(PS: Yesterday's chapter duplication was because there was a problem with the background. Pure Wolf was not at home all day and could not operate it. It has been deleted now.)

Li Kaifang, a famous general of the Taiping Army, has been very depressed recently. Since the end of the Changsha War, Li Kaifang has never been so depressed. Li Kaifang is depressed because of an enemy, and this enemy is no one else, but Wu Chaoyue, the transcendent demon in the mouth of the soldiers of the Taiping Army!

There is no need to talk about the cause of Wu Chaoyue and Li Kaifang's vengeance. The first shot fired in Jiangning killed Li Kaifang's good brother Lin Fengxiang seriously. The angry Li Kaifang volunteered to attack Jiangning Beicheng in front of Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing. The primary goal is to avenge Lin Fengxiang, a good brother who has lived and died for many years!

But Li Kaifang never expected that this was just the beginning of his depressedness, and it was just the beginning of his grim apology. Ji Wenyuan, who had moved to the camp first, was completely abused by the surpassing little demon, but also defeated the general Cai Lianxiu. When Li Kaifang personally led his army to move to Shence Sect, he made the mistake of underestimating the enemy because of his eagerness to take revenge. He accidentally fell into the trick of surpassing little demon and sent troops rashly. If it weren't for the Qing Yao's city defense fortifications, Li Kaifang would have almost lost hundreds of elite strong soldiers and another favorite general Huang Yiduan. Because of this, Yang Xiuqing sent someone to spread the message, which made Li Kaifang lose some face in front of his colleagues and subordinates.

In fact, it is absolutely not a big deal to underestimate the enemy. Although there are few grassroots generals in the Qing army who took the initiative to surrender to the Taiping Army, there are not a single grassroots generals in the Qing army. When Jiangning City was already surrounded by the Taiping Army, it is absolutely not surprising that there are those who have treasons in the Qing army. In addition, there is the Qing army green camp soldier who came to offer a book of surrender. He had no intention of escaping. He also asked what rewards he could have after surrender as soon as he met. In addition, he smoked smoked opium. No matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like a fearless death soldier who was willing to kill himself. Finally, when the unlucky personal soldier was wailed by Li Kaifang, Li Kaifang, who had never read the military book, suddenly realized that the unlucky guy in front of him might be really unaware of it, but he was just a bait that surpassed the little demon to catch big fish.

In addition, the defense of Shence Gate also made Li Kaifang depressed and angry. In order to waste the Qing army's artillery shells and gunpowder and consume the physical fighting spirit of the Qing army defending the city, Li Kaifang used his tired plan and sent small troops to harass the major city gates day and night, which also achieved satisfactory results. Only Shence Gate is an exception. The small army of Taiping Army, let alone harassing the defenders, may be hit by cold guns on the city a little closer to the city wall, and the casualties are quite serious. In the end, Jiangning could only watch Jiangning demolish many houses and courtyards outside Shence Gate, making it more difficult for the Taiping Army to sneak attack Shence Gate.

All the various items added together, Li Kaifang really wanted to not hate the little demon to the core. He dreamed of how to take revenge. His biggest wish was to hope that the little demon would lead his demon soldiers out of the city and fight Li Kaifang to the death with his dignified soldiers! - Of course, Li Kaifang also knew very well that this was impossible. The despicable and cunning little demon would never give up the advantage of the city wall.

It was because he believed that the Super Little Demon could not lead troops out of the city to fight, so when the Taiping Army scout sent the news that Wu Jun was brave enough to leave the city to Li Kaifang. Li Kaifang, who was studying the authentic siege tactics, almost suspected that he had heard it wrong. After confirming that he was not dreaming, he also asked that Wu Chaoyue had only brought about 500 people out of the city, Li Kaifang did not hesitate and immediately ordered the gathering of 4,000 troops and led the camp himself, and rushed directly to the Shence Sect.

It's time to take a look at the situation on Wu Chaoyue's side. Given that Lu Jianying promised to reward ten taels of silver for every enemy he killed when he left the city, he understood that Jiangning City was destined to be unstoppable, Wu Chaoyue, who had hesitated for a long time, finally made up his mind and decided to take all the Wu army out of the city to fight with the Taiping Army, showing his might and morale, so that the Taiping Army knew that it was not easy to mess with, and also took the opportunity to test the real combat power of the Taiping Army so that it could break through and escape in the future.

