After resting at Wusongkou for a night, when he woke up the next morning, Jiangyin Lianyong, who was left outside the battlefield, also contacted Wu Chaoyue. He learned that Zhou Tenghu had led his army to the Wu army arsenal to reinforce, and also inserted Jiangyin Lianyong into the enemy as an undercover agent. Wu Chaoyue was very happy and praised him repeatedly, "I am really Huifu's brother-in-law and teacher. As expected, he is a feather with us."

This news also made Wu Chaoyue less concerned about the arsenal battlefield and could concentrate most of his energy on the arrangement of today's southward battle. Although the Wu army, who suffered from the storm, was still exhausted, and the Qing army did not have time to explore the latest deployment of the enemy, in order to share the pressure on the arsenal battlefield, Wu Chaoyue decided to go south immediately and attack the Zhabei camp of the Taiping Army Zhou Lichun.

Out of politeness and rules, Wu Chaoyue made up his mind and symbolically asked his superior Jiangsu Governor Xu Naizhao. What surprised Wu Chaoyue was that Xu Naizhao, who had a good official reputation in governing rivers and fostering the people, not only did not deliberately stop and make things difficult for the people, but also took the initiative to ask the general Qin Ruhu to lead a thousand Green Camp troops to assist Wu Chaoyue in the south. At the same time, Xu Naizhao told Qin Ruhu to obey Wu Chaoyue's orders and commands, and showed sufficient sincerity to show his willingness to get along with Wu Chaoyue. Although local officials in Liangjiang now hope to partner with Wu Chaoyue on the battlefield, Wu Chaoyue appreciated it and sincerely thanked Xu Naizhao for his unswerving help.

The soldiers are very fast. In order not to give the Taiping Army time to calmly adjust the deployment, Wu Chaoyue arranged for the Wu Army Artillery Battalion and Qin Ruhu's Green Camp soldiers to travel at the back and lead the main infantry to lightly move south. It took only more than three hours to reach Jiangwan Town, which had been destroyed by the war. When taking a rest and replenish drinking water, Qing army scouts who were probing nearby came to pay their respects and reported the enemy situation ahead to Wu Chaoyue. As a result, the sentry chiefs of the Qing army scouts said to Wu Chaoyue with regretful expression: "Mr. Wu, you should have a step earlier. Just now, Changmao's reinforcements had arrived at their Zhabei Camp, otherwise, you might have a chance to stop Changmao from joining the army."

The Taiping Army’s reinforcement of Zhou Lichun was much closer than that of Wu Chaoyue, and Wu Chaoyue didn’t feel much regret when he heard the news. He just asked: “How many reinforcements have Changmao sent? Who is the leader of the thief?”

"There are about two thousand reinforcements in Changmao, and the leader of the thief is Lin Afu."

The report of the Qing army's whistle commander made Wu Chaoyue laugh, and said with a big laugh that God helped me. Then Wu Chaoyue immediately ordered the Wu army to practice courage and continue to move south and rushed to Zhou Lichun's camp at normal marching speed. During the marching, Wu Chaoyue also said to Zhao Liewen: "Huifu, for a meal, do you bet Zhou Lichun will let Lin Afu lead his army into his camp and work with him to guard the fortifications of the camp?"

"I want to eat the Buddha Jumping over the wall and the braised bear paws in Hongbin Tower, betting that Zhou Lichun will not let Lin Afu in."

Zhao Liewen answered without thinking, and extended his hand to slam Wu Chaoyue as an appointment. Then Zhao Liewen smiled and said, "Weiting, just pay the money! The detailed investigation report of our army clearly states that Zhou Lichun is a petty family. His camp is 150 steps long from east to west and only 100 steps thick from north to south. Such a camp is amazing. The size of three thousand troops stationed. Lin Afu wants to bring two thousand reinforcements in. Unless he demolished half of the tent in Zhou Lichun's camp first, Zhou Lichun is not a fool, how could he agree to let him go in and enjoy the ready-made one?"

