The city wall of Guangzhou is full of potholes, the blood stains have not dried, the Han army has been attacking the city for half a month, many cannons on the city wall of Guangzhou have been scrapped because of overuse, the most troublesome thing is that the cannonballs have also been finished, the foreigners have gone away and fly high, the self-made cannonballs of the Qing army are not suitable, three cannons have been blown up twice, and no one is willing to control them again.

In the past few days, because the Han army has repeatedly attacked the city wall, Laicun is not in the mood to tidy up his appearance, so he hurriedly came to the governor's palace and complained to Ye Mingchen: "My lord, the brothers can't hold on, the defenders in the north of the city have suffered heavy casualties, please send reinforcements quickly, otherwise the support will not be tomorrow!" ”

"Reinforcements, reinforcements! If you need reinforcements, I will personally patrol the walls every day! Ye Mingchen was angry with these Qiu Ba, and there were not many people who died, so he just asked him for help, and became angry: "You ask all the adults here, have all the troops in Guangzhou City been given to you, can't you ask the sailors outside the city to enter the city?" ”

Governor Bai Gui looked at the unconvinced Laicun, and persuaded: "Lord Dutong, forgive me, in the past few days, the anti-thieves have been rampant, the foreigners have lost their trust, and the Governor is also on fire, there is not a single soldier in the city, and there are still 5,000 sailors outside the city, but that is the retreat of our army, and it cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary." ”

Wu Dingchang, the political envoy, offered a plan: "It is better to levy the people to garrison the city, there are hundreds of thousands of people in Guangzhou City, and send people to spread rumors and slaughter the city, and you will be able to easily gather 100,000 people." ”

Ye Mingchen nodded again and again, which reminded him of a few years ago, when the British army entered the city, hundreds of thousands of people near Guangzhou heard the wind and spontaneously drove small boats to besiege the British warships, and finally forced the foreigners to retreat and give up entering the city.

Governor Bai Gui was quite worried: "Short hair is different from people, and they have a good reputation among the people. I am afraid that the people will not believe it, and the government has repeatedly increased the settlement fee recently, and few people have signed up to defend the city. In the humble opinion of this official, it is better to summon the squires in the city to pay for them, so that Guangzhou can be safe. ”

In the past, I admired these civil officials very much, but now I can't wait to kick them over, and I haven't made up my mind about this topic after discussing it for a few days, so I don't have to wait for Guangzhou to fall before I am willing to act? Their inner thoughts are clear.

Lai Cun first looked at Governor Bai Gui, who wanted to hold Guangzhou the most. It is none other than Baigui, since the governor of Zhejiang withdrew from Hangzhou City, he was beheaded by the emperor for his crime. The governor of Fujian died in Fuzhou, and the emperor gave him a posthumous award, and Bai Gui strengthened his determination to live and die with Guangzhou, and repeatedly blackmailed the squires in the city to donate silver and grain.

Seeing Bai Gui's face, he was ashamed. Don't dare to look directly. Lai Cun looked at Wu Dingchang again, this political envoy had a bad stomach, relying on the support of Su Shun, and was the least concerned about the war in Guangzhou, repeatedly refuted the proposal of the governor Bai Gui, befriended the squire, and eyed the position of the governor of Guangdong.

Wu Dingchang said with a smile: "Lord Dutong doesn't need to be anxious, but it's a pity that the Guangzhou general Mu Teen and the right-wing Dutong Tuo En Dong'a led the army into Gui. Otherwise, where can anti-thieves be rampant, but. There are still hundreds of servants in the city, and they can still hold one in times of crisis. ”

The color of contempt flashed, he is the commander of the capital, the official rank is above Wu Dingchang, there is no need to scruple, in the face of Wu Dingchang reprimanded: "Those who report the grace of the officials, care for the people, and only care about their own promotion and fortune cannot last long!" ”

Ye Mingchen saw that Wu Dingchang's face was flushed, and he wanted to die of embarrassment, so he had to speak as if nothing had happened: "The ancients said: Good defenders are good at attacking, today we are trapped in Guangzhou, and the anti-thieves can attack without any worries, it is better for our army to attack the city and frustrate the morale of the anti-thieves, as long as we hold on for half a month, the reinforcements from Hunan and Guangxi will arrive!" At that time, it was easy to resist the Han army's siege, or to annihilate them under the city of Guangzhou. ”

Who can this nonsense fool? The defenders in the city were already demoralized, and it would be even worse if the army out of the city was defeated by the Han army.