For safety reasons, Wu Chaoyue certainly did not dare to take the army too far after leaving the city. After crossing the moat, Wu Jun Lianyong asked the Jiangning Lianyong, who had been hired with money, to hurry up and demolish the houses outside the city, and wait patiently for the Taiping Army to take the initiative. As expected, after leaving the city, more than an hour passed, the Qing army's green camp alarm sounded from the city wall, saying that the Taiping Army had already attacked and headed directly towards Shence Gate.

He was barely experienced. Wu Chaoyue did not rush to order the army to arrange the army, but ordered the soldiers to check weapons, equipment, dry food and drinking water. At the same time, he asked Jiangning in front to continue construction, and did not allow him to retreat without orders. Then, until Geng Luo shouted that the Taiping Army had entered within five miles, Wu Chaoyue ordered the army to go forward and arrange a hundred steps forward, laying a hollow square array like the last Qingpu Battle, and all three-story queues and all knelt down on one knee to free up space for the Minni guns inside the square. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue assigned forty personal soldiers to help fire with Minni guns in his hands to make up for the lack of long-range firepower.

The square formation was just set up, and when he saw a large group of Taiping troops coming, Jiang Ning Lianyong in front had already run away to the urn city where the city gate was open. Jiang Ning Lianyong had just entered the urn city, and the gate of the urn city was closed immediately, leaving only Wu Chaoyue, the lonely army, to fight the Taiping army outside the city. Seeing this, Wu Chaoyue was not in a hurry, but just said loudly: "Brothers, don't panic. Just as you usually train, you will have two hands and two feet, and you can't get a bullet from us!"

He had fought several battles with the Taiping Army, and one of them was a hand-to-hand battle with bayonets. Wu Jun Lian Yong, who had gradually established confidence, naturally agreed loudly. Although there were some fears, it was much better than the first battle in Qingpu. So after singing the promise, some Lian Yong asked loudly: "Mr. Lian, I heard that every time I kill a long hair and reward ten taels of silver today, is it true?"

"Of course it's true." Wu Chaoyue said loudly with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't deduct a penny from the reward I received today. I'll give you as usual rules. If you are injured, you will double the pension for those who are killed. If you are killed, you will be given a lot of money to his family!"

"Okay, I'm going to get rich today!" countless Wu soldiers cheered loudly and couldn't wait to encourage each other: "Brothers, be brave enough to kill more hair, kill one more and ten taels of silver!"

The morale of the Wu army's Jianyong was high because of the heavy rewards. The Qing generals such as Geng Luo on the city wall were worried because they had already seen clearly with a telescope. The number of Taiping troops coming from the north was seven or eight times that of Wu army's Jianyong. Among them, there was a very large Taiping army flag, which was obviously led by a heavy general of Taiping army. At this time, Lu Jianying and Xianghou and other Jiangning civil and military officials also came to Shencemen to watch the battle. When they saw that the number of Taiping troops coming from the opposite side was quite large, Lu Jianying and Xianghou and others immediately sentenced Wu Chaoyue and Wu Jun to the death penalty - it would be impossible to beat it, as long as the entire army was not wiped out. Xianghou, who had seen Wu Chaoyue disliked from the beginning, was still gloating in his heart, and said, "Okay, Wu Xiaomanzi will definitely die now!"

Of course, if Xianghou could know Li Kaifang's thoughts at this moment, Xianghou would not be so optimistic. After seeing Wu Jun practicing the hollow square formation like a hedgehog from afar, Li Kaifang, who knew the goods, immediately took a breath, knowing that the enemy who could discharge such a formation was definitely not a good person, and today's battle would never be easy to fight!

The undemolished house courtyard in the north greatly hindered the Taiping Army's formation. At the same time, there were guns and cold guns on the Shence Gate City. As a result, Li Kaifang could only place the army on the street next to the cake bridge. He first ordered the soldiers to pay attention to avoid the Qing army's artillery fire, and then sent two hundred musketeers and archers to sneak forward. With the help of the undemolished house courtyard, he seized the advantageous shooting point. Finally, he ordered the love general Huang Yiduan to lead 500 elite soldiers as the vanguard and attack Wu Chaoyue's hedgehog formation head-on, and also ordered: "Remember, no matter how much the price you pay, you must kill me into the interior of the Wu Yao Hedgehog formation! As long as you can successfully break the formation, our army will definitely win this battle!"

