In the General Staff Headquarters in Nanjing, Luo Jian was watching the briefing.

Although the Qing army was defeated and fled in Guangdong, they were advancing in other directions.

After Haoge occupied Sichuan as quickly as possible, he immediately marched to Guizhou with an army of more than 100,000 troops, preparing to take Guizhou and then march to Yunnan.

At present, the three divisions of the National Defense Force have been dragged to death by Duoduo and Tan Tai in the direction of Guide and Yizhou, and the only combat forces that can be mobile are currently only the three divisions led by Liu Zhaoji.

But Luo Jian is currently unable to expand more troops, limited by the production capacity of military factories, even if the army is expanded, I am afraid that he will have to use cold weapons, and if he wants to defeat the Qing soldiers by relying on cold weapons, Luo Jian is not sure at all.

Even with the current troops, the Provisional Government feels very difficult to supply, food and grass are not a problem, and the most important thing is that there is not much gunpowder in stock.

Luo Jian originally wanted Liu Zhaoji to continue to march to Guizhou after repelling the Qing troops in Guangxi, but now it seems unrealistic.

After the southbound army defeated Hong Chengchou in Guangzhou, Liu Zhaoji refused Gu Yuanjing's invitation to enter Guangzhou City to rest for a few days, and ordered the cavalry division to take the lead, and the three divisions and one brigade began to march to Guangxi.

The 140,000 Qing soldiers were wiped out 60,000 or 70,000 people, and Liu Zhaoji was not worried that the remaining Qing soldiers who fled separately would turn around and attack Guangdong again, and Hong Chengchou would not have the courage to do so.

In real history, the capture of Guangxi by the Qing soldiers was completed by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming until next year, and there were basically no Manchu troops, and most of the people led by them were traitor troops.

The current situation in Guangxi is not very different from the real history, a large number of Ming troops were concentrated near Guilin, and there were more than 100,000 people, and under the leadership of Qu Shiyun, the governor of Guangxi, and Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Guangxi, they were desperately resisting the Qing troops.

However, the 110,000 Qing soldiers led by Bolobel were far more powerful than in real history, although Guangxi also received a circular from the Nanjing Provisional Government, but the sudden collapse of the Southern Ming Dynasty, there was no emperor in the world, and the Guangxi officials headed by Qu Shiyun still felt very confused, although the resistance of the Ming army in Guangxi was stronger than in real history, but it was still unable to resist the pace of the Qing army.

What really made the Guangxi Ming army make up its mind to resist was after the National Defense Army defeated the Qing soldiers in Guangzhou, and Liu Zhaoji asked Gu Yuanjing to send a fast horse to inform Guangxi after the war, which made the Guangxi army and people really have the heart to defend to the death.

Bolobelle led the Qing troops to besiege Guilin for three days, but the Ming army in Guilin under the organization of Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang also defended well, although the Ming army suffered many casualties, but the Qing soldiers did not see the hope of capturing Guilin for a while.

When the vanguard of the cavalry division of the National Defense Army arrived in Pingle, Guangxi, and was only a little more than a day's journey from Guilin, Liu Zhaoji led the 1st and 2nd Divisions and the artillery brigade to Hezhou, Guangxi.

There were 80,000 or 90,000 Ming troops in Guilin, and the streets were full of Ming soldiers wearing red uniforms.

When the Wehrmacht army came to help, Qu Shiyun had already sent someone to inform the whole army.

For the national defense army, the Ming army all know that it is the former Yangzhou army, and the Yangzhou army has won every battle against the Qing soldiers since the governor came.

The Ming troops in Guilin did not believe the news that the Wehrmacht had annihilated 780,000 Qing soldiers outside the city of Guangzhou, but it was always a fact that Hong Chengchou's 100,000-strong army had been beaten and fled, otherwise the Wehrmacht would not have been able to abandon Guangzhou and come to the rescue of Guangxi.

There were more than 20,000 cavalry among the 110,000 Qing soldiers led by Bolobele, and these cavalry could not participate in the siege, and Bolo personally led the cavalry to watch from afar beyond the range of the artillery on the city of Guilin, and when the city of Guilin was broken, they would rush into the city as quickly as possible.

