Eighteen are there any reinforcements 5

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Yin Shibiao finally understood that he and Yang Yan were leading the 500 cavalry army first, and Zhang Qi, the rear army commander of the Infantry Division, and Chen Ming, the Fengzhou regimental training envoy, and Yu Yuanhua, the Wuzhou regiment training envoy, led the 5,000 infantry army to follow. Yin Shibiao wiped the blood on his face and muttered, "Zhang Qi, this kid is really here, why can't you arrive a little earlier?"

According to the original plan, Zhang Qi would arrive in Guangzhou three or four days after Yang Yan's cavalry. Now, in fact, it is less than three days, and Zhang Qi and they have arrived. It turned out that yesterday evening, Zhang Qi and his men were still 70 or 80 miles away from the city of Guangzhou, and they were about to set up camp to rest, when they happened to meet refugees who had escaped from Guangzhou. So Zhang Qi immediately ordered that the whole army should not rest, leaving only 500 people to guard the heavy grain and leather in Zizhong, and the rest of the people continued to hurry lightly and rushed to Guangzhou as soon as possible. As a result, after a night of travel, we finally arrived in Guangzhou before dawn. This is the time when victory or defeat is the most critical.

Now the Manichaean army in the city of Guangzhou has lost most of its men and horses after a day and two nights of fierce fighting, and although the rest of the people have been stimulated to fanatical potential, their manpower is finally limited, and it has reached its limit at this time. Although the Song army was a little tired after a night of marching, Bi Jing was the most elite Sanya forbidden army in the Great Song Dynasty, and its morale was high, and its number was far above the Manichaean army, and it was defeated by the Manichaean army at once.

Zhong Ziyu and Lai Wenzheng knew that the general trend was irreversible, so they immediately made a decision and ordered to break out of the city. Fortunately, at this time, the Song army entered the city to fight, and there were not many defenders guarding the city gate, and they were killed by a Manichaean master, rushed out of the city gate, and escaped from Guangzhou.

Zhong Ziyu led the Manichaeans out of Guangzhou, and escaped more than 20 miles in one go, only then did he stop and rest, and the number of people in the first inspection was less than 200. Fortunately, Zhao Cao, Xiao Tinglan, Zhong Xinyu, Wusanren, and Wuxing Banner have made the leaders of these sects all sick, which can be regarded as worthy of celebration. However, the plan to attack Canton was a complete failure. Thinking back to the beginning, there were a total of 12,300 people in the Xuanfa Temple, most of them were considered the elite of the sect, and it can be said that they suffered heavy losses.

Although it has not been without defeat since the rise of Manichaeism, there has never been a time when it was like that of Guangzhou, when it looked like it was about to win a great victory, but in the end it was a complete defeat. Therefore, although everyone is resting, they are all depressed and listless. Even Lai Wenzheng, who has always been resourceful, lowered his head and was silent in thought.

Zhong Ziang suddenly burst into laughter, attracting everyone's attention, he slowly got up, glanced at everyone, and said, "What's wrong with everyone, is it because of the failure of this attack on Guangzhou?" You often say that victory and defeat are still a common thing, and you have forgotten everything. ”

Zhao Cao said: "What the sect leader said is that his subordinates just think that we can defeat the Song army and occupy Guangzhou, but in the end, they will succeed and fail, and they all feel a little unwilling." If the three pirates did not come to lead the chaos, if the reinforcements of the Song army arrived a little late, the outcome would have been different, and then it was we who celebrated the victory in the city of Guangzhou. He was talking about the mood of the group, so many people nodded frequently.

Zhong Ziang said: "What about success or failure, it's just the gain or loss of a state city." Since the uprising of our Holy Sect, less than half of the battle, invincible, invincible, and now almost with the scriptures to occupy Guangyou, occasionally gain and lose a city, what is the gain? Do we know that God is deliberately testing our resolve? What's more, since ancient times, all those who can achieve great things, that one is not a few waves, Liu Bang has repeatedly defeated the overlord Xiang Yu, Liu Bei has been forced to do nothing for half of his life, Cao Cao has the defeat of Chibi, Li Yuan has also been a vassal to the Turks, and in the end, they have all achieved great things? Although our current situation is not as good as Cao Cao and Li Yuan, it is much better than Liu Bang and Liu Bei, so why should you lose confidence in the great cause of our Holy Sect because of temporary gains and losses?"

As soon as he said this, the spirits of the Manichaean people were lifted again, and Zhao Cao said: "The sect leader is far-sighted, far beyond our reach, we will immediately rush back to Deqing Mansion, revitalize the people, and then come to capture Guangzhou." ”

Others also chimed in: "Yes, if you send a large army again, you must capture Guangzhou." ”

At this time, Lai Wenzheng got up and said: "What the sect leader said is reasonable, we must not lose confidence because of temporary gains and losses, but we must not be arrogant because of being strong, according to my opinion, we should not attack Guangzhou for the time being."

Zhao Cao said: "Mr. Lai, why can't we attack Guangzhou again, although we lost this time, we only lost more than a thousand people, with the current strength of our Holy Sect, it is not difficult to send 100,000 troops." ”

Lai Wenzheng shook his head and said: "After this battle, Guangzhou must be strengthened, even if we transfer a large army, we may not be able to capture Guangzhou." What's more, if he captures Guangzhou, he will inevitably lose his troops and generals, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

As soon as he said this, Zhao Cao and the others all remembered the attack on Hengshan and Renxiu County. The city wall of Guangzhou is much taller than Hengshan and Renxiu County, and the reason why Zhong Ziqiang used this tactic of sneaking into the city and suddenly attacking Hui is because Zhong Ziang felt that he was not sure to take Guangzhou. What's more, there is still Yang Yan guarding Guangzhou, who dares to underestimate Yang Yan now, even if he really sends an army of 100,000, he may not be able to capture Guangzhou.