Wu Dingchang patted his ass: "My lord is wise, the thieves outside the city will be defenseless, our army will retreat with one blow, and it is natural to win, and the enemy will not dare to continue to besiege Guangzhou in the future." ”

Bai Gui also thought that this plan was very good, although he had never led soldiers, but he had read several military books, and in his subconscious, he would definitely win when he went out of the city to fight.

With these people echoing, Ye Mingchen was very excited, and instructed Laicun: "I heard that the Jiangcun banner in the north covers the sky, and there must be an important leader of the anti-thieves among them, so I ordered the deputy general Cui Datong and the guerrilla Hong Dashun to lead 3,000 green battalion soldiers to go out of the city and attack this evening." ”

Lai Cun returned disappointed, convened all the generals to discuss, and told the order of the governor Ye Mingchen.

Adjutant General Cui Datong's face was like ashes, and he said with a crying voice: "Since Jiangcun is the headquarters of the anti-thieves, it must be heavily guarded, in case the enemy army is on guard, won't our army go and never return?" ”

Seeing that he had not fought before, he immediately reprimanded: "Bastard, there are 30,000 defenders in the city, and you will lead 3,000 people to fight, which means that the governor has high hopes for you, and you will definitely be rewarded after you come back, and it is not impossible to be promoted to the chief soldier, you don't want to go, you don't know that others don't want to!" ”

Cui Datong gritted his teeth and replied resolutely: "Wealth and danger are sought, since Lord Meng takes a fancy to it, the last general will fight again, but can you allocate the firearms in the city to the last general." ”

Lai Cun nodded, as long as Cui Datong is willing to fight, the more firearms he brings, the better, and immediately promised with a smile: "All the fires in the city will be allocated to you, and you will be given five hundred foreign guns, so that three thousand people can be equipped with firearms, and there is no doubt that they will win when they go out of the city, so you go down and prepare." ”

"Lord Xie Dutong is lifted, and it is difficult to repay the last general!" Cui Datong and Hong Dashun immediately expressed their position.

Zuo Zongtang ordered the rangers to monitor the movements of the defenders for twelve hours a day, and the Qing soldiers took advantage of the darkness to report to Zuo Zongtang by the detectives as soon as they left the city.

Li Wenmao often traveled to and from Guangzhou, and he knew the terrain in this area very well, and said: "The Qing army went out of the city at night and came to the north, and it must have come to Jiangcun, and the last general was willing to lead his troops to block it halfway." ”

"Is there favorable terrain nearby? The Qing army has 3,000 soldiers and horses, which shows that the comers are not good. Zuo Zongtang is still not at ease with the combat effectiveness of these rebels.

Li Wenmao replied: "The Qing army walked north for two hours, and there was a place called Foling City, which was a hillside, and our army was ambushed there in advance, and it was condescending to attack the Qing army, and there would be gains." ”

Zuo Zongtang also remembered the hillside, bowed his head and agreed: "Since Commander Li is willing to lead the troops, let you lead the men and horses of the headquarters to attack, and Commander Guan will cut off the back road of the Qing army." ”

Li Wenmao and Guan Ju took the order together.

Hong Dashun watched the majestic heavy rain. Worried about the purpose of this trip, he quickly asked Cui Datong: "General, it is raining heavily now. Can we still use firearms in our hands? ”

"You can use a fart! Fucking anti-thieves have besieged the city for a month, and I haven't seen a single rain under the sky, and now it's raining so hard that it's hard to walk, and we're talking about war! Cui Datong sulked at Lao Tian.

