After reaching a tacit understanding with Colin, when the Guangzhou government was not at ease and sent Cai Shiwen to urge the withdrawal of the army, Colin cooperated with Zhou Lang very well and withdrew the army from the forts and important places near Guangzhou City to Huangpu.

They suggested that Magalny go first, because Magalny had a political mission, and it was best to leave Guangzhou as soon as possible, if it was too late, he would miss the windy period of the year, and if he set off now, he would be able to return to Guangzhou before the summer, when the other side would have completed the ratification of the treaty.

Magalny was really in a hurry, and if it hadn't been for the sudden occurrence of this conflict, he would have been gone long ago. His original schedule was late January, but now it's late February, but he hasn't set off yet, and if he doesn't leave, he really won't be able to catch up with the wind season, although he can force himself to go to sea, but the danger has increased greatly, and for his mission, he can't take such a big risk.

In addition, the main soldiers here are mainly Taiwan's armed forces, and they still have to return to Taiwan, and there is no need for Magalny to be here, so Magalny left Guangzhou with the first batch of troops, that is, the troops in his mission, plus those British merchants, sailors and other European adventurers who were temporarily recruited.

On the second day after Magalny left, Cai Shiwen still came to urge, and if the army outside the city did not leave, the officials in the city would not be at ease for a day.

This time, however, instead of leaving, the army outside the city marched towards Canton again, and although Magalny took many ships with him, the five armed merchant ships in Colin's hands, the Lucky under Zhou Lang, and the Oriental Dawn returned by the Canton government, were enough to control this section of water.

Although the forts were handed over to the Qing army, the positions had already been lost once, and the defenders had no confidence in defending at all, the key was that they did not expect the other side to attack, and there was no preparation for war at all.

Cai Shiwen was dumbfounded, he was stranded in Huangpu, waiting for the news that the Yiren army had reoccupied those forts.

It was only in the evening that he was summoned.

"Great, handsome, why is that?"

Cai Shiwen also called Zhou Lang according to the way the soldiers here called him, he really didn't understand why Zhou Lang wanted to go back on his word, why did he suddenly regret what he had promised. What does the lord of the government mean, Cai Shiwen knows very well, it is a delaying tactic, even Cai Shiwen can see that it is impossible to agree to those conditions, and even he knows that the big seal he stamped is not the governor of Liangguang at all, except for a few words, the regulation and form are not right, and even the font is not right, could it be that the thieves who will mess up the party in this world have also found out?

If the other party finds out, then how will he deal with himself, you must know that Cai Shiwen has always been communicating with the other party, if the other party thinks that it is him Cai Shiwen deceived him, will he not be angry with him, and kill him here?

I saw Zhou Lang snort coldly: "What's the matter?" Wouldn't you know what? ”

So far, Cai Shiwen can only grit his teeth and carry it to the end: "The villain really doesn't know, the villain does what the adults in Guangzhou Mansion do." ”

Zhou Lang smiled: "Of course I won't be angry with you, it's just that the adults in Guangzhou are a little too deceitful!" ”

Cai Shiwen knelt down with a plop, and the other party really found out.

"It's none of the villain's business, the villain is just acting on orders."

Zhou Lang nodded.

In fact, Zhou Lang did guess that the Guangzhou officials were playing tricky, nothing else, they agreed too happily, which is not normal. The conditions demanded by Magalny were basically about to catch up with the Opium War, but it was clearly written in the history books that the Opium War was really full of twists and turns, and finally it all went to Beijing, so Zhou Langcai guessed that this must be the same as Qi Shan, it was a delaying tactic played by the officials in Guangzhou, and they did not intend to seriously fulfill the agreement.

As for the use of the fake seal, Zhou Lang really didn't figure it out, and he hadn't seen the big seal of the Governor of Liangguang, anyway, the words on the seal were the words of the Governor of Liangguang and so on, and he had no doubts about this as Magalny.

But he doesn't need to know the whole truth, he only needs a guess, and then he can deceive Cai Shiwen, and sure enough, Cai Shiwen exposed the fact that the other party was really a ghost.

"You go back and tell the adults in the city that I don't have those people to fool, let them wash their necks and wait."

After speaking, he drove Cai Shiwen away.

Cai Shiwen once again had a feeling of being in a different world, and he didn't know how to return to Guangzhou City.

The fort outside the city fell again, and the city of Guangzhou was even more panicked than last time, because everyone's heart was easily relaxed, and suddenly encountered danger again because of the exposure of tricks, and last time they could barely maintain their composure in the crisis, but this time they were really panicked.

Several officials got together again to discuss, and this time there were fewer people who insisted on beating, and more officials proposed that Guangzhou should be evacuated.

Others can withdraw, but the Guangzhou prefect must not be withdrawn, he is a local official, and he has the greatest responsibility, followed by local officers, and the Guangzhou general cannot be withdrawn, and the Guangzhou prefect must die, and he must also be exiled.

Sheng Zhu didn't dare to come up with bad ideas this time, and in the end everyone decided that they still had to talk to each other, this time they would give whatever they wanted, or one, let them withdraw first, and then talk about the rest.

As soon as Sheng Zhu left the governor's yamen and returned to the Guangdong Customs, he heard a report from his subordinates that someone was waiting for him, saying that it was someone from outside the city.