Zhong Ziang said: "Mr. Lai, if you have any opinions, just say it." ”

Lai Wenzheng said: "Sect Master, my subordinates think that the place we occupy now is not small, because we have been using troops for less than half a year, and we have been using troops continuously for half a year, and there is no flaw to establish an effective administrative system to manage these places. It's time to stabilize these places. Moreover, at present, our military expenditures are huge, and we cannot always rely on the capture of the state and capital treasury of the Song Dynasty to maintain it. It is also necessary to formulate a reasonable tax system to ensure that we have a stable source of finance. After we have stabilized all the places we occupy, we will continue to attack the Song Dynasty. ”

Most of the Manichaeans had not thought about this issue, and when they heard Lai Wenzheng say this, they all began to think about it. After a while, Zhao Cao said: "What Mr. Lai said is good, but I don't think the Song Dynasty will let us go, once we don't attack the Song Dynasty, they will definitely send troops to attack us." Can't we attack the Song Dynasty on the one hand and improve the administration on the other?"

Lai Wenzheng shook his head and said: "Now that the Song army is on guard against us, it will not be so easy to fight again." Moreover, although we now have two or three hundred thousand horses, but the good and the bad are uneven, and the weapons, assembly, and horses are not complete, we should also reorganize them, select some strong ones, complete the assembly, and fight for the main force, and conquer the city and land. And the old and weak stayed behind to maintain order on the ground. Since Wu Gong's illness, the Song army has no ability to attack us for a while, and it will take two or three months for the Song Dynasty to send men and horses again. ”

Zhong Ziang said: "Mr. Lai's words are exactly what I want, so it was decided, let's go back to Deqing Mansion first and rectify government affairs." ”

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The remnants of the battle in Canton continued for most of the day, but they were all finally calmed down.

After settling down, Yang Yan immediately ordered people to calculate the losses, and the five hundred cavalry he brought were only ninety-one people left, and the Huang family disciples brought by Huang Mingxia plus the manpower in the Huang Family Hall in Guangzhou totaled fifty-eight people, and at this time there were only seventeen people left, fortunately, Huang Mingxia, Ling Xiang, Huang Taisong, Huang Taibai and others were fine. The remnants of the garrison in Canton, seeing that the city had settled down, also returned one after another, and there were more than 3,000 people gathered together. Only the 4,500 men and horses brought by Zhang Qi did not suffer any losses.

After Yang Yan was busy for a while, he remembered to thank Ye Muxue, and found that Ye Muxue was missing. Yang Yan had no choice but to give up.

The biggest losses were suffered by the residents of Guangzhou, with more than 30,000 dead and wounded, and no less than 100 houses and residences burned down. At least thousands of people are homeless. For a time, the city was filled with the sound of mourning.

And Cheng Yuanzhou, the governor of Guangzhou, didn't know where to hide, so Zhao Ruyu stepped forward and presided over the aftermath. He knew that the Manichaeans might attack Guangzhou again, so he immediately authorized Yang Yan to take full responsibility for the defense of Guangzhou City. Yang Yan was authorized and immediately took action, first sending people to move all the materials that Zhang Qi and them left outside the city into the city, and then sending a large number of spies to find out the whereabouts of the Manichaean army. For the city gates, wharves and other places have strengthened inventory and management. and greatly strengthened the management of the city's defense.

After the guards were strengthened, Zhao Ruyu knew that the top priority was to quickly calm the hearts of the people in Guangzhou. Therefore, he ordered the corpses in the city to be cleaned up and the bloodstains to prevent the spread of diseases. On the one hand, he organized all the Yakufu Lang in the city to treat the wounded. And Xie Yuanqing came forward again, organized some businessmen, boiled medicine and porridge to help treat the wounded, and arranged for houses to accommodate homeless people. Zhao Ruyu opened the state treasury again and took out food and belongings to comfort the injured and suffering residents.

In this way, after three or four days, order in the city of Guangzhou was quickly restored.

At this time, Lin'an came down and ordered to Jingjiang Mansion, strictly ordered the state capitals of Guangnan to strengthen their guards, and allowed Wu Gong to return to Lin'an to recuperate, and the military affairs of Jingjiang Mansion were temporarily handed over to Qi Fang to handle, and Yang Yan and Wu Gong were named to return to Lin'an Mianjun together.

Yang Yan received a summoning order, although it was a little strange why the emperor called him back to Lin'an by name, but now that Guangzhou has stabilized, the things that Yu Yunwen handed over to him have been almost done, and he just took this opportunity to return to Lin'an. Calculate that I left Lin'an at the end of August to go south, I thought that I could return to Lin'an in two or three months, who knew that the things here were one after another, and they were delayed again and again, and they were actually delayed until the middle of the month, just in time to rush back to Lin'an to go to the New Year.

So Yang Yan handed over the military affairs of Guangzhou to Yin Shibiao and Zhang Qi, and asked them again. Then Zhang and Xie Yuanqing, Huang Mingxia, Ling Xiang, Zhao Ruyu and others said goodbye, led Gu Xueping and Tie Chenglin, and returned to Lin'an.

I wish you all a happy New Year, all the best, all the best, and all your wishes come true

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