth for the time being." Li Hezhang replied calmly: "Judging from the current situation on the Wuhu battlefield, it is not surprising that Wuwei Longhair, greedy for life and fear of death, and have the idea of surrendering. But we also have to guard against the long-haired dog jumping over the wall in a hurry, surviving in death, using a deception to deceive us into despising the enemy's carelessness, and going north to ambush, after all, the main force of the long-haired Shi Dakai is not far from Wuwei, and can send troops to ambush us at any time, with the strength of our land division, we may not be sure that we will be able to defeat Shi Dakai's main force. ”

"The safest way is to join forces with Cao Yanzhong and Cao Junmen's main force." Ding Baozhen said: "As long as we join forces with the main elite of Cao Junmen to land on the north shore, it doesn't matter if Wuwei Longhair surrenders by fraud, we have enough strength to deal with all changes, and in turn clean up Longhair's ambush." ”

"Of course, joining forces with Cao Junmen may also lead to some other variables, in addition to the possibility of giving the Taiping Mansion Chang Mao a chance to breathe, it is also ......." At present, Ding Baozhen, who is only holding the title of prefect, is a little speechless, peeking at Feng Sanbao's expression and saying carefully: "It will definitely make it impossible for us to establish full merit, and let Cao Junmen take away Feng Junmen's credit." ”

Feng Sanbao, who was not completely selfless, was silent, Li Hezhang observed his words, and said cautiously: "Uncle, if we can take Wuwei City alone, the situation will indeed be more favorable to us, and when the time comes, we will have a strong city to follow, we can attack, retreat and defend, and Cao Junmen does not need to transfer too many main forces to cross the Yangtze River north, and we can join forces to kill Shi Dakai's main force of Changmao." ”

Feng Sanbao was even more hesitant when he heard this, and only asked after a while: "Then in your opinion, should we take this risk and try this luck?" ”

It's just that Ding Baozhen, who has the title of five-rank prefect, is silent, and Li Hezhang, who has a seven-rank false title, is even more silent, or after Feng Sanbao asked again, Li Hezhang, who guessed that Feng Sanbao was also a little unwilling, said cautiously: "Uncle, you might as well ask Zhao Jinfu, he knows Fan Yunde better than any of us, and his opinion should be more valuable for reference." ”

Although he didn't like Zhao Jinfu's personality very much, after listening to Li Hezhang's proposal, Feng Sanbao immediately sent someone to Zhao Jinfu to explain the situation to him, and asked him what he thought of Fan Yunde, the Taiping Army's inaction-guarding general, taking the initiative to ask for surrender? However, it is a pity that Zhao Jinfu, who had just surrendered to the Wu army, did not dare to make this judgment lightly, and said more carefully than Ding and Li: "The marshal forgives the sin, the last general really doesn't dare to play this guarantee, because the last general doesn't know much about that Fan Yunde, and he has never even seen it in person, so he took the initiative to ask for surrender, and the last general really can't see the truth or falsehood." ”

Feng Sanbao and Ding Baozhen were disappointed when they heard this, and Li Hezhang, who was anxious to prove his great deeds, refused to give up, and asked: "Then among your subordinates, is there anyone who is familiar with this Fan Yunde and has seen him?" Preferably someone who has worked with him and has a deep friendship. ”

"It's ......." After recalling for a long time, Zhao Jinfu still shook his head and said: "Mr. Li forgives the sin, there are a few people under the command of the last general who have seen Fan Yunde, but it is just an ordinary business dealing, and none of them have a deep friendship with him. ”

Li Hezhang was also disappointed, but Zhao Jinfu suddenly added, saying: "However, the last general has a deep relationship with an important general of Fan Yunde, and he knows him very well. ”

"You have a deep friendship with Fan Yunde's ministry?" Li Hezhang hurriedly asked.

"Ma Yutang." Zhao Jinfu replied with a name that left traces in the history books, and said: "The last general not only has a deep friendship with him, but also knows that his wife may be in your ......, oh no, in the hands of our Qing rebel army." ”

"Ma Yutang's wife is in our hands? What's going on? Li Hezhang asked in surprise.

"Ma Yutang's wife is from Anqing, not long ago when Cao Junmen broke through Anqing City, his wife happened to be in Anqing City, and she should have been captured by Cao Junmen's soldiers." Zhao Jinfu replied truthfully: "Because the last general has a deep relationship with Ma Yutang, and he once asked me to find a way to inquire about his wife's whereabouts, so the last general knows about this." ”

"Ma Yutang and his wife have a good relationship?" Li Hezhang hurriedly asked.

"Good." Zhao Jinfu nodded and said truthfully: "Ma Yutang's wife is not only beautiful and virtuous, but also served Ma Yutang with all her heart when he was seriously injured, saving Ma Yutang's life, Ma Yutang is also very good to his wife, and he didn't even accept a concubine for his wife." ”

Hearing Zhao Jinfu's introduction here, Li Hezhang immediately had an answer in his heart, and hurriedly turned to Feng Sanbao and said: "Uncle, no matter whether Fan Yunde's surrender is true or not, we should send someone to Wuwei City to take a look at the situation, in addition to testing whether Fan Yunde is really surrendering or not, we also take the opportunity to get in touch with that Ma Yutang to see if we can use his wife to force him to surrender, if it succeeds, then whether Fan Yunde surrenders or not, we can all have a safe chance of winning!" ”

"Send someone to the city of Wuwei?" Not like a son-in-law who lacks virtue and uses death at every turn, Feng Sanbao was of course a little worried when he heard Li Hezhang's words, and hurriedly asked, "Will it be dangerous?" ”

"Wealth is in danger!" Li Hezhang said viciously: "As long as we can find out the truth of Fan Yunde's intentions, then we will not only have the opportunity to directly take Wuwei City, but also have the opportunity to master the main force that took the initiative to kill Shi Dakai's big hair, and take the lead in breaking the main force of Anhui Changmao!" Such a profitable thing, risking it with a messenger, it's worth it! ”

is still the same sentence, Feng Sanbao is not completely selfless, so after thinking about it,

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