Lu Guangzu, deputy commander of Wu Zhenchao, who fled back to Chaozhou from Puning, immediately organized the young and strong men in Chaozhou to join the city to defend the city to prevent the Taiping Army from taking advantage of the situation to seize Chaozhou. He originally thought that Prince Jian would return to the army immediately after he knew that Wu Zhenchao Ha was destroyed, but although he lost his commander, he would probably have the merits and demerits to defend Chaozhou, so he would not be punished too much by the court. However, after a few days, he didn't even see the shadow of the army, and he couldn't help but feel a little panicked.

On the fifth day, Lu Guangzu sent spies to the south of Puning to inquire about the news brought back a bad news. The Taiping Army built more than ten miles of fortifications along the official road in Yunluojing and Beishan Village, completely blocking the road to return to the army. According to the civilians who built the fortifications, the Taiping Army fought fiercely with the Qing army in Xuanwu Mountain in the south. The bodies of the fallen soldiers brought back were four or five thousand, and the casualties were very heavy, but the Qing army was blocked in Xuanwu Mountain.

Although the spies inquired did not indicate exactly whether Prince Jian's army was severely damaged by the Taiping Army, Lu Guangzu captured the news of the big and bad things from the fortifications built by the Taiping Army in Yunluojie. If he was not wrong, the Taiping Army wanted to use these fortifications to seal Prince Jian's army to the south. If Prince Jian could not take Lufeng City, then tens of thousands of troops would be trapped in the Jieshiwei area.

He was trapped in a Jedi and had no food supply. What was the outcome of the army? How could Lu Guangzu, who had been fighting for many years, not know? He wanted to save him, but his subordinates had no soldiers. In panic, he could only send someone to send an urgent report to Fujian, asking the Fujian side to immediately dispatch troops to rescue him.

Chaozhou's urgent request for help was delivered to him the day after Dasu fled from Xiamen to Quanzhou. Dasu was shocked and frightened at the time. What was shocked was that Jidu's more than 20,000 troops could not defeat the Taiping Army, so they asked them to cut off the food route and surrounded the narrow area dozens of miles long from Jieshiwei to Lufeng. What was afraid was that if Jidu died in battle, he, General Annan, would definitely not be able to escape the harsh handling of the court, and the losses he concealed in the Jinxia battle were all light. If the court could not cut off his head, it would be that the tomb of Zhangjia's family would be smoking!

After Prince Nikan died in battle, senior generals such as Beletonqi, Bashan, Bezizakana, Mueryou, Gushanezhen Handai, Yild, Alshan, and other senior generals who followed Nikan to fight were all severely punished by Lejue and dismissal. Some generals of the Han army and Green Camp were even killed dozens of people. At that time, Dasu was in the Nikan army, but he was exempted from punishment for leading other soldiers. However, he remembered the consequences of those colleagues clearly, and now he was a little scared.

If Prince Jian is defeated this time, you can imagine how angry the emperor will be. Even if Prince Jian and the emperor do not deal with it, and even the emperor's thorns and flesh are stinging, this does not mean that if Ji Du dies, the emperor will not attack them, such slaves. The generals who followed Nikan to the south back then were still in the dark.

Dasu's head was so big that his intestines were also regretful. He regretted that he shouldn't have a fever, thinking that Bi Quangong had launched the battle between Jin and Xiamen without authorization, which resulted in heavy casualties in the Fujian Qing army and was unable to go south to rescue Jidu. What he regretted even more was that he should not have submitted a memorial to conceal the losses after the defeat. The court only thought that he had enough troops under his command. Now Chaozhou is asking for help urgently. As the closest military force to Jidu, Dasu's army would not send troops to rescue him, but who else would he expect to save him!

Send troops to help Du, but there is no military force to adjust. If Ji Du is not sent, if Ji Du dies in battle, his life will not be guaranteed. Dasu will never dare to put his life on the favor of the emperor's master. If Ji Du really dies, even if the emperor wants his life, then the emperor will not want him to do so. The princes and ministers will ask him Dasu's head.

Dasu, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, didn't know what to do. At this time, the staff gave him an idea, saying that no matter whether he had enough troops to go south to rescue Prince Jian, this attitude was to be done for the court. Anyway, the court did not know the real situation in Fujian, so he first sent the soldiers from Nanjing, Zhao'an and other places close to Chaozhou to Chaozhou, and reported to the court that they had already dispatched troops to the south. If Prince Jian could save him, they would be happy, and it would be impossible to save him. After all, no one expected that Prince Jian could not defeat the Taiping gang with more than 20,000 troops.

It takes time to transfer troops from Fujian. Some accidents will inevitably occur on the road. Moreover, there must be enough troops to defend Jinxia Zheng Jun. As long as you are in good posture, if you really can't save Prince Jian, no one can say that Dasu has not done his best. Besides, if Prince Jian is really lost to the hands of the Taiping Bandits, the court should first pursue the people from Guangdong, and secondly, the Fujian side as reinforcements, so Dasu doesn't have to worry about anything. It is impossible for the court to have to take action against the commander of Fujian after losing Prince Jian in Guangdong, right? This is a big taboo.

The staff also said that it was just right to take advantage of the south to rescue and count the losses in Jinxia. As long as the people below were kept under the mouths, they would not only be at fault, but they could gain a loyal minister who would support Prince Jian regardless of casualties.

