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Lu Daqi did not convince Chen Zizhuang and returned to the camp outside Guangzhou city in frustration. At this time, Li Dingguo had already led his army to start siege.

According to Li Dingguo's previous estimate of the Ming army in Guangdong, the Guangzhou battle will be over soon, with an army of less than 10,000 people in the city, and his 240,000 army can exhaust them even if they stand and let them kill them. But when Li Dingguo really found out that he was wrong.

Feng Ziyong may not have military capabilities, but Ma Mingyuan gave him the comment that he was good at political affairs, that is, he could be a good local official. After Feng Ziyong learned that Li Dingguo's army appeared in Luodingzhou, he immediately asked the Fifth Regiment stationed in Leizhou to come back. In addition, the two regiments in Guangzhou had a new army of nearly 10,000 people. At the same time, a large number of defending troops were recruited among the 100,000 industrial workers who had withdrawn Guangzhou. These industrial workers were receiving basic training and naturally had synergy as workers, so they were very good new recruits.

After recruiting 20,000 out of 100,000 people, 30,000 elite soldiers were selected from Guangzhou citizens as strong men, so there were 60,000 troops defending the city. Because Guangzhou City was adjacent to water on both sides, these troops were enough when they only needed to defend the north and east. At the same time, because Guangzhou was Zhu Hongsan's accompanying capital for several years, the Guangzhou people were still relatively loyal to Zhu Hongsan. In this way, Li Dingguo, who was unstoppable, was finally blocked from the offensive momentum outside Guangzhou City.

On the first day of the first lunar month of the third year of the Ming Dynasty, this was the first day of the new year, but there was no New Year atmosphere in Guangzhou. Li Dingguo had led his army to attack for half a month, and there were dead people outside the city and on the top of the city. More than half of the 60,000 people prepared by Feng Ziyong were also injured and killed, and now only more than 30,000 people can stand on the city wall.

Feng Zi stood on the top of the city in military uniform, looked at the camp opposite Li Dingguo, and whispered to Zhou Yu beside him: "General Zhou, how many days can we last?"

Zhou Yu bowed and said, "Master Taiwan Affairs, our army has suffered more than half of its casualties now, but the main force of the new army is still there. As long as gunpowder weapons can be supplied, we will guarantee that we can last for half a month!"

After hearing what Zhou Yu said, Feng Ziyong frowned repeatedly. As the city guard, he knew the situation in the city. Because last year, Zhu Hongsan moved most of the arsenal to Nanjing, and there were only a small number of weapons reserves in Guangdong, but fortunately the workers were there. In the past half month, Feng Ziyong has scraped all the gunpowder materials in the city. The toilet soil next to the toilet has been scraped three times, and they are all used to boil soil and sinter. Now there are raw materials that can produce gunpowder!

When Zhou Yu saw Feng Ziyong frowning, he quickly asked: "Master Manufacturing, is there a problem with gunpowder production?"

Feng Ziyong nodded and said, "Yes, gunpowder can only be supplied in the city for three days, which means there will be no gunpowder in three days."

Zhu Hongsan's new army relies extremely on logistics supplies. If they fight hand-to-hand, the new army can fight three at one time, but there are more than 200,000 people outside the city, and there are less than 10,000 new troops in the city.

After hearing the situation in the city, Zhou Yu asked in a low voice: "Sir, the emergency document to the capital has been sent for almost a month, so there should be a reply!"

"General Zhou, Guangdong is thousands of miles away from the capital, and it takes ten days to reach the fastest 800 miles. Even if His Majesty the Emperor receives the documents, he will send troops to rescue him. It will take two months to arrive in Guangzhou!"

"Sir, the dock in Nancheng is still in our hands. Why not just bring people to protect you and retreat to Chaozhou?"

Feng Ziyong heard Zhou Yu say this and thought it was a solution. Chaozhou is also a territory of Guangdong. As long as it doesn't leave Guangdong, it will not be considered a loss of territory. He just waits for reinforcements in Chaozhou and then fights back. However, doing so will have to lose the factories and workers that the emperor values ​​the most.

But the most important thing is his own life. Feng Ziyong thought about it and whispered: "Persist in the last few days first. If it really doesn't work, I'll talk about it, but please keep it confidential!" This naturally needs to be kept confidential. There are only a few troop transport ships outside the city, and a total of less than 2,000 people can be transported away. If the news leaked, the army in the city still guards a city, and surrenders directly.

While the two were discussing, Li Dingguo outside the city did not plan to celebrate the New Year, and organized an army to start siege on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Li Dingguo originally thought that Guangzhou was easy to fight, but he didn't expect that this fight lasted half a month, and his subordinates suffered 50,000 or 60,000 casualties.

Li Dingguo did not expect that the army in the city was so powerful. The most powerful one was the Ming army in red. Whether it was muskets or hand-to-hand combat, his troops were no match. In the past half month, he had attacked the city twice, and the Ming army in red drove his subordinates down again.

Li Dingguo made up his mind to attack the city today, after all, it had been half a month in Guangzhou. Now he led his lonely army deep into the enemy's hinterland. If he didn't take advantage of Guangdong to occupy Guangzhou in vain, it would be no fun to be driven back by the King of Chu Zhu Hongsan. Li Dingguo heard that the King of Chu had more than 100,000 musketeers. If they were all like the Ming army in the red clothes in the city, it would be bad. It would be better to end the Guangzhou war early.

