In a guild hall in Shanghai County.
Liu Lichuan, Li Yunxian, and Zhou Lichun, who had just left the Daotai Yamen, were standing side by side in the small courtyard. In a dimly lit hall facing the courtyard, there were three chairs placed side by side, and three people were sitting there. The man in red robe and scarf.
"Reporting to the Taiping Envoy, Luo Yaotou of the Shanghai New Army will lead his 6,000 new troops to relieve the siege of Jiangning in three days!"
Liu Lichuan reported to the three people in the room with excitement.
"Huh, Jiangning has been captured by the holy soldiers a long time ago. How can he solve the siege?" A female voice with a Hunan accent answered.
Hearing that Jiangning was occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Liu Lichuan, Li Yunxian, and Zhou Lichun all expressed surprise.
Liu Lichuan said: "Sir, if that's the case, can we raise an army to revolt immediately after Luo Yaotou leads his troops to leave Shanghai?"
The female voice with a Hunan accent pondered for a while and then said: "Brother Jiao, is it time?"
A male voice with the same Hunan accent and a rough sound answered the question: "It seems that the time has come! Brother Zhang, please ask the Holy Angel King Wu for an order!"
"yes!"
The person sitting on the right side among the three people stood up from the chair first, then took out an envelope from his arms, then bowed and handed the envelope to the person in the middle.
The people sitting on the chairs in the middle and on the left have also stood up. The person in the middle took the envelope, took out a piece of letter paper, and handed the envelope back to the person on the right.
The person sitting on the left side was a graceful woman. She walked to the side of the main room, opened the curtains with a clatter, and pushed the window hard. With a squeaking sound, the bright afternoon sunshine came into view. When the light came in, the originally dark and depressing room was suddenly filled with golden light.
The messenger of heaven in red clothes and red scarf, holding the edict of the Holy Angel King Wu, was suddenly filled with golden sunlight, and his face with a muscular beard looked sacred and solemn.
Liu Lichuan, Li Yunxian, and Zhou Lichun glanced at the "not angry but fierce" face of the Jiao Shengshi, and quickly lifted up their gowns and knelt down to listen to the order.
This "Envoy Jiao" is Jiao Hong. It was he, Zhang Sanxiang, and Xu Yuegui who came to deliver the angelic edict to the three Hongmen bosses on the beach today. I saw Jiao Hong unfolding the edict written by Luo Yaoguo himself. , read in a Hunanese Mandarin: "The Holy Angel of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, King Luo of Wu, the True Destiny, hereby informs you that the demon leader Luo Xueyan will lead his troops north to rescue Jiangning in a few days. By then, Shanghai will be surrounded by emptiness. It is you, the Heaven and Earth Society, and the Little Sword Society. This is a good opportunity for heroes to raise their troops. You must raise your troops decisively, seize the county seat, destroy the demons, attack the concession, and conquer the ocean..."
After listening to Jiao Hong read the edict, Liu Lichuan, Li Yunxian and Zhou Lichun who were kneeling below were all shocked and could not speak for a while. After a while, Liu Lichuan was heard to ask: "I dare to ask the envoy, this Is this really the edict of His Highness the Holy Angel King Wu?"
"How can it be false? Come and see for yourself, this is the handwriting of the Holy Angel!"
Faced with such an unreasonable question, Jiao Hong was not angry at all. He took the initiative to take two steps forward and handed Liu Lichuan the order written by Luo Yaoguo in his hand.
When Liu Lichuan took the order and read it, he was even more shocked.
Because the content of the imperial edict is exactly the same as what Jiao Hongnian said! Moreover, the ink on the imperial edict has long since dried, and there is no scent of ink anymore. It is obvious that it was not written just now.
As far as Liu Lichuan knew, Luo Xueyan's decision to send troops in three days should have just been made!
"May I ask when this edict was issued?" Liu Lichuan asked in a low voice.
"There is a date on it, it was five days ago!" Jiao Hong replied, "It was delivered to me yesterday."
"But..." Liu Lichuan said, "As far as I know, Luo Yaotou only decided to send troops in the past two days..."
"Hahaha..." Jiao Hong, who had already sat down on his chair again, laughed a few times, "Of course the Holy Angel is good at calculations, so he can predict that Luo Yaotou will send troops a few days in advance."
Then he waved to Liu Lichuan, Li Yunxian, Zhou Lichun and the other three people to stand up: "Everyone, please get up. If you don't understand anything, just ask."
"May I ask your Majesty," Li Yunxian asked, "Did the Holy Angel's order say that we should attack the concession and chase the barbarians?"
"Yes!" Jiao Hong replied, "When the three of us parted ways with the Holy Angel in Wuchang, the Holy Angel once said: The enemies of heaven are led by foreign barbarians. If you want to reject the foreign barbarians, you must take concessions!"
Liu Lichuan looked worried and said, "But once we attack the concession, will it attract foreign troops to intervene?"
