Qu Panyun did not continue the tradition that the generals of the Chinese army rarely entered the city on the day they first conquered the city, but in the evening of the day the city was broken, he had already led the 10th Infantry Division and other units of the Third Army into the city of Guangzhou one after another.

At this time, gunshots can be heard in the city from time to time, and the firelight rises from time to time, reflecting the sky over the city redder than the sunset!

After entering the city, Qu Panyun lived directly in the yamen of the former governor of Liangguang, and the original owner of this place, Ye Mingchen, had been captured by the Chinese army in the afternoon.

Speaking of this person, it is also strange, although he tried his best to resist before, but after the city of Guangzhou was breached, he did not surrender or flee or commit suicide like other high-ranking officials and generals of the Qing court, but just sat in the Liangguang Governor's Palace, and let the Chinese army enter and be captured.

However, unlike Bai Gui, the governor of Guangdong, who surrendered very happily at the last moment, and brazenly said that he was willing to belong to Greater China, this Ye Mingchen is a bit like dough, you like to pinch him flat, knead him round, but it is not broken, and it is still the same one when you knead him.

Ye Mingchen had such an attitude, and the Chinese army was naturally not polite, and directly imprisoned him, and then he would be escorted back to Nanjing, if nothing else, he would spend a long period of house arrest in Nanjing like Li Hongzhang.

However, Bai Gui is more single, as a person of the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner, he should have been a die-hard member of the Manchu Dynasty, even if he did not commit suicide or die in battle after the city of Guangzhou was broken, but he could not surrender, he could have escaped from Guangzhou like other officials, but he didn't!

On the contrary, as soon as the Chinese army entered the city, Bai Gui took the initiative to find the Chinese army. Say that you are willing to belong to Greater China anyway!

And this should be the first high-ranking Manchu and Mongolian official of the Qing court to defect to the enemy army in the past few years.

For this person's initiative to surrender. Qu Panyun was also a little surprised, originally he thought that Ye Mingchen might surrender. But I didn't expect that Ye Mingchen didn't say a word since he was captured, he didn't seek death or surrender, in short, he was like the living dead. On the contrary, Bai Gui is also from the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner, and his surrender is beyond Qu Panyun's expectations.

However, he didn't care what kind of person Bai Gui was and why he wanted to surrender, but since he had surrendered to Qu Panyun, he still wanted to be quite welcome.

The Chinese Empire's surrender to Manchu officials, especially civilian officials, has always been welcomed.

On the same day, Qu Panyun asked Bai Gui to continue to act in charge of the people's livelihood affairs in Guangzhou, asked him to recruit forces in the city to assist the follow-up war of the Chinese army, and promised him that if he did it well. Then he will write to protect him, and it is quite likely that he will remain as the governor of Guangdong at that time, even if he is transferred to other places, but it will definitely be a flat transfer, and he will definitely not insult his current status.

Staying in the original post or transferring to another level is also the consistent way of dealing with the surrender of the Chinese Empire to the demotion of officials.

After Bai Gui heard Qu Panyun's words, he didn't know whether he was happy or what, he squeezed out a slightly ugly smile on his face, and matched his freshly shaved head. It looks a little funny.

Walking out of the former Liangguang Governor's Palace, now the headquarters of the Third Army, Bai Gui looked at the rare stars in the night sky and sighed deeply!

Although Bai Gui has surrendered, he is also a little unwilling in his heart. Bai Gui is also an ordinary person, he can't bear to lose his official hat for many years, and he doesn't want to die in the chaos. On the other hand, he was also a man of vision, as the governor of Guangdong, he knew very well that the Chinese Empire was already powerful. Whether it is the north, the west, or the south, there is no single power in contemporary China that can resist the rise of the Chinese Empire.

Even in the later period, the situation of the Chinese Empire took a sharp turn for the worse. At least it can share the world with the Qing army or the Taiping army, and no matter how good the Chinese Empire is, it can have at least a few decades of national fortune.

And this is enough for Bai Gui to make him surrender, the good bird breaks the wood and perches, he Baigui still wants to continue to be active in Chinese politics, he also wants to leave a name in history, so he must continue to be an official, if he wants to keep his official position, he must surrender to the Chinese Empire.

If he didn't surrender, even if he wasn't captured and didn't die in the chaos and barely escaped from the city, he couldn't escape from the charge of losing Guangzhou or even the whole of Guangdong, and even if he wasn't questioned by the Qing court in the later period, he would have to be 100% dismissed, and it would be impossible for him to continue to be his feudal minister.

After many considerations, Bai Guicai chose to surrender to the Chinese Empire!

But despite the fact that he had surrendered, this Bai Gui was just an ordinary person, and he did not feel happy about his betrayal, but felt a little shame and frustration.

After all, he is not a heartless person, and he has some scruples in the face of reputation such as betrayal and traitor.

The only consolation for him was that he had been an official in Guangdong for many years, and he had already taken his family with him, and he would not have his family in another place like some other officials who defected, and the Qing court would arrest and kill their family members after they surrendered.

Shaking his head, throwing away the messy thoughts in his heart, he beckoned a few of his staff members over.

One of them, a middle-aged man with a goatee and a long cloth robe, stepped forward a few steps and said, "Dong Weng, what does it say?" ”

At this time, if you let Lin Zhe or several other early senior generals of Yu Shengjun, then you will recognize this person at a glance as the former Xu Naizhao's staff 'Huang Yidian'.

Huang Yidian used to be Xu Naizhao's main staff member, and served as a liaison with Yu Shengjun for a long time from 1853 to 1854.

