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The howling raindrops, like a bead curtain with broken threads, kept falling. With the sound of thunder from time to time, lightning pierced the night sky like a giant axe, rushing down from the dark clouds all the way to the edge of the sky.

The lightning released an intense light that illuminated the weeping clouds and the rain-covered earth. But after an instant, the sky was dark, as if the light just now was just a blink of an illusion, and the sky and earth returned to darkness.

Thick raindrops fell in a whistling manner, hitting the tent and sliding into the trench around the tent. Chen Ming's big tent is still very 'safe' because it is located on the highest part of the barracks, and there are trenches dug around it. This makes it almost impossible for the rain to affect the comfort inside the tent.

Chen Ming frowned, if the military tents of the whole army could not be affected by the rain like his big tent now, Chen Ming could also sleep with confidence. The fact is that the military tents in the Chen family's barracks will not bother digging trenches at all, and some of the military tents themselves are in low-lying locations, and the heavy rain tonight has soaked them all.

Turning open the curtain of the big tent, the splashing water droplets fell on Chen Ming's face and body in small pieces but densely, Chen Ming's eyes fell on the open space in front of the big tent, and now it was a puddle everywhere, and the raindrops fell into it to make a little sound, and this little sound gathered together, it was the sound of a huge rain.

Chen Jiajun has now arrived outside the north gate of Xiping County, and the front of their camp is the North Pass of Xiping County, just like the four passes of Lushan County, where there are houses one after another, and people are one household after another. However, before the arrival of Chen Jiajun, the Qing soldiers who ran back to Xiping County first, drove the people of the four passes in the east, west, south, and north with knives and guns to leave their homes or enter the county seat, and then turned the four passes into ashes with a fire.

In the gate tower of Xiping County, Yongrui, Fuyong and others did not sleep. It's raining. God is really blessing, Daqing really adheres to the will of heaven, it is raining at this juncture, it is still heavy rain, and the thieves of the Chen family have to suffer. It can even be said that as soon as this rain fell, it had greatly boosted the morale of the scattered and sluggish soldiers of the Qing army.

The smile on Yongrui's face couldn't be hidden, and it rained heavily, although it couldn't be said to be a downpour, but with such rain, Chen Jiajun's guns were invalidated, especially their cannons. When the troops were withdrawn to Xiping, Yongrui was most afraid that the Chen family army would follow and kill, as long as they set up cannons outside the city and bombarded them for three or five days, the nearly 10,000 horses in the city would collapse and scatter. Because when the Qing soldiers retreated, they threw away all the artillery in order to ensure speed, although they had sealed the fire door with iron nails and lead water before discarding the artillery.

Chen Jiajun bombarded Xiping with artillery outside, it was completely hanging and beating, and the low morale and military spirit of the Qing soldiers collapsed, is it a difficult thing to collapse?

Yongrui, who returned to Xiping, was not good, and Fuyong also looked gloomy, they could no longer control the army. But a sudden heavy rain saved the fate of the two people who were about to be sad, when the first lightning pierced the night sky, when the first thunder exploded in the ears, thousands of raindrops fell, nearly 10,000 Qing troops were cheering, at that moment I don't know how many people ran out of the room, shouting like crazy in the heavy rain, whether it was the flag soldiers or the green battalion soldiers, they were venting the heavy pressure in their hearts.

All of them were worried about the shelling of the Chen Jiajun. This heavy rain may not be able to stop Chen Jiajun from slowly transporting the cannon from the rear to the county seat of Xiping County, because the rain will always stop, because no matter how difficult the road is, there will be an end, but this time will definitely be several times longer. Imagine how exhausting and emaciating it would be to pull a gun carriage weighing one or two thousand pounds in the middle of a muddy road.

And more importantly, the Qing soldiers took a shot in the arm. Even if this heavy rain stopped before dawn, the Qing soldiers now have the courage and fighting spirit to fight.

"This is providence. I am destined to be in the Qing Dynasty, won't God protect me!? ”

In the city gate tower, Yongrui, who was lifeless during the day, was absolutely high-spirited at this moment. From Fuyong to the magistrate of Xiping County, everyone around him had such relaxed expressions.

This heavy rain first weakened the combat effectiveness of the Chen family's army, because the army camping in the field did not have a single tent bed, and the conditions were very simple. If it rains, it is still a sudden and unprepared heavy rain, how bad it is, how bad it is, and the soldiers will probably not even be able to sleep, because the rain will make the entire ground extremely wet, and even flow directly into the tent, which will undoubtedly reduce the combat effectiveness of the Chen Jiajun tomorrow a lot. And then the mud after the rain can seriously lag their artillery.

Such a heavy rain, even if it stopped tomorrow, would be enough to completely turn the wilderness south of the Rolling River into a swamp.

Yongrui has never been more fond of rainy days than today. As a yellow belt from the Manchu clan, it is natural for Yongrui to pursue a clean appearance; And he joined the army again, don't care if he really led soldiers to fight, anyway, Yongrui is a soldier and has no fake, right?

The military of this era absolutely hates the rain. Even if Yongrui is just a Taiping general.

His eyes looked north, and he seemed to be able to see the miserable Chen Jiajun camp through the night. The excited Yongrui proposed to Fuyong beside him: "When the morning comes, the Chen family's thieves and soldiers will be miserable all night in the heavy rain, and people can't sleep peacefully, how can their morale and fighting spirit not fall?" If our army takes the opportunity to attack and kill ......"

Taiping generals like Yongrui always think about complicated things too simply. Fukunaga didn't want to answer this stupid offer.

In the battle with Chen Jiajun, didn't the Qing soldiers detect Chen Jiajun's sharp scouts? It is also very troublesome for the army to be dispatched, the county seat is separated from Chen Jiajun's camp by a north pass, how can Chen Jiajun not notice it? Fuyong didn't think that the Chen Jiajun would be weaker than his own army after being prepared.

"General, the thieves are brave and sharp, and heavy rain can destroy morale overnight." Fuyong did not directly agree not to attack, but changed hands and removed the biggest basis for Yongrui's idea of taking the opportunity to attack. This made Yongrui's restless heart fall silent, and Yongrui's face showed an unhappy and forbearant expression.

Fuyong didn't care whether the Jingzhou general was happy or not, his voice was a little whispering: "If this rain can fall until tomorrow night, or longer, if the thief Chen continues to stay where he is...... these two prerequisites are added together, which is the opportunity for Fuyong to attack and counterattack. As far as Yongrui's current 'rush' is concerned, it should be said that his head is in water.

In the ruins of Beiguan in Xiping County, Yongrui and Fuyong didn't know that several people in black oilcloth cloaks were staring at the second floor of the bright city gate tower illuminated by torches. There, Yongrui, Fuyong, Ma Wenjie, Qi Jian'an and other rows of people looked north of the railing......