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Just as Pang Yue, Chen Zizhuang and others were talking, Li Chengdong and other Qing generals were looking at the continuous camp tents and banners at the foot of Baiyun Mountain opposite the city of Xiaobeimen. Li Yuanyin, the www.biquge.info of Li Chengdong, the son of Li Chengdong, the generals Du Yonghe, Li Hangui, Zhang Yue, and Hao Shangjiu, the general who had just led the army back from Huizhou yesterday, were all present, looking at the momentum of the Ming army and the righteous army outside the city, and everyone's expressions were different.

Since returning from the defeat in Qingyuan that day, Li Chengdong expected that the next target of the Ming army would be Guangzhou, so he immediately sent people to inform the Qing army guarding the prefectures and counties to come to Guangzhou to strengthen the defense. However, the Ming army also came relatively quickly. Before the Ming army besieged the city yesterday, only Hao Shangjiu, who was guarding Huizhou, led the army to arrive. Hao Shangjiu is a capable general under Li Chengdong, and his soldiers and horses are also the largest among the other prefectures, counties, and towns, but there are only more than 2,000 people, and there are very few cavalry, and almost all of them are the original Guangdong Ming army that surrendered at the end of last year. But even so, Hao Shangjiu's arrival still made Li Chengdong a little more confident, now the total number of troops in the city has 7,000, and the gap with the Ming army has been further narrowed, plus the strong city as a support, it may not be impossible to hold Guangzhou.

"The thief army is powerful!" Hao Shangjiu looked at the red flag at the foot of the mountain, and let out a sigh of emotion, "I think there will be a hard battle this time, and it is really not easy for our army to hold Guangzhou!" ”

Although Li Chengdong was very dissatisfied with Hao Shangjiu's words and deeds that destroyed his own prestige, considering that he was the first to lead the army to support Guangzhou, it was not good to reprimand him too much. So he forcibly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and said: "Is this a good thing to worry about?" The puppet thief army is nothing more than a bluff. At first glance, there are tens of thousands, but most of them are nothing more than hastily formed bandit armies, a pure rabble. And the strength of our army is no longer in the minority. And the weapons are complete, the grain and grass are sufficient, and there is a fortified city under the feet. How could they be afraid of those southern barbarians on the day of the donkey? ”

Hao Shangjiu sighed and said: "The last general has followed the commander to fight for so many years, I don't know how many times he has crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, he has already looked down on life and death, how can he be afraid?" Now that the commander has made up his mind, the last general will follow it! ”

"That's right!" Li Chengdong's face softened slightly, "Everyone has to understand." If we can't hold Guangzhou this time, Lord Tong, I, and everyone present will not be able to escape the severe punishment of the imperial court. You will lose everything you have, including your life! ”

Speaking of this, a hint of fierceness flashed in Li Chengdong's eyes: "In addition, Lao Tzu will give you another reminder." That day under Qingyuan City, you also heard the slogans shouted by the puppet Ming army, right? We want to avenge those southern barbarians who died in Jiading! Don't forget. The original Jiading thing. We all have a share! If it falls into the hands of the Ming army, whether it is captured or we surrender on our own initiative, we will not be able to escape the way of skinning and cramping and a thousand knives. Even if you abandon the city and escape, you will inevitably be stabbed by the imperial court. Therefore, the only way out for us is to summon up the courage to fight and hold Guangzhou, so that the imperial court will naturally no longer blame us for the previous defeat. Otherwise, he would have died in Guangzhou. In this way, your family members who are far north will not be implicated. Instead, he will receive a lifelong pension from the imperial court. There is no other way out! Do you get it? ”

"The handsome man has bitter words, and the last general will keep it in mind!" Hao Shangjiu took the lead in replying, and then the rest of the generals also echoed.

