The city of Guangzhou, on the 29th day of the eighth lunar month of Yongli, is nothing more festive than the rest of the country.

The news of the defeat of the main force of the Qing army in Jiangmen, along with the first to withdraw from the battlefield, part of the northern line of the Jingnan Domain's rout has been transmitted back to Guangzhou, and when Xu Erxian, who was ordered to "intercept", fled back with the more than 2,000 soldiers of the Pingnan Domain, confirming the defeat, the families of the feudal soldiers who were still buying New Year's goods and the local civil and military officials stopped their work and became panicked.

According to Xu Erxian's report, Shang Kexi and Zhu Mala were already trying their best to recover their losses at the time of the defeat, and the Qing army would make a detour back to Guangzhou under the leadership of these two commanders.

As for the casualties, he had the task of dividing his troops to intercept the cavalry of the Ming army, so he didn't know exactly what it was, but he only saw that the Qing army on the northern front was broken through by the Ming army in the center, and the rout was scattered and fled in two directions. The rest, he doesn't know. And this was also confirmed by the Qing army on the northern front who fled back to the city of Guangzhou.

The linen cloth in the castle is out of stock, and although it is not known whether the families who went out on the expedition are still alive, many of the families of the feudal soldiers have already begun to prepare. There are also coffins that are also out of stock, but these coffins are basically just booked, because the coffin shop is too busy, and the feudal soldiers don't know if the corpse can be recovered, so it can only be so for the time being.

On the way to the city wall, Geng Jimao's ears could always faintly hear some cries coming from the alleys along the way. Before the Ming army approached the city, some of the feudal soldiers fled back one after another, although the overall casualties are still unknown, but some of the dead were killed by the survivors with their own eyes, and those families have already begun to prepare for the aftermath. The crying of relatives at home is a matter of course, and even the family members of the feudal soldiers who are uncertain about the life and death of their families seem to be infected, crying and crying non-stop, and there is no lack of fear in it.

Today, the city has been besieged by the Ming army, and even if there are feudal soldiers who have escaped, they will not be able to enter the city again. Geng Jimao has calculated countless times in the past few days, and he has already memorized it backwards, and there are only more than 3,400 Jingnan Domain's feudal soldiers left in Guangzhou here, most of whom stayed in Guangzhou; The soldiers of the Pingnan Domain fled back with more than 2,700 people, mainly the ones brought back by Xu Erxian. Others, if they can't keep Guangzhou, it is estimated that they may not be able to see their families in the city again in this life.

Riding a fast horse to the west city wall, looking out from the top of the city in the past two days, only the banner was said, roughly Li Dingguo's department was responsible for encircling the west and north of Guangzhou, and Chen Kai's department was responsible for encircling the east and south of Guangzhou. Specifically, on the Pearl River in the south, there are also some sailors of the Ming army in western Guangdong, such as Chen Qice and Li Changrong, and Li Dingguo's side also has some Ming troops in western Guangdong, such as Wang Xing, Zhou Jintang, Deng Yao, etc., and Chen Kai is responsible for encircling the east of the city At the same time, the junction in the northeast of the city is also mostly Chen Kai's men. Now, the two Ming armies have wrapped this important town in Tiannan like dumpling filling, probably waiting for the pot.

After watching carefully and listening to the report of the officer in charge of guarding the western city wall, Geng Jimao had been circling the city for a week, and there was a new update in his mind about the changes in the entire encirclement.

After Shang Kexi and Zhu Mala set out on the expedition, Geng Jimao took full charge of the defense of Guangzhou. At first, he was only a little more energetic than in the previous two years, but the main affairs were still the responsibility of the feudal officers, and he was more in control of the overall situation.

His health is not good, in the words of others, he was frightened by Chen Kai, so his body never recovered. But Lang Zhong, who really treated him, knew very well that in the final analysis, Geng Jimao was still sick - the shame of losing to a civil official, coupled with the eyes of others, especially the Qing court's senses for him, made his mood always full of decadence and negative emotions, which directly affected the recovery of injuries.

