The morale of these Guangdong township troops is really high!

Wang Zhongxiao looked at the group of Guangdong villagers who had been ignited with anger, and he was already very sure in his heart.

This is still gratifying, it is really the public enemy of the people of Guangdong! Just said that he was going to be hacked to death, and the Guangdong township soldiers below were already screaming to go to the battlefield. Don't even ask about the reward!

It has not been many years since Shang Kexi's coastal relocation in Guangdong, and those Guangdong township soldiers who were ruined because of Shang Kexi's atrocities have not forgotten the blood feud!

Someone can take them to kill Shang Kexi, who is their benefactor, what reward do they need? It's better to start early, and catch that old thing Shang Kexi and execute it early!

Seeing that everyone's morale was so high that it was about to explode, Wang Zhongxiao didn't talk nonsense about mobilization, and shouted: "Let's go!" ”

After giving the order to send troops, he took a group of Jingwu Academy teachers and personal guards who acted as staff officers, walked down the Wangxia Cottage together, and then turned over at the foot of the mountain, and took the six thousand township soldiers below, one by one, and went to Gongbei City.

After walking for a while, Wang Zhongxiao felt that the atmosphere was still a little insufficient, so he simply opened his throat and began to sing the military song "Datong Song" of the Guangdong Township Army.

"Arise, hungry and cold pariahs! Arise, all the afflicted people of the earth! The blood is already boiling, and we want to fight to the death for the truth of Datong."

At the beginning, he took out a Chinese version of the lyrics of "Datong Song", which was a bit awkward to sing, so he changed it again and changed it to be more "Datong"!

He took the lead, and 6,000 Guangdong villagers also began to sing along. First his staff and personal soldiers followed closely, and then the infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, and baggage teams formed the marching column.

The high-pitched and passionate singing soon resounded in the northern part of the Macau business market, alarming the people who were busy working their own businesses in the shopping market, and everyone was stunned for a while, looking back at the place where the song came from in surprise

Datong's singing is finally fading away!

Huang Linsheng Huang Si, who was hiding in a hotel on the edge of the inner harbor of the Haojiang River that had just been built and had not yet completed the renovation, only then did he breathe a sigh.

This Huang Linsheng and Huang Si are from Huangjia Village, Etang Du, Xinhui County, and he is the son of Huang Wanlin, who was supposed to be filial piety in his hometown, but he didn't know where to slip away, and he is also the brother of Huang Zhisheng, the governor of Lizhou, who surrendered by mistake.

Although he is known as "Huang Fourth Master", he is actually the eldest son in the family, and "Fourth Master" is the ranking in the clan. As the eldest son of "Thief Hanlin", Huang Siye is of course also an examiner who has received a good education since he was a child. However, he is not as powerful as his younger brother Huang Zhisheng, and he is stuck in the big competition of the examination - his younger brother is the first jinshi, but he is a "famous brother", and he can't even pass the penultimate test.

Although the Qing Dynasty still had a way to raise people to be elected officials, it was impossible for him to "select" an official without losing money. And a loss-making official doesn't mean much to the Huang family. The Huang family already has two officials, Huang Wanlin and Huang Zhisheng. If neither of them can protect the Huang family's industry in Goose Pond, it will be for nothing to give him a "loss-making sesame official".

For example, in the current situation, when he met Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao, two anti-thieves who wanted to oppose or not rebel, they used the authority of the governor of Liangguang and the military authority of 20,000 strong soldiers to seize his family's land, and also arrested several of his younger brothers, sons, daughters, nephews, and nieces and took them to I don't know where they were? It's already dead!

And he was not in his hometown at the time, but in Guangzhou with Shang Zhixiao, the second son of King Pingnan! Although he gave up the idea of "choosing" an official through selection, he still wanted to be an official, and he also found a way for him to hook up with one of the "six princes" (sons with blue flags and collars) who were still happy. Hook up with them, and you can go through their doors and spend some money to get a blue-flagged clothed minion.

