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Just when Li Kaifang and Huang Dingfeng were attacking the city and plundering the land, and they were victorious, Feng Yunshan led 15,000 holy soldiers along the Guijiang River, all the way to capture Yong'an Prefecture and Zhaoping County. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On Lin Fengxiang's side, he sent more than 2,000 holy soldiers such as pioneer Tan Shaoguang to stay in Yangshan to stand by, and he personally led 4,000 holy soldiers to attack the capital city of Wuzhou, preparing to seize the upper reaches of the Xijiang River and prepare for the capture of Guangzhou City.

Unexpectedly, when I entered the suburbs of Wuzhou, I found that Wuzhou was surrounded by water on all sides, and it was a water city surrounded by the Xunjiang River and the Guijiang River that converged into the Xijiang River, with thick and wide walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There are a total of five gates in Wuzhou City, and the city gate connecting to the land to the west has been sealed with a brick wall by the order of Zheng Ruiqi, the prefect of Wuzhou. The other four city gates all face the river, only less than 100 steps away from the river, and it is impossible to send a large army to charge and attack the city, so they can only use ships to transport troops and then land.

Lin Fengxiang, who had just arrived outside the city of Wuzhou, didn't care about letting the holy soldiers rest, so he requisitioned several large wooden sailing boats along the rivers around him, and personally led the holy soldiers to drive the ship to attack the city, but as soon as the ship docked on the shore, it was hit by the 3,000 catties of artillery on the city tower, and dozens of brothers were killed and injured without even touching the city wall of Wuzhou. Lin Fengxiang was shocked, and hurriedly led the holy soldiers to withdraw, retreated to the other side of the river, and camped across the river.

He sent spies to inquire carefully, only to learn that there were four 3,000-pound cannons guarding the city wall of Wuzhou. It is said that Xu Guangjin, the governor of Liangguang, brought it from Guangzhou, and specially hired hundreds of people to carry it and install cannons on the city tower to deal with the bandits who came from the river to attack Wuzhou City. Ships transporting troops simply could not get close.

If you can't get close, you can't come to attack the city. Across the river, the artillery of the Taiping Holy Army had not been able to hit so far, and it was estimated that before it got close, it was bombarded by the four huge cannons on the city tower.

Just when Lin Fengxiang had a headache, Feng Yunshan, who was down the Guijiang River, rushed to the outside of Wuzhou City.

When Feng Yunshan heard that Wuzhou City was so difficult to attack, he remembered that in history, the anti-Qingbo Mountain Boat Army in the Liangguang area had failed to attack Wuzhou City several times. It turns out that one is relying on the natural geographical location of Wuzhou City, and the other is that the firearms in Wuzhou City are sharp, and each of the four city towers actually has a three-thousand-pound cannon with a range of several miles.

Feng Yunshan ordered the Taiping Holy Army to pretend to withdraw from the siege and go down the river to the border of Guangdong, but in fact returned to Wuzhou two days to the east.

At the same time, Feng Yunshan ordered more than ten people to bring the remaining more than 20 jars of relatively strong salt * acid, pretending to send wine to the restaurant in the city, stuffing a few coins of silver, and then successfully entered the city.

In the evening, it cost only a few taels of silver to make it up to the tower. Accompanied by the general of the commission, the three fine workers came to see the giant cannon of the Shenwei general, who had made great achievements and repeatedly defeated the thieves. A few taels of silver, plus two jars of rice wine and the appetizers prepared earlier, had to let the artillerymen guarding the fort and a few city patrolmen drink and eat together. The outsourcer was helpless, for the sake of the silver, and the wine worm was on the top, so he called down the fort guards, who had long been greedy, and ate and drank together in the Tibetan soldier cave.

The other two Xiaozuo took the opportunity to pour all the five large jars of hydro*acid mixed with the city tower into the barrel of the cannon, and then pretended to be as it was, and continued to drink and fart with the outgoing Qianzong until midnight.

The 3,000-pound artillery cannon of the Great General Shenwei on the other three city gates also tasted the taste of drinking salt * acid.

