When the Taiping Army exploded the Yifeng Gate wall, Wu Chaoyue, who had been tired all day, was still asleep. He was awakened by the loud explosion. He heard the continuous bombardment of artillery from the Yifeng Gate. Although he had not had time to explore the authentic explosion effect of the Taiping Army, Wu Chaoyue immediately understood in his heart that he had to start preparing to break through and retreat immediately! Otherwise, once the Taiping Army, who had been secretly helped, successfully enter the city, he would definitely cut himself into pieces!

Of course, regarding whether it is ungrateful, Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang and Ji Wenyuan, etc., all expressed dissatisfaction with the Taiping Army generals!

Understanding the danger of the situation, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate anymore and immediately checked his equipment, then rushed out of the room, and made a loud order to the Wu Jun Lian Yong, who had been awakened by the explosion, ordering his capable assistant Deng Siyuan to lead the troops to stay in the camp and guard the remaining weapons and ammunition. He would not leave without his own order. He also ordered all Lian Yong to check dry food, drinking water and weapons and equipment, each carrying thirty firing guns and bullets to the city. At the same time, he secretly ordered his confidant Wu Dasai to pack up the gold, silver and fine materials, and contact Fu Shanxiang and Wanzhen who lived in the neighboring courtyard first, so that they would not leave their residence for half a step, and be prepared to leave at any time.

After making these arrangements, Wu Chaoyue led his personal troops and another post to the city to meet with Huang Dasha and Meng Huo who were stationed on the city wall. At the same time, the Taiping Army outside the Shence Gate had already dispatched a large number of troops and was coming towards the Shence Gate. The vanguard army had approached within two miles of Shence Gate, which was obviously going to attack Shence Gate like yesterday.

At this time, the hardcore traitor Zhang Jigeng also rushed to the Shence Gate wall with some Lian Yong. When they met, they shouted at Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo in a crying voice: "Master Wu, Geng's garrison, something big is not good! I guessed it. Changmao indeed buried gunpowder on the Yifeng Gate and blew up a section of the city wall!"

"How many times have they exploded? Did Changmao kill him into the city?" Wu Chaoyue asked quickly.

"I heard that the explosion had collapsed six or seven feet, and some Changmao had taken the opportunity to enter the city. The specific situation has not been confirmed yet."

Zhang Jigeng answered truthfully, but Geng Luo shouted loudly when he heard this, and stomped his feet and was at a loss. Wu Chaoyue was both happy and worried. The Taiping Army, who was eager to take revenge, came directly to the side without saying a word. He quickly suggested to Geng Luo: "Brother Geng, since Changmao has entered the city, for safety reasons, I will send a post to the city to guard the city gate, beware of Changmao coming to attack the city gate, and contact Changmao outside the city."

Geng Luo, who was extremely dependent on Wu's military's combat effectiveness, agreed immediately. Zhang Jigeng did not doubt that he was, and did not object. At that moment, Wu Chaoyue quickly asked Huang Dasha to lead the post to guard the city gate corridor, and quietly focused on the control mechanism of the Qianjin Gate of Wengcheng, thinking about how to find an opportunity to destroy the mechanism and make Qianjin Gate useless.

Just after Huang Dasha was sent down the city, Lian Yong, who lived in various temples and temples in the city, went to the city to help the battle, the Taiping Army outside the city had already launched a fierce attack, and even invested more than 2,000 troops at once and directly attacked the city. Wu Chaoyue, Geng Luo, Zhang Jigeng and others had no choice but to resist with all their might, using stone gray bottles to strike the stairs that were built on the city wall, and shooting the distance with a convex gun. During this period, Wu Chaoyue was rare to let his personal soldiers use revolver guns to shoot the ants and attach them to the enemy, and desperately stabilize the defense line of Shence Gate.

With the advantage of being condescending, the Taiping Army's siege was quite monotonous. In addition to using the Flying Ladder Ant Attachment, it was only to hit the city gate with a hit wood. It was easier to deal with it. It was not a big problem to ensure the safety of Shence Gate for the time being. However, the situation in the city was very bad. There were thick smokes in Yifengmen Street, Sanpailou, Matai Street and Jinchuan Gate. I don't know if it was the Taiping Army that had already been killed or the members of the Tiandihui Association setting fires to create chaos. At the same time, there were constant cannons on Chaoyangmen and Jubao Gate, and it was obvious that fierce battles had begun.

