On the city of Guangzhou, Zhizhou Zhongjian looked at the dense enemy army below, and sighed, when there was a soldier at the beginning, he didn't believe that a small border leader could continuously break through many cities on Guangnan Road and hit the city of Guangzhou.

Because of this, the loss of the first opportunity, the defeat of several military operations, coupled with the loss of some important cities, made Yizhigao arrogant, and even mobilized more than 100,000 troops to besiege Guangzhou.

Among the 100,000 troops, I don't know how many elites there are for the time being, but according to the previous few battles, in the hands of Yi Zhigao, there are about 30,000 elites, and in the middle, there is a large amount of equipment, which was obtained after breaking through the cities of the Northern Song Dynasty.

As far as the manufacturing industry is concerned, the Northern Song Dynasty is unparalleled in the world, even if the Dinghai Navy did not import it just now, all kinds of weapons were used to beat the surrounding countries, and even the Western Xia of the Liao Kingdom was not the opponent of the Northern Song Dynasty, let alone Yizhigao.

Ethnic minorities, maybe a small team of weapons can be obtained, if it is large-scale, it will not work, if he can be extinguished at the beginning of Yizhigao, things will not deteriorate to the extent they are now.

Now, the city of Guangzhou has concentrated 100,000 soldiers and civilians around, relying on these people, coupled with Guangzhou's huge city defense, this is barely defending.

But in Zhong Jian's hands, the number of soldiers is too small, and the real professional ones are about 3,000 people, which is a huge difference from Yi Zhigao, plus more than 20,000 people, this can hold off waves of attacks.

After the siege, in just 3 days, Yi Zhigao launched at least 20 attacks, although each time the losses were heavy, but it also brought great pressure to the city wall, pessimistic mood, so that the city of Guangzhou was precarious.

The entire high-level, except for Wang Shining, who patrolled at sea, all others had the idea of retreating and surrendering, including Zhong Jian.

However, the continuous attack also made the morale of Yizhi's high troops completely demoralized, and after three days of continuous attacks, they stopped the offensive, allowing Guangzhou City to breathe, quickly restore the city defense, and prepare for the next attack.

The messenger sent out was sent out before Yi Zhigao besieged the city, and it should have been sent out, but from Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty to Guangzhou, the huge distance made these people know that it is impossible to get support in a short time, perhaps, in Hubei, Jiangxi, some support can come in advance, but the support in those places is not much at all, and it may not be able to repel Yi Zhigao.

After 4 days of repairs, the Yizhi Gao Department began to attack again, and this time, they did not choose the city wall, but the water gate.

Guangzhou is a city near the sea, and the port is also an important hub, unlike the tall city walls on the land, where is there a water gate at the mouth of the Pearl River, if you attack from the water gate, the effect will be better.

Densely packed canoe, began to occupy the water surface of the Pearl River, under such a dense attack, it is very likely that the water gate will not be protected, Zhong Jian wanted to put down the broken dragon stone, completely cut off the water gate, but Wang Shining objected, because blocking the water gate, it will make their only attack possible loss, which is not conducive to the siege of the city.

Wang Shining was only a maritime inspection, and Wang Kai was in charge of Guangzhou, who had long been dissatisfied with Wang Shining and began to prepare to take Wang Shining on the grounds of collaborating with the enemy.

As for Wang Kai's thoughts, others, especially Zhong Jian, knew very well, but Wang Shining was one of all the generals of the defending army, and he proposed several times that the sailors should patrol and fight to harass Yi Zhigao and prevent him from being completely besieged.

This is a road, but it is quite dangerous, Yizhigao occupies the advantage of numbers and geography, once such a surprise attack is ineffective, they also lose a way, under the premise of the city is broken, it is possible to escape.

The sailor's ship, until the last resort, will not be used, if it is really according to Zhigao to break through Guangzhou, they still have their families, they can escape from the sea through the sailor's fleet, as long as they escape from Guangnan, it will be safe, and the idea of perishing with Guangzhou, only Wang Shining is one, kill him, everything will be much simpler.

