Jiang Qi hugged the veteran off the city wall, and the veteran woke up in the bump, coughed a few times, and saw that Jiang Qi was holding him, and said gratefully: "Straight thief, it turns out that you saved Lao Tzu, not bad, Lao Tzu sees you as a good material!" Today's kindness has been written down by my old horse! In the future, if you enlist in the army, we will eat in a horse spoon! I owe you my life, and I will pay it back in the future. ”

Jiang Qi shook his head with a wry smile, didn't speak, and sent the veteran named Lao Ma to the doctor who was gathered by the Wuchang prefect in the city, and there was still some uncoagulated blood on the blade of the other knife that fell from the thin thief's hand, and he wanted to drop.

What do I want your life to do, I don't want anyone's life, I just want my Yun'er to come back, I'd rather pay for my life.

Wanshou Palace, Yang Xiuqing's handsome account.

All the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gathered in the handsome tent of Yang Xiuqing, the military advisor of the East King, to discuss the military, everyone looked solemn, Yang Xiuqing looked at the sullen expressions of the kings, and opened his mouth with a smile: "Brothers, what's the matter?" It's only been two days, and it's normal that Wuchang City hasn't been captured! Didn't you see that we besieged Changsha City for more than three months? Anyway! Wuchang is the first important town in Huguang, the city is strong, and the old thief has implemented a plan to clear the wilderness, and the military and civilian property of the two cities of Hankou and Hanyang are all stuffed into this Wuchang City like a turtle shell, if the three cities are held separately, this must not be able to hold, and now, it is necessary to ask the brothers to exert more strength to solve such a turtle shell! ”

Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West who sat in the first hand, pondered for a while, Xiao Chaogui was born in the last years of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Zhuang nationality, and a native of Hippo Township, Wuxuan County. The family was poor, and went to Bauhinia Mountain to live by planting vegetables and cultivating the mountains and burning charcoal. In the 23rd year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Xiuquan founded the God Worship Society and sent Feng Yunshan to preach in the Guiping area and secretly organize revolutionary forces. Xiao Chaogui and his friend Yang Xiuqing were the first to become members of the Worship of God Society. They went around to the people of all ethnic groups, such as Zhuanghan, Yao, and others, to propagate the teachings and benefits of the Worship of God Society, and actively mobilized people of all ethnic groups to participate in the Worship of God Society.

Xiao Chaogui and Yang Xiuqing are friends, and they have no scruples when they speak, so they spoke: "Military Division, although it has only been two days, I found that this Wuchang City is heavily defended and the morale of the people is high. ”

"No! Although Wuchang City is strong, but there are countless finances, and the harvest of Wuchang City is bound to be rich, we must implement the goal of setting up before Dingding Jiangdong and seizing Jiangnan, although this property is important, it is far less important than Rending! There are three towns in Wuchang City, and we are estimated to be able to collect three or four hundred thousand people, with these people, we are not afraid of where we go. What's more, the old thief dared to despise me and ask me to hunt Wuchang, this breath must come out, take Wuchang City, capture the old man alive, and cut it with thousands of knives to get out of my breath! ”

Xiao Chaogui pondered Yang Xiuqing's words for a moment and nodded, "What the military advisor said is reasonable, it's me who is blind!" ”

"The king of the west is modest, pass on my military order, tomorrow to attack the city with all his might, there is no need to keep the stamina, if you can't attack Wuchang City during the day, light a torch at night, and burn down the city wall of Wuchang City for this king!"

"Yes!"

November 15, Wuchang City, afternoon.

Chang Lu stood on the beacon in front of the women's wall in armor, holding his saber in both hands, watching the Taiping army outside the city like ants that seemed to never be less than pouring out of the pontoon bridge, and was secretly surprised in his heart.

It's almost sunset, and Yang Wei is still sending out a steady stream of thieves, doesn't he want to stay up all night today and capture Wuchang City?

Chang Lu sneered slightly, pointed to a vacancy in the troops, and let the soldiers who had been rotated and rested for a while make up for the weakness of the defense.

"Military gate, a big gap has been blown up in the west of the city!"

"Tell Hu to always resist, I can't help but ask him to come to see him!"

"Wow!"

"Immediately report to Lord Futai and ask him to prepare for the long-haired traitor to attack the city overnight."

"Wow!"

When the lantern is in hand, the inside and outside of Wuchang City are still brightly lit.

In order to prevent the place where he was sitting from becoming a target in the dark night, Chang Dachun's personal entourage extinguished all the torches around the governor, and the upstairs of the city gate was pitch black, and in the cold moonlight, Chang Dachun stared at the brilliant lights in his eyes, shouts, fights, artillery, and the tip of his nose also smelled the smell of gunpowder, blood, and the scorching smell of burnt human flesh.

"Lord Futai, the watchtower in the northeast corner is about to be irresistible! Ask for your support! ”

"Tell them that there are no reinforcements, and if they can't resist it, this officer will help them with a sword!"

"This chirp!"

Chang Dachun slowly looked left and right, and assigned a few of his own soldiers, "A few of you go to the watchtower in the west of the city to support." ”

"But my lord, there's no one on your side who can't do it."

"Confused!" Chang Dachun flicked his horseshoe sleeves, "I'm very safe here, as long as the city is not broken!" Resist the onslaught of the rebels today, and in a few days a large army will come to our rescue! ”

"Wow!"

Chang Dachun looked at the flickering lights on the pontoon bridge outside the city, searching for traces on the slightly black river surface, I don't know if it was too dark, or his eyesight was not good, the river was quiet, only the surging river kept flowing eastward.

Wang Jinxiu was still on the boat with his eyes closed and his whole body was dressed in armor, and since he came to Hanning Mansion, Wang Jinxiu strictly ordered the whole army to be ready to attack at all times in armor for twelve hours.

A personal soldier hurriedly walked into the cabin, clasped his fists and saluted, and said loudly to Wang Jinxiu, who was sitting upright in the dark: "Military gate, the spies have come to report, the traitor has raised a torch today, and he will attack the city with all his strength overnight!" ”

"Good! This is the time! "Because several ships are full of flammable things, Wang Jinxiu issued a strict order, no fire is allowed on the ship, so the room is dark, only the moonlight outside the ship like water shines through the window eaves, Wang Jinxiu's face is gloomy and uncertain, Hubei General Wang Jinxiu stood up suddenly, and the subway armor rattled, "The order goes down, the whole army unloads the military flag, wears water and leans, prepares to ignite the fire, and goes south, we," Wang Jinxiu's eyes were frenzied, "Let's burn the thief's ship to the sky!" ”

"Wow!"