As a Han Chinese, it is a great loss for Huang Linsheng and Huang Juren to "choose" an official. But if he becomes a coated minion, then he will be "in the flag". There are not many people under it, and it is not easy to "choose" an official?

Moreover, the future of the banner people who are selected to enter the ranks is even better than that of the Han Jinshi!

Therefore, he took the path of Shang Kexi's military master Jin Guang, mixed with Shang Zhixiao's side, and became a master. And this also allowed him to escape the "Xiangdao Catastrophe", was not arrested and went to Xiangdao to serve Wu Sanwei, and this time he also got an opportunity to "jump into the slave gate" - to infiltrate the Macau business market as an internal response!

This strategy was conceived by his mentor Jin Guang Jin Dajun, according to Jin Guang's plan, the Shang family's plan to take the three counties to collect Hao Ao is to enter by land and water, plus the internal should be up!

Among them, the land route is, of course, more than 10,000 people led by Shang Zhixiao and Li Yan. They said that they were going to sneak attack, but there was a high probability that they would be discovered, so Jin Guang actually arranged the tasks for Shang Zhixiao and Li Yan to have an upper and lower limit.

Of course, the upper limit is pushed all the way to the north gate of the Haoao Peninsula Gongbei Walled City, and then cooperate with Chen Shikai's army and Neiying who ambushed in advance to seize Haoao!

The lower limit is to attack the county seat of Xiangshan and attract the soldiers and horses of the Wang family of Haoao to go north to support, so as to create conditions for Neiying and the naval army to join forces to seize Haoao.

However, Jin Guang did not expect a Huang Siye to mess up the Macau commercial market, Huang Siye's main tasks are two, one is to lead the way, he went to Hao Ao several times to do business for his master when he was a lackey for Shang Zhixiao. Therefore, he could easily lead the dead soldiers sent by Shang Zhixiao into the mixed Macau commercial market.

The second is to wave the flag and shout, Huang Linsheng is a wealthy family in Xinhui. Among the Xinhui, Xinning and Xiangshan gentry who have newly moved into the Macau business market, there are quite some acquaintances, and once there is chaos in the Macau business market, he can mobilize a group of Xinhui villagers to rebel against the king of thieves and loyalty!

And the real trump card sent by the Jinguang Jin military division into the Macau business market is a . Bow down! Of course it's a fake worship!

Isn't that "Zhen Ao Bai" just in Shenzhen Village, Xin'an County, next door to Macau? Just across the Lingding Ocean, it is normal to sneak into Macao to make a big fuss while the Wang family's army is out, right?

If Ao Bai had an incident in the Macau commercial market, would the small number of defenders left by Wang Zhongxiao still have to be in turmoil?

As long as they are in chaos, Chen Shikai, who came from the waterway, will have a chance to land in the southeast direction of the Macau commercial market!

Now that the main force of the township soldiers who stayed in Macao have left, it seems that the strategy of "fake worship and make trouble in Macao City" will be accomplished. Thinking of this, Huang Linsheng lifted his robe and went up to the second floor. The second floor of the newly built building was unfurnished, and all the windows were tightly closed. A large room on the second floor was full of people, squatting and sitting, everyone looking nervous, all wearing round-necked robes, holding red cloth on their heads or wearing red hoods. Hardly anyone was talking, just sitting there distractedly.

The inside of the house is not very ventilated, and the weather here in Macau is hot, and the sun is shining today, which makes the room as hot as a steamer, and everyone is covered with sweat.

A bearded man in his forties and fifties looked the most afraid of the heat, and sat there, fanning hard.

Huang Linsheng walked quickly to the bearded man, bent down and saluted: "Wang Xietai, the Guangdong Township Army in Wangxia Mountain should have left!" ”

The bearded man who was called Wang Xietai by Huang Linsheng was named Wang Guodong, and he was a deputy general under Shang Kexi, because of his mighty appearance, he originally had the nickname of "Xiao Aobai", but now no one calls him that.

But this time he has to play a worship!

