Wu Chaoyue and Zhang Jigeng fought miserably on the city wall, Ji Wenyuan took the Taiping army under the city wall, of course, even worse, six ant attached to attack the city, the number of casualties of the Taiping army has exceeded 1,000 people, although most of them are second-line cannon fodder, but there are also quite a lot of Ji Wenyuan's descendants, the loss really makes Ji Wenyuan feel painful, and at the same time it is also a big blow to the morale of the Taiping army.

But there is no way, Yang Xiuqing's task to Ji Wenyuan is to bite Wu Jun Lian Yong to death in Shence Gate, and there is a large amount of ammunition consumed by Wu Jun Lian Yong, both tasks are just a beginning, so no matter how painful and distressing it is, after the sixth ant charge was repelled by the defenders of Shen Ce Gate, Ji Wenyuan immediately ordered the seventh siege army to go out of battle, and he was determined to completely deplete Wu Jun Lian Yong with his superiority in strength.

With the second-line army as the main force supplemented by a small number of elite siege teams quickly carried the flying ladder out of the battle, Ji Wenyuan just wanted to order an attack, but unexpectedly a white flag suddenly appeared on the city of Shence Gate, held by a standard-bearer and shaken, and many Qing soldiers shouted on the city wall, but they were too far away to hear what they were shouting.

Feeling that things were too strange, Ji Wenyuan, who was curious, temporarily changed his mind, let the seventh siege army stand by for the time being, and sent a personal soldier to listen to what the Qing soldiers were shouting. ”

"Have something important to talk to us about? Do you want to surrender? ”

Ji Wenyuan's first reaction was, of course, that the Qing army of Shencemen wanted to surrender the city, and he was more or less moved - it was not a small credit to be the first to lead the army into Jiangning City, so even if he suspected that there might be fraud in it. Ji Wenyuan still sent his own personal soldier captain forward and asked the personal soldier captain to ask the Qing army what they wanted to talk about.

I'm afraid that I will carry the black pot in the future. Wu Chaoyue pushed Geng Huan, the guard of the Shence Gate, out and taught him to shout to the Taiping army envoy: "The ambassador of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under the city." My name is Geng Huan, and I am the garrison general of the Jiangning Green Battalion in the Great Qing Dynasty, and I am also the guard general of the Shence Gate, do you know me? ”

"Less nonsense, say it quickly, and let it go if you fart!"

The envoy of the Taiping army under the city urged impatiently, and then under the guidance of Wu Chaoyue, Geng Huancai shouted again: "The ambassador of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, please tell your siege general." Just say that I asked him to suspend the siege of the city for a while, and I, the governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty, Lu Jianying, will come to the city in a while, and I want to discuss some things with him in person! ”

The envoy of the Taiping Army was a little puzzled when he heard it, but with the military order in hand, he still agreed to convey the words for Geng Huan, and then Geng Huan hurriedly shouted again under the guidance of Wu Chaoyue: "Wait! Please tell the commander of your army to attack the city, and say that we have said that if you do not agree to negotiate, he will order the burning of the Jiangning granary. There is no food for letting you into the city! ”

Wu Chaoyue asked Geng Huan to say this, of course, aiming at the vital lifeline of the Taiping army - the Taiping army came thousands of miles, there was no rear supply, and the grain and grass were all collected on the spot, of course, we had to take care of the safety of the grain and grass in Jiangning City. So the captain of the pro-soldier brought the words back to Ji Wenyuan. Ji Wenyuan frowned and hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and ordered, "Go and tell the Qing Demon." Let's just say that I promised to negotiate with Lu Jianying. ”

The poor captain of the pro-soldiers ran to the city again to convey Ji Wenyuan's words, and Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed when he heard it. Hurriedly pointed at Geng Huan and shouted, "Thank you, Ambassador, please wait a moment." Our Lu Zhengtai is already on the way to the Shence Gate, and we will be there in a while! Also, in return, we allow you to send people to rescue the wounded soldiers under the city, and as long as you don't touch the city gates, we will not shoot and shoot arrows! ”

Ji Wenyuan really hit the plan, agreed to wait for a while, and hurriedly sent auxiliaries to rescue the wounded soldiers who had not been able to bring back before. Wu Chaoyue and Zhang Jigeng were overjoyed to see in the city, and they also hurriedly replenished drinking water and dry food and rescued the wounded soldiers, and at the same time took the opportunity to let the soldiers practice courage to rest and cool down the artillery, and strive for more precious time than gold to rest.

