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Song Kun's troops were in a large battalion on the left, and after he returned to the camp, he immediately gathered officers and assigned tasks, and soon a small detachment of 1,000 people set off, and finally Song Kun personally left slowly with an army of 40,000.

"My lord, aren't we going to fight Sanshui?"

When Song Kun's army arrived at Sanshui County, he suddenly turned along the Suijiang River and did not attack Sanshui County, and Xie Fei gave him the order to take down Sanshui and block Geng Zhongming's rescue force here.

The main force of the Qing army in Guangdong was led by Hong Chengchou, and the core was surrounded by a large army of Shang Kexi, with 150,000 troops, and it sat in Guangzhou.

In addition, Geng Zhongming led 50,000 troops, stationed in Zhaoqing, to the east to support Guangzhou Hong Chengchou, to the west to support Guangxi Kong Youde.

"Hit Sanshui? It's so easy to separate from Xie Fei's idiot, can Lao Tzu still follow his playing style? Let's fight Zhaoqing! ”

Geng Zhongming only has 50,000 soldiers, how can he satisfy Song Kun's appetite just by intercepting it, he plans to take down Geng Zhongming's lair and destroy Geng Zhongming's army in turn.

"Is this a siege for reinforcements?"

"Haha, let Xie Fei go to the encirclement, and Lao Tzu will come to help. When Lao Tzu killed Geng Zhongming, the prince of the Tartars, and then turned around to hit Guangzhou with one blow, Xie Fei's kid's face would probably look good. ”

"But my lord, isn't it too risky to use 10,000 people to stop Geng Zhongming. I heard that Geng Zhongming's command is all elite! ”

The subordinates said worriedly that they already knew about the situation in Guangdong, and Hong Chengchou had reorganized all the surrendered Ming troops. But the army in the hands of King Sanshun. It's still the most elite part. The elite soldiers and strong generals selected from the Ming army were directly incorporated into the army of King Sanshun.

Although the total strength of the Qing army exceeded 300,000, the most powerful was the 50,000 troops led by the Sanshun kings.

"Hmph, 50,000 troops, not necessarily the whole army, if even this bit of people can't stop it, Lao Tzu let them go to Saigon to fight bandits again."

In fact, Song Kun's subordinates not only completed the task well, but also successfully dragged Geng Zhongming's advance route. also made Geng Zhongming mistakenly think that he had encountered the main force of the Ming army.

This group of people was divided into a team of 1,000 people, harassing Geng Zhongming day and night, just like the usual combat methods used by the Eight Banners, harassing and sneak attacking, like wolves, entangled, and almost burned Geng Zhongming's grain and grass baggage, forcing Geng Zhongming to move the army and the baggage troops together, which greatly slowed down the march.

It took ten days for Geng Zhongming to finally arrive in Sanshui County.

At this time, Song Kun had already led his troops to Sihui. Surrounded the four cities of the city, with a posture of attacking. The frightened Sihui County made the order tremble, but overnight, Song Kun's army disappeared, leaving only patches of empty camps.

Geng Zhongming was very upset, and the army he encountered was completely different from the Ming army in his impression, with sneak attacks, arson, night attacks, and all kinds of terrorist practices, which were not above board at all, like bandits more than like an army.

And he is very cunning, many times he set traps but did not trap these people, these people are like wolves, they can always predict the danger in advance and escape the traps he set.

But what annoyed Geng Zhongming the most was that even if these people were pursued by him, they could always escape, they were all infantry, how could they run so fast, and they didn't follow the rules, they scattered in a hurry at every turn, so that you didn't know where to chase if you wanted to, and if you scattered the pursuit, they set a trap from time to time.

Fortunately, he finally arrived in Sanshui County, he could take a rest, but he didn't dare to correct it for too long, the city of Guangzhou was in danger, and the other party's 150,000 troops were besieging the city, which could be broken at any time.

Guangzhou is the fulcrum of the whole of Guangdong, and if Guangzhou is lost, there will be no point in Guangdong going on defense.

For others, it may not matter if the gains and losses of one city or one place are lost, but for Geng Zhongming, it is different, because Hong Chengchou has asked the imperial court to change the title of Geng Zhongming as the king of Jingnan to sit in Guangdong, and Guangdong may be his domain in the future, so Guangdong must not be lost.

After resting in Sanshui for three days, Geng Zhongming eagerly urged his subordinates to set off, but at this time, a call for help from the direction of Zhaoqing suddenly came.

Geng Zhongming just thought about it briefly, and immediately understood that he had been fooled and fell for the other party's plan to lure the snake out of the hole.

Accustomed to fighting, Geng Zhongming was still very decisive, and immediately ordered all the baggage to be abandoned in Sanshui County, and then went into battle lightly, leading a total of 20,000 cavalry to aid Zhaoqing!

A cavalryman jumped off his horse, swam across the wide moat of Guangzhou City, and ran to the south wall of Guangzhou.

Soon the ropes were lowered from the tall walls and pulled him up.

After listening to the messenger's reply, Hong Chengchou's expression immediately changed.

"King Huaishun has been tricked!"

The messenger said: "The prince already knows that he has been tricked, so he returned to the army to rescue Zhaoqing." Let the villain come to inform Lord Hong that when my prince relieves the siege of Zhaoqing, he will definitely return to the army to rescue Guangzhou. ”

Hong Chengchou sighed: "Returning to the army is the middle plan!" ”

The messenger was stunned, how could he go back or be in the middle of the scheme?

