Chapter 109: Take the initiative to break through

As the whole army pressed, the shelling had stopped, the atmosphere in the Qing army camp was suddenly tense, and there was a commotion in the head of Shanghai County.

Lin Afu exclaimed: "Where did the Taiping Army get so many guns? With one shot per person, it's no wonder that foreigners can be defeated! ”

Chen Alin slammed the city excitedly and stomped on it: "The Taiping Army must have taken Jiading, and our hard days are finally over!" ”

No one noticed that Liu Lichuan's eyes gradually covered with a hint of gloom, the strength of the Taiping Army was completely beyond his expectations, and it also made him even more worried about his status, at this time, Zhou Xiuying pointed sharply: "Generalissimo, look, is that Xu Naizhao?" That's right, the Jinji supplement of the second-grade master, he is Xu Naizhao, the governor of Jiangsu, the Taiping Army is really powerful, and even Xu Naizhao was captured alive! ”

Liu Lichuan couldn't bear it anymore, turned his head and shouted: "Listen to my orders, the whole army is ready, and look for opportunities to break through!" ”

"Yes!" The two cronies hurried to the city, and the dense soldiers at the head of the city also parted into parts.

The knife club is preparing to break through, Wang Feng is not clear, from his original intention, he does not want the knife to go out of the city, if the three parties get together, it is likely to cause chaos, just over five hundred meters away from the Qing army camp, Wang Feng waved his hand violently to stop the march of the whole army, and then gave Lu Dayou a look.

Lu Da thoughtfully pushed Xu Naizhao forward and called loudly: "Brothers of the Qing army, who do you see who this person is?" ”

Xu Naizhao took off his hat, his face was like ashes, he was raised high by two soldiers, and his face could be seen clearly with average eyesight, and in just a moment, there was an uproar in the Qing army camp, obviously recognizing him.

Lu Dayou called again: "Qing army brothers, very good, you recognize this person, he is Xu Naizhao, the governor of Jiangsu, this morning, our army captured Jiading with 300 people, killed 500 enemies, and surrendered more than 2,000 people!"

Xu Naizhao's 8,000 troops brought out by the Jiangnan battalion, under the successive battles of our army, only your 4,000 men and horses remained, and now you have no way forward, and there are knives behind you to surround them, do you still have to resist stubbornly? Are you our opponents? You know, our Taiping Army killed nearly 1,000 foreigners, and also blew up and sank the British gunboat Hermes.

The purpose of our Taiping Army is that the Han people do not fight the Han people, my family supervisor and the division commander treat the soldiers equally, and if there is any difficulty, you can let it back as appropriate, you don't hesitate, our patience is limited, before dark, if you don't surrender without camping, we will notify the knife to launch a front and rear flanking attack on you, under the artillery fire, how many of you can survive"

Lu Dayou didn't simply shout, but used a simple microphone, plus he was born with a loud voice, so the voice could be transmitted far away, and even the head of the county town of Shanghai could be faintly heard, Lin Afu couldn't help but smile coldly: "Bragging, only 300 people to capture Jiading County, which is garrisoned by more than 3,000 people?" Only a fool would believe this! ”

"Eh~~" Chen Alin waved his hand: "You can't say that, at least Xu Naizhao was captured alive, and this Taiping army has won successive battles, and even the foreigners have suffered big losses, maybe it is really possible to take Jiading, don't think the Qing army is too strong, the green camp has long been rotten to the core, we are nothing more than suffering from inferior weapons, and he can only bully and bully us muddy feet with sticks and rakes." ”

Although the number of small knives will be large, the equipment is indeed pitiful, even the spears are not matched, there are some people with sticks and rakes as weapons, and some of them can't even shoot guns, the only guns are also at the beginning of the uprising when the Qing army was unprepared to seize some over, and then the Qing army turned to the counteroffensive, and immediately retreated, and was finally surrounded alive in the county town of Shanghai and could not move!

Zhou Xiuying also agreed with Chen Alin's judgment, sighed secretly, and nodded: "There is no need for the Taiping Army to cheat in this kind of matter, I also think that Jiading has been broken, you can see again, the Qing military camp has a mess." ”

Among the four thousand Qing troops, not all of them were green battalion soldiers, and there were some Eight Banner soldiers, and I saw several Manchu generals waving waist knives and shouting loudly, hundreds of Manchu cavalry gathered together, and some green battalion soldiers around were bravely pointing their guns at them, although many people were watching, but the shape was about to break out, and an infighting would happen at any time!

This kind of chaos is not the chaos that Liu Lichuan wants, with only a few hundred cavalry in the camp against the absolute superiority of the musketeers, it will soon subside, what he needs is total chaos.

He felt that he couldn't wait, if the Qing army descended to the Taiping army, and his subordinates had their own thoughts, the result could only be that he was co-opted, lucky, and he could still be a general to lead his original subordinates, and if he was unlucky, he would most likely be sent to Tianjing to get a job to retire, and live a life of sending people under the fence all day long.

The fate of Du Fuwei, Li Mi, Song Jiang and other leaders of the rebel army who led the people to surrender flashed in his mind from time to time!

Although he also thought of the ending of Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and other resolute leaders of the rebel army, but the hesitation was only for a moment, the uprising was originally to pin his head to the belt of his trousers, and he was afraid of death and revolted? It's better to be his underworld boss honestly!

Liu Lichuan's eyes were cold, and he shouted: "Order, open the city and break through!" ”

Suddenly, the leaders of the Taiping Army led by Chen Alin and Zhou Xiuying all looked at Liu Lichuan in astonishment, and Zhou Xiuying hurriedly persuaded: "Generalissimo, seeing that the Qing army is about to surrender, we don't need to break through at all, just wait!" ”

Liu Lichuan said coldly: "Xiuying, you are too optimistic, although the Manchurians are surrounded, who in the green battalion dares to shoot?" Don't forget, the Manchus ruled China for two hundred years, and the remnants are still there, not to mention that there are more than half of them waiting and seeing, and if they hold on for a long time, they will inevitably be re-controlled by the Manchus, and at that time, the Taiping army must go through a battle to the death to relieve the siege of you and me, and I ordered a breakthrough to avoid unnecessary casualties of the Taiping army! ”

Lin Afu also said: "Big sister, the Taiping Army is here to save us, we can't tie our hands and be spectators, it doesn't make sense to be reasonable, if we don't move and sit back and watch the Taiping Army and the Qing Army fight to the death, will the Taiping Army look down on us?" Where do we put the faces of our nearly 10,000 brothers? We are all gentlemen, how can we do such unrighteous things? Everyone is talking about it, isn't this the reason? ”

"Yes, even if you die in battle, you can't look down on people!"

"Let's all listen to the generalissimo, and the Taiping army will attack on both sides, and the Qing demon will be defeated!"

Liu Lichuan and Lin Afu's direct subordinates are all loudly agreed!

Although Zhou Xiuying always felt that it was by no means so simple, Liu Lichuan and Lin Afu's rhetoric sounded quite reasonable at first glance, and so many people shouted, so they no longer persuaded them.

Liu Lichuan smiled secretly, and after exchanging smug glances with Lin Afu, he made a big move: "Order, the whole army will assault!" ”

"Crunch~~" The gate of Shanghai County was opened, and the Knife Society congregation rushed out!

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