Chapter 415: Li Huzi and Hong Xiguan
In the south of Guangzhou, selling Majie, the office of the governor of Liangguang is here, but it is also the office of the governor of Liangguang here, and the rest of the courts, divisions, provinces, governments, halls, and county offices, as well as the yamen of the generals stationed in the town, the capital, and the military ranks, have all moved back to the old city of Guangdong in the 22nd year of Kangxi.
Therefore, at this time, there were two political centers in Guangzhou, one was the old city of Guangzhou, which included yamen at all levels and the city, and the other was the selling hemp street where the government office of the governor of Liangguang was located.
Now the city of Guangzhou has also begun martial law, because the news of King Ye Daming's attack on the Humen fortress has spread to the city!
But the people in Guangzhou are still not very nervous, because Guangzhou is the pearl of the southern country, the largest and most prosperous city in the whole Tiannan land, with the strongest guards and the strictest precautions.
It is precisely because of this that since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the plots of various forces against Guangzhou City have never been broken.
In the forty-third year of Qianlong, three large English ships broke into Guangzhou Bay, docked here for more than ten days before leaving under the expulsion of the Guangdong sailors.
So at this time, the residents of Guangzhou City are no longer surprised by these external harassments!
And most of them don't think that the king of Jiaozhi Song really wants to rebel or something, they all think that the recent governor of Liangguang, Zhu Jue, has too many restrictions on Jiaozhi, and people are not allowed to go, and money is not allowed to go, causing the king of Jiaozhi, whose ancestral home is Guangdong, to lose his temper and threaten to use troops to get some benefits, or ask for trade or something.
And in the words of the market, King Song himself is a Cantonese, can he still kill our hometown fathers? If you want to kill, it is also to kill the Eight Banners soldiers and corrupt officials all over the city, what does it matter to us?
Under the influence of this kind of thinking, although the three battalions of the Governor and Fubiao were not there, the more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the left and right two battalions of the Xiangshan Association and the second battalion of the Shunde Association who were responsible for guarding the city of Guangzhou did not take it seriously at all.
They all have this attitude, and Ding Zhuang, the militia who brought in from nearby counties and townships to help, is even more inappropriate!
It's already June, and the early rice harvest is about to begin, and the hearts of the militia members have already flown away.
They don't care whether they keep Guangzhou City or not, but whether the early rice harvest is good or not is a major event related to whether the whole family can have enough to eat this year.
So when the golden hook Li Huzi and the thugs of the Pan and Wu families, Ding Zhuang, suddenly appeared outside the Liangguang Governor's Office, the Xiangshan Xiezuo Battalion Commander, who was responsible for guarding the Governor's Office at the door, even almost laughed.
Where did this fool dare to run around in front of the governor's office?
Looking for death?
Could it be that the gentlemen are bored, so they specially come to let the gentlemen move their muscles?
It's okay, if you're idle, you'll be idle, grab a few people to kill the time, and maybe you can squeeze out a few dollars!
Li Huzi also smiled, his face showed the simple expression of a Sichuan farmer, at this time, Li Huzi, who traveled from Sichuan to Guangdong, was not famous, but in the southern martial arts circle of later generations, he was famous!
This is the master of Huang Qiying, the master of Huang Feihong, and one of the ancestors who brought Hong Quan to Guangdong!
Even the famous Hong Xiguan in history, a certain part of his legend comes from Li Huzi, or the legend of Hong Xiguan, which should actually be a combination of Hong Xiguan and Li Huzi!
Stand side by side!
Two-word pliers sheep and horses!
The fist is like a hammer, and the fist is like a hook!
Hammer and peck!
'Boom! 'There was a bang!
Grabbing the waist knife, with a slight cat-and-mouse expression, the boss didn't even scream, as if he had been hit on the head by a hammer, something accompanied by blood and water with the swing of the head, and then squirted out of his mouth and sprayed into the sky!
After punching the boss to death, Li Huzi didn't speak, he jumped to the door of the governor's office in three or two strokes, and hit him violently, and two or three green battalion soldiers who had not recovered from their surprise were knocked down one after another.
"Kill the dog!" Seeing that Li Huzi was so fierce, the dozen or so apprentices he brought, plus the martial artists and boxers raised by the Pan and Wu families, also shouted and rushed over, and took out short knives, small hammers, short-handled axes and other weapons from their bodies and slashed and killed!
Seven or eight of the twenty or so soldiers at the entrance of the governor's office were knocked down without even drawing their knives, and the rest retreated to the office with a howl, and the big gong that was used as a warning was also sounded!
