The sound of cannons outside the city and the gunshots in the barracks made Bai Gui, who lived in the barracks, uneasy, and immediately asked people to invite Zhu Jinglun. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhu Jinglun saw that Galava, the temporary regiment commander, was well trained with the soldiers of this small infantry regiment, and it seemed that he didn't need to do anything himself, so he went to Baigui's place.

Bai Gui asked about some military issues, the most important thing is whether the city of Guangzhou can be defended, although he is the governor of Guangdong, the last time the foreigners attacked the city of Guangzhou, the civilian side was led by Ye Mingchen, and the military generals were led by the Guangzhou general Mukdenne, and his governor was not very clear about the defense at that time.

Zhu Jinglun truthfully replied that he still does not know the situation, does not know how many British troops have dispatched, and does not know the movements of the French army, judging from the current situation, there are no warships flying the French flag on the river, so the French army should not act with the British army, but there are still 500 French troops on the northern battlefield, and those French troops are also threatened, if they act together with the British army, it will be very troublesome. But the key is to look at the British army, if the British army is dispatched, it is not optimistic that the city of Guangzhou can be defended.

Bai Gui also knew about these situations, and called Zhu Jinglun because Zhu Jinglun could always get some news that he couldn't get before, but now it seems that after the foreigners surrendered, Zhu Jinglun's news channel was also cut off.

Bai Gui waved his hand and asked Zhu Jinglun to pay attention to the news and tell him at any time if there was a situation.

Zhu Jinglun's acquaintance immediately said goodbye and said that he would go to the city wall to see the battle situation.

The city is not only nervous Bai Gui, Huang Zonghan is even more nervous, and he is also quite aggrieved, attacking Guangzhou City is not his intention, the emperor did not force him to recover Guangzhou, but let him stabilize the overall situation, in fact, it is to stabilize other prefectures and counties outside Guangzhou, so as not to let the rebellious ministers and thieves take advantage of the loopholes, and take the opportunity to set off a storm in Guangdong.

Therefore he came to settle the people, not to restore the land. The responsibility for the loss of Guangzhou City is not in him, Ye Mingchen has taken all the responsibility, and he Huang Zonghan does not need to wipe Ye Mingchen's ass, so he can't recover Guangzhou, he is not guilty, but Guangzhou has been recovered, this is a good thing, but Huang Zonghan is not happy, because the credit has been shared too much by Bai Gui, but now the foreigners are calling again, and he is even the governor of Liangguang, this time he wants Huang Zonghan to bear the greatest responsibility, and he does not take much of the credit for recovering the city, but now he is responsible for the possible loss of Guangzhou again, can he not be wronged.

But the matter has come to this point, it is no longer a question of grievances or grievances, he knows too well the virtue of this group of bureaucrats in Guangzhou, after the last fall of Guangzhou, everyone pushed the responsibility on Ye Mingchen's head, and the impeachment of Ye Mingchen was really full of righteous indignation, Huang Zonghan had no doubt that once Guangzhou fell again this time, these bureaucrats would play impeachment again, and they would shirk responsibility again, but this time it was he Huang Zonghan who was impeached.

Once things develop to that point, what should the emperor do at that time, whether to defend him Huang Zonghan and beat the entire Guangdong officialdom, or use his Huang Zonghan's head to appease these Guangdong magistrates, think about it and know how the emperor will choose, Huang Zonghan is not afraid of failure, not afraid of responsibility, but the problem is that he has to bear the responsibility, I am afraid that he will have to bear a bad reputation. Lin Zexu was so famous that he was sent to Xinjiang for several years after the war, not so much to appease foreigners, but to calm public anger. Lin Zexu is like this, how can he Huang Zonghan be exempt from vulgarity.

Therefore, Huang Zonghan, who knew that he had no way out, really made up his mind to hold Guangzhou, and drove all the troops in Guangzhou to the city wall.

But at this time, the Eight Banners magnate Mu Kedene, the Guangzhou general who had been competing with Huang Zonghan for military power in Guangzhou City for the past few days, suddenly retreated, not only saying that everything was up to Huang Zonghan, but also taking the initiative to ask Ying to take his Eight Banners and pacesetters to defend the west of the city.

The foreigner came from the east of the city, and he went to the west of the city to defend a fart, even if he went to the north of the city to defend the highlands of Guanyin Mountain, it was more reliable than to defend the west of the city. Huang Zonghan knew that when the foreigners attacked the city last time, they seized Guanyin Mountain and bombarded Guangzhou City to achieve a decisive advantage. But Huang Zonghan can know, and Mukdenne knows even more, so the fool went back to the fort to fight the foreigners.

The Eight Banners and the Green Battalion are really rotten, Huang Zonghan found that he could only rely on those village warriors, and transferred the most combat-effective Lin Fuxiang Yong Battalion and the Nanhai County Yongdu led by Hua Tingjie to defend the fort; Guanyin Mountain was handed over to Li Futai to lead Panyu County to defend bravely. The other three city walls can only rely on the village courage led by the three local squires of Guangdong.

Zhu Jinglun went to the city and saw such a scene, a group of villagers bravely hiding behind the battlements of the city wall to observe the movements of the British army.

More than a dozen British warships on the river have been shelling the East Fort for more than half an hour, as Zhu Jinglun expected, the wall on the Fort could not stop the British naval guns at all, and the wall facing the east has collapsed for most of it, but the Fort is a ring fortification, and the heavy granite masonry is quite strong, and the 36 cannons are still fighting back as usual. But the counterattack was ineffective, and not a single British warship was injured for so long.

