"What a hero!"

When the sun was about to set, Pang Yue led his army to the city of Guangzhou, and immediately sighed after looking at the outline of some cities. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Whether it was before or after the crossing, Pang Yue was coming to Guangzhou for the first time. In later generations, Guangzhou was one of the financial, trade and shipping centers of China, and the current Guangzhou is also the premier town in the Lingnan region of China. Although he had never been here before, Pang Yue had also had a certain understanding of the city through various channels.

The current city of Guangzhou consists of the old city and the new south city. The old city was integrated with the three cities of the Song Dynasty (eastern, middle and western cities), and was expanded on this basis, the north city wall extended to Yuexiu Mountain, the east to the later Fangcao Street, the west to the Renmin Road of the later generations, and the south to the Dade Road, Da Nan Road and Wenming Road in the later generations. There are eight city gates in the whole old city, there are big north gates and small north gates in the north, between the two city gates is Yuexiu Mountain, the city wall is repaired to the mountain, and there are a large number of police shops, forts and other fortifications; On the west side there is a west gate, equipped with an urn city; There is the Great East Gate in the east, and there is also the urn city; The four city gates in the south are Guide, due south, Wenming, and Dinghai Gate from west to east, and there are urn cities in addition to the civilization gate. In the area of the middle city of the Song Dynasty in the old city, almost all the yamen of Guangzhou are distributed, the original political envoy of Bu Zheng, the current Liangguang Governor's Mansion of Tong Yangjia, the original Liangguang Command Envoy, the current Li Chengdong's Liangguang Governor's Mansion, as well as the Inspectorate, the Salt Transport Division, the Guangzhou Mansion, Panyu County and Nanhai County Ya, etc., which are the veritable political centers of Guangzhou at present.

Furthermore. Immediately to the south of the old city, there is also the New South City, which is now an important business district in Guangzhou, and is more prosperous than the old city. The east-west span of the new southern city is almost the same as that of the old city. There are eight city gates on the east, south and west sides, there are Taiping Gate in the west, Yong'an Gate in the east, the six city gates in the south are bamboo fence, oil rail, Jinghai, five immortals, Yongqing, Xiaonan Gate from west to east, and about one mile south from the south city wall is the Pearl River.

If it is divided from the administrative area, Guangzhou City is bounded by Guide Straight Street after Guide Gate, which is under the jurisdiction of Nanhai County in the west and Panyu County in the east. The circumference of the walls of the entire city is more than 20 miles. It is more than three zhang high, the bottom is more than three zhang thick, the top is also nearly three zhang thick, and there is a moat dug on the east, west and south sides of the city. It's easy to defend and hard to attack.

After the arrival of the army, Pang Yue ordered to camp at the foot of Baiyun Mountain in the northeast of the city, facing the small north gate, and took advantage of the camp of the army to inspect the outside of the city with a group of major generals and hundreds of cavalry from the Flying Tiger Battalion.

When he came to the outside of the Great East Gate, Pang Yue found that there were still a large number of corpses of the rebels who had not had time to collect the corpses in the vast area outside the city. The blood-soaked land has turned a dark red. You can still smell the pungent smell of blood when you are there.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Pang Yue's heart was full of chagrin, if he could lead the army to arrive a day earlier, this situation would never happen.

"Look, my lord!" Wei Yuan suddenly pointed at the head of the Great East Gate, with a hint of anger in his astonishment.

Pang Yue took out a monocular and looked at it, only to see a string of human heads and a pair of bloody bone shelves hanging on the head of the Great East Gate. This scene was like a slaughterhouse, which made Pang Yue, who was used to seeing life and death, also gasp, and then became endlessly angry.

This should be the righteous people who were captured alive and the inner response in the city. After being chopped alive, he still has to show the public, which is enough to show the shameless cruelty of the Tartars! Pang Yue struggled to control his emotions. In the end, he still didn't scold, just gritted his teeth.

The surrounding soldiers and soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion were also angry, and their eyes were almost bursting with fire. Although they had never met these captured soldiers of the slain rebels, they were equally angry when they saw these friendly soldiers who shared the same goal of their own being killed and insulted.

After being silent for a while, Pang Yue turned over and dismounted, half-knelt on the ground, and bowed deeply to the remains of the righteous soldiers who were shown to the public at the head of the city and lying quietly in the surrounding wilderness, and said word by word: "All the righteous men are above, I, Pang Yue, swear here, if I can't break through Guangzhou, I will repay Tong Yangjia, Li Chengdong and others with the same law, and be willing to be destroyed by heaven and earth!" ”

Immediately, all the soldiers behind Pang Yue also knelt on the ground one after another, made the same oath, and the sound of the convergence soared into the sky.

At the same time, the Qing army at the head of the Great East Gate also saw the hundreds of Ming troops kneeling on the ground outside the city, although the distance was far away, and they couldn't see the other party's face clearly, but it was not difficult to feel the other party's extreme anger at the moment from the monstrous sound, and they were suddenly shocked. And when the Qing army at the head of the city saw the tiger talisman pattern military flag fluttering in the air, they showed a state of panic, not long ago they were beaten by the army under their banner, like slaughtered pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. The shock was so great that yesterday's victory could no longer provide them with enough confidence. Especially the newly attached miscellaneous Qing soldiers, almost everyone subconsciously took a step or two back.

