With questions and cheers, Zhang Rui entered the city of Guangzhou.

Looking at the high city wall, the victory of this siege battle made Zhang Rui very happy in his heart, and his face was full of joy.

From the moment Zhang Rui stepped into the West City Gate, Zhang Rui didn't even understand how simple the whole battle was? Was the Manchus so vulnerable?

However, since the ancient city, it is not the city walls that can be strengthened, but the hearts of the people. If the defenders of the city do not have the confidence to defend it, even if there are towering walls, no matter how good the equipment for defending the city is, it is useless.

Because Li Zicheng fought against Beijing City back then, if all the defenders at that time were fighting to defend the city, Li Zicheng might not be able to enter even if he had a million soldiers. But the defenders had no confidence, and Li Zicheng had no difficulty.

The reason why Zhang Rui conquered Guangzhou City was easy was because of his reputation, because of his policies, and because of his status as a native of Guangzhou.

The green battalions defending the city are mainly locals.

Zhang Rui had spared Yang Yingju and Geng Shangzhi's soldiers before, and he had a good reputation for being captured. The propaganda of the anti-bandit army that every household has a share of land, everyone has land for cultivation and low taxes, so that many relatives of the green battalion soldiers have influenced the thinking of these green battalion soldiers who defend the city.

Another important point is that Zhang Rui's soldiers and horses are very capable of fighting, and they have penetrated into the hearts of the defenders of Guangzhou. A few victories seem to confirm this. And Zhang Rui is a person from Liangguang, and they all speak similar words. If Zhang Rui can really lay down the country in the future, they will also feel deeply honored and honored.

The defenders of Guangzhou City didn't have any life-and-death grudges with the bandit army, so they didn't want to fight for their lives, not to mention that they let the bandit army fight from the beginning.

As a result, under the advantage of the bandit army, the green battalion soldiers defending the city naturally surrendered with the trend.

Since surrender does not have to die and can be released, few people are willing to die in vain. The Qing soldiers who came back twice also proved that Zhang Rui's credibility was there, and they surrendered without psychological burden.

The speed of the siege of the bandit army was so fast that even the gangsters on the street who thought that they could fish in the muddy waters of the war did not react.

Because they didn't have time to fight and make trouble, the bandit army had already entered the city to clear it. After the bandit army came in, they could only stay honestly.

At this time, the strong military discipline of the bandit army also proved once again that it was different from other peasant rebel armies.

When Zhang Rui was a student in the past, he had read about the destructive power of the peasant rebel army. So in order to avoid this, Zhang Rui also introduced the position of Junzheng to supervise and teach all the bandit army.

At the same time, because he was afraid that the green battalion soldiers who surrendered were not aware enough, Zhang Rui scattered them all and disorganized them, and then led them by the old man Ma of the bandit army who originally came directly to the mountain.

So there was a situation where two old bandit armies led eight bandit armies who surrendered.

Under the military discipline and military songs of the bandit army and the continuous "brainwashing" education of the military officials, no newly surrendered green battalion soldier dared not take his life seriously.

Because Zhang Rui has repeatedly ordered, anyone who dares to violate military discipline and harm the people and disturb the people will be severely punished.

With Zhang Rui's entry into the city, the people of Guangzhou City, who were originally worried that they would be harmed, were also relieved. Because Zhang Rui's entry into the city also announced that the city of Guangzhou no longer belonged to the Manchu Dynasty.

For those who escaped from the city of Guangzhou, Zhang Rui also sent horseback to chase them. If none of them were against the bandit army, Zhang Rui would not do anything to them. But if it is against the bandit army, then it should be liquidated as it should be.

"Sixth brother. Commander Li sent someone to say that the people of Guangzhou were guarding the inner city wall, saying that he hoped to negotiate the conditions before surrendering, and asked the sixth brother what he wanted. I saw a herald being brought to Zhang Rui by Chen Taiping and said.

"Send an order to Commander Li, and ask him to order the people in the city to surrender immediately and unconditionally, and those who dare to resist will attack and leave no chickens and dogs." Zhang Rui said with a murderous face after listening to the words of the herald

"Yes, Sixth Brother." The herald gave a military salute to Zhang Rui, and then went to convey Zhang Rui's order.

"Just kidding, in this situation, I still want to talk to you about what conditions to surrender. Will they make us surrender in turn? Brother Guozhong is still too cautious. Zhang Rui looked at the figure of the herald in the distance, and said a little angrily.

"What the sixth brother said is that these Tartars still think they are some kind of royal relatives." Wang Kaiyuan took Zhang Rui's words and said

"Heh, if it's really a relative of the emperor, they will regret it. But they have to pay what they owe. Zhang Rui replied

After a pillar of incense

Guangzhou was full of surrenders, and no one resisted.

The surrender of the city also announced that the city of Guangzhou officially changed hands.

Two hours later

The sound of golden gongs sounded in the streets of Guangzhou, and the slogan of Anmin sounded.

At the same time, various notices at the gate of Guangzhou City were posted with notices of peace and mind.

With the posting of the notice of Anmin, the ordinary people of Guangzhou City are also relieved.

The bandit army is also just like the rumors they have heard, the military discipline is good, it does not hurt the people, does not disturb the people, and does not take a stitch from the people. This really made the people of the whole city admire it, and at the same time, it also made the anti-Qing people have a good impression of the bandit army.

Three hours later, the city of Guangzhou was officially declared normal by the Liangguang Governor's Palace, and martial law was no longer required. At the same time, an announcement was issued in the city of Guangzhou to recruit soldiers for the suppression of bandits.

The monthly salary is one or two or eight dollars, and ten acres of land can be obtained after five years of retirement.

The conditions for this recruitment are indeed different from the previous recruitment, Zhang Rui used to have land and no silver, if Zhang Rui had silver but not enough land.

Therefore, in terms of recruitment conditions, Zhang Rui also adopted reforms.

The conditions of the previously recruited soldiers' fields remained the same, but the newly recruited soldiers were changed.

Now, Zhang Rui has adjusted the monthly salary of all the soldiers of the bandit army to one or two or eight yuan, which is higher than that given by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which restricted the families of soldiers from doing other businesses, Zhang Rui did not restrict the families of the bandit soldiers from doing legitimate business, and also gave them more freedom.

If you want more land, you have to use more military merit in exchange.

Zhang Rui's purpose in doing this is also to stimulate more people to join the bandit army, because those who enter early can get more benefits than those who enter late, isn't it stupid to take advantage of it?

This approach is not without its drawbacks, but everything is harmless when there is a contrast. The Manchu Qing Dynasty did not say that they could retire in a few years, nor did they say that they could divide the land after retirement.

It wasn't until the evening that Zhang Rui pulled out of the innocent big business meetings in Guangzhou.

However, there were too many people Zhang Rui wanted to meet, and this also included many anti-Qing people who also organized groups to ask for a meeting. In this regard, Zhang Rui had to receive it again.

At this time, I saw that Zhang Rui, who had just finished meeting the last wave of people, picked up the greeting post next to him again and looked at it.

"Huh? This is? Hong Xiguan asks to see? ”