"How? How? I'm right? I'm right? I'm right? What are the three quarries and one crypts to attack the city? It's all bullshit! It's useless! Now, the road is given up, have you ever left the city? I've dug the tunnel, but what's the use? More than a dozen good people have died in vain! I've consumed military strength and worked hard but failed. This responsibility must be borne by someone!"

When the long-suppressed anger was released, our monks would be more proud. In Shengbao's central tent, he was so excited that he had just won a decisive victory. Many Qing army noble generals who were eager to be Monk on both sides also sneered in their hearts, gloating and constantly peeking at Shengbao who was sitting in the position of commander. However, Shengbao's face was gloomy and he didn't say a word, allowing Senggelinqin to be unrestrained in front of him. He secretly hated him to the extreme, but he didn't dare to deal with other generals. How about Senggelinqin, who was the prince?

Shengbao was tolerant, and Senggelinqin knew how to restrain himself and did not force Shengbao to the desperate situation. After clamoring for Shengbao, Senggelinqin suddenly turned to Wu Chaoyue and asked: "Mr. Wu, I heard that the idea of ​​authentic siege was made by you for Sheng Damao. When I opposed Sheng Damao, I was the one who firmly supported him. Now that your trick has come out, your trick has not only wasted time, but also killed more than a dozen good people in vain. What else do you have to say?"

Of course, Senggelinqin made unreasonable difficulties, and most of the Qing generals did not agree. However, Tong Jian and Ruichang's best friends still spoke and asked Wu Chaoyue to explain the reasons for the failure of the tunnel siege. He wanted to force Sheng Bao to tearfully kill Ma Su and cut off Wu Chaoyue, who dared to be unable to get along with the Tsing Prince. Wu Chaoyue was too lazy to pay attention to them and continued to say nothing, but Ruichang and others refused to give up and asked Wu Chaoyue again: "Mr. Wu, why don't you speak? Why is your authentic siege tactic like this? Why?"

Unable to bear it, Wu Chaoyue finally launched a counterattack, and still had an extremely strong counterattack, asking back: "Dear generals, you ask me why the tunnels that were secretly excavated inside the city were discovered by Changmao? Changmao has basically never left the city these days. How did they know that our army was secretly excavating tunnels? How did they know the exact location of the tunnels of our army? Is all this related to someone who reported to Changmao last time?!"

"It's right!" Sheng Bao also fought back and said loudly: "Weiting is right. How did Changmao know that we were digging the tunnel? How did Changmao know that our tunnel was accurate? Is this matter the same as last time, someone secretly told Changmao?"

Tong Jian and Ruichang and other Senggelinqin's best friends were speechless, but Senggelinqin was swaying his beard and staring at him, and said angrily: "Long hair is good at attacking acupoints, so someone needs to report it? As long as you find something wrong, it's easy to find our authentic location!"

"Prince, why didn't you say that last time?" Wu Chaoyue asked with a sneer: "Since you have known that Changmao may use the technique of listening to the ground to crack our army's authenticity, why didn't you remind General Sheng last time?"

I wanted to force Shengbao to kill Ma Su in tears, but Wu Chaoyue falsely accused him of deliberately watching Shengbao joke and deliberately letting the Sui army lose. Senggelinqin was furious and directly drew his sword. Fortunately, Zaiyuan spoke in time and shouted at Senggelinqin loudly. Shengbao also asked Senggelinqin in person what he wanted to do in the central army tent? Then he forced Senggelinqin to take back the knife. However, after Senggelinqin strode away angrily, Shengbao still asked Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, there is no hope of attacking the city. What else do you have to do next?"

"Not yet." Wu Chaoyue replied: "But I want to go to the authentic site to learn about the specific situation, and then decide what to do. Now I am leaving the city, I am controlled by the monk's army. Please ask the commander to give the officials a document."

Shengbao agreed immediately. Just when he was about to write a pen, Zaiyuan was worried that Wu Chaoyue would have another conflict with Senggelinqin, which would affect his major events in the military affairs department. He took the initiative to accompany Wu Chaoyue to serve as a protective umbrella for Wu Chaoyue. Wu Chaoyue wanted it. At that moment, Wu Chaoyue and Zaiyuan led several cavalry out of the camp and went out of the city to learn about the situation.

Wu Chaoyue was quite lucky. Senggelinqin had already returned to his prince camp directly. Although he was controlled by his subordinates from the city, Qingqin's generals who were guarding the city, and Qingqin's troops who owed Wu Chaoyue a few days ago because of the sniper matters, so Wu Chaoyue was not embarrassed, and was directly led by Qingqi to the entrance of the tunnel inside the city.

