Qiao Zhiqing returned to the mansion, and the generals of all sizes gathered in the council hall, and everyone looked at each other with heavy faces."
How is the matter, how did it come to this" Qiao Zhiqing sat down on the handsome seat with a calm face."
Boss, this is the latest news, look at it."
Wang Shumao hurriedly submitted the battle report.Qiao Zhiqing picked up the battle report, his eyes widened, he couldn't say a word for a long time, and suddenly he threw the battle report on the table irritably, and roared loudly, "Chen Bingwen is looking for death, and he dares to detain the division commander of my Qingzi Army, is he impatient?"
”Qiao Zhiqing took a breath, calmed down for a moment, and ordered, "Brother Wang still stays in Suzhou and continues to train soldiers and horses, and I will personally go to Songjiang Mansion." ”"Boss, this is not good, let me go."
Wang Shumao hurriedly persuaded.The generals were also ready to persuade, Qiao Zhiqing patted the table and ordered, "Don't persuade me, I'll set off now, everyone still has their own duties, Ma Xun, after I leave, you have to assist Brother Wang to maintain law and order in Suzhou, pay attention to vigilance." ”Ma Xun looked worried, and he didn't dare to persuade Qiao Zhiqing anymore, so he nodded heavily.After the meeting was dismissed, the generals left separately, Qiao Zhiqing asked Hu Wenhai to gather the pro-military camp and set off immediately, as soon as he got out of the courtyard, he saw Yan Minxia walking up with a big belly under Yan Yuting's support, looking at Qiao Zhiqing with an anxious face and asking, "Qiao Gongzi, is there something wrong with Yunfei, where are you going" Qiao Zhiqing replied pretending to have nothing to do, "Brother Gu is fine, you can rest assured, it's just that there is a small problem on the front line, I have to go over." ”"Don't lie to me, I heard the little maid say just now, Yunfei was detained by Chen Bingwen, Qiao Gongzi, you can take me, I am also familiar with Chen Bingwen, and I may be able to help you a lot."
Yan Minxia burst into tears as she spoke.Qiao Zhiqing frowned, looked at Yan Minxia and persuaded, "You are pregnant now, where can you withstand the bumps, I promise you, I will bring him back safely, believe me, okay" Yan Yuting also persuaded her sister with a dull face, "Sister, you just believe in Brother Qiao, he has always been very measured, and my brother-in-law will definitely be fine." ”Yan Minxia leaned on Yan Yuting's body and sobbed weakly, completely losing her heroic posture when she was in Junshanzhai, just like a little woman.Qiao Zhiqing exhaled, asked Yan Yuting to take care of her sister, and led the barracks to the dock with a calm face.Things have to start from a day ago, Gu Yunfei and Wang Shijie took 15,000 soldiers and horses, went down to Shanghai, and completely surrounded Songjiang Mansion.After the artillery regiment led by Wang Shijie reached the firing distance of the south city gate, it brought 60 25-pounder field guns and bombarded Songjiang City intensively for half an hour, regardless of ammunition, and fired a total of 300 shells, which blew the south city wall to smithereens, completely blowing up the defenders in the city.Acting Wang Chen Bingwen is also a rare general of the Taiping Army, with outstanding arm strength, can dance 80 catties of big knives, once ran in Wuhu tea shop, can hold a giant pot with one hand and pour tea every few feet.After the Qing army blew up the city wall and invaded the city, Chen Bingwen relied on his prestige to stabilize the Taiping army, which was in turmoil.More than 2,000 elites were organized at the broken city wall, holding foreign guns, forming a firepower network that crossed east and west, blocking the Qing army that rushed over from afar outside the city wall.Gu Yunfei took the lead, relying on dense firepower to force the Taiping army close to the city.Chen Bingwen had already built a large number of fortifications on the opposite side of the city wall, and the rooms were poured with stone and mud, all of which were trenches and hidden forts covered by cross-fire, and after the Qing army rushed in, there was a fifty-meter-long open field in front of them.The fierce and anxious battle between the two sides had just begun, and the Qing army charged intensively several times, but suffered heavy losses, and the wounded were constantly carried down from the front.Because the fatal flaw of the breech gun is that it half-squats up to change ammunition, and the Qing army has no cover to dodge, it is like a live target in front of the Taiping army.Gu Yunfei gritted his teeth with hatred, and fought hard with the Taiping Army all night, but he didn't take a step forward.Wang Shijie was also full of shame, he had never encountered this kind of urban siege, and Chen Bingwen's new tactics could be regarded as the ancestor of street fighting.In the past, once the city wall was breached, it was a matter of time before the defenders were defeated and retreated, so Wang Shijie bombarded desperately, and as a result, all the shells brought were consumed, but the defenders in the city still resisted stubbornly, which made people helpless.After a fierce battle until half of the night, Gu Yunfei ordered a retreat, built firepower fortifications outside the city for defense, and studied with Wang Shijie all night, and finally decided to use the old method and charge again at dawn.This time, however, instead of a dense charge, the infantry attacked with a bluff, and the sappers relied on trenches and earthwork to reach the bunkers and watchtowers to place explosive packs.Chen Bingwen was in a hurry behind the watchtower, and just let the soldiers stand up to meet the sappers in the trench, and the probe was subjected to intensive firepower, "popping", and for a time more than a dozen Taiping soldiers were beaten to the head and bleeding, and the flesh and blood were blurred.No one dared to show their bodies now, so they had to watch the sappers dig the trench under the watchtower.After the "boom" explosion sounded, the annular fortifications on the opposite side of the city wall were completely blown out of the gaps, and they could no longer form a cross-fire network, and the sappers relied on the fire to cover and blow up one fire point after another, and the Taiping army had no defensive rock wall, so