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As night fell, the Taiping Army, who had attacked the city of Jinling, slowly retreated under the towering city, which made the Qing army guarding the city breathe a sigh of relief.

However, this was just a brief calm, and everyone knew that a more violent storm would be followed.

Yuhuatai, the only commanding height in Jinling, control of this place is equivalent to controlling Jinling City.

At midnight, the Taiping Army launched a fierce attack on Yuhuatai.

From a distance, the fire was flying, like daylight, shouting and fighting were heard.

But as long as you look closely, you will find that the thunder is loud and the rain is small, and the Taiping Army did not really launch an attack at all, just bluffing.

Under the cover of night, the officers and soldiers of the Li family evacuated from Yuhuatai one after another, pretended to be defeated by the Taiping Army, and returned to Jinling City.

However, Fu Xuexian was also very careful and cautious. You should know that if he had not been with Li Weiguo, he would be the role of being a marquis of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future. This is enough to prove that he is also a character, so Fu Xuexian could not fully believe in the Taiping Army, and still left a force on the Yuhuatai position as a warning and cover for retreat.

Under the city of Jinling, the Li family army suddenly withdrew, which panicked the defenders. If even the Li family army was defeated, could they still defend the city?

When the governor of Liangjiang Lu Jianying learned that the Li family army could not defend Yuhuatai and was evacuating from Jinling City, he felt something was wrong and hurriedly ordered the guard to close the city gate and prevent the Li family army from returning to Jinling. He knew that Li Weiguo was not in Jinling, so he wanted to destroy the Li family army outside the city.

Fu Xuexian was thinking of using some excuse to cause trouble in Jinling City, and then secretly executed Lu Jianying and others in the chaos. When he heard the order from the guard general received Lu Jianying's order, he did not allow Fu Xuexian to lead troops into the city, and asked Fu Xuexian to lead troops to guard Yuhuatai to death.

Fu Xuexian was immediately overjoyed. Isn’t this just giving him an excuse to cause trouble?

So Fu Xuexian shouted loudly: "Lu Jianying's dog thief did not let us enter the city because he wanted his brothers to die outside the city. Brothers, what should you do if we change it?"

"Roar in! Ask for an explanation!"

"Roar in! Ask for an explanation!"

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Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Fu Xuexian immediately struck while the iron was hot and rushed to the city gate with an order.

The city gate guard also knew that Lu Jianying was wrong in doing this, but he had no choice but to execute the order. But as the Li family army began to break through the city gate with excitement, he knew that he could not defeat the Li family army and did not want to offend the Li family army, so he took the opportunity to let the city gate open and let his subordinates not resist.

The Li family army was able to enter the city smoothly, and Fu Xuexian did not make things difficult for the city gate guard. He directly led his troops to scream and went to Lu Jianying to ask for an explanation. The city gate guard wiped his cold sweat and screamed in a hurry. Thanks to the fact that he didn't stop him, he hurriedly closed the city gate.

But Fu Xuexian led his troops to Liangjiang Governor's Office. Lu Jianying's personal soldiers saw the Li family army coming in murderous aura, hurriedly closed the door.

"Call me!"

With the order, the Li family army quickly formed a team, opened fire, and shot at Lu Jianying's personal soldiers.

Bang bang bang bang!

Accompanied by gunfire and dense rain of bullets, Lu Jianying's personal soldiers were shot one after another and fell to the ground.

The soldiers of the Li family rushed forward, subdued the other rebels, then smashed open the door of the mansion and rushed in.

"Bold! Fu Xuexian, are you going to rebel?"

Lu Jianying was so angry that she shivered. In fact, she was so scared that she shivered. She pointed at Fu Xuexian who came in and shouted loudly.

Fu Xuexian didn't care at all. When he saw that Wu Liang was around Lu Jianying was also there, he saved him from going to Jiangning Prefecture.

"No one is allowed to be let go, take them all!"

At the order of Fu Xuexian, soldiers came forward to tie up Lu Jianying, Wu Liang and the personal guards they brought.

Fu Xuexian thought of the Xiao Yang whom Li Weiguo specifically told him to be executed before leaving, and immediately interrogated Lu Jianying and Wu Liang. Both of them were old fryers. Then he suddenly realized that the other party took the opportunity to take revenge!

"You-what do you want to do?"

"What do you want to do?" Fu Xuexian snorted coldly and said, "Of course I have complained about revenge!"

Seeing that Lu Jianying and Wu Liang did not cooperate, Fu Xuexian immediately ordered someone to interrogate their subordinates and soon learned about Xiao Yang's whereabouts.

It turned out that Xiao Yang was not dead yet. Lu Jianying came to know Xiao Yang's ability and was reluctant to let him go, and secondly, she wanted to take out more money from Xiao Yang, so she was secretly imprisoned, neither killing nor letting go. Waiting for a while, Li Weiguo forgot about this and letting him go, it would be useful.

Soon, Xiao Yang was also found. He was taken away with Lu Jianying, Wu Liang and others, along with hundreds of their personal guards. He found an uninhabited river near Confucius Temple, beheaded them all, and threw their bodies into the Qinhuai River.

Fu Xuexian set up an incense case by the river and used the heads of three people to worship his father Fu Yang, because Lu Jianying and others were all imperial parties and participated in the case of framed Fu Yang that year, which was a blood debt.

Subsequently, Fu Xuexian ordered people to take the official seals of Lu Jianying and Wu Liang, and in their name, they put forward all the money and grain in the Governor's Treasury and Jiangning Treasury. The Li family army was responsible for transporting it to Shuiguan. Where did Li Weiguo prepare more than 200 large ships, and they just loaded all the materials, and then with the Li family army, evacuated from Jinling and transported back to Shanghai County.

