Liang Yizhang, the magistrate of the county, saw that he couldn't end the game, so he had to admit his mistake, and promised to give compensation to He Guang's family, and went to Song Quan's mansion to apologize, so he settled the game. However, this conflict occurred before the arrival of the invading army, which undoubtedly had an impact on the unity of people from all walks of life in Shangqiu against the invading army.

After nearly half a month of resistance, Suizhou was finally broken by the army, the whole city was sacked by the rogues, on the 28th, the army gave up attacking Zhecheng, Ningling two counties, handed over to the follow-up army, this army rushed to Guide like a tide, and then surrounded the city of Guide.

Looking at the overwhelming army of rogues outside the city, countless rogues, the black pressure is like a swarm of ants that seems to cover the earth.

The prefect Wang Shixiu's heart was like falling into an ice cave, and he was chilled, although he was determined to defend the city with the determination to die, but the disparity between the enemy and me was so great, how many days could this city be defended?

"After several days of drought, the moat is no longer sustainable, and we can only rely on the courage of the generals." Although he usually looked down on martial artists, at such a critical moment, Wang Shixiu put down his posture and bowed to several major city guards.

"Why should the government be polite, we will stick to morality and not let the thieves step in."

The generals present were mainly divided into two parts, one was the local generals such as Yang Sheng, the general of Guide City, and the training envoy of the Guide regiment, as well as Hou Defu, the commander of the 15th Brigade of the Public Security Army.

"Lord Fuzun doesn't have to worry, as long as my security army is there, the thieves won't be able to enter the city." Brigade Commander Hou Defu said confidently.

He was transferred from the post of platoon commander of the Tiance Army to the security army, and with the expansion of the security army and the mixing of the Jiazi Brigade and the Tiance Army, he has been promoted to brigade commander.

And the security army is rarely able to get a big battle, and now that the big war is just around the corner, Hou Defu is only excited, not worried. He believed that as long as the ammunition was sufficient, with the firepower of the 15th Brigade, there would be no problem in holding the return to Germany for several months, not to mention that the headquarters was preparing to resupply the 15th Brigade with ammunition.

"It's so hard." Wang Shixiu said politely: "But I don't know when the reinforcements will arrive?" ”

After all, the security army is a guest army, and Wang Shixiu must give a certain courtesy. However, the security army is not the Tiance army after all, and he has already figured this out, so the security army of only 3,000 people makes it difficult for Wang Shixiu to feel at ease.

Hou Defu said: "Lord Fuzun, the 16th Brigade of the Public Security Army will arrive in Guide in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow, and within seven days, the three divisions of the Tiance Army and the six public security brigades will arrive one after another." ”

"Good, good, so good!" Wang Shixiu's spirits were greatly lifted, and he nodded again and again, seven days is not a long time, at the speed of the general Ming army, a month is considered a rapid advance.

"Did you hear that? Seven days, as long as Guide holds on for seven days, reinforcements from the Tiance Army will arrive. Wang Shixiu cheered up his subordinates.

"The last general is absolutely confident that he will return to Germany for seven days." Reinforcements are hope, and the morale of the officers and soldiers is also high.

The first to arrive in Guide was Liu Zongmin, the general of the Chuang military power, who led a total of 200,000 troops including Tian Jianxiu, Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi, Li Guo, and He Jin.

Historically, Li Zicheng defeated the Battle of Guide six months later, and the number of troops mobilized was 80,000 or 90,000. That's because the long-term attack on Kaifeng could not be captured, Li Zicheng sent the battalion general Li Guo, together with the small Yuan camp Yuan Shi's central part of the south to collect grain.

Hearing that there were 3,000 troops of the security army, a subsidiary army of the Tiance Army, in Guide City, Li Zicheng gave a higher estimate of the defense strength of Guide City.

For the small city of Guide, it is impossible for the whole army to be dispatched, and most of the army is "collecting grain" everywhere, monitoring Kaifeng, and containing the surrounding Ming army.

Outside the city of Guide, the cavalry of the invading army roared back and forth, shouting and intimidating around the city, intending to suppress the morale of the soldiers and civilians defending the city.

After the arrival of the army, after half a day of violent demolition, all the houses outside the city of Guide were knocked down, and the trees were all cut down.

This is to use local materials to create siege equipment, but also to broaden horizons and clear siege obstacles.

Hou Defu, commander of the 15th Brigade of the Public Security Army, used a telescope to observe the situation of the intruding troops outside the city. In the telescope, the men and horses of the intruding army seem to be able to spread all the way to the end of the world, and the people are shouting and neighing, and I don't know how many sergeants are in it. Looking at the dense layers of spears and turbans, Hou Defu could only roughly estimate the number of intruding troops, at least exceeding the current military and civilian population in Guide City.

A telegram from the headquarters of the Tiance Army ordered that the 15th Brigade of the Public Security Army should stand by and wait for reinforcements and not go out of the city to fight. This is the fact that the command took into account the firepower of the security forces, which was not suitable for field battles with an absolute number of enemies in order to avoid unnecessary casualties. Guide City wanted to become a magnet to attract the main force of the invading army, because Wang Yue took a fancy to the manpower of the invading army.

In practice, the level of equipment of the security forces was about equal to that of the Anglo-French forces in the Second Opium War.

The Anglo-French forces used the Minégne rifle, a front-loading flintlock rifled rifle, which had a rate of fire comparable to the Type 37 rifles of the Security Forces, but had a longer and more accurate range. The Anglo-French artillery was roughly the same as that of the Serenity Brigade, but the Sericurity artillery was larger and lighter because of the more advanced craftsmanship. However, in the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French forces used flowering bullets, and the B Brigade of the Security Army used solid bullets.

Some of the security forces were equipped with communication tools, grenades and heavy machine guns, which were not available in the Anglo-French army, and grenades were only carried forward during the Russo-Japanese War and began to be valued by various countries.

Therefore, the B Brigade of the Security Force had an advantage over the Anglo-French army, because there were still six armored vehicles in it. But the invasion army is not the Boxers, nor is it the decaying Qing army in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the key is that the number of the invasion army is too large, even if the security army can win, large casualties are inevitable.

The B Brigade of the Security Forces does not have drones, so it can only rely on binoculars to observe the enemy.

Yang Sheng, the general of Guide City, is very envious of Hou Defu's telescope, he has also tried this telescope, it is indeed a good thing, he is a general, but he doesn't even have a telescope.

"Brigade Commander Hou, a fierce battle is inevitable today, judging from the arrangement of the thieves, it is to besiege my Guide City from all sides. Although I have returned to Decheng and all the people are soldiers, why is the thief so powerful. Yang Sheng looked at the crowd outside the city and said nervously.

"General Yang, don't worry, if the thieves want to break through Guide City, it's pure wishful thinking." Hou Defu smiled.

In fact, he was also secretly frightened by the strength of the army, and this was the first time he faced such a large-scale war.

Because the security army has 36 37-type artillery, although the size is not as large as the cannon at the head of the city of Guide, but from the caliber point of view is very powerful, so at the request of Liang Yizhang of Shangqiu Zhixian County, the 15th Brigade is evenly distributed on the four city walls to assist the Ming army in defending the city.

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