As the so-called heroes see the same thing, judging from Lin Fuxiang's emphasis on Pashali, they can really realize the importance of this person. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, Zhu Jinglun knew in the city that the Occupation Committee was the current de facto ruler, and Pashali, the only one of the three giants of the Occupation Committee, who knew Chinese, had great influence on the Occupation Committee. It can be said that to a certain extent, Pashali can influence the decision-making of the occupation committee, which is a crucial task, and capturing the thief first and capturing the king and capturing Pashali will inevitably lead out the coalition forces and facilitate the villagers outside the city to ambush them.

That's right, Zhu Jinglun's plan at the beginning was like this, from the time when the foreigners went out of the city to exchange Indian soldiers, he began to plan, Pashali's status is of course much more important than that of Indian soldiers, in order to save the Indian soldier Pashali had to lead the troops to the city to clear up the behavior, then the British and French alliances, at least the British army in order to save Pashali, will definitely send heavy troops, at that time is the opportunity for the countryside outside the city, whether it is to take the opportunity to attack the city, or to ambush the British army, it will bring them the greatest initiative.

"Where is Lord Lin going to ambush the foreigners?"

Zhu Jinglun said more.

As a result, Lin Zhuang was quite surprised.

This made Zhu Jinglun extremely puzzled: "Don't you plan to use the Pasha ceremony to lure foreigners out of the city?" ”

Lin Zhuang said in confusion: "Lord Lin said, catch the Ba ghost and force him to give an order to Yingyi and make them surrender!" ”

Hearing this answer, Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but be stunned, unbelievable, the limitations of the times, Lin Fuxiang is treating Pashali as a commodity like Baigui and Mukdenne, of course, it is not that Pashali is better than Baigui and others, but the British military system will never accept surrender just because a commander is captured, if it is the British king here, it is almost the same.

It's a pity that Lin Fuxiang is a Chinese scholar in the end, and he only knows that he captures the thief and captures the king first, thinking that if he captures Paxiali, he can force the British army to surrender, just like after the British captured Ye Mingchen, Bai Gui and others, the Eight Banners and Green Battalion in Guangzhou City accepted the commander's order to surrender.

If Pashali is a Chinese-style official, they are not wrong to understand it this way, because the management method of the Qing government is still a relatively rough linear organizational structure, the so-called official level crushes people to death, and the governor can manage everyone below, but the organizational structure of the British has developed to a mixed organizational structure, in addition to a linear structure, it also has a functional organizational structure, a clear division of labor, and it is the officers who really manage the army.

However, at this time, it was difficult to explain the organizational model of the British army to Lin Zhuang and them in a short period of time, and Lin Fuxiang, who was full of Chinese-style management methods, might not accept and believe it.

Zhu Jinglun sighed and reminded: "Tell Lord Lin, let him not be so optimistic, be ready for battle, if you want Guangzhou City, you have to take it back by yourself, there is not an inch of land in this world that is not bought with blood!" ”

For a long time after the separation, Zhu Jinglun was in a trance, and he really couldn't imagine that Lin Fuxiang and the others would have such a concern.

They really don't know much about foreigners, which can't help but make him deeply worried, can they really recover Guangzhou City by relying on the guerrillas-like courage led by such officials?

Probably the best hope is that they will make good use of the Pashali card.

It's too early to talk about this card, because the card is not yet in hand.

The plan continued, Lin Fuxiang attached great importance to it, so the speed was very fast, and they arranged it the next day, sending a foreign soldier to the vicinity of Yuexiang Tower to hide, waiting for Zhu Jinglun's signal at any time, and also sent ten good players to participate directly. Although Zhu Jinglun's plan did not intend to rely on Lin Fuxiang's strength, subconsciously he probably wanted to show his importance just like Fang Shan swore that he could help Zhu Jinglun deal with foreigners, so as to obtain the qualification to negotiate with the other party on an equal footing in a weak position.

But now Lin Fuxiang attaches great importance to this, he is not worried that Zhu Jinglun will do this alone, although in the end it is agreed that everything will be operated by Zhu Jinglun in secret, but his people must also be involved.

This little friction is nothing, the key is that Pa Xiali suddenly became honest, and he didn't go out of the city for more than ten days a day, let alone go to Yuexianglou, and even the general's yamen rarely came out.

Because after entering July, the activities of the villagers outside the city became more and more frequent, probably because Huang Zonghan, the minister of the Qin Mission, rushed to Guangdong in June and gathered the regimental exercises. Not only did anti-foreigner notices appear everywhere inside and outside the city, threatening foreigners to withdraw from Guangzhou, and at the same time warning the Chinese not to cooperate with foreigners, but more villagers began to disguise themselves in the city than in the past, and hundreds of villagers and braves went to the attached city every night to shout and release rockets, and the army in the city was greatly disturbed. During the day, when the British and French troops led the team to search, there was no trace of Xiang Yong, and the situation detected by the British and French forces showed that more than 3,000 Xiang Yong haunted the banyan tree near the city of Guangzhou, some lived in temples and ancestral halls, and some lived in tents.