Wu Chaoyue screamed and slapped his forehead, annoyed that he did not remember the details of the enemy situation provided by Hu Songlin, Zhou Lichun's camp was already far away. As expected, there was indeed an army on the east side of Zhou Lichun's camp trying hard to dig trenches and pile up soil and build temporary fortifications. It was obvious that the reinforcements sent by the Taiping Army to Zhou Lichun just now. Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate when he saw it, and immediately ordered the self-arms to directly drive towards the enemy's reinforcements position. He also specially ordered the self-arms to detour to the east side of the enemy's reinforcements, and directly put on the stance to expel Lin Afu's defeated army as a free vanguard to attack Zhou Lichun's camp. At the same time, for the sake of caution, Wu Chaoyue, who was afraid of death, naturally ordered the Qing army scouts to continue to closely reconnaissance the surrounding movements and not mention them.

At the same time, the Taiping Army of course also took action. Under Zhou Lichun's command, the Zhou army soldiers quickly entered the defensive position and relied on the fences, trenches and walls built in advance to guard against them, without any signs of taking the initiative. The generals from Lin Afu's side were also shouting desperately, asking the soldiers of the army to speed up the construction of fortifications. The soldiers shouted and chaotic before the battle, showing the true nature of a mob.

Lin Afu was indeed forced by Zhou Lichun to build another fortification outside the Zhou army camp, but this cannot be entirely blamed for being heartless. When he saw the so-called reinforcements brought by Lin Afu, no matter who was replaced by anyone, he would definitely be furious. At the same time, Lin Afu is a kind-hearted person, so after Zhou Lichun had a very nasty face to ask Lin Afu to set up a new camp, Lin Afu had no shame to refuse and complain, and honestly led the army to act according to the orders. This made Zhou Lichun slightly calm down, which did not cause Zhou Lichun and Liu Lichuan, who had had old grudges, to turn against each other again.

Lin Afu knew his family's affairs, and he knew very well what the army Liu Lichuan had forcibly allocated to him was. So after seeing the Wu army revive to the east of the camp, Lin Afu, who was very loyal, immediately ordered the generals in the army to escape south after the failure of the battle, and tried to restrain the soldiers from letting the defeated tide go west to attack Zhou Lichun's camp. If the defeated tide collapsed Zhou Lichun's camp, Lin Afu would be even more ashamed to see friendly generals.

The well-trained Wu Jun Lian Yong quickly formed a formation in the east of Lin Afu's army, but Lin Afu imagined that the fierce attack like a storm did not come immediately. While Wu Jun Lian Yong was temporarily unmoved, there was also a Wu Jun Lian Yong who played the white flag and went to Lin Afu's position and said loudly: "Lin Afu, Lord Wu asked me to bring you a message, you are not our opponent. Lord Wu thought of you as you helped him save his grandfather, and you also thought of you as you protected their grandchildren to the north to the capital. You gave you fifteen minutes to lead the army to retreat, and our army would never pursue! But if you don't leave in fifteen minutes, don't blame us for being rude!"

The eyes of the generals of the Liu family army focused on Lin Afu's face. Lin Afu was silent at first, then went up and said loudly: "Go back and tell Mr. Wu that I appreciate his kindness, but I was ordered by Brother Liu to come here to reinforce Zhou Lushuai. Unless Brother Liu personally ordered me to retreat, I will never take a step back. Please come here without waiting for fifteen minutes."

Wu Jun Lian Yong wrote down Lin Afu's reply and ran back to hand over the order to Wu Chaoyue. Then, after a moment, Wu Jun Lian Yong ran back again with the white flag and showed two letters and said, "Lin Afu, our Lord Wu, please help me. These two letters were written by Jiangsu Governor Xu Futai to Liu Lichuan, and the other was written by our Lord Wu to Liu Lichuan. Please remember the old relationship and bring the letter back and hand it to Liu Lichuan."

Lin Afu was a little hesitant, but thinking that the Wu family was really good to him before, Lin Afu still waved his hand and sent someone out to take the two letters, loudly promised that he would send the letter back and hand it over to Liu Lichuan. Wu Jun thanked Lian Yong, and then went back to hand it to Wu Chaoyue.

