"How about it?"

Zeng Guofan smiled and asked Liu Rong, Guo Songtao and Luo Zenan three confidant aides. Although Zeng Guofan asked a little inscrutable, Liu Rong, Guo Songtao and others still understood it. Liu Rong immediately replied: "I am indeed a proud disciple of the general. He is indeed a young man and has a deep cunning life. He can be able to control his emotions and keep his emotions freely. It is harder than many people who pretend to be profound to see what he really thinks."

"It's still very aggrieved and demanding all." Luo Zenan added: "Students can see that he does not agree with the tactics of defending the city and waiting for aid. He also suggested a change at one time. But after you flatly refused, he stopped saying anything more. He also took the initiative to ask the commander to continue to command the green camp in Wuchang to train bravely, showing his sincerity to obey the strategy of the general. Such people are either weak in character, or are good at forbearance and able to wait patiently."

Zeng Guofan smiled and said, "In the second year of Xianfeng, he entered the officialdom. In just two years, he rose from a sixth-rank chief to a provincial governor. He rarely suffered defeat in dozens of battles. He killed Changmao's pseudo-Northern King Wei Changhui, seized Suzhou and defeated Tianjin, and lost to Changmao's elite troops. Can such a person have weak personalities?"

"So, the coach believes that your disciple is tolerant and unable to send a message?"

Luo Zenan asked, and Zeng Guofan smiled but did not answer, putting aside the topic, saying: "Fortunately, he is just a bare-headed governor now. If you want to save Wuchang City, you can only rely on us, and you don't have to worry about what he is doing. What we need to worry about now is to quickly create a list of Hubei local officials, use his hand to recommend him to fill the gap, help him manage Hubei's civil affairs, and manage local money, grain and taxes."

Liu Rong, Guo Songtao and others laughed. Knowing that as long as this move is successful, even if Zeng Guofan cannot become the governor of Hubei, he can still become the governor of Hubei. However, just as a few of his confidant aides were planning to recommend someone to Zeng Guofan to serve as a local official in Hubei, a personal soldier suddenly came to report outside the gate, saying that Wu Chaoyue sent someone to climb Binyang Gate and wanted to shoot a letter out of the city with a bow and arrow and hand it over to the Taiping Army. Li Xubin, who guarded Binyang Gate, did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so he sent someone to ask Zeng Guofan whether he would allow Wu Chaoyue's people to do so.

Feeling a little strange, Zeng Guofan asked his personal soldiers to call the messenger sent by Li Xubin in and asked: "Did the people from Wu Futai say what the letter is in?"

"I've said it, and I said it was a letter to revel in the past." The messenger replied truthfully: "Wu Futai people also said that this was Wu Futai's habit. Last year, when he went north to serve the king in Tianjin, he was also in the face of Prince Zai Yixian, and used an arrow to shoot the letter to revel in Tianjin. Wu Futai people also said that the long-haired fake prime minister Lin Fengxiang is an old acquaintance of Wu Futai. He had dealt with each other since the beginning of the Jiangning War. He had fought many battles. Now he has met again after a long separation. Why do Wu Futai have to say hello to him?"

"The villain is successful!" Zeng Guofan cursed inwardly, waved his hand, and said, "Let them shoot the letter out, I agree."

Zeng Guofan rarely made surprises in wars, especially liked to stay on guard, plan and then move, and cut off the enemy's way of drawing, forcing the enemy to take the initiative to fight. Although the Hunan Army's close-killing hand-to-hand combat ability was slightly inferior to that of the Taiping Army, another reason was that Zeng Guofan knew that he lacked impulse and was not very good at adapting to changes. This time, the messenger sent by Li Xubin had been away for about ten minutes. Zeng Guofan suddenly woke up and shouted: "Hurry, send someone to send a command to Li Xubin, telling him not to allow Wu Chaoyue to shoot archery books! The people who asked Wu Chaoyue to come to see me directly!"

