The reason why Zhu Jinglun was in such a hurry to send troops was, firstly, because he had confidence in his army, and secondly, to improve morale, but the more important purpose was not to let these villagers gain a foothold outside the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhu Jinglun now has only 13,000 soldiers, 10,000 Xin'an County Yong, 3,000 Wukeng Keyong, when the British and French troops were also close to 10,000, they could easily occupy the city of Guangzhou, but they could not eliminate the nearby village Yong, resulting in the army could not go out of the city at all, but constantly suffered from harassment outside the city, and finally Erjin was forced to go north, anxious to find the Qing government to sign a treaty.

Later, Zhu Jinglun took advantage of the main force of the British and French coalition to go north and directly seized the city of Guangzhou, he didn't want to fall to that point, so he couldn't accept the Xiangyong brought by the elderly to establish a foothold outside the city, as for them surrounded the east, west, and north, it didn't make sense at all, because the south of the city knew the Pearl River, just relying on the two big batteries in the middle, he firmly controlled the south of the city, these days Zhu Jinglun bought more than enough food from the Xin'an Exchange to supply the troops, and even took out more than half of it to sell in Guangzhou City, It all made him the largest grain merchant in Guangzhou in the city.

Neither can these villagers stand on their feet, nor can they let the elderly form a hold with him in Guangzhou, he is a rebellion, where do you dare to play this kind of thing, Hong Xiuquan has not played in Nanjing, Guangzhou City is much smaller than Nanjing City. It is because the senior represents the current government, and time is on his side, once a stalemate is formed, the entire prefectures and counties in Guangdong will become the power in the hands of the elderly, sending him a steady stream of grain, grass and even soldiers.

Early in the morning, the two roads set off from the east gate and the small east gate respectively, Hou Jin and the black dog two generals went hand in hand, Hou Jin walked to the east gate with 3,000 Xin'an County Yong to attack the Tuyong in the Huanggang area, and the black dog took the small east gate with 3,000 guests to attack the Tuyong in the Luogang area.

6,000 against 20,000, sending 6,000 people at once is already Zhu Jinglun's limit.

It was impossible for Zhu Jinglun not to absorb the dilemma of the Anglo-French coalition army when he instigated an attack on Guangzhou City from all sides, and the Anglo-French coalition army actually had five or six thousand troops in its hands at that time, but for the city wall range of more than ten miles like Guangzhou City, it was simply a drop in the bucket, and such a city would have to be at least 20,000 or 30,000 to defend it tightly.

There are not many people sent out, but there are a lot of artillery, Zhu Jinglun's has already recruited the third phase, the first phase of 300 people, the second phase expanded to 500 people, and the third phase has 1,000 people, but the real proficiency is still the first phase, the second phase is only technically mature, no combat experience, and the third phase is directly not even skilled enough, and is still in the initial training stage.

But Zhu Jinglun equipped them with a full 300 infantry guns, all of which were 6-pounder and 12-pounder smoothbore Napoleonic guns, and all of them were sent out at the moment, with the first artillery as the commander, the second artillery as the operator, and the third artillery can only play auxiliary roles such as coolies.

These cannons are Zhu Jinglun's confidence, he does not believe that under the baptism of hundreds of solid and flowering shells one after another, these Tu Yong, who have not undergone formal training, can still maintain discipline to fight against Zhu Jinglun's musketeers.

The only thing that made Zhu Jinglun unconfident was Fang Shan, who went to Zhang Qianshan's camp to be a lobbyist, and when he left, Zhu Jinglun and Mukdenne both wrote letters to him to bring to Zhang Qianshan. Zhu Jinglun reminisced with Zhang Qianshan in the letter, and the relationship between the two was not bad, and they helped each other. And Mukdenne's letter asked Zhang Qianshan to withdraw from the army, telling Zhang Qianshan that the current situation was a complete misunderstanding, and the city was just a salary, and there was no need to bring troops to suppress it.

But Zhang Qianshan will definitely not believe it, the first is not reliable, people outside the city know that it is Zhu Jinglun who rebelled, and the second Zhang Qianshan regarded the attack on Guangzhou as a channel for his promotion and fortune, of course he was more inclined to accept the Guangzhou rebellion, and then let him make a fortune.

So everything depends on the level of Fang Shan's speech, when he was in Heshan, he also dealt with Zhang Qianshan, and he knew a lot about this person, so he was very confident that he would be able to persuade Zhang Qianshan to hold his troops still, at least before Zhu Jinglun solved Tuyong in the east of the city, he would definitely be able to hold Zhang Qianshan back.

Zhu Jinglun told him that if he couldn't hold on, it was important to save his life. It's a big deal to give up Guangzhou, and the Xin'an training troops will fight back.

But it's easy to say, this time everyone gambled on everything, including Zhu Jinglun, he knew that he had just rebelled and retreated, and there was almost no possibility of success, and the rebellion had to have a sharp spirit, and he had to have an unstoppable momentum, so as to gather people's hearts as quickly as possible, otherwise once it lasts, the people and the people will be settled, and the local governments will slow down, but there is no foundation if they want to fight, when Shi Dakai just rebelled, he almost used soldiers like a god, Zeng Guofan was wiped out by his whole army many times, but later when he saw the Hunan army, he only had to run, It's not that Shi Dakai's level has dropped too much, or that Zeng Guofan's level has increased too much, but that the hearts of the people in the world have changed.

