When night fell, under the towering Jinling City, the Taiping army, which had been attacking all day, slowly retreated, which made the Qing army defending the city breathe a sigh of relief.

However, this was only a brief lull, and everyone knew that it would be followed by a more violent storm.

Yuhuatai, the only commanding height in Jinling, is equivalent to controlling Jinling City.

In the middle of the night, the Taiping army launched a fierce attack on Yuhuatai.

From a distance, the artillery fire was flying like daylight, and the shouts and fighting were like thunder.

But as long as you take a closer look, you will find that the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, and the Taiping army did not really attack at all, but only bluffed.

Under the cover of night, the officers and soldiers of the Li family evacuated from Yuhuatai one after another, pretending to be defeated by the Taiping army and returning to Jinling City.

However, Fu Xuexian is also very careful and cautious, you must know that if he does not have anyone Li Weiguo with, he will be made a marquis by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future, which is enough to prove that he is also a character, so Fu Xuexian cannot fully believe in the Taiping Army, and still left a force on the Yuhuatai position as a warning to cover the retreat.

Under the city of Jinling, the Li family army suddenly withdrew, which made the defenders panic, if even the Li family army was defeated, then could they still hold the city?

Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, learned that Li Jiajun could not hold Yuhuatai and was evacuating to Jinling City, he suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly ordered the guards to close the city gate and not allow Li Jiajun to return to Jinling, he knew that Li Weiguo was not in Jinling, so he wanted to bury this Li Jiajun outside the city.

Fu Xuexian was thinking about what excuse to use to make trouble in Jinling City, and then took advantage of the chaos to secretly execute Lu Jianying and others, and happened to hear that the guard general received Lu Jianying's order that Fu Xuexian was not allowed to lead troops into the city, and asked Fu Xuexian to lead troops to defend Yuhuatai.

Fu Xuexian was immediately overjoyed, didn't this just give him an excuse to make trouble?

So, Fu Xuexian shouted: "Lu Jianying's dog thieves don't let us enter the city because they want the brothers to die outside the city, brothers, what do you say we should do?" ”

"Rush in! Talk about it! ”

"Rush in! Talk about it! ”

……

Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Fu Xuexian suddenly struck while the iron was hot, gave an order, and forcibly broke into the city gate.

The city gate guards also knew that it was wrong for Lu Jianying to do this, but he had no choice but to carry out the order. Just seeing that Li Jiajun was excited and began to break through the city gate, he knew that he couldn't defeat Li Jiajun, and he didn't want to offend Li Jiajun, so he took the opportunity to let go of the city gate and ordered his subordinates not to resist.

Li Jiajun was able to enter the city smoothly, Fu Xuexian did not embarrass the city gate guards, and directly led the soldiers to scream and go to Lu Jianying to discuss the explanation, the city gate guards wiped a cold sweat, and their hearts screamed, thanks to not stopping, and hurriedly closed the city gate.

However, it was said that Fu Xuexian led the troops straight to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion, and Lu Jianying's personal soldiers hurriedly closed the door of the mansion when they saw the Li Jiajun coming with murderous spirit.

"Call me!"

At the sound of an order, Li Jiajun quickly formed a formation, opened fire with muskets, and fired at Lu Jianying's own soldiers.

Bang bang bang!

With the sound of gunfire and a dense rain of bullets, I saw that Lu Jianying's personal soldiers were shot one after another and fell to the ground one after another.

The soldiers of the Li family rushed forward, subdued the other rebels, and then smashed open the door of the mansion and rushed in.

"Bold! Fu Xuexian, are you going to rebel? ”

Lu Jianying was so angry that he was trembling, but he was actually trembling with fright, pointing at Fu Xuexian who came in and shouting loudly.

Fu Xuexian didn't care at all, when he saw that Wu Liang was also beside Lu Jianying, he would go to Jiangning Mansion again.

"Don't let one go, take them all!"

Fu Xuexian gave an order, and his own soldiers stepped forward to tie up Lu Jianying, Wu Liang and the personal guards they brought.

Fu Xuexian thought of the Xiao Yang who Li Weiguo specially confessed to be executed before leaving, and immediately interrogated Lu Jianying and Wu Liang, both of whom were old fritters, and then suddenly realized that the other party was taking the opportunity to take revenge!

"Y-what do you want to do?"

"What do you want to do?" Fu Xuexian snorted coldly and said, "Naturally, there is revenge and revenge and complaining!" ”

Seeing that Lu Jianying and Wu Liang did not cooperate, Fu Xuexian immediately ordered someone to interrogate their subordinates, and soon learned of Xiao Yang's whereabouts.

It turned out that Xiao Yang was not dead yet, Lu Jianying knew that Xiao Yang's ability was reluctant, and secondly, he still wanted to take out more silver from Xiao Yang, so he was secretly imprisoned, neither killed nor released, and waited for Li Weiguo to forget about this matter after a while and then let him out, which would be useful.

Soon, Xiao Yang was also found, and together with Lu Jianying, Wu Liang and others, he was taken away with hundreds of their personal guards, found a deserted riverside near the Confucius Temple, beheaded them all, and threw their bodies into the Qinhuai River.

Fu Xuexian set up an incense case by the river, and worshiped his father Fu Yang with the heads of three people, because Lu Jianying and others were all imperial parties and participated in the case of framing Fu Yang that year, which was a blood debt.

Subsequently, Fu Xuexian ordered someone to take the official seals of Lu Jianying and Wu Liang, and used their names to put forward all the money and grain in the treasury of the Liangjiang Governor and the Jiangning Mansion, and Li Jiajun was responsible for transporting them to Shuiguan.

