Xinhui, the throat of southwest Guangdong, according to the key point of the Pearl River Delta, has been a military important place to control Guangzhou since the previous dynasties, and it is also the most important thing for the cross-sea landing operation plan of the Fu Han army.

From Yahai to Xinhui, only a few dozen miles away, but these two places have staged a tragic scene that is extremely rare in human history.

Guo Dingan looked at Xinhui City, dozens of miles away, but unconsciously remembered Ning Zhongyi's words and a story.

"Attacking the new will be to attack people's hearts, and defending the new will also be to defend people's hearts."

This sentence is actually not what Ning Zhongyi said, but what Ning Yu meant, as long as Guangzhou is hit, Xinhui is always a hurdle that cannot be bypassed, and this place is not guarded by Guangzhou, but the loyalty and righteousness of the Qing Dynasty.

Ning Yu's sentence is not easy to understand, but that story is very straightforward, or it is an incident that happened in the history of Xinhui, which made Guo Dingan feel a little tricky.

In the eleventh year of Shunzhi, Li Dingguo, the king of Xining of the Ming Dynasty, united with Zheng Chenggong to capture Guangdong, in order to revive the great cause of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Among them, the key to attacking Guangdong lies in Xinhui in the southwest of Guangzhou. ’

The problem is that Xinhui is not so easy to overcome, in February of the eleventh year of Shunzhi, Li Dingguo gathered all the main forces to wave into Guangdong, all the way to the ground, in April, he began to besiege Xinhui in an all-round way, but the main force that held Xinhui at that time was the Qing army Green Battalion, a force that had just surrendered, but they held on to this battle.

In the face of Li Dingguo's siege, the green battalion army adopted extremely cruel countermeasures, they repeatedly expelled the people as a shield, and Li Dingguo could not bear to cause killing, so he repeatedly gave up the attack, giving the Qing army in the city a chance.

The reason why the people of Xinhui chose to support the Qing army is also very simple, in order to hold the city at that time, the Qing army at that time took advantage of Li Dingguo's soft-heartedness on the one hand, and used the people as shields, on the other hand, it was to hype in Xinhui City that if the Qing army was lost, it would definitely slaughter the city if it recaptured the city in the future, and used this to bet on the people.

Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui from April, has been besieged to July, the whole three months did not succeed in taking Xinhui, and in this stage, the Qing army in Xinhui City is short of food, so let the people contribute one person as a 'ration', the cannibalism of the people in the city is really miserable, the siege has been until December, the people in the city have been eaten more than 10,000 people.

After the siege of Xinhui was lifted, Li Dingguo's army fought fiercely with Qing reinforcements for several days, and as a result, 200,000 troops were killed at the foot of Guifeng Mountain, and their elite was lost. Xinhui was commended by the Qing court as a place of loyalty, which was really a bit ironic, but this incident also sounded the alarm for the Fu Han army, that is, if they attacked Xinhui, would this happen?

Ning Yu had to prevent this from happening, and the sentence he told Ning Zhongyi was the answer to deal with this situation. Ning Zhongyi understood it in his heart, and now Guo Ding'an also understands it in his heart.

Only a quick attack and a fierce attack, interrupting the illusions in the hearts of some people, can ensure the stability of the overall situation of the new meeting.

"Boom—"

The artillery of the Fu Han army roared, and more than twenty guns threw the projectiles into the air and smashed them into the weak city wall of Xinhui County, and the Qing soldiers on it, only a few hundred, ran backwards in panic, obviously not knowing why the Fu Han army would come from this direction.

It's just that before the artillery of the Fu Han army finished three rounds, I saw some old and weak women and children being pushed up the city wall, with tears on their faces, looking at the Fu Han army under the city, like looking at the Great Western Army seventy years ago, hoping that the other party could stop and allow the people to escape for their lives.

Soon everyone saw this scene, the soldiers of the Fu Han Army looked at the people on the city wall, a little dumbfounded, they had fought a lot of battles in the past, and there were not a few sieges along the way, but such a blatant move of using the people as shields was really not a few times, they were a little hesitant, and they didn't know whether to do it or not.

Even Guo Ding'an, who had already made up his mind, when he really saw this human tragedy, the hand that should have been waved down stopped, this move was too vicious, and no one could afford to openly slaughter the people. Is it true that the story of that year will be repeated?

