"What's going on?"

"Can anyone tell me what's going on?"

Shi Dakai roared, looking at the corpses of Taiping soldiers everywhere in the valley, his heart was bleeding. The sudden change caught him off guard. Who would have thought that an explosion would occur on the hillside, falling so many huge rocks, killing five or six thousand people, and over 10,000 Taiping soldiers were injured to varying degrees.

At that time, Shi Dakai was in the central army, right in the valley. If he hadn't been riding a good horse and rushed out of the valley at a critical moment, he might have been injured or even killed.

"Report to His Highness the Wing King, the import and export of the valley were blocked!"

At this moment, the roar of thunder came from the direction of the valley, and you could feel the earth shaking constantly.

Shi Dakai frowned and said, "What's going on? Is the explosion not over yet?"

It is no wonder that Shi Dakai was blind at this time. He was isolated outside the valley, and he didn't know whether it was the situation inside the valley or the situation on the other side of the valley.

Soon, the sentry who came down from the mountain came back to report.

"Reported to His Highness, a large number of Shanghai flags were found on the other side of the valley, with a scale of more than 10,000. Our rear army encountered it and fought fiercely."

"What?"

Shi Dakai was extremely shocked. Although he guessed from the explosion in the valley just now that it was probably the Shanghai army ambushed here, the provoy reported that there was no main force of the Shanghai army appearing in the valley, which made him think that it was just the Shanghai army deliberately blocking the road halfway in order to delay the Taiping Army's return to aid. Now that he learned that the Taiping Army's rear army had encountered the attack of more than 10,000 main force of the Shanghai army, he immediately understood that this must be the main force of the Shanghai army here.

As for why the main force of the Shanghai Army did not appear here at Yuhuatai and suddenly became enlightened. He fell into a trap.

"What a Li Weiguo. What a siege of Wei to save Zhao with me? It turns out that I want to surround some and help. Ambushing me halfway is his real purpose!"

Shi Dakai said gritting his teeth, and he hated and admired Li Weiguo at this moment. This was the first strong opponent he had encountered since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebelled.

The deputy general asked: "Your Highness, what should we do now? More than 20,000 soldiers in the rear army could not come. Facing the main force of the Shanghai army, I am afraid I won't be able to hold on for long!"

Shi Dakai knew that it was just that he was powerless, the valley was blocked, and the central army was hit by huge rocks, which caused heavy casualties. Although there were tens of thousands of people in the front army, unfortunately they were all pretending to be civilians and had no combat power.

Originally, Shi Dakai deliberately let the civilians pass through the valley as the front army, and was to let the front army be cannon fodder. Unfortunately, the Shanghai army was cunning and did not attack the front army, but directly attacked the central army, blocked the front army, and besieged the rear army.

"The rear army can't save it anymore. Take advantage of the time when they blocked the Shanghai army. Take the time to open the valley entrance and pick up the central army!"

Shi Dakai ordered that there was no way. The deputy general hurriedly organized people to carry the stones and opened the valley entrance as soon as possible.

On the other side of the valley, more than 20,000 elite Taiping troops were blocked by the valley. Facing the main force of the Shanghai army that appeared behind them, they had to fight with all their might.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

Dozens of Shanghai cannons fired volleys, and the muzzle flashed with flames. Black smoke spewed out.

A series of artillery shells roared and fell into the Taiping army crowd, and exploded with a bang. In an instant, the Taiping army flew over and over, and the flesh and blood were flying everywhere.

The drums and music were loud, and the Shanghai infantry held muskets, stabbing like a forest, bright and bright. They walked neatly and kept firing while moving, one round after another, in an orderly manner.

The valley entrance was blocked, and the Shanghai army surrounded the three sides. The more than 20,000 Taiping troops had no choice but to continue to charge and try to break out a bloody road head-on.

However, the artillery fire was fierce and the bullets were densely packed like rain. Rows of Taiping soldiers were constantly hit by the bombs, and screams came one after another.

