The 16th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar. ∑ top novel, www.Tainan General Headquarters.

A huge map of South China covered half of the north wall of the headquarters, and on the map, dozens of red and blue arrows were scattered in all directions, and the toothed defense signs like the Great Wall fell on Liangguang and Fujian, dozens of prefectures and counties.

The central and eastern parts of Guangxi have been painted red, and only the three prefectures of Sicheng, Zhen'an, and Guishun, which are close to Yunnan and Guizhou, are still under the control of Qing officials. The western part of Guangzhou has been completely taken, although some places have not yet deployed troops, this is because Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and Li Shien's troops, the main spearhead of more than 10,000 troops of the three armies is all directed at Guangzhou.

Li Shien, who rushed to kill the fastest, had already conquered Zhaoqing Mansion with his troops, and the 3,000 New Army of the Eight Banners was as rotten as mud in the offensive and defensive battles in Zhaoqing. Li Shien was only a battalion of troops, outnumbered, and captured Zhaoqing Mansion in one morning. Now the offensive of the Qin army and Liangguang is really in full swing!

Liu Zhuo led his troops to the southeast of Yunnan, and Qi Dalin's troops were gradually landing in Leizhou. Xiang Fa led his troops to conquer Chaozhou and was marching to Zhangzhou, and Liu Xian's army oversaw the coastal areas of Fujian. On the entire offensive map of the Qin army, only the situation in Hanzhong is not known.

The distance between the two sides is too far, and the contact is troublesome. However, as far as Hanzhong's preparations are concerned, it should not be a loss to stick to the turf.

"Marshal, Li Shienke went down to Zhaoqing Mansion and has collected about 2,000 Qing troops to surrender, leaving only one squadron and some wounded soldiers and baggage soldiers in Zhaoqing, and the remaining main force is all killed in Sanshui. Li Xueming and Wu Jinzhu also gathered and surrendered one army, together with two brigades, to guard Gaozhou and Luoding. Its main force has also taken Xinhui and marched to the west bank of Xiangshan. ”

"Ruilin and Changshan gathered the Eight Banners New Army. Together with more than 3,000 people from the Governor and Guangdong Training Army, as well as 10,000 people from the old army. The total number of troops exceeded 20,000 and they held on to Guangzhou. Zhang Zhaodong led more than 1,000 people to train the army, more than 3,000 people from the old army were stationed in Huaxian, Liu Songshan led his main force to train 1,000 troops and entered Huizhou, and his nephew Liu Jintang led a battalion to Jiaying ......"

An attendant was reporting to Liu Xian the latest battle report on the return of Guangdong. Liu Xian stood silently in front of the map. At this moment, he felt the powerlessness of the doppelganger, or the slow development of technology. If there is a radio station at this time, Liu Xian will not hesitate to pay a price. Configured to the brigade level. Then he was in Guangzhou, but Chaohui's war could also be calmly commanded. The scope of his golden finger has expanded to more than five hundred miles!

"Order Qi Dalin to lead his troops to Guangzhou as much as possible, and coordinate and command the battle of Guangzhou!" At the end of this month, Liu Xian wanted to enter the city of Guangzhou with great fanfare.

Zhang's affairs have always been a time bomb, and if he doesn't hold the flag man in Guangzhou in the palm of his hand, Liu Xian will not be at ease. And the fleet is about to return, what better place to meet the fleet than Guangzhou?

The Son of Heaven was furious, and millions of corpses were ambushed. Thousands of miles of bloodshed. Of course, Liu Xian is not as good as a real son of heaven, but once his will is decided, the soldiers under his command, who are counted in tens of thousands, will really bleed and fight hard.

Qi Dalin is still in Gaozhou. Liu Xian's telegram was sent directly to Lianzhou, and then it was a day before it was sent to Gaozhou. After receiving the order, Qi Dalin did not dare to slack off at all. Immediately took the troops he had gathered at hand, and hurried towards Guangzhou. There were about 3,000 men in total, and among them there was a cavalry brigade. A full battalion head, and Qi Dalin's brigade headquarters, as well as a small number of baggage troops. Of course, he also had to strictly order the follow-up troops to speed up the progress.