Huang Yiduan, who once kicked two Qing soldiers to death with bare hands in a battle, was the first powerful general under Li Kaifang. He was also the vanguard general of the Taiping Army who almost caught a turtle in the jar last time. He had long wanted to slap Wu Chaoyue in the skin and eat meat. So after hearing Li Kaifang's order, Huang Yiduan not only did not feel panic or fear at all, but also happily accepted the order. He immediately took five hundred Taiping soldiers who had been through many battles with shields and trot forward, gradually accelerating, shouting and directly attacking the front of the Wu army's hedgehog formation.

Seeing that the Taiping Army could only invest its offensive forces in batches due to terrain restrictions, Wu Chaoyue of course laughed. When he saw the Taiping Army soldiers carrying shields bulletproof, Wu Chaoyue laughed even happier because Wu Chaoyue had already used the Qing army's shield for experiments. A hundred meters away, it was indeed difficult for Wu Jun Lianyong's firing gun to penetrate the shield, but within fifty meters, he could penetrate whatever he wanted, and basically ignore the existence of the shield.

——But it is not 100%, and there is also a possibility of jumping. For example, in the last Qingpu Battle, the general of the Jiading Uprising Army, Xu Yao, relied on a round iron pot to block the bullets, and luckily formed a jump and escaped. In addition, the vine shield repeatedly soaked in tung oil, and then covered with cotton and silk, also has a good defense against the round projectiles.

As for the Minnie guns equipped by Wu Jun Lianyong, although they used a soft lead bullet with weak penetration, they were better than high accuracy. They wanted to aim at the enemy outside the shield and fired their guns. So Wu Chaoyue was not polite after laughing, and immediately shouted and ordered: "Minnie guns, shoot within 150 meters, be careful to aim! The needle shooter, you are not allowed to get up without orders!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

As the Taiping Army approached quickly, Wu Jun's Minnie gun finally pulled the trigger and fired a series of evil bullets. He also specifically picked up the Taiping generals and flag bearers wearing yellow military uniforms to shoot. As a result, Huang Yiduan, who could be considered invincible in close combat, was in trouble. When he was aimed at three Minnie guns at the same time, and had battlefield experience, he immediately raised his shield to protect the vital points of his head and chest when he heard the gunshot. He leaned against a shield with a cotton-lined shield to block one bullet, but was hit in the thigh by another bullet. As blood splattered, Huang Yiduan staggered and almost fell down, and his thigh was seriously injured and his combat effectiveness suddenly decreased.

Because Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers were idle, they also picked up the Minnie gun and opened fire. There were as many as 60 Minnie guns in the first round. So after the first round of shooting, more than 30 Taiping soldiers fell to the spot, either dead or injured. There were also cheers on the Shence Gate city wall behind the Wu army's phalanx, but many Qing officials also shouted regretfully, "Shoot! Why don't so many people shoot?"

Even though he was severely injured, the experienced Taiping Army soldiers did not stop charging. Huang Yiduan, who was injured in his thigh, was still moving forward with injuries, roaring constantly, "Run! Keep rushing! Don't give Qing Yao a chance to install gunpowder!"

The Minnie gun loading speed is indeed slow. The Taiping soldiers are almost rushing to 60 meters. Only when gunfire sounds sounded in the Wu army's formation, and more than twenty Taiping soldiers were killed and injured with high precision. Wu Chaoyue shouted: "Minnie gunman, stop shooting! The needle gunman, prepare for three stages of shooting! Open fire!"

The cruel massacre began. After strict training, the Wu Jun Lianyong took turns to fire. The first team got up and fired, and immediately knelt down on one knee to load bullets, and replaced the second team to shoot. After the third team fired, the first team had loaded bullets and got up and fired. After three stages of shooting, the high-speed shooting advantage of the rear-loading gun was exerted more vividly at this moment. The continuous firepower was dense, and it was continuously continuous. Countless poor Taiping soldiers were shot one after another, either killed or injured. The body wounded soldiers were stacked layer by layer, quickly covering the battlefield, but almost no soldier could rush into the twenty meters of the Wu Jun Fang formation. The last Qingpu battle was approached by the enemy because Wu Jun Lianyong did not adopt the three stages of shooting tactic.

Seeing this scene, the civil and military officials of Jiangning and Qing soldiers on the city wall were of course cheering and roaring. Li Kaifang, who was watching the battle from afar, could not believe this scene at all. Fortunately, after paying the heavy casualties, some of the Taiping soldiers who had been one after another finally rushed to the vicinity of the Wu army formation. However, without waiting for Li Kaifang to be happy, he was stunned to see that Wu Jun Lianyong not only did not panic at all, but also raised the bayonet and stabbed the Taiping soldiers without hesitation. The bayonet was stabbed fiercely and accurately, and cooperated very skillfully, and gained the upper hand in close combat with local advantages. - After all, the training intensity of Wu Jun Lianyong's bayonet tactics was at the point where he could stab his companions to death.

