The reason why Bai Gui wanted to run away was not because he was worried that the soldiers outside the city would come in and hurt him, but because the foreigners informed him to evacuate to the new city together, Bai Gui didn't plan to mix with the foreigners, but the two foreign soldiers had already arrived at the yamen, Bai Gui needed to flee immediately, and after the Xiangyong entered the city, he immediately joined with the Xiangyong, even if Huang Zonghan didn't wait to see him, it was better than continuing to be controlled by the foreigners. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Jinglun decided to run with Bai Gui, and a few officials flickered a few foreign soldiers in front, and the two jumped out of the back window.

Fu Li had already brought a few old servants to serve at the back door, and Bai Gui was obviously ready for a long time.

Entering the alley behind the yamen, I turned around and entered a small courtyard, which was empty, the weeds were growing messily, and there was a layer of bobo dust on the doors and windows, and it was obvious that no one had lived in it for a long time. At this time, the city of Guangzhou was about to become a ghost town, and less than half of the people who remained in the city of Guangzhou before the war began, and many people fled outside the city in the past two days, and probably less than one-third of the people in the past were still in the city. These are the people at the bottom, the poorest, the most nowhere to go.

The two foreign soldiers returned to the General's Mansion and reported to his commander, no one paid attention to Bai Gui's reluctance to leave with them, at this time they could think that there was a governor in Guangzhou who had cooperated with them before, it was already very rare, it was enough to send two soldiers to inform him, as for whether the governor was willing to go with them, who cared about him.

Even Hurd didn't care too much, and with the help of a soldier, he limped away, couldn't find the carriage, and threw the salute. Groups of soldiers, along the Sipailou Street to the south, after entering the southern city, closed the Guide Gate, and the entire southern city became self-contained, completely separated from the northern city.

But Nancheng is not safe here.

Two batteries on the Pearl River outside the city are still in the hands of the Chinese, and just this morning, the cannons on both batteries sank the scarred French warship in the Pearl River. At this time, the artillery of the British and French forces at Jinghai Gate, Wuxian Gate and Yongqing Gate was still firing at the artillery on the fort, but these infantry could not suppress the fortress guns on the fort at all.

Everyone can see that the situation is precarious, fortunately, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is too poor, if they encounter any European army, their current situation, they will choose to surrender, not even the idea of breaking through, not to mention that the officers still plan to wait for reinforcements here in the south of the city.

As for reinforcements, Hurd knew that it might also be unreliable, the French were already very angry, in the middle of last month the British army said that they would draw an army from Hong Kong, that is, the "regiment", a regiment of 1,000 Indian soldiers, but who would have thought that the Chinese would suddenly move to Hong Kong at that time, and there was a large-scale concentration of Chinese Xiangyong troops in Dongguan and Xin'an County, which made the Hong Kong governor worried about the stability of Hong Kong, and he believed that Hong Kong was more important than Guangzhou at this time, So he temporarily withheld this army that was ready to support Guangzhou, and stayed in Hong Kong to defend against a possible attack by the Chinese.

If there are really reinforcements, then these three days will be enough time to rush from Hong Kong. At this time, not only the French were unhappy, but even some officers of the British army were dissatisfied with the bureaucrats above, and the British officers thought that even if there was no army, they should at least send the navy to help them retake the battery, so that they would at least have a way out.

But where are there still warships, there are only two regular warships in Hong Kong, and the governor of Hong Kong will definitely not send them, and there are some armed merchant ships left, even if they are sent to Guangzhou, they are probably goods sunk by the fort, and they are useless at all. The main forces have followed to Tianjin, and now they have not returned, and as for when they can return, no one knows the specific situation, only that they have signed a treaty with the Chinese, and the earliest letter tells the British army in Guangzhou that the main forces of the coalition army have arrived in Shanghai.

So the British told the French that as long as they held out for a short time, they would have reinforcements.

The British stockpiled sufficient ammunition on the battery, and the antique cannons of the Chinese they did not look at, and they were all replaced by Armstrong's shore defense guns, although not Armstrong's most advanced rear-loading rifled guns, but still much more advanced than the Chinese cannons, these new cannons made the Chinese gunners very happy.

The last time they fought with the British and French troops in the Polo Temple artillery battle overnight, now they want to come and tremble, at that time they also relied on a bloody and brave spirit, but this time it is different, there is the protection of the fort, they and the foreign infantry on the city wall run against each other, completely occupy the upper peak, although their operation is not good, but the use of the British army's standard medicine pack, with visual aiming, can basically be sent to the city wall, the gunner tube is now bent on the city wall of Guangzhou, without any special military purpose, is pure fun.

Zhang Qianshan was also in the fort, hiding behind the fortifications, his mood was not good, not bad, and he was still a little worried.

He captured the forts, and the gunners he also put in, basically nothing for him, what he has to do now is to hold these two batteries and wait for this battle to be over. But he still wants to go to the city to see, the townsmen have entered the city, Guangzhou City, how much oil and water it has to be, it doesn't matter if he doesn't move or not, his subordinates can't hold it back, they are all old oilmen who have been soldiers for many years, old brothers, who don't know that attacking the city and plundering land is the right way to make a fortune.