Affected by this, the panic-ridden people of Jiangning basically chose to stay away from their doors. The Jian Yong, who had negative combat power in the Bureau of Defense, basically did not go to the city to help with the battle. Although the morale of Jian Yong controlled by Zhang Jigeng was relatively high, only 600% went to the city wall to fight, and the rest were all deserters. The already thin troops on the Shence Gate side became even thinner.

The critical moment was coming to test the command ability of Jiangning bosses such as Lu Jianying and Xianghou. As a result, Zhang Jigeng was crying and Wu Chaoyue was secretly happy that Lu Jianying, who was responsible for the defense of the outer city, had never issued an order to deal with such a crisis. However, the inner city heard that a reserve team was sent to rescue Yifeng Gate, but this hearsay was never confirmed. On the contrary, there was also a fire and smoke coming from the Taiping Gate, which was the most remote location. Some people reported that the gunfire was very dense and confirmed that the gunfire was sounding inside the city wall.

Without the perspective of God and with serious lack of intelligence support, Zhang Jigeng, the most strategic in Jiangning City and Wu Chaoyue, who is the most capable of fighting, both were helpless in such a chaotic and complex situation. They could only fight against the attack of the Taiping Army, and sent people to Lu Jianying of the Liangjiang Governor's Office to contact Lu Jianying, and at the same time contacted other gentry directors of the Preparatory Defense Bureau, so that they could organize Lian Yong to go to the city to help as much as possible. As a result, the person who contacted Lu Jianying did not come back. Hui Zheng, who had a small friendship with Wu Chaoyue, stumbled to the Shence Gate in his official uniform, shouted to Wu Chaoyue in his crying voice: "Brother, it's not good. Changmao exploded the wall of Yifeng Gate and seized the gap in the city wall. The large thighs of Changmao are entering the city, and the outer city has been broken!"

"Where is the Lu platform? Where has he been?" Zhang Jigeng asked in a hurry.

"He went to the inner city." Hui Zheng said with a sad face: "Just heard that Changmao had entered the city, Lu Jiantai went to the inner city, saying that he wanted to discuss with General Xiang how to defend the city, but he never came back once he went."

"Old man!" Zhang Jigeng, who had been angry at Lu Jianying, punched the city wall with a heavy punch and roared: "What's the discussion about how to defend the city? Ninety-nine of this old man escaped again and entered the inner city to escape!"

"Mr. Bingyuan, don't be stunned." Wu Chaoyue took the opportunity to instigate: "Use the method we discussed yesterday, you take my flag to Yifeng Gate, arrange suspicious soldiers to intimidate Changmao, and buy us time to respond!"

"The situation on Yifeng Sect is critical, you should go." Zhang Jigeng opposed and said, "I will stay at Shence Sect with your flag to restrain the long hair here for you."

"You are confused!" Wu Chaoyue was so anxious that he stomped his feet. He said quickly with great confidence: "In addition to my courage in Jiangning City, there is also a reliable army? I was responsible for helping guard Shence Gate without orders. If Lu Jiantai and General Xiang had any urgent military orders and could not contact me in time, wouldn't it be a big mistake for the city defense?"

I felt that Wu Chaoyue's words made sense. Zhang Jigeng, who was determined to defend Jiangning City, did not hesitate. He immediately took the Wu banner from Wu Chaoyue and took his Lian Yong as Wu Jun Lian Yong to Yifeng Gate to assist in the battle. Before leaving, Zhang Jigeng held Wu Chaoyue's hand and said, "Master Wu, after I leave, I must let other gentry directors of the Preparatory and Defense Bureau try to organize Lian Yong to the city. Even if they are unreliable in the war, they can resist for a while for you to get out and execute the military orders of the Mainland Platform."

"I know, go quickly. If you are late, Changmao will come up again, and you can't leave even if you want to."

Wu Chaoyue urged impatiently, and Zhang Jigeng did not hesitate anymore. He quickly took the opportunity of the Taiping Ant-Attached Army being temporarily killed and retreated. He took his Lian Yong to attack Wu Chaoyue's military flag and marched west along the city wall, rushed to Yifeng Gate to help the battle. He deliberately let those Lian Yong, who were carrying the Wu army scrapped bayonets, walking next to the arrow pile, creating the illusion that Wu Jun Lian Yong had been dispatched to Yifeng Gate for reinforcements. Wu Chaoyue ordered the Self-Attached Self-Attached Self-Attached Self-Attached Second Army to temporarily remove the bayonets to avoid exposing the true position of the Self-Attached Army.