Li Chengdong also happened to be at the head of Dadongmen City at this time, looking at the frightened appearance of the Qing soldiers around him, he suddenly became angry: these wastes are actually so afraid of the puppet Ming army! However, when he thought of the shocking defeat under Qingyuan City that day, Li Chengdong couldn't find a reason to make his soldiers confident, and it was the time to employ people, so he couldn't completely vent his anger, but he kept cheering up the soldiers under his command: "Is the Ming army so afraid?" On that day, they just got lucky to sneak attack! It's not that our army can't fight! Yesterday, our army defeated 20,000 thieves with a small number of people and thousands of people! Especially in the battle outside the Great East Gate, more than 10,000 thieves were defeated with less than 2,000 people, and Chen Zizhuang's gang was almost captured! You all have to understand that if our army is full of strength, the Ming army will be a bunch of cowards! And if we coax ourselves, it will be a dead end! Everyone can rest assured, as long as our army can hold on to Guangzhou, the reinforcements from the imperial court will arrive quickly! At that time, you will all be indispensable, and the court will definitely reward you! In addition, during the defense of the city, no matter who kills a Ming army, Lao Tzu will reward him with another five taels of silver! But Lao Tzu also said ugly things in front, if anyone escapes from the battle, he will end up with those melons hanging on the city! ”

Li Chengdong tried his best, and his throat itched. Later, the soldiers beside him repeated these words. In view of the prestige of Li Chengdong and the group of personal soldiers around him, and thinking of the reward of killing a Ming army to get five taels of silver, the Qing soldiers at the head of Dadongmen City finally stopped being as frightened as they were just now, and straightened their waists a little more.

At this time, Li Chengdong breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to go to the other major city gates to boost his morale. Before leaving, he remembered something, and ordered the soldiers around him: "Put away all the things hanging on the city, the first level is put into storage, and the bone rack is broken and fed to the dogs!" ”

"Yes! Handsome! ”

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When he returned to the camp after the inspection, Pang Yue met Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu.

After suffering a defeat last night, Chen Zizhuang retreated 20 miles and camped in a mountain col in the east of the city, and waited for Zhang Jiayu, another member of the "Lingnan Three Loyalties," to lead more than 10,000 righteous troops from Zengcheng this afternoon. Hearing the news of the defeat of the friendly army, Zhang Jiayu and the generals under his command felt the same way, and they were also sad and sighed. Subsequently, Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu learned the news that Pang Yue led the army, so they personally rushed to the Ming army camp at the foot of Baiyun Mountain with some of their entourage.

When talking to Pang Yue, Chen Zizhuang's words were full of remorse, saying that he was so greedy for merit that he caused a big failure, and he was really ashamed and shameless to face the court and the Son of Heaven. Pang Yue comforted him with kind words, and inquired in detail about all aspects of the righteous army, as well as the arrangement of the Qing army's defensive forces in the city, etc., and got detailed answers.

In the end, Pang Yue agreed with Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu that they would meet at the foot of Baiyun Mountain tomorrow and work together to map Guangzhou again. Chen and Zhang happily agreed, especially Chen Zizhuang, saying that they must be ashamed and avenge the dead soldiers.

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After sending Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu away, Pang Yue convened a military meeting to discuss the preliminary strategy for the siege. Zhang Yunli, several principal officers of the General Staff Department, battalion officers of various battalions in Huguang Town, and Chen Youlong and his deputies all attended the meeting.

At the meeting, there were various opinions on the direction of the main attack alone, and even more so on the methods of siege. Pang Yue quietly listened to the speeches of his subordinates and did not speak for a while. It's not because he hasn't thought about it yet, he thought about it for a long time when he was in Qingyuan City, and today he inspected the terrain around the city on the spot, and he already had a preliminary idea in his heart.

After the generals finished speaking one after another, Pang Yue finally stood up and poked his finger somewhere on the map of Guangzhou's urban area. Everyone stretched their necks to take a look, only to see that the place Pang Yue was pointing to was the northwest of Guangzhou City, near the Great North Gate.

Facing all kinds of eyes in the tent, Pang Yue smiled and said: "My idea is that our army will attack from here, first blow up this section of the city wall with gunpowder, and then attack directly into the city regardless of the Qinglu in other directions, and directly attack the Yamen of the puppet Governor of Liangguang and the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang. ”

As soon as Pang Yue's words fell, Zhang Yunli spoke: "The idea of the big marshal is not bad, break through the city with lightning speed, and go straight to the center of the Qingyu, once it succeeds, the rest of the Qingyu will definitely collapse without a fight." However, with all due respect, gunpowder could not blow up the city walls. To collapse such a thick wall, it must have required a powerful heavy Hongyi cannon, which we do not have in our army. ”

Before Pang Yue could speak again, Shi Lang, who had never spoken much, also spoke: "Vice General Zhang is right, at least the kind of black powder used in our army can't blow up the city wall, and if there are other more powerful gunpowder, my subordinates are not sure." ”

followed by Shi Youliang, Cui Shoucheng, and He Zhenting...... In the end, Chen Youlong and his deputies, everyone in the account, except for Pang Yue, questioned or directly denied the idea of bombing the city with gunpowder.

After scanning the audience, he didn't find a single supporter, and Pang Yue, who encountered this situation for the first time, was suddenly stunned. (To be continued.) )