"Our Xinhui is a place of loyalty, back then, Li Dingguo's thieves were able to fold under my Xinhui City, and today Chu Rebellion should also be defeated in Xinhui, don't be afraid!"

A middle-aged scholar in a Confucian crown walked up to the city wall, he had braids on his head, and his face was filled with a kind of fanaticism. This is the way to protect the road, and we must not let the rebels and thieves mess up people's hearts!

In the battle of Xinhui that year, the shamelessness of the Qing army was outrageous, but the most shameless thing was that they ate the flesh and bones of the people, but packaged and beautified them with words, as if these dead people suddenly had a lot of brilliance, so that the poison was extremely deep.

The demons danced on the Xinhui city wall, and the officials and gentry pushed the people to the top of the city, with a big oil pot on it, looking at the Fu Han army below, sneers were endless.

"They don't dare to fight! As long as we stand on it, they will not dare to do it! ”

"The people of our city have survived the siege of 70 years ago, can't they survive today?"

"Loyalty...... Violent! We, the people of the city, are all loyal martyrs! ”

..........

The noise was wrapped in the smell of impetuousness, and with the arrival of Wang Shijie, the commander of Xinhui County, it reached a peak, and with a bit of cunning and cruelty on his face, he looked at the gentry and ordinary people, and smiled.

"Xinhui is the emperor's own place of loyalty, and now we and the people of the whole city should serve the Tao by themselves, although we have no soldiers, but we have the people of a city! There is even more enthusiasm for the imperial court! ”

In Wang Shijie's view, although the enemy in front of him is extremely powerful, as long as he can encourage the people to defend the city, he will be able to insist on reinforcements in the direction of Guangzhou.

Of course, in this process, it is normal to kill and injure some people, and the court will not blame it...... Loyalty, I can't say it too much where to put it, this is really thinking about the overall situation!

Seeing that there were more and more people on the city wall, the generals of the Fu Han army finally couldn't bear it anymore, and they all rushed to Guo Ding'an, with only one request, that is, to attack the city.

Guo Dingan looked at the Xinhui City in front of him, and his heart was full of thoughts, the battle of the cross-sea landing was originally infinitely risky, if he chose to give up because there were old and weak women and children in front of him, then where did he put the life and death of these 8,000 brothers? Where is the order of the Privy Council? What is the intention of His Majesty the Emperor?

"Attacking the new will be to attack people's hearts, and defending the new will also be to defend people's hearts."

The hearts of the people in the world are by no means the hearts of Xinhui and the hearts of Ningchu.

The meaning of Ning Yu's words is very simple, since the gentry officers and soldiers of Xinhui use the people's hearts as weapons to defend Xinhui, then he Guo Ding'an will also use Ning Chu's people's hearts as weapons to capture Xinhui!

Only by winning the new meeting in the shortest possible time is the best explanation for these people! Otherwise, once it drags on, it will still be the people who will be hurt the most in the end!

Seventy years ago, Li Dingguo did not understand this truth, and his benevolence did not exchange for the survival of the people, but allowed more people to be involved in this great change, becoming a touch of desolate blood under the times.

"Siege!"

"Boom—"

The artillery of the Fu Han army roared again, although it could be seen that it deliberately avoided the gathered people, but this still made many people feel frightened, they were different from the army, naturally it was impossible to continue to hold on under the artillery fire, so they rushed towards the city, and the Qing soldiers under the city slashed several people with knives, but they still couldn't stop the rout.

Wang Shijie was a little dumbfounded, he thought that according to the weakness of the good reputation of the Fu Han army, he would never attack the city like this, but he didn't expect that there would be no mercy in the real fight, he hurriedly led people and began to go towards the city, but before he was halfway through, he let a flowering bomb blow up the sky.

Xinhui City suddenly became a big mess, the people began to flee from the other direction, and the Fu Han army did not care, they methodically defeated hundreds of Qing soldiers in Xinhui City, and then planted the flag of the Praetorian Guard Division on the city wall, announcing that Xinhui had been captured by the Fu Han army, and the whole process took half a day.

Of course, there was a surprise attack by the Han army, so that Xinhuicheng did not make timely preparations, coupled with Guo Ding'an's decisiveness, so that Wang Shijie and others' plans were completely ruined, and they got such an ideal result.