When Hong Chengchou sent someone to inform Bolo of the news of the defeat of the Wehrmacht in Guangzhou, and at the same time Hong Chengchou asked Bolo to lead the Qing troops to retreat immediately and not to confront the Wehrmacht.

Although he had not fought against the Wehrmacht, Bolo was not unaware of the Wehrmacht, and he knew that the Wehrmacht's firearms were extremely powerful, and Dorgon had already informed all the Qing soldiers to be careful against the Wehrmacht.

Seeing that the city of Guilin was about to be captured, once the retreat now would be wasted, Bolo was really unwilling, he carefully calculated the distance of the Wehrmacht from Guangzhou to Guilin, and felt that it would take at least five or six days for the Wehrmacht to arrive in Guilin, and he made up his mind to fight.

Bolo's plan is still very good, he is ready to take Guilin, let the infantry army enter the city to use the existing and Qing soldiers in the city to defend, the Wehrmacht wants to take Guilin in a short time is also very difficult, and he himself personally led 20,000 cavalry outside the city to look for fighters, once the Wehrmacht ammunition is exhausted, then his opportunity will come.

Today, as soon as the sky is dark, the siege of the Qing soldiers has begun, and the offensive of the Qing soldiers today is more fierce than on any previous day.

The onslaught of the Qing soldiers at the cost of soldiers' lives made the city of Guilin feel unprecedented pressure.

The artillery on the head of the city erupted from time to time, and the artillery of the Qing soldiers outside the city also roared incessantly, and the siege battle began with the artillery battle of both sides.

The artillery of the Ming army has obvious disadvantages, the key is that the artillery of the Qing army is all used in a centralized manner, and although the artillery of the Ming army is also quite numerous, it is all scattered on all sections of the city wall, and the firepower is far less concentrated than the Qing army.

Sufficient time for the Ming army to carry out a thorough reinforcement of the city wall, the Qing soldiers want to bombard the city wall but can't, the actual significance of this kind of artillery battle is not great, the Qing soldiers finally have to rely on siege equipment ants to attack the city.

Many Qing soldiers had climbed the city wall on the ladder of the siege, but under the desperate resistance of the Ming army, they were quickly cleared.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang each led hundreds of personal soldiers to run around under the city wall, running wherever it was critical, and Qu Shiyun's personal soldiers even personally participated in the battle on the city wall.

Finally repelled another attack by the Qing soldiers, Qu Shiyun finally breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't remember how many attacks the Qing soldiers had repelled today.

With his own soldiers, he ran to the tower of the north gate of Guilin City, and Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Guangxi, had already arrived, and was observing the movements of the Qing soldiers with a group of Ming generals on the city tower.

The Qing soldiers had retreated to rest beyond the range of the artillery at the head of the city, but there was no sign of retreat, and there were still countless craftsmen behind the Qing army who were constantly building ladders and other siege equipment.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang resolutely refused to surrender to the Manchus in the desperate situation in history, and in the end they were both captured and killed, and now that reinforcements are coming, there is still hope, and of course there is no possibility of surrendering to the Manchus.

It's just that how long Guilin can last, both of them really don't know the bottom of their hearts.

Although the number of Ming troops in the city is quite a lot, but the combat effectiveness is far from the Qing soldiers outside the city, once the Qing soldiers attack the city wall, to eliminate a Qing soldier, the Ming army often has to pay the price of three or four people, not to mention the fire and archers of the Qing soldiers under the city wall to the Ming army is extremely deadly.

What worries the two the most is that some of the Ming generals in the city have insufficient confidence in whether they can hold Guilin, and Zhao Yinxuan, the chief soldier of the original garrison in Xing'an, and Hu Yiqing, the chief soldier of Guilin, saw that the Qing soldiers were too eager to attack the city, and they were ready to abandon the city and flee.

Qu Shiyun pulled Zhang Tongchang aside and quietly told him the situation, most of the Ming troops in the city were subordinates of these two people, and once these two people ran away, the loss of Guilin City would be overnight.

