After Chen Defeng, the unlucky military officer who took the lead in drinking in the army, went to the chief military officer Mossch to apologize, the sky gradually became dark. Wu Jianying, who finally got his military power back, also climbed the Shence Gate wall and began his first night inspection after his reinstatement.

Rather than patrol, it is better to be prepared for war, because he didn't know that Wu Chaoyue had given up on himself, and he was caught by his opponent Li Rongfa, and was anxious to redeem his merits and save his military power. No matter what part of the city wall defense, Wu Jianying strictly required his army to monitor the movements under the city on and off. Once he found an abnormality, he immediately fired a gun and called the police. He was not allowed to be careless, nor was he allowed to sleep lazy.

Fortunately, although he lost power and left the army for a few days, Wu Jianying's influence in the old army was still there. The middle and grassroots generals were very respectful to Wu Jianying. Not only did he respectfully respond to Wu Jianying's request, but he also rushed to congratulate Wu Jianying. Wu Jianying expressed his gratitude one by one, and at the same time he gradually felt a little clear-headed, knowing that as long as he gave himself more time, he instigated and attracted some middle and grassroots generals to surrender with the army, there was no hope.

However, while he was secretly happy, Wu Jianying was also a little worried, very worried that if Wu Jun did not give him a chance to make meritorious contributions, he might lose his power again because of the matter that Li Rongfa caught the handle. So Wu Jianying could only pray in his heart quietly and said, "King Zhennan, send someone to give me a chance to make meritorious contributions quickly. Otherwise, if you open the city gate to welcome you into the city, you may have more nights of dreams."

Hard work pays off. While watching the movements under the city carefully, Wu Jianying's confidant soldiers suddenly discovered an abnormality under the city, pointed to the darkness under the city and shouted: "Someone! There are people under the city wall!"

"Mustgun is ready! Gong is ready!"

Wu Jianying, who was overjoyed, personally ordered the preparation of the alarm, and at the same time he could not wait to poke his head out to observe the situation. As a result, Wu Jianying was quite surprised and disappointed that although there were indeed people at the city, the man was a Taiping soldier wearing a red turban. At the same time, someone shouted above the city wall at that location: "Don't shoot, it's our own people! It's our own people!"

"Who are you? Name! Position!" Wu Jianying asked in person.

"Liu Erli, General Liu's personal captain of General Liu." The person in the city replied loudly and asked back: "Liu Tianfu is also here, who are you?"

"Idiot, I haven't heard it yet. It's our Tianan." Wu Jianying's deputy, Lin Tianfu, Liu Yulin, sounded in the dark. Then, Liu Yulin led a few personal soldiers to the light of the torch, nodded and bowed to Wu Jianying, and said, "I have seen Shi Tianan, Shi Tianan, you have personally patrol the city?"

"Yes." Wu Jianying nodded and asked strangely: "Brother Liu, why don't you even hit a torch when you patrol? Also, why are you sending someone down to the city?"

"The cold guns of the demon soldiers who started to fire were afraid of demon soldiers, and when they approached the battlements of the city wall, they put out the torches." Liu Yulin explained, and said again: "I sent people down to the city because when the general was passing by the patrol just now, he saw a few ignitions on the opposite side of the moat. He was worried that the demon soldiers would attack him, so he sent a personal soldier to go down to the city with a rope to see the situation."

"Did you find anything?" Wu Jianying asked quickly.

"It seems not." Liu Yulin's answer was a little blurred, and asked his personal soldiers to shout to the city, asking whether the personal soldiers in the city had any discoveries. After getting the negative answer, Liu Yulin nodded and said to Wu Jianying: "Shi Tianan, I didn't find anything. The fire may be the scout of the demon soldiers. He ran away when he saw that some of us went down to the city."

Wu Jianying did not doubt that he was there. After nodding, he praised Liu Yulin for a few words, and then invited Liu Yulin to patrol the city with him. Liu Yulin happily agreed. He first asked someone to use a rope to pick up the personal soldiers under the city, and then chatted with Wu Jianying while patrolling the city defense. Finally, after inspecting the west wall section of Shence Gate with Wu Jianying, Liu Yulin said goodbye and returned to the camp to rest and broke up with Wu Jianying.

