Chapter 61, Whampoa Feng Shui is good

"Incompetent, incompetent..."

At this time.

The burly Saiguan publicist was loyal and tearful.

"The anti-Ming army is coming across the sea, I want to fight to the death, but what..."

In the Yaming Hall of Guangzhou Prefecture, high-level military and political leaders of Guangdong gathered.

In addition to the governor of Liangguang, Fu Kangan, and the governor of Guangdong, Guo Shixun.

There are also Sun Qijiao, the commander of the Guangdong Green Battalion, Wang Zhensi, the chief soldier of the Guangdong Navy Division, and others.

"My lord, although the garrison has the duty of garrison, but Lantau Island is originally a hiding place for the pirates, and it cannot be defended for a long time, and the garrison leads the army to fight, and is outnumbered. What's more, he also brought back the anti-Ming intelligence, and the official thought that he could give the Guan Garrison a chance to make meritorious contributions. ”

Wang Zhensi, the chief soldier of the Guangdong Navy Division, saw that Fukangan and Guo Shixun's faces were not very good-looking, so he hurriedly stepped out and said.

Hearing this, Fukangan looked at Guan Shouzhong: "Guan Shouzhong, you said that you fought with the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Lord Hui, there was a battle, the ships of the anti-Ming are all Western ships, the ships are strong and the guns are sharp, and there were originally ten warships under the lowly subordinates, but as a result, five of them were defeated by the anti-Ming naval army as soon as the fire was exchanged, and the lowly officials wanted to return to Lantau Island to be loyal, but the anti-Ming blocked the waterway...."

Guan Shouzhong knelt on the ground, his head drooping.

I have already calculated it in my heart.

He did have ten ships on his books, but only seven of them were actually sold—and three were sold to Guangli Bank.

Of the seven ships brought back this time, two of them had to be sold up and down.

So now the Ming Navy, which has not fired a single shot, has the record of "sinking five enemy ships".

Anyway, it is impossible for Fukangan to go to the Ming army to reconcile.

Fukangan rubbed his head and looked at Wang Zhensi, the chief soldier of the Guangdong Navy Division: "Yanzun, may you recapture Lantau Island?" ”

Wang Zhensi hurriedly said: "Governor, that Lantau Island was originally based on the Red Flag Gang of the Haikou, and the sailors and the Haikou have been fighting for more than ten years, winning and losing each other, and now they have to face the big ship against the Ming... There are few small cannons in the sailors' ships, and if they want to fight them on the ocean, they may not have a chance of winning. ”

"The wide ocean is conducive to the vertical and horizontal of large ships, and the narrow channel of this river is conducive to the shuttle of small boats, if the sailors go out of Lantau Island to confront the enemy head-on, it is not the best policy, it is better to retreat to the mouth of the Pearl River and block the activities of the anti-Ming naval army along the river."

Hearing this, Fukangan stroked his beard and said: "The key to this battle is the confrontation between the infantry and pawns, and the Ming are coming towards Guangdong, and they are bound to land." ”

Although the Guangdong Naval Division is considered to be a strong force among the Qing Army's naval divisions.

But on the whole, the Qing army did not attach importance to the sailors.

Therefore, Fukangan did not expect the Guangdong sailor to play much of a role.

However, the news in the next few days made Fu Ankang's face more and more ugly.

On the one hand, the Ming army built a large number of construction projects and camps on Lantau Island, and put on a posture of attacking Guangdong based on Lantau Island.

On the other side, the Mi Ming army sent sloops to sweep back and forth along both sides of the Pearl River, and bombed all the docks and warships of the Guangdong Navy Division stationed on both sides of the Pearl River into slag.

The sailors of the Guangdong Navy Division have now abandoned their ships and gone ashore, and the sailors have become foot soldiers.

Except that the sailors were wiped out by the artillery fire of the Ming army.

Several forts defending Guangzhou were also attacked by the Ming army.

The two forts of Shajiao and Dajiao are the two most important forts in Guangzhou's defense system.

More than 300 cannons can block the surface of the Pearl River, which was originally a key node for Fukangan to defend Guangzhou.

Outcome....

The Ming army dispatched large-caliber howitzers.

The artillery bombardment was carried out outside the fire of the two batteries, and without taking into account the attack by the flowering shells, the anti-artillery facilities of the two batteries were useless, and the gunpowder of the two batteries was quickly detonated by the fire.

More than 300 cannons were blasted into the sky.

