The wheels of history are rolling forward, and the many historical events that should have happened have not changed much because of the arrival of the Crossing Crowd.

However, the butterfly effect caused by crossing the crowd is constantly expanding, Zhang Xianzhong, who did not plan to attack Guangzhou in history, but because of the prosperity of Liangguang in the past two years and the flight of a large number of gentry to Liangguang, he is ready to wave his army south, break through the city of Guangzhou in one fell swoop, and then come to a big search for Guangzhou.

The affluence of Liangguang attracted Zhang Xianzhong's coveting, and after looting in Hubei, and having enough military salaries, he again recruited tens of thousands of landless peasants to join his army. and personally led the army south, known as the army of 200,000.

Before the war was fought, Zhang Xianzhong's envoy arrived in Guangzhou, and asked Shen Youlong to obediently abandon the darkness and turn to the light, otherwise it would be his end when the army arrived.

How could Shen Youlong, who was deeply favored by the emperor, surrender because of just a few words, not to mention that he was a very loyal courtier, not such an ungrateful villain.

Although Zhang Thief is powerful at this time, it is also very difficult to break through Liangguang, let alone attack Guangzhou, there are still a large number of troops in front of him, and there is also the support of Australians in the rear, he really has nothing to fear just waiting for Zhang Xianzhong's arrival.

Not to mention the claim of 200,000 people, even if there are real ones, he is not afraid, the 26-pounder artillery from Australia is not vegetarian, and if you come to one, you will be called a skin and flesh.

Not only does he have a batch of Australian-style weapons in his hand, but he also has a new army unit that can be put into the battlefield at any time, if he is still scared, then his old Shen can really go home and farm.

In fact, the actual number of Zhang Xianzhong's southbound troops was less than 150,000, and according to reliable intelligence, the maximum number of people who could fight was about 50,000, and in fact, the 100,000 people were basically mixed with the number of people in the ranks.

Regardless of whether these people can fight or not, first of all, if the quality of the heart is not high, they will definitely surrender in fright, there are many such things in history.

It's basically every troubled time. The untiring trick of the leader of the peasant rebel army, trying to overwhelm the opponent with numerical superiority and make the opponent submit, is a kind of psychological tactic, in the art of war, it is a soldier who surrenders without a fight.

But Zhang Xianzhong is facing Shen Youlong, this lord is a master who later led the villagers against the Qing Dynasty, and he is not afraid of death at all, it is useless how many people you come, even if you break through the level, it is just a death for him.

Under this premise, no matter what tricks Zhang Xianzhong used, it was useless to Lao Shen. And it will only make him feel that Zhang Xianzhong has no bottom in his heart, in fact, he is also tempting.

Zhang Xianzhong's composition is complicated, in order to expand his power, as long as he surrenders, he will take him in, so naturally there are bandits and bandits and the like in it. Every time they attack the next city, they will plunder, which is no longer their rule.

It can be said that the Zhangbu peasant army, which went all the way south from Wuchang, basically did not encounter any strong enemies, and basically did not fight any hard battles all the way down from Hunan, which made Shen Youlong have to scold the officials in Hunan.

If they can effectively block it, at least they can reduce Zhang Xianzhong's marching speed. No matter how bad it is, his combat power can drop a lot, but the reality is that these people don't have any effective resistance at all, either they run away with people, or they just let people pass.

So Zhang Xianzhong's people are Shaoguan. Once Mengku, which entered Guangdong, was opened, it would not be difficult to besiege Guangzhou.

Shaoguan must not be lost, and Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses must not be allowed to enter Guangdong, otherwise the people of Guangdong will suffer, in order to stop his attack. Shen Youlong had 30 26-pounder guns erected on the Shaoguan city wall to block the opponent's attack.

The power of the artillery finally temporarily suppressed the enemy's attack, but Zhang Xianzhong would not give up so quickly, in his opinion, Guangzhou was a mountain of gold and silver waiting to be plundered. I missed such a great opportunity, and I don't know when it will be until the next time.

Since the other party used artillery to block the attack, then he could also use artillery to attack, Zhang Xianzhong's troops actually appeared 26-pounder cannons, after the failure of the first round of attack, the next day he decisively changed the offensive strategy, and also set up artillery under the city wall to fight back against the Ming army defending the city.

However, judging from the reaction of the shells he shot after they exploded, it seems that the power is not as great as that of the Ming army, and these shells should have been imitated by himself or purchased from other places.

Although the power is not great, it also brings a lot of trouble to the officers and soldiers defending the city.

Zhang Xianzhong knew where his weakness was, and his artillery concentrated on attacking the city gate, even in a thick city gate, it could not withstand rounds of artillery fire.

Finally, under a shooting, the eastern city was successfully blasted away, at this critical juncture, the defenders in the city immediately rushed to the city gate to reinforce the side, fortunately under the city gate, Shen Youlong listened to the Australians' suggestion to set up a coffee mill machine gun.

The peasant rebels who rushed to the front fell in pieces under the strafing of machine gun fire, some of them were screaming with big knives and wanted to get up and charge again, while others did not stand up after falling.

In the face of this unexpected situation, Zhang Xianzhong was also surprised, originally thought that the broken city gate could be successfully captured, but he didn't expect that the other party would have such a sharp weapon, it was really light on the enemy.

Originally, I thought that Shen Youlong only had some artillery and muskets at most, these things were not to be feared, and Zhang Xianzhong's troops also had them, but now that something was more terrible than artillery, it had to make him give up the attack and temporarily retreat after deliberation.

After such a decision, it can be regarded as a chance for the Ming defenders of Shaoguan to win, and they quickly sent people to Guangzhou to report to ask for reinforcements, on the one hand, they stepped up the repair of the bombed city gate.

At the same time, this time also let the generals of the defenders see the power of the new weapons, if there were no these weapons in hand today, with such a large number of Zhang Xianzhong, I am afraid that they would have broken through Shaoguan and marched towards Guangzhou.

On the one hand, Zhang Xianzhong is indeed withdrawing his troops, and on the other hand, he is also planning this next attack, if he encounters such a little resistance, he will retreat, not to mention that he himself does not agree, even the people under his command will not agree.

In order to devise a better offensive plan, he decided to temporarily withdraw his troops and stationed ten miles away from Shaoguan City to find a way to solve it.

At the same time as he withdrew his troops, the spies who were going to Guangzhou for help also arrived at the Liangguang Governor's Palace, and explained all the situation here, hoping that Shen Youlong would send reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise the enemy was likely to break through. (To be continued......)