However, when Qi Dalin and his troops arrived at the outskirts of Guangzhou, the war had already begun.

More than 50 artillery pieces on both sides covered the smoke and dust of the bombardment of the Liwan line on the Pearl River, and the commanders of both sides could not see the situation of the positions clearly. The troops at the forefront had to put their mouths to their ears and shout hoarsely when they conveyed orders.

"Sue sù Xiantai, the rebel army Li Xueming's department has launched an attack on the front line of Dali Town on the west bank of the river. The artillery fire of the rebel army was very fierce, and he asked Xiantai to requisition artillery again to suppress the rebel artillery. Otherwise, our army in Hexi will be worried. "Zeng Minxing, the chief soldier of Nanshao Lianzhen, asked Ruilin for rescue when Li Xueming's infantry attack was not big, and he asked Ruilin for help.

This man's guts have been broken. Nanshaolian Town has a total strength of four or five thousand people, directly under the jurisdiction of three battalions of Zhenbiao, and also under the jurisdiction of Sanjiangkou, Nanxiong Erxie, and Qingyuan, Fogang and other battalions. As a result, on the way of Li Xueming's attack on Guangzhou, he lost three battles and three defeats, and lost the defensive area cleanly. Only climbed to Guangzhou with 2,000 remnants of soldiers, and continued to be arranged by Ruilin to the front line.

Li Xueming really wanted to promote his position as regiment commander to brigade commander. Therefore, he urgently needed military exploits, and since the beginning of the war, he has been rampage all the way, and his troops are directed at Guangzhou. After Liu Xian's order was conveyed to him, he even wanted to make a lot of credit before Qi Dalin, the 'mother-in-law', arrived, and it was best to take Guangzhou before Qi Dalin!

So he took the initiative in this battle. He personally supervised the headquarters of the war station to launch an attack on the strongholds and positions on the outskirts of Guangzhou. He told his subordinate soldiers that his battalion had just been formed, and it was regarded as a second-rate unit in the Qin army, and it was almost the same level as a person like Li Shien.

In attacking Guangzhou this time, the troops must exert their strength well.

Compare Wu Jinzhu and Li Shien, and compare them with the first-class troops that come up behind, and take a look. Let's see who's the real second-rate goods!

So Li Xueming directly gathered all the heavy artillery at hand. He did not hesitate to bombard the other side of the river with shells, just to get a lead.

Qi Dalin has not arrived now. The three Qin armies outside Guangzhou City couldn't control anyone. Even though Li Shien has few soldiers and a low position, he has nothing to do with Li Xueming and Wu Jinzhu. When Li Xueming sent his troops to attack, he also wanted to eat a bite of fresh peaches first.

Dali Town is close to Liwan, and the lychee trees on both sides of the river are a major scenery of Guangzhou in later generations.

The confluence of the two rivers gave rise to the Pearl River, the largest river in Guangdong. This Liwan is just east of the herringbone.

Guangzhou Station has repeatedly surveyed the terrain, this section of the river is three or four hundred meters wide, the terrain on both sides of the river is flat, and there is no danger to defend at all. The only obstacle is the Pearl River.

Zeng Minxing led the remnants of Nanshaolian Town to guard here, that is, relying on the Pearl River to resist. Of course, Li Xueming's attack position will not be directly facing the fork in the word 'human', and it will be two miles downstream, where the water flow is the slowest and the slowest is there.

Zeng Minxing, who had never been in contact with modern warfare at all, although he also requisitioned the people to build several trenches according to the guidance issued by the governor's yamen, but how can modern warfare be composed of just a few trenches?

Moreover, Zeng Minxing dug trenches, and did not even know how to set up ammunition reserves and places for the placement of wounded soldiers. And because the trench is close to the riverbank, the groundwater is high, and the trench excavation is very shallow.