After half an hour, Ji Wenyuan, who was impatiently waiting, once sent someone to urge him to negotiate quickly, and Wu Chaoyue asked Geng Huan to come forward and shouted: "Your army, please wait a little longer, the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion is on Xihuamen Street in Nancheng, almost twenty miles away from Shencemen, Lu Zhitai is old and can't ride a horse, so he can only sit in a sedan chair, and the sedan chair walks slowly, so you have to wait a little longer." But don't worry, it's coming, it's coming soon! ”

Finally deceived the Taiping army envoy back again, and after another five or six minutes, just when Ji Wenyuan gradually suspected the plan, and just when Wu Chaoyue and Zhang Jigeng were resigned to their fate and prepared to continue to fight, a miracle suddenly appeared - Lu Jianying led a few Jiangning officials, and really cowered and went up to the Shence Gate, and as soon as they met, they asked Geng Huan and Wu Chaoyue with great confusion: "What's wrong?" Didn't you say you guys had the most intense fights here? Why did you suddenly stop fighting? ”

I don't know if Lu Jianying allowed this, Geng Huan, Wu Chaoyue, Zhang Jigeng and others could only hurriedly report the delaying tactics they had just used to Lu Jianying, and desperately emphasized the objective reasons, saying that it was because the artillery was overheated and needed to be cooled, there were too many wounded soldiers who needed to be rescued, and dry food and drinking water needed to be replenished, so they had to do this. However, to Wu Chaoyue and Zhang Jigeng's surprise, Lu Jianying not only did not get angry after hearing this, but also asked with surprise on his face: "Really? Does it really work? ”

"Make the table, whether it has any effect or not, you will know at a glance." Wu Chaoyue pointed to the Taiping army in the distance, and said: "Long hair has come thousands of miles, and there is no food and grass supply, I am afraid that we will really burn the grain in Jiangning City, so we will be tricked." ”

Glancing at the Taiping army that had suspended its attack in the distance, Lu Jianying was even more surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Master Wu, then is there any way for you to deceive Changmao again, let them temporarily withdraw from the army, or buy a little more time?" ”

Wu Chaoyue heard the music, and said to Lu Jianying without thinking about it: "Lu Zhitai, it's easy, as long as you don't mind, you can come forward to negotiate with Changmao in person, just say that you are willing to give up Jiangning City and the intact Jiangning granary, and let you lead the soldiers and civilians in the city to leave in exchange for Changmao." The long-haired generals under the city will definitely not be able to be the master, and they will definitely report to Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, the long-haired leaders. ”

In this way, Hong and Yang will not be counted. At least it can buy us an hour's rest, if they really believe it. Then we can buy more time, and maybe we can find all kinds of excuses to buy more time. Wait until our reinforcements arrive! ”

Although Wu Chaoyue's bad idea of plagiarizing Zhang Teh was superficial, Lu Jianying, who had dreamed of delaying the arrival of reinforcements, was full of praise when he heard it, and immediately agreed to follow the plan. As a result, it happened to be at this time that Ji Wenyuan, who had been waiting impatiently, sent an envoy to the city again, asking Lu Jianying to come out to negotiate immediately, otherwise he would immediately attack.

Finally, it was the turn of Governor Lu, who had been eating dry rice, to show his skills, and after standing next to the arrow battlement, Lu Jianying first loudly identified himself, and then asked the Taiping army siege lord to come over to negotiate under the guidance of Wu Chaoyue. Ji Wenyuan was extremely obedient when he saw it, and immediately agreed to negotiate with Lu Jianying in person. was just afraid of Wu Jun's cold guns and cold guns, so Ji Wenyuan didn't dare to go too close, but just sent some personal soldiers to pass back and forth, and indirectly negotiated with Lu Jianying through the mouth of his personal soldiers.

As Wu Chaoyue expected, when Lu Jianying proposed to hand over the city and granary as an excuse in exchange for the Taiping army to make way and let him go, Ji Wenyuan really didn't dare to make his own decisions, but only asked Lu Jianying to wait for a while, and wait for him to get in touch with Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing before giving Lu Jianying a reply. Lu Jianying was overjoyed when he heard it. Not only did he agree, but he also took the initiative to shout without Wu Chaoyue's guidance: "Okay, this governor can wait, please tell your leader." It is better to ask them to come down to the Shence Gate City in person and negotiate with the Governor in person! ”

With Lu Jianying's message, Ji Wenyuan's envoy galloped all the way to Xiaguan Water Village. Through the layers of blockade by the soldiers of the Taiping Army, a lot of time was wasted to meet Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing. Report to Hong Yang and the others what happened to the Shence Gate. As a result, Ji Wenyuan's envoy finished speaking, and Yang Xiuqing, whose nose was almost crooked, roared. "Idiot! This is a delaying tactic, how can you fools believe it? Go back immediately and tell Ji Wenyuan, telling him not to sort out the demon's tricks, just let this king continue to attack the city! ”