Just when Wang Kai was about to make a move, when the war came, as the highest general in the military, Wang Kai had the ability to kill Wang Shining, and when he called his own soldiers to execute, there was a commotion in the arrow tower.

Yizhigao's canoe is still a little far from the water gate, their speed, it may take a stick of incense to reach the water gate, even if there will be fluctuations, there will not be such a big commotion, what happened.

Wang Kai and Zhong Jian, the first thing they thought of was whether it would be the defenders of Watergate, because of the pressure, surrendered, it is not impossible, in the siege, many situations may happen.

At this time, he didn't care about killing Wang Shining, so he asked his soldiers to tie up Wang Shining, and then went up to the city to see what was going on.

Wang Kai and Zhong Jian went to the top of the city together, and he also saw the source of the commotion, in the city of Guangzhou, outside the mouth of the Pearl River, I don't know when, a series of huge ships appeared, almost more than 70, the largest extremely huge, some like the ships of the Dinghai Navy.

The development of Guangzhou, in this era, is not very good, but it is not ignorant, as the core and throat of the entire Guangnan, it can be regarded as dealing with the Ding Navy, but there is no office, occasionally the ships of the Ding Navy come to buy supplies, and by the way, take down some things to sell.

"Let's see if it's the flag of the navy!" Wang Kai pulled over an elite archer, the archers' eyesight is quite good, standing on a high place, it should be visible.

Because the distance was too far, the archers couldn't see clearly, but it seemed that this fleet, their speed was quite fast, and in just a cup of tea, they had already entered the inside from the outside of the Pearl River estuary, only 5 miles away from the city of Guangzhou.

At such a close distance, maybe for those with bad eyesight, you can't see clearly, but with good eyesight, you can clearly see the flag above, the sign of the Northern Song Dynasty is the first, and the sign of the Navy is close behind.

In fact, Wang Kai and Zhong Jian both knew that when they saw a big ship, it could not be Yi Zhigao, if they had a big ship, why use a canoe, a big ship, especially a super large ship, they must have come from the Northern Song Dynasty.

Under the premise of being isolated and besieged, there were suddenly reinforcements, which was definitely an exciting benefit for these officials in Guangzhou City, but they couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in their hearts, this was the occasional passing transport fleet, or received their call for help from the Song army

If it is the former, then they must be given a signal, although the big ship is not afraid of the small boat, but there are many small boats, and it is still quite dangerous under the premise of the army.

They are stronger and safer than the fleet of the big ship compared to the sailors, and they are more likely to leave.

But they don't understand, Zhong Jian looked at Wang Kai, Wang Kai also understood what Zhong Jian meant, in fact, when foreign aid arrived, their mentality was already on whether they could escape, and it didn't make much sense to kill Wang Shining or not.

Soon, Wang Kai instructed his own soldiers to bring Wang Shining, and soon, Wang Shining came, and he also knew that the ship of the Ding Navy was coming, and he had only seen a little about the ship of the Ding Navy, and he had not been able to get close to it, and it was not clear from a distance, but there was another thing he understood, and he said in amazement: "This should be a war ship, because there is a battle flag on it!" ”

Although Zhao Xin made a large number of Western-style sailing ships, he did not have the European naval system in the past, and many things were gradually perfected in training, whaling, and battles, and he also absorbed a lot of things about the Northern Song Dynasty, which is the case with this battle flag and battle camp.

The battle camp has been changed, and the camp of the Northern Song Dynasty Navy Division is more suitable for small boats and broadside battles, but when it comes to artillery battles, it is T that is emphasized, and if you occupy the first place in T, you can have extremely strong combat effectiveness.

However, the battle flag was not changed, and it became a habit to fly the battle flag and use various flags to inform the fleet to attack as a whole.

The battle flag was not easily hoisted, which on the one hand proved that the ship had considerable combat effectiveness, and on the other hand, it also showed that at least a military attache of a considerable rank was on it.

Attache? Is there a military attache in the navy? After all, they are far away, and they have never dealt with the Dingjun, even Wang Shining, who knows more, is not very clear.

They don't know that behind the battle flag, there is a big Sun character, which is the symbol of Sun Ji, Sun Ji is not a simple military attache now, he is under the jurisdiction of the Dinghai Navy, almost a 3-rank military position, and he is currently the highest level military attache in the Dinghai.