The more you get sick, the more you have to face it positively, which is good for your body's recovery. The medicine of later generations looked at it this way, and the Langzhong people in ancient China also thought so, but heart disease still needs heart medicine, and Geng Jimao's heart disease is naturally not something that they can cure well.

In this situation, until the first news of the defeat of the Qing army in Jiangmen came back, in everyone's disbelief, Geng Jimao took the lead in taking action, dealing with this matter with his pessimistic view, but immediately became the backbone of the city of Guangzhou.

The green battalions from Dongguan, Zengcheng, Sanshui, Conghua, and Qingyuan counties were mobilized to rush to Guangzhou to assist in the defense, and even ordered the Huizhou green battalion to abandon Huizhou Fucheng and rush to Guangzhou together with Xin'an Town, which assisted in the defense. In addition, Geng Jimao also sent people to ask for help from Ma Xiong, the general soldier of the right wing of the Dingnan Domain in Wuzhou, Hong Chengchou of the southwest of Changsha, Yi Yonggui, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, and Cai Shiying, the governor of Jiangxi.

Geng Jimao's performance is indeed the same as his mental state in the past two years, but when the news of the defeat comes back more and more, more and more frequently, especially when Xu Erxian rushed back with the Qing cavalry, everyone couldn't help but sigh at Geng Jimao's judgment ability and growth that had never been noticed by others.

After seeing the situation outside the city, Geng Jimao hurried back to the palace. There, the military council was convened, and Shang Zhixin, the prince of Pingnan, Li Shutai, the governor of Liangguang, Li Qifeng, the governor of Guangdong, and Xu Erxian, the chief soldier of the left wing of the Pingnan Domain, arrived one after another to report the situation to the last commander of the Qing army in Guangdong.

"It's okay that the green battalion on the south side of the city has arrived, and I have sent people to keep an eye on those green battalion generals."

"I didn't see Chen Kai's artillery team in the east of the city, so I guess it hasn't arrived yet."

"There are a lot of thieves in the north of the city, and it seems that the green battalions of Qingyuan and Conghua can't enter, unless they transfer Jiangxi to raise the standard, plus the rest of Nanjiang and these two green battalions, they may be able to break through the northern direction of the thieves."

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The situation in Guangzhou is very bad, and this is well known to everyone. The Ming army war auxiliaries outside the city added up to no less than 100,000, or even 200,000 is not impossible. In the city, there were only more than 6,000 remnants of the feudal soldiers of the two palaces, and Li Qifeng's Guangdong Fubiao was responsible for guarding the new city of Guangzhou, and he never moved in the city; The green camps of Dongguan and Zengcheng counties had arrived before Chen Kai besieged the city; On the Sanshui side, Li Shutai couldn't afford the responsibility for the fall of Guangzhou, so he had to bring the governor to come, but the local green camp did not move, because Geng Jimao transferred Ma Xiong down the river and rushed to Guangzhou to assist in the defense, but the road was cut off by the Ming army, so he left the Sanshui green battalion to continue to guard there.

After calculation, there were only more than 16,000 Qing soldiers in the city, and most of them were green battalion soldiers. Such a number is simply a free gift compared to the Ming army outside the city.

For this reason, Geng Jimao recruited men from the families of the feudal soldiers of Pingnan and Jingnan to go to the city to assist in guarding. Originally, there were 20,000 soldiers in the two feudatories, and when they went south, they brought their families with them, and they also counted more than 100,000 men, women, and children. In addition, they were the establishment of the Han military banner, and there were many clothed servants in each family, and the number was also quite large. Even Geng Jimao's old son, Geng Zhongming, committed suicide because of the cruelty of the fugitive law because he received a coat when he went south, which was mixed with a lot of fugitives.