It was originally a trivial matter, but after returning to his residence, the personal soldiers who were patrolling the city suddenly noticed something strange and said to Wu Jianying: "Shi Tianan, what happened just now seemed a bit strange. Lin Tianfu sent someone down the city, and it should be that the soldiers on duty on the city should be asked to put the rope down the city. Why are the people who put the rope down the city and the people who went down the city just now all were Lin Tianfu's personal soldiers?"

After carefully recalling and finding that the matter was indeed a bit strange, Wu Jianying felt a little suspicious and said to himself: "Yes, why are all Liu Yulin's personal soldiers there just now? If it were me who found that there was something unusual in the city, I would definitely not let my personal soldiers take the risk to go down the city. It should be that other guards in the city would go down?"

Although he was suspicious, Wu Jianying did not intend to investigate this matter, because firstly, there was no movement, and secondly, in the current situation, Wu Jianying needed to have a good relationship with Liu Yulin and strive to win over and instigate him for his own use. Of course, he could not have a dispute with Liu Yulin for such a trivial matter. So Wu Jianying quickly put this trivial matter aside and began to hope that Wu Chaoyue would launch a fake sneak attack immediately to create opportunities for himself to make contributions.

It was useless to look forward to it. Wu Chaoyue had long given up Wu Jianying, a traitor who was unknown to the truth, so just like the previous day, he waited until the third update, but Wu Jianying still couldn't wait for the Wu army to launch a night attack. As a result, he waited patiently until the fourth update and still no movement, Wu Jianying felt a little panicked. He could only temporarily decide to send another confidant soldier to risk out of the city to contact Wu army, report the current situation to Wu Chaoyue, and ask Wu Chaoyue to send someone to help him quickly.

Fortunately, Wu Jianying, who had already reinstated his post, could take his personal soldiers up and down the city wall at will, and it was not difficult to patrol the city and find an opportunity to put a personal soldiers down the city with a rope. So after the fourth half of the 4th, Wu Jianying's secret messenger successfully got off the city. As a result, when it was time to send the messenger successfully, Wu Jianying accidentally discovered a detail, which was the scene of his personal soldiers quietly putting the messenger down the city. It seemed that he had seen it somewhere before...

Unfortunately, Wu Jianying didn't have much time to recall where he had seen this scene. The reason was that Wu Jianying, who had not had much rest at night, was already exhausted and had no strength to recall it. Second, Wu Jianying was more concerned about Li Xiucheng and Mo Shixiao's handling of gathering together to drink, and he had no intention of caring about these things. However, Wu Jianying's luck was pretty good. After being announced to Li Xiucheng and Mo Shixiao in the morning the next morning, Li Xiucheng just scolded Wu Jianying, and then announced that he would give Wu Jianying a 80-year-old stick. He would not execute it for the time being. He made merits and atone for his sins, and then committed two mistakes and punished them together.

"Thank you, King Zhong Qiansui, and Official Mo Qiu. Thank you, King Zhong Qiansui, and Official Mo Qiu."

Unexpectedly, the punishments of Li Xiucheng and Mo Shichong were so light. Wu Jianying kowtowed and thanked him repeatedly. Mo Shichong said bluntly: "Shi Tianan, you have to thank King Zhong Qiansui. Do you know what punishment Song Tianfu Chen Defeng was punished? He was given a first-class title and twenty military sticks, and executed it on the spot! It was King Zhong Qiansui who was pleading for you when he was now using people, so he gave you a chance to make meritorious service."

After looking at Li Xiucheng who was sitting in the middle of the high, Wu Jianying felt a little moved. He quickly kowtowed to Li Xiucheng and thanked him. Li Xiucheng waved his hand and said, "For your duty and responsibility to defend the city, I will spare you this time, but I will not give you a break next time. Next time I dare to gather people to drink when the enemy is in front of you. I will never give up!"

Wu Jianying quickly agreed timidly, and Li Xiucheng said again: "After going back, hurry up and prepare for the war. The demon soldiers have already started to take feint attacks on Long Neck to lure us to transfer the army there. If nothing unexpected happens, the demon soldiers in Xiaguan should take action within these three or two days. The Shence Sect you guard may still be the main target of the demon soldiers. Be careful to defend and do not make any mistakes."