Unfortunately, one step late, when the personal soldiers hurriedly came to Binyang Gate with Zeng Guofan's order, Wu Chaoyue's accomplices had already shot the arrows out of the city and left the scene with a loud arrow. The arrows had been picked up by the Taiping Scouts patrolling outside the city. After the news was reported to Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan remorse and stamped his feet and cried: "Oh no! Weiting, you are confused, don't write any words that are too exciting to Long Hai. If Chang Hai is completely annoyed, you might have to attack Wuchang Prefecture again."

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Of course, Wu Chaoyue didn't write any sentences that stimulated the Taiping Army. Wu Chaoyue just wrote some content that almost made Lin Fengxiang and Wei Jun crazy. The full text is as follows:

"Lin Fengxiang, long time no see, are you missing a hand and broken leg? Last time I was at Shence Gate in Jiangning City, I couldn't kill you with one shot. Are you lucky?

Speaking of which, we are really destined to be a little destined. The first long hair I killed was your subordinate. The first great achievement was to beat you seriously injure you with your own hands. Later, you beat Jiangyin. In order to ask me for help, Lord Yang, the governor of Jiangsu at that time, married his granddaughter to me as his wife, and asked me to choose a beautiful wife for nothing. You are still my matchmaker. You helped me get promoted and get rich and also helped me marry a beautiful wife. I really want to thank you.

The great kindness did not thank you and said nothing more nonsense. We finally met on the battlefield again. If you are smart, hurry up and kill Qin Rigang and Wei Jun to surrender. I guarantee you not to die, and I will also keep you an official position for you. I will only give you a chance once. If you missed the fate of a place where you will die without a burial. When I capture you alive and tie you to the court, it will be too late to kowtow and beg for mercy.

By the way, I thanked Wei Jun, the long-haired haired mansion for me. After the Jiangning war, I was promoted to two levels in a row to the fourth-grade docking platform, thanks to his brother Wei Changhui's head. I asked him to clean his neck and wait for death. I still want to continue to be promoted. How can I do without your long-haired heads as stepping stones?

I see you on the battlefield with eggs, but if you don’t have eggs, you will get out of here early. Gu Deyou. Your old friend Wu Chaoyue.”

I had already hated Wu Chaoyue to the core. When I saw Wu Chaoyue's vicious letter of intentional provocation, Lin Fengxiang and Wei Jun were of course so angry that their bodies were trembling. Then they immediately asked Qin Rigang to send troops to attack the city immediately, yelling and asking him to be the vanguard of the siege to settle the accounts and seek revenge on Wu Chaoyue. Qin Rigang frowned and said, "Prime Minister Lin, Wei Jian, can you calm down? The letter of Chaoyue Xiao Yao is clearly a deliberate provocation and inspiring you to attack the city of Wuchang. If we send troops, wouldn't it be the same as Chaoyue Xiao Yao's intention?"

"So what?" Wei Jun roared with red eyes: "The Super Little Demon is in Wuchang City. Our troops are in the upper hand. If we don't take the opportunity to attack the city and take revenge, should we still watch the Super Little Demon here freely and freely in the city?"

Qin Rigang was speechless, and Lin Fengxiang said with a pale face over there: "The Marquis of Dingtian, the King of Wings has repeatedly increased his troops in the Wuchang battlefield for five thousand years, in order to win Wuchang so that the Super Little Demon cannot gain a foothold in Hubei, and not give him the opportunity to prepare for military service and threaten the Western Front of the Heavenly Kingdom. Now the Super Little Demon has entered the Wuchang Prefecture City. If we don't seize the opportunity to attack the city and break the city, should we wait for the various reinforcements of the Qing Yao to arrive and rescue the Super Little Demon with his hands covered with blood from the soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom?!"

"But we have the choice of besieging the city and attacking the aid." Qin Rigang said earnestly: "If we can defeat the reinforcements from Qing Yao, we can turn around and attack Wuchang Prefecture City, we can be much easier and we can be more confident."

