After the whole Xuanjia army landed, they saw that the gate of Guangzhou City was closed, and twenty artillery pieces were erected on the city wall. It seems that there has just been a defeat with a huge disparity between strength and weakness, and these defenders have not been woken up, and the defenders in the city still do not want to surrender and are ready to resist to the end.

However, this was also expected by Qin Zhan, Guangzhou City was the most prosperous and prosperous place in Guangdong, and the Guangdong Political Secretary gathered a large number of troops from various provinces in the city, and attacking Guangzhou City should have been an inevitable vicious battle.

He is cautious by nature, and it is the first time for him to go out alone, if he loses the battle, he is afraid that he will immediately be judged by Fang Yuan to be mud and unable to support the wall, and the promised governor of Minguang will be hanging.

Qin Zhan adopted a steady and steady strategy, not in a hurry to attack the city for a while, but first consolidated the defense of his own formation, and built two fortifications in front of the Chinese military camp to avoid being attacked by the city.

He even ordered the whole army to set up camp in three days.

According to the normal persuasion procedure, Qin Zhan sent someone to deliver a letter of persuasion to the city, ordering the defenders in the city to surrender within three days, otherwise the city would be slaughtered after the city was broken.

The letter of persuasion was handed into the city, and Qin Zhan waited in the barracks for three days, but there was no response from the city, there was no reply, and the messenger did not send one, but the city gate was still closed.

Qin Zhan ordered the artillery position to bombard the walls and gates of the southern city of Guangzhou for a whole day.

Under the intensive bombardment of the Xuanjia Army's artillery, the southern city wall was already full of smoke, and the city gate was even more crumbling. But what is strange is that the artillery on the city wall of Guangzhou only fought back more than ten cannons without pain, and then it was like a dumb fire, and it was silent again.

Qin Zhanhun didn't know what the defenders on the city wall were playing, this kind of tactic was unheard of for him. He wondered if he was lonely about the battlefield, and immediately summoned Feng Ting, Zhang Ying, and Shi Fu, three old birds with rich battlefield experience, to come to a meeting to discuss.

Qin opened his forehead and asked, "Everyone, Guangzhou City is playing some conspiracy with such an attitude of being free to fight and bomb at the moment?" ”

General Feng Ting fought outside the city for three days, but he actually couldn't understand the reason, why didn't the ten cannons on the city wall fight back, which should have posed a huge threat to the Xuanjia Army.

Feng Ting said tentatively, "I guess the city has set up an ambush in the city, trying to lure us into the city, gather and annihilate us!" ”

Qin Zhan didn't believe this statement, frowned and said, "The combat power of these Guangdong soft-footed soldiers is worlds apart from our army. ”

"Maybe it's because the city doesn't have enough gunpowder and buckshot. ”

Qin Zhan still didn't believe this statement, shook his head and said, "This is not right, since our army entered Fujian, Guangdong has begun to prepare for war." It took half a year for our army to conquer Taiwan, and they also prepared for war for half a year. According to the information provided by the Dutch, they bought forty artillery pieces, three thousand muskets, and this is just the beginning of the war, and there is not enough gunpowder? No way! ”

His eyes looked at Zhang Ying, "Mr. Zhang, you can talk about it." ”

Zhang Ying said loudly, "Governor Qin, things on the battlefield are unpredictable, and the enemy commanders are even more diverse, weak, tough, adventurous, and good at using tactics, all of them are possible, we don't have to speculate." The so-called soldiers will block the water to cover the earth, and they will directly attack the city tomorrow, and if the city is broken, they will know what kind of mystery they are playing! ”

Tomorrow's siege of the city is a vicious battle, Qin Zhan resolutely implemented the plan of handing over the vicious battle to Zhang Ying, and handed over the general order to him, "General Zhang, the main general of tomorrow's siege is you!" The stakes are very high, and we should be cautious. After you have broken through the gates, do not enter the city hastily or hastily. ”

Zhang Ying was promoted to the general army when he first arrived, and his name was not right, and he was worried that he could not find the opportunity to gnaw hard bones and make meritorious contributions, so he readily received the military order.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Ying, as the main general of this siege, divided the 5,000 Xuanjia army into ten teams and attacked in turns, so as to take Guangzhou City in one go, proving that he was worthy of the name of the airborne general army.