"So what do we do?" Hong Dashun saw that the team was slowly stopping, and the soldiers were scrambling to find a place to shelter from the rain, and they had no idea.

Cui Datong said loudly: "There is a high ground in front of you called Foling City. We camped there temporarily, and if it was dawn, the rain would not stop. Let's go back to Guangzhou! ”

Li Wenmao didn't expect it to rain, and there was still half an hour left at the agreed time with Guan Ju, and seeing that the Qing army had set up camp in the open space of Foling City, he could only order his subordinates to retreat. so as not to let the Qing army find out.

"Commander. It's almost time. ”

Li Wenmao was already impatient after being drenched in the rain for half an hour, jumped up, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, kill the thief!" "Take the lead in rushing to the Qing army camp.

The heavy rain was pouring down, Guan Ju's torches couldn't be lit, and when he heard the rare shouting and killing sound ahead, he didn't have time to tell, so he also rushed to the Qing army camp with his men and horses.

Hong Dashun hurriedly found Cui Datong, who was about to sleep peacefully. shouted: "General, it's not good! We were ambushed. The firearms in the hands of the brethren are out of order, and they can't resist it! ”

Cui Datong jumped up and exclaimed: "I knew that these literati were unreliable, and they didn't understand military affairs and commanded indiscriminately!" Quick, command the brethren to withdraw, to the city! ”

Hong Dashun was speechless, if he could be withdrawn, he would not come here.

When the two of them came out of the camp, they saw a group of Han soldiers killing them, they couldn't raise the mind of resistance, they ran away, the ground was wet and slippery, and the two only ran a few dozen meters, and they became the ghosts of the Han army.

Looking at the rows of surrendered Qing troops, Guan Ju said with great joy from the bottom of his heart: "I didn't expect a heavy rain from the thief to help us a lot, the Qing army lost a large number of ordnance and firearms, and killed a deputy general, this is a great achievement!" ”

Li Wenmao is also very complacent, the righteous army has never fought such a happy battle since the incident, its own casualties are only a few dozen, it annihilated the Qing army of 3,000, beheaded a deputy general, a guerrilla, and followed the Han army to fight the world is happy!

Ye Mingchen heard that the Qing army outside the city was annihilated, not only did he blame himself, but he was even more determined to send troops to attack, but this time the target was not Jiangcun, but a place called Niulangang.

Governor Bai Gui stared at Wang Zhenxiong: "Is the anti-thief's baggage really in the bullpen?" ”

"It's true, one of the leaders of the thieves is my relative, he sent someone to contact me, and the last general also sent someone to check afterwards, the bullpen post is sparsely guarded, and there are a large number of baggage inside."

Laicun felt that this sneak attack was feasible, so he no longer objected.

Ye Mingchen immediately made a decision and said to Wang Zhenxiong: "You personally lead 5,000 people to attack Niulangang, don't fall in love with war, I will send an army to meet in Sanyuanli, ten miles away from Guangzhou." ”

"The Last Will Do Duty"

Zuo Zongtang was celebrating the achievements of Li Wenmao and Guan Ju, but he didn't expect that the Qing army would carry so many firearms, and they were all brought back by Li Wenmao.

"Report, Marshal Qiqi, the Qing army has 5,000 men and horses out of the city!"

Li Wenmao was drunk and pleaded: "The last general is willing to fight, the Qing army must come to take revenge, the last general will set up an ambush again, and the Qing army will inevitably retreat." ”

Li Xuan whispered: "This time the Qing army is not good, the previous time the whole army was annihilated, in order to make the garrison in the city empty, and now send 5,000 soldiers and horses, the drunkard does not mean to drink, the last general thinks that this time the Qing army has another purpose." ”

Li Shixian said with a smile: "Since ancient times, the enemy's sneak attack has no more than two purposes, the first is where the commander is, and the second is where the grain and grass are. ”

Zuo Zongtang was frightened, and hurriedly got up and ordered: "The Eleventh Army immediately reinforces Niulangang, Li Wenmao led the men and horses of the headquarters to go around to the flank of the Qing army, and the rest of the men and horses followed me to block the Qing army head-on." ”

Wang Zhenxiong looked at Zuo Zongtang's army opposite, and was dumbfounded, not understanding why the Han army was waiting here, fighting with the righteous army in the past few years, which had lowered his IQ.