There are contradictions between the British and French forces, and there are even more contradictions between Xiang Yong and Xiang Yong, to put it bluntly, they are all interests.

Zhu Jinglun and Bai Gui had already walked out of the courtyard, and Bai Gui's family contacted the leader of Xiangyong, and despite the suspicions, Huang Zonghan still sent someone to pick them up.

The streets are full of villagers, they kick open the doors of one house after another, and some of them are more or less restrained, if there is no one at home, they will be rich. Especially for those big families, even if people leave, there is always something left, even if the furniture is moved, the smart townsmen can often dig out a little thing from their yard, and some people even dig out a silver cellar, and suddenly make a windfall.

If this continues, something will happen sooner or later, and the uncontrollable Xiangyong will turn this kind of theft into blatant looting, and when the looting fails, he will kill people if he doesn't do it well, and after killing people, he will become angry, and if he doesn't make trouble, he will set fire, and when people kill red-eyed, and when they only have money in their eyes, they can't do anything.

But there are exceptions, a compound at the mouth of Chaxiangkou was bravely broken into by several villagers, and was beaten out by the arrogant family members, telling them that they also came to Mr. Qian's house to find death. The gray townsman fled in embarrassment, and the dissatisfaction on his face didn't know what it would cause.

Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but worry, if it weren't for his own appearance, constantly prying with a small crowbar, things would never have developed like this, although he never regretted letting Guangzhou suffer greater harm in exchange for the dignity of future generations, but he couldn't solve a plot in his heart, that is, he felt that he was responsible for all this.

Zhu Jinglun kept talking to Bai Gui, hoping that Bai Gui could find a way to restrain the behavior of the villagers, but along the way, Bai Gui seemed to be absent-minded, and he was about to go to see Huang Zonghan, and he hadn't thought about what to say.

Huang Zonghan's big tent was set up in the Baoguo Temple outside the Great East Gate at this time, and Bai Gui and Zhu Jinglun walked for a long time before arriving at the place.

The weather is fierce, and thousands of soldiers are here to protect these adults.

Bai Gui quickly went in, but Zhu Jinglun was left here.

After a long time, Bai Gui came out and was in a very bad mood.

"Lord Huang asked the old man to be responsible for persuading the Yi people, and forced the old man to make a military order!"

Zhu Jinglun didn't know what was going on, but obviously Huang Zonghan used Bai Gui to block the south gate without authorization, so that the British and French coalition forces became trapped beasts, and the trapped beasts were still fighting, and it was even more difficult to deal with, Bai Gui was probably explaining with total annihilation, but Huang Zonghan obviously didn't plan to attack, and the ghost knew how much loss he suffered by attacking Guangzhou City with his hometown.

In addition, Bai Gui had always insisted on annihilating the foreigners before, and threatened that as long as they were surrounded on all sides, the foreigners would inevitably surrender to Yunyun, but Huang Zonghan used him to force him to make a military order, and the matter of recruiting foreigners fell on Bai Gui alone.

Looking at Bai Gui's gaze at him, Zhu Jinglun knew that this matter was pushed to him by Bai Gui.

Immediately surrendered his hand: "My lord, the villain, please go to the Yiren to appease the Yiren!" ”

Bai Gui nodded with satisfaction: "After the matter is completed, this official will give you credit!" ”

"Master Xie's cultivation."

Zhu Jinglun asked people to find a white cloth, found a stick, and used it as a white flag, and a few villagers followed, which was regarded as an envoy group, and the group walked towards Nancheng.

At this time, the foreigners had blocked all the gates in and out of the southern city, and the careful defense, the village Yong had no intention of attacking the city at all, the ordinary soldiers were busy robbing, and the civil officials were talking and constantly arguing, and they had no intention of fighting with the foreigners for a while.

There was even a brief lull in the city.

From Panyu Straight Street to the small south gate, holding a white flag high in his hand, the foreigners did not attack, to the city gate to explain the intention, at this time the city gate has been blocked inside, can not be opened at all, a rope will pull Zhu Jinglun up the city wall.

Soon saw the officers of the Anglo-French coalition army, at this time the highest status in the coalition army became the French, the past occupation committee triumvirate left a giant, in just ten days, two of the three Britons were taken away or killed by the Chinese, Pashali was kidnapped, Colonel Horoway led troops to attack the Polo Temple last time, directly blew up.

So the highest position in the coalition forces is now the French captain Martine, who, after discussion, temporarily acted as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

Of course, there are also officers in the British army, and Hurd, as the interim general adviser, is still valued, after all, he is now the only China expert.

After conveying the attitude of Chinese Xiangyong to the British and French forces, Zhu Jinglun refused the request of the coalition forces to let him go out of the city to convey their attitude to the Chinese, which surprised the coalition forces.