Chapter Seventy-Two: The Sword
Zeng Yi felt that the key to his setback in Guangzhou was that he was stabbed in the back by his own people.
Before attacking Guangzhou, he sent invitations to his colleagues in the green forests of the sea, and gathered people to accompany him to attack the Canton Mansion, which was well guarded, but also had countless rich families in the city, which was a great temptation for pirates.
For this reason, Zeng Yi did not hesitate to lead the fleet to storm the Chaozhou Mansion first, and then hired the Japanese to attack Guanghaiwei, and also said that Li Mao and others would attack Leizhou, Qiongzhou and other places, so that Guangdong was forced to disperse its troops along the long coastline to reduce the garrison of Guangzhou Prefecture.
In this case, he alone could not be said to be at ease when he captured Guangzhou Mansion with one of his troops, so what he was most looking forward to was Lin Afeng and Lin Daoqian, who were also sea giants, as long as their fleet also wanted to eat this fat meat, just one of them, Guangzhou Mansion would definitely be captured.
They're pirates!
Can you not eat a boiled duck when it is delivered to your mouth?
Zeng Yiyi never expected that none of these two people would appear in the future!
It's really not that he doesn't appear, Lin Daoqian is on his way here.
Lin Daoqian, who had already surrendered to the imperial court, handed over the letter from Zeng Yiyi to the general soldier Guo Cheng, and now he was leading a fleet with his subordinates Zhu Liangbao and Mo Yingfu to support the war of the Guangdong garrison Zeng Yi.
However, on the way, he met another group of pirates who had come to join Zeng Yiyi, and got on the flagship of his leader, the bandit 'Xin Lao', Xin Ji, and then cut off the heads of the new and old with a sword on the night when Zeng Yi was about to blast open the city of Guangzhou, and captured several warships and presented them to Guo Cheng, the chief soldier who was still in Huizhou.
As for Lin Afeng, who has seen the combat power of Xiangshan Qianhusuo, he knows better that Guangcheng is not as easy to gnaw as others think, rather than fighting a battle that will definitely be lost, it is better to stay in Penghu honestly and rest, and wait for Zeng Sanlao to lose and directly send the fleet to capture Nanao.
The night of confrontation was always long, Zeng Yi returned to Jiangxin Island, sent people to Guangzhou City to send letters, as if there was a sense of surrender, the city sent an envoy to Jiangxin Island to negotiate with Zeng Yi, and at the same time sent people to stop Chen Mu from continuing to bombard the shore of the thief ship intimidation.
On the first day that Guangzhou was approached by pirates, Tanma ordered the horse to gallop on the official road, and the governor Zhang Han rushed to Chen Mu's camp in the middle of the night.
"Chen Qianhu, how is the garrison in Guangcheng?"
The old governor looked tired, but with a sense of relief, the taste of a thousand days of thieves is not comfortable, now there is a book close to Guangcheng, although Zhang Han is physically and mentally exhausted, but in the end there is no need to be on guard, the short head walked into the simple military tent set up by two tents, Zhang Han worried: "The warship has not yet been built, but the thieves have arrived in Guangcheng, the old man heard that there are three or four thousand troops, and now he seems to be intending to surrender, what do you think should be done?" ”
What is the surrender, it is obviously a delaying tactic, even if Zeng Yi really wants to surrender Chen Mu, he is not willing to let him surrender, Guanghaiwei's unjust soul is still wailing in this land, the corpses of the common people in Xin'an County can't be buried for peace, surrender?
Chen Mu didn't take this stubble, first hugged his fists and saluted, then raised his hand to point to the east and then to the south, and said: "The governor is clear, there is no need for the general troops of all departments, our troops near the left of Guangcheng are very sufficient!" Wai, you can surround him! Battle, you can beat him! ”
"Once a big thief, he first fell into Guanghai and then into Xin'an, and his sin is unforgivable."
