Huangpu is a sandbar, named after a fishing village south of the sandbar, called Huangpu Village.

With the development of maritime trade, it is no longer a fishing village, but a town with a population of several thousand, and a port of call for European merchant ships to trade in Guangzhou.

But for the local government, it is almost a forgotten corner, European merchant ships are not allowed to sail directly into the city of Guangzhou, can only anchor in Huangpu, the waterways here are usually crowded with fishing boats of the Tan people, whether it is the Tan people, or the ghosts, are the eyes of the government to the people of the outside, so this place has been very chaotic before.

Chaos has brought prosperity, which has to be said to be a kind of irony of government management.

Among the thousands of people who have settled or temporarily settled in Huangpu, there are actually very few Westerners, who come to winter every summer, and even if they are in winter, they prefer to choose Macau, which is more tolerant to them, so the residents of Huangpu are mainly Chinese.

The Tan people make up a large part, but there are also some local merchants, dock coolies, and gang forces. The main business is commerce and other industries developed by commerce, such as the service industry represented by river boats, as well as dozens of shipyards of all sizes.

Zhou Lang's barracks occupied a large area of the port and its vicinity, and the merchants' warehouses were all requisitioned to store military supplies, and the soldiers' barracks were built directly on the docks.

The small boat Colin took was a Tan people fishing boat, he hired more than 2,000 local fishermen, most of them were Tan people, these people undertook most of the material transportation tasks, and even when the most manpower was scarce, these Tan people dared to send gunpowder directly to the front line, as long as they were paid twice the salary, in fact, they were directly recruited as soldiers, and it was estimated that there was no difficulty, during the first Opium War, the British hired thousands of Tan people as a transport team, but after they were given basic training, The men with the slings were able to fight with the British, and the shells killed people, and they only laughed and laughed at the bad luck of their compatriots, as if they did not know to be afraid, to the great surprise of the British officers who were in charge of them.

Colin got off the boat, and basically faced the barracks, at this time the barracks seemed very empty, and the barracks of more than 5,000 people were left with only 500 soldiers under Zhou Lang, so it was strange if they were not empty.

Colin led his men ashore quickly, went straight into the barracks, and walked straight towards Zhou Lang's camp tent, and no one stopped him.

As soon as he entered, Colin shouted: "Zhou, send me all the people, there is no need to keep people here, we need to strengthen the attack, and we can capture Guangzhou tonight." ”

Colin was excited.

It was only one day, yesterday afternoon he captured the forts outside the city, and this morning he launched an attack, and it was just after noon, and he had already captured half of the city of Guangzhou, how could he not be excited.

Zhou Lang was very calm: "Don't worry about it first, eat first." ”

Colin said, "Don't be in a hurry to eat, you can quickly order troops to be sent to me." ”

Zhou Lang smiled: "Then you have to tell me about the military situation." ”

Colin said, "Okay, I'll tell you now." ”

Zhou Lang said: "Don't worry, you can talk while eating." ”

Colin couldn't wait any longer, and stretched out his hand, and the deputy next to him, a young white officer, immediately handed over a map.

An old yellowed map, which I don't know was seized from that yamen, turned out to be a Chinese-style map showing the city of Guangzhou roughly a square.

Zhou Lang smiled and said, "If you don't eat, you have to let them eat." ”

Colin didn't understand why Zhou Lang was holding on to eating, and when he looked back at his soldiers, he found eager eyes, and then he thought that after fighting for a long time, they were indeed hungry.

"Okay, arrange for them to eat, and I'll tell you about the military situation. I'm planning to take Guangzhou tonight, and now we've hit that position! ”

Zhou Lang waved his hand, and his subordinates immediately motioned for Colin's soldiers to go to another camp to eat, and Zhou Lang turned back.

The place where I saw Colin's finger was a street, a street that ran through the east and west gates of Guangzhou City, and the name was Huiai Street.

This is the main street that divides the north and south of Guangzhou, there are many government offices on the street, such as the political secretary, Guangzhou Mansion, the General's Mansion, and the Panyu County Ya, as well as many special buildings such as Wu Temple, City God Temple, Wenchang Palace, etc., these are different from private houses, built very solid, so the Qing army relies on these buildings to resist is indeed a bit troublesome, the key is that the front is too large, and Colin has insufficient troops.

The further south I am, the more difficult it is to fight, because there are more officials in the south, and after Huiai Street, the entire southwest quarter of the urban area belongs to the flag boundary, that is, the place where the flag people live, although Guangzhou is not like Nanjing, Xi'an and other cities, the flag people are full of cities in the city, although Guangzhou is not full of cities, but there are also some fortifications in the place where the Eight Banners are concentrated, the key is that the family members are here, the defense of the Eight Banners will definitely be more resolute, and the attack will encounter great resistance at that time.

Even if you have beaten Huiai Street and occupied the entire city, but the city of Guangzhou is two instead of one, the Qing Dynasty along the old city of the Ming Dynasty, to the south to build a city wall, close to the river, the two cities share a city wall, that is, the south wall of the old city, thus forming a Japanese character structure, even if Colin laid the upper half of the Japanese character, there is also the lower half of the new city, the Guangdong Customs Yamen, the governor's camp is located in the new city.

"I thought it would be enough to hit this street, enough to put pressure on them to surrender."