All these signs made Pasha Li uneasy, and he had no interest in visiting the Qinglou.

At this time, Pashali was extremely anxious, and later Zhu Jinglun learned that Pashali had written a letter to his brother-in-law, Luo Weilin, in which he was extremely pessimistic about the situation in Guangzhou:

"The situation in Guangzhou is no longer calm, people have become restless, and rumors are flying. People are very bold about attacking, believing that only by doing so can the status quo be resolved. There are still many so-called village warriors who are gathering desperately, our navy is now weakened, quite a few ships have been sent to the north, the army is still strong, but it is not enough to defend the points within 6 miles of the wall. If we are under heavy pressure, we can only concentrate our forces on Yuexiu Mountain and our base camp. ”

Even the troops to defend the city wall of Guangzhou were not enough, and the resistance inside and outside the city was surging day by day, if Pa Xiali still had the heart to go to Qinglou at this time, then it would be impossible for him to climb to his current position.

In this extremely unfavorable situation, Pashali finally received support, and when Zhu Jinglun happened to talk to Hurd about the situation in Guangzhou, he heard a piece of news from Hurd.

The British army planned to send a regiment of soldiers from Hong Kong to Guangzhou to station, this regiment was from the British African colonies, most of them were black soldiers, so the Hong Kong locals called this regiment the black regiment, this regiment arrived in Hong Kong not long after, now the situation in Guangzhou is tight, after discussion, the governor of Hong Kong decided to support Guangzhou first.

After receiving the news, Zhu Jinglun did not dare to delay and notified Lin Fuxiang as soon as possible.

The reason why Xiang Yong only made a noise during this time, and harassed at night but did not dare to take substantive offensive actions, was mainly because he thought that your British and French army forces were still relatively strong, and with the advantage of artillery and muskets, they refused to defend the city, and the general Xiang Yong outside the city was a rabble, and it was difficult to capture a big city like Guangzhou by courage alone.

At this time, as soon as they heard that the British were going to increase their troops in Guangzhou, they made a decision, attack the city!

On the night of July 15, they launched a large-scale attack on the city of Guangzhou.

Five thousand of the most elite Xiangyong, from the north, east and west, launched an attack on the city of Guangzhou, and even captured the northwest city wall, but they still failed, in front of the British and French forces with the advantage of firearms, they were blocked near the city wall and difficult to advance, held out until the early morning, after leaving more than 300 corpses, had to choose to retreat.

Their defeat Zhu Jinglun had predicted it and was not disappointed at all, on the contrary, he was full of hope, because he saw that Xiang Yong had a certain offensive ability, and the most important thing was to have the courage to attack, rather than only daring to harass and only dare to bluff. As long as you dare to fight, then there is hope.

As for failure, it is inevitable because their disadvantages are too obvious, not only because their weapons and equipment are inferior to people, their training level is not as good as that of people, and even their geographical advantages are not as good as people.

At this time, the city of Guangzhou was divided into two parts, the northern part was much larger and called the old city, and the southern part was called the new city. The southern wall is close to the river, and it is only a dozen masts long from the water. The northern wall is built directly against the mountain, winding and coiling, and the foundation of the city is built on the highest point of the hill, 60 meters above the river. Moreover, the walls were made of stone and brick, and the base of the walls was made of rough and hard sandstone, and the walls were almost vertical, with a height of seven or eight meters and a thickness of more than six meters.

When the British and French forces captured the city of Guangzhou, they took the lead in capturing the Guanyin Mountain and other high grounds, and then used artillery to suppress the Qing army in the city.

But now Xiang Yong is almost feint to attack the city, and it is really very difficult to capture such a city wall, and it can almost be said that it is impossible. As for their choice to attack from the north, east, and west, this is also a last resort, the area of the new city in the south of the city is small, the British and French forces are easy to control, and because there is a port in the south of the city, it has always been a key defensive place for the British and French forces, and there are batteries and British warships on the river, so that they have no way to start, and can only attack from the other three directions.

It is not surprising that all the disadvantages combined to make this attack a failure.

Soon after the war, there was another news that was not very good for Zhu Jinglun, the British and French forces captured Tianjin in May, and then signed a new treaty with the Qing court, the Treaty of Tianjin.

This is really not good news for Zhu Jinglun, mainly because he knows these officials in Guangzhou too well, and each of them hopes that more things are better than less, since the treaty has been signed, and the treaty has also explained the issue of Guangzhou, and the Anglo-French troops will withdraw the troops after the indemnity, so there is no need to bother to attack the city.

At least most of the civil officials in Guangzhou City have this attitude, and as for the thoughts of the civil officials who are trained in the training regiment outside the city, Zhu Jinglun does not know at all.

After all this bad luck passed, there was finally good news, and on July 21, five days after defeating the Xiang Yong attack, Pashali finally left the city again.

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About the township Yong siege city, it is a real historical material. However, in the original history, it was only launched on July 21. This time and space caused the protagonist to launch an attack in advance due to the information provided by the protagonist.