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"Remember, don't let him kill himself, live it."

In the end, Bai Qi reassured the intelligence officer.

For Li Xiucheng, Bai Qi vaguely has an impression. At that time, when discussing the affairs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the prince, the prince once made a brief comment on a cadre of generals in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Among the generals of the Taiping Army, there were three generals, who were most appreciated by the princes, namely Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng. Therefore, Bai Qi naturally wanted to save Li Xiucheng's life.

As for how the prince persuaded Li Xiucheng to surrender, it was not in Bai Qi's consideration.

"Please rest assured, General!"

The intelligence officer said, turning to leave Bai Qi's office. Although Li Xiucheng once thought about committing suicide after being captured, and even went on a hunger strike to protest, if he couldn't even settle this little thing, he was not worthy of being this intelligence officer.

The Department of Military Intelligence is not a vegetarian either.

After the interlude, Bai Qi continued to write the battle report, and at the same time attached Li Xiucheng's situation to the end of the battle report.

That night, the battle report was sent to Chiyou City overnight through the post station.

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Wuzhou County, Chiyou City, the city lord's mansion.

Like Bai Qi, Ouyang Shuo has not yet fallen asleep. The battle of Mulan Fortress is related to the entire battle situation, and Ouyang Shuo is really not at ease if he does not receive the battle report of the day.

Just half an hour after Bai Qi sent out the battle report, Ouyang Shuo received the battle report.

The appearance of artillery really surprised Ouyang Shuo. He didn't expect that there would be such a buggy thermal weapon in the Taiping Army, and he really sweated for Mulan Fortress.

Of course, this is a crisis, but also a rare opportunity.

As soon as he thought that Hong Xiuquan might have the relevant technical manuals in his hands, Ouyang Shuo's heart was hot.

For artillery, Ouyang Shuo has been coveting it for a long time.

He didn't expect to be able to step into the era of thermal weapons with just artillery.

That's not realistic.

Ouyang Shuo just wanted to be able to assemble the cannon on the battleship. In this way, when the sailors are fighting, they can use artillery strikes, instead of using cold weapons such as bows and crossbows, and slapping rods.

Whether a naval fleet is equipped with artillery or not is completely two concepts. It can even be said that artillery is a key factor in measuring a fleet, whether it is an inland river fleet, or a maritime fleet.

Without artillery, the fleet can basically only survive on inland rivers. This is naturally unacceptable for Ouyang Shuo, who is full of ambition for the sea.

The advent of artillery was an opportunity.

In addition, artillery can be equipped on the city walls to further strengthen the city's defenses. Think about it, if you cooperate with the three-bow, eight-ox bed bed crossbow and artillery, the city defense of the territory will be a nightmare for the enemy.

More importantly, the existence of the No. 7 Research Institute is destined to have the ability and corresponding foundation to further transform and upgrade the artillery technology of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the technological gap between the territory and the Western lords can be greatly narrowed.

All of the above, how not to make Ouyang Shuo's heart excited.

After thinking about it, Ouyang Shuo immediately picked up his pen and sent a letter to the Black Snake, asking the Black Snake Guard to use the secret agents lurking in Xunzhou County, especially Tianjing City, to go all out to investigate the artillery matter.

The most important thing is to confirm that the artillery that appeared in Mulan Fortress is only a rare item, or it was made in batches by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so as to determine the existence of relevant technical manuals.

Compared to Wuzhou County, the Black Snake Guard, including the Military Intelligence Division, was extremely successful in infiltrating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After all, as early as when Hong Xiuquan had just entered the wilderness, the two major intelligence agencies had already targeted him.

In addition, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wantonly recruited displaced people, which naturally created very favorable conditions for the infiltration of the Black Snake Guard and the Military Intelligence Department.

Nowadays, the secret agents of the two major intelligence agencies have spread all over the three counties of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is even said that around the important people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there are secret agents of the Black Snake Guard.

Ouyang Shuo believed that the Black Snake would definitely give him a satisfactory answer.

……

Li Xiucheng's capture was also unexpected by Ouyang Shuo. Of course, Li Xiucheng's stubbornness was also expected by Ouyang Shuo, these Taiping Army generals were all notoriously smelly and hard stones.

Before Hong Xiuquan was killed, Ouyang Shuo basically had no hope of persuading the generals of the Taiping Army.

Even if he conquered the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future, Ouyang Shuo would not immediately activate these generals. For the current Ouyang Shuo, the loyalty of the generals is above all else.

……

As for Yang Xiuqing, Ouyang Shuo also has a plan in his heart.

Li Xiucheng was captured, and Yang Xiuqing, as the chief general of the Southern Route Army, must be reprimanded by Hong Xiuquan. The gap between the two opponents in the previous life is afraid that it will get bigger and bigger.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Shuo immediately replied to Bai Qi with a letter.

He wrote in the letter: "Yang Xiuqing is a person who should be of great use, and he can be treated with caution. If the Taiping army is defeated, the general can quietly let this person go and use it against the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. ”

Although Yang Xiuqing was a careerist, it was in the rebel army, and it was a troubled time.