"What if the Qing Yao reinforcements don't come? Let's continue to waste time with the Chaoyue Xiao Yao?" Wei Jun asked angrily.

He really couldn't resist Lin Fengxiang and Wei Jun. When he saw Lin Fengxiang and Wei Jun in a furious threatening to lead their troops to attack Wuchang Prefecture City on their own, Qin Rigang had no extra choice. He could only grit his teeth and nodded, barely agreeing to the plan to continue to attack the city with all his strength.

Qin Rigang's decision certainly made the poor barber teacher Wu Chaoyue's poor barber teacher. Facing the main force of the Taiping Army who was shouting the slogan of flattening Wuchang City and capturing Chaoyue Demon alive, the barber teacher was unhappy and could only supervise the battle with tears in his eyes, and continue to defend Wuchang City with all his might for the disobedient students. Another earth-shaking and fierce battle began the second day after Wu Chaoyue arrived in Wuchang.

The cannons roared and gunfire intertwined. The Taiping Army's flying ladders climbed the city one after another. The Taiping Army soldiers who were good at close combat shouted and climbed the ladder and repeatedly rushed to the Wuchang city. Two other large ladder cars that were flush with the city walls slowly approached the Wuchang city walls under the vigorous push and pull of the Taiping Army soldiers. The war directly entered a white-hot heat from the beginning.

During the fierce battle, Wu Chaoyue also led Wu Dasai, Nie Shicheng and others to the main battlefield of Binyang Gate where the fiercest war was. Although he did not wear dazzling official clothes to lure the enemy to concentrate firepower, he also looked as usual in the rain of bullets. He carefully observed the combat characteristics of the Hunan Army with his hands behind his back, and the Taiping Army's siege habits outside the city.

The Hunan Army was indeed good at defending and cleverly used the favorable terrain of the city towers, corners, forts and protruding walls to weave a firepower net with almost no dead corners. At the same time, when the Hunan Army soldiers used a medley, the ammunition loading speed and shooting accuracy were significantly higher than that of the Green Battalion soldiers. The continuous shooting caused the Taiping Army soldiers on the ladder to be killed and injured and fell continuously. In addition, the Hunan Army's artillery operation technology was quite good. Although they had not received systematic scientific training, they also used their experience to hit the shells extremely accurately. In the fight against the Taiping Army's Shuangfeng Mountain Fort Artillery, more than half of each ten artillery cannon hit the Taiping Army's artillery is a pity. It is solid shells, and even if they hit it, it poses little threat to the Taiping Army's artillery.

When he saw the Hunan Army gunners concentrated on bombarding the large Taiping ladder truck with cross ballistics, even Wu Chaoyue couldn't help but nodded, appreciating the calm and confident commander of the Hunan Army. He did not rush to waste shells to bombard the ladder truck that poses a huge threat to the city wall. He calmly chose to wait until the enemy ladder truck entered the best shooting position before he concentrated his firepower to fire. However, at this moment, Li Xubin, the chief general of the Binyang Gate, rushed over and shouted at Wu Chaoyue: "Wu Futai, why are you here? This is the front line, and there are guns and shells everywhere. What should you do if you hit it?"

"Thank you, General Li, for your kindness. It's okay, I've been used to it for a long time. Don't worry about me, just go your own."

Wu Chaoyue smiled and shook his head, and continued to look at the battle situation on the city wall not far away. A Taiping Army warrior bit his sword and rushed up the city wall. Before the Taiping Army warrior could swing out the knife, a nearby Hunan soldier who had been huddling behind the female wall shot him and hit him in the ribs with one shot. While the Taiping Army warrior groaned, the two Hunan soldiers opposite him had already pushed their guns and worked together to push him down the city wall.

Seeing this, Wu Chaoyue nodded again, and finally learned some battlefield skills from the barber teacher. He specially arranged gunmen to make up for leaks. He did not participate in the battle and was only responsible for sneak attacking enemies who had luckily climbed the city. This not only played a surprise weapon, but also made up for the weakness of the long time to load ammunition by the convex gun. In the case of insufficient revolver guns, it is worth learning from Wu Jun’s training for the courageous village.