"Among the men who assist in the guard, some of the old and young of the feudal family have gone through the battle formation, and there are many young ones who have a foundation in martial arts, and there are nearly 30,000 soldiers when they are full. As for those coats, they can only be used as auxiliaries, plus the people on the other side of the new city, this city can still be barely defended. The key is when the reinforcements from the imperial court will arrive! ”

With the addition of the new city and the old city, Guangzhou has a population of about 200,000 at this time, but its mobilization capacity is much greater than the 700,000 men, women, and children when Du Yonghe was in charge of Guangzhou four years ago.

Geng Jimao mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized, but it was especially insufficient compared to the Ming army outside the city. For this reason, Geng Jimao sent people to mobilize and request more reinforcements, but it is still unknown whether these reinforcements will come and when they will arrive. At this time, after listening to everyone's reports and gossip about the defense, he pinned his hopes on Shang Kexi and Zhu Mala to escape back with the rout, even if they couldn't enter the city, it would be good to harass and contain the Ming army on the periphery.

In fact, everyone has such thoughts, but they don't dare to report much hope. After all, it is a rout, even if it is Shang Kexi who leads the team, but the opponents are Li Dingguo and Chen Kai, it is by no means an easy task.

I don't dare to report too much hope, it's not that I won't hope for it. However, this time, before hope could be put into account again, Shang Kexi's confidant and strategist Jin Guang rushed over in a sweat, and after waving off the palace guards, he told them a message that made them fall into the abyss.

"The Manchurian Eight Banners that were fished up yesterday have woken up, and he said that the prince of Pingnan and Gushan Ezhen were intercepted by Chen Kai in Foshan, and the withdrawn army has been wiped out!"

People, they were fished up from the dock yesterday. The Manchurian Eight Banners, who couldn't swim, floated all the way to the foot of Guangzhou with a piece of wood to build a pontoon bridge. With the buoyancy of that big piece of wood, he didn't drown, but after soaking in the water of the Pearl River in Layue for so long, he was frozen when he was fished up, and now it seems that if he hadn't lived in the bitter cold of Liaodong for a long time, if he was cold enough to resist frost, he would have died of hypothermia early.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria brought shocking bad news, and the main hall of the Jingnan Palace's palace fell into silence. As a matter of fact, they had just received the news of the defeat and that they had the opportunity to evacuate Guangzhou. But this time the reinforcements are 3,000 Manmeng Eight Banners, so many Manmeng Eight Banners are uncertain, how dare they, the minions of the Han Army Banner, retreat first, and as a result, they will be dragged to the siege of the Ming army, and it is a fool's dream to run and drag so many family members.

After a long time, Geng Jimao calmed Shang Zhixin and reinvigorated everyone's morale, so he temporarily dispersed the military discussion, leaving Shang Zhixin, who was already on the verge of rage, to buffer time. It's just that when he was the only one left, he couldn't help but add the names of Shang Kexi, Zhu Mala and Ban Zhifu to the list of Qing army's casualties.

"The prince of Pingnan is gone, Gushan is really gone, there are Xu Shuai and Ban Shuai, and even Shuai is nowhere to be found, and eighty percent is also unlucky. Now, Xu Shuai is left in the city. At this time, perhaps we can only hope that Ma Shuai and Huizhou Town can play a role in restraining the old thief and Chen Kai to prevent the city from being destroyed prematurely. As for the future, we can only see whether Hong Jingluo can turn the tide. ”

The main force of the Qing army of more than 30,000 people is finished, and now there are more than 40,000 so-called soldiers in the city, but he knows the most about the composition. However, their opponents are stronger than they were four years ago, especially in today's war situation, Fujian has fallen, Jiangxi and Southern Jiangxi are empty, Guangxi has more than enough self-preservation and insufficient aid, and when Jiangmen is defeated, they have actually stepped into the coffin.