Where did Hong Chengchou have the kung fu to explain so much to him.

Said eagerly: "Go back quickly, tell your lord, don't fight with thieves, and return to Sanshui quickly!" ”

The envoy did not know why, but he did not dare to disobey Hong Chengchou's order, so he could only go out of the city again, swim across the moat, and gallop south on a war horse tethered to the bank.

Hong Chengchou guessed correctly, but unfortunately it was too late.

Geng Zhongming already regarded Guangdong as his territory, so he never wanted to lose any place, and when he heard that Zhaoqing was in danger, he was anxious, where could he take care of the plan.

As soon as he came out of Sanshui, he was immediately targeted by the Ming army outside the city, and one by one he tore them like jackals, but this time Geng Zhongming didn't want to entangle with them, he just wanted to rush to Zhaoqing as soon as possible.

But the more he doesn't want to entangle with these people, the more annoying these people are, like flies, they can't get out of anything, they will always appear in front of you, blocking your path, but when you decide to fight them seriously, they suddenly disappear.

Geng Zhongming didn't get tired of it, and suddenly another enemy army appeared in front of him, Geng Zhongming didn't think about it, and asked people to disperse them.

Soon the subordinates reciprocated, not only pushing the opponent back, but also surrounding the opponent.

Geng Zhongming couldn't help but be overjoyed, although he was anxious to relieve the siege of Zhaoqing, but if he could eliminate this group of Ming troops, he could also let out a bad breath, he was harassed too much by this kind of person along the way, and he lost his mind a little.

Immediately led the army forward, and found that the other party was forced to a large river beach, and held on to a simple wooden fence.

Geng Zhongming did not doubt that he immediately let the army attack immediately, and quickly solved this group of Ming troops of more than 1,000 people, and he had to rush back to rescue Zhaoqing.

But just when Geng Zhongming thought that this was just a small group of harassing Ming troops, suddenly tens of thousands of people poured out of the nearby grass and surrounded him.

Geng Zhongming reacted at this time, he was tricked again, this was a trick, but it was too late, when the reeds by the river began to drill out of the opponent's centaurs, he wanted to run too late, because his soldiers were stuck on the soft river beach, and the war horses couldn't run at all, and the other party except for the river side, the east, west, and south appeared almost at the same time, blocking all his escape roads.

The cavalry encountered double and their elite infantry on the river beach, and were flanked from the inside and outside, the outcome was already obvious, and there was no other possibility than the total annihilation.

Geng Zhongming's head soon appeared under the city of Sanshui County, and after making a promise not to kill the prisoners, the green battalion soldiers in the city surrendered.

At this time, Song Kuncai was there, and the old god ran to take Zhaoqing without hurrying.

Then he returned to Guangzhou with ease, and it took less than 20 days before and after, and at this time, the city walls of Guangzhou were collapsing everywhere, and Hu Quan planned to demolish the entire city of Guangzhou with cannons.

Hong Chengchou was furious when he received the news that Zhaoqing and Sanshui had fallen and Geng Zhongming had been killed.

Immediately ordered the entire army to recruit dead soldiers, to go out of the city to assault the Yang family's army, and those who are willing to go will be given one hundred taels of silver each.

Shang Kexi immediately responded to the order, to take his 20,000 cavalry to raid the enemy, and the remaining green battalion troops, only 30,000 brave men, a total of 50,000 people, 20,000 cavalry plus 30,000 brave men under the heavy reward, under the eyes of the whole city's military and civilians, these 50,000 people are going out of the city from the south of the city, and then all the way to the south, to the south, to the south, to the south, disappeared in the field of vision of Guangzhou City.

"Hong Jingluo, are you really going to give up Guangdong?"

The two rode side by side, and Shang Kexi asked regretfully.

A person dressed as an ordinary white-armored soldier next to him turned out to be the most powerful Jinglu Hong Chengchou in the entire southern and Qing army.

"I can't hold it. Sanshui Zhaoqing has been lost, while the lineage of Guangzhou City has not been found out by the Ming army, we still have the opportunity to retreat north to Huguang, otherwise the Ming army will know, I am afraid that the other party will send troops from Jiangxi to surround us. ”

Losing Zhaoqing lost contact with Kong Youde, the Qing army in Guangzhou became a lone army, and Hong Chengchou had to give up here, but when he left, he also used an insidious trick to make the green battalion soldiers in Guangzhou City think that they were going to attack the Ming army, and they would not break up for a while, and the Ming army was determined to bombard the city wall, and it was not necessarily a siege for a while, which gave Hong Chengchou time to escape.

This strategy was very successful, and the 50,000-strong army left the city of Guangzhou, bypassing the Ming army and quietly heading north, all the way to Qingyuan, then to Yangshan, to Lianzhou, and finally from Lianshan back to Hunan.

As soon as he arrived in Hunan, Hong Chengchou immediately sent someone to contact Kong Youde in Guangxi, asking him to immediately organize a defense of the Ming army in the direction of Guangdong, and in case he could not hold it, he would retain his troops and retreat to Hunan.

Xie Fei only invaded Guangzhou City at this time, and there was no organized resistance in Guangzhou City at all, the Qing army either ran away or surrendered, at this time Xie Fei knew that Hong Chengchou had given up Guangzhou, as for when he gave up, the Qing army in the city itself couldn't say clearly, and even most people thought that Lord Hong was sick and had been raising troops behind closed doors during this time. (To be continued......)