But I don't know why I came to Guangdong, and I became Baigui's staff.

Bai Gui said: "General Qu has no intention of embarrassing us, and now he has asked the official to prepare for the people's livelihood affairs in Guangzhou, and asked the official to recruit the people in the city to assist in military affairs!" ”

Huang Yidian shook the paper fan in his hand and said, "Sure enough!" I have long heard that the Chinese army treats the officials of Toucheng well, and it is true that when I see it today, if Dong Weng does a good job this time, it will be sooner or later that he will be appointed governor of Guangdong. Even if you can't stay in Guangdong, you can follow the rules of the Chinese army. At that time, Dong Weng will also be able to be transferred to the ministry or other second-grade official positions! ”

This Huang Yidian obviously knows the Chinese army very well: "Now the Chinese army is expanding here, as long as Dong Weng makes meritorious contributions." It's not impossible for him to go one step further! ”

Bai Gui obviously didn't want to listen too much to what Huang Yidian said, so he just shook his hand and said: "Let's go back first, go back and call everyone back, this general can't be lazy, we must organize people to repair the city wall tonight!" ”

As he spoke, another demoted official on the side, who also had a shaved head, complained: "They are too, if they knew that they were going to defend the city, they shouldn't have broken the city wall in the first place!" ”

Huang Yidian next to him rolled his eyes directly, not breaking the city wall. How could these Chinese troops enter the city?

Looking at the people beside him, and then at Bai Gui, who was obviously a little depressed in front of him, Huang Yidian couldn't help but think of his last Dongweng.

Compared with Xu Naizhao a few years earlier, this Baigui is undoubtedly much worse!

Maybe Xu Naizhao was defeated and died in the end, but when it comes to personality charm and courage, he is much stronger than Bai Gui.

Since Xu Naizhao died in Suzhou, Huang Yidian escaped from Suzhou when the city was broken, and in recent years, he ran to Guangdong in order to make a living, and entered Baiguimen after dragging the relationship. And Huang Yidian was able to be entrusted with a heavy task by Xu Naizhao as a confidant, and this ability was naturally not bad, so he was soon reused by Bai Gui.

Before, when the Chinese army came to the city of Guangzhou. He just persuaded Bai Gui to join the Chinese Army, saying that Bai Gui's family was also in Guangzhou anyway, which meant that he had no worries. And after surrendering to the Chinese Army. There is a very high probability that he will remain in his original position, that is, continue to be his governor of Guangdong.

Under the persuasion of Huang Yidian. Bai Guicai finally made up his mind to take the initiative to surrender!

Of course, Huang Yidian was able to convince Bai Gui. The main thing is that Bai Gui himself already has these thoughts, otherwise it would be useless to persuade Huang Yidian.

As a second-class governor who is about to enter the top of the officialdom, Bai Gui is naturally not a three-year-old child who will do whatever he asks others to say a few words, the reason why he surrendered is because he has this thought, and Huang Yidian's persuasion just gave him a reason to convince himself.

And now that he is already a member of the Chinese Army, even if he has some other distractions in his heart, he also knows that his fate has been tied to the rise and fall of the Chinese Army from now on.

So even if it is for himself, he must assist the Chinese army to defend the city of Guangzhou!

To be honest, he still has great confidence in whether the Chinese army can hold the city of Guangzhou, and through the two-day observation of the battle, he can also see the strength of the Chinese army.

From yesterday to this morning, there were only more than 8,000 people in this 10th Infantry Division, and the time to participate in the attack before and after was definitely not more than 10 hours, but in just a few hours, everywhere the 10th Infantry Division went, the Qing troops defending the city collapsed one by one!

As for those auxiliary defense forces, they are supporting roles from beginning to end, even if the Eighth Auxiliary Defense Division has undertaken all the combat tasks in this afternoon's battle, but this is also based on the fact that the Chinese army has broken through the city wall and smashed the organized resistance of the Qing army, and the operation of the Eighth Auxiliary Defense Division this afternoon is actually to clean up the scattered Qing troops in the city, and there is no large-scale battle with the large-scale Qing army.

Although Bai Gui is not a military general, he has seen a lot of troops, the Taiping Army, the Qing Army Green Battalion, the regimental training, the Eight Banners and the training army that has only emerged in recent years, he has a slight view, but he has never seen the army in China and the Royal Army of the Chinese Army in front of him, almost able to conquer Guangzhou City with a sweeping attitude.

With such a strong army, even if he is facing the threat of foreigners, Bai Gui is not too worried.

In his opinion, the foreigner's army is also a foreign gun-like cannon, and the royal army is also a foreign gun-like cannon, and it is said that the training method of the royal army is also the same as that of the foreigner army, and the weapons are comparable to the drill, but the royal army in Guangzhou City is two or three thousand more people.

The Anglo-French troops who landed on the north bank of the Pearl River were rumored to have only 5,000 or 6,000 men, but the 10th Infantry Division of the Chinese Army had more than 8,000 men, in addition to at least 15,000 auxiliary troops, that is, the 8th and 27th Auxiliary Divisions and the thousands of Qing troops led by Bai Gui to surrender to Chengcheng.

Then when necessary, Bai Gui can also force and mobilize the people in the city to assist in defending the city, so that they can go up directly to fight, but it is still no problem to repair the city wall, logistics and transportation.

If these tasks can be replaced by the people in the city, then the Chinese army will be able to free up some auxiliary forces for infantry. (To be continued......)