Zhang Ying ordered the first team to start a charge towards the city of Guangzhou, but the artillery on the city wall still did not counterattack, and the few dozens of defenders watched the Xuanjia army's stormtroopers arrive under the city gate, and still did not make any conventional measures to defend the city, such as firing cannons, shooting arrows, and throwing boulders.

He didn't pay attention to what the soldiers defending the city were crazy about, and according to the normal process of siege, he directly blasted under the city gate three times with a gunpowder bag.

The city gate, which was originally crumbling, finally collapsed, and the strong city gate, which I thought would have to be breached by a fierce battle, was easily breached.

According to Zhang Ying's estimate, once the city gate is broken, there will inevitably be a fight before it can enter the city. The city gate was still empty, and there was not a single soldier who came out to resist. Only a few sergeants who had escaped from the city walls could be seen fleeing into the city in panic.

Before Zhang Ying attacked the city, he designed many siege plans, but unexpectedly, none of them were used, and the city gate was directly captured. A huge city of Guangzhou was placed in front of him, but he suddenly hesitated.

What exactly are the defenders of Guangzhou doing?

At this time, Zhang Ying was really puzzled, and a thought popped up in his mind, could it be that the defenders of Guangzhou City were really fortified in the city, and they wanted to give our army a ten-sided ambush plan and fight street battles?!

Because Qin Zhan had already instructed him in advance, Zhang Ying immediately ordered most of the sergeants to stand by outside the city, not to enter the city for the time being, and then sent people back to the camp to report to Qin Zhan, the city gate has been broken, whether the whole army should enter the city immediately.

The Chinese military camp gave him a military order half an hour later, and Zhang Yingnai was the chief general of this battle, and everything was up to him to act expediently according to the battle situation.

Zhang Ying received a military order to enter the city, and began the next military operation.

He first tentatively sent a hundred men into the city gate, trying to seize the city wall, no matter what kind of mystery the city played, as long as the city wall was occupied, the city would be broken in half. The battle of Tamsui City is a living precedent, as long as hundreds of cannons are erected on the city walls, the storage can blow up those defenders who want to fight in the streets.

One hundred people did not encounter any obstacles, easily climbed the city wall, controlled the commanding heights, waved the flag to Zhang Ying, and successfully occupied the city wall.

Zhang Ying sent another 1,000 men to occupy the city gate guard, and after sending 500 men to garrison the city wall, he also set up five cannons, and the sergeants guarding the city wall were all loaded with guns and ammunition, ready to fight at any time.

He himself led a group of 500 sergeants into the city, and gradually advanced into the city step by step along the streets, carefully and cautiously.

Zhang Ying saw that everywhere he passed, on the street, the houses were full of countless corpses, the house was a chaos of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and there were several dead young women in several rooms, all naked, it seemed that they had been raped before they died.

What's really going on in the city?

Zhang Ying secretly wondered that the fear of the unknown made him extremely uncomfortable and depressed, and it was better to have a big battle with the defenders than to be at a loss as he was now.

He and the 500 sergeants had just walked out of the 50 zhang, but they saw a group of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses coming from the city.

"It's coming!"

Finally seeing the enemy, Zhang Ying, who was extremely depressed, finally secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered the whole army to shoot as soon as this biao soldier and horse entered the firing range.

After a while, I saw that the soldiers and horses did not dare to approach, but directly hung countless white flags, sent a few people to wave a big white flag, and shouted from afar, "We surrender!" Surrender! ”

"Surrender?"

Zhang Ying was worried that there was fraud in it, so he immediately asked people to go and send a message to this biao man that he could accept surrender, but everyone had to put down their weapons, take off their armor, and go to the city gate one by one to surrender.

The men and horses immediately obeyed, threw down their weapons, took off their armor, and then one by one, honestly walked outside the city gate to accept the custody of the Xuanjia army.

Zhang Ying saw that the soldiers and horses had really surrendered, and he couldn't cry or laugh, so he no longer went deep into the city, but went back to the city gate guard, found a few surrendered soldiers, and asked about the reason for the lack of war in the city.