On the second day of the New Year of the fourth year of Yixianfeng in 1854, the forces of Guangzhou City began a contest of unprecedented scale!

The sound of guns and cannons continued to sound, Lin Haijiang, who did not carry much ammunition reserves, brandished a horizontal knife and slashed left and right, splashing like a bloody man, Zhang Zheng was rescued, Zhang Zheng and Lin Haijiang, who were stubbornly waiting for help, echoed each other to kill a bloody road, the timid were afraid of the bold, and the bold were afraid of dying, and professional soldiers were equivalent to high-quality professional outlaws in many cases.

Where can the ruffians and hooligan bandits who have gathered temporarily be the opponents of well-trained soldiers, three rows of guns first knock out the opponent's sharp spirit, and then cut off the opponent's stump and broken arm with a horizontal knife, and the blood flowed like a river, in order to survive, Lin Haijiang really let it go, as the so-called one man is desperate and invincible.

After fighting out of the encirclement, Lin Haijiang had a feeling of being suddenly separated from the world? It's just that this feeling of wielding a sharp blade inward makes Lin Haijiang very sad and worried, and this kind of killing victory makes Lin Haijiang not feel the joy of victory, but he has to do it, he can't let these peasant troops who are for their own selfish interests destroy their plan layout.

Bandits looting everywhere? Even some ruffians spread their braids, tied a red cloth strip on their heads, and began to plunder, and ordered Lin Haijiang to be executed on the spot when they encountered along the way.

The whole team! The whole team! The wounded are in the middle, stay in formation!

Lin Haijiang commanded 700 remnants of the army to retreat to the Governor's Palace, because there were high walls and thick gates, at least they could resist it, and the news from all directions was good and bad, and the overall situation was difficult for Lin Haijiang to assess for a while.

But Lin Haijiang knew very well that his most urgent thing now was to gather his elite and form an iron fist to crush the bandits who had not yet gathered to form a climate.

Bad news also came, and the eight banners of the ten battalions of the Guangzhou general Mukdenne were scattered with a bang? Mukdenne himself ran to the ship of Admiral Halder, and now the two of them are rushing to transport their family property, and not a single soldier is sent, on the contrary, after the governor Bai Gui sobered up, he immediately transferred his five battalion heads of Fubiao, and Bai Gui only sent the battalion officer, and the guerrilla was detained by him, Lin Haijiang knew very well that Bai Gui's move was afraid that his pig-headed guerrilla general would delay his business and cause trouble for himself.

Back in front of the Governor's Palace, there were more than 2,000 Qing soldiers who had fallen nearby, like defeated roosters, and the wounded in them were wailing.

Lin Haijiang didn't care about Wu Qianzong, who was guarding the door, and shouted: "First help the injured brothers into the Governor's Mansion for treatment, they are all the heroes of this rebellion, brothers!" Now I have good news for you, the brothers of the ten battalions in South Australia have boarded the ship, the ten battalions of the sailors are also gathering to outflank the bandits, the four large ships under my command are also heading for Guangzhou, and the tens of thousands of bandits in the south of the city have been routed by our thousands of men! ”

The nearby Qing soldiers were immediately attracted by Lin Haijiang, and no one even noticed Ye Mingchen accompanying Prince Yi Zaiyuan and Gege out of the mansion.

Lin Haijiang, who was unaware, took advantage of the situation to overturn a sedan chair, stood up and continued to say loudly: "This is Guangzhou, the place where we were born and raised, and it is the fathers and villagers in Guangdong who have raised us with a copper tax that has raised us big men who eat dry rice, and now the bandits are taking captivity in the city?" Can we say yes? ”

Lin Haijiang's soldiers waved the horizontal knife in their hands and screamed, driving everyone to shout that they couldn't, and then Lin Haijiang said loudly: "How many bandits? Dozens? Hundreds? There are not a thousand at most, and the rest are ordinary people who are fishing in chaos, and now I declare that if we kill the bandits, we will get 30% of the spoils, and we can't wait for the big army to come, brothers! They're here to divide our stuff, huh? What a rare opportunity! ”

"Brethren! Serve the Imperial Court! Fortune and meritorious service are only in the present day! The four-room street in the south of the city is rushing! With a wave of his sword, more than 2,000 defeated or scattered soldiers from all walks of life, plus his 700 elite soldiers, became 3,000 howling wolf cubs.

Lin Haijiang turned around and saw Ye Mingchen accompanied by a middle-aged man in casual clothes, and there was a little guy in a green hat and a horse coat next to him.

Ye Mingchen didn't care much, and grabbed Lin Haijiang's hand and said eagerly: "This is Prince Yi Zaigaki Chitose, this is Aigege, no matter what, you must protect them thoroughly!" ”

Ye Mingchen said that he was so excited that he was about to kneel down to Lin Haijiang as soon as he lifted his robe?