The great water level of the tunnel surprised Wu Chaoyue. Not only did the entrance of the tunnel more than ten feet tall had been flooded by water, but the water in the tunnel also spread a lot of the entrance of the tunnel, forcing the Qing army to be surrounded with earth bags, so the water level did not continue to spread. Seeing this scene, Wu Chaoyue was inevitably confused and asked Qingqi and others: "General Qing, why is there so much water in the tunnel? Longhai is the tunnel that irrigated with live water? Could it be the water of the moat? Didn't the water level drop in the moat?"

Qingqi, who was not a local from Tianjin, spread his hands and said he didn't know, but this would not be a problem for Wu Chaoyue. Among the local heroes who helped guard the city, some of them were Tianjin natives. After calling a few local heroes, a village hero who had lived in the city for a long time immediately said: "Sir, it should be the water in the big water puddle. There is a lot of water there and living water, so the water in the tunnel is so big."

"Big water puddle? Living water?" Wu Chaoyue felt aroused and asked again: "There is a big water puddle in Tianjin? Where is it?"

"Sir, there are more than one big puddle in Tianjin. There are three. The two largest puddles are at the south gate." Na Xiangyong replied truthfully: "The three puddles are all living water. The water introduced from the four puddles. The three puddles are connected to the moat, and the moat is connected to the Haihe River, so the water is very large."

"Tianjin's moat is connected to the Haihe River? And the water holes in the city?" Wu Chaoyue was very happy and asked again: "What if the Haihe River has a lot of water? And, where did the water go out again?"

"There is a gate in the southeast corner of Tianjin..., which can control the direction of water inlet." Na Xiangyong replied, recalling: "The water outlet is also at the south gate, and the river on the left side of the south gate is the water outlet."

After listening to the introduction of the township Yong, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate and immediately ordered the township Yong to lead the way and take him to check the specific situation of Tianjin water conservancy facilities. As a result, after on-site exploration, Wu Chaoyue found that the situation was exactly like Na Xiangyong's introduction. At the southeast corner of Tianjin City, there was indeed a river connecting the Haihe River and the Tianjin moat. There was a sluice at the mouth of the river to control the water flowing into the city. The dry water forced the water to the north to maintain the water supply to the whole city. During the flood season, the river water was directly discharged to the flood discharge river west of the south gate. The moat had four water gates connecting the city. The flood discharge river that discharged the remaining water was manually excavated, which flowed through the Chenjiagou area and introduced the canal south to the canal. (Real terrain)

Seeing this, even though he was not very proficient in water conservancy, Wu Chaoyue immediately knew that if he wanted to trap the Taiping Army in Tianjin, it would be easy to kill him. As long as he destroyed the gate, it would lose the function of regulating the water flow, and blocked the flood discharge river. Even if the Taiping Army could block the water gate and not flood the city with floods, he could turn Tianjin into a horizon, making it difficult for the Taiping Army to fly!

How to block the Taiping Army's escape route was found, but Wu Chaoyue's slim face was never at all happy. Wu Chaoyue didn't want to trap national heroes such as Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan to death in Tianjin. It was Wu Chaoyue's real purpose and greatest wish! So Wu Chaoyue did not wait to run to Shengbao to offer advice and seek merit, but on the contrary hesitated. "Is it important to save Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan? Or is it important to make contributions to the Wild Boar Skin family?"

At this time, Zai Yuan, who had been following him, couldn't help but be curious and began to ask Wu Chaoyue why he personally explored Tianjin's water conservancy facilities. After he hesitating for a while, he finally told Zai Yuan the way to divert water and siege the city. Zai Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and slapped his legs and said, "A good idea! It's a good idea! It's not a single soldier, and the water of the sea and river will be trapped to death. We should implement this good idea immediately!"

"But the prince, it's too time-consuming." Wu Chaoyue warned: "Changmao is not a fool. If you find that the situation is wrong, you will definitely block the four water gates and prevent the flood from entering the city. At that time, the flood will certainly block Changmao's escape route, but it will also block our siege. There is quite a lot of food in Tianjin. We want to wait until Changmao's grain is gone and we don't know how much time and military pay and food will be spent!"

Zaiyuan was stunned for a moment, and hesitated for a while, but how much military pay, money and food was consumed was a headache for the Military Affairs Department. Our Prince Zai is neither the Minister of Military Affairs nor the Minister of Revenue, so he didn't have to worry about them. So Zaiyuan just hesitated for a moment and immediately said: "This is a matter for the future. Let's tell General Sheng about this matter first and discuss with him whether he should do this."