Ji Wenyuan's messenger sang a promise, and when he just wanted to leave, Hong Xiuquan, who was sitting in the middle, suddenly spoke, first called Ji Wenyuan's messenger, and then asked Yang Xiuqing very suspiciously: "Brother Dongwang, why do you think this is a trick of the Qing Demon?" My Heavenly Army is besieging the city with heavy troops, and the Qing Demon Governor abandons the city to survive, this is very reasonable? If the Governor of the Qing Demon is really trying to live, and you flatly refuse, wouldn't it be a pity that the Qing Demon really set fire to burn all the grain and grass in the city? ”

"Hooray, why do you even believe in the nonsense of the Qing Demon?" Yang Xiuqing couldn't cry or laugh, and patiently explained: "Long live Mingjian, not to mention that so far, there has never been a first-level Qing demon who has surrendered to our army. Even if this Lu Jianying really had the heart to negotiate with us, he should have boarded the Yifeng Gate near Xiaguan and asked to negotiate with our army, so he would go to the Shence Gate far away from the Xiaguan Wharf and say such a thing? Isn't this a deliberate procrastination? ”

Yang Xiuqing's analysis is naturally completely reasonable, but unfortunately Hong Xiuquan still doesn't believe it, and expresses his suspicion that Lu Jianying came up with this idea when he saw the danger of the Shence Gate, and he also wanted to go to Shence Gate to negotiate with Lu Jianying in person. Yang Xiuqing was furious, and simply staged a wonderful drama of Heavenly Father's descent to earth, first reprimanded his second son Hong Xiuquan Yitong in the honor of Heavenly Father, and then roared at Ji Wenyuan's messenger: "Go and give an order, tell Ji Wenyuan to continue to attack the city, and if there is any hesitation, the law of heaven will not tolerate it!" ”

Yang Xiuqing's decision-making is naturally correct, and the insight and analysis are naturally exquisite, but it is useless, and after his order is sent to Ji Wenyuan, the Shence Gate side has already won a full three hours to rest and adjust, so when the Taiping Army launched the seventh ant siege of the city, not only is the time already three o'clock in the afternoon, but also has to face the head-on attack of the defenders of the Shence Gate who have basically recovered their physical strength, not only the loss is greater, but it is also difficult to receive the effect of consuming Wu Jun's ammunition and physical strength.

By the way, seeing that the Taiping army didn't even bother to greet and launched a direct attack, Governor Lu rushed down the city wall to escape for his life, and at the same time, he didn't forget to shout at Wu Chaoyue, "Master Wu, if you have such a clever plan in the future, you remember to report it to the official immediately, as long as you can buy time, the official will definitely adopt it!" ”

On that day, the Taiping army stormed the Thirteen Gates of Jiangning for a whole day, and did not retreat until it was completely dark. After seeing the retreat of the Taiping army, the exhausted Qing army in Jiangning also immediately fell on the city wall, gasping for breath as if they were almost drowning, and many soldiers snored and fell asleep as soon as they lay down. And the same is true on the side of the Shence Gate. Even if he deceived a three-hour break at noon, he fought with the Taiping Army many times because of his real guns. The soldiers and Lian Yong were still so tired that they didn't even have the strength to celebrate and cheer, and many of them also fell asleep on the ground.

Wu Chaoyue and Zhang Jigeng are also very tired. But these two treacherous people were afraid that the Taiping army would go and return, so they insisted on not going down to the city to rest immediately, and while letting the soldiers practice Yong to continue to maintain a state of vigilance, they were still nervously observing the Taiping army's every move. During this period, Zhang Jigeng also reminded Wu Chaoyue: "Master Wu, no matter whether Long Hair is true or false, your Lian Yong can't take off your clothes and sleep tonight, and you must always be on guard against Long Hair coming to attack the city again." ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded and asked, "Mr. Bingyuan." In your opinion, how long can Long Fur last for an attack like today's? ”

"This is just the beginning." Zhang Jigeng replied with a gloomy face: "When Changmao attacked the city with a crypt, he had a habit of launching a feint attack for a period of time, and then suddenly detonating the gunpowder buried under the city wall, and finally launching a real general attack. Therefore, if unfortunately I expected that the Jinghai Temple is a fake fort and it is really authentic, then today's battle is just a feint attack by Long Hair. The real attack of the long hair is still to come! ”

"Is it just a feint today?" Wu Chaoyue was a little dumbfounded, looked at the corpses lying all over the city, and said in surprise: "Today's attack can be regarded as a feint. That long hair is too willing to pay for it, right? Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing really don't regard the lives of soldiers as ....... ”

Having said this, Wu Chaoyue had already stopped on his own. Surprised, he said, "No! Could it be that today's attack by Long Hair is only true on the side of the Shence Gate? The other gates were all pretentious feints? ”