Zhang Han was worried in his heart, worried that the warship built in Guangdong had not yet been built, as for Chen Mu's sufficient troops, his old man really didn't think that the troops were sufficient, but felt that Chen Qianhu was talking big, and asked: "How to have enough troops, why does the old man feel that the troops are stretched?" ”
"In the east of the city, there is a battalion of soldiers from Fujian, more than 400 people, and the leader is called Hu Liangpeng, who is a bold general, and he has sent people to the lowly camp earlier; There are Wang Counselor and Guangdong Zhuwei in the city, although the battle out of the city is not enough, it is not a problem to defend the city; There is a lowly garrison camp in the southwest, and there are more than 1,400 banner troops in the camp of Huang Dexiang's 1,000 households in the new association, as well as in the south. ”
Chen Mu found the letter in his backpack and dedicated it to Zhang Handao: "Please look at the military gate, there is a handwritten letter from Bai Jingchen of a thousand households in Qingcheng, and in the evening he has joined the garrison Chen Chaojue in the waters of Shunde and Dongguan, and gathered eight large ships from the Xiangshan Institute and Chen Chaojue's headquarters, more than 40 fast boats and fireships of all kinds, and more than 2,000 soldiers from the flag army camp are only waiting to be surrounded. ”
"There is also Xiangshan Haojing, once a book some time ago sent its thief Xu Jinmei to set foot on Haojing to loot, and led the army to attack his department, and now Haojing merchant Jia reciprocated with peach, and introduced Li Dan, the Portuguese leader Pereira, Quanshang Shi Xiaolou, Quanshang Lin Hongzhong and others gathered more than 1,000 people, more than 10 large and small ships, and transferred the handbook to the military gate, only waiting for the military gate to enter the sea to fight."
Lin Hongzhong, a spring merchant, was the last businessman approved by the county order Zhou Xing, and he was also a very powerful person at that time in Haojing, and he was also a businessman from Wang Baike in the past.
Zhang Han took a deep breath, since he heard about the rebellion of Wei Yinbao in Guangxi, he seems to have never been so happy, Guangxi and Guangdong, which are about to be in chaos, and Xiong Huan, the governor who is terminally ill, make him feel that his heart is pressed against a thousand catties of boulders, and if he doesn't pay attention to Liangguang in any place, it will explode.
Especially Guangcheng, the largest city in Guangdong, if it is broken by traitors, not to mention that his old man, the governor, will not be able to do it, I am afraid that he will be imprisoned! Therefore, when Yu Dayou, Tang Kekuan, and Guo Cheng were transferred to Linfu to garrison, Zhang Han always hung in his heart, always thinking that Chen Mu's banner army was superb, but he always felt that he had too few manpower to do anything big.
Suddenly let Chen Mu say this, Zhang Han felt that he was worrying about the sky, and muttered: "There are so many people." ”
This is not one or two thousand, four or five thousand troops! Not counting the guards in Guangcheng who had never fought, Zhang Han finally found the key to Guangdong's problems during this time.
Zhang Han turned around and walked out of the tent, walked outside and nodded lightly to Chen Mu, who was following behind, to signal him to come out, Chen Mu was stunned for a moment to figure out the instructions of the highest official of Liangguang, and hurriedly went out of the tent, and saw Zhang Han slowly pacing around him under the light of the torch, and finally shook his head and sighed: "It's not easy, it's not easy!" ”
Fool Chen Ye, old man, it's not cool for you to dance around me like this!
Hairy in the heart?
Chen Muzhi felt panicked, hugged his fists and said, "Junmen, who are you?" ”
Zhang Han shook his head, pursed his lips and raised his head to look at the sky with the bright moon hanging high, and did not speak to Chen Mu.
He finally knew what was going on in Guangdong this year.
The governor who was born in Caoyun, when faced with something that he was not sure about, always felt like the sky was falling, and his heart was always heavy.
Yu Dayou is a soldier, but Lao Yu's temperament is like that, to be honest, he didn't ask Yu Dayou once or twice, Yu Dayou never said his thought process, and directly told him the order, so that the governor felt that he had become an official seal, and just gave the order.
Over time, he was not willing to ask Yu Dayou for advice.
If you don't find Yu Dayou for Guangdong's affairs, who else can you do? This has fallen into a vicious circle in which all large and small military affairs have collapsed.
And this small Xiangshan Qianhu has become a treasure, so that the military affairs of Guangzhou Mansion are no longer a major matter, no matter what it is, whether it is Haojing, Guanghai Wei Koukou, or even this sea thief has attacked Guangzhou City, as long as there are Chen Qianhu - it will be solved!
Rumble!
Zhang Han was about to consider the vocabulary to praise Chen Qianhu for two sentences, when he heard a sudden loud bang in the direction of the city gate of Guangzhou Mansion in the distance, which frightened everyone in the camp, especially the governor Zhang Han, who was suddenly frightened and made the old governor's face change color, and after a while, his mood had not calmed down, and the villain who ran down the hillside outside the camp made his face even more ugly.
"The city of Guangzhou was blown up by thieves with cannons!"
Wei Balang led the night flag army on the hillside to roll down, went straight to the artillery position in the camp, and shouted at Chen Mu's military tent as he ran: "Qianhu, don't worry about the stupid dicks in the city who want to surrender, let me kill them with cannons!" ”