Pinning your hopes on others is the last thing you should do. But at this point, that's what Geng Jimao can do. The city was gloomy, and outside the city, in Li Dingguo's camp in the west of the city, Chen Kai was present, and Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of the Inspector University, also hurried over.

Lian Chengbi was still cooking in Xinhui, and there could be no civil officials from western Guangdong here, so Guo Zhiqi rushed over. Compared with when Chen Kai forced him away, Guangdong is now nine out of ten. The difference is nothing more than when this Guangzhou city will be taken down - after all, the last time Guangzhou City was broken, it took Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao nearly a year. The Qing army can drag on for a year, but the Ming army is absolutely impossible, not even half a year!

"Now that the situation is very good, this official thinks that since it is still gratifying, and the heads of rebels such as Zhu Mala, Ban Zhifu, Xu Degong, and Lian Decheng are in his hands, it is better to pull them to the city and let the soldiers defending the city see it with their own eyes. When the time comes, send an envoy into the city and order Geng Jimao to surrender, which can also make Wang Shi suffer less damage. ”

In the big tent, Guo Zhiqi talked eloquently, this is indeed the method with the least loss, if it can be done, even without Geng Jimao raising the city to surrender, as long as a certain general defending the city is tempted, and the Ming army is ready to pay a tune, and the city surrenders, at that time the Ming army can also reduce a lot of damage.

Under normal circumstances, this can indeed be done, but Chen Kai is quite impatient with this: "What Inspector Guo said is right, but the lower officials dare not agree. Chen Kai is not specifically against him, but there is great dissatisfaction with this method, or this way of disposing.

In this regard, Guo Zhiqi frowned, but he also knew very well that in the Xinhui siege and the bloody battle of Jiangmen, Chen Kai's merits could be placed alongside Li Dingguo, and now the Ming army is besieging the city, and Li Dingguo and Chen Kai are the main ones, and the Ming army in western Guangdong is just an auxiliary. Even if you don't talk about this, now that Guangzhou is about to recover, it is indeed not the time for contradictions. Just like what he said to Lian Chengbi when he retreated, at this time, the court and the emperor are looking forward to the recovery of Guangdong, and it is time to unite sincerely, even if Chen Kai is provoking, as long as Chen Kai's ability can increase the chance of winning for the recovery of Guangdong, they must endure it for the time being.

Taking a deep breath, Guo Zhiqi explained to Chen Kai as calmly as possible: "Chen Fujun, Wang Shi has gone through bloody battles and is exhausted, you know all this. In case of a forcible siege of the city, the captives in the city are poor and the rats devour the cats, but the casualties are not mentioned, if they are defeated, will they not have to give up their efforts? What's more, if Geng Jimao can be cared for, a Han prince of the court, how huge the shock to the Han officials and generals in the world should be, and it should not be lost because of a small one. ”

Explaining bitterly, Guo Zhiqi, as a supervisor, asked himself to be regarded as leaving his face behind, and only asked Chen Kai to endure with him for the country.

Seeing Guo Zhiqi like this, Chen Kai simply made it clear to him: "Inspector Guo wants to appease Geng Jimao, the lower officials can understand and understand your hard work." However, from the point of view of the lower officials, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, who are dead, can deter those bastards who don't want ancestors more than they are alive, so that they can clearly see the fate of fighting for the tiger. In the future, Wang Shi regained the lost territory, and even the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, there are such examples, those cheap bones know that they are afraid, and Wang Shi can have more strength left. ”

knew that Chen Kai was a ruthless character, Guo Zhiqi was prepared for this, and was about to continue to persuade, but Chen Kai stood up directly and categorically stopped Guo Zhiqi's persuasion: "Your Highness, Inspector Guo, these Tartars are all extremely heinous criminals, even if they may have had to do it back then, but over the years, the people they have killed, the cities they have slaughtered, and the blood debts they have accumulated, any appeasement to them is an insult to those who died in vain." The officials took so much effort to transport these heavy cannons from Xinhui, not so that they could have a chance to escape punishment. ”

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