At the same time, Fu Xuexian also ordered the Li family army to start sweeping the major shops and wealthy families in Jinling City, and also made everyone hate Lu Jianying and Wu Liang in the name of Liangjiang Governor's Office and Jiangning Prefect.

This move is really ruthless!

However, in the chaotic times, this is normal, and the court also acquiesced. After all, the court could no longer afford military funds at this time. On the one hand, the local governments could form an army on their own, and on the other hand, they also began to implement donations, also called lijin, which is the same as the unspoken rule of forced donations by units in later generations.

The Li family army had the intention of the imperial court to pay, and Lu Jianying's Liangjiang Governor's Office and Wu Liang's Jiangning Office as a cover and shield, so they could openly loot Jinling City.

Although the wealthy families in Jinling City had an emotional conflict, they had no choice. If the other party was a bandit, these people would have resisted long ago. Unfortunately, the other party was a regular army of the court and a legal bandit, so these people could only watch the Li family army looting their wealth, but rarely dared to resist.

Of course, the Li family army is also a disciplined army. Pay attention to the three major disciplines and eight items at all times. Therefore, even if it is robbed under the order, it is not allowed to kill people easily or insult women. Therefore, the Li family army rarely encounters resistance and is able to successfully complete the robbery operation.

"Report, the ship can't load it!"

"What?"

Fu Xuexian was drinking the tea leisurely and heard his subordinates report that they could not hold the stolen money and food, and he was also drunk.

"Stupid, our ship can't be loaded anymore, so we won't go looking for other ships!"

"yes!"

The subordinate took the order and hurriedly went to find the ship.

Fu Xuexian smacked his lips and said to himself: "Oh God, you can't even load more than two hundred big ships. How many good things have these grandchildren snatched!"

The Taiping Army successfully captured Yuhuatai after dawn. Then the Taiping Army deployed all the cannons on Yuhuatai and used the commanding heights of Yuhuatai to bombard Jinling City.

The Jinling defenders suddenly fell into an unfavorable situation, and casualties on the city were increasing. The guard general sent people to ask Lu Jianying for help several times, but there was no news. Finally, the guard general went to report in person. As a result, Fu Xuexian directly said to him, "Lu Jianying and Wu Liang took Jia Xiaohe Qiancai and ran away."

The defenders panicked at this moment, and the defenders panicked. They were originally the powerful men who were temporarily arrested. Now that even the governor and the prefect have run away, they are still farting!

"Run!"

One pass is ten to a hundred, and in less than half a day, the Jinling defenders ran away more than half.

In troubled times, many people will lose their nature, especially the fleeing defeated soldiers, which are far more harmful to the people than the enemy. These Jinling defenders ran down from the city, but could not leave the city, and could only be in the city, and they would have to loot the people.

Jinling City suddenly became chaotic, especially those Eight Banners soldiers. They were the most active in taking advantage of the chaos to rob. The soldiers of the Li family only robbed wealthy families and did not rob ordinary people, nor did they kill or insult women. However, these people didn't care, killed people and set fires, and committed all kinds of evil.

"The beasts killed these days! I will pass on my orders to execute these deserters who harm the people on the spot! Kill without mercy!"

After Fu Xuexian shot several deserters who killed people and set fire, his subordinates came to report.

"General, the time is up, the Taiping Army is about to break the city, we have to evacuate quickly!"

Fu Xuexian sighed and immediately gave up on continuing to suppress the deserters who committed evil deeds. He boarded the boat and left the city from the west gate of Jinling Shui, and returned to Shanghai along the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River had long been blocked by the Taiping Army, and there were Taiping Army warships, tens of thousands, but at this time, it made way for a waterway to leave the Li family army's fleet.

When Fu Xuexian's fleet successfully left the Taiping Army's blockade line, a Taiping Army warship suddenly arrived.

There were a woman and two men standing on the boat. Fu Xuexian recognized them, and they were Hong Xuanjiao, Liu Shaoting and Hong Jian.

Hong Jian stepped forward and said, "General Fu, Jinling City is about to be emptied by you?"

Fu Xuexian was immediately embarrassed. He deliberately delayed the day and one night in order to loot Jinling City. Now that the other party saw through, Fu Xuexian was a bachelor and nodded directly, which was considered an admission.

Although Hong Jian was a little angry, the huge Jinling City was a vault and silver treasury, with countless wealth. It should have belonged to the Taiping Army, but it was looted by the Li family army, and it felt uncomfortable.

However, considering the overall situation, he still held back. He had more important things to ask Fu Xuexian, so he said: "Since your army has received great benefits, what about the first batch of arms of our army?"

Fu Xuexian smiled and said, "It's been prepared long ago. The two ships behind are reserved for you specifically. All the things you want are on it!"

"It's really a scheming!" Hong Jian couldn't help but exclaim. The other party was completely obsessed with nothing, which really made him admire him.

Fu Xuexian smiled without answering, but just bowed to Hong Jian and glanced at Hong Xuanjiao and Liu Shaoting.

Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly heard Hong Xuanjiao shouting.

"Go back and tell Li Weiguo that my aunt would thank him for the hospitality he has been doing these days, and there will be rewards in the future!"

"That's right! I, Liu Shaoting, also thank him very much, and I'm also my share!"

"It must be conveyed truthfully!" Fu Xuexian staggered when he heard this, and smiled bitterly in his heart, knowing that Hong Xuanjiao and Liu Shaoting declared war on Li Weiguo.

It is not advisable to stay here for a long time. Fu Xuexian was afraid of any change, so he hurriedly led the fleet away. He did not take off his armor and was always on guard until he returned to Shanghai safely.
Chapter completed!