"Look! Look! The Qing soldiers seem to have retreated! ”

Just as the two were discussing countermeasures, the cheers of the Ming army came from the city wall.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang didn't care about discussing it anymore, and hurriedly climbed to the top of the city tower to take a look, and saw that the Qing soldiers were retreating backwards one by one, and a large number of cavalry and a group of Qing soldiers of about 20,000 people were rushing towards the southeast of Guilin City.

"Are the reinforcements already here?" Qu Shiyun asked Zhang Tongchang suspiciously.

"Won't it be so fast? It can't be that something happened to the Qing soldiers themselves, right? Zhang Tongchang was very skeptical, calculating the time, the reinforcements were not so fast.

Reinforcements did arrive, and the first to arrive was Lou Ting's cavalry division.

What Bolo can think of, Liu Zhaoji can certainly think of.

Liu Zhaoji was worried that if the Qing army captured Guilin, it would be troublesome for the Wehrmacht to attack the city, so he ordered the cavalry division to advance quickly without any delay along the way.

Lou Ting's cavalry division traveled under the stars and nights, and finally arrived at the time when the Qing troops were in the most urgent need to attack the city.

The arrival of the cavalry division caught Bolo by surprise, he really didn't expect the Wehrmacht to be so fast, and Bolo had the idea of retreating.

But Bolo's idea was quickly dispelled, for the scouts reported that the Wehrmacht had only about 10,000 cavalry, and that they were not accompanied by artillery.

The Wehrmacht was the most powerful artillery, and now there was a consensus among the Qing soldiers, and when he heard that the reinforcements were not carrying artillery, and that the scouts did not find that there were any reinforcements to follow, Bolo felt that his opportunity had come.

The cavalry division did not directly rush towards the Qing soldiers, but stopped ten miles away from the Qing soldiers, and the stopped cavalry divisions all dismounted and slowly advanced in the direction of Guilin on foot.

The cavalry division unhurriedly advanced in the direction of Guilin City, and the tall towers of Guilin City were already faintly visible, and the distance was only about six or seven miles.

Qu Shiyun and the generals of the Ming army had already seen Lou Ting's cavalry division, Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang both wanted to let the Ming army in the city go out of the city to receive reinforcements, but they were rejected by Hu Yiqing and Zhao Yinxuan, on the grounds that the number of reinforcements was too small, and the number of Qing soldiers was too large, and they were worried that the rescue would not be successful, so they put themselves in.

The first contact with the cavalry division was the Qing cavalry, and when the scouts reported to Lou Ting that the Qing cavalry was approaching, Lou Ting ordered the cavalry division to set up a defensive formation.

The defensive formation of the Wehrmacht is quite different from the offensive formation, which is a small phalanx, while the defensive formation is much larger than the offensive formation in terms of size and density, which also makes the firepower more concentrated and can give the attacking enemy maximum damage.

The Qing cavalry stopped more than a mile away from the cavalry division, where they were to launch an attack formation.

Bolo rode his horse and stopped on a high ground behind the brigade of cavalry, and he was somewhat strange about the terrain chosen by the Wehrmacht.

Lou Ting's choice of terrain was below a gentle slope, and the Qing troops would attack down from this not steep slope, where the Qing cavalry could quickly increase their horse speed.

Bolo didn't understand Lou Ting's intentions, but Wang Zecheng understood best.

Although the Qing soldiers were very easy to attack on this kind of terrain, it was difficult to escape, and Lou Ting wanted to use this terrain to give the Qing cavalry the greatest damage.

In order to maintain the most continuous fire strike, the 5,000 riflemen of the cavalry division lined up in five rows, that is to say, from the usual three-stage shooting to five-stage shooting, which was the first time after the Yangzhou Type 1 rifle was issued, and the previous maximum was four rows. The phalanx of the other riflemen was much smaller, which Lou Ting had prepared for the next pursuit.

On the city wall of Guilin, it can be clearly seen that the Qing cavalry of the brigade has stopped on the hillside, the bright steel knife has been raised in his hand, the archers have taken off the cavalry bow from their backs, it is obvious that the Qing soldiers have set up a charging formation, and everyone is beginning to worry about the Wehrmacht who are coming to help.