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"Grand Governor, report from the battle!" Not long after Geng Jingzhong returned to the barracks, Li Guangdi walked in with two battle reports.

"Meizhou and Chaozhou seem to have been won?!" Geng Jingzhong raised his head and said in confirmation. In fact, when he saw Li Guangdi's expression, he knew that things should be about the same, and there should be news from these two places at this time.

"The Metropolitan Governor is like a god! According to the front-line battle report, Meizhou and Chaozhou have been taken along the way, and the cleanup is carried out as planned. At the same time as they took the two prefectures, they also notified the new army in the rear to dispatch and take over the various prefectures and counties. Jiang Yuanxun had continued to advance south at this moment, and he was asking for instructions on whether he wanted to go directly to Guangzhou and make peace with General Zeng. ”

Geng Jingzhong said with a smile: "As long as he has a lot of things, just follow the plan, if General Zeng needs it, he will definitely give him an order." Meizhou Chaozhou is close to Fujian, and it is also deeply influenced by our Fujian, so it is not difficult to manage. It's just to the south, and it's not easy to do it in Guangzhou. The people of Guangzhou hate my Geng family! This time, we went south to attack Guangdong, which just aroused their sadness, and the wound that had been almost healed was torn open again, and no one could feel it. As he spoke, his smile disappeared and he shook his head unnaturally.

"Don't worry, it's been so many years, and it's not you who did the wrong thing, so you don't have to blame yourself so much. However, over the years, Shang Kexin has also downplayed these hateful efforts. In recent years, he has also worked hard to maintain order in Guangdong, appease the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, and vigorously develop the Xue Palace. Promote agricultural development. Donated funds to build Buddhist temples to accommodate those monks in the former Ming Dynasty. It also cracked down on pirates in the waters of Guangdong along the southeast coast. The Qing court canceled the order to move the border and ban the sea, and this series of events did win a lot of support from the local people. But in the past five or six years, Shang Zhixin has wasted his father's hard work. Shang Zhixin's private tax in Guangdong's private market can be described as a tyrannical expropriation, and the surrounding areas of Guangzhou can be described as boiling public resentment. Let's capture the city of Guangzhou, maybe the people will welcome it in a big way! ”

"I hope so!" Li Guangdi's words were not without the meaning of comforting Geng Jingzhong, but what he said also had some truth. "Don't talk about this, I'll see the battle report!"

"Oh!" Li Guangdi was stunned. Hurriedly handed the two-point battle report to Geng Jingzhong. "The Metropolitan Governor forgives sins, this patronizing speaks!"

Geng Jingzhong carefully read the two-point battle report, and the content was almost the same, both of them were Shun Lì to take Meizhou (Chaozhou) City Yunyun, and other counties also took over Shun Lì. But all of them want to continue to march to the southwest and continue to attack the city. After Geng Jingzhong read it, he thought for a while and then said: "Their mood of wanting to make contributions is understandable, but they are a little too impatient. After taking Meizhou Chaozhou, the place will be quiet? According to the intelligence, there are a lot of mountain bandits in Guangdong. Did they clean it up? I really thought that the capture of the county seat would be over, and I had already told them. Take down a land and govern a land, and they all take my words as wind in their ears? ”

Seeing that Geng Jingzhong was angry, Li Guangdi also sweated for Jiang Yuanxun and Fang Dahong, and most of his own governors were not angry. Most of the governors were angry, and immediately sent a letter to reprimand them. If you want to completely stabilize the prefecture and county, you really have to make a heavy hand. Now that the local defenders have all been taken, these mountain bandits must take thunderous measures, and all the people must really see the combat strength of our Mawei Army, and also have a deterrent effect on those with bad intentions. ”

"That's it, just follow the plan. Ordered the troops at the front, if they did not complete their mission, they would always leave me there. If they still want to make contributions in other directions, they will all calm down for me and do it step by step. ”

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

Once again, half of the 200 solid bullets smashed into the city wall of Guangzhou, smashing tunnels of different sizes on the city wall, but they did not damage the city wall at all. More than a dozen shells hit the city gate, causing the gate to rattle and cause dust to fall. It stands to reason that although the gate was made of half-foot-thick planks and covered with iron sheets, it was not so resistant that it should have been shattered. But now only a few cracks have appeared, and they are still standing there intact. The city tower above the city gate, many of the previous two rounds of shelling fell directly on it, until the doors and windows of the city tower were broken, sawdust flew wildly, and the buildings on the city gate tower also collapsed, and more than a dozen defender soldiers were killed, and other soldiers on the city tower were also frightened to hide.

