It was also a coincidence that in the old Lu Shunde Army camp on Lu Jiahui, there happened to be a handwritten handwritten handwritten handwritten handwritten handwritten handwritten handwritten handwritten by Tan Shaoguang, which was carefully checked. The truth was immediately revealed. The words on the small note that informed Wu Jun in Shanghai were indeed Tan Shaoguang's handwritten handwritten handwritten, not bad at all!

"Tan Shaoguang, you shameless villain! You can use such despicable means to eat alone!"

This discovery made Lu Shunde, who had just suffered a great loss, and he was so angry that he thought that Tan Shaoguang was cheating without any consideration. In order to eat the Dushi in Shanghai, he deliberately reported to Wu Jun. He used a knife to kill someone and wanted to kill him, the person who could share the spoils, and immediately crossed the Huangpu River to settle the score with Tan Shaoguang. Although Huang Demao didn't believe that Tan Shaoguang could be so despicable, he was unwilling to question his relationship with Lu Shunde and just persuaded Lu Shunde not to be too impulsive and gave him a free gift to Wu Jun in Shanghai.

"Uncle Lu, the enemy is in front of you. It's better to be calm if you have any problems. No matter whether this note was written by Tan Shaoguang and reported to the demon soldiers, turning against him at this time will only make the demon soldiers vulnerable. My nephew thinks that you'd better discuss with my father first and then decide what to do with it."

Huang Demao's persuasion still had some effect, at least Lu Shunde temporarily gave up the idea of ​​immediately taking the army to find Tan Shaoguang. However, even so, Lu Shunde still asked Huang Demao to bring a letter back to Huang Zilong immediately to consult Huang Zilong's attitude and opinions. At the same time, Lu Shunde also asked Huang Demao to bring a clear word to Huang Zilong, saying that he would no longer believe any explanation from Tan Shaoguang, and would never foolishly launch an attack on the Wu army's Pudong stronghold, leaving the army to prevent Tan Shaoguang from playing new tricks.

That afternoon, Huang Demao brought the news back to Huang Zilong. What surprised Huang Demao was that after a while, his father Huang Zilong said, "You go to Lujiahui again and tell you uncle Lu, just say that if he can find evidence that Tan Shaoguang secretly communicates with the demon soldiers, I will support him no matter what he does. Before that, I will advance and retreat with him, hold on to the army together, and see what tricks Tan Shaoguang can do."

"Father, from your tone, do you believe that the note that informed the demon soldiers was written by Jian Tianyi?" Huang Demao asked in surprise.

"Of course I don't believe it." Huang Zilong shook his head first, and then said: "But people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, we have to be careful that Tan Shaoguang is not as selfless as he looks. So now, the best choice for us is to keep the troops like your uncle Lu, and to prevent Tan Shaoguang from using the demon soldiers to deal with us."

"But if we and Uncle Lu remain unmoved, how do you explain to Tan Shaoguang?" Huang Demao asked again quickly.

"What explanation do I have to give him?" Huang Zilong asked back and snorted coldly: "We asked him to take down Sijing, Qibao and Xinzhuang three demon soldiers camps to prove their innocence. He agreed with the red mouth and white teeth. Now Qibao and Xinzhuang have not taken it yet. What qualifications do he have to ask me to explain to him?"

Huang Demao suddenly realized, hurriedly nodded and agreed to go across the river to reply to Lu Shunde, then lowered his voice and said, "Father, why don't you think of a way to bring a letter to the demon soldiers so that the demon soldiers know that Jian Tianyi must take down Qibao and Xinzhuang first. In this way, if the demon soldiers have all their strength to fight hard with Jian Tianyi, we may still have a chance to reap profits."

Huang Zilong was a little moved by his son's suggestion, but it was quite good for Tan Shaoguang. Huang Zilong's character was not so bad. After just shook it for a while, Huang Zilong shook his head and said, "You can't do it too much. If Tan Shaoguang catches the handle, we can't explain to the Heavenly King and the King of Zhong."

After saying that, Huang Zilong added another sentence and said, "And as long as the demon soldiers are not too stupid, they will definitely hear some rumors in no time, and we don't need to send the message directly."

Huang Demao's eyes turned a few times first, then nodded and agreed. While crossing the river and contacting Lu Shunde again as Huang Zilong's request, he secretly made people feel the news that Tan Shaoguangjun had to take down Qibao and Xinzhuang first to prove his innocence.