Not to mention, Wu Chaoyue's suspicious plan really played a big role. In the monocular telescope, he saw Wu Chaoyue's big flag with his teeth and claws moving towards Yifeng Gate. Ji Wenyuan, who was red in his eyes, immediately strengthened his siege and invested 4,000 troops in one breath on the Yijiao battlefield, trying to restrain the "Wu Jun Lianyong" who was leaving in line. As a result, although it did put a lot of pressure on the real Wu Jun Lianyong, he suffered a loss. The weapon was too single and the effect was never great. Several times, soldiers rushed up to the city wall by luck, and were quickly shot and killed by Wu Jun Lianyong, who had temporarily removed the bayonet, and failed to defend the city wall. In the end, Ji Wenyuan had no choice but to send someone to report the situation to Li Kaifang, who was the main attacker of Yifeng Gate.

After finally repelling the crazy attack of the Taiping Army, Wu Chaoyue found Hui Zheng who was trembling in the corner of the city wall, grabbed him and whispered: "Hurry up, go to Wanzhen, change your official uniform first, and then take Wanzhen and Fu Shanxiang to my camp. I left a whistle there and asked them to protect you first and wait for my news."

It was also a blessing in mind. Although he vaguely guessed that Wu Chaoyue was already making a run away, Huizheng still did not hesitate at all. He immediately got off the city and went to find his daughter to escape again. As soon as Huizheng left, Wu Chaoyue immediately found Geng's showdown and said to Geng'an: "Brother Geng, what are your plans? Are you planning to live and die with Jiangning City? Or have other plans?"

Looking at the already chaotic streets of the city with a gloomy face, Geng Luo hesitated and asked, "Brother Wu, what are your plans?"

"Damage the Qianjin Gate first, prevent it, and then act when you see the opportunity?" Wu Chaoyue pointed to the Qianjin Gate switch controlled by the Green Camp soldiers and suggested.

Geng Luo, who was greedy and incompetent, only made Wu Chaoyue appreciate it, but he was quite decisive. After hearing Wu Chaoyue's suggestion, Geng Luo rushed forward without blinking his eyelids, and immediately pushed open the guard guards, directly removed the newly renovated control rod, and then adopted Wu Chaoyue's suggestion, allowing Wu Jun Jianyong to smash several large iron nails into the gap of the slide rails, completely blocking the slide rails. Although there were several green camp soldiers next to him, no one spoke up. After all, they also knew that once this thousand-pound gate fell when they left the city to escape, they would become turtles in the jar and could not run away even if they wanted to.

After solving the problem of Qianjin Gate, the Taiping Army's flag could be vaguely seen on the streets of Jinchuan Gate. What made Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo overjoyed was that the Taiping Army outside Shence Gate did not continue to launch an attack, but instead distributed some troops to reinforce the Jinchuan Gate battlefield. Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo were secretly happy, and immediately arranged their subordinates to prepare to escape from the city. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue also promised to lead the army as the vanguard and lead Geng Luo's more than 100 green camp soldiers out of the siege.

Everything is done, and in the end it is only how to break through and escape. However, just as Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo whispered to discuss the details of the breakthrough, a new accident happened suddenly with the support of several followers. The Governor Lu Jianying of Liangjiang suddenly stumbled onto the city wall of Shence Gate. He grabbed Wu Chaoyue as soon as he met, and said in a crying voice: "Master Wu, it's not good to have a big deal. Yifeng Gate is broken, and Jubao Gate is also broken!"

"The Jubao Gate is also broken?" Wu Chaoyue was shocked and said, "There are three urns on the Jubao Gate. How could it be broken so quickly?"

"There are spies on the Jubao Gate!" Lu Jianying cried: "It was said before that Changmao wanted to kill all monks and nuns. Many monks fled into the city to take refuge. They thought that many of those monks were spies who were Changmao changed to dress. They were transferred to Yifeng Gate to reinforce the troops, and suddenly killed the city wall. They opened the city gate to connect Changmao into the city, so the Jubao Gate was broken!"

The Jubao Gate, the most powerful fortification in Jiangning, was easily lost. Without carefully identifying the monk who was most easily disguised by the Taiping Army, and did not dispatch troops from the neighboring city gate to reinforce Yifeng Gate, but wanted to transfer troops from the farthest and most important Jubao Gate. When encountering such a clever commander, Wu Chaoyue was so impressed. After smiling bitterly, Wu Chaoyue felt a little worried and asked again: "Lu Jiantai, then why are you doing at Shence Gate? Wasn't it rumored before that you went to the inner city?"