Li Yunxian also said: "Your Majesty, at present the foreign barbarians still claim to be neutral. If we storm the concession and the foreign barbarians turn to the Manchus, and then provide Luo Xueyan with guns and ammunition, we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat him!"
Zhou Lichun cupped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, please tell the Holy Angel again that the real enemy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River is Luo Xueyan of the Yanfa Road in the south of the Yangtze River. If this thief is not eliminated, it will be difficult to pacify the south of the Yangtze River!"
Jiao Hong said sternly: "What you have said has been determined by the angels. As for Luo Xueyan of Salt Law Road in the south of the Yangtze River, will the 20,000 troops led by the Holy Angel be unable to capture him? You can just act as ordered.
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Zhang Sanxiang saw that the three people in front of him still didn't believe in angels, so he said firmly: "Don't worry, the Holy Angel is a person who descended from heaven. Before he descended from heaven, our Taiping Kingdom was still wandering around, even in a county.
If there is none, what is the situation now? It all depends on the calculations of angels and gods!"
After all, Luo Xueyan has no chance of winning."
"That's right," Xu Yuegui said with a smile, "every move Luo Xueyan makes, the Holy Angel can do it."
When Liu Lichuan, Li Yunxian, and Zhou Lichun heard what these three people said, they all had no choice but to say to Jiao Honggong: "We respectfully receive the edict from the Holy Angel King Wu."
"Woo"
"How dare the traitor do this!"
"Wow Jinling, wow the city..."
"Five thousand Eight Banners strong force, 20,000 Dingyu and their families... gone, gone! Woo hoo
In the second hall of the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen in Suzhou Academy Lane, a group of senior officials wearing flower feathers on their heads
The honest official is crying loudly!
This group of officials includes Jiangsu Governor Yiliang, Assistant Military Minister Shengbao, First-class Imperial Envoy Sushun, Assistant Imperial Envoy Yuanbao, Assistant Envoy Bai Siwen, Counselor Li Hongzhang and others. They are filling the city for Jiangning. I am crying bitterly about being breached and the Taiping Army massacred the city!
In fact, the whole city of Jiangning had been massacred by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom long ago. However, Yiliang, Shengbao and the others did not get the exact information and still had illusions. Until this morning, the magistrates of Yizheng County of Yangzhou Prefecture and Jurong County of Jiangning Prefecture sent people respectively. A notice of mourning was sent. Both notices said that they had rescued a few Eight Banners soldiers who had sneaked out of Nanjing City during the chaos. They learned from them that Jiangning Mancheng had bravely resisted for thirteen hours after Jiangning City was breached. , finally ran out of ammunition and food, and had no choice but to be defeated, and then the heroic deeds of thousands of Eight Banners troops and 20,000 family members died...
Now there is no hope at all. All the Eight Banners disciples in Jiangning City have passed the first grade.
Okay, how can we save this?
And the losses caused to the Eight Banners by the city of Jiangning can be said to be the highest or second highest since the founding of the Qing Dynasty! Probably only the battle in the Yongzheng year that made the whole city of Beijing pay filial piety can be compared with the Battle of Tongbo !
However, those who died in the battle with Tongbo were all soldiers, and this time many people were involved in the battle. The absolute number of losses should be ranked first. Moreover, with Tongbo, it was an ambush in the field, and most of them were beaten back and forth. More than 10,000 people were killed in just one month, and this battle of Jiangning actually started in two days. Jiangning City - the first wave of attacks was destroyed in one day! The whole city was destroyed in another day... Yiliang didn't know how to do it. I wrote a memorial, how do I blow it? Five thousand Eight Banners soldiers defended the fortified city for thirteen hours, and then they were all beaten by Changmao?
I don’t know how these people will talk to their ancestors after they go down. Back then, Duduo was surrendered and entered the city at about this speed, right?
What's even more frightening is that with Changmao's ability to attack difficult situations, can Suzhou still be able to defend it? Can Jiangnan... still be able to defend it?
A group of loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty were crying in the lobby of the governor's office. Suddenly, an official came flying in from outside, shouting as he ran back: "Sir, Mr. Futai, reinforcements have arrived! Reinforcements have arrived in Kunshan!"
Upon hearing the news, Yiliang cried and was stunned. Can there be reinforcements in this situation?
He followed the call and saw a fourth-grade civil servant in his thirties, who looked quite capable, jogging all the way with his robe in hand. It was Qiao Songnian, the prefect of Suzhou.
"Heli, what did you say?" Yiliang asked in a trembling voice.
"Futai, uh, reinforcements are coming." This Magistrate Qiao is from Shanxi, and his words smell like vinegar.
"Do you know where the reinforcements came from?" Yiliang asked.
"Shanghai! It's from Shanghai!" Magistrate Qiao said, "It's the soldiers of Luo Xueyan, the governor of Jiangnan Yanfa Road and Jiangning. Five or six thousand people came!"
Chapter completed!