"Good!" Seeing that all the generals had expressed their attitudes, Li Chengdong nodded with satisfaction, "Now there is plenty of grain and grass in the city, which is enough for our army for a year. As long as we wait for us to unite and hold on, the imperial court will soon send troops to the rescue. At present, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian are all stationed in our army, but the strength of the puppet Ming court is stretched. ”

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In the camp of Huguang Town

After soliciting some of the opinions of Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu, Pang Yue made a series of arrangements. Among them, most of the men and horses of the Huben Battalion, Taishan Battalion, Agni Battalion, Chen Youlong's Division, and Zhang Jiayu's Righteous Division went to the southeast of the city to camp and attack the Dadongmen, Yong'anmen and the Xiaonanmen area south of Xinnancheng, which was jointly commanded by Zhang Yunli and Zhang Jiayu. The trapped camp, part of the artillery of the Huashan battalion, the Taishan battalion, and the volunteer division of Chen Zizhuang went to the northwest of the city to camp and attack from the area of the Great North Gate, under the command of Pang Yue and Chen Zizhuang. In addition, the Flying Tiger Battalion and a small number of cavalry members of the Rebel Army were responsible for patrolling around the city to prevent the Qing troops in the city from abandoning the city and fleeing. Although Pang Yue felt that Tong Yangjia, Li Chengdong and others would not give up Guangzhou at the risk of losing their heads and their whole family being connected until they had to do so, they also had to guard against it.

Regarding Pang Yue's arrangement, Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu also had no opinions. The 50,000 troops under the city began to move, rising from the foot of Baiyun Mountain, and then divided into two parts, and went to the northwest and southeast of Guangzhou City respectively to make relevant preparations before the siege.

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When the Ming army and the anti-Qing righteous division outside the city stopped and began to camp, Li Chengdong finally determined the direction of their attack, and then couldn't help but sigh in his heart Pang Yue's treachery.

The Ming army and the rebel army put the main forces in the northwest and southeast directions, and there were not a few troops in each direction, and they all had the ability to attack the city alone, which meant that the Qing army in the city needed to strengthen its vigilance in both directions at the same time. The Great North Gate in the northwest and the Great East Gate and Yong'an Gate in the southeast are almost on the diagonal of Guangzhou City, the farthest apart, although it caused some inconvenience to the Ming army in the two directions in terms of communication, but the Qing army was more affected. Although the communication between the Ming army was inconvenient for a while, both groups of men and horses could attack the city alone, and they could completely divide the labor according to the prior arrangement and act separately according to the assigned tasks, and they would not be greatly affected. However, in this way, the already small Qing army in the city was divided into two halves, and due to the distance between them, the possibility of timely reinforcements was also minimized. Of course, if Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong were ready to give up Guangzhou and break through, it would not be difficult to find a breakthrough, but Pang Yue seemed to have already guessed their thoughts. It was not heavily defended on all sides, but a cavalry was sent to patrol around and keep guard. But then again, even if only this cavalry is there. It may not be easy for the Qing army in the city to break through the siege, and Li Chengdong tasted the power of it when he was under the city of Qingyuan.

But no matter what, after learning the direction of the main attack of the Ming army, Li Chengdong, who was originally a little apprehensive, made up his mind and began to deploy the defensive forces in the city according to the deployment of the Ming army's troops. The only remaining 2,000 descendants around Li Chengdong were divided into two, half of which was personally led by Li Chengdong, and more than 2,000 former Guangdong troops defended the Dadongmen and Yonganmen areas in the southeast. The other half was led by Tong Yangjia and Hao Shangjiu. plus another 2,000 original Guangdong troops, responsible for defending the area of the Great North Gate in the northwest. In addition, Li Chengdong had previously intimidated through threats such as "when the puppet Ming army comes, they will kill you". He forced the wealthy families in the city to pay money, raised 2,000 people, and distributed weapons to defend the rest of the city gates with the remaining Qing army. In order to prevent the recurrence of internal responses like Yang Keguan, Tong Yangjia also gathered his standard battalion and the personal soldiers of various generals. A number of Warlords have been formed. Go to the gates of the city to overseer them.

"The only way to do this is to fight to the death with the Ming army! ......After assigning the task, Li Chengdong made a mobilization to the generals and soldiers under his command.