At the same time, Fu Xuexian also ordered Li Jiajun to start sweeping the major shops and wealthy families in Jinling City, and also in the name of the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion and the Jiangning Governor's Mansion, so that everyone hated Lu Jianying and Wu Liang.

This trick is too ruthless!

However, in the troubled times, this is normal, and the imperial court also acquiesced, after all, at this time, the imperial court could not come up with military spending, on the one hand, let the local government form its own army, and on the other hand, it also began to implement the donation, also called the centijin, which is the same as the unspoken rule of forced donations by units in later generations.

Li Jiajun not only had the will of the imperial court to make donations, but also had Lu Jianying's Liangjiang Governor's Mansion and Wu Liang's Jiangning Mansion as a cover and shield, so he could sack Jinling City openly.

If the other party was a bandit, these people would have resisted a long time ago, but unfortunately the other party was a regular army of the imperial court and was a legal bandit, so these people could only watch the Li family army loot their family property, but they rarely dared to resist.

Of course, Li Jiajun was also a well-disciplined army, and the three major disciplines and eight points of attention were always kept in mind, so even if they were ordered to loot, they were not allowed to kill people lightly and insult women, so Li Jiajun rarely encountered resistance and was able to complete the looting operation smoothly.

"Report, the ship can't be loaded!"

"What?"

Fu Xuexian drank a small tea leisurely, and heard his subordinates report that the stolen money and food could not be filled, and he was also drunk.

"Stupid, our ship can't fit in, and we won't go to find another ship!"

"Yes!"

The man received the order and hurried to find the ship.

Fu Xuexian smacked his lips and said to himself: "Forehead God, more than two hundred big ships can't fit it, how many good things have these grandsons robbed!" ”

The Taiping army captured Yuhuatai after dawn, and then the Taiping army deployed all its artillery on Yuhuatai, and used the commanding heights of Yuhuatai to bombard Jinling City.

The defenders of Jinling suddenly fell into an unfavorable situation, the casualties on the head of the city surged, and the guards sent people to Lu Jianying for help several times, but there was no news, and finally the guards went to report in person, and Fu Xuexian directly gave him a sentence "Lu Jianying and Wu Liang ran away with their families and money."

This time, the guards panicked, the defenders panicked, they were originally a strong man who was temporarily arrested, but now even the governor and the prefect have run away, and they are still a fart!

"Run!"

In less than half a day, the Jinling defenders ran more than half.

In troubled times, many people will lose their nature, especially the fleeing rout, which is far more harmful to the common people than the enemy. These Jinling defenders ran down from the city, but they couldn't get out of the city, they could only be in the city, and they had to loot the people.

Jinling City was suddenly in chaos, especially those Eight Banner soldiers, who took advantage of the chaos to rob them were the most active, and the soldiers of the Li family army only robbed the rich and did not rob ordinary people, let alone kill people and insult women, but these people didn't care, they killed people and set fires, and they did all kinds of evil.

"brutes these days! Deliver my orders to execute these deserters who have plagued the people! No mercy! ”

After Fu Xuexian personally shot and killed several deserters who killed people and set fires, his subordinates came to report.

"General, the time is up, the Taiping army is about to break the city, we have to evacuate quickly!"

Fu Xuexian sighed, immediately gave up continuing to suppress those deserters who did evil, got on a boat and left the city from the west gate of Jinling Shui, and returned to Shanghai along the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River has long been blocked by the Taiping army, and there are tens of thousands of Taiping warships everywhere, but at this time they made way for a waterway and let Li Jiajun's fleet leave.

When Fu Xuexian's fleet left the Taiping blockade, a Taiping warship suddenly sailed.

There were a woman and two men standing on the boat, and Fu Xuexian recognized them, it was Hong Xuanjiao, Liu Shaoting and Hong Jian.

Hong Jian stepped forward and said, "General Fu, Jinling City is about to be emptied by you, right?" ”

Fu Xuexian was suddenly embarrassed, he deliberately delayed for a day and a night, just to sack Jinling City, but now that he was seen through by the other party, Fu Xuexian was also single, and nodded directly, which was considered to be an admission.

Although Hong Jian was a little angry, after all, the huge Jinling City was a vault and a silver vault, and countless riches should have belonged to the Taiping Army, but they were ransacked by the Li Family's army, and he felt uncomfortable.

However, considering the overall situation, he still held back, and he had more important things to ask Fu Xuexian, so he said: "Since your army has received great benefits, what about the first batch of arms of our army?" ”

Fu Xuexian said with a smile: "It's been prepared for a long time, the two ships in the back are specially reserved for you, and the things you want are on it!" ”

"What a calculation!" Hong Jian couldn't help but exclaim, the other party was not missing, which really made him admire.

Fu Xuexian smiled and didn't answer, just said goodbye to Hong Jian, and glanced at Hong Xuanjiao and Liu Shaoting by the way.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard Hong Xuanjiao's coquettish shout.

"Go back and tell Li Weiguo, my aunt and grandmother thank him for his hospitality these days, and there will be rewards in the future!"

"That's right! I, Liu Shaoting, am also very grateful to him, and count me in! ”

"Be sure to tell the truth!" Fu Xuexian suddenly stumbled when he heard this, and smiled bitterly in his heart, knowing that Hong Xuanjiao and Liu Shaoting had declared war on Li Weiguo.

It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, Fu Xuexian was afraid of changes, so he hurriedly led the fleet away, and people did not take off their armor, and they were always on guard until they returned to Shanghai safely.