The loyal Lin Afu won the hearts of the soldiers. Seeing that he was shot to death by Liu Lichuan, although Lin Afu's soldiers did not dare to shoot at the boss of the gang, they all rushed to Lin Afu's body and cried loudly. However, Liu Lichuan did not even look at the sworn brothers, and led his personal soldiers to rush directly to the west gate of Shanghai.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the water on the ground could flood the insteps, but the battle in Shanghai still showed no sign of stopping. The shouts of killing and gunfire continued, resounding throughout the city. There were also fierce gunfire sounds from the east gate of Shanghai. It was obvious that the Qing navy had begun to bombard Shanghai. Hearing these messy noises, Liu Lichuan, who was soaked all over, had no expression on his face, and he held a pistol with a dark face and just headed straight for the west gate of Shanghai in a rainy night.

"Stop! The city gate is heavily located, do not approach it!"

The rain extinguished the torches in the soldier's hand, and could not see Liu Lichuan's appearance clearly. Lin Afu's subordinates who were guarding the city gate of course stopped Liu Lichuan who was rushing towards him. However, the soldier who stepped forward to stop him was slapped heavily for his loyalty to his duties, "Your mother's eyes are blind! Even I dare to stop him?"

It took a lot of effort to recognize the person as Liu Lichuan. The soldier who stepped forward to stop him quickly knelt down on one knee to apologize. Liu Lichuan ignored him, and rushed into the city gate corridor with a dark face. The city gate official who led the army to guard the city gate corridor hurriedly came up to salute. Liu Lichuan waved his hand and shouted, "Go away, open the city gate!"

"Open the city gate?!" The city gate official was stunned at first, and then exclaimed: "Check it out, it's so heavy, and it's very dangerous to open the city gate? What if there is a Qing Yao ambush outside and take the opportunity to kill in?"

"Stop talking nonsense! I will open the door if I ask you to open it. I will kill you with one more word!" Liu Lichuan roared with red eyes.

The city gate official was getting more and more speechless and said tremblingly: "Liu Jiandian, the young man dared not open it. General Lin just sent someone to pass the order, saying that without him in person, no one is allowed to open the city gate. Those who violate the order will be killed immediately!"

Liu Lichuan was too lazy to talk to him, so he raised his revolver and pulled the trigger directly at the loyal city gate official. However, the gun did not sound. The rain had soaked the paper-shell bullets in the revolver. Liu Lichuan was furious and smashed the revolver he bought at the high price to the ground. He snatched the rifle from his own soldiers, aimed the bayonet at the city gate official, and shouted: "Open the door immediately! This is an order! Otherwise, I will stab you to death with one knife!"

Seeing that Liu Lichuan was coming, the city gate official who had been lucky enough to get his life back was afraid of death. He hesitated for a moment and actually ran to the door lock with the key to open the door lock. He ordered his subordinates to remove the door lock and open the city gate. Then he quickly retreated to the side. All Lin Afu's subordinates present looked at each other and didn't understand what was going on.

After strode to the front of the door, Liu Lichuan opened the city gate to the maximum and tried hard to look at the rainy night outside the city. As a result, the Qing army did not disappoint Liu Lichuan. Seeing the light of torches in the corridor of the city gate after the city gate opened, a large number of figures appeared on the crossing stone bridge of the moat. Liu Lichuan was overjoyed and shouted: "Come here quickly! I am Liu Lichuan, I am Liu Lichuan, I surrender! I have opened the city gate! I surrender!"

"Surrender?" A noise sounded among Lin Afu's subordinates, and countless people screamed in shock. The city gate official blurted out: "Check, do you want to surrender to the Qing Yao?"

Liu Lichuan was too lazy to pay attention to the shouting of these people, but at this moment, another group of people rushed over and cried and shouted: "Brothers, Liu Jiandian killed General Lin in order to surrender to the Qing Yao! He killed General Lin Afulin with his own hands! He wanted to surrender to the Qing Yao!"

The screams were heard again, but Liu Lichuan disagreed and just shouted, "Call me so loudly? Shut up! Listen, I have already agreed with the official army that we will surrender, we will not kill all, and we will follow me to enjoy our happiness!"

No one responded to Liu Lichuan's call, but on the contrary, someone shouted: "We will not surrender! We will be irreconcilable with Qing Yao! We will not surrender!"

"Who told me not to surrender? Who told me not to surrender? Stand out for me!" Liu Lichuan was furious and held a bayonet and shouted at Lin Afu's subordinates: "Who dares to shout again and refuse to surrender, I will kill him with my own hands!"