Relying on the fierce and fearless charge, Taiping soldiers finally accumulated a certain amount of troops on the close-up battlefield. However, because the Wu army formation was too small, Taiping soldiers could not all enter the battle, so they could only dodge to the sides and rush to the two wings of the Wu army formation. However, the facts proved that doing so was completely a suicide. The Wu army Lian Yong, who had been impatient, immediately shot and shot the Taiping soldiers who tried to encircle both wings, screaming and corpses all over the ground. The Wu army snipers who seized the high ground in the formation also kept firing, shooting down the Taiping soldiers who were too dense in formation, and even saved the aiming movement and could directly hit the enemy. In order to make a quick attempt, Wu Chaoyue ingeniously ordered his personal soldiers to stand on the back of his kneeling companion's back to shoot with a firing gun, which further enhanced the fire density.

The Taiping Army's musketeers and archers came to help. Seeing that the battle situation ahead was unfavorable, the Taiping Army archers who were covering the house and warded against the walls of the houses also shot and shot arrows desperately, but the distance was too far, and there was no accuracy at all. They either shot in a miserable manner or simply hit their companions. Only a few feather arrows were shot into the interior of the Wu army's hedgehog formation, which had some effect and almost shot Wu Chaoyue, who was hiding in the hedgehog formation, fearing death. But the distance was too far, and even if it was shot, it would not end Wu Chaoyue's sinful life.

When the Qing army cheered even louder on the city wall, Li Kaifang, who was already sweating all over, then she remembered to send reinforcements and sent a thousand troops in one breath, and divided into two groups to detour the two wings of the Wu army formation. However, unfortunately, these reinforcements also faced the firepower attack of the two wings of the Wu army's Hedgehog Formation, and the firepower density was exactly the same as the front. At the same time, in the case of too heavy casualties, Huang Yi's head-on end also had the danger of not being able to continue his strength, forcing Li Kaifang to send additional troops to the front battlefield.

The gunshots continued, and the smoke filled the guns. The formation of more than 400 Wu army training teams was not messed up at all. They fought against Taiping soldiers who were several times their own troops on three sides, shouting and killing, and the guns and swords were coming and going, and dying screams came one after another. Taiping soldiers continued to die and wound in front of the Wu army. Wu army training teams also continued to suffer casualties, but the square formation was still motionless. The soldiers in the front row were killed and the companions in the second row immediately filled the gap, and then the soldiers in the third row entered the second row, Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers

He added to the third row without hesitation and was in an orderly manner. Although the Taiping Army soldiers were also constantly replenishing troops forward, they suffered a loss. They were too unfamiliar with this phalanx tactic that was in line with the British lobster soldiers, and they still could not enter the Wu army's phalanx formation after paying a huge price. They suffered heavy casualties and suffered heavy casualties in front of the Wu army Lian Yong who was fighting in line, and gradually began to see soldiers fearing the enemy and retreating - the Taiping Army soldiers were also humans and were also afraid of death.

Seeing this, the Qing soldiers and Lu Jianying and other Jiangning civil and military officials on the city wall were of course shouting like thunder, one after another, and one after another. Qi Suzao yelled repeatedly, saying that if there were three thousand such elite soldiers in Jiangning City, they would definitely be able to take Hong Ni's head! Li Kaifang's forehead was sweating coldly on his forehead, and he wanted to temporarily retreat and reorganize the troops, but he understood that once he retreated, he would have to pay a greater price to rush to the Wu army's hedgehog formation, and he did not dare to withdraw the troops and continue to send troops forward. He would only become a taboo tactic of military strategists, and he was completely in a dilemma.

When he was in a dilemma, someone next to him suddenly patted Li Kaifang on the shoulder. He was in a very bad mood. Li Kaifang first pushed the man away angrily, then turned his head to see who was patting his shoulder. When he saw clearly that the person coming was Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Kaifang was shocked and quickly saluted Yang Xiuqing to apologize. Yang Xiuqing waved his hand, raised his telescope and continued to look at the battlefield in the distance, and then said, "Did you underestimate the enemy again? When I was at the Dasheng Pass, I said that you should be wary of surpassing the little demon, why didn't you listen?"

