The hereditary commander of the Guangzhou guard made Feng Yao martyred in the Shang Kexi camp, Chen Kai has already had news about this matter, although he does not think that just for a completely impossible attempt to resolutely choose to sacrifice himself can have any practical impact on the battle situation, but the sacrifice is often a great significance in itself, which makes people involuntarily feel admired, even Chen Kai cannot be exempted.

Kuang Lu is a local talent, Lin Cha was once a general soldier in Guangdong, and he is also very prestigious among these guards officers, Feng Yao's sacrifice is even more inspiring to these guards officers in Guangzhou, coupled with Chen Kai's prestige in recent years, the local military is much happier than those grassroots civil officials.

With these two blessings, Chen Kai believes he can save more people. But time waits for no one, and in the next few days, the wind in the city of Guangzhou became more and more tense, and as more news of the transfer of the Qing army came from the officers of the local guard station, it seemed that the Qing army had been thoroughly prepared.

Outside the city of Guangzhou, Ban Zhifu, the commander-in-chief of the right wing of the Pingnan Domain, Lian Decheng, the commander-in-chief of the right-wing of the Jingnan Domain, Guo Hu, the commander-in-chief of Guangdezhen, and Gao Jinku, the deputy general of Nanjiang, arrived close to Xiguan. The first two were the feudal soldiers of Pingnan and Jingnan, and the latter were the reinforcements of the Southern Jiangxi Green Battalion, in addition, the Qing army also had most of the men and horses assembled in the north and east of the city to contain the Ming army there.

In fact, because Conghua County, the logistics base of the Qing army, was located in the northeast of Guangzhou City, when arranging the city defense, Du Yonghe placed their old Li Chengdong troops in the north and east of the city, supplemented by some guards, forming a defensive center of gravity. In the south of the city, it was guarded by the guards of the Guangzhou Left Guard and the Guangzhou Right Guard, and the area around the wharf was handed over to Wu Wenwen and Yin Zhirong's Guangzhou sailors. As for the west of the city, only Fan Chengen and the Guangzhou avant-garde defended the city.

Aside from the fact that it is adjacent to the Pearl River in the south, Shang Kexi is old in military affairs, so he naturally saw Du Yonghe's deployment situation, avoided the real and made the false, and hit the weakest link in Guangzhou's urban defense.

On October 28, the Qing army went straight to Xiguan, and the Guangzhou avant-garde still had to guard the city wall and the west gate, where only Fan Chengen's troops were stationed. During the siege of Guangzhou, Emperor Yongli was also busy adding officials to the officers defending the city, in order to arouse some of their loyalty, that is, Fan Chengen was already the title of Earl of Yangchun.

However, the earl is an earl, and Li Chengdong was just a town commander at the beginning of his southward journey, even if he was overstaffed with the addition of the Qing court, and the expansion after becoming the admiral, it was only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, including a large number of new soldiers. With the death of Li Chengdong, these soldiers and horses were divided among nine counts such as Du Yonghe and generals such as Li Yuanyin, Li Yuantai, Li Jianjie, Ma Bao, and Fan Chengen. Even if you count the recruits, it is only a fraction of the strength of the three towns and one association of the Qing army outside the city.

Tens of thousands of Qing troops attacked the city, and immediately put great pressure on the Ming army under Fan Chengen. Fortunately, after months of preparation, the garrison was complete, and in the face of the offensive of the Qing army, the Ming army defending the city did not flinch in the slightest inspired by the victory half a year ago. But Rao is like this, after repelling the first wave of the Qing army's offensive, Fan Chengen breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to look at the soldiers in the city, but could no longer raise even the slightest joy.

Heavy gasps in their ears came and went, and they had just repelled an attack by the Qing army, but they were standing, leaning, and sitting one by one, their eyes were dull, and their faces were colorless, and there was no surprise after the seemingly invincible Qing army retreated in front of them, and even the color of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe was not at all. The soldiers, who he could name and couldn't, seemed to be still immersed in the fear of the Qing army's fierce offensive, and they couldn't extricate themselves.

Experienced officers and veterans are still trying to inspire the robes around them as much as possible, making them realize that it is necessary to win the first battle.

However, looking at the messy artillery, rolling wood, stones, arrows, knives and guns on the city, as well as the dead and wounded who fell on the city wall and no one cared about them, Fan Chengen even remembered that just now, he was still pouring out the foul language he knew on these soldiers, urging and whipping them to risk being killed by the Qing army's arrows to fire back at the Qing army outside the city, leaning out to smash the Qing troops on the ladders, and slashing and killing the first people who were about to enter the city through the female walls and the mouth of the city wall.

"Marshal, there are too many recruits, and the sons and daughters have done their best......"

Experienced officers and veterans were still urging the recruits to prepare for the next attack, whether it was to organize their garrisons, or to use guns, whips, and scabbards to order the guards to carry corpses and treat the wounded, but those who responded were only mechanically following orders.

Fan Chengen is not a fool, he naturally understands the meaning of his general's words. But the problem is that this is not the same as it was more than half a year ago, and the strength that the Qing army has accumulated for months will definitely be poured on them here, and the first one is just the beginning.

"Ask for help from the army, there are too many recruits in our department, and I'm afraid Xiguan won't last long."

Before the words fell, the war drums in the distance sounded, and a new round of offensive of the Qing army began. The Ming army at the head of the city rushed to meet the battle, and the Qing army was still far away from the range and began to shoot, still did not wait for the Qing army to climb the ladder and hurriedly threw down the rolling wood and stones.

As if the attack had just been a rehearsal, this time the Qing army's offensive was far more ferocious than the last. The Qing army went crazy and climbed on the ladder, shouting and killing to the sky. Soon, the first to climb the fortress was set foot on the wall.

In the next second, in the frightened eyes of the Ming army around him, a quick-eyed veteran of the Ming army stabbed straight with a gun, and stabbed straight into the thigh of the Qing army, which was inconvenient to defend, and then leaned and was about to fall off the city. The courage and skill of the veteran immediately ushered in the cheers of the robes around him, but before these cheers could be exported, I saw that the Qing army's waist knife flicked and clamped straight on the veteran's face, and the latter took two steps back, and planted the city wall on his back like the former.

The cheers were forced back into the cavity, and then, more and more Qing troops climbed the city wall in the panic of the Ming army, some were killed by the Ming army on the city like the first one, but more climbed to the top of the city, and the Ming army started an almost one-sided hand-to-hand combat.

The Qing army that landed in the city distracted more of the Ming army and devoted more energy to killing the enemy in front of them. This was the beginning of a vicious circle, with the distraction of the Ming army, more Qing troops climbed to the top of the city, and gradually changed from defending the city wall to fighting for the city wall.

Protected by a city wall, the Ming army still had the strength to fight, but with more and more Qing troops on the city, the collapse broke out in an instant without warning.

The frightened Ming army fled down the city in a panic, completely ignoring the swords and guns behind them and the officers and overseers in front of them. The messenger asking for help had just entered the city, and Fan Chengen knew that the reinforcements would not arrive in time, so he gave the order to retreat. The cavalry, officers and family soldiers rushed into the west city gate under the leadership of this Yang Chunbo, and the Ming army behind them also ran wildly, but more were either killed by the Qing army on the spot, or blocked outside the city gate.

In order to win the horn of the Xiguan lost, Guangzhou Xicheng can rely on only this very solid city wall. But with the fury of the Hongyi cannon outside the city like the birth of the thunder prince, the scene of the collapse seems to have been foreseen in the minds of the soldiers and civilians in the city.