It's just that when Guo Dingan stepped on the blood and walked all the way into Xinhui City, he raised his eyes to look at the big oil pot, but it was miraculously not overturned, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Time also, fate also, it is really emotional.

.........

The fall of Xinhui City soon spread to Guangzhou, after all, the distance between the two sides was too close and too close, when Guan Yuanzhong learned the news, he immediately felt that something was wrong, he knew very well what Xinhui was, it was related to the back road of the entire Qing army in Guangzhou, if Xinhui was not guaranteed, the retreat of the army could not be guaranteed.

Under the anxiety, Guan Yuanzhong hurriedly invited Kong Yuxun, the governor of Liangguang, Nian Xiyao, the governor of Guangdong, and Gan Rulai, the governor of Guangxi, and others.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the new meeting has fallen!"

This news is like a thunderbolt from the sky, shocked everyone, although they do not understand the military, but also understand the importance of Xinhui, it can be said that Guangdong is facing the sea, only three sides are land, and at this time Huizhou in the east and Shaozhou in the north have been under the offensive of the Han army, only Xinhui in the west is the last safe retreat of the Qing army.

Now that the retreat has been cut off, the meaning of it is self-evident. Ning Chu's move almost completely wrapped the Qing army in Liangguang into dumplings.

"How did Chu Wei cross Guangzhou to occupy Xinhui? It's unimaginable! Kong Yuxun frowned, he was now a little skeptical about the authenticity of this news, which was simply incredible.

In fact, when Guan Yuanzhong first got the news, he also subconsciously doubted the authenticity of the news, but it was not until he personally sent his cronies to visit the people who escaped from Xinhui that he had to confirm the authenticity of the news.

Hearing Kong Yuxun's inquiry, Guan Yuanzhong pursed his lips, a little helpless, "It is said that they crossed the sea and came ashore on the cliff sea, and then raided Xinhui ....... in one fell swoop."

Everyone was silent when they heard this, which really surprised everyone, and no one could have imagined that the Fu Han army would be able to pass the water division and take the back road of the Qing army in one fell swoop.

"For today's plan, the only way to recapture Xinhui is to come across the sea, and there are only a few thousand people who occupy Xinhui. If our army attacks with all its might, there is still a chance...... It's just that we need to prevent Chu Wei from continuing to repeat the old things, so we must destroy Chu Wei's sailor in order to make that lone army become a waterless tree. ”

Gan Rulai stroked his beard and sighed lowly, "The sailor shouldn't worry too much, the sailor of Chu Rebellion is weak, and there are only dozens of small boats, and there are not too many effective means in front of the sailor of the imperial court." However, the thousands of people who occupied Xinhui by Chu Wei were like a stinger in the flesh, and they needed to be pulled out as soon as possible. ”

"Fight, you have to fight down!"

Kong Yuxun gritted his teeth and said, he glanced at everyone, and said in a low voice: "Everything else is okay, only if Xinhui can't take it, our old bones, even if we want to bury them in the Qing Dynasty, it will be impossible.......

The Fu Han army guarding Xinhui has no way to retreat, and they, the Qing officials who have eaten all their lives, have negotiated a way out of peace? In particular, the background of these people is very deep, and there is no choice at all, and they have been in a situation of endless fighting with Ning Chu from the beginning.

"This battle is by no means without a chance, we can't give Chu Yi time and a chance anymore, this battle is not only for your supervisors to do their best, but also for the garrisons of the Eight Banners to attack Xinhui together...... We must take advantage of the fact that they have not yet gained a firm foothold and drive them out of Xinhui and Guangdong! ”

Guan Yuanzhong's face showed a bit of fierceness, he couldn't rely on the green camp to fight anymore, whether it was for his own net worth and life, or for the tens of thousands of bannermen in Guangzhou City, he had to fight hard and hard, this was to earn a living for themselves......

"Come on, pass the whole army, and attack Xinhui with all battalions tomorrow, there must be no mistake!"

"Give an order to Wu Lin, the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, let him do his best to intercept the Chu Shunshui Division, and never let him escape easily, if he wins this battle, the general will ask the saint for him to ask for merit, and it is not a problem to be knighted, if he does not win, let him jump into the sea by himself!"

This Guangzhou general, who has been entrenched in Guangdong for more than 20 years, finally no longer chooses to continue to endure, perhaps only at this life-and-death juncture can he force out the blood courage in Guan Yuanzhong's bones.