Amid the grim smiles of Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen, Wu Jun Lianyong's attack finally unfolded. Although he had already seen the equipment of Lin Afu's army clearly in the telescope, Wu Chaoyue, in order to be cautious, still invested one battalion at one time to launch an attack, and at the same time let the two battalions defend the two wings to guard against Zhou Lichun's surprise attack from the camp.

Facts proved that Wu Chaoyue's cautiousness was absolutely correct. Lin Afu, who performed the most reliable in the First Jiangyin War, kept in mind the guidance of the foreign instructors. While Wu Jun was in line for training and did not order the shooting, the Liu Jun soldiers he brought out always kept in a neat line, and even lined up three-stage shooting queues, struggling to persevere in not firing ahead of time. It was still waiting for Wu Jun Jun to line up within 80 meters, and Lin Afu yelled and issued a shooting order. More than a hundred elite Liu Jun soldiers took turns to shoot, which did indeed cause some casualties and injuries to Wu Jun Lian Yong.

Wang Chu, the official of the Wu army camp who was ordered to lead the army to attack, kept in mind his previous experience, gritted his teeth and led Wu Jun Lianyong into within 50 meters before ordering Wu Jun Lianyong to shoot and launch the most regular line-up and shooting battle with Lin Afu's army. As a result, Wu Jun Lianyong's equipment and training advantages were also fully demonstrated. The firing needle gun fired extremely fast, and five or six bullets could be easily fired within one minute, with continuous firepower and continuous rain of bullets. Although thirty or forty of the more than 100 elite soldiers under Lin Afu's command were equipped with firing needle guns or carbines, the rest were all primitive clamps. The overall firing rate was far less than that of Wu Jun Lianyong, who was fully equipped with firing needle guns, and his firepower was completely suppressed. With less than three minutes of line-up shooting, the Lin army musketeers, who had suffered heavy casualties, could only hide in the fortification just built before avoiding the firepower of the Wu army.

Hiding in the fortifications was not very effective. Wu Jun Lianyong only used one charge and directly rushed into the fortifications that Lin Afu's army had not yet completed, and forced Liu Lichuan to Lin Afu's cannon fodder soldiers to flee to the distance. At the same time, seeing that the situation was hopeless, Lin Afu had to take the remaining elite soldiers to escape south.

At the same time, there was some movement in Zhou Lichun's camp, but it was not to send troops to help Lin Afu, but to shoot the defeated soldiers under Lin Afu who tried to attack their camp, forcing Lin Afu's defeated soldiers to escape in other directions. At the same time, Zhou Lichun was still yelling in the camp, "Beat the fuck! I was defeated in a long time, Liu Lichuan, please let me see! Let me see!"

He easily defeated Lin Afu's mob. Wu Chaoyue did not pursue Lin Afu's defeated soldiers relentlessly, most of the defeated soldiers were killed and wasted bullets. After trying to capture a few prisoners and quickly gathered the army, Wu Chaoyue ordered Cao Yanzhong to lead a battalion to attack Zhou Lichun's camp. After Cao Yanzhong was happy to take the order, Wu Chaoyue added: "Remember, try to lengthen the team horizontally and make the formation loose as much as possible. Shoot with Changhai at a distance of 100 meters. No order is allowed to continue moving forward. Once the fallen soldiers exceed 20, withdraw them immediately!"

"Master Wu, why?" Cao Yanzhong asked in confusion: "How can the last general break through the Changmao Camp with a musket shot a hundred meters away?"

"I want to see what Zhou Lichun learned to that point." Wu Chaoyue replied with a smile: "Before going north to serve the king, I heard that Zhou Lichun imitated our tactical operations and defeated the Changzhou government army. I want to see what Zhou Lichun learned and how much combat effectiveness he has."

After taking the task of testing the enemy's virtual and realities dejectedly, Cao Yanzhong simply lined up the four squadrons into two horizontal lines, and pushed loosely into Liu Lichuan's camp to shoot a hundred meters away. Zhou Lichun's army fought with all his strength, and the virtual and realities were soon exposed to Wu Chaoyue.