No one was afraid of Liu Lichuan's threat. In the chaos, several people shouted at the same time, "Avenge General Lin! Kill this Liu Lichuan! Kill Liu Lichuan! Avenge Brother Fu! Kill!"

The crowd was infuriated, and many Lin Afu's subordinates rushed towards Liu Lichuan with their guns and knives. One of the Lin soldiers who guarded the city gate and the muskets were not dampened, even fired a shot at Liu Lichuan. As the gunshots, the bullets shot into Liu Lichuan's abdomen, causing Liu Lichuan to scream loudly, "Go! Kill these bastards for me!"

Several Liu Lichuan's personal soldiers rushed up to fight, but more Liu Lichuan ran out of the city. The angry Lin soldiers killed several of Liu Lichuan's best friends in three strokes and rushed over to kill Liu Lichuan. When Liu Lichuan saw that the situation was not good, he quickly ran out of the door. When Lin soldiers chased out of the city, they met the Qing soldiers who had already rushed to the city gate, and the two armies fought fiercely again.

Originally, when fighting in close-kill hand-to-hand combat, the Qing soldiers could never be the opponent of the Taiping Army. However, there was no way. The army on guarding the Ximen was the army of Liu Lichuan's general Lin Afu, whose combat effectiveness was much inferior to the authentic Taiping Army. In order to ensure the successful capture of the gate, the Qing army was the relatively most capable elite soldiers. The shorts were tall and had some combat effectiveness. Therefore, in the bloody hand-to-hand combat, the Qing army actually fought quite well. Not only was it not killed by the Lin soldiers, but it also successfully withstood the impact of the Lin soldiers and touched the edge of the city gate.

The swords and guns were coming and shouting and killing Zhentian. During the fierce battle, the Lin army soldiers soon exposed a major weakness. The group of dragons had no heads. The direct boss Lin Afu had been killed, and the boss Liu Lichuan had already taken the lead in rebellion. No one was in command and was still hastily fighting. After the aura of revenge for Lin Afu was dissipated, he soon began to feel guilty and timid and quietly retreated. In order to seize the city gate, the Qing army general Hu Songlin, who was commanding the battle, kept yelling among the Qing army crowd, "Crush! Crush! Crush for me! Take the Shanghai city, take three days of free and three days of free and three days of free and three days of free and "

The temptation of breaking the city and robbing was ahead. The Qing soldiers really took the courage to rush and beat hard, and took advantage of the chaos of Liu's soldiers to successfully enter the city gate. Hu Songlin was overjoyed when he saw it and quickly sent someone to destroy the city gate, not giving the Taiping Army a chance to close the city gate again. After receiving the accurate news from Liu Lichuan's gate, the main force of the Qing army immediately launched a large move and fought against the wind and rain to the west gate.

At the same time, the main force of the Taiping Army, who is still unknown to the situation in Ximen, is still fighting fiercely with Liu Lichuan's main force, and relying on the advantages of hand-to-hand combat, he has already reached Liu Lichuan's command department. Liu Lichuan's general Li Xianchi led his army to fight stubbornly in the command center, fighting with the Taiping Army in a difficult situation. Zhou Lichun's side also rushed to the vicinity with the Taiping Army, attacking the side gate of Liu's command center with all his strength.

Finally, when he received the news from Lin Afu's personal soldiers crying, Zeng Lichang, who was shocked, quickly ordered the stop of the attack on Liu's army and instead concentrated his troops to save Ximen first. However, at this time, the Ximen in Shanghai had been opened by Liu Lichuan for nearly half an hour. The soldiers of Lin's army, who had no leader, were scattered, and occasionally resisted were sparse. When the Taiping Army hurried to the battlefield of Ximen, the Qing army had completely controlled the city gate corridor, and seized several street fighting fortifications that were voluntarily abandoned by Lin's soldiers, and successfully climbed the Ximen city wall.

A more fierce hand-to-hand combat began. In order to regain the gap between the city gates, Taiping soldiers continued to attack the Qing army's positions with various cold weapons and rushed into the city gate corridor. Although the Qing army was frightened, they could not withstand Hu Songlin's repeated urging and the threat of the sword and axe of the supervising team. They could only fight with the Taiping soldiers with blood and blood, guarding the city gate corridor and not retreating. At the same time, the Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall desperately threw stones from the city and attacked the Taiping soldiers from a high position, forcing the Taiping army to divide their troops and seize the city wall.

