The news of the defeat of the Fujian Ming army by the 2nd Mixed Brigade had reached Heping County, and after helping Wang Shengrong's troops defeat the Ming army in Jiangxi, Fang Nan did not need to support Hu Zhuang anymore, and instead returned to Yong'an County in the south, intending to move to Guangzhou City with the central government of the People's Army.

As for whether He Yanbu can capture the city of Guangzhou, in Fang Nan's view, it is still relatively stable, the People's Army has fought many battles with the Guangdong Ming Army since raising the flag, and now there are about 40,000 of the 100,000 Guangdong Ming Army.

Guangzhou Prefecture was originally the state capital with the largest number of Ming troops, but with the first encirclement and suppression of the People's Army by the Ming army and the second encirclement and suppression, most of the Ming troops in Guangzhou Prefecture were transferred, and now there are more than 10,000 people left.

He Yan's Third Mixed Brigade had a strength of 20,000 troops, and captured a large number of artillery pieces of Guo Rong's army, so he was very sure that he would capture the city of Guangzhou.

Since the defeat of Guo Mian's army by the Third Mixed Brigade, the central government of the People's Army has also been very busy, on the one hand, it has to be busy with the matter of relocation, and on the other hand, it has to be busy with the matter of the new territory occupied by the People's Army.

Decrees were issued from Yong'an County to all localities under the rule of the People's Army, and the main task was to mobilize county officials to the newly occupied territory and form a new county people's military government.

With the current situation of the People's Army, the number of officials used to govern the whole of Guangdong is barely enough, and fortunately, the People's Army has been developing in the mountains for a few more years, otherwise, if you want to govern the whole of Guangdong, you will have to appoint more former Ming Dynasty officials and wealthy gentry and businessmen who want to join the People's Army.

At present, the political and military departments of the People's Army are mainly graduates of three-year education, and below them are those mountain people in the mountains who can barely know all the common words and arithmetic, the former are mainly officials, and the latter are minor officials.

With the rapid increase of the People's Army's territory, and at the same time the People's Army won the support of the people, the People's Army also selected suitable people from the people to serve as small officials, but such small officials, there are few people who can read and write, in the case of illiterate, small officials are their starting point and their end, if you want to be promoted, you must be literate.

And those literate mountain people, because they didn't have three years of education, didn't know much before, but as they served as small officials for a few months after leaving the mountain, their knowledge has increased, and their abilities have also improved, and they can be promoted to a higher rank and be responsible for more things.

Those graduates of the three-year education have gained some experience in managing a county, and soon they will be in charge of a county, so they should not be in a hurry.

Government officials, petty officials, and military officers are the foundation of the People's Army, and only with them can the People's Army be a big collective that can be stabilized and managed after the entire Guangdong is occupied.

In the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of rebels with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but they were eventually exterminated by the Ming army, one of the very important reasons was that they lacked officials to govern the territory, and finally made a mess of their own territory, which could not be used as a basis for fighting the Ming Dynasty, and failure became inevitable.

Of course, the people who can serve as officials are basically people who have a heart for the Ming Dynasty, they are willing to be officials in the Ming Dynasty, but they are not willing to be officials in the anti-thieves who don't know when they will be exterminated, even if someone joins the anti-thieves, the number is very small, mainly people who hate the Ming Dynasty.

As the People's Army continued to defeat the Ming Army, the People's Army became stable under its rule, and the likelihood of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty increased, and some people wanted to defect to the People's Army.

However, in the case that the People's Army has enough personnel to use, the People's Army is more willing to use its own people, and its own people are more trustworthy, and those who want to join the People's Army, the People's Army will not completely refuse, and will first carefully investigate, and then start from the bottom, and those who are capable can continue to be promoted with time and contribution.

If an outsider is given a relatively high official position immediately after joining the People's Army, whether he is talented or not, it will have a huge impact within the People's Army, and most people do not want to see an outsider suddenly become their boss.

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Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye it was 20 December, and in the past few days, the people's armies of all walks of life have made great progress.

Wang Shengrong's first mixed brigade, led by Wang Shengrong personally, was directly divided into two, successively captured four counties in southern Jiangxi, and then marched into Nanxiong Mansion; The road led by Xiong Jian has surrounded the capital city of Shaozhou, and it will be able to break the city in half a day at most.

Hu Zhuang's Second Mixed Brigade, after capturing the capital of Chaozhou, successively occupied Chaoyang County, Chenghai County, and Raoping County in the territory of Chaozhou Prefecture, and two-thirds of the Chaozhou Prefecture was already under control.

He Yan's Third Mixed Brigade is expected to arrive outside Guangzhou before dark.

The other three mixed brigades have all experienced one battle after another, only Zhou Yi's fourth mixed brigade, after the initial battle against Jieshiwei, has been undertaking the task of defending the coastal area of Haifeng County, in the Ming Dynasty against the People's Army in the first encirclement and suppression, the second encirclement and suppression, Zhou Yi did not get the opportunity to fight.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Yi's mood was very complicated, he had already sent an application to the teacher, wanting to lead troops to fight, and the task of defending the coastal area of Haifeng County could be handed over to other departments.

In addition, thanks to the great victory of the People's Army, the possibility of chaos under the rule of the People's Army became less and less, and more than 10,000 recruits in the 11 counties, half of whom were transferred to the newly occupied territory of the People's Army as auxiliary troops.

He Yan's Third Mixed Brigade is getting closer and closer to Guangzhou City, and the atmosphere in Guangzhou City is becoming more and more tense, many powerful carriages are crowded at the West City Gate, wanting to get out of the city, but they are stopped by the Ming army, no matter how the magnates coerce and lure, the Ming army guarding the door did not open the door.

This situation has been happening in Guangzhou City for several days, since the news of the defeat of Guo Mian's army reached Guangzhou City, and then more bad news came back every day, not only Guo Rong's army was defeated, but the Ming army from Huguang was also defeated, and the other two Ming armies have not yet come to the news, but many people suspect that the two roads are also defeated.

It is said that a group of more than 20,000 anti-thieves is marching into Guangzhou City, with the number of Ming troops in Guangzhou City, it is difficult to reach the anti-thieves, once Guangzhou City is breached, the magnates who are still in the city will be unlucky.

In Wu Wenhua's view, once the magnates are let out of the city, the morale of the Ming army defending the city will decline, and the more people go, the more the morale of the Ming army will decline, and the magnates are gone, and many soldiers are unwilling to stay in Guangzhou City to fight with the People's Army.

In this case, if he wanted to hold the city of Guangzhou, Wu Wenhua could only give an order not to let anyone leave the city.

Wu Wenhua knew that even if the city of Guangzhou could be defended, he would offend those powerful people, and the governor of Guangdong would not be able to continue.

"Alas!"