After cleaning the battlefield, Zeng Guohua led the army back to the camp.

Huang Xu got the report and personally went out of the camp to greet him, of course, he had to praise Zeng Guohua greatly.

And for this battle, Huang Xu is very satisfied.

Of course, Zeng Guohua is also very happy, and it must be a happy thing to be praised by His Majesty the Emperor himself.

And to get back to business, the reinforcements of the southerners have been defeated, and the attention of the Taiping army will turn to Lang Son City again without suspense.

So, after the army rested for a while, Huang Xu gave the order to attack Lang Son City.

The Taiping army had already been delayed for a long time outside Lang Son City, and they had to speed up their efforts to take Lang Son City.

The main force of the attack on Lang Son was still the Third Army led by Hu Linyi and Luo Zenan, and the Fourth Army led by Zeng Guohua and Peng Yulin, because they were originally responsible for the siege.

After receiving the order, these two main armies each launched a tsunami-like attack on Lang Son City.

Since the reinforcements of the Nanyang people were defeated, the Taiping army had no worries, and they could launch an attack regardless of the situation, and then attack until they finally took Lang Son City.

Before the Taiping army attacked, Li Jingguo in Langshan City was racking his brains to find out why the Taiping army did not move.

At the same time, he sent two more groups of men to Hanoi to ask for help from Nguyen Tien Gi, but so far, there has been no reply.

He knew the current situation better than anyone else, although the internal problems of Langshan City were temporarily suppressed by him, and at least he guaranteed that they would not start chaos from the inside, but once the Taiping army attacked the city, they still couldn't stop it.

Perhaps, their only hope now is Nguyen Tien Gih's reinforcements.

But. Li Jingguo didn't know that Ruan Tianyi's reinforcements could not come.

If he knew that the 100,000 army led by Ruan Tianyi had been wiped out, then the disappointment in his heart must be conceivable.

Just imagine, it was full of expectations, but this hope was ruthlessly shattered, and this kind of blow was a bolt in the air for Li Jingguo, who was in a desperate situation.

Maybe so far uninformed. For Li Jingguo, it is a kind of luck.

At the very least, he still has hope in his heart, and if there is hope, there will be motivation, and he will give birth to the determination to hold Lang Son.

If there is no hope, what else will he do to defend Lang Son.

Therefore, there is also the advantage of not knowing, at least this indirectly helped Li Jingguo and gave him more confidence to defend Langshan.

Thereupon. Li Jingguo waited anxiously and painfully for the news of reinforcements, and ordered the southern army to resist the Taiping army's attack to the death.

In the end, the news was finally waited, but it was bad news.

The news came from the side of the Taiping Army.

The reinforcements led by Ruan Tianyi were ambushed by the Taiping army, and the whole army was annihilated, and Ruan Tianyi's life and death were uncertain.

When Li Jingguo heard the news, he was stunned. If this news is true, it means that reinforcements will not come. This is indeed a heavy blow to Li Jingguo and others, who are looking forward to the stars and the moon.

In other words, from now on, Yi Qiē can only rely on himself, and there is no one who can help them.

Frankly. He would rather not believe this news, because, with his understanding of Ruan Tianyi, this guy is like a monkey, how could he be ambushed by the Taiping army so easily. Besides, even if you are ambushed, it is impossible to wipe out the entire army, at least some people can still escape, how can it be possible to be completely annihilated.

It's a little impossible, even a little incredible.

Li Jingguo thought over and over again, he just didn't want to believe that this was true, he preferred to believe that this was a rumor deliberately spread by the Taiping Army in order to disturb his army's morale, which was not true.

However, whether he Li Jingguo believes it or not, it doesn't matter now, because all the soldiers under his command have already believed it.

They all knew that reinforcements would not come.

Under the heavy blow of such a shocking news, the morale of the southern army was shaken, and the morale went straight down.

Li Jingguo was also afraid, because if the army's spirit dispersed, they would be completely finished.

This time, I'm afraid that even if he has great ability, it will be impossible to redeem this crumbling military heart.

It's really an internal and external trouble!

And Li Jingguo has to admire that the Taiping Army is really powerful, regardless of whether this news is true or not, at least, the purpose of the Taiping Army has been achieved, they have successfully divided the military heart of the Lang Son defenders, which is equivalent to shaking the foundation of Lang Son City.