"My general deserves to die." Li Kaifang honestly admitted his guilt and explained: "My general heard that Chaoyue Xiao Yao led his army out of the city, so he brought his army to fight him in a decisive battle. But Mo General never expected that the Qing demon under Chaoyue Xiao Yao's command would be so capable."

"I don't object to your temptation to surpass the little demon's combat power, but you are a stubborn fight. Our soldiers were too injured." Yang Xiuqing asked casually again: "Why don't you withdraw the army and reorganize the team? We will suffer a loss by using scattered attacks in this way?"

"The East King Qiansui cannot retreat! If he retreats, the brothers who died before will die in vain."

Li Kaifang smiled bitterly and could only tell Yang Xiuqing the previous situation honestly. Yang Xiuqing, who had just arrived here from Xiaguan Water Village, nodded, and then realized the difficulties of Li Kaifang not daring to retreat. So after thinking about it, Yang Xiuqing ordered: "Change another army. Even if it is exhausted today, it will be necessary to use up all the demon soldiers that surpass the little demon. Otherwise, the battle with the surpass the little demon in the future will only be more difficult to fight!"

Li Kaifang agreed and hurriedly sent people to send orders to draw Ji Wenyuan's troops from the magnificent mountain to help the battle. However, at this moment, something that made Li Kaifang vomit blood happened. With too much casualties, the Taiping Army, which attacked the left wing of the Wu army formation, retreated and fled, causing the Wu army Lian Yong to cheer and his morale to rise sharply, which also caused the Taiping Army soldiers who attacked the front and right wing to decline. The right wing followed suit and fled. Wu army Lian Yong took the opportunity to concentrate firepower to attack the front enemy, and defeated the Taiping Army in the front.

It was not surprising that the attacking army retreated and adjusted in other battlefields when they could not capture for a long time. However, in today's situation, the Taiping Army retreated and adjusted was equivalent to wasting all previous efforts, and it was also equivalent to letting the Wu army, which had too strong firepower, practiced to slaughter arbitrarily. So after seeing this, Li Kaifang was furious, in addition to ordering the execution of the general who took the lead in escaping, and promised Yang Xiuqing that he would launch another attack, and that he would completely use up the demon soldiers who surpassed the little demon. But Yang Xiuqing shook his head, put down his telescope and sighed: "There is no chance. Overcoming the little demon is not a fool. He will definitely be on guard against this. Retreat and stop letting his brothers die and injured in vain."

Wu Chaoyue is indeed not a fool. He finally retreated from the crazy attack of the Taiping Army. Wu Chaoyue immediately ordered the rear team, which was basically not attacked, to cover the front team and the three posts on both wings to move to the city. The well-trained Wu Jun Lian Yong's rear team divided into two routes and turned forward, forming an arc formation left and right to form an arc formation to protect the other three posts, and the other three posts Wu Jun Lian Yong's contracted inward while carrying wounded companions and carrying the sacrificial comrades.

The team retreated to the city, and the personal soldiers protected Wu Chaoyue in a circular shape and continued to serve as a reserve for the rear team. The whole process was orderly and the order was far different from the Qing army, but it also directly compared all the battle troops under Li Kaifang. - The Wu army was a piece of white paper before joining the army. When he became the Queen Qiu Ba, what he accepted was the most advanced and scientific infantry tactics of this era. In this regard, it was naturally far better than the self-taught Taiping Army.

Seeing this scene, not to mention that Qi Suzao, Lu Jianying and others praised him, Xianghou couldn't help but curse at the flag soldiers beside him, asking him why the flag soldiers under his command were in such a formation? Li Kaifang was desperate. He knew that the soldiers who died today were destined to die in vain. He nodded helplessly and said, "Abide by the order of the King of Dong Qiansui Jun, call the gold and withdraw the troops."

Yang Xiuqing didn't say anything, stared at Wu Chaoyue's big flag with his claws for a long time, and suddenly said, "From now on, no one can attack Shence Gate without my order. In addition, I will add 30,000 rear troops to you, so that they can set up more camp flags outside Shence Gate, build more siege weapons, contact the heaven and earth associations in the city, and let them spread rumors, saying that our army will break Shence Gate to avenge today, and create more momentum for our army to attack Shence Gate, so that Qing Yao would not dare to draw the transcendence to other city gates to participate in the war!"

"As for surpassing the little demon..." Speaking of this, Yang Xiuqing paused and snorted coldly: "When we enter Jiangning City, I will lead our troops to deal with him in person!"
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