Originally, with the Taiping Army's hand-to-hand combat ability, there was hope for recapturing Ximen, but the traitors were always hateful than the enemy. At the critical moment, when the Taiping Army had already voluntarily stopped the attack, Liu Lichuan's best friend, led by Li Xianchi and Du Wenzao, actually led the army to attack the Taiping Army, and at the same time, it set fire to the city to create chaos, forcing the Taiping Army to continue to divide its troops to fight. The morale of the army was greatly affected, so it completely missed the best opportunity to recapture Ximen, giving the Qing army the opportunity to continue to reinforce. Zeng Lichang was furious when he heard the news, but he had no choice but to command the army to fight with his former friendly forces and continue to consume valuable combat power.

By the way, after receiving the news that Liu Lichuan opened the west gate to lead the Qing army into the city, Pan Qiliang, the heavy general of the Liu family army guarding the north gate, was furious, and immediately sent troops to join the battlefield and attacked the flanks of Li Xianchi and other troops. As a result, although he shared a lot of pressure for the Taiping Army, the battlefield in the city became even more chaotic, and even inseparable from the enemy.

The first person to arrive outside the west gate to reinforce the Qing army Qin Ruhu. Seeing that the heads of the city gate were like ants, Qin Ruhu was very smart and did not join the already crowded city gate battlefield. He chose to command the soldiers to climb the city on a flying ladder. He also relied on the Qing soldiers who had climbed the city before, and successfully climbed the city to seize a large area of ​​the city head. The second wave arrived at the Qing army and the Chun army remained behind the moat, paying attention to protecting the muskets and waiting for the rain to stop before launching an attack, and was ready to reinforce the Hu Songlin army at any time.

What really laid the situation was the third wave of reinforcements of the Qing army. The infantry commando sent by Wu Chaoyue, led by Feng Sanbao. Although this commando had only one whistle or a hundred people, it was equipped with melee weapons such as machetes and spears, and was combined with revolvers and grenades wrapped in oil paper. It was compiled and trained separately after the Tianjin Battle. It was specially used for street fighting and close-range assault. Under the leadership of Wu Chaoyue's future father-in-law Feng Sanbao, this commando also climbed the Ximen City Wall more than two meters high with a flight ladder, and then rushed towards the Taiping soldiers who were constantly rushing from the ramp of the upper city, and stabbed the Taiping Army in close combat with a knife and a spear.

The situation of close combat was unfavorable to the Qing army changed as a result. Seeing Feng Sanbao rushing around the Taiping army like a tiger, and seeing the Wu army commando killing the Taiping army with slashes and poking, the Qing soldiers who were afraid of close combat also found their backbone and subconsciously followed the Wu army commando to fight a smooth battle, suppressing the crazy impact of the Taiping army, and successfully stabilizing the city wall battlefield, ensuring the favorable advantage of the Qing army to stand tall on the city wall.

After successfully stabilizing the city wall position, the Wu army commando quickly rushed to the inside of the city gate, tore open the oil paper bag under the eaves of the city gate tower, took out the grenade and pulled the lead, and threw the grenade into the dense Taiping soldiers under the city. And when the bitter and sour grenades falling from the sky exploded one after another among the Taiping soldiers, Taiping soldiers were extremely injured, and the attack momentum was suddenly greatly reduced in chaos. The Qing soldiers launched a counterattack, successfully regained the entire city gate corridor, and controlled the main force of the Qing army's road to the city.

The fierce battle continued, and when the rain finally began to turn smaller, Liu Lichuan, who was shot in the abdomen, was also supported by his personal soldiers to the front of He Chun, the admiral of the Qing army's Jiangnan, and learned about the situation in the city from Liu Lichuan. He smiled very kindly and said, "Thank you, Mr. Liu, don't worry, the promises that I and Xu Futai have to do to you will definitely be fulfilled. By the way, how are your injuries? Does it matter?"

"Thank you for your concern, sir." Liu Lichuan thanked quickly and said, "It's okay. The bullet happened to hit the small ribs and had been dug out just now."

"That's good, that's good." He Chun nodded repeatedly and said, "Come on, send Liu Zhuangshi to Wu Chaoyue and Wu Nietai, and ask Wu Nietai to settle Liu Zhuangshi for a long time."

Liu Lichuan was overjoyed and rushed to Wu Chaoyue's camp with the people of Hechun. As a result, on the way, Liu Lichuan and his party met Wu Chaoyue who was leading his army to reinforce. The scene of the uncle and nephew meeting was also very touching. Even though he was injured, Liu Lichuan struggled to kneel down to Wu Chaoyue on both knees, saying that he was guilty, while Wu Chaoyue personally helped Liu Lichuan up with both hands and said, "Uncle Ayuan, don't do this. Although this Shanghai battle started because of you, you will be lost and you will be back. The prodigal son turned around and helped our army break through Shanghai and create a fighter to annihilate Changmao. The merits and demerits are offset. In general, you still have contributions to the court."