I'm afraid that Lang Son Fortress is coming to an end.

Li Jingguo sighed in his heart, knowing that the general trend was coming, and it was irretrievable.

There is only so much he can do now, and he doesn't have many options, he has two options, either surrender or die.

And no matter what you do, the result is doomed.

What to do?

Another difficult problem was placed in front of Li Jingguo.

Think about it carefully, if only from his personal point of view, of course he doesn't want to die, he hasn't lived enough, but from the word loyalty, he can't surrender, even if the city is broken, he can die to repay the country, both loyal to the Nanyang Kingdom and loyal to Aquino, how can he still live.

Li Jingguo's heart is contradictory.

And the soldiers under his command, not to mention, can live, who wants to die.

Therefore, struggles and contradictions are the true portrayal of the hearts of the Nanyang Army, including Li Jingguo.

At this moment, the Taiping Army's offensive was even more fierce, and looking at this momentum, they seemed to want to defeat the Nanyang Army in one fell swoop, both mentally and physically.

In the face of such a strong psychological and offensive pressure, the Nanyang Army has lost the will to resist, because they know that no matter how much resistance they make, it seems to be futile, only to increase casualties, and the destruction of the city is probably inevitable.

In other words, at the psychological level, the Southern Army is almost ready to give up.

If so, does that mean that Li Jingguo and his men can directly abandon the city and flee?

The importance of Lang Son is known to Li Jingguo, if he abandons the city, it will be no different from surrendering, and Aquino will definitely not let them go in the end.

However, he can't defend it now, and it is impossible to abandon the city or surrender, what a dilemma.

And just when Li Jingguo was doing a complicated ideological struggle, suddenly a personal guard came to report that many places on the city tower had been broken through by the Taiping army, and it was only a matter of a blink of an eye that Langshan City was completely breached.

What, Taiping, the Taiping army attacked, so fast, Li Jingguo's heart shook.

He hesitated for a moment, and the Taiping army came, which was also a little too fast, and Li Jingguo was a little uncomfortable

However, although his heart fluctuated greatly, he was still very calm on the surface, and he instructed his personal guards to inform the soldiers defending the city that they must try their best to hold back the Taiping army, and then find a way to drive them away from the city, because reinforcements will come soon.

He was obviously lying to himself, that is, nonsense, but he still had to say, otherwise what would he do.

And when the guards heard Li Jingguo's words, they also looked at Li Jingguo with a little suspicion, and stopped talking, he wanted to ask, didn't he hear that the reinforcements were finished, how could there be reinforcements, and where did the reinforcements come from.

However, in front of the general, how dare he be presumptuous, the general said that it was what, that is, some words, some things are not his turn to worry about, he just needs to do what he is ordered.

And Li Jingguo saw that after the guards listened to his words, he didn't do it immediately, but he couldn't help but be a little annoyed, this Taiping army has not broken through the city gate, could it be that what he said has begun to work.

Angry to the depths, he couldn't help glaring at the guard fiercely, and the guard ran away in fright.

Looking at the flickering back of the guard, Li Jingguo couldn't help but sigh in his heart again.

He didn't know what was going on in his cronies' minds, but at this point, he could only procrastinate.

And the shouting and killing outside did not stop because of Li Jingguo's words, but became more and more intense, judging by this voice, most of the Taiping army had broken the city.

Li Jingguo knew that it was time for him to make a decision.

However, at this time, the guard who had just run out turned back again, with an anxious look on his face, and when he saw Li Jingguo, he didn't care about any etiquette, and reported in a panic that the Taiping army had broken through the city gate and was now coming to the general's mansion.

If the city was really broken, Li Jingguo's heart moved, and he just nodded slightly, without saying more.

And at this time, he didn't panic, and his heart slowly settled down, he thought, this city is broken, what's the use of panicking, what's the use of being anxious, anyway, in the end, it's all those two results.

However, his guards didn't think so, he had to be responsible to Li Jingguo, so he urged Li Jingguo to leave quickly.

Seeing this, Li Jingguo was even comforted in his heart, after all, this guard was still loyal to him.

When it comes to the end, he is not alone.

That's it, things have come to this point, he can only retreat first.

Li Jingguo made up his mind, so he ordered the guards to gather the guards and prepare to withdraw from Lang Son City. (To be continued......)