Just a few dozen meters away, like a death blockade line, the Taiping Army rushed for more than a dozen times and declared failure. The corpses were everywhere in front of them, piled up like mountains and blood flowed into a river.

On the hill behind the Shanghai Army, Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan stood side by side.

Zhang Xiaoliu said excitedly: "As expected by Mr. Chen, Shi Dakai is very cautious. If he ambushed the ambush on both sides of the valley according to my previous thoughts, he would be discovered immediately by Shi Dakai. Not only could we not ambush Shi Dakai, but we were even surrounded by Shi Dakai. Fortunately, he followed his advice and placed explosives in the valley, cut off the main force of the Taiping Army, and then concentrated his forces to eat their rear army. The Taiping Army could not take care of each other from the front and tail, and the more than 20,000 rear army would definitely not escape."

Chen Jingnan smiled slightly and said, "Teacher Zhang has been awarded, and I have also made a temporary decision. Thinking that Shi Dakai was called the undefeated god of war in the Taiping Army, there must be something extraordinary. We may find that we set up an ambush on Liyu Mountain. So for the sake of safety, we persuaded Commander Zhang to change the ambush location."

Zhang Xiaoliu said: "Fortunately, I heard what my husband said. Otherwise, if I could not successfully ambush Shi Dakai this time, I really don't know how to explain to my young master. If I delay the young master's big matter, I will be blamed for my death!"

Chen Jingnan said: "Planning is based on people and accomplishing things is based on heaven. The most important thing in this ambush is the elite soldiers in the valley. They have excellent ability to bury explosives and accurately shoot. Without them, it would be difficult for us to block the valley and cut off Shi Dakai's army."

"Sir, is that elite soldier?" Zhang Xiaoliu smiled and said, "That is an elite soldier trained by the young master himself. The Tiger Commando is extremely well-equipped and is not a musket, but a Guardian rifle. It can directly hit the torso within 200 meters and accurately shoot the head within 100."

"It turned out to be the Wei-style rifle that the Lord personally invented!" Chen Jingnan suddenly realized and said happily: "If our army can all be equipped with Wei-style rifles, then which other troops in the world are the opponents of our Shanghai army? The Lord is just around the corner!"

Zhang Xiaoliu smiled bitterly and said, "This is the problem. It is very difficult to manufacture this Weiguo rifle. So far, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can only produce more than 100 pieces per month. I, tens of thousands of Shanghai soldiers, have to wait a long time to equip all this rifle!"

Chen Jingnan smiled and said, "More than 100 units per month. One thousand two hundred units a year, ten thousand units a year, ten thousand units a year, double the workers every year. Ten years later, one hundred thousand units can be equipped with the Shanghai army, which is enough to sweep the world. This time is just right, not long."

Zhang Xiaoliu glanced at Chen Jingnan and smiled and said, "Sir, only know one thing but not the other. This Weiguo rifle uses a new type of bullet, and the processing and production of this bullet is far more complicated than that of a rifle. Once the war starts, it is not enough to have a rifle alone. The bullet consumption is huge, and it will be useless if you can't keep up."

Chen Jingnan doesn't care about military industry on weekdays, so he doesn't know these things, so he said, "That's okay. Anyway, the Lord is still young, so he can build high walls, accumulate grain, and be king slowly. There is still time, so there is no need to worry."

"Too!"

Zhang Xiaoliu nodded and looked at Chen Jingnan with a smile.

At this time, the Taiping Army failed to break through the 15th attempt, with more than 10,000 casualties, and the remaining less than 10,000 people had lost their confidence in breaking through. But they insisted not to surrender.

In the end, more than 20,000 troops from the Taiping Army were wiped out, and no soldier surrendered to the Shanghai Army. This shocked Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan, and both thought of Li Weiguo's words.

"Faith is invincible!"

