The failure of the siege of Changsha did not dispel the idea of the Chu army continuing the siege.

Su Dingyuan reported to Nanjing as soon as possible, expounded on the excellent performance of rocket artillery in the battle, and suggested that Su Yan produce rocket artillery in large quantities and install it in the whole army.

However, what he didn't know was that rocket artillery needed a level 5 building to be recruited, and at present, the highest level in Su Yan's hands was only a level 3 giant arsenal, which could only recruit 12-pounder infantry guns, 12-pounder infantry howitzers and 6-pounder cavalry guns.

Therefore, Su Yan could only temporarily reject Su Dingyuan's proposal and deal with the past under the pretext that it was difficult to build, but he was not idle, he ordered the gentlemen who were still in Quanzhou to be transferred to Nanjing, so that they could settle in Yingtian University, which had not been completed for a long time.

Yingtian University was completed, and after a year of construction, this vast complex with a capacity of at least 7,000 people was finally completed and began to recruit students from all over the country.

After the completion of Yingtian University, the gentlemen in charge of researching science and technology finally had a new research site, and Su Yan transferred them back to Nanjing, asking them to climb the science and technology tree and study military science and technology.

At present, most of the military science and technology in Su Yan's hands are systematically rewarded, among which military technology includes insertion bayonets, ring-sleeved bayonets, military courses, carbines, phalanxes, drumming marches, platoon shooting, Xu Jin shooting, shotguns, improved grenades, flowering shells, burst rockets, naval shore facilities, and flintlock artillery.

There are a few of them that have reached the level of technology, but the buildings required for recruitment cannot be built due to the lack of pre-technology, making it impossible for troops to recruit - naming and criticizing rocket artillery, 4-inch mortars, dragoons, and light dragoons.

After the completion of Yingtian University and the official enrollment of students, it caused a heated discussion and enrollment boom in the southeast, although the scholars were not interested in the courses in the university, they thought that graduating from this official background university would help them become officials in the future, so they all seemed very enthusiastic.

It is worth mentioning that Su Yan set the enrollment time until the beginning of September, which can officially open in early September, and the university has adopted a winter and summer vacation system, and the time is the same as in modern times.

For the time being, there is no distinction between departments within the university, and every student has to study the existing courses, but Su Yan is ready to divide a military academy within the university to train command talents for the army.

Of course, that's for later.

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Looking back at the front line, after experiencing the failure of the first siege, the Chu army was not discouraged, they mobilized all the artillery aimed at the city to launch a retaliatory artillery bombardment, and in one day fired thousands of shells and rockets, although most of them were flowering shells, but the Changsha city wall was still crumbling, and the buildings near the city wall were also razed to the ground.

At the same time that the main force of the Chu army attacked Changsha, Sun Kewang, who had stabilized, also began to mobilize troops and horses, and he ordered Wuchang Hou Ma Jinzhong, Hanchuan Hou Zhang Sheng, Xingshan Boma Weixing, and Anding Bo Ma Bao to lead the army to aid Changsha and relieve the siege of Changsha.

However, Ma Jinzhong, Ma Weixing, and Ma Bao were all generals loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and they were jealous of the rumored behavior of Sun Kewang to murder the emperor, and they were unwilling to serve Sun Kewang, so they secretly agreed to respond passively.

Although Zhang Sheng, the Marquis of Hanchuan, did not know the conspiracy of the three of them, he saw that the three of them were marching slowly, he was anxious, and he was afraid of losing the fighter, so he sent envoys to the camp of the three people one after another to urge, but they were all prevaricated for various reasons.

The behavior of the three couldn't help but make Zhang Sheng suspicious, and he sent a letter to Sun Kewang's army overnight, reporting to Sun Kewang the strangeness of the three, hoping that Sun Kewang could take precautions as soon as possible.

However, the letter he sent did not reach Sun Kewang, but was stopped halfway through - the messenger he sent was shot and killed by Rogers' commando who was still lurking in Hunan on the way, and the letter he was carrying fell into the hands of the Chu army.

After reading this letter, Du Si of the Rogers Commando was keenly aware that this was an important piece of information, and if it was sent to Su Dingyuan, he might be able to persuade Sanma to join the Chu army and weaken the strength of the Qin army.

Realizing this, Rogers Commando immediately sent a sentry to send the letter to Changsha, and handed it over to Su Dingyuan at any cost.

And he himself continued to lead his subordinates to stay on Sun Kewang's territory, fighting guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, and attacking the Qin army's grain supply lines.

In fact, the operations behind enemy lines of the Rogers commandos (this chapter is not finished!) )

Chapter 266: The War Begins in Guangzhou

It did cause a lot of trouble to the Qin army.

At first, the Qin army did not know that there was a Chu army active in their rear, and the reports of frequent attacks on the grain convoys on the supply line only subconsciously attributed it to the notorious bandits in the Xiangxi area.

However, it was only after a soldier who survived by chance reported that it was the Chu army that attacked them, and they finally realized that the Chu army had run behind them and threatened them at some point.

Realizing this, Sun Kewang began to mobilize troops to clear the enemy troops in the rear, and the two sides engaged in many fierce battles, but they were all later.

In early August, the war quickly spread to Liangguang, and Su Yan naturally could not allow Kong Youde to continue to survive in Guangxi, and under his instruction, Guo Zhiqi, the governor of Liangguang, began to dispatch troops to launch an attack on Guangxi and southern Hunan at the same time.

Guo Zhiqi ordered the crown prince Taibao and Haikang Hou Li Mingzhong stationed in Gaozhou to lead 3,000 wolf soldiers and 2,000 infantry troops to the west of Lianzhou to attack Nanning, and Wang Xing, the general soldier of Guangdong, led the second brigade to attack Yongzhou from Shaozhou to the north, and galloped to the aid of Su Dingyuan, the governor of Huguang.

And Guo Zhiqi himself led the remaining soldiers and horses of the second town from Zhaoqing Mansion to the west of the river and took Wuzhou.

The three armies of Guangdong were concurrent, and Kong Youde, who was finally relieved, hurriedly mobilized troops and horses to help the border between Guangdong and Guangzhou, but the speed of the Chu army was faster than him.

On the sixth day of August, Guo Zhiqi led the army into the territory of Wuzhou, besieged Wuzhou with heavy troops, and the left wing of the general army Ma Xiong stationed in Wuzhou was fortified in the city, but the city wall of Wuzhou was low, the city area was small, the Chu army stormed the city after a few days, and Ma Xiong was killed by several bullets.

The city of Wuzhou was broken, the Qing army in Guangxi was panicked, and the fighting spirit was completely lost, and then Li Mingzhong broke the national security of the Guangxi Admiral Line with wolf soldiers in the field battle, and it was even more famous, and the capitals and counties of Guangxi were all looking forward to the wind, and the Qing army was unable to fight again.

At this time, even Kong Youde, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty in the eyes of the outside world, couldn't help but have the idea of surrendering in his heart at this time, he didn't dare to reveal this idea to his subordinates, and only dared to secretly discuss it with his cronies.

Although the idea of surrender in his heart became stronger and stronger, he still did not dare to take action, not because he was afraid that his subordinates would oppose it, but because the Ming army under Su Yan was too radical in the methods of a traitor like him.

Don't you see Shang Kexi, who was slashed by a thousand knives in Fuzhou, and Geng Jimao, who died tragically in Guangzhou?

Chapter 266: The War Begins in Guangzhou