"Wu is in charge. You're only seeing it now, huh? Zhang Jigeng said with a wry smile: "In fact, at noon, I have already seen through the true intention of Long Hair. They were really attacking the Divine Ce Gate, but their purpose was not to break through the Divine Ce Gate, let alone dare to hope that they would be able to make a breakthrough from here. Their real purpose is to entangle you so that you can't save the other gates! ”

After that, Zhang Jigeng glanced at Wu Chaoyue again, and said lightly: "Master Wu, today I asked my subordinates to practice Yong to fight against Changmao at any cost, in fact, the real purpose is also to let you save musket ammunition and practice Yong's physical strength, so that you can withdraw at any time to save other city gates." Otherwise, I can't see that Director Wu, you haven't used all your strength today, and you've been trying to save musket bullets? ”

Wu Chaoyue was silent, not only thanking Zhang Jigeng for his full sharing, but also secretly hating the obsession of this hardcore traitor, and he didn't repent. Zhang Jigeng sighed again and said: "What I'm most worried about now is Yifengmen, although the ground listening there has not been able to find the long-haired tunnel, but it is caused by continuous heavy rain, so Chief Wu, if there is an explosion from Yifengmen, I hope you will immediately raise troops to save Yifengmen, don't let me down with my hard work." ”

What is called kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs, Zhang Jigeng is kindness is regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs, after listening to Zhang Jigeng's heartfelt words, Wu Chaoyue not only did not feel a little grateful, but also secretly pondered in his heart: "No, we have to find a way to get this hardcore traitor away!" Otherwise, the Taiping army will blast and succeed in Yifengmen, and I will break through the city here, this hardcore traitor will definitely not agree, in case this dog traitor suddenly puts down the jack gate of the urn city when I go out of the city, then I will be in big trouble! ”

Although it is not so easy to get Zhang Jigeng who was ordered to help guard the Shence Gate, it is still the same sentence, there are not many things that can be difficult to stop Wu Chaoyue in terms of pit meng abduction, after carefully thinking for a while, Wu Chaoyue came up with another bad idea, and hurriedly said to Zhang Jigeng: "Mr. Bingyuan, since you are extremely suspicious that the real main attack point of Longhair is Yifeng Gate, and Longhair's onslaught on Shence Gate is to contain me, then for the sake of prudence, how about we simply arrange a suspicious army first?" ”

"Suspicious?" Zhang Jigeng's eyes flashed, and he hurriedly asked, "How to arrange?" ”

"Get some sticks, tie knives and pretend to be bayonets, and prepare them for your practice." Wu Chaoyue suggested: "If there is really any emergency military situation, you can take your Lian Yong, put on my banner, pretend to be my army, or go to the rescue battlefield, or pretend to be me to continue to stay at the Shence Gate." In this way, there are two Songjiang group exercises in Jiangning City, and the sudden use of them at the critical moment will inevitably make Longhair suspicious and can't guess where I really are! ”

"Great idea!" Zhang Jigeng was overjoyed when he heard this, and patted the arrow buttress and said: "Changmao is so jealous of Master Wu, seeing your practice and courage, he will inevitably make temporary adjustments, which is conducive to our army to see the opportunity and take advantage!" It's a great plan, I'm going to prepare! ”

After that, Zhang Jigeng really hurriedly went to organize his Lian Yong to prepare to pretend to be Wu Jun Lian Yong, Wu Chaoyue was secretly happy in his heart when he saw it, and said secretly: "Dog traitor, it's best that the Taiping Army treats you as me, and goes all out to chase and block it, so that I can break through and retreat more easily." ”

After muttering heartlessly, Wu Chaoyue raised his eyes to look at the Taiping Army camp in the distance, and muttered even more heartlessly in his heart: "Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, you fight for some anger, quickly blow up the city wall and kill in, Lao Tzu really doesn't want to stay in Jiangning City!" ”

The Taiping army did not disappoint Wu Chaoyue, the next morning, the early morning of the tenth day of the second month of the third year of Xianfeng, the hour was about to be half, the sky was not clear, the fog was shrouded, and there was a sudden earth-shattering loud bang on the side of the hazy Yifeng Gate, and the city wall in front of the Lion Rock collapsed, revealing a gap two feet wide!

At the same time, the Taiping Army artillery that had already adjusted the gun position also fired dozens of guns together, bombarding the blasting place of the city wall, which not only greatly strengthened the blasting effect, but also accidentally triggered a red-clothed cannon on the city wall to explode, in the thunderous explosion, the city wall in front of the Lion Rock collapsed one after another, and the gap in the city wall quickly expanded to more than six zhang!

Jiangning, the city is broken! (To be continued.) )