If Zhu Jinglun really didn't want Fang Shan to take risks, he could not let him go to Zhang Qianshan. But if he didn't send him to drag Zhang Qianshan, Zhu Jinglun would not be sure of victory, if he sent troops out of the city, Zhang Qianshan attacked the city, and the Eight Banners inside and outside should be combined, and the possibility of him failing was very high. If they did not send troops out of the city, but stayed in the city to exterminate the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners were concentrated in the southwest of the city, house to house, and it was impossible for them to retreat easily under the condition of protecting their property and lives.

Zhu Jinglun calculated it, but it was easier to stare at the Eight Banners in the city, and then use the fastest speed to destroy the Qing army outside the city in the field.

When the Qing army outside the city is wiped out, it will not be a trouble for the Eight Banners in the city at that time, Zhu Jinglun believes that he can easily persuade Mukdenne to let the Eight Banners hand over their weapons and stay at home honestly.

Zhu Jinglun stood on the city tower, using a telescope to follow the moving army, he was not worried about the training level of Xin'an County Yong, these people have long been experienced in fighting Tuyong, where is there no shortage of Tuyong in Heshan, Tuyong who fought at that time couldn't raise his head, maybe there was Tuyong who had been beaten by them on the other side.

The training level of the Wukeng Keyong led by the black dog is slightly worse, but they have a deep hatred with the Turen, you must know that the Keyong in the Wukeng area were all driven out of Enping, and all their land was robbed by Tuyong, where can you not hate them.

It's just that the training of Wukeng Keyong is not enough, only three months of training, although under the effect of life-saving silver, they train very seriously, for fear of being expelled, but after all, the time is too short, they have only learned to load and launch, and the queue can also walk, but they can't do the difficult action of loading while walking.

So the most feasible way for them to fight at present is to use the shortest time, a cavalry shot after a white-edged charge, in order to reduce their losses, Zhu Jinglun mobilized two hundred cannons for them, before they began to get close to Tuyong, these artillery will bombard Tuyong's earthen village on Luogang indiscriminately, those newly established wooden villages can not block these artillery, especially the flowering shells will definitely give them a large number of casualties, and the solid cannonballs will clear the obstacles such as the gate of the village for Keyong.

It was still the Hakka warriors who were eager to fight, or the hatred was deeper, and they arrived at the battle site faster, because these Hakka Yong had been working hard to help the artillerymen push the gun carts.

Their cannons were also the first to fire.

At this time, in Zhang Qianshan's camp, Fang Shan and Zhang Qianshan talked happily and drank tea.

Suddenly hearing the sound of cannons, Zhang Qianshan was furious:

"You said that you wouldn't go out of the city to fight, and you would have to wait for the court to decide, how dare you deceive Lao Tzu!"

Fang Shan used a three-inch tongue, and Zhang Qianshan, who lobbied him, was suspicious, just like Zhu Jinglun went to deceive Mukdenne two days ago.

He told Zhang Qianshan that what happened these days was really just caused by the trouble, and the Guangzhou General and Master Zhu had already given the imperial court a recital, just waiting for the imperial court to decide, he made Zhang Qianshan feel that it was very unwise to attack the city, even if he won the battle, he might not have any credit, and if he didn't get it, he would offend the Eight Banners General in the future, and if he was defeated, he would be punished.

He didn't want to completely convince Zhang Qianshan, let alone let Zhang Qianshan directly defect, he just asked Zhang Qianshan to be able to settle down temporarily and buy time for Zhu Jinglun to eliminate Tuyong in the east of the city.

So although Zhang Qianshan was angry, Fang Shan still drank tea slowly.

After taking a sip of Yingde's black tea, Fang Shan said slowly: "Since it's all like this, Don't worry about Mr. Zhang, why don't you sit down and guess who will win?" ”

Zhang Qianshan didn't know what he was thinking, so he did it with a sneer:

"Hmph, there are 20,000 people over there, and I can't tell the winner for a while, but I know that after a long time, your family will definitely be finished."

Fang Shan laughed.

Zhang Qianshan snorted coldly: "What are you laughing at, pretending to be too pretentious to frighten Lao Tzu, tell you, when they are done, I will send you to the governor." ”

Fang Shan shook his head: "The outcome has been decided, our army's artillery is together, and the other party has already been defeated." ”

Zhang Qianshan naturally didn't believe it, and immediately sent a detective horse to investigate.

Zhu Jinglun's side, he didn't expect it to be so easy, more than 200 cannons bombarded Luogang indiscriminately, within a quarter of an hour, the Tuyong on the mountain collapsed, Wukeng Keyong immediately attacked, they didn't even fire their guns directly, and they directly defeated the other party with bayonets as spears, and almost from the beginning they were chasing and routed the soldiers.

Hou Jin's side has a lot of order, 1510 carried out artillery preparations, and then the infantry slowly moved forward, also did not wait for them to get close to the cottage, when the artillery fire did not stop, the other party collapsed, but at this time, the county Yong led by Hou Jin was still advancing step by step, and when he saw Tu Yong's resistance, he opened fire, and the queue remained intact from beginning to end, which was the real combat effectiveness.

In addition to Zhu Jinglun seeing all this, the exploration horse sent by Zhang Qianshan was also reported to Zhang Qianshan, as soon as he heard that Zhu Jinglun only dispatched 6,000 people, and defeated 20,000 Tuyong within an hour, Zhang Qianshan couldn't help but shudder in his heart, but his face suddenly became smaller, and praised Fang Shan, who was still drinking tea, "Mr. is really like a god."

But in the next sentence, he said: "How about asking Mr. to stay with me as a military advisor?" (To be continued.) )