Not to mention, Zhou Lichun really made the Wu army's tactics of training bravely, and tried to strengthen the firepower density as closely as possible, and also used a small number of Minnie guns with high accuracy to cover and shoot. At the same time, Zhou Lichun also geniusly also referenced the Taiping Army's musket tactics to linear tactics. A large number of individual bunkers were built under the battalion defense fortifications, and soldiers buried in it and fired at the outside world. The camp's defense was quite good. Overall, it had the prototype of a strong army.

Unfortunately, such a Zhou Lichun army is still not worth mentioning in the main force of the Wu army. Not to mention the main force of the Wu army who is absolutely unable to fight to the teeth in the field, even if the Wu army continues to defend the camp, it is only necessary to launch heavy artillery bombardment and bombard Zhou Lichun's camp with bitter sour shells. It is also easy to take Zhou Lichun's camp. After waiting patiently for a while, seeing that Zhou Lichun's army has no tricks anymore, Wu Chaoyue had to shrug his shoulders in disappointment and ordered: "Ming Jin, let Cao Yanzhong retreat and reorganize the team. It is not too late to deal with Zhou Lichun when our artillery camp arrives."

When Wu Chaoyue was yelling the golden gong, Cao Yanzhong, who was ordered to test, could not wait to order to retreat. Wu Chaoyue also quickly raised his telescope to search for Zhou Xiuying's whereabouts. What surprised Wu Chaoyue was that a huge cheer broke out in Zhou Lichun's camp. The generals jumped and jumped happily, and were actually ecstatic to repel the tentative attack of Wu Jun Jian. Seeing this, Wu Chaoyue felt a move, and immediately put down the telescope and ordered Wu Dasai: "Send someone to send an order to Meng Hu, and ask him to set up a camp on the spot after arriving in Jiangwan, and establish a camp that can be stationed in our main force. As for Qin Ruhu, continue to come and obey the order."

While Wu Dasai agreed, Zhao Liewen asked Wu Chaoyue in confusion: "Whiting, why don't you shoot? If we use artillery, it will not be difficult to capture Zhou Lichun's camp?"

"If you were Zhou Lichun and repelled my attack, what would you think?" Wu Chaoyue asked back: "If you were Zeng Lichang and Liu Lichuan, what would you think when you saw Zhou Lichun resisting my attack? Also, do you think it is convenient for our army to fight Changmao here, or should you break through Changmao's Wusongjiang defense line first and then find a chance to fight?"

Zhao Liewen thought about it and soon realized it, but Zhao Liewen was still a little worried and quickly reminded: "Weiting, don't forget our arsenal, the situation there may be very critical."

"Don't worry, your brother-in-law and Deng Siyuan can hold on." Wu Chaoyue smiled and said, "Your brother-in-law's subordinates said it very clearly. They will use the agreed signal to tell you that our main force has arrived. When we hear this good news, our morale will rise sharply, and we will definitely only be more tenacious when we fight. However, the long-haired army is the other way around. Knowing that our main force is coming, we will only be panicked, and the more we fight, the more we fight, we must also consider leaving the reserve team to resist our main force, and dare not attack our arsenal with all our strength. Your brother-in-law and Deng Siyuan will have a chance to breathe."

When Zhao Liewen nodded suspiciously, Wu Chaoyue immediately came up with another bad idea and sent a few loud Wu Jun Lianyong to touch Zhou Lichun's camp outside the camp, shouting from Zhou Lichun's 18th generation to Zhou Lichun's son who did not exist at all, pretending to be trying to lure Zhou Lichun to fight. Although Zhou Lichun did not get into the trap, he was fooled in another aspect. In a subtle way, he had such an idea that Wu Chaoyue might have no choice but to use his camp fortifications.