Guerrilla Chen Guohui looked at the rows of musketeers in front of the Han army in fear, and asked in a low voice: "My lord, what should I do?" Do you want to take a rush? ”

"There are traitors in our army?" Wang Zhenxiong turned his head and asked, "What kind of short hair can intercept our army's way here?" ”

"Report, Lord Qiyu General Soldier, there is a brigade of anti-thieves in the rear of our army!"

Wang Zhenxiong no longer dwelled on the problem of the traitor, and shouted loudly: "The front team becomes the rear team, the rear army blocks the short hair, slowly retreats, and those who leave the team will not be forgiven!" ”

Seeing the Qing army retreating, Zuo Zongtang shouted: "Attack!" All the troops forward! ”

"Kill"

The foreign guns ran forward and came within range.

"Bang Bang Bang"

Chen Guohui immediately transferred the musket team to the back of the army and shouted: "Shoot back, shoot!" ”

"Bang Bang Bang"

Zuo Zongtang immediately ordered the infantry behind: "The rest of the soldiers and horses are outflanked on both wings and intercepted by the Qing army's foreign spear team!" ”

At the moment of "killing", the 5,000 men and horses were divided into two teams, left and right, and rushed towards the Qing army respectively.

Wang Zhenxiong saw that the Han army was attacking fiercely, and the way was blocked in front of him, so he cheered up the generals: "The Governor personally answered in the front three yuan, everyone rushed with me, and there will be a reward when you go back!" ”

Huang Bo, the leader of the left wing, shouted to the brothers behind him: "Quick! The Qing army is a silver spear and candle, which is useless, so everyone rushes in with me. ”

The Qing army looked at the general Huang Darong at the menacing Huang Bo, but before the battle, he simply pushed out a small soldier and rushed towards Huang Bo, and he followed closely.

"Poof" Huang Bo slashed to death the Qing soldiers who rushed over, hurriedly dodged, and slashed at Huang Darong's head.

"Bell" Huang Darong returned to the knife to save himself, and the two knives collided and collided with a string of sparks.

This thief has a lot of strength, Huang Darong has always boasted of his amazing arm strength, but he didn't expect to meet a comparable opponent today.

Huang Bo was surprised that the knife that was originally going to cut off the head of the Qing army was blocked.

The two of them secretly stepped back, looking at each other carefully.

"Kill" Huang Bo shouted and stabbed Huang Darong in the head.

Seeing the other party's donkey rolling, Huang Bo was unforgiving, and chased Huang Darong with three knives.

"Down" Huang Darong hooked Huang Bo with one kick, and before he had time to step forward to make up for it, he was repelled by the Han army, and he secretly felt sorry.

Huang Bo pushed Zhou Xiuying away and scolded: "This doesn't count, you fucking cheat, come back to fight for three hundred rounds!" ”

Zhou Xiuying slashed and killed the Qing army, and scolded Huang Bo: "The marshal ordered you to cut off the retreat of the Qing army, it will be too late!" ”

Huang Bo raised his eyes and looked, and sure enough, he saw that the Qing army fought by the foreign guns was losing and retreating, and seeing that the Qing soldiers and musketeers were about to retreat to the Chinese army, he didn't care about Huang Darong on the other side, and led the soldiers to kill the Chinese army.

Huang Darong saw Huang Bo walking around, his heart palpitated, if the two of them joined hands just now, he would definitely die, and Huang Darong, who had picked up a life, did not dare to pursue, and slowly led his subordinates around the front army, intending to flee for his life. (To be continued......)

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