Lin Haijiang hurriedly made a mistake and slashed Ye Mingchen with one palm, Prince Yi Zaiyuan's face immediately changed, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat, it is not a new thing for the guerrillas of the Qing Dynasty and the deputy general to fight against the water, but Lin Haijiang said eagerly: "Lord Ye can't stay here, in case he is captured or killed, it will seriously affect his morale, Wang Dongxu, you take fifty people to send Prince Yi and Aigege to the town immediately on the far ship, and ask for help from the old port at full speed." ”

Wang Dongxu fell to his knees with a puff and said, "My lord, I am willing to live and die with my lords." ”

Lin Haijiang kicked Wang Dongxu in a hurry, and yelled: "Execute the order!" ”

Seeing this scene, Prince Yi Zaiyuan secretly praised and sighed in his heart, this is really a loyal minister at a critical juncture! Who dares to say that I have no loyalty? What happened to the Han Chinese? Prince Yi Zaiyuan took Lin Haijiang's hand and said, "Your name is Lin Haijiang?" Remember to give me a chance to survive, and the emperor and I will wait for you in Yanjing! ”

Ai Yena's gaze never left Lin Haijiang's body, which was so majestic in the sunset, and the bloody horizontal knife was murderous.

This is actually the warrior in Aiena's mind, a real man who can turn the tide in the face of danger!

It was nearly dark, Lin Haijiang led his troops to recover Xicheng and most of the northern city, the original 8,000 men and horses from all walks of life in the city were also damaged, scattered, and escaped, and now there are less than 4,000 men and horses left, and there are still 2,700 or 800 elite soldiers trained by Lin Haijiang himself, which is the only thing that makes Lin Haijiang feel very happy.

Lin Haijiang's father, Lin Hanlin, who made Lin Haijiang even more happy, organized 2,000 soldiers and shop men of the Lin family, and guarded seven or eight streets with knives.

After nightfall, there are fleeing people everywhere running to the west city, everywhere are riots and robbers, most of the city of Guangzhou is still a hell, which is also the main reason why Lin Haijiang hates the peasant uprising the most, because almost all the rebels regard destruction as the only way out, they are like locusts crossing the border, burning and looting everywhere, and the rebels who only know how to destroy but do not know how to build, waiting for him is only perish.

Lin Haijiang looked at half of the sky that was red because of the fire, and his heart was full of emotion for a while, after all, he was a little confused now? Most of the historical records about the gathering of Hong soldiers to attack Guangzhou are very vague, but there are two numbers that Lin Haijiang remembers very clearly, that is, Ye Mingchen relied on 15,000 soldiers to defeat more than 200,000 Hong soldiers, and executed 70,000 or 80,000 prisoners within a year, making the ground in Guangzhou like an iron bucket, and bandits were rampant in the world.

Ye Mingchen can't he himself? What's the problem? Military command or political inducement? Lin Haijiang decided to implement a two-pronged approach after dawn, combining political inducement with military strikes, and combining deterrence and punishment; this is an important foundation for his future development, and Lin Haijiang absolutely cannot tolerate Guangzhou being reduced to ashes in a riot.

Lin Haijiang knew that in the city of Guangzhou in front of him, Prince Yi Zaiyuan and the governor of Liangguang, Ye Mingchen, were still sent to Zhenyuan by themselves, and the Guangzhou general Mukedenne and the naval commander Halder fled without a trace, and Bai Gui, who saw that the general situation was not good, dismissed his family and piled up wood at home to prepare**?

This is the official of the Qing Dynasty? If this great Qing state is not destroyed from head to toe, it is really unreasonable, and one more day of existence of the Great Qing Kingdom is equivalent to letting the Chinese nation bear one more day of humiliation, and it will make China lose the possibility of a re-rise.

In terms of the overall situation, Lin Haijiang did not want the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to end so early, only the more chaotic he would be, the more opportunities he would have, and when Prussia helped him build a small but complete industrial system on Sumatra, and he also sat in the position of a governor and feudal official, then he could secretly make some deals with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, maintain the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, attack the Huai army and the Hunan army, and weaken the overall strength and war potential of the Qing Dynasty.

But a bad news made Lin Haijiang, who had just leaned against the corner and wanted to sit down, bounce up like a hedgehog, that is, the ammunition of the soldiers under his battalion leader had almost been exhausted.

After thinking for a while, Lin Haijiang immediately took a battalion of soldiers to the foreign companies near the wharf, the situation near the wharf was quite stable at the moment, and a large number of refugees squatted on the side of the road in panic, which was completely a situation where there was no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground.

Looking at a frightened mother on the side of the road, holding a little girl with a trace of undried blood on her head, shivering on the side of the road in the cold wind, the desperate gaze with no way to ask for help made people's hearts chill.

Lin Haijiang stopped and put his cloak on the young woman's body, and ordered the military doctor who followed him to immediately treat the little girl and the injured people nearby.

The military doctor said with a difficult face: "My lord, our own medicine is no longer enough!" ”

Lin Haijiang's eyes suddenly lifted, and he said solemnly: "I will find a way to save the people, contact nearby businesses to open the door to receive refugees, and if there is anything that cannot be opened, I will smash it open." ”

"Piercing!" A lot of people who are soldiers are very happy to do this kind of exciting thing! The head of the battalion led by Lin Haijiang was Xu Dawei's people, and most of the soldiers were natives from Guangzhou, so he gave full play to Qiu Bamen's expertise and kicked and kicked the merchants along the street.

"Lord Lin's kindness! The grace of your life! ”

The people nearby knelt down one after another, but Lin Haijiang couldn't stay, and passed by in a hurry, and the people on the side were asking about the origin of this great man who rescued the suffering.