"In three or two days?" Wu Jianying was stunned and asked hurriedly: "King Zhong Qiansui, the demon soldiers are going to take action so soon?"

"That's of course." Li Xiucheng said casually: "Beyond the little demon cloth maze formation, he moved to the Central Military Camp to pretend to be a sound attack, and built a road on Long Neck, pretending to attack Long Neck. The longer it drags, the more likely it is to expose his main attack position. Therefore, I promise that at most three days, if it is short, maybe two days, you will have to attack Xiaguan or Shencemen!"

"King Zhong is wise, it is possible that this is the case." Wu Jianying quickly flattered, but quietly complained in his heart, and said to himself: "Isn't it really guessed by Li Xiucheng? It would be bad if the King of Zhennan really wanted to do something within two or three days. In such a short time, I have time to pull up a reliable team and open the city gate to welcome the King of Zhennan's army into the city?"

Murphy's law, the more worried things are, the more things will happen. When leaving the Zhong Palace, on the way back to Shence Gate, Wu Jianying suddenly heard a vague sound of cannons coming from the northeast corner of Nanjing City. After careful investigation, he learned that the Wu army had built dozens of forts on the foot of Longbozi Mountain, using artillery to bombard the Nanjing city wall, covering the civilians to transport reeds, poles, grass, sand and stones to the foot of Longbozi Mountain, and build a road that leads to Nanjing city wall from Longbozi. Then Wu Jianying immediately understood that the Wu army was really going to do something soon. It was either really going to hit Longbozi, or just like Li Xiucheng's judgment, he would attack Xiaguan Sanmen or Shence Gate within three or two days.

"It's a problem. If the King of Zhennan really hits Long Neck, it's okay. It's amazing that he missed the opportunity to make contributions. And judging by Li Xiucheng's arrangement, even if the King of Zhennan breaks through Long Neck, he may not be able to take over the city of Tianjing. I still have a chance to make contributions. But what if the King of Zhennan really wants to come to fight against Shence Sect? I was not sure of success in responding. If I don't accept it, I offend Zhennan again. Maybe I may be misunderstood by Zhennan, suspecting that I was cheating him. By then, the King of Zhennan broke into Shence Sect from other places, and I will still be alive? Also, I wrote a letter of loyalty to King of Zhennan. King of Zhennan was angry and shook the letter of loyalty to Li Xiucheng. Li Xiucheng wouldn't have to peel me off?"

After returning to his base with a lot of worries, Wu Jianying, who had never thought of any way to open the city gate to welcome the Wu army, was always worried. He almost wanted to take the risk of showing off against Liu Yulin, Fang Youcai and others, and pulled them to surrender to the Wu army together. However, considering the terrifying consequences of the showdown, Wu Jianying gave up this idea. Then, in his troubles, Wu Jianying suddenly remembered that he should visit Chen Defeng, who was implicated and had been stuck in the military, and hurriedly prepared another gift and took his personal soldiers to Chen Defeng's residence to ask for a meeting.

It was strange that Chen Defeng's house doors and windows were closed in broad daylight, and there were Chen Defeng's personal soldiers guarding the door in front of the door. After Wu Jianying came forward to express his intention, Chen Defeng did not immediately ask anyone to open the door. It was only after a little while that someone opened the door and invited Wu Jianying in. Then Wu Jianying was slightly surprised to find that there were several Chen Defeng's personal soldiers serving in the room. However, Wu Jianying did not pay too much attention to these details. He just greeted Chen Defeng's injuries while apologizing and thanking Chen Defeng, admitted frankly that he had implicated Chen Defeng and asked Chen Defeng for forgiveness.

"It's okay, it's okay. After fighting for so many years, this little injury is nothing. You see, you don't have to raise it, you can just walk."

Perhaps because of the mercy of the military law team, Chen Defeng was indeed not seriously injured, and he could barely walk by himself without the support of his personal soldiers. Wu Jianying, whose conscience had not been eaten up by the dog, apologized repeatedly and presented a generous gift to Chen Defeng. Chen Defeng refused but had to accept it. After a few more talks, Wu Jianying stood up and said, "Chen Defeng politely, I don't know whether to say it."

"Song Tianfu has something to say, don't be polite." Wu Jianying replied.