The book shows that Lu Jianying did escape to Mancheng, but unfortunately Xianghou, who guards Mancheng, not only did not allow Lu Jianying to enter the city, but also asked Lu Jianying to organize the people in the city to fight back. Lu Jianying came to Shence Gate because there was no way out. But for such a shame, Lu Jianying was certainly embarrassed to tell Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo. After hesitating for a while, Lu Jianying said: "I am going to the inner city to discuss how to fight back with General Xiang. Given that the outer city of Jiangning is now difficult to protect, General Xiang decided to retreat to the inner city and wait for reinforcements. The official is ready to go to Zhenjiang to mobilize various reinforcements to launch a counterattack, and come back to reinforce General Xianghou and the others."

Hearing Lu Jianying's words, Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo's eyes lit up. Then Wu Chaoyue asked in surprise: "Lu Jiantai, are you going to Zhenjiang to recruit reinforcements? Now Changmao besieged city, how do you go out?"

"That's why I came to you." Lu Jianying said with a sad face: "Master Wu, I ordered you to lead your troops to escort me out of the city and break through the Changmao Cangjiang to seek help!"

If you escape from the city without permission, you will not be able to escape in the future. However, it is completely different to be ordered to protect Lu Jianying from the city to break through. So when you hear Lu Jianying's order, Wu Chaoyue immediately sang a promise, and even smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits. Geng Luo on the other side was anxious and asked, "Lu Jiantai, what about me? There are only more than 100 green camps under the last general. Master Wu has protected you to break through. How can I defend the Shence Gate?"

"Let's go together, let's go together." Lu Jianying said hurriedly: "Geng Shouyan, you can also escort me to break through."

Geng Luo finally smiled like Wu Chaoyue, while Lu Jianying stomped his feet repeatedly and ordered Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo to prepare to protect him to break through. Wu Chaoyue and Geng Luo quickly agreed and quickly decided that Wu Jun Lian Yong would go down to the city first to gather, and then Geng Luo would follow the green camp out of the city, leaving Jiang Ning Lian Yong, who was still unknown, to continue to hold on in the city.

It was not until after protecting Lu Jianying's city that Wu Chaoyue was surprised to see that Lu Jianying brought several carriages and twenty war horses, each of which was carrying two large packages. Although the old Governor Lu's face was a little red, claiming that the packages were filled with official documents and books, Wu Chaoyue was too lazy to care about what was installed on it. He also had an idea to ask for a carriage from Lu Jianying, sent someone to carry the remaining gunpowder on the city wall to the carriage, arranged the leads, tied a string of firecrackers on the horse, and blindfolded the horse's eyes with great viciousness...

After receiving Wu Chaoyue's order, Deng Siyuan, who was staying in the camp, brought Huizheng and his daughter and Fu Shanxiang to the city to meet Wu Chaoyue. Wu Chaoyue first distributed 80% of the remaining ammunition to his own army to carry with him, leaving only 20% to prevent it. He arranged for Huizheng and Lu Jianying to squeeze in a carriage, let Fu Shanxiang and Wanzhen take another carriage, and checked the carrying of dry food and drinking water again. Wu Chaoyue asked the green camp soldiers controlled by Geng Luo to open the city gate, adjust the formation in the city city, and finally opened the city gate of the city city to lead the army, and also drove the carriage with gunpowder to the front.

What made Wu Chaoyue speechless was that although he had repeatedly promised to break through with the Green Camp soldiers, only fifty or sixty of the more than 100 Green Camp soldiers from Shence Gate followed them out and ran back to the city to take advantage of the situation, or change their clothes and hide in their residences to escape.

Before the matter was over, when the Shence Gate suddenly opened, a team of Qing soldiers suddenly broke out of the city. Ji Wenyuan, who was waiting in the distance, sent a army forward without hesitation to stop it. Then, before the formal battle was formal, the green camp soldiers who left the city collapsed again, shouted in a blink of an eye and escaped cleanly, including Geng Luo, who had already changed into the clothes of the people, fled to Xuanwu Lake, which was not blocked by the Taiping Army. He also ran and shouted loudly, "Brother Wu, I'll go to Xuanwu Lake to explore the way for you! If you break through the siege, come and find me!"

