(Thank you for "not going to work every day" and "book friends 43075447"!) ）

Lü Daqi did not convince Chen Zizhuang, and returned to the camp outside Guangzhou with his own soldiers in frustration. At this time, Li Dingguo had already led the army to start attacking the city.

According to Li Dingguo's previous estimate of the Ming army in Guangdong, the battle of Guangzhou could be fought soon, and there were less than 10,000 troops in the city, and his own 240,000 troops could exhaust them even if they stood and let them kill. But when the fight really started, Li Dingguo realized that he was wrong.

Feng Ziyong may not have military ability, but Ma Mingyuan's comment back then was that he was good at political affairs, that is, he could be a good magistrate. After Feng Ziyong learned that Li Dingguo's army appeared in Luodingzhou, he immediately asked the Fifth Regiment stationed in Leizhou to rush back, so that together with the two regiments in Guangzhou, there would be a new army of nearly 10,000 people. At the same time, a large number of garrison troops were recruited from among the 100,000 industrial workers who had withdrawn to Guangzhou, and these industrial workers were good recruits because of their basic training and the natural synergy of workers.

After recruiting 20,000 out of 100,000 people, 30,000 strong men were selected from the citizens of Guangzhou as strong men, so that there were 60,000 troops defending the city. Because the city of Guangzhou is bordered by water on both sides, these forces are sufficient if it only needs to hold the north and east sides. At the same time, because Guangzhou has been Zhu Hongsan's companion for several years, the people of Guangzhou are still relatively loyal to Zhu Hongsan, so Li Dingguo, who is like a bamboo, was finally blocked outside Guangzhou City.

On the first day of the first month of the third year of Daming Shenwu, this is the first day of the new year, but there is no New Year's atmosphere in Guangzhou at all. Li Dingguo has led the army to attack for half a month, and there are dead people everywhere outside the city and on the city. More than half of the 60,000 people prepared by Feng himself were also killed or wounded, and now only more than 30,000 people were left who could hold on to the city wall.

Feng Ziyong stood at the head of the city in full uniform, looked at Li Dingguo's camp opposite, and asked Zhou Yu beside him in a low voice: "General Zhou, how many days do you think we can hold out?" ”

Zhou Yu arched his hand and said: "Lord Zhengtai, now more than half of our army's casualties are now, but the main force of the new army is still there, as long as the gunpowder weapons can be supplied, the last general is guaranteed to hold out for half a month!" ”

Hearing Zhou Yu say this, Feng Ziyong frowned again and again, of course he, as a city guard, knew the situation in the city. Because Zhu Hongsan moved most of the arsenal to Nanjing last year, only a small part of the weapons reserve remained here in Guangdong, but fortunately, the workers were there. In the past half a month, Feng Ziyong has scraped all the gunpowder materials in the city, and the toilet soil next to the toilet has been scraped three times, all of which are used to boil soil nitrate, and now where are the raw materials to produce gunpowder!

Zhou Yu saw Feng Ziyong frowning, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Taiwan, is there a problem with the production of gunpowder?" ”

Feng Ziyong nodded and said, "Yes, the gunpowder in the city can only be supplied for three days, which means that there will be no gunpowder after three days." ”

Zhu Hongsan's new army was extremely dependent on logistical supplies, and if it fought hand-to-hand combat, the new army could fight three at a time, but there were more than 200,000 people outside the city, and there were less than 10,000 new troops in the city.

After Zhou Yu heard the situation in the city, he asked in a low voice: "My lord, it has been almost a month since the emergency document to Jingshi was sent, there should be a reply!" ”

"General Zhou, Guangdong is thousands of miles away from Beijing, and it will take ten days to arrive at the earliest. Even if His Majesty the Emperor received the documents and sent troops to rescue, it would take two months to arrive in Guangzhou! ”

"My lord, now that the dock in Nancheng is still in our hands, why don't you bring someone to protect you and retreat to Chaozhou?"

Feng Ziyong listened to Zhou Yu say this and thought about it, this is also a way, Chaozhou is also the territory of Guangdong, as long as you don't go out of Guangdong, you won't lose your territory, as long as you wait for reinforcements in Chaozhou, and then fight back, but to do so is to lose the factories and workers that the emperor values most.

But the most important thing is his own life, Feng Ziyong thought about it and said in a low voice: "Hold on to the last few days first, if you really can't talk about it, but this matter is still confidential to General Zhou!" "This naturally has to be kept secret, there are only a few troop transports outside the city, and a total of less than 2,000 people can only be transported, if the news leaks, the army in the city is still guarding a fart city, and it will surrender directly.

While the two were discussing, Li Dingguo, who was outside the city, did not plan to celebrate the New Year, and organized an army to start attacking the city on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Li Dingguo originally thought that this Guangzhou was easy to fight, but he didn't expect that this fight would be fought for half a month, and his own men suffered 50,000 or 60,000 casualties.

Li Dingguo didn't expect the army in the city to be so strong in combat, the most powerful is the Ming army in red clothes, whether it is muskets or hand-to-hand combat, his own troops are not opponents at all, there have been two attacks on the city in the past half a month, it is the Ming army in red clothes that has taken his men down.

Li Dingguo made up his mind that he must attack the city today, after all, it had already taken half a month here in Guangzhou. Now he led the lone army deep into the enemy's hinterland, if he didn't take advantage of the emptiness of Guangdong to occupy Guangzhou, it would not be fun to be turned against by the king of Chu, Zhu Hongsan. Li Dingguo heard that the king of Chu had more than 100,000 musketeers, and it would not be good if they were all like the red-clothed Ming army in the city, so it was better to end the war in Guangzhou as soon as possible.