After saying that, Zai Yuan quickly urged Wu Chaoyue to see Shengbao with him immediately. Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to reward the village hero who provided important information with five taels of silver, and then returned to Beicang camp with Zai Yuan. After seeing Shengbao, Zai Yuan had just finished talking about the plan to siege the flood that Wu Chaoyue had figured out. Shengbao immediately slapped the table and shouted: "A clever plan! Weiting is smart, you can come up with such a good trick by going to the scene to see it once! Start implementing it immediately, and let Changmao completely trap him to death!"

After the cheers, Shengbao had to raise the tent and arrange troops to carry out the matter. Wu Chaoyue quickly stopped it and said, "Master, please listen to what the officials said. Drawing water and siege the city can make it difficult to fly, but if our army wants to fight quickly, it will inevitably become a bubble. Now, long hair is rampant, and wars are everywhere in the south, military pay, money and food are huge, and the Qing treasury is stretched, so it has to be cast as fifty dollars for the state. The emperor and the court are always worried about money and food. If we fight with Changmao, the war will continue to last longer, which will inevitably make the court's money and food situation even more difficult. Therefore, as ministers, we must consider the situation of the emperor and the court."

Although he was in his heart to facilitate the Taiping Army to break through and escape, Wu Chaoyue said it beautifully, at least he was thinking about Emperor Xianfeng everywhere. So Shengbao and Zaiyuan wanted to make contributions and asked for rewards. He did not dare to accuse Wu Chaoyue of any of them, but he had to nod and praised Wu Chaoyue's loyalty to the Wild Boar Skin family.

Undaring to refute Wu Chaoyue's point of view, Shengbao could only ask Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, since that's the case, what can you do to fight quickly? Take Tianjin as soon as possible and destroy Changmao?"

Wu Chaoyue was speechless. If the Taiping Army left the city to fight, then Wu Chaoyue would be sure to defeat the main force of the Taiping Army and force them to retreat south to end this hopeless Northern Expedition. However, the Taiping Army hid in Tianjin and couldn't come out, waiting for the reinforcements promised by Yang Xiuqing. Wu Chaoyue really had no choice but to have all the friendly troops. Wu Chaoyue could not bring Wu army with only five battalions of troops to bravely attack Tianjin City, which is guarded by 50,000 Taiping Army, right?

Seeing Wu Chaoyue silent, Shengbao and Zaiyuan knew that he had no choice. When Chuyuan turned his eyes and said, "Master Sheng, why not do this? You and I will jointly submit our plan and pros and cons of the city to report to the emperor, asking the emperor to decide whether to let us wipe the Changmao for a long time, or to find another way to destroy the thief."

Of course, Zaiyuan did this to shirk responsibility. He kicked the ball to Emperor Xianfeng first, so that Emperor Xianfeng would choose whether to completely cure the root of the disease with steady slow medicine or to use fast medicine to cure the root of the disease without protecting the root of the disease. At that time, no matter how Emperor Xianfeng chose, Shengbao and Zaiyuan would not have to bear the responsibility for any mistake in decision-making. When Shengbao heard this, he nodded immediately and agreed to accept it. Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to agree to let Emperor Xianfeng choose what tactics to adopt when he could not make a decision.

Wu Chaoyue still underestimated Senggelinqin. The memorial written by Shengbao and Zaiyuan was sent out by the fast horse. The banquet used by Shengbao to reward Wu Chaoyue was just set up. Our monk prince ran into the central army tent happily. As soon as we met, we couldn't wait to say to Zaiyuan: "Prince, Prince, good thing, the slave has already figured out a way to trap and grow hair! As long as we use the slave method, we can't escape any of the long hairs in Tianjin!"

Zai Yuan was surprised and asked what wonderful plan Senggelinqin had come up with. However, Senggelinqin said a method that was exactly the same as Wu Chaoyue’s idea to destroy the sluice gate in the southeast corner of Tianjin, blocking the drainage river west of the south gate of Tianjin, and at the same time expanding the water inlet of the Haihe River connecting the Tianjin moat, evacuating the Haihe River to surround Tianjin City, completely blocking the Taiping Army’s road out of the city!

After listening to Senggelinqin's clever plan, Zaiyuan couldn't help but feel a little speechless, and after a while, he said, "Prince, how did you come up with this method?"

"Of course, it was the result of my unremitting efforts to explore the terrain of the Tianjin rivers by myself." Senggelinqin replied without blushing, and asked with a smile: "Prince, how about it, my method is good, right?"