With a loud bang, a shell hit the arrows not far away next to Wu Chaoyue, splashing dust and countless bricks and soil shatters, which scared the surrounding Hunan Army soldiers and Li Xubin, and subconsciously shook the bullets. However, Wu Chaoyue and his group did not even blink their eyes. They were all used to it. They had long relied on their experience to know that solid shells bombarding the city walls would never be able to jump onto the city walls. Seeing Wu Chaoyue's reaction, Li Xubin couldn't help but be stunned and said intently: "Is this kid pretending to behave? Or do you really have this kind of demeanor?"

Of course, Wu Chaoyue was a real person who was afraid of death. However, no matter how greedy he was, Wu Chaoyue still did not rush to hide in the city as a turtle. Instead, he walked to the battlement that had been hit by a shell before and poked his head out to see the scene outside the city. As a result, in addition to the large groups of Taiping Army ants attached to warriors, Wu Chaoyue also found a little abnormality under the city wall, and there was no trace of building a sheep and horse wall.

"I am worthy of being my teacher. I really didn't want to fight to the end for me and Changmao from the beginning." Wu Chaoyue snorted coldly in his heart, knowing that if the Sheep and Horse Wall was built to protect the Hunan Army soldiers from shooting under the city, it would certainly cause more casualties for the Taiping Army, but it was destined to increase the number of casualties for the Hunan Army soldiers, so his barber teacher refused to suffer this loss.

"I didn't expect that the teacher was so selfish that he wanted to bleed heavily next time. He paid a little more price to pick up reinforcements to Wuchang and help me fight the Taiping Army away. I'm afraid I have to think of more solutions."

Considering this issue, Wu Chaoyue stayed at the main battlefield Binyang Gate City throughout the day. Although he never participated in the war, he also played a role in boosting morale and morale. Seeing that Wu Chaoyue, who was the esteemed of a province, had personally visited the most dangerous frontline and insisted on retreating. The already brave Hunan soldiers worked harder during the battle. When he saw Wu Chaoyue personally carried the injured Hunan soldiers who were shot to the safe place to treat him, many Hunan soldiers were even more moved and their favor for Wu Chaoyue increased greatly.

The fierce offensive and defensive war lasted until it was almost evening. After suffering heavy casualties, the Taiping Army, which could not capture the city of Wuchang, finally retracted its troops. When the Hunan Army battalions quickly counted the casualties and rescued the wounded soldiers, Wu Chaoyue also rushed to the wounded soldiers as soon as possible according to his personal habits to comfort the wounded soldiers and win people's hearts. As a result, it was time to show his acting skills. Wu Chaoyue, who had not paid much attention before, suddenly discovered that the Hunan Army's doctor used wood ash to stop bleeding and bandage the wounded soldiers directly. Wu Chaoyue hurriedly asked the doctor: "Why don't you use Panax notoginseng powder or Jinchuang medicine? Use wood ash to stop bleeding, and aren't you afraid that the wounded soldiers' wounds will become purulent?"

Knowing Wu Chaoyue's identity, the Hunan Army Doctor did not dare to contradict him, but just lowered his eyebrows and replied pleasingly: "After Master Futai, after fighting so many battles, Jinchuang medicine and Panax notoginseng powder have been used almost as much as possible, so unless it is injured very seriously, or..., yes..., it is not necessary."

Wu Chaoyue was silent for a moment, and then asked his personal soldiers to send orders to Wuchang Prefect Duoshan, asking Duoshan to send someone to send some garlic over immediately. Then he pointed to the Hunan Army Doctor: "After the garlic is delivered, mash it and add water to make garlic juice. Apply the garlic juice on gauze and bandage it to the wounded soldiers, which can prevent pus from flowing from the wound."

"Master Futai, is it useful to do this?" the doctor asked in confusion.

"It's useful. This is the way for foreign troops to treat wounded soldiers. When I was in Shanghai, I also used this method to treat my wounded soldiers when the medicine was insufficient."

