Chapter 378 Sits and Waits for Death

Zhao Guozuo lamented at the head of the city, but Zhang Xuesheng, the governor of Fujian, was sitting in the back hall of the yamen sighing......

He hadn't slept a single slept since the fierce thieves captured Guangzhou a month ago and King Pingnan was captured and ambushed.

As the Ming thieves further conquered Chaozhou, the troops were pacified, and the grain and grass were hoarded on a large scale, and the signs of the eastward crusade became more and more obvious.

Recently, with the successive defeats in the battle ahead, the Ming thieves and soldiers are approaching Fuzhou, and even the subordinate officials of his governor Yamen have taken leave, and the small officials who do not say goodbye are even more day by day, so that all departments and rooms have been empty.

It is conceivable that the yamen of the prefectures and counties below must be embarrassed.

Those former Ming officials who had renegade and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty were just gone, but even those personal staff members brought by themselves disappeared, so that the governor's yamen was empty and quite deserted.

Zhang Xuesheng knew that they were afraid, and fear made them either abandon their officials and leave, or hesitate to wait and see.

The group of self-proclaimed "begging for the army" has been rumored to be miraculous before, and the name of good warfare has long been spread far and wide, and all the officials, big and small, have naturally heard some news from Liangguang.

In addition, this time to pacify Guangdong, it is gratifying to be captured alive, and the gang of thieves is even more prestigious, these mercenary villains may have been frightened a long time ago, so it is not surprising that they behaved like this.

Therefore, his only hope now is to defeat this thief as soon as possible, even if it is a small victory or two, in order to inspire people and stabilize the situation in one fell swoop.

However, Zhao Guozuo's guy was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and he began to blindly retreat from Zhangzhou, and fled until the Yongfu line, which is simply unreasonable!

It's only been a few days, and this thief is less than a hundred miles away from Fuzhou, so it's too fast, right?

Didn't they say that they were less than 10,000 people? Why is Zhao Guozuo here?

From Quanzhou to Yongfu, there are more than 10,000 garrisons along the way, usually like wolves and tigers, all of them are arrogant, and they actually let this thief like entering a no-man's land, they are all useless waste!

The most hateful thing is that all the previous retreats can still be used as an excuse to shrink the forces and avoid their edges, and some people can still be silenced.

But just a few days ago, Zhao Guozuo's much-boasted defense line of Gaogai Mountain was like paper paste, and it was torn to pieces in just one night, and the core of the defense line, Yongfu County, was in danger.

This is simply a mountain of defeat!

This is the last barrier in Fuzhou!

……

"My lord, something is wrong!"

Just when Zhang Xuesheng was gritting his teeth and there was nothing to do, Wang Bangjun, the general of his cronies, shouted in a panic and rushed into the hall.

At present, most of the soldiers and horses who are sticking to Fuzhou are the people of Admiral Zhao Guozuo.

Although he, the governor, is nominally in charge of the administrative, military, and supervision powers of a province, in fact, the military power is all in the hands of the governor Chen Jin, and he is the top boss of the governor Zhao Guozuo.

After Chen Jin left, Zhao Guozuo, who had eyes above the top, didn't listen to him at all.

What can be done, in terms of grade, Zhao Guozuo, the admiral, is a second-rank military officer, which is one level higher than him, a civilian governor from the third rank.

Therefore, the only people he can really command at hand are Ma Degong, the general of the cronies, and more than 1,000 people each to whom Wang Bangjun belongs.

These two people, as his Chinese army left and right to guard the town, were stationed in the city, not far from the governor's yamen, so that they could directly enter the inner hall of the yamen without reporting.

Zhang Xuesheng was angry, and couldn't help glaring at him fiercely: "Panic, what kind of system!" ”

"Yes, yes, sir,"

Wang Bangjun froze and bowed down, "I just got the news that I just got from my humble position, and that gang of thieves arrived on the other side last night." ”

"What?"

Zhang Xuesheng gasped and said hurriedly, "Is this true? ”

"Humble ...... The patrol sent by himself is absolutely true. ”

"What about Yongfu? Lost? ”

Zhang Xuesheng's face turned pale, and he jumped up and asked.

"Yes......"

Wang Bangjun lowered his eyes and bowed to reply.

"Zhao Guozuo, this rabbit cub!"

Zhang Xuesheng sat down in the Taishi chair, raised his head helplessly, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, go to the city." ”

……

"Lord Futai,"

Facing Zhang Xuesheng's questioning, Zhao Guozuo was expressionless and said coldly, "The military situation is urgent, and the general is busy with defense and has no time to report." ”

Grandma's, they're all dying, and you're still here to worry about this with Lao Tzu!

"You ......"

Zhang Xuesheng was so angry that he gritted his teeth but was helpless, so he had to stumble and say, "Yongfu is lost, the Ming thief soldiers are coming to the city, and there are so many routs retreating into the city, what should you do?" ”

"Lord Futai, don't worry,"

Zhao Guozuo, whose face was gloomy, turned his head and said in a hoarse voice, "Although the thieves are fierce, the city defense of Fuzhou is strong, the weapons and grain and grass are sufficient, and the soldiers have no way to retreat. ”

"Hold on? What to keep? ”

Zhang Xuesheng's face was full of anger, and he squinted at Zhao Guozuo, "The Ming thief soldiers are less than 10,000, you retreat again and again, and now you are so scared that more than 20,000 people can't shrink back, do you sit and wait to die?" ”

"If you don't keep it, will you go out and die?"

Zhao Guozuo sneered at each other, "Although the number of thieves in this group is small, they are all elites, and field warfare is its strength...... Ben expected that he would run from afar, and he was already a tired division, so he should hold on to exhaust his strength......"

"Confused!"

Zhang Xuesheng shouted angrily, stomped his feet and said hatefully, "The thief is in a hurry, at this time, the baggage should be on the way, don't go out to fight, and when its siege cannon arrives, Nantai Island is lost, you and I will die without a place to be buried!" Alas...... Yikes! ”

"Whew! What do you know! ”

Zhang Xuesheng's face was pale in a hurry, and he looked like he was about to cry, but Zhao Guozuo was indifferent, just pouted and choked, "Zheng Chenggong's fleet has been killed in Min'an Town, how can you and I have a way out!" ”

"Huh?"

Zhang Xuesheng staggered, and exclaimed, "Zheng Chenggong...... The traitor? ”

“……”

Zhao Guozuo no longer paid attention to him, but stiffened his body and looked into the distance, and then muttered with a pale face, "It's here...... So fast? ”

Seeing that his expression was different, Zhang Xuesheng hurriedly turned around and followed his gaze to the downstream river on the left.

At first glance, he almost fell to the ground.

I saw several tall gunboats in the distance, and the black clouds were slowly coming, and the bow of the ship was raised high, and it was not even lower than the Fuzhou City Tower.

The flags on the ship are unfurled, and several large flags flutter in the wind, which are embroidered with several big characters such as "Ming", "Lin" and "Zheng".

Judging from the tall bow, these huge ships are probably more than 1,000 Franco machine gunboats.

Zhang Xuesheng even saw clearly that there was a cannon on the deck of the gunboat at the beginning, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed straight ahead.

The rows of black gun doors on the side of the gunboats behind them had all been opened, and at a glance, there were more than a dozen guns on this side alone.

Behind them, a large area of black pressure was full of boats, and the fluttering flags could not be seen at a glance......