With Huang Zilong's clear support, Lu Shunde naturally felt much more relieved and bold. In addition to expressing his gratitude to Huang Zilong, he immediately sent a large number of people to secretly investigate the secret exchanges between Tan Shaoguang and the Wu army in Shanghai. At the same time, he used the excuse of being attacked by the Wu army and suffered heavy losses and had no strength to launch an attack again, and ordered his troops to turn off attacks to defend, and no longer willing to attack the Wu army camp stronghold on the battlefield in Pudong.

The same is true for Huang Zilong. He turned off the offensive to defend and refused to launch a military operation. Tan Shaoguang sent someone to ask why. In addition to finding various excuses to ruling, Huang Zilong also asked Tan Shaoguang to fulfill his promise and take down the Xinzhuang and Qibao strongholds that the Wu army in Shanghai were focused on to prevent.

The battle was difficult to fight, and Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde worked together but failed to work. The difficulties faced by Tan Shaoguang's troops can naturally be imagined. What's worse is that through the scouts' careful work, the information released by Huang Demao was found out, and based on the battlefield situation, it was probably true that the information was correct. Zhou Tenghu also decisively increased troops from Qibao and Xinzhuang, using the battalion defense fortifications to consume a large number of Tan Shaoguang's main elite, weakening Tan Shaoguang, the most dangerous opponent.

Tan Shaoguang is also a famous general in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. No matter how fierce the Wu army resisted violently, after paying a heavy price, Tan Shaoguang's army still took down the stronghold of the Wu army, which was alone outside Shanghai. However, before Tan Shaoguang's troops could celebrate the victory, it was just that night that day, the Wu army from Hongqiao, Caohejing and Luojiagang jointly launched a counterattack, attacking Tan Shaoguang's troops on the battlefield of Qibao. Tan Shaoguang's troops were exhausted and somewhat inadequate. They were defeated by the Wu army's counterattack. Naturally, they did not have to say that they suffered heavy losses. The outer positions of Qibao, which had been occupied with hard work, also lost a single slightest.

The one who made Tan Shaoguang cry and tears still was still behind. After temporarily lifting the siege of Qibao, the Wu army in Shanghai seized the time to send a large amount of food and ammunition to the Qibao stronghold. At the same time, four battalions of troops were sent to strengthen the defensive power of the Qibao stronghold. One of the battalions was also the main elite who were equipped with firing needle guns.

When the situation reached this point, Tan Shaoguang had no extra choice. He could only send someone to invite Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde to the camp for a banquet, intending to give up the unreasonable request he had agreed to in anger and send troops to help him share the pressure of attack. However, what surprised Tan Shaoguang was that he kindly invited Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde to have a meal and drink, but the two of them flatly refused one after another and refused to meet him.

"Why didn't you come? Did you tell me the reason?"

Tan Shaoguang asked in confusion, and Ji Si, the subordinate in charge of contact, answered truthfully: "Prime Minister Lu said that he had discovered that the demon soldiers in Pudong had abnormal behavior, and was afraid that the demon soldiers would attack by chance and could not cross the river. Jiaotian Hou did not see our envoy, and his son Huang Demao said that he was sick and it was not convenient to go to the camp to attend the banquet."

Tan Shaoguang was silent and said for a while: "Send someone to visit Jiaotian Hou and ask him how he is in a state of illness and whether it is important."

Ji Si, who has always been obedient, rarely agreed immediately, and said, "Jian Tianyi, don't waste your energy. Huang Huazi is obviously pretending to be sick and not wanting to come to see you. What else did you give him? He got sick after treating him to dinner. Is there such a coincidence in the world?"

Tan Shaoguang was silent again, and after a long time, he said, "This should be just a coincidence. I know that Jiaotian Hou is not that kind of person."

"Jian Tianyi, I will obey you everything, but I just don't accept you!"

Ji Si, a confidant for many years, said in a very bad tone and very unhappy manner: "Your heart is too straight, it's just a thorn! If Huang Huazi is not such a person, then the news that you must take down Xinzhuang and Qibao first came from that camp first. Don't you know?"

Tan Shaoguang stopped talking again. After being silent for a long time, he didn't get stuck on this issue anymore. He just waved his hand and said, "You go down first, I'll think about what to do."

He racked his brains and couldn't think of a way to persuade Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde to send troops. Of course, Tan Shaoguang was both disappointed and disappointed, and had the idea of ​​giving up for the first time. He almost wanted to leave the war in Shanghai. As a result, it was coincidental that at this time, Yang Fang, a famous wealthy businessman in Shanghai, suddenly sent someone to contact Tan Shaoguang secretly, and asked on behalf of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce to start a peace talk with Tan Shaoguang, willing to exchange a high price of 200,000 taels of silver for Tan Shaoguang to retreat to Suzhou, and promised to continue to maintain trade deals with the Suzhou Taiping Army, as well as a protection fee of 50,000 taels of silver for Tan Shaoguang to return to Suzhou every year.

