Zhu Jinglun was quite pleased that Bai Gui was able to persuade Huang Zonghan to launch a total attack on Guanyin Mountain to cooperate with him, because if the villagers really did not show any combat effectiveness, it would be really difficult for him to persuade the French to cooperate, not only would it be difficult to keep the French army, the most effective force, out of the battlefield, but it would also be impossible to divide and disintegrate the British and French forces. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Jinglun didn't know that Bai Gui was actually very difficult, and it really took a lot of effort to persuade Huang Zonghan to launch an attack on Guanyin Mountain.

After coming to Baoguo Temple, Bai Gui was not idle, Huang Zonghan didn't see him, but Hua Tingjie and those people didn't see him, Hua Tingjie of Nanhai County and Li Futai of Panyu County didn't see him, these two people used to be Bai Gui's subordinates, not only did everyone live in the same city, the distance between the yamen was not too far, and it was easy for people to think that they were powerful.

The three squires of the household department Luo Xuanyan, the former Taichang Temple Shaoqing Long Yuanxi and the former engineering department to Su Tingkui are not good to see Bai Gui, after all, they are all Cantonese people, Bai Gui has been an official in Guangdong for a long time, from the fifteenth year of Daoguang, Bai Gui has served as the county governor of Puning County, Guangdong Longmen County, Dongguan County, Guangdong Nanxiong Zhili Prefecture Zhizhou, Guangdong Governor of the Grain Road, Guangdong according to the inspection envoy, Guangdong political envoy, Guangdong governor and other positions, he has 30 years of official career, 24 years is in Guangdong as an official, and the relationship with the Guangdong squire is good, And with such a big favor in it, the three squires are not easy to offend.

Bai Guifei tried his best to explain his hardships to these former subordinates and friends, and swore that he was just lurking in the foreigners, and he had planted quite a lot of secret agents in the foreigners, and he was in Cao Ying's heart in the Han Dynasty, and he had been serving the court and the emperor with humiliation.

After all, they are all officials of the same dynasty, and there was no conflict between Hua Tingjie and the others in the past, and they didn't want to kill them all at this time, especially when Bai Gui gave them a letter of information about the British and French forces in the south of the city, they also thought that what Bai Gui said was reasonable.

When Bai Gui tried his best to persuade these civilian officials who were training to speak to Huang Zonghan that they would attack Guanyin Mountain first, pull out the threat behind them, and then plot against Nancheng, Huang Zonghan had no reason to refuse.

So he took out all the cannons that he could take out in his hand, where did those cannons come from, some of them were cast by Xiang Yong himself, some of them were sent by the British, and they were the naval guns that sank on the British warships near the Polo Temple.

Lin Fuxiang fell in love with cannons after the last artillery battle, and he didn't even participate in the siege of the city, and he always led people to fish up all those cannons, polished them clean, and then brought them here, which happened to come in handy at this time.

The cannons cast by the Chinese themselves can actually only scare the French, and it is the British naval guns that really exert their strength, and these cannons finally frighten the French army, which forced the French to withdraw from Guanyin Mountain, which can be regarded as a small victory.

After recovering Guanyin Mountain, the entire northern city was really controlled by Xiang Yong, and they didn't have to worry about walking in the city, and suddenly there were shells coming down from the mountain.

But the British were more dissatisfied with the French, and the meeting always ended in a quarrel, and the French were not convinced at all, and in the absence of Pashali and other high-ranking British officers, Captain Martinet felt that he was in the highest position, so he also put on a show from time to time, but the British did not admit it at all.

These are small things, trivial things, and when both parties are dissatisfied with these small things, it proves that the relationship is on the verge of breakdown.

On a section of the city wall next to the Civilization Gate facing the old city, there are some soldiers wearing small hats, dark cotton clothes, and white shoulder straps, on which are written in Chinese and English some numbered soldiers, these soldiers are officially coolies of the coolie battalion. The number of people is only 100 people, and only about 100 people continue to cooperate with the British army during this time, and the other coolies are tortured by the big smoking addiction, and they are determined to be determined if they do not rebel.

Why didn't these more than 100 people make trouble, because the leaders could always take out some big cigarettes to satisfy their hunger, and the British officers were very curious about where their big cigarettes came from, but these people just didn't say anything, they only said that they had some inventory, and the British army hoped to be able to buy it at a high price, and they said that it was not a matter of money, and even their lives were lost without cigarettes, and who would sell them at this time.

The British are not easy to persecute, it would be good to have more than 100 obedient people, and it would be useless to force a single person.

The southern city occupied by the British and French forces also has twelve city gates, and the city gates are often connected to the main streets, so they are all important places for defense, only twelve city gates, the British and French troops are very laborious to defend, and on average, their strength can only be placed on one city gate about a hundred soldiers.

Therefore, these more than 100 coolies were also assigned to the city wall, but they did not fully trust them, so the small east gate and Yongxing gate directly facing the city outside the city were still guarded by the British army themselves, and the small south gate facing the old city Panyu Straight Street did not let them pass, only assigned them to the area of the civilization gate, opposite not a big street, but the school palace of Guangzhou Mansion.

