"There are only seven or eight thousand troops in this city of Guangzhou, how many people should be sent to recapture Foshan?

If you go less, there is no point; if you go too much, Guangzhou will inevitably be empty, what should the people of Sanyuanguan do if they take the opportunity to attack Guangzhou?" Shen Baozhen sighed and expressed everyone's concerns.

"At this time, we should use the troops that were sent out in the first place... By the way, the city of Guangzhou is very empty now, what should I do if the army of Sanyuanguan suddenly comes to attack the city?"

The officials present looked at each other, and then suddenly reacted, just now they were talking about the recapture of Foshan, but they didn't expect that the city of Guangzhou, where they were located, was not stable, and the troops were particularly empty, so it was easy for the people of Sanyuanguan to take advantage of the chaos to capture it.

"All the green battalions and bannermen must be summoned and put up on the wall to defend the city. In addition, every household in the city must produce strong men to assist the officers and soldiers in defending the city. Yiliang, the governor of Guangdong, suddenly reacted and shouted hoarsely.

"Drop all the city gates, prohibit traffic, and isolate the inside and outside, don't let the people of Sanyuanguan take advantage of the loopholes. Yu Baochun, the prefect of Guangzhou, also jumped up and said, thinking that after his people learned the news of the fall of Foshan, they actually wasted hours discussing what countermeasures, and they felt cold sweat all over.

After the British occupied the Sifang Fort, the city of Guangzhou had already entered a quasi-military state, and the city gates were closed on all sides, but the main gate was closed, and the small doors on the side were still open to allow for internal and external access, which is not safe to think about now.

Under the hurried command of the officials, all the gates around the city were closed tightly, and the gates were blocked with stones inside, so that it was difficult to attack from the outside.

Of course, in this process, all kinds of chaos are inevitable.

When the spies reported the various actions of Guangzhou City to Li Xian, Li Xian couldn't help but smile when he looked at the information.

"It's interesting now, the officials in Guangzhou have themselves blocked themselves in the city, and I see how they can get out. ”

"The people of the court are becoming more and more unsuccessful. However, there are still many provincial troops sent by the emperor in Guangdong, the number has reached tens of thousands, how do you want to deal with these people?" Xuan Zheng took the information over and looked at it, and then put down the paper and asked Li Xian.

"A group of rabble with broadswords and spears, even in the army of cold weapons, it is considered inferior.

If it weren't for the fact that our army had not been formed long ago, and many people still had fear of officers and soldiers in their hearts, I would have led 5,000 new troops to dare to kill those tens of thousands of troops completely.

To be honest, our biggest enemy now is the common people's fear of the government for thousands of years, not the British or the Qing army.

Don't expect this fear to last too long, though, as it only takes a few real battles for that fear to turn into the deepest disdain. Li Xian said nonchalantly.

There is some truth to this. Xuan Zheng nodded.

"Officials in Canton used the troops from other provinces in no more than three ways:

Let the troops from other provinces stay in the outer circle all the time and maintain the deterrent effect on our army, which will make us shackled and unable to let go of many things, which will cause the greatest trouble to our army.

If we let the provincial army advance to the vicinity of Foshan or Sanyuanli, dig trenches and station them, we will have to send people to drive them away or destroy them, and the trouble for us will be moderate.

Summoning troops from other provinces directly to Guangzhou to assist in the defense of the city of Guangzhou will leave all the county towns in Guangdong defenseless, and it will be convenient for us to use troops, which will help us the most.

No matter what tactics the officials in Canton adopt, they will at most cause some trouble to our army, and will not be able to pose a real threat.

Personally, however, I think that the officials in Canton are timid and inexperienced, and will take what they think is the safest way to deal with it, which is to summon all the troops back to Canton to assist in the defense, and I don't know that this will cause us the least trouble. Li Xian thought for a moment and said his prediction for the officials in Guangzhou.

"It depends on how big the minds of those people in Guangzhou are. Xuan Zheng nodded, expressing his approval of Li Xian's judgment.

Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty has been using the strategy of worshipping the Manchus and excluding the Han to suppress the Han officials, and the Manchu officials have rapidly degenerated in an environment without competition, and their abilities have declined so much that there are almost no capable people today.

Li Xian felt a little puzzled, at this point, the Qing Kingdom should begin to disintegrate, even if it didn't, it should disintegrate after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising a few years later.

It's just that the luck of the Qing Kingdom has always been very good, and it miraculously survived the Taiping Rebellion, and it continued to be a national honor for decades, and its luck is second to none in the entire history of China.

However, the luck of the Qing State has always been incredible, since the rise of the late Ming Dynasty, almost no important enemy has been defeated by their own efforts, but like a gift from God, it is all defeated by luck.

At the beginning, Salhu was able to easily defeat the Ming army when he encountered heavy fog, but this was still a real sword; when he arrived at Yuan Chonghuan, Emperor Chongzhen inexplicably saw through the military commander who posed the greatest threat to the Houjin; attacked Phi Dao, failed several attacks, and then there was an incredible typhoon or tornado, which swept away the most outstanding officers; when he arrived at Shanhaiguan, he couldn't get in, but Wu Sangui sent it over for nothing; Sun Kewang was very good, and then he fought himself; Zheng Chenggong attacked and fought well all the way, and then he fainted and put the soldiers' families together, and then he experienced the most inexplicable failure, and then there was a fire in the backyard, his own son rebelled and was angry to death.

Hundreds of years later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a great chance of winning, but inexplicably there was a Tianjing Incident, and Yang Xiuqing, the best commander of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was killed, and then the Heavenly Kingdom collapsed.

Moreover, the most incredible thing in this matter is that in the end, I don't know whose hands Yang Xiuqing died, and according to common sense, Yang Xiuqing definitely shouldn't die.

In short, after so many unthinkable events bursting with luck, people have to ponder whether in the process of the founding and continuation of the Qing Dynasty, there were mysterious forces beyond human comprehension that intervened to eliminate their own invincible opponents for the Qing Dynasty.

Li Xian thought about it for a while, but things were still developing according to his expectations.

Five days later, Li Xian received a report that the troops from other provinces brought by Yang Fang and others had left his garrison, then marched towards Guangzhou, and finally reached the outside of Guangzhou and entered the city.

"Guangdong is finished. Li Xian and Xuan Zheng glanced at each other and said in unison.

After that, all the cities in Guangdong will be like the tabula rasa cities in the "Three Kingdoms" game in the later generations, and they will be taken by the Sanyuanli coalition army.

At the same time, the British army was also informed that tens of thousands of Chinese troops had arrived in the city of Canton and then entered the city.

"These bastards, they've been cheating on us from start to finish. John Christopher, the provisional commander of the British army, slammed his palm on the table in anger and roared.