I never expected what role these Green Camp masters who had been using big bangs all day long than muskets could play. Of course, Wu Chaoyue did not care about the Green Camp soldiers' self-defeating without fighting, but was worried that they would affect the morale of their own army. Fortunately, the Green Camp soldiers' self-defeating without fighting only caused some Lu Jianying's followers to escape with them. The disciplined Wu Jun Lian Yong was still lined up, and there was no situation where soldiers left the team to escape. But Wu Chaoyue didn't know what exactly was thinking about these Ling Yong.

Without Lu Jianying's instructions, Wu Chaoyue, who was mentally conscious, had already arranged a few personal soldiers to replace Lu Jianying's entourage, led the horses brought by Lu Jianying to continue moving forward, and then raised his telescope to observe the enemy. Seeing that there were not many enemies this time and the equipment was obviously poor, Wu Chaoyue did not immediately order the gunpowder truck to light up, but ordered the army to strode forward, and when approaching the enemy, he installed bayonets and shot. As a result, the Taiping Army, who was unscrupulous, saw Wu Jun Lian Yong suddenly installed bayonets and shot, and was caught off guard and was fleeing by the high-speed firing needle gun, and the corpses were everywhere. He shouted and ran around to escape. Here we must explain that the reason why this Taiping Army was so unstoppable is that they were all second-line auxiliary soldiers.

"Oh no! I've fallen into the trap!"

In fact, when he saw the Qing army who had come out of the city in the telescope suddenly installed a bayonet. Ji Wenyuan, the general of the Taiping Army who was ordered to command the battlefield of Shencemen, had already understood the trap. In regret, Ji Wenyuan did not hesitate and quickly ordered the two thousand most elite soldiers under his command to launch a charge and intercept the real Wu army's Jianyong head-on. At the same time, he sent someone to contact Wei Changhui who was escorting the formation behind, so that Wei Changhui knew that his target was still in Shencemen.

The biggest difference between elite soldiers and auxiliary soldiers is weapons and equipment. When I saw the second wave of Taiping Army coming in the telescope, I was equipped with sharp sharp blades and the expensive standard shields in my hand. Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate anymore and immediately ordered the firecrackers on the gunpowder chariots and war horses to light up the gunpowder chariots and firecrackers on the body of war horses. When the firecrackers exploded violently, the war horses suffered pain, ran along the flat official road, and rushed directly to the enemy coming from the opposite side.

The sky has eyes. At the critical moment, Wu Chaoyue's fire bull scheme in the village showed a huge deviation, that is, he forgot to calculate the burning time of the fuse. When the frightened horse rushed to the Taiping Army's elite soldiers with a gunpowder chariot, the fuse was still not burned out. At the same time, the experienced Taiping Army elite soldiers also dispersed to avoid horses. Wu Chaoyue's fire horse scheme not to mention that it killed and injured a large number of Taiping Army elite soldiers, even if they did not even hurt half of the Taiping Army soldiers, they rushed over directly.

"Damn! Why did I forget to calculate the length of the fuse?!"

When he was screaming regretfully, Wu Chaoyue's triangular eyes suddenly became bigger than cow's eyes. Many Wu Jun Lian Yong also had his eyes wide open, so nervous that he even forgot to breathe and shout!

Because, while the carriage carrying hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder was advancing along the flat official road, it rushed directly towards the Taiping Army's commander flag. Although the Taiping Army soldiers who protected Ji Wenyuan fired arrows and lined up to stop them, the horse's eyes were covered by black cloth, and the beast could withstand the pain. They were shot and shot but did not die for a while, but they ran faster! They rushed even harder!

"Smoke is coming out in the car! There is gunpowder in the car!"

Finally, some Taiping soldiers saw something wrong, and several Taiping soldiers rushed up immediately, risking to kill the bomb to pull the reins of the carriage, and did not give the gunpowder carriage a chance to explode in front of Ji Wenyuan. However, just as they joined forces to hold the crazy horse, the crazy horse raised its hooves and stood up, and the damn fuse on the gunpowder carriage finally burned to the end...

"bombing!"

Amid the loud noise, the smoke filled the gunpowder. The warriors of Taiping Army who sacrificed themselves to stop the horse were naturally raised by the waves of air, and they had already sacrificed heroically before they could even make a sound. However, what made the Taiping Army soldiers unbelievable was that for some reason, Ji Wenyuan, who was at least twenty steps away, fell to the ground, and his upper body and face were still covered with blood and minced flesh!

Behind Ji Wenyuan's head was lying down, there was a bloody and bloody war horse corpse! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!