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Throughout the morning, the Ming army did not launch an attack on the city of Guangzhou, but was making various preparations before the battle, such as building auxiliary siege equipment, observing the terrain, choosing a specific offensive route, and so on. Although the battle has not yet begun, there is already a tense atmosphere of "black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy the city" around it, and the Qing soldiers on guard at the head of the city all widen their eyes, clench their weapons, and nervously observe the movements under the city.

Midday. Smoke rose from the camps of the Ming army in the northwest and southeast of the city. Before the meal, Pang Yue, who had already led the army to the northwest of the city, came to the large camp in the southeast again. See for yourself how prepared for the war.

According to the original plan, the soldiers and horses deployed in the southeast of the city will take the lead in launching the attack at about half past two in the afternoon of the next six o'clock. But first of all, the main force attacking the city was neither the Ming army nor the righteous army, but the 4,000 Qing army captured in Qingyuan that day.

Before coming to Guangzhou a few days ago, Pang Yue considered that the Qing army had a large number of prisoners and it would be inconvenient to be detained in Qingyuan, so he discussed with Yang Tinglin and selected 4,000 ordinary soldiers from more than 6,000 prisoners, preparing to use them as cannon fodder when attacking Guangzhou. These 4,000 people were all miscellaneous Qing soldiers who originally belonged to the Guangdong Weisu Army and Fujian Qing soldiers, and the officials and assistants inserted by Li Chengdong have all been cleared out and imprisoned. After that, Pang Yue reorganized these captives, and handed them over to Shi Fu and other Fujian army officers to command, and ordered them to attack the city first and make atonements.

After entering the camp, Pang Yue saw that the 4,000 captives were sitting on the ground under the supervision of the officers and soldiers of the Huben battalion, listening to the officers of Huguang Town doing pre-battle mobilization.

“…… Are you hungry? If you're hungry, listen up! An officer of the Supervision Division was putting a simple horn surrounded by iron in front of his mouth, and said in a loud voice, "The commander doesn't care about your previous mistakes, and gives you a chance to atone for your crimes!" When the time comes, you will attack the Tartars in the city first, and only if you behave well and move forward, no matter what the outcome, you will have meat to eat! If you can kill the Tartars, you'll get an extra silver bounty......"

Listening to this mobilization, Pang Yue couldn't hold back a smile and walked over.

"Dashuai!" Seeing Pang Yue coming, Zhang Yunli, He Zhenting and other generals who were nearby walked over to greet him. After that, he followed Shi Fu, Cheng Sheng and other generals who were about to serve as the vanguard.

Pang Yue came to Shi Fu and Cheng Sheng's side and said with a smile: "I'll have to worry about the two generals later." Since the two of them can get lost and return to the imperial court, this shows that the two of them are still loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Next, Pang hopes to see the two generals use their own practical actions to wash away their previous mistakes. When the time comes, Pang Mou will also ask for credit from Governor Yang, the two of them to the imperial court, and the rest of the soldiers who have lost their way back! ”

"Thank you, Boss!" Shi Fu, Cheng Sheng and the others showed smiles that were more ugly than crying, and hugged their fists in thanks. Although Pang Yue was smiling and said more politely, Shi Fu and the others were still as uncomfortable as swallowing flies. It's just that now that they have been reduced to prisoners, they don't have too many choices.

"That's good! Then I will wait for your good news! Pang Yue nodded, and then went to inspect the preparations in other places.

Looking at the back of Pang Yue's departure, Shi Fu couldn't help but sigh heavily, thinking in his heart: When the time comes, he must find a way to keep the old brothers in the Fujian army no matter what.

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"Boom! ――”

At less than six o'clock in the afternoon, with the first shot of the Agni Battalion, the battle to recover Guangzhou first began in the southeast of the city.

After a round of artillery bombardment, thousands of Qing prisoners who had already been branded with red flags, lured by food and silver, carried long ladders and pushed shield carts to launch the first round of attacks on those former brothers and sisters in the city. (To be continued.) )