After a little more than ten seconds, a group of green battalion soldiers dressed in blue or gray poured out from the entrance of the office under the leadership of two officers, they were about fifty or sixty people, and the front row was full of shotgunners.
But before the formation was set, the 20-odd martial arts masters who were waiting at the door of the office smashed their axes and slashed them, and they screamed again and again, and even a person with a knife was blocked at the door and hacked to death.
"Withdraw! Evacuate! The remaining one was frightened, and hurriedly commanded the remaining soldiers to retreat!
Fortunately, these martial arts masters didn't know what was going on, and they didn't chase in to cut it, and the Qing soldiers inside rearranged their formation, and the hand-to-hand fighters with rattan waist knives were in front, the spearmen were in the center, and the shotgunners were in the back, and they rushed out again!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! "But this time, they were greeted not by hand-to-hand combat with martial arts masters as imagined, but by a platoon of more than 30 flintlock pistols.
Thirty-two people are divided into two rows, the front row is half-kneeling, and the back row is standing, there are many people in Xijiang Hall who can use firearms, and after Wu Wenyang and others came, they carried out systematic training, and it is not surprising that they can shoot a row of guns.
This time to go out to clear the soldiers will be miserable, rattan for the flintlock pistol's defense is equal to zero, the front row of more than a dozen swords and shields, hands almost all fell in this round of guns, after they fell, the Qing soldiers panicked and retreated to the office.
But this time, Li Huzi and the others who had been waiting outside the door for a long time would not let them calmly form the team anymore.
With the earth-shattering roar, Li Huzi and more than twenty apprentices and martial artists with strong martial arts rushed in together, and the remaining more than 100 people who had been ambushed on both sides of the street also rushed in together.
This time it was even worse, the spearmen and shotgunners were chased and cut by martial arts masters with hammers and axes, and they almost didn't even have a chance to fight back!
If it is a dignified battle, these martial arts masters may not be able to beat the Qing soldiers with less and more, but this time in the melee, the advantages of Li Huzi's skills will be apparent at once, and they are almost overwhelming.
When Deputy General Zhang of the Xiangshan Association wanted to gather the team with his own soldiers, it was too late!
The entire governor's office was in chaos, people were setting fires everywhere, and Li Huzi, who rushed in, and a second lieutenant of the Jinyi guard cooperated with each other, one commanding the martial arts masters in hand-to-hand combat, and the other commanding the flintlock musketeers.
They first used flintlock pistols to beat the Qing soldiers in a panic, and then let Li Huzi and others go up to hand-to-hand combat, and when the hand-to-hand combat could not be moved, they withdrew and then shot with flintlock pistols, and after disrupting the Qing soldiers, Li Huzi went up again!
After repeating this several times, Vice General Zhang was also cut to the ground by Li Huzi with an axe, and the battle was basically no suspense!
In less than half an hour, 170 people defeated more than 400 Qing soldiers in the governor's office, and none of the watchtowers and small fortresses in the governor's office were used!
On the other side of the old city of Guangdong, Wu Wenyang concentrated more than 600 people to attack the various courtyards, divisions, provinces, and yamen of the prefecture here, as well as the most important city of Guangzhou.
The various yamen were very smooth, and there were not many Qing soldiers gathered here, and some of the yamen and the like had long fled in all directions, but when they attacked the city, they encountered a lot of obstacles.
The so-called full city, in fact, does not have a city wall, only some not too high wooden fences and wooden boxes, sacks, etc.
The location of Mancheng is in the area of Dade Road, Renmin North Road and Guangta Road in today's Guangzhou.
Since there is no city wall, it stands to reason that it should be easy to fight, but when Wu Wenyang and the others came here, the flag people here seemed to have been prepared for a long time, although they were more flustered at first, but they quickly came to their senses.
The flag men of the brigade were holding shotguns, fork guns, and even pushing the Franc machine gun, which is known as the sub-mother cannon.
Although this kind of small cannon can only hold about two taels of propellant, it can fire explosive shells, and it is only less than 70 catties, and there are artillery carts to push, it is a kind of infantry cannon with good power, and it is also a relatively advanced firearm in the Manchu army system.
However, a question flashed through Wu Wenyang's mind, didn't the intelligence say that this thing would generally only equip the Green Battalion?
And there are very few of them, it is said that there are only four in the entire Xiangshan Association, but where did the seven or eight sub-mother cannons that appeared in the city on the opposite side come from?
There are still doubts in his mind, but he is not slow in his hands, Wu Wenyang knocked over the flagman who was shooting on the second floor of a wooden house with one shot, and then pointed at that