Late at night, a group of soldiers patrolled here, and when no one was paying attention, a coolie soldier took off his bow and arrow behind his back, and a letter was tied to the arrow, and carefully shot towards the Guangfu Academy, and then immediately put away the bow and arrow, and continued to patrol.

This is how the news was transmitted, and soon a figure climbed out of the wall of the Guangfu Xue Palace, and a letter was placed on Huang Zonghan's desk a quarter of an hour later, and there was a map of the defense of the people in the south of the city.

And explained the situation in detail in the city, telling Huang Zonghan that the Indian soldiers in the British army were panicked and lacked the fighting spirit, and if they mainly attacked the area around the small south gate guarded by the British army, it should be easy to succeed, and the spy in the letter said that he had stabilized the French, as long as he did not fight the Guide Gate and the Great South Gate guarded by the French, the French soldiers would not go to reinforce the British.

Huang Zonghan read the letter silently, if it was a person who could make a decision, he would not consider it at all, but would say that it was a conspiracy of the enemy, but this letter was sent by Hua Tingjie and them together, and asked him to decide. It would be difficult for Huang Zonghan to make a decision, if he insisted on not adopting it, what would these guys with troops think of him. When someone joins him, how can he explain that the battle must be fought by now anyway, and if the information in the letter is true, then it is indeed advantageous to launch an attack in the area of Xiaonanmen.

I have to say that the compromise on the issue of Guanyin Mountain last time was a huge failure, which made Hua Tingjie and others begin to believe that Bai Gui's secret agents in the city are quite capable among foreigners, not only can they continue to send intelligence, but they can even influence the decisions of foreigners, as evidenced by the agreement reached with the French.

So this time the secret agent sent the letter to Bai Gui again, and Bai Gui easily persuaded Hua Tingjie and others, Hua Tingjie and others did not suspect him, and immediately took the letter to Huang Zonghan. In fact, Hua Tingjie and others didn't expect that they indirectly helped Bai Gui put pressure on Huang Zonghan. Unconsciously, it further confirmed Huang Zonghan's conjecture that they were Bai Gui's people.

Martine was also reading a letter, he read it several times, and this time he finally did not show it to the British, but burned it directly, the letter told him that the Chinese soldiers would mainly attack the British positions, and if the French did not help, they would not attack the places guarded by the French army, and if the French army entered the battle, they would treat the French army as an enemy and would be ruthlessly eliminated.

The letter revealed an attitude that the Chinese did not currently see the French as enemies, and although Martine did not believe in this attitude at all, he had to leave a way back. There are only more than a thousand troops in the city, how can it be possible to confront tens of thousands of Chinese, according to the current situation, the Chinese not only have Western-style rifles in their hands, but also have more artillery than them, and this battle cannot be won at all.

The French are romantic by nature, and if they muster up courage, they can sweep across Europe, and once they are discouraged, they are also prone to compromise and even surrender. This is their nature, while the British are more stubborn and tenacious. So the French are good at art, and the British are good at taking risks. So the British held out for four years in World War II, and the French only for forty days.

Marty was worried in his heart that if the French army insisted on fighting, then the Chinese regarded the French army as an enemy, and it was better for them to stay in the city to say, what about the two hundred French troops who only had light weapons and no city wall position to cover the north campus outside the city, and those French troops withdrew from Guanyin Mountain, and now according to the agreement with the Chinese, they temporarily left the war, but their lives are still in the hands of the Chinese.

Martine felt that he needed to consider the safety of the names of those compatriots, so it was a noble act not to take the initiative to anger the Chinese at this time, and as for the British, as long as the French army led by Martine was still in the city, even if he fulfilled his obligations to the British, it was not a breach of trust.

He thought so, so the next day, when the Chinese invaders attacked, Martine ordered the French to hold their positions and not leave a single step.

This battle has a total flavor, and the Chinese set up more than a dozen large-caliber cannons on Panyu Straight Street, constantly bombarding the small south gate. From outside the city, they also launched an attack on the small east gate, the east fort bombarded the Yongxing Gate, and the Haizhu fort bombarded the broken Wuxian Gate, the offensive was very fierce, but all the attacks were concentrated in the eastern half of the south city, and the place guarded by the French in the west did not hit more than a shell.

On the north wall of the south city, the French defended the Guide Gate, and on the south wall, they defended the Jinghai Gate, without any attack, and the British troops on the north wall, the small south gate, the civilization gate and the Great South Gate, the small east gate, Yongxing Gate and the Five Immortals gate on the south wall were attacked, and the British were not fools, and soon came back to their senses, combined with the rumors that the French and the Chinese in the city had a secret agreement, the British quickly found the French army.

They hoped that the French would support them.

But Martine said they also had a heavy defensive task and simply couldn't pull their forces out.

In the end, there was another senseless quarrel, and the relationship between the two sides deteriorated even more.