In fact, in the early Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no Taiping Army would surrender, such as the Northern Expedition Army, the Western Expedition Army, and the Eastern Expedition Army, until the internal strife of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The veterans who rebelled in the early Taiping Army were all injured and injured, and the rising stars did not have such a firm belief. It was not until the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that the Taiping Army surrendered one after another, and even tens of thousands of people surrendered together.

But at this stage, it is very difficult to surrender to the Taiping Army.

To eliminate the more than 20,000 Taiping Army rear troops, Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan quickly adjusted the direction of the attack and prepared to enter the valley and eliminate the Taiping Army central troops trapped in the valley.

This is a combat plan that Chen Jingnan formulated from the beginning, dividing Shi Dakai's 100,000 troops into three sections, and then concentrating the main force of the Shanghai army to eat them bite by bit.

However, at this moment, a soldier from the Shanghai Army who was going out to reconnaissance rushed over.

"Report!"

"Report to Commander Zhang, the Ninth Reconnaissance Platoon discovered an emergency!"

"We found that the entire town was massacred in the subordinate town near Lianshan, and there was no survivor in men, women, young and old. After investigation, we believed that the horse hooves and horse manure traces were 20,000 cavalry, so we followed along the way, including Tangshan and small villages along Jiuhua Mountain, and later found a surviving person in a small village. He said that the Taiping Army slaughtered their village. These Taiping Army were all cavalry and hiding out at night. Our platoon leader believed that this Taiping cavalry must be Shi Dakai's iron cavalry. He led people to continue tracking and ordered me to come back to report!"

After hearing this, Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan both felt the seriousness of the matter. Shi Dakai's 20,000 cavalrymen did not follow the official road to return to Tianjing, so why did they take the mountain road? They were hiding out at night and leaving the villages and towns along the way, without leaving any chickens and dogs.

"This is clearly an intention to cover up the whereabouts and carry out ulterior military operations." Chen Jingnan suddenly said.

"Get the map!" Zhang Xiaoliu also realized this and hurriedly asked someone to pick up the relevant map.

Surrounding the map, Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan were thinking hard and judging the whereabouts of the Taiping cavalry based on the location where they had been discovered.

Zhang Xiaoliu pressed his finger on the map and slowly moved forward. At the same time, he said, "Since they are hiding out at night and dare not walk on the official road, they must have walked along the mountain road. Behind Tangshan and Jiuhua Mountain is the direction of Zhongshan Xiaolingwei."

Chen Jingnan nodded and pondered: "You are right. They must be heading towards Xiaolingwei. They may want to raid Yuhuatai!"

Zhang Xiaoliu immediately smiled and said, "Fortunately, the young master has no intention of sticking to Yuhuatai. Now he has evacuated Yuhuatai and headed to Jiangnan Camp."

Suddenly, Chen Jingnan understood and hurriedly shouted: "No, if the Lord is still in Yuhuatai, there will be no accident. If he leaves Yuhuatai and withdraws troops to Jiangnan Camp, he will definitely encounter this cavalry halfway!"

"Twenty thousand cavalry raided, and the young master only had 5,000 personal troops around him. He was on the way to march again, so he might be unstoppable." Zhang Xiaoliu immediately became nervous and said, "No, I'll go and save the young master immediately!"

Chen Jingnan stopped him and said, "Even if it was in the past, it might be too late. For the sake of the present, I can only hope that the Lord can escape safely. Commander Zhang should attack Liyu Mountain with all his might and wipe out Shi Dakai here."

Zhang Xiaoliu immediately said angrily: "Fuck. The young master is in danger, so I naturally have to save the young master first. If something happens to the young master, I will wipe out a hundred Shi Dakai and what's the point!"

Chen Jingnan is too objective and rational in doing things. That's why he speaks like this, which is not conducive to Zhang Xiaoliu on the contrary. He is loyal to Li Weiguo, and is completely emotional at this moment and cannot listen to Chen Jingnan's suggestions at all.

"A person comes, I will send my order and stop the attack immediately. The back of the army will change to the front team and run forward. Head towards the Jiangnan camp quickly. No mistakes are allowed. Those who violate the order shall be executed on the spot!"