Wu Chaoyue was really not fooling the Hunan Army's Doctor. In fact, until the First World War, European and American troops used this method to treat the wounded soldiers. After asking the Hunan Army's Doctor to treat according to law, Wu Chaoyue told the surrounding Hunan Army's wounded soldiers that although doing so was a little painful, it could effectively prevent their wounds from deteriorating and not aggravate the injuries. As a result, although Wu Chaoyue did this, he did not intend to, but while the Hunan Army's injured soldiers nodded, they had such thoughts, "This Futai Master is actually better to us than the general."

Perhaps because Zeng Guofan could not tolerate disobeying his disciples and bribed his soldiers' hearts, Zeng Guofan suddenly sent someone to ask Wu Chaoyue to meet him. Wu Chaoyue had to say goodbye to the wounded soldiers immediately, leaving several personal soldiers to help the Hunan Army doctors treat the wounded soldiers, and then hurried to the Hunan Army Command located in Zhaodaoling to meet Zeng Guofan.

When they met, Zeng Guofan was in a very bad mood and forced a smile. He first called Wu Chaoyue to sit down, and then asked Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, what did you write in the letter you sent to Changmao with arrows yesterday? Why did Changmao attack Wuchang City like crazy, and even shouted the slogan of capturing you alive?"

"Didn't you write anything?" Wu Chaoyue replied in confusion: "The student just talked about the past with Lin Fengxiang, and persuaded him to put down his weapons and surrender as soon as possible, stop the horse from the cliff, and turn the prodigal son back."

"How come Changmao has achieved the opposite effect, causing Changmao to attack the city wildly?" Zeng Guofan asked angrily.

"I don't know about this student." Wu Chaoyue shook his head and refuted, and said, "But this is not strange, right? Changmao besieged Wuchang Prefecture City for nearly two months. Isn't it strange to attack the city several times?"

Zeng Guofan was speechless and suspected that the Taiping Army's crazy siege was related to the disobedient disciples in front of him, but he could not provide any evidence. In desperation, Zeng Guofan had to change the subject and asked: "I heard that you were in Binyang Gate City all day today, are you not afraid of danger?"

"The student, a bare-legged governor, couldn't find anything to do in Wuchang City, so he went to the city to cheer for his mentor's bravery." Wu Chaoyue said the truth, "As for the danger, the students are of course afraid, but the students also want to observe the mentor's military method and understand the enemy situation, so they plucked up their courage to go to the front line."

Speaking of this, Wu Chaoyue had an idea and took the initiative to say to Zeng Guofan: "Mr., if you don't mind, the student is willing to take on the responsibility of governor for you. Put the student's governor's flag on the Binyang Gate Tower facing the Changmao Thief Camp. If Changmao comes to attack the city again, the student will immediately climb to Binyang Gate to supervise the battle for the teacher and encourage the morale of the defenders."

"Whatever you do." Zeng Guofan didn't think much about it, and waved his hand and let his disobey his disciples act. What he was thinking was how to use a slow-down strategy to let the Taiping Army turn its guns to attack foreign reinforcements, and stop fighting hard with him. He also thought about how to insert his own people into the Hubei officialdom and indirectly control Hubei's civil affairs and finance.

Zeng Guofan soon paid a heavy price for his rash decision. When he saw Wu Chaoyue's big flag with his claws spreading onto the Binyang Gate Tower, Lin Fengxiang and Wei Jun, who were as deep as the sea, had their eyes red. Not only did they force Qin Rigang to continue to attack the city, but they also forced Qin Rigang to adopt the tactic of taking turns to attack the city, and let the soldiers of the Taiping battalions take turns to attack the Binyang Gate day and night. Zeng Guofan was forced to urge the army to continue to fight, and he could not help but curse, "The long hair outside the city is all crazy, right? I have been restrained and have not left the city to counterattack once. If you take the wrong medicine, you must come and hit me?"
Chapter completed!