The Mawei army did not take the lead in using flowering bombs in this siege, because they were afraid that the Guangzhou army would retreat into the city and rush out to attack them when they entered the city. Shang Kexi prepared a lot of troops in the city, just like Geng Jingzhong deployed heavy troops inside and outside the city of Fuzhou. Although their 8,000 marines were quite numerous, it was really not cost-effective to go to Heping Nanwang's army in a short encounter, so it was better to paralyze the enemy with solid bullets first. But even so, the scene of two hundred cannons firing a salvo is shocking enough, and after two rounds of shelling on the city tower, the defenders on the city tower are also killed and wounded.

The city gate hole has been blocked by Shang Kexi's order, and now there is no need to worry about the Mawei army attacking from the city gate. The only concern was whether the walls of Guangzhou City were strong enough to withstand the shelling of the Mawei Army. According to the news I got yesterday, Chaozhou City could not withstand the bombardment of the Mawei Army's artillery, and it collapsed a small section of the city wall before the Mawei Army could attack it. Now the whereabouts of the second son Shang Zhixiao are unknown, and the eldest son seems to be more auspicious. The only thing I am glad about is that I have enough sons, but I am not worried that no one will send me to the end.

The city of Canton was indeed a fortified city, and after withstanding hundreds of solid shells, there was still no response. Shang Kexi is not on the city tower at the moment, but standing on the top of Panlonggang in Yuexiu Mountain, where the largest fort in Guangzhou City is located, and it was originally prepared to bombard the Mawei Army with the cannons here, but looking at the situation at this time, it is not needed in a short time. This fort was built 18 years ago, that is, in the 10th year of Shunzhi. Because the fort is square, it is commonly known as the "square fort". This fort is 48 meters long and wide, and 7 meters high, and is divided into two parts: the outer platform and the sub-platform. Originally, there were only 22 large and small cannons in this fort, but two years ago, Shang Zhixin added eight more Hongyi cannons to it, and it became 30. At present, the outer platform is equipped with 20 cannons, and the sub-platform in the middle of the platform is equipped with 10 cannons, and more than half of these are 18-pounder guns, making this fort an important stronghold of Guangzhou's city defense.

This had to be placed in the past, and Shang Kexi would not be shocked by the current siege tactics of the Mawei Army. In Shang Kexi's view, the siege should be close to the city wall, set up a ladder or a tower car, and then climb up to attack, to put it bluntly, it is to take people to pile up, and take people's lives for the city, so the siege war is often the biggest loss. Ordinary generals will try to avoid siege warfare, and the horsetail army in front of them has completely subverted the traditional concept of Shang Kexi, people and horses are not close to the city wall at all, and they will be bombarded with artillery from afar, looking like they are planning to blast the city gate open. I couldn't help but be horrified in my heart, can the siege war still be fought like this? He had fought all his life, and he had never seen such a siege.

Although more than ten years ago, they also used artillery to attack the city many times, but it did not have the same effect as now. However, he also saw that the artillery siege of the Mawei Army on the opposite side was different from the previous ones, the first was that they didn't have so many powerful Hongyi cannons before. At that time, it was already very good for them to have three or five gates, and the bombardment of the city was only aimed at the city gate or the obvious tower, unlike the Mawei army, which was in full bloom as it is now. On the other hand, the cannons he had seen didn't seem to have the same accuracy as the Mawei Army in front of them, and the shells they fired could only control one direction, and as for hitting, it would be up to heaven! (To be continued......)

PS: The ticket vomited blood