Zhou Langyan said insincerely, in fact, he was not interested in listening to what Colin had to say.

Colin said with great interest, "I think that their governor's palace must be captured in order for them to understand the current situation. ”

Colin was bent on taking the city by military force, so as to achieve the greatest deterrent effect, or to maximize his exploits, and this city was, in his opinion, the ladder to his knighthood.

It wasn't until Ma Dalei walked into the camp tent and gave Zhou Lang a color that Zhou Lang pretended to be interested.

"You go on, how many troops are needed?"

Colin didn't care either, and immediately became serious as soon as he heard about the troops.

"At present, we have occupied all the streets in and out of the city, but the other party always launches a sneak attack from somewhere, and has to divide troops to garrison, you can rest assured, transfer your people to me, I will not let them charge, I only need them to guard the street entrance, there will be no danger."

Hearing this, Zhou Lang suddenly frowned, and said with a serious expression:

"Colin, thank you!"

Colin looked confused: "What? ”

Zhou Lang sighed: "I want to say, goodbye!" ”

Colin frowned, and before he could understand it, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart, knowing that he had been ambushed and stabbed, he was about to struggle, but he felt that the knife on his back was suddenly withdrawn, and his strength seemed to be taken away.

Zhou Lang dodged, not afraid of Colin's counterattack, but Ma Dalei's dagger had been placed on the neck of Colin who was barely standing on the table, and as soon as the dagger was pulled, the blood spurted out nearly a meter, Zhou Lang dodged quickly, and the blood did not splash on his body.

Watching Colin slowly fall, Zhou Lang thought that this day had been a long time, but suddenly found that after getting rid of Colin, he was not happy in his heart, but a little uncomfortable.

"What should I do?"

Ma Dalei looked excited.

It's not the first time he's killed someone, after he arrived in Guangzhou, he fought a few battles with Colin's army, and he attacked the fort once, but it was the first time for him to kill people face-to-face like this, and the blood splashed made him excited inexplicably.

"Is it buried?"

Seeing that Zhou Lang didn't answer, Ma Dalei asked again.

Zhou Lang was about to agree, but suddenly shook his head: "Wrap it up first!" ”

Mardalei nodded.

Zhou Lang only then cared about the others: "Has everyone else cleaned up?" ”

According to the agreement, Mardale must get rid of Colin's men before he comes to kill Colin, and since he is here, everyone else should be taken care of.

Mardalei said: "It's all dead! One by one they were happy to eat, and our people pretended to deliver food, and each person gave the result one by one. ”

Zhou Lang asked again: "What about the boat?" ”

He was referring to the ship that sent Colin back, the boat of the Tan people, and he didn't want to leak the news about the killing of Colin.

Ma Dalei said: "The boat is detained, and everyone is killed!" ”

Zhou Lang took a deep breath, he was pressed for time, he wanted to make a good move in Guangzhou City, killing Colin was only the first step, and there were still many things to do.

"Pack it up, call Cai Shiwen to me!"

Since the siege began, Zhou Lang has detained Cai Shiwen, just like holding and detaining Wei Lianli, but Zhou Lang's purpose in detaining Cai Shiwen is to have someone to spread the word at a critical time.

"Listen, I want 20,000,000 silver dollars, not a single one! When the money arrives, I go, but if the money doesn't arrive, I go into the city! ”

Zhou Lang happily told Cai Shiwen not to give him a chance to bargain.

"Also, I'll give you three days to raise money, I won't beat you in these three days, don't blame me after three days!"

Zhou Lang confessed that his first pot of gold was really money, but this money was bloody.

"Go to the dock and ask Mr. Xie to come over!"

Let the soldiers press Cai Shiwen out, and Zhou Lang immediately asked people to invite Xie Qinggao.

"Brother Xie, I want to bother you to do something, and when this thing is done, we can leave."

Xie Qinggao had always been opposed to the attack on Canton City, so he did not participate in the attack after it began, and stayed on his ship.

"What's the matter?"

Xie Qinggao asked.

Zhou Lang replied: "Collect the troops!" I want you to go to the front and send a message to the various officers to stop the attack and hold first. ”

Xie Qinggao was puzzled: "Isn't Colin on the front line?" ”

Zhou Lang said sadly: "I just received the news that he returned from the front line, and was ambushed by the Qing army on the way and died in battle!" ”

This news made Xie Qinggao's mood immediately heavy, although he had seen a lot of dead people, but the death of people he didn't know and his acquaintances gave people a completely different feeling.

Xie Qinggao said: "Colin is dead!" Then let's stop this battle. ”

Zhou Lang nodded: "I didn't want to fight, but now that Colin is dead, what we need to do is to collect the troops and find an opportunity to withdraw the army." ”

Xie Qinggao sighed: "Will they listen to me if I go?" ”

Zhou Lang said: "You go to find a person named Wang Fuqian, ask him to take you to meet those officers, and tell those British officers that Colin died in battle." Tell them that all the armies are now under my command, and let them stop the attack first, and then go to the North City Tower to discuss the next step with me. ”

Xie Qinggao nodded: "I understand." ”

After Xie Qinggao left, Zhou Lang knew that it was time to pack up and set off, go to Beicheng Tower to wait for those British officers, and then collect the military power!

This is the second pot of gold!

Not money, but a few thousand soldiers.