In order to prove the sincerity of the peace talks, Yang Fang also asked the envoy to bring ten thousand taels of silver with the letter, as a gift for Tan Shaoguang himself, and it was not counted as a condition for withdrawal and exchange.

With the white silver and the sincere exchange conditions in front of him, Tan Shaoguang, who was already in a dilemma of fighting alone, was naturally a little moved. Wu Xijiu and Ji's fourth-class confidant generals were even more shaken. They persuaded Tan Shaoguang to consider the excuse of withdrawing troops that was heavy casualties were ready. At the same time, the envoy sent by Yang Fang also clearly told Tan Shaoguang, saying: "General Tan, my master said that as long as you agree, you can discuss any conditions. Our Shanghai Chamber of Commerce will do our best to meet them."

Hearing the implicit sound of the price increase, Tan Shaoguang was of course even more shaken after all, Tan Shaoguang was not a sage. However, just when he was about to agree to the secret peace talks, Tan Shaoguang suddenly woke up, immediately slapped the table heavily, and shouted angrily: "Dark dog thief, do you dare to use fraud for the demon soldiers and alienate our heavenly army?!"

"General Tan, you misunderstood. Who is the young man who has that courage?" Yang Fang's envoy quickly denied it.

"Do you still dare to argue?" Tan Shaoguang said angrily: "If I promise to have a secret peace talk with you, you will deliberately send my reply to Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde, and provoke internal strife in our heavenly army, right?"

"General Tan, it's unjust!" Yang Fang's envoy shouted again and said, "My master and your Suzhou Heavenly Army have so many business dealings. How dare you do such a thing to offend you so much? You cut off your financial path in Suzhou? We really want to give up money to you to withdraw your troops. Please observe clearly, General!"

Considering that Yang Fang's business has many business dealings with his Suzhou base, he really dared not take such a big risk for Shanghai, Tan Shaoguang was a little shaken again. However, after carefully considering the dangerous consequences of his secret peace talks with the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Tan Shaoguang completely dispelled this idea and flatly rejected the peace talks request made by Yang Fang on behalf of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. He also asked Yang Fang's envoy to bring a letter to the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, promising that after taking Shanghai, he would never rob the soldiers and promise to protect the interests of Shanghai merchants, and in turn cracked down on and shake the determination of Shanghai wealthy businessmen to support Wu Jun's determination to defend Shanghai.

Finally, Tan Shaoguang ordered that all the ten thousand taels of silver given to him by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce was rewarded to the soldiers in the army without leaving any money.

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Tan Shaoguang really wronged the Shanghai Wu Jun this time. If he agreed to secretly negotiate with the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai Wu Jun and Shanghai's wealthy business giants would be willing to give up a huge sum of money for him to withdraw his troops without playing tricks. Then, the Shanghai Wu Jun would be much easier to deal with Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde.

Therefore, after Yang Fang personally sent the news to Zhou Tenghu. Although he had some psychological preparation, Zhou Tenghu was still disappointed and couldn't help but say to Jin Anqing: "We really underestimate this Tan Shaoguang. With so much money in front of him, we can't even be moved at all. Such people are not seen in the wild world, even among us Confucian scholars who are well-read about the books of sages."

"You are a beautiful lady, how can you be a thief?" Jin Anqing also sighed, and then said, "But it doesn't matter much. Tan Shaoguang refused to accept our money to withdraw his troops, but he just gave us no chance to directly kill Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde."

"Changmao's heart has dispersed. Unless Li Xiucheng's big long hair is more important than the heavy weight and refuses to let his main force intercept the main force led by our Zhennan King himself, and insists on fighting Shanghai first. Otherwise, the three long hairs of Tan Shaoguang, Huang Zilong and Lu Shunde can no longer threaten the safety of our Shanghai."

Zhou Tenghu nodded and said to himself: "Li Xiucheng, don't be inferior to Tan Shaoguang. You should not stop our main force from Shanghai and bring your main force to our Shanghai."

The prophecy came true. Just one day after the incident, accurate news came from Hangzhou, saying that Li Xiucheng had publicly announced that he had personally led the army to conquer Shanghai, preparing to take down Shanghai first and then turn around to reinforce the Western Front, helping Shi Dakai fight against the main force of the Wu army in Huguang. After confirming the news, Zhou Tenghu was silent for more than ten minutes before saying this...
Chapter completed!