Shengbao and Zaiyuan looked at each other, wondering why the military intelligence of the monks suddenly increased a lot? Wu Chaoyue suddenly asked: "My monks, have you seen the village hero who has been rewarded with the silver by the officials?"

"See..." Our monk almost showed a flaw, but fortunately, we closed our mouths in time. Then our monk immediately turned his face and shouted, "Bold, what are you? How dare you ask me directly?"

Wu Chaoyue sneered, Zaiyuan and Shengbao also realized it suddenly. Shengbao smiled and said, "Prince, this trick is indeed very good, but I'm sorry, Weiting had already told me this trick to me before, you are one step late."

He looked at Wu Chaoyue pretending to behave, and Senggelinqin snorted heavily and said, "I didn't expect that Lord Wu is still a little brainy and can think of it with me, but there is no way. I have already submitted a letter to the court and ask the emperor to start implementing this plan."

"This bastard is really useless to seize the merits." Shengbao and Zaiyuan said in their hearts that he despised our monk prince, and then Shengbao smiled and said, "Prince, I am so sorry. This commander has also submitted a letter to the court and asked the emperor to approve our army to implement this plan, so..."

"Master Sheng, Tianjin South Gate battlefield, you are left to me to be responsible!" Senggelinqin interrupted Shengbao's words and sneered: "Haihe Gate and Tianjin Drainage River are all within my defense zone, so the matter of diversion and siege of the city can only be carried out by my troops!"

"Your Majesty, it is the minister who came up with this plan first." Wu Chaoyue opposed anxiously.

"Shut up!" Senggelinqin scolded again and said brutally: "You just came up with this plan with me at the same time. I am just a little far away, just a step slower! The battlefield of the South Gate is under my responsibility, and no one can take it away!"

After saying that, Senggelinqin shook her sleeves and strode out of the central army's tent. However, what we, the monk, probably never dreamed of in our dreams, was that as soon as he left, Shengbao and Zaiyuan immediately pointed at his back and laughed. Zaiyuan was laughing, but also pointed at Shengbao and Wu Chaoyue and scolded: "Kezhai, Weiting, you two bad species are simply cheating! Kezhai, point out the pros and cons of diversion and siege to the emperor, and consider the emperor and the court in everything. The monk only cares about his own merits and robbing merits. He wants the emperor to agree to him immediately. After reading your memorials and his letters, the emperor will definitely spoil the monk to death!"

"He deserves it!"

Sheng Bao laughed wildly, while Wu Chaoyue just smiled slightly, and said in his heart: "Will the IXian Wild Boar Skin promise to do this? If the IXian Wild Boar Skin really intends to annihilate the Northern Expedition Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at all costs, how can I find a way to help Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan and others escape?"

Shengbao, Zaiyuan and Wu Chaoyue still underestimated our monk's intention to serve the country. While Shengbao held a banquet to reward Wu Chaoyue's suggestion, in order to seize the first merit of diversion and siege of the Taiping Army, our monk could not wait to start arranging the water diversion and siege plan. He decided to send elite infantry to destroy the Haihe Gate that night, and at the same time organized a large number of migrant workers to fill the drainage rivers of Tianjin moats, and at the same time expand the water outlet of the Haihe River.

The monk's plan only has one small problem, that is, the frozen land is hard, the civil engineering project is a bit large, and the staff are not enough to dig soil and carry stones. But it doesn't matter. This problem can be solved in just one sentence for the monk. "Recruiting civil servants immediately, regardless of men, women, young and old, can only carry soil and carry stones and swing hoes to dig soil. Give one liter of rice and fifty cents a day, which is enough to make the unruly people willing to work hard for the court!"

It was because of this sentence that a father and daughter and some of their companions who were already on their way back to Beijing were stopped by the monks and subordinates who recruited husbands on the way. After a little discussion, the father and daughter and their companions quickly made up their minds, "Go back to Tianjin, it doesn't matter how much money they earn, as long as you have the opportunity to see Lord Wu apologize to him in person!"

At the same time, Wu Chaoyue, who had finally escaped from Shengbao, returned to his military camp and finally received a report, "Sir, a civilian from the capital this morning wanted to see you, but you were rumored by Sheng Damao and happened to be away. The civilian was waiting outside the camp gate for almost two hours without waiting for you, so he left by himself."

"What civil servant wants to see me?" Wu Chaoyue was a little confused for a while, but the matter was not big, and the person left again. Wu Chaoyue no longer cared about it. (To be continued.)
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