Sheng Zhu was taken aback, who else could the people outside the city be, what were they looking for him?

The person who came to meet Sheng Zhu was Wei Lianli, and he brought Sheng Zhu a word, saying that his family was willing to save Sheng Zhu's life, and told Sheng Zhu not to leave the customs yamen. Sheng Zhu asked the reason, and Wei Lianli said that his family wanted to hand over to Sheng Zhu as a friend, and he was going to leave without saying a word about the rest.

Sheng Zhu is very contradictory, the current situation is that the soldiers in the city can't stop the group of pirates at all, he doesn't care about the loss of the city, he is also behind the accountability, he is most concerned about his life, but the important places outside the city are occupied by the other party, and the big ships of the waterway pirates are unstoppable, no matter how you look at it, it is a dead end, and the only way to escape is to disguise themselves as flat-headed people, but now the other party is running and saying that he wants to stay in the customs yamen, willing to save his life, saying that he wants to make a friend, is this credible?

Sheng Zhu didn't believe it, the cause of the incident of provoking Yi people, after all, it was caused by him Sheng Zhu Cha Haikou, and now Haikou has come to the door, if he doesn't look for him Sheng Zhu to settle accounts, who else will he find, let him not go, I'm afraid he wants to arrest him and ask for the crime. But if you want to leave, you really can't rest assured that you can't leave your belongings, and it is too risky to flee disguised as a common person, which is equivalent to giving up all resistance, and being recognized is really over.

Thinking of this, he thought to himself: "Sir, slow down!" ”

Stop the messenger first.

As a result, Wei Lianli was taken as a hostage.

Guangzhou was under fire, but Cai Shiwen saw Zhou Lang again, just to ask Zhou Lang why he was willing to withdraw from the army.

Now Zhou Lang can't be the master, the military attack is all under the command of Colin, with a total strength of 5,000 people, and the real combat effectiveness is 1,500 Indian native soldiers, and Colin and Zhou Lang have 300 Chinese soldiers each, but it is enough to fight the Qing army in the panicked Guangzhou City.

Zhou Lang also believes that it is not difficult to conquer this city, but it is difficult to occupy and rule.

Ruling Zhou Lang is not considered, even if it is occupied, it has no strength to resist the counterattack of the Qing army, and occupying the city of Guangzhou is tantamount to declaring war with the Qing Dynasty.

Now to start a full-scale war with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhou Lang does not have this capital, he has to take this step first, and if this step is taken well, he can accumulate the first pot of gold.

The first is to scare the group of officials who are eating vegetarian meals first, only if they are really scared, can they ask for anything, I believe that the news brought back by Cai Shiwen will scare them.

Because behind this news is Colin's fierce attack on the city of Guangzhou.

Colin was an officer with a lot of combat experience, but the city was so large that the British estimated that there were a million people in the commercial areas of Canton and Xiguan outside the city, which was probably an exaggerated propaganda by some British merchants to encourage others to come to China for trade, but it is not an exaggeration that the city had 500,000 people.

There are probably two or three hundred thousand people within the city walls alone.

Not to mention, the biggest impact on the military is the city wall, nearly 4,000 zhang long, Colin can use limited troops, all-out offensive forces are insufficient, so he constantly draws troops from Whampoa.

Colin's own 5,000 men were all transferred, and the 300 men under Zhou Lang's men, who had been training for the longest time, and the 50 artillery under the command of Chen Zhizhi were also fighting with Colin, but as soon as he broke into the city, Colin felt that his troops were overstretched, and the winding streets in Guangzhou City were really a headache, providing too many opportunities for the enemy to sneak attack, resulting in more and more directions that Colin needed to guard against, and his troops became more and more tense.

Now there are only 500 soldiers left in Zhou Lang's hands guarding Huangpu.

For this point, Colin still sent people to ask for help, hoping to send 300 more people over.

Zhou Lang suggested that Colin suspend the offensive first, familiarize himself with the situation in Guangzhou, and advance slowly.

It is not difficult to conquer Guangzhou City, it is rare to occupy such a large city, this is a situation that Zhou Lang has always been very clear. Now Colin's forces have become strained, not because of insufficient combat effectiveness, but because the attack is too fast, causing it to be unable to make ends meet. As long as the advance is slow, the Qing army in Guangzhou City will not be able to stop it.

Now Colin has occupied the Sifang Fort and the northern section of the city wall of Guangzhou, and the southern merchant district has been temporarily abandoned, but the fort on the southern island of the city is in his hands.

These forts and city walls need to be occupied by division of troops, resulting in the increasingly weak offensive forces, a small number of troops, and insufficient control area, sprinkled on the offensive front of the city of Guangzhou, of course, everywhere gaps, although the Qing army is weak, it can always arouse the courage of some small troops, or offer a bounty to find some outlaws.

But Colin couldn't wait.

He was worried about Magalny's return, and he had to take the city of Guangzhou before Magalny knew the situation and returned, creating an established fact. So he personally ran to urge reinforcements, and returned from the front line in a small boat, with only a dozen escorts with him.

What he didn't know was that the moment he stepped into the door, he was already a dead man!