Listening to Wang Shining's words, Wang Kai and Zhong Jian were stunned, their biggest hope, these are the fleets of the Dinghai Navy that happened to come here, but they didn't expect that not only the fleet, but also the warships, why did this thing appear here, their call for help, maybe now they have just arrived in Bianliang, this fleet is coming, is the speed so fast?

If you meet it halfway, where will you meet it, Fuzhou, or Quanzhou?

In any case, as long as it is a warship, then it is better for them, as long as this warship can play an advantage on the river, they can go out of the water gate and escape from Ascension, as for the ship attacking the land troops, this has never been thought of, the warship is a warship, they are invincible in the water battle, but once they are on land, it is a soft-footed shrimp.

Wang Shining ignored the two bosses with a happy look on his face, and continued to observe the movements of the Dinghai Navy, because the distance began to approach, at this time, Yizhi Gaobu also discovered this huge fleet, and began to turn one after another, giving up attacking Guangzhou, and dealing with this sudden fleet.

About 3 miles away from the canoe group, the fleet suddenly stopped, the mouth of the Pearl River is quite spacious, but not enough to accommodate all the first-class battleships lined up, the Dinghai Navy adopts a double-row tandem structure, with four capital ships in the front, a total of 8 ships in a double row, almost, that is, close to 800 guns.

The distance of 3 miles is the most suitable and powerful distance for the range of the artillery of the Dinghai Navy, as long as the artillery is issued, it will definitely be able to play a very good effect.

From the two sides began to approach, Wang Shining watched everything intently, and determined that the navy's combat methods were completely different from what he thought, and did not directly attack the canoe with the help of the height and impact of the big ship, but pulled away from it, but when the distance was widened, what to do with the hull of the ship, this would lose speed, and once the canoe was approaching, it would be a big trouble.

Different combat methods bring about completely different adjustments and operations, and what Wang Shining understands is broadside warfare, and what the navy currently uses is absolute artillery warfare.

The first-class battleship of the Ding Navy, which also considered the British warship model, a total of 4 layers of ships, a large number of gun emplacements were opened on the side of the ship, and when the black holes of the guns were pushed out, the fate of the Yizhi Gao Department on the river was announced.

Yizhigao mobilized more than 10,000 people, including canoes and bamboo rafts, a total of more than 3,000 boats, densely occupying the entire river, but in front of the artillery that surpassed the weapons of this era, they were all targets.

The battleship was adjusted in place, all the positions were organized, and every angle, most of the gun emplacements, were not covered, and under such an attack camp, there were at least 600 guns that could attack forward.

Sun Ji held a telescope and stood in front of the command platform, he gently ordered, and the heralds sent out this order with flags, and all the ships received the order, and a large number of orders sounded on the ships, preparing, loading, and launching.

Trained gunners, who could simplify the whole process for the most part, and after a series of preparations, the artillery began to roar.

More than 600 artillery pieces, fired on the ship together, the movement was earth-shattering, in the distance, Wang Kai and Zhong Jian above the city of Guangzhou, they didn't expect such a loud weapon, they were suddenly startled, Zhong Jian almost fell from the city, or the family around him was quick and grabbed him, and the same was true for others, who had never heard such a sound, they were all startled.

Of course, Wang Shining was also taken aback, but he was calmer, this may be something similar to gunpowder, but at such a long distance, does it work.

Most of the solid bullets used by the Dinghai Navy are huge, densely packed solid bullets, which cross the distance of 3 miles and impact towards the river, because the Pearl River is not as narrow as the sea, and the river surface is relatively narrow, so there is no place to dodge, and the hit rate of 600 rounds is still very high.

When a solid cannonball from the cannon concentrated a larger bamboo raft, the bamboo raft was directly torn apart, and all the people on the raft were plowed again, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

Even if the 600 guns only have one-tenth of them, or even fewer hits, the power has already been shown, not to mention, the well-trained gunners can make another shot in a short time, and the entire Pearl River has become a Shura hell, with countless blood and fire flickering on it, and blood flowing like a river.