"Shi Tianan, I heard that His Highness Zhong Er treats you very well and always likes to cause trouble for you." Chen Defeng deliberately lowered his voice and said, "What are you going to do with this?"

"What else can I do? Hold on." Wu Jianying spread his hands with a wry smile and said, "He is the adopted son of King Zhong Qiansui. What can I do with him? I can only endure it."

Chen Defeng didn't say anything, his eyes were a little complicated. After a while, he said again: "Shi Tianan, don't be too weak in some matters. You can be busy first. When you have time, we will sit down and talk about this matter."

He also said that Chen Defeng was holding a grudge against yesterday. Wu Jianying didn't think much about it. He nodded and said goodbye again. Chen Defeng did not try to keep him anymore, but sent his own captain to send Wu Jianying out. At the same time, while watching Wu Jianying leave, Chen Defeng, an old Taiping Army man during the Jintian Uprising, looked even more strange. He was full of hesitation and a little sinister and fierce...

The matter was not over yet. After Chen Defeng's personal soldiers were led out, in front of Chen Defeng's temporary residence, Wu Jianying unexpectedly met Xu Lianfang, the goalkeeper of Shence Sect. At the same time, because the encounter was too sudden, Xu Lianfang subconsciously dodged. Then he found that he had no choice but to avoid it. Xu Lianfang bowed to Wu Jianying and explained himself before Wu Jianying asked: "Shi Tianan, Mo Jiang is here to visit Song Tianfu. Mo Jiang heard that he was beaten by a military stick and was worried about his situation, so he came to take a look."

"I'm here to visit Song Tianfu, too." Wu Jianying said with a smile: "Fortunately, he is not seriously injured and can walk by himself. If you haven't had a rest on Song Tianfu, please come in quickly."

Xu Lianfang thanked repeatedly, and then quickly followed Chen Defeng's personal soldiers into the door. Wu Jianying watched Xu Lianfang enter with a smile. However, when he saw Xu Lianfang, who was empty-handed and his two accompanying personal soldiers who were also empty-handed, Wu Jianying, who was barely careful, suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember it.

He really didn't have the courage to show up directly to Liu Yulin and Fang Youcai, so Wu Jianying did not dare to make any big moves that day. He could only take the opportunity to prepare for war and replenish several middle and grassroots generals who had received his favor and the army into his own middle and army camp. However, even so, Wu Jianying still did not dare to show up to these middle and grassroots confidants. He could only try his best to win over and wait patiently for Wu Chaoyue to give a reply.

After it was dark, Wu Jianying had not had two nights of sleep, so he couldn't hold on. He walked around the city and went back to his room to rest. He handed over the messenger's return to the city to several of his confidant soldiers. But fortunately, after midnight, the messenger who left the city at the end of the night lasted last night finally returned to the sleepy Wu Jianying. When Wu Jianying was overjoyed, he hurriedly asked, "How is it? What is the explanation for the King of Zhennan?"

"Go back to Tian'an, King Zhennan wants you to prepare quickly." The messenger replied truthfully: "In these few days, King Zhennan will attack Shence's sect. At that time, the King Zhennan will accept the army of King Zhennan into the city. King Zhennan will say it depends on you. King Zhennan also said that if it is done, he will grant you a real general! Promise your reward twice!"

"It's so easy. I haven't even said this horoscope yet." Wu Jianying smiled bitterly and asked casually: "When I returned to the city, I wasn't discovered, right?"

"I almost found it by Fang Tianyan (Fang Youcai)." replied the captain of the personal soldiers who were in charge of the reception. "I didn't expect that Fang Tianyan would be on the city patrol during the full update tonight. When he saw the signal, he was about to put the rope. He thought that Fang Tianyan suddenly walked by with his personal soldiers, and he didn't even hit the torch. Fortunately, our secret sentry discovered it in time and hid the rope in time, so that Fang Tianyan did not see the flaws."

"I'm sure that Fang Youcai didn't see the flaw?" Wu Jianying asked worriedly.

"Confirm." The captain of the personal soldiers replied truthfully: "Fang Tianyan seemed to be in a hurry to go back to the camp to sleep. She asked the younger one a few questions and left. Later, the younger ones were always careful and confirmed that they were not followed."
Chapter completed!