With the addition of these hoarded materials, the materials captured after the occupation of Dongguan are considerable, which can alleviate the financial shortage of the Huaxia Army to a certain extent.

After that, Li Xian swept more than a dozen county towns around Dongguan and Guangzhou with soldiers and horses, most of them used the method of overwhelming the territory with a large army, and the intelligence department and the special combat team assisted in seizing the city gate.

After a period of rearmament, the equipment level of artillery and rocket artillery of Li Xian's army was not lower than that of the British army, and most of the muskets were rear-loading smoothbore guns, of which the proportion of rear-loading rifles reached more than 20 percent, even higher than one-tenth of the British army.

These counties want to rely on the green battalion soldiers with big swords and spears to resist such an army, and even the strength of the army is very different, basically more than one to ten, and it is simply wishful thinking to defend the city.

During this period, most of the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Yang Fang were cowering in Bao'an County, and only sent 3,000 soldiers and horses to harass Li Xian when he attacked Chun'an County, but they were also immediately defeated by Li Xian and captured most of them, and then they became more and more afraid to attack.

Li Xian made a windfall in Dongguan County, but he didn't have so much harvest in other counties, but most of the counties in Guangdong were rich, and he still collected more than 500,000 quintals of grain, and the value of other materials and gold and silver also exceeded 500,000 taels, which was also considered a rich harvest and greatly relieved the financial pressure.

Li Xian has conquered more than a dozen county towns and occupied them, but to send troops to garrison these county towns, even if one county is divided into 500 troops, it will also involve more than 5,000 troops, which will greatly weaken his own combat effectiveness, which is not taken by a wise man.

Therefore, Li Xian hired local people to transport all kinds of captured materials to Guangzhou, and most of the local officials and officials were also brought to Guangzhou for centralized management, and then the army withdrew from the county seat.

After the army withdrew, these counties had to be recruited by the Ministry of Intelligence and other agencies to find ways to govern the city, as for the army would not take care of it, Li Xian did not even force these left-behind personnel to defend the city, once the Qing army counterattacked, the personnel of the Ministry of Intelligence were allowed to evacuate on their own, all for the main purpose of preserving manpower.

This is the so-called pattern of self-government of the local gentry led by the Ministry of Intelligence.

The personnel of the Intelligence Department headed by Qian Dafu were naturally overjoyed by this practice, happily took over the management of these county towns, and also used various means to force or entice the local gentry to join the Ministry of Intelligence and jointly govern the county seats.

It's just that this approach will help to concentrate superior forces to attack the main force of the Qing army in the short term, but in the long run, it will make the Ministry of Intelligence and other institutions bloated, with too many personnel and a big tail, and it will later lead to a big turmoil, but this is a story for later.

When the county seat between Guangzhou and Bao'an County, and even the county seats around Bao'an County, were almost pulled out, Li Xian waved his troops into Bao'an County and put on a posture of fighting to the death with Yang Fang's troops.

Yang Fang had nearly 20,000 troops at this time, which was the largest and best-equipped Qing army in Guangdong.

However, he knew that the combat effectiveness of his army was too different from that of the British army and the Huaxia army, so he did not dare to start the war lightly, and adopted an ostrich policy when Li Xian swept many county towns, and almost ignored the war outside, but at this time, he could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.

"Li Xian has made up his mind to kill me this time, how do we deal with it, let's discuss it. Yang Fang had no choice but to gather his generals and ask for countermeasures.

As soon as Yang Fang's words fell, the subordinate generals, you look at me, I look at you, but they didn't come out to speak.

Needless to say now, the thieves are huge, the Six Princes had 60,000 troops, and tens of thousands of British troops assisted and lost, and now we have less than 20,000 soldiers, and the British army in Hong Kong can't be counted on, this battle is really impossible to fight.

In the present situation, the best situation is to immediately withdraw our troops and withdraw to the Chaoshan area, which is far away from Guangzhou; if the rebels do not chase after them, once they do not give up, we will simply retreat into Fujian, and we do not believe that these rebels can still be chased outside Guangdong.

It's just that these words will inevitably fall into their own momentum, and if they are sued to the court in the future, there will be no good fruit to eat, so they must not say it in public.

Yang Fang urged three times, but none of the generals came out to speak, and finally Yang Fang was also furious, so he simply didn't speak, and sat there with his eyes closed, as if he was pondering the enemy's strategy.

If you want to say that this kung fu of nourishing qi, it is naturally Yang Fang Yang Junmen is more clever, and Yang Fang, a veteran in his seventies, really wants to compete in this meditation kung fu, and he will not be afraid of these Qiu Ba who are in the prime of life.

"Since this rebel is here, we will naturally build the city wall, mobilize the soldiers, and defend the city well. "One of the generals couldn't bear this cold violence, and finally spoke.

"There is also the British in Hong Kong, who have a life-and-death enmity with the rebels, can you get in touch to see if you can send troops to fight the rebels together. The first person spoke, and the people behind could barely add a sentence.

"Since ancient times, traitors have loved money, and if we throw more gold and silver treasures on the battlefield, when the rebels are confused by the goods and rush to pick them up, a sudden blow will surely achieve miraculous results. ”

That's a big deal. If you fry some more black beans and sprinkle them around the battlefield, it will inevitably make the rebels' war horses eager to eat and mess up the formation, and the attack will be the best at this time. ”

Once the box is opened, no one can stop it, and these generals tell the battle strategy one by one, but they are foaming at the mouth, and they are very clear-sighted.

It's just that Yang Fang listened with her eyes half-closed for a while, and she had the idea of vomiting blood.

What kind of city repair and reorganization to fight the city defense war, although there is no intention, but it is barely a serious matter, but what are the other ideas?

If the British troops in Hong Kong are invited to assist in the defense, let's not say whether they can move people, but let's just say that the original British Expeditionary Force has returned to the continent of Europa a few months ago, and there are only 500 soldiers and two warships left in Hong Kong to maintain law and order, and what threat can they pose to the rebels.

As for throwing money and goods, disrupting military discipline, even the Three Kingdoms period didn't work very well, as for using black beans to deal with war horses, it is considered a home remedy in a home remedy, the most important thing is that the rebels have almost no cavalry, who can use this trick to see.

There are also monks and Taoists who ask for practice, and also prepare black dog blood and clean buckets, saying that they can break the rebels' demon law and prevent the cannons from sounding; and it is also said that there is a mountain and let the soldiers circulate around the mountain, so as to pretend that there are a lot of reinforcements and scare away the enemy, and there are really everyone.

It's a pity that although Yang Fang is too old and her ears are still a little back, she is not so easily fooled.