"Good!" This "fake worship" grinned, "Let's wait two more days. When those Guangdong villagers are far away, it's time to make a big fuss in Macao! Hehe, that Wang Datou's heart is really big, Ao Bai lives in front of his house, and he actually dares to lead troops to fight Zu Zeqing! ”

Huang Linsheng smiled: "The two fathers and sons surnamed Wang have long been dizzy now, they were just sworn enemies of Aobai, and the relationship between King Pingxi and King Pingxi is okay, but the emperor let the two brothers Wang Zhongxiao and Wang Jizhen have Wu Shilin's blood on their hands!" Now they can't vote for the king of Pingxi, so they can only desperately become bigger, and the purpose of Juntian and Jianxiang Army is to become bigger, so they don't care about offending the gentry of the world! And sending troops to fight Zu Zeqing is also to grab some territory as soon as possible to become bigger! ”

Wang Guodong laughed: "Master Huang, you're right, the surname Wang is dizzy, let's win this time!" As he spoke, he looked left and right again, "Brothers, recharge your energy, and we're going to have a big fight when the day after tomorrow is ugly!" The second son said, after the matter is completed, we will rob the bank in Guangdong Customs Road! ”

When Wang Zhongxiao assembled a brigade of township soldiers and sang the "Datong Song" with a Cantonese accent, drove out of the Gongbei Walled City with high morale, and rushed to Xiangshan County with a rapid march. Yu Deshui, the acting Xiangshan County, and Lu Yijia, the master of the Xiangshan Military Department, have also gone out of the city to meet the enemy!

That's right, it's going out of the city to meet the enemy, not defending the city!

Of course, the Xiangshan Township Soldiers want to protect the safety of the hometown, and it is the best policy to resist the enemy outside the "county gate" - this is the conclusion reached by Wang Zhongxiao after leading his Jingwu Academy teacher group to conduct a careful and detailed investigation of the topography of Xiangshan, as well as the people's customs and people's hearts.

The topography of Xiangshan is too easy to resist the enemy outside the county gate, and the people of Xiangshan dare not say how anti-Qing it is, but 890% of them are "anti-Shang", and Shang Kexi is the enemy of the people in Xiangshan!

As long as President Wang's three-county township army can let everyone see the gratifying hope of defeating the people's enemies, then the people of Xiangshan must be on President Wang's side.

But if Principal Wang's soldiers and horses don't seem to be very good, then it will be difficult to say what people's hearts are.

This is because Shang Kexi liked to kill innocents indiscriminately when he used troops in Guangdong in the past, and the feudal army and green battalion under his command did not do any work, they all killed and grabbed wherever they wanted, and they especially liked to slaughter cities!

Any city that dares to resist the Shang family's army will be slaughtered after it is broken! Even Guangzhou, the first city in Tiannan, was slaughtered without blinking, let alone other cities?

In history, King Li Jin met the people in Xinhui to help him defend to the death, and more than half of the reason was that everyone had little confidence in Li Dingguo, and was afraid that Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, two things that were not human, would slaughter Xinhui City after they came back - when Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui, he claimed to have an army of 200,000, but in fact, there were thousands of veterans plus some Guangdong township soldiers who responded to him. If there were really 200,000 old battalion soldiers of the Western Army, Xinhui City would not be able to hold it

And this time is the first battle between the Shang family army and the Wang family army, if the Shang family army is really allowed to drive all the way south to the outside of Xiangshan County, then it is difficult to say who the people of Xiangshan County will choose to stand on!

After all, the Shang family's murderous knife is too fast!

Therefore, Yu Deshui and Lu Yijia only left a small number of township soldiers to guard Huatuo Cottage and Xiangshan County, and then took the township soldiers gathered from around Xiangshan County, and traveled all the way, along the way, many "township soldiers" living in villages along the way joined the team under the leadership of their respective "capital chiefs".

Although the Shang family's knives are fast, the Wang family's spears and muskets seem to be more powerful!

When the villagers on the Xiangshan side saw that the Wang family's army had come out of Xiangshan to meet the enemy, they all felt that the opportunity for revenge had come. So there is no need to mobilize like this, just follow each other to come and support.