After speaking sincerely, Wu Chaoyue quickly asked about Liu Lichuan's injuries. He learned that Liu Lichuan's injuries were not serious, and Hui Zheng and his son were under the strict protection of Liu Lichuan's confidant. Wu Chaoyue breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Uncle Yuan, the rain has not stopped yet. You can't stay here if you have any injuries. Let's do this, I'll send someone to see Xu Futai. You should rest and recuperate in Xu Futai's camp. When the war in Shanghai is settled, our uncle and nephew will get together to have a good drink."

Liu Lichuan was even more happy and hurriedly thanked Wu Chaoyue, his nephew, who was indeed a model for filial nephew. He immediately sent his personal soldiers to send Liu Lichuan to the main camp of the Qing army west of the city, allowing Liu Lichuan to meet Xu Naizhao, the honorary prince of the province.

Xu Naizhao's attitude towards Liu Lichuan was more friendly and gentle. Not only did he help Liu Lichuan with his own hands to ask about his well-being and asking about Liu Lichuan's injuries, he also learned very carefully about what happened after Liu Lichuan left the city. After learning that Liu Lichuan had met Hechun and Wu Chaoyue, Xu Naizhao also cursed: "This Hejunmen and Wu Nietai, seeing that Liu Zhuangshi was so seriously injured, why did he let him run around in the rain? Come, come, come quickly, send Liu Zhuangshi down to rest and ask the military doctor to treat Liu Zhuangshi. All the companions brought by Liu Zhuangshi were settled for the official and give him more wine and meat."

Xu Naizhao's personal soldiers in the tent agreed to come and invited Liu Lichuan to the tent for treatment. He also brought Liu Lichuan's personal soldiers to give them wine and meat. After a while, the captain of the personal soldiers returned to Xu Naizhao and presented the guarantee letter to Liu Lichuan to Xu Naizhao. Xu Naizhao took the guarantee letter and first looked at it. He was the correct handwriting, and then asked the captain of the personal soldiers: "Is it solved?"

"It's solved." The captain of the personal soldiers nodded and replied: "These people Liu Lichuan brought and all drank arsenic poisonous wine. During this period, he did not encounter resistance, nor did he alarm outsiders."

Xu Naizhao nodded with satisfaction, and while putting the guarantee letter on the candle, he cursed: "The two slippery heads of the sky, don't want to get dirty, so he forced Liu Lichuan to the official, so that I can't be criticized for being surrendered by the boss."

"Master Futai, why didn't you push Liu Lichuan back to Master He or Lord Wu? Let them do this?" asked the captain of the personal soldiers curiously.

"You can't dream too much at night." Xu Naizhao sighed, shook the burning guarantee letter in his hand, and said with a wry smile: "With the emperor's permission, protecting people from death in black and white is a serious crime. What's more, Liu Lichuan is still the main criminal of the court and the culprit of the Shanghai pirates. If the emperor and the court know that the official wrote the book to protect him from death, the trouble would only be greater. So there is no way, so we can only deal with the safety quickly."

After saying that, Xu Naizhao threw the promise letter that was about to be turned into ashes on the ground, watched it completely burned, and then said lightly: "Liu Lichuan surrendered in the city, died of serious injuries after leaving the city, let go of this news."

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Time turned slightly, and when Xu Naizhao's personal soldiers stabbed the dagger into Liu Lichuan's heart, he saw the dagger that suddenly penetrated into his chest, and saw the grim smile on the face of Xu Naizhao's personal soldiers. Liu Lichuan was unbelievable and suddenly remembered the scene in his heart when he and Chen Alin and Lin Afu became sworn in five years ago. The oath he and Chen Alin and Lin Afu recited in unison......

"The Emperor and Empress, Liu, Guan and Zhang, are here, Liu Lichuan, Chen Alin, and Lin Afu have become brothers of different surnames from today. They share blessings and difficulties. They cannot be born on the same day of the same year, month and month. But I hope to die on the same day of the same year. If I violate this oath, the sky will be struck by lightning, and there will be no place to die! "

Recalling the promise he had made, Liu Lichuan couldn't help but ask Xu Naizhao's personal soldiers who were holding the dagger tightly, "What time is it?"

"What time is it?" The personal soldier was stunned, but he replied: "It's almost twelve o'clock."

Liu Lichuan smiled, his eyes gradually turned black, and he said softly: "Alin, Afu, I'm sorry for you, but I have done at least a little bit. If there is really a next life, I will be a cow and a horse, thank you..., sin..."
Chapter completed!