In order to make the bandit army stronger, Zhang Rui can be said to have worked hard. Don't look at the fact that the bandit army can quickly take down a few cities, it is just that the Manchus have not yet reacted.

Wu Sangui in the three feudatories was strong enough, but it still failed. Of course, there is Wu Sangui's problem, but it also shows the strength and tenacity of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Today's bandit army is much weaker than any of the three feudatories, and the Manchu Qing are much stronger and more stable than they were at the time of the three feudatories.

All the comparisons, Zhang Rui dare not have any lazy and lax ideas.

In addition to bringing Zhang Rui a set of practical military fists, the arrival of Hong Xiguan also brought a piece of news.

Guangzhou City had previously asked Li Shiyao to order the mobilization of nearly 80,000 people from Guangzhou, Shaozhou, Huizhou, Chaozhou, and several other Zhili Prefectures to gather outside Guangzhou.

The ultimate goal of these horses is to wait for the bandit army to attack the city, to give the bandit army a big encirclement, and then follow closely to capture the land that the bandit army has defeated.

Zhang Rui had no doubts about the information that Hong Xiguan had plucked out of the mouths of those Manchu generals who had escaped from the city of Guangzhou. This is really in line with their approach: relying on more people to fight attrition.

Hong Xiguan's information made Zhang Rui feel really not optimistic. Guangzhou City has just been won, and there is still time to take a few breaths, and the other party has mobilized people to come over to find a scene.

To keep or to abandon?

If you stay in Guangzhou City, once you are surrounded by the other party, this will be a helpless place, this is a dead end, and it is absolutely not advisable.

However, the city of Guangzhou has just been conquered and then abandoned, which will greatly reduce the morale of those soldiers and horses who surrendered, which will be very unfavorable to future uprisings.

In this way, Zhang Rui decided to go out of the city to fight back.

Guangzhou City also put 2,000 soldiers and horses to garrison, so as to save civil strife.

Didn't the Manchus mobilize more than 60,000 soldiers and horses! Then it's up to who's good.

After Hong Xiguan left, Zhang Rui also ordered the recruits who had been recruited and trained in Wuzhou and Zhaoqing for more than ten days to come to Guangzhou City.

Due to the high wear and tear of muskets, most of the muskets created were used to replace the old muskets of today's musketeers.

Although Zhang Rui had ordered to increase the production of muskets earlier, the time was too short after all, and now there are only more than 3,000 musketeers in the bandit army.

Although the musketeers of the bandit army were not ideal, the artillery still had thirty-four six-pounder guns, and the number was still increasing.

"Since the Manchus are going to fight, then come on! If I don't die this time, then the whole of Guangdong will be mine. At this time, Zhang Rui, who was looking at the bright moonlight in the sky in the courtyard of the Liangguang Governor's Palace, said secretly

"Sixth brother, haven't rested yet?" Wang Kaiyuan, who found Zhang Rui in the corridor, asked.

Due to the rush of time, and the Liangguang Governor's Mansion occupies a large enough area. Therefore, when Zhang Rui lived in the Liangguang Governor's Palace, he also set up all important offices here. This is why Wang Kaiyuan still walks around the corridors of the Liangguang Governor's Mansion at night.

"Nice moonlight, come out for a walk. Kaiyuan, why haven't you rested? Zhang Rui asked Wang Kaiyuan, who was still full of excitement

"When I go back to the room, I have nothing to do, and there are still some business things to deal with, so I will deal with it, and I can't rest." Wang Kaiyuan replied.

"Oh, hard work. It's starting to get cold, so rest early, there's still a lot to do tomorrow. Zhang Rui said in a concerned tone

"Thank you Sixth Brother for your concern, I know. Sixth brother, please rest early, after all, you are the most tired. Wang Kaiyuan was a little inexplicably moved after listening to Zhang Rui's words, even if it was just a simple sentence from Zhang Rui.

"Okay, then I won't bother you to go to work." Zhang Rui replied

There is not too much politeness on both sides, after all, time is tight, and there is really not much time to waste here.

Four days later, more than 25,000 horses recruited by Wuzhou and Zhaoqing came to Guangzhou.

When these horses arrived in the middle of Guangzhou City, Li Shiyao thought about letting his Qing soldiers take the initiative to attack these bandit troops who came over.

However, at this time, the soldiers and horses mobilized by the Qing army had not yet arrived, and the number of people did not prevail.

Li Shuyao was afraid that once he attacked rashly, he would let these bandit troops be entangled. If you let the "anti-thieves" in Guangzhou come out and defeat their own soldiers and horses, then you really have no chance of turning the tables.

In these four days, the bandit army also recruited nearly 10,000 men and horses in Guangzhou City.

Most of the credit for recruiting so many people comes from the propaganda of the Heaven and Earth Society and other anti-Qing people.

Since most of them were introduced by local people, coupled with the superior conditions offered by the bandit army, it was much easier to recruit.

As for the "rebellion" to be beheaded?

Just kidding, the sixth brother is a person who is blessed by "gods", and he is also the true god of our Han people.

Do you think that if you don't join the bandit army, you don't have to die? With the Manchu Qing Dynasty's nature of slaughtering cities at every turn, staying behind must be a dead end.

Even if you are released out of the city now, unless you can give up everything you have now and avoid the capture of the Qing army, you will die.

Since they are all dead, why don't you fight with them, the bandit army has never been defeated again, and the casualties are very small. Unless you're unlucky, don't worry at all...

As a result, under all kinds of rhetoric of this and that, the recruitment of the bandit army was overcrowded. If it weren't for the fact that the bandit army had a recruitment standard there, there would definitely be more than so many people recruited.

If it weren't for the fact that there were Qing troops gathered in the surrounding area, the bandit suppression army could easily recruit more than 30,000 men and horses as long as they sent the Propaganda Department and the Recruitment Department to go around the counties under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture.

Even so, the number of soldiers and horses that the bandit army had gathered in Guangzhou City at this time had exceeded 50,000.

This number looks like a lot, but the soldiers and horses who can really fight a tough battle are only the nearly 10,000 horses of the previous bandit army.

After all, most of the reasons why they will surrender are because of the excellent strength of the bandit army, and if the bandit army shows a situation of defeat and retreat, they are not expected to be able to hold on.

Those bandit troops who have not been trained for a long time may have a better will to fight, but Zhang Rui does not know what the specific combat effectiveness is. The estimate is also not optimistic.

As for the nearly 10,000 horses recruited in Guangzhou City. In Zhang Rui's view, they are currently purely using to increase the number of heads and increase popularity. There is no training yet, and there is no battlefield at all.

On the third day after the bandit army gathered, the Qing army also officially gathered.

Everything is out of order, Li Shiyao is not in a hurry.

The city of Guangzhou "fell", and he, the garrison general, also came to an end. Now Li Shuyao can only take advantage of the fact that the court has not yet seized his power, and gather troops and horses as soon as possible to recover the lost territory and alleviate the anger of the court.