So today Li Dingguo gave up his capital and sent 30,000 soldiers to take the lead. At the same time, he ordered his confidant general to lead 20,000 old battalions troops to fight to seize the city walls of Guangzhou today.

Li Dingguo's siege was probably the most violent in the past half month. The soldiers guarding the city at the top of Guangzhou gradually could not hold on, and Zhou Yu's new army completely became a firefighting team, and they would be transferred wherever they didn't work. However, the number of new troops was too small, and the logistics supply supply was not enough, so slowly the Ming army in Guangxi began to attack the city.

When Li Dingguo outside the city saw this, he was overjoyed and quickly asked the 20,000 old battalion that had been prepared to join the battle and strive to take down the city wall at one time.

At this critical moment, Zhu Hongsan's reinforcements finally arrived, but it was not Zhu Hongsan's large army, they were still traveling through the mountains of Fujian. The two regiments sent by Zhu Hongsan in advance were also accompanied by the last five second-level warships of the Navy.

In order to ensure that the Japanese dispatched troops had an overwhelming advantage in the navy, all first-class warships were sent to Japan, leaving only five second-class warships. Now, in order to escort the troop transport ships, these warships were also sent out. There were only a dozen inland gunboats converted from merchant ships in the Yangtze River that deterred the Qing navy.

The reinforcements of the Imperial Guard Division were led by Wang Kun, the deputy commander of Wang Jinbao. Wang Kun was originally the deputy commander of Wang Jinbao. Because he had made contributions in Luzon, he was transferred to the emperor to study and waited for a suitable position to be promoted to the full position. This time, the emperor's position will allow Wang Kun to come to Guangdong, and he will also be Zhou Yu's deputy, as the deputy general of the Guangdong War Zone.

Wang Kun was born into a bandit group and always had to fight fiercely. When he arrived at the Nancheng Wharf in Guangzhou, he heard the sound of killing in the north city and was not ready to get off the ship. He directly ordered all warships to go up the Pearl River, intending to get off the ship directly outside the north city and fight with the Ming army in Guangxi.

The fifth regiment commander under Wang Kun was born in Qian Yong's system, and he was similar to Qian Yong's war. He liked to fight steadily. Now that he heard that the commander was going to Beicheng to fight for his life, he quickly dissuaded him and said, "Sir, we are new to the war and are unclear. Why not enter the city from Nancheng and then listen to Admiral Zhou's orders?"

Wang Kun looked down on such people who were greedy and afraid of death the most, and glared and cursed: "Fuck, didn't you see the sound of killing in the north city? You non-commissioned officers are just pretentious! Now I am the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who

Although the fifth commander was reluctant, he had no choice. The military law in the army was harsh. No matter whether there was a sea of ​​swords and fires ahead, you would rush as long as the commander ordered it. If no one could save you, the military judge could behead you directly.

The fifth commander was helpless in cursing, so he had to follow Wang Kun's order to prepare.

Although Wang Kun was reckless, it did not mean he had no brains. His idea was to rely on the navy's artillery by the river and then fight with the Ming army in Guangxi. According to Wang Kun's estimate, the Ming army on the opposite side would collapse with just a few shots.

Under Wang Kun's order, the troops transport ships and the five navy ships did not dock at the dock, but went up the river and came outside the Xiguan in Xicheng. This place was close to the Pearl River, and there were thousands of Ming troops in Guangxi on the shore to prevent the Guangdong troops from running out of the city.

The battle was fierce in the north, but the Xiguan place was peaceful. The Ming army in Guangxi was watching the fun in the camp, but suddenly found that there were a large group of sea boats behind him. These Ming army in Guangxi were from the inland and had only seen small boats running on the river. They had never seen such sea boats worth hundreds of tons. They all stood there in a daze.

The first to dock were five second-class warships. Although these warships were divided into second-class warships in the Guangdong Navy, their displacement was 500 or 600 tons, which was three times larger than the lucky ships that ran far-sea.

The second-class warships are not equipped with twenty-four-pound guns, and the number of artillery is not as good as that of the first-class warships, but this kind of close-range shooting is still very powerful.

The gunners on the warship had already replaced the cannons with shotguns as instructed by the pipe, and opened fire directly after approaching the barracks on the shore. The second-level warships were equipped with 64 cannons, all of which were eighteen-pound cannons. Although this kind of cannon was not enough for the city wall, the camps that were built with wood were not pinched with hand. The first volley shot swept away the enemy's camp, and most of the thousands of Guangxi Ming troops in the camp were injured and most of the casualties were killed or injured.

Wang Kun on the ship saw the naval artillery force and laughed: "These Guangxi guys know how powerful the artillery is! Order down, everyone gets off the ship and line up by the river!"

The one who guarded the city here in Xiguan was a thousand households. He was very happy when he saw reinforcements. However, in order to defend the city in Guangzhou, except for the few gates in Nancheng, the other gates had been filled with stones and the city gate could not be opened. The thousand households had no choice but to send their personal soldiers from the city to find Wang Kun.

It was known that Wang Kun didn't want to enter the city at all, but wanted to fight the enemy in the wild. The soldier was so scared that he quickly returned to the city to report his superiors. After hearing the news, the Qianhu did not dare to make a decision. He went directly to Beicheng to find Feng Ziyong and told him about the matter outside the Xiguan.
Chapter completed!