"Report! The county seat of Guishan has been attacked by the chaotic people! ”

On the day that the Fangnan 1st Road People's Army broke through Guishan County, the news was conveyed to Huizhou Fucheng, which made the officials and other big families living in Huizhou Fucheng extremely nervous, Guishan County has been broken by the People's Army, and it will be Huizhou's turn next.

The adults all know that the defensive strength of Guishan County is very weak, the regular army is only a few hundred, and the regular army defending Huizhou Mansion is close to 3,000, but this does not reassure the adults, the rebels have captured the three county seats, if tens of thousands of rebels come to surround Huizhou Prefecture, maybe Huizhou Mansion is also in danger of falling.

As long as there is a trace of risk, the big people who think that their lives are precious are not willing to stay in Huizhou Mansion City and take risks, after learning that Guishan County has been breached, some people choose to leave Huizhou Mansion with their families and transfer to Guangzhou City or other counties in Guangzhou Prefecture.

Seeing this situation, Li Xi, the current governor of Huizhou Prefecture, did not stop it, and at the same time as the news that "Guishan County has been broken by the chaotic people, and Huizhou Mansion is in danger" was delivered to Guangzhou City, Li Xi also sent some of his family members away from Huizhou Prefecture.

Large families can leave Huizhou City, but there are ordinary people who accidentally get the news and want to leave Huizhou City, but it is impossible, Huizhou City is not weak in defense, there are nearly 3,000 Ming troops, including Huizhou City Defenders and Huizhou Guard Headquarters Guards, but Li Xi feels that there are still deficiencies in the face of the chaos that has broken through the three county towns and the number of tens of thousands.

Like the choice of Pan Anping, the magistrate of Guishan County, who had been captured by the People's Army, Li Xi immediately recruited the guards of large families and a large number of young people in the area of Huizhou Fucheng as the defensive force of Huizhou Fucheng, and doubled the defensive strength of Huizhou Fucheng in a short period of time.

However, Li Xi also knew that the combat effectiveness of the temporarily recruited personnel on the battlefield was far inferior to that of the Ming soldiers, and it was better to look forward to the imperial army coming over soon.

However, two days have passed, and the change of things has surprised Li Xi very much, and the people who urgently mobilized to Huizhou Mansion are still on the way, and it is expected that it will take another day to arrive, and the chaotic people in Guishan County are only half a day away from Huizhou Prefecture, but not a single chaotic person was found around Huizhou Prefecture.

"What's going on?" Li Xi was a little confused.

Shouldn't the rebels coerce a large number of ordinary people after occupying one place and continue to attack the next place, why don't they come to Huizhou Mansion yet, such an abnormal situation makes Li Xi have some worries in his heart, and constantly sends spies to investigate the movements of the chaotic people.

disappointed Li Xi, the People's Army of Fangnan Road had no idea of attacking the capital city of Huizhou.

The defensive strength of Guishan County is very weak, and the People's Army easily takes Guishan County, Fang Nan knows that it is more difficult for the People's Army to take Huizhou Fucheng, which is closer to Guishan County, the county town is small, the city wall is relatively low, the city wall is high, tens of thousands of people live in the city, and the number of defenders is more, not to mention that the guard army of Huizhou Wei Headquarters is also there.

The People's Army was able to break through the Huizhou Mansion in a relatively short period of time by relying on the danger of the tiger's head gun, and the number of its own casualties would definitely exceed 1,000, which was a price that the People's Army could not bear.

After the People's Army captured Guishan County, Fang Nanbian decided to use the dozens of miles between Guishan County and Huizhou Fucheng as the place where the People's Army and the Ming Army fought against each other.

The area between the county seat of Guishan and the capital city of Huizhou is not a large plain, Guangdong is already mountainous and forested, and there are many places suitable for ambushes, so Fang Nan sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Ming army while going to the field to investigate.

In particular, the official road from Huizhou Fucheng to Guishan County is the focus of exploration, and Fang Nan feels that if the Ming army that comes to encircle and suppress the People's Army is not vigilant, perhaps the People's Army and the Ming Army can surprise the Ming Army before the battle.

In this case, the battlefield of the People's Army and the Ming Army will at most be in the western region of Guishan County, and the eastern region may not be implicated, so Fang Nan sent people to Haifeng County and Yongan County to mobilize some personnel from these two counties to prepare for the formation of the Guishan County People's Military Government, and the people in the eastern area of Guishan County can already unite.

Some of the big landlords in Guishan County had already fled to Huizhou before the People's Army surrounded the county town of Guishan, and there were still some big landlords who chose to commit evil deeds and dragged them to various places in Guishan County for public trials and street tours, so as to unite the people as soon as possible.

The Fangnan 1st Road People's Army is progressing well, but the deployment of the Hu Zhuang 1st Road People's Army located in Chaozhou Prefecture is not very good.

Compared with the 4,000 troops of the Fangnan No. 1 Road People's Army, the strength of the Hu Zhuang No. 1 Road People's Army is relatively small, only a little more than 1,000 people, and the firearms unit as the main force has only one company, but the number of people who have boarded the camp first has greatly increased, and the establishment is about to reach two companies.

With a thousand troops, to attack the county town defended by only a few hundred Ming troops, it can still be taken relatively easily, and Hu Zhuang led the troops into the territory of Chaozhou Mansion with the idea of capturing a county town first.

There are more blacksmiths and carpenters in the county, and what the People's Army lacks now is blacksmiths and carpenters, even if the captured county town cannot be occupied for a long time, as long as a group of blacksmiths and carpenters are collected and taken away, it will be a huge gain for the People's Army.

After the Fangnan 1st Road People's Army captured Guishan County, it collected a group of blacksmiths and carpenters, and sent troops to Hutou Village.

From Haifeng County to the east into the Chaozhou Mansion is the boundary of Huilai County, Hu Zhuang led the troops all the way to Huilai County, when arriving at the front of the county seat, the city gate of the county has been closed on all sides, the city wall gathered many figures, half of them are Ming soldiers, the remaining half of the guards of large families and the young men who were recruited, it is expected that the number of guards in the county town has exceeded 1,000.

The number of enemies is quite large, and they may even be more than the strength of the People's Army of Hu Zhuang Yiyi, but Hu Zhuang is not afraid, if there are really many Ming troops in Huilai County, it will not be the situation where the gates of Huilai County are closed on all sides, and even the young men in shabby clothes have climbed the city wall.

Hu Zhuang led his troops to launch a tentative attack on Huilai County.

A company of the firearms unit was originally a platoon of one tiger-headed gun, with a total of three tiger-headed guns, but because the artillery company was all equipped with Franc machine guns, Hu Zhuang's firearms unit on this road added two tiger-headed guns.

Five tiger-headed cannons first fired two salvos at the city wall of the county town of Qilai, and ten solid cannonballs came over, and the people on the city wall were relatively less chaotic, and soon regained stability.

Seeing this situation, Hu Zhuang gave up the plan to capture Huilai County, originally thinking that when the troops retreated, he could attract the Ming army in Huilai County to go out of the city to pursue, but he did not expect that the gate of the county town was closed, and the Ming army defending the city did not have the idea of coming out to pursue at all.

Hu Zhuang's People's Army could not break through the county seat of Yulai at a relatively small cost, and the Ming army in Huilai County did not come out to pursue, so Hu Zhuang led his troops to shuttle in Huilai County and Puning County to look for fighters.