So today, Li Dingguo gave up his old roots, sent 30,000 soldiers to take the lead, and at the same time ordered his henchmen and generals to take 20,000 old battalion troops behind, and strive to take the city wall of Guangzhou today.

Li Dingguo's siege of the city was probably the most fierce in the past half a month, and the soldiers defending the city at the head of Guangzhou gradually couldn't hold on, and Zhou Yu's new army completely became a firefighting team, and it was transferred wherever it didn't work. However, the number of new troops was too small, coupled with the lack of logistical supply, and slowly the Ming army in Guangxi began to attack the city.

Li Dingguo, who was outside the city, was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly put the 20,000 old battalions that had been prepared into battle to take the city wall at one time.

At this critical moment, Zhu Hongsan's reinforcements finally arrived, but it was not Zhu Hongsan's large army, they were still traveling through the mountainous areas of Fujian. Those who came were the two regiments of the Praetorian Guard Division sent by Zhu Hongsan in advance, accompanied by the last five second-class warships of the navy.

In order to ensure that the Japanese sent troops had an overwhelming advantage in the navy, all the first-class warships were sent to the Japanese, and only five second-class warships were left, and now in order to escort the troop carriers, these warships were also dispatched, and there were only a dozen or so river gunboats converted from merchant ships in the Yangtze River to deter the Manchu naval divisions.

This time, the reinforcements of the Praetorian Guard Division were led by Wang Kun, the deputy division commander, Wang Kun was originally Wang Jinbao's deputy division commander, but because of his meritorious service in the Luzon battle, he was transferred to the emperor's side for further study, and when there was a suitable position, he was promoted to the main position. This time, the emperor ordered Wang Kun to come to Guangdong, and also asked him to be Zhou Yu's deputy, as the deputy general of the Guangdong Theater.

Wang Kun was born in the Liukou system, and he has always paid attention to rushing and fighting fiercely in war, and when he arrived at the dock in Nancheng, Guangzhou, he heard the sound of killing in Beicheng, and he was not ready to get off the ship, so he directly ordered all the warships to go up the Pearl River, intending to get off the ship directly outside the north city, and have a hard encounter with the Ming army in Guangxi.

The commander of the fifth regiment under Wang Kun was born in the Qian Yong department, and he was similar to Qian Yong in the war, and he liked to fight steadily, and now he heard that the chief was going to Beicheng to play for his life, so he hurriedly dissuaded him and said: "Sir, we are new to the war, why don't we enter the city from the south city, and then listen to the orders of Admiral Zhou?" ”

Wang Kun looked down on this kind of greedy person who was afraid of death, and glared and scolded: "Fart, didn't you see the killing sound in Beicheng?" You non-commissioned officers are hypocritical! Now it's Lao Tzu who is in charge, not your chief Qian, you have to listen to Lao Tzu! ”

Although the commander of the fifth regiment was reluctant, he couldn't help it, the military law in the army was harsh, no matter what was in front of him, as long as the commander ordered you to go down, you would rush, if you didn't do it, no one could save you, and the military judge could directly behead you.

The fifth regiment commander had no choice but to follow Wang Kun's order to prepare.

Although Wang Kun was reckless, it didn't mean that he didn't have brains, his idea was to rely on the navy's artillery by the river, and then fight with the Ming army in Guangxi. According to Wang Kun's estimate, the kind of goods of the Ming army on the opposite side, as long as a few shotguns go down, will definitely collapse.

The troop transport ship and the five warships of the navy did not dock at the dock under Wang Kun's order, but went up the river and came to Xiguan outside Xicheng. It was close to the Pearl River, and there were thousands of Guangxi Ming troops stationed on the bank to prevent the Cantonese troops in the city from escaping.

The battle in the north was fierce, but Xiguan was too peaceful here, and the Ming army in Guangxi was originally watching the excitement in the camp, and suddenly found that a large group of large ships came behind them. These Guangxi Ming soldiers were born inland, and they had only seen small boats running on the river, and where had they seen such a large ship of hundreds of tons, and they were all stunned on the spot.

The first to dock were five second-class warships, and although these warships were classified as second-class warships in the Guangdong Navy, they also had a displacement of five or six hundred tons, which was three laps larger than the kind of fortune ships that ran to the ocean.

The second-class warships were not equipped with 24-pounder guns, and the number of guns was not as good as that of the first-class warships, but this kind of close-range fire was still very powerful.

The gunners on the warship had already replaced the guns with shotguns according to the instructions of the pipe belt, and opened fire directly after approaching the barracks on the shore. The second-class warships were armed with sixty-four guns, all of which were eighteen pounder guns. Although this kind of artillery is not enough for the upper city wall, the camp made of wood is not yet a hand-held handle. The first salvo swept away the enemy's camp, and most of the thousands of Guangxi Ming troops in the camp suffered casualties.

Wang Kun, who was on the boat, laughed when he saw the naval artillery: "These Guangxi Yankees know how powerful the artillery is!" Order down, get off the boat, and line up by the river! ”

In Xiguan, there is a thousand households guarding the city, and he is very happy to see the reinforcements arrive, but in order to defend the city in Guangzhou, except for a few city gates in the south city, the other city gates have been filled with stones, and the city gates cannot be opened. The thousand households had no choice but to send their own soldiers from the city with ropes to find Wang Kun in the army.

Knowing that Wang Kun didn't want to enter the city at all, but wanted to fight the enemy in the field, the frightened soldier hurried back to the city to report to his superiors. After hearing the news, the thousand households didn't dare to make the decision, so they went directly to Beicheng to find Feng Ziyong and told him about the affairs outside Xiguan.