These village soldiers have weapons at home, but they don't have flintlock pistols and artillery, but bamboo guns are still easy to obtain, and all kinds of arquebuses are easy to get here in Guangdong. So these people are coming in with weapons!

Yu Deshui and Lu Yijia's team went all the way to the west, and the number of people increased, at the beginning there were less than 2,000 people, and later, the number was close to 5,000!

They walked for dozens of miles, and finally drove to Xiaolan Village, which is close to the Xijiang River on the south bank of the Xiaolan Waterway, which is actually a large commercial town, and there is a ferry terminal outside the town, which is an important ferry port on the Xiaolan Waterway. To the north of the waterway is the territory of Shunde County.

As long as the ferry is seized, it will be a little difficult for Shang Zhixiao and Li Luo's army to cross the waterway - the Xiaolan Waterway is an estuary of the Xijiang River!

How big is the water in the Xijiang River!

Therefore, this Xiaolan waterway is not only rich in water depth, but also very wide, and most of the river sections are seventy or eighty zhang!

It's a pity that Yu Deshui and Lu Yijia are still half a step late, and Xiaolan Village, which has a tall outer wall, has not been occupied by the Shang family army who came from afar to "sneak attack", but the ferry port of Xiaolan Village has already fallen into the hands of Shang Zhixiao's department.

However, Shang Zhixiao and Li Yan's troops did not all cross the waterway, and only a few hundred people crossed the river and occupied the ferry.

These Shang family soldiers who crossed the river were also startled when they saw the Guangdong Township Army wearing hats, carrying bamboo guns and arquebuses, carrying burdens loaded with dry food, and some of them carrying shovels.

Because these Guangdong township troops not only have a large number of people, their morale looks very high, and it sounds even higher! From afar, you can hear them shouting: "Hit the city of Guangzhou, it's gratifying to capture them alive!" ”

Well, this momentum has to catch up with the old Western army of King Li Jin, who came to Guangdong back then!

In addition, the marching columns of these howling Guangdong Township Army look very neat! A team of several thousand people, with a large group of seven or eight hundred people, set up a column as wide as possible, drove into the battlefield at a brisk pace, approached the vicinity of the ferry port of Xiaolan Village, and then quickly spread out into a phalanx with long spears and forests relying on the official road and ridges.

After the phalanx was unfurled, the Cantonese villagers did not immediately attack, but they did not mean to take a breath, but under the cover of pikemen standing in line with guns, and equipped with all kinds of old-fashioned arquebuses (there were a large number of arquebuses scattered among the Cantonese people, and there were also many arquebuses in the storehouses of the Portuguese in Macao), the shotgunners began to dig, fill in and build the breastwork with the shovels and sacks and straw bags they carried!

is still in full swing, looking hard-working.

This operation really opened the eyes of the Shang family army on the opposite side - is there still a fortress to build a fortress?

This also puts the earthen wall right under the noses of the enemy!

And they also filled the pockets with dirt, and then piled up the bags with the dirt. This method seems to be very good, but it is a bit pocket-consuming!

Just when Shang Jun on this side of the ferry was inhabited by this group of Guangdong township soldiers, Shang Zhixiao and Li Yan also crossed the Xiaolan Waterway by ferry and arrived at the ferry on the south bank.

"What's going on?" Shang Zhixiao saw a staff leader of the royal army come up to salute, so he asked with a slashed face, "Why are you still shrinking at the ferry and not attacking?" But there are only a few thousand Guangdong township troops, what is there to be afraid of? ”

"Second master, they don't seem to be easy to deal with, and they don't know how to take a breath when they drive all the way, so they just plug it up and build a base and dig a pit. The marching queue is also relatively neat, and it looks like an elite soldier! ”

This commander of the feudal army is old, and he has seen Li Dingguo's soldiers—it seems that this is nothing more than that!

Shang Zhixiao snorted: "Elite what? This official has already observed, isn't this the Guangdong Township Soldier? A group of Cantonese barbarians, vulnerable. This official orders you to attack immediately! ”

(End of chapter)