Zhang Xiaoliu was the commander of the Shanghai Army, except for Li Weiguo. He was the supreme commander of the Shanghai Army. With his order, more than 15,000 Shanghai Army officers and soldiers took action quickly.

Chen Jingnan continued to stop and said, "Commander Zhang, even if you rush over now, it may be too late. The Taiping Army may not be able to kill the master. He should capture the master alive and seek rewards. Commander Zhang might as well capture Shi Dakai alive as a bargaining chip for the master to return!"

"The surname of Chen. Don't force me to get angry!" Zhang Xiaoliu had lost his calmness and shouted angrily: "A Shi Da Kai is useless. Will Hong Xiuquan open my young master for a Shi Da? Don't dream. In order to capture Shi Da Kai, if I waste time and miss the opportunity to rescue the young master, and let the young master be brought back to Tianjing by the Taiping Army, then everything will be finished."

Chen Jingnan rolled his eyes straight, he was always calm. Even if something happened to Li Weiguo, he would not lose control, so he could understand Zhang Xiaoliu's mood. He didn't blame him for cursing, but continued: "It's better to seize a Shi Dakai than to be strong in any bargaining chips! Besides, if Shi Dakai is let go this time, there will be no such opportunity next time. Shi Dakai is the pillar of the Taiping Army, so you must not let it go!"

Zhang Xiaoliu sneered: "I'm rushing over now, even if it's too late. As long as the young master is not sent back to Tianjing, I will have the chance to rob the young master halfway and rescue him. This is much safer than your bullshit catching Shi Dakai to replace the young master! I don't think that I, Zhang Xiaoliu, is stupid and don't know what you are calculating? You just decided that even if something happened to my young master, can you still support another person as the master? In your eyes, it doesn't matter who will be the master of the Shanghai army. As long as you can realize the king's hegemony in your heart, it will be. Am I right?"

Chen Jingnan was suddenly stunned. He did have this idea in his mind, and everyone has given up. Chen Jingnan was no exception. He was just told by Zhang Xiaoliu directly, which shocked Chen Jingnan. He suddenly found that he underestimated Zhang Xiaoliu's IQ.

"General Zhang, you are too worried, I don't mean that"

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Xiaoliu immediately took out the revolver and pressed it against Chen Jingnan's forehead. The meaning was very obvious. As long as Chen Jingnan said a little more dissuasion, his head would be blooming.

Chen Jingnan smiled bitterly and raised his hand obediently, not daring to say more.

At this time, the Shanghai army had stopped attacking the valley and retreated one after another. The generals and officials came to meet Zhang Xiaoliu. When they saw Zhang Xiaoliu being gunned against Chen Jingnan, they were stunned.

"Remember to me. If you dare to have such an idea in the future, even if you are the celebrity in front of the young master, I will kill you directly!"

Zhang Xiaoliu glared at Chen Jingnan fiercely, put away his revolver, came to the queue of soldiers in the army, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, now our adults are in danger. If you pass by a moment later, the adults will be more dangerous! What do you think we should do?"

"Go and save the adults!"

"Go and save the adults!"

"Go and save the adults!"

The officers and soldiers of the Shanghai Army have always respected Li Weiguo. When they heard that Li Weiguo was in danger, they started shouting and rushed to rescue him.

"Very good!" Zhang Xiaoliu nodded and shouted: "As soon as I ordered, set off and run forward. Even if I break my legs, I have to climb to the place before the adults get into trouble!"

"yes!"

Tens of thousands of Shanghai soldiers shouted in unison, all of whom worked hard, and they ran quickly.

Fortunately, the Shanghai Army usually trains on armed cross-country and running, so running is common for the Shanghai Army officers and soldiers. At this moment, they were even more excited when they learned that Li Weiguo was in danger and wanted to fly to Li Weiguo immediately to protect him.
Chapter completed!