This staff member was the former general general of the Ming Dynasty. After some reason, it sounds like that. After hearing this, Dasu felt that this idea was bad and would damage his reputation, but it was the best way to do so now. He had to adopt it now. He ordered people to hold the general's order to order Nanjing, Zhao'an and other places to send more than 3,000 soldiers to Chaozhou to be led by Lu Guangzu, and ordered Lu Guangzu to regain Puning City occupied by the Taiping Army and open up a liaison channel with the Jidu army, otherwise military law would be carried out. This would be a direct responsibility on Lu Guangzu.

It took more than 3,000 Fujian Qing soldiers to arrive in Chaozhou for four days. Lu Guangzu, who received Dasu's order, was so angry that he cursed, knowing that Dasu was treating himself as a scapegoat. If he succeeded, he was his minister of the inner court, and the general was well-in charge, but if he failed, Lu Guangzu was incompetent.

Even if he scolded him, he could not help even though he knew it was an open conspiracy. Dasu was an internal minister. General Annan sent to Fujian. What was he? Did the emperor listen to him or his own slave?

In order to protect his life, Lu Guangzu had to bite the bullet and he barely gathered more than 2,000 soldiers, plus more than 3,000 soldiers from Fujian, and a total of more than 5,000 soldiers heading towards Puning City. As a result, he failed to attack for several days. No matter how he agitated the generals, the Taiping Army in the city would not leave the city. The generals of the Taiping Army put wine on the top of the city and threw the women's underwear and menstruation from the top of the city to laugh at them. They did not take Lu Guangzu seriously at all, and they were so angry that Lu Guangzu was so angry that they were scolded in front of the formation.

The soldiers under Lu Guangzu's troops were all out of energy and the Fujian soldiers were full of complaints, and no one was willing to go forward to work hard. Lu Guangzu was determined to retreat, but he was afraid that the Qing court would cut off his head if he lost his prince. If he didn't retreat, it would be a big deal to waste it under Puning City. It was really a dilemma. Dasu could still put the blame on him, Lu Guangzu, but he didn't know who he was pushing.

At this time, the Taiping Army had already withdrawn from Xuanwu Mountain Pass to Beishan Village, and a brigade from the third town transported from Huizhou had arrived. Their arrival timely supplemented the strength of the Taiping Army on the North Line, making the Taiping Army more confident in defending the official roads around Beishan Village.

Taiping retreated late at night, and the Qing army discovered that the Taiping army was withdrawing the next day. At first, Ji Du couldn't believe that the Taiping army had retreated. After the second group of people confirmed, Ji was overjoyed and told Du Eryou and Na Hai that it seemed that the Taiping gang had bluffed a few days ago, but in fact its strength was also weak. Du Eryou and the others could not think of a better reason to explain the fact that the Taiping army was withdrawing from Xuanwu Mountain. In order to prevent the night from being too long, Ji Du immediately ordered all troops to go out of Xuanwu Mountain to advance northward, and ordered Ezhen Arile to lead Mongolian Niulu to advance north quickly to strive to catch up with the retreating Taiping army, and to tear off one piece of their meat to avenge Xuanwu Mountain.

As long as it was not a forceful attack, Su Rile naturally worked his life, leading his cavalry to rush across the official road in Xuanwu Mountain and roared northward. As a result, after chasing for several miles, he found the traces of the Taiping Army, but the next scene stunned the Mongolian soldiers. The official road they had already passed by had people dig out countless trenches, and many forts were built behind the trenches. The Taiping Army, who had retreated from Xuanwu Mountain, were hiding in those forts at this moment. Su Rile clearly saw that many of the openings in the forts were equipped with muskets. The trenches were also covered with spikes, and the only passage that could be passed was the wooden bridges hanging opposite.

These fortifications built by the Taiping Army were endless at a glance. There were countless places to break through. You can see with the naked eye that there were countless artillery under some fortress buildings, but they were the cannons brought by Wu Zhenchaoha from Beijing. Among them, the general cannon weighing several kilograms was even more scary. The muzzle of the black cave was facing straight ahead.

After Jidu arrived, he was shocked by what he saw in front of him. He had seen the Ming army's guard houses. There were now many guard houses built by the Ming army to the north of Shanhaiguan, and at most there were more than a dozen places in dozens of miles. The forts built by the Taiping Army were not as large as those built in Liaodong, and they were even pitifully small, but they were densely built with trenches in front and bunkers in the back. There was a guardhouse in the ten forts, and there were artillery under the guardhouses, which blocked the official roads so densely that they could not fly. Both rivers and ponds on both sides of the official roads were so hard that they could not even go around.

This is a place that is even more desperate than Xuanwu Mountain!

The Qing army looked at the building complex that did not exist a few days ago in front of them, confused, confused, shocked, confused, and even desperate.

Du Eryou's heart fell into the depths: How many lives will it take to defeat it!

Na Hai's lips were biting blue, and he was never afraid of charging into battle, but he was really afraid before this fortification that he had never seen before.

General Liu Zhong of Guide and General Zhang Chao of Nanyang stood on the horse. The brothers in distress are now urged to cry.

After a long quarrel, the Qing army launched an attack, but in half an hour, more than 700 corpses were left behind, but even the first line of defense of the Taiping Army was unable to break through. The Taiping Army who were hiding in the fort building and using the firing hole to fire guns were not even shot by arrows. Wu Zhenchaoha's cannon turned the Taiping Army's defense line into a hell on earth.
Chapter completed!