If he was born in an era of peace, he would have been given some opportunities, and maybe he would have become a generation of famous ministers. This person's experience is somewhat similar to Cao Cao in history.

It was only because Yang Xiuqing was born poor and had no chance to study that he would fall here.

Let Yang Xiuqing restrain Hong Xiuquan, and Ouyang Shuo hopes that he can exert further influence on Tianjing City. The core goal is to acquire relevant firearms technology.

It was late at night when I replied to the letter.

Ouyang Shuo got up and came to the window, only to see that it was as dark as ink outside. Above the night sky, a huge red star was the most dazzling, flashing with a strange red light.

"Is the demon star a murderer?"

Seeing this, Ouyang Shuo muttered to himself.

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October 27, the fourth day of the Battle of Mulan Fortress.

Seeing that the big hole that was finally blasted out yesterday was repaired by Shanhai City overnight, Yang Xiuqing saw it, and almost vomited blood in anger, and felt depressed in his heart.

It is no longer realistic to choose to bombard the city wall. Thinking about yesterday's bloody battle, Yang Xiuqing had palpitations. He is not an inflexible person, and immediately changes his combat strategy.

Yang Xiuqing ordered the four artillery pieces to move the target to the three-bowed eight-ox bed crossbow arranged on the city wall, preparing to kill the enemy's most powerful weapon to defend the city.

The various armies of the Taiping Army, with the cooperation of mobile arrow towers, siege vehicles, siege towers, siege ladders and other equipment, directly launched wave after wave of charges against the city wall of Mulan Fortress.

Of course, all this in vain.

Under the command of Bai Qi, the garrison of Mulan Fortress defended effectively, advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and organized the defense line as steadily as Mount Tai. The onslaught of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom looks terrifying, but the real threat is worse than yesterday.

Seeing this, Yang Xiuqing's face turned pale.

In the face of today's predicament, he has no choice but to go up. Thinking of the Heavenly King's sternly worded reply last night, Yang Xiuqing's eyes became more and more gloomy.

The battle between the two sides lasted from morning to afternoon.

Leaning slightly, the sunset rises again, quietly hanging in the sky.

Just when the soldiers on both sides thought that the Taiping army would take the initiative to withdraw and end the day's battle, there were suddenly earth-shattering waves on the battlefield.

In the rear of the Taiping army, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves suddenly sounded.

As far as the eye could see, I saw a huge army, which was directly killing the Taiping army in a charging formation. All of a sudden, murderous and dusty.

When the generals of the Taiping Army saw this, they couldn't help but be shocked, and their faces turned pale instantly.

The continuous battle had long caused the Taiping Army to relax its protection of the rear army. Especially in today's war, I did my best to send almost all the troops to the front line.

In the face of the menacing enemy army, the Taiping army was almost powerless. can only watch each other, setting off a shocking killing in the rear army.

Suddenly, Yang Xiuqing's mood also sank to the bottom.

"It's over! It's all over! ”

A feeling of despair spread in Yang Xiuqing's heart.

Uncontrollable panic ensued. Thinking of Heavenly King's Yin Measured Eyes, Yang Xiuqing's heart was like ice, and he could no longer feel a trace of warmth.

And this despair quickly spread among the army.

Everyone knows that the Taiping army is powerless.

The army that arrived in time was naturally the Leopard Tao Army led by Han Xin. Under the coordination of Han Xin, the Leopard Tao Legion advanced one night in advance.

Time went back to an hour ago, when the Leopard Tao Legion was still ten kilometers away from the Mulan Fortress, and the time was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

After several days of rapid marching, the troops were exhausted.

Looking up at the sky, Zhang Han suggested that the army should repair on the spot overnight and attack again tomorrow.

"No!" Han Xin flatly refused, his expression was firm, "Our army is tired, but the enemy army has been fighting all day, and they are even more tired. This is the best time, if you miss it, tomorrow's battle, wait until the enemy army has recovered and try to defeat them, you will have to pay twice or even three times. ”

Han Xin's eyes flashed with excitement, "Tell me to go down and let the soldiers grit their teeth and hold on a little longer." On the day of success, Ben Shuai personally asked for credit for everyone in front of the prince. ”

"No!"

When Zhang Han and other generals heard this, they were all impressed.

Immediately, under the command of Han Xin, the army, with the cavalry unit as the vanguard, took the lead in attacking, and took the enemy by surprise. A large infantry force then covered up to expand the results and reap the spoils.

It was under the leadership of Han Xin's steely will that the Leopard Tao Legion exerted amazing lethality. An already tired army, as soon as it was put into the battlefield, it didn't even see any fatigue, all of them were alive and well.

Of course, the morale of the army is so high and the speed of movement is so fast, it also depends on Han Xin, the general [specialty] launched by the god general.

Han Xin's [Soldier Power Strategy] increases the morale of the troops by 40%, increases the movement speed of the troops by 30%, increases the defense of the troops by 20%, and increases the lethality of the troops by 25%.

Coupled with the help of Zhang Han and Di Qing, it is simply like a tiger with wings. (To be continued.) )