Wu Chaoyue's tricks were not over. After a while, when the Qing army general Qin Ruhu came to Wu Chaoyue with a thousand Green Camp soldiers, Wu Chaoyue just whispered a few words in Qin Ruhu's ear, promising to give Qin Ruhu a portion of his military achievements in the future. Qin Ruhu immediately accepted the order happily and directed his Green Camp soldiers to attack Zhou Lichun's camp in batches. When the Green Camp soldiers asked the Wu army why they didn't practice courage? Qin Ruhu replied loudly: "Mr. Wu's regiment consumed too much ammunition and insufficient ammunition when he was serving the king, so he must save money now."

In order to make Zhou Lichun feel that he was deliberately using the green camp soldiers to lure the enemy, Wu Chaoyue once asked Qin Ruhu to deliberately defeat him. As a result, Wu Chaoyue soon found out that he was just wasting his mouth and finally understood why Xiangrong's Jiangnan Camp was stationed outside Nanjing for more than a year and had not built any achievements. He has been called the elite soldiers sent by the Jiangnan Camp. Qin Ruhu's Green Camp soldiers only dared to set off guns more than 100 or 200 meters away. Every time he was forced to attack, he ran back without a few steps. No matter how he looked, he seemed to deliberately lure the enemy, and it also successfully made Zhou Lichun feel more confident and felt that there was great hope of repelling Wu Chaoyue with solid fortifications.

After all this troubles, after fully creating the illusion that he could not capture for a long time, it was confirmed that Deng Siyuan and Zhou Tenghu were still firmly defending the Arsenal in the army. Wu Chaoyue decisively ordered the retreat to Jiangwan Liying. After seeing the main force of the Wu army retreat, Zhou Lichun's camp was of course cheering and cheering, roars of joy were shocking, one after another, and continuous. Zhou Lichun, who was extremely excited, immediately contacted Zeng Lichang and reported to Zeng Lichang that his army had repelled Wu Chaoyue. At the same time, Zhou Lichun naturally had to report to Zeng Lichang the ugly situation of Liu Lichuan's army and asked Zeng Lichang to send a truly reliable reinforcement to help him resist the Wu army's brave attack more effectively.

In addition, Zhou Lichun of course made a small report and told Zeng Lichang about Wu Chaoyue's public request for Lin Afu to send a message to Liu Lichuan.

When the news of Zhou Lichun's victory in blocking the attack was delivered to Zeng Lichang, Zeng Lichang, who had always been helpless in the Wu Army Arsenal, could not believe his ears, and subconsciously had such an idea, "Will the transcendence of the little demon be fooled and lured the enemy?"

After careful calculation, Zeng Lichang found that it was not completely impossible for the Wu army to lose. First of all, the main force of the Wu army went north to serve the king. After many battles, the ammunition was not replenished. Now the lack of ammunition is very likely. Secondly, when the generals of the Taiping Army summarized Wu Chaoyue's combat characteristics, they found that the Wu army's Jianyong was best at defensive warfare and field battles, but they performed mediocrely in the tough battle. The only time they broke through the Taiping Army camp was to lure the enemy by tricks, which deceived Lin Fengxiang's main force to take the initiative to escape from fortification protection and win in the field battle. Zhou Lichun's army was guarding the camp and never deceived and was never deceived. It was completely reasonable to withstand the Wu army's attack by relying on fortifications.

Such an idea arose in his mind, and Zeng Lichang naturally had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the main force of the Wu army by defensive war. The Taiping Army's intelligence clearly showed that the weapons and ammunition that the Wu army trained bravely had to be purchased from Prussia tens of thousands of miles away, and could not be replenished on the spot. As long as the Taiping Army survived until the main force of the Wu army was exhausted, it was definitely not impossible to kill Wu Chaoyue, whose hands were covered with blood from his comrades!

After being moved, hesitated for a long time. Zeng Lichang made up his mind to send Huang Shengcai and Yan Zhongwu to lead two thousand main forces across the Wusong River to the north overnight to Zhabei to help Zhou Lichun, but repeatedly told Huang Shengcai and Yan Zhongwu that they could only stick to the fortifications of the camp and never risk fighting. In addition, Zeng Lichang also secretly issued a secret order to the second general Huang Yan, an order to ensure that reinforcements would not be completely wiped out by the Wu army...
Chapter completed!