How strong was the defensive line of 2,000 remnants along the sparkling east bank of the Pearl River? It's worth thinking about and considering.

The shelling began at 5 a.m. It didn't end until 7:30 a.m. During the two-and-a-half-hour shelling, the artillery brigade under Li Xueming fired at least 1,500 shells. The entire Qing army's position was like the farmland that had been turned over in the north.

The artillery of the Qing army also kept firing back, and a large number of shells were sprayed. Guangdong is a bloody place, and what the yamen has in its hands is money, and there is also Guangdong Customs. So after the situation was tense, Ruilin ate millions of taels of silver from the hands of foreigners.

More than ammunition, these Qing troops were more adequate than the Qin army on the offensive.

Captain Zhou Tianyi is a veteran who joined Liu Xian when he first entered Sichuan to fight Shi Dakai, and his qualifications are very old but his progress is slow, and it was not until last year that the captain was completely corrected. Although he had been trained under artillery bombardment, after defeating Xining in the Battle of the Western Expedition, he was left in Dangar City, and he still felt that he was simply in hell with no actual combat experience! He couldn't feel the counterattack and suppression of the Qing army on the other side of the Pearl River by his own artillery behind him. Holding his head and squatting on the ground with his mouth open, he scolded the artillery for being incompetent! It's been so long, and I haven't knocked out the cannon on the other side.

In fact, Li Xueming's artillery captain, of course, wanted to knock out the artillery on the opposite side. Both sides were fighting this attention, and the positions of the artillery brigades were changed by four, but with meagerly effect.

Finally got up until the end of the shelling, Zhou Tianyi jumped up, "Hurry up and find out the situation of each squadron!" He shouted to the correspondent beside him, but he couldn't hear his own voice, and the correspondent also looked at Zhou Tianyi stupidly, obviously he didn't hear Zhou Tianyi's order, only saw Zhou Tianyi's mouth moving.

After the intense shelling, people will experience temporary deafness in their ears. After Zhou Tianyi grabbed a wooden stick and wrote it on the ground, the correspondent saluted, shouted 'yes', and ran quickly.

The Qing army on the other side of the river was still in chaos. In the continuous artillery fire, the staff officers who were in charge of the front-line did not know whether they were killed or escaped from the battle, but they could not be found anyway.

"Zhentai, the rebels have begun to cross the river. Wang Shenrong can't find it......"

Zeng Min scolded his mother angrily. When the shells that fell outside began to thin out, he began to have his reserves reorganized, but it had been more than a quarter of an hour now, and the reorganization had not yet been completed. The rebels are about to attack, and the front-line commander has disappeared again, which is the day to kill him.

"Sue sù Xiantai, support, I want to support. Otherwise, Liwan can't hold it! ”

Zeng Minxing once again asked Ruilin for help. And then it doesn't matter whether the reservists are chaotic or not, anyway, pull everyone up and go straight to the front.

The soldiers of the Qin army who came out of the anti-artillery hole looked like mud monkeys with gray heads and dirt faces. But the speed of boarding and rowing is not slow at all. When Zeng Minxing led his troops to the first trench, Zhou Tianyi had already led his troops to jump out of the trench, carrying a thin bamboo raft, and all of them were launched.

Seventy or eighty bamboo rafts, floating on the river surface of this section of Liwan seem to be dense. Zeng Minxing was startled at first glance.

"Wait for the bandits to get closer, enter the firing range, and then fight."

Zeng Minxing screamed like this. As the chief soldier of a town, he appeared on the front line, so that the Qing soldiers in the chaos did raise their morale, and the people's hearts also had a trace of stability. But when the guns rang out intensively again, and Zeng Minxing retreated from the front line with a group of personal soldiers like rabbits, the morale of the Qing army was greatly reduced, and the chaos that had just been suppressed became even worse. (To be continued......) R527