Hengzhou Prefecture, Xi'an County, the capital, and a room in the backyard of the Tang family mansion, heard from time to time the screams and calls for help from girls. `````

Since the Taiping Army captured Hengzhou Prefecture, burning, killing, looting has become commonplace, and the people of Hengzhou Prefecture are in dire straits.

At this time, the Northern King Wei Changhui forced himself into the Tang family mansion and crazily destroyed the eldest lady of the Tang family. The upper beam was not straight, the lower beam was crooked, and even the Northern King was like this, his subordinates became even more presumptuous and disturbed the entire Hengzhou Prefecture.

"Report—"

"Report to His Highness Beiwang, Mr. Liao has an emergency military information report!"

The messenger's sudden shout almost frightened Wei Changhui.

Wei Changhui was having fun, so he naturally didn't want to be disturbed at this time, but when he heard that it was an emergency military situation, he couldn't help but stop and arranged a meeting with Mr. Liao.

In the study room next door, Wei Changhui met with Mr. Liao.

"His Highness Beiwang, just received an urgent report from General Qi who was guarding Meiling, saying that he had discovered that there were Shanghai warships advancing towards Jiande County on Fuchun River, and his intentions were unknown."

Wei Changhui rolled his eyes and said, "What a big deal I'm going to do. Tell General Qi not to make a fuss. If the Shanghai army attacks, just pretend to fight a few times. Li Weiguo is busy annexing Zhejiang now, so the local officials of Yanzhou Prefecture must be dissatisfied, so Li Weiguo will send troops to suppress it. Don't worry, this is not the first time I have cooperated with Li Weiguo. It's okay, so there's no need to make a fuss!"

Mr. Liao said: "Your Highness, Li Weiguo has always been cunning. Although we have a secret agreement, we can speak without any evidence. It is like turning aside the other side and turning aside in the blink of an eye! "

Wei Changhui frowned. He valued Mr. Liao very much. Many things were planned because he followed Mr. Liao's words. He said: "Mr. Liao is too careful? In recent years, we have been acting privately with Li Weiguo for the court, and we have always cooperated well. Moreover, if Li Weiguo wants to expand his strength, he has to continue acting with us. If the court does not destroy us for a day, Li Weiguo will continue to grow, so he cannot turn against us."

Mr. Liao nodded and said, "Yes, it's not unreasonable for Your Highness to think so, but you must be wary of others. Li Weiguo is cunning. Your Highness needs to be careful!"

At this time, the news of Hong Xuanjiao returning to Tianjing had not reached Wei Changhui's ears, so even if Mr. Liao was very scheming, he would not have thought that Hong Xuanjiao betrayed Li Weiguo, so he would not have guessed that Li Weiguo would take the initiative first.

Wei Changhui was halfway through his pleasure, but when he thought of Miss Tang, he was in a hurry to go back. He immediately gave Mr. Liao a perfunctory word and sent him away.

Although Mr. Liao was worried, he could not convince Wei Changhui, so he had to send someone to inform General Qi of Meiling to be more careful. However, without Wei Changhui's warrant, Mr. Liao's words were greatly reduced, and General Qi of Meiling only smiled. He had the same idea as Wei Changhui, at most he was just acting with Li Weiguo. There was no danger.

Li Weiguo led the East China Sea Fleet to Jiande County, Yanzhou Prefecture along the Fuchun River. Because the river channel became narrower and the water depth was insufficient, the large battleships could not advance. So Li Weiguo ordered 15,000 Shanghai soldiers to disembark and continue on foot to Hengzhou Prefecture.

At the same time, Li Weiguo sent people to Meiling to meet with the Taiping Army General Qi Huan, and told the other party to cooperate again to deal with the imperial inspectors.

Qi Huan had no doubts and immediately agreed, and agreed to fight at Sanhe Pass northeast of Meiling in three days. Li Weiguo sent three thousand troops to defend the city, while Qi Huan sent 10,000 troops to pretend to attack the city.

After the two sides reached an agreement, Li Weiguo immediately ordered Su Sanniang to lead 3,000 Shanghai soldiers to Sanhe Pass, pretending to fight with Qi Huan, only defending but not attacking, and restraining Qi Huan's 10,000 troops.

Secretly, Li Weiguo personally led a 12,000 army, divided into three groups, and 3,000 people along the Shouchang River went from the west to the left wing of Meiling, and 2,000 people walked along the Senxiaoshan Road, and passed Yongchang Town to the east to the right wing of Meiling. Li Weiguo personally led the remaining 7,000 main forces to attack the main camp of the Taiping Army in Xiwuzhai, Meiling.

Under the night, the Shanghai army divided into three groups, traveled lightly and slowly approached Meiling.