It was probably this situation that boosted the confidence of the British army, and more than a dozen warships actually moved forward slowly, intending to shorten the distance and inflict a greater blow on the battery.

Nanhai County Yamen.

The sound of artillery outside did not affect the interest of the group of "heroes" in the slightest, and they shouted hello.

Fang Shan never expected that Zhang Pan, a gentleman, would defeat Liu Bajin, a strong man in Shijing Village.

Liu Bajin is not only burly, but also has a decent movement, he has practiced at a glance, he thought that he could teach this troublemaker a profound lesson, but he didn't want the final result to be Liu Bajin lying on the ground wailing.

Zhang Pan also gave birth to a good skin, tall and tall, a head taller than ordinary people. But his face was sallow, and he was hollowed out by wine. Who would have thought that this grandson would not only be ruthless, but also vicious, recruiting the ninth rate, not leaving Liu Bajin's lower three roads, and after fighting for half an hour, he saw the opportunity to knock down Liu Bajin.

But Liu Bajin was defeated but was not convinced, scolding on the ground, Zhang Pan was not angry, and kept clasping his fists to the surrounding cheering crowd, looking proud.

Liu Bajin closed his eyes, which were obviously swollen, covered his crotch with both hands, and shrunk into a shrimp shape.

He suddenly scolded the Qinglou woman, which made Zhang Pan's face change all of a sudden.

"You grandson, Lao Tzu is not finished with you. There is a kind of grandfather who will call Qi brothers another day, and he is competing with you. Today Lao Tzu spared you, and tomorrow you have to obediently send that sao woman back to Lao Tzu. Isn't it just a biao in a kiln? Anyway, Lao Tzu has slept too! ”

"What did you say!"

Zhang Pan's face turned cold, and there was a fierce aura in his eyes.

Fang Shan immediately knew that he was going to suffer, so he immediately stopped him and stood between Liu Bajin who was still on the ground.

Seeing this, the "heroes" around them also prepared to confront a few of Liu Bajin's subordinates.

"Okay, my young master, don't make a fuss, listen to this, the ghost soldiers are coming back again. Now is not the time to make trouble! ”

Fang Shan couldn't do anything about this kind of boy brother at all, he could also see that Zhang Pan was really murderous, and his eyes were terrifying.

Zhang Pan threw Fang Shan away with one hand, and directly arrived in front of Liu Bajin, and stepped on it with a big foot.

Liu Bajin was still with his eyes closed, and he felt that he had been hit hard in the face and slammed into the ground.

"I'm going to kill you!"

Zhang Pan's voice was not high, but Liu Bajin heard it really, with a beastly anger in his deep voice, he was afraid for the first time, and the scolding in his mouth disappeared.

Where do you dare to let this young master really kill someone, Zhu Jinglun explained it clearly, it can be done in any way, as long as no one is killed, but now it is about to be killed, or the life of the martial arts competition under his own suggestion, Fang Shan knows that if Liu Bajin is really dead, it will be his own initiative to ruin Zhu Jinglun's matter.

Thinking of losing Zhu Jinglun's trust and losing his imaginary bright future, Fang Shan rushed to Zhang Pan desperately, not to fight, but to hug him desperately.

"Stop!"

A crisp voice rang out.

Seeing a petite woman, Shi Shiran slowly walked from the back house to the front yard.

Who else could Zhao Yuexiang be, this is not the bustard of Yuexiang Building?

When he was in Yuexiang Building, Fang Shan hadn't seen this woman a few times, but he knew that Zhang Pan of Yuexiang Building was for this woman, but he heard that this woman had never let Zhang Pan succeed. Zhang Pan didn't succeed, and he didn't leave Yuexiang Building, so he messed with other girls, and pestered Zhao Yuexiang whenever he had the opportunity.

Fang Shan used to think that this woman was a good method, and the more she didn't let Zhang Pan succeed, the more obsessed Zhang Pan became, and the more she had to spend a lot of money in Yuexiang Building. But now Fang Shan felt that this woman was really a disaster, of course, not only because she was very beautiful.

Zhu Jinglun has been staying on the city wall, and the British naval guns have not landed on the city wall, which on the one hand shows that his firepower is concentrated on the fort, and on the other hand, it shows that his artillery is indeed better, if the opposite side is the village gunners stationed in the fort, who knows whether they will hit the city first, look at their current performance, how many shells have fallen on the beach by the river, and none of them have fallen into the river, let alone hit the warships on the river.

Under the level of artillery skills of the Qing army, the British warships were relieved to sail to the river one mile away from the fort and continued to bombard the fort. Because the wall had been almost destroyed, they began to use flowering shells, and occasionally a few flowering shells exploded on the fort caused huge damage to the Qing army, and for a time the gunners did not dare to raise their heads, and hid closely behind the guards, and the sound of counterattack artillery disappeared for a while.

The Qing army completely suppressed the fort, at this time Zhu Jinglun saw a bold move by the British army, some big ships three miles away put down a lifeboat-like oarboat, the soldiers on the boat called the small boat, landed on the river bank in the distance, and some steamers started directly, these are logistics ships, obviously not here to deliver food, then they are preparing to land directly on the sandbar where the fort is located.

I saw the steamers passing through the middle of the battleships that were constantly spitting out cannonballs, until they were less than a mile from the battery, and then they lowered the boats as well, and some soldiers jumped onto the boats, and then rowed in the direction of the battery. The British troops on the shore had also finished their formation and advanced along the river bank in the direction of Canton City.

This is a plan to advance by land and water, and to attack the forts on both sides.

And the defenders on the battery were still unable to raise their heads at this time by the British naval guns, and the batteries were in danger!