So.

The warships of the Ming army swaggered up the Pearl River and sailed to the city of Guangzhou.

When the warships of the Ming army fluttering the flag of the sun and the moon and the same light went up the Pearl River towards Guangzhou.

On both sides of the Pearl River, there are many ordinary people who stretch their necks to watch the excitement.

"Doulei Lou Mu, is Da Ming really back?"

"That's the sun and the moon and the same flag, right?"

"I heard that the Ming Dynasty already has a province in Nanyang, and this time he will raise 100,000 troops to find the Manchurians for revenge."

"Can you beat it?"

"Who knows."

"My three nephews are on an errand in the sailor, and I heard that all the sailor's ships were sunk."

The eyes of the people on both sides of the Pearl River looked at the Ming warships on the river.

And on the river.

Zhu Daohua was also looking at the scenery on both sides of the strait with a telescope.

Five years ago, he fled along the river in disarray, and five years later, he returned here with tens of thousands of troops.

"Your Majesty, it seems that it will not be too difficult for you to rule after you get Guangdong."

Napoleon was also watching with a telescope.

Lao Guang loves to watch lively, and this character is probably ancestral.

During the Opium War in later generations, it was recorded that many local people liked to go to the battlefield to see the excitement....

And in the sight of Napoleon.

He didn't see any hatred in the eyes of these Cantonese people.

This shows that these Cantonese Yankees do not have any sense of belonging to the Qing Empire.

"Bonaparte, the people here don't have a good impression of Qingguo. They're just like me... All are people who have lost their country. ”

Zhu Daohua said.

"Did you know that when the Qing Dynasty occupied Guangdong, there was a massacre in Guangdong, and about a million Cantonese people died under the butcher's knife."

"If the Qing State really killed all the Cantonese people, maybe it would be nothing, but Guangdong has a large population, and they can't kill all the Han people like when they were in Liaodong, so... Qing Guo couldn't completely eliminate the hatred that this place had for them. ”

"More than a million..."

Napoleon smacked his lips.

This is more than the entire population of the Netherlands.....

It's horrible.

"Do you think Fukangan will gamble?"

Zhu Daohua's tone was a little uncertain.

"Your Majesty, he bets on whether we all have a plan to deal with it. I think he'll take a gamble... As long as he sees the strength of your army. ”

Napoleon's voice just fell.

The voice of the lookout on the mast was heard.

"King, Whampoa has arrived."

Zhu Daohua took a deep breath when he heard this.

"The naval artillery is ready to cover, let Zhao Si send a brigade and a battalion to fight the vanguard, land in Huangpu to establish a position, and the follow-up troops will disembark."

Zhu Daohua immediately explained.

One brigade and one battalion can be regarded as the oldest and most elite troops in the Ming army.

Although it seems that the Qing army was a little unprepared for the Ming army to go directly upstream, and approached Guangzhou.

But also rule out any surprises.

Chen Dewang, commander of the first brigade and one battalion of the army, is also one of the 300 old brothers.

As several troop transports lowered the boats, Tran took a deep breath and was the first to step on the boat used for landing.

Then the veterans of the first battalion of the Ming army silently disembarked.

Soon.

Chen Dewang personally led a company of soldiers rowing towards the south bank of the Pearl River.

Crash.

The boat quickly rushed to the soft beach by the river.

Chen Dewang took the lead.

Turning over and jumping off the waist-deep river, he rushed towards the land in front of him, one foot deeper, one foot shallow.

As soon as he stepped onto land, he rushed towards a small hill on the shore, which was a commanding point on the shore.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The heart is beating violently.

It's been five years!

It's finally back!

Chen Dewang didn't have time to form a team, and as soon as he rushed to the hill, he took out his binoculars and looked around.

"No enemy troops found!"

He immediately said aloud.

The flag-bearer next to him immediately waved the colorful flag in his hand and transmitted the signal to the big boat that stayed in the center of the Pearl River.

"Login!"

Zhu Daohua immediately gave the landing order.

"It seems that we caught Fukangan off guard, he must not have expected that the landing site of my army was actually Huangpu!"

Zhu Daohua said with a smile.

Napoleon asked, "Why does it have to be Whampoa?" Maybe we can land closer to the city of Guangzhou. ”

"Because. . Whampoa feng shui is good. ”

Zhu Daohua patted Napoleon on the shoulder and said.

Cantonese.

Very particular about Feng Shui.