The Westwood Village is backed by a cliff and guards the pass leading to Xi'an, the capital of Hengzhou Prefecture. The terrain is dangerous and has always been a place that military strategists must fight for. It is known as a man who can pass by tens of thousands of men.

After the Taiping Army captured Hengzhou Prefecture, in order to prevent the Shanghai Army from Zhejiang, Wei Changhui ordered his powerful general Qi Huan to lead 15,000 elite Taiping Army troops to guard this place.

Now Qi Huan has transferred 10,000 elite troops, leaving only 5,000 soldiers to guard the West House and more than 10,000 civilians who serve as logistics. Since it is a natural fortress, except for strict frontal defense, other places are relatively lax in defense, especially the cliffs behind the mountain. No one would have thought that anyone could get up there.

Under the cover of night, the Shanghai Army's advance investigation battalion climbed up from the cliff behind the West House, easily killed the Taiping sentries who were lax in defense, and then put on the clothes of the Taiping officers and soldiers, sneaked into the Taiping army's food and supplies area, and ignited the evil fire.

"It's gone!"

"It's gone!"

The rapid sound of gongs rang, and the entire West Village suddenly became in chaos.

Qi Huan was not in the camp, so deputy general Guo Xu hurriedly organized people to put out the fire.

But the fire was not so easy to rescue. The scouts of the Shanghai army sprinkled oil on food and supplies, which was difficult to extinguish. All the firefighting trains prepared by the Taiping Army were destroyed, and the stored water warehouse also leaked all the water inside. They could only send people to carry buckets to the stream in the distance to take it out. Unfortunately, the fire quickly expanded and there was a prairie fire and could not be destroyed at all.

"Bang! Bang bang!"

The fire* medicine warehouse exploded, and the earth was shaking in an instant, and a huge cloud of fire red mushrooms rose into the sky, illuminating half of the sky.

Guo Fu was stunned and cried out. If the food was just burned, then there was a remedy and plunder the people nearby. But now the ammunition depot exploded, and the Taiping Army's guns, cannons and ammunition were stored. Because the Taiping Army was reluctant to use muskets and cannons, they were all concentrated and sealed in preparation for the need for battle. Now they all turned into flames at once, and Guo Fu couldn't afford to be guilty.

"Swoosh!swoosh!swoosh!"

Suddenly, three rapid whistles, Guo Fu looked up at the night sky and saw three flames rising into the sky, and three dazzling fireworks quickly bloomed.

"Damn, who is putting fireworks on this? Are you going to see me joke?" Guo Hui was angry and suddenly became angry.

However, Guo Yu was soon stunned, and fierce gunfire sounded suddenly from three directions southeast, north and north.

The main force of the three Shanghai troops outside Xiwu Village had already touched the fireworks signal and launched an attack on Xiwu Village at the same time.

"Dong!Dong!Dong!"

The sound of cannons roared, and a series of cannonballs roared at the West Village, and dazzling red lights were emitted under the night.

Because the fire in the Westwood Village soared into the sky, the Shanghai artillery team could see clearly, so the shells were accurately shot at the Taiping Army camp.

"Bang! Bang bang!"

The shells exploded up and down the Taiping Military Camp. In an instant, the earth swayed, the debris shot, the earth and rocks flew, and mushroom clouds rose into the air. The violent explosion shock wave instantly lifted the nearby Taiping soldiers and fell to the distance. The Taiping Army, who was focusing their attention on fire, was unprepared, and countless casualties were immediately killed or injured.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

Guo Fu's face suddenly turned like a dirt. He suddenly realized that the food and grass caught fire first, then the ammunition depot exploded, and then the attack was caused by unknown enemies. This was clearly a premeditated raid.

"Get together! Come with me!"

Guo Fu deserves to be a powerful general in the elite Taiping Army. He quickly recovered his calmness and hurriedly organized the Taiping Army to meet the enemy.

However, Guo Fu didn't know who the enemy he was facing was. He only thought it was a person like the Eight Banners of the Qing army or the Green Camp soldiers, so he had the confidence to fight.

However, when Guo Yu climbed up the mountain cottage and looked out, he was stunned.

But in the darkness dozens of meters away around, rows of fire points were shining, and dense projectiles shot up like rain, harvesting the lives of Taiping soldiers like harvesting wheat.

In addition, there are even larger flashing points of fire in the distance. Needless to ask, there must be artillery firing there.

This is definitely not the Qing army that uses swords, guns and sticks. It is clearly an army that uses muskets and cannons. Moreover, the number of the opponents is huge. The entire Xiwu Village has been surrounded by the opponent on three sides, with at least ten thousand troops.

There is no doubt that Guo Fu only thought of one person, and with his shrewdness, he instantly guessed a possibility.

"Oh no, Li Weiguo turned against me!" (To be continued. (.))
Chapter completed!