Chen Bingwen ordered to retreat.The Qing army took advantage of the situation to pursue, all the city gates were broken in one morning, more than 10,000 Qing troops all entered the city, the Taiping army surrendered, the escape escaped, only more than 1,000 people led by Chen Bingwen retreated into the government of Songjiang Mansion to do a good defense.At the beginning, Gu Yunfei and Chen Bingwen worked together under Tan Shaoguang, the king of Mu, and the two also knew each other, and later Chen Bingwen made great contributions when the Taiping Army broke the Jiangnan camp for the second time, and was named the king by Li Xiucheng, so he became estranged from Gu Yunfei.It's a pity that after the brothers met again, they fought to the death.After Chen Bingwen's general trend was gone, Gu Yunfei moved the mind of surrendering, and asked the soldiers to only besiege and not attack, digging a trench outside the city to trap Chen Bingwen in the Songjiang Mansion.Chen Bingwen and Gu Yunfei have been brothers for many years, so they naturally understood what he meant, raised a white flag on the wall, and asked Gu Yunfei to enter the mansion to discuss the surrender, and this is the beginning of the scene, it turned out that Chen Bingwen was determined to die, and after tricking Gu Yunfei into the mansion, he reversed himself and held Gu Yunfei hostage and insisted that Qiao Zhiqing would come in person before he was willing to negotiate the conditions.Wang Shijie was helpless for a while, if the commander of the first division lost his life, he would not let Qiao Zhiqing scold him to death after returning to Suzhou.After thinking about it, after discussing with the five brigade commanders under Gu Yunfei, he still wrote a letter to tell Qiao Zhiqing the truth and asked for the next move.Qiao Zhiqing led his own military camp to the city when it was dark, gathered Wang Shijie and all the generals above the regiment commander and scolded them, and when the anger was extinguished, everyone boldly put forward their opinions.Chang Linlong's face was depressed, and his restless suggestion was to immediately storm the mansion.Lin Quanbao hurriedly objected on the side, glared at Chang Linlong, and Chang Linlong gasped and closed his mouth."
Commander, Chen Bingwen must be trying to play some tricks to see you, depending on his subordinates, he still storms the mansion, and maybe he can save Commander Gu's life."
Wang Shijie was worried about Qiao Zhiqing's safety and didn't want Qiao Zhiqing to suffer any more accidents.Qiao Zhiqing shook his head and affirmatively refused, "A strong attack is absolutely impossible, doesn't Chen Bingwen want to see me, it just so happens that I also want to meet this Divine Arm General." ”Gu Yunfei's subordinates were moved by Qiao Zhiqing, as the commander of the First Army, he had to be convincing when he was in danger.Qiao Zhiqing rejected the dissuasion of the generals and asked Chen Bingwen to inform him of his arrival.Chen Bingwen sent a letter back, asking Qiao Zhiqing to enter the palace in person before midnight, otherwise the Taiping army of more than 1,000 people would all be burned with Gu Yunfei's jade.After Qiao Zhiqing received the letter, he explained the aftermath to the generals and went to break into the enemy camp at night.Wang Shijie cried and objected, disobeying the military order and sending his subordinates to strongly block him, Qiao Zhiqing couldn't get the pro-military camp to lock him in the house, and entered the mansion under the eyes of Gu Yunfei's generals.Chen Bingwen set up a table and banquet in the guest hall in the backyard of the mansion, and after Qiao Zhiqing was brought over, he searched his body before walking in.Chen Bingwen stood up in front of the wine table, hugged his fists and greeted Qiao Zhiqing, "Qiao Dashuai is really righteous and thin, aren't you afraid that my long-haired thief set up a Hongmen banquet" Qiao Zhiqing looked at him carefully, only to see that he had a big waist and a thick waist, although his figure was not tall, but he was very strong, and he spoke sonorously and powerfully, worthy of being a strong general, so he laughed and replied, "It's a pity that the king is not Xiang Yu, and I, Qiao Zhiqing, am not Liu Bang, don't you want to see me, tell your conditions, as long as you put down your arms and surrender, Ben Shuai promises not to hurt the lives of more than 1,000 of you. ”Qiao Zhiqing sat down in front of Chen Bingwen, picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it."
Qiao Dashuai is really bold, and he can't complain that King Mu's henchmen are willing to surrender to you, and I admire him."
Chen Bingwen drank a full glass as he spoke, put down the wine glass and asked with a cold look in his eyes, if I want Qiao Dashuai's life, Qiao Dashuai will not put it here" After Chen Bingwen finished speaking, two teams of Taiping troops with loaded guns and ammunition rushed out from outside the hall, and raised their guns and aimed them at Qiao Zhiqing.Qiao Zhiqing drank a glass of wine, laughed insolently, stood up heroically, and spit out happily, "Qiao Zhiqing has put life and death aside since the day he raised his army, the king wants to take it, but please let the king let Gu Yunfei go, you are all brothers who have fought on the battlefield, if you kill him, won't you let the world laugh at your Taiping army for being ruthless and unjust" Chen Bingwen picked up the wine jug and stared at Qiao Zhiqing and drank it, smashed the wine jug to the ground, and shouted at the screen behind him, "Brother Yunfei, You win, the little brother loses convinced, and is willing to surrender. ”After speaking, he pounced on Qiao Zhiqing and knelt down and kowtowed heavily.A person came out behind the screen, and knelt down respectfully to Qiao Zhiqing beside Chen Bingwen, and apologized, "Please treat the last general with great disrespect, the last general came to recruit Brother Chen, and said a lot of the marshal's will for the country and the people, Brother Chen has always been skeptical of the words of the last general, and the last general is also to add another fierce general to the account of the big marshal." ”That person was Gu Yunfei with a guilty face.Qiao Zhiqing looked at the two of them and smiled bitterly and shook his head
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