The next day, the commander of the Wuzhou Association, the deputy general Cui Datong, led people to inspect the city, and when he inspected General Shenwei as usual, he suddenly found that the original finger-thick cast iron barrel of this giant artillery had many small holes, and most of the barrels were as thin as cardboard, which was shocking! Just as he was about to find someone to ask, he suddenly saw that the Taiping Holy Army on the opposite bank of the river had already driven a boat and began to rush over.

It turned out that after Feng Yunshan knew that the four giant cannons in Wuzhou City Tower were iron artillery, he immediately sounded the small amount of concentrated salt * acid left in his army, so he immediately thought of an idea. As a result, the barrel of the poor General Kamui's cannon, after a night of reaction with hydrochloric acid, became like a fishing net.

It rained a little in the afternoon, and when the rain made it difficult for the muskets in the city tower to ignite, Lin Fengxiang led more than 10,000 Taiping holy soldiers to drive several large wooden sailing ships and landed on the shore outside Wuzhou again. This time, the Qing army on the tower of Wuzhou City watched with a blank eye as the Taiping Holy Army docked the ship steadily, and a group of holy soldiers got off the boat and surrounded Wuzhou City.

All the Qing troops in Wuzhou City were led by Cui Datong, the deputy general of the Wuzhou Association, and the Wuzhou Association governed the left and right 2 battalions. Among them, the left battalion is the city guard camp, and the right battalion is the water division. However, some time ago, all the warships of the right battalion naval division were damaged by the Boshan boat army in the Liangguang area, so they were all left in the city as infantry to defend the city.

There are only less than 800 green battalion soldiers in the entire Wuzhou city, plus more than 2,000 regimental training, guarding four city walls several miles long, each city wall is only divided into five or six hundred people, and a section of the city wall is divided into only 100 people. In the face of the flood of holy soldiers, the Qing soldiers, who had lost the advantage of artillery and muskets, quickly collapsed!

Cui Datong, the deputy general of the Wuzhou Association, saw that Wuzhou City could not be defended, so he led his Qing soldiers to detain Zheng Ruiqi, the prefect of Wuzhou, and then opened the city gate and surrendered.

Cui Datong can be said to be the first senior general of the Qing army to voluntarily surrender since the establishment of the Taiping Holy Army, and Feng Yunshan naturally wants to praise him as a typical example. It is worth mentioning that Feng Yunshan did not expect that the Wuzhou prefect named Zheng Ruiqi was actually the son and daughter of the famous national hero Lin Zexu, but Feng Yunshan did not have a good impression of this kind of bad old man and sour Xiucai who were loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he directly let people be escorted down and locked up with other Qing soldiers who were captured together.

At this point, the city of Wuzhou was conquered by the Taiping Holy Army, and the most important waterway to Guangdong had been opened.

At this time, Feng Yunshan received a military report that Luo Xuan and Chen Yucheng had led the holy soldiers south along the Beijiang River to capture Yingde and Qingyuan City, and Tan Shaoguang led 2,000 holy troops to Qingyuan, and they were all waiting for their own holy army on the West Road to besiege Guangzhou City together. At the same time, they sent the details to contact the party everywhere to find out the news.

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but get anxious. To rush to Guangzhou City as soon as possible, it is natural to start by waterway, and it is most ideal to go down the Xijiang River. But at present, there are more than 20,000 holy troops, and there are not enough ships. In desperation, Feng Yunshan asked Lin Fengxiang and others to lead the holy soldiers to look for ships around Wuzhou City.

At this time, Cui Datong, who had surrendered, provided a message that Liang Peiyou, the leader of the boat army in the Liangguang area, led a boat army near the lower reaches of the Xijiang River in Wuzhou City. He had been fighting with Liang Peiyou's boat army for many years, and he was already very clear about the whereabouts of the other party.

Feng Yunshan was overjoyed, and hurriedly held his own handwritten invitation letter, inviting Liang Peiyou to lead the boat army to join the Taiping Holy Kingdom and gather together for a big event. The purpose is to borrow the ship transportation capacity of the boat army to transport the Taiping Holy Army to the outside of Guangzhou as soon as possible, concentrate superior forces, and capture Guangzhou City in one fell swoop.